A/N: Here's another one! Most chapters are less than 1,000 words because of scene breaks. :D
"Traitor!"
"Coward!"
"How could someone like you be considered a Mandalorian?"
"Useless, hopeless-"
Crash!
Fist on console, she tried to level her breathing and stop her thoughts, failing both.
"You're a disgrace to the entire family."
Tears leaked from her eyes. She hadn't wanted to leave, to shame her family, couldn't her family see that?!
"Step out that door, and you can never return."
Oh, she'd stepped out that door, alright. One foot in front of another, until she was running, shouts and footsteps filling her ears. Back to the Academy that had ruined everything for her, just long enough to grab a ship-
"There's the traitor! Fire at will!"
A ship that was currently damaged. Spewing smoke into the emptiness of space, with alarms blaring no matter much she tweaked and rewired.
She was going down.
A new alarm added to the chaos in the cockpit. Proximity alarm. Someone was closing in. Hadn't she lost her pursuers in hyperspace?
There was a planet nearby. Could she…?
"We're not taking her alive, men."
She'd die if she stayed in space. Might as well risk a landing.
Wrenching the stolen shuttle to the side, she eyed the monitor. Only one ship, closing fast. Well, she hadn't been top of her class for nothing.
She used every trick in the book, and more than a few more-or-less made up on the spot, but she couldn't shake the ship!
It was strange that they hadn't fired, though. Actually, looking at the console, she saw there was an incoming transmission. Had they changed their minds, and wanted to take her back?
She slapped off the comms and grit her teeth. Never!
She forced the little shuttle for a bit more speed, bursting into the planet's atmosphere. Flames licked at the port, and more alarms blared. Too late, she realized her approach was too steep!
She yanked back on the controls. The nose tilted up, but not nearly enough when pillars of stone appeared in the clouds.
The ship jerked sideways with a shriek of metal on stone. She was thrown sideways, straight out of her seat and to the floor. Her helmet flew away, but she didn't have time to replace it. She leaped to her feet, scrambling to grab the controls-
Bang!
Impact threw her into the console, slamming her face against metal and the edge of the console knocking her breath away. She slumped backwards, grabbing weakly for the chair, but hitting the floor instead.
She watched the dizziness of stone-air-stone spin across the console. Alarms blared, though they sounded muffled now.
Thunk!
Everything stilled with a jolt, so she slid toward the edge of the cockpit. She lifted her bleary gaze to the port, baffled by the slow slide of stone, like she was falling in slow motion. A dull thud came from under her ear, then silence.
Was she dead? Probably. Shame. She hadn't gotten where she was headed, even if she'd never figured out where that was…
Footsteps pierced the silence, then a voice calling out. A face hovered over hers, one she didn't recognize. Oddly worried blue-green eyes ran up and down her, an equally worried voice asking if she was alright.
Was she? She couldn't really feel anything, and the stranger's voice was fading to a whisper…
She closed her eyes, and Sabine Wren knew no more.
A/N: Gonna be totally honest; I forgot about Ketsu until I was mostly finished with this. I love her character, but I tend to forget she and Sabine left the Academy together.