#Thankyou to Mosylu for the Droid Help

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alternate dhd prompt: cisco portal into star wars and makes friends with some droids, include a cool af pit droid (mechanics’s assistant droid) that follows him home.

(Starwars Hard so… forgive my copout) The blue light that rippled through the STAR Labs cortex was familiar, as were the boots that touched down a little too hard. Caitlin Snow looked up and smiled. 

"Cisco! You're back!"

Cisco looked up at her, and Caitlin leaned back, unnerved. 

"Oh my god. What happened?" 

His eye was black, a little blood crusted around the ear not obscured by his hair. 

"You should see the other guy. Or not." He winced, then stuck his arm back through the breach, presumably to wave. " Don't freak out."

Of "phrases that meant a freakout was deservedly on the horizon" that one ranked high. Caitlin expected, perhaps, another doppelganger of someone they knew and loved, or knew and hated, or a medical emergency. 

She did not expect a dark red robot, about hip high, to scuttle through the portal. Well, it rolled, but it rolled in as much of a scuttling movement as something with wheels could. 

"Cisco?" she asked. "Why is there an R2D2 knock off--"

The robot beeped. Cisco, still holding the breach, gave her his most disappointed look. 

"She didn't mean that," he told the robot. "Caitlin, this is B2EMO. Not an R2 unit."

"Oh, and what's... he?-- doing here-- oh. Oh, there's more."

Indeed, several other droids followed Cisco's arm out of the breach before Cisco, now counting under his breath, pulled it closed. 

"Well, they helped me, I wasn't going to just leave them on that ship I rigged to blow."

"Ship. You rigged. To blow up," Caitlin repeated. 

Cisco shrugged. "I didn't mean to get caught by the Empire, Caitlin. How was I supposed to know there was a corner of the multiverse where Star wars was actually real?"

"Isn't that the point of the multiverse?" Caitlin pointed out. One of the droids hopped over to her, the lenses over the camera-eyes looking endearingly like curious blinking. 

"Anyways, they helped, so. My droids now." Cisco said. "I'm just gonna text Barry to let him know. Ugh." Cisco put a hand against his head.

"What?" Caitlin leaped up, her concern ratcheting up again.

Cisco held up his phone. "Seriously? Why is autocorrect trying to change Droids to Croissants?"

"Croissants?" Bary asked, lighting in his wake. "Did you go back to that  Paris planet a--ooooooh. New friends?"

"New Friends," Cisco agreed. "Also, we are going to have a talk about what you put into existence when you and the rest rebuilt the multiverse during that last Crisis, Barry."