Chapter 6
The last chapter takes place after the S2 episode "Shroud of Darkness".
"Captain Rex… the Ghost is… gone," Phoenix 2's voice came from the commlink.
"Repeat, Phoenix 2, what did you say?" Rex said.
"The Ghost is… destroyed, sir." Rex looked at Ezra, the only one of the Ghost crew who'd decided to stay on the main ship for this mission. Now everyone but him was dead. Ezra grabbed the commlink from Rex's hand.
"A-Are you sure," he muttered.
"Affirmative." Ezra sat back on his chair and started crying hard. Rex waited a while before sitting next to him and hugging the kid. Ezra hugged him back immediately.
"How can they be gone?" he murmured, "They saved me, how can they be gone!" Ezra cried so much that even Commander Sato took pity on him and patted him on the shoulder. He wouldn't let go of Rex, though, and neither would he.
Kid needed protection. Rex could give it.
Ezra didn't want to get out of his room. Two weeks had passed and not a day went by in which he didn't think of them.
Hera, who'd seen the good on him when he hadn't seen it himself.
Kanan, who against all odds trained him and gave him a home.
Zeb, who would always laugh and fight and be the brother Ezra needed.
Sabine, who could always fix the situation with her explosives and blasters.
Chopper, who had given Ezra the laughter and spirit back when he thought it was impossible.
Now they were dead.
Entirely and completely dead.
And there was no going back.
If I'd gone with them, Ezra thought, I could've died with them and we would've been together. We'd die like a family should, together. Now I'm all that remains.
A knock was heard on his door, and Ezra could sense it was Rex.
"Kid, are you coming out? You still there?"
"I'm here," Ezra said. I'm here when I should be there, but now I'll make the Empire pay.
Ezra felt better now. He'd get revenge. He'd make the Empire pay.
The story is officially finished now, what did you think of it? Sorry for the torture :)