Star Wars Rebels: Marooned 2 (Short Story) Part 1
(Completely different turn of Events other then the Series. It also will be condensed.)
Introduction:
Three Weeks before the Specters were supposed to go to Lothal. It is learned that Admiral Raddus and his Command Ship the "Profundity" to evade the Imperial Forces, hid with 2 Frigates and 4 Corvette Cruisers near a Ion Nebula Cluster just within the Outer Rim. Unfortunately the Imperial Star Destroyers "Deaths Head" and "Judicator" located them and has blocked the only avenue that the small fleet could hope to escape through. Since they cannot enter the Cluster and they lack the ability to engage the Star Destroyers. Learning Admiral Raddus's plight and Rebel Command has sent all available Fighters to assist. Sabine and Ezra volunteered to fly two of the eight remaining A-Wings. While Hera, Kanan and Zeb are away on another Mission. In route a Plan is formed by General Anton Merrick. While he and the 29 X-Wing Fighters engage the Imperial Fighters clearing a path for the 17 Y-Wing Bombers to fire their Ion Torpedoes at the two Star Destroyers. At the same time, the 8 A-Wings will use their faster speed to circumvent the Star Destroyers and provide the Rebels Ships a covering screen so that they can escape. Once clear all Fighters will disengage and retreat.
Problems and Solutions:
Sabine winced as she dodged an incoming Blast from one of the TIE Fighters that were harassing the Small Rebel Fleet. Her, Ezra and the others had made it easily to where the Profundity and the other Ships were. But they could not know about the TIE Fighters that were there or how badly they would be outnumbered. She watched in horror as one after another of the A-Wings were destroyed and soon it was just her, Ezra and two others. "Sabine we are in deep Bantha." Ezra said from his Fighter as he was able to destroy the TIE that was trying to hit her. Seeing a flash she saw another A-Wing explode. She did not reply, but he was right. They were in deep trouble. Outnumbered, cut off from the other Fighters and from the Rebel Ships. The only option they had was to get out of there.
"Let's get out of here." Sabine said aiming her Fighter towards the Nebula. Knowing that was the only direction that they could go. In one direction was the Two Star Destroyers, the other two directions was the over fifty TIE Fighters. So that left only the Nebula.
"Uhm Sabine..the Cluster." Ezra stated as he flew right next to her. Sabine looked over at him and off to his port side was the other Pilot. Then he too exploded from incoming fire. "We are all that is left." He whispered sadly and before he could react. "Oh...SHIT!" With that she quickly looked and part of the destroyed A-Wing collided with Ezra's Fighter. Slamming into his Engines.
"EZRA!" Sabine yelled and pressed her face against the side port. Then exhaled in relief when she saw that he was alright. "Don't scare me like that!" She growled angrily. Then calmed down enough to ask the important question. "How bad is your damage?" He did not respond immediately as he assessed the damage via his cockpit controls.
"Bad...really, really bad. My engines are shot and...I am lucky I am not debris right now." Ezra replied and then looked over at her. "Get going, you can still make it. At some point the Imperials will either shoot me or want me to surrender then shoot me. It would be best you not be here." He said and Sabine shook her head. Slowing to match his speed and edging within ten feet of his Fighter.
"Not going to happen. Pop your Canopy and get your ass over here." Sabine ordered, pushing the seat as far as she could back. "Oh, don't forget the Emergency Kit. We might need it later." She told him, pulling off her flight helmet and slipping on her Normal Helmet. Glancing over to watch as Ezra did the same. Removed the Flight Helmet and put on the multi-colored Imperial Cadet Helmet that she had painted for him. Popping the Canopy, he grabbed the Kit and then floated over to her Ship. She vented the Atmosphere in her Cockpit, opened the Canopy and stood so that Ezra could get in. Then she sat basically on his lap inside the Cramped Cockpit of her Fighter. Sealing the Canopy and returned the life support to normal inside the Cockpit.
"Well this is cozy." Ezra commented as he removed his Helmet. He had crammed the Emergency Backpack Kit behind him. While Sabine increased thrust to the A-Wing heading away from his crippled Fighter. Straight towards the Cluster.
"We will skirt the edge of it. That close and Ionization will completely camouflage us. Imperials sensors will not be able to lock onto us. Then we...Oh KALABAST!" Sabine said in frustration, looking down at her instruments. Then sideways at him. "That TIE did get me and I did not even notice. The Hyperdrive is off line." Twisting his head around, Ezra grunted and pointed at a carbon streak near the aft section of her A-Wing Fighter.
"Yep. Looks like a minor hit, but it must have damaged the Hyperdrive. Okay so now what?" Ezra asked and Sabine thought it out. Going back was not an option. Especially since now the Rebels Ships were gone. Escaped from the trap when the Y-Wings were able to disable the Death Head with Ion Torpedoes. Now with the Rebel Capital Ships gone, over a couple hundred TIE Fighters were between them and open space.
"The Cluster is still our best choice. What I understand about an Ion Nebula Cluster is that if we shut down everything but Emergency life support then we can easily go right through it without worrying too much. We just have to hope that we do not get hit by any of that Ionized Lightening discharges." Sabine told him and Ezra winced.
"Then what?" Ezra asked and Sabine smiled.
"Find somewhere to set down and we repair the Hyperdrive. Then go home." Sabine told him and he smiled.
"Like I have said several times. You Mandalorians are crazy." Ezra leaned back and Sabine took it that he agreed with her idea. Sliding the thrusters to full, she aimed the A-Wing directly towards the Cluster. Right before entering the Yellowish Orange Clouds of the Cluster. Sabine shut down everything but emergency Life Support. Light Blue Lightening flashed all about them as the Small Fighter continued under inertia onward deeper within the Cluster. Tension lined both of their faces as they watched in fascination at the raw beauty of the Nebula.
"Ezra lets talk. Take our minds off...that." Sabine said gesturing towards the melee of galactic mayhem outside the Cockpit, looked over at him. He nodded.
"What do you want to talk about?" Ezra asked and Sabine smiled. There was something that she wanted to know, so she decided this was a perfect time to ask him.
"You know ever since...well Knownest and after I came back...you have not...well tried to you know attempt to flirt with me anymore. I would like to know why?" Sabine asked and Ezra slowly inhaled and closed his eyes for a second. Shifting uncomfortably in the cramped seat. "Let us both be completely honest. Since neither of us know if we are about to be fried by that out there, or collide with something or suffocate." She stated firmly and Ezra exhaled, then agreed.
"Kanan told me I should stop...he told me now that you have been allowed back in your Family and Clan it might be inappropriate for me to...well even try anymore. Even slightly hope that...well that you might feel the same way about me that I do about you." Ezra replied sadly and Sabine could see some moisture in his eyes. "That Jedi and Mandalorians do not mix." Sabine scowled and gave a soft chuckle.
"That never stopped you before. What made you decide to not anymore? Even after I threatened to push you off the Ghost at 2 Miles up. You still tried." Sabine asked wanting to know. She liked his vain attempts to flatter and impress her. She even liked him trying to flirt with her.
"He told me it might not be good for me. Eventually you would take a..a..a Suitor and because of how...well how I feel about you. It could lead me to the Darkside." Ezra swallowed hard amazed he was telling her this. But with what was just outside the thin hull of the Fighter. That would make anyone want to confess things that they would not normally say. "Jealousy, Anger, Depression and well Heartbreak. All paths to the Darkside of the Force." He told her and Sabine shook her head, then smiled broadly.
"Let me tell you something. Never take the advice about girls from someone that cannot make up their own minds about how they feel when involving a woman. Case in point, Kanan has no idea how to broach the issue about him and Hera. Now I never told you or him, to stop." Sabine declared sternly, turning her head and gazed into his blue eyes. "I liked it and I missed it." She admitted. Breathing a sigh of relief. She had thought at the time that Ezra had found someone more compliant, more willing then she let on. She had felt all of those emotions that Ezra had just said. Jealousy, Anger, Depression and Heartbreak. Intensified to the point that she wanted to resort to physical violence against those that she suspected at Yavin that would have infringed upon what was clearly hers.
"No you didn't. But I had to face reality. You are a Mandalorian and the Daughter of a Countess, in line to be the next Countess. Me I am nothing. An orphaned Loth-Rat that is a Jedi. You are way too good for me." Ezra said and then looked out the side of the Cockpit. Unable to look at her, in fear that once again he would break down and cry. He had done that right after Kanan advised him to stop. Spending a good whole day in his and Zeb's room crying into a pillow. Sabine reached up and gently moved his face to look at her again.
"BANTHA BULL SHIT!" Sabine growled. "The only one that decides if...well who is good enough for me, is me...Kalabast. Listen Ezra Bridger...I...I...Kalabast..." She bit her bottom lip and then firmed her resolve. It was time not to be a coward anymore, not to fear what she felt for him. "Ez'ika. I...well...I have...Oh Fuck it!" She grated, turning slightly so that she was facing him and then lunged forward. Pressing her lips onto his roughly. Ezra did not know what to be more shocked about. That Sabine had just confessed that she loved him or that she was now kissing him. Parting slightly she stared into his eyes. "You do know what Ez'ika means?" He nodded.
"Yes..it is a special Mandalorian endearment. I looked it up about a day after I met you. I know I am supposed to respond with Cyan'ika, right?" Ezra said as she smiled, kissing him again. This time she flicked her tongue into his mouth and twisted it around his. Pressing herself against him and feeling something below poking against her, knowing exactly what it was. Sabine reached downward with her hands, clasping his and putting them around her. Wanting him to hold her. After they kissed for several minutes and both were smiling like simmering idiots. Sabine put her hands together in the middle of his chest, placed her head on them and peered up at him.
"So you looked up those endearments, anything else?" Sabine asked and Ezra exhaled, nodding again and his face began to redden. "Go ahead and tell me. I like it that you learned some Mandalorian. It shows how much you do care about me." She said and he bit his bottom lip.
"Okay, I could not find the translation, but it sounded like something along the same as Ez'ika and Cyan'ika. Also it took me awhile to be able to pronounce everything right and I bet I don't on some of it." Ezra told her and she shrugged.
"You say whatever it is and I will tell you if you got it right or not." Sabine said, turning her head to the right on her hands and closed her eyes. Getting comfortable. Thinking perhaps he looked some type of Sonat or Poem that was really popular in Holonet Library System.
"Now do not get upset if I pronounce something wrong. Mhi solus tome, mhi solus dar'tome, mhi me'dinui an, mhi ba'juri verde." Ezra had stumbled through the words and when Sabine jutted upwards staring at him in shock. He wondered if it was some type of really bad Joke or something along those lines.
"Do you have any idea what you just said to me?" Sabine asked stunned beyond belief that Ezra had just said the Mandalorian Marriage Vows of Commitment. He shook his head.
"No idea. Why what did I just say?" Ezra asked and Sabine smiled. Then shrugged her shoulders.
"Oh what the hell. Mhi solus tome, mhi solus dar'tome, mhi me'dinui an, mhi ba'juri verde." Sabine said repeating the same words and then kissed him again. Ezra stared at her completely confused.
"Okay what does that mean?" Ezra asked and Sabine laughed. Shaking her head while she smiled broadly at him.
"The basic translation is as follows." Sabine looked upwards at him not wanting to miss his reaction. "We are one whether we are together or apart, we will share everything and we will raise our children as warriors." She saw his mouth gaped open. "You my dear Ez'ika just said the Wedding Vows, which I accepted and said them back. We are Married, Husband." She stated, laughing as he stared at her in shock and began to almost hyperventilate.
"WE ARE WHAT?" Ezra gasped out and Sabine giggled.
"Married. Oh and you should know, Mandalorian's do not have divorce and once said they are forever." Sabine leaned closer to him, pressing her lips onto his. "Now comes the really hard part, we are going to have sex." She declared, he began to stammer and stutter. While she tried to come up with a way that they could, in such a confined space. With extreme effort, she first forced off her left boot and pushing herself up against the Canopy. Sabine tugged down her Body Suit pants.
"I am in no rush Cyan'ika. We could wait." Ezra suggested and Sabine scowled at him. Straining to pull down her Pants. Only able to get her left foot out. Bundling up her pants around her right Boot.
"No chance. I am married and I am going to have sex if it kills me." Sabine grunted laying back down partially on top of him. Reaching down to unzip Ezra's pants. She knew why he suggested that they wait. He was nervous about them doing it for the first time. She felt the same, but was also determined to have sex and nothing was going to delay that. Not even trying to have it in a space that was not designed to have more then one person inside the Cockpit. Freeing him, she could not quite see what his Manhood looked like. She could touch it, so she did. "Okay this is going to be...interesting to say the least." With her right hand she moved her thong panties aside, with her left she clasped his shaft and moved herself as far as she could along him. With her head a mere centimeter from above his, feeling her hair touching the Canopy above him. Ezra had gasped as she put her hand around his shaft, but all of her attention was on trying to get where she could insert him within her. Biting her bottom lip, she closed her eyes and was finally able to touch his tip against her slit. Not wanting to wait, she pushed him inside her and slowly slid downward. Forcing his Manhood into her. Biting her lip harder, slowly descending downward until he was completely within her. Ketsu had told her that it would hurt the first time, but after a few moments it would get better. Sabine believed that, of course her Friend told her it would be best to get aroused and moist enough that it would be easier to do it. But Sabine did not want to wait, so the discomfort was more then she expected and it took a few moments for her insides to stop clenching his Manhood so that she could move. When she could, she was only able to slid herself about two inches without hitting her head on the Canopy. Each time she descended, she exhaled sharply and once she was in a good groove. It did start to feel kind of nice. Ezra was breathing in and out softly as she rode him. She kissed him, locking her lips onto his as she tried to go a little faster. But the limited space restricted her from going faster and at most she could only move a little harder. Thankfully that was enough for her to have a couple of mildly satisfying orgasms, up to the point that he climaxed which immediately gave her a better orgasm that caused her body to stiffen and she moaned loudly in delight. Inhaling and exhaling deeply, along with some regret. Sabine felt him slid out of her. She let go of her panties that she was holding aside and slumped onto him. "Not what I expected for my first time...but good enough for now. If we live through this, we will do it where we can both get some pleasure out of it." She told him and he smiled slightly. Sabine was not too concerned about that their first time was a little displeasing. She blamed the confines of the Cockpit and the fact that neither of them could really get into it. "Next time will be better." She declared firmly, believing that it would since even as bad as it was. She still liked it.
"Okay." Ezra nervously replied and felt a better as Sabine cuddled against him. He was anxious about the fact that...their first time was not what he had dreamed about so many times when he slept. Though in his dreams, he and Sabine were in bed, or on a beach or several other romantic locations and not cramped in a Cockpit of an A-Wing Fighter. Though right now with Sabine lying with her head on his chest, snuggling contently with him. All in all it was not that bad. In fact to him it was incredible and could not hope for anything as wonderful. Glancing out the front of the Cockpit, he saw something and it was Darkness. The Darkness of normal space. "Sabine, look." He said and he pointed with his right hand. She looked and smiled. Moving around so that she could sit once more facing forward. Picking up her Helmet, she put it on and checked through the Visual Enhancer.
"I do not think that is the edge. Maybe a pocket of normal space inside the Cluster. Might be enough that I can restart the Engines and recharge the Emergency Power. Maybe find some place to land where we can repair the Hyperdrive." Sabine told him and Ezra tried to smile but instantly thought that if they had known about this then she probably would not have said the Vows after he mistakenly did.
"Now that we have a possible chance of not dying...is it true there is no...you know divorce. I doubt if you would have known about this...you would have...well said them." Ezra gingerly stated and Sabine turned her head to the right to look at him.
"Don't bet on that one, even if I had known. I still had plans on claiming you eventually. So deal with it that we are married and even if Mandalorians did have divorce, I would not let you have one." Sabine said sternly, then kissed his cheek tenderly. "Now check the power levels on the Drives. As soon as we clear the fringe of the Cluster I am going to restart the Engines and turn on the Sensors." She told him and he smiled.
Finding Haven:
Once Sabine started the Engines and flew further within the Area of Normal Space, they discovered that it was actually a Star System with 4 Planets rotating around a single Star. The Sensors immediately detected a Planet that had air, water and from what she could tell Life. "Uh oh." Sabine said and Ezra tried to look over her shoulder at the Sensor Screen.
"What is it?" Ezra asked and Sabine winced.
"The Sensors are only picking up limited Technology. At most Solar Generators and some...well not really advanced technology. No Satellites, no Landing Beacon which means no Landing Pad and no Ships. I doubt that they will have replacement parts." Sabine replied and still headed for the Planet. They did not have a choice.
"Maybe we wont need any." Ezra said optimistically, but knew from what he could see from the Cockpit. The Fighter would need either a lot of replacement parts or a whole new Hyperdrive. Soaring downward through the atmosphere, Sabine rechecked the Sensors and Visual Scanners. The northern and southern poles were covered in Ice, where she detected some limited technology was moderately warm, well warmer then Knownest but colder then Lothal. Somewhere in between and from what she could tell, it was spring. Telling Ezra this, he shrugged.
"I guess we land and go from there." Ezra suggested and Sabine piloted the Fighter down. The Fighter began to shake and she fought to keep it in the air.
"We need to land now." Sabine told him, finding a good place and then noticed that it was a good fifty miles from the nearest Village on the horizon. Putting down the landing skids, she continued to fight to keep the Fighter from plunging into the ground. "Kalabast there goes the Repulsors!" She grated, pulling hard on the Controls to hold the ship aloft and airborne.
"Cut the power at fifty feet. I can...use the Force to get us down intact." Ezra said and Sabine glanced over at him.
"You know this is not a Crate of Supplies. It is a 2 ton Fighter." Sabine stated and Ezra exhaled slowly.
"Kanan told me that size does not matter in the Force. A pebble, a crate or a Star Fighter is all the same within the Force." Ezra said and bit his bottom lip, not telling Sabine that he had some doubts about being able to levitate the Fighter safely down. At fifty six feet, Sabine cut the power and Ezra closed his eyes in concentration. Breathing slowly in and out and focusing on the Force. Straining with effort and after several minutes he slowly set the Fighter down on the hard ground with a thud. Slumping with exhaustion, he opened his eyes and Sabine smiled at him.
"Well done Ez'ika. Kanan would be proud. Not as much as I am right now." Sabine leaned closer and pecked him on his right cheek. She popped the Cockpit Canopy and after it raised. She pulled back on her pants and her Boot. "Might as well set up camp. From what I can tell it is an hour until the sun sets and I am betting at night it gets cold here at night." She said climbing out of the Fighter and stretching the kinks out of her legs and back. She liked leaning and lying on Ezra, but it played havoc with her leg muscles and her back. Sabine suspected it was the same with Ezra. Taking the Emergency Kit Backpacks out of the Fighter, they found an adequate place to set up camp and began to set up where they would spend the night.
To be continued.