Chapter 20

"It belonged to Anakin Skywalker?" Ezra asked Rex through the holocommunicator. Rex had just explained the whole thing to Ezra and Sabine: What the ship was, how fast and powerful it was, who it belonged to, everything he knew.

"I fought alongside General Skywalker during the Clone Wars," Rex stated matter of factly. "Haven't I told you already?"

"I can't recall that... but with everything that's been happening these past few years it would make sense that he doesn't remember," Sabine said.

"Alright, I'll continue," Rex said. "I've never seen these ship in action before. Skywalker has only spoken about it. We'll send a team to recover the vessel. Don't worry about the details, I can look over it myself."

"Copy that, Captain," Sabine said. "Sending exact coordinates." She pressed a button on her wrist computer and sent the coordinates.

"Coordinates received. Thanks, Sabine," Rex said as he closed the connection.

She turned over to Ezra, who was now climbing over the remains of the decades old Delta 7. It had a massive hole in the center, with twisted metal on the edges. It looked as if somebody blew it up, which was very likely.

"That droid dome looked like an R2 unit," Ezra said after jumping off the wrecked ship.

"R2 or R4, that's my guess," Sabine said, getting a quizzical look from him. "Hey, I know droids as well as weapons."

Ezra grinned, "I never doubted it."

They're behavior was just like their time on Abansaz; Calm and focused. It was funny considering they weren't on a mission.

A few moments later, Ezra had developed a very noticeable change in attitude, causing Sabine to worry.

"Ezra, what's wrong?" she asked.

"I... I don't know," he said, pressing his hand to his head. "I... I feel like the ship is trying to tell me something..."

"That doesn't make any sense," Sabine said, but before Ezra could reply, he collapsed to the ground, completely unconscious.

A very large troop transport landed in the clearing of the Yavin jungle, and a cloaked figure approached it as it did. The boarding ramp opened and multiple white armored soldiers quickly jumped out and created a defensive perimeter.

There was a conversation with the cloaked figure and one of the soldiers, who Ezra could recognize as a possible clone trooper. The scene changed, this time there were no clones, but there was an explosion coming from the modified Delta 7 Aethersprite. A second cloaked figure appeared in the flames and two red lightsabers were ignited. Seconds later, a single, blue blade appeared and an intense duel began.

Yet again, the scene shifted, but this time they were on top of a Yavin temple. A blue lightsaber was thrown out of the hands of the Jedi, as the Sith attempted to strike him down, but the Jedi grabbed both the Sith's wrists and soon, the lightsaber fell from her left hand. As the female Sith was pushed back by the Force, the Jedi grabbed hold of the fallen red lightsaber and reengaged the Sith, forcing her to fall back to the edge of the temple. The Jedi continued to connect their blades with so much force, that the edge of the structure collapsed, throwing the Sith into a deep crevasse. The Jedi cried out in victory, and threw the second red lightsaber into the crevasse along with the Sith.

Ezra shot up, almost head butting Sabine. Startled, she stumbled back, but quickly returned to his side.

"Ezra!" she tackled him in a hug.

Ezra's breathing was heavy, "How- How long was I out?"

"A few seconds, but it felt like hours," she said. "What happened?"

"I... I don't really know..." he replied. "I think I just had a vision from the past."

"Really?" she asked, helping him get to his feet.

"How the ship got here," Ezra replied, "What exactly happened here." He said that as a statement, not as a question.

"What do you mean?" Sabine asked.

Ezra closed his eyes, focusing on the Force. "There's a structure not far from here... 500 meters that way," he said, pointing to the general direction of the ancient structure.

"I'll leave a comms beacon for Rex and his extraction team," Sabine said as she began fussing with her wrist communicator. She then grabbed something from the speeder and threw it on the Delta 7 remains. "Alright, let's go."

Ezra just stared at her, "When did you have a comm beacon like that in the speeder?"

Sabine giggled, "There's a lot of things I have hidden pretty much everywhere. Don't bother looking for them because you will never find them without my help."

Ezra just shrugged, "Alright then. Let's get moving."

The duo boarded their speeder and sped off in the direction of an ancient temple, not too far from the extraction site. Pretty soon they arrived and were not surprised to see much of it eroded; Pieces of the structure missing from the walls and roof edges, with many boulders bigger than their speeder lying all around it. Ezra looked up to the far side of the roof and pointed up to it.

"There. I saw that part in the vision."

Sabine looked up to where he was pointing. "What do you mean? Is that spot important?"

"I saw Skywalker fighting a Sith... or at least somebody training to be a Sith," he said. He could feel an aura of power emanating from the structure and all through the path they followed through the jungle. "I can sense there was an intense battle here from them. I can't really explain how, but it's like the Force is telling me what happened here."

"Well it's easy to figure out what happened here even without Force abilities like yours, love," Sabine said. "Look at this." She knelt to a rock with noticeably unnatural scars on it. "This looks like a lightsaber cut through this rock."

"That's because one did cut through it," Ezra said.

"Oh, so now you're a lightsaber expert?" Sabine teased.

"Normally people aren't very active when they're 4 months pregnant, I think," Ezra said. "I could be wrong," he quickly added. "I could be very wrong." (That's actually me right here. I really don't know what people do at 4 months)

Sabine just looked at him, one of her eyebrows raised. "Well, in case you still haven't noticed..." She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled herself into him as much as she could and gave him a quick peck on the lips, "I am not like other people."

Ezra grinned, "Alright, you have a point."

"Now," Sabine began, "Where do we go from here?"

Ezra looked around a bit, "Well I'd like to take a look from the roof. However, I want you to stay down here."

Sabine glared at him, but he was expecting that. "Look, I don't want you to walk up all the stairs when you're 4 months pregnant. Please, Sabine."

Sabine's gaze softened and she sighed, "Well... I suppose you're right." She sat on a large boulder and Ezra could sense some relief coming from his wife.

Ezra kissed the top of her head and smiled, "I'll be right back."

As he walked across the broken grass, into the broken building, and up the broken staircase up to the very broken roof, Ezra took note of every single bit of damage he came across. The pieces of the building all over the surrounding area, there was water damage everywhere, on the walls, floor, and ceiling; He almost fell when he stumbled upon a huge stone in the middle of the staircase right next to a huge gap in the stairs. There was a lightsaber mark all along one side of the stone, which Ezra concluded had been cut in half. As for the gap of the stairs, there was a spot that was big enough to fit a person with the area around that was crushed by the halved stone. The first half of it fit perfectly in the top half of the crushed stairs. As he managed to get further up the staircase, he saw a big chunk of a wall was missing, and the shape was familiar.

"Looks like they had a rock fight as well as lightsabers," Ezra murmured to himself. He figured the missing piece of the wall was the same piece that crushed the stairs.

Eventually, he made it to the roof and looked over the edge to find Sabine, who was still waiting on the rocks. He activated his comlink, now that it worked. The building blocked the signal making it a bigger need to get to the roof.

"Hey Sabine, can you hear me?" he asked through his comm.

"Loud and clear," she replied. "Did you find anything?"

"Nothing but a lot more lightsaber scars and a crushed staircase. This place is literally falling apart."

"I guess it was a good thing I didn't come with you," she said then, relief in her voice.

"I almost fell through so many gaps in the floor and walls. Master Skywalker must have had a great time dodging rocks," Ezra said.

"Well, I guess that's what can happen when just a lightsaber isn't working for you," Sabine laughed. Ezra chuckled at her response.

"I guess so. I'm going to the edge."

"Why?" Sabine asked.

"I want to inspect it... something I also saw in my vision," Ezra replied.

Sabine hesitated to answer, "Okay... Be careful."

"I will."

He walked over to the edge and saw many lightsaber marks along the roof. Many of the scars were eroded from all the years of constant weather. After climbing the rest of the stairs, he found a large chunk of the stone platform was gone, just like it was in his vision. He slowly looked over the edge and whistled.

"That's a keep crevasse." He tapped his communicator. "Sabine, I wish you could be up here right now."

"What do you see?" she asked.

"I'm looking straight down into nothing."

"What do you mean?"

Ezra looked around and noticed he could see Sabine anymore. He was in a completely different side of the building. "This platform hangs over a deep crevasse, and there's a chunk of it taken out..." his voice faltered and he suddenly felt dizzy.

"Ezra? What's wrong?" Sabine asked.

He blacked out before he could answer as he was thrown back into a vision. This time, Ezra saw what happened first hand. The same scene with the Jedi slamming his blade against the Sith's. He could see the anger in the Jedi's eyes, and the fear in the Sith's eyes. He saw the ground cracking with every strike, and almost forgot he really wasn't there. The ground shattered, and the edge of the platform fell, as did the Sith. At that very moment, for some unknown reason, everything shifted to a darker place, but it felt familiar. Something was calling him by name.

Sabine used a power override switch on the repulsorlift engine on the speeder and flew it up to the top platform where she found Ezra lying on the ground near the jagged edge. She switched off the engines and ran over to him. She placed her hand on his forehead and instantly recoiled from his icy cold skin.

"Ezra!" she began shaking him.

Something was terribly wrong, and even though she didn't know what was causing this, her child definitely seemed to make an accurate guess. Sabine struggled to calm her unborn child without much success until Ezra suddenly shot up with a gasp of air. He looked around frantically until his eyes rested on Sabine, who was clutching her belly. She seemed startled that he was suddenly awake, but that quickly turned into relief. She threw her arms around him and his very presence was enough to calm Mira down for the moment.

"You kriffing di'kut, Ezra!" she cried. "Don't ever scare me like that again."

Ezra was silent, still shaken up from his vision. If he wasn't trained in the Force like he was, he was sure he would've had PTSD by the time it ended. He took a very shaky breath.

"Wha- What happened?" he asked, shakily.

"You tell me," Sabine said in his ear, still keeping him in a tight embrace.

"Another vision... this one a lot more terrifying..." he said quietly.

Sabine sniffled a bit and pushed herself back a little to look at her husband. "I think... I think we've had enough excitement for one day, don't you think?"

"I'm not going to argue against that... wait, are we still on the platform?"

Sabine smiled, "Yeah I used an override switch on the repulsorlift to give it extra power to get me up here."

Ezra chuckled, "You and your override switches. Come on, let's get out of here. Rex is probably wondering what's taking us so long."

"That and it's getting dark. We wouldn't want to be late again now would we?" Sabine said.

Ezra laughed a bit as they climbed into their RGC-18 speeder and Sabine removed the override switch to have a normal ride.

Rex turned around when he heard the sound of a speeder approaching, and saw the RGC-18 slow to a stop in front of him. Ezra and Sabine climbed out, but Ezra seemed shaky, and Sabine was pale with worry.

"Ezra, Sabine, what's wrong?" Rex asked.

"Ezra keeps having visions, and they won't stop. It's... it's..." Sabine tried to explain.

Ezra looked around, "Mask..."

Sabine turned to her husband, "Ezra?"

"Something about a mask..." he replied.

"A mask?" Rex asked.

"Yes, a mask. Something's telling me to find it."

Sabine placed her hand on his arm, "We should talk to Kanan. Maybe he knows something about this... mask."

Ezra nodded, "I agree. Is he still in his quarters?"

"He's been inside since the strike fleet left. Last I heard, we used a Hammerhead to push a Star Destroyer into another one. Nobody knows if the Hammerhead crews survived it, yet."

"Thanks Rex." Sabine said as she and Ezra walked off to find Kanan.

Dawn was being very playful, as always, on the floor in Kanan's quarters. She was squealing with joy when Kanan brought out her favorite toy, a small metal model of the Ghost. Sure it was small, but it was big enough to prevent Dawn from trying to eat it. Sabine made the object with some spare metal plates, screws, nuts, and bolts, along with a little sealant for extra good measure. After Kanan handed Dawn her model VCX-100 light freighter, there was a chime at his door.

"Come in," he called out, and the door opened, revealing Sabine and a shaken up Ezra. "Ezra, Sabine. What's wrong?"

"Visions. Terrifying visions," Sabine explained for her husband. Ezra nodded with confirmation. "He's been having them all day. Just had one while we were on our way back to base... We almost crashed into a tree."

"Alright. Sit anywhere you'd like, and uh... you want anything to drink?" Kanan asked.

"I'm alright," Ezra said, but Sabine took his arm.

"No you're not, Ezra. You need to get something to drink. At least a water?" she pleaded.

Ezra was about to object, but he saw the fearful look in her eyes and gave in. "Alright," he sighed.

Kanan handed Ezra a flask of water and he drained the whole thing dry.

"Now," Kanan began, "Tell me about your visions."

Ezra explained everything in detail. About a dark, unknown planet; About the strange mask, and about everything else. Then he explained what he planned to do. Kanan placed a hand up to his bearded chin in thought.

"Whatever you're seeing, I don't like the sound of it. I advise you do not go to wherever this planet is," he said.

"If going can get rid of these nightmarish visions, then I feel I should," Ezra protested, worrying Sabine a bit more. She tightened her grip on his arm slightly.

"Ezra... I agree with Kanan with this one. I don't like the sound of all this," she murmured.

"Sabine..." Ezra began, but Sabine didn't want to hear it.

"No, Ezra. As much as I want you to stop having those visions, I don't want you to... I don't want to lose you," she said.

"Sabine," Ezra said softly. He caressed her cheek, "I swear, I'll be fine."

"Ezra wherever this mask is, it doesn't sound like a place you'd want to go," Kanan said.

Ezra looked back to the blind Jedi Knight, then to his Mandalorian wife. She truly didn't want him to find whatever this mask was.

"Alright," he finally said. "I'll... see what I can do from here."

Sabine smiled, as did the Jedi master. "Good. Now, I'd hate to push you all out so soon, but I need to get Dawn to quiet down," Kanan said.

Sabine looked confused, "What do you mean? She's not making any..." That moment, Dawn began crying, cutting off Sabine's sentence.

"Nevermind, I spoke too soon. See you around, Kanan," she said, taking Ezra's hand and leading him out of the room.

Their walk back to their own quarters was a silent one, but that silence was broken by a familiar voice.

"Hey, Sabine! Ezra!" Jax called from a newly landed Mandalorian Kom'rk fighter.

Ezra blinked, his eyes focusing on the figure 20 meters to his right. "Jax? Is that you?"

"Yes, sir. Everybody's here, actually," he said as Max, Coren, and Jill walked down the Kom'rk fighter's boarding ramp.

"It's been too long," Ezra said. "How've you been?"

"I'm doing pretty good," Jax answered.

"I've been alright," Max said as she walked up to everybody. She had a faint blush in her cheeks as she still had a slight crush on Ezra. She glanced over to Sabine. "Sorry, I uh... I might still have a, um..."

Sabine smiled, "Don't worry about it. Only as long as you don't do anything."

Max gulped, "Y-Yea."

Coren walked up as well, though he had a new scar on the right side of his face. "What's up, boss?"

Ezra stiffened, "Please don't call me that."

Coren laughed, "Sure thing... boss."

"Now, Coren, we wouldn't want to make the Al'verde mad after a month, now would we?" Jill asked as she, too walked up.

Everybody was wearing their Mandalorian armor, except for the 4 month pregnant Sabine Wren Bridger.

"So," Max began, almost singing it. "Mrs. Bridger now, is it?" She had a bright smile on her face.

Sabine blushed, "Yeah, for about a month now."

"Yeah we know. We were at the wedding," Jax said, glancing at Max.

"Hey guys!" a voice called from the ship. "Little help?"

A guy was carrying a crate off the ship. He was wearing full Mandalorian armor with the standard Wren design.

"Who is he?" Ezra asked.

Max turned to the new Mando, then back to Ezra. "That's Keith. He's new to our unit."

Ezra nodded, "Nice. How new is he?"

"Just joined a couple days ago," Coren said. "He's still relatively young, but he has potential."

"Potential is good, though I can tell he's a bit nervous," Ezra said.

"What, is it that obvious? Keith asked, finally getting the crate off the ship and meeting up with everybody else.

"No, but he's a Jedi so he can sense it," Sabine said, and Keith's eyes grew wide.

"Wait... a Jedi? I thought we hated Jedi!" Keith asked.

"We used to, but now we don't. Ezra Bridger here proved Mandalorians and Jedi can be allies," Sabine explained.

"Ah ok. I guess I missed that in my training sessions," Keith said.

"I told you those things were important," Max said.

Sabine giggled, "Alright, well; It was nice seeing you all again. We can catch up later, but right now I need to get him back to our quarters. It's... complicated. Don't ask."

"Alright then. See you later, Commander," Jax said.

"Later, boss," Coren said.

Ezra gave Coren a look, but he had to admit it was good to see him again, especially after all they've been through. They had a lot of catching up to do.

Once again, the ending could've been better as usual. Sorry for the long wait.