A/N, I'm back and have my computer again, yay. First, I would like to thank Shadow Elise Bridger for allowing me to use her OC, it's given me some new ideas. Secondly, It's coming to my birthday so I'll be busy, I'll try to update but we'll see what happens. Enjoy.
Chapter 11: Remember Me
Riley was the first up, he wasn't happy with the plan of leaving his new family but he knew he needed to get them off the planet. He woke Anne not long after so they could talk, they were sat on the sofa.
"I don't want you to go" Anne cried into Riley's chest. "You promised you wouldn't leave"
"And you promised if it got too bad then you'd run" Riley hugged her tightly, stroking her hair. "I won't be gone long"
"But what's if they complete their experiment on you?" Anne just cried harder. "You probably try to kill us"
"That's one reason why I'm leaving, I don't want to hurt you again" Riley saw Snow standing in the door way, he motioned for her to sit. "Take care of everyone for me"
"I promise" Anne pulled Snow into the hug. "Besides, Snow will help find you"
"It's not like that Anne" Snow hugged the two tightly. "We all had codenames, if Riley can remember his then that would help"
"But, you need to know who's your handler" Riley finished. "Mine wasn't Kallus, he was just head of security"
"So what was your codename's?" as soon as Anne asked, the two pulled away.
"Mine was Snow" she admitted. "I've always had this name, it seemed unnatural to be called something else"
"Mine was Reek" Riley ran his hand across Anne's cheek. "You'll need to remember that"
"Sure" Anne gave Riley one last hug. "Where are they most likely to keep you?"
"I can't say, they move you about often" Riley hugged Anne back. "Your best bet is to search he the G.E.R.E.O databases"
"G.E.R.E.O?" Anne asked confused.
"Galactic Empire Research and Experimental Organization" Snow explained.
"OK" Anne kissed Riley then left to wake everyone.
"You think you can handle the torture?" Snow asked moving closer to Riley.
"Which part?" Riley felt sick hearing it from himself.
"That's not what I meant" Snow heard Riley mumble something. "What are you saying?"
"It's an old Mandalorian chant" Riley laughed as he remembered Sabine's face every time the story about the chant was told. "It means 'brothers all', Sabine use to love the story behind it"
"I'd like to hear it" Snow knew Riley was push it away.
"Not right now, I'm not happy with the memories that story brings" Riley stood up and walked over to the window. "But maybe Sabine would like to tell you"
"Did she always want to fight?" Snow asked as she leaned back into the chair.
"No, I did" Riley looked over the crystal like landscape. "I always wanted to help those in need, so when I defended Sabine when she was attacked by a bully"
"She saw you as a role model" Snow finished, she then saw Moon walking through the door. "Good morning"
"You seem pretty happy" Moon almost snapped. "Your friend is about to fight off most of Christophsis, and you can just sit there"
"You think I want him to go, want him to risk his life for me again, want him to go back to that horrible project!" Snow walked over to Moon. "He saved me from them and now I want to stop him from going back, but instead I'll just have to repay the favour"
"Snow, I didn't mean it like that" Moon hung her head. "I'm sorry for sounding like I was implying"
"I'm sorry, I just snapped because I'm angry at him" Snow hugged Moon.
"I'm still here, you could have just shouted at me" Riley laughed when Snow glared at him. "Thanks for caring"
"Riley!" Sabine hugged him tightly out of nowhere. "If you take 5 years to come back, I won't forgive you"
"Not like you forgiven me in the first place" Riley hugged Sabine tightly. "I'm trying to make it right, for all of us"
"You have, you just don't see it" Sabine let go and walked over to Ezra.
"Are you ready?" Riley asked everyone, they all nodded. "Good, when you hear the alarm, give it 30 seconds for the guards to clear then run"
Riley walked passed them all and walked out the door, they just stood there hoping he would be ok. They knew he wouldn't be because of his recklessness, Snow was taking it the worst since she knew what the project was like.
When Riley reached the inner market, he found the duffel bag that Kanan had hidden behind a dumpster. He put on his armour and checked his equipment, he had his weapon, 5 high charge miracles, his first aid kit and a picture of the crew. He pocketed the items and picked up his weapon, he ran around the outskirts to plant the miracles. When they were all planted he went back to the market where a patrol would walk through, he needed to alert them and not kill them until the first lot of reinforcements arrive. He climbed a building which gave a good view of the market, the patrol arrived on time.
"Hey bucket heads" Riley waved over his cover.
"Get down from there!" one of them shouted.
"No" Riley lifted his weapon and showed it to the six of them. "Do you reckon this hurts?"
"Wait, put it down!" another shouted. "Put it down!"
Before Riley could respond, he had to dodge a surprisingly good aimed laser. The rest followed their squad mates lead, they hid behind some pushed over stalls.
"This is TK-675, we have a rebel at the inner market, looks like the orange one from the Lothal cell" a trooper shouted clearly.
"Roger that TK-675, sending reinforcements" an officer replied.
Riley was waiting ten minutes before the first lot of reinforcements arrived, he shot a couple of them as soon as they rounded the corner. He watched the skies for any dropships, but none came. Riley decide it was time for his friends to get going so he set off the charges which made several alarms blare, he about to contact Kanan when a grenade was thrown beside him. Riley threw it away and attempted to contact Kanan, he heard static but then he saw Ezra run past the market. Riley saw the faces on his friends as they ran past, the worst was Anne's who didn't look hurt or disappointed but scared. He kept shooting at the storm troopers while his friends ran to the outer market, Ezra kept pushing them away from Riley so none of the troopers would spot them.
Riley was fighting for half an hour before he saw the phantom fly overhead, he waved as it flew past towards the rest. He saw the fourth wave of reinforcements arrive with two figures, the first was the Inquisitor but the second was different and defiantly female. She wore a skirt that starts short at the front and gets longer the further around it goes, until it's dragging along the floor at the back with white webs. She wore black heeled boots and a purple shirt with the Empire insignia in red on her shoulder. You couldn't see any physical features besides something on her back that looked like, wings? As soon as the Inquisitor stepped into the market, the troopers stopped firing.
"It's been too long, it looks like your team has abandoned you" the Inquisitor laughed. "This is my apprentice, she won't fail me"
"Should I kill him?" the apprenticed asked.
"He's more valuable than you think" the Inquisitor stepped back to give his apprentice space. "We need him alive"
"Yes master" and with that, she threw Riley off the roof top and into a stall.
Riley got straight back up when he saw a red light coming down towards him, he dropped his weapon knowing it would be useless.
"Are you planning to fight?" the girl asked.
"I'm not going to give up" Riley joked, he just got an eye roll and charged at the girl.
She swung her lightsaber at Riley's feet, he jumped over it and punched her in the face. She got a little angry and brought out another lightsaber, only this time it was purple. She started swinging fast and skilfully at him but Riley knew where she was swinging, he found an opening which came around occasionally. When the girl swung both her lightsaber's from the side, Riley caught them and shoulder barged her into the ground. The girl let go of her purple lightsaber and tried to grab it but Riley beat her to it.
"Your good, but you'll come with us" the apprentice swung her lightsaber with power, Riley blocked it but didn't realise he left his back open. When he was forced around by the attack, the girl slashed Riley across the back. Riley's back hurt badly but he activated the comm on his helmet.
"Anne, I love you but you need to leave now" Riley managed to say through the pain. "Ezra, you need to get better because the Inquisitor has an apprentice and she's strong, bye guys"
"Yes, we'll be sure to see you soon" the Inquisitor shouted after, then Riley deactivated his helmet.
Riley was lifted up by the girl in a force chock, Riley clawed at his throat which only made things worse.
"You done well young one, your training will soon be complete" the Inquisitor complimented.
"How does he know the forms? He isn't even force sensitive" the apprentice asked annoyed.
"He's strong, and apparently resourceful" the Inquisitor smirked. "Let him go, he knows he's lost"
"Master?" the girl tightened the grip a little before releasing him, Riley took the biggest gasp of air as he dropped to the ground. "I didn't even get to fly"
With the Ghost crew
"We can go back" Hera said excitedly. "There were a lot of storm troopers but we could have gotten around that"
"Let's go" Moon said climbing in.
"We can't, my feeling just got worse" Ezra said as he fell into his seat.
"What kind of feeling?" Anne asked worriedly.
"It's a…" Ezra looked at Anne with sadness. "Dark, not close but strong"
"He'll die!" Sabine shouted. "We need to get him"
"They won't kill him" Snow looked at the floor. "They need him"
"We need to-" Hera was cut off before she could finish.
"Anne, I love you but you need to leave now" Riley's voice was quite fuzzy. "Ezra, you need to get better because the Inquisitor has an apprentice and she's strong, bye guys"
"Riley!" Anne ran to the front of the Phantom. "Riley?! Are you there?"
No answer. Anne fell on her knees and started bursting into tears, Snow dropped next to her instantly.
"He's gone" Anne cried into Snow's shoulder. "And we have no idea where he'll go"
"You'll have something to remember him" Snow pressed a finger against Anne's necklace. "We'll find him"
"But how?" Anne hugged her and Moon when she got on the floor.
"The G.E.R.E.O database, Riley did say he'll find you" Snow said calmly.
"We're here for you Anne" Moon then looked to see Sabine sitting against the Phantom door, in Ezra's arms.
"Hera?" Ezra asked but he got no response. "Hera!"
"What?" Hera looked around to see a fleet of TIE fighters circling the city. "Let's get out of here"
The crew took off and flew towards the Ghost, when they arrived everyone was waiting but in a bad mood. Zeb was angry at Anne and Sabine for encouraging him to go then leaving him behind, he really knew that wasn't true. Chopper was more violent with the crew for some unknown reason, he'd also ignore what Hera would say unless it was a mission. Kanan heard about the Inquisitor and his apprentice, he pushed Ezra over his limits. Sabine and Anne would stay in their room to cry, they would only come out to do missions. Snow and Moon and would try to comfort the crew, Moon mostly since Snow was thinking about what was happening to Riley. Hera was the worst, she never lost a crew member and blamed herself for setting up the mission. Everyone was like this for the rest of the day.
A/N, I hope you enjoyed it, this was super fun to write and was too easy, I hope you enjoyed it. Goodbye and stay alive.