*I don't own Star Wars Rebels*

Ezra stepped back from the work of art in admiration. Somehow Ezra, Aloysius, and Tariss were able to paint a huge flaming starbird right on the top of the huge triangular part of the destroyer.

Damn, thought Ezra.

Aloysius bent back up from taking a breather.

"Yeah it is pretty cool."

He then turned to Ezra and Tariss.

"On a completely unrelated topic though, we are running low on supplies. I need you two to go into a local town and get food. And maybe some ship parts too."

Ezra and Tariss nodded in agreement, then set off for the town.

. . .

Sabine Wren had probably hit rock bottom at this point. It had been almost 3 years since they had lost Ezra. 3 years of loneliness. Sabine was barely holding herself together. She kept devoting herself to every small task given to her, and then reverting back to her previous state of mind when they were done. Fortunately for her, she was given a task to do. It was simple, head into town to a local watering hole and listen around to see if the locals knew anything about, well, anything. The Rebels were grasping at straws, they had barely any information to do anything with. So, Sabine was currently pretending to drown out her sorrows in a bar on some random planet. The door to the bar was pushed open, and 2 people walked in. At first glance Sabine was able to determine that one was a short human female, and the other a tall human male. Sabine didn't pay them much attention after that. It was only after the pair had ordered their drinks did Sabine decide to pay them a little attention. So imagine her shock when the first words to come out of the female's mouth had something to do with stealing a star destroyer.

Damn, thought Sabine.

The male shushed her lightly but with a sense of amusement to it. The female laughed.

Sabine studied the male. If she hadn't known better, she would have thought it was Kanan.

The two started whispering to each other about something. Sabine couldn't tell what, but her interest piqued again when she heard them mention attacking the Empire.

"Could these possibly be new rebel recruits?" Sabine was asking herself. The male sighed and turned to pay the bartender. Sabine didn't pay him much mind then except for one last look that she got of his face. While she was only able to see the left side of his face, one detail was shown very clear to her.

The scars.

Sabine's eyes widened.

"It can't be. There's no way that was Ezra."

Sabine turned to watch the two leave, but didn't make any other move. After they left she received a call from Hera about returning to the ship. Apparently they were planning a major attack against the Empire.

. . .

Ezra and Tariss returned to their Star Destroyer, declared the "Renegade".

They all thought it was a fitting name.

Once they had all made their way to the bridge, Aloysius relayed the news to the other two. Apparently the other rebel cells were planning to launch a massive attack against the Empire. The group all decided to help them out, no harm no foul right?

And so, that's what brought Ezra to be piloting an X-wing among many other X-wings that were leaving for the attack. Sneaking into the base wasn't hard, neither was stealing the fighter. The hard part was going to be executing the rest of the plan. Aloysius was in his own X-wing a few behind Ezra's. The trick was waiting until the right moment.

Just as expected the Imperial Fleet showed up out of hyperspace. The group of X-wings were told to keep in single file as they advanced. Ezra switched to a different channel and began the countdown.

"5"

"4"

"3"

"2"

"1"

"GO!"

Ezra all of a sudden pulled the X-wing to the right, sharply arcing it down and consequently out of formation. Aloysius followed. At once, both X-wings began blowing up with comm chatter from the rest of the rebels. They were all yelling at them to stick with the plan.

Ezra leaned down to the comms and said,

"I've got my own plan."

It was just at that moment that the Renegade arrived out of hyperspace.

All hell broke loose.

The Renegade's guns were blazing, something only achieved by Tariss' insistence that she supply the ship with an old droid army that she found rusting away on an old CIS planet. Somehow they were all also painted with the orange firebird on their chassis.

The Rebel ships scattered and fired at the Imperial Fleet, which in turn returned fire to both the Rebels and to the lone star destroyer with a firebird painted on it. Ezra and Aloysius were flying around, blasting imperials, and clearing the way for a group of Y-wings to drop bombs on the Imperial ships. All was going well, until some TIE fighter got off a good shot on Ezra. His ship spiralled out of control. Ezra, thinking quickly, put on the rest of his space gear that he had packed incase this very scenario occurred. Ezra popped the hatch and launched out into open space as his X-wing arced down to the left and exploded.

Ezra yelled into his comms to Aloysius.

"Yo, pick me up man, i'm stranded out here!"

Ezra saw Aloysius' X-wing change course and head for him. Ezra positioned his body so that when the X-wing passed, Ezra grabbed hold of it's outsides and was brought along with it. Once Ezra gained his balance, he activated the magnetic soles in his boots, and stood on the top of the ship. Ezra yelled in the comms again.

"Intercept that TIE bomber, it's making for the Rebel's capital ship!"

Aloysius adjusted course and headed straight for the ship.

. . .

The Ghost was whipping around firing at all the imperials in it's path. Hera was flying, Sabine and Zeb had the two main turrets, Kanan had the front turret, and Chopper had the back turret. All of a sudden a lone TIE bomber was seen making it's way towards the capital ship. Hera sped towards it, but wasn't fast enough to make it to the ship in time. Fortunately it didn't matter, as she spotted an X-wing heading for the ship at an alarming rate.

Kanan yelled from the front turret,

"Is that a person on top of that X-wing?!"

All of a sudden, just before the TIE dropped it's bombs, the person on top of the X-wing pulled out a gleaming green lightsaber. The X-wing sped just under the TIE, and the lightsaber wielder slashed his blade along the underbelly of the TIE fighter. Consequently the TIE fighter spun off course and crashed into another TIE fighter that was further away from the ship. The unknown person sheathed his blade, and the X-wing spun back towards the painted Star Destroyer.

"Karabast, did you all see that?!" Zeb yelled from his turret.

Hera was astonished.

"Yeah we all did!"

. . .

Aloysius brought Ezra back towards the Renegade. Once Ezra was safely dropped back off, Aloysius turned back towards the massive space battle.

Ezra ran toward his personal ship and climbed aboard, along with a group of 16 droid commandos. Once they took off, Ezra headed for the Imperial capital ship.

Yelling into his comms, Ezra alerted the rest of the Rebellion, that was present of course, that he was clearing a path to board the capital ship. Then Ezra's starship bolted over to their capital ship. Out of the corner of Ezra's eye, he could see other medium sized freighters following him, including the Ghost. Ezra landed in a small hanger. After getting his armor and helmet on, he opened the ramp of his ship and advanced through the ship with his droids behind him. Most of the bucketheads on the ship were easy to take down, the droids mainly getting off a few shots first. Then all of a sudden, a larger Dark Trooper appeared. Ezra leaped forward, igniting his green saber and slashed across the Dark trooper's chest. The large droid fell, but there were many other behind him. Ezra pulled out his other lightsaber, and ignited it's shimmering black blade. With his droids firing at the Dark Troopers from behind him, Ezra leapt again at the Dark Troopers, and made quick work of them.

Sheathing his blades, Ezra and his droids carried on.

Out of nowhere, a door to the left of him exploded, and Rex came through, followed by Kanan, Zeb, and Sabine. They turned towards Ezra and his droids, but upon seeing the firebird painted on all of their respective armor plates, they holstered their weapons.

"Who are you?" Kanan asked, while Rex eyed the droids skeptically.

"My name is Dev." Ezra said, not wanting to give them any more information, and was also very glad that he chose to wear a helmet.

Zeb spoke from the back.

"You're part of the Starbird Squadron aren't you?"

Ezra nodded in affirmation.

"Then where's the rest of your squad?" Rex asked suspiciously.

"Tariss is overseeing the battle on the bridge of our Star Destroyer, and Aloysius is piloting one of your X-wings out there", Ezra said while motioning to the space battle that was continuing on.

Ezra noticed that Sabine didn't say anything, and he hoped it wasn't because she was figuring out who he was. Fortunately, a group of stormtroopers busted into the corridor.

Kanan ignited his blue lightsaber, but Ezra leapt into battle first, performing a 540 degree hook kick to the head of the first stormtrooper. Then when the others aimed their guns at him, Ezra pulled out his two blades, and rushed them. Kanan was astonished at his fighting style. He had obviously trained extensively in the art of the lightsaber, and now that he was thinking of it, he could sense the boys force power. But part of his fighting style was aggressive, and it finally clicked with Kanan where he had seen it before. Once they all had cleared the hall, Kanan popped the question.

"You're Sith, aren't you?"

Ezra paused, then turned back to Kanan.

"I was Sith, but I destroyed their temple on Dromund Kaas, and am here fighting with all of you. That makes me as much a Sith as it does you."

Ezra turned and lead the way towards the command center, the Ghost crew and the remainder of his droids following behind him.

Once they blew the doors to the bridge, everyone pulled out their weapons and attacked. There were Stormtroopers everywhere. Kanan took a position to block blaster bolts and defend his crew, while Sabine fired shots from behind cover. Rex and Zeb were rushing the bucketheads, while Ezra's 6 or so remaining droids were laying down cover fire. Ezra was jumping around, lightsabers spinning, hacking and slashing at the remaining stormtroopers.

Soon the bridge was clear. The large group ordered a cease fire, and captured the rest of the Imperial fleet, only a few ships having escaped. The battle was over.