A/N: Hey, I'm there with a brand new chapter for you! So, the Christmas is coming and school gave me a big project to do, I inform you that the chapters might not appear frequently. I've got a sister to babysit, cousins to play with... y'know, a lot of work :D. And OHMYGOD, the episode 10 made me scream! Though it's sad that there was no closer interaction between Sabine and Ezra *cries under the bed while hugging a pillow*.
REVIEWS:
Guest/Sean: I'll make a festive chapter, don't worry. I'm also planning on introducing another rebels as well, but this chapter is a 'filler' for episode 6 so... y'know. I'll take your advice though and I'll make Medic finally be able to use the POWER OF GODS!on rebels.
I'd like to also say that I am planning another sequel to this story, BUT it won't be SW: Rebels x TF2 crossover. It will be different, but our characters (at least the ones from TF2) will stay the same. Don't worry, our adventures with the rebels won't end soon.
That being said,
Enjoy!
Liberator, Duncan's POV
Sato ordered me to get Sabine and Fenn Rau to the meeting. Dimitri was sent with me in case the older mandalorian would cause any trouble. Not that there could be a posibility of something like that.
Sabine was probably hanging out with Rau in his cell playing some games which names I did not know. It was probably only one way to somehow interact with her people, though I wasn't going deeper into that.
As I predicted, both mandalorians were sitting in the cell playing the same game.
"Hera wanted to see ya. Pretty important stuff as always." I leaned on the wall and my oversized friend lowered the shield. Then I looked at Rau who moved back to his 'corner of loneliness and pity'. "You too, Sabine's grumpy and less attractive uncle."
"And why would I care?" he asked in his grumpy attitude.
"*sigh* Can you please get him out before I take my Sandman?" I looked at Dimitri who nodded and entered the cell. Sabine respectfully went out of the way while Rau was pulled up, and hanging down by his clothing was taken out of his little house of misery.
"I hate you." mandalorian grumbled still dangling from our Heavy's hand.
"I know right?" I smirked. "That's why we should be friends forever!"
He just rolled his eyes as we were making our way to the bridge. Hera seemed a bit confused by Rau hanging down from Dimitri's hand, but started the meeting anyway.
"We lost communications with the Mandalorian base on Concord Dawn." she explained the problem.
"Rebel leaders are concerned that your Protectors are setting a trap for us." Sato added.
"Impossible. My men are loyal to my word." Rau reassured. "Your safe passage through our system is secure."
"Well, if they lost comms, that means somethin' happened, pal." I pointed out. "And it's defianetely not somethin' good."
"I'll go check it out." Sabine said immediately.
"I should go with you." the 'less attractive uncle' added. "They are my men and I can talk to them."
"Wait, Isn't he our prisoner?" Zeb asked surprised.
"More like a cranky guest." Kanan sighed.
"He can go, but he stays in binders." Hera stated. "Ezra Duncan and Jenny will go with you accompanied by Chopper." I high-fived Jenny when she said that. "Do a recon sweep then come back. You are not to land OR engage."
"Yeah yeah, there is more of the rules of 'How to not crash the ship' or 'how to keep our cranky guest sitting in place' blah blah blah," I interrupted her. "but don't worry. Besides, we've got our baseball bats if he will... try to cause problems."
"Oh no." Rau groaned still hanging down from Dimitri's hand. "Not with them."
"Hey, look for the positives!" both me and Jenny said in unison. "At least we'll get to know you better outside your house of misery!"
He just rolled his eyes as Dimitri dropped him down on the ground. We walked towards the Phantom II and headed towards the Concord Dawn. I was just feeling that this will be a lot more complicated than I thought it would be.
Concord Dawn system, Phantom II, Jenny's POV
We were sitting in the Phantom II while Sabine was flying the ship. Rau was just sitting in front of us and looked forward in awkward way.
"Whassup, Grumpypants?" Dun needed to say something funny of course.
"I don't know what you mean." he replied.
"Oh, you're grumpy all the time. That explains a lot." my male equivalent let out a fake sigh.
Then I spotted the planet that was supposed to be Concord Dawn. Or what was left of it.
"The hell happened here?" I asked.
"The Mandalorians have endured wars for years since before the formation of the Republic." Rau explained. "Just as we endure the Empire and your Rebellion."
"Too bad our people can't stop fighting eachother." Sabine sighed.
"I don't get the whole mandaloria-ouch!" Ezra was interrupted as the older mandalorian knocked him out.
I rushed at him, but he just threw me at Dun who didn't expect that. The last thing I saw was Rau stunning Sabine and everything went dark.
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*SLAP*
Pain in my face.
"Wake up finally!" the familiar cocky voice shouted. It was Dun who was standing in front of me.
"Ow, screw you!" I shouted back.
"Ouch, can you please stop screaming?" Ezra and Sabine who were tied to eachother by ex-Rau's handcuffs.
"Oh, so we're not the only ones who can see that you are falling for eachother." Dun joked and I laughed with him.
"SHUT UP!" both of them said as Chopper freed them.
"Nah." me and Dun replied still giggling.
They just rolled their eyes and we saw the land through the cockpit. We left the ship and immediately saw Rau standing on the hill. I had a really strong desire to punch him in the face now. Though he looked too still. Like if he was frozen.
"Turn around. Slowly." Ezra used the Force to pull the pistol out of his hand and pointed it at him. Although it seemed a LOT too easy.
He wasn't turning around at all.
"Rau?" Sabine slowly approached him from behind.
We followed her and suddenly saw what the older mandalorian was seeing. The base of the Protectors was destroyed, or I should say blown up. There was a smoke coming out of the buildings and everything looked like if it was just bombarded by a cruiser or a Star Destroyer.
"Da hell happened here?" Dun asked before I spoke.
"Other Mandalorians." Rau anwsered in a voice full of anger.
We walked down while the older mandalorian was looking around mumbling about how this was defianetely attack by another clan.
"Why for God's sake mandalorians would attack their own?" I asked really confused by this whole situation.
"It's... complicated." Sabine replied and turned towards her 'less attractive uncle'. "Look Rau-"
"This is all your fault!" he interrupted her and turned around. "If I'd been here instead of locked away by your rebels, I could have prevented this!"
"Look pal, if we would want this to happen, then your Mandalorians would kick our asses and you know that!" I pointed out sharply. "There is no reason in bitching at us for something that we didn't mean to happen!"
Suddenly Chopper started to grunt and shake violently. I didn't know what he was saying yet, but Ezra saved me.
"Chopper is picking up a signal from over there!" he announced.
"Aaand I think I know where does it come from." Dun raised his scatterguns and pointed on the black thing that was heading towards us.
"It's imperial!" Sabine shouted and all of us started shooting the probe droid.
I had a few tricks for this piece of scrap. I adjusted the grappling hook on my right hand and launched it at the robot. Gra hit it right in the visor and I tried to stay in one place as the thing was pulling me with it.
"Help!" I screamed and Dun who saw me first nodded quickly and launched his own grappling hook. Now the droid was immobilized and quickly destroyed by others.
"Think it got the signal out?" Ezra asked.
"Well, we're either fine or a few Star Destroyers are on their way." Sabine said sarcastically. "You wanna find out?"
"Fair point." he nodded.
"We gotta go, grumpy uncle!" Duncan shouted as Rau was standing in one place.
"I have no intention of leaving." he replied sharply.
"The Empire could be on their way right now!" Sabine pointed out.
"I dealt with them before and I'll deal with them again." the older mandalorian said sharply and I really wanted to punch him now. "But now I have the location of your base as a bargaining chip."
"Nuh uh, you're not goin' anywhere." I immediately raised my pistols at him and so did Sabine and Dun.
But then we saw something that haven't filled us with optimism at all. About 10 figures in the sky using some sort of jetpacks. Chopper confirmed our worries when he started to grunt on the comm.
"What are those?" Ezra seemingly couldn't belive the sight just as me. "Flying stormtroopers?"
"Worse. They're traitors. Mandalorians who serve the Empire." Rau explained.
"Ezra, Jenny, run!" Sabine warned us as Dun was already somewhere around the destroyed buildings. I ran to join him, while the flying figures were getting closer and closer.
(Sudden magical POV switch) Duncan's POV
That was kind of bad situation we were in. I went to hide from the Mandalorians, but soon I could hear gunshots and Ezra's voice. I wasn't going to leave him so I came up with a plan so stupid... it just could work.
Mandalorian soldier was just walking towards me and I made it easier for him to see me.
"Hey, you! Don't move!" he raised his blaster.
"Wait wait wait! Don't shoot me!" I backed off a little bit. "We can solve this peacefully!"
Soldier put handcuffs on my hands and I started to put my plan into work.
"Aww hell. I knew that coming here for scavenging is gonna be a bad idea." I let out a fake grumble. "It's just getting better and better."
Then I spotted Jenny that was probably captured too. She also had handcuffs on while the Mandalorian trooper was walking behind her.
"Duncan?" she asked in a real surprise and I just had an idea how to make my plan even better. "You too?"
"I could ask you the same question!" I tried to sound outraged. "You're always goin' after me! I can't get any spare parts for myself! Screw you!"
"What?" she looked at me in a really convincing way, but then I saw a really quick change of her face expression. It was enough for me to realize that she understood my plan. "Who said that you were here first? I have a work to do and if I won't get enough scrap, I'll have problems."
We were making up an argument and it was visible that the Mandalorians were confused. Finally we reached a destroyed building where Ezra was talking with a Mandalorian in red armor.
"Sir, we've found them, but... they seem to be just scavengers." one of our guards reported.
"And you!?" I screamed in surprise at Bridger. "This day couldn't get any worse! First her, then you! Can't someone go get his scrap for himself?
"Shut up! This isn't your teritory!" Jenny played her role perfectly.
"We'll talk when I'll make a hole in your face, punk!" I teased her again and even started to enjoy it.
"SILENCE!" the red-armored mandalorian yelled and seeing that we shut up, he continued. "I don't belive that you're scavengers. Any of you."
"Well then who are you?" I decided to attack him directly.
"I am Gar Saxon, Imperial Viceroy on Mandalore." he said coldly. "We are mandalorians. And you are dead."
Then another idea came to my head I looked at Jenny and she probably had the same idea. We started to laugh uncontrolably.
"MHAAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh that was a good one." I finally stopped giggling. "I am ready for more."
"Shut up! You aren't dealing with some Imperial officers here!" Saxon yelled.
"Oh, you think you're a Mandalorian?" I had a day of crazy ideas today. "Prove it! Shoot me!"
He was surprised by such offer and was standing still for a while.
"C'mon! I don't have all day, pal!" I started to get a little bit impatient.
Saxon raised his blaster and I could see his finger slowly pulling a trigger. I picked the moment and quickly dodged the shot when it was fired.
"Man, your aim SUCKS!" I teased him. "I'm starting to doubt that the Imperial Mandalorians aren't extinct."
"You..." he started to speak, but then a small object rolled inside and started beeping.
"Oh sorry, time is up." I stood up. "See ya!"
With that, me and Jenny smashed our handcuffs on the heads of the mandalorians and ran out as smoke filled the place. Ezra had to be dragged out by Sabine who caused all this.
"What took you so long?" Bridger asked.
"I was using strategy, it takes longer!" she replied cutting his handcuffs with the lightsaber and handing it to him. "Rau should already be in the ship."
Then the Phantom II started to departure and soon it was out of our reach.
"Oh, no shit!" Jenny said sarcastically. "So what's with the strategy now?"
"Nothing good." Sabine sighed.
Then her evil and ugly cousins approached us. Instead of 10 at the beggining, there was only 8 of them now, but it was still much.
"Sabine Wren." the even less attractive uncle than Rau spoke.
"I don't know you." she replied calmly.
"Well I know you and all about how you've joined the Phoenix Squadron." Saxon was probably about to start some shitty family reunion. "I also know that your mother is looking for you."
'I am a genious!' I thought inside and Bridger's face expression changed from cold to uncertain.
"Don't belive him." Sabine tried to calm him down.
"Sabine never told you about her family?" less attractive uncle started to speak again and I was getting tired of his sentimentality. "Well she lies as well as you boy. Her own mother s-"
"Can you just shut up?" I asked directly. "Your shitty skills in making family reunions will give me cancer!"
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All of us were staring at me, but no one said anything. It was just weird and I thought I took this too far.
"Out of respect for your family, I'll give you a choice." Saxon said reffering to Sabine now. "Give me Fenn Rau and swear allegiance or you and your friends die."
All of us looked at her. It was obvious that something like that was like signing your death warrant.
"I yield." she finally replied.
"Sabine no!" Ezra stopped her, but it was obvious that she had a plan.
"We have no choice." younger mandalorian said and gave her helmet to Chopper.
"Say it." Saxon approached her and aimed the blaster at her.
"I swear... that you're a fool!" she shouted and turned around. "Chopper now!"
I saw an opportunity and kicked the less attractive uncle in the head. Then I aimed at the head of one soldier and fired turning it into mashed potatoes.
"Sorry, I'll get dat from ya!" I took his jetpack and put it on my back. Jenny was just beating the crap out of one mandalorian when spotted me and did the same.
"Hang on!" I heard when Sabine held Ezra and launched them both into the air.
Jenny and I smirked and joined them.
"Love birds! Love birds! Flying through the sky!" we were singing all the time.
"Shut up!" they both embarrased and we high-fived eachother while trying to lear how to fly properly. "Besides, you have Sabine's evil cousins on your tail!"
We looked back and saw what they were talking about. Now 6 mandalorians flying behind us. We raised our pistols and tried to slow them by shooting at them, but they were on our heels all the time.
"They're flying faster than us!" Ezra shouted and we flew into the canyon in attempt to loose them.
The mandalorians followed us and started shooting. I tried to get closer to them as I knew how to fly that damn thing. But then I felt paralyzing pain in my chest. I got hit by one of these SOBs.
"FUCK!" I yelled as I crashed on the ground.
"Duncan!" Jenny tried to turn back, but she couldn't get through the mandalorians.
"GO! Save yourself!" I shouted and one of Sabine's evil cousins landed near me and I slowly stood up. He was about to get a real beating.
(Meanwhile) Sabine's POV
He told us to go...
I wanted to come back, but I already had to hold Ezra's hand all the time. Though it was painful that we needed to do that.
While we were escaping, Jenny was harrasing the Saxon's men. I had an idea how to slow them down. I reached to my special pocket and pulled out a few bombs. When they hit the big rock, it blew up just in front of their faces and we were clear to go.
I saw the characteristic mandalorian ship, but then some gunshots came from the right. It was another traitor that tried to cut us off.
"Whoa!" I tried to dodge the shots, but by doing that I knocked all of us off the sky. After a while we were all lying on the ground trying to stand up, but when I tried to reach for my pistol, the mandalorian kicked it back. Soon Gar Saxon joined us with three of his remaining men.
"Finish the boy and the girl. Wren is mine." he looked at me and I felt a cold chill going down my spine.
He walked towards me, but then I saw one of his men fall on the ground. Then another one was sent flying off the cliff.
"What the-oooompff!" Saxon couldn't finish as he was punched in the face with a metal bat.
"Whassamatter, you're frickin' stoopid?" Duncan appeared still in blurr as he was probably drinking a LOT of BONK! "Eat it, fatty!"
He kicked him again, but then two other mandalorians tried to pin him down.
"Hey!" I finally stood up and kicked Saxon in the face. I was hoping that it was already deformed.
"Aaargh!" he grabbed me by the torso and smashed to the ground. I felt pain in my rib cage. He kneeled beside me and was ready to deliver a final blow. "You are not escaping. The Empire will know what to do with you!"
"PERVERT! PEDOPHILE!" I heard a girlish voice and soon Saxon was hiding from laser shots fired by Jenny.
She wasn't staying like that for long as she was pinned down by one of his men. That made an opportunity for Duncan to escape though.
"GAR SAXON!" a loud voice could be heard through the speakers and soon the Phantom II revealed itself with Fenn Rau piloting it. "Those kids are under MY protection!"
It wasn't long till the whole place was in flames. Ezra helped to get rid off of the mandalorian traitors and we all were entering the shuttle. But when it was my turn, I felt a hand on my foot.
"You're not going anywhere!" Saxon pulled me down and delivered a punch to the face.
"Sabine!" Ezra shouted.
"PEDOPHILE! PEDOPHILE! PERVERT!" I could hear Scout-ish voices from the shuttle.
I kicked him back and tried to fly up again, but he pulled me down again.
"Can you leave me alone?" I asked him sarcastically while Rau was blowing up the mandalorian ship using Phantom II.
I jumped on his back and damaged his jetpack. Now it was enough to escape, but he threw me on the ground. My back was seriously hurt.
"Now you will die!" Saxon was really sure of that, but he didn't know what was behind him.
"Yo, batter up!" Duncan shouted at him as all of my friends started shooting at him. He tried to shield himself with his hands and I took the opportunity to fly away!
"Bye bye!" I waved at him and headed towards the shuttle. I was so close, but then I felt a punch on my jetpack and it stopped working. "Aaaaah!"
But Ezra grabbed my hand just in time.
"Gotcha!" he tried to pull me up and soon with the help of Jenny and Duncan I was on the floor of the ship.
"Thanks." I gasped for breath and Ezra put an arm around me. It felt so... safe and comfortable like this. "He shot my jetpack. That just pissed me off."
"I have no doubt to that." Jenny smiled. "No worries, hardhats will fix it in no-time."
Rau was still piloting and we all sat down. He was nervous now, but he didn't show any sign of agression towards us.
"I really thought you left us." I finally started.
"I... considered it." he let out a sigh. "But then I realized that you were willing to die for your people. Even if they're not Mandalorian." then he looked at me directly. "You haven't forgotten our ways. That has earned my respect."
It was nice to hear something like this from another and far more experienced mandalorian.
"Uhh, don't take this too seriously, guys, but..." Ezra started. "Mandalorians are crazy."
"Heh, crazy enough to join you." Rau smiled and we all fell silent.
That was the most shocking thing I would expect now, even if I was trying to convince him before. But now?
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"YAASSSSSSS!" Duncan suddenly screamed. "FINALLY! THE CORNER OF MISERY IS... NO MORE!"
Jenny realized what he meant and now they were all cheering. I just rolled my eyes, but I was happy with them. It was nice to have a mandalorian on our side.
Someone from my kind.
A/N: WHEW! Finally I manadged to get enough time to finish this. Again I AM SO SORRY FOR THIS CRAP! I'll try to get some time, but during the Christmas time it won't be easy. Carry on!
Bonker out!