A/N: It's come to my attention that a lot of you prefer 3rd person over 1st, so I'll be writing like this for the rest of this story.
With Ahsoka out researching the Sith Lord, Danny's been staying with the Ghost crew, performing missions and such with them. He got along well with them; Ezra had become like a kid brother, Hera was kinda like an over bearing mother, Kanan become like a controlling older brother, Zeb was good friend and rival, and Sabine was easily his best friend of the group. They talked about technology, weapons, Sabine's art, Danny's powers, and even spared every now and then when they were on Garel. Sabine even allowed him to bunk with her in her room while he was on the Ghost and Ahsoka was away with the Memory. Danny knew Sabine liked her privacy, so he made a point to only go in there at night to sleep. Plus, he only needed about 6 hours of sleep a week, so Sabine was willing to tolerate that small amount of time having someone else in her room.
"Hey Danny, hand me your helmet." Sabine said to the Halfling as he walked into the living area of the Ghost. Danny rolled a chair close to where Sabine was, sat down, and did as she asked.
"What do you need it for?" He asked her as he leaned back in the chair.
"Remember when I said I was feeling inspired?" She asked pulling out a paint spray.
"Ah, I see. Go ahead." He said with a shrug. Sabine smiled brightly and got to work. About 20 minutes later, Sabine gave the helmet back, and Danny inspected it. The previously all black helmet now had neon green electricity patterns decorating the entire surface.
"Nice." Danny said with a grin to Sabine.
"Thanks Sabine, I love it." he said with a bright smile, which Sabine returned. At that point, Kanan and Ezra walked in, having finished their training for the day.
"Let's end today's lesson by levitating Chopper." Kanan said, gesturing to the Astrometric droid.
"If I do, can I drop him?" Ezra asked with a wide smile. Kanan sent a glance towards Chopper, before shrugging.
"Sure." He said non-chalantly, earning a few angry beeps from Chopper.
"I actually think he would Chop." Danny told the droid. Sabine and Danny shared a look. Both of them were thinking the same thing. They grinned at each other and Sabine leaned over to Chopper.
"Lock it down." She whispered to the droid, who beeped in affirmation and locked his legs to the ground magnetically.
Ezra reached out with his hand and set his senses on Chopper.
"Come Ezra, focus." Kanan advised his padawan.
"Use the Force, look through the Force. Lift Chopper up, picture it in your mind." He instructed as Chopper started to vibrate on the ground. Sabine and Danny were struggling not to laugh. After a few more seconds of trying, Ezra gave up.
"I can't. I can't do it." he said in defeat as he dropped his arm to his side.
"Hey Kid, while you're looking through the Force, don't forget to look with your eyes too. The droid's got his feet locked down." Rex told Ezra. Danny and Sabine burst into laughter at this point and high fived, while Ezra glared at them with irritation.
"That's not fair!" he complained to his Master.
"Real battles usually aren't." Kanan informed him.
"The Jedi General I served combined the Force with his wits. It made him a great warrior." Rex told Ezra, remembering the Clone Wars.
"Ezra's got plenty of wits, what he needs is more discipline." Kanan argued. Ezra rolled his eyes; no doubt the Jedi and clone are about to argue again.
"Well, then you better let a soldier handle that." Rex told Kanan with a smirk.
"Excuse me?" Kanan asked Rex, glaring at the clone as Hera walked in.
"Sabine, Danny, I have a mission for the 2 of you. Since you 2 seem to work well together, I'll be deploying you together often." Hera said to the 2 teens.
"No complaints here. What do you need?" Danny asked as he and Sabine sat up straight.
"Thanks to Captain Rex, I found an old base where we might be able to salvage some much needed medical supplies." Hera said.
"Zeb, Chopper, you 2 should go as well." Hera added as the pair of armoured teens stood up.
"Better find the medical supplies quick, Captain Wits is about to need them." Kanan said, narrowing his eyes at Rex.
"Ah, so there's where the boy's lack of discipline comes from." Rex responded with a chuckle as the away team headed for the Phantom, sparking up an entire argument between the 2.
"Here we go again." Ezra mumbled as he followed the away team into the Phantom, ignoring Kanan's calls for him to come back.
"Hey, you weren't assigned on this mission." Zeb said as Ezra joined them.
"I assigned myself." Ezra shot back as he sat down.
"It's not a big deal Zeb. Besides, I wouldn't want to stay with Kanan and Rex arguing either." Danny said to the Lasat.
"Yeah, I'd rather deal with the dangers out there, than stay in the crossfire here." Ezra said .
"You say that now…" Sabine trailed off as she undocked the Phantom from the Ghost and flew towards the old Republic base.
After flying through space for about 2 hours, the group finally arrived at the old abandoned station. Danny wondered how long it had been there.
"What is this place?" Ezra asked.
"It's an old Republic Medical Station, abandoned after the Clone Wars." Sabine answered.
"And it's massive too; let's hope we can actually find the medical supplies." Danny said in awe of the sheer size of the station.
"First let's focus on finding a way in." Sabine said.
"Noted." Danny agreed as Sabine punched a few codes in the panel. On the station, a hangar bay door opened, revealing plenty of space for the Phantom to land.
"What do you know? Rex's codes worked." Sabine said in surprise as she put on her helmet.
As the Phantom landed and the group left the ship, Chopper started beeping as he took in the surroundings.
"Come on Chop, it's not that creepy." Danny said as he gave the droid a deadpanned look.
"It's just dark, nothing we can't handle." Ezra added.
"Wait, you 2 actually understand that glorified beeping garbage can?" Zeb asked the pair in surprise.
"Completely." Danny responded as he put his helmet on.
"I'm still learning." Ezra responded as the group reached the corridor door.
"Yep, I was afraid of this; no power." Sabine said as she tried, and failed, to open the door with control panel next to it.
"Seriously? Cliché much?" Danny asked no one in particular.
"I'm on it." Zeb said and approached the door. Using his immense Lasat strength, he pried the door open, making space for the others to squeeze through. As they all passed by him, he let go of the door, allowing it to close again.
"I've got a bad feeling about this." Danny said as they walked. He could sense something, something that wasn't good. He was pulled from his thoughts by Chopper bleeping at him teasingly.
"For your information Chopper, I'm a ghost. I'm not scared of things that go bump in the night, I MAKE things go bump in the night." Danny hissed the droid, his eyes glowing fierce midnight blue. Chopper yelped and scurried to where Sabine could protect him, eliciting a laugh from the group. Danny was never mad at Chopper, just scared him to have some fun.
"I thought your eyes glowed green." Ezra said as they calmed down.
"They did, but since I changed my normal eye colour to green, they now glow blue." Danny explained. He stopped when he noticed Sabine looking into the distance with her flashlight. He walked up to her.
"Sabine?" Danny asked as he placed his hand on her shoulder, startling her.
"Danny!" She growled in frustration at the Halfling, who put his arms up in defence.
"Sorry!" He said quickly. Sabine took a deep breath and calmed down.
"No, I should be sorry. I was just deep in thought and you startled me." She said. Danny chuckled and waved his hand dismissively.
"No worries." He said as they continued their search. They didn't notice a small black probe watching them.
The group continued their search and eventually found a room with a lot of control panels.
"Well, this is the Command centre. At least, what's left of it." Sabine said as she walked up to one of the control panels.
"This might make a good base for us." Ezra mused.
"No thanks." Sabine said as she took off her helmet.
"Yeah Ez. This place looks like it's about to fall apart." Danny added, taking off his own helmet.
"Chopper, power it up." Sabine instructed the droid, who complied. As the droid did his work, every light in the station flickered to life. Danny's face cringed in disgust as he saw the white walls.
"I don't think she meant the whole station Chop." Danny deadpanned to the droid.
"I meant this control panel." Sabine told the droid, pointing to her desired panel. Chopper gave a dismissive bleep in response and powered down the rest of the station at the request of Sabine.
After a few minutes of searching through the terminal, Sabine turned to face the rest of the crew.
"I've got the inventory files, but most are corrupt and unreadable. I can't tell where the med supplies are." Sabine informed them.
"Or if they even exist." Danny said as he took a look at the panel.
"OK then, change of plans. Chopper stays here and repairs the files, while we search for the supplies." Ezra said as he ignited his lighstaber for light.
"Well, worth a try I guess." Sabine said as she and Danny donned their helmets. Danny also ignited his turquoise blade for more light.
They headed down a new corridor while Chopper stayed behind and tried to repair the files.
"Why don't you 2 put those Jedi powers to use and find the medical supplies so we can get out of here?" Zeb asked Ezra and Danny as the group searched the base.
"It doesn't work like that Zeb. Besides, I'm not a Jedi. Never will be." Danny answered.
"And I don't need my powers to find the supplies before you." Ezra told the Lasat with a cocky smirk.
"Oh no…" Danny and Sabine muttered in unison; they knew what was coming.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Zeb asked Ezra with narrowed eyes as the young Jedi stopped in front of him.
"Well, generally it means I'm more perceptive, I can think on my feet and I'm faster." Ezra teased the Lasat, eliciting a growl from him.
"Really?" Zeb growled as he balled his hands into fists.
"Look, I don't care which one of you finds them first, as long as they get found." Sabine said as she tried to break up the argument that was brewing.
"I'll find them first." Ezra assured the Mandolorian girl with a grin as he ran ahead.
"Cocky kid… You're gonna run right past them!" Zeb called after Ezra as he chased after him.
"I'm pretty sure this is gonna end up with both of them getting hurt." Danny said as he put his lighstaber away and stood next to Sabine.
"Yeah, you're probably right." Sabine deadpanned in reply as the 2 armoured teens watched their friends run ahead.
"We should probably catch up with them." Danny said.
"You're right, wouldn't wanna miss the 'getting hurt' part you mentioned." Sabine said with a chuckle as they gave chase to their friends. Danny couldn't help chuckling too.
As they caught up to the less mature half of the group, they saw Ezra make a quick turn around some crates and push them over. Said crates fell right onto Zeb, sending him straight to the ground. Zeb looked up at Ezra with a glare.
"So not fair." He growled as Danny and Sabine caught up.
"Fights rarely are. Next time, keep your head down, and you might not get hit." Ezra said as he walked away from the downed Lasat. However, as he finished the sentence, he hit his head on a metal beam that had fallen and was blocking his path; his head's path to be more specific. He fell to the ground, groaning in pain.
"You were saying?" Sabine asked as she slouched over him.
"Irony, thy name is Bridger." Danny said with a grin under his helmet.
The group searched for about an hour for the medical supplies, to no avail at all. Suddenly, they heard a sound coming from Ezra's communicator on his wrist.
"What's that? You need help?" Ezra asked into the communicator.
"What is it?" Danny asked the younger Jedi.
"It's Chopper, I think he needs help." Ezra responded, unsure.
"What's going on?" Sabine asked.
"Sounds like Chopper needs help." Ezra responded.
"His words were slurred though." Danny added.
"Well, we better get back to the command centre." Sabine said and started for the direction they came from, but Ezra stopped her.
"How about a shortcut?" He asked. Before anybody could respond, he jumped up, and crawled into an air vent that was above them, Sabine following.
"You guys go ahead, Zeb and I won't fit; we'll take the long way." Danny said to them.
"Noted." Sabine called back to him as she and Ezra continued crawling through the vent. Danny was right; Zeb was too big to fit in the vent, and Danny, while only a little taller than Sabine, wasn't as skinny as Ezra and Sabine. He might be able to squeeze through the vents, but that wasn't a risk he wanted to take. After all, he couldn't go intangible any more.
"Well, let's go." Danny said to Zeb.
"Right." Zeb said as they ran.
"You sure you know where you're going?" Zeb asked Danny as he followed the running Halfling.
"Not in the slightest. I'm just following my instincts." Danny replied. More accurately, he was following the dark feeling he'd been having for some time now.
"Well, that's just great." Zeb growled at Danny. Suddenly, both of them stopped in their tracks, their ears twitching.
"You hear that?" Danny asked. Zeb nodded. Both of them had enhanced hearing, and they heard blasts in the distance.
"That way." Zeb said, pointing to one the nearby corridors. They ran in the direction the Lasat pointed. After about 10 minutes of running and turning, they made a left turned and ran into Sabine. Well, Danny did anyway… Literally.
"Ugh… What hit me?" Sabine asked as she got up, thankful for the protection of her helmet.
"More like who." Danny responded, in the same state of gratitude as her.
"Danny?" Sabine asked as the Halfling got up and dusted himself off.
"Yeah, what happened? We heard blasts." He told her as he helped her.
"They got Ezra." Sabine answered in panic.
"Who?" Zeb asked, worried for the young Jedi.
"Inquisitors, 2 of them!" She exclaimed.
"Ugh, one was bad enough." Zeb groaned.
"I'll take care of the inquisitors. We need to get Ezra first though." Danny said.
"Agreed, but how are we gonna find him?" Zeb asked.
"We split up and keep searching for the medical supplies. We're bound to run into them at some point. Better to run into one at a time than both." Danny told them his plan.
"Danny no!" Sabine protested.
"Yeah Kid, if we run in to them again we're gonna need you!" Zeb added.
"I'm sure you 2 can handle one inquisitor. Set a trap for him." Danny suggested as he walked away.
"I don't like this Danny!" Sabine called after him.
"Neither do I, but it's the best plan we have!" Danny called back as he continued walking.
"And maintain com silence! We don't want them tracking our signals to the Fleet!" Danny added.
Danny had been looking around the base for about an hour, and he hadn't found anything, or anyone. He started to think the inquisitors had left with Ezra, but those thoughts were cast out; he could still sense the dark presence he had been feeling for so long. He was pulled out of his musings by a muffled explosion in the distance.
"Sabine." Danny muttered and flew in the direction the explosion had come from. Sabine loved making things go 'boom,' so that must have been her. No doubt she and Zeb had encountered one of the inquisitors. He flew as quickly as his limited flight would allow, and eventually found Zeb, passed out on the ground, with 2 of those probe droids hovering above him.
"Hey! Over here!" Danny called to the droids. The 2 droids hissed at him and shot towards him, but Danny thought quickly. As the droids neared him, he fried them with his green electricity.
"You 2 seem to have gotten into quite the shocking situation." Danny said to the now piles of scrap metal on the ground as he walked over to Zeb.
"Zeb, you OK?" Danny asked the Lasat worriedly as he kneeled over the passed out warrior, who groaned.
"Ugh, don't shout." Zeb responded as he sat up and placed his hand on a random crate for support. He looked at the crate and groaned.
"Oh, now I find the supplies." He said with a facepalm.
"Well, better late than never. Where's Sabine?" Danny asked.
"I don't know, I think the Inquisitor took her after he shot our trap back at us." Zeb growled.
"Ok then, new plan; you find Chopper and take the med supplies to the phantom. I'll get the other 2." Danny said.
"Oh yeah, cos that plan worked out so well last time?" Zeb asked sarcastically as Danny picked up Sabine's helmet.
"Zeb, we're gonna need a quick getaway when we get to the Hangar. You need to prep the Phantom for us." Danny shot back. Zeb sighed as he understood Danny's logic.
"Fine, but if we die here, I'm kicking your arse on the other side." Zeb hissed as we walked away towards the Phantom.
"Duly noted." Danny said as he followed the Inquisitor's dark presense. As a safety measure, he activated his stealth tech.
Danny stopped in front of the Command Centre's door, where he could sense 2 dark presences inside, along with 1 light and 1 neither. Definitely the Inquisitors, Ezra, and Sabine. No doubt the Inquisitors could sense him too, so he dropped his stealth and ignited his 2 sabres, Sabine's helmet clipped to his belt. He stabbed his lightsabers into the door and made a circular hole in it. He force pushed it away and entered, greeted by the sight of Ezra and Sabine, restrained while sitting against the wall, and 2 other people, one female Mirialan, and one male gray-skinned humanoid that Danny didn't recognise the species of. Danny clipped his sabres back to his belt and took his helmet off.
"Ah, you must be the child Vader faced on Lothal." The female mused.
"Indeed. My name is Shade." Danny introduced himself.
"I am the 7th Sister, this is the 5th Brother." The 7th sister followed suit.
"Now, why don't you be a dear and let my friends go, hm?" Danny asked her.
"Sorry, we don't let prisoners go." The 7th sister, Danny decided to dub her Seven, said.
"Well, I tried to be nice, but I guess things are going to have to get ugly." Danny said and waved his hand. Sabine and Ezra's restraints deactivated and fell off, courtesy of the small electrical charge Danny sent into them. Danny tossed Sabine her helmet and put his own on.
"Ezra, Sabine, get out of here, I'll take care of this." Danny said as he ignited his lightsabers.
"Don't think it's going to be that easy." The Fifth Brother, Five-o, as Danny had decided to dub him, hissed, as the 2 Inquisitors ignited their own lightsabers.
"Danny, we're not leaving you." Ezra told him sternly.
"You're not leaving me, you're retreating while I buy you time. I'll be fine, I promise." Danny assured the younger Jedi. Ezra sighed and nodded.
"She still has my lightsaber." Ezra said. Danny nodded and gave him his turquoise lightsaber.
"I'll get it back for you. Take this just in case." Danny told him. Ezra nodded and took Danny's smaller lightsaber while he and Sabine ran towards the Phantom.
"How brave, surrendering your freedom for your friends." Seven said as she and Five-o got into battle stances.
"I'm not surrendering my freedom. I'm going to get out of here just fine." Danny said as he took his own battle stance, his purple blade glowing in its glory.
"Not a very manly colour." Seven teased as Danny blocked and attack from her and pushed her back.
"Yeah, and red is so feminine." Danny teased back as he brought Ezra's lightsaber to his free hand with the Force and ignited it.
"But we all have colours that suit us." He added as he blocked an attack from Five-o. He quickly deactivated Ezra's lightsaber and used the blaster feature to knock Seven out. She was able to deflect a few of the blasts, but eventually got hit.
"You are strong in the Force Child." Five-o said as he ignited the blade on the other end of his lightsaber.
"Aw, mine don't do that." Danny thought sourly as he dodged blows from Five-o.
"You are lucky Vader wants you alive." Five-o said as Danny dodged the now spinning blades.
"Now that's just cheating." Danny mumbled as he shot lightning at the Inquisitor, effectively frying his lightsaber and knocking him out.
"Well, time to go." He said he clipped the lightsabers to his belt and ran after his friends.
Danny managed to catch up to his friends as they reached the hangar.
"Guys! We don't have much time, they're knocked out, but are gonna wake up any second!" Danny called after his friends, only to hear them gasp in horror.
"Danny, what happened?!" She asked as she pointed to all the cuts and scratches he had.
"Spinning blades." Danny said simply as they headed for the Phantom.
"How are you still standing?!" Ezra asked in shock; with all those cuts, he should have passed out for weeks!
"I'm not human remember? I have a-" He was cut off by the sound of lightsabers behind him.
"Oh brilliant." Danny said as he saw the Inquisitors following them.
"OK, you guys get into the Phantom and take off! I'll stall them." Danny said sternly as they stopped in front of the Phantom.
"Danny no! They'll kill you if you stay!" Sabine protested loudly.
"Or worse; take you to Vader!" Ezra added.
"I'll be fine; Sabine, take this." Danny said and handed her a disk-like object that had a circular green light in the middle.
"When the green light flickers and it starts beeping, place it on the ground." Danny told her.
"Danny, where not leaving you!" Sabine hissed and grabbed his arm. Danny pulled away from her.
"Sabine, I'll be fine, I promise, now go!" Danny yelled and pushed her into the Phantom.
"Shade, I hope you know what you're doing!" Zeb called as the Phantom's door closed and it took off.
"Again, you sacrifice your freedom. How noble." Seven said as she approached Danny, who ignited his lightsaber and Ezra's, which he still had.
"And now, you have no choice but to come with us." Five-o added as the 2 held up their spinning sabres.
"I will not be going with you." Danny said simply as he held up the sabres he was using.
"Listen, we would rather not hurt your handsome face." Seven purred, making Danny a little uncomfortable.
"Ultimately, it would be better for you and easier for us if you come quietly." Five-o added.
"Thanks, but I've fought enemies more powerful than you or the Sith, 2 fakes shouldn't be a problem." Danny said with a smirk under his helmet.
"Fakes?" Five-o growled.
"Please, Vader was way stronger than you. In comparison, you 2 are ants!" Danny taunted. Five-o let out a growl and lunged at Danny, only for Danny to side step and avoid almost the stab. He also got a good slash to his leg.
"You are powerful in the Force; maybe even more so than Vader. We do not have to be adversaries. If you join us, you will be rewarded with power beyond your imagination." Seven offered as Danny knocked Five-o out.
"Thanks, I already received the same offer from Vader, he'll tell you my answer." Danny replied through gritted teeth as he pulled Five-o's lightsaber out of his shoulder; he was aiming for Danny's heart, but Danny was able to dodge, not quick enough though. Seven was really impressed that Danny was able to even stand after that.
"Besides, I already have a master." Danny said as he attacked Seven, who jumped out of the way.
"Ah yes. Ahsoka Tano, no?" Seven asked as she blocked Danny's attacks.
"Who?" Danny asked, playing dumb.
"The other child said the same thing." Seven replied, rolling her eyes.
"Speaking of which, we're done here." Danny said as he dropped his stance and clipped the sabres to his belt.
"Have you finally chosen to surrender?" Seven asked as she deactivated her sabre.
"What? No. I'm leaving; I think I stalled you long enough for my friends to get away." Danny said with a shrug. He seemed fine, though he was fighting the urge to pass out.
"You truly think I'm going to let you leave?" Seven hissed as she reignited her blade.
"No. I'm leaving and you can't stop me." Danny told her. Before Seven could say anything, Danny pressed a button on his gauntlet, and disappeared in a flash of light, leaving Seven with her jaw hitting the ground.
"Zeb, we have to go back!" Ezra yelled to the Lasat, who was flying the Phantom.
"Danny said to trust him Ezra!" Zeb yelled back.
"Guys, look!" Sabine suddenly said. She was holding the disk Danny gave her. As per his instructions, she placed it on the ground, and cleared some space. In a flash of green light, Danny appeared, standing above the strange disk, which was now in pieces.
"Danny!" They all exclaimed in surprise.
"Hey guys…" Danny muttered, looking exhausted and in pain as he took his helmet off. Sabine gasped in horror at the injuries he'd sustained. He had cuts and slashes everywhere, and freaking hole in his shoulder!
"Danny, how are you…" Ezra trailed off when Danny's appearance started to change. Sabine gasped as the blue streaks in his hair turned white, and his eyes went from dark green to bright neon green, with icy blue streaks around the edges of his irises. She remembered what Danny said when he showed her his shape-shifting abilities, and quickly ran over to him to catch him as he passed out.
Ahsoka was on the Memory, the ship she shared with Danny, soaring through Hyperspace as she went though her findings about Vader. All she knew about him was that he was immensely strong in the Force, and had played a huge part in the hunting down of the Jedi. As she was stuck in her musings, she suddenly felt something, something bad; a huge disturbance in the Force. She felt pain, fear, and grief, but didn't know from where. Suddenly, she heard a rather unsettling sound: she heard a scream, definitely male, and it sounded way too familiar for her taste.
"Danny!" She whispered in both horror and realisation. Something had happened to her apprentice! Quickly as she could, she ran over to the Memory's pilot seat and cut her Hyperspace path. As quickly as she left, she went straight back in to Hyperspace, this time headed for the Rebel Fleet.