Chapter 3: The First Mission Part 2
Sabine's P.O.V
As Zeb and I moved away from Alex's cell, where Cole, Ezra and Kanan were fighting the zygerrian inquisitor, we got contacted by the informant, who turned out to be Fenn Rau. "Can you here me?" Rau radioed. "Is that you, Fenn Rau?" I inquired. "Yes it is, Wren. And I'm contacting you to inform you that I am right around the corner. Make contact with me." Rau said. "Rodger that." I replied to the protector, suspicious. Why would he want us to make contact with him?
Zeb and I came around the corner of the hall that Rau said he would be around, only to see a Mandalorian in imperial armor. Zeb and I drew our blasters at him, only to realize that it was Rau himself once he removed his helmet. "You scared us, Rau." I said, lowering my weapons with Zeb. "What are you doing in imperial Mando armor?" Zeb asked the Mandalorian. "I am undercover as a Mandalorian who serves the Empire. That, and I've found out where your friend was taken." Rau said. "Where is he?" I asked. "He's been moved over the quarters of Thrawn, the grand admiral aboard this vessel. However, those Mandalorians are there with him." "So what's the play?" I asked. "I'll take you to the location, and I'll distract the Mandalorians and get them away from Thrawn and your friend." "How do we know that we could trust you after what happened on Concord Dawn?" I asked him. "Just follow my lead, and I promise you that you'll get your friend back, Wren." Rau answered. I nodded, and then the undercover Mandalorian put his helmet back on. We followed his lead over to Alex's location.
Cole's P.O.V
This fight was a tough one. Even though it was three against one, this alien was putting up a good fight with his double bladed spinning energy sword.
I was down on the ground after he pushed me somehow with himself extending his arm. He attempted to finish me off, only to be met with Ezra and Kanan's energy swords. The three of them were in a blade lock with one another. I took the opportunity to get myself up, and surprise him from behind with my amp. One brutal hit to his back from my amp was enough for him to get down. When I hit him hard, I heard the alien's spine get fractured as a result of the brutal hit. He screamed out in pain.
The three of us surrounded the alien, all of our weapons pointing at him. "You are beaten!" I said. "No! It is you that is beaten!" he said. I saw him extend his right arm, and saw his sword activated and coming towards him. Reacting quickly, I drained all of the electricity from his sword. When I drained it all, it was enough of it drained to have the disc like weapon not emit any energy blades. The alien looked more afraid of me, which is what I expected.
The alien was down, and backing away as I approached him, electricity in my hand and ready to go. "Please! Don't do it!" he begged. At this point, I had two choices: either I spare him and not make myself look like a cold blooded killer,which I never was with my powers, to Kanan and Ezra, and the crew for that matter, or I murder him. However, it'll make my reputation look bad, while it would be good for Kanan and Ezra since the alien might just come back and kill them, and me for that matter.
In the end, I spared him, but I put him in electric restraints.
"Let me go!" he ordered. I didn't say anything, and just held my hand up, electricity in it and ready to go. He was afraid of getting blasted, that was a definite. I turned to Kanan and Ezra, and said, "Come on, we have to go find our man." We just left the alien there, and just went our own to find Alex and the others.
Sabine's P.O.V
Rau distracted the Mandalorians while Zeb and I were out of sight. He claimed that intruders were spotted at another hangar bay, and so the Mandos fell for it, and followed Rau. As Rau passed by us, he gave us a thumbs up, indicating that Zeb and I were good to go, without the Mandos seeing that is.
The lasat and I entered Thrawn's quarters, both of our weapons raised upon entry, only to discover that Alex was freed, but was held by Thrawn at blaster point. The chiss held his pistol at Alex's head, while having himself behind the human. "Drop the blaster and let our friend go, Thrawn!" I ordered. "Actually, it should be you, my Mandalorian friend, who should lower your weapons. You too, lasat." the chiss ordered. "If you do not drop your weapons, your friend will die here, and his blood will be on my hands. And if you still don't, I will kill all three of you personally. So what's the choice here, you two or your friend?"
Zeb and I refused to drop our weapons, and continued to aim at Thrawn. "I said let him go!" I ordered the chiss to do so. For the second time, he told us that he would kill Alex himself if we didn't drop our weapons.
In a flash, I saw Alex stomp his boot on Thrawn's foot, hurting him, and then head butting the chiss's head from behind. Breaking himself free of Thrawn, Alex performed a technique that disarmed the chiss of his weapon by arm barring him in the end. The chiss got dropped by my human friend. Alex picked up the chiss's pistol, and aimed it at him. Alex aimed it at Thrawn, the chiss backing away in fear, followed by me and Zeb aiming our weapons at the blue skinned alien.
Alex continued to aim the chiss's pistol at his head, firing it at the ground to warn Thrawn about what would happen to him if he didn't back away. "Get up, and turn around." Alex ordered. The chiss, still afraid, complied, and did what he was told. Next, Alex walked towards him, still with the pistol in his hand, and then surprised him by kneeing him in his right knee from behind, and then arm barring the chiss. Alex pressed down on the chiss so hard that the blue alien screamed in pain. He begged for Alex to release him, but he refused, and continued to press down. When the chiss begged him to stop again, Alex released him, almost breaking his right arm in the process.
"I want you to tell me where I could find my gear." Alex ordered the chiss. "No. I refuse to give you info." the chiss said. "Then perhaps I should do that, again!" Alex threatened. "Ok ok! I will tell you where we took your gear. It's in a prisoner locker down the hall on the left side of the exit from my quarters. Please, just don't do that again." Thrawn begged. "Thank you." Alex said. "Come on guys, let's go get my stuff and get off this thing."
We left Thrawn's quarters, and headed down to where he told us to go. Alex opened the locker, and found his weapons, and his helmet. He armed himself with his EE-4 blaster, put his sword on his back, and put on his helmet, lowering the visor down after he put it on.
I radioed Kanan once I was done. "Kanan, Zeb and I have Alex. He's secure." I said. "Good job. Head back to my position. Beacon is active." he said. But then, Cole tried to contact me using his commlink that we gave him before the mission began. "Bine, we have a bit of a problem here." he said with blaster shots in the background. "What is it, Cole?" I radioed. "Yeah, your 'Mandalorian friends' are trying to kill us here. Head over to Kanan's beacon pronto." the new member ordered. "Hang in there. I'm coming. And, Cole, they're not my friends." I said. "I figured. Just get over here." he said. "Come on, boys." I said to Alex and Zeb, running out the prisoner lockers, followed by them.
Meanwhile
Cole's P.O.V
We were in the hangar in which we entered, and we were getting boxed in by these "imperial Mandalorians" as the informant/agent, who's name was Fenn Rau, called them. Rau was fighting with us after he was caught by these guys undercover. They had jet packs on their backs, and were too good for us. Even my electric bolts weren't enough for these guys. In cover, and getting shot by blasters, Ezra turned to me, and said, "Cole, if you could do your lightening thing that you did earlier, that would help us out a lot." the kid said. "Hang on, I need more energy." I said, blasting them with my bolts.
I identified an electric source, being one of their jet packs. I drained the electricity from one of them while he was in flight, which sent him falling to his death as he got electrocuted in the process as well. I had enough energy. I summoned a lightening storm, mowing the imperial Mandalorians down in the process. At that point, an unidentified voice radioed in, and said, "Kanan, Ezra, be advised, friendlies are entering through the door on your right. Check your fire." he said. I bet that was Alex.
Three people came in, being Sabine, Zeb, and Alex, from what I could assume, and started providing blaster support. The Mandalorians got aced by us once we helped out the guys who just came in deal with them
Once they were all done for, we met up behind where Rau, Kanan, Ezra and I took cover. Alex approached us with Sabine and Zeb, lifting his black helmet's visor, revealing a human male who looked like he was in his mid to late teens or so. "So you must be Alex." I said. "Yeah. Cole, right?" he asked. "Yup." I answered. "Nice to meet you." Alex said, reaching his arm out. "You too." I said as I shook his hand.
"So what's the next play?" I asked. At that moment, Kanan's commlink started to chime in. "What is it, Hera?" he asked. He put it up to his mouth, listening in on what Hera had to say. "So where are you now?" the blind human asked. "Alright. We'll figure out a way to get down there." he said. He then turned to us with his arm lowered. "Alright listen up, Hera can't get us due to the Ghost having technical difficulties with something, and now she is on Atollon repairing whatever it may be. So, we have to go back there." he said. I then looked behind me, and saw a which ship that looked imperial with its ramp down.
"What about that?" I asked. Everybody looked at the ship. "A shuttle! Good thinking, Cole." Kanan said. How does he know that it was a shuttle though he was blind? "So we board it?" I asked. Everybody nodded. "Figures." I said.
We all entered the ship. Alex went into the cockpit with Sabine, and worked on trying to start it up. Just at that moment, we heard the alarm sound. It looked like we were gonna have company.
Multiple troops came into the cockpit, and tried to gun us down with their blasters. And since they now noticed that the shuttle was attempting to start up, they knew that the shuttle had to be put out of the picture. I decided to try to bounce in between the shuttle, and the rest of the crew. My electricity at my fingertips and ready to go, I used a shock wave to send an object flying into a couple of them, killing them in the process.
I noticed for the crew that was behind cover that they had a whole bunch of enemies approaching. I headed over there, and began to fire electric bolts at them, frying them in the process.
Five minutes later
Too many enemies were coming from everywhere, the crew's ammo running low, and me being almost out of energy to fight back. At that moment, Alex peaked his out, and told us to get on board. We bolted and got on board the shuttle. The ramp closed, and then Alex took us off. I felt us leave the star destroyer's hangar, and fly out into open space. I felt another warp speed thing coming. And it happened. Warp speed was engaged, and were off, back to the base.
While we were in warp speed, Kanan looked at me. "Thanks for your help today, Cole. If it wasn't for you, I don't know what we would have down without our man." Kanan said. He smiled a little bit through his blindness at me. "Thanks, Kanan." I said. For me, it felt like I was being treated like I was part of the family, and it felt good to officially be trusted by him. I bet Sato and Rex will be pleased. Right now, there was nothing much to do, other than to catch some shut eye for the time being. So I lied down on the military style seats like how they have on some military planes back home, and closed my eyes for a while.
Fourty minutes later
"Cole, wake up." Alex said. He woke me up when I was just in the middle of a dream about me and Zeke doing something that would piss off our parents for the fun of it. I stood up, and then realized that we were back on Atollon, where the sun was setting.
I walked out of the ship with my crew, and approach Sato and Rex. "How did it go?" Rex asked us. "I got us our man back." I answered. Alex approached them, and informed them that I made a good new ally today. "I guess that we can trust you, Cole." Sato said. "I guess that means that I'm now officially an ally involved in the rebellion for the crew." I said. "That's correct, Cole. Welcome to the team." Kanan said, patting me on the back. How does he do it even though he's blind? It felt good again to be trusted, and it felt good to be a part of a team now.
I look around me, and see that everybody's here, but Rau was gone. "Where did Rau go?" I asked the team. "Oh. While you and the others were asleep in the back, he requested that we take a small detour to his planet, Concord Dawn, and drop him off there with so that he could report to his allies on his mission. So we did just that. And did you here the door open?" Alex asked me and those who were asleep on the ship. Everybody who was asleep, being Ezra, Zeb, Kanan, and I, shook our heads. "Probably because you were out cold. It happens." Sabine said.
"Right." I said. "In the meantime, I'm just going to catch some R and R your ship if you don't mind. I'm tired, and I've had a long day." Kanan said yes if that was ok with Hera, who was working on the ship in the hangar of the base. I walked up to the twi'lek, the name of her species, and asked her, and she said yes. She also informed me that only her room and Kanan's room had available bunks for me. She walked in with me to show both rooms, and I just took her room because she did inform me that Kanan does prefer to be alone at times in his room. She respected my choice, and said that I could bunk with her while I'm in this galaxy. Looking forward for a nice comfy bed tonight, I said that I didn't mind bunking with her. She also said that she could set up my bed for me if I'd like. I said yes. In the meantime, I went to the bathroom, which she showed me the way to.
After I came back to Hera's room from the bathroom, I went up on my top bunk, and was impressed that it was comfy for a ship that housed a bunch of rebels. While she was back outside, working on the ship, I decided to take a nap. Life was just about to get interesting from here, Macgrath.