Complementary Colours & Canons (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)
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I’m Not Made To Be Alone by helo572
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
07 Jun 2025
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Crosshair’s boot slips on the wet durasteel beam.
His stomach lurches. One moment he is balanced precariously; the next, his right foot skids off the beam entirely. Crosshair’s arms pinwheel, desperate to grab onto something – anything.
But then–
He falls.
Written for Summer of Bad Batch 2025, prompt #1 "You're here. You're safe."
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Gravity's Hold by helo572
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
23 Feb 2026
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A moment on an alien planet leads to a brotherly moment of comfort between Tech & Crosshair.
Written for the Batch twins Zine, Changed.
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Time Lost by helo572 for wwheeljack
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
12 Jan 2023
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The Bad Batch are dispatched to deal with the aftermath of Ahsoka’s capture on the Trandoshan moon. But in the jungle, demons lurk in more places than simply the shadows.
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- Part 5 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
- Part 3 of Complementary Colours & Canons (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)
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In The Line of Duty by helo572 for zhaana
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
05 Nov 2023
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Be that as it may, the Bad Batch's 100% success rate doesn't mean they aren't also affected by the realities of war.
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Cold Hands by helo572 for eternalqueenofnaboo
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
20 Aug 2023
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The planet is cold. Crosshair's hands are cold. His brothers... are not.
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Escharotomy by helo572 for badbatchdalorian
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
27 Jul 2025
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escharotomy (noun)
1. a surgical procedure used to treat full-thickness (third-degree) burns.
2. something Crosshair never wants to see performed on his brother ever again.Or, Hunter is self-sacrificial when it comes to safety of his brothers, and Crosshair has had enough.
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- Part 8 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
- Part 6 of Complementary Colours & Canons (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)
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Little Victories by helo572 for AnEchoInHere
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
09 Sep 2023
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Wrecker comes up with a new tactic to help Echo manage his chronic pain. (Please don't tell Tech.)
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- Part 6 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
- Part 7 of Complementary Colours & Canons (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)
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Gloryhound by helo572 for AnEchoInHere
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
14 Sep 2022
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Towards the end of the Clone Wars, the Bad Batch are tasked with a difficult mission that pushes their pilots to their limits. In all manners of speaking.
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- Part 3 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
- Part 8 of Complementary Colours & Canons (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)
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Secrets Best Kept by helo572
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types
18 Jun 2022
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Coda to 1.05 Rampage. Hunter has enhanced senses, able to sense electromagnetic frequencies planetwide, but he also has an enhanced ability to feel pain to match.
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- Part 2 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
- Part 9 of Complementary Colours & Canons (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)
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This Is the Load-Bearing Joint by helo572 for dregsofthebarrel
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types
11 Apr 2025
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Another day, another mission for Cid. Everyone is tired while trying to survive a changed galaxy, but that doesn't mean Echo doesn't notice that something is wrong. Not just with the galaxy, but with Hunter.
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- Part 7 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
- Part 10 of Complementary Colours & Canons (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)
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A Pile of Yarn & A Batch Full of Sweaters by helo572
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types
01 Dec 2022
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Knowledge of knitting needles, yarn, and oversized sweaters is passed down and passed on.
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After War by helo572
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types
04 Jan 2023
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Coda to 2.02 Ruins of War. Hunter learns of Tech's fractured femur.
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Then by helo572
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types
11 Jan 2023
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He’s in a stairwell. He has a mission. He has Commander Cody by his side. They have orders and–
He can’t breathe.
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Families of Choice by helo572
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types
08 Feb 2023
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Missing scene from 2.08 Truth and Consequences. Echo makes his decision.
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Found/Tonight by helo572 for sacredlantern
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types
02 Aug 2025
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Tech gets more than he bargained for during a local liberation excursion, under the spell of one Phee Genoa.
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- Part 15 of Complementary Colours & Canons (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)
- Part 9 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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Rules and Regulations by helo572
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types
21 Feb 2024
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On Mount Tantiss, Omega waits. Time passes. Her hair grows longer.
Just like Hunter's.
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The Art of Flying and Letting Go by helo572
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types
15 Feb 2026
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A pit stop on Pabu sees Rex with some rare alone time. But of course, not for long. Excitement always finds him. This time, it's from his big-little sister, Omega.
Written for the Captain Rex Zine, Song of the Captain.
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Aftermath, Redux by helo572
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types
06 Mar 2024
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Back on Pabu, Crosshair tries to adjust, emotionally and physically. He tries to let it roll off his back. But captivity is not so easily shaken, even when you are finally standing in open air.
Or, why Crosshair's armour doesn't fit quite right anymore.
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Post-Op Protocol by helo572
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types
15 Jun 2025
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After the Clone Wars, after the fallout, after Tantiss. Recovery from a life hard lived is never going to be linear. It's also not helped by the discovery of another one of Hunter's enhancements slash defects - wisdom teeth.
Written for Summer of Bad Batch, bonus prompt "it's too early for this" (chapter 1) | prompt #2 (alternate) "don’t even think about it” (epilogue)
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Along an Old Scar by helo572
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types
17 May 2026
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The fighting is over. Nearly two years later, the teething issues of Clone Force 99's permanent settlement on Pabu are mostly over too. Life is almost normal. Life is mundane.
And a fact of life is: sometimes you can do everything right and still lose.
Or, Hunter learns that the mundane can still break you. But the people who love you will never let you break alone.
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- Part 11 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
- Part 20 of Complementary Colours & Canons (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)