The whole ghost crew now stands on the bridge Hera in the front left seat with Kannan on the seat next to her. Sabine on the back left with me leaning on the back of her chair now in my new Mandalorian armor with rifle attached to my back and the two pistols on either side of my waist. On the chair to our left is Zeb who is leaning back with his legs crossed while Ezra leans on the door at the back. All eyes are on chopper as we wait for him to connect with the buyer of whatever weapons we are going to be stealing today. I begin to hum out of pure boredom a tune that I remember from childhood from a tv show with Ezra. As I continue to hum it slowly becomes contiguous as Ezra joins in on the humming making Hera and Kannan look back at us for a moment for returning to the chopper. (imagine the power ranger theme song or something similar)
"What the hell are you humming?" Sabine asks me while looking up at my head from her seat position.
"Not a single clue just something from our childhood that is stuck in our head." Ezra just nods along as he continues to hum as I rejoin. Sabine just sighs in response before joining into while leaning back into her chair. Zeb just raises an eyebrow while looking at us all before I see his eye twitch and he joins in too. This shocks Kannan who turns back to see all four of us humming the same tune together making him smile and join in on the humming. Hera turns toward us now that the ghost is hidden from the empire and autopilot is on and smiles softly as she watches her family humming to the same tune together as she joins in and we all hum together for the next 5 min. We all just smile at each other as this continues for the next few minutes.
We all immediately stop as chopper turns his head and beeps confirming that he has connected to the buyer. A small hologram appears projected from choppers eye showing what looks to be a blue see through demon with one of his two horns on his head broken.
"Vizago we heard you have work for us?" Hera asks cautiously while looking down at him.
"Yes, I do. A shipment of weapons has arrived from the imperial complex some very expensive weapons. Steal them and bring them to me and I will pay you very well." Vizago's voice is gravely and somewhat strained through chopper's speakers. I look down at the man and watch as he Hera and Kannan. Once they are finished discussing the mission the hologram dissolves and Hera and Kannan look back at us to figure out how we are going to complete this mission.
"So, we have to steal some weapons from the empire works with us. Now Vizago didn't know where they were being sent or delivered but he did know who was delivering them. Minister Maketh Tua is escorting the deliver to the port to collect the weapons. accompanying her is a protocol droid and an Astromec. So here is the plan, Kannan, Zeb, Sabine, Ezra, Chopper you will go into the port and pose as normal travelers cause a commotion and make the droids leave Minister Maketh Tua side allowing Sabine to fake that she is a student and give the minister the wrong location while giving us the real location. Understood?" Everyone nods along with this plan understanding what their roles are all except for me.
"Um Hera what about me?" I ask while raising my hand and looking at her as she turns toward me.
"Oh, that is simple you are on guard duty." My confusion only grows at this making Hera continue. "You are going to stay on the ship and wait until we land and then when we do you will protect everyone else from any stray imperials while they steal the weapons understood." I let out an understanding sigh and nod my head along now fully understanding my place in this mission. "Good now let's get to work everyone" Hera says with a wide smile which is reciprocated by the rest of us.
5 hours later
I sigh as I lean into the chair next to Hera making her laugh slightly. It took us five hours to get everything set up so that the 5 going into get the information were not found out or anything like that. It was exhausting just moving everything around to prep organizing where to put the new weapons and which transport the minister was going to take to get to the port. I simply lean back into the chair as I close my eyes while we wait for the confirmation and location of where to land the ship.
"Can I ask you a personal question?" Hera's word startles me a bit as I wasn't expecting it but nonetheless, I sit up and look over at her.
"Sure shoot." I say now fully into the conversation between the two of us as we sit waiting for the com to buzz.
"Your life before you joined us was it really just you and your brother since you were orphaned by the empire?" Hera words are hesitant as she knows how sensitive this subject can be. This causes me to freeze up for a second before I recuperate and take a deep breath.
"Yeah, it has just been us for a long few years. I was adopted by them when I was young, and I am four years older than Ezra so I can remember it better than he can. We were out playing together me and Ezra when we heard screaming, so we ran home to see what happened." I stopped for a few seconds as I take another deep breath as the memories from this life come flooding back to me like a tidal wave. "Ezra probably can't remember it as well but I can. I can remember watching them blast our house and take our parents as well as other families while destroying everything within the homes." Tears start to fall out of my eyes slowly making Hera's face look so soft and sad while looking at me. "Ezra tried to run after our parents but I had to stop him or else we would be taken. After that we spent the next 10 years of our lives living in the streets and scavenging anything we could. So that is our life story." I try to smile as I finish and wipe the tears but all I bring myself to do is simply just take away the frown that was on my face. Hera just stares at me obviously terribly sorry for what I went through and sad that it had to come to that.
"Well now you have us and we take care of our own." I simply smile at her reply and open my mouth to say something when the comm buzzes to life.
"Hera, we have the weapon's location move into hangar 10 they are in hangar 11 on the opposite side." Kannan's voice comes through the static as we both turn our attention away from the conversation and to the mission.
"Understood, enroute." Her words are sharp as she quickly turns the ship in a very tight turn as we speed toward the hangar.