Chapter 4: Rescuing the Princess

Ezra's P.O.V

"Dang it. I can't even see in this helmet." Luke said. We were putting on the stormtrooper uniforms to sneak around the Death Star and find the tractor beam.

"Get used to it while we're in this place." Alex told him, picking up a stormtrooper rifle and slipping on his helmet. "Besides, Kanan and Ezra have done it lots of times."

"You mean put on these things?"

"Yup." I answered, slipping on my helmet.

"Roll out." Kanan ordered.

We followed Kanan through the Death Star, trying our best to play our rolls. Zeb, Sabine, and Hera weren't dressed in imperial uniforms, so that was gonna be a major thing, alongside them being easily distinguishable since two of them are aliens and one is just a bit too vibrant. However, there were no imperials as of yet. We entered a room, R2 rolling in, saying something in binary. We followed the astromech and took off our helmets, while Sabine started spraying Chopper to make him look like an imperial droid. "He has found the computer outlet, sir." 3PO informed us.

"Plug in. You should be able to interpret the entire imperial network." Ben said. R2 said something in binary and plugged in. It took him a little while to find something, but he found something eventually.

"He says he's found the main controls to the power beam that's holding the ship here." 3PO said. "He'll try to make the precise location here." R2 found it.

"I don't think you guys can help. I'll go alone." Ben said. Luke ran up to him.

"I wanna go with you." he said.

"Patience, Luke. Stay and watch over the droids. They must be delivered safely before more star systems suffer the same fate as Alderaan." Ben told him. He opened the door behind him using a panel. "The force will be with you. Always." And then he left. Luke sighed when he disappeared, while R2 was beeping like crazy.

"I found her. He says he's found her." 3PO said.

"Who?" Kanan asked.

"Princess Leia."

"Her?" I asked.

"Yes." 3PO answered.

"Here? On this super weapon?"

"Yes."

"Alright, here's the plan." Kanan said. "We gotta go and rescue her while Ben shuts down the tractor beam. I need all of you to play your rolls. R2, 3PO, I need you two to stay here and comm us if anything. Sabine, Zeb, Hera, put on these cuffs." They sighed as they were cuffed. "The rest of you slip on your helmets. We're moving." I slipped on my girlfriend's helmet for her, then we moved out.

As we made our way through the corridors of the Death Star, Kanan was leading a cuffed Hera, Alex and Luke were leading Zeb, and I had my blaster's barrel pointed to my girlfriend's back. "Move it." I said, trying a little too hard to play my role.

"Seriously?" she asked.

"What?" I whispered. "We need to play our roles if we want to avoid getting caught."

She sighed. "You do have a point."

"Chopper, are we heading the right way?" I asked Chopper. The droid said yes. "At least that's good to know. Incoming! Act cool."

We were approached by two stormtroopers. "Hold it right there." one of them said. I swallowed hard. "Where are you four taking them?"

"Prisoner transfer, sir." Kanan answered.

"Which cell block?" the other one asked.

"Um, cell block 1138." Kanan answered.

"We did not receive word that prisoners would be getting transferred here. Wait a minute. What are your operating numbers?"

Reacting quickly, I moved towards them and raised my hand. "You did receive word of a prisoner transfer." I said with a wave of my hand.

"We did receive word of a prisoner transfer." the stormtrooper who asked us what our operating numbers were said.

"To cell block 1138." I said.

"To cell block 1138."

"We may move along."

"You may move along."

We moved along. "Nice job, Ez." Kanan said.

"Thanks."

"How did you do that anyway? I only saw Obi Wan do this." Luke said.

"We'll explain to you later." Kanan told him.

"How about less talking and more role playing?" Zeb said.

"He's got a point." Hera said. Just when we saw some imperial officers come towards us, Kanan shoved Hera.

"You told you to talk? Move it!" he yelled.

"And that goes for you too, lasat." Alex said, him and Luke shoving Zeb. I shoved Sabine and got her moving. The imperial officers walked past us without any suspicions. "That was close."

We continued moving through the Death Star, until we came up on some lifts. Chopper told us that these lifts led to where the princess was. "Ezra, take Sabine and go in one of them. Luke, Alex and Zeb, get in another one. Hera, with me." Kanan told us. An elevator arrived and me and Sabine got in.

"Hit the button!" she whisper yelled.

"I don't know which one it is." I said.

"Dude, just hit it."

"I told you that I don't know which one it..." I immediately shut my mouth when an imperial officer entered the elevator, and hit the button. Luckily, I remembered what button it was and hit that also.

"A rather interesting prisoner for you to be transferring, trooper." the officer said. Sabine was silent under her helmet.

"You could say that again. At least this one's been finally captured after years of rebellion." I replied.

"Same thing with the other traitors who we've captured." The elevator hissed to a stop, the door opening. "Good luck, trooper." The officer left and the door closed, the elevator moving. We rode it for a few minutes until we reached the floor where Leia was. Kanan and the others were arriving just as we were. As we walked in with our "prisoners," an imperial officer eyed us suspiciously.

"Where are you taking...them?" he asked.

"Prisoner transfer, from cell block 1138." Luke said, using the same number I said earlier. The officer got even more suspicious.

"I wasn't notified. I'll have to clear it." He gestured for two men to come and search us. As they approached Zeb, he growled and broke free.

"It's lose! Kill it!" Alex ordered in his roll, blasting the imperials. Once Kanan freed Hera and I freed Sabine, we were engaged in a blaster battle with the real imperials. As red blaster bolts flew every where around the room, the battle got intense. Eventually, we were able to kill the imperials. Kanan moved to the terminal and moved the body of the dead officer.

"We gotta find what cell the princess is in." he said. "Found it. 21-87. Luke, Ezra, go get her. The rest of you on me."

"Got it. Come on, Luke." I ordered. We moved down the cell block, looking for 21-87.

"Guys, we're gonna have company!" Zeb called down. We looked back and nodded, picking up the pace.

"This is it, Ezra." Luke informed me, hitting the button. We entered the cell, and in it we saw the princess who I first met on Lothal three years ago. She changed a lot since then though. She had her hair in two buns and was wearing some type of white outfit. She woke up and looked at me and Luke.

"Aren't you two a little short for stormtroopers?" she asked.

"Oh, right." Luke said, both of us removing our helmets. "I'm Luke Skywalker and this is Ezra. We're here to rescue you."

"Ezra?" Leia said, looking at me. "Is that you?"

"It is. Not much has changed about you, Leia." I replied.

"I must say, you've changed a lot."

"Yeah, hate to ruin your reunion, but we gotta go." Luke said.

"And unless you want to get caught, I suggest putting your helmets back on." she said. I chuckled at that.

"Just like Lothal." I said after I slipped my helmet on.

"Just like Lothal." Leia replied.

"Come on we gotta get moving! I've got your R2 unit, I'm here with Ben Kenobi." Luke informed her.

"Ben Kenobi? Where is he?"

"Come on." We sprinted out of the cell, and saw our friends backing up and firing their blasters. They were here. They sprinted towards us.

"Kriff. We're blocked off. Can't go that way." Alex said.

"Looks like you managed to cut off an early escape route." Leia said.

"Well then how would you like to go back to your cell then, YOUR HIGHNESS?" A blaster bolt missed Specter 7 and he returned fire with the rest of us.

"C-3PO, C-3PO." Luke spoke into his commlink when he got next to me in cover. "Are there any ways out of the cell block, we've been cut off."

"Guys, I think I found one." Sabine said.

"Where?" Hera asked, getting in cover and returning fire with her pistol.

"I see what she means. Gimme that thing." Leia said, forcefully taking my blaster and shooting a hole in a part of the cell block. Judging from it, it looked like it led to somewhere more lower than where we were. Kanan started gagging, which told me that it was gonna be smelly down there. Alex did too, and so did Zeb.

"Oh come on! Down there?" Kanan groaned.

"Somebody's gotta save our skins. Into the garbage!" Leia ordered, using my blaster and blasting a few stormtroopers before jumping down there.

"Oh no, I am not going down there!" Alex said.

"Would you much rather be off being here on your own, Alex?!" Sabine asked. Another blaster bolt missed him narrowly.

"I see your point." He dove his head and was off.

"See ya at the bottom." Sabine said as she went down.

"I have a really bad feeling about this." Kanan said as he covered his nose, heading down.

"I'm probably gonna gag hard, but here we go." Hera said as she was off.

"Karabast, I'm probably gonna gag way harder than all of you." Zeb was off.

"Luke, you go first." I told him, starting to gag on the smell.

"Ezra, you go." he said.

"Does it matter?!" A few blaster bolts just hit us. "Forget it, just go!"

And we jumped down, screaming as we headed down there. Luke landed before I did. "Ow." I groaned as I got up, studying the place we were in, a bad smell making us gag.

We were in a trash compacter.