Imperial Academy and his second-in-command second-in-command Taskmaster Grint picking on a Gotal fruit seller who didn't have a sales license As white-armored stormtroopers began to drag the fruit seller away Ezra walked past Aresko and unclipped the new-model new-model comlink from the man's belt Moving out of sight Ezra put on his most adult voice and spoke into the comlink All officers to the main square This is a code-red emergency Ezra watched in glee as Aresko Grint and the stormtroopers released the fruit seller and rushed off to the square The fruit seller thanked Ezra and gave him a few juicy jogans as a reward Ezra then headed to the square himself via the rooftops Perched on a roof's edge he peered down into the square Imperial Supply Master Lyste was supervising stormtroopers loading hover crates onto speeder bikes Aresko and Grint arrived huffing and puffing They demanded 4
to know why Lyste had called a code red Lyste claimed he hadn't While the Imperials argued Ezra noticed a human male with a goatee and a ponytail standing in the square There was something strange about him something that made Ezra tremble The man tapped his thigh twice signaling a muscular nonhuman and a female in multicolored Mandalorian armor who didn't look much older than Ezra The girl in armor walked past Lyste and the stormtroopers flipping a round object at a speeder bike The object magnetically clamped to the vehicle's side Moments after she left the bike exploded Those troopers who weren't blasted off their feet rushed about searching for the culprit But the girl was long gone Get those crates out of here Keep them secure at all costs Lyste yelled A stormtrooper leapt onto the lead bike 5
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and sped away only to skid to a halt to avoid colliding with a landspeeder Its driver was the man with the goatee To Ezra's utter amazement the man leapt out of the landspeeder kicked the rider off the bike then drew his blaster and fired at the oncoming stormtrooper squad His burly nonhuman comrade thumped out from an alley to assist hurling stormtroopers around as if they were rag dolls Below Ezra the lead Imperial bike lay unattended along with the two crates attached to it Whatever was inside them must be highly valuable to have caused the confrontation If he sold the contents he might never have to pick pockets again Taking a deep breath he jumped off the roof and landed in the bike's seat Thanks for doing the heavy lifting he said to the man and his bruiser friend then heeled the pedals and was off zipping through the city 7
