#apocalyptech

Apocalyptech by Aelfwynn on Ao3.

I started this story in November 2021. I stopped at Chapter 11 in June 2022 for various reasons. I finally came back to it with Chapter 12 back in February 2026, and have been faithfully adding chapters since. Chapter 20 newly released. If you want a sad Tech/Bad Batch story with mystery and hope thrown in, this might be it:

Ten years after Order 66.

Tech is on his own, not only fighting the Empire, but fighting himself.

(Note, I think the last chapter I read was 11)

Hello fiveshelmet!!! So lovely to hear from you! <3

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinally...  New chapter of Apocalyptech.

Chapter 9 just added.  You might need tissues for this one.

Excerpt:

Echo sat down in the copilot chair. “I'm going to keep my eyes on him, I don't trust him,” he said in a very low voice to Tech, side glancing back to the cabin briefly.

Tech pushed buttons and flipped switches to prepare the ship for departure from the moon. “I concur,” he said just as low. Tech did not want to think ill of his brother, any of them. But trust had been broken and needed to be re-earned as Hunter had said. Tech hoped for the best, but...

‘Apocalyptech’ by Aelfwynn on Ao3, Chapter 10 Excerpt:

Tech picked up his pace, his legs matching the speed at which his mind raced with question after question, with no end in sight to his intrinsic need to find a solution. There was always a solution. Always. He was engineered to have an exceptional mind to figure out every situation, to always come out on top. One hundred percent mission success rate. They always survived everything that the Separatists threw at them, everything that the Empire threw at them, the bounty hunters, the less than minimal conditions they endured. They always survived. For nearly twenty cycles.

And all it took was one cycle out of twenty, to fall like dominoes. One by one.

‘Apocalyptech’ by Aelfwynn, just updated with Chapter 7 on Ao3.

Excerpt:

Tech held up a finger. “Might I remind you that he has tried to kill every one of us, multiple times. Even Omega.”

'Aim for the kid.'

“But he didn't,” Hunter said looking at Omega whose dejected eyes now searched the floor earnestly for an argument with that fact, only to come up empty-handed.

‘Apocalyptech’ by Aelfwynn on Ao3 updated 1/30/22 with Chapter 8.

Excerpt:

Tech's eyes stung and then welled up and this time he did let the tears fall as he stared out the viewport at what could have been.

Eastern State Penintentiary, Philadelphia, PA#7 in a series. Apocalyptech.