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(11 years later)
It was a normal day at the lothal imperial academy, stormtroopers walking around doing there patrols and the imperial cadets training, there was one cadet out of all of them who was at the academy far longer than most of them, this cadet was Ezra Bridger or more commonly named as ST-5301.
"Cadet group 0-4 report to the pit for today's training, cadet SM-401 report to cadet group 0-4, that is all" Ezra looked up to the speakers and turned around and began to make his way to the pit, when he got there he saw the cadets who he has been training with for 6 years but as he walked closer he saw a new cadet, Ezra raised his eyebrows questionably but walked to the group none the less. When he got in line the officers Cumberlayne Aresko and Myles Grint addressed the cadets.
"Welcome cadets, before we start the challenge I would like to introduce a new cadet, this is SM-401" as Aresko was talking the cadet SM-401 walked forward and took off her helmet "she will be training with us, but because she's new doesn't mean you give her special treatment now to the challenge" SM-401 put her helmet back on and stood back in line "today you will be competing in the pit" as he said this the ground beneath the cadets started to fall down to reveal a hole with platforms in it "now your challenge will begin in 10 seconds" Ezra started to get ready, he ran his eyes to the platforms figuring out a way to get out when he plotted his course Aresko called go and with that Ezra ran off, he jumped on the first platform In front of him and started to jump to the others, as he was jumping some of the other cadets got pushed of by those next to him and fell down, Ezra narrowly dodged a falling cadet when the new cadet jumped on the same platform as him, he looked at her then jumped on another platform where she followed and tried to push him off, as she did that he dodged and pushed here off where she fell down to 2 platforms under him, Ezra smirked under his helmet and continued to jump up where he had finally reached the top coming first, the second cadet was a cadet with green on the sides of his helmet and surprisingly the new cadet, when the rest of the cadets started to come up Aresko began to speak again, "congratulations to ST-5301, FA-110 and SM-401 for being in the top three for the rest of  is unacceptable, now tomorrow we will begin this challenge again but with blasters and the reward will be riding in a AT-DP walker for now dismissed!" With that he walked off with Grint, the cadets around ezra took off there helmets and wiped of the sweat which was on there faces and hair, Ezra hesitated but he to took of his helmet to wipe of the sweat, while the cadets talked with each other ezra just turned around and sat on some crates, a cadet walked up to Ezra and sat down also and talked with him.
"Man that was difficult, but not for you it seemed hey Ezra?" Ezra just chuckled and said back to him
"Well I have been in this academy since I was four so yea" Ezra and the other cadet just laughed when the new cadet walked up to them,
"Uh hi my names Sabine what's yours?" She asked to two boys, Ezra looked at her with a eyebrow raised but answered anyway "well I'm Ezra and this is Jai kell" Sabine nodded and stuck out her hand where Jai shook it but Ezra just stared at her "so why did you join the imperial academy?" Sabine asked Ezra
"I'm not telling you why I joined but only that I have been here since I was four" Ezra plainly said then he picked his helmet up and put it on his head "see you later Jai" Ezra said and nodded to Sabine he then walked off and left the two cadets standing there "he seems ah nice?" Sabine said while watching Ezra leave
"You have no idea I'm the only friend he has here and ever had,'so don't be disgruntled when he doesn't talk to you or look at you" Sabine just nodded here head, she turned around where she saw here friend zare beckoning her to come over, Sabine nodded then turned to Jai "well it was nice meeting you, see you around!" She then turned around and walked to zare, she stopped in front of him and whispered to him "are you sure you want to do this?" Zare just nodded his head and replied back "of course I want to I have no loyalties to the empire, so I will help"
"Thanks for this but we need to get on that walker tomorrow for my plan to work if I get the Intel that is"
"Already got I plan, we have to make sure that we get on that walker together tomorrow" Sabine nodded  "alright let's get this then I can call my crew" zare nodded and together they walked off to agent Kallus' office.

(Tomorrow)
"Welcome cadets to the big challenge today where the winners will get to ride on the AT-DP, today you will be using blasters to open up the platforms and also to shoot the other cadets" the ground began to fall down again where the cadets where armed with e-11's "the challenge will start.... Now!" Ezra immediately shot a platform and jumped on it where he shot another one and shot a fellow cadet where he fell down after getting shocked, he kept on shooting platforms, when he was two platforms from the top he was almost shot by a cadet where he retaliated with five bolts, after he shot the cadet he shot the two last platforms and jumped on them where he pulled himself up to the top where five seconds later Sabine and zare showed up, after the rest came up Aresko spoke again to Ezra,Sabine and zare,
"Well done cadets you are the winners and so you get to ride in an AT-DP!" Behind Aresko and Grint a walker came up to stairs where the hatch opened up, "congratulations cadets you may now board the walker" Ezra and the others snapped to attention the walked over to the stairs where they hopped in the walker and Ezra began to talk to the pilot unknown of what was happening behind him, Zare and Sabine nodded to each other where zare asked the pilot a question and Sabine grabbed the blaster behind the chair where Ezra and the pilot didn't see her, she put it on stun and shot the pilot where ezra jumped up and grabbed the gun from Sabine and shot but missed her when she ducked and punched Ezra on the helmet where it got nocked off Ezra's head then punched him again where he fell unconscious, Sabine rolled her shoulders and faced zare "well that was easy" after she said that the AT-DP Got shot on the leg was was limping, ahead Sabine saw the hanger closing "ah zare!" She pointed to the hanger, zare looked up and he began to send the walker faster, as they got closer the walker leg gave way and they tumbled down but the hanger got caught as it was closing down on the walkers body "well that was fun, Spector 2 this is Spector 5 I need a pick up!" Sabine yelled in her comm "hang on Spector 5 ghost is coming in" as Spector 2 said that the ghost came in view and the ramp opened up to reveal a lasat and a human firing on the stormtroopers, "come on zare lets get out of here" she began to climb out of the walker when she looked back "zare I'm sorry but I can't come with you I still have to looke for my sister" than ezra's voice spoke up "your right your not going anywhere traitor" then he kicked zare off of the walker and picked up the e-11 and started blasting at Sabine and zare "TRAITORS!!" Ezra yelled as he shot at them, Sabine then turned to zare "well I guess there goes your staying" they then ran to the ghosts ramp "come on Sabine get in!" The lasat yelled at Sabine

Ezra continued firing when he got shot on the arm, he yelped in pain and retaliated by shooting the lasat's and Sabines shoulder and the mans leg, he continued shooting until the ships ramp closed, he dropped the blaster and held his bicep, then the other cadets and stormtroopers showed up and looked at Ezra, a medic crew than came and out and checked Ezra and brought him to the medical room.

On the ship the man, lasat and Sabine where holding there stinging arms or leg while zare sat there, a twi'liek then climbed down the ladder and began talking to them while inspecting there wounds, "what happened down there Kanan?" The man Kanan sucked in a breath and spoke to the twi'liek "ugh well everything was *gasp* fine until that cadet started shooting at us and shot me zeb and Sabine" the twi'liek sighed and grabbed Kanan and helped the others up with the help of zare "your going to be fine nothing some bacta won't fix" the twi'liek and zare then helped them up the ladder and brought them the the med room and sat them down and the twi'liek went to a closet while zare just sat down, then Sabine spoke up "the kid was mad when he found out that I was a rebel and zare betrayed them"
"Yea he hasn't been that mad since when I joined" by this time Hera showed up and started putting bacta on them, "well whoever he his you better hope he doesn't see you again, anyway have you gotten the Intel?" Sabine nodded then gave her the drive, "well you guys will be fine, we got to meet up with commander sato soon to deliver this" everyone nodded then the twi'liek left the room.

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