Once again I was in an imperial cell, a standard one. Dull lights, metal bed, no windows. but it felt different. Colder than usual. It feels similar to that of an inquisitor but the hate was more. More pronounce, easier to feel.
The door slid open. To reveal the familiar hideousness of the 5th brother. "why if it isn't the young Padawan" he stated as he slowly descended the steps, "why do you want Mr fish" he glared at me before laughing "boy! You won't be so smug when I'm done with you!" suddenly I felt a grasp around my neck and I was dragged into the air, pulling me forward he proceeded to punch me repeatedly in the face until blood could be seen dribbling down and splattering on the ground, he grabbed my limp form and dragged me into another room, I blacked out along the way.
Waking up I see his smug face glaring at me "why oh why does lord Vader want you? There is far more I could offer in your place" he squinted. "I don't know maybe it's because he can stand looking me" I chuckled. "Ahhhhh!" screaming out as electricity soars through my body. My body starts convulsing try to move away from as my muscles spaz from the electrical input. The pain stops for but a few seconds so I can catch my breath before resuming. "AHHHH!" "FUCCKKKKKKK!". Over my own screams I can hear him laughing in amusement at my pain. Time seemed to of lost all meaning, I mean I could have been tortured for hours, days or minutes I had no idea. When it finally stopped he looked me, "what is the location of your base" "up your arse" the pain resumed.
From what I could tell or at least believed it had been three days, three days of excruciating pain, most of it consisted of beatings (from the fifth brother to his own amusement) and electrical shocks, however the few times that he had sent in the ITO torture droid had been the worst, injecting and spraying acids, surgical cuts for maximum pain, so on and so forth. He was always asking the same questions, day in day out, whenever I had a few moments of peace "what is the location of your base". But one day I guess he was either bored or frustrated, when I continued to reveal any information, only giving screams of pain or smug responses, he just screamed at me, punched wide and across my right cheek, and ripped out his Lightsaber, he let the red light filling the room in ominous light, he yelled again except this time he slashed he sliced his saber up and across my face (similar to Kylo Ren's scar if it was smaller. I screamed out in pain, as the blade burned my skin, I ended moaning in pain, with my head collapsed against my chest unable to lift it to any degree, exhausted and too battered to care I moaned in pain till I slipped into unconsciousness.
I woke up some time later, the Stormtroopers assigned to guard my cell refused to say anything, I had no Idea if I was out for hours or days, but even if I was out for weeks my weak body was still unrefreshed and infection had started to seep into my many open wounds. With knowledge of me being awake the brother walked back in. this time he walked in with a single syringe, not saying a word he walked up and stabbed it into my neck "ah! You don't need to be so rough!" he smiled at my comment and walked out.
"Ezra honey! I need help with the hyper drive" yelled an audibly frustrated Hera "coming", exiting my room on the ghost I made my way down the hall and into the cockpit and glance at Hera, "hey" "hey" she sighed, "I've been working on the drive for the past half hour but nothing seems to work" "no problem" bending down I lay on my back and scoot under the controls, "aha, hmmm, I think I" the whirr from the hyper drive fills the room "…got it" "ok let's go see what everyone is doing in the common room ok? I'll meet you there" "yeah no worries" I say already at the door, walking down the hallway I quickly swing into the fresher and relieve myself, walking out I see Hera coming out of the cockpit, she smiles then it drops and her mouth opens into pain and shock, and the sight of the saber in her chest fills my eyes. Her body drops to the ground as the blade is pulled out, I now see Vader walking towards me, in shock I tumble back and scoot backwards not looking behind me focusing my gaze at the machine in front of me. The door opens up and I scoot in "Ezra what's wrong" I here Sabine say before she lets out a gurgling sound before I see her body fly past me into Vader's blade "Noooo!" getting up I use the force to pull her blasters to me to compensate for my lack of saber. I blast at him as Kanan runs at him and engages In a tight fight, I stop firing in fright I might hit him, the fight is fierce but Kanan is losing, block high, block low, blow high again, their blades get locked and Vader starts pushing down, as the lasers grow closer to Kanan Vader releases grip with one hand and instead uses it to grab Kanan by the throat, his eyes and mine grow wide is shock before Kanan is slammed against the wall and impaled by a blade, in furry Zeb charges "Zeb wait no his!" I try to say, but it was too late, his head falls off and tumbles towards me, "you are weak boy! Too weak to save your friends, too weak to stop me… you. Are. Pathetic!" I scream up and call Kanan's Lightsaber towards me I charge at him and with all my might I attack, we exchange blows, the evenly matched duel was a never-ending fight, then I drop my blade, shock spreads through me almost as fast as the erupting pain from my stomach, looking down I drop to my knees then collapse onto my side "pathetic, even more so then your master" he brings down his blade for the final time.
"Noooo!" I scream as I open my eyes "what the. Where am I" looking around I notice that I'm still in my cell, was it all a dream? Vision? Nightmare! It must have been whatever was in that needle, I was hallucinating.
Boom! The blast as the from the explosion rocketed my cell, I sigh. Just another Hallucination, just like the past 50 or so. The door slips open and I see Zeb and Kanan. Again. Once it was an exciting scene, but now I was used to it, eventually everyone would die and I would back up in my cell. "Karablast" I hear 'Zeb' say. I'm realised from my table and I collapse down, before I could hit the ground I black out.
Waking up to the sight of the med room aboard the ghost was both relieving and unnerving, Kanan walks in with a slight smile "you had us worried kid, thought we would never see you again" glaring at 'Kanan' I hear the rest of the crew waltz in "Hey kid" I hear 'Zeb' say and Hera comes over attempts to hug me.
Kanan's POV
Hera runs over to hug Hera throwing her arms around he freaks out, he lands a square hit on Heras left cheek, she stumbles back in shock and pain, he gets up and forces pushes all of us back against the wall. What's wrong with him why is he doing this "Ezra" Sabine yells "what the hell" "GO AWAY!" he screams, "GET OUT OF MY HEAD 5th BROTHER!" what? "kid what are you on about" Zeb yells at him angrily. "I know this isn't real! Just let me wake or just make them die already!" "Ezra…" Hera mumbles on the verge of tears. Taking swift action, I order everyone out of the room.
As soon as we exit the med room and make our way to the common room Hera collapses in my arms and cries, Sabine. Zeb look down saddened by the recent event, even Chopper sounded saddened if the tone of his sounds were anything to go off. Everyone stays quiet for the first few minutes until Sabine spoke up "what did they do to him… what are we… going to do. She said quietly, almost whispering. "I-I don't know Sabine, I think they put him under Hallucinogens, he believes that we are fake, a figment of his imagination and that we are all going die…" nobody responded "I'm going to talk to him. Alone" "Kanan. Do you really think that is wise, especially after what just happened" Hera whispered "I agree with Hera, Kanan your close but he sees you as a father, he can cry and but…? I don't know I just think I would be better off talking to him" Zeb and Hera nodded to Sabine's statement. Sighing, I look around and see that they both agree with her "fine, but if anything happens just yell ok" "yep".
EZRA'S POV
"wake up, Wake UP!, WAKE UP!, WAKE UP!" I scream at the wall, "why won't I wake up" I cry at barely a whisper, why won't I wake up, why am I not waking up, this isn't normal, it should be over already, everyone should be dead, I should have been in my cell by now, is it some new drug? Is it. My thoughts are interrupted by 'Sabine" walking in with, she's in her armour and has a cup of something, but based on the smell it's probably hot chocolate (yes it's a real Star Wars thing), she sits down at the end of my bed and hands me the cup I ignore her gesture, although it probably tasted heavenly the further I slip into comfort the more their deaths with hurt. Sighing she puts the cup down on a chair "Ezra you know you can trust us right" "I know I can trust you! The real you not this hallucination of you" "I-I, Ezra this is real, you need to believe me" "yeah, that's what you always say" she looks disappointed and stares off at the ground "I heard what you said. If this was fake shouldn't we be dead by now" "I" she makes a good point, why isn't everyone dead, why am I still here. Sitting up she heads for the door "come on let's go to my room" "I don't want to go to your room". She looks at me and sighs. Again. "fine then, where do you want to go" what? "what?" "I said where do you want to go" this doesn't usually happen, most of the time everything just happens, I never think about where I go, I just move there or I'm made to go there, it's not an option. "I-I. Cockpit, I want to go to the cockpit" "ok then, let's go"
"can you please leave" Not saying a word Sabine gets up and heads out of the Cabin. Staring at the blue and white I start to think back about why I was still here and what was happening, I constantly found myself being pulled to the same question what if this is real what if I really did escape and on the ghost. I sit there in contemplation for what seemed like hours until I was interrupted by the sound of the cockpit door opening and the feeling of a hand resting on my shoulder, "kid. Ezra. Talk to me" said the voice of Kanan. "Kanan, I, I want to believe. I really do but I don't know, I don't know what is real anymore" letting go he sits next to me in the co-pilots seat, "can you feel my force presence?" it was a simple question and something simple to do, but I had yet to do it in the past. Reaching out I feel the presence of all those in the ship. Sabine. Hera. Zeb and… Kanan. He was really here, really next to me. And I… I was really free. So, overcome with emotions I collapsed into his embrace and sob uncontrollably into his shoulder. "thank you Kannan, thank you for always being there for me"