This is an AU, so I have fucked with shit yet again. In this AU, young force-sensitives are taken in to be put into stasis in wait for a Sith Master to choose them to train. That was also the fate of the youngling classes of Jedi and some of the younger padawans. Also, I fucked with Ezra's timeline.

The crew of the Ghost had gotten information on the shipment of a stasis pod to Lothal. In the pod was rumored to be the future apprentice of the Inquisitor. Kanan just couldn't stand to see some poor kid get forced into the path of the Sith, so, the crew decided to intercept the shipment. The plan went off without a hitch and they got the pod easily.

Now they were all standing around in cargo hold as the pod began waking its inhabitant. Soon enough it opened up to reveal a boy with dark blue hair who couldn't have been any older than 10 dressed in the clothes of a Jedi youngling. His eyelids began fluttering before his eyes slowly opened to reveal clear blue. His eyes sleepily scanned the faces of the crew, before stopping on Kanan.

"Caleb?"

"My god, is that you Ezra?"

"You know him, Kanan?"

"I've changed a lot since he last saw me, but he hasn't aged a day. The last time we saw each other was right before Order 66. I thought he had died back then, but after hearing of how the vast majority of the younglings had been put into stasis, I had been nursing a small flame of hope. Maybe, just maybe, I'd see the boy who had also been like a little brother to me, who I'd promised to take as my padawan once I was knighted."

"Caleb, why'd she call you Kanan? Where are we? Why're you so tall? Why's your voice so deep? And you have hair on your face!"

Kanan tried and failed to suppress a blush at Ezra's comment on his facial hair. The rest of the crew laughs at the questions spewing from the boy's mouth and the blush on Kanan's face. Ezra glanced between the crew members, trying to figure out what was so funny.

"Hey, kid, how old are you?"

"I'm nine and a half!"

"Ezra, what is the last thing you remember?"

"Miss Teacher having us get into the strange pods. She had weird yellow eyes that day though. Why?"

"Ezra, had you seen me that day?"

"Of course, silly! Don't you remember? You were saying bye because you were going on that mission with your Master. You even gave me a hug and a piece of candy!"

"You literally haven't aged a day. Ezra, that was 14 years ago. There isn't a Republic or any Jedi temples anymore."

"W-what?"

The shock on Ezra's face was mirrored by the crew. This little boy had lost 14 years of his life. He was physically nine and a half, but he should have been 23 and a half. The universe he had known was gone. Life as he had known it was over.