Ezra awoke in that dark void yet again, nothing felt real, and yet everything felt more real than anything he had felt in a long time, the cold chill of some air blowing from who knows where, a dark void or well, Ezra was confused it looked black and lightless yet he could see fine, it was just so strange, the sound of water rippling gently as he stepped. Ezra grumbled looking around, he felt weightless this time, seeing nothing,

"Are you trapped here to?" a snarling shrill voice hissed at him, Ezra jumped turning around, he saw…

Himself? Ezra blinked a few times rubbing his eyes. He looked again grey tunic with dark grey almost black cloth rapping as if it were a foul mockery of the jedi tunics.

He also had a black robe, Ezra looked at him, he had a gaping chest wound as if from a blaster bolt, Ezra looked at him noticing some wounds around his legs, scratching up the grey leggings, he had boots that looked awfully similar to the inquisitor's boots, long black leather boots pointed near the toes, with slightly pointed metal tips.

The man sort of limped towards Ezra leaning to one side holding both hands out as if to welcome the boy.

"What's wrong? This is a bit shocking, yes? I suppose it would be…" the man spoke widening his eyes showing sickly yellow pupils,

"W-What… who?..." Ezra on instinct as the man stepped forward, he let one foot slide backwards preparing to back away.

"I can explain… but it is probably easier to show you"

"How could you show me? What could you show me?"

The lookalike stepped to Ezra pointing him at a space in the sky or does a sky exist here? It was just a void.

Suddenly as if water it rippled before settling the colourless and lightless void brightened as Ezra saw himself.

Ezra stumbled through the black rocky planet red fires spitting up into the ash filled sky. He screamed for help, as he did so a dull humming of electricity or possibly, plasma? PLASMA! Ezra ducked as a crimson blade swung where his head just was, sparks flew into the sky as it crashed into a rock blacker than space itself. Ezra ducked twice before the blade and wielder adapted and as he ducked the blade swung down clipping his shoulder as the doppelganger leapt towards the ground. Ezra watched as Vader himself stood above him

"You are a failure… no wonder your friends abandoned you!" Vader lifted his arms above his head holding his lightsaber and swung down, as he did Ezra screamed in fear raising his hands with his palms open facing the blade as if to stop it.

Ezra looked to see himself alive still, Vader struggling to push the blade down, Ezra screamed in fear once more pushing his hands out throwing Vader through a small boulder. He used the force to pull the dark lord's lightsaber to him as he ran igniting it again as he swung wildly hitting Vader in the arms and chest, before the Sith lord held his hand out, slightly his fist closed except his index finger and thumb which were extended, Ezra was lifted into the air, dropping the weapon as it extinguished. Vader watched without care as the boy grasped at his neck.

Ezra felt like his head was about to burst and then Vader opened his hand walking over to the boy now on the ground, picking up his lightsaber Vader looked at him.

"You did better than most… take five minutes to rest, before I come at you again… you best not hold back this time… I won't"

The image faded to a different time

A man who in the same outfit as the doppelganger standing next to our broken hero. But they had their black robe's hood lifted, a black jedi temple guard helmet hiding his face, red paint where the golden emblems were. The boots clanked against the steel floor as he walked towards a group of rebels, some had legs or arms missing, it looked to be a hallway, sparks flew around the Inquisitor looking man, he grabbed a lightsaber hilt from his belt pointing the end towards the ground on a slight angle, he ignited it walking towards the rebels, sparks flying off the clashing metal and crimson blade, two were holding wounds on either their chests or legs as they tried to activate an escape pod. Ezra closed his eyes as he heard screams of pain and the sound of flesh burning.

Ezra opened his eyes once more to see it change again.

The man was removing his mockery of a temple guard's helmet, to reveal Ezra's face, his eyes a golden sick sea, void of emotion, a cruel parody of how he used to look, full of energy and life. Joy seemed to be gone all Ezra saw when he looked into the vison of himself was anger.

Ezra sat in front of a sink, black and green hair dye washing into his normally raven blue hair, the tips now bright green contrasting the darkness of the black in his hair he walked into another room stopping in the centre 'Ezra' crossed his legs meditating in a black steel room, similar to that of what Ezra imagined Vader's temple was like. 'Ezra' floated into the air gently bobbing up and down faintly he saw a familiar sight, Ahsoka. She looked terrified. Then he saw Vader, he felt like he could actually hear the Cyborg's robotic breathing. 'Ezra' opened his eyes and fell to the ground in shock, kneeling as he saw Vader actually standing there.

"M-My lord… W-What can I do for you?"

"There is an ancient practice long forgotten, the only way to find it is through two Sith, both must be strong in the force, and both must have gone through some form of betrayal or true abandonment… I searched for years… you might be what I needed" Vader stopped speaking letting his robotic breathing echo through the room that was filled with nothing else but silence.

The two wandered through a dark cave before they found a wall carved into the black stone that made up the cave were writing. Some language Ezra wasn't familiar with. it looked like there was a door or gate but he couldn't find a lever or other system to open it. He tried his hardest pushing his hands onto the door screaming in rage as the ground cracked slightly from the attempts to push the door open.

"Do you think me a fool boy! I… Already tried that" Vader looked annoyed, or at least as annoyed as a robotic helmet could look.

"S-Sorry… forgive me"

"There must be. Another way in" Vader looked at the writing on the wall and in frustration slashed at it with his blade. The rock crumbled showing a passage, the door was simply a ruse. The two continued in. They walked towards the black tunnel fading into darkness

the image changed again

Ezra fell to his knees, the dusty rock planet of Mandalore would be his undoing.

He looked at his chest covered by the tunic, only there was a gaping hole in both his chest and tunic. He gasped for breath falling onto his forearms as well, before slumping down landing on the rocky ground, he saw Sabine looking at him. It faded to black as he saw the orange ball of flame slowly lower over the horizon.

The image started to ripple as it faded away. Ezra stood there looking at the fading image. He had his eyes open wide; his mouth slightly open. The lookalike walked towards him leaning to one side slightly limping on that side.

"Y-You see… that is why I'm here"

"So, you are me? From the future?" Ezra tilted his head slightly, squinting his eyes and lifting his top lip, allowing his jaw to open slightly.

"Ha god that's stupid no!" the man began laughing like a psychopath.

"Wait… what?"

"This place connects everything, Vader thought it possible to cheat death here if it came to that"

"What do you mean everything?"

"GOD! You are the slowest piece of shit! Sorry… that was rude it's just… never mind. Do you understand the term Everything? It means all that ever has or will be, is connected by this, a time and space beyond well… time and space, if I ain't from the future, or past… hotshot can you guess where I came from?"

"A dif-different timeline?"

"Basically, actually pretty close, an alternate universe"

"So why am I here?"

"That's what I wanted to know. You aren't able to leave this place after you die, or ever, I've seen people come here alive and get stuck, something to do with the universes staying separate?"

"So… this is really a void then"

"Yeah, Ezra now you are getting it"

"You are me… I am you; you were trained by Vader instead of Kanan?"

"No!... how do you think we met? We shouldn't be able to even chat here, it feels as if you are being pulled away by a giant hand… so I want to know how… maybe I can escape, if we are similar, you and I. connect the dots"

Ezra heard the sound of rubber or leather sliding on a waxed floor and both looked at each other, the other Ezra ran after him struggling to breathe thanks to the blaster wound. He ran after the boy.

"YOUR FAMILY LIES! THEY WILL BETRAY YOU! DON'T TRUST THEM! LEAST OF ALL THAT WHICH YOU CARE ABOUT MOST!"

he gasped in fear sitting up, Ezra looked around. Hera was passed out next to him.

"Maybe I messed with the timeline? God this is confusing" as he muttered to himself, Ezra stumbled to his feet.

He looked at his orange shirt, brown pants and beige armour plate around his shoulder and neck. He was wearing some grey cloth pants a bandage wrapped around an old wound on his chest. He saw next to it a robe similar to what that evil him wore. He looked at his old outfit it was coated in sand and dust, large rips and tears, blood all over it. He sighed and slipped into the robes.

Ezra sighed as he saw himself missing shoes. And then he saw similar tall leather black boots in front of him to the ones the dark him wore but these didn't have metal on the tips, he slipped into them.

Ezra walked out of the room not disturbing Hera as she looked like she just passed out. Ezra walked down the hall out the medical bay, walking through a small tight grey metal hall, it had some makeshift electric lamps connected to power batteries lighting it up. He stepped out a set of metal sliding doors similar to that you would see as a blast door on a star destroyer, he saw Lothal, the same rebel base he was at before he left. The same mountain with a command centre carved into it, metal grates as makeshift pathways. A large group of rebels there, maybe sixty or so rebels, he saw Kanan talking with Ahsoka on a hill in the distance, the sun was just rising.

He stared around in amazement, when he was gone both times, first from being captured, and second from leaving, nothing had changed, Ezra saw Zeb and Rex, the two were training new recruits how to shoot.

Red and Kristina were eating over on the tables next to the foot of the mountain, a makeshift canteen placed there.

Ezra inhaled as he watched the breeze gently sway the golden grass that shimmered slightly in the sun, he exhaled taking a step forward he tripped over a few loth cats freaking out as it jumped at him hissing, he turned around to protect himself and tripped over onto the ground laughing as it yowled running off.

Kristina heard this and looked over, a small smile creeping onto her face. Ezra stood up and brushed off his new robes, the grey cloth pants and grey tunic with black cloth wraps over it in the classic jedi tunic look, really made him look good, at least in his own eyes. He walked over to Kristina, smiling he sat down next to her.

"You okay Ezra? I mean you did kinda freak out and nearly died a few days ago…" Red asked eating his food.

"Uh… not really…"

"What do we need to get a medic?" Kristina freaked out about to stand up

"No… sorry should have been clearer… when you rescued me before I woke up I was in this void place… I tried to reach out to Kanan hoping he might save me… it was so weird I wish I could show or explain it… but then I saw that place again, this time I could actually feel myself there, I talked with someone, it was strange but he said I couldn't trust my family, or something… he showed me what happened to him"

"Huh… and you are sure you weren't just like dreaming or something?" Red pointed his fork at Ezra.

"Ha… I thought so to for a little the first time, but I felt the actual place sort of… just Kristina, you wouldn't ever do anything to hurt me right? No matter how small?"

The former imperial officer and Red stared at each other for a second, the shock passing as she stared at the boy next to her, she held him close as he wrapped his arms around her.

"Never… I wouldn't let any harm come to you" Ezra looked out the corner of his eye to see.

Himself? The other him, he quickly turned his head breaking out the hug and staring at where he saw himself, no one was there. Well, Jek was, he was just staring at the sunrise.

Ezra sighed,

"Everything alright… Ez…. Ezra come on; you're scaring me"

With those words he snapped out of his trance, looking at the worried woman.

"S-Sorry, I just I need to check something… I need to go somewhere do we have a ship"

"Ezra you nearly died and just woke up! No way you are leaving or even trying to get near a ship till I know you're better. You should be having people checking on you testing your systems and stuff"

"Come on Kristina… I need to check something please!" Ezra begged hugging the woman.

"You want to go somewhere you're going to have to take us with you kid" Zeb piped up overhearing the group chatting causing Ezra to pause.

"This is much more of a me thing… trust me you wouldn't get it"

"Then no one will let you go, we aren't letting you out of our sight"

Ezra felt a cold chill as he heard something in his ear.

You need to help me escape… I can help you!

With these words Ezra jumped back out of his seat at the metal table.

"Sorry I uh… saw a spider?" Ezra brushed himself off as he got to his feet.

"Ezra… this is why you aren't going anywhere, you are on maintenance duty, I am staying with you, just keep stuff working at this base" Kristina ordered.

Ezra watched as the whole group ate at the lounge area of the Ghost, he stood alone in the corner, his leges crossed as he leant against a wall, his arms also crossed. They all smiled and laughed, the whole time, Ezra just stood there.

"Ezra, aren't you going to eat?" Rex looked at the boy standing in the corner.

"N-No I'm fine"

Ezra sat in his cell alone as Espinoza walked in holding a bowl of food, he handed it to the boy sitting near him as if to try and make it up to him. Ezra was confused but took the meal anyway, he bit down on the mush that was in the bowl, if felt warm and then he felt something else, as if he had just… Swallowed a razor! Ezra spat out the mush a razor blade and a whole lot of blood coming with it.