Saga of the Bridgers-Year 4

Chapter 3: Gathering Storm

Married. Both Ezra and Sabine found difficult to realize it, but they finally did it. Their destinies were inextricably bound for the rest of their lives and nothing was gonna break such a bond. As it was told them, they first spent a few minutes by turning the biggest cabin there was on the Gauntlet into their own. Sabine wasted no time in making a small graffito of her and Ezra. A simple design, just for starter.

Ezra decided then that the two of them waiting on Mandalore just made little sense, so he decided that they were going to leave before the Constantinople, so they could take also their place back at the main rebel base.

After getting permission from Jaral, she gave them the access codes and the coordinates for the base: Yavin IV.

Ezra lifted the ship and brought it in orbit. With Jinx disturbing the imperial scanners, it was easy to slip past the blockade and then jump into hyperspace.

Checking the maps, the AI calculated that it would take around five hours to reach the moon, so Ezra gave him complete control over the ship while he and his new wife decided to spend those hours enjoying the perks of marriage in their new shared cabin.

This was a new beginning in every sense of the word. True, they had lost a lot on Atollon, especially people they knew and were friendly with, but that was the past. While the losses had to be remembered, it was also important to enjoy what they had still left: each other, first, but also their family around them.

Finally it came the time to dress up and get back into the cockpit as the Gauntlet left hyperspace in front of the gas giant of Yavin with its red color.

"All right, we're coming up on Yavin IV." said Sabine as she inserted the coordinates to follow.

A few minutes later, they spotted the moon of the planet, which was covered mostly in forests, jungles, but also an ocean. And on the surface, among the ruins of the ancient Massassi civilization, now extinct, stood the main base of the Rebel Alliance.

The scanners indicated that around the planet there was the rest of TF Magellan, for a total of ten frigates the same class as the Constantinople, and also what was left of Phoenix Fleet, which was now a subgroup of the 'Central Fleet' created by Jaral. Phoenix Group was now under the command of Hera, while the Central Fleet was under the command of Admiral Raddus, who answered to Jaral.

Ezra hailed the command on the surface and quietly sent the codes. A few seconds later, the authorization to land arrived.

"I wonder how this rebel cell looks like, compared to Phoenix Group."

"According to Jaral, this is way bigger and more organized than what we were. Besides, she has worked hard to enlarge its numbers."

"Well, let's go take a look, shall we?" he quipped as he flew the fighter between the allied ships and headed for the base below them.

Passing through a few clouds, the two teens quickly spotted the Massassi temple, around which there was a small cemented area that had been converted in the main landing zone for dozens of starfighters. Ezra was granted a landing zone at the edge of the park, since the Gauntlet was way bigger than the other starfighters.

He touched down the ship with the face pointing toward the lush forests surrounding the temple, because the ramp to access the fighter was in the rear and he had to point that part of the ship toward the temple.

Then the young man stood up and exaggeratedly bowed, while tending a hand toward Sabine to invite her to walk with him in the way a gentleman would treat a princess, which Sabine was, in a certain sense.

The mandalorian girl shook her head and chuckled, but gracefully accepted her new husband's invite.

They could hardly stop laughing from the joy as they headed toward the ramp and opened it, only then they managed to hold back the chuckles and simply show wide smiles. When the ramp opened, the two stepped down. Aside from two engineers that came to secure the ship, Zeb and Hera were waiting for them with similar expressions.