On the way back to Sean's home it became quite obvious that Ezra was an almost natural born pilot. He had done much better than he had on his first time flying, but then again it had been his forst time flying and even for a first timer he had done pretty good.
Once they arrived at Sean's home, Sean carried the tired boy inside and put him to bed in his temporary room. Then he went back to the living area where he had business to attend to.
Turning on a communicator he prepared himself for talking to his friend.
"Ah, Sean, nice to see that your arrival on Lothal hasn't left you too busy." Fulcrum said through his coded voice.
"Well, I try to make time. Fortunately I've been allowed a few days to settle in. Unfortunately I have to go back tomorrow." Sean sighed.
Meanwhile Ezra wasn't asleep. When Sean left so quietly...without even saying good night, he figured something was up. So he was currently hiding behind a cabinet watching Sean talk to Fulcrum, who was in a hood and cloak that concealed most of him so that no one would recognize him, and his voice was coded...or so it sounded.
"Listen, I have a mission for you to do. Do you think you can handle doing it tonight?" Fulcrum asked Sean.
"Yes, of course, it was an easy day." Sean said, "But I have something I need you to do too. I need to know the location of the rebels. I have one of their crew with me and he's having some difficulties finding them."
"Well, this should work out perfectly then! You will collect the food that is to go to Tarkin Town tonight and take it the old asteroid base, then the rebels will come and exchange crates of blasters for the food. While they are there you can unite their team member with them. Also, once you get the blasters I need you to take them to intellect B." Fulcrum explained.
"Understood, Fulcrum, I'll let the kid sleep while I get the crates and then come back to take him with me." Sean agreed.
"That kid, his parents were great people. It's a shame that we don't know if their still alive or not." Fulcrum sighed.
"Yeah, It's a shame, especially for the kid, but there's only so much we can do. Anyway, I better go now. Over and out Fulcrum." Sean said before turning off the communicator.
Then as Sean was preparing to go out Ezra came out of hiding.
"Where are you going Sean?" Ezra asked energeticly.
"On a mission for Fulcrum, then after the mission I'll come pick you up and take you to where you can be back with the other rebels." Sean explained.
"Okay, cool. Can I come?" Ezra continued.
"I don't see why not. I mean, as long as you follow orders and don't do anything that would screw the mission." Sean shrugged.
"Sweet!" Ezra exclaimed as he hurried to get his uniform on so that he wouldn't be recognized.
Instead of driving a TIE this time Sean had Ezra drive a small ship. It wasn't in the best shape or condition but she could still fly smoothly. The interior was the worst, filled with cobwebs and dust. The exterior was a little dented here and there, and had a few charred spots but looked much better than the inside.
They finally arrived and landed in a field just outside a city called Aire where another guy in a helmet was waiting with the crates.
"Bout time Bridger. I've been waiting for about thirty minutes. It's not like you to run late." the man said.
"Sorry, Black, I just was letting my temporary apprentice drive. He's actually one of the rebels, but he got separated from his friends. I'll be taking him back to them tonight." Sean explained.
"Okay, well, here's ten crates of some of Lothal's finest fruit. Just like Fulcrum asked for, for the people of Tarkin Town to get a real treat." the man Ezra assumed was Black said.
"See you round then, Black. I'll take care of the crates." Sean said.
"Yeah, okay, see you around then." Black replied as he jumped on what Ezra assumed was a stolen speeder and sped off.
"Okay kid, now help me load the crates." Sean smirked.
"I thought you said you'd take care of them." Ezra whined.
"Yeah, I did. But only said that so he'd leave sooner, now get pushing baby." Sean laughed.
"You're very cruel you know." Ezra pouted.
"Of course I know. I don't even try to restrain myself." Sean grinned.
Meanwhile, the Ghost crew was getting the blasters that were needed to get credits. Hera was in the Phantom ready to get them out of there as soon as possible if need be, Zeb was holding their escape route, and Sabine and Kanan were getting the crates.
Hera expected there to be complications, just like every other mission, but what she didn't expect was to see Zeb coming towards the Phantom with two crates.
"Zeb, where are Kanan and Sabine? Why aren't you holding their escape route?" Hera asked.
"Aye, would you just relax!" Zeb grunted, "There's more crates than they expected. I'll be right back with them and the rest of the crates."
Hera blinked as Zeb walked off...So their complications so far was just not expecting that many crates? This had to be a trap or something, so then why did she not feel on edge?
About five minutes later Kanan, Zeb, and Sabine all approached the Phantom each pushing two crates.
"Eight crates?! Normally it's only six." Hera said as she took off. It was obvious that all of them shocked as Hera at how smooth the mission had gone.
"And hardly a trooper in sight. It was weird." Sabine added.
"Yeah, it was like they didn't even care about what happened to the blasters." Kanan joined in.
"Should we have Chopper scan them when we get back to the Ghost?" Hera asked.
"Probably, just to be safe." Kanan replied.
Back on the Ghost Chopper scanned the crates but found nothing out of place or unusual about them.
"So your saying that for once the operation went as planned?" Sabine asked raising a brow.
"No, I'm saying for once the Empire had there focus on something else or didn't know that the blasters were there. They wouldn't just leave eight crates of perfectly good blasters there with few guards." Kanan replied.
"Well, it seems as if that's what happened. There's nothing unusual about the crates so we'll just go with it." Hera said as she made the jump to hyperspace, "Next stop is everyone's favorite asteroid base."
"Ugh, you mean the one with the shadow creatures?" Sabine groaned.
"Unfortunately." Hera answered with a small smile of amusement at Sabine's unhappiness.
So,...question for you guys...
Who do you think Fulcrum is?
Now I've only seen Star Wars Rebels the show so I have no other Star Wars knowledge and therefore can't really make an accurate guess.