What Would Have Been

by mckee11223

What if everyone on the Ghost never met? What if they went on with their lives, dealing with the Empire in their own special little way? What if they all met again, but in a weird twist of fate you never expected? Set 6 years before Star Wars Rebels, roughly around the time Kanan and Hera meet, but don't. New Dawn references and understanding, like all my Star Wars Rebels fanfics.

7. Chapter 6: Sabine Wren

Sabine Wren

Alarms went off everywhere. I could see nothing through the blinding red lights, and my cell door opened to reveal my commander. She made a tisk noise with her tounge as she dragged me up from the floor and put me in handcuffs yet again.

Many kids were looking in from outside, and I wondered why. Then I saw. This was the room everyone was taken into for their test. The one that everybody emerged from victoriously.

That was the test. They were testing my loyalty to the Empire! A shock wave was sent through my body before I collapsed into sobs. The commander dragged me roughly to my feet, although she knew that she didn't need to explain anything. I've figured it all out.

And I hated them for it. This was the sickest thing I've ever seen anyone do; to test a little girl by giving her candy, metaphorically speaking.

Then I was dragged to another cell, put in a prison uniform, yada yada yada…

I just knew I had to escape. Or I won't see my next birthday.

Whoever invented air vents is a genius, I thought as I crawled through the vents. My knees and hands echoed on the thin sheets of metal, and I was severely worried that it might collapse under my weight. The air here was damp and stale, and I felt claustrophobic. I gasped for air again, when I saw a shaft of light ahead. I crep forwards and saw my commander.

"But she is so young! It's cruel to test children like this!" She prstested. Yeah, you only just realized?

"This is fair. If she can't show undying loyalty to the Empire at a young age, then how do we know we can trust her?" A man's voice said. I could only see a lock of his blue hair from my vantage point.

"But she's the smartest cadet I've had in a long time!" The commander protewsted again.

"We'll have other smart kids. The one thing that we do not tolerate is traitors!" The man spat the word out, and I scurried ahead. "What was that?" His voice sounded from behind me.

Rats. I made too much noise. Carefully, I continued forward, but I could already hear the man calling reinforcements. I went faster now, all speed and no stealth as I tried in vain to get somewhere. Finally, I fell out in the docking bay. I snagged a ship and hacked into the mainframe, and decided where to go.

Lothal. The safest place in all of the Empire. There was no way that the Imperials would follow me there!

I fired up the engine. Hello, hyperspace.