The Day of Disaster/Day of Hope: Part 6

This is an Alternate Beginning that has a different ending, it is just a different take to the story from the start. The Next Chapter will continue from Chapter 5

The Death of Ezra Bridger.

"Here you take this, you will be able to use it better than I could." Ezra said as he handed his Jet Pack to Alrich Wren, Sabine's father. As the transport went off the cliff, using the force he pushed Alrich out with the force push. Then smirked as he started to climb the plunging transport, jumping to the one following. Climbing as fast as he could he jumped to the next and then towards the cliff. He knew that he was not going to make it. Attempting to grab the cliff top he started to slide down. Sabine was there to grab his wrist. "Where have you been?" He asked as Sabine started to pull him up. Without warning the Saxton Captain flew around them and started to fire at them. Ezra felt the burning blast strike him, looking at Sabine he saw that she would not let him go as he started to drag her over the side. Using the last of his strength he twisted his arm free and fell. Smiling up at Sabine as he plunged downward. Meanwhile Rau and Bo-Katan returned fire driving the assassin away.

Sabine screamed his name in anguish and despair. As she watched Ezra fall. Looking at her Jet Pack control she saw that it was still recharging. Getting ready to jump after him to save him, she felt strong arms clasp on her arms dragging her away from the cliff. "No. let me go! I have to save him!" She raged as she tried to pull herself free from Rau and Bo-Katan.

"Your Jet Pack is not recharged, you cannot do it." Rau protested as he hung on to her. Suddenly she stopped pulling and thrashing, realizing it was too late.

Dropping to her knees, she ripped her helmet off and started to cry. No, it was not possible she thought as she screamed into the ground. "It is my fault, all my fault." She said repeatedly. Not feeling her father put his arms around her. Stopping her from screaming. The others just watched her as she cried in anguish and disbelief that Ezra was gone. She looked over and saw Kanan on his knees, huge tears running from his blind eyes. Standing she checked her gauge. "I need to see him." She almost whispered as she ignited her thrusters and flew down the cliff. Bo-Katan and Rau joined her as they flew down to the bottom. They found his clothes almost instantly, he had impacted with the ground. His body was gone. Moving up to the area, she knelt and picked up his lightsaber. "Where did he go, all that is here is his clothes?" She yelled as she just saw his clothes, helmet and belt.

"I have seen this before, when a Jedi dies he fades into the force." Rau informed her as he removed his helmet.

Standing Sabine felt heartbroken, he was truly gone and she never told him how much he meant to her. Not wanting to remain she flew back up to the top of the cliff. Leaving Rau and Bo-Katan to bury what was left. Landing in front of Kanan she held out Ezra's Lightsaber.

"No, you keep it. Ezra would want you to have it." Kanan said in almost a whisper as he turned to mourn.

Joined by Rau and Bo-Katan a few moments later, Rau held out a Data Chip. "We found this in one of his pockets, it is addressed to you. Sabine." Handing her the chip as he saw her take it, her hands shaking as she held the chip like it was a million credits.

"We need to go, my daughter." Alrich told her as she nodded and they flew to join Ursa and Triston who were still fighting the Imperials and the Saxtons. On route Sabine heard the report from her mother. Strangely the Saxton's had sent in a lone Imperial Scout Walker it attempted to power some type of weapon up but within moments it exploded in an electrical field. Later Sabine discovered it was the Empress, and she knew the fools tried to rebuild it without her and they did not know that it required special calibrations to make it work. Returning to the Base Camp, Sabine handed the Dark Saber to Bo-Katan and told the older woman she could not lead anymore. Her heart was not in it. Leading Chopper to a secluded place near the camp she inserted the chip.

"Please play this." She asked the droid as it began to run the data and sent out a small hologram of Ezra.

The small miniature began to speak. "Sabine if you are seeing this, then I am dead. I am so sorry that I never told you how I felt about you. I suppose you probably already know from the beginning I had a boy hood crush on you. From the moment I met you in that gunnery station I fell in love with you and it grew as I came to admire you and got to know you. I know that you probably do not feel the same for me, but those times that you were tender and friendly towards me was the greatest times of my life. I will miss you and the small smiles that you would give me. That is about all I can think to say, besides goodbye and may the Force be with you." Ezra reached forward and deactivated the recorder. Pausing the image of himself.

Sabine dropped to her knees, "By the gods" she thought as she stared at the small image. "I am such a bitch." She whispered as she felt tears form in her eyes. Ezra loved her, even when she belittled him, teased him and treated him worse than she had treated anyone. She knew why, she was afraid of him, so she pushed him away. He helped her, supported her and even sacrificed himself for her and what did she do. Nothing, because she was afraid of her own emotions. She had feelings for him and instead of embracing them and telling him that she loved him, cared for him she struck out at him. Chopper had moved closer and mournfully took her hand in his pincher. It wobbled and beeped as it held her hand. All she could think of was that she would never see Ezra again, say some type of snide comment at him and secretly like when he tried to elicit some type of tenderness from her. She had not noticed that Kanan was standing behind her as she felt grief overcome her.

"He loved you." Kanan said seeing Sabine turn towards him. He first feared that he had intruded onto something private but he saw that Sabine needed be consoled.

"Yes, and I knew it. Would it have killed me to tell him that I loved him as well? No instead I never even let him know how much I cared about him, how much I needed him. How much I need him now?" Sabine stated as she put her hands over her eyes and wept.

Returning to the Base, she saw Bo-Katan rally the clans that had come to join in the cause. She could not remain, as soon as Kanan was ready she was going to leave and go with him back to join Hera and the Rebellion.

Several months later after rescuing Hera from the Empire, Kanan went to the Jedi Temple on Lothal and with Sabine's aid entered the depths of the Temple. Inside Kanan saved first Asoka Tano. Realizing what he had done he ran towards the other portals.

"Kanan are you sure you want to do this?" Asoka asked as she kept up with him.

"You did not see the hurt and despair that it has caused Sabine. If there is a chance then I must take it." Kanan replied finding the portal. As he watched the event he waited, when he saw Ezra falling to his death. Kanan reached through the portal and pulled the wounded Ezra into the void. The young man was unconscious and Kanan could see the burned blaster wound on his right arm. But it was not serious. Removing the clothes, belt and helmet Kanan threw them back through portal. Then Ezra's lightsaber.

"Why did you do that?" Asoka asked.

"They were found so to keep the integrity of the timestream they must be found again." Letting time continue he then waited until Rau and Bo-Katan to finish burying the articles and waiting for a few moments longer so that Ezra would not be left for too long. Kanan pushed Ezra back through. He would have to contact Mandalore and have them go and find Ezra as soon as possible.

After Asoka returned to where she was pulled from, Kanan left and closed the portal. With the temple gone, Kanan could not help but feel impatient. He wanted to contact Mandalore, they had to go and search for Ezra. He decided not to tell Sabine, let it be a surprise.

Rau and Triston could not fully understand what Kanan had asked them to do. Go to where Ezra had died and then contact him about what they had found.

"I have done some strange things, but this is the strangest. Going to where Ezra Bridger had died and then contact Kanan on what we find." Triston said as he flew down the cliff face.

"In the years that I have known Jedi this is nothing." Rau replied then he almost lost control of his Jet Pack. There lying on the ground was a half-naked Ezra Bridger. "It cannot be." He gasped as he landed. Checking the young man's vitals, he looked up at Triston. "He is alive."

"How, it has been almost five months and he looks the same as when he fell?" Triston asked taking out a med kit and handing it to Rau.

"Like I said, Jedi are strange beings." Rau began to bandage the wound and noticed that Ezra was slowly coming around. "Well look who is alive, there are a lot of people that will be happy about that. Especially a young Mandalorian girl."

Ezra just weakly groaned and tried to sit up. "What happened?" He croaked and gasped as Rau gently made him remain lying down.

"Wish I knew, we all thought you were dead. Now lie still, we need to get you stabilized then back to the Wren Fortress to be healed." Triston stated as he went to construct a liter.

Kanan smiled at the small screen as he received the message he was waiting for. Slightly laughing he went to find Sabine. He found her in her usual place at the Ezra's Tower, she had painted his likeness on one of the walls and spent hours sitting on the floor staring at it. "I have news from Mandalore."

Sabine barely acknowledged him as she slowly looked up at him. She was expecting more bad news, but she was used to losing those that she cared for. "So, what bad news now?"

"Some good news, it seems that Ezra has been found. Alive and well." Kanan could not help but smile broadly as he saw the young woman stare at him with wide eyes.

With tears forming in her eyes she bolted from the floor that she had been sitting on. "How?" She whispered as she shook her head with disbelief.

"It is a tale that I should have told you as soon as we came back from the temple, but I was not sure if it worked or not. So, I did not want to get your hopes up." Kanan told her as he relayed what had happened while he was within the void.

"I need to get to Mandalore." Sabine stated as she went to get her helmet and Ezra's Lightsaber. She began to think, what would she do, what would she say. As she moved towards the door, Kanan exhaled and stopped her.

"How, we do not have any ships. You will have to wait for him to come here if he can." Kanan told her as she gritted her teeth in aggravation and frustration.

Two weeks later with the help of Fenn Rau, Ezra snuck onto Lothal. His arm still felt sore as he walked from the city towards his Tower. Inhaling the cool air of home, he felt better. It took him three hours to walk the distance and stopping to pet Lothcats he looked up at the top of the tower. Suddenly three speeder bikes roared towards him. Seeing his friends that were more like his family he smiled and waved.

Sabine lunged off the speeder bike and ran up to Ezra, she felt tears stinging her eyes as she looked at him. She was angry, frustrated, happy all at once. Throwing her arms around him she hugged him roughly. "Oh Ezra. Thank the Gods." She burst into tears as she held him tightly. His arms automatically went around her and he looked over at Kanan and Hera.

Kanan nodded his head, then clasped his hand on Hera's and used the other to lightly push Zeb. "Let's leave them alone for a moment." He whispered to them as he led the others behind the Tower.

"But we are happy to see him alive and well, too." Hera protested then seeing Sabine's face and expression she nodded and decided to give the young some privacy.

Sabine wept loudly as she held onto Ezra. All the sadness and despair flooded out of her as she squeezed him tightly. Ezra started to rock her back and forth, muttering pleasantries to her and told her it was alright he was here. After a few moments, she pulled back slightly seeing his smiling face. Grabbing his shirt, she pulled him towards her and tilted her head, kissing him roughly. Breathing hard through their noses, they held the kiss for as long as they could. "Don't you ever scare me like that again!" She said angrily as she continued to hold him. "I thought I lost you."

"I will try. Maybe it would be worth it if I get a kiss like that every time I almost die." Ezra said smirking.

"That is not funny, I thought you died and it was the worst time of my life. I love you and plan on you being around until we are both old and gray." Sabine stated staring into his eyes as they widened. She had said something that he had longed to hear from her since he met her. She loved him.

Feeling his own tears, he held her and she smiled at him, looking at him with those exotic eyes that melted his insides every time he gazed into them. "You listened to my message didn't you." Seeing her smile slightly. "Oh, no. Sabine, I made that in case I did die, now I feel like an idiot."

"Why it made me realize that I have been the idiot, I should have told you or let you know how important you are to me. Now we better let you go and have the others faun over you. They have missed you almost as much as I have." Sabine led him behind the tower so his other friends could hug him and tell him how much they missed him.

Four months later Sabine returned to Mandalore dragging Ezra into the Wren Grand Hall. Standing before her parents she led Ezra in the Commitment Vows. Declaring Ezra as her Husband. They remained on Mandalore to help free it from the rule of the Empire.

This is the end of the Alternate Story, I will write on the Day of Disaster/Day of Hope in chapter 7.