Steps into the Darkness (Star Wars Rebels)

Chapter Nine: Rivals

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- Aqua

Nobody's POV | Narrator | 3rd person POV

    The Ghost was landing on the shipyard and all of the Specters were on the edge of their seats. But they somehow managed to pass the imperials. The clearance codes had worked for once.

    Now it's time for the best part: finding the agent. Yay. Ezra was the first to get out of his seat. And runs into Zeb in the way.

- "Watch your step." said Zeb sarcastically.

Ezra doesn't respond to him. He doesn't want to either. Zeb ignores the teenager's grumpy attitude and exits The Ghost with him. Hera watches both of them exit The Ghost. Even with recent events, she found both of them too gloomy. But she didn't decide their emotions, and she wanted to stay out of their... rivalry.

Ezra and Zeb walking past the hanger bay's ships, admiring the floor, and not talking to each other. And across from where they were, they were two humans talking to each other in distress. Ezra was the first to sense them, as he could tell by their extremely strong emotions. He tried to do as the Sith Holocron had told him to do. He reached into their minds and slowly, but surely, passed and breached their mental shields. Not that they were strong, as both of them had no experience in these kinds of things, but he tried to not get lost. Inside the first human's mind was chaos, from officers yelling, red blaring alarms, a flood inside an imperial base and more types of madness. The Empire didn't even treat their own followers correctly. He tried the second, but just as he reached for what seems her mind, Zeb tapped him on the shoulder and pointed at the same people, which earned an annoyed glance from Ezra.

- "You see those people?" asked Zeb with an irritated voice, "They're who wer' looking for."

Ezra let out a dignified scoff and walked along with Zeb to the two humans.

- "...Kay you know we can—"

- "Excuse me." Ezra interrupted, "You're contact and we were told to get you off this planet."

Zeb shot an annoyed look at Ezra, basically scolding him for being so reckless, because they still didn't know if they actually were their 'clients'. The first human shot a worried look to the second, but the other agreed an nodded.

- "We are." said the woman, "May you lead us to your... ship or the transport you used to get here?"

- "Sure, follow me" Zeb emphasized, enough for Ezra to notice.

The four were coming back from their very brief mission, and at the same time struggling to get passed the tough crow that had rallied. Eventually, they made it to The Ghost. And something there was also waiting.