Kanan POV
"Euh Kanan I believe our distraction is working a bit too good." Said Zeb who ran beside me and occasionally shot back at the troopers who were chasing us.
Maybe Zeb did have a point. I did not expect that there would be so many troopers, but they probably increased the number after they caught Ezra.
"We can't complain about their welcoming committee." I joked.
"Is it really the time for jokes?"
I raised my shoulders. "No, but that's what the kid would have said now."
"This is better be good because I'm not sure I will be able to listen to more of those jokes."
I rolled my eyes.
We came at a fork. "Right or left?" Zeb asked me.
I focused equally. "Left." And we turned left.
"I found Ezra, but no sign of Dai or Maia." I heard through my com.
"Just let them. We first saved Ezra. Where he is? "I answered Sabine.
"Cell A-49. You know I do not understand why they have to put a 'A' in front of the number. There are no cells on the upper floors." Sabine said.
"Well no idea Sabine, but we come to you as soon as we have said goodbye to our welcoming committee."
"And how are you going to do that?" Zeb asked.
I thought for a moment. "I have an idea. Follow me."
Stormtrooper POV (yep they deserve one too)
We were chasing the two rebels. The Lasat and the man. They entered a door inside. Did they really think we were that stupid? I can't understand why we never arrested them before.
Along with eleven other troopers, I arrived at the door. They didn't even barracked the door or so.
We all went inside. The space was empty.
Then two explosives rolled between our feet.
Oh shit!
Sabine POV
I was already waiting for Kanan and Zeb for a while. Finally I saw them run around the corner. Fortunately, no bucket heads.
"What took you so long?" I complained. I was really bored while waiting for at least four full minutes. Maybe even five.
"Complaining can later Sabine." Kanan said. "Lead the way."
I went ahead and hit a corridor to the right and was counting the cells. 47. 48 and 49. "Here it is."
I stopped quite suddenly and Kanan almost bumped into me. I gave him an apologetic look.
I opened the cell door. We went inside. There was a figure on the bench.
"Ezra?" I asked hesitantly.
The person took off his hood and it was a girl. They activated a red lightsaber. Kanan also activated his. The girl seemed rather to hesitate.
And before we could use her hesitation, the Inquisitor also came in with other troopers.
This wasn't going to be easy.
Ezra POV
I opened my eyes again. The first thing I felt was the cold.
What happened?
Siting up was difficult. I had a terrible pain behind my head. Was I beaten down again? Three times could not really be good on one day.
All if it is still the same day. Our mission had been at night and in the meantime I had been unconscious three times. I had no sense of time anymore.
The door opened and I forced myself to sit straight. In spite of the fatigue and pain. I expected the Inquisitor, but it was Maia.
That was also wrong. The person took his hood off and his brown hair appeared. He wiped away a lock of hair that hung before his eyes. There was something different about his eyes. They were of a darker green, more obscure.
"Hello Bridger." He greeted me like he always did.
"Dai." I said. There was a hard tone in my voice.
I was the first one to said something again. "I thought you had nothing to do with here this. Except that you had fallen into the trap just like I did."
"That was true, but the Inquisitor has shown me something."
"And it should be?" Is asked sarcastically.
"That they are not the bad ones."
Okay so they just brainwashed Dai.
"Yes, and then I'm the bad guy. The one who sits chained and likely to be tortured because I refuse to say anything?" I still got my sarcasm.
It had been pure sarcasm. Yet Dai replied. "Right."
I was really amazed. This wasn't the Dai I remembered. The one who always wanted to be better than him.
"And I was tired of always standing in your shadow." Ah, there it was again.
"Maia looked up at you and not at her big brother. You always had to be the best in everything and then when she fell in love with you. "
"Wow what love?" I interrupted him. Maia had him really liked? But really really?
"You didn't know and it broke her heart. Yet you were still God for her. "
"Dai is it really the time to discuss this. Otherwise, once again, talk about that the Inquisitor and the bucket heads are good. I found that very interesting. "
I sat cross-legged as well it got with those stupid chains. And pretended I was full of interest. I just tried to make Dai a bit annoyed. And that seemed to work.
"Ezra," he sighed. Now he really had my attention. Something in the tone of his voice was not right to me. "When we lived with the three of us on the street, no one was looking at us. We always bullied the Empire, but the citizens of Lothal also hated us. They even betrayed us for some credits. "
Here I had nothing to say. It was true. A time a man had recognized me and beaten me down. The next morning I woke up in a cell. Ten minutes later, I had already escaped. The surveillance of an eleven year-old was not really super. But still ... maybe Dai had a point.
What was I thinking now. I could have hit myself on the head. "The empire were the reason that we had to live on the streets. Our parents…"
"Your parents" he interrupted. "My mother died when Jonathan was born and my father was killed by a beggar. This hasn't to do anything with the empire. "
He had me again. Aa! Why could not I find anything here. Dai had worked him into a corner. Dai's parents and brother were not a so pleasant history. It was surprising that Dai brought it up.
"And what happened to your parents is simply their own fault. They did not have to get up to the glorious Empire." Went on Dai.
Glorious? Seriously? Dai had just used the word glorious for the Empire.
Then I did something that would had make him angry. But I didn't got the chance to do it.
Dai's com made some noise. "Come down to my office."
"It was a pleasant conversation, Bridger. I hope you make the right choice. Because despite all of this, you are still a friend of mine and I wouldn't like to kill you."
Dai turned and walked out of the cell. He left me alone with my thoughts.