Twist of Fate Chapter 10

Hey guys! Hope that you liked the last chapter! I'm sorry this chapter didn't get posted quickly. My brother graduated High school over the weekend and between work and that, I haven't had much time to write it. But I hope that you continue to like my story and PLEASE feel free to throw out ideas. I love hearing them and it helps me write it so much better.

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Hera's POV

"Echo to Hera, we got them. I repeat we have extracted the target and are headed back towards our ship," I received the message from the other mysterious figure sent to rescue our boys.

"Acknowledged Echo," I confirmed the transmission but couldn't help let my motherly side of me come through, "Are they alright?"

"Ezra is banged up a tad, but Kanan got the worst of it," Echo reported, "I've already called for a medical team to be ready as soon as we leave orbit."

I felt my breath hitch slightly as the news passed through my brain that Kanan was severely injured. He was one of my closest friends not only in the crew but in the entire galaxy.

"Okay thank you Echo," I replied, ending the transmission.

"What was that?" Sabine asked me as she dodged incoming fire from the troopers.

"They found Kanan and Ezra," I relayed the information, "They are headed towards their ship so it's now time for us to do the same."

Zeb and Sabine both nodded in approval as we began advancing in the opposite direction towards the Ghost which we docked on the side of the ship.

The ship rocked hard to the left as if an explosion just hit the hull. I was worried that with the amount of troopers still standing between us and the Ghost that we weren't going to make it in time before the whole ship exploded on us.

"Guys make it quick," I yelled to the others as we fought a particularly large group of Stormtroopers standing in front of us.

"Guys, I have a miracle with me so you might want to step back,' Sabine informed us then threw one of her colorful paint bombs at the troopers.

The whole room soon filled with smoke and purple paint as the little thing exploded in the faces of the enemy.

We than made a beeline for our ship.

"Fulcrum we made it aboard our ship what are the hyperspace coordinates?" I radioed to our leader.

She gave me the coordinates to airspace above the planet of Pollis Massa. It was a planet known for its medical prowess and leading tech in the medical field.

"Chopper," I ordered the droid around, "Enter these coordinates into the nav computer and get us out of here."

Chopper beeped in agreement as he set out to do the objective given to him.

It was then that the Ghost was rocked hard due to something external.

"Sabine what was that?" I asked warily. I was hoping that there weren't any TIEs on our hands to prevent us from quickly escaping.

"That was the star destroyer we were just on exploding," Sabine informed me, "It wasn't as pretty as one of my explosions though."

I internally laughed. Sabine always had a way with making the demise of the Empire colorful and awesome.

Chopper than broke my thoughts by beeping and chirping at me that we were ready to go into hyperspace.

"Hit it Chop!" I exclaimed, ready to get out of this mess. I saw off the corner of my eye, the rest of the fleet zooming out of there themselves.

The world soon buzzed as hyperspace consumed us in a brilliant glow of blue as the stars zoomed quickly away.

Ezra's POV

They had brought me back to the medical wing of the ship Echo seemed to own and command. There was a strange man who seemed to be the medical officer who looked me over thoroughly.

"Hey kid, it seems like the worst of your injuries is a slight concussion," The man replied with a slight accent from somewhere I didn't recognize. His short almost buzzed cut black hair was slicked back slightly. His grey medical uniform accentuated his orange colored eyes. But what struck me as odd was that on his uniform was a blue hand print placed on the right side of his chest. He walked over to me and sat down in a chair sitting right next to me.

But what struck me as odd was that there were wires and tubing coming out of the back of his head that made him look really strange. I didn't know what to think about it and made a mental note to ask him about it when I was better.

I then nodded in response trying hard not to make my headache worse than it already was.

"Just lay back and rest," The man said as he gestured to a nearby med couch sitting in the middle of the room.

I walked over to it and hopped on letting the soft cushions of the couch send my mind and body into an aimless sense of relaxation. The man messed with me for a little bit as he changed the bandage on my broken hand for something that would work way better than the one that I had previously had on. After that I was left alone to my thoughts.

But I was interrupted when in walked Echo who seemed concerned.

"Hey, Ezra, how are you feeling?" She asked me sincerely.

"I'm alright, just have a nasty headache that's all," I replied. I searched her face for signs of something else and she must have clued in as she let a small smile grace her lips.

"Kanan is okay, but we can't give him full medical attention till we reach our destination," she replied replacing her small smile with a concerned glance towards me.

I couldn't help but let the tears flow for the first time since this whole ordeal started. Or I should say it was the first time that it happened that wasn't a result of the hallucination drug that Veldar instigated.

"I also wanted to inform you that we took Veldar into custody and are planning on turning him over to the people of Pollis Massa since apparently he's wronged them in ways," she reassured me.

Silence hung between us for a minute or two as I watched her look around the room as if a heavy burden had been laid upon her shoulders and was tired of carrying it. But the way she looked upon the medic in the room, I could see longing as well as the beginnings of tears forming in her eyes.

"So Kanan has taught me how to sense for force signatures in people and when you came into the cell, I noticed you had one," I asked her breaking the silence.

She sighed taking a deep breath before she answered.

"I was a Jedi," she replied, "Before the Empire took away everything I knew and loved."

I sat there and pondered the revelation as the silence stretched on again. The Empire was successful in ripping apart families regardless of affiliation. It made it hard to live on any world neutral or otherwise.

"So what happened?" I asked trying not to be too nosey into her past, but just enough to quell the incoming curiosity.

"I was at home visiting my biological family," she began. I noticed that this whole time she hadn't made eye contact with me as if something was too shameful for her to share with me, "I was about to head home to the Jedi Temple when I received word from my master not to come back t, and that it was being overrun by Clone Troopers. I didn't believe him at first but then reports started coming in that Jedi all across the galaxy were being murdered. I got lucky that I wasn't around any of the troopers when it happened. To this day I think that's what kept me alive."

I continued to think over what had happened.

And I thought over the fact that this day that brought so much destruction also brought a life into this world.

My life; the life that was now consumed with the very same force that people fought so hard to destroy.

"So I stayed with my family and disguised myself as a local policeman to make money. Only a handful of my parents most trusted friends knew of my origins as a Jedi. And no one ever found me and I never showed my true self till today," She continued.

"Do you know what happened to your master?" I asked inquisitively. But I then began to second guess my question as I could see her crestfallen face began to be overrun with tears.

"No, to this day, I don't know if he lived through the ordeal or not," she replied shaking her head. Finally she turned her tear streaked face towards me, "And that's what I was coming to tell you. I can't stay because I have to take a personal mission, but my crew and my brother will keep you safe until the whole ordeal blows over."

"Your brother?" I questioned.

"Yeah," She replied as a smile crept up on her face, "You met him in the cell."

I had to sit there and rack my head trying to figure out who this person was. But as to not to sound strange, I guess.

"Was it Benji?" I asked as a mental image came into my head.

"Yes he's my brother," She replied smiling. She rested her elbows on her knees, leaned forward a bit and looked toward me.

I smiled back at her. But our moment was interrupted when her comlink sounded off.

"This is Echo," she replied through the device.

"We're about to exit hyperspace are you coming to the surface?" Benji questioned her.

"Yes I'm going to accompany the boys to the surface then I'm headed home," She replied looking back at me.

"Roger that! Benji out!"

"He doesn't sound excited at all," I remarked trying to make a joke out of the situation.

Echo just laughed and she ruffled my hair.

"Just stay here and we'll get you to the surface as soon as possible," she said and then left.

Hera's POV

We were almost there, almost at the planet's surface. My anticipation of seeing the boys again continued to grow as we grew steadily nearer to our destination.

Chopper beeped in the background letting me know that we had come out of hyperspace and it was time for me to take back the controls of the ship from the autopilot.

The planet was gorgeous. The soft greys and whites were lit up by the lights from the cities on the surface of the planet. It wasn't densely populated in and around the cities like most planets that I have visited, but it was dotted with small villages.

"Fulcrum to Hera we'll all be landing on platform 2-3B,"Fulcrum explained to me. I knew the platform for I had been here to this planet before. It was one of the largest on the planet as it could hold up to four small ships comfortably.

I could hear to soft clicking of shoes and feet coming up behind me as Sabine and Zeb made their entrance into the cockpit.

"Roger that Fulcrum we'll land on your mark," I replied to my leader and friend.

The communication shut off at the source as we now were inside the atmosphere of the planet.

"Guys once we land, you cannot speak of anything that you see going on in here to anyone that is not within this group," I warned the others not taking my eyes off of the planet ahead of me.

"And why is that?" Sabine challenged.

"There are sensitive things that happen inside and cannot be discovered otherwise it could jeopardize our cause and our location here," I replied, "And because we don't know the extent of Kanan's injuries, we might have an extended stay here, so we need our location kept as quiet as possible."

"Well when you put it that way," Sabine remarked. Even though she wasn't the youngest member of my crew, she could sometimes prove herself to be annoying as she was always questioning our every move unless she agreed to it already.

Shortly after I finished my sentence, we were given the go ahead to land signal. I was relieved to finally see Kanan and Ezra, even though I didn't know the extent of their injuries.

I quickly landed the Ghost and proceeded to find them.

I looked around the landing platform of the meager city of Pollis Massa in search of the two people I was the most eager to see. The three other ships that were docked on the platform dwarfed the people below as their blue and red colors glistened in the light of the place.

As I was looking around though, I managed to spot Ezra with two other people who were talking avidly to him.

As I approached, though Ezra didn't look too bad. His black eye was more prominent against his pale skin. He had multiple bruises and cuts surrounding his arms, feet and legs that weren't hidden behind his orange jumpsuit that were out of sight but were noticeably there because of the tears in it.

I practically ran over to the youngest member of my crew and smothered him in a hug.

"Hera," Ezra stated though strained, "I've got bruises can you lighten up a bit?"

I quickly realized that he was more injured than previously thought and quickly let go of the embrace.

"Hera," Ezra began, "This is Echo and her brother Benji."

Ezra stepped aside to reveal a young lady and boy who looked so much alike. They both has reddish-brown hair and blue eyes. They both wore camo since they were a part of the strike team that broke Kanan and Ezra out.

"Pleased to meet you Echo," I replied nodding my head slightly to let her know of my acknowledgement.

She responded nodding her head in a similar manner.

"I can assume that you are going to want to see Kanan?" Echo inquired.

"You read my mind," I replied smiling at the newcomer.

She gestured for me to follow her as we now entered the main complex.

The complex surprised me as each and every room I walked past was filled with the most up to date medical equipment complete with the patients to go with it. Each room was a glorious mix of silver and white colors. The windows were rounded in a slight arch separated by beams into six panels that revealed the person inside.

We rounded the corner to another corridor that stretched behind closed doors with a sign reading 'Intensive Care'. I had a feeling that this is where they had taken Kanan when they landed.

"Kanan just came out of surgery so he should be out of it for a bit," Echo relayed to me, "You're welcome to stay in the room when we get there."

I nodded dreading the moment I was going to lay my eyes on my best friend.

We made our way through the doors and through a long hallway. I saw to the other side of the same half curved glass, the other people who were in as bad or worse condition than Kanan was. Some were barely conscious others where totally knocked out, with the only thing letting us know that they were alive were the various machines attached to them.

Echo slowed down and turned to her left when we were almost completely down the hall. She gestured to a room on her left.

I hesitantly walked up to the windows debating in my head whether or not I really wanted to see Kanan in the condition that he was in. But my love for him won out as I peered through the glass at him.

He was lying on the only table in the room that wasn't covered in some sort of medical instrument. His shirt had been taken off, revealing his toned muscles underneath. But those muscles were wrapped in bandages from underneath his arms all the way to the middle of his waist. A mask had been placed over his mouth and nose probably pumping oxygen through to help him breath. Tubes and wires also hung from his exposed right hand and chest that helped the doctors to monitor him at all times.

"He's a trooper like I've never seen before," Echo commented, "He managed to survive a lethal shot to the side, every rib in his chest broken and a concussion. Also he sustained multiple severe burns to his neck, legs and shoulders. The doctors additionally found traces of a paralytic and a force suppression drug inside his blood stream basically immobilizing him physically as well as though his connection to the force."

"So it's a miracle that he survived all of this?" I questioned sadly. I knew the answer to that question but it managed to find its way to my lips before I could control it.

"Yes, it is a major miracle that he survived," Echo replied, "They managed to purge his body of the two drugs so that he can heal. The only one that is flowing through his bloodstream now is a pain killer."

"Can I go in?" I asked really eager to sit by his side for the first time in forever.

Echo nodded and opened the door.

"They are expecting your arrival," Echo stated and smile warmly at me, "Know that the effects of the anesthetic should be completely worn off soon. It would be nice for him to see a familiar face when he wakes."

I smiled back as I entered the room. The two natives to Pollis Massa and the resident physicians turned to stare at me for a brief couple of seconds, but then proceeded with their duties. I sat in a chair that was sitting next to the bed and took Kanan's limp hand in my own.

The only noise besides the sound of the various machines hooked to Kanan was the sound of his breath hitting the mask. I felt so bad as his condition was worse up close than it did up far.

And as a gesture of comfort more for me than for him, I began rubbing the backside of my hand against his temples moving strands of stray hair away from his face every now and then.

Before I knew it three hours had passed and I hadn't moved an inch. The doctors offered me something to drink every now and then, which I did take, but never once did I take my eyes off of the love of my life.

As I was getting tired enough to lay down and sleep, I noticed his eye lids started to move. It was then that after one big sigh, his brown eyes finally opened.