Ezra had dove for the floor a bit late. He was still in the air when the blasts seemed to shake the whole world. He was sent flying, and rammed headfirst into a crate. White spots started to fill the majority of his dimmed eyesight. Ezra had just enough strength to feebly lift his head to see that Sabine had survived the blast. The last thing he saw was before he blacked out was a blaster logo on the edge of a crate. "Experience my ass. . ."

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Ezra awoke to the sound of crackling. It was dull though, compared to the ringing. Ezra had the worst feeling in his head, what he assumed a hangover would feel. He had yet to try and move when he realized where he was. His eyes snapped open, instinctively looking for Sabine. His heart lurched when he saw three troopers above her. He didn't notice her helmet, but stopped thinking about that when a trooper kicked her square in the ribs. She let out a moan, and Ezra realized she must have taken the blast worse than him. Anger boiled inside of him at the sight of the same trooper kick her again while the other two started to drag her away. Then Ezra hit a moment of pure serenity. He slowly stood up without making a sound, and used the force to pull a blaster that he barely saw from the edge of his eye. He took aim, and found that his aim struck as true as his slingshot. He fired off a second shot into the back of the other trooper who had abruptly dropped her at the sight of the brain matter splattering from his fallen comrade. Mentally leaving the one who had kicked Sabine, he abandoned the blaster and lifted his left arm to shove the bucket head to the floor. The man barely let a gasp out before the back of his skull had a hole beaming through.

And for the second time that day, Ezra felt an ungodly amount of pain. After writhing in pain for a few seconds, Ezra realized that he was on the floor, someone was electrocuting him, and that it had stopped and his muscles were just being hit by the current inside of him. He looked up to see fear in his attacker's eyes before a snap was heard and he saw the back of the soldier's head.

"Aaaawww!"

The man, that Ezra now knew as Rex, looked at the young boy on the floor in confusion. He had just blown up the entire factory, wiping out a battalion of people. Then he immediately goes and guns down two of them and executes one. How did this manage to scare him.

"Thanks for the help boy."

"What?" Ezra asks, his head still swimming. To his annoyance though, the man ignored him for something over his shoulder. Ezra turned his head to see Sabine slowly getting up.

"Ezra?! Are you- alright."

"Sabine!" Ezra said as he feebly got to his feet.

"Sabine, eh? Well, thank you both." Rex gave them a tight-lipped smile before he took off towards what was left of the back exit.

"Who was that guy?" Ezra asked no one in particular.

"Who cares. . ." Sabine said strangely.

"Whoah!"

"What's wrong Ezra?" Sabine said, finally looking at him. When she caught a distant glimmer, she stopped and realized that she saw her helmet! She started towards it but fell a second later before letting out a loud gasp.

"Sabine, hey, look at me. Look at me. You're fine. Ok? We're gonna get through this." Ezra said as he saw that Sabine had finally noticed and visibly paled at the mangled sight of her leg. It had a piece of metal shrapnel lodged in it, something Sabine was left without words as to how it went so long without being noticed.

"Now come on, we gotta get going. That blast is going to have every bucket in a ten mile radius on us." He said, offering an arm to Sabine, which she gladly took.

"Alright, looks like you'll be running me through this then." She said, with what Ezra assumed was a smile under that damned helmet of his. A frown then pulled up on his face after an instant. Sabine slowly wilted under his gaze, eventually growing uncomfortable.

"What?"

"The helmet, it's gotta go." He said, holding his hand to his chin.

Before Sabine could complain, he had snatched the helmet and coolly said, "Don't worry. I'll make sure to hide it where no one will ever find it."

"Oh, and just how do you know that for sure?"

"Well, before I had found my new home, I had to hide food I couldn't eat right away. That itself was pretty rare, but those merciful moments were bittersweet. I learned the hardway the first time not to keep food on my person. I learned to hide it, sometimes they were found at the beginning. After a while though, I learned, and that never happened again, not with something as precious as food." He had said with foggy eyes, looking down into the visor of The Mandalorion's helmet.

"Ezra, I. . ."

"Hey, don't start now, we can talk about how I leave you breathless later, k?

"Lead the way, sir." Sabine said with a slight flush on her cheeks, already missing her helmet.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXSorry to cut it off here guys, but I had the hardest time ever deciding how to introduce Rex. There will be more of him next chapter, so don't worry. Thanks to selena for the very positive review, while I don't think I'm that great of a writer seeing as it took me around a week to round up 900 words, I'll take any compliment where I can get em'. See you soon, Cowboy!