Chapter 4: Night Watch
Ezra's P.O.V
The time came eventually. It was 22:45 as of now, and it was time for Sabine and I to head out on night watch duty. But before we left the ship, we took a moment to grab our gear in case a threat came along. It's better to be safe than sorry in times like these. Once I got my blaster and my lightsaber on me, I called to Sabine down the hall from my room. "Sabine, you ready?" I called down the hall to her room. "Almost. Just give me another minute." she replied. "Just wait for me outside, Ezra. I'll be there soon." "Will do. I'll see you then." I replied. I headed outside of the ship, just not before I bumped into Kanan along the way.
"Just remember one thing, Ezra: use the force to see things that can't be seen. Good luck, Ezra. And don't forget to get us a report by tomorrow morning about it." Kanan said. "Don't worry, Sabine and I will remember, Kanan. Besides, we always remember." I replied. "Well not all the time." Kanan said. "True, but we remember for the most part." I said. "Right. Goodnight, Ezra. And good luck to you two." Kanan said, walking away to his room. "Goodnight, Kanan." I said. "Goodnight." Kanan said. When he walked into his room, Sabine came out of her room with her helmet on, ready to go. "Why do you have your helmet on?" I asked. "In case my HUD detects anything that I can't see without my helmet on. Plus, night vision if anything." Sabine answered. "Explains much." I said.
You ready for this though?" I asked. "Yup." she replied. "Let's do this." We headed out of the Ghost, and headed into the base. Rex came up to us as we got just outside the hangar. "Ezra, Sabine, Sato is asleep, and I've been told by him to tell you that these phoenix members are going to take night watch with you guys. Their reason is practically the same as your reason for doing so from what I could assume. That's all I wanted to say. Good luck, guys, and goodnight." Rex said, walking away to where he sleeps usually, wherever that is. "Goodnight, Rex." I said.
We then gathered around the phoenix members who took night watch, and I chose to take the lead on the night watch for tonight. "Alright, guys, listen up." I informed the phoenix members. "We are taking night watch for one and one reason only: to see if our murderer strikes again. He could be coming from anywhere at any given moment, and it's important that we keep our eyes pealed for anything. Watch every part of the base for our murderer, and if anything happens, you contact me and Sabine. Also, we will swap posts every hour or so. Got it?" Everybody nodded. "Any questions?" I asked. Everybody shook their heads. "Good. Let's get to it." I said.
We all broke off from the group, and took positions. I got the main hangar part of the base that was outside while Sabine patrolled around the armory area of the base. Everybody else took what they took. We would rotating posts every hour or so anyway, so we would all handle some place else when that time comes. In the mean time, I had to focus on the night watch, and if our murderer strikes again.
About half an hour into it, nothing happened. "My area is secure." I radioed the others. "Armory is secure." Sabine radioed. "Areas around the resting quarters are clear, Ezra." one of the night watchers radioed. "Good. Keep it up. We can't lose our focus. Keep your eyes peeled for anything." I reminded them. "Solid copy." Sabine responded. "Roger that." another night watcher responded. I went back to patrolling my area, and so did everybody else.
Some time after I got back to patrolling my area, I saw a night watcher who was patrolling another part of the hangar walk away from his post. I radioed him since I didn't wanna wake anybody up. "Whoever that is that is walking away from your post, why are you leaving it?" I asked him. When he spoke into the commlink, it was muffled. "Come again." I told him. "I said that I'm going to the bathroom." he said more clearly. "That's cool. Next time, inform me or Sabine beforehand." I reminded him. "Ok. I'm sorry about that." he replied. "It's cool. Don't worry about it." I responded.
As that night watcher began to walk away, I saw something on his shoulder. I used the force to get a closer look, and it was a Mandalorian patch, possibly the same one that Rafe and Sabine mentioned earlier. I started to get suspicious of this guy. I radioed Sabine about what I found out. "Sabine, you there?" I asked. "Talk to me, Ezra." she responded. "Tune your commlink to our private frequency." I informed her. "Tuning now." Sabine replied. Before I tuned my commlink to the frequency that members of the Ghost crew use, I radioed the other night watchers. "All night watchers, I may have a potential sighting of our murderer. Repeat: I may have a potential sighting of our murderer. Remain on the watch. Sabine and I are breaking off from the watch temporarily to investigate. Ezra out." I said. I tuned my frequency on my commlink to the Ghost crew channel.
"Ezra, are you there?" Sabine said. "Sorry, I had to inform the night watch something." I said. "Why did you want me on the Ghost channel?" the Mandalorian inquired. "I told them to keep watch while you and I broke off from the watch temporarily. And before you ask why, Sabine, I got your answer: I think that I may have sighted our guy. I saw him break off from his night watch post, and I saw him head to the bathroom as he claimed, or the living quarters." I said. "What makes you think that it's our guy?" Sabine asked. "I saw a Mandalorian patch on his shoulder, possibly the same one that you and/or that pilot brought up earlier." I answered. "Then if it's our guy, we'd better get to it." Sabine said. "Meet me in front of the living quarters. I'll activate my beacon so that you could find me." I said. "I'm on my way." Sabine replied.
And just like that, we met up at the living quarters. "Where is he?" Sabine asked. "He may have gone straight possibly." I said. "Can't you use your powers to see where he is?" she questioned. "I can try." I answered. I used the force to find out where our guy went, and I saw a vision in my head of that same night watcher from earlier head down to the living quarters, and he went into the eighth room on the left side of the quarters. "Follow me." I said.
Sabine and I took the same path as the watcher in my vision. When we came to his door, we both had an eerie in our guts, but I sensed danger from force, lots of danger. "What now?" I asked. "I guess we go in and catch or murderer." Sabine answered. "But we would have to check to see it to be sure. We don't wanna catch the wrong guy, Sabine." I said. "Do you have your equipment that allows us to see through walls?" "Yes I do." Sabine answered as she pulled it out, and planted it on the door.
We took a look through the door the second she engaged it, and we saw a figure in there. It looked like he was talking to somebody, but we couldn't tell what he was saying. To solve that problem, Sabine pulled out her listening equipment, and planted it on the door. We began to listen to whoever it was talking. It was that same watcher, and he was talking to an imperial. "I'm telling you, once I have targeted the last few members who I need to target, I will give you the location of our base." we heard our guy say. "Then do what needs to be done. We want these traitors dead for their crimes against the Empire. You are doing a good job, Njuck. Keep doing what you are doing." his imperial contact replied. The transmission ended, and we immediately found out that not only was it confirmed that Njuck had gone rouge, but he was planning on targeting more people. But who else was he planning on targeting? Sabine and I got our answers once we took a look inside using the see through equipment.
I saw a board in his room, with lots of photos of lots people. I took a look closer through the force, and saw that some of photos had a red X drawn on them. And when I took a look at the names of the people with an X drawn on them, I saw that their names were Mandalorian names. Names like Brets, Wugr, Cas, Lorgeng, Vaj, Jel, and even Doc's name was one of those with an X on there. In that moment, it was confirmed that not only was Njuck targeting Mandalorian members of the cell, but he also had gone rouge from the beginning before Doc's death. He killed all those other names that I've mentioned before, and the cell never found out about it. And when Sabine and I took a look at the names of people who had not been crossed, what we found in particular was disturbing.
He was planning on targeting more Mandalorian members, and Sabine was one of those targets on his hit list. "Sabine, you catching this?" I asked. "Yeah. He's targeting Mandalorian members of the cell, and I'm one of those on the list." Sabine replied. "We have to move on him now before you or those others are done for." I said. "I'm with you on that one." she replied. I equipped my blaster pistol out of my holster, and Sabine got both of her pistols out. We came this far, and it was time to get the rouge.
