Old Friends
The crew saw the planet come into view as they jumped out of hyperspace.
"That's a lot of green." Zeb said as they looked at the small planet, covered with forests.
Hera nodded and brought the Ghost into the planet's atmosphere, the ship started to shake as it was right down.
"I....can't." Ezra said, starting to tear up as Hera tried to find a place to land and find Kanan.
"Ezra..." Sabine said and rested her head on his shoulder. "It's ok."
"How are we going to find Kanan on this planet?" Zeb asked as Hera was able to find a little open field and land.
"If he still has his lightsaber, we can scan for electric pluses." Hera told them and she started to press buttons on the control panel.
"Chopper scan for electronic pluses." She told him, he let out a grumble of protest but did it anyway.
{•-•}
"We should turn on our lightsabers." Kanan told the woman, both of them walking inside.
"Why?" She asked but grabbed his and her lightsabers anyway.
"Since there is virtually no technology on this planet but our lightsabers they should be able to scan for a pluse and find us." He told her.
"So they landed?" She asked and handed Kanan his lightsaber and ignited her own.
"Yes, I sense him." He replied and turned in his lightsaber, face blue with the light.
"Good." She said and looked down.
"Are you ready?" He asked her.
"I don't know, I don't want to endanger the rebellion again." She said and looked back up into his blind eyes, he no longer wore the mask out here.
"You won't be the only one." He told her and they heard the young girl come out where they were.
"They're here?" She asked and looked at their lit lightsabers, and took her own from Kanan.
"They are, we are giving them something to track." Kanan told her and they walked back out to the platform.
"We're ready for them." The girl said and they all sat down on the end of the platform, lightsabers in hand, feet dangling down toward the ground, waiting.
{•-•}
"We are picking something up." Hera said. "Four small electronic pluses."
"That's all?" Sabine asked, looking up from Ezra's shoulder.
"Yes, I wonder what they are?" She told them, thinking out loud.
"I don't know, but we are about to find out." Zeb told them.
"Where are they?" Ezra asked looking at Hera.
"About 25 miles away, I'll bring the Ghost back up and we'll fly that way." Hera told them and the Ghost slowly began to rise, flying towards Kanan, toward the four pluses.
{•-•}
The trees began to shake while Hera tried to land as close as possible to Kanan, she found a tight opening about a mile away.
"Are you sure there isn't anything closer?" Ezra asked getting up as she landed.
"It's all trees near him, except for here." She told him.
"We better get out and start walking, it's only about a mile." Zeb said, following Ezra getting up.
"Chopper please stay here and watch the ship." Hera told him. "I know you want to see Kanan but...." She trailed off engulfed in a memory.
Chopper beeped protested approval.
"Thanks Chop." Sabine said getting up and walking to the ramp, followed by everyone else. "Let's go."
They all stepped off the ship, going to find Kanan.
{•-•}
The three of them saw a familiar ship land about a mile off.
"It's the Ghost." The woman said.
"With Ezra's reputation I'm surprised it's still in one piece." The girl joked remembering the few stories Kanan told her.
He laughed. "True."
{•-•}
They walked though the exotic jungle staying close together.
"What was that?" Sabine said, jumping at the call of a bitree.
"Probably just some bird." Ezra told her, trying to calm her nerves.
They heard a low growl and they all jumped as something darted out under their feet. It was a green and blue Ill.
"It kind of looks like a loth cat." Hera said examining the new creature, growling at them.
"You should connect with it Ezra." Sabine told him, joking.
"I'll try, but I haven't done this in a while, I hope it doesn't attack my face like the loth cat" He said, closing his eyes and putting out his hand.
The creature slowly stopped growling and looked at Ezra cautiously.
The others stood in silence waiting to see what the cat would do.
Ezra focused more on connecting to the Ill. The creature slowly started to purr and rub itself against Ezra's leg.
"Looks like you made a friend." Zeb said as the cat tried to climb up Ezra.
"Hey!" He said as it somehow perched itself on Ezra's shoulders.
"Aww it's so cute, it needs a name." Sabine said petting the cat that was on Ezra.
"We are not keeping it." Ezra protested.
"Please." Sabine said, giving him puppy dog eyes.
"Fine." He said. "But we are not naming it yet."
"Fairs." Sabine said and they continued to walk to Kanan.
"I wonder what other creatures are here?" Sabine asked out loud as they were walking.
"I hope nothing to deadly." Zeb said and Hera nodded.
"From what I could dig up about this planet, there are four main creatures. Ills, which Ezra has on his shoulders, bitrees, a type of bird, Quirrs, which is like a medium sized mammal and pidaunts, the main reason there is no settlement here." Hera told them.
"Well I hope we don't run into a pidaunt then." Sabine said as they reached the spot where it said the electronic pluses came from.
"Where's Kanan?" Hera asked looking around and Ezra looked up and saw three pairs of legs dangling from a platform.
"Up." Ezra said and pointed to the platform and all of them looked up.
{•-•}
The girl saw four figures come out of the brush and walk under the platform.
"They're here." She told the other two and pointed down.
"It appears so." The all unignited their lightsabers and the girl took them and ran back to the hut and put them away.
"Come on up." Kanan shouted down at them, the woman grabbed their rope ladder and threw that down.
{•-•}
They all heard Kanan shout and saw the ladder fall.
"You go first Ezra." Sabine said pushing him to the ladder.
"Fine." He mumbled and began to climb up the ladder, proving difficult with the Ill on his back.
Sabine followed after Ezra, then Hera and Zeb brought up the rear.
The ladder swayed as they got to the top and Ezra crawled over into the platform, turning back around and helping the rest if the crew up.
"It's good to see you again." Kanan said as they all got up and turned to face the three people on the platform.
"Kanan!" Hera said, overjoyed and ran into the Jedi Master's arms.
"I've missed you too Hera." Kanan said, hugging her back.
"Ahsoka?" Ezra asked, shocked seeing the familiar face of the Togurta.
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