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As Ahsoka sighed in relief that they were back on the Ghost, but then saw Kanan on the floor, with blood around him which worried her. Ahsoka sensed Kanan's unconscious mind still full of panic for his padawan. But sighed in relief because, at the very least, the man was breathing. Ahsoka hoped he would continue to do so they could get him to the doctors.
"Zeb, get Kanan to the med bay!" Ahsoka ordered as she climbed the ladder to the cockpit
"Where's Ezra?!" Zeb asked in a panic when he didn't see the kid anywhere. Ahsoka though had no time to answer, they needed to retaliate.
As she got to the cockpit. she heard Hera yelling into the communication panel.
"We need defense on the tail!"
Ahsoka then got to the control, "We need a ship to intercept the escape pod expelled from the Star Destroyer!"
Hera looked up at Ahsoka in confusion, "Don't you think escaping here is more important!?"
"Ezra had to go into it! Kallus attacked him and the kid had to get into the pod to escape!" Ashoka stated as she pointed to the pod that seemed to be getting further away from them.
Hera then turned the com back on and spoke in a panic, "We need a ship on that pod! Ezra's in it!"
Sato then spoke up, "Understood! B-7 wing stay on that pod!"
"On it!" Rex hollered out over the comlink when a yellow ship flew towards the pod.
Hera then felt the ship shields get hit by an Imperial blaster.
Hera commed to Zeb, "Zeb, get to the blasters, Now!" Ahsoka-,"
"I have the last one," Ahsoka said as she was about to head out when Hera spoke up.
"No, go check on Kanan. See if you can stabilize him!"
Ahsoka nodded at her friend's order and ran to the med bay. Ahsoka just hoped they could get out of this, they had to.
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Sabine was in the center blaster panel when she got to the order.
"Sabine, Ezra is in the escape pod. Blast the ships that come towards him so Rex can get to him!"
"On it!" Sabine stated as she took out one ship that was already heading to Rex's ship.
Sabine then got her communicator on to connect to Rex.
"Rex, I'm clearing a path so you can retrieve the pod."
"Got it!" Rex said as he evaded another shot from a TIE-Fighter, one that Sabine immediately took care of.
Sabine then saw several TIE Fighter's aims for Rex. Sabine targeted the enemy and opened fire on them. One after another they exploded into space. Rex was cleared and Sabine was beaming at the accomplishment.
Rex was getting to the pod he was almost there, "Am about to-,"
Just then though, the pod launched right out of his ships grasp and away from the insanity going on.
"WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?" Sabine panicked.
"The pod shot towards another system. Is out of range, I'm gonna try to go after it!" Rex informed them. Just then more ties came and Rex had to fly out of range or shoot them down. Sabine was able to get some down, but more just kept coming.
Then suddenly a black TIE came into play. It whirled and looped around every shot. The pilot too seemed to be an ace shot, somehow hitting the rebel ships no matter what they did. Hera looped overturning the ship almost completely over to avoid being shot. The pain grew in her hands and she struggled more and more to hold on to the panels. Hera tried to ignore the pain and focus on flying but it got harder and harder.
Sabine aimed for it but the TIE would evade her. Turning and twisting just as the blaster come close to them. It would be so impressive if the TIE-Fighter wasn't shooting at Rex's ship and heading towards the Phoenix ship.
Sabine looked around. She saw the TIE's multiply, the rebel ships evading as much as they could just to protect the Ghost from being fired at. The pod was not even in view now the hollered, "Hera we can't! We have to go!" It hurt her so much to say that but she knew there was no option.
"We can't leave him!" Hera hollered in rage.
"Hera!" Sabine spoke up, "The pod is coursing to a solar system we can get back to later! TIE Fighters are blocking any attempt to get to the pod, and Kanan needs to get to the Base Med-bay now! Ezra seemed okay when we saw him. We get Kanan to the Base then go looking for Ezra in the Solar system later. As he said, his beacon will be on." Sabine said with tears in her eyes, feeling sad she had to say it but they had no choice.
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Hera was sitting in the cockpit and looked at the now launched pod and felt such despair at the plan, but she knew at the moment she had no choice. Hera felt her lekku move in despair, causing make Hera wince in pain and on reflex made her hands reach up, the problem was that her hand was injured as well and therefore shaking. Forcing her to focus back on the fight she tried to focus but holding on the panels got more and more difficult.
"We need you to hang in there a little longer. We have to attach it to you. We have injured aboard that need help" Hera pleaded to Sato on the comlink.
"Copy that, attach to the Phoenix ship we will cover you" one of the rebel ships replied.
As she made it towards the Phoenix ship but the black TIE fighter from before came in between them. The TIE was flanked by two other TIE's.
"It would seem that we get to test your skills as a pilot after all" Vader's mechanical voice sounded.
'NO, NO, NO' Hera thought to realize she had to try and outfly the second in command of the empire while being injured. Their only chance was to get to the ship and then jump to hyperspace before Vader got the cut-off. Hera reached towards the Phoenix ships but Vader had his escort to bombard her so the whole ship was shaking. Hera has to change course to avoid the ship being shot to pieces. Every time she tried to stir the ship to the Phoenix ship, she was cut off by Vader. Hera was scared because for one of the few times in her life Hera knew she had met someone who was better at flying than her and the timing could not be worse.
"Ghost to Phoenix, we need help. We are up against Lord Vader and his escort in the three TIE's that keep firing at us. We will fly by one of your guns and then you blast it giving us room for attaching. We need to make a security jump as soon as that is done. We can't win against him" Hera reported.
"Understood Ghost" the channel reported.
Hera flew by the Ghost like she tried to get into it once more only to be cut off from connecting by a TIE. Hera tried to get as close to the Phoenix ship while flying towards the cannon.
"Get ready" Hera was shouting.
Hera flew by and heard the shoot.
"We hit the TIE" the person shouted.
Hera turned the Ghost sharp to the side and moved back to the place where she could connect with the Phoenix Ship. They did that and she stared at how Vader came closer to her.
"We are in! Jump before Vader cuts us off again" Hera shouted.
"Understood …. jumping … now" was the reply as she saw the stars convert to lines.
Hera relaxed and let go of the console but it was too much and she cried out as her hand cramped and she struggled to let go. As she managed to do so she saw the blood on the consoles and she knew she had to clean it now. Hera slowly got up and left to try and find something to whip the blood away.
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"I can't hold him down if he keeps this up, he keeps fighting against me and he might end up doing damage to himself," Zeb said worriedly.
Ahsoka reached out to Kanan again and reached out with the force trying to calm down. The force seemed to be moving even faster around Kanan and was now filled with flash and pictures moving so fast that all she captured were glimpses of a young boy and a campfire.
"Ahsoka, duck" Zeb shouted.
Ahsoka opened her eyes just in time to see an object come flying against her and she only managed to duck a few seconds before it would have hit her. Kanan was now fully trashing and was going berserk with Zeb having a big fight to hold him down. Kanan also started mumbling things that none of them could hear or make sense of. Ahsoka knew this could not last and went over to the medical equipment. As much as she hated it, Kanan was a danger to himself the only solution would be to drug him. Ahsoka knew she would be taking a lot of heat from the crew over this but it was for the best in the long run. Kanan could do serious damage to himself like this, especially as a force user.
Just as Ahsoka found the sedative the door opened and she saw Mira and Ephraim step inside. Their eyes fell on Kanan and Ahsoka could sense their sympathy towards Kanan.
"How is he?" Ephraim said.
"Not good" Ahsoka answered as she started to measure the sedative.
"Duck!" Zeb's voice was heard again and they all ducked as the objects in the room started flying through the air once more.
"Odd, Kanan reacts like that prisoner did when they were drugged with liquid made from a Blue tendril. Remember?" Mira asked her husband while he supported her. Ephriam nodded as he looked at the man with both concern and curiosity.
"A what?" Ahsoka asked.
"We have a blue flower on Lothal called Blue Tendrils," Mira explained, "It's beautiful but can be toxic, all though not deadly, if a loth cat eats it, it goes into a fit. While we were sitting in a prison, they brought in another prisoner in which they drugged with a liquid produced by the flower, he kept turning and tossing like him before they moved him. We don't know what happened to him"
Ahsoka stopped dead in her track if Kanan had been drugged with something she could not give him a full dose. It could turn out lethal. Ahsoka took a new tube and filled it with a far smaller dose than the previous one.
"Duck" Zeb shouted, as he helped Ahsoka to duck to prevent her from having a syringe hit her lekku.
Sabine then entered the room; though she did not focus on the scene cause just then, a few vials came her way and Ahsoka had to grab her before it hit her head.
Sabine was in a panic as she saw Kanan acting like an injured animal
"what's going on!?" Sabine wondered.
Ashoka explained, "We know he was poisoned, the Bridger's think that Kanan is acting similar to a flower tested on another prisoner, blue tendrils that apparently can cause cats to freak out."
The mention of the word 'blue' got Sabine recalling the vial she kept on herself.
She showed it to the Bridger's, "Was it this shade of blue?"
Ephraim nodded in agreement, "Exactly that color."
Sabine then speculated, "I found it in the cell Kanan was in. if it makes cats freak out, perhaps a larger dose as this made a man act like...Kanan does right now."
"Okay," Ahsoka spoke up, "we have a liquid giving hallucinations. we will need to get some blood to confirm it so we can make a cure."
"That might be hard with Kanan using the force like this," Zeb argued as he kept ducking.
Ashoka sighed as she said the only option they had, "We need to knock him out and get the blood sample. The sooner we have the blood sample the sooner we can get the doctors back at the base getting a cure."
Zeb and Sabine sighed, "Let's do this," Zeb agreed.
Zeb held Kanan's shoulder down as Sabine got the legs.
Ahsoka got the sedative they needed.
Ahsoka knew that Kanan would be in a panic with the needle in, but now or never.
Ahsoka than jabbed the needle into Kanan's arm. While the man screamed louder and jerked some more, it only lasted for a couple of moments before his body stopped thrashing around and he looked like he was meer sleeping. Even so, his expression was not one of a person in peace.
Just then, they were greeted by Hera and Chopper coming into the center.
Ahsoka was about to offer to aid Hera in bandaging her lekku properly, but she went straight to Kanan as she spoke, " We are attached to the Phoenix ship, we will make the next jump towards the base shortly."
Hera stroked Kanan's hair as he saw him passed out but alive.
Ahsoka told her the truth, "Kanan has been poisoned, started hallucinating a bit. We sedated them and are pretty sure of the poison that the Empire used on him."
Chopper than chirped, "Maybe we should restrain him?"
Zeb growled, "Not there yet rust bucket."
Hera though did not seem too relieved, she knew Kanan had a long path to recovering; and once he knew about Ezra, that could really delay him getting better.
Mira and Ephraim turned to Hera with eager eyes. "Where is our son?" Mira asked.
Hera felt crushed as she opened her mouth to answer but not a single word came out. Finally, she managed to find her voice.
"I am so sorry, he was in the pod. We could not reach him but rest assured that we will not rest before we find him"
Both Zeb, Ahsoka, Mira, and Ephraim looked heartbroken at the message. Mira broke down in tears.
"There, there Mira. Think about it, now we are free. We can go and look for him and the Empire can't use us as bait. Don't give up hope we have a much better chance at getting him back this time, and we will get him back" Ephraim said.
Sabine was stepping forward to offer them a bed to rest on as they look exhausted.
"We will find him," Zeb said with such confidence, "Once on the base we will have more manpower, and will be able to find Ezra sooner."
Ahsoka was about to ask Hera if she wanted to be bandaged just as Kanan groaned out and started jolting again. This seems to aggravate his many injuries making some of them starting to bleed again.
"That is not right, he should still be out cold with the medication I gave him," Ahsoka said.
They looked worried at her. Hera grabbed her comm making her groan as she activated it.
"Commander Sato we are in dire need of medical help. We will move to your med center in the Phoenix Ship immediately. Please tell the medics to be ready. Kanan is severely ill" Hera said.
"Understood Captain. I shall tell the medics to inspect you all" Sato replied.
Hera tried to turn it off but instead dropped it as she was reaching down for it her lekku moved and she fell down and cried out in agony.
Ahsoka was at her side in an instant, "Come on, let's get you checked out too."
Hera smiled as the two women got up and prepared to get the crew the aid they need.
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The pod was going at such a high speed, but the two fighting males in the vessel did not seem to notice during their scruffle.
"Get off me you dirty rebel!" Kallus struggled as the boy kept hitting his head over and over by the boy's fist.
"You are a horrible person! You hurt everyone I care about! I won't let you hurt them or me anymore!" Ezra roared in anger at this man.
Kallus kept trying to smack the kid around the walls to get the child off his shoulder.
Amongst the insanity, the two feuding males did not notice the pod shooting like a comet to the next galaxy over. The pod was racing towards a giant orange planet. It wasn't until they got into the planet's atmosphere did Ezra sense impending danger. It was like a shock was sent straight to his brain. Once Ezra noticed this sensation was a warning, Ezra looked out the window and he almost lost his breath when he saw the Planet getting closer. this was enough time for Kallus to sock Ezra right in the jaw. As Ezra landed on the floor though he quickly got to the controls and tried to pull on the yoke. Kallus, who seemed to have noticed what was going on, tried to grab the controls himself in an effort to land the pod. This once again though showed to cause the two males the fight over control of the pod. While they were able to lift the ship slightly up, the hard ground soon impacted the pod. This sent both man and boy jostling throughout the pod. Kallus tried to steady himself but it was no use and he ended up hitting his head against the wall, this rendered him to fall into unconscious slumber. As the ship did not slow down, Ezra tried to stir it into a different direction, but it was no use and the ship collided with a rock that sends them into the air once more. Ezra tried to brace himself but as the ship landed on the nose, but it was no use. Ezra' was jolted right to the head of the pod where his foot landed the wrong way by being bent by the control panel. Ezra could not help but cry out in pain.
Ezra though could not dwell on his foot though, Ezra had to get out of the smoking ship. Ezra got to the opening and had to slam his shoulder into it a few times before it opened.
Finally when he did though he smelled fresh air. However, when he looked out, he saw how dry and bleak the planet was. Ezra landed on his good foot and began to limp to get a clear view of what was around. Ezra then fell to the ground as he put too much weight on his bad foot. Ezra almost cried; he was on some planet with no idea how long it would take for his friends to look for him.
Ezra tried to get up once more, but as he did he sensed Kallaus waking up, Ezra tried to crawl away, but it was no use, he wasn't fast enough.
"Not this time!" Kallus said as he grabbed Ezra by the collar of his shirt. Ezra began to struggle against Kallus as he tried to drag the boy closer to him, Only for Kallus to cry out in pain and drop the boy on his butt. Ezra was able to scoot back, and what he saw almost made him laugh out of pure spite. Kallus was holding onto his side. Ezra didn't see any blood so this must mean his ribs were broken, or at least one of them was.
Kallus did not appreciate this and tried a different tactic. Ezra saw the man get some rope out of the pod. again Ezra tried to crawl away but it was useless. Ezra's hands were grabbed by Kallus and despite his effort to kick the man with his good foot, it didn't stop Kallus from bound his hands and throwing him into the side of the pod.
Kallus than seemed to get a communicator out only to struggle with it and complaining it didn't work.
Ezra during this time tried to get out of the rope and seemed unable to do so. that was until Ezra remembered, "Duh, collar off." Ezra than used the force to untie himself.
Kallus than looked up and was like, "How-?"
Ezra than remarked, "Force jackass."
"You watch your tone boy. Once the Empire tracks the pod you will be back in a cell in no time.
"My friends will be here way before the Empire," Ezra stated confidently, "Besides they don't know where we landed.
"Clearly," Kallus spoke up the matter of factly, "We have landed on Geonosis. A barren planet with few life forms on it now."
Ezra couldn't help but roll his eyes as he sat down, "That's great that you know it. But that was five solar systems from where we were. Between the light-years that separate us from the empire and my friends, and the hundreds of planets that are in their way, how long will it take for them to realize we landed here?"
Kallus gave Ezra such a death glare, but then looked up and came to the horrible conclusion; the boy had a point.
Kallus than turned his attention to the boy, "Well it doesn't seem you are going anywhere with that foot of yours."
Ezra then took a shot at him, "Well with you all battered up, it doesn't look like you can keep me, prisoner, either."
Kallus than rolled his eyes, "Than it seems we shall wait."
Ezra than remarked, "yes, we will wait until my friends come."
With that Kallus and Ezra sat by the pod, the only way either of their friends could find them, keeping far enough from each other as they were left to do nothing but to wait, hoping their respective parties came before the other's did.
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As Darth Vader landed his Tie Fighter in the Star destroyers, the sith lord could not tell what he was more angry about. Thar many of their TIE Fighter's were now gone; that nothing about the rebel base was revealed; that all the rebels got away, including his own apprentice; or that yet again, his own student's seemed to lack the skill to keep the rebels imprisoned. Vader was done with it.
As Vader landed in the Star Destroyer, he walked into the office that he used he ordered his students to come to his office. The short time there was from he gave the order to they came only further added to his anger. Beside his anger, he found one thing that intrigued him. The Twi'lek pilot Hera Syndulla was an excellent pilot. He would be interested in trying to outfly her again especially when she was healed up. His apprentice and the Jedi seemed to have something of escaping at the last minute. There was a knock on the door before they entered and nealed.
"Inquisitors!" Vader roared, this caught the frightened attention of his students.
The Grand Inquisitor began to open his mouth to speak.
"NO, I SPEAK!" Vader hollered. The three were silenced and stood as straight as they could as their nerves made the shake with fear at what their master's anger.
Vader continued, "Yet again, the rebels got away! Yet again under your three's watch!"
Seventh Sister seemed rather angered by what her master was instigating; like he thought this whole mess was all on them.
Seventh Sister then spoke up rather darkly, "This is why we should have just executed them."
Vader only glanced in her direction before he pointed out rather darkly, "The pod had my apprentice in it. I could sense agent Kallus on it as well. The agent brought my apprentice for the first time. I have confidence he can restrain the boy until we can find them. Which is more competent than my own students it appears."
"Sir," The fifth brother spoke up, "We cannot be responsible for every unforeseen circumstance. We would not be in this scenario if one did not disobey your orders in the first place." The fifth brother was eyeing the grand inquisitor as he said this, this caused a spite stare from his teacher.
Vader raised his voice, "Despite his past mistake, my eldest student did orchestrate the rebels capture. Now because of his plan all rebels were captured, and I gained an apprentice. Which is more than I can say for you two." Vader's eyes fell on the fifth brother and seventh sister.
The Fifth Brother then spoke up, "I offered many plans to eliminate the non-Jedi rebels."
"If I ordered you to capture them and then your job is to do so. Not sulk about what you would rather want to have done" Vader roared before he threw the Fifth Brother through the air and into the door where he fell to the floor. Even with his stronger physics, the broken bones were still heard.
Vader heard a snicker and saw the Seventh Sister was grinning.
"Why do you think you have to smile over the student? You are the worst of the three of you. You went against a direct order from me and harmed Ahsoka Tano. Before that, you electrocuted my apprentice without my permission. Then I warned you that you have to step up only for you to lose all the rebels and my apprentice" Vader said and neared her.
"Master I can explain," Seventh Sister said.
"You got a chance to correct your ways, and you failed," Vader stated darkly.
Seventh Sister had enough of these accusations, "Lord Vader! My way would have eliminated the possibility for them to escape in the first place! Torture them for punishment than makes sure they never make a fool out of-,"
The Seventh Sister could not finish her angered and insane outcry towards her master; as he held up his hand to raise the sister up high, holding his hands in a tight fist to constrict her airways. The Grand Inquisitor and Fifth brother could only stand by as they saw their Master place his full wrath on their fellow student.
"Master" Seventh Sister struggled to mutter out as Vader forced strangled her. Seventh Sister kicked and squirmed in a futile attempt to make it stop, but all was for not.
"Your aggressive impulse has delayed and interfered with my plans long enough!" Vader barked with so much fury the whole ship could sense what was going on.
Struggling against it she was dragged towards her master unable to form words. The Grand Inquisitor and Fifth Brother could only look on as they feared what was to come.
"Ma.." Seventh Sister gasped as she was running out of air.
Vader ignited his saber, and then pulled his clenched fist towards himself, having the Seventh Sister come closer to him when held his saber up, forcing the Seventh Sister to go right through Vader's lightsaber; right in her abdomen.
The Seventh Sister could not even scream in terror as blood began to fill her lungs. for several moments, her face was frozen in shock of what had just happened to her, what her master did to her. Sister let out a squeaky cry of agony, barely audible to those in the room as Vader turned off his saber, and finally, let her drop to the floor. What remained of her life curled into herself to reduce the pain that was now coursing through her veins as death began to consume her.
The Fifth Brother and Grand Inquisitor lost all their breath, seeing their own life being taken by their Master. The two men almost gagged as the overpowering smell of metallic blood odor encased the room as it poured out of the sister's body.
Vader crouched before her, as he saw the life from her eyes draining as blood was now pouring from her mouth. The Seventh Sister was horrified of what was becoming of her at this moment.
"You had potential to be like me," Vader spoke rather darkly, "But your sinister plans and malicious intent without further analyzing other options have no use in the Empire. You are a failure to the dark side.
The Seventh Sister had these last words sink into her dark cold soul as she made a few moments before she was going limp and lying still; permanently.
Vader rose to his feet as he turned to the paler appearing students he had left.
"Let your sister's demise be a warning to you both. Step out of line, defy an order of mine, fail me one more time and your fate will be that of hers." Vader spoke rashly as he pointed to what remained of their former comrade.
"Grand Inquisitor it will be your job to remove her and any blood from this office as punishment for not killing the Jedi when I told you to. The Fifth Brother follows me, we are going to find that pod" Vader ordered harshly and loudly.
The Grand Inquisitor looked furious but wisely just bowed his head as the two left the room, leaving stunned and enraged Inquisitor behind.
As he got a hover bed and cover to hid his departed sister's body, he knew her execution was a sign for him. That if his Master found him to fail him again, that he too would face the same fate as Sister. Not only was the Grand Inquisitor was now humiliated in front of his last remaining student he was also threatened by his master whom he has been loyal to for years, and it was all that boy's fault.
Anger engulfed him as he made a vow to himself.
"Boy, I shall be the one to find you, and when I do; no matter the consequences, I will be the one to end you! Even if it cost me my life"
A/N Wow so yeah things are not that great, Kanan is poisioned, Ezra is missing and Seventh Sister is dead. We chose to shake things up a bit. Let us know if we surprised you.