Saga of the Bridgers-Year 5

Chapter 10: Mysteries of the Ancients

As the drones were launched, the two corellian freighters took off from the cruiser as well and connected to each other so that the Ghost would lead, to Han's greatest disappointment.

"Okay, now that you trapped us on this flying trap, where are we going?" the smuggler asked when they all gathered in the cockpit.

Ignoring Hera's smugly grin, Ezra answered the question. "The planet we're looking for is actually not on the star maps." he said, drawing confused eyes. "We'll need these two." he added, reaching for one of his pockets and taking out two shards of Kanan's holocron for all to see.

"What is that?" Gozo asked with curiosity as she inspected the trinkets.

"What is left of my Master's holocron. It's a device that both Jedi and Sith used to store knowledge, mainly. Occasionally they can have other functions, as well."

"Uh...sounds like a prothean beacon." Ezra heard the woman mumble, but he had no idea what she was talking about.

"I thought both you holocrons had gone to pieces." Zeb said.

"Yes, and while most of the information stored is now lost, they are still working. It's by using the shards of both the Jedi and Sith holocron that I found Master Kenobi the first time, remember?"

Zeb mumbled affirmatively.

Ezra turned toward Hera, who gladly stood up from the pilot chair and allowed Ezra to take the place.

Keeping the shards in his right hand's palm, the Jedi Knight made a deep breath and closed his eyes. It didn't take more than a few seconds before the pieces of the holocron started to lighten up of blue and hum softly as they started to levitate slightly above Ezra's hand. The young man then started to turn the controls slowly until the Ghost was aligned toward the direction he was envisioning.

"Chopper, remove the safe from the hyperdrive." he ordered as he kept his eyes shut.

The astromech bopped a skeptical remark, but obeyed nonetheless. Plugging into the socket and doing what Ezra asked.

"Jinx, get the controls." he added, lighting up his omni-tool and letting the AI take over.

"Ready on your mark." the construct replied a second later.

Using the neural-transmitters, Ezra gave the command and Jinx pushed the Ghost and the Falcon into hyperspace.

"It should take an hour or so." he calmly stated as he kept focused on the trip ahead. "Feel free to spend your time however you want."

Sabine smirked and stood up from her seat, gesturing for the other to leave. "Come on, people. Let's leave this to the professional." she quipped.

Not wanting to distract a man driving their ships on a hyperdrive without brakes, everybody agreed and calmly left the room, deciding to spend their time with a game of dejarik, reading holo-novels, or, in the case of Luke and Leia, meditating.

The situation of the twins was still quite peculiar: Leia had been revealed only to a select few to be a Force sensitive, also Ezra and Jaral had decided to keep the parenthood of the Skywalkers a secret. This was because the Sith would focus on the young man, who was learning much faster than Leia, and because the Princess was still a very important political figure in the Rebel Alliance, now New Republic, and so it made sense not to draw even more unwanted attentions on her.

An hour passed quickly, until Chopper informed Hera that they had just left hyperspace. Everybody returned to the cockpit, where Ezra had just put away the shards of the holocron and they noticed that the ships had come out in front of a planet covered almost entirely by jungles and forests.