"Do you have a way out?"
"Ezra… I know one way out…. Slight problem with it, we are trying to iron out"
"And what is that?"
"We know a rebel attack is going to happen on this place, we are hoping it'll distract the Empire long enough"
"But?"
"There's a chance one of the four of us will have to stay behind, and it won't be you, you're getting out, so one of us three-"
"No. You can't let one of you… there has to be another way!"
"There is not going to be, we need them to make sure all the pilots are distracted and allow us to escape"
"But…"
"You aren't arguing with this"
Four weeks later
Ezra coughed up blood onto the metal floor, a knife handle sticking out of his stomach the blade seemed to be fully lodged into his stomach.
"Ezra… just so you know, I still think your spirit will break before your body"
"So… F-Fuck"
Alarms echoed throughout the ship as the door slid open. Ezra threw Espinoza into the wall of his cell
He faded out of consciousness everything faded to black
Unknown time, unknown location
The black faded to white before his vision cleared,
"W-What…. The. Fuck" Ezra sat up looking around he was seeing double, soon the doubles merged together as his vision cleared completely, he was in a high tech hidden medical centre, doctors walked around, he coughed weakly standing up.
"Hey you aren't allowed to stand up for another-" Ezra grabbed the man by his face pushing him away, Ezra stumbled forward out the centre to see it was half buried in a mountain, there was a command centre in a hollowed out part of the mountain just above,
Metal grating was used as paths, crates scattered here and there, a few landing pads next to the medical centre,
The wind blew rough and Ezra shivered rubbing his arms, hugging his chest, that's when he noticed he didn't have a shirt on, a bandage was wrapped around his stomach. Soldiers rushed around, he looked up to where the command centre was to see a man with a green sweater looking at him.
Ezra ran into a soldier both falling backwards to the ground
"S-Sorry"
"You are a dumbass"
"Hey you got a problem with me?" Ezra growled while the two stood to their feet.
"Yes… you ran into me on purpose!"
"No, I didn't… and I am sorry, so let's drop it"
"The only thing I'm going to drop is you" The soldier lunged at Ezra as a group of soldiers stopped and stared, the soldier flew through the air towards Ezra only to be lifted into the air and thrown into some crates a loud crash echoing through the golden fields that were everywhere.
The soldier stood up swinging at Ezra, the boy simply grabbed his fist, slowly closing his hand, the soldier screamed in pain, a few loud cracks could be heard before Ezra let go, kicking him in the chest, sending the rebel flying into the foot of the mountain with the command centre in it.
Ezra groaned in pain, as he fell to his knees, then onto his forearms, tears flowing to the ground.
"Kristina… w-where are you?" Ezra quietly sobbed.
"YOU'RE CRAZY!" the soldiers voice echoed yet the whole world seemed muffled,
"Hey… Ezra" the voice was muffled but the boy looked up to see a woman in an imperial officer outfit.
"I-I…"
"-I was defending myself"
"Commander Bridger, you broke one of our soldier's hand"
"He attacked me!"
Ezra was standing in front of a holo-table in the command centre he saw earlier, Sato was there, a few other heads of rebel groups too, Hera was also there. Kristina, and the rebel he defended himself from too.
"He's lying! H-He's crazy he ran into me then attacked me!"
"Well… Bridger there were multiple witnesses, correct?" Sato asked,
"Yes"
"Then let's bring some up" four rebels walked up the side of the mountain along the path of metal grating to the command centre, large glass panels with holographic projections on them scattered the hollowed-out cave.
"It was self-defence"
"No. That boy could have left after throwing him away but he chose to crush his hand!"
"Yeah!"
"I agree with them he could have left!"
"Well Bridger… I have to side with this man then, they are-"
"Just do whatever I've done all I can" Ezra walked off towards the edge of the cliff
One of the rebels swung at Ezra, hitting his jaw, Ezra's face was thrown to the side, images flashing inside his head. Ezra ran his tongue across his teeth, before swinging back, making the man stumble backwards losing his footing and falling down the edge of the cliff barely grabbing onto the ledge, the other rebels attacked Ezra each hitting him, one punched him in the gut and he let out a blood curdling scream. The three rebels standing were thrown into a wall by the force, Ezra turned around to the man who was hanging onto the edge.
"P-Please… Help… P-Please! I beg you Please!" everyone watched as Ezra clenched his fist his left food was positioned just above the rebel's fingers; Ezra brought his foot down as people screamed.
Only for his foot to land next to his fingers. Ezra lent down grabbing the man and pulling him up.
"That one… w-was… self-defence"
A click was heard before the man who was standing behind Ezra, the one he just saved was lifted into the air grabbing at his neck before dropping his blaster. After hearing this Ezra let him go.
"Ezra… I seemed to have judged the situation wrong, you are free to leave all of you pending further investigation"
Kristina helped Ezra walk down the mountain, as they reached the bottom Red walked up to them,
"Does he know?" Red whispered to Kristina.
"Know what?"
"Well… when we escaped… You almost died, Tom managed to save you by locking the doors as he set off a few thermal detonators, people just thought everyone died. The whole landing bay was destroyed we barely made it out before it did there was a lot of spare fuel in it"
"N… N-N…. No! NO! NOO!" Ezra grabbed at his bloodied shoulder length raven blue hair at the front of his face, he screamed pulling at his hair.
"Ezra… he said that it was worth saving you"
"We were all a family; we are all a family"
"Ezra I am sorry for what happened" A male voice stated from behind them.
"Zeb?"
"Yeah Kid… it's me"
"W-Why'd… why'd you leave me?"