Okay so I have an announcement. I decided to take a little break from this story due to the stress of writing this chapter. I'm actually kinda embarrassed by this chapter and think its pretty unbelievable. Plus I find it kinda hard writing dialogue for some characters. So long story short, I'm stressed about this story, I'm taking a break to work on my other story and some one-shots, and I will return to this story. So I thought I would give this unfinished and scrapped chapter that's NOT CANON! I REPEAT THIS CHAPTER IS UNFINISHED AND SCRAPPED SO ITS NOT CANON! The reason I'm giving you guys this chapter is because I'm a big fan of deleted scenes so I thought I would show you guys this to hold you off for a little while. Before I go I want to give you guys my thoughts on Star Wars Celebration.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi looks pretty cool. Its probably what I'm least excited for since I'm not a big fan of Rey and Kylo. But I'm excited too see where it goes from here and I'm excited to see the last appearance of Carrie Fisher.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 looks and sounds awesome. They actually listen to the fans and added in a single player campaign, space battles, all three trilogy's, and a prequel novel!
Star Wars Rebels is what I'm most excited about. I'm bummed out it's the last season but it looks like its going out with a bang! Everything will tie together nicely and we might actually have a character death. Not Hera since she's in Rogue One, maybe not Sabine since she's with the mandalorains, not Chopper since he's probably still with Hera, defiantly not Ezra since the show has been building him up since the beginning to have a much much bigger role then anyone else in the show. I think he's one of the Knights of Ren since their foreshadowing his dark side for so long. Kanan and Zeb are most likely gonna die since Zeb doesn't look like he'll have a future role and Kanan's role was to teach Ezra.
Anyway this story stressed me out and I'm taking a break. See ya soon!
Chapter 7: Regroup
(Milano Crew POV)
The Milano was nearing a asteroid field that was colonized by smugglers, thieves, gangsters etc. The ship was running out of fuel, Peter grimaced at the sight. He just got the Milano filled up a little over a day ago but due to the imminence flying the ship ran out of fuel quiet quickly. Peter decided that this colonized asteroid field had to have a fuel station somewhere or at least someplace to get decent food. As Peter flew the Milano into the colonized asteroid field he put the ship on auto-pilot and walked in the room the others were. He went to retrieve his mixtape to listen to his music while retrieving the supplies they needed to go to wherever the hell they were heading to. Kanan said they were regrouping the Rebel fleet but didn't give and specific directions. He just said when they spot a colony of something he'll attempt to find out where the Rebel fleet was.
"There's a colonized asteroid field up here," Peter informed the others. "I'm landing for supplies and fuel. Any of you guys wanna come?"
"Pass." answered Kanan. "Since were near a civilization I might as well try to contact the Rebel fleet."
"Do you even know how to work my ship?" asked Peter.
"I'm sure I can manage it."
"Kanan you can barley fly the Ghost without Hera around." Ezra said, trying to hide his smirk.
"I can help Jarrus contact his allies while you go out." Gamora insisted.
"That's fine," Peter said, then he brought his attention to Ezra. "What about you, kid? You coming?"
"Sure, I'll go." confirmed Ezra "Chopper will come with us."
Chopper groaned as Ezra retorted, "Come on Chop, It'll be quick."
Chopper still didn't budge.
"The faster we get supplies, the faster we see the others again."
Chopper mumbled a aggressively agreeing to Ezra's eagerness to regroup to the others as well. Peter walked back to cockpit as he flew the Milano through a asteroid field before finding civilization. He carefully flew down to a force filed which seemed like it was keeping the air in. The Milano slipped through the blue force feild and the set the ship down on a landing pad along with other ships. In less then two minutes, Peter, Ezra, and Chopper walked out of the ship and right into civilization. The three walked through crowds but still manged to somehow be together. Peter looked around for some place selling food since he was starving, Era was just following Peter since he really didn't know what they need, and Chopper was observing their surroundings.
"You wanna buy some death sticks?" asked a shady looking Quarren.
"No thanks." said Ezra, with his hand waving the death sticks away. "I heard what they could do to you."
He then turned his attention to Peter and asked, "So what do we need?"
"Two things for sure: food and fuel." Peter answered. "Seriously, I'm starving let's get something to eat."
"You do realize that you are in a different galaxy? And they won't accept units."
Peter cursed under his breath as he asked, "Listen, can you pay for the stuff? 'Cause if we don't have enough money, I might have to resolve to other ways to get money."
Ezra took a few seconds to let it sink in before yelling in disgust, "That's gross! There are other ways for paying off debts like I don't know? Taking a job or washing dishes."
"Relax, kid. I was only making a joke."
"Good," said Ezra calming down. "because I don't think you're worth enough to pay off a fuel bill, let alone a food bill."
Peter shot a glare at Ezra, but Ezra just laughed and said, "I'm kidding! Its just a joke."
Peter chuckled a bit at the teen's humor. At first he thought Ezra was just a annoying little brat, but now he thinks that Ezra is good kid with a good since of humor. Soon the two of them along with their droid fell in a silence. So Peter decided to break the silence with a few questions.
"So... what's you're name again?" Peter asked.
"Ezra Bridger." Ezra answered.
"So Ezra, what made you want a life of being a badass, instead at staying at home with your parents on your case 24/7?"
Ezra was hesitant at first before answering, "My parents were arrested when I was 7, so I spent the next 7 years fending for myself before Kanan come along and showed me that there are good people in the galaxy. The Empire is why I want to become a Jedi, they took my parents away from me and now there..."
Ezra trailed off with a sad look on his face, Peter instantly recognized the face. It's the face when you lose a parent. Peter could relate to Ezra since he lost his mother to cancer when he was only 8-years-old. Immediately after his mom died the Ravengers took him in. Just how Kanan and the others took Ezra in...
"Wow." Peter thought. The two surprisingly had a lot in common, only that Peter had a tough childhood enduring Yondu's abuse though the years as he got older.
"I know how you feel." Peter said. "I lost my Mom when I was 8. I never knew my Dad, but I couldn't really care less about him."
Peter showed he walkman and said, "The reason I carry this around is because my Mom showed me her music from her childhood, and..." Peter tailed off. "It's really the only thing I have left to remind me of her."
"I'm sorry to hear about your mom." Ezra said, apologetically.
"It's fine," Peter said with a lighter tone. "I got over it years ago."
"I'm still trying to get over it," Ezra said, with a sad look on his face. "Just a few weeks ago I found out they died."
Peter looked at the kid before he cold get a word out of his mouth, someone tackled him. The attacker instantly raised a knife, but before he could kill Peter Ezra shot a stun bolt at the attacker. The attacker went limp as Peter pushed him aside, then Peter, Ezra, and Chopper realized there was crowd surrounding them.
"Don't kill 'em!" one of them yelled. "They're worth only when alive!"
Ezra ignited his lightsaber as Peter activated his mask, pulled out his guns, and played a song to go along with the fight.
(Play Spirit in the Sky-Norman Greenbaum)
A Zabrak charged at Ezra, but Ezra quickly stunned him down along with three other attackers also charging at him.
"When I die and lay me to rest."
Peter shot down two attackers with blasters before they shot and but a attacker charged at him but Peter just kicked him in the face.
"Gonna go to the place that's the best."
Six attackers rushed in to charge at Ezra and Peter, Ezra swiped his lightsaber destroying two blasters and then stunning the two people holding the blasters while Peter punched one in the face and then kicked him in the balls, the three other ones had knives so Peter quickly shot two of them but the thrid one was too close, so Peter just punched him in the gut.
"When they lay me down to die."
Two Twi'Lek's ran up to Ezra with knives but before they could land a mark on Ezra, he Force pushed the both of them back.
"Goin' up to the spirit in the sky."
"What th- he's a Jedi?" one of attackers spat out.
"Goin' up to the spirit in the sky. (spirit in the sky!)"
"Aren't they all dead?" another one asked.
"That's where I'm gonna go when I die. (when I die!)"
"Does it matter?" a Duro asked. Get them!"
"When I die and they lay me to rest. Gonna go to the place that's the best."
"We can't fight these guys forever. We need to escape!" Ezra said, while greasing the back of a attacker running up to him.
"Kid, I'm with you. But we're surrounded." Peter said, while shooting someone with a sniper rifle on top of a little shack.
As Ezra stunned a Togruta with a blaster he noticed that Chopper was no where to be seen. He quickly snapped out as a Trandoshan punched him down, but was quickly gunned down by Peter. Peter then extended his hand, offering to help Ezra up while gunning away attackers.
"Thanks for the save." Ezra thanked, while taking Peter's offer.
"Anytime, kid." Peter said.
"Prepare yourself you know it's a must.
"Gotta have a friend in Jesus!"
Just then a female Mirialan holding a thermal detonator ran up to the pair. But Ezra Force pushed her away as the bomb exploded in the crowd.
"So you know that when I die."
"Now we're even." Ezra said with a smile on his face.
"We're see how long." Peter said, with a smile hiding in his mask.
"He's gonna recommend you to the spirit in the sky. (spirit in the sky!)"
"Gonna recommend you to the spirit in the sky!"
Before both of them could speak, a speeder rushed in to the scene and ran over a majority of the attackers. When the speeder stopped, the driver appered to be no other than Chopper. Chopper then mumbled something with his grasping arms telling them the best he could to 'get on'.
"That is one badass robot you have." said Peter, stunned at the events that just happened.
"He's not so 'badass' once you get to know him." Ezra said, hopping in the speeder with Peter following.
(End song)
(Kanan and Gamora POV)
Gamora struggled as she attempted to show Kanan how to work the communications channels on the Milano, but this ship was from a different galaxy as he was so he used to operating ships from his own galaxy.
"Hera? Hera? Come in, it's me Kanan." Kanan said, struggling to work the communications channel.
"It's not going to work if you keep doing the same thing over and over again." Gamora sighed. "Just let me do it."
"Fine. You'll probably have better luck then I did." Kanan said, getting out of the seat.
As he strolled through the Milano he heard moaning. Kanan walked towards the moaning only to see two stromtroopers without their weapons trying to get up but failing due to the extreme pain they were in.
"What?" Kanan said, before his mind went back when they were captured by the Imperials and Chopper was the only one left in the ship.
Kanan then went up and punching them in the face knocking them both out. Then Kanan heard voices he didn't recognized before.
"Is this it?" a intruder asked.
"It has to be it!" another yelled. "The ship fits the description perfectly."
"Remember," another intruder commanded, this one female. "The crew is each worth 500,000 only when alive, so set blasters to stun. Or don't make any permanent damage to their heads."
Kanan was taken aback by this, by the sound of it he and others have a bounty 500,000 on the them. But by who? Kanan didn't had time to think much since he begun walking towards the intruders. He then finally came across them. There was a Gran, a female Rodian, two Bith's, and a Ithorian.
"I don't think any of you are welcome on this ship." Kanan said, preparing to attack.
"It's one of them!" the Gran yelled. "Get him!"
Kanan instantly pulled out his blaster and blasted a hole in the Gran's chest. The others quickly evaded Kanan by moving out of the while still trying to shoot him. One of the Bith's ran up to him to throw a punch at him, but Kanan grabbed the fist and kicked the Bith in the stomach. The Bith wasn't going down easy as he kept trying to tackle down down but Kanan just punched his face so hard it knocked him out. After taking out one of the Bith, Kanan immediately dodged a blaster shot, he turned his head to see the female Rodian holding a blaster to him. But before she could stun Kanan for the bounty, a sword pierced through her chest. The Rodian's body fell down as Gamora stood in front of him. The Ithorian holed a rifle that seemed that it came from the Clone Wars, and pointed it at Gamora. But Kanan used the Force and pulled him towards her as she cut off his arm. The other Bith pulled out a small knife and pointed it at Gamora. But before he could make a move Kanan grabbed his blaster and shot one of the Bith's eye's. The Bith stumbled back screaming in agony before Gamora silenced him. Kanan got up and said, "I think we have a bounty on us."
"I heard them talk too." Gamora said.
"Come on," Kanan said rushing towards the cockpit. "We need to find Ezra, Chopper, and Quill before they get caught."
"They've been gone for a long time, it's highly likely they've been captured." Gamora said sitting down on the pilot's sit.
"Well you're the voice of optimism." Kanan said sarcastically, as Gamora prepared the ship.
"I was only stating the obvious."
(Star-Lord, Ezra, and Chopper POV)
Ever since Peter and Ezra have been pounced on they never got a break. It seemed like the whole place was against them, which seemed to be the case. The trio was in speeder tying to get away from a never ending army. The speeder took several shots from another speeder shooting at them. Peter pointed his weapon at the driver and let out a blast. Without a driver the speeder spin out of control and exploded crashing in the road killing the crew. A robotic flying mechanism flew down on them trying to catch them. Chopper instantly recognized it from the Clone Wars, it was a vulture droid. The vulture droid was obviously reprogrammed since their were a few bandages on it. The vulture droid stared to rain fire on the speeder, but surprisingly enough they hadn't gotten killed. Yet.
"I thought they said they needed us alive!" Ezra whined, trying to shoot the vulture droid down.
"Kid from my experience, people don't always understand that." Peter said, trying to shoot down the vulture droid as well.
The vulture droid was then exploded into ashes as the Milano appeared in front of them. The hanger door then opened up as the speeder they were on was still going. Peter then used on rockets on his boots to fly back into the Milano, he grabbed Ezra and Chopper used his rocket booster as the trio managed the get back into the Milano as the speeder they were on collapsed and exploded. Peter, Ezra, and Chopper made their way to the cockpit to see Kanan and Gamora both piloting the Milano. They turned their heads and Kanan explained, "We have a bounty on us."
"Yeah well that explains a lot!" Peter said sarcastically.
"We're all going to have to avoid making contact with civilization until this bounty is lifted." Gamora explained.
"But why do we have a bounty on us?" Ezra asked.
"We think it has something to do with the Orb." Kanan explained.
"The Orb?" Peter said. "From who?"
"We don't know yet." Kanan sighed.
As Peter and Ezra relaxed from the back of the ship after being chased around for hour, Kanan and Gamora were pretty nervous.
"Good thing you reminded me to get rid the bodies before we took off." Kanan said.
"How long do you think until he notices the blood stains on his ship?" Gamora asked.
"We'll deal with that when it happens."
"Agreed."
(Vader POV)
Vader was in the bridge looking through the window at the vast emptiness of space. He thought for surely by now the bounty would have been claimed by now. But it wasn't. Vader shouldn't have had the faith he had on the bounty he had on the traitors involved in this situation. But the Orb was another thing. The way the Emperor reacted when Vader spoke of the Orb Vader knew the Emperor has knowledge of the Orb. And knowledge of other things.
Vader knows the Emperor keeps secrets from him, but this is something else. As far as Vader knew of the Orb it was from another galaxy and has something very powerful in it.
"A Infinity Stone." Vader thought.
Agent Kallus has told Vader what the Infinity Stones are. And they could change the universe. The fool Ronan the Accuser wants the Orb because he made a deal with someone. Which means he does not know it is an Infinity Stone. Vader knows fools, and he knows fools would go after as something as powerful as an Infinity Stone. If Ronan does not have this knowledge and this Taneleer Tivan does then that means no many people know of the Infinity Stones. Ronan has very powerful military power while as far as Vader knows Tivan is just an old man that likes to collect. But the Emperor has knowledge of them...
The Emperor knows what the Infinity Stones are and what they could do. Vader was not surprised that he kept this information from him. Vader knows the Emperor suspects him to kill him one day. It is the rule of two. But Vader has no plans to kill the Emperor. He knows the Emperor would give him away just to save himself. Vader knows he just a puppet to the Emperor.
But Vader would never betray the Emperor. Being a Sith is all he has left...
But one question lingers in Vader's mind. How does the Emperor have knowledge of the Infinity Stones? Did any of members of the Jedi Council ever had knowledge?
Perhaps time will tell.
(Boba Fett POV)
Boba Fett was in cockpit of Slave l. He recently made a deal with Jabba the Hutt about the bounty. The deal was that Jabba wold give Fett a location of a Hammerhead Corvette that belonged to the so-called 'rebel movement,' it would give Fett and his crew information and possibly the location of their targets. Fett had just told the crew of the plan and they were getting ready to execute it. As Fett prepared the Slave l, his mine drifted off to his crew.
Black Krrsantan was a black-haired Wookie bounty hunter. Fett knew that Krrsantan being a bounty hunter made him bring great shame to his people. Besides that, Fett didn't knew Krrsantan too well. He knows that Krrsantan was bounty hunter for Jabba at one point, then he had to leave because apparently he had failed to kill one of the last Jedi on Tatooine. Then his mind drifted to Bossk. Fett knows Bossk all too well.
Bossk worked for him back in the Clone Wars when he was just a child. He helped him with many claim bounties. He had helped him when he try to kill Windu, helped him escape from the Republic prison on Corusant, and helped him get away from Otua Blank that Ventress caused. But the only time Fett could remember that Bossk wasn't with him was because of Cad Bane.
Cad Bane. Fett was mentored by the Duro. He helped Fett learned many things that he still uses today. But one time Fett and Bane had fought over the innocent. Now Fett knows that the innocent does not matter, but back then it caused Fett the dent in his helmet and led Bane to get more cybernetics.
"I don't know how a Wookie and a Trandoshan could work together." said Bane, sitting right next Fett quiet enough for the other two not hear.
Fett was brought out of his train of thought. Wookie's and Trandoshan's hated each other. The Trandoshan's hunted down Wookies for game. They have to hate each other.
"The reason they're working together is the same reason the both of us are." said Fett, quiet enough that the other two can't hear. "For the money."
(The Ghost Crew POV)
Drax and Zeb were sitting at the table as Drax and Zeb both inspected their weapons respectfully. Zeb's eyes moved over to Drax examining his knives and said, "I don't why I'm letting you keep your weapons."
Drax didn't look back at Zeb as he said, "I will not kill you."
"Why should I believe you?" Zeb snorted.
"You fought honorably Maz Kanata's castle, you are a member of a group of freedom fighters who fight to make the lives of others better, and as you once said you were in the Honor Guard. Anyone that fights for honor has my respect, and I do not kill people that I respect."
Zeb was taken aback by Drax's saying he has his respect.
Hera was piloting the Ghost to the coordinates of the Rebel fleet. Since the Ghost's hyperdrive have been busted after numerous encounters by the Empire and have been in the process of getting fixed up twice but kept getting stopped by encounters of enemies. But she has seen worse days. As Hera piloted the her ship she couldn't get the terrible feeling in her stomach out of her. She was scarred about what is current Kanan's and Ezra's situation. She didn't know weather they safe, captured by the Empire, captured by bounty hunters because of the bounty, or even know about the bounty!
Hera sighed trying to calm herself. She needed to be calm. She needed to get back to the Rebel fleet and then try to find Kanan and Ezra. It's all she could think about.
"Hera. This is Kanan trying to reach you. I repeat this is Kanan trying to reach you."
Hera's heart skipped a beat after hearing Kanan's voice on the communication's channel. Hera immediately turned on the communications channel to speak with Kanan.
"Kanan. This is Hera, I hear you loud and clear." Hera said, with a smile of relief on her face.
Kanan sighed in relief and said, "Hera it's good to hear your voice again."
"Yeah yours too."
"Where are you?"
"We're on our way to the Rebel fleet, I'm sending you the coordinates now."
"We get 'em. Did anything happen to you or the others? Do you know about the bounty?"
"We went to Takodana and met with Maz, and yeah, the reason we so quickly was because of the bounty. What about you?"
"We had a run-in with the Empire and settled down in asteroid field full of people who tried to kill us."
"So yeah we've been better." said a voice over the communications channel.
Hera recognized the voice from earlier as the man named Peter.
"When we meet up we should discuss on what to do about the Orb." Hera said.
"Agreed." said Kanan. "I think we can come up with a solution."
"I hope so." said Hera. "Okay, we'll talk when we all met up."
"Copy that." the communications channel was shut off. And now all that was left was meeting up to discuss what to do about the Orb...
(The Milano Crew POV)
"Were coming up on your allies location." Gamora informed Kanan.
"Thanks for helping me and Ezra get back to Phoenix Squadron." thanked Kanan.
"You and the boy who can't and I trust the Orb would be safe in your hands." Gamora said.
The Orb. Ezra
(Slave l Crew POV)
Black Krrsantan roared as he broke the neck of the Hammerhead Corvette's captain. He dropped the body as Bossk was finishing off the rebels that was still trying to protect the ship. Bossk used his Relby-v10 mortar gun to shoot one of the rebels down, two other rebels got up to escape but was still faced to see him and shooting at him. Boosk finished the pair of rebels as Fett skimmed through the ships files looking for anything about their targets. A group of five rebels rushed into the bridge to kill the bounty hunters, but Bane heard them coming and threw a small bomb at them. The bomb exploded and killed the rebels, the explosion wasn't major but big enough to kill the person it was thrown to. Fett finally found the information he was looking for and soon enough one of Bane's droid quickly downloaded it.
"We got what we came for." said Fett, leaving the ship as others followed. "Let's go find our targets."
As Slave l left, Bane activated numerous bombs he left in the rebel ship as he and the others raided it. The rebel ship exploded into a million pieces as the bounty hunters went to claim their bounty...
