Living with Jedi

Mental Heart: A Little Shock

"Hera, I should probably warn you. Ezra's new pacemaker may be more up to date than his last one, but there's a problem with it." Ahsoka said.
"Like what?" Hera asked.
"Well, his old one was actually a clone wars issue. It was made to for Jedi. Doctor Asa had it specifically designed it to withstand high voltage electrical shocks pacifically for Jedi with heart problems like Ezra's. The new one isn't built to take on more than a few 9 V shock." The former Jedi explained.
"Wait, so Chopper could actually kill him with a single shock?" Hera looked directly at her droid.
The droids bad habit of shocking people as pranks or into listening to him was going to have to stop. Especially now that it posed a more dangerous risk.
"That's why I thought you should know. Chopper shocked me after I brought Ezra back. I don't think anyone wants to lose a kid because of Chopper being himself." Ahsoka nodded.
"I'll deal with it."
"Thank you. I must be on my way."
"Chopper can you come here. I need to talk to you." Hera called out.
Chopper rolled over to Hera.
"Chopper, I know it's fun for you to zap people. However I need you to be really careful around Ezra from now on. Whatever you do, don't zap him. You could hurt him really badly. Do you understand Chopper?" Hera explained to the droid.
Chopper's beeped asking her why.
"Because Chop. Ezra is wearing a medical device that could easily short out if you shock him."
Chopper beeped again asking more questions about Ezra's pacemaker.
"Yes he has to change the power cells in it and he just had an upgrade." Hera answered him using terms the droid would understand.
However, Chopper didn't understand just how serious Hera was. His circuits stored it away to blackmail Ezra later.

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A few months had passed and the kids were having a prank war. Chopper and Ezra were arguing about what prank to pull on Zeb. The two walked into the common room where the rest of the crew minus Zeb were.
"Chopper that's a horrible idea." Ezra stated as sat down at the table and started levitating a insulated mug.
Chopper beeped in disagreement.
"Oh course I can come up with a better idea. Unlike you I don't have messed up circuits." Ezra replied without dropping the mug.
Chopper beeped again.
Upon hearing the droids response Ezra dropped the mug making a loud bang as it hit the table.
"Of all your crazy ideas Chopper. The only thing Ezra has that requires power cells is lightsaber." Sabine said turning away from her painting. "Right kid?"
Hera and Kanan were to busy talking to notice what was going on.
"Yeah, sure. Right." Ezra replied scratching the back of his neck. "Where'd you get that idea from?"
Chopper beeped and pulled out his taser. He came closer to Ezra.
"Chopper I don't know what you're talking about. I'm telling the truth. Don't shock me." he said as he backed away from the droid.
Hera turned around as quickly to fuss at the droid upon hearing Ezra. However she was too late.
"CHOPPER!" Ezra screamed as the droid shocked him.
"C1-10P!" Hera yelled at the droid as she turned.
Ezra grabbed at his chest and fainted.
"EZRA!" Kanan, Hera, and Sabine all yelled as they saw the teen pass out. Kanan was there to catch his padawan in a single heartbeat (well his own heartbeat).
"Chopper what did you do to him?" Sabine asked.
Chopper beeped in his own defense.
"C1-10p, I pacifically told you not to zap Ezra anymore." Hera scolded the droid as Kanan laid Ezra down on the floor to check on him.
Chopper backed away from the the others beeping an apology.
"What did Ezra and Chopper do..." Zeb said tiredly walking into the room. "What's going on?"
"Chopper zapped Ezra enough for him to pass out." Sabine replied still trying to figure out what was going on herself.
"Well that's unusual. Normally he only shocks imperials that hard. It's normally just a small zap for us." Zeb replied.
Chopper beeped another apology.
"He said he didn't zap him any more than usual." Sabine said.
"Hera, I can't find his pulse and the taser burned out Ezra's pacemaker." Kanan said in a worried tone looking up at her as he continued to tend to Ezra.
"Not good. Start the compressions Love. Chopper we might need your help if we can't get Ezra's heart started again." Hera replied.
"Ezra has a pacemaker?" Sabine and Zeb both ask in shock.
"I had no clue." Zeb continued.
"He didn't want everyone knowing about his medical issues." Hera responded.
"I don't blame him. A heart disease? The kid doesn't like getting special treatment just because of his past. We would have really babied him if we knew." Sabine said.
"But how did he keep it a secret from us for so long?" Zeb asked.
"He didn't. You two weren't around him the first two times he had an attack, and when he got this upgraded a couple months ago we told you he was injured on a supply run. I've only known since Kanan was captured." Hera explained as she worriedly watched Kanan preform CPR on his padawan. "Kanan's only known for a few months."
"Come on kid. Don't leave us now." Kanan cried as he continued. "Chopper a little help."
Chopper zapped Ezra again three more times, but it had no effect. Kanan started the compressions again.
Hera grabbed a comm. "Doctor Asa, Ezra's pacemaker was burned out. His heart isn't beating. Yes we're doing CPR on him. Please hurry."
"Hera, we're losing him." Kanan yelled.
Chopper zapped Ezra three more times. Still no luck.
Sabine started to run out the door so she could cry. The idea of one of her family members actually dying scared her. Instead she ran into Zeb who wrapped his arms around her as she surprisingly burst into tears.
"This can't be happening. Ezra's too young to die." She cried into Zeb's chest.
"Come on this is Ezra we're talking about. The kid's to stubborn to die." The lasat replied patting her back.
"I hope you're right." Hera said.
"Hera, I got a weak pulse." Kanan called out.

The medics arrived shortly afterwards. They moved Ezra to the  new bases med bey. He was still in an unstable condition so they couldn't replace the pacemaker. Doctor Asa kept the crew updated. Kanan refused to leave Ezra's side.
Three days had passed with no improvements before anything changed.

• Well this seems like a good place to end this. *laughs maniacally* What do you think the change was? Is it good or bad?
• Enjoy the cliffhanger.
• May the force be with you always
• Cass