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bedlamsbardChapters: 9/?
Fandom: Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla
Characters: Hera Syndulla, Kanan Jarrus, Sabine Wren, Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios, C1-10P | Chopper, Ezra Bridger, Cham Syndulla, Barriss Offee, Kallus | ISB-021, Darth Vader, Ahsoka Tano
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Canon-Typical Violence
Summary:
Ten years after she vanished during an Imperial raid on a Twi'lek colony, Cham Syndulla sees his daughter Hera for the first time in a hologram -- now wearing the uniform of an Imperial agent and apparently working closely with a human Inquisitor. All Cham wants to do is to bring his long-missing child home to what remains of her family, but he soon finds that Hera Syndulla is only interested in two things: her duty to the Empire and her loyalty to her crew, a mismatched collection of outcasts brought together by Hera and her pet Inquisitor.
With Cham and the Rebel agent known as Fulcrum in pursuit, a new mission takes Hera and the crew of the Ghost to the planet Lothal, where a chance meeting with a Force-sensitive teenager awakens something long buried in the Inquisitor once known as Kanan Jarrus...and has dire consequences for Hera, their crew, the Empire, and the fledgling Rebel Alliance.
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Ezra felt the explosion before it happened.
It was a backwash of heat across his face, a shudder in the air and a faint echo of sound. Confused, he looked around, searching for the source, and as a result wasn’t looking down when the bombs started going off. Ezra threw his arms up over his face to protect his eyes from the brilliant glare, the sound buffeting his ears as he ducked down below the parapet, huddling against it for dear life.
He didn’t know how long he stayed there, but eventually he raised himself up again, bracing himself on the parapet as he stared down at the street below. Everyone who had turned out for the parade seemed to be fleeing in the opposite direction, shouting incoherently and knocking each other over in their panic.
Something else exploded and Ezra flinched, turning in the direction of the sound to look at the staging ground. Where previously there had been neatly ordered ranks of walkers, TIEs, and troop transports, now there only seemed to be chaos. Some vehicles had been torn entirely apart by the force of the explosions, while others remained whole but blackened. Flames climbed high into the sky, smaller explosions going off at irregular intervals – fuel tanks, Ezra guessed. As he watched, a damaged walker teetered heavily sideways and began to fall as one of its legs crumpled completely. Stormtroopers scattered before it, running as quickly as they could, but Ezra knew that they wouldn’t make it out of range before the walker fell. He grimaced, starting to look away because he didn’t like stormtroopers, but he didn’t actually want to watch them die –
And saw the walker freeze in mid-air, as if a giant invisible hand had reached out and caught it.