Disclaimer: I do not own, or claim to own Star Wars or any of its properties. The only part of this work that is mine is the original character. Everything else is owned by Lucasfilm/DisneyDisclaimer: I do not own, or claim to own Star Wars or any of its properties. The only part of this work that is mine is the original character. Everything else is owned by Lucasfilm/Disney.

Copley was holding their leg and breathing through their teeth sharply trying to stifle the pain. The world seemed red while they felt pain to them and their attempts at coping with it seemed to be going about as bad as one would expect. Alexia was off of their speeder at this point trying to do as much immediate first aid as they possibly could without doing more injury in the process. The cadet gasped in pain as Alexia tightened a bandage around their leg and the cadet reached up to take their helmet off so they could breathe properly. Copley turned out to be a darker-skinned, 15-year-old boy with buzzed off blond hair and they were sweating bullets from trying to catch their breath.

Alexia had to stop and say, "Breathe, okay? Breathe."
"Wasn't this supposed to be a simple operation?!"
"Maybe more rebels got into the bike plant and sabotaged them. We were having issues before."
"But why would it work there and not back?!" Copley yelled out, moving their leg and crying out in pain in the process and Alexia got aggressive, "If you don't start calming yourself I'm going to knock you out for your own sake."

Copley leaned back against a nearby rock and did their best to ease the pain. Alexia shifted to look towards town, hoping that maybe she'd see the transport coming in the distance and Copley said, "You might as well sit down too. With all the rebellion, lately their priority for treatment of a cadet is secondary. I'll live, relax."
"I am relaxed." Alexia spat, turning back towards the boy who looked at her skeptically and said, "If you're relaxed, then I'm relaxed."

There was a pause of silence before Alexia heard movement in the grass and looked to quickly make sure there was no wildlife heading their way, when the sight of a cloaked figure began to walk towards them. Alexia straightened up and announced, "Halt civilian. This scene is under imperial investigation. We ask that you- "

"I saw the explosion when I was working out on the fields. Are you two alright? I wanted to make sure you both were taken care of." The voice was a younger voice, disguising itself to be older. But disguising it well enough where Alexia and Copley were none the wiser. Still, Alexia walked a bit closer saying, "This does not concern you, civilian. If you do not follow orders we will be forced to place you under arrest."

The cloaked figure chuckled and walked closer and spoke, ignoring the request, and confirming it with their voice, "Nonsense, nonsense! I want to make sure you get proper care before you are picked up. After all, good soldiers like yourselves deserve all the help you can get for fighting the good fight." The figure finally made it in front of Copley and waved their hand saying, "You want me to give you first aid."

Copley stared at them and repeated back, "I want you to give me first aid."
"Copley." Alexia responded with a hostile tone, clearly indicating how angry she was at the very idea that he would agree to this. Copley looked over at her and asked, "What? There's no harm in having someone help…"

The cloaked figure looked over and waved their hand, "There's no harm in help."

Alexia seemed to just stare silently at the figure for a moment. There was no verbal response from her before she finally just said, "You can help for a few minutes, but you need to stay here and confirm to my superiors that you helped out. That way I don't have them questioning why a civilian was here and thinking you did something."

There was a long moment of hesitation from the cloaked figure before they waved their hand again and said, "Staying here that long isn't necessary."
Alexia had no delay responding with certainty, "Yes, it is. In fact…"

The cadet walked forward and said, "It will be required now that you stay… or else I'm going to have to report that this crime was sabotage and that you are a rebel intentionally sabotaging imperial equipment."

"What?" the voice suddenly broke from a disguise for but a moment to reveal the teen's normal voice, before they cleared their voice and continued with the fake voice, "I mean, that would be a lie."
"Would it? Why would someone be so far away from the city in the middle of nowhere. There are no farms, or any buildings around here for you to be staying in."

The cloaked one scoffed and began working first aid on Copley saying, "I will have you know that I am a fourth generation Lothcat whisperer!"
"L…Lothcat whisperer?" Copley asked confused as the figure began cleaning their wound, "Lothcats! They speak the wisest of tongues. Their stories, spectacular! Why, there was a Lothcat named Purroski who once told me a very wise proverb."

They stood up and walked behind Copley and placed their hands on his shoulder, "The ones who growl loudest are the ones who shall be heard. Twelve lothcat whispers will be deafened under the screaming of one loud lothcat."

"And you… needed a cat to tell you that? It seems like common sense." Alexia replied, buying into this craziness before the man responded, "But there is an underlying message to their tale young one. One you may not understand."

The cloaked figure quickly made their way next to Alexia and wrapped their arm around her and pulled her close, his hand raised up in their air, "Sometimes the loud minority can mask the silent majority!"

There was silence as Alexia asked, "So… common sense?"
"The idea is that the majority, the largest group." The cloaked figure knocked into Alexia, throwing her off balance for a moment. The bag she had moving rather rapidly on her side before she straightened up and went still, "Should speak up, or their message may go unheard."

"Wow… fascinating. So, you were getting ready to perform first aid?" Alexia replied, looking up trying to get a good look at the figure's face before they had moved away and began speaking, "Actually, the work you did before was spectacular, that there really was nothing I could do."

"A shame…" Alexia grumbled before they began to walk away saying, "I hope you two end up making it back safely, and soon!" before the figure began to quickly walk away. Alexia seemed to stare off for a moment and by the time they'd walked away she yelled, "Hey, hey! Wait a minute!"

"Eh, it's not worth it Lex. They were a little crazy." Copley replied, motioning their finger in 'crazy' gesture beside their head. Alexia sighed and said, "Perhaps you're right." Alexia looked over to see the transports beginning to make their way and she spoke up, "Finally! What took them so long. Now we can finally-"

Alexia began searching her bag for the items and, well the map was still there but the holodisk was gone and she began looking everywhere frantically. Copley raised an eyebrow and asked, "Alexia? What's wrong?"
"The holodisk. It's gone! I had it right here. I just checked it before radioing. It should be-"

The cadet turned to look over towards where cloaked figure was going and she hissed out, "He took it, the crazy one's a thief that's what he is."
"Alexia, you don't even know that, come on let's keep looking around, maybe you need to double check-"

Without even listening to the rest, Alexia ran over to the speeder and got on it saying, "I'm gonna go after him. Tell them I'm chasing down a thief who stole our supplies and that I'll radio in as soon as I can."
"Alexia, wait!" Copley yelled before she sped off on the speeder in the direction the thief took off in.

Ezra was within running distance to the ship, but in still an open enough space to be seen. The young jedi rolled the holodisk around between his two fingers saying, "This thing is broken. What could even be on this?" he whispered to himself. He moved his hood down so the disguise was done and said, "Well, at least it was easy… maybe I could have done that without any jedi tricks…"

As Ezra began to get closer, he heard the sounds of a speeder coming from the distance and he quickly put back on his cloak. Assuming that whoever it was, was going to pass by with no problems, but just in case, he started making his way to the ship faster. But as he thought he'd made it safe, the speeder slowed and a familiar female voice yelled, "Don't move!"

Ezra turned over towards the speeder and the girl was holding a blaster up towards Ezra, which made him hold up his hands, "You're under arrest for theft and suspected vandalism."
"I didn't steal anything, ma'am."
"Your hand."

Ezra realized at that moment he was still holding the disk in his hand. He pulled it towards his face and looked at it, then played stupid and said, "My hand is fully organic."
"The holodisk in your hand is property of the empire."
"Oh this thing? Please, this is junk. Why would I steal that?"
"We're both asking the same question, sir." The girl responded as she reached up to grab the comm of her helmet.

Ezra bit his lip before cutting her off before she pressed it, "Wait. Okay. I stole it. But I didn't damage your bike, I swear. If I give you back the holodisk, will I be able to leave with no problems?"

The cadet was still for a moment before saying, "Only if you come back to confirm you were a witness."
"So it's a no then?"

There was silence between the two before the girl reached up and Ezra, out of nervousness towards what potentially could happen. Ran over and pushed the girl off the bike, trying to grab her blaster. She tried to fire it and reach for the comm. The shot went off, but missed the boy, and she was thrown off the bike and hit her head on the ground and let out a sound of pain. Ezra ran over and pulled off her helmet and tried to run out of there. Since the comm was on her helmet, there was no way she was going to be able to radio if she had it. Terrible design really.

The cadet got up as quick as she could and fired the blaster at Ezra, who was managing to dodge the blasters far better than should have humanly be possible. Barely stumbling. He finally got behind a rock, but was unable to get to the ship because every time he tried to rush to the opening to get to the ship, the girl fired pretty much perfectly.

The girl realized a blaster was probably going to get her nowhere at this point. She reached into her bag and grabbed a smoke detonator and threw it in the direction of Ezra. When it exploded, Ezra covered his eyes and tried to move back more. Then he felt a quick blow to the face. It hurt like crazy, but he managed to push back and tried to gain composure.

Ezra's eyes closed and he slowly tried to make it through the smoke to make it back to the ship. But as he made his way to the clearing, the girl made it as well and threw him into the wall. She was strong, from the training she received from training. But not strong enough to hold down Ezra. But she did manage to knee him and grab the helmet and press the comm, "This is C-748. I am-"

Ezra grabbed her head and tried to pull off the helmet again. Managing to shut off the comm but not stop the girl from kicking him very harshly in the stomach. Ezra grabbed her helmet and threw it as far away as he could as the comm could be heard responding, "C-748, your comm was shut off. Please repeat or follow up."

The girl quickly ran towards the helmet and Ezra decided the better idea would be to run for the ship and get out of there before the empire could even get to the location or find him. But as he ran up on the ramp of the ship and turned around, he realized something he hadn't expected.

The cadet stopped running towards the helmet, and was coming at him nearly full speed. As he went to shut the ramp. The cadet rushed inside and made it just in time for the ship to lock up. Ezra grabbed at her, "Kid I don't wanna hurt you!"
"Then surrender!"
"…can't do." Ezra replied quickly, throwing the girl at the wall to knock her out. As she hit the wall, she grabbed her head and looked up dizzily and said, "Wait… I recognize you… aren't you-" but the girl was out cold before she could finish the sentence.

Ezra took a deep breath to calm down and was about to open the ramp in order to push her outside, when a sudden storm began to hit. Realizing the state the girl was in, he wasn't exactly ready to let the girl just die out here, especially if no one could find her in time.

Ezra was stuck with a dilemma, and it resulted in him handcuffing the girl to one of the railings, so if she woke up she wouldn't escape.

Ezra was going to at least wait for the storm to let up before letting her go. Then he was leaving her here. He would radio in claiming he found the cadet passed out and run off leaving nothing else. But until then, he looked at the holodisk and began working on a plan to fix it. Wondering why he was drawn to what ended up a broken piece of plastic.