The Ghost

Sabines head rose from her pillow feeling surprisingly well rested after everything that has happened. She felt better after her talk with Kanan, it was one of those rare moments for her when he really fills that father figure roll in her life. She could tell from the sound that the ship was making that they were in hyperspace though she had no idea where they could possibly be going. Sabine picked herself off her bed and looked in the mirror, she looked rough. Her eye's where still red her hair was greasy and she did not like the way her breath smelt. Deciding not to let recent events get to her any further she picked herself up and went into the shower.

After about thirty seconds of waiting Sabine placed her hand under the water testing its temperate as it fell, satisfied with how it felt. Sabine smiled and started to remove her clothes feeling better now that she felt lighter. To say it felt good as the water hit her skin was a massive understatement, she started to feel more clear headed as the water washed away any sweat and grease she had on her body. Now feeling more clear headed after she saw that footage of Ezra she began to really think about it rather than becoming a complete mess. Everything Kanan said started to make more sense, true she didn't really know anything about force. The extent of her knowledge is, it's powerful, there's a light and the dark side to it, lights good darks bad. That's it, that's all she knew.

If the dark is bad then it makes some kind of sense that it would mess with his head and when she remembered when they saw him fight Ashoka and in that footage. His eye's where yellow, that was the dark side but in the footage on Lothal they were back to blue. True they weren't as blue as they were when they first met, they seemed darker but at least they weren't yellow. So that's something. Sabine let out a breath as she washed the soap off of her body.

Sabine shut the water off and went back in her room with a warm towel wrapped around her chest. She walked back over to the mirror and pulled the towel off her body and up to her hair drying it. She looked in the mirror at her exposed body examining it closely. A handful of small scar's here and there, nothing to special like a really Mandaloreion should have but what stuck out for her the most was that she was sure that she would always have more scars then Ezra but after that footage he dwarfed her when it came to scars.

Deciding not to dwell on it trying to not feel bad about herself she quickly dried herself and put her armor back on, she took a heavy breath and left her room heading for the cockpit. She could hear the rest of the guys talking about something but she couldn't make it out. She entered and the eyes of Hera, Zeb and Kanan's eye guard all turned to her "hey, how you feeling?" Hera asked in a caring voice as Sabine sat down in her usual chair.

"better" Sabine smiled as she looked over to Kanan and leaned back in her chair "so what happened after I... had my little break down?" she asked.

"well" Hera said already feeling to hold back the sadness in her voice "we, err... We watched the rest of the data footage and..." Hera's voice broke it hurt to remember what she saw on the five file "it's best you didn't see any of it" she barely able to hold back to tears as her mind flashed back to the pieces of footage.

A shirtless Ezra stood in front a man with his hands bound behind his back and his head focused on the floor, Ezra looked to Vader who stood to his right with a look of confusion "this man is has proven to be a complete and utter failure to the empire, and people who become failures to the empire must serve as new inspiration" Vader said as he looked down to his apprentice.

Ezra nodded and unclipped one of his sabers "please, please" the man begged as he looked up to Ezra with tears in his eye's "I'm a month away from becoming a father" the man said.

Ezra didn't move, didn't blink, didn't show any emotion. He just activated his saber and thrushes it through the man's heart. Ezra placed his hand on the man's face and pushed him backwards on the floor, dead. Ezra looked back to his master and kneeled in front of him "Well done" Vader said before he quickly ignited his own Saber and went straight for a killing blow. Ezra's face finally began to fill itself emotion but not love or compassion but confusion and fear as he raised his saber blocking his master.

"what are you doing!" Ezra asked as he was being pushed backwards, Ezra had become much stronger then he used to be but Vader was an immovable object.

"teaching you" Vader said as he slashed at Ezra again and again. Ezra held his ground for a time but at this time he was still in training, Ezra made a stabbing motion towards Vader but he side stepped it and grabbed Ezra wrist. Vader brought Ezra's hand up high and appleade a lot of pressure, Ezra started to scream in pain as he felt his bone break from under the pressure. Ezra dropped his saber from the pain and was pushed past Vader but as he did, Vader delivered a fatal diagonal slash across Ezra's chest. He was flown across the room landing on his knee and he flited his broken now broken wrist up to his chest that his now quickly letting a large amount of blood out "get up and fight boy" Vader growled and turned to face him "I should have known that you were weak, like the rebels you be a part off" Vader said.

Ezra extended his unharmed hand and used the force to pull his saber to him. Vader looked at his apprentice with pride as he started to stand up his eye's turned back to yellow and the blood on his chest started to work back up inside his body. He jumped towards his master holding his saber in the other hand now ready to strike Vader down. Vader blocked Ezra's attack and grabbed him by the throat holding him of the ground, Vader through Ezra across the room "Very good, your ties to the dark side are growing stronger. You are almost ready for the plan to begin" Vader said as he stood over Ezra and dropped a small first aid box in front of him "now clean yourself up by the time your food gets here or you will miss it again" Vader said as he walked away leaving Ezra who's blood was starting to pour again.

"so where are we heading any way" she asked changing the subject and turning to look out the window.

Hera turned back to front happier now that she knows the person she thinks of as a daughter won't do something that would rip her heart in two "Where heading to commander Sato's ship, to pick up Fenn Rau"

"Fenn Rau? Why" Sabine asked immediately confused and concerned.

"Organa made contact with Ezra" Kanan said already sensing the shocked expression on Sabines face "he and princess Leia are on their way to Mandalore so where heading there now" Kanan finished.

"I also made contact with your friend Ketsu, she's going to meet us at Sato's ship" Hera added "figured it couldn't hurt to have as many Mandalorions as possible"

Sabine didn't say anything, she couldn't go back home. Her family was there, she could face them not even for Ezra. She stood up and left without a word with fear in his eyes.

The Rouge Shadow

Ezra sat on his back under the front of the hyperdrive, using a tool box to his right doing everything he could to fix the drive. True he had Proxy on his left rearranging some wires and Leia's droid on his right doing some welding. This is not how Ezra wanted the plan to go, he was just going to save Leia and get her back to her rich daddy. Then he gets his army to distract the emperor and he and his master strike.

Ezra sighed as he looked at the damage, this was goanna take a while but it couldn't hurt to get an estimate on the exact ETA "hey Proxy, how long until this is back to a hundred percent?" He asked.

"at are current speed we will be back to one hundred percent in three hours" Proxy said as he looked back down to his masters legs.

Beep Beep Beep Beep R2 said

"yeah if that, assuming we don't slow down at all"

"don't worry R2, my has proven to have incredible stamina" Proxy said with pride as he looked over to R2 "and we are droids, so we slow down at all"

"well I hope you don't over work yourselves" Leia said as she entered the room. Ezra came back up from under the engine to face her. She was still wearing to same clothes she had before, which marked sense there nothing else she could have warn but her hair was went. She must have helped herself to the shower "and how is my knight in shining armor" she asked as she handed him a cup of caf.

"as good as to be expected, considering" Ezra said as he extended his and accepted the drink "thanks" he said as he took a sip.

"look I'm err..." Leia said, struggling to find the words "I'm sorry, if I over stepped before. I didn't mean to hit a nerve" she said as Proxy and R2 continued to work.

"it's all right" Ezra said as he placed the cup down and grabbed a different tool "I get that your curious" he said giving her a reassuring smile before disappearing under the engine again.

"So how we doin?" She asked as she walked closer to him and crouched on her knees.

"it's goanna take a couple of hours" Ezra said as the tool he was using started to make a loud noise "but at this rate, it's going to take forever" Ezra said sounding frustrated.

"here let me" Leia said as she got on her back and scooted herself next to him.

"what are you..." Ezra said before he was gut off by Leia who grabbed the tool from his hand and started to work at the spot Ezra was trying to fix.

"I did some work on engines when I was younger and I couple of things stayed with me" she said as she just fixed the part Ezra was struggling with.

"huh, son of a bitch" Ezra said to himself "so much for my engineering skills" Ezra said as he turned to his right and saw Leia lying next to him looking back at him.

Nothing was said, they just stared into each other's eye's. Leia, without warning moved her hand to Ezra and corset his cheek moving her thumb back and forth over the two side scars over the side of his face. Ezra tilted his head side ways to her hand, closed his eyes and moaned as she felt the softness of Leia's hand. Ezra didn't know why it felt so good but what he didn't realize is that this is the first piece of real physical contact that did not hurt Ezra had, in two years. Leia's head started to drift towards Ezra's has his eyes opened and saw her. He didn't move backwards or try to stop her, he copied her and slowly moved towards Leia. Their lips where inch's away from each other, neither one of them showed any kind of regret or sign of stopping. Ezra could smell the scent of her hair and Leia's drifted back and forth between his eyes and his lips "Master I am receiving a communication request" Proxy said. Ezra immediately knew who was calling, there was only one man who knew of to get in contact with him.

Ezra closed his eyes and let out a annoyed breath while Leia just smiled and looked to the ground with the slightest sign of redness on her cheeks "ok Proxy, go to the training room. I'll be there in a minute" Ezra said as he looked back a Leia "think you can handle things alone for a minute" Ezra asked still looking at her the same way he did only a couple of seconds before.

"better then you can" she said raising one eye brow to him and giving him smirk. Ezra chuckled to himself as he picked himself up of the ground and followed Proxy to the training room.

Leia laid back and laughed to herself at what just happened, but then she realized what just really happened and her smile faded "oh my god, what did I just do" Leia mumbled to herself. She's never done that before, she wasn't that girl who just so easily lost herself in a guy that was not who she was.

Beep Beep Beep R2 said

"Should I tell your father when we get back"

"Don't you dare" Leia said as fast as she could, she loved her father but his track record wasn't good when it came to the men in her life. She turned back to the engine trying to get her mind of things.

As Ezra went into the training room he saw Proxy standing in the center of the room, not wanting to have any unexpected visitors he locked the door. Ezra took a deep breath still feeling the warmth of Leia's hand print of his face "Proxy" he asked as he reached his friend.

"Master, he's here" Proxy said as Ezra nodded and went on a knee as Proxy changed into the form of his master.

"the plan is proceeding as expected, my master" Ezra said as he looked to the ground.

"I am well aware, your actions on Kashyyyk has reached the emperor. And he has finally started to take an interest in you. His spies have begun to look in every direction for you, including mine. This is a warning for you to not contact me until I contact you first. And be very careful, his spies are everywhere and are people you would not expect. Be as discreet as possible, good luck" Vader said as he turned back into Proxy who had begun to be less hurt from becoming Vader.

He looked at his master awaiting instructions "go back and help Leia and R2 with the hyperdrive" Ezra said as he looked over to the wall thinking about what was just said. He was now on his own for a while, he didn't know what to do with this new found freedom.

The Ghost

Kanan sat in the co-pilots chair meditating as the ship flew through hyperspace "I see you" he heard through the force, it wasn't the same voice as before. It wasn't Ashoka, the voice was lower and almost gravel like.

"do you think she's going to be ok?" Hera asked as she turned to Kanan.

"where not going to go anywhere near her family, we get there find Ezra and get out" Kanan said as the ship left hyperspace and they saw Sato's command ship that stayed in orbit over some desert planet.

Hera sighed as she looked down to the ground "look Kanan, I'm sorry about what I said before. I didn't mean it I just... I don't know. I guess I just wanted someone to be mad at something so I could do something" she said as she reached over and placed her hand on top of his.

"hey, its ok" Kanan said as he placed his spare hand on top of hers "like I said before none of us are a hundred percent" he said as he got up and started to walk to the exit so he can quickly go over to Sato's ship and get Fenn but he felt something pull him, he followed the pull and walked over to the front window. He felt the force make him look down to the planet "come to me" he heard.

"hey Hera, I'm going to borrow the phantom" Kanan said as started to walk out.

"what? Why?" Hera asked as she turned to face him as he walked out.

"there's something I need to see" Kanan said as the door closed leaving Hera alone and confused.

Hera initiated the docking squeezes and made her way over to the exit as she heard the phantom detach. She didn't know where Kanan was going but she was confident that he would be ok.

Sabine was in her room doing everything she could to try and get herself to calm down. She couldn't go home, not with her family there. She wasn't a traitor, she knew this and the rebellion believed her but her family didn't. She left Mandalore because she couldn't stay, she couldn't face them. They serve the empire, how could she see them "Hey, Sabine" Hera said over the intercom "your friend Ketsu arrived, I need you to let her dock with the Ghost"

"ok" she said as she picked herself off her bed and went to the cock-pit.

As Hera entered Sato's ship she was greeted by the usual group of soldiers that stood on opposite ends of the hallway that saluted her as she walked past them. Hera didn't waste any time with formalities with Sato, they needed to get to Mandalore before Ezra could leave it. Assuming they left as soon as the call with Organa ended and there were no delays they would be there already.

Hera reached Fenn cell and saw him sitting in his bed looking at the wall "to what do I owe this pleasure?" He asked not even turning his head to face her.

Hera deactivated the barrier and walked in to face him "where going on a trip" she said as she through a pair of handcuffs on the end of Fenn's bed.

"Ah" he said as he stood up and put on the cuffs on "and where are we going?" He asked as he followed Hera off the ship.

"where going to Mandalore" Hera said deciding there's no point in not telling him when he's going to find out soon enough anyway.

"I see, and why exactly do you have a death wish?" He asked.

"we don't, where looking for are friend. And if Mandaloreions respect power and strength more than anything, you'll be volunteering to come too" Hera said as they entered the ghost to the sight of Sabine talking to Ketsu.

"so why exactly am I here?" She asked as she saw Hera and Fenn enter the room. She quickly pulled her blaster and pointed it at Fenn, Sabine pulled her blasters as fast as she Ketsu did and aimed right for her head "and also why is that traitor here?" She asked ready to fire.

"Ketsu relax he's a prisoner" Hera stated as she moved Rau over to the couch but the table.

"she raises good question. What friend is worth a rebel cell going to Mandalore" Fenn asked as Ketsu and Sabine but there blasters down.

"whoa whoa whoa, you want to go to Mandalore. That's a bad idea Sabine. I just got back from Mandalore, it's not exactly a peaceful please at the moment" Ketsu said thinking about what she could do to get them to change their minds.

Sabines eyes quickly went to Ketsu in surprise "why would it not be peaceful? The empire has a strong presence on Mandalore, they wouldn't allow war"

"they would if the people where honor bond to fight them" Ketsu said as she placed a small device on the table in front of Fenn and sat next to him.

"what are you talking about? There's nothing that can honor bond every clan on Mandalore to rally together and fight the empire" Sabine said crossing her arms looking at her friend/enemy/rival.

"keep telling yourself that" Ketsu said as she bressed a button on the small device.

"who the hell is that?" Hera asked as she looked at a hologram of a Dathomirian

With a black sword in his hand.

The Mandalorions in the room all new who that was "Mauls back?" Sabine asked turning to Katsu who nodded.

"wait. Did you say Maul?" Hera asked everyone in the room who nodded at her "dammit, he's the one on Malachor. The one who blinded Kanan" Hera said. Of course she asked about what happened and after some convincing he caved after a day or two.

"and he still has the dark Saber" Fenn said adding to the conversation "as long as he still has the weapon, it would be foolish for any Mandaloreion to question him"

"didn't anyone challenge him" Sabine asked Ketsu.

"yeah. A handful of people did" Ketsu said with sadness in her voice "Maul cut them all down one by one. And nobody could disagree with him because he won every challenge fairly" Ketsu said "so why in the hell are you going there" she asked yet again.

Sabine and Hera both sighed "we need to find Ezra" Sabine said.

"who?" Ketsu and Fenn both asked in unison.

"Ezra" Sabine stated again then turned to Ketsu "you met him" Sabine said remembering when she and Ezra went after a droid that had some information that the rebel needed but then Ketsu showed up.

"wait" Ketsu said as she stood up and raised her hand about as high as her chest "that little dork with the stunner pistol" Ketsu asked confused.

"HEY!" Hera yelled "watch it"

"Ketsu" Sabine said getting her attention "that little dork. Is the most wanted man in the galaxy"

Ketsu chuckled "ok now I know that's not true because the most wanted man in the galaxy is that Jedi on Lothal" she said as she crossed her arms while Sabine and Hera just looked at her and raised their eye brows at her "no way, ok come on. That's too much" Ketsu said as Sabine walked over to the table and placed device similar with Ketsu's but when she activated it, it showed the image of Ezra's face with the still crashed star destroyer behind him.

"no way" Ketsu said as she leaned in closer to inspect the image closer then went into shock a little bit "is it bad he just became incredibly attractive" she asked biting down on her bottom lip.

"no, no no no no no. Don't you dare, I know how you are with men. You can't resist bad boys" Sabine said with her temper immediately growing. Hera and Fenn couldn't help but let out a chuckle.

The Rouge Shadow

Leia sat in the pilots chair testing the hyperdrive to see if it worked after a couple of hours of the four of them working on it. After Ezra and Proxy came back they all worked in silence for a while just focusing on their work, Leia didn't bring up Ezra's past again feeling that she crossed a line and didn't want to do it again. They just gave each other smiles too each other, Ezra looked like he actually looked like he was showing emotion and as much as Leia would hate to admit it every time Ezra gave her a smile she felt her cheeks go red.

Leia looked at the monitors as they all went green "it's working" Ezra said as he entered the cockpit "we did it faster than I thought" he said as Leia turned to face him with a smile on her face.

"yeah, that's what happens when you're part of a team. Things get done quicker" she said feeling a little bit smug that she was right "and her about before, when we err...almost" Leia started immediately feeling her cheeks go red.

"what about it?" Ezra asked walking a little bit closer to her.

"I... err, want you to know that I'm not usually like that" She started but stopped herself as she looked to the ground and saw Ezra's feet closer to her.

"do you regret it?" Ezra asked looking into her eye's as they were fixed on the ground.

"What?" She asked as her eyes shot up to meet his "no, no not at all I just err..." Leia said trailing off not finding the right words.

Ezra placed his hand on her chin and lifted it upwards to face him and without another word Ezra closed the distance between them. Leia closed her eyes as she felt Ezra's lips meet hers. After she quickly got over the initial shock, she happily kissed him back. Ezra's hands drifted downwards and landed on her thighs. Leia liked what was happening, there was no part of her didn't. She opened her mouth and started a war with Ezra's tongue over dominance as her arms made their way around Ezra's neck.

They stayed in that exact moment for what felt like forever until they were pulled apart by very unwelcome company "Master, look" Proxy said from behind them pointing put the window.

Ezra groaned as they separated and he looked out the window to see a large ship exit hyperspace "looks like a light cruiser" Ezra thought as he looked out the window.

Leia saw the logo on the side of the ship "the black sun" Leia said as she looked back to Ezra with a worried look.

"and there is only one thing the black sun use light cruiser's for" Proxy said as he and R2 stood beside him and Leia.

"slavers" Ezra and Leia both said in unison just before the ship shook furiously

"master we're stuck in a tractor beam, there bringing us aboard" Proxy said as he could see Ezra and Leia hands locking with each other.

Ok guys I wanted to thank you on all the reviews for the last chapter. There where 18 reviews for the last chapter and I read them all. First a big shout out to 'Omni-Creator Kami of Anime' 'The Anonymous FanFic Author' and 'DxD-Supreme' for the ideas of bringing in Fenn Rau and Kestu also a shout out to 'ash-Greninja4' and 'a guest' for giving me the idea on bringing Shaak Ti back in to fold, I might try that further down the line.

And yes. I read the reviews that say Ezra getting captured bay slavers doesn't make any logical sense and you're right but don't worry I have plan for something to happen on that ship and IF I do it right it will be absolutory heart breaking. And besides I still need to buy more time until the new episode of rebels so it can remain as lore friendly as possible.

So yeah I thinks that's everything so please let me know what you all think, and give me some ideas on what should happen next please don't hesitate do take all ideas into consideration, goodbye and I will see you in the next chapter.