Chapter 15: On Trenick's Ship
Ezra's P.O.V
"How long now until we get to Trenick's coordinates?" I asked one of the prototype's pilots. "About 2 hours, sir." one of them responded. "Good. That gives us plenty of time to devise a plan." Elias said. "We need a good one. Besides, Trenick will destroy us all too quickly if we don't plan out smartly." Jacob said. "I'm with you. Thatch, is there a place on this ship where we can plan our assault?" Elias asked. "In the cargo room. We have some SAS and Navy Seals there right now." Thatch replied. "Then we're headed there." I said, getting up with Jacob, Thatch, and Elias and going to the cargo room.
When we got in there, everybody was preparing for briefing. "What's the plan?" one of the soldiers, who I assumed was a Navy Seal due to his uniform. "Okay, here's the plan." I said, thinking of a good plan as I prepared the briefing.
An hour and a half later
After a grueling hour and a half of planning, we came up on what seemed like a decent plan. Jacob and I would go in and meet Trenick since he wants us, while the SAS and Navy Seals, along with Elias and Thatch, deal with Trenick's men and rescue our friends. And once that's done, we all join forces to finish this once and for all. And now, there was only half an hour left until we arrived at Trenick's ship. I felt really nervous about this mission, but I clipped on my lightsaber onto my belt, ready to face this dark sider. But, something told me that Trenick's just more than just a dark sider, like he's possibly an inquisitor or something like that. I felt really uneasy.
Half an hour later, we arrived at Trenick's ship, docking with it. "This is it, lads. Make this one count." Thatch told all of us, him, Elias, and the rest of the Earth special forces units readying their weapons for the mission. Jacob and I were gonna exit first, get out of sight, and then the Earthlings move in and rescue our friends. However, I had that feeling in my gut that this may have been the last time I'd see Jacob, the last time I'd see my cousin. If it was gonna be the last time, I decided to start saying my goodbyes.
"Jacob." I said to him. "Yes?" he responded. "I just wanted to say that since this may be the last time I'd see you, I wanted to just say thank you." I replied. "For what?" "For everything, Jacob. For being with us on the Ghost during your time with us, for teaching me about Earth and spending my time on Earth with you, and generally everything, cousin." "Ezra, I had that feeling that it would be the last time as well. Thank you for everything, cousin. Thank you for teaching me about the force and how to control my powers, for everything. If this is the last time, I wanted to just say that..." He paused and took a deep breath. "I love you, cousin Ezra. I love you for the fact that you are the first biological relative I ever met in my life, and I'm glad I got to know you as my cousin. I'm going to miss you if anything happens." He started tearing up. "I love you too, cousin Jacob." I started tearing up as well, bringing it in with my cousin, hugging him and letting our emotions leave us. We broke away after a while, and then he said, "You ready to end all of this?" "Let's go, cousin." I said, smiling at him, somewhat enjoying the moment with the cousin who I never knew I had, but was glad to get to know. I'm gonna miss him, but we had a mission ahead of us as I got my thoughts out of my head.
We stepped out of the ship, where Trenick met us. "Welcome, Ian and Ezra. I've been expecting your arrival for quite sometime now." Trenick said, eyeing us with his yellow, dark side eyes. "We came for our friends. Now let them go, Trenick." I ordered him. "Only if you shall do as I say, and only then will I release them. If you don't comply, I will kill you and your friends myself." Trenick warned us. "Yeah, we know, Trenick." Jacob retorted. "Excellent. Let's move now. Help me escort them." "Yes, Trenick." one of his men replied.
Jacob and I had Trenick in front of us and his two men behind us as we were being escorted to wherever it was that he was taking us. I just hope that our Earth allies are on the move.
Meanwhile
Third Person P.O.V
Once the coast was clear, Elias, Thatch, and the SAS and Navy Seals moved out.
"According to Ezra," Thatch informed the squad. "His friends seem to be held up not far from here. We go through this door. Griffin, see if you could detect anybody's pulse through that." "Yes, sir." the SAS soldier known as Griffin complied, pulling out his heartbeat detector, scanning for tangos through the door. "I got two." Griffin said. "Good. Everybody prepare. Elias, knock on the door." Thatch ordered. "Roger that, Thatch." Elias replied, knocking on the door, the squad moving back from it.
Once the two tangos opened the door, Griffin and Thatch dropped them with their silenced MP5s. "Excellent, mates. Let's move." Thatch ordered, the squad moving down the corridors of the ship.
They came up on another tango. "He's mine." a Navy Seal told the group, stabbing Trenick's henchman in the back of his head, dragging the lifeless body into the shadows. "Clean kill, Mendoza." one of the Seals told the Seal. "Thanks, Campbell." Mendoza replied. "Move up." Elias ordered the group, the special forces moving out.
"Get down, sensors!" Thatch ordered the group as they came up on sensors. They scat, and hid in the shadows. "Don't move." Elias informed the group, the sensors scanning for anybody. But then, they heard incoming tangos coming their way. "Do not engage them, lads, let them pass." Thatch ordered.
"I heard that Trenick's gonna murder all of them." said an enemy that had a raspy voice. "Including the rebels?" asked another that had a non raspy voice. "Including the rebels." the raspy sounding one answered. "And he's going to do it all personally?" asked the other one. "Yes." the raspy one answered, the two tangos passing by, the special forces soldiers unseen.
"Clear. We gotta move up, and fast. Trenick could be executing the hostages in any minute now." Elias informed the group, all of them picking up the pace.
After a while of navigating their way stealthily through the halls of Trenick's ship, the group came up on where the hostages were being held. "Griffin, scan for hostiles." Elias ordered. "On it." the SAS soldier replied, pulling out his heartbeat detector, which he detected about 7 hostiles, and five hostages. "That's them in there." Griffin told everyone.
"Alright then, mates. It's time to move in and free the hostages. Elias, knock on the door." Thatch ordered, Elias knocking on the door.
When the door opened, Trenick's henchman got dropped by Campbell. "Go go go!" Thatch ordered, the group of SAS and Navy Seal personnel storming the room where the hostages were, dropping all of Trenick's men in the room. "Get the hostages free, men!" Elias ordered the group.
Sabine's P.O.V
They came in, guys in dark clothing and what looked like gas masks, and guys who wore some kind of urban camo. To our surprise, they dropped Trenick's men. They looked like they were on our side, and they really were when they started freeing us. I'm going to assume that Ezra and Jacob probably got some allies from Earth.
"Are you alright? We are here to rescue you." one of the guys in the gas masks spoke in an accent as the squad of people were untying us all. "Who are you?" I asked one of the guys in urban camo who was untying me.
"We are British SAS and American Navy Seal personnel." he answered. "We came here on a rescue mission led by your friends, Jacob and Ezra Bridger." he added. So I was right about the cousins getting Earth allies. "Where are they?" I asked the same one after I was free, standing up and stretching my legs. "They said that they're going after Trenick on their own." another one of the guys in gas masks answered. I pray that they are alright. "Are they okay?" Alex asked them. "We don't know, mate. I'm sorry." another gas masked guy answered him.
"We gotta go and help them." Zeb said, standing up after he was freed. "I agree with Zeb. Will you all be able to help us?" Kanan asked them. "We can." one of the guys in urban camo answered. "Then let's move. I sense where we can get our gear." Kanan said, all of us following him out of the hostage room, and going into a locker.
"Grab your stuff, gang." the blind jedi task us. I grabbed my gear with the rest of the gang, and we took off. "I sense where Ezra and Jacob are, they are in trouble!" Kanan informed us. "Sir, are you sure you'll be able to lead us?" a gas masked guy asked him. "Trust me, when it comes to situations like these, it's best that we lead since we've experienced these kinds of situations first hand." Kanan informed the group. "Very well then. Lead the way." one of the guys in urban camo responded.
Kanan led us into the room where Trenick, Ezra, and Jacob were, all of us entering, only to discover that Jacob and Ezra were pinned to the wall by Trenick's force abilities.
"Welcome, friends! I'm glad that you all made it!" Trenick yelled down to us. "Let them go now, Trenick!" Alex yelled back. "Nope, no can do. Let's see if you will be able to handle this, and we'll see if I'll let them go after I deal with you all myself!" Trenick screamed down, using the force to send sharp objects towards us.
Most of us managed to dodge the objects, but after I dodged into an obstacle that I used as cover, I saw Alex get stabbed in the left side of his chest by a large knife. "Ahhhhhhh!" Alex screamed out in pain. "Alex!" I yelled after I witnessed the blow to the Lothalian human. "Somebody help me out!" he yelled out, still in pain. I rushed over to where he was, getting into cover with him, shots being fired from the ours. "Keep me covered, I'm helping Alex out!" I yelled out to the group, tending to Alex as best I could.
"I'm gonna pull it!" I yelled out to him over the sound of shots being fired everywhere. "No, Sabine, it's too much! It's gonna keep on bleeding if you pull it out!" Alex yelled back, me almost getting hit by a sharp object, retaliating with pistol shots. "I know, but I'll get pressure on it! Alex, just trust me!" I told him, placing one of my hands on his chest, the other on the knife. I pulled it out hard, Alex biting his lip after I did. I got pressure on his wound, blood escaping him and me getting a lot of it on my gloves.
"I need a medic!" I called out to the Earthlings. "I'm coming!" a guy in urban camo with first aid symbols on his uniform responded. "I need bandages on my friend!" I instructed him over the sounds of shots being fired everywhere. "Keep pressure on him, I'm getting bandages!" the Earth medic told me, me getting pressure on Alex's wound. He got the bandages eventually, where he applied them on the wound, bandages covering up Alex's black combat armor.
All of a sudden, Trenick stopped. I had a bad feeling about this, considering that every time whenever an enemy stops attacking us briefly, it never seems good.
"Well, it's good to see that you all made it." Trenick said. "But, unfortunately, one of you has to go." he added, raising his hand at Ezra.
"Goodbye, Ezra Bridger!" Trenick said, releasing torrents of force lightning from his hand. "Nooooooooooo!" Jacob cried out, making himself jump out in front of Ezra, getting shocked by force lightning. Trenick kept going, getting Jacob in even more pain, Ezra's cousin screaming out in pain. "Jacob, no!" Ezra cried out, running up to his cousin who was on the ground. I couldn't believe that this was what I thought it was.
Ezra's P.O.V
I can't believe it! My cousin sacrificed himself for me, willing to take his own life for others. I couldn't believe that this all really happening, in front of me. I felt tears coming down from my eyes as I got next to Jacob.
"Jacob, stay with me, please!" I begged my cousin, taking his hand in mine. He had tears coming down from his eyes, and then he spoke. "Ezra, I'm not gonna make it." he whispered. "Jacob, please, not now!" I begged even more. "Ezra, listen to me as your cousin." Jacob said. "It's up to you now. Stop Trenick." "Jacob, stay with me!" I begged even harder, the tears becoming heavier. "Ezra, just know this: I love you, cousin." Jacob told me, trying to smile through the pain at me. "I love you too, cousin." I replied, holding his hand tighter.
"Ezra." "Yes, Jacob?" "End all of this. I believe in you. Stop Trenick, and make him pay. I know you could do it, cousin. I love you." "I love you too, Jacob." I gripped his hand tighter, and then Jacob fell back, dead.
My emotions kicked in, Jacob, my own cousin, killed by Trenick! I was angry, and now Trenick was going to pay for taking my cousin.
"Trenick!" I cried out at him angrily. "A shame. Your cousin died for you, Ezra. And now you want revenge." Trenick replied, trying to pull me into the dark side. "No! You will pay for what you did!" I cried out at him, my anger at its fullest. "Give in, boy, give in." Trenick said. "No! This ends now!" I yelled out, drawing my green lightsaber at him.
"Then perhaps it is that time now, Ezra. Prepare to join your cousin!" Trenick retorted, pulling out a disc-shaped lightsaber. Karabast, that was an inquisitor lightsaber, and he looked like he was one of them. He activated it, two red blades showing themselves. "Everybody go now! This is our fight!" Kanan ordered the others, drawing his saber.
"What about you, Ka-" "That was an order, Zeb!" "Everybody move now!" Zeb ordered everybody else.
Then Trenick came down, and Kanan and I were now clashing blades with him. This is where it all ends.
Five minutes into the battle, Trenick was doing better than us. Even with me using force moves on him, he still always got up. This by far was the toughest opponent that Kanan and I faced, and just when I thought that the other inquisitors were tougher opponents. Kanan and I could have really used some backup right now.
While both of us were locked in a blade lock with Trenick, I heard the door behind me open. I sensed Alex, Thatch, and some of our Earth allies come in through the door. Karabast, they were gonna be putting themselves in danger! Thatch and his men most importantly because they had no idea what they were up against. Unlike them, Alex knew what we were dealing with, but he was gonna be risking himself to fight Trenick with his wound.
"Everybody concentrate your fire on the one who uses the red blades!" I heard Thatch tell his squad, he and his men opening fire on Trenick. While Trenick got occupied with them firing, Alex pulled out his sword and surprised him. He and Trenick were in a blade lock, and Kanan and I assisted him.
"You will all die!" Trenick told us in the blade lock. "Hey you!" one of the SAS soldiers yelled to Trenick, which caused him to turn around, and then he looked down. An explosive was thrown down at him, in which the three of us moved away, and then Trenick was caught in the explosion. "Is he dead?" Alex inquired, all of us looking at the smoke, our weapons raised.
"Guess again." We heard Trenick say, in which he threw his lightsaber at us. The three of us managed to dodge it, but then we saw it going for the others. "Get down!" I yelled out to Thatch and his men. However, when we all heard the blades crackle at the squad, it was too late. Thatch and his men were gone. "Karabast!" I yelled out.
"First, Ian, then the squad of SAS soldiers, and now, you three! It's a pity all of you die so easily!" Trenick retorted, his spinning function activating. He charged towards with it, but then Kanan and I used the force on him, and sent Trenick flying back into a wall.
"Enough is enough! I will destroy you all!" Trenick screamed out. "You're gonna pay for what you did to Jacob!" I yelled back at him, force jumping over to him, and locking blades with him while he was down on the ground.