The Past and Future.
A nice flight.
Chapter Two.
Ezra's POV.
"So hang on." I say hitting enter.
I grab the console tightly as the air vents from the engine room threatening to take me with it.
Sabine has her arms and legs wrapped around a smaller ventilation pipe.
Alarms blast through the ship continuously.
I look down at the console that I set to close all of the airlocks after two minutes.
1:38.
Well this is going to take a while.
I look over at Sabine who has a firm grip and is looking steady.
I look back at the clock.
1:24.
I look back at Sabine in time to see her legs lose their grip.
"Sabine!" I yell but my voice it taken away by the venting air.
I look back at the clock.
0:58.
Sabine is losing her grip quickly.
0:50.
One of Sabine's hands slip off the pipe.
0:46.
I look for the open door and see it's the one directly in line with her.
I look back to Sabine in time to see her hand slip off and her fly towards the door.
I let go and fly towards the door feet first.
Sabine reaches the door seconds before I grab her hand.
I grab the door.
"Ahhh!" I yell out in pain from the snap of stopping and hanging onto Sabine.
I clench my teeth through the pain and look back.
Sabine is holding on with all her strength to my hand.
I feel my hand start to slip off the door frame.
Oh karabast!
I look around trying to figure out a way to save us being ejected with the rest of the troopers.
I look past Sabine and see a console facing us.
My hand slips.
I let go of Sabine.
We slam into the console and I grab on with the air pulling me into it.
Sabine bounces over it.
I reach out.
She slips by my hand.
I put out both of my hands and focus on her.
Sabine slows.
I twist my hands in and Sabine stops.
I grit my teeth concentrating.
Sabine starts to move towards the console.
The airlocks slam shut and the air stops flowing.
I feel the pull stop and let go of Sabine.
We both collapse onto the floor.
I open my eyes and look over at Sabine.
She's slowly getting up.
I hold my left arm and sit myself up.
"You good?" I ask loudly.
"I'm still here so yeah." She says unhappily.
I stand up and start walking back to the engine room.
"Hey where are you going?" Sabine asks annoyed.
"I'm going to go get our communication back." I say frowning walking through the doorway to the engine room.
The troopers bodies are gone but amazingly the head engineer is still hung up around the three consoles.
"Well that's good." I say aloud.
I walk over the consoles and start looking through the data.
Hmm. We have proximity sensors, door controls except for one in the engine room. The internal system are filling the ship up with air again and I still have full control. The Imperial data streams are still going through… I should copy all of those into a folder.
I tap a few buttons and then bring up internal data storage.
I type in commands to copy and store all data files.
Now the trackers.
I tap back to the list of systems.
Yes. I still have the trackers.
I tap back to communications and start to hack through the individual communication hubs throughout the ship.
One down seven to go.
I repeat the process again and again.
"So can you get them back?" Sabine asks from behind me.
"Yes I am almost there." I say monotonically.
I hack through the second last hub and a message notice appears.
I tap it.
"Dear Hacker, I am impressed you are good. But I feel that you are being wasted by these thieves. You could work for the Empire. We would pay you well and all you have to do is give me back control of the ship. Can we make a deal?" The message reads.
I bring up a response tab and type in a single word.
"No." I send it and focus back to the last hub.
"What was that?" Sabine says looking over my shoulder.
"A job offer." I say smiling.
"From whom?" She asks frowning.
"The Empire but don't worry I told them no." I say typing in a shutdown command for the last hub.
"I wasn't worried." She says walking off.
"I am going to go and make sure that the rest of the ship is secure." Sabine says taking out her pistols.
"Wait for me." I say gaining back the last communication hub.
"Fine." She says waiting by the entrance.
"Alright we have everything but that one door." I say smiling.
I tap my wrist comm.
"Hey Spectre One how are things up there?" I ask walking over to Sabine.
"All good Spectre Two's on her way up here to pilot this thing and Spectre Four went to see if there were any bucketheads left aboard." Kanan says evenly.
"We are heading to clear the ship as well." I say pulling out my hybrid blaster.
"Okay stay together." Kanan says.
"Roger that." I say following Sabine out of the door.
"So where do you think we should check first?" I ask.
"The forward magazine if they know we captured the ship any remaining troops may try to destroy it." Sabine says turning down a hallway towards the front of the ship.
We both move quickly and quietly through the ship finding no troopers between us and our destination.
"So what are we getting in terms of munitions?" I ask looking at the racks of weapons and explosives.
"A lot." Sabine says taking a few detonators.
"Good the fleet can use all that we can get." I say smiling.
"And we get to upgrade my explosives." Sabine says excitedly.
"Now let's go check the hanger bay." I say leaving.
"Hey lock the door before we leave." Sabine says closing it.
"Good idea." I say pulling a tool from my sleeve.
I move to one knee and begin to reset the lock.
"Where do you store all of your tools?" Sabine asks watching me work.
"In my suit." I say pulling the tool out.
"Yeah but where inside of it?" She asks starting off towards the hanger.
"I have a lot of pockets sewn in on the inside of it." I say slipping the tool up my sleeve.
"So how much can you carry?"
"A lot actually. I carry about a dozen tools and various other things."
"So what else do you have in there?"
"Credits, a few nutrient bars, and other stuff."
"So what do you think there are here for fighters?" Sabine asks walking up to the hangar door.
"Probably a few TIE's and maybe a landing shuttle." I say moving to the door controls.
"I hope there's a bomber. That would be useful." Sabine says.
"Yeah but doubtful this is just a supply ship." I say opening the door.
Pew! Pew!
Sabine and I dodge to either side of the doors as blaster fire continues to fly past.
"I think we found the last of the troopers." I say firing blindly.
"You don't say?" Sabine says sarcastically.
"I do in fact." I say smiling.
I ignite my blade and jump out.
I move quickly deflecting blaster away from us.
"Now!" I shout while moving forward.
Sabine steps out firing at the troopers.
Focus.
I move forward slowly deflecting the heavy blaster fire.
Sabine keeps shooting around me.
"Give up or die." I say evenly.
The blaster fire stops and they look at each other before continuing to fire.
"Really?" Sabine asks while the blaster fire lessens.
"Why not?" I ask.
"Because they are with the Empire!" Sabine says continuing to fire.
"So were you once." I say reaching cover.
"How do you know that?" She says ducking behind the cover.
"I looked up all of the info the Empire had on us while I was at the academy." I say jumping out of cover and running towards the small amount of troopers left.
I cut down one then reverse my grip slicing the chest of another.
I send the last three flying into a wall with force.
They slump down unconscious.
"So you knew all along?" Sabine asks standing up from behind the cover.
"Yes." I say nervously.
"So why didn't you ask me about it?" She asks looking for anymore storm troopers.
"If you wanted to talk about it I thought you would tell me about it. You never did so I didn't say anything." I say looking at the TIE fighters.
"So there are TIE's and a landing shuttle. Hey! There are bomber's here. There's even three of them." Sabine says excitedly.
"Sweet. The Empire will regret letting us get these." I say tapping on my comm link.
"Spectre One. The forward magazine and hangar bay are secure." I say putting clipping my lightsabre onto my belt.
"Good Zeb has been locking unconscious troopers up in the holding cells. Secure the ones that you encounter and he will take care of them." Kanan says.
"Okay the head engineer is still in the engine room unconscious." I say moving to unconscious troopers.
"Got it I will tell Zeb. Also Hera say we will be jumping into hyperspace any minute now so be ready for that."
"Got it." I say closing the comm link.
"So secure and move on?" Sabine asks while grabbing cuffs off the troopers.
"Yeah let's lock these guys together and move on." I say cuffing the three I threw into the wall together and then to a pipe.
"So how many are still alive?" I ask looking at the two I killed with my lightsabre.
"More then I thought there would be." Sabine says cuffing a group of five together.
"What do you mean?" I ask walking over another group.
"Well blaster fire is rarely stunning. But you managed to deflect them in such a way that they are just wounded and unconscious." Sabine says dragging more together.
"Really?" I ask surprised.
"Yeah did you not mean to do that?" She says looking at me surprised.
"No I was just trying to end the fight quickly so we didn't get injured." I say shaking my head.
"Well we still have a lot of prisoners to use as leverage now." Sabine says locking the final troopers to the wall.
"Yeah Zeb's gonna have his hands full here." I say smiling.
"Alright so want to see if there are any prisoners we should be freeing?" Sabine asks heading for the door.
The ship shifts to the side repositioning for the jump to hyperspace.
"Well I guess Hera finally got everything to work for her." I say following Sabine.
"Yeah but that never takes to long." Sabine says.
We walk the rest of the way in silence.
"So think we can get the prisoner list?" Sabine asks as walk into a lift to the holding cells.
"Yeah it shouldn't have any encryption." I say leaning against the wall.
How did I just wound them?
Was the force telling me to leave them alive?
"What's on your mind?" Sabine asks me.
"Huh?" I ask snapping out of my thoughts.
"What's wrong?" Sabine asks slightly concerned.
"Just how I wounded those troopers." I say as the lift stops.
"And?"
"Well I was just following what I felt through the force." I say walking out of the lift.
"And what's wrong with that?" She asks following.
"Nothing. I just don't understand it sometimes." I state while walking up to the control console.
"But isn't being a Jedi all about understand the force?" Sabine asks walking up beside me.
"No it's much more complicated than that but I don't understand much about it." I say tapping on the screen.
"So there are a few thieves, a pirate, and a lot of empty cells." I say while reading the list.
"A pirate?" Sabine asks surprised.
"Hey. It's Hondo!" I say bringing up the cell number.
"So want to see if he remembers me?" I ask walking down the hall.
"I don't know pirates generally don't like to cooperate. And how do you know him." Sabine says hesitantly.
"Well I kind of know him from my past." I say hesitantly.
"What do you mean by that?" Sabine asks suspiciously.
"And we're here." I say cutting her off.
I open the cell.
"Hey Hondo remember me?" I ask angrily.
"Oh it is my old friend Ezra." Hondo says getting off his bunk.
"I wondered who would be crazy enough other than me to steal a supply ship from the Empire." Hondo says laughing nervously.
"Oh don't think I forgot how last time ended." I say glaring at him.
"Well now just wait a moment that was the bounty hunter's idea. I would have lost the ship if I didn't go along with it." Hondo says quickly.
"Wait you're the one that tried to kill Ezra!" Sabine says pulling out one of her pistols.
"A Mandalorian outside of Mandalore is rare. Why have you left your people?" Hondo asks shifting attention from himself.
"The Empire. Now give me a good reason not to kill you." Sabine says pointing her blaster at him.
"Because I can give spare ships and information in exchange for my freedom and life." Hondo suggests shrinking back.
"But your fleet was destroyed when I told them where to find you." I say crossing my arms.
"Ah yes that is true but I have more than one hidden base and fleet." Hondo says nervously.
"Ezra where are you two?" Kanan says through the comm link.
"Talking to an old friend and he has some interesting information for us in exchange for his life." I say happily.
"What friend and why for his life?" Kanan asks nervously.
"I'll explain after we get him into the fleet's prisoner cells." I say stepping out of the cell.
"So we have a deal then?" Hondo says moving to the door.
"Not yet." I say giving him a hard look before closing the door.
"So he was the one who hired you." Sabine says following me to the lift.
"Yes." I say calling the elevator.
"So how did you meet him?" She asks as the lift's doors open.
"Hey Zeb. Having fun with the troopers?" I ask as the lasat steps out hauling three of them.
"Yes actually. Good shooting Sabine there are a lot of wounded ones and very few dead ones to get rid of." Zeb says smiling.
"That was all Ezra, Zeb." Sabine says.
"What? But his only stuns." Zeb says hauling the troopers down the hall.
"I used my lightsabre and deflected their own shots back at them." I explain stepping into the lift.
"Zeb whatever you do do not let the pirate Hondo out of his cell unless Kanan says to." I warn pushing the lift's top button.
"Okay will do Ezra." Zeb says walking down the hall.
"So we going to the bridge?" Sabine asks.
"Yes. I need to speak with Kanan and Hera about this." I say leaning on the wall again.
"So how bad was it?" Sabine asks looking at me.
"Well it wasn't good that's for sure." I say closing my eyes.
"So are you going to answer my question?" She asks looking at the doors.
"Which one?" I ask confused.
"About how you met Hondo?"
"Oh, I met him through a mutual friend." I say as the lift comes to a stop.
"That really doesn't clear much up Ezra." Sabine looking over at me.
"No it doesn't." I say walking out of the lift.
There are more than a few dead troopers and lower level officers scattered around the bridge.
"So looks like you did some damage here Kanan." I say approaching Kanan and Hera at the head of the ship.
"Yes they didn't want to give up so I made a point." Kanan says smiling.
"Yeah a deadly one." I say stopping and frowning.
"What's wrong?" Kanan asks looking at me.
"There is a man I know in one of the holding cells. Hondo Ohnaka. He says that he is willing to trade a hidden base and spare ships for his freedom and his life." I say frowning at the floor.
"And what's wrong with that?" Hera asks flipping various switches.
"He's not someone I enjoy seeing." I say looking out the widows.
"So do you think we can trust him to stay to his word?" Kanan asks looking at me.
"I wouldn't trust him any farther then Hera could throw him. But it's something the fleet needs. A base and ships would be extremely helpful." I say looking between the three of them.
"So you were hoping that the higher up's would make this decision?" Hera asks.
"Well yeah I have a problem with him from my past and I don't want that clouding my judgement." I say fidgeting.
"Well that's smart to want calm heads to make a decision, but your past experience will make your word carry weight." Hera says flipping a few more switches.
"Alright we are coming out of hyperspace get ready to strip this ship for what's here." Hera says.
The ship slows down and the fleet appears above the planet Bakura.
A peaceful planet whose leaders were allowing the rebels a short amount of time to safely transfer the supplies and move on.
"Captain Syndulla requesting permission to dock." Hera says opening a comm link.
"Commander Sato here. Please transmit your security codes."
"Transmitting now." Hera says flipping various switches.
"Your security codes check out. Do you have any prisoners requiring transfer?"
"Well there are about thirty troopers alive but wounded also the head engineer, the captain and his first mate. Also there is an Imperial prisoner we must discuss." Hera says pulling the supply ship up the fleet.
"Well done I did not expect so many we will begin interrogating them immediately. Also please come to the bridge to discuss this prisoner." Sato says.
"We will be there shortly." Hera says getting out of the pilot's seat.
"Alright Kanan, Ezra let's go and Sabine you should go to the forward magazine and get a list going of the explosives and weapons we have gotten." Hera says.
"You got it Hera." Sabine says walking out of the bridge.
"Well let's go and get this over with." I say sighing.
"It won't be that bad Ezra. How do you know this guy anyway?" Kanan says walking towards the exit.
"Doesn't matter." I say following.
"Ezra." Hera says coming up behind me.
"We met while I was on a job and we didn't part ways on good terms. Happy?" I ask unhappily.
"Enough with the attitude Ezra we just want to know as much as possible." Kanan says looking back disapprovingly.
I sigh.
"Sorry it's just that this guy brings back some bad memories."
"It's okay just remember a Jedi must keep his emotions in check. Peace and serenity not anger and hurt." Kanan says smiling.
"Right." I take a deep breath and release my emotions into the force.
"Good just like I taught you." Kanan says smiling.
"Thanks I have to start meditating more." I say smiling.
"Wait could I get a recording of that?" Kanan says teasing me.
"No." I say smiling.
"Darn. Now Ezra when we talk to Commander Sato please show respect." Kanan says smiling.
"I always show respect." I say smiling.
"You know what I mean. Ezra." Kanan says.
We walk through the doors to the bridge.
"Ah Hera, Kanan, and Ezra. Well done too all of you stealing an entire supply ship. That is most impressive." Commander Sato says smiling.
"It wasn't us. Ezra did it." Kanan says smiling proudly.
"The boy stole an entire supply ship by himself?" Commander Sato says with a look of shock on his face.
"Yes once in the engine room it may take some time but you can take complete control of the ship and open all the air locks flushing the ship of almost all the stormtroopers." Hera says proudly as well.
"Well I am most impressed. Well done Ezra. Now who is this prisoner we must talk about?"
I tense up.
"Well he is a pirate by the name of Hondo Ohnaka. Ezra knows him from before he was captured. Anyway he is offering a hidden base and small fleet of ships in exchange for his freedom and his life. Although allow me to be clear we did not threaten him at all." Kanan says.
"And can this man be trusted to keep his word?" Sato asks looking at me.
"I think that if you are going to release him keep him under guard at least until we have what he promised." I say thinking aloud.
"Wise words. I agree we shall keep him under guard until we have the base and ships we were promised." Sato says.
"Alright. Do you want me to take Sabine and bring him here to speak with you?" I ask looking at the doors.
"Yes that would be a good idea." Sato says looking to Kanan and Hera.
"We have much to discuss here." Kanan says.
"Agreed go ahead Ezra." Hera says turning to Sato.
"Don't have to tell me twice." I say smiling and walking out the doors.
"Alright now to go find Sabine." I say smiling.
I hope Hondo wasn't lying I don't want a repeat of last time.
I walk back to the supply ship and head for the forward magazine.
"Oh come on how did he lock this thing so well?" I hear Sabine yell.
"Well how about trying to override the door controls from the main console?" A voice I don't recognize says.
"No good I already tried that." Sabine says.
I walk around the corner to see Sabine and a few other people standing around the door to the munitions room.
"This should not be this hard." Sabine says taking off her helmet.
"Having trouble getting into the munitions room?" I ask smirking.
"Ezra! Yes how did you make this door unopenable?" Sabine says gesturing to a blaster scorched door.
"I reset the parameters to be a word and not by the actual lock." I say walking to the door console.
"Okay well what word?" Sabine asks annoyed.
"This one." I say typing in Sabine and hitting enter.
"What word was that?" She asks looking over my shoulder.
"Your name." I say hesitantly.
"Why my name?" She asks crossing her arms.
"Because it was hard for someone else to guess and easy for me to remember." I rolling my eyes.
"Now commander Sato wants us to take Hondo to the bridge of the Kanera." I say stepping out of the way of the rest of the people getting into the munitions room.
"Fine let's go get him." Sabine says walking away from me.
"Hey Sabine?" I say smirking.
"What?" She asks looking back annoyed.
"Lift's this way." I say pointing behind me.
Sabine scowls at me and starts back.
"Not a word." She says shoving past me.
"Hey what's your problem?" I ask not understanding her anger.
"Nothing." She says hotly.
I shake my head and follow her to the lift. We go to the prisoner level and walk to Hondo's cell.
"Hey Sabine I didn't tell them how I met Hondo and don't want to so please don't say anything about it." I say opening the cell.
"Why didn't you tell them?" She asks.
"Because I don't like talking about it." I say looking into the cell.
"Hondo come on out you might get your deal after all."
Silence.
"Hondo come on out. I gave strict orders for no one to let you out so get out here." I say annoyed.
"Come on you di'kut.*" I say grumbling.
No one comes out so I go in. I look around and realize there's no one in here. All of a sudden I fly forward and feel a tug at my waist.
"Haha nice try my boy but no one captures Hondo Ohnaka for long." Hondo says as I like up to see my stun blaster in his hands pointed at me.
"Hondo give me that back I am supposed to be taking you to see the Commander to talk about your deal for release." I say annoyed.
"No I think I will be going and starting up my crew again." Hondo says backing up the stairs.
He stops as I smile realizing that Sabine has one of her pistols pointed at the back his head.
"Well now this is awkward. I guess I shouldn't fight a Mandalorian warrior." Hondo says raising his hands.
"No you shouldn't especially a pissed off one." I say smiling even more.
"Well then I guess we should head to see this commander of yours." Hondo says smiling.
In one fluid motion he ducks spinning and kicking Sabine in the chest.
"Sabine!" I shout as she flies back and hits the wall slumping down unconscious.
Hondo turns to me leveling my stunner at me.
"Sorry I will be going now."
"No you won't." I say standing and focusing.
I thrust my arm out and he flies back into the wall.
I hold him up with the force.
"One should not threaten the friends of someone who can use force." I say tightening my grip on him.
"You are a Jedi?" Hondo asks his eyes going wide.
"Training to be one yes now drop my blaster." I say frowning.
"Ezra?" Sabine asks dazed.
"I'm fine. Please grab my blaster from Hondo." I say still holding Hondo up on the wall.
"Uh okay." She says looking between us cautiously.
Sabine walks up to Hondo and takes my blaster from his hand.
"You can let him go now." She says stepping back.
"You are lucky she's here Hondo." I say letting him down.
"Thank you." I say as Sabine hands me my blaster.
"Now let's go talk about that deal. It may have just got a lot more complicated." I say pulling a pair of handcuffs to me.
"Oh come on surely you don't feel that's necessary?" Hondo says smiling nervously.
"I could just let Sabine knock out you instead." I say glancing at her.
She cracks her knuckles smiling.
"I see." Hondo says putting his hands forward.
"Too bad." Sabine says as I put the cuffs on him.
"Now let's go." I say pushing the weequay forward.
"Alright, alright I didn't know you were a Jedi. I do not mess around with such honorable warriors." He says seriously.
"Really?" I ask surprised.
"Yes I knew the Jedis Obi wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker." He says stepping into the lift.
"Well I am sure that Kanan will want to talk to you about that." I say.
We walk the rest of the way in silence watching Hondo carefully. We walk into the bridge and see Sato, Kanan, Hera and Ahsoka talking.
"Ahsoka my old friend how are you?" Hondo says bowing awkwardly.
"Hondo?" Ahsoka says surprised.
"Yes your old friend Hondo. Could you please remove my restraints?" Hondo says walking up to her.
"I don't see why not." Ahsoka says moving to remove them.
"Not a chance." I say stopping her.
"What why not?" Ahsoka asks surprised at my sudden anger.
"Because he just knocked out Sabine and almost shot me." I say glaring at him.
"Oh come on the last time we worked together I lost my entire fleet." Hondo says backing up slightly.
"Well whose fault was that?" I say smirking.
"Well... I... let's focus the future." Hondo says turning to Ahsoka and Commander Sato.
"Yes let's talk about this deal you have proposed." Sato says.
"Ah yes. I am willing to give your Rebel alliance a hidden outpost and the ships that are there to use at your discretion." Hondo says walking around confidentiality.
"Where is this hidden outpost?" Kanan asks.
"Felucia. There was a hidden Separatist base that was missed during the Clone wars. I found it and converted it into a pirate base. Any ships that are there are yours provided that I can take one to make my escape and rebuild my crew." Hondo says looking around hopefully.
Sato looks at Ahsoka.
"I think that is agreeable." Sato says holding a hand out.
"You have a deal." Hondo says shaking his hand.
"Now then about these restraints." He says gesturing to them.
"No those stay on until our deal is complete." I say looking at Ahsoka.
"I agree." Sabine says glaring at him.
"There is a lot of anger coming off of you Ezra. Calm down." Kanan says placing a hand on my shoulder.
"Sorry." I take a deep breath and calm down.
"But that doesn't change anything we don't trust him." I say calmly.
"I agree." Ahsoka says.
"Besides I still haven't forgot about the younglings Hondo." She says glaring at him.
"Well this isn't turning out well for me." Hondo says smiling nervously.
"No it's not." Sabine says glaring at Hondo.
"Well now c'mon an honorable warrior such of yourself won't hold a grudge against an older man such as myself?" Hondo says smiling slyly.
"I hold grudges against people who try to kill my friend." Sabine says.
"I wasn't going to kill him there I was just trying to lock him in the cell and we both know how that worked out." Hondo says frowning.
"Not what I was talking about." Sabine says grabbing Hondo's shirt and pulling him close.
"Oh he told you about our previous encounter." Hondo says shrinking back slightly.
"What previous encounter?" Kanan asks looking between the three of us.
"When I met him last time Hondo here tried to flush me out an airlock." I say smiling.
"But this clever boy managed to hack through my systems and get to an escape pod." Hondo says smiling.
"You are lucky I did." I say walking to the doors.
"I wouldn't let him out of your sight he'll disappear."
I walk through the doors.
"Ezra wait!" I hear Sabine say following me.
I walk off towards the Ghost.
"Ezra." Sabine says walking up beside me.
"What?" I ask trying to stay calm.
"That guy is an ass." She says following me onto the Ghost.
"But I was wondering how powerful you are in the force?" Sabine asks looking slightly nervous.
"Powerful enough to crush a small turret, and hold a weequay against a wall apparently." I say not looking at her.
"Yeah but what can you really do when you really let go with the force?" She asks curiously.
"I don't know and quite frankly don't want to." I say frowning.
"I use it enough to get the job done."
I sigh stopping.
"Sabine have you ever just felt cold like nothing is at the very heart of who you are?" I ask looking at her.
She looks at me confused.
"No. I can't say I have." She says looking at me slightly worried.
"Here follow me I want to try something that might help you understand." I say heading for the training room.
"Okay?" Sabine says as more of a question.
We get there and I sit down on the floor and focus on the force.
"What are you doing?" Sabine asks sitting as well.
"Showing you the dark side of the force." I say focusing on the empty feeling that has lingered in my body.
"How?" She asks worriedly.
"Like this." I take the feeling and send it to Sabine.
"What the haran!*"
I stop after a few seconds and pull the feeling back and hide it deep down.
"That is what I would have to feel to use my full power in the force right now so no I don't use it." I say frowning.
"That felt so cold and empty. Is that something you feel often?" She asks worried.
"No I don't feel it most of the time." I say standing.
"Ezra what was that? I just felt a darkside presence." Kanan asks worriedly through my comm link.
"I was showing Sabine what the darkside felt like." I say calmly.
"YOU WHAT!" Kanan yells.
"Relax I didn't tap into it. I brought up the memory of the asteroid." I say rolling my eyes.
"I still think that you shouldn't go anywhere near anything dark side." Kanan says disapprovingly.
"It won't happen again Kanan." I say closing the comm channel.
"That was a terrible feeling Ezra." Sabine says sadly.
"That is why hate and anger feed the darkside so well. It is amplified by that feeling of empty." I say walking back to my room.
I get to my room and crawl into my bunk when I realize that Sabine has followed me.
"I'm sorry about earlier." She says looking unsure of something.
"For what?" I ask looking at the ceiling.
"When we were at the munitions room. I couldn't get past the door and was pissed about it. I had no reason to be angry with you." She says looking guilty.
"No problem." I say staring at the ceiling.
"You can come all the way in if you want." I say realizing that she's just standing in the entry way.
"Thanks." She say walking in and sitting down in a small chair.
A few minutes of silence later I look at her.
"Why are you here?" I ask eyeing her curiously.
"I-well I was curious." She says looking nervous.
"About?" I ask still eyeing her.
"About why you were so angry with Hondo." She says nervously.
"And you didn't know whether or not it was a question I would answer or not?" I guess.
"Well yeah." She says looking at me.
"What?" I ask slightly confused.
"Well when Hondo kicked me and I woke up the first thing I saw was you with an angry look on your face and Hondo being held up to the wall with the force. You actually looked intimidating." She says smiling.
"So that's why you were nervous." I say smiling.
"Well yeah the last time I saw anything like that there was a Sith lord involved." She says jokingly.
"I'm not going to go to the darkside Sabine." I say frowning.
"What? No I wasn't suggesting that." She says hurriedly.
"Okay." I say.
I hop down to the floor and sit down.
I begin to meditate and relax.
"What are you doing?" Sabine asks.
"Meditating." I say closing my eyes.
"I'll go then." She says standing up.
"Don't go." I say quietly.
"Why?" She asks curious.
"Your presence is… calming." I say quieter.
"Okay." She says sitting across from me on the floor.
"So what do you focus on when meditating?" She asks looking around.
"Well I mainly focus on letting go of all feelings." I say letting go of most feelings.
"Why do you let go of emotion?" She asks still looking around.
"Because a Jedi needs to be balanced. Emotions can throw that balance off. Emotions like anger lead to hate and hate leads to suffering which is the path to the darkside." I say quoting Yoda.
"That was surprisingly wise." Sabine says smiling.
I can feel her happiness.
"I'm trying to learn all I can from Kanan and Ahsoka while I can." I say smiling.
"That's smart considering everything." Sabine says looking at me.
"So do you want to hear how I met Hondo?" I ask opening my eyes.
"If you want to tell me." She says.
"I trust you." I say shrugging.
"Really?" She asks surprised.
"Yeah." I say standing up.
"Want to grab something to eat while I tell you." I ask holding out a hand to help her up.
"Sure." She says taking my hand.
We walk out and to the kitchen.
"So I guess I should start from the beginning. I met Hondo after stealing the supply ship from the Empire and jumping to empty space." I say sitting down with a glass of water.
"He was happy to see us and immediately started to transfer the cargo to his ships. We talked for a while about how I was able to take control of the ship when the bounty hunter I was paired with suggested to Hondo that they didn't need me anymore." I say frowning.
"At first Hondo disagreed saying that we could take more supply ships together. That is until the bounty hunter said that she could do my job now that she knew how I took control. After that he turned to me and said that our partnership was no longer necessary to his succes. And at that point his men turned their blasters on me and well gave me this." I say pulling up the left side of my shirt.
Sabine's hand flies to her mouth as she gasps at the scar.
The scar is red and irregularly round.
"They got me with a lucky shot. I managed to hack into an airlock and then get into the vent systems. I got in an escape pod and blasted to one of the smaller ships. Once there I took a fighter and jumped back to Lothal. There I found an Imperial officer and gave the info on how to find Hondo's fleet and their missing supplies. But once again I was cheated out of my earnings and went back to stealing which is how I met you guys." I say pulling my shirt back down.
"That's terrible." Sabine says angrily.
"Not really when you think about." I say smiling.
"What do you mean?" Sabine asks confused.
"Yeah if none of that happened I wouldn't have met you guys, I wouldn't have had a chance to become a Jedi, and I wouldn't be fighting the Empire." I say smiling.
"Well if you think of it like that you're pretty lucky." She says smiling.
"Yeah." I say smiling.
"Hey Ezra." My comm link says.
"Yeah Kanan?" I ask.
"We got the coordinates from Hondo for the base and are preparing to jump but we have to drop this supply ship off somewhere for the Empire to find any ideas?" Kanan says happily.
Sabine looks at me excitedly.
"I think Sabine does." I say smiling.
"Well you two get up here and get ready to do whatever crazy plan Sabine has in mind." Kanan says laughing a little.
"You got it Kanan." I says shutting off the comm link.
"So what are you thinking?" I ask smiling at her.
"Oh I have a plan for that ship." Sabine say standing up.
"And what's that?" I ask curious.
"Well remember that refining facility that the Empire took over last month?" She says smiling mischievously.
"The one they cleared the civilians out of right?" I ask.
"Yeah. And remember how it was too heavily guarded for us to destroy in a straight up fight?" She says getting even more excited.
"Oh that's a good idea." I say jumping up to follow her.
"I know let's go and see how fast that ship can go." Sabine says walking out of the kitchen.
"Oh this is going to be fun." I say following.
A/N So I have a another chapter ready to go here for Monday. I'll post early if people ask nicely.