Steps into the Darkness (Star Wars Rebels)

Chapter Ten: TIEs & Credits

    

    The four had claimed aboard the ship and were now getting out of the shipyard quite unnoticed. Ezra now was worried. It's either they had gotten extremely lucky or something was about to happen. He went up to the cockpit, leaving Zeb with the two semi-clueless humans. He sat next to Hera, and felt slightly proud of sitting the the co-pilot seat. It brought him some nostalgia from his life before he even met Maul. He clenched his fist just on the thought of the old former Sith Lord.

- "EZRA!" a yell suddenly pulled him out of his thoughts, "HELP BY SHOOTING THESE TIES DOWN!"

- "Hera..?" he asked, as he still didn't understand what was happening.

- "A star destroyer jumped out of hyperspace, or best chances of survival are by getting ready to jump." she said in-a-matter-of-fact tone.

Suddenly, The Ghost had taken a hit, which moved the ship a little bit. Hera shot an annoyed look this time as if to tell: you moving, kid? And then Chopper had to come. He beeped some random words and some of them are not meant to be translated. Hera started yelling back at the cursing tin can, and Ezra was caught in the crossfire. He got up and started rushing to his station, mostly because he couldn't take anymore of Chopper.

    As he sat down, he started immediately firing at the TIEs. He heard their loud roaring very easily, and to be honest, he thought, if the Empire wanted to win, at least make some more discreet ships. But he didn't have time to debate that now. He pressed the buttons, hoping to hit something, and to his surprise he had hit one of them. But as soon as he did, many came back to destroy him and The Ghost. Ezra's facial expression had changed. He now was extremely annoyed to the TIEs. He furiously tried shooting them, and actually took down two more, but it didn't seem to work as the numbers of TIEs keepers on growing. He growled and cursed under his breath. When was Hera going to make the jump?

He was getting desperate, but just as that, he saw the light-blue and white lights appear, and flash before him. It always surprised him, even if he had seen them many times before.

- "Sorry about that." said Hera apologetically, "The internal comms went and Chopper didn't fix them in time, along with the hyperdrive."

Even tho right the comms you could hear Hera's annoyed tone to Chopper, and her wonderful speed h earned a few angry beeps from the droid.

The Specters got out of their seats to meet Hera at the cockpit. When they arrived, they got a shy smile from her.

- "Good job guys." she said, "now where are our contacts?"

All eyes turn on Ezra and Zeb.

- "I left them with Zeb." said Ezra on his defense.

- "Yeaaahh..." said Zeb hesitantly, "There in the cargo' bay."

- "What are you up to?" mutters Hera under her breath.

- "Nah there right here."

    And he wasn't lying. The two Ex-Imperialists were huddled where Zeb and Ezra had left. When they saw the crew enter, the guy stood up and shaked Hera's hand.

- "Thank you so much." he said, "I thought we were done for. Fulcrum was right. And here is your recompense."

    He handed Hera a suitcase, which when she opened it, was filled with credits.

- "Thank you too." she finally responded.

    She signaled the rest of the crew to follow her. And they made it to the cockpit.

- "We're going back home." she said with a grin.

    And just as she said it, the ship pulled out of hyperspace.