Chapter 14: Final Battle

Kanan's P.O.V

The Second Brother and Ezra and I screamed as we charge at each other, locked in a blade lock. "You are done for, Jarrus, you must see it." the inquisitor said. "All of you are going to die." The lock was broken by me and I swung at him a couple of times, Ezra helping me out. I swung at his head and he blocked my attack, parrying me. Ezra parried him when he blocked an attack aimed at his head. "You all fight valiantly. I almost feel sorry as it 'pains' me to do this." He force pushed me and Ezra back and then pulled Ezra to him with the force, grabbing my padawan by the throat.

"Ezra!" I yelled, charging at the inquisitor. He looked at me and then threw Ezra behind him with the force, the boy sliding on the wet surface towards the end of the platform. I rushed over to try and help him but I got force pulled by the inquisitor, reacting quickly to block his attack, me and him engaged in a blade lock.

"I feel sorry for you, Jarrus. Your padawan unfortunately is going to be no more, and I am going to be one step closer to cleaning up this mess."

"That's where you're wrong." I retorted. I saw an open spot and attacked his left shoulder, slashing it. The inquisitor got enraged and charged at me, swinging heavily. He locked blades with me again as I sensed that Ezra's danger was only getting worse.

Ezra's P.O.V

I was dangling above the sea, gripping the platform tightly. I yelled the names of my friends to help me out, my fingers losing their grip. I peaked my head over the platform and saw Kanan and the inquisitor going at it hard, and then he hit my master in the shoulder. He screamed as he fell to the floor, a red blade of the inquisitor's lightsaber pointed at him. He looked at me and then force pushed me. I felt the force push and that was when I lost my grip. I yelled as I fell down, my life flashing before my eyes. I hit the water and was under.

Am I dead? I opened my eyes under water and saw that I was alive clearly. Though I grew up on the streets, I still knew a thing or two about swimming. I spread my arms apart as I swam back up to the surface, breathing heavily as I tried to stay above. "Guys!" I yelled from below. "Guys! Help me!" I yelled, moving my arms rapidly as I was being taken down under by the strong current. "Please!" I begged. Suddenly, just when all hope seemed lost, a rope appeared in front of me.

"Ezra, grab the rope!" I heard a familiar voice call down. I didn't know whose it was thanks to the loud thunderstorms and me trying to stay above, but it sounded like Alex's. Besides, who else doesn't have useful mods in his wrist blasters? A figure appeared above me, and I could tell that it was Alex. "Ezra, grab on! We'll pull you up!" I tried grabbing it, my hands slippery as they slid off every time. I tried again and again to grab his rope and I finally got it, gripping it tight with both hands.

"Alex, pull me up!" I yelled as loud as I could. The rope began moving up, slowly. As I was being pulled up, I heard grunts coming from him, Zeb and Sabine.

"Guys, grab on tight! Make sure we get him up!" I heard Alex say. Just as he said that I was being pulled up much faster, probably from Sabine and Zeb tugging on him. "Come on, come on! He's almost there!" By the time I'm close enough to the platform, I released Alex's rope and force jumped onto the platform, igniting my lightsaber once I landed. When I landed, the Second Brother glared angrily at me.

"No! Impossible!" he yelled, stomping his foot angrily. "You died!"

"I just came back to finish this." I retorted, looking over at Kanan, who was covering his shoulder from earlier. He got up and ignited his lightsaber. "It's just you and us now, Second Brother."

I pulled him to me with the force and Kanan and I hit him simultaneously, the three of us going blow for blow. He activated his spinning function as he parried us and came back at us, going hard, grunting every time our blades clashed. We got into another blade lock, and this time the inquisitor screamed in anger as he got his body into us. Kanan and I were grunting as we tried to hold our own against this guy. At that moment, Zeb surprised him by tackling him to the ground, and now both of them were engaged in a heated hand to hand match. However, the inquisitor used the force to get Zeb off of him, and he lunged at me and Kanan. At that moment, we both sensed an opening.

"Now!" Kanan ordered. We both moved out of the way and the inquisitor landed on the ground, sliding against the wet surface towards the end of the platform. Sabine and Alex came out of nowhere and started kicking the living heck out of him as he lay there.

"This is going to hurt! A lot!" Alex grunted as we saw him kick the Second Brother in the stomach while Sabine kicked him in the face. The Lothalian and the Mando were kicking him repeatedly.

"You get away from me!" the inquisitor yelled, pushing them away with the force. I saw Sabine get thrown with the force towards the end of the platform. I caught her with the force and Kanan caught Alex. They got up and Alex used his ropes, wrapping them around the inquisitor's legs as he fell to the ground.

"Get him while he's down!" I ordered. We surrounded the inquisitor and we were kicking him, until he pushed all of us back. We groaned as we all got up, and Kanan and I drew our sabers again.

"You all are strong warriors, I will give you that." the Second Brother said, his spinning function activating. "But I've had enough, and this is where it all ends." At that moment, I had an idea.

"Kanan, I have a plan. Just follow my lead."

I took a deep breath and pulled out my pistol, unloading rounds on the inquisitor. The Second Brother was stunned and brought his blade up quickly, deflecting my shots. I kept on unloading on him while Kanan went in and started dueling with him. My plan seemed to be working.

"Guys, open fire!" I ordered everybody else. Noticing what I was doing, everybody else unloaded rounds on him. With blaster bolts coming from everywhere, we could tell that the inquisitor was not doing too well. "Keep him occupied! I'm going in!" I moved in and engaged him with Kanan. As the three of us were going at it, Alex, Sabine and Zeb continued blasting him, with me doing the same thing every now and then. I opened fire on him again, and when he deflected the blasts, I saw an opening. Kanan saw it too.

We both swung at the inquisitor's lightsaber and it got slashed in half. The Second Brother gasped as he saw his weapon shattered and on the ground, his face yelling fear. We all pointed our weapons at him as he backed away, slowly. He stopped when he was at the platform ledge.

"You all have no idea of the madness that has been unleashed today." he said softly. "Because in every death, there are deaths that are less painful than some."

Before we knew it, he leaned back and fell. We gasped in shock as we ran up to the ledge, watching as his body fell to the sea below. And when the splash was heard, the Second Brother was no more. We all stood there for a moment, until Kanan pulled out his comm.

"Hera, we're done here." he said. There was silence. "Copy that." He put his commlink away and turned to us. "The Ghost is on the way." A few minutes later just as the Ghost was arriving, stormtroopers were coming from behind us.

"Blast them!"

They opened fire on us. Kanan and I deflected their blasts while the others dealt with them. As we were fighting them off, the Ghost opened up its ramp in mid air. My mind told me that we were gonna have to jump for it. "Extraction is here!" Sabine yelled over the blaster fire.

"Let's get off this rainy planet." Zeb said. He then took off running and jumped onto the ramp, pulling himself up. Alex was the next one to go, followed by Kanan. Sabine jumped for it, almost slipping at one point if it wasn't for Alex grabbing her and pulling her up. Then it was my turn. I sprinted and force jumped, landing in the cargo bay. I shut the door once I boarded.

"Let's go home." Hera said over the ship's intercom. We flew out of Kamino and jumped into hyperspace, heading back to Atollon.

Later

After we escaped Kamino and showered (because we were pretty much cold thanks to the darn rain on that planet), we arrived back on Atollon, giving a mission report to Sato.

"The mysterious warrior was actually an inquisitor in disguise." Kanan informed him. "He was deceiving us to try and prove himself. But, let's just say that didn't happen."

"I see." the commander replied. "From this mission it goes to show that we all need to be more aware of deception from our enemies than before. The Empire seems to be anticipating us a lot more these days. And this inquisitor that you encountered proved that. But now that this inquisitor has been eliminate for good, it is safe to say that we won't be worrying about any mysterious warriors working for the Empire for a while. Ghost crew, you are dismissed."

We nodded and we were all bummed out as we headed to bed, looking forward to a good night sleep after today's mission. But let's face it, we're always like that anyway.