Announcement. Following this fanfic, some of my older stories will not be a part of my series anymore. The serious is going to remain largely the same, but this is a different beginning to it all. I may not be deleting older stories of the series, but possibly might if anything.

And an author's note to this: This is a redux of my first and older fanfic, "A New Face," which has been deleted unfortunately. Some things in this are kept the same as the original story with some changes.

Without further ado, I give you the first chapter of "New Recruit." Let me know what you think so far please.

Chapter 1: Meet "Dragon"

Ezra's P.O.V

"Specters, we have a new mission for you." Sato told us when we walked inside the command bridge of the Liberator. "Recently, rebellion agents in the field have reported that there is somebody down there on Lothal." "Is he a threat?" Kanan asked. "Negative, Jarrus. In fact, quite the opposite." Sato continued to explain.

"Whoever he is, he's been going by this name: 'Dragon.' Why would he choose that name, I don't know. But, we can infer that the reason as to why he chose this name may probably come from this video." Sato played a hologram video.

The video showed some stormtroopers on a busy Capital City street one night. Then suddenly, a mysterious figure drops down to the ground. He held his hands up, then what he did next shocked us all. He kicked the stormtrooper behind him, then he did some spinning kick on the other, then he rolled away from blaster fire, then he fired back when we heard blaster shots fired from him. So far, I could kinda see why he was going by Dragon, because his fighting's fierce like that of one.

However, when the shots were fired, we didn't see his blaster. But then it hit us. The figure rolls up his sleeve, revealing what looked like wrist blasters. "The wrist blasters, they're Mandalorian." Sabine chimes in. "No, Sabine, we checked the wrist blaster earlier. It does not register as Mandalorian. These wrists blasters look custom made." Sato informed her. Once that was done, the video ended.

"He does seem like he can handle himself. What else do we know about him?" Hera asked. "According to the holo net, he looks like he's managed to build himself quite the reputation on Lothal." Sato answered. Then, Rex walked in. "As you have requested, Commander Sato, I have the file on 'Dragon.'" Rex informed Sato, the hologram switching up to what looked like Dragon's profile, which was just an avatar of a humanoid all black with no face.

"From what we have researched, this is quite intriguing. Real name unknown, date of birth unknown, age is estimated to be around 15 to 16, and appearance unknown, but we do know that he is human." Rex explained. "It also states that by day, he is a local courier who delivers stuff to people all across Capital City, but by night frequently, he rebels. It is also known that he did once roll with a friend of his, who's name is unknown, and together they would rebel against the Empire here. But, as of last year by the looks of things, Dragon's friend was arrested for treason against the Empire. Dragon has been arrested numerous times as well, but, surprisingly, he found a way to break out of prison. Moving on, he also is skilled in hand to hand combat and is skilled with those wrist blasters. It is believed that he may have once been a student of the 'Capital City Martial Arts Academy,' and his rank was believed to have been first degree black belt. I'd say by the looks of things, he'd make a good ally."

"So what's the mission, Commander?" I asked. "Find Dragon, and recruit him to the Rebellion. You 6 are all dismissed from here." Sato informed us, us 6 heading back to the Ghost. We haven't been to Lothal ever since the Siege of Lothal, and I had a feeling that we were probably gonna be recognizable, way more recognizable after we tried, and failed, to extract Tua. Once we were in the Ghost, we took off for Lothal.

An hour later

Plains outside Capital City, Lothal

Time: 22:14, Imperial Standard Time

"You all know what to do, guys. I'll be standing by and get you when you're ready." Hera said to us just as we were grabbing the rest of our gear. "We'll be back with Dragon, Hera. We'll call you when we have him. Roll out." Kanan told us, the other four of us leaving the Ghost and beginning a long walk to Capital City.

By the time we got to Capital City, we already heard reports that Dragon was in the area. "Split up." Kanan ordered us, all of us breaking off. Luckily I had the force alongside Kanan, so I would be able to detect Dragon easier.

As I walked around further, I bumped into Sabine. "Any sign of him?" she asked. "No, Specter 5." I replied. "Specter 4 to anybody, come in!" Zeb radioed into the comm. "Specter 6 responding. What is it, 4?" I asked. "I see him." Zeb replied, sounding as quiet as possible when he spoke. "Who?" Sabine radioed. "I think it might be Dragon." Zeb responded. "Where are you?" I asked. "On 42nd Capital Street. Hurry up! Who knows how long it is until he possibly attacks or takes off." "Stay right there, we're coming." I said.

When we all rendezvoused at Zeb's position, we saw him face to face with Dragon.

Dragon was a human male who's height was around 5'9 to 5'10, taller than me and Sabine, with a muscular build. He wore a black helmet on his head, he wore red lensed sunglasses over his eyes, and he also wore a black ski mask that had a ghost face on it(imagine it like Ghost's mask from MW2). He kept his face concealed that way. For his clothing, he was wearing a black leather jacket, black fingerless gloves, where we were able to get his skin tone which was one similar to mine, dark blue jeans along with black boots, and, to our surprise, he was wearing a Mandalorian chest plate that was colored in black and gray. There was nothing about Dragon being Mandalorian on his profile, but we all sort of doubted that he was Mandalorian. He could have bought the chest plate off the black market possibly. He also carried a holster, in which he had what looked like a DH-17 pistol in there, and he wore a utility belt, where he had thermal detonators and all kinds of tech gadgets on it.

We all aimed our blasters at Dragon, and he was holding his blaster at us. "Dragon, we come in peace. We don't what to hurt you." Kanan said. "This doesn't concern you. I would suggest backing away right now. I work alone, and I don't need anybody following me around. I don't care who you are, put your blasters down." Dragon ordered under the mask, a male voice speaking out of him that sounded like he was a little bit older than me. "Dragon, you aren't making this easier on yourself." Zeb told him with his rifle aimed. "I don't want to shoot either of you, but I won't hesitate to shoot you. And how do you even know my alias?" Dragon asked us. "We heard of you, and we'd like you to join us." Kanan said.

Just at that moment, stormtroopers came up from behind Dragon. "There he is! Blast him!" one of them ordered. "Karabast you led them right to me!" Dragon exclaimed, his wrist blaster firing at the troopers. "Come on, Dragon, let's get out of here!" Kanan told him. "I know a place where we can lay low. Follow me!" Dragon ordered us. "Why should we!?" Sabine annoyingly asked him, firing back at troopers. "Listen, you want to go to jail for treason or would you trust a stranger who'll help you get the imperials off your back?" Dragon asked, him taking shots with his pistol at troopers. "Fine, Dragon, lead the way." Kanan told him.

Like that, we started following Dragon through the streets, him leading us to his place to lay low. We stopped when we ran up to a sewer entrance. "Keep me covered, I'm getting it open." Dragon ordered us. We covered Dragon for a while, until he finally opened up the sewer entrance. "In now!" he ordered us. We listened to Dragon, getting in. When we got down, Dragon pulled out a flash light, turning it on. "Follow me." he told us.

He led us down the smelly sewer systems for a while, until we came up on something. "Hold it, I gotta punch in my pass code." Dragon told us, which he did. "Head on in." We did, and we were surprised as to what we saw.

This looked like Dragon's secret room that he'd use for escapes during run ins with the Empire, and he set the place up alright. He had a bedroom that had one bed in it, a living room with holo monitor and everything, but there was no kitchen though, except for a relatively medium sized fridge. He also had a room that looked like a training room with a punching bag in there, along with what looked like Martial Arts belts stacked up by rank order on the wall, and even a black dragon logo. Rex was right. Dragon was a martial artist, and no wonder as to why he picked the name "Dragon." The last room I caught a glimpse of was a tech room filled with technological things, which I'm assuming he uses for his teach gadgets that are on his belt.

Dragon told us to take a seat on the couch, while he sat across from us in a chair. "Thank you for helping us out, I guess." Kanan said. "Don't mention it. Until the Empire is off our radar, we won't be able to leave this place for a while." Dragon answered with his mask on but his helmet off. "How long will we be here for?" Sabine asked. "Until it's safe pretty much, Mandalorian." Dragon replied. "Well, since you helped us, we wanted to talk to you, Dragon." Kanan informed him.

"About what?" Dragon asked. "Well, you see, we are a part of a Rebel cell who could use some allies. And you look like you've come to our attention, Dragon." Kanan explained. "So you saw everything about me? Including the video where I got the jump on stormtroopers?" Dragon asked. "Yes." I answered for Kanan, all of us nodding.

Dragon sighed. "Well guys, if we are going to be having this conversation, I guess I'd better show you all what I really look like." he said. He took off his glasses, putting them on the table in between him and those of us that were on the couch, revealing dark brown eyes, followed by his mask. When he pealed it off, it revealed his true human face with his eyes and his tan skin tone, and he had dark brown hair that was cut relatively short but not that short, with bits of a stubble beard that looked shaved on his face. What followed next was Dragon's true self revealed.

"My name is Alex Shepard."