The Bad Batch: One Shot Collection

Author's Note: This is for Day 1 of Haunted Clone Week. :)

It was meant to be a joke. When Crosshair started telling Wrecker and Omega about how all the lights through the Marauder's viewport were eyes, he didn't know it was real.

"I think one of the lights just moved!" Wrecker whines, staring wide-eyed out the front view port of the Marauder. Pabu is dotted with lights from houses everywhere but it's too dark to see more than just the lights.

"That's not possible," Omega protests, but she doesn't sound like she believes her own words.

"Of course it is," Crosshair replies gleefully, "Those are eyes, and the monsters are going to come after us."

They are the ones who first mentioned that it looked so weird to see all the lights outside the window when they couldn't even see what the lights were connected to. It's not his fault they started taking him seriously.

"There aren't monsters on Pabu!" Wrecker protests, "We're safe here!"

"That's a lot of monsters," Omega points out, eyeing the lights dotting the otherwise dark window.

"Or it's one monster with eight eyes."

Omega stares at him. "You're lying," she argues, "That's not possible. We would've heard them."

"Don't worry, they won't attack us. Unless we touch the glass and get sucked outside."

"How do ya get sucked outside?" Wrecker repeats incredulously.

Crosshair shrugs. "I don't know how it works but if we try it, we can find out."

They both warily look at the window. No one makes the move to even try.

"That's not true, right?" his twin brother asks worriedly, "There aren't actually monsters outside?"

"What's this about monsters?" Hunter's voice says, and they all freeze, turning to look down at him.

"Crosshair insists those lights outside are monsters," Omega tattles, "I think he's just trying to freak us out, because there's no way that's true."

Wrecker yelps unexpectedly. "Uh, Crosshair? I think one of those lights just got brighter."

"It's coming closer," he replies smugly. "Told you it's true."

Hunter climbs up onto the gunner's mount. "There's nothing out there. We're clear." He eyes the window, frowning a little.

"We won't disappear if we touch the window, will we?" Omega asks.

He laughs. "Of course not. See?" His aqua gloved hand lifts, touching the glass, and then just... vanishes.

Crosshair has no idea who screamed loudest. Wrecker nearly plows Omega off the mount in an effort to catch Hunter, but he's gone.

"What's happening?" Omega asks panickily, grabbing her crossbow.

Either he can just admit that he honestly doesn't know and made the whole thing up, or try to just go with it, and Crosshair isn't quite sure which option is better right now.

"We hafta find him!" Wrecker whines, "We can't let him be eaten by monsters!"

"Well," Crosshair points out, "There's only one way to find him, and that will mean we're all eaten by monsters."

Omega glares at him like this is his fault somehow – okay, maybe it is. A little. "I'm not leaving Hunter out there! We hafta find him. I don't care what that means."