Here it is, just like I promised! I was on vacation so I had a lot of time to think and write. Sadly school is starting soon so I won't be able to update as fast during the school year. Enjoy the chapter though!
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Ezra POV
"Cora, stop!" I desperately call out but she was already out of sigh. Everyone sat there in silence for a minute as we tried to comprehend what had just happened. Somehow Ahsoka and Cora knew each other. But Cora freaked out, and not in a good way.
Kanan silently walked over to the corner where Cora had been hiding, he picked up the fallen table, and set it back in its original place. "Ahsoka," Hera started "you know that girl?"
Ahsoka closed her eyes and sighed "Yeah. That was Coralaun Mace. She's fourteen now and she's been missing since she was ten. I'm not too surprised that she wound up back here though. Naboo is her home world."
"Why has she been missing?" Hera asked. She looked as if she was still trying to wrap her mind around everything. And truthfully, so was I. This night just seemed to keep getting weirder and weirder.
Ahsoka pursed her lips and looked away. "I-" Ahsoka sighed painfully. "Her parents died on a mission four years ago."
Cora POV
I ran. I ran and I wouldn't stop. I couldn't tell how long I had been running but it must have been a while since my chest ached and my calves burned. But I refused to stop; I continued to stumble along the rooftops being less than graceful with my jumps. My mind kept flashing back to that day, my eyes blurred, from my tears or my rage, I wasn't sure.
I attempted to leap across a gap I normally would easily make, but in my fury I missed the jump and crashed in to the trash bins below, tearing a hole through my cloak. I groaned and tried to push myself up but cried out in pain when my left arm gave way. I gently pressed my arm against my chest and pushed myself all the way up with my right. I slid back against the wall and gingerly examined my left arm. It was bent in an awkward position and had started to swell up. I attempted to move it but hissed in pain and gave up.
I sank against the wall and closed my eyes. Stupid Ahsoka. Stupid Rebel Alliance. Stupid Empire. I sighed and let a single tear roll down my cheek before drowsiness consumed sleep saved me.
Ezra POV
"Okay, but then why does she seem to hate you and the Rebel Alliance?" I questioned. I knew that every op, every mission we went on could be our last but that was the risk of being a part of the Rebel Alliance and it was no reason to hate the leader.
Ahsoka looked down "It was me." She replied softly. I knew there was almost no chance of escaping but I sent them in anyways." She shook her head remorsefully. "Cora's parents were with that team, no one made it out."
Everyone was silent for a while. "I feel like Cora has something…" Kanan paused, "Special…" Ahsoka nodded her head slowly. "Cora is Force sensitive." She confirmed "That's why she's good at surviving on her own and that's why we tried so hard to find her."
"We?" Sabine questioned. "The Survivor Team and the Rebel Alliance." Ahsoka clarified. "Caryn and Alliah helped me for a while but the search was going nowhere and they had other things to worry about."
"So why does Cora hate the Rebel Alliance?" Zeb grumbled.
"I don't know." Ahsoka sighed. I thought for a moment. Okay, so she had a pretty good motive for disliking Ahsoka, but why the Alliance? The Alliance fought for the people, protected the people, even died for the people. It just didn't make sense in my mind.
Hera's eyes narrowed "How does Cora have access to the Alliance files?" Ahsoka gave a start. "She what?!" she sputtered.
"She knows everything about us." I explained. "Then she must've stolen the codes before she left." Ahsoka decided.
I turned to Kanan when I say him move towards the shelves again. "Uh, Kanan." I warned. After understanding bits of Cora's past I wanted her to trust us. And Kanan looking at her 'no touch' shelves was not a good way to start.
Kanan stopped and looked over at me "Ezra, do you feel any connections to it, even if it is distant?"
I hesitated and reached out through the Force. The shelves were humming comfortingly. "Yeah…" I trailed off in wonder.
Kanan turned back to the shelves and tugged the covers off. Hera, Kanan, Ahsoka, and I gasped. The shelves were filled with glowing holocrons and there was a box on the bottom of one of the shelves. I walked over and pulled the box out. I blew the dust off and pried the lid off. It held tan robes, a brown cloak, and some sort of communicating device. Kanan stopped looking at the holocrons, knelt down next to me, and gingerly ran his hands over the material.
I looked up at him. His eyes were sharpened with pain and longing. I looked back down at the robes. I didn't understand. Why were these strange clothes special? I could understand how the holocrons might've been important, they belonged to the Jedi. But these robes were just old clothes someone discarded in a box. Right?
"How did Cora get these?" Kanan murmured. He picked up the device and turned it over in his hands.
"I don't know." Ahsoka breathed. Sabine walked up and looked over the shelves, her head tilted to the side. "What is all of this?" Kanan got up and turned back to the shelves. "Holocrons. The Jedi used them for historical facts, information on all sorts of things, and many other different things."
"Cool." Sabine marveled.
"We have to find her." Hera announced, her voice firm. "Yeah." I agreed. I took one last look at the robes and put the lid back on, putting the box back in its spot. I pushed myself up.
"But how do we find her?" Zeb looked around at us for an answer. Everyone was silent, realizing the small detail to the plan.
"I'm pretty sure I know what path she used but you might have a problem taking it." I nodded to Zeb. He looked over to Hera who was now scowling at him. She knew what Zeb was thinking and apparently she didn't like it. "Garazeb Orrelios, get one scratch on my ship and you're sleeping with the Loth-Cats."
"Okay, contact me when you find Cora." Ahsoka ordered. "Got it." Hera replied before turning off the communicator. She turned to the rest of us. "Let's get going."
Hera went up the ladder first. Then Zeb, Sabine, myself, and Kanan. When we all made it to the top Kanan used the Force to shut the hatch. Zeb headed off to the Ghost as the rest of us jumped up onto the roof. I knew how fast Cora was, and by now she could've been miles away. But we had to try.
I decided to do what Kanan often told me to do, trust the Force. I closed my eyes and found a clear path of rage and pain heading away from the city. Satisfied, I nodded my head in the direction Cora ran. "Follow me."
Hope you liked it! The next chapter will take a little longer though since I am now working on a viewer request on another story.
