I was currently walking through the busy market of the town on the planet Lothal. It's been a couple of months since I last saw my best friend. He said he was going into town to get some food since I got the food the day before. I stayed at our home outside of town, which our home was really a tower that no one used anymore, and cleaned since its been a month or two since the last time it was cleaned. I waited till the sun went down to go look for him.

I asked around town and the news I got scared me. Apparently he stole some supplies that the Empire were transporting and was being chased by a man and a Lasat. After he left town trying to make it back to our home with his new found treasure, and he hasn't been seen since. I muttered an apology as I bumped into someone and kept walking. I laid awake many nights in bed wondering where in the universe he might be.

"Miss, we need to talk to you."

Someone gripped my arm hard to stop me as I looked behind me. There were at least four Storm troopers armed with blasters. I glanced around looking for some means of escape. One of the troopers stepped up to where he was standing next to the one gripping my hand and held up a data pad so he can look at it.

It showed a young human girl who looked at least 14 or 15 years old with long brown hair that was put into a braid and a chocolate brown eye and a sapphire colored eye. She was wearing a short sleeved white shirt and was wearing tan cargo pants along with white boots. I stifled a gasp as I realized that it was a picture of me.

"This is the one. Bring her to the ship." The trooper with the data pad signaled the other 3 to surround me. There was one on all of my sides to make escape impossible. I growled at the one behind me as he roughly nudged me forward with his blaster. "Why are you taking me?!" I snarled at the leader of the squad who was in front of me.

"You are suspected of helping the rebels."

"The rebels?! That's crazy! I don't even know-"

I started off saying but hissed in pain when the trooper behind me shoved me roughly and grumbled, "Be quiet." I rolled my eyes and looked around me looking for an exit. The trooper to the left of me was holding his blaster tightly, stressed out maybe. Might mean he's new and fresh out of the Academy. He might be my best chance. When we were about to pass an alley way I quickly turned and grabbed the troopers blaster roughly and shoved him back.

Since the trooper was surprised at my sudden attack I managed to get the blaster and quickly shot him. Before the other troopers could get an aim I turned and bolted through the alley way. I could hear shouting behind me from the troopers as they started firing at me.

I looked behind me and started shooting back at them, knocking down one of the troopers, who didn't get back up. I turned a corner and almost ran into some citizens who looked angry, than scared as they saw the storm troopers after me. I guess they called for reinforcements. My eyes widened as I saw at least seven troopers a couple yards in front of me. One of them noticed me and shouted orders to stop me. I dodged a couple of blasts but hissed in pain as one of them got me in my left arm. I grabbed the wound tightly with my right hand as I looked up at the roofs.

Well, here goes nothing.

I sprinted over at one of the buildings and jumped. I gripped at one of the holes with both of my hands, much to my left arms displeasure as bolts of pain ran through me. I quickly scaled the wall and rolled onto the roof panting.

I quickly ducked as a few blasts came close to my head. I looked over my options. If I tried to run across the roofs, a TIE fighter could come and shoot me, and if I tried to jump down I could easily get surrounded.

"I really need a miracle." I groaned as I stood up and started running, since it was my best option at the moment. I kept low since the troopers were still shooting at me as I jumped from roof to roof. I could feel my wound throbbing as I could hear a faint sound coming quickly from above.

I glanced to my right and saw a big shape. It wasn't a TIE fighter, so that must mean the Empire was be making new ships. It looked pretty impressive for an Imperial ship. I turned my attention straight ahead as I jumped to another roof. I need to find a place to hide from the ship. I heard something like a hatch opening, must be trying to get a better shot at me.

"Quick kid! Jump!"

I turned my head towards the right and was surprised to see a man with a short brown ponytail reaching towards me with a hand. I stopped and glanced behind me to see a couple of TIE fighters closing in on me. I gripped my left arm, hoping to stop the bleeding as I glanced back at the stranger. He glanced at the TIE fighters than back at me more urgently. "You got a better option?" He sounded a little bit worried. That puzzled me a little, why would he be worried about someone he never saw before. I was pulled out of my thoughts as a shot came right in front of me. I ran towards the edge of the roof and looked between the distance of where I was standing and where the ramp to the ship was opened. I would never make it.

"I'll catch you." The man assured me. I hesitated than shrugged. I took a few steps back than took a running start, than jumped. I closed my eyes as I started dropping, to the ground. Then I felt something pulling me and I opened one eye, than gasped. The man had both of his hands out and his eyes closed in concentration. I yelped when I suddenly dropped to the floor of the ramp. The mysterious ponytail man grabbed my left arm and yanked me inside as the ramp closed. I hissed in pain when he yanked me and he quickly let go. He looked down at his hand and saw my blood on it. "You're injured." I rolled my eyes at his obvious statement. I saw a seat at a table and sat down. I brought my left arm down on the table and turned it so I could look at the wound better.

"Here, let me bandage your arm."

The man dropped what looked like a first aid kit in front of me and sat down in the chair in front of me. I nodded just as a Lasat came down a ladder. I glanced at the Lasat, sizing him up. Obviously strong, probably the muscle of the group onboard the ship. I quickly turned my attention to my arm and hissed in pain when the man dabbed some medicine on my arm.

"This is the girl the Empire is after Kanan?"

"Yes, we got there just in time." The ponytail man now known as Kanan responded as he wrapped some bandaging around the wound after he was finished cleaning it.

"Where's the kid?" Kanan turned towards the Lasat with a questioning look.

"Hera had him go fix the Phantom along with Chopper after it was damaged by a TIE fighter."

I rubbed my arm, already seeing some red seeping through the bandage. Time to interrupt. "Thanks for the save and all, but who are you people?" The two men turned to look at me, and it was Kanan who responded. "First, tell us why the Empire was after you." He sat back and crossed his arms, the Lasat leaning up against one of the doors, blocking a potential exit perhaps. I scowled at them as I brushed some of my hair away from my face, and was puzzled to see shock go across their faces. I just shrugged, my hair was probably covering my right eye, which was the unusual sapphire blue color.

"They said I was suspected of working with the rebels."

Kanan raised an eyebrow at that.

"Are you?"

"Of course not, I don't even know the rebels." I snarled at them. "Now can you drop me off at home? I'm waiting for someone to come home."

Kanan shook his head as a Twi'lek came down from the ladder. She had a light green skin tone with green eyes. As always for women of her species, she was pretty. "Are you the one we picked up?" She looked at me, curious. I just nodded my head and looked away with a huff. "She doesn't know anything the Empire might want her for Hera, lets just drop her off at home." The Lasat grumbled at the Twi'lek, Hera I think. "Where do you live? Your parents must be worried." Hera said soothingly, in a motherly tone. I just shrugged at her.

"Parents dead. Sisters dead. Brothers dead. None of my family is alive."

That caused them to look shocked, and pity danced in Kanan and Hera's eyes. "What about that someone you mentioned you were waiting for?" The Lasat asked roughly, which just might be how he always sounds.

"My best friend. Though he's been missing for a couple of months." I mumbled. I miss him, I hope nothing bad happened to him. I swear when I see him I'll punch the day lights out of him.

"Missing?" Kanan stroked his chin. "Did the Empire take him?"

"Don't know, the locals told me he was being chased by the Imperials and-" I stopped as I glanced at the Lasat. Lasats were rare now a days. Could it be?

"And?" Hera looked puzzled when I didn't finish my sentence. I looked down at my left wrist. I still had my energy slingshot my friend gave to me for my birthday last year. He managed to get the energy a pink color, which I loved since pink was my favorite color. The odds were against me, since all of them had better weapons then me. I drummed my fingers on the table as I glanced around me.

It was obvious that Kanan was the leader, he just had that aura that screamed leadership. The Lasat was the muscle of the group, since he was very muscular. Hera was the pilot, judging by her outfit. Since she was the pilot it would mean that she didn't get into fights that often, she'll be too busy flying the ship. If I shot the Lasat with my slingshot first, it'll leave him in shock for a couple of seconds leaving me time to bolt for the ladder that was behind Hera.

I casually crossed my arms, so my right hand was near my energy slingshot as I glanced at Kanan. I don't know how he managed to lift me in the air like that, and he wasn't using any device. "Are you going to answer or what?" The Lasat snapped at me, obviously impatient. I ignored him as I glanced at Kanan's belt. There was a blaster and two pieces of metal. They both looked of the same design and I could guess that they were dissembled to two different pieces. If you put them together, you'll get a single small rod. For what use it'll do was unknown to me.

Time to roll.

Before I could move, another person came down the ladder. Judging by the very colorful female armor she wore, she was a graffiti artist or she knew one. She wasn't wearing a helmet so I could see she had very short multi-colored hair and light brown eyes. It looked like her main hair color was a type of blue with orange at the tips of her hair in the front.

"This the girl we picked up?"

She must be the last member of the team, besides Chopper. There were two blasters at her hips. They were obviously highly modified, suggesting that she might be the group's weapons expert. "Yes Sabine, this is…wait we don't know her name." The Lasat started to introduce me to the newly arrived member, than stopped because he couldn't. "Nice going Zeb, so what's your name kid?" Sabine rolled her eyes at the Lasat, Zeb, than turned towards me. I just rolled my eyes and looked away. "Can I go home now?" I mumbled at them. Sabine looked a bit mad and was about to snap at me before Kanan gave her a warning look before turning back to me.

"Where do you live? We lost the TIE fighters when we entered hyperspace, but we can go back to Lothal jamming our signal to make it look different so we can drop you off undetected now."

Hyperspace? Damn it, we're in space?! That makes escape a whole lot harder, seeing as the odds that I'll defeat everyone aboard this ship was very low. I looked around the room again, more casually, looking for some air vents. If I could get in the ship I might be able to find the cockpit and lock myself in there and get myself back home. I don't exactly trust these people.

There was one above me, so all I need to do is have at least ten seconds to get in the air vent. But time is not on my side. I need to get myself some time than. If I shot everyone with my energy slingshot on full power it'll buy me a few seconds to start, but no doubt they'll start shooting at me. I looked down at my own belt, and was pleased to see I had a smoke bomb on me. I designed those bombs myself, making the smoke last for at least 15 seconds, plenty of time to get in.

I looked up and saw them all staring at me, waiting for me to say something. Now, I got a plan and it's time to make an exit off the stage. I pretended to yawn, putting my right hand on my smoke bomb and my left hand over my mouth. "Now, where was I? Oh yes, my dramatic exit." I quickly pulled my smoke bomb up and set it off. I threw it into the middle of the room as it went off.

"What are you doing kid?!" I could hear Kanan yell as some coughs erupted from the room. I stood up carefully and grabbed my screw driver from my belt. I started taking the screws out of the vent as I heard someone behind me. I turned around and used my slingshot, on Hera as she fell back to the ground, paralyzed for a couple of seconds as I went back to work.

As the last screw came out I quickly moved the covering to the vent off and let it bang on the floor and I hauled myself in, despite my left arm screaming in protest. I crawled in the small space, hoping to put distance in case someone tried to get my leg and pulling me back out.

"She's in the vents!"

"Remind you of someone Zeb?"

"Shut up Sabine, that was not my fault."

"Who put him in the tiny storage space with the air vent?"

I chuckled to myself at their argument, though I wonder who Sabine was referring to. After a few minutes of crawling my back was starting to hurt and my wound was throbbing again. I froze as I heard a couple of loud footsteps below me. "Now where is the little sucker?" I could hear Zeb growl faintly below me as he walked past me. After I was sure he moved on I started crawling again. Though I came to a spot where there was a left path and a front path.

I cursed lowly as I looked down each path. There was no way to know where both of the paths could end up. I sighed as I started crawling forward.

Than everything went dark.

I could see a figure crawling down a vent. I tried to look down at myself, but I couldn't move. I could feel panic rising, where was I?! Suddenly, I was in a small room of sorts. Looked like someone's room from what I could see as there was a bed from the corner of my vision.

The doors opened and another figure walked in, who I recognized as Kanan. He looked around the room thoughtfully. He closed his eyes, as if trying to find something. He opened them just as a figure fell from the air vent above, the covering broken as it swung back and forth.

I blinked as I came back into my senses. I looked around me, realizing I was still in the vent system at the cross section. I looked in front of me down the path I was about to go through. What was that? Was it a vision? I remember blacking out, than seeing that.

I stared down the vent system, trying to make sense of what I saw. Now, looking down the path, I could feel something was wrong, like danger. I crawled a little back than started making my way into the path to my left.

I hope I'm not wrong.

I came across an open section of the air vent after maybe ten minutes of crawling. I looked between the bars below into the room. I could see controls and a steering wheel. Bingo, now time to pray no one will come in.

I got to work removing the panel and let it gently swing, I didn't have time to remove it fully. I lowered myself to the ground and swung my left arm in front of me to inspect my bandaged wound. The bandage was hardly white, mostly a deep scarlet color.

I'll have to rewrap it soon. I hope there's a first aid kit somewhere in this room.

I looked around me and saw it was rather tiny. It must be a small ship that attaches to the bigger one. Perfect. I shut the door and smashed the panel with my screw driver. That should stop them from getting in anytime soon. I twirled on my heels and walked towards the front of the tiny ship. I sat down in the chair and looked out the window.

Space.

I've never seen space before, let alone been in it. I use to lay on the roof along with my friend as we watched the stars. I brushed away a tear that went down my cheek at the thought of him. "I will find you, I promise you." I whispered as I pressed a few buttons, turning the ship on.

It was safe to detach from the mother ship since we're out of hyperspace now.

But I got no idea which button that is for.

I mentally face palmed at my stupidity. There was no time for a Plan B as I just locked myself in the tiny ship. I jumped at the sound of banging at the door behind me.

"Hey! Girl are you in there?!" Zeb shouted as he banged on the door. I quickly looked over the buttons, trying to figure out which was which. "Zeb did you find her?" I heard Kanan ask Zeb. "She locked herself in the Phantom." Zeb growled as he tried to forcefully open the door. "If she knew how to operate the Phantom she'll already be gone by now. Let me try." Kanan sounded calm as he gave his orders to the Lasat.

I started pressing random buttons, hoping for the best. When I pressed one of the buttons, a cloud of smoke came from the controls as I waved my hand in front of me coughing.

"That didn't go as plan." I said to myself as I tried to wave the smoke away. I felt a shiver up my spine as I turned to see the door open, with Kanan and Zeb in the doorway. I quickly brought my left arm up and my right arm using the slingshot on my left wrist. "I swear I'll shock you if you come any closer." I pulled the pink ball of energy farther back to prove my point.

"Kanan! Zeb! Did you find her?" I heard a voice behind them. It sounded awfully familiar. I watched as a kid pushed himself to the front. I felt my jaw drop as I stared at the boy who looked around my age with dark blue hair and light blue eyes.

"Ezra?!" I put my arms down in disbelief as I said his name. I could feel my eyes go wide, just as his were.

"Nali?!"

He walked up to me, still in shock. "Is that really you?" I just stared at him, then I remembered something very important.

I drove my arm back for power, then punched him straight in the face.