"Do you wonder how a Human/Pau'an hybrid child would look like if they'd exist and if they inherited the long span of their Pau'an parent?" -WindGoddess Rune

Huh, I cannot say I have wondered it before… but now I am. It's an interesting idea… I just imagine those teeth on a human and I just *shudders*

"Good going they always get into trouble huh?" -DragonRobotkid676

Aha, alright. Just for you, I'll throw in a chapter somewhere where none of them get into trouble and they all can't fathom the idea of it. Sound good?

Nobody noticed I forgot the disclaimer last chapter aaaAAAAAH

[And since this is the point where episodes come back, this fanfiction is going to be more difficult for me to write, because differences between this and the show will exist, please keep that in mind at things continue from here on out, okay? Thank you all for the support]

Note: I do not own Star Wars or any of its characters. Within this story there will be original characters, but everything else is owned by Lucasfilm and Disney.

It wasn't long after the two began their sprint that they were soon fired at. When the two reached the elevator they attempted to open it only for it to be locked down.

"Oh boy."

"Keycard! Try the keycard?"

Kanan pulled out the keycard and slid it in but it did not open. Ezra watched as the troopers made their way back, he pulled back his slingshot and stunned a couple of them but they kept their pursuit. Kanan pulled out his blaster and motioned for Ezra to try his wrench. When that didn't work Ezra turned towards his master and spoke, "Um, Kanan? I think we should-"

"Find another way out? That's what I'm doing now."

The two looked at each other at exactly the same time and heard more troopers approaching. If they didn't leave this area, they would be cornered. Kanan looked inside the elevator once more before throwing his blaster at Ezra and shouting, "Cover for me!"

"Wha-"

Kanan quickly put his lightsaber together and spun around and turned on the lightsaber as he began to cut through the elevator doors. Ezra only stared at Kanan for a moment before he remembered the troopers and he turned around and began firing. One of the workers moved to activate their comm and inform the others of the intrusion but Ezra managed to knock him out just in time.

When the outline of the hole was finished, Kanan kicked it in and looked up to see if the elevator was coming down before entering fully inside and yelling, "Come on Ezra, you've held them off enough!"

Ezra followed after Kanan who looked up the shaft again, blasters from troopers were still entering in through the hole. Kanan grabbed his blaster from Ezra and hooked a grapple device onto it before he shot it up. Once it hooked into something higher up on the shaft Kanan grabbed Ezra's arm and spoke up, "Hang on kid."

The two quickly rose up the elevator and the blasters seemed to shift upward at them until no shots could have hit the two rebels, so the firing stopped. It was silent before the loud ring of something shifting through the elevator shaft caused Kanan to stop the grapple's ascent. He looked up and whistled, "Hey Ezra."

"Yeah?"

"You don't see a door to another level around do you?"

"Wh-"

"Don't ask, just look."

Ezra turned his head around and looked to find what Kanan was looking for and saw a door up a little bit higher than where the two were dangling, "There's one up there. You just need to rise up a little more."

Kanan rose up the grapple a little bit more before the grapple began to shake and Kanan quickly spoke, "Look for a lower door."

Ezra looked down and obeyed the command and spoke, "There's…"

The two began plummeting rapidly and the two let out yells as Kanan recalled the grapple and looked around immediately for some sort of door, but Ezra already saw a door and pointed shouting, "That one!" Kanan pulled out his lightsaber and stabbed into the wall until their falling stopped, but the shaft shook.

"Is that the elevator?!"

"Get up to the door NOW!" Kanan shouted with the sound of strain in his voice. Ezra climbed up and jumped to the ledge. He gripped tightly and pulled himself up, and as quickly as possible and pulled out his wrench. When he got the door open he heard the roar of the elevator quickly approaching.

Kanan recalled the lightsaber and made a leap for the edge. When he landed the two pushed each other out of the elevator shaft and watched the elevator drop down. The two sat there breathing heavily as they tried to calm themselves down, Kanan turned to Ezra and questioned, "Are you alright?"

Ezra nodded and mumbled, "Yeah." before Kanan helped Ezra to his feet. The two were now in what could only be assumed a part of the cave they were done working with. Kanan looked back in the elevator and spoke, "We should see if there's another way out other than the elevator, I don't think we'll manage that one again… they must have something in case the elevator breaks down." The two closed their eyes and focused and tried to look for their exit as fast as they could.

The Ghost found itself stationing into Pau City with no problems at all. Zeb got himself comfortable in a chair in the cockpit while Chopper seemed to contemplate some sort of way to ruin Zeb's comfort.

Hera and Sabine got themselves ready to head on out to find Gem but before they left Hera shouted so it echoed throughout the ship, "If you're going to kill each other make sure to keep it down!" Sabine let out a chuckle at the comment as the two women left the ship.

Upon their exit, they were greeted by Pau'ans waiting nearby the ship, "Welcome offworlders, we do not get that many visitors as of late. Welcome to Utapau." Hera and Sabine both replied with thank yous at the same time before the Pau'an continued, "What brings you here?"

The two females interchanged looks, before they decided they saw no flaw in just outright telling them who they were looking for, just not why they were looking for him, "We were called by an acquaintance of ours on this world, his name is Gem."

The Pau'an immediately let out a toothed smile, which was meant to come across as friendly but could understandable scare someone not used to a Pau'an smile, "Ah yes, Gem had said we should expect visitors soon that wanted to come find him. He should be in the Market District. Would you like me to take you there?"

Hera held up her hands, "Oooh no, thank you but we couldn't take away from your time like that, I'm sure you're very busy."

"It really is no trouble at all." The Pau'an then motioned for the two to follow them.

The Pau'an lead them through the various parts of the sinkhole city until they eventually came to a seemingly busy area that wasn't entirely filled with Pau'ans, in fact there were quite a few different species around, but before they could ask about it, the Pau'an arrived at their destination.

"Here you are, sorry that I cannot stay but I have a previous commitment I must make it to. Enjoy your time here." and the Pau'an took their leave. The mandalorian and twi'lek then made their way into the shop they had been led to.

The shop was rather… filthy. Or at least it seemed that way. There was no one inside the main room and it was very silent. Hera took a step forward ahead of Sabine and spoke up, "Hello? Is anyone in here?"

There was a slow shuffling heard from another room. A door slid open to the right of the two of them revealing a figure standing in full Echani battle armor, which put Sabine quickly on edge. The helmet turned in time to see Sabine having her hand over her blaster, there was a chuckle that came from the person who spoke, "Of course it's the Mandalorian that goes for the blaster."

Hera turned towards Sabine, Sabine's glare could almost be felt, since it couldn't be seen under the helmet, "I-It was you know how many times I've been senselessly attacked by Echanis just for being Mandalorian?"

"Assuming I'm Echani." There was silence for a moment before another chuckle came from them, "I am Echani though, but I have no business fighting Mandalorians today. You can call me Tesk. But I'm certain you aren't here for me..."

Hera nodded slightly and answered, "We are looking for a man named Gem… are we in the correct place?" Tesk took a step back and motioned towards the door they just opened, "He is in here."

Hera and Sabine entered the room with Tesk following close behind them. The room they entered was in an even worse state than the main room. There was a table scattered with credits and a broken holographic projector. In one of the broken chairs sat a young man in a mask. The man stretched to wake himself up and spoke, "You're Fulcrum's intel collectors."

Hera opened her mouth to speak but before she did she found a holodisk being tossed towards her, she caught it and the man continued, "Tell Fulcrum that Gem said I have no developments on getting intel on A42, G88, or L1428-1566. I can't keep stationed on Utapau if you want any further updates on OS-5. And I refuse to go any further into DS, DS would take too much work and delving into the Empire's top information in order for me to go further… take that job up with someone else."

Hera tried to speak again, but the young man held his hand up as if to cut her off and spoke, "I know, you wouldn't remember all that. Here. Take it." The Twi'lek went to catch the datapad and opened her mouth to speak again but the man cut her off again, "Yes, I am Gem. I know you work for Fulcrum because you wouldn't be here otherwise.

The man immediately turned his head in the direction of Sabine and continued, "No, I'm not removing the mask, and I am giving you respect even if I'm not letting you speak. If you find that to be disrespect then suck it up."

"Alright, how did you do that?" Sabine threw in, "There is-"

"-No way you're that predictable?" There was clear breath of annoyance coming from Sabine, and Hera looked towards her and placed a hand on her shoulder to help calm her down. Tesk let out a chuckle behind the two and spoke up, "Alright, knock it off Gem. You show off more than you should."

Gem stood up from his seat and shifted stuff around on the table and picked up a couple of credits and spoke, "It's not showing off, it's a typical intel mission. They aren't doing anything I haven't done for countless other collectors." Gem looked at the two and laughed, "I must say though, a mandalorian and a twi'lek is not a combination I see every day. Anyway, here's a couple of credits to pay the docking fee. And please do be careful and make sure that intel doesn't fall into anyone other than Fulcrum's hands… especially not someone here on Utapau. I keep up an appearance for the Pau'ans and I don't wish to get anyone in trouble. Especially my sources here."

Before the two could even say another word, Tesk started to lead them out the door. Gem waved at them but didn't add any more verbal comment. When they were outside of the shop, the door was locked behind them Sabine turned her head back to the door and murmured under her breath, "I don't like that guy at all."

"We don't have to like him, it wasn't part of the job description." Hera shifted a bag she had slung over her shoulder and had managed to place the datapad and the holodisk inside during that whole fiasco.

The two made their way back through the districts back towards the port when Sabine finally asked a question that was killing her, but she asked it very quietly so only Hera heard her, "Why were they detailing so many codenames for plans? Is he the guy Fulcrum is having decipher all that intel from Tseebo?"

"Sabine, I may be the one who directly contacts Fulcrum, but I don't know exactly what they're doing. I've been with you on the Ghost doing our own thing…" Hera crossed her arms and quietly continued, "I trust that if Fulcrum is involved, no matter how much of a jerk that man may seem, he's part of a cause we are part of."

Sabine let out a sigh at Hera's response and continued following towards the ship as she added, "I still don't like it, those two gave me a vibe I didn't like."

At some point, Ezra and Kanan had found what they were looking for, their secondary way out. It was a tunnel that began to slope upwards more towards the surface, but the two of them kept having to stop and check to make sure they wouldn't get lost in an off path.

Ezra couldn't keep as focused as he hoped, and ended up following Kanan and relying on him to keep them from getting lost. But at some point, Kanan stopped and turned to Ezra, "You do know I can tell you're slacking."

Ezra pulled some sort of offended face for a moment before he let out a sigh, "I keep getting distracted."

"By what? Getting out of here isn't your first priority?"

Ezra looked around the cave for a moment before replying, "I-I don't know." Kanan eyed him before continuing on his path, "You do know."

"No I don't." There was silence before Ezra let out an distressed sigh, "Okay I kind of do… but it isn't just one thing, it's many things."

"Want to talk about it?"

"There isn't much to talk about."

"Well if it's bothering you... talking about it, no matter how small it may be, may get it out of your system."

There was more silence between the two before Ezra asked, "If it means keeping your friends alive… would you do whatever someone told you to do?"

Kanan thought about the question, and seemingly opened his mouth to answer it, but right when he did, they found the exit from the cave. Ezra ran ahead without waiting for Kanan's answer to his question and examined the area. The padawan turned around and shouted, "The coast is clear!"

"Yeah? Shout it louder, I'm sure the workers didn't hear y-"

Right on cue a blaster shot fired from farther back in the cave and just barely missed Kanan's head. The jedi began to run again, grabbing Ezra to make sure he was running by him, but when he was finally running on his own he let him go.

As the two nearly made it to the Phantom, something neither expected happened. One of the stormtroopers in the distance fired at an unstable rock, which flew in the direction of the two rebels. While both managed to duck in time, the rock sloped a little further down as it approached Kanan, and knocked the jedi out.

Ezra looked over at his master and shook him to see if he would respond. When he didn't Ezra grabbed Kanan and pulled him onto the Phantom. Leaving him on the ground, Ezra shut the door and looked out the cockpit window to see more Imperials than he would have liked running towards them. He manned the guns for a moment and tried shooting at the stormtroopers, which succeeded for a time but then they came too close to the Phantom to do anything.

Then he saw a TIE approaching.

"Oh great…" Ezra looked around at the controls and turned on the ship.

"I'm gonna have to fly this thing…" Ezra spoke with stress, then his eyes lit up brightly, "I'm gonna have to fly this thing!" Then the TIE started to fire and he quickly took off, shakily flying in the atmosphere and barely managed to scrape along.

"Kanan. Kanan. Hey um, Master? Waking up soon would be really nice right now." Ezra shouted in a panicked tone as he continued flying the Phantom as far as he could.

These chapters get longer and longer each time. Aha…

Have a happy new year!