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STAR WARS REBELS

The New Spectres

Landon's Mother Part 1

GHOST

Landon was in a bad mood and it showed when he punched a dent into Sabine's painting of Chopper following the bunk prank the droid had pulled on Ezra and Zeb.

"Don't put anymore dents in the Ghost then it already has." Ezra said.

"My mother is up to her old tricks again." He replied.

"What did she do now?"

"She found out there was money in my name and used forged documents to steal it." Jamal came over upon hearing the commotion.

"She forged what?" He asked.

"Money that was put into a trust managed by my grandfather for my future by my dad's fire company. The only way my mother could get it is either she tells the bank I signed it over to her or she provides a death certificate for me. I never signed the money over to her, so either she forged my signature on a piece of paper or she said I'm dead."

"She can't do that unles she wants a free trip to Bedford Hills for the next 10-15."

"I doubt she'd care. Her family has some sort of sway over city officials that she can use to get out of trouble."

"Isn't peddling influence to pervert justice one of the things that gets Felth and Myers going?" Ezra asked Jamal as he wrapped his arms around Landon.

"From what I heard Bryan Khayman didn't like it either. When we get back to New York, we can ask the General to look into this." Jamal said.

NEW YORK

To say the Spectres were unhappy was an understatement as the six human members gathered in Tevin Felth's office and discussed how to deal with Landon's mother.

"Arrest her now. She's clearly plotting a murder attempt. Conspiracy to commit a murder is a crime." Lucy said.

"Get Mossad to find a link between her and the First Order. That freezes her bank accounts and whatever belongs to Landon can be taken out of it. Plus, then she can be locked up as a terrorist instead of a thief." Josh suggested.

"Find her car and decorate it." Sabine added causing everyone to look at her in shock.

"Two wrongs don't make a right Sabine." Tevin said as he entered his office.

"Your mother used some piece of paper with your signature on it. I need you to sign your name on this so I can have Kelsey compare them." He gave Landon a piece of scrap paper.

"Filing a false business document is good enough for me to take a squad of Death Troopers to her front door again." Michael Myers said from the doorway.

"And Josh, I heard your idea about linking her to the First Order. We find evidence she's after Ezra, then we see if the pieces fit." Michael turned to Jamal as Tevin went to deliver Landon's signature to Kelsey.

"Detective Wilkins, what have you been told about a thug for hire named Roy McDuggan?"

"He's on the street again?"

"Tell your partner, the Remnant's putting a tail on him. I know there's history involving them and Khayman. I suspect that Landon's mother might use him in whatever it is she's planning to do."

Landon was still in a slump that afternoon despite having heard that the bank employee who had allowed his mother to use a forged signature on a phony document to remove money from an account that she no connection to was dragged from his job in handcuffs by a squad of Death Troopers, into the office, and grilled by Lucy's mom before being charged with a slew of felonies. His mood improved somewhat between a talk with Sabine about how Ezra didn't care about the money and Josh telling him that his mother was also now under investigation for tampering with Landon's mail by filing a false document to divert his mail which also served as an excuse for Michael and the Felths to serve a search warrant on her home and look basically anywhere they wanted.

"Your mother getting arrested for all the frauds she's committing against you is getting closer by the day. She started all this the day you turned 18." Jamal told Landon as they were working to sync navigational charts between the Ghost, Gauntlet, Felth's Pride, Astro Megaship, and a data spike containing navigational data that was sent down from the Naberrie.

"She's hated me since I came out to her. Pratchard's been looking forward to airing her dirty laundry in court since he heard this story. That's why she was removed as trustee of this money by my dad's engine company. When she found out the costs of conversion treatments would be out of pocket, she threw me out on the street, called me a ton of names, and said she hopes I get something and die." Landon fought back a few tears.

"She's looking at some serious time in a federa prison. Once they have all the evidence, she might get charged with a hate crime too." Jamal said and left as Ezra entered.

"Chopper is about to declare war on the Astro Megaship. It is not playing nice with him or with AP-5. Maybe it will play nice with R9. I suppose I could always borrow R2-D2 if I have to. He didn't say anything to upset you?"

"Not on purpose. Are you sure Chopper didn't start whatever fight he's having with that ship?"

"He probably did since I walked in while he was bashing a panel with a wrench with the ship's computer mocking him and AP mocking it right back. I have no idea what he was doing before that."

"Sabine told me she thinks they came off the same assembly line. I wouldn't doubt it given how they behave at home."

A couple of days later, Landon's mother Rebecca was arrested by the NYPD after trying to cash a birthday check given to Landon by a relative from out of state. When word reached Michael and Tevin, they had her brought down to the Federal Building where the Spectres were waiting.

"Why?" Was all Landon could say to her as he faced her in an interrogation room with Jamal and Ezra.

"You don't deserve anything except a wooden box in Potter's Field. That's right. If the morgue called me to claim you after you were found dead somewhere, I wouldn't." She said with venom in her voice. Ezra's blood boiled at her attitude, but he used a Jedi calming technique to control himself while Jamal wrote down the comment to be used as evidence.

"I hope they put you in prison for a long time and that I can return the favor one day. By the way, meet Ezra. He's my new boyfriend." Landon spat and left the room with Ezra behind him.

Landon and Ezra attended the arraignment for Rebecca where AUSA Connie Rubirosa secured $500,00 cash bail and a freeze on all of Rebecca's bank accounts so she couldn't amend a possible hit on Landon to include Ezra, use Landon's money for bail, or flee the country.

"She can't get out unless someone posts for her." Connie told the two outside the courtroom as Jamal and Ryan Pratchard joined them.

"More good news, Roy McDuggan's been arrested for playing enforcer to a loan shark. He's willing to incriminate her in a plot to kill Landon." Jamal said.

"Him, I'd be willing to make a deal with." Ryan told them.