Disclaimer: I do not own Star Wars Rebels or it's expanded universe.
This is my first fanfic and English isn't my first language so be warned. And canon is boring so expect the unexpected,
Oh btw Ezra has a younger brother and they train together in the ways of the Je'daii. And Ezra is 16 and Jacob is 15 the rest are the same as in season 1.
"angry"-"YELL"-'thinking'
'Inhale...exhale, darkness and light, chaos and harmony,connect with the force and let it guide you.' Ezra and his brother Jacob are meditating to try and locate and identify this big event that the force has been warning them about for the past month,all they know is that it will happen soon and that it will be the biggest change in their lives.
"Ezra, you feel anything?" asks Jacob
"Not if you interrupt me i don't."replied Ezra irritated
"Sorry...i got bored."
sigh "How come you act so childish? You're only a year younger than me!
"How come you act so old? You're only a year older!"
"WELL SOMEONE NEEDS TO KEEP US ALIVE DOESN'T IT ?!" yelled Ezra
"I...I'm s-sorry Ezra."
sigh "No it's alright it's just..." sigh "it's just-it was a hard month."
"I know...sorry"
"Alright i have an idea, let's hit the streets and see what can we find, eh? What do you think?"
"Sure sounds good." They get up and head for the capital
"Hey do you think that we will..." Ezra stops Jacob mid sentence and ducked for cover before running into a imperial patrol to busy harassing a merchant to notice to each other they start moving. Jacob crosses the street and bumps into a passer-by and attracts the attention of the imps to him. Meanwhile Ezra sneaks around and swiped one of the imps's comm and relayed a code red in the main square. The imps left the man alone and headed to the location of the 'alarm'. After that the two brothers went to the man who thanked them and offered them a fruit each, they thanked him and left.
"Hey lets take the rooftops, less trouble." suggested Ezra
"Alright." After they climbed on the rooftops they kept searching but to they're surprise they felt someone strong with the force nearby they managed to track him without him seeing them but it was clear he noticed they're presence within the force. He started moving around taping his thigh to apparently signal his team to move into position. An explosion some blaster fire and a couple punches and throws later and they had three speeder bikes and the crates attached to them.
"Let's make this more interesting." said Ezra with a grin
"Let's." replied Jacob with an excited smile.
With that they jumped from the rooftops and onto one of the speeders."Thanks for doing the heavy lifting but we'll take it from here." Ezra joked as they landed and prepared to drive away.
"What the...Zeb catch them!" yelled the force user
Zeb lunged after them as they passed him but they both dodged and started to driving through the alleys a very colorful mandalorian landed on the crates."Pretty gutsy move there."she said while pointing her blaster at the two only to be surprised when Jacob pointed his one blaster at her."If the big guy catches you he'll end you."as she said that she disconnected the crate on witch she was standing and gave them a wave "Good luck!"
"She seems fun."Jacob joked
"She seems reckless and dangerous." retorted Ezra
"Yeah just your type." grinned Jacob
"Shut up and shoot." replied a blushing Ezra
They exited the city through the main exit followed by the force user, Zeb and of course the empire. After a long chase scene (to tedious to write sorry) they end up in a field near the capital without a speeder and a crate with who knows what they got ready to fight the imps but the ghost crew came to the rescue."You want a ride?" called out the force user."Go i got the crate." said Ezra as he ran to the grounded crate and activated the anti gravity on it so he can move his Jacob got on board the ramp."LEAVE THAT CRATE YOU'LL NEVER MAKE IT!" Jacob only smirked as Ezra started running towards the ship's ramp and with one leap landed directly on it.'Whoa...who are these kids?' together they moved the crate inside and closed the ramp.
"Whoa do you have any idea how much these cost on the black market?" asks Jacob
"I do actually." responds the force user
"Don't get any ideas." threatens Zeb
"The're ours." retorts Jacob
"If you hadn't gotten in our way."
"Too bad we got to them first."
"Is'not who's first its who's last." interrupted Ezra "And sorry for the bother the're yours. My name is Ezra and this is my brother Jacob."
"I'm Kanan this is Zeb and that is Sabine. Nice to meet you." replied Kanan reluctantly
"Likewise." responded Ezra
"I'm gonna talk to Hera, we'll sort this out later." said Kanan heading for the cockpit
"You said this was a routine op. What happened down there?" asked Hera
"Whap,whap whap whap."
"Chopper please it's been a difficult morning." pleaded Kanan
"He has a point dear we've got four tie fighters on our tail." defended Hera
"Hera how about a little less attitude and a little more altitude?"
"Seriously what happened?"
"They did." said Kanan pointing at a monitor showing the the cargo bay
"Why would you steal something if you don't even know what it is?" asked Sabine curiously
"We just got bored and wanted to have a little fun." apologized Jacob
"You call this fun?" asked Zeb
"Ehh it's been a slow week." replied Ezra which made Sabine and Jacob chuckle and Zeb grumbled
"Two kids tripped you up? Must be some kids, spill it."
"Aren't you a little busy at the moment?" replied Kanan indignant "Spill." insisted Hera
the ship shook once more and Jacob and Zeb lost balance falling over one another."Get of-sigh-can't breathe." said Jacob "I'm not that heavy in this gravity." defended Zeb while getting up "it's not the weight it's the smell." at that Zeb got angry and threw Jacob in a supply locker. While this was happening Ezra fell on his back followed by Sabine who landed on his chest.
"Hey there." said Ezra with a lightly blush "Hey." replied Sabine in the same condition. They got up looking embarrassed and keeping an awkward silence. Finally Sabine broke the silence with a question. "How did you make that jump while carrying the crate?" at this Ezra flashed her a cocky grin and gave her an answer to rile her up even more "If we're Lucky i'l tell you if not you'll find out by yourself." as expected Sabine was unsatisfied by the answer "you could at least give me a clue." at this Ezra's grin transformed in a full blown smile. "I can give you one thing, consider it clue or riddle whatever you think.-sigh- Here goes: I am what was before what Kanan is." he didn't even need to feel her frustration and confusion. Knowing that she won't figure it out he broke her train of thought "But enough about me. I like the armor who painted it?" this brought a smile on her face "I did. You like it?" And with another cocky grin "Can't say i know much about art but i can recognize beauty when i see it, especially when it stands right in front of me." she blushed and broke eye contact but before either of them could say anything the ship shook again which made them bump into the wall breaking the moment. Irritated Ezra asks Sabine "Are there guns on this ship?" "Yeah of course there are." "Good. Jacob let's move....Jacob?" he looked around and only saw Zeb leaning on the wall. "Where is my brother?" "Zeb what did you do?" asked Sabine worried "Nothing he's in...here. At least he's still in the ship." replied Zeb "He's in the ship alright."
"Alpha leader to Beta 1 do you copy?" said Ezra into his comm while getting questioning looks from Zeb and Sabine
suddenly Jacob's voice came through "Copy Alpha leader what's up?"
sigh"Just get to the top laser cannon and start shooting TIEs i'll take rear." ordered Ezra
"Copy that Alpha leader, will do." replied Jacob
With that Ezra headed towards the rear laser cannon with an intrigued Zeb and Sabine behind him "you sure you know how to use that?" asked Zeb "Just watch." said Ezra smirking he takes a shoot frowns and immediately re adjusts and takes another first shot narrowly misses and the second one hits and destroys the TIE leaving Sabine and Zeb stunned he aims at and destroys a second TIE in one shot, in almost the same time tow more shots fly by the third TIE before being taken out by the third, immediately after Ezra aims at the forth and waits, a shot flies by and narrowly misses the TIE then Ezra grins and finishes the last TIE in one shot.
"Nice shooting specters!" calls Hera through the comms
"Wasn't us. It was the kids." responded Zeb
"By the way your cannons are delayed by one second you might want to re-calibrate them when you get the chance." said Ezra in to the comm
"Interesting, bring them here i wan'a meet them." said Hera intrigued
"I'm Hera and this is Chopper." "Wahp, wahp."
"I'm Ezra and this is Jacob it's a pleasure to meet you captain."says Ezra "So, what now?" asks Jacob
"Now we make the delivery. Then we drop you of to your parents, they must be worried sick." replied Hera
"Don't worry we don't have any." said Ezra in an even tone then walked out of the cockpit
"Sorry i didn't know." apologized Hera "It's alright you couldn't have." says Jacob as he sat down in the co-pilot's seat "He'l be fine he just doesn't want to answer the questions."
"What questions?" asked Hera confused "The ones i'm gonna answer now, so ask away." responded Jacob
"How old were you?" "I was eight and he was nine." "What happened?"
"...I don't remember much, all i know is that our parents made transmissions against the empire and one day the imps stormed our home. Ezra grabbed me and ran to the old abandoned radio tower outside of capital-city we came back the next day and gathered our stuff, well what was left of it anyways. Since then he took care of me."
"I'm sorry, it must have been hard." "Not really, he took good care of me. But he often said: I'm not hungry. and: I already ate." said Jacob with a regretful look in his eyes "Your brother is a great person." "I know...but he doesn't want to be."
"hey." said Ezra walking in the cafeteria to find Sabine drinking some caff "Hey. So, how'd it go?" asked Sabine curiously "Well enough. Hera seems like a nice person." responded Ezra "So who are you guys anyway? You're not exactly thieves and you risk too much to be smugglers."
"We're not exactly anything we're a crew a team and in some ways a family."responded Sabine observing that Ezra flinched at the word family, but they were interrupted before any of them could say anything else, by Hera
"We're here." said Hera through the comms
"Tarkintown?" asked Ezra surprised "You know about it?" asked Hera surprised "Yeah i bring supplies here from time to time." responded Ezra "You do since when?" asked Jacob curiously "Since when we i found out." responded Ezra simply
"Hey where's Kanan?" asked Zeb noticing that he wasn't with them "He's...sleeping." responded Hera uncertain "Alright. Let's go then." said Sabine interrupting the conversation "Zeb you're with me. Ezra and Jacob you go with Sabine."
"Sure." said Zeb "Come on grab a crate pull your weight." said Sabine while pushing a crate
"FREE FOOD!" yield Sabine opening her crate"Wait so we give this stuff for free?" asked Jacob as he and Ezra did the same "Yep." said Ezra simply while he and Sabine were watching the people take the food and thanking them before leaving
"Any problems procuring these lovely ladies?" said Vizago while inspecting the blasters "Nothing we couldn't handle Vizago, your intel was accurate, this time." said Zeb "We got the goods and took a bite out of the empire that's all that maters "Business is all that maters but i love that you don't know that." said Vizago while giving some credits to Hera "Keep going." said Hera knowing he didn't give her what they agreed upon "I could but i could trade the rest for another piece of information you've been begging for." "The Wookies?" asked Hera"The Wookies." affirmed Vizgo
Ezra, Jacob and Sabine were talking in the cafeteria "So Sabine earlier you said you are like a family, and i was wandering...what happened with your real family?" asked Ezra unsure "The empire. What happened with yours?" asked Sabine interested "The empire." responded Jacob grimly
"Hey Kanan wants us in the common room." said Zeb entering the cafeteria with Chopper "Watch them." he told Chopper while he and Sabine made their way to the common room
"We have a new mission Vizago acquired the flight plan for an imperial transport full of Wookie prisoners." Kanan informed the team "Most of these Wookies were soldiers for the old Republic." completed Hera "I owe those hairy beasts, they saved some of my people." said Zeb "Mine too." informed Hera "If where going to save them we've got a tight window they've been taken to an unknown slave labor camp if we don't intercept this ship we'll never find them. Now i have a plan -thomp- but..." Kanan opened the supply locker where Zeb locked Jacob only to have Jacob and Ezra fall over each other. They got up and Jacob tried to go back in the vent but was caught by Zeb."I ordered Chopper to keep watch!" just then Chopper comes in to announce their escape."Can we please get rid of them?" asked Zeb "No, they know too much." said Sabine "We don't have time to anyway, we need to move now." said Hera leading them to the cockpit "I'll keep an eye on them." she said leaving the crew in the common room.
"So what do you think about them?" Sabine asked Kanan "They're interesting." responded Kanan
"So i take it that you are rebels?" asked Ezra siting in the co-pilot's chair
"Yeah you could say that." responded Hera "Really? We're rebels too." said Jacob "You are?" asked Hera surprised "Yeah i am Beta 1 and my brother is Alpha leader, back on Lothal we have other fifty members, spread across the planet in pairs to ensure safety. And every pair has their own information network, that way we know everything that happens when it happens." said Jacob proudly
"Wow that's an impressive operation i'm surprised i don't know about it." said Hera impressed "I'm not, we didn't do anything worth attention yet." said Ezra "Still its impressive. Who put this together?" asked Hera "My brother of course." said Jacob proudly "You?!" asked Hera surprised "i'm not called Alpha leader because of my looks y'know, although i don't have that much stuff to do since there is so much autonomy between the teams that the leader position is more like an honorary title so there is a clear line of command." said Ezra sighing "How old is this operation?" "A year. But we mostly kept tabs on imperial moves and sometimes stole or blew up their equipment." "I must say i'm impressed but what's the name of your organisation?" asked Hera "Wolf Squadron. And me and my brother are the Death Challengers." responded Ezra "Death Challengers?" questioned Hera "yeah no mater how hard they try nobody can kill us imperials or outlaws." responded Jacob "Not for a lack of trying mind you." completed Ezra a few moments before they exited hyperspace
"Imperial transport 651 this is Starbird coming inbound." said Hera in an official tone
"State your business."replied the imperial officer
"Bounty. We captured an additional Wookie prisoner and have orders to place him with you."
"We have no such orders."
"That's fine we already got paid by governor Tarkin if you don't want it i'll just leave it here let you explain to your superiors why the empire has one less slave." bluffed Hera
"...Permission to doc bay 1" replied the officer
"Impressive." complimented Ezra "Thanks." thanked Hera
"No troopers security solve-hzhzz-" reported Kanan but was interrupted
"Specter 1 comm in, Specter 4, Specter 5...shit comm's down, no not down jammed" said Hera worried
"There's something coming." said both brothers at the same time
"What?" asked Hera intrigued but the next second a star destroyer dropped out of hyperspace
"This was a setup." realized Ezra
"It's beginning to look that way." agreed Hera
"You need to board the transport and warn them." said Hera
"On it." responded Ezra "i'm coming too." Jumped Jacob "No you're not. You stay here and help Hera."
(The rest of the mission goes like in the show except Ezra pretends to be captured this time)(too tedious to write, again, sorry)
"The whole thing was a setup." said Kanan entering the cockpit alongside Sabine and Zeb "You think Vizago was in on it?" asked Sabine "He'd sell his mother to Jawas for a couple credits, but we're a source of income for him chances are he didn't know." said Hera "Ezra did alright." informed Hera"Of course he did...but where is he?" said Jacob everyone stopped and looked at Zeb "I thought he was with you." he said towards Kanan "Zeb what did you do to him?" asked Sabine worried "I didn't do anything to him. That I.S.B. agent grabbed him." "WHAT?!" yelled everyone but Jacob "ASSHOLE!" yelled Jacob making everyone look at him "I can't believe him!" Jacob said in an angry voice "Don't worry kid we're going back to save him." comforted Kanan "Hahahahaha" Jacob surprised everyone by laughing "Now i know why he told me to stay here, he wants to show of." said Jacob smiling "Come on, if we don't hurry back we'll miss it." everyone looked confused at each other but nonetheless they turned back.
"Hera you asked why the two of us are called Death Challengers?" asked Jacob with a knowing smile "I did. Why?" asked a very confused Hera "You're about to find out...Hey Sabine, you like explosions right?" said Jacob "Yeah why?" asked an even more confused Sabine "Because you're gonna love this." a minute passed and an imperial shuttle left the bay of the star destroyer but nothing else happened 'He usually doesn't take so long' but before he could say anything all escape pods ejected and the star destroyer exploded leaving only an immense amount of debris and a couple escape pods out of the once mighty star destroyer "There it is." said Jacob smiling at the amazed faces of the crew.
"I am agent kallus of the Imperial Security Bureau, and you are?" said agent Kallus while entering Ezra's cell
"Bored, if you are going to do something do it before i die of old age." answered Ezra defiantly "Look if i had something to say i wold, but i just met those guys today, so i don't know anything." defended Ezra
"You are not here for what you know but to act as bait upon my return to Lothal." replied Kallus coldly
"Bait? Yeah and i am the emperor, be serious people don't do that." said Ezra
"We'll see about that." said Kaluss as he turned to leave
"Hey Kallus, after i get out of here you have ten minutes to abandon ship." said Ezra
"And why would i abandon need to abandon the ship?" asked Kallus stopping and turning to face Ezra
"You'll find out in five." replied Ezra with a worrying confidence
"Search him and secure him here." ordered Kallus to the storm troopers standing guard and left. As the troopers got near him Ezra grabbed his shoto lightsaber and activated it but the blade was transparent and it made no sound (Ghostfire crystal look it up) he immediately and silently dispatched the two confused bucket-heads and took one of their helmets to keep track of the movements aboard the star destroyer. After that he found the nearest control panel in which he hacked to get the info he needed. Then he headed for the reactor's control room to do some sabotage. After he was done sending the reactor into overdrive and closing all energy depletion ways and assuring they remain so he commed in to Kallus pretending to report that the prisoner escaped and then slightly changing his voice to report a sabotage in the reactor room and the ultimate destruction of the ship in less then ten minutes, before getting to the hangar bay to steal a shuttle and leaving.
"Beta 1 this is Alpha leader do you copy?" Ezra's voice came through Jacob's comm gaining everyone's attention "Copy Alpha leader, took you long enough." replied Jacob making everyone chuckle "Well i thought we might need the location of some very big furballs." suddenly everyone was listening carefully "Have you ever heard about the spice mines of Kessel?" the ghost crew froze "Slaves sent there last a month maybe a year." said Sabine "And for Wookies born in the forest its a death sentence." completed Hera "Then we better go save them." said Ezra as he connected the imperial shuttle he was in to the Ghost "We?" asked the crew in unison "Yeah we?" asked Jacob "Remember Chewbacca?" asked Ezra entering the cockpit "Damn furball, i owe him one." said Jacob "Yeah you do. Besides we already came this far might as well finish it." "Setting coordinates for Kessel" said Hera with a smile on her face while Kanan and Zeb turned and left to their rooms, followed by Ezra and Sabine who Headed towards the common room, Jacob remaining with Hera in the cockpit.
"How did you manege to pull that of?" asked Sabine referring to the star destroyer while she and Ezra sat at the table in the common room
"In my experience i learned that anything has a weakness and with the correct conditions it can become a way to break the odds." replied Ezra thoughtfully
Sabine looked at him intrigued "You know, i was wandering were did you get those beskar plates from." she said pointing towards his open jacket that was half covering four beskar plates placed across his chest forming some kind of armor currently hidden to Sabine. To Sabine's surprise he shifted in his seat removing his jacket to reveal a beskar chestplate of a design which she did not recognize. Placing his jacket on the table he flashed her another cocky grin and said "This is part of my battle armor and as of how i got them, they are part of an ancient armor i found and improved." responded Ezra "Mandalorians never used this kind of armor." said Sabine "No, they didn't exist at the time the users of this armor fell." he said grimly
Sabine noticed and tried to lighten the mood."Well however old it is, it's still very dull. Would you let me paint it?" asked Sabine surprising Ezra and completely changing his focus on her and what she just asked him. After taking a moment to process he smiled and responded her "If we get the chance i'll let you paint my full armor but you have to promise me one thing." "What?" asked Sabine cautiously "Please make it a simple design. Not everybody looks as good as you in so much color." before she could reply Hera once more interrupted them in a similar manner.
"Get ready we're almost there." both Sabine and Ezra looked annoyed at the comms but when Ezra looked back at Sabine he couldn't stay mad. "Hahaha" Sabine was surprised to see Ezra laughing "This happens way too often." responded Ezra to her inquiring look."Hahaha Yeah agreed."