Chapter 4: The First Morning

Later

Ezra's P.O.V

It was now night time, and it looked like that Jacob was undergoing surgery for a while. What was taking the droid so long for a simple procedure like removing an object out of a being's body? I just thought that it may have been taking longer than usual, and I decided to go to sleep for the night with the rest of the crew.

The next morning

I woke up earlier than usual, and did the regular morning routine, then went to meet the crew for breakfast. "Morning, guys." I said as I walked into the kitchen, helping myself to some breakfast. "Morning, Ez." Sabine said. "How did you guys sleep?" I asked them. "Good." Hera answered, everybody else nodding in agreement. "What about you?" Kanan inquired.

"Okay for the most part." I said. "Why okay?" Kanan asked.

"Last night as I slept, I felt a disturbance in the force from Jacob, and it seemed like he may have been having a force vision or something like that in his sleep. I heard some inaudible stuff in there, and saw some things that I really can't remember as much, but when I really saw what Jacob was experiencing, it seemed like he may have seen somebody who claimed that Earth wanted him back." Everybody was intrigued by this, with Kanan responding by, "What else was he experiencing?" "Well, in the beginning of it, he saw a baby in a forest, all alone and crying, and it was picked up by some figure." I answered.

"Speaking of Jacob, where is he?" Zeb wondered. "He's probably in the medical center. Ezra, do you think you could head over there and wake him up?" Hera asked me. "I'll be back in a little bit." I replied, leaving the Ghost and walking towards the medical center of the base.

I came into the room where Jacob was, where he was still knocked out cold. I came up to him, and said quietly as possible, "Jacob, wake up." He groaned as he started waking up. "Am I dead?" he asks, him rubbing his eyes, then looking at his shoulder where his wound was, seeing that it was patched up. "I guess I'm not then." he said. "How long was I out for, Ezra?"

"A good couple of hours. It's already the morning. Come back to the Ghost with us, we're eating breakfast now." I said. "The Ghost?" Jacob asked. "The name of our ship." I reminded him. "Oh. Let's go then. I haven't eaten since I left my house back on Earth." he said, both of us walking out of the medical center, through the base, and back to the Ghost.

We entered the kitchen. "Waffles?" I offered him. "You have waffles here?" he asked us. All of us nodded. "That's something that we have back on Earth." "Want some?" I offered again. "Hit me up." he said, me giving him some space waffles. He took a bite out of one of them. "It tastes good. It tastes almost like an Earth waffle." He ate breakfast with the rest of us, and then we got ready for the day after we ate breakfast.

As of now, no missions came up from Sato or Rex, which meant that it was time for another day of jedi training for Jacob.

We went down to the cargo bay of the Ghost the two of us, and I was going to teach him how to lift things with the force. "What's today's exercise?" he asked. "You see that crate?" I asked him. Jacob nodded and said, "I want you to use the force and lift it. Concentrate your mind on that crate and that crate only, and imagine yourself lifting it off the ground." "Sounds simple enough."

Jacob concentrated, extended his arm out, and he couldn't do it the first try. "It's okay, just clear out your mind." I said to him. "Fine. I'll try again then." Jacob replied, using the force to lift the crate off the ground, but only a tiny, tiny, bit. "You're not clearing your mind." I told him. "I know, I can sense it." "Then maybe I'm just not strong enough to lift it then." Jacob retorted.

"You know what? Let's try something else." I suggested. "Do you see that small block over there?" "Yes I do." "I want you to lift it with the force. It's smaller, and it should be slightly easier." "Alright, let's do this."

Jacob extended his arm out, and actually managed to lift it off the ground. "I did it!" "Good job. Now, what I want you to do is pick another item in this room." "Any?" "Any." "That rusty battery-like thing." "Lift it off the ground." Jacob nodded, and got to it.

He lifted it off the ground, and he looked like that he was getting better at lifting items when he lifted more of them. "This is good. I'm actually improving." Jacob said after he lifted the crate that he had trouble with in the beginning. "You are, and you'll get better in time." I replied, being proud of myself for making good enough of a teacher. "Ready for a real challenge?" "What is it?" "You'll see, Jacob. Chopper, could you come down to the cargo bay please?" I called to Chopper.

He rolled in, making grumpy beeps as usual. I turned to Jacob, and said to him through the force, "Lift Chopper off the ground."

He got to it, and lifted Chopper with ease, causing him to let out a couple of beeps. He was afraid of this as he kept on going higher and higher. "Alright, that's enough. Put him down, Jacob. But do it gently." I told him. He brought Chopper down, and then he shocked both of us, me and Jacob grunting in pain. "Chopper!" I exclaimed, Chopper just rolling away. "After him!" Jacob said, me and him chasing the droid through the Ghost.

However, since Jacob seemed to be learning quickly enough, he just used the force on Chopper to catch him before he could keep on rolling away from us. Chopper let out more frightened beeps, telling Jacob to put him down. "Keep him in the air." I told him. Chopper attempted to shock both of us again, just not before Jacob sent him flying back, Chopper on his back, then picked him up with the force. Chopper was pissed off at us, and he went away.

"What's Chopper's problem?" Jacob asked. "It's just Chopper being Chopper. You'll get used to him eventually." I replied. "You sure I didn't do any damage to him?" "Maybe small damage, but it can be repaired easily." After I said that, Hera came into the common area where we were, and she did not look happy, her arms crossed as she gave me and Jacob stern looks.

"Could you boys explain to me why Chopper claimed that one of you broke his camera?" Hera asked, a small hint of anger in her voice. "Look, I can explain. It's my fault, okay?" Jacob admitted. "Jacob, you and Ezra are not in trouble, but I just want to know what happened." she replied, a tiny bit more calmer now.

"Actually, Hera, it's my fault partially, considering that I thought that Jacob lifting Chopper off the ground would have been good enough for our practice." I explained. "Then what happened?" "He lifted Chopper, then put him down, then he shocked the both of us, and then-" Jacob cut me off when he started speaking.

"I caught him with the force, and then after your droid attempted to shock the both of us again, I sent him flying into a wall. I'm sorry, so Ezra and I might as well just take the punishment." Jacob said, him looking down, waiting for the consequence. "Boys, you aren't in trouble since you told me the truth. However, the next time either of you end up damaging Chopper on purpose, even if he was the one who started something, there are going to be repercussions." Hera warned us. The both of us nodded.

"Can I ask you boys something?" "What is it?" I asked. "I need some help with chores done around the Ghost. I already have Sabine and Alex checking the turrets, I have Kanan checking our food supply, Zeb's checking the Phantom to see if it's all good, and I need you two to check the main systems up front in the cockpit. You guys can handle it, right?" Hera asked us. "I think we could handle it." Jacob replied. "Good. Get to work, I'm gonna go and fix Chopper's camera in the meantime."

The both of us left, where I guided him to the cockpit, both of us walking in.

I walked up to the main computer in the cockpit, and activated it, about to give Jacob a walkthrough on things.

"Okay, Jacob, this is how this works." I started, pointing to the screen. "So, if the text on the system appears green, then it means that it is good. If it's yellow, then it means that it is okay, but needs to be checked out. And if it's red, then it means that-" I was cut off when Jacob said, "I kinda already have a feeling of what it means if it's red."

"Figures." I said. "Alright, Jacob, check the navigation systems on your side, I will check the navigation systems on mine." We got to it.

"What does this say?" Jacob asked me. "What do you mean what does it-" I stopped in the middle of my reply when I remembered that he was from Earth, and he couldn't read our text. "Oh right, I forgot that you were from Earth." I replied. "Sorry about that." "It's fine. Could you just tell me what it says and walk me through these systems?" Jacob inquired. "I'll translate for you and walk you through." I answered.

I ended up teaching him again how to do things. But this time, it was tech related, with our technology and not his Earth tech. I taught him how to properly check systems that had the text for them written in red and yellow, and despite having an unfamiliarity with our tech, he seemed to pick up pretty quickly. It may have been thanks to his power in the force.

After a while, we finished checking the cockpit's systems, and then Jacob and I went to get some R and R in my room. At least it seemed like his first morning in our galaxy went relatively well.