Author's note: So yup, Starkiller's rolling with the crew now as seen in the last chapter. Enjoy seeing more of him in this story.

Chapter 8: Starkiller's Companion

Ezra's P.O.V

"Why do they call you Starkiller?" I asked Starkiller as we moved out of the place where he killed my clone.

"That is just the name that was given to me ever since I was cloned, and it went for my other clones as well." he answered.

"Who was your template anyway?" Kanan asked.

"Galen Marek." Starkiller answered. "Originally, he was the son of two jedi knights who lived on Kashyyyk. However, the Empire came eventually. When Darth Vader and the Empire invaded the world, his father tried to fight off Vader, but Vader prevailed and then he found Galen. Then, he took him from his family to train him as his secret apprentice."

"Hold up. Let me get this straight. You, or your template I should say, was the apprentice of Vader?" Zeb asked.

"Yeah. But, it didn't last. He eventually turned on Vader, and during their fight, Galen prevailed and then he went for the emperor. Sadly, he died at the hands of the emperor."

"But why have you cloned if you were out of the picture?" Sabine asked.

"Vader needed to 'keep things handy' in case of anything."

"But if Vader needed to keep things handy, where does Von come in from here?" Alex asked.

"Long story. Von is a person who is shrouded in mystery. I don't know much about him, even the Empire doesn't even know that much. And Vader in particular doesn't even know anything about him and he trusts Von so much." Starkiller explained.

"Something tells me that Von could be an inquisitor, or perhaps something more." Kanan said. "What does Vader trust Von with anyway?"

"Lots of things." Starkiller answered. "He trusts him with the identification of jedi who are alive, force sensitive children and untrained ones, and he trusts him to identify the leaders of the rebellion even."

"Sounds like an inquisitor." Zeb replied.

"He's nothing like one though. He is twice as powerful in the force than the average imperial inquisitor, and he gets classified assignments that are even way more classified than anything. He was the one who was given the go ahead by Vader with the mission to use clones of you, Ezra, and you too, Sabine, to capture Ezra. And when Von reported to Vader that he knew where you were, Kanan, he was tasked to hunt you down as well."

"And you know this how?" Sabine asked.

"Because I know how Von operates. In fact, before I escaped, he gave me a mission to find Ezra and bring him to Kamino for Von, but I refused to obey and decided to escape off world."

"So you're helping us because you broke your chains and wanted to rebel against your master?" Kanan asked.

"Exactly! Hang on, I'm sensing something in front of us." We approached the door in front of us, slowly. "I'll get this thing open with the force. And be careful when we go in, my 'companion' is there."

"Your companion?" I asked.

Starkiller didn't reply and he force pushed the large door open, the door flying out into multiple enemies. We were all shocked. We have never encountered anybody this powerful in the force. Sure we encountered Vader, but Starkiller was way different when it came to his force abilities. Troopers started firing at him, until he unleashed force lightening on all of them, killing them.

"Wow! I'm surprised you aren't even pale like a regular dark side warrior, Starkiller." Kanan said.

"Because I learned how to use dark side abilities without letting them corrupt me...from Von." Starkiller replied.

"This is getting even more and more intriguing. We have to find Von and take him out before he comes for all of us." I said.

"And we have to, Ezra." the clone replied.

"Who is that!?" Sabine gasped, aiming her pistols down the hall at a dark figure. If this was Von, this all ends. I took a look at the figure, and noticed that there was something odd about him. I haven't sensed a presence like this since...above Mustafar. The figure moved out of the shadows, and I gasped when I saw that the figure was the Grand Inquisitor!

"Him!?" I exclaimed, drawing my lightsaber with Kanan, the others taking aim.

"I thought you were dead." Kanan said.

The Grand Inquisitor said nothing and continued walking towards us with a serious, straight face. However, as he got closer, surprisingly, he didn't draw his lightsaber or use the force on us. Suddenly, the Grand Inquisitor was no more. A droid-like noise was emitted from what sounded like the inquisitor himself, and then out of nowhere he turned into what looked like a protocol droid with an arm missing.

"Master?" the droid said.

"Proxy?" Starkiller responded.

"I thought you were dead!" both of them said at the same time.

"I'm sorry, but how did he just go from...him to...him?" Sabine asked, confused.

"Because I'm a holo protocol droid." the droid, who's name I thought was Proxy, answered. "I can take on the forms of different people of the past and present. I was Galen Marek's protocol droid back when Vader trained him. I helped train him through combat exercises."

"But, this is not Galen. This is a clone of him. In fact, how do you still recognize him, Starkiller?" a confused Alex asked.

"As time went on after I was cloned, the memories of Galen Marek started coming back to me, and that's one of the others reasons as to why I escaped. Because I saw those memories of his friends, and, and...her." Starkiller said, saddened.

"Who, master?" Proxy asked.

"Her. Is she alive?" Starkiller asked.

"I'm sorry, master, I don't know." Alarms started blaring. "We must go now. I must take on the form of an imperial. I will guide you guys to your escape."

"Hold up. We're not going anywhere without Von gone!" I said.

"He's right." Kanan replied, the rest of us nodding.

"Fine. Now go, I'll buy you some time." Proxy assumed the form of a stormtrooper and he left us. When he disappeared, the rest of us moved on.

"Who were you referring to?" I asked Starkiller as we ran through the facility.

"Another time." When we got into the next room, there were dozens of imperials waiting for us.

"Blast them!" one of them ordered. They opened fire and we fought back. Kanan, Starkiller and I charged at the imperials as we deflected their shots back into them with our lightsabers. Starkiller sent some stormtroopers flying with the force and he threw them to me and Kanan, where we slashed them with our sabers.

"Heads up!" I said, sending a stormtrooper flying towards Starkiller. He jumped up and performed two slashes with his sabers, killing them. While in the air, he unleashed torrents of force lightening on the troopers. He killed some of them, and Kanan and I took out the rest while they were being electrocuted. Then, there was only one more trooper remaining, his expression fearful as he backed away very, very slowly.

"Stay back!" the trooper yelled under his helmet.

"He's mine." Starkiller said, walking up to him, his sabers in his hands. "Tell me where Von is."

"Who?"

Starkiller picked up the trooper and started choking him. "Where is he?"

"I don't know who you're talking about!"

Starkiller sent him into a wall. "Where is Von!? Tell me right now before you join your friends!"

"I'm not intimated by you, clone!"

This angered Starkiller, bringing both of his blades in an x shape around the troopers neck. "WHERE IS VON!?"

"I don't know! Please!"

"Last chance. Where is Von!? Tell me right now!"

"I don't know where he is! Please let me go!"

"No." Starkiller slid his blades, and we saw the trooper's body fall down, lifeless. "Come on, let's keep moving."

And we moved on from here.