Chapter 3: On Atollon

Several hours late

Ezra's P.O.V

I was in the common area while we headed through the cluster back to our galaxy, where we would head to Atollon next, where Alex and I were playing Sabacc cause we got bored, and then Jacob came to join us. And I actually sensed that he seemed to be more calmer.

"How's that wound?" Alex asked him. "Well, you did get pressure on it, I'll tell you that." Jacob responded. "So now that we're off Earth, where are we going now?" "To Atollon, a planet where we've been residing lately." I answered.

"Right. Alex, if you don't mind, can I talk to Ezra in private for a moment?" "Sure, Jacob. I'll just go until then." Alex got up and left to wherever he was going, while Jacob took a seat in front of me. "What did you want to talk to me about?" I asked him.

"It's because of my powers. I mean, when we get to that planet, are you sure that I won't be viewed as dangerous because of my force powers?" "That honestly depends on you, and the impression you make on the people who we're with on Atollon." "Right." "And by the way, Jacob, when you suffered your seizure earlier, I sensed that it was something that had to do with the force. Do you think you could tell me what happened?"

"I honestly don't remember much, other than I saw a baby who was crying in the middle of a forest at night. That's about all I remember." "It could be a force vision or something like that. That does tend to happen at times. Makes you see stuff from the past and stuff like that, stuff that you haven't seen in a while." "Right. You will teach me to control my powers, right, Ezra?" "I will. Since you're practically a member of the Ghost now, I guess you're one of us, and we'll be there for you, Jacob." "Thanks for being one of those people who understand my struggle, Ezra." "Anytime."

"Crew, arriving on Atollon in five minutes." Hera said over the inter comm.

Five minutes later

We arrived on Atollon back at the base, where we walked over with Jacob to Sato and Rex after we told them about him. They wanted to see him for themselves. We presented Jacob, and both of them were weary of him, just mainly for the fact that he comes from a different planet in a different galaxy, and he has the force somehow. However, knowing well that he may need training in the force just for his well-being, Sato and Rex allowed Jacob to be with us on the Ghost in the meantime, which Jacob reluctantly agreed to, even though we all thought that he would have wanted to go back to Earth despite what he's thinking after what he did back there in Seattle, which Kanan and I sensed in him through the force. We got him settled in.

Since we seemed to be having a pretty good force connection, I invited him to stay in my room since it was lonesome with Zeb in Kanan's old room, and he accepted my invitation.

Some time flew by, and I was already giving him some basic jedi training in my room, primarily force bits in terms of controlling his powers and connecting with beings. And though Jacob was a person who did not know how to control his powers whatsoever, he seemed to be picking up a lot of it quickly. He was a fast learner, and I was a pretty good teacher.

We stopped training when a knock was heard at my door. "Yes?" I asked whoever it was, revealing Kanan when the door opened. "Sato and Rex want Jacob to go the medical center of the base to get that wound examined further. Besides, we are pretty much concerned that it could lead to infection still, even though Alex got some bandages on you earlier, Jacob." Kanan said.

"Are you sure that the procedure is safe though? I'm 100% unfamiliar with how things work in your galaxy." Jacob stated. "Trust us. All that they're going to do is have a medical droid examine your wound, and it'll patch you up if anything." Kanan replied. "A droid? Like a robot or something like that?" Jacob asked. "Yes." Kanan answered. "Okay, tell them that I'll be there in a minute." Kanan nodded and then left.

"I'll see you later, Ezra. Thank you so much for teaching me." Jacob thanked me as he started to leave my room. "You're welcome. Anything to help you control your force powers." I replied. He smiled at me, I smiled back, and then he took off, just not before he came back in for a second. "Ezra, can I ask you to hold onto this for me?" Jacob asked.

"What's this?" I inquired as he handed me some kind of small hand-held device. "My phone. It's something that a lot of people have back on Earth." Jacob answered. "Right, I'll hold onto it." I said, him nodding and then leaving. I put his device in a drawer in my room for safe keeping, and then went to meet Alex and Sabine for a round of combat practice in the cargo bay.

Meanwhile

Kanan's P.O.V

Jacob came out of the Ghost just now, and I was walking him over to the medical center at Chopper Base.

"So, how did your first time lessons go with Ezra?" I asked him. "Pretty good. I seemed to pick up a lot of it despite my unfamiliarity." Jacob answered. At least it sounded like Ezra did a decent job as a teacher, which I considered it a test for my padawan. "That's good." I replied. "And, Kanan, if you don't mind me asking, why do you wear that thing over your eyes?"

Not wanting to bring up Malachor whenever people ask me that question or something similar, I just used pretty much the same response that I used all the time. "I got blinded due to an accident." I said, trying to not sound serious enough for Jacob to find out about Malachor through his force powers. "And how is it that you don't need a cane or anything when you walk?" "The force. It allows me to see despite my disability. I had difficulty with it at first, but I got better at seeing through the force as time went on." "Explains much. Besides, with my abilities, I can see things that nobody else can see." "That's part of how the force works, and you'll learn more about as time goes on with you here."

We arrived at the medical center, where the droid was standing by. "Hello there. Can I help you with anything?" the droid asked.

"I need a wound examined on him." I answered. "Okay. Just take a seat in this chair, and we will get started." the droid said. I then detected Jacob's fear through the force, in which I told him, "There's nothing to worry about. All he's gonna do is examine you and patch you up." "Alright. I can handle that." Jacob said, slightly less nervous now, sitting in the chair.

"I need to get going for now. I'm going back to the ship. When you're done here, come back. You know the way I think, right?" I asked Jacob. "I remember." he responded. "See ya." I said, leaving Jacob.

Jacob's P.O.V

I sat in the chair, a little bit nervous about how this procedure was gonna go. "Please show me where you got your wound." the droid requested. I got up to take off my hoodie, and then I rolled up the sleeve of my shirt, revealing where I suffered the gunshot earlier on my shoulder. I sat back down, and the droid began examining it.

"You seem to have some object lodged inside you." the droid said. I had a feeling that he was talking about the bullet. "You mean the bullet?" I asked him. "Whatever it is that you call it, that is exactly what I am talking about." the droid responded. "So, what are you going to do then?" "I am just going to perform a small surgical procedure on you. I will take it out, and then I will patch you up after it is completed." I nodded at the droid.

He asked me to move to one of the beds in the medical center, in which I lay on my back, still nervous about this surgery. I hate surgery for the fact that I've had two operations performed on me, and this was going to be the third one. The first time I had one, it was due to when I broke my arm after I fell hard on the ground when me and a friend of mine were shooting hoops in the city back on Earth. The second time was due to me needing to have my appendix taken out. Since those surgeries, I've always hated them. And never in my life have I pictured getting surgery on a planet in a galaxy far from home.

I saw the droid get a needle, thinking that it was an anesthetic. He approached me and said, "This is an anesthetic that will take away the pain during the procedure, and you will be knocked out for a little while." "Fine." I said. The droid injected me with the anesthetic, and then I drifted off to sleep until surgery was completed.

As I slept, I felt my mind racing again, and I started seeing things.

I saw a baby in a forest, crying. It looked like it lost its family somehow, and then I saw a shadowy figure come up to it, and he picked it up, comforting it. As the vision went on, I saw that same baby may have developed some kind of strange abilities as it got older. And then when I took a look at that baby in the vision, I realized that it was me. I was the one left in that forest somewhere in the world. But where was I, who dropped me off there, and who was it that found me?

And then I saw another vision. I saw myself in front of a figure who was shadowy, and then he grabbed me by the throat hard, me struggling to get out of this vision. "Earth wants you back." it says, the vision ending with the chant "Kill the sorcerer!" And then everything went black after that, me still asleep with my mind processing this extreme vision.