The Trade

Kanan's pov

Right now Ezra, Sabine and I are on a supply run. Hera luckily didn't give us a huge list of supplies for today. But the ones she gave us are still hard to get.

"Ok, if the crates of blasters are on the other side of town, and the fruit supply is a little closer, I guess we can separate." Sabine says.

"Alright then you and Ezra will get the blasters and I'll get the fruit." I say.

They both nod and we all go our separate ways.

Time Skip.........

The fruit Hera requested was very difficult to find. Turns out, she only gave me directions for one of the kinds of fruit.

At least I found out where the other fruit was by some nice people. They probably thought I needed guidance to the fruit stores since I'm blind.

But I don't, I learned how to see through the force so I'm capable of walking around like I used to when I had my sight.

I should check in with Sabine and Ezra to see if they got the blasters. I was about to grab my com to contact them till I heard screaming.

I turned to the direction where I heard the screaming and quickly realized it was Sabine who was yelling for help.

"Kanan!!!" She screams and stopped right in front of me.

"What?" I ask her. "What's going on?"

"It's Ezra!!!" She shouts. "He took him!!!"

"What?!?" I shout. "Who took him?!?!"

"Maul!!!" She shouts and tries to catch her breath.

My eyes widen. Oh no, not that psycho again. He almost killed me the last time I saw him and prevented me from seeing him again. He also wanted Ezra as his apprentice.

I immediately get filled with fear thinking what he's going to do to Ezra. We have to get him back.

"Which direction did they go?" I ask.

"I don't know. It all happened so fast. One second Ezra was with me, then he was in Maul's grasp and disappeared." Sabine says.

"Let's get back to the ghost and see if we can track down Ezra's com link." I say.

"Ok. Hopefully we can." Sabine says and we quickly go back to the ghost.

When we enter the ship, we immediately tell Hera and Zeb about what happened.

Hera was the most worried about Ezra. I only told her about Maul's intentions and she doesn't want Ezra anywhere near him. But now that Maul took Ezra, she is extremely worried about what he will do to him.

"We were thinking of tracking Ezra's com link." Sabine says.

"That will probably work if Maul hasn't jammed the signa-"

Hera was cut off by a sudden transmission call. The deepness of the voice made me know exactly who was calling us.

Maul.

"Hello Master Jedi." Maul says with a chuckle.

"Maul if you touch him, I'm gonna make you wish you died when you fell off that temple!!!!" I growl.

"Kanan calm down. What do you want Maul?" Hera asks trying to hold down her growl too.

"Simple. I want both the Sith holocron and Jedi holocron. Then, I will give you back the apprentice." Maul says.

How did he know I had a Jedi holocron? It doesn't matter, as long as it will make him give Ezra back to us, I don't care.

"Where is he? Let us see him." I say.

"I'm afraid I cannot. You will see him when I get the holocrons. See you then." Maul says with another chuckle. He then ends the transmission.

I let out a frustrated sigh. I wish I could kill him without breaking the Jedi code.

"Guys, we got new coordinates. This must be where Maul wants us to meet him." Sabine says.

"Then let's get there quickly, before he tries to do anything to Ezra." I say.

Hera then goes to the control room and starts the engines. Don't worry Ezra, we are coming.

Ezra's pov

This supply run has gone surprisingly wrong. Can't we ever have one supply run or mission without it going wrong?!?!

After Maul put me into his ship, he locked me into a room with droids watching over me.

I thought he would cuff me by now, but he's probably going to do that when we meet up with the crew.

Yeah, I ease dropped threw the whole conversation Maul had with my friends. I could tell by the tone of Kanan's voice, he wasn't happy about all of this.

I feel guilty that I told Maul we had a Jedi holocron during Malachor. That's another thing on the list of things I did wrong on that mission.

Suddenly, the door opens revealing Maul with an evil smile. I only glare at him.

"Your friends are coming with the holocrons. But before you get to see them, put this on." Maul says handing me new clothing.

It was just a bunch of black Sith-like clothes. Why he wants me to wear this is unknown. But I have to obey, because these droids would probably shock me till I put them on.

"At least I'm going back with my friends after this." I mumble and put on the shirt.

"Who said you were going back with your friends?" He asks creepily and leaves the room.

That could only mean bad things. I just hope the crew gets me back.

Kanan's pov

We made it to the destination and land the ship right by Maul's ship.

We all go outside and wait for him to come out with Ezra. I feel bad we couldn't come up with a plan to take both the holocrons and Ezra, but this is all we could do.

I grip the holocrons in my hands. "Are you guys ready?"

They all nod and we then hear loud stomping coming our direction. I could tell it's Maul since he has robotic legs.

There is also two droids with him. I also sense Ezra, but the crew gives gasps and mutter a few curse words. I could tell he has cuffs on, but we all expected that.

"What is it?" I ask.

"Maul made him wear Sith clothes." Hera says with disgust.

I then take my turn muttering curses. How dare that sick cockroach make Ezra wear something so ridiculous.

"He made me wear this." Ezra quickly says, earning Maul to tell him to be quiet.

"You have the holocrons?" Maul asks stopping a few feet away from us.

"Yeah now give us back Ezra." I say.

"Holocrons first." He says.

"Ezra first." I almost yell.

"How about this. We give you the holocrons, while you give us Ezra back." Hera says.

"Fare enough. The droid will take the holocrons while the other droid will give you back the boy." Maul says.

The droid came up to me for the holocrons. I handed the holocrons to it, but kept my grip on it just in case Maul tries to do anything different than what we have planned.

When Ezra gets close enough to us, I lose my grip on the holocrons and try to grab him. But Maul suddenly force pushes all of us away from Ezra.

I grunt when I hit the ground. Everyone else is scattered around the dark alley recovering from the painful blow from Maul.

"Ahhh!!!! Let me go!!!! Kanan!!!" Ezra screams.

I get off the ground and sense that Maul grabbed Ezra and is now carrying him back to his ship.

"Ezra!!!!" I shout and sprint towards them.

The droids try to stop me, but I easily split them in half. No one gets in my way when it comes to saving my padawan.

Maul and Ezra are on the ramp of his ship. Maul is trying to get him inside, but Ezra is struggling too much.

I then catch up to them and pull Ezra out of Maul's grasp. I push him behind me protectively. Maul growls at me.

"Zeb, get Ezra on board!!!" I order.

Zeb immediately ran to us and led Ezra to the ghost. Maul and I start to battle.

"You really think you can keep Ezra away from me? You're foolish if you think so." Maul hisses.

I dodge his attack and try to strike at him, only for Maul to block my saber from making contact with his face.

"Stay away from him. He's not yours." I say and we continue battling.

We would've continued more if Sabine hadn't thrown one of her smoke bombs towards us. Smoke filled the air making Maul not able to see where I was.

The smoke doesn't do anything to my sight because......well thanks to him.

"Kanan, come on!!!" I hear Sabine shout.

I then run out of the smoke and into the ghost with Sabine beside me. We then go straight into hyber space.

I sigh in relief. That was a close one. Maul almost got Ezra. He's safe now.

I go into the common room where Zeb is taking off the Sith clothes on Ezra.

"I still don't know why he made me wear this." Ezra says. "At least I kept my real clothes under it."

"Well it sure made all our blood boil." Zeb mutters. "Remind me to kill him next time we see him."

I interrupt their conversation and put my hand on Ezra's shoulder.

"Ezra, are you ok? Did he hurt you? Why would he make you wear those clothes? What else did he make you do?" I ask him.

"Woah Kanan, stop attacking me with questions. I'm ok, no he didn't, to just annoy you guys or something I don't know, he only made me stay quiet and not tell him about his plan to not trade me back to you guys." Ezra says and takes a breath after.

I smile. "I'm just glad you're away from that monster."

"Me too. He smells worse than Zeb." Ezra says.

"Seriously kid?" Zeb asks while playfully shoving him.

We all laugh. But I then frown knowing Maul still got the holocrons.

"I wish we were still able to get the holocrons." I say. "Who knows what Maul will do with them, nothing good."

Ezra then surprisingly laughs even harder. Does he find this funny?

"What's so funny kid?" Zeb asks.

"Oh, I'm just laughing at the idea of how Maul will react when he finds out I took the holocrons." Ezra says revealing the two holocrons in his pockets.

My eyes widen. "How did you get them back?"

"When he was trying to make me go into the ship. I took the holocrons away from him after he took them from the droid. He didn't even notice. He was just focusing on leaving with me." Ezra says.

I chuckle. "What am I going to do with you?"

Hera and Sabine later came in grateful to see Ezra on the ghost safe and sound. Hera gave him a gentle hug and Sabine apologized for not saving him earlier. But Ezra said it wasn't her fault.

We all continued to laugh and think of ways to kill Maul. Hera had many ways to kill him.

Ezra was thanking us for saving him during our conversation. He really missed us, even if he wasn't with Maul that long. It felt like years to not just him, but all of us.

We got both Ezra and the holocrons back. The whole situation went perfectly. Today was probably one of the most stressful days of my life. But it ended off good.

I just have to make sure Ezra stays away from Maul. I wish I could say we will never see him again. But knowing Maul, that probably won't happen.

Ezra is a part of our family. Maul will never make him turn, at least I hope so. But knowing Ezra, he is stubborn, bratty at times, and my son.

And no one could break a part a father and son.

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