"21."

"That's osik, Fives!"

"Why, what is yours, Echo?"

"22!"

"Unless a shift had happened, which it did not, you do not have that!" Fives argued, "you cheat!"

Rex stared at the two as he silently judged the two arguing vode.

"Oh, judgy," Fives stated, "what do you have?"

Rex placed three cards down, a smug smirk covering his face as he reached for the desert rations.

"HOW?!"

Rex chuckled as the two arc's screeching caught everyone's attention. "Pay attention; it is not only fieldside that tactics come into play."

"Ah, come on!"

"Unfair!"

"Not unfair, only that you forgot how to play," Rex stated, standing up with his newly earned deserts.

-----

"Wasn't the Captain the one that got the extra dessert rations?" One of the shinies asked as they approached Fives.

"Yes?" Fives stated, questioning as to why the shiny was asking this.

"Then why does the Commander have extra dessert rations?"

Fives turned towards the shiny with wide eyes and a smile slowly forming across his face. "Thank you for bringing this up," Fives grinned before hurrying away to Torrents barracks.

-----

"So, Captain," Fives started as he slid onto the bench opposite Rex.

"What?" Rex grunted, lifting a fork of rations to chew.

"A little birdy told me that-"

"A shiny told you something?" Rex asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes," Fives mumbled before continuing, "they told me that the Commander has extra rations."

"And how is this anything for me to know?"

"Last time I checked, you were the only one that had collected spares recently," Fives pointed out.

"And are you suggesting that the Commander is unable to stock up and store spares for when they might be of more use?" Rex questioned, his fork placed down as he leaned forwards slightly.

Fives gulped, backing up with wide eyes as Rex's voice lowered threateningly, "no, sir," he got out shakily. 

"Good," Rex stated sharply before turning back to his food.

"I'm-" Fives stuttered before getting up, "going to go now, sir."

Rex grunted as he continued to eat.

-----

"How did it go, Fives?" Echo asked as he watched Fives quickly enter the barracks. He knew that the room had gone quiet, wanting to find out the answer as much as he did.

"I think I need new blacks," Fives whispered.

Echo's eyes widened as he got up and pulled Fives towards the quickly forming pile. "What happened?"

"It went from playful yet serious to threatening in a blink," Fives groaned, "he thought I said something negative about the Commander, and a switch flipped instantly."

"So we need to approach similar situations with caution and multiple plans," Echo mused.

"I want to know whether he's been giving the Commander the desserts, though!" Fives exclaimed, "he needs to get into a situation where he has to tell us!"

"I don't like that look," a few of the men muttered as they saw the gleam form in Five's eyes. Even Echo backed away, cautious.

"Truth or dare!"

"Smoke, this is going to go down in smoke."

-----

"Please, sirs!" Fives begged, looking between both Ahsoka and Rex.

"Come on, Rexter, what is the worst that could happen?" Ahsoka asked, knocking her shoulder against his.

"Many things," Rex stated.

"It's only a little fun, sir!" Fives defended.

"It never ends that way," Rex said, "especially when you have that look in your eyes."

"Wait, was that barrack fire because of truth or dare?" Ahsoka suddenly asked. The way Fives suddenly ducked his head with a sheepish smile was all she needed to know.

-----

"Why are we going?" Rex groaned.

"It will be fun, and it's time to relax," Ahsoka chirped as she dragged Rex.

"You came!" Fives exclaimed as he watched the duo walk into the room.

"Against my will and better judgment," Rex grumbled to himself as he was lead to where he was to sit. "I still don't think this is a good idea," he muttered.

"Loosen up, Rexter!" Ahsoka chirped, reaching for the bottle Fives was handing her.

As quick as a Jedi, Rex's hand snapped out, grabbing the beer from Fives' hand and, holding his thumb over the opening, he bashed it against the floor and allowed it to shoot and empty itself over the man. Once it was empty, he passed it over to the soaked and sticky man.

"Noted," Fives nodded, placing the bottle down in the centre of the floor to use to spin. Looking around, he saw that only a few of them had decided to play—Echo, Rex, Ahsoka and himself.
The rest of them were cowards.
"Ready?" He asked before spinning the bottle.

It landed on a scowling Rex.

"Truth or dare?" Fives asked with a grin.

"I don't trust you for either," Rex stated.

"I'll keep it PG," Fives offered.

"Come on, Rexter," Ahsoka grinned, bumping her shoulder against his.

"Truth," Rex slowly stated, overseeing Fives with wary eyes. 

"How are you so good at tactics and strategy?" Fives asked.

"I was trained with the CC batches, well, unofficially," Rex shrugged, leaning down and spinning the bottle, watching it land on Echo, "truth or dare?"

"Truth," Echo stated.

"If you could become invisible, what would be the first thing you would do?"

"Sneak into Count Dooku's place and find out everything!" Echo declared, much to the booing of Fives.

"Boring!"

"So you would not try and win the war and prevent vode from getting hurt?" Echo asked, watching as Fives calmed down and shook his head. Grinning, he leaned forwards and spun the bottle. "Ahsoka, truth or dare?"

"Dare!"

"I dare you to eat a raw egg," Echo stated.

Fives grinned, running off and coming back with an egg crate and a cup.

Ahsoka shrugged, grabbing one of the glasses and an egg and cracking the egg into the cup and putting back the shells. With a single gulp, she threw back the egg and drank it all.

Everyone could barely hold back their wince of disgust.

"You do know that raw egg is quite healthy for my species? Right?" Ahsoka asked, looking around the group.

The disgust slightly lowered.

Ahsoka grinned, spinning the bottle. The grin increased as she stared down at Rex, "Rexter, truth or dare?"

"Dare," Rex spoke slowly.

"I dare you to eat the eggshells," Ahsoka grinned, pointing to the eggshells.

Rex grimaced, reaching for the eggshells. Without looking, he quickly placed them in his mouth.

"Chewing before swallowing," Ahsoka stated.

Wincing, Rex started to chew the eggshells before swallowing. "Crunchy," Rex stated, with a grimacing.

"It can be good to eat, even to humans," Ahsoka stated.

Frowning, Rex spun the bottle. "Truth or dare, Echo?"

"Truth."

"Longest time you've ever slept?"

Echo paused, "five hours, I believe, during cadet training," he stated before spinning the bottle. "Fives, truth or dare?"

"Dare!" Fives exclaimed.

"Improve dance, now."

Ahsoka raised an eyebrow at the dance.

Fives sat back down and spun the bottle, smirking when it landed on his intended target. "Rex! Truth or dare!"

"-Truth," Rex slowly answered.

"Did you give the desserts that you won to Ahsoka?" Fives asked.

"Some of them, yes," Rex nodded slowly.

Fives giggled. Honest to The Force, giggled. "Why?"

"I do believe it is only one question to be answered," Rex pointed out.

Fives grumbled as Echo sighed. "That is the rules of the game," Echo pointed out as he patted Fives on the back.

Shaking his head, Rex reached down and spun the bottle; it landed on Ahsoka. "Truth or dare?"

"Dare!" Ahsoka chirped. She listened as Rex leaned over and whispered the dare to her.

Fives' eyes widened as Ahsoka turned and faced him with glee in her eyes. He was so focused on this that he didn't see the eggs until they'd hit him. Spluttering, feeling the egg all over him, he looked over at Rex and Ahsoka in shock. He tried to wipe the egg from his face, but it only got worse as it smudged.

Echo sighed, getting up and grabbing some cloth to wipe down Fives again. "Why am I always having to clean up your messes?" He asked, throwing the towel at Fives when he was finished.

"This is hardly my mess!" Fives defended.

"Who is it over? And who chose this game?" Echo pointed out.

The room laughed as Fives only started grumbling to himself.
The game continued, various levels of silly appearing through the match before Fives finally got to ask, "why did you give the Commander some of your desserts?"

"Apparently, there is such thing of expiry dates, even on rations," Rex shrugged with a slight smirk.

Fives grumbled again.

-----

Fives stopped walking, Echo hitting into the back of him. "Wait–?"

"Wait, what?" Echo sighed.

"Those dessert rations have years left on them!"

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