Ezra focused his eyes at the Pau'an and gave a growl. Hatred glowed in his dark eyes.
At first the Imperial had seemed impressed, if not smug, but now he was thoroughly surprised.
"My hatred for you is ineffable..."
Hands clenched in fists and breathing low.
Angrily, he snarled. Using his force ability, Ezra picked up Agent Kallus -from where he had also stopped to stare- and threw him toward the Inquisitor. And since it statistically wouldn't be in the Imperial's best interest to injure one of his best Agents, the Inquisitor couldn't easily deflect the mass thrown his way.
When Kanan looked up, he felt fear strike him at the sight. Ezra's eyes glared a menacingly dangerous rage that could've only been possible in nightmares. And at that moment, Kanan's heart broke, knowing he had let his student down.
"Spector 5, how are things going?"
Sabine ran through the corridors of the ship, making her way to the area Zeb had told her.
"So for so good on my part. Spector 4 notified me of his location. Spector 1 and Spector 6 have yet to report."
Quickly disposing of troopers in front of her, Sabine turned a corner. Throwing a grenade behind her at all the other officers chasing her, she waited for the explosion to continue.
"Spector 4 sounds frantic. I think something might have taken a wrong turn. I'll assist and let you know."
"Copy that Spector 5. Ghost out."
Kanan watched in horror as Ezra threw around the ISB Agent with such force, he almost felt pity for the Imperial. From slamming him into the wall, to hitting him against the ceiling. But whatever it was, the surrounding few troopers didn't intend to interfere.
Once Ezra had thoroughly knocked out the Agent, he moved toward the Inquisitor. "This darkness...isn't that what you wanted for me, Inquisitor?" Tilting his head.
Standing his ground, said Imperial frowned. "Well you certainly got that down, boy."
Smirking, Ezra stopped right in front of the Pau'an, "Damn right!"
And in a flash, Ezra lunged forward and tackled the tall Imperial to the ground. Picking up the Inquisitor's light saber with the force, he threw it in the general direction of Kanan and Zeb.
Kanan cautiously took hold of it, unsure whether that pass had been intentional or not. Looking back, he noticed Sabine running forward. Followed by chasing troopers.
"Kanan! Zeb!" The lasat turned around and helped shoot the remaining chasers when Sabine joined them. "Hera is still maintaining her position, as well as Chopper. We're just waiting for you guys."
Once the troopers were disposed of, Kanan spoke up. "We have to get Ezra out of here."
Following her leader's gaze, Sabine did a double take at their youngest member. "What happened?"
"We came a bit too late."
Back on the Ghost, Hera became worried. A little nagging in her mind told her something might be going wrong, but now it throbbed with the knowledge that something is most likely wrong.
Refocussing, she managed to dodge fire from a TIE, and shot back, taking it out. "Well, at least this Star Destroyer didn't have more than one complete fleet of TIE fighters aboard, otherwise our ship would have been down long ago."
Proceeding to dodge and counter attack, Hera was thinking about all the things that could be happening on that Imperial ship.
A ring on her comm again brought her back to focus. Picking up, she heard angry yells and thumps.
"Spector 2...uuhh...Spector 6 is...We're going plan B. Worse case...we'll bring him in if it's the last thing we do."
"Spector 5?! What's happened?"
Hera waited and in a few moments, Sabine replied with a shaky voice. "Ezra is in darkness! It's not a normal kind. Spector 1 plans to take him as is. We'll be out as soon as possible."
"Copy that." Turning her comm off, Hera shot down another TIE and accelerated toward the Star Destroyer in haste.
The two force users brawled for a while. Ezra mainly scratching and punching, while the Inquisitor deflected and counter attacked with the intent to stop the fight.
For a moment, they both stopped and snarled at each other, bearing fangs as if to establish dominance.
When Ezra bit deep into the Inquisitor's sword wrist, the Pau'an's eyes flashed in anger. Deciding enough was enough, he kicked Ezra into the wall opposite of him. Standing and placing a foot on the boy's chest to prevent him from getting back up.
"You're meager attempt to best me is laughable. Though I'm impressed with your determination." Applying more pressure on Ezra's chest, which in turn made him choke a bit. "However your potential, discipline is in order." Reaching his hand forward, the Inquisitor pushed his way into Ezra's force. Feeling that Ezra still had a slight connection to Kanan intact, the Pau'an frowned. In the next moment Ezra was screaming in pain.
Seeing this, Kanan jumped into action. "Back off!" Running forward, he shoved the Inquisitor aside and stood in front of Ezra in defense. Meanwhile, Sabine and Zeb ran up behind him and picked up the -barely- conscious Ezra. Though, when they touched him, Ezra shoved them away with a growl. The Inquisitor laughed. "Well. Looks like he's a little rouge." Uncertainty flashed in Kanan's eyes, and he stepped back. "Even still, I won't let you take him."
Tutting quietly, the Inquisitor shook his head and smiled. With a flick of his hand, he retrieved his dual saber from the hands of Zeb and activated it's point to reach just under Kanan's chin. "Looks like out chances are even."
Kanan looked over his shoulder at his crew members, "Try to get him back to the Phantom! I'll hold off as long as I can."
"Okay!" And with that, Zeb grabbed the struggling boy, while Kanan charged towards the Imperial. Sabine took the lead, all the while shooting down Imperials in the way.
Blasters shot down wave after wave of troopers and debris continued to fog the air in the Star Destroyer's docking bay. The troopers were suffering major injuries and losses in number and stepped back in temporary retreat to regroup. However, one trooper slipped pass the rest and snuck his way forward. Meter by meter, he neared the freighter and rounded the back to the entrance.
On board, the lone trooper inspected the interior. From where he stood he couldn't see any one at the cockpit, but he heard something. Knowing someone had to be controlling, the trooper stalked closer.
"Ah-hah!" Jumping around the pilot chair, the trooper pointed his blaster. What he saw made him pause. There, in front of the seat was an old orange astromech.
The robot chirped in surprise and droned threateningly. Ejecting an appendage, it poked forward with an electrical shock device. When the trooper didn't back off, the bot proceeded to jab the intruder with shocks.
Backing off a little, but not too far, the trooper remained in position. Being in armor reduced the effects of the electricity, but didn't hinder all of it.
After realizing his attempts were futile, the droid stopped and back up with it's mechanical arms up. Now having a chance to clearly see the cause of all the Imperial's troubles, the trooper gasped. "You. You look familiar."
Sensing no immediate threat, the astromech dropped it's arms and gave an inquiring beep.
A moment of silence passed, and finally the trooper snapped his fingers in realization. "You're the droid who collaborated with Dev Morgan to sabotage the Imperial Academy." Kneeling down, the trooper took off his helmet to show his face. Reaching his gloved hand forward he spoke clearly, "Hello. I'm Zare Leonis." A couple hesitant chirps were his reply. "You're a member of the rebels Morgan works with. Is he helping in the rescue of the captured Padawan?"
Another moment of silence passed before Chopper caught on to who the young trooper was referring too, when he remembered their mission a month prior. Deciding to project an image of Ezra, Chopper beeped in frustration. Slowly the boy deciphered the tones, and shock appeared across his face. "He's the one!"
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So by popular demand, here's your short story~
-Ezra plays SLENDER-
-modern-ish AU brought to you by HGM1B-
The word SLENDER showed brightly on the screen in a scribbly print, typical of horror games.
After reading the first steps, Ezra scoffed. "Alright, 8 notes then. Shouldn't be too hard."
After clicking the start, Ezra found himself in a forest with nothing at hand but a flashlight.
"Well I guess that's all I'll need..." Taking in the scene, he felt a bit uncomfortable with the silence.
Stepping forward, the character began to breath heavily, and the sound unnerved Ezra.
Listening closer, he noted the character was slow and apparently female.
"That's...I...um..I don't know."
Continuing through the woods, Ezra came across a thick tree and rounded it. Finding a note, he stepped forward.
"Can't Run" was written on the paper in the same scribbly style of the title.
Beginning to sense something was wrong, he turned around and shuddered as the audio began to beat lowly, as if a giant was walking upon the earth.
"IIIII doooon't like that sound of that..."
Walking in the other direction, he continued to search for the other paper with haste, for the ominous sounds continued.
Coming across a little shed, Ezra found another note, this one reading, "Can't Hide"
After that, the slow tempo of the beating sped up a little, and Ezra shivered as his character's breathing became erratic.
"OO-Kay...oookay...o-okay...ookay.." Repeating nonsense words to himself, Ezra headed north in an attempt to stabilize the character.
Now seeing a row of pipes, Ezra ran toward them, hoping to find a hiding place for the character to calm down. When he entered, he saw a note at the end, so he walked toward it. "Always Follows" With a picture of a figure with what looked to be tentacles.
Suddenly the audio became load with thumps, and Ezra yelped a bit at the change.
Turning to head back where he came, he nearly fell out of his chair at the sight of a tall shady figure standing at the end. "Wahhhh"
The music continued loudly as his screen began to flash static and the audio fizzed. The character's breath hitched, as well as Ezra's and he gave a low whine as he forced the character into a run. "FUCK.. why can't she go any faster!...UGHGH!"
And being an idiot, he looked back to see if he was being chased. What he saw made him scream.
He came face to face with a tall faceless man, and the screen blurred into nothing.
It flashed images of the creature with it's hideous appendages and Ezra covered his face. "Ahhhhhhh! Shit...mmmmmnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn..." Moaning for a minute to calm down.
Slowly taking his hands down to see the screen showed a question to continue, Ezra gave a sigh. "I'm glad that's over. At least it's not real. Looked to much like the Inquisitor for my liking."
And relaxing in his chair, Ezra decided to try again.
Unbeknownst to him, someone entered the room and crept up behind him.
Not long after a few minutes when Ezra got another jumpscare did the intruder move.
Feeling arms encircle around his waist, Ezra screamed curses to the dark room."OOH SHIT!.AHHHH...HOLY FUCK!" Fearing at that moment that it had been the Slender man who had got him.
Swirling around in his chair at the sound of uncontrollable laughter, Ezra saw it was only his master, Kanan.
Kanan calmed down and gave a goofy grin at Ezra. Seeing him get scared was too funny. And now his apprentice was flushed in embarrassment and averted his eyes.
Reaching forward, Kanan petted Ezra's head, "Ahh that was great."
When Ezra didn't reply, Kanan pouted, "Okay okay I'm sorry."
Sneaking a glance at Kanan, Ezra resisted the urge to laugh at his expression. And having seeing that, Kanan smirked.
Ezra gave out a giggle. "Kanan you're an idiot." Poking him in the forehead. "Let's see you try!"
Straightening, Kanan laughed. "No, no. I'm fine just watching you." Pulling up a chair and sitting down next to Ezra. "You may proceed."
Rolling his eyes, Ezra clicked continue.
As the game continued, Kanan enjoyed the fact Ezra actually let him stay. So deciding not to scare him anymore, he took up the role of being the comforting presence.