SPECTRE-7

FIVE- CELESTE: VENOMOUS

I rubbed my wrists were the restraints had rubbed uncomfortably. They know too much about me. I thought, glaring at the Lasat, who was called Garazeb. He now wore the restraints that once bounded me.

"Whatcha' lookin' at?" He growled, I quickly averted my eyes away. Staring at the ground again.

"Chin up, Celeste. Look confident, you just took down one of the strongest Rebels." My eyes widened at Hera's words. I should've known they were the Rebels of Lothal. All the signs... how stupid was I? Containing my excitement, I lifted my gaze to the exit ramp.

"You guys should hide." I said, looking at the rest of the Rebel crew. The rust bucket of an astromech beeped at me. Nudging into my leg.

"Chopper! Leave her alone!" Hera commanded, as sparks flew from one of his metal hands.

"Yeah, you want me dead, I've heard it all." I growled, only able bits and pecies of his droid language. His head swerved around towards Hera then back to me.

"You can't come with me, Rust Bucket. They'll suspect something." He mumbled a few more beeps before wheeling back over to Hera and Kanan.

"So I need to go over the plan again?" Kanan asked, sounding worried almost.

"Nope, I got it. Now go and hide." I waved the crew away, grabbing Garazeb by the cuffs.

"Hey, watch it!" He snapped as I jerked him closer to the ramp. I snatched his weapon of the table and pressed the button to open the ramp with it.

"Careful with that."

"Don't tell me what to do, Garazeb." I shot back, as the ramp slowly lowered. Agent Kallus waiting at patiently.

"Kallus."

"Celeste." He greeted as me and The Lasat walked down the ramp to meet him.

"You're making the wrong choice." Garazeb growled at me,

"You took down the Lasat? Impressive." Agent Kallus smirked, snapping at his troops as an order to take the Lasat away.

"Easy shot, he has a huge hit box." I said, shrugging.

"What about the rest of his crew?"

"They got away, but I got the ship... as promised." I motioned to the Ghost Ship, looking at the beauty of it.

"My troops will check the ship, just in case." I gulped as he stared menacingly at me.

"You know that was a very good try, I have to admit. But believable? No, not at all."

"W-what?" Suddenly he wrapped his arm around my neck, his vice like grip yanking my towards him.

"Rebels, come out of your little hiding places! Or this girl suffers the consequences!" He waited for a few seconds, still no response from the crew in the ship.

"I'll give you five seconds, if you don't show any signs of coming out the girl gets poisoned." He pulled a syringe carefully out of his pocket and had it hovering above my arm, poised to stab me.

"Five!" My shoulders tensed as the countdown began.

"Four!"

"Three!"

"Two!"

"Okay, okay, okay! We're coming out." Ezra's legs hung out of the vents, he landed smoothly with a practiced ease. The rest of the team came out of the ship, confidently walking off the ramp.

"We did what you wanted. Now let her go."

"You think I would let you off that easy?" Kallus chuckled, tightening his grip on me.

"No. Why would I think that?" With a quick and sudden move Garazeb broke out of the chains and grabbed his weapon from off the floor. Pointing it at Kallus, in response the Stormtroopers raised their guns at us.

"Do anything she dies." The majority of stormtrooper changed their target from Garazeb to me. My eyes widened as my heart started racing.

"We had a deal and you broke it." I said, trying to reason with them.

"You brought Rebels. You broke the deal."

"You're a snake! You know that?!" Seeing my opportunity, I pounced. Stomping down on his foot, he released me out of surprise. I elbowed him in the gut, grabbing my blaster before he made another move.

"I have the upper hand. Let us leave in peace and we won't kill you and your troops this time."

"We?" Kanan mocked, somehow having the audacity to joke at this time. I took a step back, staring at Kallus. I wanted so badly to pull the trigger, he had threatened my life. But I should've known better than to make a deal with Imperials.

"You don't realize that we have the upper hand." I stopped my ascent back up onto the ramp as a invisible force clamped around my throat. Fear dissolving my confidence like water pouring into a cup of sugar.

A ghastly white figure came from the shadows, his yellow irises was surrounded by oceans of black. A small smirk played out across his sharp teeth. His red markings made his appearance seem even more evil. His hand was outstretched, any time he pulled his hand into a slight fist the grip on my neck got even tighter. My knees hit the ramp as I gasped for air, clawing helplessly at my throat. Kanan and Ezra both active their lightsabers, going into a defensive position.

"Let her go! She has nothing to with this! The fight is between you and me." Kanan yelled to the man, his ugly grin widened.

"Wrong, actually. When someone breaks their alliance they had with the Empire it's a very big deal. So, really, it's our fight." He clenched his hand into a fist, chocking all the air out of my lungs.

"H-help m-m-me." I managed to cough out,

"But who am I to turn down another fight?" The man released his invisible grip on me and activated his double edged lightsaber. I gasped greedily for air, my lungs grateful for the cool oxygen.