Tala: Yay! Another chapter uploaded and for once its not five AM. XD Lol for once we get some sleep on this story. x3
B.O.B: There's a first. XD
Tala: Yep. XD But I think we will be back to late night chapters again soon. ;D
Disclaimer: We do not own rebels. That right belongs to Disney. Except for our adorable OCs, those belong to us. :)
The adults declared that since the Ties were the kids problems, they had to get rid of them. Lara flew one with Arcas accompanying her. Jem flew the other with Kya. They took the Ties to where they found the second one and landed them close together.
"Alright Kya, do you stuff." Lara smiled, but her smile was outshined by that of her little sister's gleeful one.
Kya placed a bomb on both the Ties and ran a safe distance away. Standing with her twin they waited. When the bombs went off in a cloud of orange and pink. As it dispired, the kids saw that the Ties still stood the older Tie was splattered with bright orange, the other a vibrant pink.
Lara blinked." Alright well we'll try it again."
"No, don't! It looks pretty now!" Kya cried in horror.
With a heavy sighs Lara looked at their brothers"We tell everyone we blew them up. Got it?"
They both nodded. Lara looked over them all, no one had gotten paint on them so the lie could work. "Kya you can't tell mommy. I don't care how pretty they look. Got it?"
She nodded with a sad look on her face.
"Let's go." Lara lead them a good distance away from the Ties before calling the Ghost to come get them. The Ghost arrived and the kids all ran in before taking off to go do their usual daily events on the ship.
Lara went straight for the cockpit, Arcas went to the turret. The twins however made their way to the commoners. Kya began trying to make more bombs whereas Jem began tinkering with the helmet Acras got from the Tie. Kya look over at the helmet.
"Can I paint it?"
"No, it's Arcas's. I'm only trying to see if I can get the com to work so we can eavesdrop on the Empire." Jem said without looking.
"When you're done can I paint it?" Kya begged.
Jem looked up at Kya and smiled. "Sure."
"Yay!" Kya exclaimed before hugging her twin. They went back to their tinkering.
Kya's paint bomb went off, splattering both the kids in bright yellow. Kya looked at her twin with sheepish grin. "Sorry Jem."
"It's fine. Looks like the com in fine too. So you can paint it anyways." They looked up as their parents came into the room.
"How come all the kids take after you? Where is one thats like me?" Sabine grumbled, having not noticed the twins yet.
"Arcas. He dresses like you." Ezra shrugged. Sabine just glared at him.
"Hi mommy." Kya said.
They turned to look at the twins and were shocked to see to very yellow faces."What happened?" Sabine asked as she moved closer to the two of them.
"Kya was making a paint bomb and it went off." Jem smiled.
Ezra laughed. "There, all the you in the kids was saved for Kya."
Hera came in followed by Lara, she looked over the yellow mess and sighed. "I don't want to know. Just get it cleaned up."
"Kya?" Lara asked looking at Jem. He nodded. "Thought so. I'll get the fleshy messes cleaned up." Lara lead her siblings off to help them get the paint off their faces and out of their hair.
Chopper appeared and laughed in his droid way at the kids. "Oh come on Chops, don't laugh at her. It wasn't her fault."The droid replied with whoops and beeps. "You take that back!" The droid replied. "I"m going to rewire you you little-" Chopper began to roll away. "Get back here!" Jem went chasing after Chopper. Lara rolled her eyes and wheeled Kya to their room. Lara helped Kya get the paint off her and out of her hair. The paint in her hair was harder to get out, eventually Lara gave up.
"Now I look more like you and mommy!" Kya said cheerfully as she examined her paint stained hair.
"Yes you do." Lara hugged Kya close to her. "Should we go find Jem or should I make your hair pretty?"
"Jem can clean himself." Kya smiled. Lara nodded and began braiding Kya's hair.
Meanwhile Jem chased Chopper until he ran into Arcas, literally. The paint on Jem got on to Acaus armor, staining it yellow. "My armor! I'm going to kill you!" Jem yelled in fear and ran away from his brother as fast as he could. He ran to their room and found Lara sitting on her bunk. Jem jumped onto the bunk and hide behind Lara. Arcas came, his anger was clear across his face.
Lara looked at Jem. "What did you do?"
"He's trying to kill me!"
"That loth-rat ruined my amor!"
Before Lara could reply Arcas lunged for Jem. Jem lept up and dodged his brother, quickly climbing up the bunks and to the vent and tried to get away. Arcas grabbed Jem's feet and threw him to the floor.
"That's enough!" Lara yelled, rising to her feet.
"He ruined my armor! I'm going t-" Arcas looked at Lara's stern face and stopped mid word. He knew that look.
"Last warning." She said firmly.
Arcas smiled at Lara with a defiant grin. "Is it?"
Jem and Kya were sitting with their heads close together whispering to each other. Lara laid stretched out on her bunk with her eyes closed. Their room door hissed opened revealing their mother. Sabine's arms were crossed over her chest and she had a very angry look on her face.
"Would someone like to tell me why Arcas is chained to the turret ladder?" Sabine was looking at Lara, but Lara didn't reply.
"Lara said 'last waring', he didn't listen so she beat him up and chained him somewhere where he couldn't cause trouble." Kya smiled.
"Oh? And what did Arcas do to get beat up this time?"
"He tried to kill me." Jem grumbled.
"What'd you do to him?"
It was Lara that spoke this time. "Jem got paint on Arcas's armor."
Sabine rolled her eyes. "One of these days you all are going to learn." She said as if trying to convince herself of it.
Zeb's laughter rang through the ship. "Why didn't we do this ages ago?" he was clearly talking about Arcas being chained to the ladder.
"Zeb, don't encourage this!" Ezra warned.
"Why not? It's a good idea!"
"Ezra! Zeb! Quite teaching my kids to be like the two of you!" Sabine yelled as she left the kids room.
"But I-" Ezra began. "Ow! What was that for?"
"For being such a trouble maker and passing it down to the kids!" Sabine clearly hit Ezra. "And you! You quite encouraging them!" She had turned on Zeb.
The kids listened to them and laughed. "Mommy's scary." Kya laughed.
"You should see Hera when she's mad." Jem shivered at the thought but then smiled to his siblings, glad they weren't in that under the pilot's angry glare.
That evening at dinner glares were being shot across the table. Arcas glared at Lara, who ignored him. Platt was glaring at Sabine who must have done something to Zeb. Sabine glared at Lara for what she had done to Arcs. Jem glared at Arcas and Kya glared at the food. "Why can't food be pretty." she grumbled.
"Because you eat it." Arcas grumbled, his glare shifting to her for a moment.
"If it were pretty I'd eat more." Kya pushed her plate away from her. Jem looked over at his sister's plate and taking her fork, began to reorganize the contents of plate into the shape of a Tie fighter exploding.
"There you go Sis." Kya smiled happily and taking the fork she went to eat but stopped.
"Now its too pretty to eat."
"See. That's why food isn't pretty." Arcas fought back a smile.
"Eat it." Lara said with a soft smile. "It'll make you an artist like mom."
"Really?" Kya gasped looking up at she sister. Lara only nodded. "Yay!" Kya pulled her plate closer to her and began to eat again.
The adult laughed lightheartedly at the children's small exchange of words. After dinner the kids and Sabine cleaned up. Once they were done the kids gathered around Ezra as he told them stories of when he was younger. Ezra lied every now and then to avoid giving the kids any bad ideas. With hugs and kisses the kids were sent to bed. They all climbed into Lara's bunk and settled in. They all lied awake whispering to each other until they were sure the adults were asleep. They all got out of bed a tip-toed to their door. They opened the door and quickly snuck out of their room. They made their way to the cargo bay and waited. When there were no signs of movement they all smiled.
There were crates scattered in the cargo bay. "What do you think they stole this time?" Arcas whispered as he walked near a create.
"Rule four!" Lara hissed.
The kids had there own set of rules that they came up with. Rule one was 'Don't make Hera mad'. Rule two was 'Don't make mommy mad.' Rule three was 'Don't wake up Zeb.' Rule four was ' Never open the stolen creates'.
"Oh come on! Just this once!" Arcas protested in a whisper.
"No." Lara whispered all jumped as one of Kya's paint bombs went off, splattering the kids in bright green paint. "Kya!"
"You did that on purpose!" Arcas hissed.
"No I didn't!" Kya whispered.
Arcas reached behind him and pulled out a paint bomb. He threw at Kya, but Jem jumped in front of her in order to shield his twin. Jem pulled out a bomb and threw it at Arcas. Arcas jumped to the side and the bomb hit Lara. One second ticked by than all hell seemed to break loose. The kids began throwing paint bombs at each other, leaping behind the crates and weaving between them. They didn't realize how loud their laughter had gotten. The cargo bay was a sea of colors along with the kids.
Arcas had climbed up on the crates and was attacking his siblings from above. Kya snuck up from behind him. "Be pretty!" She yelled as she threw a pink paint bombs at him. He turned and it hit his face. Platt squealed and threw a bomb and Jem. After being hit. Jem rolled another bomb at Platt, it went off at the child's feet who became purple. "Now I Zebby!"
"Yes you are." Jem smiled at Platt.
Platt grabbed and purple bomb. "I make you Zebby too!" Jem ran off with Platt chasing after him.
Hera heard the small explosions and the screams of the children. She quickly jumped up from her bunk and ran to the cargo bay here the sounds were coming from. Instead of finding intruders trying to take off with the kids and cargo alike, Hera was surprised to see her ship in a giant mess of colors.
"What do you think you're doing?!" Immediately everyone froze to look up at the rather angry Twi'lek. Platt quickly dropped his bomb and hid behind his eldest sister, causing the cargo to fill with a bright blue cloud of paint. Sabine and Ezra had appeared behind Hera. Ezra leaned closer to Sabine "They're your kids."
The pilot angrily slid down the ladder and slammed her fist into the ramp's opening button. "I want you all off my ship and don't even think about returning without being spotless and with supplies to clean up this mess."
"Oh come on Hera, be reasonable!" Arcas pleaded.
Lara had gone stiff. "Hera I-"
"I said out!" Hera yelled at them all.
Lara flenched but went down the ramp quickly. The others followed her. They were still near the PIt stop and Lara was sure they would have something they could use to get the paint off Hera's ship. But it was the middle of the night so the shop was not open. Lara knew they'd have to wait till morning to get the supplies. Platt began sniffling and Lara looked to find he was crying.
"What's wrong Platt?" Lara said as she nelt down in front of him
"Hera hates us now. She never going to let us go home again." Platt cried
"Platt, Hera's just mad. Let her calm down first then she'll lets go back in. Okay?" Platt only nodded and took Lara's hand. The twins clung to each other and Arcas took his normal place on Lara's right. "We'll have to wait till morning for the shop to be open. Let's see if we can find a place to get ourselves clean." They wondered the tiny town until they came across an empty house. The twins cleaned each other, Lara cleaned Platt and Arcas cleaned himself off. Once they were sure they were close as close to spotless as they were going to get, the kids settled down on the floor and played games they made up as they waited for morning. They had fallen asleep and awoke to the sound of Ties and blaster fire. Lara jumped up and ran to the door of the one room house they were hiding in. Arcas stood in a protective stanice between the younger three and the door. Lara and Arcas both had blasters pointed at the door. Kya and Jem had their arms wrapped around Platt. The door opened and Arcas fired.
His shot was deflected by the blue lazer sword of Ezra. "Let's go!" The kids ran out of the house. Lara ran away from the group but Ezra had the others to worry about. She ran into the Pit shop and snatched up what she would need to clean the cargo bay. She threw a few credits on the counter and ran to the Ghost. Ezra was waiting at the ramp. "What'd you run off for?" He looked at the supplies in Lara's arms. "What's all that for?!"
Lara ran into the ship and Ezra closed the ramp. "Hera she's on! Get us out of here!" The Ghost took the the skies. Zeb and Arcas where manning the guns. Platt was clinging to Sabine. Kya and Jem took refuge under the caff table and were clinging to each other. Once they were in space hera hit the hyperspeed and they all sighted in relief. The twins crawled out from under the table and headed for the cargo bay. There they found Lara and the rest of their siblings.
"What'd you run off for?!" Arcas yelled at Lara.
Lara smiled at him. "Hera said not to come back with out supplies to clean up this mess."
"Do we have too? It's so pretty now!" Kya protested.
"Yes you have to clean up this mess. It's your punishment for making it." Ezra said as he went up the ladder.
With great annoyance the children began to clean off the paint mess they had made. Kya grumbled all the while, "Mommy never had to clean up her art."
"Thats cause she knew when and where to use it" Arcas grumbled as he scrubbed the floor.
"Zebby's room has a funny painting in it. It of Daddy, Zebby and Chopper." Platt smiled as he sat on a crate.
When dinner was ready Hera went to tell the kids to join them. She smiled as she found them all sleeping, most of the paint was gone but there was still a lot left. The twins were sleeping sitting up, back-to-back with their heads on each other's shoulders and holding hands. Arcas was curled up on the floor with Platt and Lara was asleep on one the crates. Arcas's arm over his younger brother's shoulder in an almost protective manner.
Hera spoke into her communicator. "I don't think the kids will be joining us."
"What? What's wrong?!" Sabine's panic voice came over the com.
"They're asleep." Hera laughed.
A moment later Ezra and Zeb had come down the ladder. They smiled a the kids. They began to move them. When Ezra started to try to remove Platt from Arcas's arms, Arcas tightened his grip on his younger brother and growled slightly. Once the twins hands were separated they both woke up in panic. Realizing it was only the crew the two relaxed and fell back to sleep.
Kya awoke in Lara's bunk,her arms wrapped around Jem. She released him and kissed his cheek before careful climbing out of bed. She quietly went to the cargo bay, dismay took filled the child as she found that all the paint was gone. The sadness was replaced by anger as she knew Hera was the one to have it cleaned. She snuck back up to the cockpit where she found Hera talking with the rest of the adults. Kya grinned and went to her mother's room. There she found what she needed, as quietly as she could she snuck into Hera's room with a smile normally seen on Arcas's face. When Kya reemerged for Hera's room she glared at the cockpit door. "Take that art destroyer." Kye whispered before returning to bed. Settling back down next to Jem, Kya went back to sleep with a smile on her face.
"SABINE!" Hera's sudden scream echoed through the ship, causing all the kids wake up. Lara practically threw her siblings to the wall, yanking out her lightsaber and standing in front of them in a protective stance. behind her, Arcas had a blaster pointed at the door. The door hissed opened, it was Hera and she was angrier than they had ever seen her. Sabine was behind her, and Ezra behind her.
"Which on you did it?!" the children were too frozen in fear to answer. They were all still panicked from Hera scream.
After a moment Lara lowered her saber. "Don't scream like that! I thought-" Lara cut off as she looked at her mother. Tears began to roll down her face. "I thought we were under attack and mom was hurt of wores d-!" Lara couldn't even bring herself to finish the word. The rest of the children jumped up and wrapped their arms around their older sister.
Hera's anger melted away as she looked at her young co-pilot's face. Sabine moved around Hera to embrace and comfort Lara. Ezra sighed "What'd they do this time Hera?"
"One of your kids painted my room." everyone's heads snapped in Hera's direction. They all went to Hera's room.
Everyone tried not to laugh but did not succeed. The painting on the wall was Hera sitting on top a a miniature purple star destroyer with pink and orange Ties at her side. The star destroyer was firing green blast at a colorful stormtrooper helmet . Altogether the painting was not only funny but well done too.
"I don't know which one of you did this," Sabine began with a smile. "but that was a pretty gutsy move kid."
"We know Lara didn't do it. She'd have painted Hera as some kind a goddess queen." Arcas smirked. Lara punched him.
It had been days since they were dropped off at the tower and Jem was getting antsy. He missed Chopper and his tools. All he had to tinker on was his dad's collection of old trooper helmets, but that wasn't enough. He need something bigger and more elaborate to tinker on. As he trailed after Lara in the streets of Capital city he spotted a Tie from the corner of his eyes. He knew better than to steal it just to tinker on it. However the droid in the alley next to the Tie seemed as if it were unowned. Lara tuned to Jem and realized he was staring off in the distant.
Lara followed his gaze and saw a Tie. "No. Don't be another Acars."
"I wasn't looking at the Tie. I was looking at that old droid. No one seems to own it." Jem said defensively with a face that said Lara had just insulted him.
"The answer is no." Lara said and turned on her heels and walked off.
Though Jem knew he was suppose to follow her he ran to the droid. It looked to be the same model as Chopper, only this one was greenish blue. The droid was offline and looked as if it had been that way for a while. The sight of the abandoned droid made Jem sad, as he believed himself to be one. Quickly Jem began to tinker and the droid came back online. "There you. Hello buddy. Well, now that you're all fixed you should go. Bye droid." Jem waved goodbye to the droid and ran to catch up with Lara. Lara tuned and looked at him, Jem acted as is he were there the whole time.
Lara looked around Jem and then quickly shot him a look. "I told you no!"
Jem turned and saw that the droid had followed him. He turned back to his sister and simply shrugged. Lara let out a sound of annoyance. "What are you going to call it?"
Jem pricked up and a gleeful smile spread across his face. "I don't know yet but thank you!" He threw his arms around her and Lara shook her head at him.
"Honestly what am I going to do with you little tinker?" Lara said softly. Lara suddenly stiffened in Jem's arms.
"What is it?" Jem looked around him, he saw nothing that would make Lara stiffen the way she did.
"Jem take your droid and get back to the tower. Tell Arcas to contact mom and dad immediately." Lara said sternly.
"Lara you're scaring me. What's wrong."
"Black fog." With that Lara ran, disappearing into the crowd.
Panicked and confused Jem tried to follow her but lost sight of her. He ran to the speeder they kept at the tower and raced back to his older brother.
"Arcas!" Jem cried as he threw to door open. Arcas was on the floor painting helmets with Kya, while Platt was napping.
Arcas looked up then confusion and rage came across his face. "Where's Lara?"
"She told me to tell you to contact mom an-"
"Where's Lara?!" Arcas rose to his feet.
"She said black fog and ran away." Tears began to roll down Jem's face.
Arcas's eyes widen and he dove for the communicator at his feet. "This is Spook 2! Come in Ghost!"
There was no reply. "This is Spook 2! Ghost do you copy?!" No reply. "Mom! Dad! Hera! Zeb! Anyone! Just answer me dammit!"
The commutator came to life. "Arcas?" it was Hera. "Arcas what's wrong?!"
"Lara's gone!" Arcas began.
"What do you mean gone?! Where is she Arcas?!" This time it was Ezra.
"Dad. It's the Inquisitor. Lara's running from the Inquisitor." Tears began to run down Arcas's face. The other end became dead silent.
Tala: Yay cliffhanger! XD I so was not the one that suggested we should this. Nope not me at all.
B.O.B: Blame me why don't ya? Anyhoo- On to the next chapter!