Living with Jedi
Rex
Ezra:
It has been a while since my last lesson with Rex. Actually any lessons or training really. Kanan has just had me meditating every since we got back.
"Ezra, you haven't even got over everything yet. Maybe once your lightsaber is repaired." Kanan had said when I asked last.
"What about other force abilities I need to work on?" I asked.
"Your already pretty good at the connection with animals and levitation. Mind tricks have to be practiced on the weak minded. You can't work on your forms without a lightsaber. Everything else you have to have control over your emotions for and frankly your still a little unstable right now. Unless you had a vision lately?" He responded. I left the room then. That was pointless.
Now my lightsaber is fixed but I need to check the blaster feature before I go to Kanan again. That's why I'm looking for Rex. Maybe he might be up for some target practice so I can test it out. I've been looking everywhere for him.
"Zeb, have you seen Rex anywhere?" I ask.
"No, you might want to ask commander Sato. To be honest I haven't seen Rex since… sorry I forgot. You don't like talking about that. Hera might know." Zen said.
I went to find Hera. She was with Sabine.
"Hey Ezra!" Sabine says.
"Hey, have ether one of you seen Rex? I've been looking everywhere for him." I say.
"Try the mess hall or the cantina. He's been spending a lot of time there lately. Especially since he hasn't got any assignments lately." Hera suggest.
"Thanks." I say.
"Hey is your Lightsaber fixed yet?" Sabine ask.
"I'm about to try it out. I want to test the blaster first before I tell Kanan. If it's not totally fixed he'll have me meditating for another month." I say.
"Well I hope it's fixed. We have a meeting later. Sato has an assignment for us. Where's Kanan at anyways?" Hera replies.
"Med bay. He's taking another bacta bath for his eyes." I say.
"Good, hopefully it will work and he'll have all of his sight back soon." She says.
"If it doesn't work and you still need something you can always come to me for anything." Sabine says.
"Thanks Sabine." I say. Then I run off to look for Rex again. Something tells me to check the cantina. Being this is a rebel base and there isn't any other humanoids on this planet besides us they don't check for ids.
"It's always the last place you look isn't it." I say once I see Rex.
"Kid if it wasn't why would you continue looking after you found it." Rex responses.
"You wouldn't that's the point." I say.
"So what in the galaxy could you be looking for that was left in the cantina? Would your master or Hera even be ok with you even being in here?" He asked.
"I was looking for you. Hera told me to try here. Kanan doesn't know nor do I want him to yet." I answer leaning up against the wall. A small grin forms on my face.
"Kid if you're looking for me your looking for the wrong clone." He says.
"You're the only clone on this base. What am I supposed to go get Greger or Wolf and drag them here for soldier training?" I joke.
"Now that would be a mistake. Maybe I should introduce you to a few more of my brothers." Rex laughs. "On second thought that might be a bad idea. You might be a little young for one but your still a Jedi Padawan. That could go wrong fast."
"As much as I would love to meet more clones I really don't think Kanan would approve. So looks like I'm stuck with you." I say.
"Ok, you have my attention kid. What are you looking for me for?"
"I fixed my lightsaber and I wanted to know if you're up to a little target practice. I need to test the blaster out before I tell Kanan."
"Ok, but let's see that blade first."
"Sorry I was saving that for when I tell Kanan."
"Oh really then what are you going to do now."
I have a vision of him switching his blaster to practice stun. He aims at me then fires. I ignite my blade and block it deflecting it back at him. He dodges it. It hits the shot glass on the bar. I turn off the blade.
"Told you it worked." I say.
"Impressive block. If I didn't know better I'd say you learned that from my general." Rex says.
"I kinda did. There's a recording of Master Skywalker teaching the different forms to younglings on Kanan's holocron. Ahsoka and Kanan helped me work on it." I say.
"Why am I not surprised? So how'd it work against that Sith I heard you went up against already?"
"You mean Vader?" I say. Or Anakin himself I think to myself. "The first time he used it on Sabine. Kanan and I were no match. The last time… well that's how my lightsaber got damaged in the first place. I had to take him on alone. If Ahsoka had shown up when it broke he would have killed me."
"Is that how she… that my girl. Goes out fighting to save a kid." He laughs. I'm confused by this. Then he says "Come on Ezra let's go improve those shooting skills. Wouldn't want her sacrifice to be a complete waste because you shoot like one of those men they call stormtroopers now would we?"
"Hey, I could out shoot one of them before I ever touched a blaster. In any whether even on a bad day."
"Well let's see if you can live up to that. How about we have a little shoot off?"
"Ok loser has to share a cabin with Zeb next mission."
"Kid if you out gun me I'll sleep in that cabin and buy you a life time supply of ice cream."
"I'll take you up on that offer, but even on the off chance you win you'll still have to sleep in that cabin. I got moved to Kanan's cabin because of what happened."
"Fine if I win you have to polish my armor and clean my blaster. Deal?"
"Deal!" The two of us spend an hour shooting stormtrooper helmets Chopper and Ap5 held up and moved around. We kept tying.
"There you are Ezra. I see you fixed your lightsaber." Kanan says walking up behind us. "A Jedi and a Clone shoot off? That's something I never would dreamed of seeing. I hope you're kicking his clone butt kid."
"He's giving me a run for my money that's for sure. We're actually pretty evenly matched." Rex says.
"Well then how about we get back to Jedi training now. I think now that you have your lightsaber back we can work on a little more stuff." Kanan says.
"Finally, I was getting tried of mediating. It will also be nice to go on a supply run with my own weapon again. Not that there's anything wrong with your lightsaber but I missed my own." I say.
"I completely understand. Have you returned Sabine's blaster yet?" Kanan ask.
"It's in our cabin still. Unless she went and got it. I told her I was testing mine out." I respond.
"Well let's see that blade." Kanan says.
"The kids got a killer block. He deflected my shot back at me perfectly. I dodged it but it hit my shoot glass perfectly." Rex says.
"You shot at him!?" Kanan almost yells.
"It was set to practice stuns and he only shot at me to see if my lightsaber was actually working." I say.
"And you didn't wait to show me?" Kanan says slightly hurt.
"He wanted to make sure everything was working before he told you. I just wanted to make sure it was completely operational like he claimed. I would never intentionally shoot the kid." Rex defense himself.
"You expect me to believe that? Rex, your a clone and we're Jedi. I might have trusted you a long time ago but your and you lost that trust the day he was born." Kanan says.
"Your birthday is Empire day? So you're a Jedi Padawan born on the same exact day the Jedi fell?" Rex ask me. I nod. "I'm so sorry about that." He then turned back to Kanan. "Kanan like I've said a million times before I had nothing to do with that. I had my chip removed before then. What my brothers that didn't did was against their will. We didn't know what that chip would do until it was to late. Those of us that had it removed faced the same fate as our generals for disobeying an order."
"That might be true but put yourself in my shoes. Would you trust me if our rolls were switched?" Kanan says.
"Probably not. I don't blame you for not trusting me. Hell I barely even trust myself sometimes. I'm sorry I shot at him. I guess I was doing what I would have done with Ahsoka if she had done that to me back when she was his age. It's nice working with Jedi again. You two might not be Anakin and Obi Wan but I'm still honored to be fighting alongside. With or without Ahsoka in either group." Rex says.
"I would complain about being in second place but actually compared to those to I'll take it." Kanan says.
"Even though Anakin is Vader?" I ask Kanan through our bond.
"Yes, he's still the best Jedi to ever live even if he did fall to the dark side." Kanan replies back through it.
