A/N))) Women can be stormtroopers, but on Lothal they go to a all girl academy. For the sake of the story there is only one academy and its boys and girls.

I marched forward in my stiff uniform. The helmet that was covering my head kept bouncing up and down.

Why had I agreed to do this? Ezra would have been just fine without me?, I thought.

'In an Imperial Academy? Ezra would have been dead in seconds,' argued the voices in my head.

I looked at Ezra who was marching in front of me. It was our fourth week undercover in the lothal imperial academy and everyday was horrible. I had to follow these Imperial dirtbag orders and it took me every ounce of my strength to not punch them in a face. We had been staging as cadets on lothal for weeks, trying to break in and steal a decoder that was inside Imperial Headquarter. The decoder would allow us to steal back a crystal that could be lethal if it fell into the empire's hands. For the past weeks everything seemed to have been going smoothly.

At the moment we were marching towards our assignment today. We suddenly stopped and turned to see a thin man standing in front of us.

" You entered this facility as children and in a few short weeks you will leave as soldiers," the thin man started to talk, "By the time you complete your training you will be prepared to serve your emperor. Today we will test your strength and resolve. Are you ready to become stormtroopers?"

" Sir yes Sir!" we chanted back.

" At ease," Said the the thin man.

We all relaxed and took off our helmets. I was the only girl in our squadron, but that didn't really matter. I had won the most assignments.

I looked down at the cadets helmet in my hands and took a deep breath. I had never thought that I would be in an imperial academy, but hey, here I was.

" Dev Morgan! Akysa Reed? You guys in there?" asked Jay, one of the other cadets, snapping me out of my trance. I looked up and realized he was talking to me and Ezra. Being called by different names was pretty challenging.

" Yeah we're in here," Laughed Ezra answering Jay.

" The pressure must be really getting to you guys," Jay laughed along with Ezra.

" Sorry Jay, Who's under pressure?," Argued Ezra," Not the person who has won most of the assignments."

" Yeah, Most, Dev. Akysa has won more than you," Jay jabbed back at Ezra by pointing at me.

I smiled smugly. Ezra had made it a challenge to see who could win more assignments. At the moment it was 5-4. I was winning, of course.

" But today neither of you are gonna win. It's my turn," Continued Jay.

I laughed," You said that yesterday Jay and who won? I did!"

" Whatever Akysa. I let you win so you wouldn't feel bad. I was being a gentleman," responded Jay.

"Yeah right. I won fair and square," I smiled smugly.

At that moment the floor we were standing on started to lower. The assignment was starting.

" Cadets," Started the thin man from before," You are descending into the well and must climb out with all deliberate speed. Those who win will be given the privilege of serving as aids in an imperial headquarters. Those who lose will be serving Task Master Brit and wishing that they had stayed at the bottom of that well."

I looked around. We were all now standing in a huge room with panels on the wall.

" I'm taking that prize," announced Jay.

" Back off Jay," said Olego, the bully of the squadron, as he pushed Jay.

" Hey! Back off Olego," butted in Ezra. Please don't break into a fight.

" Stay out of this Dev!" Hissed Olego," All three of you are going down!"

" Actually Olego, We're going up," I smirked.

" Whatever," Olego yelled as he pushed me.

" Back of Olego," Ezra said stepping in front of me. Don't really need your protection Ezra, but thanks anyway.

" Make me," Olego said getting in Ezra's face.

Suddenly Task Master Brit's voice came over the intercom before a full fight could break out, "Your assignment starts in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Go!"

We all put our helmets back on and watched as the panels on the walls started to zoom around the room.

" See you boys at the top," I yelled over my shoulder as I took off towards a zooming block.

The rest of the boys took off after me. Everyone tried different ways of the reaching the top. Most of the boys were failing, but a few were slowly but surely making their way up.

" You aren't winning today!" Laughed Jay as he jumped on to my block and pushed me off.

" Not fair," I yelled up at him him.

" Nothing's ever fair," Jay yelled down at me.

I quickly made up for my lost ground with remarkable speed. Jay, Ezra, and me were all completely equal.

Suddenly Task Master Brit spoke on the intercom again," Failure is not permitted. The empire had no use for weakness. See if you can handle this."

At that moment all of the blocks started to shock with electricity. I quickly jumped to avoid being hit with a spark, but others weren't so lucky. Quite a few fell all the way to the floor again. Both me and Ezra were now on the same block.

" How do you guys do it?" Yelled Jay.

" It's a gift," yelled down Ezra.

Jay's block flew under us and we pulled him up onto our block.

I suddenly felt the force telling me to turn. I spun around at the last second to see Olego coming up behind us. I kicked him square in the chest and sent him falling to the ground.

" Nice," commented Jay with a smile.

" Why thank you," I smiled back," but this still doesn't mean you get to win."

The three of us raced to the top, jumping and climbing on the blocks, trying not to be electrocuted. I was so close to coming in first, but Ezra beat me by mere seconds.

" HA! First! We are all tied up Akysa. 5-5!" beamed Ezra.

" Whatever. Next assignment in mine." I said lightly hitting him on the shoulders.

" Quite a finish cadets," said the thin man walking towards us," It almost seemed that this assignment was to easy. Morgan, Reed, you both set records. And is it Kell and Leonis?" Asked the thin man turning his focus to the Jay and another cadet that had come in third and fourth.

" Sir yes sir," responded leonis and jay.

" You four are today's winners, but rest assure that your next assignment will be a great challenge. Follow me," and with that the thin man turned and started to walk briskly towards Imperial Headquarters. Finally, after all this waiting, we were going to get inside.

The four us turned and marched after the thin man. Ezra turned and looked smugly down at Olego who was still trying to get out of the well.

" Better luck next time," Yelled down Ezra, who then turned and jogged up to meet with the rest of us.

The five of us walked down the hallway and right on time a painted Chopper came around the corner. Ezra gave Chopper the signal, a swish of the hand and then pointing your ring and index finger. Chopper beeped and continued to roll down the hallway to give the signal to Zeb and Sabine that Ezra and I were going inside Headquarters.

Once inside the Headquarters, Ezra and I separated from Jay and Leonis.

" This way," I said pulling on Ezra's shirt. We rounded the corner just in time to see a man, Agent Kallus according to Ezra, walking out of the room where the decoder was hidden.

" You have the datapad?" I asked Ezra.

" Of course," Whispered Ezra as he took off after the man.

" Excuse me sir," Ezra said to Kallus," I have your new datapad. I can leave it on your desk if you want?"

" No, I'll take it right now," Motioned Kallus.

"Sure," responded Ezra, handing the datapad to the man.

Ezra waited until Kallus was out of sight and then turned and entered the code for the doors. He turned and motioned to follow him into the room. I looked both ways to make sure no one was watching and then sprinted across the hallway and into the room. The doors shut with a bang behind me.

Ezra ran to the laptop and quickly grabbed the decoder," One decoder as ordered."

" Great, let's go," I answered back.

I opened the door and turned to see Leonis standing in my way.

" What do you think you're doing?" Hissed Leonis.

I racked my brain for an explanation, but at that second two stormtroopers started to come down this hallway. Leonis pushed me into the the room and the door slammed behind us. Leonis walked in and looked around. He turned and also saw Ezra who had hidden the decoder. He walked towards Ezra and reached inside Ezra's helmet, that Ezra was carrying by his waist, and pulled out the decoder. Great hiding spot Ezra. We are so dead.

" I figured it would be something like this," Leonis said examining the decoder.

" It's not what you think," Ezra tried to reassure Leonis and made an effort to grab the decoder out of Leonis hands, but Leonis held on to it.

" What I think is that this device has a built in sensor which would trip that alarm," Leonis said pointing to an alarm that was high up on the wall," You guys try to leave this room and the whole area goes on lockdown."

" Wait. Are you trying to help us?" I questioned Leonis totally surprised.

" Do you really want to discuss this here? Right now?" Leonis asked. I actually did want to discuss this, but I didn't want Agent Kallus to come back and discover three cadets in his office.

" Not so much," I answered grabbing the decoder and inserting it back into the computer. It looked like Zeb and Sabine would have to wait a bit longer for that decoder.

The three of us turned and left the room.

Once out in the hallway Ezra started to question Leonis, but Leonis wasn't able to give us much information because a lieutenant came by to tell us to head to bed.

" We talk about this tonight," I whispered at Leonis and then headed off towards the girls bunks.

I laid down but I never fell asleep. What if Leonis sold us out? He could ruin this whole entire mission.

30 minutes passed. Then and hour. Then another two hours until finally the door to the bunks slid open to reveal Ezra and Leonis.

" Let's go," whispered Ezra in the dark.

I jumped out of my bed and followed the two of them.

" Follow me," said Leonis quietly once we were in the hallway," I know somewhere we can talk safely."

We followed him down a couple hallways and then into a supplies room. We walked to the back and started to talk.

" What do the two of you need that decoder for?" Asked Leonis, cutting right to the chase.

" Our friends need it to stoop and imperial shipment, but how did you know those sensors were there?" responded Ezra.

" My sister, Dhara," Answered Leonis, letting out what seemed to be a sigh of sadness when he mentioned his sister's name," She was the star cadet in this place. She knew the entire imperial complex backwards and forwards."

" What happened to her?" I asked Leonis, sensing that he hadn't seen Dhara in a long time.

" Well they told us she ran off, but I don't believe it, but what were you doing breaking into Kallus' office? Thats a great way to get shot," Leonis said quickly changing the subject from him to us.

" It's long story, but we need that decoder, and, well, we could use some help from someone who know his way around." answered Ezra hoping that Leonis would help.

" What's in it for me," asked Leonis.

" Do you really need a reason to mess with the empire?"

" No, I don't," smiled Leonis," I'll do it."

" Good, we need a plan though. Aksya?" Ezra asked me. I realized he didn't use my real name which meant he didn't totally trust Leonis yet.

" I've got one," I responded," But we have to finish in the top three tomorrow if we are gonna get back into the imperial headquarters."

" Sounds good," Agreed Leonis," And my actual name is Zare Leonis. You guys are Dev Morgan and Aksya Reed, right?"

" Yeah that's us," agreed Ezra, shaking Zare's hand.

As we walked back the boys dropped me off by my bunk room and then continued to walk towards her room. I laid down in my bunk and tried to fall asleep. I was gonna need all my energy for tomorrow morning. I slowly drifted off to sleep.

-The Next Morning-

BEEP! BEEP! I woke suddenly and realized it was already morning and I was late. I could have sworn I had just fallen asleep. I slammed my hand against the alarm clock and hopped out of bed, got ready, and rushed towards the training room.

I walked in just in time. I jumped onto the platform just as they were lowering us back into the well.

" Cutting it a bit close, aren't you," whispered Zare.

" Sorry, I slept in," I whispered back.

Task Master Brit started to speak once we were at the bottom of the well, " Today's assignment will be a bit more difficult. You will need to shoot the targets to activate the blocks to climb up."

As Brit spoke red lights appeared on the panels. They were obviously the targets. We all grabbed the guns that were on the floor as Brit started to countdown.

" 3, 2, 1, Start!" And with that we were off.

This task was easy enough for Ezra and me, but Olego wanted revenge and he was taking it out on Zare. Every chance he could get, Olego would shoot his gun at Zare making it harder and harder for Zare. Slowly Zare fell behind. It was obvious that he wasn't going to come in the top three.

" I'm not gonna make it!" yelled Zare up at us. He was right. It was going to be me, Jay, and Ezra. There was only one thing I could think of. I nodded slightly at Ezra and with slight hesitation Ezra sent Jay tumbling off the side of his block and all the way to the floor. I climbed out first, then Ezra who was quickly followed by Zare.

" 6-5," I whispered at Ezra," I'm winning."

Ezra was about to make a smart comment when Task Master Brit started to talk, " You should all follow Morgan's lead. It will do you good to remember that there is no friendship in war. The only thing that matters is victory. Victory will come at any cost."

Yeah, the empire will try to win even if it means murdering hundreds of innocent people and jedi.

" Tomorrow's final trial will push you all to your limits," Brit continued, "and the reward for success will be a training session inside an imperial walker!"

I heard a clang of a gun being thrown. I looked down to see Jay giving Ezra a deadly look. He ran up to Ezra," Dev! You sabotaged me!"

" I did what I had to do," responded Ezra calmly. I was silently proud of Ezra for keeping his emotions in check.

" Well that's good to know," responded Jay who looked deeply hurt.

Ezra turned and we continued to follow a lieutenant to the imperial headquarters once again.

Once inside the headquarters we separated from the lieutenant and ran towards Agent Kallus' office. Once we were outside of Kallus' office we stopped and looked up at the ceiling that had an air duct that was our entrance into Kallus' office.

" How are we gonna get up there?" asked Zare.

" Don't worry, I've got it," I said quickly.

" You can't reach up there. It's impossible," argued Zare.

" Don't worry, Zare. She's a jedi!" Butted in Ezra.

" Ugh! Why would you say that!" I hissed, but luckily Zare didn't by it.

" Yeah right a jedi and I'm the emperor," He laughed.

I jumped up into the air cooling ducts and army crawled my way over agents Kallus' office. Ezra stood guard while Zare walked into Kallus' office," Sir your pod racer parts have just been delivered. If you could sign here ill will bring them up."

Kallus got up and walked towards Zare moving away from his desk. He started to tell Zare that he hadn't ordered these parts not even noticing that he was being easily distracted from me. I only had seconds though. I concentrated and imagined the decoder floating towards me. I glanced at Zare and saw the urgency in his eyes. I extended my hand and grabbed the decoder and closed the vent just as Agent Kallus spun around. I breathed out a breath that I wasn't aware I had been holding in. I started to crawl back towards Zare and Ezra when I heard a voice talking below me. I opened a panel and saw Task Master Brit talking to someone.

" Sir I believe that we have found three cadets that reach your special requirements. Morgan, Reed, and Kell. They show all the signs you mentioned Inquisitor." The Inquisitor!

" Perfect Brit. Tomorrow I will arrive on lothal to test them myself. If the test are conclusive I will take them into custody!"

You have got to be kidding me!

I raced back to Zare and Ezra who were both waiting with chopper. I handed the decoder to chopper, who took it an whirled off. Ezra turned to follow Chopper but I stopped him.

" We aren't leaving," I told Ezra.

" Why not?" questioned Ezra.

" The Inquisitor is coming," I responded.

I could feel the fear from Ezra when I said his name, " If he's coming then we should definitely be leaving!"

" You don't understand! He's coming to test me and you… and Jay."

When I said this Ezra's eyebrow rose.

" You have got to be kidding me."

Ezra turned to chopper," Looks like we aren't coming with you. Play this when you meet up with zeb and sabine."

Ezra recorded himself telling Sabine and Zeb," Guys, I know you're expecting us but there's this kid at the academy named Jay Kell and he'll get scooped up by the Inquisitor if we don't stay and help him. I know you think were crazy and you're probably right, but it's your fault. The old me would never had stuck out for a stranger but clearly I have spent way too long with you 'heroes'. Decode the hyperspace coordinates with the decoder and get them to specter one. Oh, and if you don't mind, could you attack the academy around noon. We will need a diversion so we can get out of here. Specter six out!"

With that Ezra sent Chopper on his way. I looked at Zare who looked totally lost.

" Whats going on?" question Zare.

" Well…," started Ezra who then continued to explain who the inquisitor was to Zare, who looked just as frightened as we felt.

-Later that Night-

Ezra, Zare, and I stood over Jay. Ezra covered Jay's mouth, which immediately woke him.

" Jay! Shhhh. You have to trust me. Follow me" whispered Ezra.

Jay nodded his head. Ezra removed his hand and started to walk towards the supply closet that we had first talked to Zare in. Once inside Ezra turned to Jay and started to explain about the inquisitor and what was gonna happen. Once he was totally done with the skin crawling description of the Inquisitor and why Jay couldn't go with him he took a deep breath," So that is why you can't go with him!"

" No way!" Shot back Jay," This is just another trick. The three of you are trying to get me busted out of the academy!"

" We are trying to get you out. To save you from the inquisitor!"

" Please Dev! I don't even think this 'inquisitor' exists and even if he does maybe it's a good thing! He trains me, I get a top rank in the empire, I get-"

" Kell, you got a family?" questioned Zare, cutting off Jay's rant. His eyes were slightly narrowed.

" Well it's just me and my mother," responded Jay.

" How would she feel if she never say you again? My sister disappeared from this place and I'm betting that it was the inquisitor that took her away! So unless you're ready to say bye to mom forever..." Zare let that threat hang in the air.

Jay finally realized the truth, " Okay, what's the plan?"

" Simple," I started to speak," the four of us finish in the top four tomorrow."

" That's not simple," Zare shot back.

" Yeah," Jay agreed, "And how is that gonna get us out of here?"

" Because, it gets us inside that walker," I smirked.

-The following morning in the well-

It was the same challenge as yesterday, hit the targets to activate the panels. The four of us were all in the lead with Olego behind us, but apparently Olego was still holding a grudge. Whenever he could he would shoot at Ezra, Zare, Jay or me. Olego finally got a good shot at Jay and sent a bolt flying straight at him. I was to far, but Ezra saw hit. He jumped in front of Jay and was hit instead. Olego grumbled and instead turned towards Zare. This time He sent a bolt flying straight at Zare but I jumped in front of him and was sent tumbling to a block below.

I looked up at Zare and yelled at him to keep going. Ezra and I tried to quickly make up our lost ground. By the time we reached the top Olego, Zare, Jay, and another cadet that I didn't know the name of had won. We were too late.

" Congrats," Task Master Brit spoke to the four cadets who had one," You all win today and the prize, a imperial walker!"

" This wasn't the plan," whispered Jay," You guys were suppose to be on the walker with us!"

" Don't worry! Stick to the plan. We will get into that walker," Ezra whispered back.

At that moment the fourth cadet that had one spoke up," Sir I don't feel so good."

I had seen that cadet fall pretty hard and at that moment he proceeded to barf all over the floor.

" Oh my, someone take him to the infirmary and you come here," Brit yelled at a droid," Get this cleaned up. It seems only Olego, Kell, and Leonis will be going into the walker today."

Olego, Jay, and Zare followed Brit to a Walker and the three of them climbed inside. the rest of us were dismissed. Once the rest of the squadron had left, Ezra signaled Chopper who race off and planted a bomb on one of the imperial walkers. He ran off and activated it. The bomb set off blowing the whole entire leg off of one of the walker. Task Master Brit turned around and sounded the alarm," We're under attack! Lower the blast doors! Repeat, We are under attack, lower the blast doors!"

The huge blast doors started to close, but Zare and Jay took care of it. They used the walker to blast the doors.

" Who ever is in that walker is part of the attack," yelled Brit stating the obvious. He switch on his comlink and announced over the intercom," There is a rouge walker in the academy! Advance and destroy it!"

All guns turned to Zare and Jay's walker and fired, but the walker stumbled and continued on.

" We need to get in that walker!" commented Ezra.

" Yes, I know! Give me a second," I scanned the room looking for a way into the walker,"

"There," I shouted pointing to a large ladder that the walker was going to pass by. Ezra and I sprinted towards the ladder, climbed it with ease and jumped onto the walker. The two of climed on top and struggled to keep a hold. With guns being fired at us and the walker rocking back and forth, it wasn't the easiest thing to do.

" Let us in!" yelled Ezra.

From behind I heard Brit yell, " Look! Morgan and Reed are trying to fight off the imperial walker by themselves. You should all take note!"

Ugh! I really hated that guy! We are being fired at and he wants to train us now?

Before Zare or Jay could let us into the walker the guns took down the walker. The walker tumbled to the ground sliding and stooping under the blast doors, keeping the doors opened about ten feet. Ezra and I flew off the walker and landed on the ground with a hard thud. I opened my eyes to see a stormtrooper pointing his gun at me.

Great, just what i needed, I thought as I rose my hands into the air.

Suddenly the stormtrooper fell to the ground. I looked to see where the blast bolt had come from and saw Zeb. Right on time!

Sabine sprinted in and took out the rest of stormtroopers. Once all the stormtroopers were down Sabine ran over to Ezra and helped him up. I got to my feet and ran over to them. Suddenly I heard a deep thud come from inside the walker.

" Help me," yelled Ezra as he ran over to the hatch of the fallen imperial walker. Sabine, Ezra and I pulled on the hatch until it popped open. Out tumbled Jay and Zare.

" You guys okay?" I asked.

" I think so," responded Jay," but let's just get out of here."

" Wait, give me the gun Jay," Zare said suddenly.

" Okay?" Jay said hesitantly and handed Zare the gun, " Why?"

" Because I'm staying."

" What?!" I asked, "You can't stay."

" It's the only way I only find my sister," Zare said, narrowing his eyes.

" Hate to break up the party but we've got go guys. Stormtroopers are coming," Sabine yelled pointing at a group of troopers who were running at us.

" I'll keep in touch Zare," said Ezra as we turned around and sprinted out of the academy. Zeb came roaring around the corner in a speeder and all of us quickly climbed in. As we sped away Zare fired a couple shots as us to make it look as if we had escaped from him.

We roared back to the Ghost were Hera and Kanan were waiting. All of climbed out and Hera walked over to Jay.

" Jay," she addressed him," we will take you to your mother but you both will have to go into hiding."

" Great hide from the empire. No problem," Jay let out a exasperated sigh and walked into the Ghost.

"Don't worry. We'll help with that too," Hera reassured him as she followed him into the Ghost. The rest of the crew followed them inside, but Kanan.

He walked out to Ezra and me, "So how was it?"

" Interesting," I commented.

" Kind of hard actually," Ezra added.

" Only hard for you," I laughed, "I won the most assignments."

" Woah, only by one. If we had one more assignment we would have been all tied up!"

Kanan laughed at our pointless bickering, " At ease cadets," He said as he turned to head back into the ghost.

" Sir yes sir!" we chanted and then ran after him into the ghost pushing each other playfully.

I was finally realizing that this wasn't the jedi temple and not everything was going to be like what it was like in the clone wars, but that was okay. Ezra wasn't going to be trained how I was trained, but he was going to be trained exceptionally because he had the best master and had help from me.

A/N))) I know this wasn't my best chapter but it was a little challenging to write. Thanks for reading though. Please review! :)