The rogue shadow
Ezra sat in the pilot's chair of his ship with Proxy in the co-pilots chair and had finally stop asking if he was injured. The ship has just left the planet Felucia and was heading away from the planet at a steady pace, Ezra had no need to rush. He needed time to think about everything that he needed to do, if he was going to find the senators daughter he needed to know who she was "Proxy" he asked turning to his mechanical friend.
"yes master, how can I be of assistance" Proxy said happily to his master.
"give me everything we have on Senators Organa's daughter" he said hoping that the imperial records had on her, whoever she was were thorough.
"of course master" Proxy said as he stood up and turned to face him. Ezra spun his chair to get a better few of the avatar Proxy was about to acquire "accessing imperial records" Proxy said as a hologram of Leia appeared in front of Ezra. Ezra stopped for a minute, and stirred at the hologram of the woman in front of him. She was a little smaller than he was, wearing a type of white rope, her hair was dangling from one side of her head down her back and up to the other side of her head. Ezra felt himself stall as he looked at her, she was memorizing but Ezra couldn't help but feel that he has seen her before.
Erza decided to put that thought to the back of his mind as Proxy started to speak "Princess Leia Organa, heiress of the Royal Family of Alderaan. Although it was common knowledge that she was adopted, and everyone assumed that she was just another of the many, many children left orphaned by the Clone Wars" Proxy said with her voice "During her childhood, Organa was taught by her father to appreciate the effort of Alderaan's workers, but also the importance of her duties as the planet's eventual queen. Once she turned sixteen, Organa was allowed to receive some martial training with a personal instructor, her family had deemed necessary for her to learn the basics of self-defense, given her royal status and risk of abduction. Bail also told her tales of the Jedi, defenders of the old Republic; the young princess also overheard him talking of Darth Vader's powers. In her late teens, Leia followed her adoptive father's footsteps into politics, becoming a junior legislator by the age of fourteen. Leia eventually took her father's place in the Imperial Senate, becoming the youngest senator elected. Her aunts protested, arguing that she'd be better off finding a princely husband whereas the press claimed she was a "princess playing dress-up" and not a real diplomat and politician. The public, however, came to care about her, enough that any whisper of mistreatment would "set the HoloNet on fire." Proxy continued.
Ezra enjoyed hearing about Leia's past, it was practically inspiring "though the recent actions of Senator Bail Organa have forced the empire to take more direct actions in order to keep him in check, Grand Moff Tarkin authorized an operation to abduct to princess in order to acquire the senators allegiance. Her whereabouts are currently classified" Proxy finished and turned back to his usual self.
Ezra turned his head back to the window, he looked out to the stars and thought about what he has learnt. If Tarkin had to authorize the operation then that means that Leia is a lot more valuable than he originally thought "Proxy what level of classification is her whereabouts" Ezra asked.
"I believe it is level one master" Proxy said.
Ezra sighed deeply rested his head on his hand "of course it is, well where going to have to make a call" he said as he left for his meditation room.
"do we have to master" Proxy said as he followed Ezra hoping that they weren't getting the help that he was suspecting.
"we don't have a choice, he'll know where she will be" Ezra said as he left the cockpit.
Proxy took a deep breath let out an even bigger sigh "I hate being him" he muttered to himself as he slowly and sadly walked after his master.
The Ghost
Hera sat in the cockpit of the ghost which was still in hyperspace on the way to Senator organa's ship, she hasn't done much since her little talk with Sabine. She felt bad for being to direct and forcing her to open up that quickly so suddenly, she just hoped that it wouldn't come back to bite her later. Though now that she had some time alone, she could think about the situation for herself. If she was being honest with herself, she just wanted to know what happened, how did Ezra survive the temple explosion? how did Vader sway him to their side? was he always as powerful as he is now and Kanan was just a bad teacher? is there any of Ezra we know in there somewhere?... is he beyond saving?
Hera had so many questions and no answers and not knowing bugged the hell out of her, she had no idea how they were going to answer any of these questions. She remembered seeing Ezra when he returned for the first time, seeing the dark robes he war and the yellow in his eye's. It just broke her, Ezra was the closest thing she had to the son. He was full of life, so joyful and yet always full of courage. Now he was nothing like the person they knew, he was a Sith, a cold blooded killer. The way he just killed Ashoka, his friend and tossed her aside like she was nothing. Tears came to her eye's at the memory of Ezra and then out of nowhere a video of a Jedi fighting the empire becomes the new face of the rebellion, Ezra. She had many questions but the one that was that she thought would be the hardest to answer was 'what brought on that change?'.
She was pulled from her thoughts by Kanan who had walked in and sat next to her "are you ok?" He asked immediately after sitting down.
"yeah, why?" She said quietly as she quickly realized that she had tears going down her cheeks and she wiped them away without a second thought and turned back to face the front window.
"Hera, I know I'm blind but I'm not blind" Kanan said.
Hera frowned at him "you do see the contradiction there right?" she asked.
"you've been crying" Kanan said as he saw the tear marks going down her cheeks with the force.
"well you know I've been crying a lot lately" Hera said as lot more brutally then she intended "sorry" she said quietly I little ashamed of her sudden outburst.
"it's ok, non of us are a hundred percent right now" Kanan said calmly.
"you could have fooled me" Hera mumbled sounding a little angry and jealous.
"what's that supposed to mean?" Kanan asked.
"nothing" Hera said sounding completely uninterested.
"no, what did you mean by that "you could have fooled me"" Kanan quoted sounding irritated.
"fine" Hera said as angrily as she turned to face him "you don't seem to care about anything that has happened"
"WHAT" Kanan practically yelled.
"oh come on Kanan, I know Jedi are supposed to be emotionless but this" she said waving her finger up and down his body "this, is just to much. You could tell me you don't care about anything that's happened"
"because I don't have that luxury!" he said standing right in her face "I don't have that luxury because I've seen what will happen if I do let myself feel! You've seen it to, when I let myself feel lose! I can't stop myself from getting the biggest bottle I can find, so if being emotionless means I can get still have a clear head and keep you all safe. I accept that a hundred times over!" Kanan yelled.
There was a silence for a moment, until Kanan re-gained his composer and simply walked away leaving Hera alone with her thoughts. Hera collapsed into the pilot's chair and her head fell into her hands, water pouring from her eye's. She was so ashamed with herself about what had just happened, she had just called her best friend an emotionless robot. Now she just hated herself oh my god what the hell, I had no right to say that she thought to herself as she looked up to a blinking monitor, they were about to arrive at the senators ship.
Kanan entered his cabin with his temper spiked and his hands balled into fists HOW COULD SHE SAY THAT, I CARE ABOUT THIS A LOT MORE THAN SHE DOES IF NOT MORE Kanan screamed inside his head as he slammed his fist into a wall. He could feel the anger coming off of him and he knew he needed to get rid of it. He took a deep breath and sat down in a meditation position, letting the force flow through him and he quickly felt his anger leave him. His thoughts like they always do drifted back to Ezra, no matter what anyone told him he always blamed himself. It was his job as Ezra's master to train and protect him from evil like the Sith and he failed, plane and simple "Kanan" he heard a voice whisper.
Kanan immediately started to scan the room with the force to see if he could find the source of the voice, there was nothing. Counting it as his mind playing a trick on him he returned to his meditation. Kanan stopped using the force as his eyes and began to listen to it "Kanan" as he heard the voice again. It was much more recognizable now and he decided to continue to listen to it "Kanan" the voice said again.
This time Kanan knew who's voice it was "Ashoka" he said with a smile.
"yep, good eye. Pun intended of course" the voice of Ashoka said with a smile.
Kanan chuckled at Ashoka's witasisem, he was happy that Ashoka was still her old self even though she was now one with the force "I've done something like this before with Master Yoda, so I know you're here for a reason"
"I am" Ashoka said "I need you to listen to these words and these words only" she said sounding serious.
"ok" Kanan said almost immediately, Kanan trusted Ashoka and now that she is one with the force she could only become more wise.
"Ezra, Isn't beyond saving" Ashoka said as Kanan heard the cabin door opened and Zeb walked in.
"hey boss, Hera said where about to arrive" he said as he left him alone. Kanan stayed there for a moment and thought about Ashoka's words, he was never going to give up on Ezra but he had no idea how he was going to get him back but if Ashoka came to just remind him. Then maybe the answer was something that they would overlook because it was too obvious but he pushed the thought aside for the moment and went to the cock-pit to prepare to dock with Organa's ship.
Kanan entered the cock-pit and saw the rest of the crew in there usual places, so he did the same and sat in the co-pilots chair "so what are the chances that Senator Organa can help us out?" Sabine asked.
"Senator Organa is will connected within the Senate, if anyone apart from high ranking imperiales know's about Ezra, he will" Hera said as the ship exited Hyperspace and they saw Organa's ship.
"well, let's go get some answers" Zeb said as they approached but he also noticed the small ship already docked with the ship "wait, what's a Tie Fighter doing there?" he asked the crew.
"must be a stolen one" Sabine said not thinking too much into it "it would come in handy from time to time"
Senator Organa's Senate Ship
The crew of the ghost docked with the ship and made their way to the command center. Hera was trying to made eye contact with Kanan but Kanan wasn't giving her an easy way out, but he was still angry with what she said and his mind drifted back to Ashoka. He was happy that she spoke to him but he couldn't help but wonder if she tried to speak to Ezra too, Maybe that's why she knew he was savable. To be honest, he wasn't even sure if he should tell the rest of the team about any of it. Though he didn't have much time to think about it as they reached to control room.
One of the guards opened the door and the team walked in though they were met with someone they did not expect. Every member of the team apart from Zeb all pulled their blasters and aimed them at the man that was in front of a holo table talking to Senator Organa, agent Kallus. The guards scattered around the room all saw the increasing threat and raised there weapons also ready to defend the senator "what the Hell is this, Senator" Hera growled as Kallus raised his hands defensively.
"Captain Syndulla, you and your team stand down at once" Organa stated as he stepped forward with his hands behind his back.
"yeah, will stand down. Once this imperial is dead" Sabine growled as she aimed her blaster at his head.
Kallus stepped forward "I understand your anger but I am not your enemy"
"and why exactly should we believe you" Zeb said calmly with his arms crossed.
"because as much as I hate to admit it are... forced encounter made realize I may have been wrong about a handful of things" Kallus stated as he looked at Zeb sounding sincere.
Kanan could fell through the force that he felt guilty and ashamed by his actions, Kanan sighed as he lowered his blaster "Kanan, what are you doing?" Hera asked sounding incredibly angry by his choice.
"I believe him" Kanan simply said as he holstered his weapon.
"well I don't" Sabine said as she and Hera both readied themselves for a fight.
"by the light of Lothal's moons" Kallus said as the team's eye's widened. That was the code phrase used by a certain Fulcrum agent, the same agent that provided the only Intel they have on Ezra.
"wait the code phrase, HE'S FULCRUM" Sabine said stated very loudly failing to notice the squints and grunts coming from the other people at the sound of her loud voice.
"ok, ok we'll talk about this later" Kanan said as he stepped forward towards the two "why are you hear now"
"well, as I was about to explain to the Senator. I've blown my cover as Fulcrum to acquire this" Kallus said as he held up a small data-chip "this is everything I was able to get that involves one Ezra Bridger" Kallus said as he placed the chip down on the table.
Every single member of the teams jaws hit the floor Sabine's heart started to beat out of her chest. She walked forward and grabbed the chip, he held it up and stirred at it for a moment and for the first time since they saw him return, she felt hope that they could help him and get him back. This was the first step after all, the Intel on this chip was good and accurate then they would have a much better chance.
"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I may be a little uninformed of the situation" Organa said "who is Ezra Bridger?" he asked.
The Rogue Shadow
Ezra stood in his small training room on his ship stirring at the back wall waiting for Proxy to tell him he was ready. He hated asking for help but it was the quickest way to complete his mission and nothing else mattered to him other than completing his mission "Master, he's here" Proxy said.
Ezra turned around facing his metal companion and kneeled as a holographic image of his master appeared. Ezra closed his eye's as he bowed his head and listened to sound of his master taking a breath "give me an update of your mission" he said.
Everything Vader told him sounded like either a demand or a threat, always menacing and intimidating. Ezra stood and faced his master "I have made contact with Senator Bail Organa and he is willing to gather himself and everyone he knows in the Senate that would be willing to fight the empire"
"excellent, you must do whatever is required to gain their trust" Vader said as he lifted his hand and clenched his fist.
"I will do whatever his required my master but I require your help to uphold my end of a deal I have with the senator" Ezra said as Vader stirred back at him, he could already sense his masters disappointment in him for asking for help. Ezra quickly realized that he needed to continue before his master could state his disappointment "the senator will not help me until a rescue his daughter Princess Leia Organa that is currently being held by the empire as a hostage to keep her father from speaking out against the empire" Ezra said deciding not to machine that Shaak Ti did not help and he didn't eliminate her, how could he when the senator.
Vader rested his hands on the front of his belt as he stirred back for a moment considering his options "Princess Leia is currently being held by Captain Stern on Kashyyyk, he is a rather brilliant military tactician who has a particular fondness for hunting but your main concern will be the inquisitor who is always watching her and keeping her from leaving" Vader said.
"you have trained me, I will not fail" Ezra stated as he bowed his head to his master.
"do not wait to long to give me an update" Vader said as the hologram faded away and he returned to his best friend.
Proxy collapsed to his knees, he and Ezra both returned to their feet "ok pal?" He asked.
"yes master, I still haven't figured out why becoming him affects me differently but that doesn't matter right now" Proxy said cheerfully returning to his old self "shall I set course Kashyyyk"
"yeah, I've got a Princess to rescue" Ezra said unable to stop a smile that came to his face at the way he said that "you go ahead and get us there, I'm going to train while we get there"
"of course master" he said as he left for the cock-pit.
Ok guys thanks for reading this chapter and I think I'm going to need some help. If you guys want Ezra to get the darksaber then I'm going to have to find a way for him to get that makes sense and doesn't hurt the story, so I need some information on it. Like if someone has do they lead all of Mandalore or just Death Watch, I never watched the clone wars so I don't really know any of this.
Oh yeah I saw what you guys said about the chapters being to short so I'm going to take for time to between chapters to make them longer, unless you would prefer shorter and quicker chapters (up to you)
Last thing, I'm not going to write the Mandalore stuff until the next episode of Rebels where we learn about Sabines family and the state of Mandalore right now.
So that's it, as always if you guys have any ideas that you want to try to add then tell me in the reviews and I will see them I promise and if I choose to add the idea, I will give you a shout out. Until then, I'll see you in the next chapter ;)