Chapter 14: Transmission from Trenick

Ezra's P.O.V

"I was expecting the both of you, we all were, mates." Thatch told me and Jacob in his accent as we approached him in this part of the base. "What about the prototype, Thatch? Is it good to go? We need to save Ezra and Jacob's friends." Elias informed him.

"I am aware of the situation, Elias. However, in terms of the prototype, we have no idea if it'll serve it's purpose. We haven't even tested it out yet." "Do we have a better idea?" I asked, stepping in. "Bridger, I can understand your concern for your friends, but-" Thatch was cut off when my holo communicator went off in my backpack. I used to force to detect it, and I took it out, playing a transmission.

It was only Kanan, and he was on both of his knees, his hands behind his back. Trenick must have been up to this. "Kanan." I said. "Ezra, we need you and Jacob right now. We're being held hostage." Kanan told me. "By whom?" I asked, having a good feeling that it was Trenick, and I was right when it was him as the human dark sider revealed himself.

"Why hello there, Ian and Ezra Bridger." Trenick said. "What do you want from us, Trenick?" Jacob asked. "I want only one thing, and one thing only. I want you two right now. I want you to come to me, because if you don't-" Trenick paused to reveal the rest of the crew. Sabine, Zeb, Hera, Alex, even Chopper, all of them were on their knees with their hands behind their back, like Kanan, but Chopper was restrained by something since he was just a droid. And it became apparent that Trenick was holding them hostage. What was disturbing about the scene was that his men were in the background, moving around them with their blasters in hand, observing their prisoners. But the thing that was even more disturbing was what Trenick said next.

"Your friends will die." he warned us. "You have only 24 hours to get here, the both of you. If you resist me, I will kill all of your friends one by one, and you two personally. You have been warned." "We're coming for you, Trenick! You're going to pay for taking them!" I fired back at him. "We shall see. I'm sending you my coordinates. I will see you soon, and please be here as soon as your are able to. Ta ta." Trenick hung up, and I knew that we had to make our move on him now.

"We have to move now. Will this thing be able to fly?" I asked Thatch. "I believe so, but like I said, we have not tested it yet." Thatch replied. "We have to use this thing, tested or not. We must save my friends." I told Thatch.

"Okay, mate. I will contact command and see if they will approve of me using this prototype spaceship." Thatch said, grabbing a ride to the command center as he left, leaving me, Elias, and Jacob back where Thatch was earlier.

After about a grueling two hours, Thatch returned, and he brought more of those people in gas masks with him. "Alright, lads, it's time to go to space." Thatch said, meaning that we got ourselves a ride to Trenick's location. The three of us that were left here when Thatch took off walked to the prototype spaceship, followed by Thatch and his men, and to our surprise, more soldiers arrived on the scene.

"You didn't think you could leave us out, huh Elias?" one of the soldiers asked Elias, who looked American, according to their uniforms and their differences they had with Thatch and his men's uniforms. "Not at all really, Dunn. What are you doing here?" Elias asked the soldier, who's name I thought was Dunn. "Well, you did say that you were willing to help the Bridgers along with the other US soldiers who wanted to help, so we came, and we want to help you out." Dunn replied.

"Thatch, Ezra, Jacob, is that cool with you guys?" Elias asked us. "Honestly, if we're making a move on hostages, we'd better bring all the backup that we could get." I said. "I'm with Ezra on this one." Jacob agreed. "This guys got some good points. I'm with them." Thatch said. "It's said. Let's roll." Elias said, all of us boarding the craft.

Once we entered, two test pilots, who were SAS, got in the cockpit, and after sometime of rolling to a strip that Earthlings use to what I assume to take off, we were off. Within 10 minutes after taking off, we were in space, on our way for our final confrontation with Trenick.

We've come this far, and it was now time to end Trenick once and for all.