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"When the days are cold
And the cards all fold
And the saints we see
Are all made of gold

When your dreams all fail
And the ones we hail
Are the worst of all
And the blood's run stale

I want to hide the truth
I want to shelter you
But with the beast inside
There's nowhere we can hide

No matter what we breed
We still are made of greed
This is my kingdom come
This is my kingdom come..."

I turned the station. This song reminded me of myself and how a monster is inside. I hated that the most. I hated myself and this song just reminds so why listen to it.

Hera was driving us to a prisoner transport area on the other side of the city. She said that since there is so much traffic then it would take the Empire and us awhile to get there.

I finally turned it to a gut rapping and settled back in my seat.

"...I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you th-"

I immediately changed the channel again. I could feel Hera's lingering eyes glance over at me but didn't say anything. Once again, when the song sounded...ok then I settled back in my seat.

"Hello darkness my old friend..."

I reached out a turned the volume down until it was mute. Silence filled the small cockpit.

"Not much of a music fan?" Hera commented.

"You could say that," I replied, quietly. She didn't reply immediately and seemed to think.

"Is there a particular reason?" She asked, looking over at me when the Ghost stopped.

I wanted to say no and everything is ok but the words just spilled out of my mouth, "Yeah."

I sounded even quieter and didn't need to look to know that Hera was pitying me. I always hated pity. It just shows that someone sees you as weak and pathetic, no matter how nice they seem.

"We're here," Hera said, parking right outside of the faculty. There was a fence made with barbed wire surrounding the place. On the farther side of the faculty was the large amount of water. What did Zeb call it again? The ocean?

My chest knotted in the memory of Baldy. I would of laughed but the memory would hurt more until the point I break. This wasn't the time to break.

   I followed Hera out of the cockpit and to see Kanan loading his gun.

"Ready?" He asked, holstering the gun.

"Do you two have a plan or are you winging it?" Hera asked. The man shrugged and grinned saying, "Something like the second option."

Hera shook her head in disapproval. "I'm not going to let you and Ezra go by yourselves into an imperial-filled faculty without a good plan."

"Winging it is a plan," Kanan defended.

"I said a good plan," Hera replied, emphasizing 'good.'

"Well," I butted in, "we need to think of something fast because we don't have a lot of time plotting a good plan to rescue Zeb and Sabine."

Kanan pointed his index finger at me while staring at Hera. "He's right."

"Fine," the woman said, "then what's the plan?" The two adults looked at me for guidance. I thought until an idea came to me.

"Ok, here's the plan..." I started, explaining.

   Kanan and I stood on the outside of the fence, looking in after a few minutes of planning and agreeing. They actually liked my idea. At first, it was a shock then full on happiness.

   Now we proceed with the plan.

   Kanan was dressed as a trooper while I am one of the prisoners that was caught escaping.

    "Ready," Kanan asked and I nodded. We got into our positions as Kanan grabs my arm roughly and pulls me along.

   We made it to the front gate to see the troopers counting prisoners. One of them saw us and yelled, "Hey, what do you think you're doing?"

   "Found this one escaping," Kanan said. I bowed my head to look like I'm scared. It wasn't hard, honestly, I was completely terrified right now. If our little act doesn't work and we're caught then it's game over.

   "Fine," the trooper muttered, then grabbed a hold of me and dragged me to the group of prisoners. Sounds like he was having a rough day. Little does he know, it's going to be a lot worse.

Once the trooper let me go, my eyes instantly scanned the group. That's when spotting Zeb easily since he was the tallest in the group. A colorful tuff of hair was next to him and my guess that it was Sabine.

   Zeb's eyes glanced over at me and gave me a confused look. I gestured silently to Kanan and Zeb averted his eyes over to the man.

   Zeb gave me a small nod before whispering to, who I think is Sabine.

   "Move it!" A trooper yelled as the others pointed their guns and nudging the group to go. We began to walk until Zeb grabbed a trooper and threw him at two others. Even in cuffs and assuming he had a Canceler, he still was strong. Sabine came into the fight and kicked a trooper in the stomach.

The other prisoners joined into the fight. Kanan began shooting troopers one by one.

   Alarms began to blare and screams tore through the air in the faculty. When the last of the troopers were knocked out or killed, everyone looked over at the faculty. Troopers were running and screaming all over. Something wasn't right.

   "What's going on out there?" I heard Hera's voice on Kanan's comm link.

   He grabbed the comm and spoke into it, "I'm not sure." Quickly, Kanan put the comm back onto his belt before gesturing to the group.

   "Everyone, it's time to go. Come on."

   The group of prisoners began to follow Kanan to the RV but I didn't move.

   My eyes latched onto the faculty when seeing smoke come out of the building. An explosion shook the ground but I caught my balance.

   'What was happening?' I thought.

   Two troopers were running, not towards, but away from something. A vine shot up and out of the black cement and grabbed one of the screaming troopers. No matter what the trooper did, he couldn't break free from the grip of the vine. Huge thorns shot out of the vines and the troopers screams worsen. He began choking and coughing up blood until going limp. Going quiet with eyes wide open. Blood seeped through the vines, staining the cement and trooper's white outfit.

   The vine then dragged the body down into the ground, disappearing out of sight. My heart raced and my legs froze from the terrifying scene that just happened on the other side of the fence.

   It was like being caught in some trance that my eyes couldn't look away from. Yet, an unsettling feeling made me turn to look in a different direction. That's when seeing the figure from the alleyway.

Cold yellow eyes stared straight back, luring me in. I didn't make a move to go forward. In fact, I didn't make a move at all, like I was trapped on this spot.

How long has it been? Am I supposed to be doing something? What's going on?

"Ezra!"

I jumped and snapped out of my trance. Kanan stood, there with both hands on my arms, shaking me. I looked around and tried to figure out what was going on. The dark figure on the roof was gone.

"What are you doing we need to go no-AH!"

Kanan fell back onto the ground. A vine was entangled around his leg with thorns popping out. Blood seeped through the cracks of the vine.

I quickly got down on my knees and started to pull his leg free but the grip was like a python suffocating its victims. Tight.

"Go to the Ghost and get out of here," Kanan ordered. I looked up at him for a moment before spotting his gun in the holster.

"I'm not leaving you behind," I said then grabbed the gun. I quickly aimed at a part of the vine where Kanan's leg wasn't and fired. It did nothing so I kept firing. Firing. Firing. Firing.

"Kid, get out of here before troopers come," Kanan yelled. I ignored him. Fire. Fire. Fire.

"Go now!" He yelled, angrily. Yet, behind all the anger, his voice pleaded me to go.

   I felt numb. Frozen. My arms shook from unsteady breathing and eyes burned of unreleased tears. Finger on the trigger of the gun getting ready to fire again but couldn't. It wouldn't work.

   Somehow the vine was healing itself.

   I shook my head 'no,' "I'm not leaving you."

"And we won't."

My head jolted to the side to see Zeb and Sabine running over. The gates of the faculty started to open and on the other side was...oh no.

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