** YAY New story! Thank you 'NotRandomAtAll' for giving me an idea to base my title on. Thank you 'Rochana' for suggesting this story theme. I hope that it meets the criteria you were looking for . I have the first 5 chapters already written but I will release them when I go through and make sure there are very little errors and add some more details in. Hope you guys enjoy. This takes place right after my fic 'Ghosts of Christmas Past'. Thank you all for your love and support!** ~Ocean
PS: Food For Thought that has been bothering me….Jedi teach that if you stray from the light and have been influenced by the dark side that it will forever dominate your destiny….does that mean Ezra is going to go dark?...I really really really hope not
BTW: I don't own Star Wars: Rebels. If I did…it wouldn't be on Disney and it would have much more blood lol
Until We Meet Again
Chapter 1: Rough Beginnings
As usual, Kanan and Hera were both up earlier than the others. The two were looking for a safe location that the whole fleet could consider their base. They discussed the options, taking out areas that wouldn't work and leaving the potentials on a list. Both adults were fully rested after their small Christmas holiday and ready for anything.
Ezra turned over in his sleep on to his back as he began to dream. The dream was vivid, he heard his parents calling to him and a white Loth cat appearing causing images to flash in his mind. The cat took off and as Ezra tried to go after it he started to fall. The youth woke up with a jolt as he fell off his bed and hit the floor. His roommate behind him continued snoring, completely undisturbed.
"No, no we've checked these systems. There's nothing close to a viable location for a base." Hera stated with mild frustration. She was standing looking at the projection in front of her and the Jedi. Her arms were crossed.
"Maybe you're just bein picky." The older male stated with the same frustration. They locked eyes in a small match of wills.
"Maybe I have to be." Hera continued. Kanan was about to retort back when he heard his padawan yell his name.
"Kanan!..Kanan!" The youth yelled as he entered the room stopping before the two. The adults looked up with a mixture of concern and curiosity at what would have Ezra up this early.
"What is it?" Kanan asked watching Ezra, feeling his mixed emotions flooding the force waves between them.
"My Parents…Kanan…I saw my parents!" The young teenager said with wide eyes.
Kanan broke out of his meditative state. He kept replaying this memory over and over again. The older man looked over at the sleeping form on his bed. The last few nights he had allowed Ezra to sleep in his quarters because of the nightmares that had plagued his student since he had learned of his parents' deaths.
The Jedi hadn't spent much time sleeping the past few days, just meditating. There was too much to filter through his mind. With no hope for Ezra to be reunited with his family again, the boy was lost and still trying to find his way again.
Kanan got up and left his room quietly, heading to make a cup a caf for himself. As he sat down a vision hit him and he shut his eyes, fully concentrating on it as the images flashed through his mind.
Stormtroopers walking past, A base with alarms flashing, the two being cornered, Ezra getting shot falling down to the ground in the middle of the battle and Ezra saying goodbye before turning and walking away, disappearing into the air.
Kanan opened his eyes wide before letting them fall normally. It took a moment to slow his breathing from the slight fear that had risen at seeing his student lying on the ground bleeding. The older Jedi hated visions because of how hard they were to understand or interpret. He sat at the table in silence and tried to make sense of the vision he just had, knowing he couldn't simply read it at face value.
"Spectre 6, what is taking so long? It's not that hard to get through the shaft and open the door." The impatient crackly voice of Ezra's master came over the youth's com. The teenager half rolled his eyes.
"Not like your up here doing it. Oh that's right…I'm the only one that can fit!" He retorted back to just himself. He continued forward towards his destination.
Ezra tried to think of some kind of witty comeback, but he was a little cramped for space and couldn't think straight; not to mention his exhaustion of getting very little sleep the past couple of days. The kid didn't see how Hera and Kanan could do it constantly. The teenagers mind was also clouded and distracted with memories of his parents and all in all, everything.
"Spectre 6, stop day dreaming and answer me." Kanan shut his eyes and put the tip of the link against the center of his forehead furrowing his brow in frustration.
"It was too early for him after finding out about his parents. He didn't come from the temple like I did. He doesn't know how to fully suppress his emotions. I was so stupid to think he was ready to do this."
He knew that his padawan hadn't gotten himself in to trouble, he would have felt that, or felt nothing. What the Jedi could feel was his patience leaving as his student continued to be out of focus with his task.
Ezra was crawling through the ventilation ducts of an old Imperial base. His goal was to get out and unlock one of the entrances so that Kanan could get in and the two could complete their part of the mission, gathering data and setting explosives. Sabine and Zeb were on another floor, that had already been accessed by the teenage padawan, planting Sabine's "Surprises". The whole mission was to remain unnoticed, detonating the blasts a few days later. Right now, waiting for his padawan to let him in, Kanan was a sitting hutt, waiting to be seen and blow the whole mission.
"Sorry Spectre 1. These ducts are pretty tiny, even for me. I'm almost there." The youth finally spoke up.
Ezra was smart enough to have the link in his hand as he crawled, otherwise he would have been unable to answer the older Jedi. The student had just been trying to catch his breath. He barely fit the ducts on this base, trying to take the sharp turns he needed involved twisting his body around a bit.
"Just hurry up kid…we're not supposed to be seen and I'm kind of in the open out here." Kanan hissed to the boy.
He hid in the shadows of a column as a patrol of Stormtroopers walked by. The older male wanted so much just to take them out but he knew better. He knew to stick to the plan. Kanan just wanted one plan, just one, to go according to the debriefing.
Unfortunately, fate had other things in store for them tonight.
"Spectre 1, Zeb and I ran into a complication that is going to cause the plan to change." Sabine chimed in with the same crackly frequency. Kanan glared at the wall before answering; so much for a first time.
"What kind of complication?" This mission needed to go according to plan with no waiver or mistake.
The base was old and an explosion could easily indicate a malfunction of some kind of power system; that was their hope anyway. The particular base was a breeding ground of transient information between places for the Empire. With it gone, it would be a much longer route sending things, and a lot of information about the outer rim would be potentially destroyed. Exactly what they needed.
Kanan sensed a disturbance in the force, his eyes widening slightly as he felt the surprise of his student, right as the alarms started to go off alerting everyone there that there was an intruder.
"Karabast." He muttered under his breath.
"Spectre 6. Where are you? It's time to go?...Spectre 6?" Kanan grew worried. Sabine answered back before Kanan tried one more time.
"Spectre 1. Me and Spectre 4 will have to meet you at rendezvous. We have to get out now before reinforcements are sent in." Sabine ended the transmission.
Kanan felt out in the force for his student. He felt a mix of surprise and slight fear. Kanan knew that once again, the plan had been thrown out the window.