I hope you enjoy the Easter fanfic. This might be my final chapter of the fanfic. Unless you guys want another one.
Chapter-11 Attack!
It was three days before the attack was to take place on the Empire above Bespin and then Naboo. They were to take Naboo first, as it had more soldier to help with the attack on Bespin.
"Bring it down!" Yelled the frustrated Ezra on the Chimera, another Republic battleship.
"Calm down, Ezra." Said the calming voice of Hera.
"Sorry, There's so much to do in a few daytimes." He said calming down.
"It's fine. Don't lose it again on the troopers. They lost brothers on the Resolute."
"I know."
Meanwhile with Sabine.
"We're going to need a couple more torpedoes and turbolaser rounds. We're also going to need more fuel." She named the equipment that the broadsides needed to fire.
"Yes, Lieutenant." The clone said. She keeps thinking. "Lieutenant. I can't get used to being called that.
"Lieutenant Wren." Said a familiar voice.
"Ezra!" She put the data-pad down, ran over to him and hugged him. They kissed quickly and Sabine said.
"Well hello, Commander Bridger." They liked having an adequate rank in the Republic armies.
"What have you been up to my love?" Said the loving Ezra.
"Nothing, just getting the guns ready. What are you doing?"
"Taking a break, so I decided to come see you."
"Thanks, I needed a break." They kissed again and went for lunch.
"I'm getting a sandwich." Said the drooling Ezra, as he had to miss breakfast.
"I'm getting waffles."
"for lunch?" Said Ezra.
"Why not?" She said. He agreed and got waffles with her instead. After lunch, before Ezra and Sabine went back to work they kissed and said. "Love you!" and they walked off. Ezra was helping Hera with the Ghost's ion boosters.
"Make sure they're clean! We don't need the boosters to fail."
"I know Hera!" The crew was getting frustrated with working 24/7 on the ships. Hera has used the Ghost's fuel supply, twice. Trying to remove the debris field blocking hyperspace lanes.
"We're planning the attack if we can get the Chimera ready for combat the way we want it." Said a commander.
"Commander Bridger to the bridge. Commander Bridger to the bridge." Hera nodded and sent him to the bridge. He ran up as quickly as he could.
"Whats up Admiral?"
"We're changing your mission assignment. You are to be the recon." He got a little angry because he was to be on the mission to attack alongside Sabine.
"Okay." The Admiral dismissed him to do something. He could help who he wanted or rest for the mission. He went to talk to Hera and Sabine. He called them to the Ghost to talk.
"Hera, Sabine. I won't be on mission with you." They were wide-eyed.
"Why not?" Said Hera.
"I've been reassigned to the recon team." Sabine started to understand but still felt a little uneasy. Hera, on the other hand, was not happy. They were set to attack The base the following day after tomorrow. So Ezra went out tonight.
A few hours later
Well, this is goodbye for now." Said the nervous Ezra.
"See ya!" She said giving him a kiss. "And Good Luck!" The transport launched and Ezra was moving to Naboo.
On the transport
"This is shuttle oh-niner one seven seven, to ground control do you copy over?"
"This is Planetary Command, submit your planetary access code immediately or be shot down." They sent the codes and waited for clearance.
"Shuttle oh-niner one seven seven. Your access has been denied, prepare to be shot down."
"NO NO NO!" A missile locked on and hit the hull of the ship. Sucking out multiple rebels. Ezra was hanging on to one of the rebels. "Don't let me go!" He gave the assurance he wouldn't.
"BRACE FOR IMPACT!" A clone said. Just then the transport brutally crashed into the swamps. A few minutes later Ezra woke up. Along with two other clones. They were in the hull, his buddy, the one he helped stay in the hull. Had shrapnel in his body.
"Hey man, you're going to be okay." He said trying to help. He knew he was going to die.
"I'm not going to make it." They heard imperial air patrols looking for the ship.
"Go, if they come. I'll hold them off." He said loading his weapon. He told Ezra to prop him up behind cover, to hopefully take out more troopers. Ezra did so and the other two troopers took off with recon equipment and some explosives. They heard gunfire in the distance and heard the man yell "FOR THE ALLIANCE!" and the gunfire stopped. They heard one final shot. They hacked into imperial comms and heard. "Last remaining trooper down. We lost multiple men." They were saddened by the loss of a friend but still had a mission to accomplish. They were five miles away from the imperial fuel garrison. They hiked and got to the base of the facility. Ezra grabbed his lightsaber and cut through the metal fence. They placed charges on the center fuel tank. Just then the two clones were force choked to death by an evil man. Darth Vader. Imperial stunned Ezra and took him captive. They disabled the charges on the fuel. Ezra was a captive of the Empire once again. After a few hours of electrical torture and force torture, Ezra was injected with an unknown substance. He was open to command.
"You now serve the Empire." Said, Vader.
"I now serve the Empire." Said Ezra. Vader wished for the knowledge of how the attack was to take place. Once the knowledge was learned the Empire placed a trap for the Allies.
When the fleets came out of hyperspace for the attack
"All ships launch!" Said the Admiral. Once the ships got to the surface after breaking through the imperial blockade, Sabine was the ground leader and lead the troops into the base.
"MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!" She yelled. She saw Ezra standing there. She ordered them to hold position while she ran up to him and saw his eyes. She felt darkness. She ignited her saber and looked into his eyes.
"Ezra?" She asked. His saber sparked and he started to slash at Sabine. The troopers were wide-eyed. They fought for a few minutes all the while Sabine was trying to snap Ezra out of it. He cut her saber in half leaving her defenseless. Kanan ran in and started fighting him. Saving Sabine. Vader came in and force choked Kanan until he passed out and they took him. Vader went to deal with the troopers but said. "Finish her. Painfully." He nodded and walked up to her. She was laying on the ground in awe. He slashed at her multiple times and missed. Then he choked her with the force till her eyes started tearing up. He let her go and then cut her left arm off. She screamed in pain as the cut instantly sealed the wounds. She held the wound and said. "I THOUGHT I KNEW YOU!" He raised his saber and was ready to strike the final blow. Sabine was crying and in pain. Just laying there. His sub-conscious was fighting the substance telling him this is wrong. You love her and she loves you. He went to deliver the final blow but just then. "STOP!" Said another female voice. He stopped and looked. "YOU!" She nodded.
"A true Jedi, finally a challenge." Said the possessed Ezra.
"I'm no Jedi, My name is Ahsoka Tano." He ran at her and she ignited both blades and worked on fighting him off. Some soldiers ran to help the critically injured Sabine.
"If you go after him... Set for stun." She groaned and passed out. When Ezra was fighting Ahsoka he cut one of her sabers in half. They interlocked their blades and a soldier came up behind him and stunned him. They later captured Naboo in a brutal five-day battle. Costing the Allies much of its fleet and soldiers.
Later at the Kamino medical center
Sabine was screaming in pain as they prepared her arm for a cybernetic replacement. Ahsoka was using the force to try and find Kanan. They had no choice but to sedate Sabine. Ezra was held on the Chimera for interrogation by Hera and Ahsoka. Hera went in looking furious.
"She was your teammate. Why did you try to kill her?"
"I've noticed your anger towards me is worse than the others. I don't know who you are." He said as he spits in her face.
"I've learned that the Allies are the true reason the galaxy will never stop fighting." She wiped the spit off her face and walked off, disgusted. A clone explained that an unknown substance was injected into his neck. They are looking for a cure. Sabine was out of surgery on her arm. A clone walked in for an update on Ezra's condition.
"Why? Why would he do this?" She asked trying not to cry.
"We took blood and tested it and found an unknown substance in his blood." She didn't forgive him for hurting her. She was in pain and he might have known it. Meanwhile, in the interrogation room, Ezra was being tortured by rebels. Hera was interrogating him again. He was starting to make sense of what he did. Then he snapped back to who he was.
"WHERE AM I!?" He was freaking out and didn't recognize Hera.
"WHO ARE YOU!?" She looked confused. Then he remembered.
"Hera!" He asked where he was.
"The medical center on Kamino. Your being treated for an unknown substance, attempted murder, and treason." He looked shocked. She asked him if he remembered what he did. When he said no she said...
"You cut off Sabine's arm, cut her sabers hilt, and cut Ahsoka's hilt. You killed rebels." He went wide-eyed.
"No! NO! I need to see her!" Hera denied him wanting to.
"Ezra... Kanan was captured. Saving Sabine." He started to cry and just said: "Leave me here." She wouldn't and had special guards come in and watch Ezra while she let him down. When she let him down, he fell to the floor and sobbed. She nodded to a guard as she comforted the boy. He left to get Sabine.
"Miss Wren? I need you to come with me." She nodded and followed. She went in and saw Ezra laying on the floor, crying. She heard him say "Why? Why did I do this? She won't forgive me." Her eyes teared up. She contacted Hera and told her a special code to come to the other room. She did and they talked.
"Hera, why did he do this?"
"I don't know." Just then a clone walked in and said. "We identified the substance as Bavo Six. A powerful truth serum. But it can't cause traitorous thoughts. They must have engineered it."
Hera walked in to talk to Ezra. "Ezra, we found the substance. It wasn't your fault you did what you did. None of it was." She told the guard to bring her in. He nodded and brought Sabine in."
"Hey Ez." His eyes opened when he saw the arm. He got up and said, "Sabi, I'm so sorry!" He went on to explain it wasn't his fault. She put her hand up and made him shut up and said.
"It's okay, I forgive you. Can I get a hug?" He said "Sure." They hugged even though it was painful because of the new arm but she can get some pain meds for it.
"I missed you, Ezra Bridger."
"I missed you too, Sabine Wren."
The next morning...
The alarm clock went off and Sabine and Ezra woke up to the day in a cell. Sabine woke Ezra up and Hera walked in.
"Ezra, your Allied trial is set for tomorrow. I can try to make a case but the odds are against you. The Empire agreed to hold as well as ourselves for this matter." Hera was crying softly. Sabine and Ezra knew if this didn't end well he would end up in sunspot prison. "I'm with you, Ezra," Sabine said.
"As am I." Said Ahsoka walking in.
"Count me in." Said Sabine. Hera walked out after she agreed to help and brought back some hot dogs and water. "Thanks, Hera." She said."No problem." Imperial defected Senator Jack Ali.
"Ezra Bridger." He said as he walked in and shaked hands.
"Do I know you?" He shrugged his shoulders and said, "Maybe, Maybe not."
"I will be your defendant for the case. I know you... Weren't yourself and we can make a case for that. The best I can get you is time away from the battlefield." He said. Ezra was okay with time away from the field. He could see Sabine more. Kanan walked in angry and didn't know about the substance in him.
"What the nut butter was you thinking!?" He said with steam practically blowing out of his ears.
"Hon, he didn't directly do it." Hera was trying to reason with him.
"What do you mean?" He said with the steam stopping and him calming down.
"I had a serum in my blood. Genetically engineered Bavo Six." He said showing him the bruise on his neck.
"Ezra, I didn't know." He was trying to show his sorriness. Kanan didn't need to and said" We need to move onto more pressing matters. Like my trial."
"Of course. I need you to come with me alone." Said the Senator.
"No, not alone. I want Sabine with us." He agreed.
"We need to work on your case." He agreed and they started.
Two hours later...
"Well, I think that wraps it up for today. It was an honor to meet you." Said the Senator.
"The honor is all mine." Said, Ezra, as the Senator walked out.
"Ezra, that senator knows you because he is a good friend of mine. I've told him about us."
"Sabine." She thought he would be mad and looked away.
"Sabine, thank you. I'll be fine." He said.
"You don't know that. If you go to jail. I don't know what I'll do."
"Sabine you need to hold it together. But not like I have." She wanted to know how he's "not" holding it together. He showed her his arms. She gasped and started to tear.
"Ezra! Why?" She was freaking out and didn't know why he was cutting.
"The thought of losing you. I could use the force and see your terror. I'm depressed because of the death I've seen. Everyone in the Galaxy is forged by war. I can't take it." He started to break down and fell to the floor. He was crying and Sabine sat on the floor, rubbing his back so he had a shoulder to cry on. As he probably needed for a while now if he's cutting. She took him to the medical bay.
"We're getting you checked." He didn't want to.
"Commander, Lieutenant. What can I do for you?" A clone asked.
"I need you to check for recent physical and psychological damage like depression and wounds."
"Okay. If you'll follow me." They followed him back and he checked his arms and psychological health.
"You have severe cutting on your skin and have depression. It's a type that is stress related so if you get rid of the stress, the symptoms will stop."
"Thanks." They checked out and they went to get some lunch.
"What are you getting?" Said Sabine.
"Probably... Crab Rangoon."
"Nice choice!" They grabbed the leftovers and sat down to eat.
"So what are you going to do if you're convicted?"
"I don't want to think about it. Not till I know if I'm going or not."
"I'm going to stay in your cell with you. I'll forget the Allies and stay by your side."
"No, you won't. You'll come and visit and stay for a night or two, but not stay. The Allies need you. What good is a family if the Empire is in control?"
"Good point." She said. They ate their food and went aboard the Ghost and stayed in the cockpit as Hera flew recon. Deep in space. Sabine was sitting on Ezra's lap.
"Romantic. Isn't it?"
"So nice." She leaned in and they kissed, but this felt different. It felt real. Like nothing, they felt before. They fell asleep and the Ghost docked in the Chimera's hangar. They got off, went into the room and fell back asleep.
The day of the trial
"All rise in the presence of Judge Berry Herty." Said an Alliance guard. "Please be seated."
"Ezra Bridger. The charges levied against you are heavy. Including Treason, attempted murder of an Allied Lieutenant, the murder of alliance troops, and dereliction to the allies. Do you take responsibility for these actions?" Said the judge.
"No, your honor. I wasn't in my right mind. I had a substance in me." He nodded and said."Please sit." The defendant's attorney Jack Ali and the prosecutor Hack Fenlon. "How you plead?"
"Not guilty." He nodded and they proceded.
"Prosecution you may proceed first." Hack nodded and went to the podium.
"The murder of the troopers was unjust in the actions taken by Ezra Bridger and he should be punished, I would like to call the Defendant's girlfriend, the lieutenant that was almost killed to the stand." He nodded and called Sabine up.
"Please, tell us what happened on Naboo."
"We were going to meet Ezra when he was standing there, alone. I went up to him and noticed darkness around him. He took out his saber and I took out mine and we fought. He destroyed my saber and then cut my arm." She took her glove off and showed that her arm was cut above the elbow. People gasped and showed anger toward Ezra, Sabine noticed this.
"Don't worry, I forgive him. He wasn't in his right mind. Your opinion's matter this is imprisonment of a Jedi. A hero." She went back and sat down and the judge calls Ezra to the stand.
"Please give a statement to us." Ezra nodded and began.
"I remember everything. I couldn't stop it. I had no control. I don't care if you imprison me. But know... I DID NOT kill those people willingly. But I killed them, never the less. I have to live with that for the rest of my life. I'm ready for my conviction." He went back down to the table and people looked in awe. After a few hours of back and forth, argument the jury went back to the room and the voted. When they came back they had a verdict.
"We find the defendant, Ezra Bridger... Guilty of unknowingly murdering officers and the other charges are to be dropped. He is to be sentenced to thirty days in Sunspot Prison." Ezra was saddened. Sabine went up to Ezra and told him. "I won't see you for a while." He asked why and she said. "I lost my access to sunspot as a result." He was outraged but took his conviction seriously.
"Sabine Wren, I love you. With all my heart and nothing will ever change that." They kissed and Sabine said."
"Ezra Bridger, Nothing will change my love for you. I love you." Guards came and took Ezra to Sunspot Prison.
A/N I hope you enjoyed! Leave a review if you want this to continue and tell me what you think about Ezra's imprisonment and Happy Early Easter! Along with a
May the Force Be With You!