Cap. 2 – Sacrifice.
"It was about time kid" mocked Zeb when he saw Ezra walking to the platform.
"Everyone is ready?" asked Hera.
"Yes" answered everyone at unison.
"Ok; Sabine, Zeb, Ezra, be careful" said Kanan.
"Come on, what could possibly go wrong?" asked Ezra with confident.
"You really want us to tell you? 'Cause there's a lot of things that could go wrong" answered Sabine.
The padawan stayed there thinking when they heard the ship was landing.
"Chop, keep the engine running" ordered Hera through her comm., and in response she earned some grumbles from the droid.
"Well, let's go" ordered Kanan.
The Mandalorian put her helmet in her head and with stealth, went out of the Ghost being followed by the Lasat.
After a few minutes, they heard a huge explosion, followed by the sounds of blasters firing.
"Is your signal" said Kanan to his padawan.
The kid nodded and got out of the Ghost while he ran to some crates. He climbed the crates and entered to the ducts. When he was inside, he began to crawl with his course set to the bay 34 the fastest as he could, but it was difficult, because he needed to avoid scratch himself in the stomach. Suddenly, he heard some voices, and the curiosity won that round. He followed the voices and finally, arrived to see a general talking to a man with white skin and blue eyes.
"Sir, the rebels are in here as you predicted" informed the trooper.
"Perfect, continue with the procedure. Give Agent Kallus the other rebels but leave the 2 Jedis to me" ordered the 5th brother.
Ezra was paralyzed as he saw the Inquisitor and a trooper's squadron went to attack.
A trap. Why he didn't thought about that before?
"Guys? Guys, it's a trap, I repeat, it's a trap" said the padawan through his comm.
The sound of static resounded in Ezra's comm.
"Karabast!" complained the kid while he returned to the bay 33.
Meanwhile…"Agh! The kid's taking too long" said Kanan to Hera when suddenly, he saw 2 figures running to their position: It was Zeb and Sabine.
"What are you doing here?" asked Hera when she saw her teammates running to her.
"You ordered us to come with you!" said Zeb pointing to Kanan.
"What? I never told you to…" said the Jedi when suddenly, they heard an evil laugh.
All of them turned around to see the Inquisitor coming to them in company of a trooper's squadron.
Zeb and Sabine gazed at each other with fear.
"He's the Inquisitor" whispered the artist to Kanan.
The Jedi took his light saber out and stepped in front of his crew in a protective form.
"So you're the Jedi?" asked the Inquisitor while he took his red light saber out too "You don't know how much I'm going to enjoy this"
The Inquisitor attacked Kanan while the troopers began to shot at the rest of the rebels, and the crew covered themselves while they fired back.
Meanwhile…Ezra was crawling as fastest as he could when suddenly; he felt a deep pain in his stomach.
"No, no, no" thought the kid while he looked at his scar.
Perfect! His scar was open letting some blood running out of his stomach. The kid ignored his pain and crawled faster.
When he arrived, it was too late. The troopers were already firing at the rebels while his crew covered themselves. Ezra tried to get down of the vents, but the ducts began to reduce their size, letting Ezra with a little bit of space to move. He saw that he was in the top vent of were the troopers where located, and he saw something else: His master fighting with the Inquisitor.
Kanan would not be able to win the battle.
Ezra tried to use the Force but… blocked. Sometimes for some reason, it was like if he loosed the power of using the Force.
The padawan had to help him one way or another…
He suddenly saw something that could help his master defeat the Inquisitor, something that could save his crew… but something that could kill him: One of Sabine's miracle not yet activated.
Ezra took aim and fired to the explosive…
The explosion made the troopers and the Inquisitor to fly through the air…
But also destroyed the vents, making Ezra fall to the debris…
Kanan recovered balance and gazed to the troopers and the Inquisitor laying in the floor unconscious.
"Thanks for the help Specter 5" thanked Kanan.
The artist gazed at him thunderstruck
"I didn't do anything" said the Mandalorian.
"Then who…?" asked Hera, when suddenly she saw something that left her speechless.
The Jedi turned around and saw a kid covering his stomach and gazing at him with pain.
Kanan ran to help his padawan, and when he arrived, his padawan felt, but the leader caught him before the kid fell.
"Ezra? What's wrong?" asked the Jedi worried for his padawan.
The kid gazed at him with horror and pain, but he moved his hands, revealing an iron nailed down to his stomach.
"Don't worry, everything's going to be fine" said Kanan trying to calm his padawan "Can you walk?"
Ezra shook his head.
"Ok" said Kanan. How was he supposed to take the kid to the Ghost? He didn't want to carry him, he could nail the iron more than it was now, and he didn't want to use the Force, he could get tired and let Ezra fall to the ground… suddenly, he thought a solution.
"Ezra, look!" said the Jedi pointing to Ezra's back.
When the kid turned around, his master grabbed the iron and removed the iron.
Ezra let a pain complain while a tear fell through his cheeks.
"It's ok, we are going now" said Kanan while he carried his padawan, but he saw the Inquisitor and the stormtroopers standing up.
The others already were in the ship, so when Hera saw the Jedi running to their position, she opened the platform's door. When Kanan was inside the shuttle, the Twi'lek closed the door and make the hyperspace jump.
Hi Rebels.
Ja! Cliffhanger!
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So, any ways, this part of the story occurred after the episode "Always Two There Are"… And before Kanan began to tolerate Captain Rex…
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