Star Wars Rebels: Starbird Squadron

Chapter 9

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Ezra stepped back from the work of art in admiration. Somehow Ezra, Aloysius, and Tariss were able to paint a huge flaming starbird right on the top of the huge triangular part of the destroyer.

Damn, thought Ezra.

Aloysius bent back up from taking a breather.

"Yeah it is pretty cool."

He then turned to Ezra and Tariss.

"On a completely unrelated topic though, we are running low on supplies. I need you two to go into a local town and get food. And maybe some ship parts too."

Ezra and Tariss nodded in agreement, then set off for the town.

. . .

Sabine Wren had probably hit rock bottom at this point. It had been almost 3 years since they had lost Ezra. 3 years of loneliness. Sabine was barely holding herself together. She kept devoting herself to every small task given to her, and then reverting back to her previous state of mind when they were done. Fortunately for her, she was given a task to do. It was simple, head into town to a local watering hole and listen around to see if the locals knew anything about, well, anything. The Rebels were grasping at straws, they had barely any information to do anything with. So, Sabine was currently pretending to drown out her sorrows in a bar on some random planet. The door to the bar was pushed open, and 2 people walked in. At first glance Sabine was able to determine that one was a short human female, and the other a tall human male. Sabine didn't pay them much attention after that. It was only after the pair had ordered their drinks did Sabine decide to pay them a little attention. So imagine her shock when the first words to come out of the female's mouth had something to do with stealing a star destroyer.

Damn, thought Sabine.

The male shushed her lightly but with a sense of amusement to it. The female laughed.

Sabine studied the male. If she hadn't known better, she would have thought it was Kanan.

The two started whispering to each other about something. Sabine couldn't tell what, but her interest piqued again when she heard them mention attacking the Empire.

"Could these possibly be new rebel recruits?" Sabine was asking herself. The male sighed and turned to pay the bartender. Sabine didn't pay him much mind then except for one last look that she got of his face. While she was only able to see the left side of his face, one detail was shown very clear to her.

The scars.

Sabine's eyes widened.

"It can't be. There's no way that was Ezra."

Sabine turned to watch the two leave, but didn't make any other move. After they left she received a call from Hera about returning to the ship. Apparently they were planning a major attack against the Empire.

. . .

Ezra and Tariss returned to their Star Destroyer, declared the "Renegade".

They all thought it was a fitting name.

Once they had all made their way to the bridge, Aloysius relayed the news to the other two. Apparently the other rebel cells were planning to launch a massive attack against the Empire. The group all decided to help them out, no harm no foul right?

And so, that's what brought Ezra to be piloting an X-wing among many other X-wings that were leaving for the attack. Sneaking into the base wasn't hard, neither was stealing the fighter. The hard part was going to be executing the rest of the plan. Aloysius was in his own X-wing a few behind Ezra's. The trick was waiting until the right moment.