Kanan walked around the Ghost, it was dark due to it being night but he found his way around fairly easy. He couldn't tell if it was because of the force, or if he'd been living on the ship long enough he memorized it. Kanan was tired but he couldn't fall asleep, the thought of Hera being in the hands of the empire clouded everything. He hated the thought of her capture being anyones fault but it was. He went into the ship's bridge and sat down in the co-pilot's seat and allowed the memory to replay in his mind, knowing he couldn't avoid it any longer.
There were so many stormtroopers, more than Kanan had thought to be on this part of Lothal. TIEs were everywhere, holding the phantom in place must've been like trying to hold down a frantic lothcat. Hera had given the controls to the phantom to Sabine that way she could go save Ezra who was struggling to get onto the phantom. She jumped out and pushed Ezra up and Zeb pulled him the rest of the way. Hera tried to jump all the way on but she could only get her top half onto the phantom, her legs were still dangling off.
More TIEs came and began shooting at the phantom even more. "We need to go now!" Sabine yelled from the pilot's seat. Kanan had gone up to help her keep the shuttle under control. Zeb shook his head and turned to Hera, "Don't take this personal, we just don't have the time for you to get on." He had kicked Hera off the ship before she could fully pull herself up and yelled, "Go! Now!"
No one had realized that Hera wasn't with them until it was too late. Sabine gave Kanan the controls and began yelling at Zeb. Kanan wanted to join her but he remained silent and flew off towards where the Ghost was hidden. He maneuvered away from the TIEs, barely, Ezra had joined Sabine with the yelling, Kanan was just trying to get back to the ship. He wanted to get back to the ship so he could learn what Hera's fate would be, possibly was. A while later, while watching the Holo news, he learned Hera was alive with major injuries and was going to be taken to a prison as soon as she was better.
Kanan returned to what was happening now. He put his head in his hands, he knew the empire wasn't going to wait for her to heal, or even do anything to help her heal, at this point she's as good as dead. He looked up out the window, the sky was clear as it normally was, the stars shone brightly. Something inside Kanan sparked, he instantly opened the Holonet and searched up 'Hera Syndulla'. There were many results, apparently the event that happened only days ago was more popular than he imagined. He opened one, hoping he'd learn where the empire would be taking Hera, that way he could get her out as soon as possible.
He scrolled through the long articles speaking about all the crimes she did against the empire until he found it. Rebel Hera Syndulla captured in failed getaway attempt, being taken to an unnamed prison hidden on Lothal. He thought hard, he wasn't aware there was a prison on Lothal, but yet again he didn't know a lot of things about Lothal. It also didn't help that the prison is unnamed and hidden, yet not knowing about the prison wasn't important right now, saving Hera was. He needed to come up with a good enough plan, one that would give him at least a forty percent chance of success. He began searching up things like, Lothal prison and unnamed prison locations. He didn't get a lot of information but he did get enough, and if that was all he could get so be it, he wouldn't rest until Hera was back here, safe with him. Kanan began running through possible plans in his mind, to get Hera back but none of them were good enough and he didn't want to get the others involved, afraid they might get captured as well.
Then it came to him, he could sneak in somehow, steal one of the guards suits and find Hera. He would say he was taking her to be tested or something partially believable like that and escape with Hera, hopefully she wasn't in too awful of a condition. He then had to come up with a plan to get away from the others without too much question. He yawned loudly and decided it was better to try to get some sort of sleep than to come up with that plan. Kanan walked over to his room, changed into more comfortable cloths and laid down. It took about an hour to fall asleep but once he was asleep it seemed like nothing could wake him except dawn itself.
The next day Kanan awoke early and began on making a plan to distract the others while he went solo on his mission. He decided that he could have them do some seaming pointless chores that would be of use when, or if, got Hera back, and then say he was going out to go meditate and he needed to be alone. Kanan put his normal clothes on and left his room to go and call the others up to the bridge for a meeting. Once everyone arrived he began to explain what they had to do.
"Okay, so I've been thinking, what if someone comes back greatly injured and we aren't prepared?" Kanan said without giving a hint of suspicion.
Sabine leaned against the wall, "They die." she glanced an angry look at Zeb.
Kanan nodded, "That's why I want to be prepared, we'll be doing a mission a little later today, probably at night, and it's pretty dangerous so I'm going to make sure we're prepared for the worse."
Ezra sighed, "And what exactly is this 'dangerous mission'?"
Kanan froze, he hadn't thought anyone would ask that, "Uh, we're going to… uh… raid the imperial academy." he finished coolly
Sabine looked at her feet, "What about Hera? Do we know anymore about her?"
Kanan had to come up with an excuse quickly, "She's… dead." He instantly regretted the excuse he made.
Suddenly the room filled with a sorrowful silence. Kanan didn't want to bring them further into this depression but it was too late to change what he said. Sabine looked like she was about to blow, Ezra just stared down at his feet but he didn't seem as sad, which meant he sensed Kanan's lie. Zeb looked pretty heart broken himself, something Kanan hadn't seen in a long time, even Chopper seemed sad and he's a droid.
Zeb looked around, "So that's why you're being so cautious with this mission."
Kanan nodded, "Yeah, that's why I want you four to go prepare the medical bay for if the worst were to happen, I'm going to go meditate for a little while near the old jedi temple, alone." he looked over at Ezra. "Dismissed." he added
Sabine rushed off first, she clearly wasn't running to the medical bay, but rather her room. Zeb and chopper left rather slowly, Ezra didn't leave at all, but instead he stared at Kanan. Kanan tried to shoo Ezra away but knew that there was no point, he wasn't going to leave until he knew the truth. Kanan wanted to tell him and invite him on his mission but if he lost both Hera and Ezra he wouldn't know how to live with himself. He eventually gave into his padawans staring, due to finding it very uncomfortable.
"Okay, fine, Hera's still alive, what more do you want from me!" he yelled throwing his arms into the air.
"I want to go with you." Ezra said confidently.
Kanan thought for a minute and decided to play dumb, "To meditate? I thought you would find it boring."
"The mission! Look, Kanan you may have fooled them but you're not fooling me, I know you're going to save Hera and I want… I am coming with you."
Kanan sighed, "No, you're not, I don't want to lose you too."
"And I don't want to lose you, please, Kanan, just let me come, I won't leave your side." Ezra argued.
"No, you won't leave the phantom. Here's the deal I'll let you come but you'll be in charge of the phantom."
Ezra was about to object but he decided it was better to just stick with what he got, otherwise he might not be able to go on the mission all together. Kanan went to tell Chopper and Zeb that Ezra would be joining his meditation session, deciding It'd be better just to leave Sabine be. He explained to Zeb and Chopper that he need to teach Ezra more about focus so Ezra would be joining him and they didn't seem to care, obviously too busy trying to completely process the news they were given earlier. He felt awful about that but he didn't want to tell them the truth otherwise they might realize what he was really going to do.
Ezra had already started up the phantom, when Kanan climbed inside. He was terrified for the mission ahead but he was more terrified for what would happen if he didn't go through with it. He sighed and sat down in the pilot's seat, he had the shuttle detach from the ghost and fly off. Kanan allowed Ezra steer the ship around as he tried to use the force to locate the 'hidden prison'. It took about thirty minutes of flying for him to find it, but once he found it he immediately set in the coordinates and allowed the autopilot to do the rest. He hadn't been this nervous for a very long time. This was either get back one part of his life, or loose the rest of it.