Encroaching Darkness

Ioth

  Walking down the hall he finds the two oldest with there heads up against the door listing in on Ezra and Sabine. "Do you think they're doing it in there?" The girl didn't respond, she just shushed him. Shaking his head and sighing he walks up behind them. "I think you two should leave." He was expecting the screams and the scared looks. He wasn't expecting to get force pushed by both of them as they made their escape. Getting back onto his feet he knocks on the door. The groaning, moaning and the wet slapping sound stopped. "What!?" They both shouted, apparently thoroughly upset at the disruption. "Ezra, where to next?!" Kanan shouted through the door. "Ioth!" With that Kanan walked away but not before hearing the moaning, groaning and the wet slapping sounds resume. Returning to the common area he sees that Hera's gone. "She heard him and went to set the corrodents into the nav. Should be back in a minute or two." Ashoka told him. The lights then dimmed throughout the ship then Hera's voice came over the comm system. "Lights out everybody." Kanan showed everyone where they'll be sleeping then went to bed himself.

  After a rest full eight hours, they all got up, ready to start the day. Ezra made his way to the common area to find Kanan, Kyle, and Ashoka all there waiting for him.
"So why are we here exactly?" Kyle asked him. "yeah, I was wondering that myself." Kanan chimed in. Ashoka just looked at him expectingly. "Two reasons actually. The first is that the temple here is home to one of the last Jedi libraries, it's equivalent to the one on Coruscant, so naturally, we want that knowledge for our selves. Second, the temple which we will be robing is now the standing home of the imperial inquisition. The remaining fifteen or so inquisitors are all in today so we'll be dealing with them too, this is a two birds one stone kinda situation here. Also, Mira and Emilia should already be there to help us deal with them. So if they just turn up, don't be surprised. So we all understand the plan?" They all nodded and got up from there seats, now ready to leave. "Great, let's go."

  The cold was paired with a sharp wind. Making breathing harder to pull off then one would imagine. None of them even wanted to touch the almost completely metal lightsaber hilts for fear of freezing a handoff. "Ezra! Shouldn't we go straight to the temple!? Why are we going to the settlement!?" Kanan shouted over the howling wind. "This was a settlement during the clone wars, now its the imperial garrison!" As they approached the door that leads into the entry area of the ground floor Ezra blows the door cleanout of the frame and rushes in.

  The stormtroopers were as incompetent as ever. "Hey, doesn't there seem to be too little resistance?" Ashoka asked after they cleared the floor. "Do you always forget so easily Ashoka?" Ezra asked in turn while turning himself around to face her then points up. "We're late to the party as it seems." As he spoke a stormtrooper fell from the upper floors and hit the floor with a resounding thud and cracking sound coming from both his armor and body. "Mira And Emilia are already here."

  As they made their way up to the higher floors Ashoka couldn't get her mind off of something. Taking two faster steps to catch up to him she now stood at Kanan's side. "Kanan, why is it that he refers to Mira as Mira? She's his mother correct?" He thought if it was his place to tell, then deciding that Ezra never would and they don't need Ashoka distracted.

  "He lost his parents when he was seven. Nine years later we find him. Then two after that we find out that they were killed in a prison riot. So for him, all those years of being alone than not but still having to accept that they weren't there, I don't think he really thinks of her as his mother anymore. He calls Hera mom when he thinks no one hears them talking. To him, his real mother is nothing more than a foggy and half-forgotten memory. The same can be applied to me, to him, his real father is nothing more than a memory. Like he calls Hera mom in private, he calls me dad in private. Emilia? I have no clue how he sees her. Probably as nothing more than an apprentice."

  As the two talked they didn't even notice that they'd all reached the top floor of the garrison. Mira and Emilia were waiting for them. "Glad to see that you slowpokes finally showed up." Emilia chided them when they all got into the room. "Alright, now that everyone's here we can get on with the plan. So, there are climate controlled land speeders down in the auto pool. We'll be taking those to the temple. Ahsoka, Mira, and Emilia will be getting the holocrons from the library. Kanan and Kyle will be dealing with any stragglers. I will be getting into the forbidden sections of the temple. This only happens after we get in and kill most of them off. Am I understood?" They all agreed then they made way for the auto pool on the ground floor.