The ship landed a few feet away from the ghost, all its crew at the sight of the ship that did not have the appearance of an imperial ship, look at this ship landed with Sabine visible from the window. The door of the ship opens revealing Sabine and Eobard who made target by Zeb suspicious.
"Zeb, low your weapon he is not our enemy." Said Sabine.
"I still do not trust. You did not say that Zolomon had lost the use of his legs?" Zeb justified.
"I understand your distrust. But reassure yourself, I do not want you to hurt. We are fighting for the same cause. And then what would be my interest to do a whole machination to kill you where you capture knowing that I could have killed you during our quick meeting at the prison when you came across the inquisitor." Eobard said.
"What do you mean ? We did not see you that day." Kanan said.
"No, but Sabine and the Lasat, yes." Eobard said before reaching Zeb and removed his weapon before returning to his original location with the weapon leaving a red lightning train that made everyone jump except Sabine.
"So convinced?" Eobard asked before returning the weapon to Zeb.
"I think so." Hera said as Eobard sniffed.
"Is it me or does it smell cramer?" Eobard asked.
"Because your pants are catching fire." Sabine said looking at Eobard's pants as he caught fire at the ankles.
Eobard looked at his pants and made quick movements to extinguish the fire without going too fast either.
"Thank you for warning me. I told you that if I use my powers without my suit my clothes risk catching fire." Eobard said to Sabine with an embarrassed laugh.
"So you're the man who killed the stormtroopers." Kanan said.
"I prefer the name Lightning. And yes it's me." Eobard said.
"And this famous Zolomon?" Ezra asked suspiciously.
"Harrison Zolomon is just a character who came into the world to infiltrate the empire to make the prototype. But I have not introduced myself to you yet. My name is Eobard Clariss." Eobard introduced himself before approaching and extending his hand to Kanan who squeezed it tightly.
"Nice to meet you Eobard. I am Kanan Jarrus." Kanan introduced himself.
"I know who you are all here. Even your droid, Chopper." Eobard said surprising everyone as the droid pulled his arms to the side of his head and motioned them aggressively. "I have researched my side of you all. And I propose you to join your team, I am someone very gifted in mechanics and with the security systems where the encryption and the knowledge that I have on the empire as well as my capacities could be favorable to you". Eobard said staying calm despite the climate of doubt hanging over him.
"You helped Sabine and from what you did, we have good reason to believe you. But I warn you at the slightest sign of betrayal you will pay." Kanan threatened.
"It's not about me to whom you should have doubts. But I will not influence your judgment." Eobard said returning to his ship keeping the door open surprising the crew of the ghost letting them consult.
"He's... surprisingly calm for a psychopath." Zeb said looking at his weapon.
"I do not think he's a psychopath in my opinion. He only killed stormtroopers who would have bothered us or, depending on what you and Sabine said, to scare him who spoke to him about the prototype but why did he want to know his location if he is the creator of the prototype?" Reflected Ezra.
"So that we learn the existence of the prototype. He put everything in scene to meet us and join us without seeming too suspicious of us and make the prototype tachyon without problem." Sabine explained as she walks closer to the group.
"Say like that, it makes him really suspicious." Kanan said.
"But he would have already killed us if he wanted to kill us and then bring our bodies back to the empire will not serve him because he could have us for a long time..." Sabine said as the debate continued.
Eobard sat quietly on his wheelchair drinking a liquid like blue milk and reading a book about kyber crystals with interest.
"Like what the legend was not too much wrong." He said before hearing footsteps in his ship he turned his head in the direction of footsteps to see Hera.
"Oh Captain Syndulla, I suppose you wanted to see the inside of my ship." Eobard said.
"Call me Hera. And I wanted to see the prototype tachyon. I must admit that I am impressed that such a small device could allow a ship to go faster than any other hyperspace ship just by putting it on a hyperdrive." Hera looked at the prototype at Tachyon on the torso of the suit.
"Thank you, I am flattered. I had to study a lot of the capabilities of a hyperspace jump and then find a way to push it further. The empire fortunately does not have the area to worry about it. But I suppose that something else interests you?" Eobard said.
"Yes, your powers. How did you get them? Are you born with?" Asked Hera.
" No. I was not born with it. I can not even understand how I got them." Eobard said, getting up from his chair before looking at his suit. "I know their capacity, their constraints and their limits. And still it's only limited because for me it was only stories that my father read to me and that I read for pleasure when I learned to read." Eobard said.
"And how do you know things about us? The empire just knows our names and we are rebels, and they still do not know about Chopper's existence." Asked Hera.
"As they say in my home: a magician never reveals his secrets." Eobard said with a small smile on his face before removing the generator from Tachyon's suit.
He put his ring back in the slot and made it turn again making his costume disappear from the surprising model Hera.
"How are you doing that ?" Asked Hera.
"Simple micro-compression technology." Eobard said showing his ring to Hera before looking in more detail at the prototype. "Sabine really did an artist job on the prototype. Each piece is placed precisely. The zones of diffusion of the tachyons is even more powerful thanks to the way in which it slightly shifted the cables at the level of the connections." He said before placing it on his chest and that light red light does not circulate all over his body. "I even feel like my speed is growing as the Tachyon flow through my body." He said with satisfaction before removing it and giving it to Hera.
"Why are you giving it to me?" Hera asked.
"Considered this as a pledge of my good faith. Place it in the center of the ghost hyperdrive and a few minutes later it will be ready to jump. On the other hand, it will be necessary to be careful with the slight modifications of Sabine I can not predict the risks." Warned Eobard as Hera took the prototype carefully.
"But for you, you have infiltrated the empire to make it without problem." Hera said in surprise.
"Not quite. I infiltrated the empire to have easy access to the parts to make it. And before saving Sabine I did two things. The first put the tracking tag of my ship on another. And then..." He explained before opening the hidden compartment of his chair to remove it reveals imperial material hard to find. "... The hardest material to find to make another one. The rest of the equipment is in my crate next to the cockpit. All I need is a little time and patience." He finished.
Hera was surprised to see that behind what she imagined as a psychopath at the sight of the dead he left behind when she started hearing about him, hiding a friendly and friendly person. Kanan entered the ship then and saw the prototype in the hands of Hera.
"We discussed it and we agree that you join us." Kanan said.
"Thank you Kanan." Eobard said before picking up the crate in the cockpit.
"But we have two conditions." Kanan warns. "First: you'll be staying inside the ghost with us. And the second: You do not kill anyone anymore." He explained.
" That's all . Okay anyway by the parts to make a second prototype in Tachyon, my armchair and the mannequin, I have nothing to ship." Eobard said.
They leave inside the ghost and then arrive in the main room to make a summary of the situation.
"Then we will let you join us, you help us several times and you have provided us with something that will be very useful to us in the face of the empire. However with the exception of Sabine's room all the others are occupied by two people you will have to stay there." Kanan makes Sabine blush and Eobard lightly as Ezra looks at him with jealousy and mistrust.
"I see, and for the moment what are we doing?" Eobard asked.
"You could bring some of your stuff, seen that you will live here." Zeb said, while in a flash Eobard leaves and returns to the ship with his mannequin in a corner of the room.
"Well... there is nothing to do on your side I think." Zeb said.
The rest of the day passed as Eobard helped Hera install the Tachyon prototype he gave him and made a second one for his personal use. He managed quite easily to gain the confidence of the team except for Ezra who remained suspicious. Once night falls everyone sleeps except for Eobard, who comes out of the top bed of Sabine's quarters that are as colorful as his armor. He leaves in the main room with the prototype Tachyon on his chest, red flashes still circulating in his body. He then heard someone breathing and looking in the direction of the noises to see Ezra.
"What are you doing standing up at this hour?" Eobard asked.
"I could ask you the same thing." Ezra said.
"You probably wanted to make sure that I did not try anything like the ship. Listen, I'm not going to try anything against you. I have made a lot of effort to make his devices to give you one. And tell yourself that I have not even mastered one of the faculties of my coolest powers." Eobard said.
"Which ?" Ezra asked.
"Time travel." He replied, sitting down.
"You're kidding, I hope." Ezra said.
"No, I'm totally serious. In theory, if I run fast enough, the kinetic energy created by the friction of the fabrics hanging down my race could create a hole even in the space-time continuum. But between ourselves if it turns out to be true I would not do it." Eobard explained.
" Why ? You could prevent the empire from dominating the galaxy. You could make it a better place." Ezra said.
"Because the butterfly effects are to be taken into account." Eobard said.
"What is that ?" Ezra asked.
"The butterfly effects presented as such: "if you travel in the pass and kills a butterfly before returning to your time. You create a micro event that can create a horrible future." Imagine if I travel back in time and kill the emperor before he seizes power. I could allow something or someone of equal or worse to take control of the galaxy. I would not take that risk." Said Eobard, making his point to Ezra.
"That is true. Little was that things could be worse or get better." He said.
"Yeah. And then that's, maybe you'll manage to trust me. I just needed to use the tachyons to recharge my batteries." Eobard said before removing the prototype and set off again.
Ezra looked at the prototype wondering what it would do to a person without the powers of Eobard but decided rather than trying to go back to bed too.