"So, you think they'll actually succeed? Or do you think they'll just argue the whole time?" the Jedi asks the Padawan as the two round a corner.
"Accomplish the mission, while arguing." The duo peak into a large open space, a core filling the center. "That must be the reactor core for the gravity weapon."
Chopper turns, grunting at the Jedi.
"Wait, you've gotta plan, Chop?" Keen asks.
The astromech once again grumbles at the two.
"We're the bait," Ezra says.
The droid relays the final parts of his plan.
"Okay. Okay. We'll draw them away. Most of the time they ignore droids anyway."
The Jedi Master smirks at him. "You go left, I'll go right. They can't shoot at us, and Chopper."
The Padawan sneaks in to the left of the center control, ducking behind it. Keen isn't nearly as subtle. She strolls onto the platform, calling immediate attention to herself.
"Hold it!" one of the Imperial technicians shouts at her, a blaster pointed to her head.
"Hold what?" she asks, as Ezra jumps down to a lower platform.
The Imp shouts, "We've got an intruder."
"How did they get in? In-tru-da-window?" the Jedi jokes.
"Come and get me," Ezra shouts, flipping back up, his lightsaber waving.
Keen ignites both of her blades, taking a defensive stance as the Technician shoots at about shutting off the gravity, and Keen nods at the astromech, and leaps into the air. Chopper grumbles, saying he's shutting off the gravity, to which the Jedi nods, leaping into the air, just as it turns off. The Imperials and Ezra float aimlessly around the room. Ar'iabel uses the Force to help her hit the ceiling. Using it as leverage, she jumps down, slicing one of the blasters in half.
"This wasn't part of the plan!" Ezra shouts.
"The plan changed," the Jedi says, floating past him. "Use the Force."
One of the blaster bolts narrowly misses the Padawan, and he glides down near the technician, slashing at him. Keen bounces off a wall, slashing the second blaster just as the system beeps. Chopper grunts, telling them he's going to turn the gravity back on.
"Don't you dare! Don't you do it! Not yet!" Ezra shouts at him. The Jedi, knowing Chop won't listen, immediately drifts to the wall, grabbing a metal beam, just as the gravity turns on.
The Imperials fall like bags of rocks, screaming to the floor way below. Ezra falls,clinging tightly onto the edge of a platform. "Whoa!" he says, as he attempts to pull himself up. The droid casually rolls forward, directly over the boys fingers, "Ow! You better have sabotaged it."
Keen let's go of the beam, dropping gracefully down with a backflip, before landing gently on her feet. She reaches over tugging Ezra up, Chopper wheeling out, ignoring them, grumbling.
"Now just hang on, what do you mean you think you sabotaged it? You're not sure?" she calls after the astromech.
Ezra and Keen glance at each other, following the droid out into the corridors. Ezra's commlink beeps almost as soon as they leave the reactor core room. He pulls it out, and says, "Kanan. We're on our way back. Where are you?"
"We're headed for Sato's ship."
"Roger that."
"We got the reactor sabotaged, so let's get going while the going's good."
The comm beeps, telling the duo that they're done talking, and Ezra starts running, Keen following right behind him. They round four corners, stumbling across an all out battle between Sato and his crew, Kanan, and a bunch of Stormtrooper's.
"Get Sato and his crew to the blockade runner," the Knight says as soon as his eyes land on Keen and Ezra.
"Where are you going?"
He groans, glancing behind him, "I've gotta get my friend."
"Do you need backup?" Ar'iabel asks. She doesn't receive a response as Kanan turns around, running deeper into the ship.
"Wait. Friend?" Ezra calls after him, before turning his head to the Master Jedi.
She doesn't get the chance to respond. Sato turns around, yelling, "We can't get through. Where is Kanan going?"
"Don't worry. I've got this," Ezra boasts, swinging his blade.
"You've got this?" The Padawan takes off down the short corridor, swinging his blade. "Shouldn't you go after him?" the Commander asks.
"Why? He's got this," she shrugs in response.
Ezra easily takes out the five Troopers in the corridor, jumping off walls, slicing and shooting them. When Sato sees the boy succeeding, he signals for his men to follow him, shooting at the Troopers.
Keen follows behind them, walking backwards, taking up the rear prepared for any attack from behind. The Padawan easily leads them to the ships, ushering each of the rebels onto the ship. "You did good, Ez," the Jedi praises, as she climbs aboard the ship.
A smile splits across his face. "Really? You think so?"
"I think Kanan would've said the same thing, y'know, if he wasn't busy."
The two Force-sensitives find their way to the cockpit, just as Ezra's comm pings. Fishing it out of his pocket, Kanan says, "Ezra, tell Sato to take off."
"No way. We're not leaving."
"Just do it," the Knight insists, "We've got another way out."
As soon as the Knight ends the comm, a crewmember says, "We're free of the docking clamps, but Imperial reinforcements are trying to cut their way onto the ship."
Sato, who had walked into the cockpit mere seconds earlier looks around, and asks where the others are.
Keen, sitting in her chair from earlier, states, "Kanan said to go. Apparently he's got another way out."
"Pilot, disengage."
The ship leaves the Imperial Destroyer. Just a few moments later an escape pod latches onto the bottom of the rebel ship. Keen, leaning back in her seat senses Kanan and Rex as they approach the door. Just as he steps through the doorway, the Knight asks, "Hey, you sabotaged that thing, right?"
"It's nice to know you're alive as well, Kanan," the Jedi Master deadpans.
Ezra rolls his eyes, "Of course we did. Right, Chop?"
The astromech grumbles in acknowledgement. Keen slides the mask from her face, stuffing it back into her bag, eyes closed. She leans back into the seat. The ship makes a jump into hyperspace, only for it to be pulled back out more moments later.
The Jedi grips her seat, as everyone almost goes flying around the cockpit.
"We are caught! Again!" Sato shouts.
"Thanks, Commander obvious," Keen grumbles under her breath, no one hearing her.
Ezra glares at the droid, "Chopper! You said you sabotaged it."
The droid stares right at the Padawan saying, 'Wait for it.'
"What do you mean, 'Wait for it?' Wait for what?"
The ship goes flying towards the giant Imperial vessel. But, not just the rebel ship. Star Destroyers come hurtling toward the large vessel as well. The Jedi Master smirks, patting the astromech on his dome, "Look's like Chop rigged their own weapon against them. Instead of targeting one ship, its pulling everything in."
"Including us!"
A Star Destroyer drags across the hull of the Imperial ship, knocking off a satellite, causing the entirety to blow up, leaving slightly burning wreckage in its wake. "Commander, we're free."
Chopper cheers, along with the rest of the crew. The rebel ship immediately jumps into hyperspace. "Oh, now you're the big hero?" Ezra asks the astromech, "It was a team effort."
The droid grumbles in indignation. "I mean, Chopper's got a point, Ez. He did do the work, we were the bait, a mere distraction so he could work his genius." The astromech cheers, trundling over to her.
"Gentlemen," Sato begins, then as an afterthought adds, "and Keen, my crew and I owe you our gratitude. All four of you."
"Thanks, Commander," Ezra says, giving him a two finger salute. He then turns to address the Knight and Clone. "You know, when you two aren't fighting each other, you fight really well together, Jedi and Clones. Now I get it."
"Kids," Kanan shrugs, "You know, crazy ideas."
Rex chuckles, rubbing the back of his neck, "Yeah. You know... Thanks."
"Yeah. Yeah. I know."
Completely interrupting the bonding going in between the two men, Keen walks straight between them, hoping to find an empty bunk so that maybe she can get some sleep without any distractions. What she wasn't expecting was for the two of them to randomly start saluting each other in the middle of the barren corridor. The two stand opposite each other for a good ten seconds, until the Jedi Master says, "Are you two just gonna stand here? I'd kinda like to get through the hallway, but I really don't want to mess with your whole bonding thing."
Rex and Kanan both drop their hands, signalling for the Jedi to walk through.