(Ezra's POV)
"Spectre Six, do you copy?"
I sighed. "Yeah, hi."
"You missed your check-in. What's going on?"
"Ah, little busy."
I could hear troopers coming down the corridor to my left. I straightened up to make myself look taller. Sabine is always telling me 'You're to short to be a bucket head.' Well, I haven't been caught yet, so I think I'm good.
"Hey, you!" And I spoke too soon.
"Yes, sir?"
"There are rebels hidden in the base. We need you to go down to section B-12 and secure the perimeter."
"Sir, yes sir." I responded as I turned to walk away.
"Hold up, trooper." An ISB agent was standing in front of me. "What's your code?"
Oh, Karabast! Kanan is always telling me to memorize that stupid thing. Why do they make storm troopers memorize that? I guess the Empire is evil.
The ISB agent smiled. "Take him. He's one of the Rebels."
I froze. Kanan was gonna kill me. If Hera or the bucket heads didn't kill me first.
The next thing I knew I was on the floor with my whole body stinging.
"Take him to the command center. Agent Kallus would like to speak to him." The ISB agent snarled before my vision went black…
I could hear people talking. I only recognize one voice, and I really wished it wasn't actually him. I forced my eyelids open to see Kallus standing a few feet away. My ears were ringing but I could make out some of what he was saying.
"This boy is of great value to the emperor. He shall not harmed. Much…"
Great. I wanted to respond that I wasn't a kid, that I was nineteen, but my mouth wasn't functioning.
A shiver ran down my spine. I could see a slight grin develop on Kallus' face.
He looked towards me. "Oh look. The Loth-rat is awake.", He came over to stand in front of me. "Now why don't you be a good little Rebel and tell me where your friends are? I can make it worth your while."
"Ya? Well, I'd rather die than betray my friends. And I heard you talking. You can't kill me!"
His grin faded momentarily before returning again. "That might be true, boy. But have other means of getting information."
"Sorry, but we can't allow you to do that."
The stormtrooper behind me suddenly pulled out his blaster, stunning Kallus, before turning off the safety and opened fire on the other troopers in the command center.
The two troopers behind him followed the first one's lead. The one closest to me came over to me and undid my handcuffs and handed me my lightsaber and com. Who are these guys I wonder. I ignited my saber and started to deflect blaster bolts.
"Follow us. We'll get you outa here." The first trooper yelled.
"How do I know I can trust you?" I questioned rather loudly.
"Well for starters, we just saved your life! And second, our other crew member is getting the rest of your crew outa here too. If you want to survive, I suggest you trust us!"
The three 'troopers' started running down a corridor. I followed as fast as I could. They started to run towards one of the landing platforms. The door leading to the platform quickly hissed open when we got close enough.
A ship, about the same size as the Ghost was hovering over the platform. Their boarding ramp was down, and on it was Kanan, Sabine, and Zeb.
"Come on Ezra! Hurry it up!" Sabine yelled
"Come on, Kid!" Zeb waved his hand to tell me to run faster. I was about 10 feet behind the 'troopers'. They scrambled onto the ramp.
As I started up the ramp, two people ran past me before igniting their jet packs. When the ship started to pull away from the platform, they kept flying close to the ramp until they were out of range. They floated over to the ramp as it was closing before giving each other a high-five.
It was a man and a woman. The woman had a scarf wrapped around her face. She had electric blue eyes like mine. Her dark brown hair was in a high ponytail but reached all the way down her back. It was almost the same color as my mom's hair. She had twin pistols strapped to her thighs and a vibroblade on her hip. She also had a Mandalorian jetpack strapped to her back. She was probably about 3 inches shorter than I am.
The man on the other hand was probably 3 to 4 inches taller than me. He had short, light blonde hair and his light blue eyes reflected the over head light. He also had twin pistols, a vibroblade, and jetpack, but was holding a rifle in his hands. The 3 'troopers' had taken off their helmets.
The tallest one, which was probably their leader, had short black hair.
The other two had brown hair. One a little darker than the other. The one with lighter brown hair was probably the only male shorter than me.
A man, around 50 or so, came out of the door to my right. His hair was silver and he had a scar going across his face and his left eye. His left was white with no color. It almost looked like Kanan's eyes.
"Shain, who are these people?"
"These are the Lothal Rebels, Captain." The tallest 'trooper' responded.. "The boy was caught by an ISB agent. They're rebels like us. We couldn't just leave them there."
"Wait, you're rebels as well?" Sabine asked.
"Yes," said the young woman. "There are more rebel cells than you think there are."
The man with the jetpack came over to stand beside her.
"This is cool and all, but we need to contact Spectre Two." Kanan said from behind me.
"Of course. You can use our long-range communicator." The shortest trooper said. "I'm Taurus by the way. This is Shain,", he pointed towards the tallest 'trooper'. "that's Calum and Angel," he pointed towards the two with the jetpacks "this is-"
"I'm Samuel. You can call me Sam." The other trooper interrupted.
Taurus rolled his eyes, them pointed towards the old man "And that's our Captain, Landon."
The man stood there with a straight face.
"Well, I'm Ezra, that's Sabine, Kanan, and Zeb." I pointed to each of them when I said their names.
"Now that we're done with the introductions, can we contact Specter Two now?" Kanan said with a huff.
"Oh, right. Follow me." Taurus responded. He started towards the door and we followed. He led us down a strait corridor to the cockpit with the rest of his crew in tow. The cockpit was slightly bigger than the Ghost's.
"You can contact Spe- um, whoever you said you needed to contact, from here." He pointed to a long-range communicator to his right.
"May I speak in private?" Kanan asked, turning toward Taurus and the crew.
"Of course. I will wait here." The old man sighed as he stepped out of the room. His crew followed him. I did too. I wanted to get to know this crew a little more. Sabine followed me out.
The girl was down the hall talking to Calum. I started towards them. When I was only a few feet away they turned to greet me.
"You're Ezra, right?" Calum asked. "Yeah, that's me." I said with a slight grin.
He smiled back. Angel still had her scarf covering her face so I couldn't tell if she was grinning or not.
"You're a Jedi aren't you?" Her question surprised me
"How did you-"
"You have a lightsaber. And so does that other man. Kanan, was it?" Calum snickered. "Plus, you were using it in the escape." It was a good point, I thought.
I looked around to see Sabine talking to the three men. I could hear Taurus complementing her on her armor's paint job.
I heard Angel sigh. "Excuse me while I go save your friend from Taurus." She said as she walked past me.
I turned back to Calum. He had an amused look on his face. "Sorry. Taurus flirts with almost every girl he sees." Calum shook his head but continued to smile.
We both looked towards the small group and watched as Angel pulled Taurus away from Sabine. We looked back at each other before bursting into laughter.
Before I had a chance to say anything else, Kanan came out of the cockpit. "Our ship will rendezvous with us here. Is that okay?" Kanan said turning to Landon and handing him a datapad. He looked at it before handing it to Shain. "Get the Destiny to start heading to these coordinates." Shain took the datapad and headed into the cockpit pit followed by Sam.
Landon and Kanan continued to talk so Calum asked if I wanted a tour of the ship which was called the Destiny. I agreed and Sabine decided to tag along. He showed us where each of the cabins and the common room was. We sat down on the bench in the common room for a few minutes before Angel came in to join. She still had the scarf over her face. As it turns out, she also has a love for art. They soon left to go see Angel's art. Calum and I just rolled our eyes and waited for them to leave before Calum started up our conversation again. "So… Are you and Sabine together?"
"Me and Sabine? Noooo. We're just friends. In ways, she's kinda like family to me." He looked at me like he didn't believe me. "I'm telling the truth here!" he still looked like he didn't believe me. "Urg. What will it take to convince you?" He just smiled.
"Calum, can you come to the cockpit? And bring your new friend with you." We glanced at each other before heading back to the cockpit. When we got to the cockpit I could the see that we were in hyperspace. Shain turned around in the pilot's seat. "We're about 5 minutes out from where we're meeting your ship." He said.
Five minutes later we came out if hyperspace to see the Ghost floating 100 feet away. I watched as the Ghost maneuvered carefully over to the airlock. We headed for the docking port. The ship shook slightly when the Ghost connected to the airlock. When Sam opened the airlock, Hera was standing there along with Chopper. When Chopper saw me, he immediately came over and zapped me. "Ow! CHOP! Cut it out!" I screamed. I heard Calum and Taurus laughing behind me.
Sabine walked past me and patted Chopper on his dome. Hera smiled. Kanan walked past me and over to Hera. She walked over and threw her arms around his neck. "Don't ever scare me like that again." she whisper. They eventually pulled away from each other and Hera looked towards the rest of us. "So, who are your new friends?" she said with a smile. Taurus stepped forward. "This my crew."
"Your crew!?" Angel said and she smacked him in the back of the head. "Who's the leader?" she said in a sarcastic voice.
"Most of the time it's you." he said as he backed away trying not to get smacked again. I tried to contain a laugh.
Landon stepped forward. "Excuse my crew. They're still learning how to grow up."
"Hey!" Angel and Taurus said in unison. Landon smiled in amusement. That was probably the first time I have seen him smile.
"My name is Landon Rethel." He extended his hand. "Hera Syndulla." she said shaking his hand
"You don't happen to be Cham Syndulla's daughter, now would you?" Hera froze for a moment before nodding. "I met him long ago during the clone war. I was a General in the republic." He said. Hera's eyes widened in surprise. Chopper started beeping.
"What did he say?" Zeb asked. "He said that you guys have an incoming transmission from someone named Sato." Angel said.
Hera looked down at the droid. "Thanks, Chop." Hera said. "Thank you for returning my crew, Rethel, but we must be going." Hera said to Landon.
"No worries. We probably have somewhere to be also. But if you ever need help, we'll come to your aid." Landon responded.
"Thank you. This rebellion needs all the allies it can get." Hera said with a smile.
I suddenly felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned to see Calum. "It was good to meet you. And like Landon said, you ever need help, give us a call." He said. He smiled before turning and walking back to his ship. As the door closed, I saw him give me a small salute. A grin came across my face. It's nice to know you have friends.
But little did any of us know that we would need their help so soon…
Me-I finally got chapter 1 uploaded!
Ezra(walks in) Took you long enough.
Me- Hey! My computer wasn't being nice to me! It wasn't my fault!
Ezra- Excuses, excuses...
Me- Sabine! Come kick Ezra's butt while I finish up this chapter!
Sabine-(Walks in behind Ezra) My pleasure.
Ezra- (Run out at full speed with Sabine right behind him)
Me- I'm gonna go help Sabine beat up Ezra a bit. Kassy out! (Runs after Sabine and Ezra)