Chapter 6

Chapter Prologue

Ezra and Sabine visit Delphine on the detention level, to try and clear things up and be friends again, at least before she is driven away from the Rebellion. They explain they have a common enemy and they should be fighting them instead of each other. While they were talking, Sabine notices Delphine messing with some wires, and before she could do anything or warn anyone, the power goes out. Sabine feels somebody shove her into the wall, knocking her unconscious in the cell.

With emergency power barely active, the Rebels can't fully lock down the base. Delphine can't find Ezra, but notices some new Mandalorian from the cell following her.

*One day before the breakout*

"Sabine..." Ezra started. "What... what are you trying to say?"

"I...Ni copad... at ganar... a aliit ti gar..." She said in Mando'a.

Ezra walked up to her and lifts her head so she's looking at him. She can barely breathe, 'I don't want to take this relationship that far this soon...' she thinks to herself. 'But I don't want to wait either...'

Ezra can sense the conflict within Sabine, he wants to know what she's trying to say, but out of respect he will not probe her mind with the Force. He does know she wants to start something with him, so he's getting ideas of what she's saying.

"Y-You want to start... w-what?" Ezra said, almost completely speechless. He did recalled she said she wanted to be... something. Everything just flew by he couldn't remember.

Sabine took a deep breath and kissed him, aggressively. She couldn't take it anymore, she really wanted to have a family with Ezra, but she didn't know how else to express feelings other than through art and, of course, physical contact. Ezra deepens the kiss when Sabine grabbed his hands, and led them towards her lower back. Ezra took the hint and pulled her close, her hands grabbing the back of his head, making sure he didn't try to pull away.

Ezra pulled away and Sabine was about to pull him back in, when he started kissing her neck. She leaned her head back in pleasure, moaning softly. She jumped up and wrapped her legs around his waist, as he pinned her to the wall.

Sabine sighed in pleasure, "Elek... yes..." She started to take off the top half of her bodysuit, and Ezra slowly went back to Sabine's lips. They paused, breathing heavily, but not quite finished. Sabine especially wasn't finished. She led Ezra to the bedroom, kissing him the entire time. She managed to push Ezra into the bed and climbed on top of him as he took off the top half of his new suit. Sabine laid her entire body over his, every inch of herself touching him.

Sabine pulled back a bit and the two locked eyes.

Sabine giggled softly, "Ezra..." she cooed, almost singing.

"Y-Yeah?"

"Hiibir ni," she said, biting his ear.

Ezra's eyes widened, "S-Sabine... d-do you really want to?" he asked, understanding what she said.

Sabine kissed him deeply and said, "Elek, hiibir ni, Ezra Bridger."

Ezra thought he broke Sabine for a moment. She was speaking only Mando'a, though he's always enjoyed hearing her speak, he's still learning.

Sabine started working on getting Ezra's pants off, but he was still very hesitant with all of it.

"Sabine..." he couldn't finish asking his question before Sabine interrupted him.

"If you're asking if I want to do it then the answer is YES," she said. "Truth is, Ezra..." she sighed then.

"What is it?" he asked.

"You know how I feel about you, right?" she asked.

Ezra nodded, "Of course."

"I love you, Ezra, with all my being. And I..." she started to say. "I want to start a family with you..." she blurted out.

"Sabine..." he started to say, surprise in his voice, but before he could talk again, Sabine continued to kiss him. But this kiss was more hesitant and Sabine realized she's not listening to his choice.

"I-I'm sorry," she apologized, breaking the kiss. "I should have asked you first..."

Ezra kissed her this time, interrupting her. She was completely surprised at his reaction. She wasn't expecting it, thinking he would get upset, or something. But he was ok with the idea.

An hour later, Sabine was resting on Ezra's chest, with nothing but a bed sheet covering them.

Sabine let out a satisfied sigh. "That... was fun," she said smiling. She recalled what happened in the past hour; Ezra had taken her completely.

"Yeah it was," he said. They were both slightly out of breath, but they were happy. The odds of it resulting in a child was uncertain considering it was their first time having fully unprotected sex.

"So... what now?" Sabine asked her love.

"Well, we have 30 minutes to get to debriefing..." Ezra said.

"Haar'chak I completely forgot about that!" Sabine exclaimed.

"Same here, but this was the best way we could be late to a debrief," Ezra said with a grin.

Sabine slapped his chest playfully, "We should get ready."

They got out of bed, but there was only one shower. Ezra and Sabine looked at each other.

"After you, my dear," Ezra said, allowing Sabine to take her shower first.

"Thank you, my love," She replied with a playful tone in her voice.

About 10 minutes later, Sabine got out of the shower, and dressed into her body suit.

"Alright Ezra, it's your turn," she said, just to get a passionate kiss.

When Ezra broke the kiss, he smiled and said, "I hope you saved some hot water for me."

"Ooh, no promises, master Jedi," she replied, laughing.

Ezra grinned and got in the shower. Sabine laughed as she pushed a button on the wall, and the hot water instantly turned cold.

"GAHH! SABINE!" Ezra shouted, only to hear a hysterical laugh from the other side.

Ezra sighed, "Well played, Wren! Well played!" He shut off the shower and started getting dressed into his Mandalorian bodysuit.

The front door opened then, "What's going on in here? I thought I heard Ezra," Hera said.

Sabine was trying not to laugh without much success, "It's nothing."

Hera crossed her arms but had a smirk on her face. "Alright then, but your debriefing starts in 10 minutes. You're going to have to hurry up."

Ezra walked out of the refresher. "Just for that, Wren, you're showing me my armor."

"Don't worry, love, I'm sure it's all dry by now," Sabine said with a grin.

Hera smiled. This was the first time she heard Sabine call Ezra 'love'. "Well you two lovebirds get moving. You wouldn't want to be late," She said walking away.

Sabine grabbed Ezra and whispered, "Let's go see your armor." She led him over to the next room and when the door opened, Ezra's jaw just dropped.

Standing in front of him, was his armor. It wasn't as full of color than Sabine would usually do, but it was perfect nevertheless. The helmet was white, with some bits of dark grey and orange. The orange paint lined up with the vertical section of the visor, the horizontal section around the visor was a darker, but shiny grey. There was a silver strip over the top of the helmet, from just above the visor to the back of the helmet, with more orange outlining it. It even had one of those things on the side, just like Sabine has on her helmet.

The chestplate was white, with some orange on the top corners, the collar guard was white as well, with orange over the shoulders. The legs were overall white, but was orange on the front. The back of the torso was orange with a white outline. The shoulder pads were white, with Sabine's signature orange bird on the right, and a big orange '6' on the left.

"Well? What do you think?" Sabine asked.

"It's... It's perfect!" Ezra exclaimed, walking around the armor.

"Was there any doubt?" she asked then.

"No," Ezra said, barely letting Sabine finish her question.

Sabine gave him a huge hug, but he gave her a very passionate kiss. They stared into each other's eyes for a moment.

"Well," Sabine started, "put it on! I'll help you."

Ezra finished attaching all the armor and moved around.

"Still feels natural. As if I'm not even wearing it," he said, amazed. He looked down at the chestpiece, then over at his arms and hands.

"Now you know what it's like being a Mandalorian," Sabine said, smiling.

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get to that debriefing," he said then, putting on the helmet for the first time. He paused and looked around.

"Woah..." he said.

Sabine stopped walking, too and watched him look at everything.

"Is this what you see all the time, Sabine?" he asked.

Sabine of course knew what he was talking about. "Yup. Amazing isn't it?"

Ezra could see detailed information on almost anything he looked at. Targeting systems, power levels, even a small damage model that tells him what part of the armor is damaged and what part of him is injured. He could also tell if it would be a life threatening injury or not.

"It's specially made for you, Ezra," she said. "I don't know how, but I was told it was."

Ezra stared at her through the helmet, "You knew about this?"

"Happy Birthday, Ezra Bridger," she said with a wink.

"But it's not even my birthday," he protested.

"I know. Now come on! We're already late," she said. They both made their way to the Command Center.

"I don't agree. Executing her would make us no better than the Empire!" Hera said.

"She's already attacked a commando unit and had a former Separatist fleet attack our own! She's dangerous!" a captain said. This is the same captain that captured Delphine earlier that morning.

"We understand that, but we can't just execute her. She's no longer part of the Rebellion, but I will not sink down to the Empire's level," Kanan explained. For a guy who's never liked military protocols, he does seem to follow regulations; Especially towards prisoners.

"Fine, but if she attacks us again, I will order a counter attack to kill," the captain said.

"Maybe you won't have to do that." Mon Mothma said.

"I'm listening," the captain said.

"Sunspot Prison. I believe we may have located it, so if it's where we think it is, we can send her there," Hera explained.

The captain pondered this for a moment. "I can provide an escort, but we will not jump in with you in case of Imperial presence," he said, ending the debate.

"Thank you, captain," Hera said as the channel closed.

The doors opened and two Mandalorians walked in.

"Sabine, glad you could finally join us. But I'm afraid your friend must wait outside," Mon Mothma said, not knowing it's Ezra.

"With all due respect, senator," Ezra said taking off the helmet, "I'm not going anywhere."

"Ezra Bridger," the senator said with some surprise. "I see you've managed to obtain some Mandalorian armor. It suits you very well."

"Thank you for the compliment, senator," Ezra said with a nod.

"So, shall we begin?" Hera asked.

"We shall," Mon Mothma said.

A hologram appeared, showing the detention level.

"This is where Delphine is being held as we speak. She shouldn't be able to go anywhere for a long time. We are planning on sending her to Sunspot, but we will wipe her memory of this base beforehand," the senator explained.

"Granted she has done some terrible things, and you don't want to see her, we hope you can help us out," Hera added.

Sabine looked at Ezra, then back at the Rebel leaders.

"I guess I'm in," Sabine said firmly.

"I agree. No it's not because Sabine and I are together. Delphine told me she would never give me up over anything, and I know she can and will kill others just to have me," Ezra said.

"And that's something I will not allow!" Sabine said, her voice rising steadily.

Ezra placed a hand on her shoulder, telling her to calm down.

"Very well. We will have her transported to Sunspot Prison. We can also make her forget Ezra if that will make you feel better, Sabine." Hera said.

"There's a catch isn't there?" Sabine asked. She didn't need the Force to feel a catch coming.

"We need you two to go down there and inject her with the serum. Otherwise she will remember us and could compromise our presence here," Mon Mothma said.

Ezra and Sabine frowned.

"Why us?" they asked.

"She keeps asking to see you two for one... But I think Ezra should keep his helmet on," Hera said. Nobody argued against that.

"Is there a way to lock the helmet so it can't come off?" Ezra asked Sabine.

She shook her head, "No there isn't. But I don't think she'll rip a helmet off a random Mandalorian she's never seen before."

"You'll need these," Hera said handing Ezra some Mandalorian vambraces.

"Where did you get those?" Sabine asked.

"Your family sent them. Whatever you did, Ezra, you really got on their good side," Hera explained.

"How much of a Mandalorian are they trying to make me?" he asked looking at Sabine.

"I don't know, but I like it," she said taking hold of his arm to help him put on the vambraces.

"Whenever you can't reveal that you're a Jedi, you can pretend to be a Mandalorian. Just try not to attract attention because one: you are not Mandalorian, which means you don't belong to a particular house... yet, and 2: other clans could go after you," Hera explained. She really thought things through as usual.

"Thanks Hera," he said inspecting the new equipment.

"General, the prisoner is really getting hostile. We should send them down now," an officer reported.

"Very well. Good luck you two," Mon Mothma said.

Ezra and Sabine left the Command Center, after being handed a serum to make Delphine forget where the Rebel base is. As the elevator slowed to a stop, Sabine started talking.

"Ezra," she started. "Please be careful."

"I can say the same to you, love," he said putting on his helmet. "I'll be standing behind you a little bit."

"Thank you for throwing me up front," she grumbled, but Ezra placed a hand on hers. She looked up to him.

"She's after me, and will have to go through you to get to me. She doesn't know I have all of this so with luck, she would only think I'm just another Mando," Ezra explained carefully.

Sabine nodded, "Alright, I understand." Ezra pulled off the helmet and gave Sabine a kiss. Right before the doors opened, he already had his helmet back on and right on time.

"Commander Wren, you are authorized to proceed. However, I'm afraid..." Sabine slapped his shoulder and Ezra held a finger up to the front of his helmet. The guard understood then.

"Sorry for the confusion, Commander," the guard said to Ezra, pretending that he's somebody from Sabine's clan. "You are authorized to proceed."

The guard led them to Delphine's cell, and deactivated the first shield. After that shield was shut off, Sabine deactivated the second shield and walked up to Delphine.

"Hello, Katz," Sabine said, trying to control her emotions.

Delphine looked up at Sabine. She looked around for Ezra, but couldn't see him anywhere. She did see another Mandalorian outside of the cell.

"Where's Ezra?" she asked.

"He's not down here, yet. But he's coming," she replied.

"Then who's that behind you?"

"Oh him? He's from my clan. Commander, do you care to say 'hello?'" Sabine said.

Ezra crossed his arms, trying to look menacing, which seemed to work.

"He's heard about you, so he's not very happy," Sabine explained.

"Yeah, about all that," Delphine started. "I don't regret any of it."

Sabine tried not to punch her. "I know you don't."

"Why else are you down here, Wren? You wouldn't have visited unless there was something you had to do."

"I'm a nice person, but you're somewhat correct. I have orders to give you some medicine," Sabine said. It wasn't a complete lie, considering that is was a medicine for patients that suffered from a horrible event. She was offered the very same thing after Ezra's accident, but she didn't want to forget it. She was glad she turned it down.

Ezra tilted his head and looked around the two women, and saw a part of the wall was missing. Sabine noticed it, too but also saw some wires.

"Delphine what are those wires?" Sabine asked, concerned.

She only grinned, "You'll see." She yanked them out and instantly the power was shut off.

Sabine couldn't see anything and felt Delphine shove her into a wall and everything went quiet.

The power went out, then, and the only thing Ezra could see at them moment was some sparks. Through all the sparks he saw Delphine's silhouette shove Sabine into a wall. The sparks stopped there, so he had to activate night vision. What he saw next really pissed him off, but he couldn't reveal himself. He jumped up and grabbed a pipeline on the ceiling, hiding until Delphine walked past. Using his new vambraces, he managed to shoot a small tracker on the back of her boots. Delphine was struggling to get down the hallway since the emergency power was also failing.

Ezra quietly jumped down, and entered the cell. He ran over to Sabine and saw she had a gash on her head. His heart about stopped when he saw the bloody shelf. He grabbed a bacta patch from his med kit and applied it, carefully. He then checked her pulse and breathing, and sighed with relief when he felt it.

He then started to attempt to wake her up.

"Sabine," he whispered, taking off his helmet. "Sabine! Can you hear me?"

Sabine stirred softly, as she came to.

"E-Ezra?" she said softly. Her voice was shallow, but her breathing was still fine.

"I'm here, Sabine. Don't move," he said.

"W-What happened?" Sabine asked.

"Delphine escaped the detention levels. There's no power down here anymore. I'm not sure about the rest of the base. You have a gash on your head, but I patched it with a Bacta patch," Ezra explained everything.

"How could you let her get away?" Sabine asked.

"I didn't. I placed a tracker on her boot as she left. I needed to make sure you were alright, first," Ezra said. Sabine slowly started to lose consciousness.

"Sabine, stay with me!" he said lightly slapping her face, keeping her awake. She was obviously in shock and needed medical attention. "We need to get you to medical."

He picked her up and she held on as tight as she could, as they left the detention level. He managed to keep Sabine awake as they entered the medical bay, but only emergency lights were active. Fortunately the medical droids were still functioning.

"She has a gash on her head and I think she's gone into shock," Ezra explained to the droid. It clicked, it's emergency programs running so it took half the time for it to register the information.

"She'll be safe with us. Go get Katz!" a rebel medic yelled. Ezra nodded and put his helmet back on. Delphine crossed the final line. A beeping was heard from his comlink and he activated it.

"Commander Bridger, you need to find Delphine and fast. We don't know where she is but the hangars are locked down and secured. She shouldn't be going far," a security officer said through the comms.

"I need orders. What should I do?" he asked then.

"Orders straight from Central Command: Capture Delphine, Alive," the officer said.

"Noted. Keep me posted on any further orders."

He saw rebels running all over the place; Security forming ranks, Commandos gearing up, search droids activating. The entire base was back on lockdown, and Ezra was caught in the middle. He activated the tracker he placed earlier and saw that Delphine was in the ventilation systems.

'That explains why nobody could find her.' Ezra thought to himself. He started to follow the tracker and stopped. The tracker stopped moving and he heard a vent panel open. He hid behind a nearby corner, barely looking around. There was enough light in the hallway to see a person, just not their features from a distance. However, Ezra's little corner is pitch dark, and even though there's almost no light, his helmet lets him see clearly.

Delphine looked around cautiously, then kept moving forward. Once she turned the corner, Ezra followed.

'What is she up to? She's not just trying to escape,' Ezra wondered to himself. He heard somebody yelling then.

"Freeze... p-put your hands in the air!" the unknown voice yelled.

"Oh please," Ezra heard Delphine say. "I won't hurt you if you tell me where Ezra Bridger is."

Ezra looked around the area and found another hallway that leads around to the other side, right in Delphine's path. He pushed a button on his helmet's voice control so he can disguise his voice, and made his way around the hallway. He stopped at a corner and looked around it, and saw Delphine choking a rebel security officer. He was obviously new here, not even two days in. Ezra turned the corner, his blaster raised.

"Let him go," he said. The voice change really worked, making his voice sound like it was an older Mandalorian talking; Deep and somewhat raspy.

"Oh hi!" Delphine said. "I remember you. You were standing in front of my cell right before I got out. I was wondering if you knew where Ezra is. Do you know?"

She let go of the officer, who passed out from fear.

"On the contrary, he has been looking for you," the Mandalorian Ezra said.

"Really? Where is he?" she asked with joy in her voice. He is looking for me? she thought excited.

"If you will follow me," he said. He started walking down the hallway, Delphine following him. So far she had no idea the 'Mandalorian' was actually Ezra.

He led her to the hangar and all the power was restored. In front of them, there was a line of rebel security officers. They raised their weapons then.

"Hold it right there!" they yelled.

Delphine stopped walking, but Ezra didn't. The these rebels didn't know it was him though, until he said something.

"Hey Mando! What are you doing?" Delphine yelled.

"Remember? I'm taking you to Ezra. He's in his ship," he said. He turned to the rebel officers, "Hold your fire. I got this under control."

They all nodded and lowered their weapons. Delphine ran into Starbird with Ezra following her.

"Where exactly is he? I can't find him," she said confused.

"You are so dumb," Ezra said.

Delphine turned around, then. "What did you say, Mando?"

"You heard me," Ezra said, pulling out his blaster. "Turn around with your hands above your head."

"You said Ezra was here! You lied!" she yelled.

"On the contrary, he is here," Ezra said.

"I don't see him here," Delphine said.

"You followed him here," he said trying not to laugh at her ignorance.

"No I didn't. I followed you here!"

Ezra facepalmed. "Alright that's enough talk," he said as he shot Delphine, the blaster was set to stun so he didn't kill her.

Moments later, Sabine ran into the hangar. Ezra was talking with the officers, having a good laugh, when he felt somebody tackle him to the ground.

"Woah! Wha-" Ezra was cut off when Sabine kissed him, and the entire hangar was filled laughter. Some people whistled.

"Yeah get some, commander!" some of the officers yelled.

Sabine pulled away a bit, allowing them to breathe.

"I'm... I'm sorry I should have told you I was coming," she said, smiling.

"No it's ok. I'm just glad you're alright," Ezra said helping Sabine to her feet.

He got some claps to the shoulder as the officers boarded the ship to recover Delphine.

"Ezra!" a female rebel yelled. She was also one of the girls that visited him during his recovery, but she only likes him as a brother.

"Katherine? Is that you?" Ezra called.

"It's been a while," Katherine said.

"It's good to see you, Kath," Sabine said. She could feel comfortable with Ezra talking to her. "Where have you been this whole time?"

"I've been on Coruscant, infiltrating the Imperial Senate," she said. (She specializes with infiltration, stealth, all that jazz)

"What did you find out?" Ezra asked.

She gave him a funny look. "I'm sorry, Commander, but that is classified until my debriefing. Also what the kriff is going on?"

Ezra turned to a squad of security officers. They were dragging an unconscious Delphine back to the detention level, this time putting her in one without any panels.

Katherine gasped, "What happened to Delphine?"

She looked at Ezra and Sabine, both of their expressions turned dark. Then she noticed the bandage on Sabine's head.

"What happened?"

"Delphine has been causing a lot of trouble lately, and she is no longer with the Rebellion," Hera said walking up to them.

"Hera?"

"She's been going after Ezra and Sabine, almost killing Sabine more than once just to have Ezra," Hera explained.

Katherine gasped again, "Ezra, Sabine... Is this true?"

They nodded grimly.

"I am sorry to hear that... I never thought she would do this kind of thing..." she said. Then she snapped out of it and tried to change the subject.

"I see you painted your Gauntlet, Ezra."

"Actually it's renamed to Starbird. And Sabine painted it," Ezra explained, glad to change topics.

"Really? I like Starbird a lot better," she said. "And the new paint job looks great!" She finally noticed Ezra's armor and gawked, making Ezra and Sabine chuckle.

"Is that yours, Ezra?" she asked.

"Yeah... It's a gift from Sabine's family," he said. Sabine started blushing, softly.

"Did Sabine paint that, too?"

Sabine nodded, "Yeah, I did." She was really blushing now. There conversation reminded her of their time in her room. Ezra could sense what she was thinking about and started blushing, too.

"What's up with you two?" Katherine asked.

"I-It's nothing..." Sabine said, though Katherine could tell they did something around the time Ezra received his own Mandalorian armor.

She shifted her weight and rested a hand on her hip, "Oh I'm sure 'nothing' happened." She winked at them, before being called to the Command Center.

"You alright, Sabine?" Ezra asked.

"You know what I'm thinking, love," she said leaning her head on his shoulder, placing a hand to her empty stomach.

"Do you think it worked?" he asked, growing a bit excited.

"We're going to have to wait a bit, dear. There won't be anything for another few weeks at least," Sabine said.

Ezra kissed the top of her head then. "Well either way, it's going to be one hell of a journey," he said.

I'm ending this chapter here for now, and I could have done better with the ending, but it was getting longer than I wanted it to.

Before you suggest anything about Katherine, she will not develop feelings for Ezra. She's only meant to be like an older sister.

Also everything with Delphine is not over, mainly because you all keep suggesting she stays a bit longer. Granted I never intended on keeping her this long, it has helped me come up with ideas.

And for those asking for the Mando'a translations, I use /mandoa-englishtranslator. All credit goes to whoever made it.

Any crossovers between this and anything else will not happen in this story, but I am highly considering a crossover story.

Disclaimer: All the Star Wars Rebels characters rightfully belong to Disney.