Hera landed the Ghost on the asteroid base and they moved the crates out of the Phantom. Luckily the shadow creatures didn't seem interested in them this time since Kanan was with them and they had somewhat connected to Kanan.
"Ugh, where is he?" Sabine asked as she paced nervously.
"Sabine, what did I tell you about not pestering him?" Hera warned.
"Uh, not to." Sabine smirked as she paused in her pacing to answer Hera.
"Well, I certainly wouldn't mind him hurrying up. It'd mean we could get back to searching for Ezra sooner." Kanan groaned.
"You two are about as inpatient as Zeb is with Ezra." Hera said shaking her head with her hands on her hips.
As Kanan declined against one of the crates one of the shadow creatures approached him and started rubbing against him. Kanan sighed and tried pushing it away but it only continued to purr while nudging him.
"Ha, looks like someone's got an admirer!" Zeb laughed.
"Ugh! Zeb! Just shut it!" Kanan grunted as he continued to try to get the shadow creature off of him, but failed.
"Alright, Ezra, this will be slightly different than landing a TIE fighter. You have to go much slower and be a lot gentler." Sean said as they approached the asteroid base.
As they passed where the rebels were they saw a shadow creature near Kanan dart off and Ezra smirked as he turned the ship around and landed near the rebels.
"I can't wait to see them again!" Ezra exclaimed as he rushed past Sean and opened the door.
Kanan was still trying to get the shadow creature off of him when a ship flew by scaring the creature off, the ship then circled around and landed near the rebels. They prepared themselves, not for Fulcrum's intellect but for Emperials as this was an Emperial ship.
The door opened and out stepped a trooper in a TIE fighter uniform. Zeb instantly punched him and the trooper fell down, but started to get up again so Sabine shot him twice. He fell back down and rolled over on his back and tried to get up again only to be met with two more shots by Sabine. Once more he fell back down as another trooper exited.
"Woah! Hold your fire!" the second trooper said as he quickly removed his helmet indicating he wasn't there to fight.
Kanan motioned to Zeb and Sabine to hold back.
The second trooper then helped the first one up. "You okay, kid?" he asked and the trooper nodded, "Okay, why don't you start moving the crates and I'll talk to them to straighten things up."
The first trooper nodded again then went back inside the ship as the second trooper approached the rebels.
"Hi, my name's Sean, and your the rebels?" the second trooper asked as he extended his hand for Kanan to shake.
Kanan took it while looking at Sean suspiciously, "Yes, we're the rebels."
"Great! Great, great, great. Fulcrum said that I'd meet you here." Sean said letting out a sigh of relief.
Behind him the rebels noticed that the first trooper reappeared with two crates.
"Wait! You're Fulcrum's intellect aren't you!?" Sabine gasped with realization.
"Sabine." Hera warned through clenched teeth.
"And you must be Sabine." Sean said moving to be in front of Sabine, "A pleasure to meet you, and yes, I am Fulcrum's intellect. Sorry that I had to come in uniform, but if I went back home to change it would have taken me longer. Not to mention my temporary apprentice really wants to meet you."
"Hey, Sean, that's all of them." the first trooper spoke up.
"Okay, now move their crates onto my ship." Sean said earning a frustrated sigh by the first trooper who began to move the other crates.
"He wants to meet us?" Kanan asked, "Wait how did you know Sabine's name?"
"Well, Kanan, that's an interesting story." Sean said clamping his hands together as he began to pace back and forth.
"You see it all started about a week ago when I sent the information on the blasters you got from Wyst. I'd found a kid bleeding to death and almost frozen solid near Lake City and I took him to an Emperial hospital to a good friend that I had inside of there." Sean began.
"Emperial hospital! We went there and they told us that Ezra had just left with...you? You're the guy that took Ezra! Where is he?!" Sabine demanded.
"I'm getting to that." Sean continued, "So after the kid woke I spent the day trying to help him find his friends, but we couldn't find them so we figured that they might have returned to Lothal. I gave the kid some credits and hired him a ride to get there. Then the next day I got transferred to Lothal and found him still looking for his friends. So I took him in and he went undercover as my apprentice, and I taught him how to fly. The kids like a natural born flier, I'm surprised he's never flown before."
"Okay, Sean, done with those crates too." The first trooper interrupted as he approached them.
"And that leads us to here and now." Sean finished as Ezra removed his helmet.
"And, guys, really? That really hurt. Now I almost feel bad for the troopers that get shot! Almost..." Ezra said angrily then smirked.
"Ezra!" Hera and Kanan surprisingly exclaimed at the same time, and even though Kanan was closer Hera actually beat him to Ezra and consumed him in a motherly hug, followed by Kanan who did the same.
So little bit of a cliffhanger but oh well, I don't care. Hope you guys enjoy, and I'm going to try and get a Valentine's Day special up for you guys! ;)
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