Chapter 2: Rescued
When Ezra came to he found that he was lying on the ground. He sat up and took in his surroundings. His panic quickly rose when he realized he was in an Imperial Office. He got up and tried to run, but soon face planted into an invisible wall.
"Wha?" Ezra asked. He placed his hands on the said wall and found that it was slightly curved, and clear. He looked up only to see a ceiling with some holes in it.
"Up again I see." a voice said behind him.
Ezra spun around and saw Kallus. Only problem was that Kallus was sitting in a chair on one side of his desk, and Ezra seemed to be on his desk. That's when it all came back, being captured, and shrunk. 'He must have put me in a jar.' he thought.
There was no escaping through the top of the jar, due to the lid, which thankfully had holes. He was near the edge of the desk, so maybe he could tip the jar off the edge. No, that fall in this state would easily kill him.
"If you are looking for a way to escape good luck finding it." Kallus sneered. "Even if you could get out of the jar and to the ground safely, you wouldn't be able to get out the door."
Ezra hated to admit it, but Kallus was right.
Ezra defiantly sat down and turned his back towards the Imperial Officer. "I'm not telling you anything."
"As I told you the first time I had you in my clutches, Jabba, you aren't here for what you know, and you are to act as bait." Kallus said. "And I'm positive this crew of yours if not the entire Rebellion will be back for you."
He grabbed the jar, roughly turning it, not only causing Ezra to now face him, but also fall back against the wall.
"But this time, you won't get away." Kallus said. "They shall be captured, and shrunken down too, then you all shall be transported to Lord Vader, where he will kill you all personally."
Ezra swallowed down his fear. "My crew will not be captured so easily. They will come, and when they do, they will free me, and your plan will fail."
Kallus glared before roughly picking up the jar and bringing to his face. "You are in no position to be making threats." For good measure he shock the container, causing the small rebel inside to get tossed carelessly about, hitting his head multiple times.
Kallus slammed the jar down, not hard enough to crack it, but enough to cause the young rebel some more pain. A beeping on Kallus's intercom saved Ezra from any further harm.
"Yes what is it?" Kallus asked.
"Sir, we have a disturbance on level 6. Requesting back up." the voice on the intercom said. It sounded like a stormtropper, but Ezra was able to pick up the slight accent that told him it was actually his master.
"It must be your rebel friends." Kallus smirked at Ezra. "Request granted. Squads 1-5 divert to level 6, I shall join you."
As Kallus stood to leave, he hit his hand on the jar for good measure. Kallus left the room.
Ezra finally let the pain over take him. His head was pounding in on itself. He curled into a fetal position. He hoped to the Force that Kanan would find him soon and none of them would get captured.
'But what if Kanan can't find me?' Ezra thought. He then remembered that when he was rescuing Kanan he connected to him through the bond they had in the Force. He concentrated on that bond, trying to show Kanan how much pain he was in and how scared he was.
Less than a minute later the door to the office opened and Ezra looked up to see Kanan in the door way.
"Ezra?" Kanan asked.
'Of course he can't see me.' Ezra thought. He had to get his attention somehow. He concentrated the best he could on the stack of data disks at the edge of the table, before using the Force to knock them off.
Kanan came over to the desk to see what the disturbance was. He scanned the desk until he found a jar that didn't really seem to belong. But it was what was inside the jar that nearly caused Kanan to let the entire complex know where he was. Inside the jar was a small figure that seemed to be his Padawan, only problem was that he couldn't be any bigger that 3 inches tall if he were to uncurl.
"Ezra?" Kanan whispered, bringing his face close to the jar.
"Kanan," Ezra moaned. Kanan grew about ten times more worried, his student sounded like he was in so much pain.
"Don't worry, I'll get you out of here." Kanan reassured. His questions could be answered later. He picked up the jar as gently as he could before an alarm went off throughout the coplex. "Would you be okay with me leaving you in there until we get back?"
"Just get out of this place, please." Ezra moaned, the pain making it hard to think of anything else than wanting escaping to the Ghost.
Kanan carried the jar with his Padawan in it as he ran back to the Ghost. He did his best to not shake the jar too much, but it was hard when he was running, he only hoped that he wasn't harming Ezra any further.
"This is Specter 1. I'm heading back. I've got the kid, but he's in rather bad shape." Kanan said into the comm.
"Roger that mate. We found the kids stuff. We'll meet you back at the ship." Zeb's voice responded through the comm.
Kanan made it to the ship and saw that Sabine and Zeb had just made it as well. "We're all here. Get us out of here." Kanan called Hera on the comm.
"Where's the kid?" Zeb asked.
"I'll explain in the common room after we jump, so we can all hear." Kanan dismissed before heading to the common room and gently setting the jar on the table. "You okay Ezra?"
"Are we safe on the ship?" Ezra asked.
"Yes," Kanan said,
"I will be." Ezra muttered before passing out.
Man Ezra is passing out a lot.