Star War Rebels in owned by Disney and I make no profit off this use of their intellectual property.

While waiting for the show to pick up again from it's break I had to write something. In fact I had several half started ideas but this one I feel like I can not only start but finish. I hope you enjoy it.

Blind Trust

By Slayzer

It was night time on the streets of Lothal's Capital City and the perfect cover for a little espionage. Sabine and Ezra moved form one pool of shadows to the next and as it was a poorly lite industrial district there was plenty of darkness for them to skulk around in. So far the evenings work was going well.

In preparation for a raid on an Imperial armory Sabine was running around planting small explosive devices on the city's power gird. Just a few somethings to go 'pop' when the rebels make the armory go 'boom' that would keep the bucket-heads running in circles.

Ezra knew the back streets of Lothal better then anyone and he could get through the locks and alarms on the power boxes. Even the Imperials were not so careless as to not have anti-tampering devices on the city's power gird.

So far the two teens had left over a dozen little surprises for the Imperials and they were almost done. After that they meet up with Kanan and Zeb for the raid on the armory. Right now however there was still work to be done.

The next power box was tucked down a tight alleyway. With out needing to exchange a single word the two went to work. Sabine stayed by the entrance of the alley as a look out while Ezra ran on farther down and started to work on the lock.

The power box was large rectangle that set into the wall of a building. Ezra quickly checked that it was both sealed and wired with alarms to prevent the kind of tampering that he and Sabine were attempting to do. Digging into his backpack Ezra pulled out a clothe roll that held his precision toolkit. With the deftness of a burglar the Ezra used to be he had disabled the alarms and had the box unlocked in a matter of minutes.

Ezra glaces at this wrist chronometer to check the time. Do the the risk of signal jamming the bombs were all set on synchronized timers. So the bombs they already planted would go off even if Ezra and Sabine didn't make the rendezvous with Kanan and Zeb. Time was another issue to deal with and they were okay on time, not great but still doing okay.

Ezra ran where Sabine was crouched down at the alleyway's opening and tapped her right shoulder twice. Sabine nodded wordlessly and slipped down the alley while Ezra took over as the lookout. It was the explosives expert's job to place and set the bombs as well as seal up the power box again so it didn't looked like they been tampered with. Not a hard job for Sabine but it was one that had to be done quickly as time was running against them.

Sabine went to work setting another charge while Ezra kept a sharp looked out. So far he saw nothing but the odd cleaning droid sweeping the empty streets.

Unfortunately that didn't last.

Ezra heard them coming before he saw them. That familiar stomping of the boots of Stormtroopers as a squad marched down the street. The six man squad of bucket-heads had a remote with them and the little around black surveillance droid was sweeping the area a head of them. Those troopers would be on top of him and Sabine before long.

Ezra clicked on his comlink. "Specter Five we got a patrol heading our way."

"I just need a minute more to finish up."

"A minute might be more then you have."

"Then I'll work twice as fast."

Ezra bit his lip to stiffed a swearword. 'Is this what Kanan feels like when I'm being disobedient? If so then I'm surprised he doesn't have an ulcer.'

Seeing the troopers getting closer Ezra ducked back down the alleyway to grab Sabine and go. Sabine had other ideas and she was determined to finish the job.

Ezra crouched down next to Sabine and whispered forcibly to her."Times up, we have got to go now!"

"Then go if your frightened but I'm not leaving until I'm done."

Ezra growled frustrated at both his teammates hurtful words and her reluctance to listen to reason. "Hera was right when she said you can be too damn stubborn."

Sabine paid him no mind and kept working. Ezra then left the mandalorian girl on her own and moved down the other end of the alleyway.

A half minute later and Sabine was just finishing up her work. Even she knew she was cutting it close with only seconds to spare. The sound of marching boots drew nearer and nearer as Sabine resealed the power box. It looked like she was going to make a clean getaway after all.

But then as Sabine finished resealing the cover of the power box a small arc of electricity jumped from the power lines, to the cover and then to the bomb. It was little more then a spark but it was enough to set off the explosive charge.

A bright flash of light followed by a roar of sound as if the alleyway had been struck by a bolt of lightning. Lucky the bombs Sabine used were of a small yield and not powerful enough to kill someone. Of course it she never thought about them going off right in someone's face with a building's worth of power arcing through the air.

The blast threw Sabine off her feet and she hit the ground hard. Naturally this also brought the Stormtroopers running. "Halt! What are you doing here!?"

Sabine was just stating to pull herself up off the ground when a stormtrooper's boot connected with her ribs. "I asked you a question mando trash!"

This time it was the butt of a blaster rifle that hit Sabine's shoulder and she fell to the ground once more. The trooper was about ready to beat and answer out of her when his squad leader stopped him.

"Hold it. ISB has an all points bulletin about a girl in purple mando amror. She's part of a rebel cell."

"So we keep her alive long enough for the ISB to beat some Intel out of her?"

"No, it means she didn't come here alone. Lock down the city and call in reinforcements to sweep the area. The rest of that five person cell could be near by."

A yellow ball of energy was shot from somewhere above hitting the remote droid and destroying it. A boy's voice called out from a rooftop. "We're a six person rebel cell if count the grumpy astromech."

Then as if he was only hoping off the last step of a staircase and not a three story building Ezra jumped off the ledge. The force would have let Ezra land on his feet like cat but he chose land on the nearest troop's head. The big man fell collapsed the wight of the sudden impact and Ezra was no worse for it. Rolling with the momentum of the fall Ezra picked up the fallen troopers blasters, switched it to stun and started firing.

In the tight space of the alleyway the stormtroopers couldn't effectively respond to Ezra's sudden ambush and four troopers when down in a few moments. The last trooper however was standing over Sabine and while he wouldn't shoot into his squad he would use the mando girl as a hostage.

"Drop it rebel scum or she dies!" to help make his point he pushed his foot into Sabine's back as he kept his blaster aimed at her head.

Ezra had already taken out the rest of the troopers by then so it was just the two of them. Unfortunately the bucket-head had Sabine and reinforcements heading his way. The young padawan would have to wrap this up quickly and then get him and Sabine out of here.

Ezra tossed the blaster riffle aside and raised his hands up over his head. The trooper brought his blaster up from Sabine and pointed it at Ezra which is where the padawan wanted it if this didn't work out.

"Now turn around slowly and face me."

Ezra took a deep breath to calm his emotions and focused on the force before turning around. Even with a blaster aimed at him he was ready and at peace. The trooper's blaster was suddenly wrenched form his grip and went flying to Ezra's hands like it was a trained bird. The trooper was still shocked by this while Ezra raised the barrel and fired. This time it was not blue rings of stunning energy but a lethal bolt of red that hit the trooper. The man jerked like a puppet with tangled strings for moment before falling to the ground.

Ezra threw the blaster he used to kill that trooper away as if it was poisoned and ran to help Sabine. He draped one of her arms over his shoulders and let most of her weight fall on him as he picked her up. "Come on we're getting out of here even if I have to drag you."

Sabine nodded and took an awkward stumbling step while leaning on Ezra. The two of them couldn't go very fast or duck down any of the hidden paths that Ezra knew. So the only thing they could do was check to see that cost was clear before hurrying to the next alleyway.

Off in the the distance Ezra could hear the sounds of more Imperial patrols, hoverbikes and walkers joining the search. His comlink buzzed to life. "Specter One to Specters Five and Six come in. What's going on out there?"

Ezra quickly pulled Sabine into an abandoned factory building before picking up his comlink. "Our cover was blown and with Specter Five injured I don't think we'll be able to out run our pursuers."

"Hold your position and we'll pick you up."

An amused smile crossed Ezra' face at his master's words. There where times when even Kanan's emotions overran his judgment. "Master we can't stop moving and you can't help us by running blindly into this trap. The best thing you can do to help us is finish your mission." That was when the comline started to crackle as the Imperial's jammed the transmission.

Ezra and Sabine were now surround and cut off from the rest of their team. Ezra stated to think of way to get them out of this mess while Sabine moved slowly toward one of the far walls before sliding to the floor. She just laid there on the floor looking at her hands as she slowly opened and closed them. It looked like Sabine was in shock so Ezra went to help her. When he reached out to touch her hand she pulled away suddenly.

"It's alright Sabine. I just want to see if your hands were hurt."

Sabine raised her hands in front of her helmet's visor and stared at them. "My hand's are find but..." her voice got cough in her throat as she made a muffled sob.

Ezra placed his hands on Sabine's shoulder as if comfort her. "Whatever happened I'll get you through this, I promise."

Sabine removed her helmet with tremblingly hands. Her face was streaked with wet tears and when she talked her words were choked with pain. And her lovely brown eyes were now glazed over with a milky white fog. "Ezra, I can't see."

Sabine had been blinded by the explosion.

-end-

I don't think this counts as a cliffhanger because the tile foreshadowed that too much. When I was thing of 'What would be the worst thing that could happened to Sabine?' I got blindness. So now she all but helpless and feeling useless and has to rely on Ezra to get them both out of this mess that she got them into. It's significant that this was the result of Sabine's hubris as apposed to Ezra's recklessness.

Thinking about it Sabine's darkened visor of her helmet should have shielded her eyes from the flash that blinded her. I justify it by saying soldiers wear bullet-resistance vests not bulletproof vests. As all defensive armor can fail in the field and I don't see why mandalorians should be exempt for that reality.

Regardless my plan for this story is to have Sabine be a little humbled and for Ezra to use his street smarts and cunning to get them out of this. Also I may try my hand at speculations about who and what Ezra's parents were. (Maybe some fluffy Ezrabine moments later, if that's what we're calling the Ezra/Sabine ship)

Thank you for reading and please tell me what you thought.