Star Wars The Clone Wars Writing Prompt
Anyone else enjoy force-sensitive clones? Cause I do… especially when Fives has force-sensitive.
So the idea is this: Fives is force-sensitive but doesn’t found out until after he’s “killed”. Instead of dying, he enters a hibernation trance (which is a canon ability that causes the user to go into a state that makes them seem dead with the exclusion of those who know to look for it and through extensive testing) with everyone assuming he’s dead (since no one knows he’s force-sensitive so they did not think to check).
He wakes up weeks later on a ship back to Kamino (side note: canon states that a force user can stay in this state for up to a month without water) with the rest of the claimed dead (I’m making a point that the Kaminoans dissect them to find out any ‘flaws’ that resulted in them dying (aka, trying to make their ‘product’ more ‘perfect’). The reason he woke up is because the ship is under attack (don’t know by who. Maybe space pirates?) and he just manages to escape in an escape pod before the Kamino ship blows up.
Unfortunately, this leads his ship to lose control and he winds up trapped in the Valley’s Force nexus. There, he meets the spirit of Tarre Vizsla, who becomes his temporary master (and reveals to him that he is force-sensitive).
While reluctantly training with Tarre Vizsla, Fives is trying to leave the nexus and keeps failing. He later learns that Tarre is preventing him.
According to Tarre, the universe is on a dark path. There are several chances for it to remain in balance but thus far, the Jedi have not been able to make the right decisions to prevent this from happening. The prevention of Fives’ ‘death’ was one of them, their failure to listen to him further pushing the universe towards the dark future (the next is them not believing in Ahsoka’s innocence, resulting in her leaving the Jedi and thus further pushing the universe towards the dark path).
Fives demands to leave so that he can fix it, but it turns out that the point in time where Fives could have fixed it has passed and that trying to do so will only result in his death (with his now awakened force abilities allowing a new path towards balance to form, although only a potential one if the right choices are made). Fives, angry about this, refuses to learn from Tarre for awhile but eventually continues.
To Fives, it feels as though he’s been there for years despite his appearance not changing. Turns out, the nexus is preventing him from aging and that he is almost ‘outside the time-space continuum’ whilst there (aka: it’s mentally been years for Fives while in reality, it’s only been a few months). He has even managed to built himself a lightsaber from the broken remains of destroyed lightsabers.
After being there for awhile, Fives feels Order 66 happen (as in feeling his brothers suddenly go ‘blank’ and the deaths of most of the Jedi). In his anguish and desire to stop Order 66, he manages to escape the nexus and inadvertently releasing all the trapped souls there, including Tarre (did I mention that Order 66, as a result of him being in the nexus, feels a lot longer than it actually is?)
After a final goodbye with Tarre, Fives leaves to see what he can do but finds that he is too late: the Chancellor has won. Full of despair and with no support or resources to fight the empire, Fives goes into hiding. He hops planet to planet to keep hidden, assuming that this will be his life now (and somewhat wishing he never left the nexus).
But that all comes to a halt when he lands on Ord Mantell and meets Omega.
At this point, Echo has left with Rex so the Bad Batch don’t know who Fives is, just that he’s a clone who had his chip removed (he also gives a fake name (let’s say… Domino). ‘Domino’ reluctantly joins the Bad Batch for a bit and helps them out.
Unfortunately, they get in over their head at one point with the Empire. With no other choice, Fives reveals his force abilities (think of how Kanan revealed his in Rebels) and during the fight, his true identity is revealed (maybe because he got distracted by his anger, causing him to slip and use the dark side for a moment).
That’s kind of it for this idea, except that there’s a reunion between Fives and Echo, the Bad Batch eventually run into another Jedi (maybe a crash landing on Tatooine and meeting a certain general who may or may not help Fives continue his training?… or maybe they crash land on Dagobah…?), and them eventually joining up with the rebellion. Also, inclusion that technically, Fives fit in more with the Bad Batch’s usual standards than Echo since, like the rest of the Bad Batch, Fives was born with his ‘defect’.
Edit: personally, I would see his Force abilities as being around Padawan level & that he is better with lightsaber forms (partially because it takes years to even reach Padawan level, partially because Tarre is not able to access the force as a living being would (since he’s dead and all) and mainly focused on lightsaber forms (and minor force abilities).
