Chapter 8: On Earth, Again
Ezra's P.O.V
I groaned as I started waking up after Jacob and I blacked out earlier, and noticed that I could barely move. I tried moving again while I sat on the floor, and noticed that I've been put in restraints. I tried again to try and break free, nothing. I heard movement on my left, and I faced there, seeing that Jacob woke up. He faced me.
"Where are we, Ezra?" he asked. "I think we are on that ship that the mercenary arrived on." I answered. "Where are going?" "Probably back to Earth, Ezra, at least what I'm thinking. After all, he did say that my planet wanted me back." "Yes, Jacob, I remember." "Hey could you use the force to break free?"
I tried, and nothing. "Nope. Can you?" Jacob tried and shook his head. "Crap. We're stuck here." "What about the crew, Ezra? Aren't they going to come for us?" "Let's just hope that they do. When we get on Earth, I'll try to contact Kanan through our force bond, and get him to tell the crew where we are." The door opened in front of us shortly after, and in stepped Trenick.
"So, the cousins are awake by the looks of things?" Trenick asked. "Let us go!" Jacob barked at him, which earned him a hard slap on the face from Trenick. "Talk back again, and I will have you executed when I bring both of you back to Earth. Speaking of which by the way, we are almost there. You'd better start saying your goodbyes, cousins, before your saddened death arrives." Trenick walked out of the room with his back towards us, just not before he stopped in the doorway, looked over his shoulder, and gave me and Jacob a smirk. He left soon after.
"We have got to escape." Jacob said. "I think I might have a plan." I replied. "Oh yeah? Get us killed, is that your plan, cousin!?" "We have the force on our side, Jacob, your people don't." "First of all, do not refer to the Earth humans as 'my people' because I find it obnoxious, and two: the Earthlings have things that could potentially kill us even with the force." We felt the ship hit the surface, telling us that we arrived.
Two of Trenick's henchmen walked into the room where my cousin and I were, and they released us, got us on our feet, and aimed their blasters at me and Jacob as we started walking out of the ship.
When we walked out, we felt the henchmen knock us out again, and we were blacked out.
Several hours later
Undisclosed location, Earth
I groaned again as I was regaining consciousness, my vision blurry at first, and when it cleared up, I was shocked to see where we were. We were in some kind of arena, and the stands were filled with many Earth humans, all of them wearing suits and chanting, "Kill the sorcerer! Kill the sorcerer!" and it kept on repeating. There were also multiple flags around the arena, which I assumed represented the countries of Earth.
After I fully regained my vision, I noticed that my hands were tied up to something. I looked behind me, and saw that I was tied to a poll with Jacob behind me. Both of us were struggling to break free, but in the end, when we realized that we couldn't, we came to accept the fact that we were probably going to die as cousins out here on a world far from home.
I looked ahead of me, and saw Trenick emerged, raising his hand, quieting down the humans.
"Government officials of the globe, I have brought you your Bridgers." he announced. "Now, I would like my reward from the highest bidder."
"A bid?" one of the Earth human females asked. "Yes, Madame President, a bid." Trenick answered. "I do not operate without my payment. Now, I'm going to say this again, I would like my reward from the highest bidder."
"That doesn't make sense. The Governments of our planet spent millions of dollars for the capture of the fugitive and his cousin to give you, and now you want us to propose our bid after we all spent millions of dollars for the capture of both of them?" another Earth human asked, who had an accent similar to Vizago. The entire arena started protesting, and then Trenick shot his pistol in the air.
"That is more like it! And yes, I would like my highest bidder to make their bid." "You can't demand that from us! We have spent millions of dollars, like the Russian representative said, to give you for the capture of the cousins, and you can't just demand a higher payment, you're practically somewhat putting all of us in debt!" another Earth human said, all of the Earth government officials nodding. "What kind of a mercenary are you even?" he demanded.
"The one who wants to get the job done, Brit! Now give me my reward from the highest bidder!" Trenick demanded. "No! As America's representative, I say that we do not want to make another bid for the capture of the Bridger cousins after we spent so much money to give to you, but now we want our money back, and we are going to take it back."
"Make me, Earthling." Trenick demanded. "Trenick, you have no idea what you are going to start here today in front of all of us." a dark skinned Earth human said. "And what makes you think that, President Obama?"
"It makes me think that since you are being arrogant about your money, I hereby say that we terminate your Earth contract with us before your arrogance drives you to start a conflict that would end up being way worse than World War 2. All in favor, say 'I.'" "I." every Earth human said at exactly the same time.
"That does it, Trenick. You're done." the human known as President Obama said. Trenick was enraged from what I could sense, and instead of making an even bigger deal out of an already big deal, he stormed out with his men, and took off before he could start anything.
"Now, what do we do now with the Bridgers?"
"Jacob, we've got to get out of here." I said. "It's no use. They might end up killing us, or worse..." Jacob replied. "What do you mean by worse?" "Well, they could instead use use as weapons or something." "As if death's not of use already." "Exactly, Ezra."
"They're up!" a guard screamed, a squad of them rushing towards me and Jacob.
"Wait, wait! It's all a big misunderstanding!" I tried to explain. Instead, the guards fired some kind of taser, shocking my cousin and I, knocking us out. It seems that we have blacked out so many times.
Hours later
Jacob and I woke up again, and we were in some kind of Earth aerial vehicle.
"Jacob, where are we?" I asked him. "I don't know. We're probably getting transported to some kind of place for imprisonment." Jacob replied.
All of a sudden, we felt a sudden shift as we started diving for an unknown reason. Oh no! This can't be! I don't wanna die this way, but I'm going to! Goodbye to my parents, my Ghost family, my cousin, and most importantly, me. Goodbye all, waiting for the impact. Impact was made, and we blacked out again. This is the most number of days where I've blacked out.
Shortly after impact
Jacob and I woke up after impact, and saw that it was burning on the inside out. We were lucky to be alive, but we were going to die if we didn't do anything. "Ezra, we gotta get out before we die in this fire!" Jacob said, him trying to kick the door open.
"Jacob, use the force, we could get out easier!" I told him. He force pushed the door open, and we bolted just as the fire nearly consumed the both of us, the vehicle exploding in fiery flames while we ran away, and went farther away from the explosion. We kept on running, then stopped, panting hard. "That was too close." Jacob said. "Yeah. Where are we?" I asked him. He check to see if he still had his phone, as he called it, on him, and then pulled it out, searching up to see where we are.
"Oh my!" Jacob reacted. "Where are we?" I asked. "We're in England, just outside London by the looks of things. We have to get going and see where would be a good location to make contact with your crew." "Right. Hey! I still have my commlink on me." "Call them and see if they could make it." "I'm on it."
Meanwhile on the Ghost
Hera's P.O.V
I was so worried for Ezra after he got captured. I was so worried that we all thought that he practically could have died already with Jacob. I tried to think the other way around, but it felt that he really did die. I was so sad, and so grievous over this. I thought that until, to our surprise, my commlink started chiming, and it was Ezra! He's alive!
"Can anybody here me, this is Ezra. Come in, anybody." "Ezra, this is Hera. Thank god you are okay! Where are you?"
"I am now on Earth with Jacob. We just escaped after a crash, and now we are on the run. We need to find a good location in case you can get us if at all possible." "Where are you specifically?"
"I'm in some place called 'England,' and near a place in there called 'London.' Will you be able to get us?" "Ezra, we just might be able to, but we need a good location. Contact us in the afternoon since we are all going to bed now here, tell us where we could meet you and Jacob, and then we'll grab you and get you off Earth."
"Okay, Hera, sounds like a plan. I will contact you tomorrow. And if the others are hearing this, tell them that I'm okay." "Will do. Be safe, Ezra. Specter 2 out."
"Specter 6 out."