Just a random idea I'm throwing out there.
"We're low on credits, Fulcrum. Is there any chance that you might know something to get food in our stomachs and fuel in the Ghost?" Hera asked Fulcrum over the communicator.
"Let me check with my intellect and see if he's come across anything recently." Fulcrum said.
Hera waited impatiently while Fulcrum left the communicator to talk to his intellect, she'd never met this intellect but every time he sent in intel to Fulcrum for them to use it was always accurate...creepily accurate. Little did Hera know was that Sabine, Zeb, Ezra, and Kanan were secretly listening from behind the door. Finally, Fulcrum returned on the communicator.
"Alright, Hera, turns out my intellect did have some useful information. He said that there's a shipment of upgraded Imperial blasters on Wynice. You can find the shipment coming into Lace City by the lake." Fulcrum informed.
"Thank you, Fulcrum, as always we're grateful for your assistance." Hera replied as she turned of her communicator.
Sabine and the others then walked in as if they weren't just listening behind the door.
"So what's the mission?" Sabine asked with her arms crossed.
"I'd think you'd already know, since you were listening behind the door." Hera smirked.
Ezra's mouth dropped. "How did you know?" Ezra asked stunned.
"I have my ways." Hera grinned Chopper rolled in and beeper to Hera. "Thank you, Chopper, for letting me know that they were listening." Hera chuckled.
"Chopper!" Zeb and Ezra said angrily to the droid.
"So when do we leave?" Kanan asked.
"Immediately, you might want to get some rest." Hera said as she started setting the hyperspace coordinates.
Ezra was in the only one in the cargo room when the Ghost came out of hyperspace. He was currently cleaning his cadet helmet which had a lot of blaster marks on it from their last mission. Suddenly, the Ghost lurched slinging Ezra to the floor violently. As the room tilted and swayed Ezra tried to keep his balance, but he kept falling and tumbling around. Then part of the floor opened up because of an explosion from the outside and Ezra fell through, getting cut badly against the sharp metal edges. He let out a yelp of surprise and then shouted to try and get someone's attention, but no one noticed him falling rapidly towards the frozen lake beneath him.
As the Ghost exited hyperspace Hera piloted the ship to Wynice and headed towards revocation of the blaster shipment. Unfortunately, it turned out to have a lot of Emperials guarding the shipment which led to them being chased by multiple TIE's in the sky. Thankfully, due to the autolock the Ghost had they were still able to get the blaster shipment.
The Ghost was taking on too many hits and Hera knew it. "Kanan, Sabine, I could really use you on the guns right now." Hera warned over the communicator, only to realize it was down.
"Chopper! Go tell Kanan and Sabine to man the guns! Or else we're going down!" Hera yelled to Chopper.
Chopper beeper annoyingly but rolled off to tell Kanan and Sabine. Just then another blast rocked the ship and red started flashing in one of Hera's screens as well as an annoying alert beeping that meant there was a hole in the Ghost now.
Chopper came back in and said Sabine was on the nose gun, Zeb was on the tail gun, and Kanan had been knocked unconscious. Sabine and Zen had had trouble getting to their positions though with the rough flying and multiple hits rocking the ship.
One by one, Hera noticed the TIE's growing fewer and fewer in number until there was only one. It hit one of the Ghost's engines just as Zeb shot it sending the Ghost into a crash landing near Plowski which was a good distance from Wynice.
Hera found Sabine first after the crash, then Kanan, and while they were working on reviving Kanan Zeb and Chopper showed up.
"Zeb, Chop, can you two examine the extent of damage? Then we'll meet you outside to discuss what we do next." Hera asked and Zeb nodded.
Shortly after they left Kanan finally woke and rubbed his head. "Don't tell me you called that flying?" he joked as he winced in pain as he touched the sore spot on his head.
"I barely had anyone on the guns, and no, no I don't think I'd call that flying I'd call that escaping." Hera chuckled.
Hera, Sabine, and Kanan then met up with Zeb and Chopper after they searched the interior of the ship for Ezra, but upon not finding him they guessed he was already outside.
"Other than the hole in the cargo room floor, a couple dents, and the right engine the Ghost is fine." Zeb informed and Chopper beeped in agreement.
"Well, lucky for us the blasters should sell for enough to do repairs, and get food and fuel with some credits to spare." Hera said.
"Oh, and where's Ezra?" Kanan asked Zeb and Chopper. The two looked at each other then back at Kanan and shrugged.
"I haven't seen him." Zeb said as he started after Hera towards the city.
So while Zeb, Sabine, and Hera got supplies Kanan and Chopper searched around the Ghost and in the surrounding snow for Ezra. There was just one problem...Kanan couldn't find a single trace of his padawan.
Duh duh duh! Cliffhanger! So the definition of an Intellect is someone who knows a lot more-less so that's why I titled it Fulcrum's Intellect. He knows a lot of the Empire's secrets and he gives them to Fulcrum.
