Reasons and apologies on bottom

Previously

"It's settled than. Tomorrow we meet Rick"

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"Wait a minute!" Ezra spoke out to the adults. "Who's Rick and why are we meeting him?"

Hera glanced ay Kanan before he messed up the boy's hair. "Trust me kid," He replied as Ezra swatted the older male's hand away. "The less you know the better."

Both of them gave a little chuckle at the pouty face Ezra pulled upon not getting the answers he wanted. However the brief moment of happiness was ruined when an orange and white droid came bustling in. Ezra tensed up a bit at the sudden appearance of the unknown machine, but quickly calmed after a reassuring pat on the shoulder from Kanan. What is it about this guy, Ezra asked himself. Normally the slightest touch would send me running.

"Chopper?!" Hera screamed as Kanan put his hand back on Ezra's shoulder when he, once again, tensed up. "Where have you been? You never came when I called you into the cockpit, so where were you?"

Chopper let out a series of beeps and whistles, to fast for anyone but Hera to follow. "Oh no," The twi-leck sprinted down the hall, off to an unknown location. Kanan went to follow when he felt a tug on his arm. He looked down to see a slightly scared looking Ezra.

"Kanan, what's going on?"

Kanan crouched down to the boy's level, "I'm sure it's nothing. Just stay right here and I'll be right back." He stood up to leave. "Chopper, make sure he doesn't get into any trouble." Kanan went to the cockpit where he found Hera messing with the controls. "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, Chopper just exaggerated how close to the surface we were," taking an exasperated breath that was just filled with annoyance, Hera started doing more things with the controls. "But we are close enough to land."

"So everything's okay?" Both adults turned around to see Ezra standing in the doorway.

Kanan face palmed as he stated, "I thought I told Chopper to watch you." It was probably supposed to sound more like a question than the statement it came out as.

"Oh Yeah, he seems great at that." Ezra took a seat in the most colorful chair out of the four. Sabines, he guessed. He noticed that they had landed on another part of Lothal, it was a smaller looking town with makeshift buildings and tents rather than actual houses. "Is this where we're meeting the Rick guy?"

"No, it's where we're meeting someone else." Kanan stood up as the three other crewmates entered the cockpit.

Ezra stood up as well, "Cool." He was about to follow when a large purple hand stopped him.

"By 'we' he meant me, Sabine, Chopper, and him. You're staying here." Zeb sounded more gruff than he intended but their kind of business was nothing for a kid to get involved in. Cruddy back round or not. Ezra gave another slight pout as the Ghost crew, minus Hera, walked out of the cockpit.

"I'm gonna go to the refresher. Ezra said to Hera, gesturing with his thumb.

"Okay Ezra," she turned back to the controls. "Just don't get stuck in there." She smiled as he walked out of the cockpit.

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Zeb, Sabine, an the rest walked a bit over half the distance between the town and where the Ghost had actually landed when Kanan stopped walking and turned around. "I know you're there so just come out would you?" The rest of the crew turned around to see who he was talking to only to be greeted by a familiar boy with blue eyes coming out from behind a dried out bush.

"Hera told you, didn't she?" The boy hurried up to the others, but instead of an answer he got a small shove and Kanan telling him to come on.

After a little more walking, they reached the edge of the small little village. Ezra saw many different faces as they passed by. Faces holding emotions and feelings that he knew all to well. Mostly pain, hunger, and a want to leave a place one was forced to stay in. "What happened to these people?" Ezra asked.

Zeb looked him straight in the eyes as he offered his two word answer. "The Empire."

"Most of them had their land and farms taken away." Ezra looked and turned to the speaker, Sabine. Even with her helmet, she sounded so monotone, as if this was an everyday thing she saw.

Next he turned to Kanan, "This is where people go when they have nowhere else left." And for the first time, Ezra truly realized, he wasn't the only one suffering, he wasn't the only one in pain. He didn't really know to much about the Empire, only the few things he heard from his parents rare times of allowing a radio broadcast. But from what little he heard, he thought the Empire was just the government of the galaxy, that they promised to bring order and peace. But this wasn't order and peace, no, this was fear and pain. They were, in many aspects, like his parents. They were supposed to be helpful and kind, but instead they were vicious and cruel.

Looking about, he had realized he had fallen a little behind the others. Jogging a bit to catch up and was shocked to see that Kanan had stopped in front of a very large frightening looking, yellow man with chiseled horns. Kanan greeted the man using the name Vizago. The two adults began to talk but Ezra didn't pay much attention. He was to busy looking around.

After a few minutes, The crew's business with Vizago was over and they started heading back to the Ghost. However, Ezra noticed that the crew had nothing new. What was the point of coming here? The young boy asked himself as they boarded the ghost.

Once they arrived, everyone dispersed off to wherever they were as Kanan went to the cockpit where Hera would most likely be, and Zeb went in the direction of his cabin, most likely to take a nap. Ezra decided just to tag along with Sabine and watch her paint. After about twenty minutes the ship began flying again. For the first time in a little while, Ezra began to wonder, where are these people taking me?

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Yeah… I'm really sorry. For both not updating in a while and that this isn't my best. I just felt really bad and needed to get something out there. So consider this like half of a whole chapter I guess. I will try to get these updates out sooner next time but remember, I have a life and I can't always let this be my top priority. But once again, I will try.

Thank you for your patience.