CF Chapter 5

Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars, only Zaria. Just finished chapter 5, and started chapter 6. I have made some changes to the episode.

Chapter 5

"Hey Zaria wake up!" Sabine poked her side. Zaria cracked a golden eye open and Force pushed Sabine away from her.

Sabine groaned as she hit the wall.

Zaria snuggled back into her blankets.

"Fine, I guess you don't want to see a secret of Ezra's and mine." Sabine got up brushing dirt of her armor.

Zaria shot out of bed.

"What secret? You guys have a secret?" She quickly pulled on her clothes and headdress in record time. Zaria loved being told secrets. Zaria with eagerness pulled Sabine by the arm out of the room.

Ezra was waiting outside.

"Woah! You got her up." Ezra laughed.

Sabine flicked his ear.

"You didn't tell me she was so hard to wake up."

Zaria tapped a foot testily.

"I thought you guys had something to show me?" She demanded.

"We do, come on." Ezra smiles and leads Zaria out.

Two speeders were waiting for them.

Zaria jumped onto the speeder bike. Ezra climbed on behind her.

Sabine started her own speeder.

Zaria let Sabine lead the way.

The early morning light lit up the grass fields into golden plains.

The Loth cats hunting prey in the fields.

Zaria drank in the sights, they made Lothal a wonderful place to live.

Ezra rested his head on Zaria's back with yawn.

Sabine slowed down as they neared an outcropping of Lothal caves.

"Ohh! I never been to these caves. Think I can find some kyber crystals?" Zaria stopped the bike.

"Why?" Ezra questioned.

"They shine Ezra, and they make great stabilizers in blasters, more precise." Zaria answers.

"Come on. It's this way." Sabine pointed to a tarp.

Zaria eyed the tarp.

Sabine pulled it off with flourish.

"A tie fighter? It's so bright." Zaria blinked.

The tie fighter right half had been painted over with bright greens, yellows, oranges.

There were swirls, squares and stripes.

Ezra and Sabine looked at her.

Zaria pulled off her headdress.

She rolled up her sleeves.

"Can I help paint the other side?" She grinned. Sabine kicked a rock to reveal colored paints beneath.

Zaria grabbed the gold, black and red paint and a brush. Ezra grabbed the orange and yellow.

Sabine grabbed the greens. Zaria found a blank spot on the back of the cockpit.

She painted a picture of a sunset.

Zaria wasn't too horrible. Sabine stood behind Zaria.

"I like how you blended the colors. And the black stands out. It more realistic than most of my pieces. But I like it."

Zaria shrugged.

"I like your stuff more, but I'm not bad when it comes to the scenery."

Ezra leaped from his perch up on the wing.

"What planet is that from?"

Zaria stopped her brush.

"It's. . . . . Korriban."

"Isn't that the Sith planet?" Sabine's fingers traced the air above the wet paint.

"Yes, I lived there with my parents for a while. This how I remember the sunsets on the valley of the Sith Lords. The statues have been worn by time. And the tombs have been picked clean. But it was enchanting at sunrise and sunset." Zaria sounded melancholy.

"Maybe you can go back someday." Ezra tells her softly.

"Maybe I will." Zaria finished the last of her strokes of her paint.

"We've been gone awhile we should get back. I know how you feel I miss Mandalore, and it's moons." Sabine confides to Zaria.

Ezra lifted the tarp with the force and covered the tie.

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"Kanan, how is wearing a helmet? When I can't see? A good idea, to learn how to deflect blaster fire?" Ezra looked at Kanan with leeryness.

"Look Ezra, you rely too much on your sight. You need to rely more on your force sense. Zaria has even agreed to give you an example." Kanan waved at Zaria who was jubilant she put on her own helmet.

Ezra slumped.

"Zaria lives for this kind of stuff. Yesterday she wanted Zeb to push her off a cliff so she could practice using the force to slow down her fall. Zaria is intense and maybe a little crazy." Ezra whispers to Kanan his voice lower.

Kanan groaned and dropped his head into his hand.

"Zaria." His voice was vexed.

Zaria seemed to have no problems navigating her way over to the master and padawan with her eyes blind.

"What? That's how my father taught me. He even got my mother to do it. Besides I have way more fun." Zaria wrapped an arm around Ezra and laughed.

Ezra looked at Kanan with fearful wide eyes.

"Kanan, you wouldn't start throwing me off cliffs would you?"

Kanan rolled his eyes and his posture irked.

"No, Ezra. I will not start throwing you off cliffs."

"My father believed, experience is everything and being prepared for anything and everything." Zaria slung an arm around Ezra.

"I had my mom, my dad, plus the twenty Droids firing at me when I did this exercise. It's so much fun. The force follows through you and you become unstoppable. I can sense every bolt coming my way. I wanted to have more things shooting at you, but Kanan said no."

Ezra paled.

Kanan gave Zaria an exasperated look.

Zaria sauntered to the center of the circle. She drew her lightsabers with flash and hum. The gold and red blades flared to life.

Kanan signals the others to start.

Hera, Sabine, Zeb, Ezra, Kanan and Chopper take aim at the crouched Zaria. She looked feral in her movements.

Kanan fired the first shot. Zaria glided like water away from it. Her body was fluid and always moving. The blaster fire came at Zaria from every direction. Ezra gasped as Zaria avoided every single one. Then she brought up her lightsabers to start deflecting them.

The bolts hissed and sizzled as they hit her sabers. Then were sent back at them. Zaria angling her lightsabers to hit the tiniest targets.

"Can you do that too?" Ezra breathed to Kanan. Kanan aim his blaster at Zaria's head.

"I could in the Clone Wars and with Zaria's help I will be back at that level again." Kanan grinned he pulled out his own blue Lightsaber.

He closed his own eyes stepping into the fray. He directed a bolt with his Saber at Zaria. Zaria and Kanan began catching bolts and hitting them at each other.

Yellow bolts, blue, purple, green, and red.

"Woah!" Ezra looked on at the beautiful display of colors. Now it was no longer training. It was Zaria and Kanan connecting to the force and they kept the blasts between them. Sabine, Hera, Zeb had stopped shooting to look at the two in wonder.

"They're so graceful." Sabine admired.

"Never knew Kanan could do this. I mean I knew he was a Jedi. But I never actually seen it." Zeb leveled his weapon at Zaria.

Hera smiled.

Zaria aimed the blasts upward they fizzed out up in the sky.

She tore off her helmet and bowed.

Kanan was panting but he looked exhilarated.

He turned to Ezra.

He grabbed the helmet from Zaria.

"Okay, now it's your turn. Feel the force guide you. Teach you. Let it follow through you." Kanan slides the helmet down onto Ezra's head.

Ezra nodded.

He could do this.

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He couldn't do this.

Ezra winced under his pitch black helmet.

As he was grazed by another shot.

He was supposed to be aiming for the storm trooper helmet Kanan had set out.

What did Zaria and Kanan mean by becoming one with the force?

How could Ezra put his trust in something so intangible? How could Ezra let down his guard to the strange power?

"You're not focusing Ezra." Kanan sighed.

"You have yet to hit the target. You've got blocking down. But you shouldn't just let the shots go where they want."

Ezra could feel Zaria gaze at him.

She wasn't a fan of holding back. She never went easy on him. She released a barrage of laser fire at him.

"The keyword is yet! I have yet to hit the target." Ezra let himself be distracted. His skin singed, it hurt.

Kanan sighed. He waved his hand signaling everyone to stop. Kanan grabbed the Baca cream and applied it to Ezra's shoulder. Ezra pulled off his helmet.

"You're impatient, distracted and you are rushing this. What's wrong?" Kanan sent Ezra a stern look.

"I don't want to miss Senator Trayvis's transmission."

Zaria gave Ezra a searching lot.

"I didn't know you were into politics."

"Ezra we don't know when Trayvis will transmit next. It has no pattern." Hera tells him.

"He's been on more and more frequently. And I have a feeling! Aren't I supposed to trust my instinct?" Ezra breathed.

"Today is the day."

Zaria mocked sniffed with tears.

"My little Brolin, is growing up. His first feeling." Zaria wiped away imaginary tears.

"Is it a force thing?" Sabine questions.

"Feelings." Zeb snickered.

"You need to stay in the moment Ezra. You need to reach your connection to the force."

Kanan ordered everyone back into position.

The exercise started again.

With everyone firing at Ezra. He became flustered and clumsy.

Ezra felt something trying to guide him. He stopped fighting it. Zaria and Kanan didn't fight it. Neither should he.

Something flashed before his eyes.

He gasped surrendering.

Voices filled his head.

'You there!' Ezra didn't recognize this voice.

'Senator! You're in great danger!' Ezra jumped that was Hera's voice.

'Put the Saber down boy! Now!' A man snarled.

Ezra could see a sewer tunnel.

Hera, Ezra and the senator were running. Zaria was not with them but trapped in a sealed tunnel. Agent Callus pointing a blaster at her. Her sharp teeth were bared.

"You're not safe here Senator. The empire knows you're here!" Hera looks at Trayvis. Ezra saw himself surrounded by stormtroopers.

Trayvis was telling him something.

"Your parents were very brave."

Ezra fell.

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Zaria had caught Ezra before he fell.

"Damn it, yunoks zioplys."* She pulled off the helmet.

"You never do anything by halves. You finally purposely connect with the force and now you're stuck in a vision." Zaria chided as she laid Ezra down on the ground.

Kanan stared at his padawan.

"A vision." He whispered.

Zeb shook his head.

"Is no one going to mention how scary efficient Ezra got back there?"

"He blocked every shot and hit the trooper helmet every time. I've never seen him move like that. It was so fast." Sabine added.

"Is it going to be like that every time Ezra uses the force?" Hera frets.

Zaria and Kanan shook their heads.

"No, Ezra just needs to learn control." Kanan paced.

"His contention to the force is deeper than we first thought." Zaria stroked her covered chin. She leaned down to look at Ezra.

"He needs deeper meditation techniques. He needs to stop fighting the force. He fights it all of the time. Then when he taps into it he gets so overwhelmed."

Kanan nodded.

"You're right."

Ezra groaned and opened his eyes.

"What happened?"

Chopper beeped loudly.

"What do you mean I fainted?" Ezra blushed.

Chopper was gleeful in teasing Ezra.

"You lost yourself in the force." Zaria sent a wave of comfort and heal to Ezra through their bond.

"We can talk about it later, for now you need rest." Kanan reached down to pick Ezra up.

Ezra's eyes widened and he bolted up.

"I saw something! It was so real. Senator Gall Trayvis is in danger. I saw him on Lothal, the empire is after him. He knew my parents! He said they were brave!" Ezra babbled. Ezra pointed at Sabine and Zeb.

"You were both there sneaking around in the dark. Troopers were every where."

"Sounds like a routine day to me." Zeb felt shivers down his back. Who knew the brat really was a Jedi. It was hard to remember it when the kid was goofing off.

"Zaria was cornered by Agent kallus. Hera and I were with Trayvis."

Ezra swayed on his feet. Zeb sprang to catch him.

"Okay you need to rest." Hera orders.

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Ezra hadn't left the transmitter for a moment. He was set to record Senator Trayvis. He knew the senator would hack into the imperial broadcast soon.

In forty-five seconds.

"Hurry quick! Senator Trayvis's transmission is starting." The rest of the crew joined him.

The acting governor's wispy voice and figure flicked on the broadcast.

"The insurgents terrorising our world will soon be brought to justice."

Zaria snorted.

That was a bit harsh. They were not dominating force on Lothal.

"I have assurances that-" The acting governor image flickered out of the picture. Senator Trayvis appearing.

"This is Senator Trayvis in exile here, my citizens."

Zaria stiffened. Zaria had a very bad feeling about this.

Ezra cheered.

"Right on time!"

"Coming to you with a reminder that the empire applies the term "Insurgents" to anyone who dares defy their tyranny." The strong politician's voice rang out.

"Such as the courageous souls on Lothal."

Ezra's eyes lit up.

"He's talking about us!"

"To those rebels, I have a message. The sun may have set on the old Republic. But a new freedom can be won! If we are brave enough to fight for it today! We cannot let the Empire control us. We must rebel, see you soon my friends." The transmission returned to the imperial feed. Zaria flicked her hand and turned off the transmitter with the force.

"He's coming to meet with us." Hera concludes from the message.

"And you know that how, exactly?" Zeb scowls.

"My contact Fulcrum, says the senator hides codes in his transmissions." Hera gives Zeb an annoyed look.

"When Trayvis mentions a world it's always where he goes next." Hera explained.

"It's a trap. I don't trust this senator. The empire has the best decoders around. There's no way they haven't caught onto this." Zaria tells the room at large very bluntly.

Kanan nodded in agreement. Zaria sent him thanks through their bond.

"I agree."

"Trayvis is too smart!" Ezra jumped up.

"You know, he pirates the empire's signal just like my folks did."

"When something is to good to be true it usually is. Not everything is as it seems. There's something off about this whole thing. Don't you feel it?"

Zaria snapped.

Ezra frowned at her.

"Didn't you tell me the last Senator Trayvis's transmission about Luminara the Jedi master was a trap laid by the Inquisitor? Trayvis's transmission has already been compromised once. The senator is a fake." Zaria reasons.

"That's not true Zaria!" Ezra clenched his fists.

Zaria raised an eyebrow stalk.

"You're letting your emotions cloud your vision and your instincts. You are defending Trayvis because you think he knew your parents. Clear your mind."

"My mind is clear!" Ezra spat.

"I know what I saw."

Zaria rolled her eyes.

"Visions aren't a sure thing. If you go into one with emotions it will never be as clear with out. Ask Kanan!"

Ezra turned to Kanan.

"Ezra, visions can be tricky. There are many possible futures. Visions can be dangerous. You can't only rely on what you saw. If you listen to the force it makes visions easier to understand." Kanan explains.

"No, I know what I saw. Just trust me!" Ezra begged.

Zaria pursed her lips under her headdress.

Kanan shook his head.

"Okay, if you feel that strongly. We will see where this goes."

Hera broke the tension.

"Trayvis uses clues only locals would know. It would go right over the empire's head."

"It's called the Holonet, they could just search it in the database and find it." Zaria snarks. Kanan sent her a warning glance.

Irritably Zaria folds her arms over her chest and slumps down into a chair.

Hera replayed the transmission.

"That's it!" Ezra shouts.

"The new freedom murals painted on the wall in the old, old, Republic senate building."

Sabine links the transmitter to her wrist computer. A blue image of the old building flares up. Sabine narrowed down the specs of the building.

"It's been abandoned since the fall of the Republic nearly fifteen years ago. It's perfect if you want a meet and greet." Sabine comments.

"Yeah but when are we supposed to meet him?" Zeb throws up his hands.

"Duh! He worked sunset and today into his message. It's obvious." Ezra looked very proud of himself.

"It's too obvious, we need to have some insurance in case the empire is just playing us." Kanan taps a finger on his blaster.

Hera looked thoughtful.

"You've got a friend in the imperial complex don't you Ezra? Find out from him for sure about this."

Ezra wasted no time jumping up.

"I'll meet you all at my parents house at 1700 tonight." Ezra was gone before anyone could say a word.

Zaria looked at the others.

"Why does Ezra have a friend in the imperial complex?"

"We sent him to steal some data from the empire uncover as a cadet." Sabine answers.

Zaria choked.

"What!?"

Hera laughed.

"Kanan had the same reaction. "

"This cadet helped Ezra and another force sensitive boy escape. The Inquisitor was looking into it. The cadet Leonius thinks his sister was taken by an Inquisitor."

Zaria nodded.

"Most likely. So did you take pics of Ezra in the uniform?"

Hera grinned.

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"Zare." Ezra called from the shadows.

Zare jumped. He hit the button on his cadet helmet. His dark skin now showing.

"You're a stealthy one, Dev Morgan." Zare chuckled as he entered the alley.

"He is indeed, I taught him well." Zaria jumped down from a nearby roof. Both human boys gasped.

"Seriously? You followed me!?" Ezra glared at Zaria.

Zaria fix her headdress.

"Aren't you going to introduce me to your little friend?"

Ezra scoffed.

"Zare, this is Zaria. She is my overprotective adopted sister."

Zaria held out her hand for the imperial boy to take.

"I have heard about your sister. Admirable to keep search for her, I hope you find her."

Zare took the hand.

"Thank you, it's nice to meet you. Dev wouldn't shut up about back at the Academy."

Zaria even though Ezra was an idiot and frakking her off. He was still her little Brolin.

Zaria cooed and hugged Ezra to her chest.

"Awwww! You do care."

Ezra colored with embarrassment.

"Get off me!"

Zare laughed.

"You remind me of how my sister and I were."

Ezra turned serious.

"Thanks, for meeting me last minute Cadet Zare. By the way how did you get past the gate?"

Zare gave a pleased smile.

"I've been promoted, class three clearance now."

Zaria's gold eyes gleamed.

"Class three clearance? My, what a resourceful friend you have Brolin." Zaria felt the force nudge her.

"You must be careful the higher you go. One wrong step and it will all end for you." She found herself saying.

The boy nodded somber.

"I know, it's really hard to do what I do. But it will be worth the sacrifice."

"Don't sacrifice too much." Zaria warns.

Ezra hit his elbow into Zaria's side.

"Congratulations, Zare."

Zare grinned.

"Congratulations to both of us. Thanks to you I got my promotions. These new clerical and courier duties give me access to greater intelligence you and other rebels can use."

Ezra and Zaria hid behind the crates as outside the alley a squad of Stormtroopers marched past.

Zare's face grew tense.

"Unless of course I get caught." Zare put a hand to his neck.

"We'd come and get you." Ezra says at once.

"You're a smart boy." Zaria advises him.

"Don't get caught. For the path you have chosen you must be as ruthless as the enemy or you will be caught."

Zare chuckled weakly.

"Agent Kallus and every other section leader have been in secret tactical meetings. He gathering troopers for a major operation."

"Any idea what for?" Ezra asks.

"Something to do with the old senate building. It might just be a drill." Zare answered.

Ezra shot Zaria a triumphant look.

"That means it's a trap Ezra!" She hissed.

"No it means the senator is in danger of the empire." Ezra argues.

"Damn it! Ezra!" Zaria smacks her forehead.

"It's no drill, I need to warn the others." Ezra stood up.

"One more thing before you go. I'm being transferred off world to the officers Academy on Arkanis." Zare announced.

Ezra bit his lip.

"There's something you should know."

"Don't tell me you're gonna miss me Dev." Zare folded his arms.

"What no! I mean sure, but. . . . That's not it. Dev Morgan isn't my real name." Ezra put a hand to his neck.

Zare blinked.

"It's not your name?"

"No it's-" Ezra was interrupted by storm troopers.

"You there!"

"Time to go." Zaria sank into a battle stance. She drew her Sith vibro sword.

Storm troopers flooded the ally.

"Oh no my vision! No time to explain." Ezra hissed to Zare.

He shoved past him.

Zaria turned away and sprinted after Ezra.

Zaria could hear Zare slip into his role.

"They were selling black market goods, They attacked me as I tried to stop them! Those two are insurgents!" Zare shouted.

Zaria sped up, she grabbed Ezra by the collar and jumped. The force expanding her jump after a few leaps. They were on the roof tops.

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Ever since the empire became focused on the rebels. Zaria had noticed the increase in crime. Vizago was happy enough to work without eyes on him.

The gritty graffiti littered the outside of Ezra's old home. Ezra slid his card into the reader.

Zaria put a hand on his shoulder.

Chopper greeted them as they entered.

"Where is everyone?" Ezra frowned.

Zaria looked at the secret entrance to the basement. She put her hands over Ezra's eyes.

"Reach out with the force and find them that way. Focus on Kanan, he should be the easiest to find."

Ezra slumped.

"Come on, do we have to do this now?" He complained.

Zaria didn't let go.

Ezra sighed. He straightened and took a deep breath.

"The basement." He muttered.

Zaria released him.

"Good job little Brolin."

Ezra stopped at the hole in his old living room floor. Voices drifted up.

"It's pretty old. His parents used it to cast their messages to the public." Sabine spoke.

"I don't get it. They weren't soldiers, just citizens. Why did they risk all? Why leave their son to survive alone?" Zeb sounded confused.

"They had hope. That they could do something to make the galaxy a better place for their son." Hera tinkered the the old transmitter.

Ezra jumped down, Zaria followed after him. "You are both cutting it a little late." Sabine smiles.

Ezra nodded.

"Kanan and Zaria were right. The empire knows about the meeting. Kallus has an operation planned to capture or worse for Trayvis."

"Yeah for us." Zaria sneered.

Zeb punched her in the side.

Ezra ignored them both.

"The imperials will have numbers." Zeb grumbled.

"We have surprise." Kanan says.

"What give you that idea?" Sabine out a hand on her hip.

Kanan smiles.

"I'm being optimistic."

"No! You are being stupid! Skystas zh'ae neda mes visa zenoti sis kash zo neda."* Zaria threw up her hands in disgust.

"Tau aras visa bukle kia mrias kodel gal nenx tau ziur reiksme."*

Ezra grabbed Zaria's red hand.

"Zaria, please I need to do this."

Zaria's anger deflated.

"Ezra. . . ."

Ezra squeezed her hand in his.

"Zaria trust me."

Zaria looked away.

"That's no fair, using your cuteness against me." Zaria sighed heavily.

"Fine, let's do it. Why the Sith not?"

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They scoped out the old senate building.

"There's a ship with two protocol droids. Trayvis must already be inside." Sabine reported.

"I'm not seeing any imperials around."

Kanan shook his head.

"They're here I sense it." Kanan looked down below them.

"There, the Imps are patrolling the ground. They haven't move in."

"We need to save Trayvis before they do." Ezra hits his fist into his open palm.

Hera tilted her head.

"Why haven't they moved in?"

Zaria snorted.

"Trayvis is just the bait, we are the catch."

"Let's just walk away from this one, we don't even know the senator is even in there." Zeb reasons.

"He is! I saw it!" Ezra glared at Zeb. Zeb raised both his four fingered hands and sighed.

"If we get up there unseen perhaps we can fly Trayvis out on his ship." Kanan suggests. Ezra grinned.

"I know a way in! No one will see us!"

Zaria didn't like the look on Ezra's face.

"It's the sewers isn't?" She says flatly.

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Chopper vindictively shorted out the imperial droid and rammed it into the sewer tunnel.

"You are stone cold, my little destroyer." Zaria patted Chopper with approval.

Zeb sniffed the tunnel.

"Urgh! Why does our only way in have to smell so bad?"

"The smell makes the tunnels an imperial free zone." Ezra smirked as he started down the latter.

They all climbed down into the tunnel.

"Chopper, stay here we will need this to be our exit . Hey-" Kanan's head would have been crushed if not for his Jedi reflexes.

Kanan began to curse at the Droid but quickly stopped at the look Hera was giving him.

Ezra played tour guide.

"There used to be too much water to walk down here. But since the empire started rationing it's as dry as Tatooine."

"Trust me it's not. Tatooine has two suns! Two suns! Worst planet ever." Zaria interrupted.

"Certainly hasn't helped the smell." Zeb waved a hand in front of his nostrils.

"It does smell like you." Sabine.

Zeb looked offended.

Sabine rolled her eyes under her Mandalorian helmet.

"It smells like Ezra." She clarified.

Ezra brightened.

"You know what I smell like?"

"Focus." Kanan snapped his fingers by Ezra's ear.

Hera laughed.

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Ezra grinned. His blue eyes on Kanan. Kanan's outstretched hand used the force to distract the two droids.

"Cool." Ezra whispered.

They ran to the door.

Kanan looked at Zeb and Sabine and pointed a finger upwards. Zeb and Sabine left them to climb the roof.

They entered the darkened senate building. The freedom murals was bathed with the light from the windows.

Senator Gall Trayvis stood behind the podium. Two droid guards at his sides.

"Who's there?" He called.

Ezra ran forward.

"We are freedom fighters on Lothal."

"Welcome, I was beginning to think no one got my message." Trayvis looked closer at them.

Hera spoke up.

"Senator you're in terrible danger. The empire knows you're here."

"That's impossible." Trayvis's eyes shifted.

Zaria pulled Hera out of the way as two blaster shots made smoking holes into the two droids. The Droids fell to the floor sparking.

Zaria drew her gold lightsaber. Kanan and Ezra did the same.

Hera aim her blaster. They formed a circle around Trayvis.

Agent Kallus stepped through the door.

"Jedi knight Kanan Jarrus, and his padawan Jabba." The ISB agent sneered.

He turned to look at Hera and Zaria.

"And what's this a Twi'lek I've yet to meet. Judging from your must be the talented pilot." Hera bared her teeth at him.

Kallus stared at Zaria's headdress. The acting governor Maketh Tua stepped into the room.

"I have special orders for your capture." The agent glared at Zaria.

"Where is the Mandalorian and the Lasat?" Tua demanded.

"You won't talk then my troopers become a firing squad." Agent Kallus threatened.

"You better do as he says." Trayvis sounds frightened.

Zaria snickered.

"Well then we have nothing to worry about. Storm troopers couldn't hit a Target even if it was already dead."

The agent stared coldly at her.

"I won't miss." He promised.

Zaria laughed.

"I believe your orders are to take me alive."

Ezra winked at Trayvis.

"Not to worry our friends will be along shortly."

Zaria sprang into action as soon as the smoke cover from the bombs Sabine and Zeb had dropped hit the ground.

Her lightsaber sliced off limbs.

Hera stayed close to Trayvis.

Sabine's shots hit all of her targets. Zeb took down troopers left and right.

"Let's bail!" Kanan ordered.

They made their way to the exit.

Sabine threw three more bombs to block their exit from the imperials.

Hera groaned.

"I was really hoping that shuttle would still be here."

Zaria looked at the empty platform.

"Frak!" Kanan swore.

An imperial ship rose up from below.

"Urgh! Back to the sewers we go." Zeb growled.

Sabine remotely opened the entrance to the sewer.

"You want me to go in there?" Trayvis looked sick.

"It's not so bad once you get use to the the smell." Ezra says cheerfully.

"You never get use to the smell." Zeb snickered.

Kallus was shooting at them.

Sabine closed the hatch doors.

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They ran through the tunnels.

Ezra could feel his blood pump excitedly.

They had done it! They had saved Trayvis.

"Ezra! Stop for a second." Hera called.

Trayvis was leaning against the wall.

Breathing heavily.

"I'm sorry my young friends. I'm not as strong as I used to be." Trayvis wheezed.

"I have never been pursued like this empire has never come this close."

Kanan gave the senator a critical eye.

"I thought you would have had more experience with running from the Empire."

Blaster fire filled the tunnel.

They took cover in the offshooting tunnels.

"Split up! We'll draw them away. Get to the hatch." Kanan yelled.

Ezra, Hera and Trayvis ran.

Zaria looked at Kanan.

"Go I will distract them for you."

Kanan looked ready to protest but stopped at the look Zaria gave him.

"Be careful." Kanan tells her.

Zaria grinned under her headdress.

"When am I not?"

She dove into the fray of shots.

She activated both of her lightsabers.

She cut down the Troopers in her path.

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Zaria hunted down her prey. She was swift and severed any troopers heads she came acrossed. It was done with an effectiveness and it was painless. Zaria found the troopers to be pitiful slaves of the Empire.

They weren't the ones she was after.

Zaria lunged as Agent Kallus shot a stun blast at her.

She turned around to face him.

He looked at his men and glared at her.

"You're different from the other rebels. They don't actively try to kill. You do."

Zaria regarded the ISB Agent.

She held her gold lightsaber in a defensive position.

"Why would I leave them alive so in the future they can harm my family? I am just being practical. In way it's more like mercy. The Empire kills more of its troopers, more painfully than I do. Better stop failing Agent or you will be next." Zaria's voice full of dark satire.

Kallus glared.

He raised his blaster.

Zaria deflected his shots.

More troopers join in coming up from behind.

Zaria growled. They were boxing her into a corner. Zaria's sharps eyes looked for a way out. Zaria was deflecting a blast to her head, she had no choice but to let Kallus's shot to her shoulder hit her.

She howled in pain.

Kallus smirked. The beeping made Zaria strain her ears. Kallus had ducked behind an off shoot tunnel.

The bomb was rolling towards her.

Zaria threw up her hands.

Using the force to protect her from the explosion.

She ran through the fire and dashed away. The force speeding up her escape.

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"You're so well organized. To evade the empire you must have a large support system." Trayvis directs his question to Ezra.

"Good funding, powerful allies."

Ezra shook his head.

"Nope, this it. It's just us." He says with pride.

Trayvis gawked.

"You can't be serious."

"I hoped we could learn from you senator. Your transmissions are helping us keep going." Ezra turned around to smile at the senator.

"Just to know there is someone else out there not afraid of speaking out against the empire means a lot." Hera adds.

The sewer tunnel had a large fan to help with the smell.

Ezra walked over to it with no hesitations. Hera followed him.

Trayvis looked at it in horror. He screamed as he slipped.

Ezra ran forward and caught him.

"How should we get past this thing?" Hera eyed the fan.

"We could try to cut its power." Ezra suggested.

Hera smiled and waved a hand.

Ezra stepped closer to the fan.

Hera held out her blaster for Trayvis.

"Watch our backs would you?"

Trayvis reluctantly took it.

"I will."

Hera narrowed her eyes and turned back around.

Trayvis looked down at the weapon in his hands. Then he aimed at the two rebels.

"Enough, we are not going anywhere."

Hera didn't seemed to be surprised, she looked as if she expected this.

Ezra looked crushed.

"What? What are you doing Senator?" His voice cracked. His lightsaber was gripped with white knuckles.

"Put your Saber down, boy."

Trayvis pointed the blaster at him.

"You're - You're with the empire?" Ezra couldn't process this.

"But all the planets you visited, all the transmissions. How did word not get out about you?" Hera questions.

"Because no one ever knew. Not even my own droids." Trayvis says coldly.

"My parents used said you were a good man. That you helped light the darkness."

Trayvis examined Ezra closer.

"No." He whispered.

"You are the son of the Bridgers." It was as if Trayvis had seen a ghost.

"Ephraim and Mira Bridger. I don't know how I couldn't see it before. You have your mother's eyes. Little Ezzie."

Ezra took a step forward.

"So you do recognize me."

Trayvis nodded.

"Your mother was training to succeed me in the Republic senate. It's where she met your father. A soldier in the grand Republic army. Your parents were brave, it was your mother who inspired me in the first place." Trayvis was lost in memories. His face darkened.

"But it was foolish. No one can stand against the empire. They captured us all. The things they did to your parents, to me. Unspeakable."

Trayvis continued.

"Insurgents aren't arrested, they are identified and watched. Unless you start spreading hope then they take you. After two years of torture, they came to us with a choice. Join the Empire or die. Your parents chose death."

Ezra swayed on his feet.

"They cared more for freedom then you, their own son." Trayvis voice was cruel.

Ezra floundered for words.

"You can't be a traitor! You were my Uncle Gall. You used to eat dinners with us. You used to tell me stories of the jedi, and the Republic."

Trayvis harden his face.

"That man died the day the empire took him away. Your parents are gone and you are quickly going down the same path."

Ezra couldn't breathe. Tears ran down his face.

"They aren't gone, as long as we are still fight. As long as Ezra is still fighting all that they spoke out for lives on." Hera marched towards Trayvis.

Trayvis's eyes widened.

"Stop! Don't come any closer!"

His hands shook.

Hera ignored him, the blaster was so close it was nearly touching Hera.

Trayvis pulled the trigger.

There was a faint click and nothing happened.

"W-what?" He stammered. Trayvis hit the floor out cold from the punch. Hera shook out her wrist.

"A real rebel would know when they are holding a charged blaster."

Hera pulled Ezra into her arms.

"I'm so sorry Ezra."

Ezra cried into Hera's chest.

Ezra pulled away and wiped at his eyes.

"You knew."

"He tried to get us to surrender, he wasn't tired when he stopped. He was waiting for Kallus to catch up. And he wanted our secrets." Hera sighed.

"Ezra, why didn't you tell us that you knew Trayvis?"

Ezra looked at the ground.

"I was really young and it turns out I didn't know him. He and my parents were friends. He disappeared first. My parents were worried, my dad and my mom were going to go rescue him." Ezra tells Hera glumly.

"I still remember the night the Troopers came to take my parents away. My mom was tucking me into bed. We heard yelling down stairs. My mom told me to hide and they went with the troopers. Trayvis must have betrayed them."

Ezra looked up at the sound of footsteps.

Kanan, Sabine and Zeb jumped down from a tunnel.

"What happened here?" Zeb's ears twitched.

"He was working for the empire." Hera informs the others.

"The senator was a traitor? Frak! Is there anyone on our side." Sabine cursed.

Kanan glared down at Trayvis.

"We are leaving him to the Empire."

"I called it." Zaria jumped down from a tunnel.

"So Kallus is on my trail. And the bastard is damn good shot. If I wasn't in such pain. I would be impressed by his strategy of fighting me." Zaria gripped her wounded shoulder. Her clothes were singed.

"You smell like smoke." Sabine sniffed.

Ezra gasped.

"Zaria, you're hurt."

"Agent Kallus, is fond of throwing bombs at me." Zaria groans.

"Seriously we need to move like now! He can't be far behind me."

"The only way out is through there." Hera points to the giant spinning fan.

"We just need to stop it long enough for us to get through. Zaria let Zeb help you through. Ezra you help me with this. Cover us."

Zaria gratefully leaned on Zeb.

Ezra and Kanan stood side by side. Their hands outstretched. The fan slowed.

"Incoming!" Sabine drew his blaster.

Storm troopers began shooting. Zeb lifted Zaria up and put her on his shoulder.

He dove into the stopped fan first.

Kallus shouted as he arrived.

"Shoot the Jedi!"

Hera and Sabine were through the fan.

Only Ezra and Kanan were left.

Kanan and Ezra strained in holding the fan still.

"Now!" Kanan ordered, he and Ezra jumped through.

Trayvis groaned and sat up. Ezra looked back. Their gazes met.

Trayvis looked like he wanted to say something. His eye throbbing from Hera's punch.

Ezra turned away.

Trayvis's eyes dimmed.

Cold fear hit the pit of Trayvis's stomach.

The seething agent was behind him.

Trayvis quivered in fear as he saw the blaster in Kallus's hand.

He was going to die.

"How did you let them get away? Two months worth of planning! TWO MONTHS WASTED!" Kallus roared.

Trayvis swallowed.

He was the fool, he was the coward. For years he had been able to push his guilt at betraying Mira and Ephraim to the side. But seeing little Ezra had it broke it like a dam. Now it was gushing to the surface in waves. He deserves to died, it would be poetic justice to die at the hands of imperials.

He looked up at the nose of the blaster pointed directly at his face.

Agent Kallus regarded him with a disgusted look.

"It seems Senator the Empire no longer requires your services. Since the rebels got away. They will no doubt be informing all they know to the people. So everyone will know you are a spineless Loth rat who sided with the Empire."

Trayvis closed his eyes for the last time.

Kallus pulled the trigger.

Trayvis's dead body fell to the floor.

"Clean this mess up. I have to go report to command." Kallus wasn't looking forward to it.

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"I didn't see it, I was so wrong. My vision was so off." Ezra hugged his arms to himself.

"Ezra, it's okay." Hera hugged him.

"You and Zaria always say I should trust the force I thought that's what I was doing? I'm the worst Jedi ever! I nearly got as all caught and for what?" Ezra blames himself.

"Some stupid vision."

"Zaria was right you let your emotions cloud the vision. It takes training and discipline to master force sight. And honestly there are so many possible futures. You could have seen one where Trayvis had made a different choice." Kanan put an arm around Ezra.

"Visions can be difficult to interpret if your emotions get in the way or if you are vulnerable."

Ezra's face became curious.

"What was your last vision?"

Kanan snorted.

"I saw a bratty kid alway giving me a headache." Kanan ruffled his hair.

Ezra grinned.

"I guess you read that one wrong."

Kanan smiled.

"Yeah, I did."

Hera had sat down on the ghost's ramp.

Ezra joined her.

"I wanted to believe in Trayvis too." Hera admits.

"I wanted to believe there were good people out there like my father. My father was a freedom fighter for Ryloth since before the Clone wars."

"What's wrong with us?" Ezra sighed.

"There's nothing wrong for looking for the light in the darkness Ezra." Hera tells him.

They both looked up at the night sky filled with stars.

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Ezra sat on the top of the Ghost.

His legs dangled. He watched the sunrise.

He couldn't focus on meditation this morning. Zaria was quiet as she sat down next to Ezra.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Zaria asks.

Ezra stared out across the plains.

They sat in silence.

Ezra spoke, his tone grim.

"I had a vision last night."

Zaria listened intently.

"I saw my parents and Trayvis. My parents never gave in. Then I saw Trayvis, and Kallus shot him." Ezra's hands shook.

"I thought I would feel satisfaction if Trayvis died. Like justice for my parents. I knew Trayvis, he was like a grandfather when I was small. But when I saw what happened to him I wasn't. . . ." Ezra trailed off.

Zaria hugged him until he was ready to continue.

"It wasn't right, he was scared. Kallus just shot him." Ezra's voice trembled.

"How can the empire do this? They ruined Trayvis. They just ruin people. We have to stop them. Trayvis made a choice to betray my parents but had had to make that choice because of what the empire has done. What's wrong with me? I wanted to hurt him." Ezra admitted.

"But I couldn't do it."

Zaria wiped at Ezra's eyes.

"It means you are a good person Erza. Just like your parents. I don't know if I could spare a life of someone like that. But you did."

"You're a good person too, Zaria. A little violent but kind." Kanan stood behind them.

The two started.

Zaria chuckled.

"A Jedi telling a Sith she is a good person. This is a moment for the history vids."

Kanan sat down on the other side of Ezra.

They shared a moment of mirth together through their bond.

"Ezra, Zaria is right. Why don't we show you how to meditate for visions."

Zaria kissed the top of Ezra's head.

"I need to go and help Sabine. You two get started, I'll be up in a while." Zaria left the master and padawan alone.

End of chapter 5

Sith Translations

Brolin= Brother

Little fool*

Fools! It's a trap! We all know it's a trap!*

They are all going to die! Why can't they see sense it?*

So I have a headcanon about Ezra's parents. I thought it would be cool if his dad was a clone.

And his parents met because Mira was a senator in training. I don't know for sure if Gall Trayvis was the senator for Lothal. But he is in my story. I wanted his betrayal to cut Ezra deep. So I made that Ezra's parents were working together helping Trayvis make his transmissions and making their own. Trayvis gets caught by the empire and in his being tortured let's the Bridgers names slip.

The Bridgers are taken away leaving Ezra on his own.

Trayvis makes a choice later on to join the empire. Ezra's parents refuse and are executed.

In the end I had Agent Kallus kill Trayvis because the empire could easily get a look alike and do what they want. They don't need Trayvis alive. I also wanted to foreshadow Empire's way of handling failure.

I think a lot of the imperials are also victims who don't find out the truth of the empire until it is too late.

So I have started Chapter 6 and I plan for it to be short stories about character interactions before it get to the next three chapters of the plot heavy season finale.

So I will be working on that and the next three chapter when I can.

Thank you to all those who have favorited, followed, review and read my story.