Chapter 1: New Enemy

Felucia

Ezra's P.O.V

This was just another day in the life of me in the rebellion. We were dispatched to a relieve mission to Felucia. Our mission was to deliver rations to the natives, who were running low on food thanks to the Empire. The Ghost touched down, and we got out with our food crates. The natives ran up to us, and we began distributing food to them.

About an hour into it, nothing happened. Or so we thought, until we heard the Empire incoming. "Everybody get inside and hide! We'll take care of them!" Kanan ordered the natives. They complied and they hid in their homes, while we prepared our weapons for battle.

"Speeder bikes incoming!" I told the gang, pulling out my blaster and shooting the incoming imperials. Just as one of them was coming in closer, I kept on missing and was about to pull out my lightsaber until Alex dropped him. "Thanks, dude."

"No problem, Ez. Keep firing at them!" he ordered, more of them coming in and circling the village. Acting quickly, I sprinted towards one of them and jumped on the bike. Me and the trooper fought until I pushed him off with the force, taking the speeder bike for my self. I used its blasters to take out any more speeders, and they were gone after a while.

"Nice job, but more of them are coming." Hera informed us. We saw more imperials coming towards us, but then I sensed a force sensitive nearby. Kanan sensed him, or her, too. The imperials charged at us, opening fire on us and the homes of the natives. The natives decided to come out and they started helping us out, them armed with simple, one shot blaster rifles. Though they were putting themselves in danger, at least we got some backup.

After about an hour of us fighting back with the natives, the Empire just stopped firing at us suddenly. "What's going on? Why did they just stop firing at us?" Sabine wondered.

"I don't know, but I sense that there's danger nearby." Kanan replied. "Hera and Chopper, start the Ghost up. Sabine, Zeb, Alex, get inside. Ezra, be ready for a possible lightsaber duel." Kanan and I drew our sabers, waiting for the threat to arrive. In the distance, we saw a mysterious figure, who was a male according to his build, who was cloaked in black robes. I felt that this guy was engulfed in the dark side through the force, but he wasn't an inquisitor. I could tell somehow. He kept walking to us, and then stopped in front of me and my master. We raised our sabers at him.

"He's mine now." the figure said under his robes, pulling out a red single bladed lightsaber.

Kanan and I didn't say anything and struck at the mysterious warrior, who blocked both of our attacks and force pushed Kanan. Me and him were now toe to toe, my green saber and his red saber locking blades. "Interesting, boy. Your fighting style is quite admirable."

"You'll see that I'm full of surprises!" I kicked him and we swung at each other. Kanan got himself up and helped me out, the three of us striking at each other then getting engaged in another blade lock. The natives tried to help us, but then the figure pulled out another red single bladed lightsaber and killed almost all of them by throwing his lightsaber, guiding it with the force, returning in his hand then bringing it up.

"You can't win this duel, Kanan Jarrus." the figure said.

"How do you know my name?" Kanan questioned, pushing him back then me and him double teaming the mysterious warrior. We locked blades again.

"You two can't beat me. He will be mine, Caleb." Kanan and I were stunned. This guy just said Kanan's real name.

"How do you know his real name!?" I demanded, pushing him away with the force.

"Ezra, we gotta go now!" Kanan ordered. We both sprinted to the Ghost then force jumped on to it, landing in the cargo bay. Once we were in, Hera got us out of Felucia, and we jumped into hyperspace the second we got into space.

"Who was that guy?" Hera asked when we all met up in the common area.

"I'm not sure." Kanan answered, panting after our intense duel with the mysterious warrior. "But he somehow knew my real name."

"How?" Zeb asked. "Besides, you changed your name and nobody really found out much about it, other than us really."

"Just something about that mysterious warrior felt...strange." I said. "He claimed that I will be his."

"His? Meaning what?" Sabine asked.

"I think in the sense of me becoming his apprentice."

"Oh no, not Maul again!" Alex said. "Besides, he tried to make you his apprentice and we all know what happened that night on Malachor."

"It wasn't him though. I could tell just from his voice." I corrected.

"Whoever this warrior is, we'd better prepare for our next engagement with him." Kanan said.

Meanwhile

The mysterious warrior's P.O.V

Putrid jedi and their rebel friends! They had just escaped just when I was in the midst of taking the padawan. But I also had another objective as my men rounded up the natives, all of them on their knees and the rifles of stormtroopers being pressed against the back of their heads.

The natives begged for mercy, but there is no such thing as mercy in the name of the Empire. "Kill them all." I ordered them, about to kill the chief of that village myself. My men obeyed and killed them all, and I slit the chief's throat with my lightsaber, his body falling down. Once the kill was done, I put away my saber, clipping it to my belt with my other one. "We're done here. We're leaving now." I informed my stormtroopers.

Just as they were leaving, I contacted Lord Vader before I joined them.

"What is it?" he asked.

"Lord Vader, the village where the rebels have delivered their supplies has been slaughtered." I informed the masked enforcer.

"Good work. What about the padawan?"

"He escaped with his rebel friends."

"Find him, and make sure that you bring him to me alive! And hunt down his friends and their rebellion if they are with him. Those are your orders."

"It shall be done, my lord." I bowed my head then ended the call, heading back to my personal TIE fighter. Once I got in, I took off from Felucia, heading back to my star destroyer that I'm stationed on, which was above Felucia. Once I set down my TIE, I entered my quarters and started looking for that padawan with the force.