Facing Fenn Rau

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Sabine thinks about choices and words as she leaps to the top of a Kom'rk-class Mandalorian starfighter. Choices she's made and words she's offered. Both lead her to this place, here and now. Both lead to Hera getting shot down and two pilots of Phoenix squadron killed. It had been her suggestion of using the Concord Dawn system as a short cut. Her idea. Her responsibility for the lives lost.

She had hoped to find Mandalorians who would at least look the other way if not join them in fighting the Empire. A second chance to be what she knew her people should be. That hope had died when the Protectors attacked instead of even listening to their attempts at negotiation.

Now she had a debt and they would pay it. Blood called for blood. It was the Way.

"Where did you get that armor, bounty hunter?" One of the Protectors says through his helmet as they surround her. She leaps to another starfighter, drawing them away from the others she's already planted explosives on.

"Bounty hunter? Not lately. I forged this armor with my family." She replies loudly and hotly, drawing them in closer.

"Family? That's a bold claim. What's your House?"

"I'm Clan Wren, House Vizsla."

"House Vizsla?" One Protector says in shock.

"She's Death Watch! Traitor!" Another accuses.

"My mother was. I'm not. I came here to settle a score and I invoke the code to seek justice through single combat."

Soon enough Fenn Rau appears with Kanan over his shoulder. They exchange words and then their hands are on their blasts, waiting for the other to draw first.

"Sabine..." Kanan says worriedly.

"You have to trust me Kanan." Just as his name leaves her mouth, Fenn Rau pulls his blaster. She is quicker and shots the blaster from his hand and then she's crossing her arms to activate the explosives planted all over the starfighters and their fuel. The landing area goes up in a symphony of light and thunder. Unfortunately she wasn't able to get Fenn Rau's fighter, but Kanan runs off to take care of that while she escapes in the confusion to meet up with Chopper in the Phantom. As she runs she realizes she could have killed Fenn Rau instead of disarming him, but it hadn't felt right somehow.