Chapter 2- Duck
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The crew waited at the storage bay, having just used the Jedi mind trick on the two troopers, the sun was just going down when it seemed apparent that Zeb was about to growl something when they all hear something from above. It was coming from the roof of the storage unit, they must have been discovered as Hera and Sabine drew their blasters toward the sound.
"Whoa, and hear I thought it was invitation only!" Smirked Ezra with his hands in the air as he jumped from the roof and landed on the ground as they lowered their weapons.
"Thought you were an imperial, sorry. " said Sabine.
"Fair assumption." Said Ezra as he inspected the lock. It was just then Kanan noticed the sharp and some what purple bruise below Ezra's eye. Kind of hard to miss.
Kanan rolled his eyes, "kid, what happened to your face?"
Ezra looked annoyed, "did you ask me here to pick a lock or talk about my day?" He said, still fiddling with the lock.
"Where'd you get the bruise kid?" Kanan asked once again.
"Where'd you get the light saber?" Ezra asked him, remembering in that first day, Ezra attempting to steal it and Kanan catching his before he made it half way out of the ship.
Kanan frowned, "how's the lock coming?"
"Bold lockable 8-17 cripton re-enforced steel with a electronic mechanism." Ezra mumbled to himself.
"Crrr-Cripton? Re-enforced? What's the kids talkn' about?!" Zeb said, lacking patients.
Ezra sighed. "It means, that I'll be right back." He said as he begun climbing the storage unit until me was on the roof again.
"Hold one just a second kid, where are you going?" Kanan said from on the ground.
Ezra smirked and looked at Sabine. "To mess with the empire!" He aid before seemingly disappearing.
Zeb turned to Sabine. "I blame you." He joked.
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Ezra stood atop the storage unit as he was just out of sight, as he looked to the impearial base below. There was precisely two docked TIE fighters, one docked walker, six crates of blasters and about sixty bucket heads away from him and the control room.
It had been an electronic lock. The only way to get it off was to do it from the inside. Literally. He had to get across the yard, past the two troopers on the doors and past the three workers at the controls. "This otta be fun." Ezra mumbled to himself.
He jumped off of the storage unit just before the light of one of the towers shined on him, and landed in between the unit and another building. He heard someone coming and quickly ducked behind a crate of blasters. It was a cadet. Perfect.
Ezra quickly grabbed his energy slingshot and blasted the cadet, only a slight cry escaped his lips before falling unconscious. Ezra might have felt bad for the kid, if he hadn't been working for the empire.
He quickly began taking the armor off of him, he had taken off the helmet and seen the kids face, short black curly hair, closed eye (which was a good thing!) and light brown skin. Ezra glanced down at the name tag on the front of the shirt.
'Leonnis, Zare'
"Sorry 'Zare'" Ezra mumbled as he dragged him behind a crate. "Nothing personal."
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The crew waited axially they waited for the kid to return.
"Gah!" Zeb growled, "the kid ditched us."
"I say we give him another minuet." Said Hera. "Ezra's gotten us out a good share and has never ducted out before."
"So?" Growled Zeb, having liking the kid about as much as Chopper Zapping him at midnight.
"So." Said Hera, "we give Ezra another minuet." She said, being the only one to use him by his real name.
And just when seemingly a fight was going to break out, the door, by its self, opened.
"What the…" Sabine trailed off.
"Told you so!" Hera said in delight, as she ran into the storage unit, and began getting the crates.
The crew haveing some phrased looks before following Hera in.
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Got in. Got lock off, now, getting out. Slightly more tricky.
Especially considering that the energy bolt he had shot at the cadet should be wearing off soon. And as soon as he woke up, the whole camp would know to be looking for so one in his armor.
Ezra snuck past the unconscious workers, and went back out into the busy imperial yard, trying to act as non-chalet as possible. He hurried back to the alleyway to get back over to the storage unit, it was the best way out, plus he didn't want the ghost crew to think he'd been captured again, he didn't want to give the over grown fur ball lasat the satisfaction.
When Ezra made it back to the allyway next to the storage unit where ha had hid the kid, Ezra briefly considered leaving behind the cadet uniform, but decided agents it, seeing as when they realized the unconscious kid in the allyway, along with the workers and guards, and the open storage unit with weapon crate empty? Well they would clue in pretty quickly. And even if he was a soon-to-be-storm trooper, Ezra didn't want him getting the blame. Mostly because Ezra knew what the empire did to thoughs who were, 'un-loyal' and he didn't really want the kids blood on his hands.
He was about to hop up onto the storage unit when something, no, someone grabbed his ankle.
"Hey!" The voice said. "What do you think your doing?!"
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The crew activated the anti-gravity modulators on as many crates as they could. They had to move fast.
"How did the door open?" Sabine questioned as they activated the crates. "I mean, kid disappears, door opens. Not a quintets."
"Don't know, but he got the job done, he did good." Said Hera.
"He did okay." Corrected Kanan, resulting in Hera simply shaking her head.
"Sabine, you almost done?" She asked. "Sabine?"
Sabine ran from behind a corner with a blank stair on her face as she handed Hera an important looking data pad, with Kanan looking over her shoulder, and eventually even Zeb coming over to see what wall the fuss was about.
"What is it?" Asked Kanan, as Hera skimmed it.
"Kyber crystals." She mumbled. "The empire is having a Kyber crystal shipment."
"Karabast." Mumbled Zeb.
"We know the empire isn't going to do anything good with such a powerful crystal." Said Sabine, sliding on her helmet.
"Well we gotta stop it!" Said Zeb, "where is the shipment being held?"
Hera continued to skim the data pad, before bleakly looking up. "That kind of information is classified. Too important to be lying around in a storage unit. There's only one place they would keep information like that. In the hands of their own, someone high up but not too, I bet it's Agent Kallus." She said, sending Zeb into a snarl, as he rubbed the top of his head, where the scar was still fresh.
They had gone to stop a shipment of iron disrupters and had a, 'fall in' with the agent himself. Him and Zeb got into a great Bo-riffle battle, resulting in Kanan not being able to get to him in time, and two and a half very long weeks in the med-bay.
"Well where would he be keeping it?" Asked Kanan.
"On a data pad most likely, probably in his office, where someone would least expect it." Sighed Hera. "I bet he's keeping it at the cadet academy on lothal."
"You mean that place where they brain wash kids into the empire?" Growled Zeb.
"Yup" sighed Sabine. "We'll have to confirm with Vizago, but I think it's a pretty safe bet."
"Doesn't matter anyway." Muttered Zeb, as he turned to pull a creat.
"Why wouldn't it?" Questioned Kanan, the rest tuned to the lasat.
"You honestly think any of us would pass for a cadet?" Asked Zeb.
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"Hey!" Yelled Ezra, trying to wiggle free if the iron grasp, as he failed, and fell to the ground along with the one who grabbed him. It was the same kid he jumped.
"Ok, ok! Just please, don't call in re-enforcements, they'll lock me up for sure, just let go!" Said Ezra, still trying to pull away from the fingers that encircled his leg.
Suddenly the finger uncoiled and the kid got up. "Relax, I'm not going to rat on you!" He said, offering him a hand up.
Ezra questionaly took it, as he helped him up and looked strangely at the kid in front of him. "Names Zare, Zare Leonnis, but you might know that from my name tag in the stolen armor your wearing."
"Uh, yea, sorry, uh, I'll give it back." Said Ezra, still very confused of what was happening.
Zare laughed a bit. "No thanks, I want them to know my armor was stolen or else they might pin this whole thing on me!"
"Why are you helping me?" Ezra questioned.
Zare sighed. "You jump me to mess with the empire?" He asked.
"Umm, yea?" Said Ezra.
"Then that's all I need to know!" He said smiling.
"So, your agents the empire too?" Asked Ezra.
"Hey." Said the kid, "your doing undercover work? So am I. Let's just say I'm hear to….find somebody."
"Well, uh, thanks. Thanks a lot. We'll keep in touch." Said Ezra, as he was about to make his way off.
"Wait." Said Zare. "What's your name?"
"Dev. Dev Morgan."
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Just as the crew got the last of the crates out the alarms went off.
Zare had tried to keep them stalled as long as possible without looking suspicious, but eventually the workers were found and so were the rebels.
The crew was just finishing up when the blaster fire started. Ezra jumped off of the roof and joined the ghost crew. "Nice of you to join us." Said Sabine as she shot two troopers perfectly in the head. Luckily for them it was set to stun.
"Hey, did the door open or not!" Said Ezra with a slight smile as he used his energy bolt to hit another guard.
"Cargo's been loaded, let's move!" Said as the rest of the crew, and Ezra, followed her into the town and began whizzing though buildings and street corners trying to lose the remaining storm troopers. At this point they were just following Ezra, he knew the streets better then any of them!
Once they had seemingly been in the clear, Ezra turned to them.
"Well it's been fun. If you ever need me for another op, you know where to find me." He said, some of the crew giving slight nods.
"Thanks kid." Said Sabine as she turned on her heal and begun waking.
Hera playfully rolled her eyes and Sabine's thank you. "Thank you Ezra." She said. "We'll come find you if we need your…expertise, again.
But just then, as they were walking away, Kanan scened another force signature. One of the storm troopers must have followed them!
He quickly turned around to see one hiding behind a building, with a blaster pointed towards Ezra's back.
He was about to warn him, when, Ezra got an odd look on his face, like he was, confused? Then a look of realization hit him as he quickly ducked just as a blaster shot whizzed abound his head. He then tuned and scurried up a building.
His back had been turned, the trooper not making a sound. It all just seemed like one sick magic trick.
The crew noticed Kanan rapidly turn with a look of confusion lay plastered on his face.
"Uh, Kanan? You alright there mate?" Said Zeb.
"Y-yea. Fine. " he said as he continued to walk with the crew. But there was one question that would keep him up at night,
'How did the kid know to duck?'
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-Azilia