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STAR WARS REBELS
The New Spectres
Ezra Gets Tough
NEW YORK
"Morning." Ezra said as he walked into the classroom followed by Chopper.
"Good Morning Mr. B and Chopper." Darius said cheerfully followed by a kissing sound from the rear of the room.
"Anybody who wants to get written up can keep blowing kisses. Just know this, Mr. Dobbs got the dates for Scared Straight and and anyone who gets ISS between now and then will have a copy of the report sent to Colonel Markem. Also, hiding in my closet is an automatic write-up because it seems like I'm constantly finding people in there trying to be funny." A student walked into the classroom and over to another student.
"Excuse me, Steven Abernathy. Unless you're here on some school related business, I'd like you to leave and pull your pants up. Because when you go into the jail, that's considered advertising to the inmates." Ezra called to the unwanted visitor.
"Whatever." Steven said dismissively..
"Whatever? First write-up of the day. Disrupting another class, dress code violation, and talking back to a teacher. Chopper, chase him out." As Chopper went to chase Steven out of the room, Sabine walked in.
"Steven, out now. You were warned yesterday about the daily visits during Homeroom. If Mr. Dobbs finds you visiting classrooms, you're going to be on in-school for a week." Steven quickly ran out of the room followed by Chopper.
"And I'm tired of seeing your underwear." She called after Steven before turning to Ezra.
"Jacen wants to know if you bothered to look at your phone within the past hour."
"No, I've been busy. What's wrong with the Ghost?"
"Nothing's wrong with it. He's taking the kids on a cargo run to somewhere after their classes today. Landon too."
"I would have gotten that message at Lunch. It's not like I was avoiding him."
"I told him that. We should finish this conversation at Lunch."
"Yeah. First Period." Ezra said as the bell rang.
The Freshmen once again tried Ezra's patience and quickly found out that he was no longer in the mood for their games.
"Just so you know. Anyone who does this gets written up automatically for unauthorized area from now on." He snapped as Chopper removed another student from the closet.
"Stupid trash can."
"Trash can? Get out. OUT! You can explain to Mr. Dobbs why you got thrown out and why you have an F in this class." As if on cue, Reggie walked in having heard Ezra shouting.
"What are you doing now? You got written up twice already today. One for throwing things and the other for walking out of class. Now you got two more. Going for a new school record of most write-ups in one day?" Ezra began writing down the various infractions and handed his report to Reggie.
"Well now you have four days of ISS. Calling Chopper a trash can is the same three days you get for disrespectful address of school staff. Steven Abernathy, why are you walking around my school advertising again? You've been written up twice today for dress code alone, plus everything else. Both of you are going to ISS while I call your parents to arrange conferences." Ezra looked at the rest of the class who were looking through their notes and the textbooks.
"We're on Page 85."
"This is Sparta!" A voice shouted from the back.
"I'll let that go because it's class related. Don't do it again though."
After school, Ezra was walking to his car followed by Chopper when they were confronted by a number of gang members.
"You give our boys problems, we give you problems." One of them said and pulled out a pistol followed by the rest of them pulling out guns.
"Chopper, get Sabine and Jamal." Ezra said and revealed his blaster and Lightsaber. The gang members fired at Ezra who ducked behind a car followed by Chopper and returned fire striking one in the arm.
"No one said anything about teacher packing."
"Pump him." Another one said as they unloaded TEC-9s in Ezra's direction until blaster bolts struck gang members from an unknown direction.
"He got backup." One of them shouted as Sabine flew out a window in full armor while sirens were heard in the background. The gang members quickly scattered as a small ship flew overhead. A ship that Ezra and Sabine knew very well.
On the Phantom III, Jacen, Landon, and R9 had taken off from the Ghost upon receiving Chopper's SOS call.
"Felth's troops are in the area and Sabine's there too. She's going to kick their asses if she hasn't already." Jacen said.
"That describes the picture Ezra painted me of her. R9, take over and put us down." Landon told the droid as he and Jacen readied their weapons. Once R9 told them that they were close to ground, Jacen and Landon jumped off the ship and into the fray soon followed by the arrivals of Jamal and a number of Stormtroopers.
"I guess this is another gang out of business, because you're all under arrest." Jamal said as the Stormtroopers took up their positions. The gang members quickly dropped their weapons and put their hands up in surrender. Messing with Ezra and Sabine was one thing, Stormtroopers were another. Darius walked out to the sight.
"What was this about?" He asked.
"You dead B." One of the gang members spat at Darius and was quickly piled on by Stormtroopers.
"Take them down to the Office. Make sure anyone who got shot gets medical attention." Jamal told the troopers before turning to Darius.
"Know any of them?"
"A couple of them were in the hallway when Diego jumped me. Looking mean, ugly, and stupid. My guess they were going to join in, but thought better when they saw Ms. Wren and everyone else pulling him off me."
"I'll tack on a few counts of witness tampering to the list of felonies."
"Hope they don't get bail." Jacen said.
"Depends on the judge." Landon told him.
At arraignment, Judge Rolando Juarez set ordered the entire gang held without bail based on the number of outstanding bench warrants that had been issued for them and told them that they better hope they don't get Judge Khayman for trial. He also ordered lockdown for the gang so they couldn't communicate with the outside world and further intimidate or order the murders of witnesses. Ezra brought Darius to the office the next day after school to go over his testimony in the various court cases he was now involved with. They sat in a conference room with Ryan Pratchard and Connie Rubirosa.
"We'll start with your vile excuse for a mother. She's going in front of Judge Higgins along with the boyfriend who used you as guinea pig for his drug business. Higgins is a new judge, so we're not sure how this will go. We're expecting a motion to throw this case out on an unlawful search and seizure of evidence. However, given that no one had seen or heard from you in four days. Colonel Pratchard can argue that Detective Wilkins had a valid reason to break down the door and boyfriend reached for a gun despite knowing Wilkins was with the police and that the place was searched incident to arrest or that the medics needed to know what you were given. The other boyfriend who threatened to break Commander Bridger in two drew Judge Sanders. We're hoping he's willing to plead out to avoid me putting Sabine Wren on the stand to tell the jury exactly what he said. Diego Perez drew Judge Wright. His father was also a judge and a real piece of work. We won't go into those details, but the father seemed to have no problem with being overturned on appeal. One of his nicknames was Judge William Wrong. Junior is a lot better and a lot more reasonable. That leaves the gang who shot up your schoolyard to Judge Khayman." Connie explained.
"What do I need to do?" Darius asked.
"Once we get through the expected motion hearing on your mother, we'll let you know. As for Diego Perez, I'm going to ask you if he said anything when he started beating on you and if he did exactly what he said. That will let the jury why he attacked you. I'm hoping I won't have to put Katrina on the stand. I don't know how she'd hold up on cross." Ryan replied.
"What about me?"
"If the defense starts badgering you about nonsense that has nothing to do with the case, I can object and the jury won't like the victim-bashing or the lawyers who do it. Remember, you're a victim too. Just think of the courtroom as another stage." Darius smiled, he could do this.