4 | Haunting Past

Plan B

Chopper and Ezra reached the medic bay rather quickly. It was empty except for the powered off medic droids at the head of each bed and a few troops stationed at the door.

"Looks like a ghost town in here. We don't have a lot of time." Ezra told Chopper and put Thrawn down on the nearest medic bed.

Chopper beeped agreement and began to mess with the nearest medic droid.

***

A man knocked on Thrawn's office door. "Sir, we have imperial ships incoming." He said though the comm.

No answer.

"Sir?" He asked and pulled out his code cylinder, impatient.

The door opened itself and he walked inside.

"Sir?" He echoed and went over to the desk, the room empty. "I wonder where he went."

The man decided to pull out the camera taps to see where his boss had gone.

"Well played." Thrawn observed as the dart hit his neck. "Winning the battle doesn't mean you'll win the war." The chiss than fell unconscious in his chair.

"This isn't good." He cursed under his breath. "Time for plan B."

The officer sat down in Thrawn's chair and opened one of the cabinet draws. He put his hand down the side and felt it hit a button. He immediately pressed it. Thrawn had ordered if Tekara tried anything against Thrawn to press it, it wasn't the button that erased his friends memories this one did something much worse.

The man then walked out of the room and prepared to met the new arrivals.

***

Sabine dropped the gun she was cleaning and it hit the floor with a clang.

She remembered.

But it wasn't the truth and yet it was.

***

Hera set down the helmet she was inspecting in the hanger bay and took a deep breath.

"EZRA!!!" She yelled at the top of her lungs, angrily and threw the helmet across the floor.

The other people in the bay looked at her weirdly, but didn't say anything.

***

An alarm began to sound all around the base.

"All troops closet to the west medic bay, capture Tekara. All other troops act your best."

"Oh force this is going to get complicated." Ezra observed and questioned the command, "why is that even an order?"

Chopper beeped a reply.

"You what???!" He yelled, it took most of his self control not to force throw Chopper across the room. "This isn't good, this isn't good. Hurry up with that medic droid and get the chip in his neck." Troops around them began to walk their way. "I'll hold them off."

Don't hurt them.

Ezra began to force push the people running their way back towards the wall.

***

A single imperial command shuttle landed in the hanger bay.

The ramp lowered.

Cold dark breathing echoed across the bay.

***

Something inside Ezra snapped as the dark aura spread across the planet.

The blood-red of his lightsaber sprang to life and yellow flickered in his blind eyes.