Chapter 2

An: the inspiration for this is Ezra's Gamble by Ryder Windham

A gamble of fate

Kanan's pov

Waking up for the second time in a matter of hours or had it been hours. No wait something didn't feel right, had they done something else to me? "No everything was still here" I thought as I checked myself out. Just then I realized that I was in Ezra's tower and considering there was scream or anything meant that Ezra wasn't here, he was most likely in town. The feeling to get to Ezra was so strong that I raced as fast as I could to find him, only to run into a big crowd, they were talking about some fight that had happened.

Suddenly a voice came over the holonet news " an illegal sporting event at Monad outpost on lothal might have ended with more than a few civilian casualties if not for the action of Bossk of the bounty hunter guild".

"How do I know Ezra is wrapped in this somehow" I think and then start to walk around making sure that I follow the pattern Hera had laid out for us earlier that day.

It wasn't until later that following morning that I finally got my first glimpse of Ezra. I had forgotten how small and thin he was at the start, even from here I could feel the hunger that was mixed in with dirt and pain he was feeling. He was barely holding on even though he didn't look like he was suffering from any of these.

Why was he here? It was obvious that he was waiting for someone but who? did he have friends before he met us? or was there some other reason he was here waiting. I didn't have to wait long to find out, a large Trandoshan came into view and walked over to Ezra. I was just about to grab my lightsaber and race over to save him, when I realized that I had to let somethings play out, but that didn't mean I had to like it.

"Hey, shorty. What brings you here? Not that I had been any better at the same age. My own run in with a bounty hunter had left it's own mark. I wondered for a moment how that old snake man was now and whether I should try and find him.

"We had a deal, Mr Bossk" Ezra said "remember? the strongbox?".

I had to smile, that was my padawan, making deals, that way of talking. This was all things he lost over the years, but he should have never had to learn them at all. In a way I wished that I had been dropped off earlier, so that I could have saved Ezra from his life on the streets, but at least I could make things right now.

"Oh, that" Bossk said "sure, I remember. You're probably as eager to get that strongbox as I am to leave this planet. Come on, walk with me to my ship".

They started to walk away and I meant to follow, but then I feel a tap on my shoulder and I turn around to see Zeb standing there with Sabine by his side, " see anything of interest?" he asked, his voice reminding me of the games we use to play.

"No, tell specter two that the missions a go and I will see her later" I said and started to follow Ezra and the Trandoshan.

I hear Sabine call out "sure, but we are not taking the heat on this one, that is all you".

I didn't catch up to Ezra until an hour later when he was making his way across the plains to his tower. Then I hear it and I know Ezra can hear it too, the high - pitched whine of an imperial tie fighter as it did another ship that I would know anywhere came into view, the mid - sized diamond - shaped freighter, and my home, the Ghost. I watched, Ezra watched as the Ghost zoomed overhead with the tie right behind.

"Come on Hera, what are you doing?" I thought, then realized I would have been on the ship taking those shots, so what would happen now?

The tie shot at the Ghost, which only struck the shields. Then I see it ascend, loop over and open fire, in one swift move, which then exploded the tie and then the Ghost ascended back into the clouds like it wasn't even there.

"That was definitely a Hera move" I thought, smiling a little, there was no one who could move like her.

I could see Ezra move in to see what had happened to the tie. I watched as he bolted across the field, without thought for his own safety. That was something of the jedi he became or was going to become.

I watched as he scrambled up the side of the round cockpit, another sign of early jedi like movements. As he swung down into the tie, I couldn't tell what was going on, but a few minutes later Ezra was out of the tie holding a helmet. I see him take off again with a smile on his face.

"Just came to score a little tech for the black market, you loth - rat" he shouted.

Just then the tie opened fire. I could feel a flicker of Ezra's force signature flare as he flipped sideways to avoid the blast. I hadn't realized even in the first life how much Ezra had relied on the force for pretty much everything. I saw Ezra fire back with his slingshot rapidly releasing two stun - balls and releasing a third which arched high in the air and dropped down inside the tie, which I was sure stunned who ever was inside it.

"Well, that was fun" Ezra said as he went to pick up the helmet from where he had dropped it, and placed it on his head.

I nodded to myself, "that was fun" I thought.

Then followed Ezra to his tower, making sure that my signature was as low as it could be without cutting it off in case that tie fighter pilot contacted the empire, but there was nothing, still I couldn't relax just yet, not until Ezra was home because Ezra might not know why or how he was doing these things, but someone in the empire might.

It was nightfall when I knew Ezra would be safe to leave for the night, and Hera would be waiting for my excuse why I didn't could back with the others, not that I was going to tell her right now. I needed time to come up with something because telling them what I knew would bring up all kinds of questions and I didn't needed Joe to tell me that would be wrong, I just had to take it one day at a time. So for now Ezra would have to be on his own.

I turn my head to realize Ezra had gone to bed for the night. I was in two minds about what I wanted to do now, but still my heart over ruled my head in this one. I move in to the tower and see Ezra, he is curled up on blankets on the floor. I could tell from the smell of the room and the sounds of a rumbling stomach that he hadn't eaten and his body looked cold.

As Ezra started to shiver and small tears started to fall, I felt the start of Ezra's nightmare. Something I had felt pretty much everyday since taking Ezra as my padawan in those early months before our bond really formed.

"Easy Ezra, easy. I've got you, I've got you" I said sending love and comfort to the boy.

"Tomorrow things will be better" I finished saying, giving Ezra a soft stroke on the head until the worry lines had gone from his face and he was asleep again with better dreams and then I left to go now to the Ghost.

Tomorrow was the mission where we would meet Ezra for the first time when he would try and steal from us, that would be the day when I would start changing things for real. Ezra, Hera,Zeb, Sabine and even Chopper would be better with me this time around. Then I saw something, the loth - bats were frozen in the skies, what was going on?

"Just a quick note, with all major choices I will be stopping time like this so you and I can talk about the choice" Joe said invisibly in my ear and then time started again and all I could think of was "Karabast".

An: like it? as Joe said all major choices will be talked over if you have any in the seasons tell me in a review.