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Sabine was frozen. She just stood there, looking at the monitor that was nothing more than a black screen. It was as if everything around her was gone, there was nothing but her and the hatred. Ezra had lied to her, the man she loved. A single tear rolled down her cheek as her face adopted a look of nothing but anger.
'How could he do this?' Sabine asked herself, over and over again as she lifted her brother and mother from her thoughts. She couldn't help but drift to the memories of every she woke up in Ezra's arms, every time they made love, every time he said he loved her 'was it all I lie?' she asked herself again as more angry tears began to fall down her cheeks. Sabine began to shake with anger as she remembered what Ezra told "there are things about me you wouldn't like... if you knew" she remembered Ezra saying as he left their bed after a great night only a couple of days ago "AAAAHHHHH" Sabine screamed in anger as she hit the black monitor screen with her bare fist, cracking the screen.
"I'm gonna kill him" Tristen swore as he gritted his teeth and clenched his fists tighter than he's ever done that before but looking over to his mother crying more than he's ever seen her before, when Tristen spent some time with the Ghost on some missions and in their spare time. They told Tristen about Sabine and Ezra and how much she cried when she learnt what had happened to him. Tristen realized that it must be a Wren thing to cry so much when it comes to the people they love.
Tristen walked over Ursa and placed a hand on her shoulder. Ursa slowly turned to face her son as he managed to keep is anger at bay and give her a sad smile. Ursa quickly turned to face him fully and wrapped her arms around her son, holding him as tight as she could, allowing herself to weep for her husband "how could he do this to me, to us" Ursa said trying everything she could to but her tears at bay.
"I don't know, but we're going to make him pay for it" Tristen vowed "I'm going to kill me with my bare hands" Tristen said grinding his teeth.
As Ursa listened to what Tristen was saying the shock of what she just saw and the shock of officially losing her husband. Ursa now had time to process the whole video, not just the part where she saw her husband die. Now she could remember who did it. Ezra, the man who founded The New Republic, the man who was the most powerful force user she has ever seen, the man who tricked her daughter to fall in love with him, the man who almost tour her family apart "I'm going to rip his arms off" Ursa spat as she pulled away from Tristen "how the hell could he do this to us?" She said just thinking out loud.
"I don't know" Sabine said for the first time still looking forward towards the screen "but I am going to find out"
"no" Tristen said as he walked behind Sabine on the right and Ursa did the same on her left "we'll do it together, he was our father too" he finished putting a hand on her shoulder.
"ok. Let's go have a talk with Ezra" Sabine said as she turned around and froze.
Ezra stood still in front of the open-door way leading to the rest of the temple. Ezra didn't need to ask, he knew they knew. He could tell by feeling all the negative emotions that their bodies where giving off, they knew. Ezra knew what they were going to do, or what they were going to try and do at least. Ezra waved his right arm to the side and used the force to close the door behind them, giving them the privacy they were going to need. He looked the faces of the Wren's, hurt, betrayal... pain. It was when he looked into Sabine's eyes that he really felt like Starkiller had won, he did more bad then Ezra did good. He lost her.
Tristen didn't even wait, as soon as the door was closed he pulled his blaster and shot a bolt right at Ezra's face. Ezra waved his left arm and the blaster bolt bounced off his hand and hit the wall.
Sabine walked forward towards Ezra, looking at him like she didn't even know him anymore, like he was a monster. Sabine stopped right in front of him, still shaking with anger "where you ever gonna to tell me" she simply asked.
"Sabine I..." Ezra started, trying to speak as softly as he could.
"Don't BULLSHIT me Ezra!" Sabine hissed as her eye continued to water "where you ever going to tell me?" She repeated.
Ezra paused for a moment, his mind thinking of what Yoda told him. He was right, again. She did find out alone and it might have been better coming from him but Ezra couldn't risk it "No" Ezra said looking right into Sabine's eyes.
Sabine took a step back, both in shock and anger 'He was never going to tell me?' Sabine said to herself. She turned sideways facing the wall, she put on a fake smile and nodded.
Without waiting a second longer Sabine let the anger consume her and let it out. She quickly pulled one of Ezra's Lightsabres from her belt as she still held the two from when Ezra gave her them before he went to talk to Mara and began slashed at him aiming for his head.
Ezra quickly ducked under the slash and used the force to pull the other Saber from her belt to his hand. And blocked the next incoming attack. The two stood in a blade lock looking into each other's eyes. Sabine's eyes looked at him with a fire of hatred and Ezra's looking into hers with nothing but sadness in them.
Ezra gently used a force push to knock Sabine back towards Tristen and Ursa. Sabine steadied herself and looked back up to Ezra as the rest of her family pulled their weapons out and aimed them at Ezra while he calmly gripped his saber in a reverse grip.
Mountain area a mile from the temple
Leia and Ti had been walking in silence since their talk about the dark side, for the last couple of minutes Leia had been fighting thoughts of worry. She couldn't explain it, something's happened and it wasn't good "what is that?" She asked out loud.
"it's the force" Shaak Ti said as they reached a clearing "we must hurry" she said doing everything she could to hide her fear, she didn't want to worry Leia. Something bad has happened, there wasn't a question, something has happened.
Leia looked forward and her eyes widened. In front of the two were stairs that led to what looked like some sort of altar "whoa" Leia said as she and Ti continued to walk forward.
"this is the forge" Ti explained as the two walked forward up the stairs "in ancient times when the Jedi still lived here, it was said that masters brought their apprentices here so that they could create their own lightsabers. And that is what you are going to do now" she finished as the two made it to the top of the steps and Leia was shocked by what she saw.
It was an altar, to stepped forward towards the alter and placed a rolled-up cloth on top of it "you are not going to think about what your saber is going to look like, you are not going to build it with your hands" she said as she unrolled the cloth and revealing all the parts of different sets of sabers, different colour kyber crystals. She turned around and faced Leia "you are going to build your saber by allowing the force to flow through you"
Leia looked over to the altar before stepping forward. Now standing no more than three feet away, she looked over to Shaak-Ti who smiled and nodded to her. Leia took a worried breath. Ti sensed her hesitation and placed a comfiting hand on her shoulder "don't doubt yourself, trust in the force" she said smiling.
Leia smiled back before getting on her knees and assuming a meditative stance. She did as instruct, closed her eyes and tapped into the force, letting it flow through her. Ti smiled as she felt Leia tap into the force, even more so when she turned and saw certain peace's of sabers start to float into the air and combining together. Ti's eye brows rose in surprise as she could see even more parts began to form with the others, it was enough the make more than one saber. Expect for it was only one crystal.
Leia had closed her eyes while meditating, she found that it made things easier, everyone did. Closing your eyes blocked out any visual distractions they might have. Leia didn't even remember why she was doing this, it was very common to lose yourself when in a mediation "where you ever going to tell me?" she heard a voice say in the distance but it wasn't Shaak Ti's voice, it was someone else's "don't BULLSHIT me Ezra" Ezra? What is happening? "Leia" she heard another voice say while she felt a hand on her shoulder.
Leia's eyes opened and still following her instincts she pulled her arm up and opened her hand just in time for the hilt of her new saber to land in it. Leia stood up and inspected it closer, it was much longer than any saber she has seen. Deciding to continue to follow her instincts she just pressed a button on the saber that she had a gut feeling about and to her surprise a green blade extended from the top of the saber and before she could even smile at her work a second blade extended from the bottom.
Ti smiled at Leia's work, a green double-edged Lightsaber "well done Leia" To said as Leia turned to face her with a bright smile.
"thank you, master" Leia said as her mind drifted back to what she heard in her mind before she was brought out of her mediation. The smile on her face faded as she remembered what she and Ti both felt before they arrived "we have to get back to the temple" she said quickly as she placed her new saber on her belt and started to run back to the temple with Shaak Ti right behind her.
"Master Ti, are you there" Jacobs said through the coms.
"yes Jacobs, what is it?" she asked as she ran.
"there's a situation, in one of the secondary conference rooms. There's blaster fire and explosions coming from other side of the door which is locked. We would try and blow are way in but we don't want to endanger the people inside"
Jedi Temple
The room they were standing was a wreck. Scorch marks on the walls, broken up chairs. Ezra took another step back as Sabine charged again, with Tristen and Ursa behind her. They were attacking Ezra with everything they had, blasters, grenades and his own saber. On the outside, everyone in the base was trying to get through the doors.
Ezra's face didn't hold any anger, just sadness as the three attack him. He didn't fight back, just dodged and blocked all of the attacks. He knew that they didn't stand a chance against them, they knew that they couldn't do anything but they didn't care. All they cared about was revenge, Sabine was carrying as she attacked. Which only made Ezra feel worse. What hurt him the most was that he caused this, Mara was right. Starkiller was always going to be a part of his life and even now he was influencing him.
Ezra jumped backwards to dodge a slash at him. He now stood six feet away from the three who stood in a line side by side. They look exhausted "enough" Ezra simply said.
Sabine pointed Ezra Saber at him "NO, ITS NOT. I TRUSTED YOU, I LOVED YOU. HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?" She screamed at him.
"Sabine..." Ezra said softly "I am truly sorry, I'm not going to beg for your forgiveness. Not matter how much I want it, I have loved from the moment I saw your face. When dragged me out of that Turret. It's a love I don't deserve, I never have deserved it. Not since Malachor" Ezra said as he raised his arm and pulled his saber out of her hand "so, go. Leave. Go back to Mandalore, live your life however you see fit. I won't try and stop you. Leave, before I hurt you even more. Just know, that I never wanted to do this to you. I'm sorry" he finished before turning and heading for the door.
"HEY, WE'RE NOT DONE!" Tristen yelled as he pulled his blaster up and fire. Ezra activated one of his sabers and blocked the bolt behind his back, the bolt flew backwards and hit Tristen's hand knocking the blaster out of his hand.
Outside in the corridor there were dozens of soldiers, including the Ghost crew, Obi-Wan and Luke. Everyone was freaking out, no-one had any idea what was happening the only thing that any knew was that Ezra was in there, or Master Bridger. Everyone jumped back and grabbed their weapons and aimed them at the door as they heard another blaster bolt being fired "Ok, that's it. I'm not waiting" Luke said as he walked forward to the door taking his saber off his hilt.
But before he could activate it. The doors where pushed open, it was like the door was bent off their hinges and Ezra walked out with his hands at his sides. As he walked out a squad of soldiers went in the room all battle ready and weapons aimed.
Hera walked forward looking worried, her eyes looking at him all over to check for injury "Ezra... what..." Was all she could say.
"Ezra, what the hell is going on?" Kanan asked stepping forward as well.
Ezra didn't say anything, he just walked past them both and headed for the meditation chamber. Hera opened her jaw and frowned at what Ezra was doing 'did he just ignore me, he's never done that' he tapped Kanan on the chest "follow him" she ordered before she turned to face everyone else "ok everyone, no crisis back to work" she ordered before heading into the room.
She couldn't help but pause as she looked around seeing carnage around her. She doubted anything in this room would be useable again for a couple of days of repair, but what made her worry the most was the completely destroyed looking Sabine standing in the middle of the room with very teary eyes, just starring at the wall "Sabine" Hera said softly as she walked forward not even noticing Tristen and Ursa "Hey" she softly said as she reached out and grabbed her hand. Sabine turned her eyes to look at Hera "what happened?" She asked.
Sabine eyes darted all over the room before landing back on Hera's "he... he... he killed him" was all she could say before walking past Hera and out of the room with her family not far behind her.
Mediation chamber
Ezra was sitting on one of the mediation chairs looking out of the window as the sun was raising. He felt nothing but sadness but all he could do was sit and wait for Sabine to leave. It's what she was going to do, there was no denying that, he was just going to wait for her too. Once that was done he was going to get back to work. Maybe to try an avoid the pain of everything that just happened, the pain of her no longer being in his life. In fact, the only thing from Ezra going insane with anger was the fact that he knew that she would be better off without him. Without the darkness of Starkiller in her life.
Ezra heard the door open and he could feel that it was Kanan stepping inside "you know, if you really want to be like the older Jedi. You really have the cryptic responses down perfectly" he said trying to joke but Ezra didn't even turn his head. Kanan walked in and closed the door behind him before anyone else could come in "ok Ezra look, the entire base is freaking out. They want to know what happened, myself and the rest of the Jedi included. You have to give me something, to calm them down" he said.
Ezra sighed and looked down before turning to face him. Kanan looked concerned and Ezra didn't need the force to tell him that he was worried "Sabine and I broke up" Ezra said.
Kanan opened his mouth, tilted his head and frown in confusion all at once "WHAT!" He yelled "the sounds of blaster fire and explosions were because of a breakup?" He asked "what... how... why..." He couldn't help but ask all at once. Closing his eyes Kanan took a deep breath and calmed himself as Ezra just stared at him patently "you're going to have to explain that bit Ezra" he finished.
Ezra looked into Kanan's eyes before answering "somehow Sabine found out about a certain imperial file that was in the data banks of The Kallus, this file contained video footage about Starkillers first mission" he said seeing Kanan's eye brows raise "something that I never told anyone, I don't know why, maybe it was because I'm so ashamed or that I'm afraid of what would happen once the truth is out" Ezra closed his eyes for a moment and sighed "I killed Sabine's farther" Ezra finished.
Kanan didn't have any reaction. He just slouched in his chair, thinking about what Ezra just said. Starkiller murdered Sabine's father, sighing and resting his head in his hand 'SHIT!' He shouted in his head. What was Sabine going to do? Go back to Mandalore? Stay and fight? Forgive him? It took Kanan a moment before he realized that Ezra said 'I killed Sabine's father' and not 'Starkiller killed Sabine's father' if that meant what he thought it meant. Everything they built was in jeopardy, if Ezra believed that he was still Starkiller then they needed to get that back under control "well, Ezra. Does anyone else know about this?" He asked.
"well, Tristen and Ursa know. Vader, Sidous maybe some more high-ranking imperials" Ezra answered.
"Ezra, this is not good. Those three where some of your biggest supporters on Mandalor. If the other Mandalorian's get wind about this we might lose their support. Shit that's going to be a big step back" he said sighing.
"That's not going to happen" Ezra said standing up and walking over to the window "Sabine and her family might hate me for the rest of their lives but there're not stupid. They still want the empire gone, and for that to happen, anyone who wants that to happen knows that they need 'The New Republic' to do that" Ezra said sighing "and yeah, I've lost her. I know that, but Kanan... I don't need Sabine in order to end this. I know what I have to do to win, I know what I need to sacrifice" he finished before the door to the chamber opened and Jacobs walked in.
"apologies for the interruption Master Bridger" Jacobs said as he bowed his "Master Jarrus" he said nodding to Kanan "are Hoth base has contacted us, 'The N.R Kallus' has been completely sweeped and checked for trackers and any other traps the empire might have for us, and Admiral Ackbar believes she's ready for her first mission, he said you would know what that means" Jacobs said before leaving.
Ezra knew what that meant, Kallus was ready for their recruiting spree, ideally recruiting pilots and engineers so Kallus can be at one hundred percent when the imperials first meet her. Ezra started to walk for the hanger "wait" Kanan said stopping him before he could leave the room "Ezra I know you should be there but we need you here, you need to get on this situation right now" Kanan said putting a hand on Ezra's shoulder.
"Kanan people don't need me here, in fact I think it would be a good idea for me not to be here. People need a break from me" Ezra said walking past him and out of the room.
"NO. Wait" Kanan said jogging after him "Ezra" he said jumping in front of him placing a hand on his chest "I know you just want to leave, a big break up will do that but if you do it will lower people's moral a lot. That's very bad. It will make everyone hesitate..." Kanan said as Ezra tuned out.
'hesitate, she hesitated' Ezra thought to himself as his eyes widened and his jaw dropped. He looked up to see Kanan talking but he couldn't hear anything he was saying "that's it" Ezra mumbled to himself.
"Ezra, EZRA!" Kanan shouted getting Ezra's attention but before he could say anything else.
Ezra grabbed him by the cheeks and pulled him in towards his face "she hesitated" Ezra said plainly.
"What?" Kanan asked as his face was smushed up and only inch's away from Ezra's.
"JADE. MARA JADE. SHE HESITATED, SHE NEVER HESITATES!" Ezra yelled before letting go of his face and sprinting towards Mara's cell.
"WHAT!?" Kanan shouted as he ran after him.
By now Leia and Master Ti had made their way back to the temple. They both sprinted into the temple's main chamber. They both turned to the left to see Ezra running towards them "Ezra, what's going on?" Leia asked.
"Later!" Was all Ezra said as he ran through the two and down to Mara's cell.
Down in the bottom level of the temple Mara was leaning back in her chair smiling to herself. She could feel the pain from the Mandalorian from down here in her cell, sure, she may have felt a little bad for breaking the girl. She would have made a good agent for the empire. And Starkiller, well... this was just a necessary step in order to get him back to place he needs to be, in darkness.
Mara looked up to see Starkiller opening the door. She smiled at the sight. Oh, how she had missed how much he can be. Ezra walked right up to her "why did you hesitate?" He asked.
Mara frowned in confusion for a moment before feeling the force signatures of at least five different people on the other side of the glass "I'm sorry, what?" she asked.
Ezra placed both of his hands on the table and leaned in towards her "when I came in here and I said 'I get the third most powerful sith in the empire' after I said that, you looked down for a moment. You hesitated before responding. You have never hesitated about anything for as long as I've known you" Ezra said.
Mara's face straightened as she leaned back "I don't know what you're talking about" she said looking away.
Ezra shook his head "no, no, no" he walked around the table and got right in her face "what's happened? What has he done?" He asked. Ezra looked closer at her face. She was fidgeting, hugging herself, her eyes darting everywhere "you're scared" Ezra realized.
Mara looked up at him, fear spread all over her face. Either she was trying to hide it but it was so much that she couldn't do it, or she wasn't even trying. Both caused Ezra to become really concerned "I am terrified" she said.
"you've never feared any think" Ezra said. He reached out and tried to be more calm and soft because Ezra wasn't going to intimidate her, not while she was already scared. Ezra placed a hand on her shoulder, Mara looked up to and stared into his eyes "we both know how the Sith work, if you escape, they'll kill you for getting captured in the first place. The only way to avoid that is to kill me when you escape and revile the location of this base to the empire but they would probably kill you anyway because they'll want to kill me themselves" Ezra said laying out the basic logic "your only chance of survival and to get revenge is to help. Mara, I am only going to ask you this one more time. What has he done?" Ezra asked looking right into her eyes.
Mara hated to do this but he was right, she always hated that about him. weather it was Ezra or Starkiller. Mara looked down and sighed "after Coruscant..." She started as Ezra could feel the interests of everyone on the other side of the glass increase a thousand-fold, they didn't think she'd actually talk "Vader went on a rampage. He killed anyone who so much as looked at him. And the emperor wasn't any better, that was until he came up with his knew plan. After Coruscant, the emperor decided that you where the real threat. A deadly one, so he took steps to get rid of you. A step we both hoped that he would never do"
Ezra stood up and looked at her intently before he started spread a look of fear on his face "he built Vader the suit, didn't he?" He asked. Mara nodded. Ezra turned around and put his hand over his mouth breathing rapidly in fear "how long has he been in the suit?" He asked.
"long enough to become as good of a duellist as he used to be, he's not slowed down anymore by the suit anymore and though his force power is only slightly more powerful, it's still enough for him to be a one-man army" Mara answered.
Ezra turned and looked through the glass right where he could Obi-Wan was standing "training, now!" he said looking at Obi-Wan as he pointed at Luke and Leia who were standing on the other side of the glass. True they needed to be trained because of what he just learnt but he didn't want them here while they were talking about Vader "but that's not all, is it?" He asked turning to look at Jade again, knowing that if what she said was all Sidious had done she would still be the most powerful Sith.
Mara shook her head "there's a knew player, I don't know who he is or where he came from but he's strong in the force. And he beat me, within a minute" Mara said as Ezra looked on at her thinking about everything he was just told 'about to begin the next chapter of this war is' he remembered Yoda say to him.
"we need to be ready" he said to himself before leaving the room and heading to hanger, he needed to get to Hoth and prepare Kallus. They needed as many recruits as they could get, this war just got a lot more complicated.
First, I want to say sorry for the long wait. Honestly, I don't if I should be worried about things that were said when people got impatience or flattered that people liked the story so much that they said those things. Either way, you know, whatever.
Please let me know what you think in the reviews and I will try and update sooner.
P.S since my new story 'Star Wars Rebels: A New Origin' is going to be Ezra/Sabine. I'll make this one Ezra/Leia.
