"Ezra?" Sean repeated stunned, "Ezra Bridger?!" he continued almost in a whisper... "OhmygoshohmygoshohmygoshIthoughtyouweregoneIthoughtyoudiedandyethereyouarealiveandbreathingand...I can't believe it, I just..." Sean said a lot calmer now. Then yearned over the counter propping himself up with his arms, sighed and closed his eyes. "Ezra, your father was my brother. My full name is Sean Bridger." Sean said quietly.
"My father?...So...Sean...your my...uncle?" Ezra replied shocked.
"Yeah," Sean replied looking up at Ezra sadly, "Look don't be offended by me being with the Empire...I only work for them so I can get intel to a friend of mine who sends it out to rebels. Perhaps you've heard of him...does Fulcrum ring a bell?"
"Yes! It does! Hera, I mean specter 2, knows him." Ezra answered excitedly. "Wait! You know Fulcrum? You're the one that Fulcrum uses to tell us what we can, well, steal?"
"Haha, yes, that would be me. The eye on the inside." Sean chuckled.
Ezra yawned. "That's cool, Sabine would love to meet you...she wants to make sure she's following the right people now. Which she isn't real sure she can trust Fulcrum, or Fulcrum's people. So I'm sure she'd love to meet you. Then she'd see that she can trust you."
"I think you need to get some rest." Sean said.
"But I'm...not tired yet." Ezra yawned again.
"Yup, your going to bed." Sean said as he walked over to Ezra. Then he picked him up and carried him into the spare room and laid him on the bed. Next he grabbed a white wolf fur blanket and covered Ezra up. "Goodnight, Ezra. Don't...uh, sleep well." Sean said quietly as he turned the lights off and left the room.
Ezra knew exactly what he had been going to say. It was the same thing his father used to tell him when he was just a kid. He was going to say, Don't let the bed bugs bite, just like his father...
Sean sat at his table drinking a warm cup of tea. Outside a snowstorm had blown up. Which was good for him because it's cover the hole in the ice and the blood near the lake making it impossible for anyone to know that one of the rebels was hurt and with him. One of the rebels...no, not just one of the rebels, his nephew, his brother's son! He wondered how Ezra was taking it. If Ezra wondered why he didn't warn his parents before the Empire came for them. Of course he'd planned on warning them! But one thing after the other kept getting in his way and he got there thinking that he had plenty of time, but the Empire had come a week early and had beat him to them...
"Okay, so the engine has been repaired, the hole in the cargo room sealed, and the serious dents taken care of." Zeb said as he and Chopper finished the last of the repairs. "What about Ezra? Have you found him?"
"No," Hera sighed, looking at her feet.
"We think it's possible that he fell out when we were near Lake City. So now that the Ghost is fixed we'll go back and see if we can find him there." Kanan added.
Zeb slightly grunted and nodded his head. Then grabbing the rest of the tools he went inside and was followed by Chopper, Hera, and Kanan.
When they got to Lake City they divided up into three groups. Sabine and Hera asking about Ezra at the hospitals, Kanan looking around the lake and the outside of the city, and Zeb looking inside the city in the alleys.
Kanan reported that he found no trace of Ezra after about an hour had passed. Within about two hours Zeb reported not finding Ezra in any empty buildings or alleys. An hour later Sabine and Hera were approaching the last hospital, but they didn't have very high hopes of finding him there since it was a hospital strictly reserved for Emperials.
"Can I help you?" the lady at the front desk asked.
"Yes, we're looking for a fifteen year old boy with black hair and blue eyes." Sabine said.
"Oh, I know him!" a passing doctor exclaimed. "Sean, captain of the TIE fighter's elite squad, brought him in. Poor kid was nearly frozen solid and bleeding heavily, but I warmed him up and bandaged his leg. I think Sean's taking him to Lothal next, but I've been wrong before." the doctor continued.
Sabine and Hera exchanged glances. "Thank you." Hera said.
The doctor nodded her head and then continued past them and down the hall.
As soon as Hera and Sabine were out of the hospital they radioed Kanan and Zeb, who had gone back to the Ghost.
"We think Ezra might be back on Lothal." Sabine said.
"And he's with a stromtrooper so he may have been caught, but the doctor didn't sound like she knew that Ezra was wanted." Hera added.
"Okay, get back to the Ghost and we'll go back to Lothal to look for Ezra." Kanan replied over the communicator. "We have to find him before the Inquisitor does or Agent Kallus, but mainly the Inquisitor. I think Ezra could handle Kallus by himself even if he is hurt."
So, fans of Star Wars Rebels, I need help! I need ideas. This story is only part 1 of a series and I need ideas for the stories that will follow it. I already have the idea for the last one, sort of, and I'd tell you but then it'd ruin the series so... Ideas please! No such thing as a bad idea!