Chapter 7: Your Planet Wants You Back

Ezra's P.O.V

Jacob, all of us for that matter, seemed to have calmed down ever since earlier. I just still can't get over the fact that we discovered my unknown first cousin on that planet, a cousin who was force sensitive. At least I'm still glad to have helped him in his force abilities. I even thought that he might consider staying with us on the Ghost, fighting alongside me to defeat the sith, the inquisitors, Vader, the Empire...There was a lot that could happen at this point with Jacob.

We were all in our rooms now, relaxing since no missions came up. However, it looked like it was going to change.

We heard a knock at the entrance ramp, so we headed down there, opened it up for whoever it was that was knocking, revealing Rex, alarms going off in the base behind him. What was going on?

"What is it, Rex?" Kanan asked the clone. "We just detected an unidentified ship enter Atollon. We don't know whether it's friendly or imperial. We have pilots scrambling now." Rex answered. "Then that means I'd better get in the-" Hera was cut off when her commlink went off.

"Unidentified ship has just touched down on the base grounds." a pilot informed her. "Standby, we're coming." she replied, all of us moving out of the Ghost and towards the base. We all had our weapons drawn at the ship when we saw it. "Don't I get anything?" Jacob asked, no weapons in his hand. Sabine sighed and gave him one of her pistols. "I want it back though." she reminded him.

The ship was some kind of freighter. I didn't know the make and model of it, and it was colored black all over. We had that freighter surrounded, including several Phoenix foot soldiers on the ground aiming their blasters, and several pilots overhead, watching us from the air. "Everybody hold your fire." a soldier ordered. I have a really bad feeling about this.

All of a sudden, shots were fired from the ship, firing at all of us. Several Phoenix members got shot and injured seriously, but not killed. The ship kept on firing while my friends, cousin, and I took cover behind something. And then, the ramp of the ship opened, in which a male by the looks of things stepped out.

This male had a muscular build to him, was wearing a black ballistics vest that was blaster proof, a black jacket, black combat pants with boots, and he had all kinds of gadgets ranging from several cellular gadgets to explosives. On his head, he wore a helmet that was black had three dots on each side of his face that were colored red. I guessed that this guy was some kind of bounty hunter, but thought otherwise when I felt that he had the force. Please don't be an inquisitor!

Eventually, the guy pressed a button on his helmet, his red dotted face being removed, revealing a human male with a skin tone like mine, green eyes, and he had a buzz cut that was colored dark brown. Several more people followed behind him, all of them aiming weapons at us, ready to shoot, until the human raised his hand, telling them to stop.

"I knew that I would find you here, Ian." he said, threateningly. "Sir, what about the rest of these guys and their base?" one of his men asked. "Negative. Do not harm them. They are not on the list, only the cousins." he replied. "Yes, sir." the same henchman replied.

"Who are you and why do you want me?" Jacob demanded. "I am Trenick Raisgor, a mercenary if you would consider me one." the leader said. "Why did you come here?" Jacob demanded again.

"It seems that following your little 'incident' in Seattle, you have put a pretty high price on yourself. Word of you got out to the rest of the world, and now that the other Bridger was identified, the governments of Earth want both of you now. Your planet wants you back, Ian, and they want you and your cousin as well." Trenick said.

"You will never take both of us!" Jacob exclaimed. Then Trenick used the force on us, sending me and Jacob flying back, hitting the side of the Ghost with both of us pinned. "Why is it that you Earthlings are so difficult sometimes?" Trenick smirked. "Tell me, Ian, why did you run away from your own home planet, hmm? Why did you run away from the truth about you only to discover your true self here?" "Let me and Ezra go now!" Both of us were choked harder.

Trenick let out a long sigh before he said, "Always Earthlings with their back talking attitudes. You obviously are being arrogant enough to not understand this, Ian. Your powers are leading you down a dark path ever since your incident, you are heading towards a dark path that puts you and the rest of your home planet in danger. Your planet's governments want you just for the safety of others, Ian." "He is not going down a dar-" I was choked even harder now.

"Oh, so it's the other cousin Bridger that is now acting like an arrogant Earthling like his older cousin, hmm? I am going to enjoy turning the both of you in." Trenick smirked.

He turned around, both me and Jacob still pinned to the Ghost. "Prep our ship. It's time to head back to Earth to get our reward. Inform the governments that we have the package and ask them where they would like us to bring the Bridgers." Trenick told his men. "What about them? Shouldn't we be bringing their friends?" one of his henchmen asked. "How many times do I have to repeat myself? I said the others are not on the list." Trenick replied sternly.

And then Jacob and I were blacked out.