A Rebel's Destiny

Chapter 15

The Ghost landed at the refueling station and the crew trickled out "Ezra, I'm proud of you for taking the lead on this rescue mission." Hera said the hunter shrugged "you saved my life over Concord Dawn, so I owed you one." Ezra said putting his hands behind his head as he led the way "you said these people are wanted by the empire. Do you know why?" Kanan asked curiously as they walked "no, but I hear they're closing in. We better hurry." Ezra answered "so where'd you hear about these refugees anyway?" Zeb asked "huh? Oh, you know, one of our, uh contacts. Speaking of, Chopper, you better let him know we're here." Sam said turning her orb to the droid who pulled out a transmitter "hey! Where'd you get that transmitter?" Sabine asked, Chopper chirped a few times "there's no answer! We better hurry." The hunter said as they lightly jogged to the cargo area of the port reaching a corner the hunter held up a hand "damn it. We're too late." The hunter said seeing two troopers guarding a door that an officer was entering "drag those refugees, out of there." The officer said as the two guards opened the door "move!" The trooper said as a cane was heard hitting the floor the crew looked over the hunter's shoulder looking at the refugees Zeb's eyes widened as he stared seeing two Lasats "my people. They're Lasat." He said looking on while the troopers aimed their blaster "move!" One shouted pushing the soldier of the male "where are you taking us?" The male lasat said as he walked forward "to a detention facility for a nice, long stay." The officer said with a smirk "hmm. More likely a blaster squad." The lasat said as they moved forward the troopers were about to follow when Zeb jumped out from behind a few crates smacking the troopers before being fired at. He ducked as Kanan, Hera, and Sabine fired on the last trooper before aiming at the officer who held his hands up Ezra walked from behind the officer grabbing the officer throwing him into the wall knocking him out he smirked under his helmet "tsk, tsk, tsk, drunk on the job." Ezra joked as he saw motion coming from his six pulling out Lumina he aimed it at the movement seeing the contact he holstered his cannon "hello, hello! You arrived just in time, as I knew you would." Hondo said walking towards the crew "one more thing getting me annoyed with you, you could of warned us the empire was here." Ezra said with an eye roll "ah, but I sold the lasats to the empire. Knowing the heroes would save the day." Hondo said with a chuckle "you being the heroes of course." Hondo finished "of course he did." Sam said with a sigh as she appeared "Hondo is your contact?" Hera asked in disbelief "Blame Sam." Ezra said the crew turned the attention to the little light "to be fair, he contacted me." His ghost said "yes, to be fair. Because I knew these two belonged with that one." Hondo explained pointing to Zeb "it is him. Captain Orrelios." The male lasat said with a smile "by the Ashla. The prophecy!" The old lady said "Captain?" The hunter asked curiously "yes. Captain Garazeb Orrelios, of the Lasan High Honor Guard." The old lady said as she and the male kneeled as if they were addressing royalty Hondo laughed "A reunion! I was right again. How wonderful. Hondo could use a little help." He said seriously Sabine and Kanan shared a look grabbing the unconscious officer taking him away with Hondo grabbing a leg "thought I was just about the last of us. How is this possible?" Zeb asked curiously "do you remember me, Captain?" The male lasat asked "you look familiar." Zeb said with a raised brow "Gron. I served under you in the guard. This is Chava the Wise." The known Gron introduced them "Oh, yeah, I know who she is." Zeb said looking away "didn't know you were a Captain." Ezra said with a hand on his hip "he never told any of us." Hera said "it was so long ago I... I forgot." Zeb said looking down "we have not." Chava said with a smile "well, we've gotta get you out of here." Ezra said pointing in the opposite direction "oh, wait, wait. Does this mean I am not getting my finder's fee?" Hondo asked, Ezra looked to Sam with a look "you never were." Sam said dematerializing as the crew walked away "perfect answer. I am so proud of you right now. I never had a student learn this quickly." Hondo said closing a shipping Crate "hold it!" A group of troopers yelled spotting the pirate "uh, something wrong, my friends?" He asked looking towards them "distress call from an officer. He was meeting an informant here." The trooper on the left said "really? Oh, my, my. Well, you know, I just arrived, uh but a group of, uh, Imperial fugitives uh, rebels, I believe they just fled the area." Hondo said "where did they go?" The trooper asked "good question. I understand, though, that there is a reward for that kind of, um, information." Hondo bartered with a smirk.