Hey guys, I hope you read the previous chapter and the part that I added because I thought it was too short.
The rebel ship had docked onto the underwater Imperial building and the one of the large garage like doors opened to a large room where the rebel transport ship was about 50% bigger than the Ghost and had rustic paint on it of the rebellion symbol.
"There's our ride." Kanan said "Specter 4 and 5, go into the ship and help secure the weapon as soon as Specter 8 and I use the Force to set it down."
"Alright." Sabine said and her and Zeb went off in the direction of the rebel ship and the liftgate to the ship went down, revealing rebel pilots and other rebels from different cells.
Rae and Kanan then ran off to the nuke where they stopped and looked at each other.
"Just use the Force and don't loose focus, any bump can possibly set this thing off." Kanan instructed.
"Yeah, no pressure whatsoever..."Rae sarcastically said.
Kanan and Rae turned to the nuke that was covered in the velvet red canvas and stretched out their arms in its direction and focused on the Force. The missile moved slowly upwards and then began to turn to the missile to a 90 degree angle so it was parallel to the floor and towards the ship. Rae and Kanan followed the missile as it floated about 10 feet of the ground with their eyes tightly shut as it was difficult to lift the heavy object.
Rae lost focus for a second and the missile wavered a little bit, Kanan caught the extra weight with the Force but Rae quickly shook it out of her head and continued to focus on the task at hand; to not set off one of the most dangerous weapons known that's only a few meters away from them.
They both continued to slowly walk the missile with the Force to the rebel ship, once they had reached the garage like door that was where the rebel ship was, Kanan and Rae stepped out of the path of it. They continued to hold the weapon up and float it towards the ship's liftgate. Once they had managed to pass the liftgate opening, they slowly began to decline it to lay it down on the ship's floor.
"Alright, let's set her down easy." Sabine said "I know my explosives and this one doesn't have a very strong side if it's smashed."
Rae and Kanan lowered the missile more, still covered in the red canvas, and sat it down on the ground. The cargobay for the ship was about 4 times the size as the Ghost's so it had had plenty of room for the 6 meter missile. The other rebels, including Sabine and Zeb then began to strap the missile down carefully with straps and cushions.
"Where's Athena and Ezra?" Zeb asked as he tightened a strap on the nuclear weapon.
"They should be holding back the Imperial forces now." Kanans answered "Tell them to prepare to take off, Sabine, set your timer for your explosives."
"Alright, T minus; 5 minutes" Sabine said as she stood up from tightening a strap and pressed on the controller on her wrist.
"Good." Kanan said and took his face mask off his magnetic belt and turned it on and spoke into it "Specter 6 and 7, fall back. We got it."
"Not an option, Specter 1." Ezra said.
"What do you mean?" Kanan asked "Where's Specter 7?"
"Fighting Kallus." Ezra answered and Kanan heard a yell "Who just yelled?"
"Kallus, I think Athena just punched him in the gut again." Ezra answered.
"No, I punched him in the ear." Athena came over the com, then yelled.
"Specter 7! Fall back! We got it all done." Kanan ordered.
"Alright, we'll be there in about...Specter 6, how long do you think this'll take? " Athena asked.
"Yeah, Kanan, I'm saying this fight will drag on for at least 7 minutes." Ezra said.
"You don't have 7 minutes!" Kanan yelled.
"What does that mean?" Athena asked over the com.
"Just get back here now!" Kanan ordered.
"Alright, we'll try." Ezra said.
Kallus swung at Athena once again and she ducked, it was fairly hard for her to move very well due to the fact the flippers were bothering her horribly on movability. It had been about 3 minutes and 45 seconds after Kanan's call and Athena and Ezra were trying to finish the fight, both of them had a feeling Sabine's explosives were probably set to go off soon.
Kallus and Athena still were fighting in the same place they were before, the bo-rifle at Kallus's heels. Athena right hooked punched Kallus and he fell back into a sitting position on the ground, his bo-rifle next to his right hand .Athena held her fists up, ready to continue the fight.
Kallus grabbed his bo-rifle and activated it as he stood up, Athena back away.
"I thought you could beat a little girl without a weapon." Athena pointed out.
Kallus seemed to ignored Athena and began to swing his bo-rifle at the teen. Athena barely could dodge these swings and nearly tripped several times. The electricity from the bo-rifle crackled near Athena's ear as he swung once. As the distance between the two grew, Kallus decided he was wasting too much energy on charging at the teen and began to fire the weapon at her. Athena had an extremely hard time dodging these shots. He shot once more and Athena tried to move out of its path, but she was too late. It hit her left forearm and she clutched it in pain.
Kallus fired once more and time seemed to slow down to Athena. She felt the same sensation of the Force flowing through her veins and she looked at the shot as it hurled at her.
Her eyes briefly turned a blood red as she reached her hand out in the direction of the blaster shot. The red blur froze in midair, remaining just a pulsating energy beam in the air.
Kallus was in shock and looked at his men as Athena used the Force to rip a Stormtrooper's blaster out of his hand and into Athena's hand and pointed it at Kallus. Her eyes turned back to teal as she continued to hold the blaster in Kallus's direction.
Kallus rose his bo-rifle and tried to fire another shot, but it jammed and he started to panic a little.
Athena continued to point the blaster in Kallus's direction and Kallus looked at her, amazed the girl hadn't shot yet.
"You haven't shot yet." Kallus said
Athena said nothing and tightened her finger around the trigger. But she knew she couldn't fire, she knew the blaster was set on kill and had no stun setting she knew about. She couldn't use a gun, never to take a life. The blaster trembled in her hands, but kept it mostly concealed.
Kallus began to speculate why the brown haired girl hadn't fired "You are afraid to shoot."
Athena bit the inside of her mouth and continued to hold the blaster up. There was a beep on Kallus's wrist and he looked at his wrist controller.
"Fall back! Head to the ship!" Kallus shouted to his men and then put his bo-rifle on his back and ran to the door,then followed by the Stormtroopers into the airlock and the door shut as Ezra fired another shot from his lightsaber at them.
Ezra and Athena shared a worried look, Athena hadn't even fired once. Athena dropped the blaster as if it had burned her and kicked it away from her.
"Why didn't you shoot?!" Ezra exclaimed "We could've won"
"I-I don't know. I-I panicked and I just can't shoot." Athena stuttered "I ca-can't shoot."
There was a large boom.
"Sabine's explosives are going off, we gotta get out of here." Ezra said and ran in the direction of the main dock followed by Athena.
There was another explosion and this time it was closer, Ezra and Athena tripped over their own feet and splashed onto the floor. They both began to panic once they realized that there was water.
"Run!" Ezra yelled and him and Athena stood up and began to run through the water as the water line began to rapidly rise.
"The others might have to leave without us! If they don't the nuke will blow up!" Athena exclaimed to Ezra.
Boom.
There was an even larger explosion, but it wasn't very far at all from Athena and Ezra. It was mere feet away. The wall beside them had a large gash through it and water quickly rushed through it. The water knocked both of them off their feet and back as the water level then grew up to Ezra's shoulders and continued to quickly force of the blow was so hard it had knocked Athena's mask looked around for Athena, seeming that he didn't know where she was.
"Athena?!" Ezra called.
Ezra franticly searched for Athena above the water and then dunked his head underwater with his snorkel mask on and looked around the murky water and spotted Athena, her lifeless body floating without her mask. Blood stained the sleeve of her left arm where she had been shot .Ezra swam over to her. He snatched the mask from out of its directionless floating motion and looked at it to put back on Athena's face, but it was cracked in half.
"Oh no." Ezra said as he looked at the broken snorkel and then back at Athena's lifeless body "Athena." He shook her right arm, but she didn't respond.
"Guys? Are you there?" Ezra asked over the com. No response came from that either.
Ezra knew then that his mask had also sustained damage, he looked around the inside of his mask and noticed a small crack beginning to form on his mask which meant he had only a few more breaths before his mask also cracked like Athena's had.
Ezra felt through the Force that Athena was still alive, but barely.
"Athena!" Ezra said, trying to wake the girl up as he shook her right arm.
Ezra looked at the hole that the explosion had just made and he knew that was where they could swim out from. But Athena didn't have enough air to even be carried there before she could put his mask on her face, but it was highly likely as soon as he took his mask off that it would crack in half and neither of them could get air then.
Ezra then came up with a plan. The plan consisted of Athena living and then him possibly being punched once they reached the surface. Ezra took in a deep breath and closed his mouth tightly.
"I promise that this isn't a kiss, please don't murder me when we get to the surface." Ezra thought to himself.
He took off his mask, and as he predicted, it cracked as soon as he did so. He swam over to Athena and rose her to his level and pressed his lips onto hers and exhaled some air into her mouth and stayed there.
At first nothing happened, but then Ezra felt through the Force that Athena was beginning to slowly gain consciousness and pulled away from her. Athena slowly opened her eyes and looked shocked at Ezra with her now teal quickly grabbed Athena's wrist and swam in the direction of the hole in the wall and the two continued to hold their breath. Athena was hardly conscious and her eyes constantly drooped and Ezra constantly had to pick up the slack, which woke Athena up for that moment.. The two kept swiming even after they heard another explosion below them in the building. They had swam for a very long time, almost 2 minutes, and their lungs began to burn as they needed to breath again. They continued to the surface where they broke above the water and gasped in a large breath.
As soon as they began to pace their breaths down to a regular speed, Athena turned to Ezra and Ezra looked back.
"What happened?" Athena coughed and wiped a little water off the side of her face "I just remember an explosion."
"That's what happened." Ezra said "Then I gave you CPR after you lost consciousness."
"You what?" Athena exclaimed, obviously not happy.
"I saved your life."
"Thanks...I guess."
Ezra smiled back, he was so glad he could see her smile again "Do you think the others go out?"
"I say yes, I can feel in the Force they are close and alive. And the fact we aren't dead. The nuke would've gone off if it had been there when those explosives went off." Athena said.
"You aren't mad that I gave you CPR, are you?" Ezra asked.
"You tell anyone else; I will never speak to you again." Athena warned.
"Deal." Ezra agreed and stuck his hand out to Athena to shake hands.
Athena took his hand and broke the handshake.
"Ew...what did you eat? My mouth tastes like...I don't even know what this taste is!" Athena exclaimed as she bagan to spit in the water and wiped her mouth with her right arm, her left arm still hurt and gushed with blood.
"Hey! I only ate some protein bars for lunch." Ezra said.
"Still...dear God, what kind of food tastes like that?" Athena said as she wiped her mouth on the sleeve of her black, full body swimwear "Thanks for saving me, but really!"
"It's a protein bar. It doesn't even have a taste."Ezra said.
"Yes it does, and I should know. Now it's all over my lips." Athena complained about the horrible taste and a realization came over her "Ew! That means your lips were on mine! Gah! God, take me now!"
"Would you have rather me let you drown?" Ezra asked.
"Hm..." Athena jokingly thought out loud and smiled at Ezra.
Ezra smiled back a little, he knew she was a little thankful even if she didn't show it.
"Why are you staring at me like that? You expect a 'thankyou kiss'?" Athena joked.
"Well, I think I deserve a 'thanks' at least." Ezra joking replied.
"Remember on Tatooine when I said that that was probably going to be the only time a girl's going to offer you a kiss?" Athena asked.
"Yeah"
"Well, you should've taken that opportunity." Athean smiled.
"Aw! And I thought you were going to say; 'I guess I was wrong'. Or something like that." Ezra laughed.
"You know I'll never admit when I'm wrong." Athena said "Do we have anyway to contact the others?"
"No, my mask broke when I took it off." Ezra said "I don't have a com."
"Me neither. Do you think they'll search for us?" Athena asked.
"Like you said, we can sense their close so Rae and Kanan probably sense that we're close too." Ezra answered.
"True." Athena agreed with the blue haired boy, his hair sopping wet and it clung to his copper of tone skin with his bright blue eyes looking into hers.
"So...no on the 'thanks for saving my life' kiss?"
"We are literally stranded at sea with no coms, no oxygen to go under water, or transportation and you are seriously asking for a kiss?"
"Well...I...eh..."
They heard engines in the distance belonging to a ship and looked up in the sky to see a large ship with the rebellion symbol painted on it and come in their direction as it flew high in the sky.
"They must've picked up the others with the weapon and did a quick circle around the area while the explosives went off." Athena suggested "I think they see us."
The ship began to slow and then hoovered over the two teenageres about 6 meters up in the air once it declined. The liftgate lowered, showing Kanan and Sabine standing there.
Athena and Ezra sat next to each other with their normal clothes on as they rode upon the Ghost after they and the rest of the crew had went over to their ship. Ezra's and Athena's hair was almost dry as they sat near each other in the common room. Athena had a wrap
Kanan walked into the common room and looked at the teens who were looking at the now wore his green sweater and wrap around his torso for his ribs with his normal shoes,armor and pants. Both teenagers seemed to not want to talk, like it was an extremely awkward position for them to be near each other.
"Hey, guys." Kanan said.
"Hey." Ezra said.
"Sup." Athena responded.
Kanan said and sat between the two "You guys okay?"
They nodded their heads.
A line of worry formed upon Kanan's brow as he looked at the two, who seemed aloof "Either of you want to play Dejarik?"
Both Ezra and Athena shook their heads 'no'.
"Look, I didn't want to leave you guys there to fend for yourselves when the bombs went off-" Kanan was cut off.
"It's not your fault, it was the logical choice." Athena said.
Kanan sighed a little as he looked at his little sister with her hair back to an ebony brown and her teal eyes like his off in another world. He wrapped an arm around his Padawan and the other around his sister and tried to bring them into a supporting group wriggled out of Kanan's arm and sat a little farther away from her brother and Ezra. Ezra did the same thing and Kanan began to think that they were mad at him.
"Guys, you aren't mad at me, are you?" Kanan asked, concerned.
"No." Ezra said "We aren't mad."
Truth be told, Athena and Ezra were a little shocked that the crew had left before Ezra and Athena had gotten on the ship when the bombs were set to go. But they both knew that if they didn't that they would've all died because the nuke would've gone off. They had some torn feelings.
Especially Athena because of when Ezra breathed some air to her, she did and didn't want to count that as a she starting to like him? No. She couldn't have...could she? Athena honestly didn't know, she actually had made up about the bad taste on her lips just to throw Ezra off of any suspicion he might've had about Athena even having the slightest chance of liking him back.
"Then why are you guys acting like this?" Kanan asked "This isn't like you guys."
Athena shrugged "Guess it's us being tired."
"We still got a while till we get to the fleet, Athena go and nap in Hera's cabin and Ezra can nap out here." Kanan offered "If you guys want to."
"I'm fine." Ezra said "I can wait till we get with the fleet."
"Same." Athena said.
"Can you guys just tell me what's wrong? I can't do anything for you guys if I don't know what's the problem."Kanan said.
"Nothing." Athena said.
"Hey, I heard on the command ship that there's going to be a little throw down and dance in celebration of getting this weapon. Are you guys going to go?" Kanan asked "I don't want you guys to just mope and be all depressed as everyone is going to be there and having fun."
"Throw down?" Athena asked as she turned to Kanan "Why do you guys call a party a throw down? It makes you sound like you're from the west."
"Come on, I want you guys to do something. I don't even get why you two are even so depressed." Kanan persisted.
"Won't the other rebels just think I'm crazy or something if I start dancing?" Athena asked.
"I thought you were insane when I first met you, trust me, I'm probably not the only one that thinks you're crazy because you're from Earth." Kanan assured.
"Hey..." Athena complained.
"Yeah, I kinda don't want to go. I'll just stay here." Ezra said .
"Same." Athena said "And anyways, wouldn't you just make sure that I don't get within 2 meters of any guy there?"
Kanan weighed that in his mind "Well...maybe a little. But that's my job."
"I'll just be in my cabin, maybe meditate." Athena said "Or build my lightsaber."
"Okay, this will probably be the only time I'll ever say this; skip the Jedi stuff and just go to the party."
Athena looked at her older brother with surprise "Who are you and what have you done with my brother?"
"Ha-ha-ha." Kanan dryly laughed.
Athena rolled her eyes "How are we remotely related?"
"We have the same parents, that's how."
"Kanan, we're fine. Just tired, we kinda nearly died at least 3 times today." Ezra said.
"3 times? I counted like 6 or 7." Athena said.
"Yeah, see what I mean? We're just tired. I even saved Mini K over here from dieing." Ezra gestured to Athena.
"Wait, who told you about that nickname?" Athena asked urgently.
"Zeb." Ezra answered.
"Mini K? What does- oh...mini Kanan. I get it." Kanan realized"Wait, Ezra, what happened you had to save Mini Me from dieing?"
"Don't call me a mini you, it's demeaning." Athena warned.
"Yeah,Kanan. The Mini you doesn't like being called Mini K." Ezra tried to avoid Kanan's question.
"Wait, Ezra, what happened that Athena nearly died and you had to save her?" Kanan tried to get back on that subject.
"I nearly died, and he saved me. Simple." Athena said.
"What happened that you two are avoiding this question?" Kanan asked.
Athena and Ezra looked at each other and shrugged, deciding their silent plan.
"I'm waiting for an answer..." Kanan carefully crossed his arms across his chest, avoiding any pain from his broken ribs. Kanan's ribs didn't bother him that much as they had the first day he had dealt with it, now it was just plain annoying.
"Well, when one of the explosions went off when we were going back to the main dock my face mask got knocked off as the water rushed in." Athena explained.
"My face mask crack, she lost consciousness and I had to breath air into her mouth before m mask cracked so she and I could swim to the surface."Ezra continued.
"I now have a horrible taste on my lips because of him." Athena said and turned to Ezra "Count that as a kiss and I will throw something at your head."
"I wasn't going to." Ezra said and turned to Kanan "You're not going to freak about that, are you?"
Kanan shook his head 'no' "That was actually a smart move, good thinking."
Ezra smiled and let out a relieved laugh"Good, I was almost certain you'd be super mad."
"I still have a taste on my lips. What did you eat?!" Athena said.
"I told you! I just ate a protein bar! They don't have a taste!"
"Did you brush your teeth?" Athena asked "Ever?"
"I brushed my teeth last night..."
"Oh you poor thing." Kanan chuckled as his little sister began to rapidly wipe her mouth on her arm.
"Gah!You mean you didn't brush your teeth this morning?!" Athena continued to wipe her mouth "Scratch any chance of me wanting to kiss anyone now."
"Hey, your mouth can't taste that bad from me saving you." Ezra said.
"It's not the taste. It's the thought your mouth was on my mouth and you hadn't brushed your teeth in almost 24 hours!"
The door opened and Rae poked her head into the room from the kitchen "Wait, who's mouth was on Athena's mouth?"
"Ezra." Kanan answered.
Rae looked in shock at Kanan "And you're not freaking out? Who are you and what've you done to Kanan?"
"Quiet, Ezra just had to give Athena oxygen when we were at Kamino and the building exploded and Athena's mask came off." Kanan said "And Athena's freaking out because she doesn't like the idea Ezra hadn't brushed his teeth in a rotation."
Rae looked at Athena as she continued to wipe her mouth on her uninjured arm "Aw...you're first kiss."
Athena narrowed her eyes at Rae and stopped wiping her mouth "You are just mean, ya know that?"