Amelia Bridger

The Dark Side

                    "Sabine! I need you in the nose guns now!" Hera yelled over the comm as they were being chased by TIE Fighters yet again. Sabine hesitated and looked at the twins. "Didn't you hear Hera?" said Ezra in irritation. Sabine replied "Didn't you hear Tseebo? He says he knows what happened to your parents!" "I already know what happened, they're dead! So go!". Sabine left and as the Ghost shook again Amelia said, "Well that was a lie." as Ezra almost immediately went up to Tseebo and asked "Where are they?! Are our parents dead?!" "Stop shaking him Ez, you'll mess up his head even more!" "Someone wanna tell me why we're extra popular tonight?" Hera said. Kanan and Sabine explained, and meanwhile Tseebo said "The Bridgers should hide! The troopers came! They took Mira and Ephraim Bridger away!" "Where?!" Ezra shouted, "Where did they take them?!". Tseebo mumbled and said, "Forgive....Tseebo, forgive...." "Forgive you?!" "Tseebo was afraid, Tseebo could have raised Ezra and Amelia Bridger." "You... coward! You could have stopped them! Why didn't you stop them?! Tseebo!". The device on the rodian's head beeped and Tseebo went quiet. 

                   "Shields down! Ezra, I need you in the cockpit." said Hera over the comm. Ezra said, "Yeah, I'm on my way." then said to Tseebo, "Forgive you. Our parents trusted you and you failed them, and you failed us. I'll never, forgive you for that." and walked away. Amelia patted Tseebo's shoulder sympathetically, "He is angry, but he will cool off.". Then, another shake, and the rodian suddenly started walking towards the cockpit. Confused, Amelia followed and listened as Tseebo fixed the ship's computers and they shot into hyperspace. In hyperspace, Ezra introduced Tseebo to Hera and she thanked Tseebo for getting them into hyperspace, "I think you just saved our lives." "Yeah, guess there's a first time for everything." Ezra said and walked out of the cockpit.

                  In the common room, Sabine and Hera were fixing up a damaged Chopper and Kanan waved a hand in front of the oblivious rodian's face much to Amelia's amusement. "So," Ezra started, "now what do we do with him?" Kanan replied, "We have a few ideas," and came over to where the twins were sitting. "But you're the ones who have a history with Tseebo, what do you think we should do?" Amelia shrugged, "I honestly have no idea, I'm just a tag along. But I think we should try and get the thing off his head, he might become mindless with all that data." "And you?" Ezra stared at his Master, then said as he put on his cadet helmet; painted by Sabine, "Don't know, and don't much care.". "Ezra, you can't advance as a Jedi if you can't be honest, with yourself at least." Kanan said. Ezra said, "What's that supposed to mean?" and tried walking off but Kanan as all parents did at one point pulled off Ezra's helmet and said "It means Tseebo matters to you, you do care what happens to him." "Why should I? He did nothing to save our parents." "What could he have done against the whole Empire?" and Amelia for some reason decided that was the best time to tune out. And somehow stayed tuned out even when Ezra pulled her up and dragged her to the discussion in the cockpit. Once Amelia was out she snapped out of it and Ezra briefed her on what they were going to do. "Jarrus wants to do what?" "I know, but we have to.".

                 "So.... your parents, do you really believe they're dead?" asked Sabine. They were in the pantry. Ezra said "Yes." and continued, "No, I don't know," Ezra continued, "does it matter?" "Of course it matters! You have to talk to Tseebo before we go." Ezra scoffed, "Tried that already." "Then try harder! Once Hera takes him away you may never see Tseebo again." "Maybe it's for the best." "Wha- how can you say that?". Ezra sighed, "Sabine, me and Amelia have been on our own since we were 7, okay? If we let ourselves believe our folks were alive, that we let ourselves think they'd come back and save us, we'd never have learnt how to survive.". Amelia was silent as she listened in at the door. "You really are a nosy one are you? No wonder you can steal so many secrets." said Kanan as he approached. Amelia replied, "As long as I don't get caught." "Like the time you laughed in the vents?" "What the-" "I could sense your joy above in the ceiling. You're lucky Hera didn't catch you." "So emotion sensing is a Jedi thing?" "Yes, what you want to learn it?" "...No, I think I got that one down." "Interesting. We can talk about it after the trip." and the Jedi opened the door, asking Ezra if he was ready to go, which he was, and a sad Sabine was alone with an oblivious Tseebo.