Yes i i know it's been like a week since my last update. I'm sorry. AP test studying is starting up so a bit less free time. But I'm trying. So in response to some questions about my update schedule and when I'm gonna post. well... i don't have a schedule I'll try to update on the weekends if I have time. There may be times during the week when I manage to write and update but hey I'm updating now! Big thanks to everyone who's read so far and suggested ideas (some very close to what I was already going for im very impressed at your intuition.) and a huge thanks to everyone who has reviewed! Please continue to the feedback really helps!
oh and ps! Look around in a few days for another Star Wars rebels story from me coming soon in addition to this one!
Ezra was still getting used to the crew knowing.
Sabine was currently fiddling with one of his hearing aids and their communicators to see if she could get it to become a receiver now for messages over their comms. She figured then they wouldn't need to amp up the volume on the comm so he could actually hear them only to have him become an easier target. Plus she thought it'd be way cooler to have the comm directly in your ear.
Zeb hadn't really cared either way. Ezra liked it that way and was still trying to figure out how zeb could learn sign with four fingers but zeb hadn't really shown an interest not that he shows much of an interest in anything other than cracking some storm trooper heads together and sleeping.
Chopper was well chopper..
"Ezra?" Kanan said as he entered the room. Sabine tapped ezra on the shoulder and signed kanan wants you by fingerspelling Kanan's name then flexing her fingers palms facing towards her and then pointed at Ezra. Ezra nodded in response and then looked towards the doorway where Sabine had pointed to kanan. Kanan looked confused. Sabine had picked up basic sign very quickly. Ezra wasn't really surprised given her knack for foreign languages.
"She just said you wanted me." Ezra said trying to help kanan out. It'd only been a few weeks after all nobody except Sabine was gonna pick it up that quickly. Though kanan had managed to learn the alphabet for fingerspelling.
"Yeah Hera landed the ship I thought we could get some training done then go into town for these supplies Hera wants us to get at some point today. I got the list already." Kanan said and shook the tablet in his hand a little.
Kanan lead Ezra outside for training. He lead him through some of their routine exercise. He stayed in Ezra's view so he could focus on his lips. He said it helped him understand like it assisted along with his hearing aids. Kanan still felt guilty though. He was his master he is supposed to make Ezra's training suit him. He wanted to learn sign but found it difficult and found he relied on Ezra's hearing aids and lip reading almost as much as ezra. Sabine had asked Ezra how he'd learn to sign and speak basic so well and understand others. Ezra was excited and saddened by the question and said his parents had found him a tutor on Lothal so he learned sign and basic with the tutor. He learned to speak well and sign. He had started learning lip reading the last year with the tutor before his parents disappeared to help along with the hearing aids. The tutor thought it was important for occasions when he might have the aids out or if his hearing worsened over time. Ezra had explained though that since he only got a year of that he could really only use the lip reading to help with the hearing aids since even that wasn't perfect and sometimes basic was hard since it wasn't really his first language, sign was. Kanan knew that occasions like earlier when he walked in on Sabine fiddling with Ezra's hearing aids that he wasn't going to be able to communicate with his padawan in his current abilities in the language. He just wanted to be able to do what was best for Ezra but currently he felt he wasn't doing enough.
Kanan mind fell back into reality from the wander he had been on and looked back upon Ezra who now had the pose they had been working on down perfectly and smiled.
"Good job Ezra." He said smiling at his padawan. "I think that's enough training for today. We should go get all these supplies before it gets dark."
Ezra got up and silently followed him into town. Kanan handed Ezra half the list. Kanan didn't want to waste to much time here not with so many imperials around who might recognize them somehow.
Time passed and Ezra had most of the supplies. He was heading back to Kanan and he kept feeling a shiver in the force. He picked up his pace and pulled his com off his belt.
"Spector 6 to Spector 1. Spector 6 to Spector 1!" He said with increasing intensity as he felt the shiver get worse danger was coming.
"Spector 6, what is it?" He heard Kanan in his hearing aids. Sabines modifications had worked he'd be in awe right now if it was a more relaxed situation.
"I don't know! Something's wrong!" Ezra responded.
"Where are you?"
"Um, I'm turning into_ AHH!" He heard Ezra scream in pain and the com dissipated into static and then dead silence. Kanan panicked.
"EZRA!" He yelled into futilely into the dead com forgetting now to even use their code names. He started running hoping the force would lead him where he needed to be.
Turned out the force didn't need to intervene today though as he was running he saw storm troopers running into an ally and if he knew Ezra and his ability to call unholy amounts of danger to himself that's where the kid would be.
He was right. But with the relief also came horror for on the ground with a small pool of blood around his head and above him was Kallus pushing his staff into the boy's stomach electrecuting him. Ezra was passed out by the time Kanan had arrived but his body still writhed in pain and then laid still when Kallus lifted his staff. Kanan's worry grew he knew Zeb could survive that but Ezra… No..
Kanan pulled his com out. "Spector 1 to ghost. We are gonna need pick up we are in an ally near the market district. Hurry." He spoke the last word with the inflection that belongs with a plea and not an order as it was intended and took a deep breath before rounding the corner from where he was hiding.
He rushed in taking down the few troopers without even bothering to draw out his saber and made it to Kallus in under a minute and pulled his light saber pushing it against kallus' bo-rifle. He tried to hold his balance and calm. He had to for Ezra or they'd never get out of here. He used the force to then yank the rifle out of kallus' hands and force shoved him to the wall knocking him unconscious.
He turned and knelt down by Ezra looking him over searching for the rise and fall of his chest and it did and Kanan sighed with relief. But there was still a pool of blood around each side of Ezra's head. He was worried about that no matter how small the pools were..
"Ezra?" He said trying to get the boy to open his eyes. He shook him gently when he didn't. Still no response. Kanan bowed his head still kneeling over his padawan. He shouldn't have split the list. He didn't want them to be gone to long. This was all his fault. He didn't think this town had a big imperial presence but somehow Kallus had found them. He turned to look at the unconscious imperial agent. If he wasn't a Jedi… He would pay for attacking Ezra…
Static broke kanan's self loathing thoughts. "Ghost to Spector 1! We are ready for pick up just outside the market district."
Kanan looked down at Ezra again then lifted his com. "We're on our way!" He responded then lifted Ezra of the ground trying to be careful of his head and took off full sprint for the ghost.
Hera was gonna kill him.
