Chapter 19

Sabine was one of the toughest people the crew had ever met. Outgoing was an understatement. And saying she was simply fearless was an insult. And that had been the first time, in all her years aboard the Ghost, that any of them had herd her scream.

All they could see was smoke, and red rays of light flying through the clouds that surrounded them.

All they could hear was the sounds of shots being fired, alarms going off, and the screams of their family around them.

And all they could feel. The only thing they could feel was betrayal.

They had been jogging at a normal pace; following Hera through the many corners of the maze like prison cell that was simply an extremely poorly designed warehouse. And then it finally clicked, Ezra had barley said two words since they left that morning, in fact, he had barley said anything since he got out of that vent.

The crates were oh-so-conveniently located on the twelfth floor, which meant they had about three floors left to go. They ran through the empty space that was the warehouse, their footsteps echoing, and the cool empty air of the warehouse touched their skin, giving them all slight goose bumps, along with the little bit of adrenalin pumping through them that came with the excitement of even the simplest missions.

After the eighth or so corner they spun around they finally made it to a stairwell, the twelfth set of stairs they had yet to climb. This was it.

"Is it just me," Zeb said through heavy breaths, "Or does this building have way more stairs then we thought!"

They all stopped at the bottom of the stairs, as they looked up at the forty more steps they had to take before they were finally done. Then all they had to do was navigate their way through this place and they were home free, which was good, they had to destroy the crystals once they got them, they were to dangerous to risk falling in the wrong hands, and Sabine had to blow something up fast, or else she might lose it!

Kanan turned around to face Zeb, a sly grin on his face, "relax Zeb, he said turning to face the stairwell, "these are our last ones."

Chopper made an angry beep which resulted in Hera rolling her eyes, Kanan watched as her bright green eyes spun in circles, "oh Chop, I know it's not easy for you climbing stairs, but you've got Zeb!" she said with a smile as she began running up the stairs.

"Yea" said Zeb, cracking his knuckles, "quit complaining." He finished as he grabbed the metal plate on the top of Chopper and dragging him up the stairs as he caught up to the others.

When they got to the top of the stairs there was a door with '12' spray painted in yellow on the metal.

Kanan was about to open the door when 'Ezra' stopped him. "Wait." He said, "this is the top floor, where they use to keep all the important stuff, so it, uh, it most likely has a lock on it, if you touch the door, it will electrocute you, I know how to deactivate it, but I need heat to do it, Kanan could I use you light saber?" he asked letting the lie flow out of his mouth. He thought it was a pretty good one too, until the Jedi asked him the one thing he'd been dreading.

"Where's yours?" Kanan asked, eyeing him suspiciously.

The clone held his breath, and thought on his feet, "I uh, I left it on the Ghoul."

"You mean the Ghost" Said Sabine.

"That's what I said!" He took a deep breath, "look, could I just use yours."

"You know what" said Sabine, "now that I think of it I haven't seen you with your since we got the intel."

"Ok, ok, I didn't want to say anything," said the clone, putting an extremely face look of guilt on his face, "I uh, lost it. I mean I dropped it in out last mission, and they heads of buckets, I, I mean, bucket heads," 'loyal workers of the empire' he corrected in his head, "had already spotted us. So-"

"Yea, yea, I get it, I'm very disappointed in you Ezra" sighed Kanan, "but we can talk about that later, right now just get that door open." He said unclipping it from his belt and handing it to his young padawan.

He quickly grabbed it from his hand, and grabbed the so called 'electric' door handle and ignited the light saber. The sword pointing it directly at Kanan's neck and then at the rest of the crew.

"Ezra! What's-" he didn't even know who was talking, but he then opened the door behind him.

"Get in." he said in an authoritative voice.

"Kid, why don't you just calm down and-" and with no warning he slashed the Lasats arm. Zeb grabbed his arm in pain, "Karabast!"

"I said get in!" he said louder this time, you could hear the anticipation in his voice, he sounded about as scared as he looked.

They slowly put their arms up, confusion dripping off of them as they entered the room. it was a big open space of concrete, about twenty feet of it, and the maze of corners that followed. "Ezra." Said Kanan, "just calm down and-" but before he could finish his sentence four metal containers flew from the rafters, and when they hit the ground smoke started flying out of them, and filling the space.

"Let the games begin." Whispered Kallus.

And then the shots started firing. Shooting through the clouds, some were on stun. And some weren't.

"IT'S A TRAP!" Kanan yelled to his team, "GET OUT, WE'LL FIND EACHOTHER LATER!"

Hera Ducked behind some barrels, well Zeb tried to find any storm troopers on ground level, but they were all in the rafters, until they started jumping down and in to the clouds. Shots. Screams. Everything, it was all happening so fast, they had no where to go, they were caught in the cross fire.

Hera was behind a barrel, but was still extremely exposed. She went to shoot her blaster, but was shot in the back but a blaster, thankfully on stun, but she fell. She could see everything happening around her, but couldn't move. All she could see next was a bloody Lasat fall next to her, he held his arm where it had been slashed by, whoever that was, and there was also a mark on it, Hera couldn't move, but from what she could tell, he was shot in the same are as slashed.

Chopper had been attempting to tazer anything that came to close, but was eventually rendered useless after a storm trooper came up behind him.

Kanan was standing there, face to face with his just fifteen year old padawan, his own light saber inches away from his face, he felt the heat blow on to his face, what was happening?! "Ezra" he tried once more, in a shockingly calm voice, but was cut off.

Kneel, and join your friends, Jedi. He did as he was told, Hera was just recovering as she sat on the floor in hand cuffs, along with Zeb, and Chopper no where to be found, but was taken by imperials. And now Kanan, he kneeled as a storm trooper cuffed him, and agent Kallus stood proudly at the sight.

Sabine made a break for the Maze in the chaos, she had just turned a corner or two when she herd Agent Kallus's voice echo through the building,

"Find the Mando girl, take the rafters!"

She ran for her life through many of the twists and turns. But she was just making things worse. And she knew it, she knew that they could already see her and where probably taking their shot.

"Look out!" said a strange voice, as she was knocked over just missing a lethal looking bullet. But when she looked up all she could see was a shadowy figure running away, back into the maze of corners.

But she didn't have time to question it, she began to turn when she felt something hit her back, at first it felt numb, but then she felt electricity shoot through her as she spazed uncontrollably, her arms and legs flailing.

And that's when she screamed, everyone hearing it, and her crew looking shocked as worry filled them. She screamed out in absolute pain until after a minute it stopped, making her feel exhausted, her throat on fire from screaming.

And she too was cuffed, and placed with her crew, and agent Kallus, and their youngest member stood in front of them. Kallus turned to 'Ezra', "very good Bridger. Very good."

"Ahsoka! Ahsoka!" a girl, about early twenty's, ran in to the room where she was going over some documents with some workers and Rex. The girl ran into the meeting, all eyes on her, as she gasped for air, she clearly ran.

"What is the meaning of this?" one of the people sitting at the holo table asked, "were in the middle of a meeting."

"Its, its really important Ahsoka!" she girl pleated.

Ahsoka sighed, "Come in Marah, what is it?"

"Thank you!" she exclaimed as she ran over to the holo table and started typing something new in.

"Marah! We where going over those plan-" Ahsoka said, but was cut off by the Blond haired human, franticly typing away.

"I know, I know! But trust me your going to want to see this." She said as it came on the holo table. "it's the Ghost crew! The one with the Jedi and Padawan, I saw they scheduled a mission, but they went to the-"

"The old 'Swift Warehouse' on Lothal!" Ahsoka said as she studied the report. "Oh no!"

"what is it?" asked one of the people at the table.

"That place is under heavy surveillance of the empire, they can easily trap someone in those Maze of walls."

"But, why would they go there to begin with?" Asked Marah, " there is nothing of use in there." She said catching her breath.

"It doesn't matter why they were there Marah, it just matters about getting them out." Said Ahoska, "Rex, ready the ship for the jump to hyperspace."

-Azilia!