On an Imperial Star Destroyer.

Everything was black for a moment as Kanan started waking up to find himself in a Imperial cell. Kanans head still hurt from the stun, but his vision was clear enough to where he could make out the room and people in here. To his right he heard a voice to which he recognised say "hey Kanan. Nice of you to join us". Kanan then looked to his right seeing Zeb who had his hands cuffed into a Y shape. On the other wall on the right Kanan could see Stahl in the same position. Kanan asked Zeb "hey Zeb are you ok" in which Zeb responded with "I'm alive" making Kanan smile at Zebs motivation to keep his sense of humor in a time like this. After the two got their laughs Kanan looked back over at the kid a little worried about him since he didn't seem to show any sign of being awake so he turned and asked Zeb "Zeb is Stahl alright". "Don't know let me check" Zeb said as he looked over to his right saying "hey Mr. Useless your nap times over" getting a groan from Stahl followed by a "screw you furball" making Kanan say "well he's fine". Suddenly the door to the cell opened exposing the bright light to all of them making their vision a little hazy. Through the light they heard a voice say "well well well, how are we enjoying our cell" to which all 3 of them recognised it as the Inquisitor. The Inquisitor walked down the stairs with the door shutting behind him making it very clear to see him. The Inquisitor walked over to Kanan with his lightsaber in his hand saying "Jedi you and I have some discussing to do" making Kanan say "I'm not telling you anything". The Inquisitor admired his determination, but the Inquisitor just said "we shall see about that". As the Inquisitor approached Kanan who was ready to take any sort of torture Zeb started struggling against the restraints trying to free himself. The Inquisitor soon stood over the Jedi smiling as he brought back his arm ready to punch Kanan. However before the Inquisitor could even move his hand close to Kanan they both heard Stahls voice yell "Inquisitor..." catching both of their attentions. Once Stahl had eye contact with The Inquisitors he said in a plane tone "...you know who you still need to break". It took a few moments for The Grand Inquisitor to realize what he meant, but he figured out what Stahl was trying to say smiling at him while asking Kanan and Zeb "any objections?" getting no response from any of them. "No? Ok" was the last thing he said to either of them as he walked over to where Stahl was at. When he was standing above him he said "I have to commend you for being brave, but you also need to know that your stupid" bringing his fists into ready position. Before the Inquisitor started throwing his punch Stahl whispered to himself "For her" feeling the Inquisitor punch his face over and over with Zeb and Kanan watching in horror as Stahl felt the brutal blows.

In Heras room

After what had happened with the mission Hera contacted Fulcrum to give him the news. "Our team was ambushed with 3 of our members captured" Hera told Fulcrum not willing to look at the hologram. "So my sources were right about the trap" Fulcrum said just barely above a whisper. When Hera heard this she was taken by a big surprise looking up at Fulcrum asking "you knew it was a trap?". Fulcrum answered with a "yes I knew Hera, but you need to understand..." before Hera yelled "UNDERSTAND WHAT, MY TEAM IS CAPTURED AND YOU KNEW IT WAS A TRAP THE WHOLE TIME" making Fulcrum shut his mouth for a few seconds at the pilots sudden outburst. "Listen I know your mad but I did this to test you new team members abilities" Fulcrum said making Hera ask "how would have you known what happened" getting a "either he would have got you all out of there or your captures would be on the holo-net" from Fulcrum. Hera just stared at the agent not understanding if this person was a low time smuggler like Vizago or a real contact for them. Hera then said "you slimo, do you even care about my team, my family" making Fulcrum finally feel some guilt from his actions saying "yes Hera and I'm sorry". Even though Fulcrum had apologized that still wasn't enough for Hera so she said with anger in her voice "sorry won't get my team back" to which Fulcrum responded with "I know, but if you get your crew back and even if you don't here are coordinates for a huge supply of parts, fuel, and food. Along with a vacation for as long as needed". After that the coordinates were sent to Hera followed by the transmission ending. Hera sat back in her seat putting her hand to her head thinking about how to save them. Hera had kept thinking and thinking and thinking to the point where her mind started aching causing her to stop her planning. Hera then got up and headed towards the Common Room to see if the others had any ideas.

Common Room

Sabine and Chopper had been in the Common Room for hours planning on how to get the others out of the Empires hands, but since Kanan wasn't with them making a plan was a lot harder than it looked. Ezra had been in his and Sabines room for the majority of the time trying to contact his master through the force, but considering that his training was only going on for only a few months his force abilities along with focus weren't powerful enough. As Sabine looked at the destroyers in space she started noticing the location of broken objects getting dumped out of the destroyer making her widen her eyes and smile. Hera then entered the Common Room looking sour making Sabine ask "Hera, are you ok?" the Twi'lek just looked at the worried Mandalorian smiling and saying "yeah I'm fine Sabine, anything to report?". Sabine then told Hera "well I've been looking at the destroyers for a while and I've noticed something, after 1 to 2 hours they seem to dump unwanted substances out of an airlock, so I think that Ezra, Chopper, and I can take the Phantom through the airlock just as it finishes its dumping and land inside the ship to which we can save Kanan and the others". Hera liked the plan that Sabine had in mind but noticed a few small sides to her plan making her ask "Sabine, even if you 3 can get inside how are you all going to extract Kanan, Zeb, and Stahl without drawing attention". Even though Sabine understood Hera's concern she unlike Kanan had thought the plan way through, so she answered Heras question with "well considering that the place Ezra and I will land in is most likely a garbage shoot there is bound to be at least one guard which Ezra and I can knock out". Even though Sabine thought that through Hera still noticed a few things pointing out "but neither you or Ezra can fit in one of those suits" making Sabine see the flaw too getting the girl to rethink their plan. After a few moments of thinking Sabine still couldn't think of anyway to get in there without causing any suspicion, but then the door opened revealing Ezra who said "we use the vents" catching everyone's attention. "Say that again Ezra" Sabine asked not sure of what she heard, Ezra then said again "you and I can use the vents to sneak our way to Kanans cell and considering with how busy the Empire is they won't even notice us in there". However once again Hera found a flaw saying "getting in is much easier than getting out Ezra, how do you plan on getting the others out of there once you freed them" to which he smirkly said "me and Sabine will have our weapons and the troopers have their weapons so we can knock them out and give their blasters to Kanan and Zeb". Even this wasn't enough to convince Hera so Sabine added "and once we do we all will sneak back to the Phantom and fly towards the Ghost in which we dock and home free". After that the 4 seemed happy with the plan and went to their rooms to go prep for the mission.

Sabine and Ezras room

As the two entered their room Sabine decided to ask Ezra "hey Ezra, are you doing ok". The boy looked at his girlfriend with a straight face saying "no, I couldn't contact Kanan through the force and I'm worried what's happened to him, what if they were hurt severely or maybe..." before Sabine said in a softening voice "its ok Ezra I'm worried too, but we shouldn't think those kind of thoughts, instead we should think about saving them". After Ezra heard this he calmed down smiling at Sabine saying "thank you Sabine I needed that" getting a "your welcome Ezzy" from Sabine along with a quick kiss. The two then separated and prepared themselves for the mission.

On The Star Destroyer

The Inquisitor gave another punch at Stahl before finally bringing his sore fist back saying "arhhh how many punches does that make?" to Stahl whos face was badly brused on both sides. Through the entire time the Inquisitor had punched Stahl Kanan and Zeb watched in horror of the brutality that the Empire had. They both knew that the Imperials had their rough ways, but they never expected them to be this brutal to kids. The Inquisitor then turned his attention to Zeb asking "Lasat how many does that make 100 120" who just staired at the Pu'uan in small hatred. Before Zeb could answer The Grand Inquisitors question they heard Stahl rasply say "1-169" completely catching everyone off guard. (I don't really know how much a humans skull can take so if any of you know please tell me). As Kanan and Zeb staired at the wounded boy in complete shock they started hearing clapping coming from the Inquisitor who said "I am impressed that you can take that many punches and still keep count" before looking at the Lasat asking "Lasat how many can you take, 140 150 tops?" not receiving anything from the shocked face Zeb was giving to Stahl. The Grand Inquisitor looked at the boy smiling as he said "you and I still have more talking to do, troopers" with 2 stormtroopers entering the room waiting for the Inquisitors orders. "Take him to another room and bind him to a chair" the Inquisitor ordered receiving a "yes sir" from both of them as they unshackled Stahl and dragging him out of the room. Once all 3 of them were out of the room the Inquisitor shifted his attention to the Jedi saying "I'm quite shocked by your ability to watch as one of your members suffer, was that what Deppa taught you?" hurting Kanan from the question about his masters teaching. This hurt was so great that Kanan couldn't say anything, all he did was lower his head pleasing the Inquisitor as he left the room. Once Zeb knew the Inquisitor was gone he looked over at Kanan saying "hey Kanan don't listen to that bucket head he's just saying things to get to you" only getting silence from the man.

Another room

The troopers had dragged Stahl for about 10 minutes to a place they knew was far from the other prisoners. They did as the Inquisitor instructed and placed Stahl in a chair cuffing his arms to the back along with his legs to the chair. Once they had finished the Inquisitor appeared in the room saying "wait outside the door" to the troopers who went outside the room closing the door. As the Inquisitor looked down at the boy he began saying "look at what these people have gotten you into Demon Scar" making Stahl look at him with anger saying "my name is Stahl" getting a smile from the Inquisitor. "Still trying to deny the facts huh, still trying to deny who you are" the Inquisitor asked sitting down on the stairs as Stahl said "I am Stahl, not this Demon person you know" not having any strength to look at the Pu'uan. As the Grand Inquisitor admired his will to forget who he was he still wanted to have him join the Empire so he said "my deal still stands boy". Stahl only told the Inquisitor "I am not joining you" making the Inquisitor frown at the boy so he decided to approach this from a different tactic saying "do you honestly think that this group your with cares about you". After Stahl heard this he said to the Inquisitor "they do care about me, I'm one of them" receiving a "you know that's not true, if they did care about you wouldn't the Jedi have stopped me from harming you. I'm sure if his padwan was in your position he would have begged me to not harm him, but he did nothing with you". After Stahl heard this his heart began to sink only a little at the truth the Inquisitor was saying, Kanan really did do nothing to stop the Inquisitor and this started hurting him a bit. The Inquisitor took notice of this and decided to push on saying "this crew doesn't care what happens to you boy, but I do" to which Stahl responded with "thats not true" making the Inquisitor say "its not huh? Lets look at what this crew has done, 3 of them wanted you gone, the mando abandoned you to me and would have left you here if not for that padwan, and the pilot you care about the most. She wanted to leave you behind believing that dirty mandos lie, does that sound like they really care about you?". All of this had hit Stahl like a boulder, everything that the Inquisitor had told him was true and that had hurt him deeply. The Inquisitor then decided to try his new idea saying "what can these people offer, more torture and punishment, I can give you what you want". Once Stahl heard this his curiosity took a hold of him making him say "what can you offer me that they can't" making the Inquisitor stand up and walk around him. "Well I can offer you a place in the Imperials highests ranks, a promise that you will never be alone, and I can also give you what you always wanted.....revenge on him" The Inquisitor said still walking around Stahl, but at a much slower pace. As Stahl heard the Pu'uans last words he knew exactly who he was talking about and tried to act uninterested. The Inquisitor saw this and decided to say right behind him in his ear "I know that you want it Stahl, I know that you want to watch the man who caused all this to die by your hands". As much as Stahl wanted to resist he couldn't help himself say "your right, there is nothing I want more in this galaxy than to kill him. I want to see his face as I drive my blade through his heart seeing the color drain from his body onto the floor the look in his eyes as the last thing he will ever see is me. I would wish for nothing more than to end him". This made the Grand Inquisitor smile as he finally found Stahls anger point. However his smile soon turned into a frown when Stahl said "but its still a no Inquisitor" making the Inquisitor walk in front of him and look at him with a frustrated face. After a few minutes of watching the bruised boy just hang his head he smiled saying "in time boy you will" turning and leaving the room. As the Inquisitor exited the room he told the 2 troopers "I want med supply brought down here for him" making both of the troopers confused along with one of them asking "do you want a chip installed in his head too?". The Inquisitor stopped dead in his tracks saying "no I want that boy as he his fpr when he joins us" getting a "yes sir" from both of them as they went to the nearest med room.

Spectre 7 out.