Second chances
chapter 1
An: don't own rebels, which I did.
Wait what?
Everything was a blurred mess, all his senses were mixed up in a colorful haze of images. He couldn't see anything yet, but he could hear, just like before he could always hear. The sounds, the voices he was hearing were not the voices he wished he could hear again, but no those voices were gone for good and there was no way he was ever going hear all of them again.
As his senses caught up with where he was, the blurry images became solid and he saw that he was in a building with strange looking people that were walking around and talking. As he started to feel better he noticed that he was sitting in a chair, and that he was sitting across from him was a weird looking guy in some pretty heavy looking armor. He was on a phone, but he didn't need to use his hands to use it.
"Where am I?" he asked as he began to move his body around confused and truth be told a little afraid.
"Is this the force?" he asked again, making some of the people that were watching them stop and stare, as the one guy in a jet pack and blue clothes answered "if this was the force we wouldn't be here, now would we bud?! just feel lucky we brought you here before you went to that grey red voodoo face".
Grey red voodoo face? who was this guy? and really where was he?
As the big armor guy finished on his phone conversation he said " are you, or are you not, Kanan Jarrus aka Caleb Dume?".
This made Kanan very surprised, apart from Hera,Ezra and a few others, no one else knew his birth name, so how did this guy know, but still he answered " yes that is me".
"Well just your luck, the boss wants to see you, and as for the rest of you,( looking around) get back to what ever craziness you were doing!" the big guy in armor exclaimed, which made all the people solute and move on.
Kanan was even more confused " who is this boss man?" he asked to the armored guy.
"Oh that'll be Joe MacArthur, a good kid in his early 20's. He'll be in that room over there" the armored guy said pointing to a room of to the side that had Joe on it, and then he continued " my named is Jake by the way".
"Okay thanks" Kanan said as he got up.
As he walked to the room he noticed something in the shiny metal of a machine that he was walking past, his pony tail was back and so was his goatee. He also looked a little younger too, but he hadn't looked this way in years. The last thing he remembered doing to his hair was cutting it, in that short almost buzz cut he did with that knife when he was blind and alive, but the main thing was that the pony tail and the beard were gone.
He went to the door that he was directed to expecting it to have a keypad like he was use to, only to find a strange knob on the door and as he touched it, the door opened to reveal a person in his 20's with a medium length hair like obi - wan kenobi use to have. This person was sitting down at his desk with a phone to his ear. Kanan heard him say "well if that guy wants to change the past...let him,but not too much we don't want to cause a riff" and then when he noticed him he said " sit down sir, you don't need to stand there like a statue master jedi or would you prefer Kanan Jarrus or Caleb Dume".
"Kanan please" as he came further into the room, but not so close, that he wasn't in fighting range.
"How do you know who I am or any of it? where am I?" Kanan asked sounding a little like Ezra with his quick fire questions.
"One question at a time please. First let me explain your look and how you are here. The look you have is the one you had just before that dark sider and Satine killer Maul blinded you" Joe said with a tone that sounded like he didn't like Maul at all.
"Now where we are, this is a little bit like the after life and unlike the force where you are stuck mostly where you were, we bring very important people out" Joe said looking at his screen on his desk, before continuing "people that deserve to live. You are one of those examples".
"But why me?" Kanan asked because he wanted to know where this was going.
"Because the way things are going in the living world...well let's just say if you stay dead you will ruin all the good that you, Ezra and Hera will be able to do" Joe exclaimed, slapping the desk with his hand before pulling it back and giving it a little shake to get rid of the pain.
Kanan jumped a little and started to think that this guy was like Zeb and Ezra combined and that wasn't a good combination of people at the best of times, could things really change?
"Sorry if I made you jump, old habits die hard. Now as I was trying to say I am giving you the opportunity of a life time, just like others we have before, people like Galen Marek, but this time I am making it a little different, I am giving you two choices" Joe said.
"What choices?" Kanan asked still wanting to know where this would go.
"Let me explain. the first would be just before you were killed or second further back with all your memories still intact so that you can use what you know to help your family" Joe answered, making Kanan even more confused.
"Karabast, can you give that to me again?" Kanan asked.
"Okay, your first choice is to go back to the point where governor pyrce gives the order to fire or the second is to go back to just before you met Ezra the first time, but with all memories in place" Joe offered to Kanan.
Kanan thought through the choices and as he did he asked " how can I be sure that this isn't some force vision or something?" to which Joe grinned.
"Well if you don't choose, we will and you will black out and find out which one we choose for you. savvy?" Joe said, giving Kanan a Cheshire cat like grin.
Kanan nodded as he continued to think on it. On one hand if he took the first one he would be with his girlfriend and son straight a way, but the second choice where he could really fix things, start Ezra off on the right path, tell Hera how he felt years before he died, maybe even have a natural child with her, not that Ezra wasn't always going to be theirs, it's just he would get to be a big brother too.
Finally he said " the second choice, I need them, just like they need me".
Joe nodded and said "thought that would be your choice".
"You already knew...How does this..."Kanan started to say before his world went black.
An: thanks to jojobinks01 for the permission to do this to adopt his story. Most of this chapter is his with some of me thrown in. Next chapter is all me.