Chapter 7: An Unlikely Ally
Ezra's P.O.V
"Guys, this is odd." I told the team, leading them through the cloning facility.
"What is?" Alex asked, him aiming his rifle in different directions as we moved.
"The fact that we haven't encountered any other imperials since the guys we killed at the entrance earlier." I replied.
"Good point. This is odd." Sabine said. We kept moving through the cloning facility further, until we stopped when we saw an imperial probe droid up ahead. "Hide!" Sabine ordered. We went into an arms locker, locking the door. As we hid, Kanan and I listened through the door, waiting until the probe passed us. Then, we started hearing voices through it.
"Have you found the rouge clone?" asked a voice that sounded like a stormtrooper's.
"Negative, captain." said another voice, who turned out to be my clone, me shivering from the thought of him. "Continue searching through this..." Suddenly, we heard the sounds of lightsabers activating, and Kanan and I felt another force presence here. I had a feeling that this was another clone of one of us, or the real mysterious warrior if he is here at all, which I'm pretty sure he is. "You! Take him down!" my clone ordered the stormtrooper. We heard blasts being fired, but when the stormtrooper let out a scream of pain, this new force sensitive killed him. "You can't escape this place. We will kill you, one way or another." A grunt was heard through the door, then we heard the sound of force lightening!
"Force lightening?" Kanan questioned. My clone let out a cry of pain, which meant that this new force sensitive was against him. Kanan and I looked through the door using our force powers, and we saw my dark clone and the new force sensitive clash blades.
From what we saw about this new force sensitive, he was a human male with a relatively slender build, and dark brown hair that was buzz cut with dark brown eyes. He was wearing some type of blue top with a black undershirt, with his pants being the same color as his top and he had black boots on. He also was wielding two red lightsabers, and he was strong in the force.
He and my clone were going hard at it, both of them going blow for blow.
Third person P.O.V
After blocking another attack by the Ezra clone, the force sensitive human clashing with him force pushed the clone into a wall and unleashed several torrents of force lightening. The clone of Ezra grunted in pain, then used his command of the dark side to lunge at the human, both of them engaged in a blade lock. Both of them were grunting as they tried to push one another away with their blades. The human then found an opening and slashed the Ezra clone in the leg, the clone grunting in pain.
The clone of Ezra member retreated for now, stormtroopers coming into the room the force sensitive was in. "Blast him!" one of them ordered, all of them unloading on the force sensitive. He brought up his blades and swiftly deflected their blasts, then threw both of them at the troopers, decapitating at least five of them. The sabers came back to the human, in which he caught them, then unleashed force lightening on the remaining troopers, disintegrating them. The human shut off his lightsabers, brushing off his shoulders. Then, he felt another presence nearby, two presences, both of them powerful.
He went to go and investigate, sensing them through the door that led to an arms locker. Suddenly, he felt a presence behind him, and the human quickly brought up his blades in an x block as he blocked his attacker's attack. He saw well through the bright, locked crimson blades that his attacker was the Ezra clone. Using his command of the force, the human broke free of the blade lock and started swinging at the clone. This time though, the human proved to be much faster at attacking, but that didn't stop the dark side clone. He found an opening and force pushed him into a wall, the human suffering a blow. The Ezra clone approached him, his blade up. He was about to deliver the killing blow until the door to the arms locker hissed open.
Two male human jedi lunged at the clone, a blue lightsaber blade and a green one meeting with a red one. One of them was older and blind with a full beard, tan skin, and brown hair wrapped in a pony tail, while the other was a teen boy who appeared to be in his mid teens with blue eyes, tan skin, and raven colored hair. "Why are they helping me?" the human asked himself.
"A little help please!" the blind human yelled over to him as he and his teen padawan were in a blade lock with the clone of Ezra. As the human was getting up, he couldn't help but notice some similarities between the the padawan and the clone they were fighting. "Are they the same person?" the human asked himself. The human equipped his lightsabers, activated them, then assisted the two jedi against the clone.
The human force pushed the clone of Ezra into a wall, then unleashed several torrents of force lightening on him. The clone grunted and screamed out in pain, attempting to make a comeback. He leaped towards all three of them, until the human swung his red blades and took the clone out in mid air. The clone fell to the floor, lifeless. As the human looked down at him, he deactivated his lightsabers, then faced the two jedi.
"I didn't need your help you know." he said.
"You looked like you did." the blind jedi said.
"And we figured we'd help you. Besides, you looked like you were on our side." the raven haired padawan added.
"Look, I'm on nobody's side, okay?" the human told the two. "Unless you two have something to say."
"Well, you did kill a clone of me." the padawan replied sheepishly.
"So I was right after all." the human said. "You and him are the same person."
"Uh, yeah?" the padawan responded.
"Look, we're involved in a mission here." his master said.
"What's your mission?" the human asked.
"We came to Kamino because a mysterious warrior is after my padawan." the blind human explained. "He saw visions of it, so we came here."
"Who showed you the visions?" the human inquired.
"Dark robed figure, strong in the force, and he had two red lightsabers." the padawan answered.
"What planet were you on?" the human asked, seeing where the padawan may have been going.
"Tatooine. And what's it to you?" the padawan asked, pointing his green lightsaber at the human.
"Ezra, wait! He might just help us out." Ezra's master said. Ezra deactivated his blade.
"Well, I think you may have had an encounter with Von." the human said.
"Who?" Ezra asked.
"The one who was behind this whole cloning experiment here. He is after some padawan who is strong in the force, and he created clones of people, some of them being clones of those involved in the rebellion, to do his bidding. Von cloned me also." the human explained. "He cloned me to go on the hunt for this padawan, but I broke my chains after seeing what he'll do to me. I saw him kill other clones of me, and I escaped just now. The Empire is coming for me, and I have to get off Kamino. I may have the dark side of the force in me, but I'm using it against the people who kept me here. If you are after Von, you'd better let me help."
"How do we know we could trust you?" asked another voice, who turned out to be a male lasat. Two more people revealed themselves alongside him. One of them was a female Mandalorian in colorful armor, the other was a human male who wore a black cap, a green combat jacket with black elbow pads, a black t shirt with a blaster proof vest over it, a black bandanna around his neck, and dark blue jeans with black boots. He also wore some type of weapons on his wrist, and he carried a pistol in his holster, as well as a blaster rifle on his back. Judging from the male's age, the clone human assumed that he was in his teens, around the same age as Ezra.
"Because I know how Von operates, and the tactics he uses to achieve his goals." the human answered. The five of them thought about it for a moment.
"What's your name?" the blind jedi asked.
"Starkiller."