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CT-7856 looked around him curiously.

Everything just felt so... weird. It was like being thrust into a new world. He shrugged. Well, almost new world. Technically he was only on a ship.

He had just been plucked straight from Kamino and onto the Resolute, a glimmering, gray, Arrowhead ship, manned with clones. Clones. Brothers. People just like him. He bit his lip nervously. Well... not quite. Theses were seasoned troopers, hardened and forged by the heat of battle. He was just a shiny, a mere child in their eyes.

7856 straightened, but he would grow into an adult. All that was between them and him was some experience on the battlefield. He stood up straighter, proud to have came to this conclusion. He grinned, and put the helmet square on his head, before walking out the door. He was a solider, and it was time he started acting like it.

That first week was terrible. Poked, prodded, and teased for being a shiny and his numerous mistakes, any attempts he made to impress his superiors usually ended up with him being thankful that his helmet hid his burning cheeks. Unaccepted, alone, and really, really annoyed, 7856 spent most of his time hiding in the resolute's many restrooms.

A rotation went by.

Then a few rotations.

Then five rotations.

CT-7856 felt like he had been stretched to his breaking point. If the constant ridicule didn't push him this far, then the next mission did. They were going to Genosis. He swallowed, a dry hard, sound. Genosis. The place were clones go to die. If seasoned troopers didn't make it out, how would he, a shiny, ever survive.

He looked in the mirror of the bathroom he was currently hiding in.

Why?!

Why was he being teased!?

Why did he make so many mistakes?!

Why was he going to Genosis?!

Why was he going to die?!

Anger surge toward 7856, wrapping around him like an angry fist. With a furious shout, he slammed his own fist into the metal piping... and watched in horror as the flimsy metal tube burst open.

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Rex dragged the razor atop his head, savoring the rhythmic strokes. Again. Again. Again. Then across his chin. Again. Agai-

The door to the restroom slammed open, and fives flew in, a panicked half-grin perched on his face. "Rex! We have a situation! The pipe in the bathroom is busted!"

Res glanced at the pipe near the sink he was currently shaving next to. "Is this a joke?"

Fives shook his head, schooling his face into neutrality. "It's in the other bathroom, the one near the hanger." The smile leapt back onto his face. "The shiny broke it."

Rex resisted the urge to moan. Sometimes he almost felt bad for the poor kid, other times he was close to join in on mocking CT-7856.

"I'll be right there."He grumbled, thoroughly annoyed. And when he got there, he and CT-7856 were going to have a little talk.

Rex washed on the shaving cream before stomping down the hall, his other brothers parting before him like he had a contagious disease. You don't mess with an mad Rex.

He took a left. Then a right. Then another two lefts. And there it was, the restroom door, water leaking out from under it.

He yanked it opening, causing a stream of water to gush out the door. And there he was. The shiny, his face red from mortification, frantically scooping up water with his helmet and poring it back down the sinks. His red face went white when he beheld the expression on the captain's face.

Rex stalked toward the shiny, grabbed him by the ear, and towed him out of there, irate.

"Wait, Sir"

Rex stopped and leaned over, getting right into the shiny's face, his words near guttural. "What."

CT-7856 swallowed, before answering. "I found this, Sir." And he held up... the General's lightsaber!

Rex, all anger forgotten, stared in wonder at the weapon. The general had lost it before the shiny had came, a little more than seven rotations ago. "Where did you find this?"

"When I broke the pipe, Sir, this thing flew out of it along with a lot of water, Sir." He paused, slightly curious. "Is it important, Sir?"

Rex smiled. The general will be pleased. "Yes CT-7856, it is important." A rare smile spread across his face. "You have just found the general's missing lightsaber."

His younger brother's eyes got bigger than moons, amazed. While on Kamino, they had all heard stories from visiting clones about the Jedi and their weapons, but to hold one... It was like holding something holy.

"Good job Er-" He looked around him, trying to find a suitable nickname. Every clone needed one. It defined them, represented them, made them. The lack of a name, along with all his mistakes, was part of the reason the shiny had been teased. Once he gave him his name and once everyone heard that he had found his lightsaber, he would be accepted as a fellow brother, not just a goofy shiny. The shiny surface of the floor caught his eye. Water was shiny, just like 7856.

"Water."

Water grinned, finally accepted.

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The sky of Genosis was a rusty orange, like the color of a blaster that had been left out the the rain and other elements to long. Water sighed, his face under his helmet damp with sweat. Water shrugged. At least it was better than water. Despite the overwhelming heat, he started to smile. Even if he died here, in this unforgiving desert, he was finally a solider. A brother.

He was Water.

In front of him, the general swung the lightsaber he found to intercept a shot from a droid.

Water smiled.