Back with chapter 3 of the story. Before I begin, quick announcement: I recently began working on a drawing of my OC, Alex Shepard. Some of you may probably have an idea of what he looks like from the appearance of him as mentioned in some of my other fanfics (this one included), but I figured do the drawing to give you all more of an idea of what he looks like. I do not know as of now when it will be done, but when it is done it will appear as my profile pic. You will be able to see him for yourself once it gets to that point. Something that I wanted to announce now that that's over with, and here is the next chapter. Enjoy.
Chapter 3: Lightsaber Training
Luke's P.O.V
"So you also have a lightsaber on you?" Ezra asked. Me and him were in the common area of the Ghost, sitting at the dejarik table. I got to know him a bit, and a tiny bit of the other members of the crew. He also showed me his lightsaber, which was green. I gotta admit, green was a rather interesting color for a weapon of the Jedi. So far, things were going good on this trip.
"Yeah. Obi Wan said this belonged to my father." I answered, showing him my hilt. Ezra gripped it, checking out the grip.
"It's got a nice grip to it. Who was your dad, Luke?" he asked, giving me my lightsaber back.
"Actually, that's the thing, Ezra. I don't really know his name, or much about him really." This made Ezra cock an eyebrow.
"What do you know about him?"
"All I know really is that he was once a Jedi, and that Darth Vader betrayed and murdered him when the order fell."
"That's savage."
"I know. It's too bad I never knew him."
"Yup, I get you, Luke. I lost my parents at 7 before I met the crew, but at least I knew them."
"You told me. Hey, Ezra, do you think you and Kanan could teach me how to use a lightsaber?"
"Sure." Just when Ezra said that, Kanan and Obi Wan entered the common area.
"So, it seems that you would like to get into it, right?" Obi Wan asked.
"You mean train with a lightsaber?" I asked.
"That's what he means." Kanan answered for Obi Wan.
"Yeah. Ezra also said that he'll also help out." I replied.
"Alright then. Let's head down to the cargo bay and we'll get started." Ezra said.
We walked down to the cargo bay, only seeing that it was occupied. Sabine and Alex were doing some kind of sparing with lightsabers. She was using some type of black one, and Alex was using the one that belonged to Kanan by the looks of things, which was blue like mine. She swung at him, Alex blocking her attacks and going for an open area, hitting her there. I gasped when I saw that he hit her with the saber. I thought that Sabine was done for, but she got back up no problem.
"Looks like you still got it." she said.
"And it still seems like this person hasn't forgotten how to use her family's relic." he replied teasingly.
"Training mode." Ezra said. "If you hit a person while a lightsaber's in training mode, they'll be alive still, just mainly suffering minor injuries." I nodded.
"Hey guys!" Alex said, noticing us.
"Hey, Alex." Ezra jumped down and brought Alex in, the two friends hugging. "Sabine beat you again at one point?"
"Once. But I did come back at her."
"Yeah, at the last round. And I beat you like twice in total." the Mandalorian said.
"I know. Kanan, need your lightsaber?" Kanan nodded, the weapon landing straight in his hand.
"How did you do that?" I asked him.
"The force. I can summon objects to me with it." he told me. "Thanks, Alex."
"Thanks for letting me use it. Sabine, you up for dejarik?"
"I'll beat you again like last night."
"We shall see about that, my former roommate. Later, guys."
They left, leaving the four of us in the cargo bay. Obi Wan approached me with some kind of ball like object. "What is that?" I asked.
"This is a training droid that was used in the Jedi Order frequently. It was used to train people on how to deflect blaster bolts, which is one of the first few things they learn with a lightsaber." he answered.
"Luke, bring up your lightsaber." Kanan told me. I took my hilt and activated it. "Your hands, place them firmly on the hilt." I did so. "Now set your lightsaber to training mode. You can use the dial to set it to that." I looked for it. "Um, which one is it?"
"This one." Obi Wan said, pointing to it. I adjusted it, and the lightsaber's power was less.
"First, we'll talk about basic attacks. Should we?" Ezra asked.
"I think we should just do blaster bolts first. Besides, we did that when you got your first saber." Kanan answered.
"Right."
"I have the droid set up and ready to go." Obi Wan said, the droid up in the air. "Now control your saber. It acts in relation to your movements." I moved my saber to the left, the droid following my movement. I moved it to the right, the droid obeying.
"Keep in mind, a Jedi can always feel the force flowing through him." Ezra reminded me.
"You mean it controls your actions?" I asked.
"Partially." Obi Wan answered. "It also obeys your commands."
The droid fired a bolt, in which I blocked it. Everybody was impressed by the looks of things. "Okay, not bad." Kanan said. I moved the lightsaber around, the droid following it around. It fired another bolt, but it hit me in the leg.
"Ah!" At least the blast wasn't lethal.
"It's okay. Don't let it get to you." Ezra said. "It took me a while as well."
"Right." I replied, bringing my saber up again and having the droid obey my commands. I moved it left, and the the droid fired, which I blocked. Everybody nodded.
"Trust your instincts. Don't let your eyes deceive you." Obi Wan said. I moved my saber in the path that the droid was going, the ball like droid spinning around in the air until it fired. I blocked another hit.
Meanwhile in the common area
Sabine's P.O.V
"Ha! Got you!" I exclaimed, taking out another one of Alex's pieces. He was down to three of them, I was down to four. I was beating him.
"Laugh while you can because...that one is out of the game." Alex said, taking out one of my pieces. I didn't even see how I left myself open.
"Osik! You got lucky that time. My turn." Just as I moved, I saw R2 and 3PO come in. "Hey guys."
"Hello." 3PO said. R2 beeped "hello" in binary. "What are you two playing?"
"Dejarik." Alex answered. "Do one of you want to play? I'm running back into my room for a minute."
"I will take over for you, sir." 3PO said.
"Thanks, 3PO." Alex took off and the droid sat across from me.
"New game?" I asked. The droid nodded and I reset the dejarik board.
"Ladies first."
"Oh why thank you." I made the first move.
About three minutes went by, and 3PO and I were already tied. We were both down to three pieces. In that moment, Alex came back to the common area, with Hera and Zeb following him. The human, the twi'lek and the lasat all looked shocked but yet confused.
"Sabine, we need to talk." Zeb said.
"Okay? Why do all of you..."
"Sabine, it's important." Hera said.
I sighed and got up, following them to the cockpit. We all sat in the chairs.
"Okay, this is bad what I got here on my data pad here." Alex said. Hera and Zeb both nodded, all three of them still shocked. Alex pulled up a holonet article on his data pad. "This article just went viral just about two minutes ago. And already it's spreading like wildfire across the galaxy. The article states that the Empire just blew up a planet! And it says here...that they blew up Alderaan!"
"What!?" the other three of us responded.
"Yeah. They just killed like millions of Alderaanians within one fell swoop."
"But how? The Empire just can't simply blow up a planet!" Zeb said.
"Especially a planet that was a founder of the Core Worlds." Hera replied. "This is savage! How did they even blow it up?"
At that moment, Luke, Ben, Kanan, and Ezra all entered the cockpit.
"I sensed it all." Ezra said, tears raining down his face. "The screams. The agony. The deaths. They all died!" He got on his knees and let it out. I may have not been force sensitive but seeing my boyfriend react like this must have been because of the massive tremor he felt in the force from the drama.
"I got him." I said. I helped him up and I walked him to our room. Ever since we became a thing he moved out of Zeb's room and into my room. Alex moved out of here and took Hera's old room once she and Kanan started sharing his bed in his room. He was still in shock, still freaking out when I got him in our bed. "Hey, hey, hey, it's okay. I'm here, Ez, I'm right here." I put my right hand on his shoulder and cupped his left cheek with my left hand. "I'm right here, Ezra." I said softly. He calmed down a tiny, tiny bit, but I knew that he still needed me beside him.
I crawled next to him in our bed, my brown eyes locked with his blue ones. This time he calmed down, his intense crying dying down and turning into sobs. I pulled his head in closer and connected our foreheads. "It's okay, Ez. I'm right here." I kissed him lightly on the lips, then rested my head on his shoulder. He held me in close.
"They all died. I sensed it all, Sabine." he said. I gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"I know. I understand how massive the tremor must have been." I took my hand in his. "Ezra, I'm always here for you." He took a deep breath in and out before embracing me in our bed and kissing me on the lips.
"Thank you for being there, Sabine."
"I will always be there for you, my blue eyed love. I love you."
"I love you too."
We kissed for about a minute in bed before we came out and met up with the others in the cockpit. Hera spoke first when we entered.
"We're about to come out of hyperspace." she said. About a minute later we came out, and we were flying into an asteroid closure, the ship bucking and shaking. "Dang it, we're getting hit like crazy over here. One of you man the upper gun and blast them out of our way!"
"I'm on it." Alex said, running out and heading to the upper gun. "Specter 7 is armed and ready to go." he said over the intercom. He began blasting the asteroids out of the way. As we flew by, it hit me right on the head.
"Guys, I think this might be..."
"The remnants of Alderaan." Zeb said. "Karabast to those imperials."
As Alex continued blasting asteroids, it looked like we were in the clear for now. "We're clear. Nice job, Alex." Hera said.
He came back a minute later. "Thanks, Hera." When he said that, we heard an imperial TIE fighter. "Kriff, that's a TIE fighter!"
"But why isn't it shooting us?" Ezra asked.
"They could be checking us out for all we know." Luke said.
"And they could potentially be trying to communicate with us. Sabine, jam their comms." Hera ordered. I nodded and jammed their comms.
"Comms are jammed." I said, the TIE flying ahead of us. "Why is it flying ahead of us?"
"And where did they come from. There must be a nearby base here." Kanan said.
"Look, he's heading for that small moon." Luke said, pointing to the moon.
"I think I might be able to take him out before he gets there." Hera said. "Hang on, he's almost in range."
"That's no moon." Ben said. We all looked at him, his eyes widened. "It's a space station." We flew closer to what he believed was a space station, and his theory was confirmed. We all gasped at what we saw. It was the Death Star, the imperial super weapon whose plans were stolen by a group of rebels earlier.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Luke said.
"Turn the ship around." Ben said. Hera tried to do so, until the Ghost suddenly jolted.
"We're caught in a tractor beam! I can't get us out!" she said. She tried, and we all tried to get us out of it, but we weren't successful, and looks like we were going to the Death Star. We slowly flew into a hangar, where the imperials were waiting for us.
Meanwhile
Third Person P.O.V
"Yes?" Tarkin said as his communicator went off in the Death Star conference room.
"We just captured a freighter." said an imperial over the intercom in the Death Star conference room. "Its markings match that of a ship that blasted its way out of Mos Eisley." At that moment, Lord Vader walked in.
"They must be trying to return the stolen plans to the princess. She may yet be of some use to us." he said. He then marched out of the conference room and headed down to the hangar, and he immediately recognized the ship. "They live." he said to himself, feeling the presences of the Jedi who were a part of the Specters on Lothal. But yet, he also felt a rather familiar presence. One that he hasn't felt since...
He approached the ship and ordered a scanning crew to scan it, while he went elsewhere.
The scanning crew scanned the ship, two stormtroopers boarding it. They checked, with no signs of any rebels. That was until the met up again and the floor panels flew open, a Mandalorian and a human male with raven hair pointing at them. "On the ground now." the male ordered. One of the troopers felt a rifle barrel pressed against his back, and he saw that it was a lasat. He growled and bashed their heads together.
"Just like old times." Zeb said, chuckling to that. Everybody else got up.
"Here's the plan. Keep their uniforms saved. We'll just get more of them." Kanan said. He went over to the entrance ramp. "Hey!" he called. Four more stormtroopers went up, and they were immediately knocked out. When they were knocked out, Ezra picked up one of their helmets.
"Perfect."