A/N Hi! Sorry this is a few days late! I've just gone back to school and I am so busy and I've been working on something else so sorry. I honestly don't know if I'll continue after this. I was originally going to end in my last fic but people asked for more so here we go. I hope you like it!
It had always felt like Thrawn was one step ahead of them but now it felt more like a hundred. Ever since a new officer had appeared at Thrawn's side, every attack they planned had backfired spectacularly and none of them knew why. That was until Agent Kallus's latest transmission.
"His name is Luitenant Commander Eli Vanto." His distorted voice told them. The Ghost crew listened carefully from their ship. Well most of them did. Ezra was supposed to be practicing his lightsaber moves but was mostly just swinging it around and Zeb was downing his third cup of caf after being awake for twenty hours straight but he was determined to not waste a rare chance to hear the filtered royal voice that had been replaying in his mind since the incident on the ice moon.
"He used to be Thrawn's aid." Kallus continued.
Sabine snorted as she failed to suppress a giggle. The crew turned to look at her questioningly.
"Sorry. It's just it was a running joke at the imperial academy. Anyone who was an aid was supposed to have slept their way there." She explained.
"Well you're not exactly wrong."
Several things happened at once. Zeb spat out his drink so it sprayed Kanan in the face. Sabine's mouth hung open in shock and Ezra who had been absentmindedly playing with his lightsaber dropped it, nearly severing Hera's foot making Chopper attack him retaliation.
"What?" Zeb choked then grimaced guiltily when he saw Kanan. "Er sorry."
"It's fine." Kanan said tensely as caf dripped from his beard.
Sabine went to get him a towel whilst avoiding the scuffle as Hera tried to stop her droid from killing Ezra.
"That is so wrong!" Ezra cried before screaming as Chopper shocked him again.
"Chopper!" Hera shouted. The droid beeped angrily at her but after she receiving her glare he reluctantly left him alone. Sighing in exasperation she knelt down and picked up the fallen lightsaber.
"Do you have an issue with interspecies relationships?" She asked in a voice so calm it was terrifying.
"What? No of corse not!" Ezra protested, offended that she would even ask that question. "Unless it's with Thrawn!"
Sabine hummed thoughtfully. "I dunno. There is something about those eyes and that voice that's kind of alluring. It's not hard to imagine someone-"
"Ewwww! No! Shut up! I don't want to image anything!" Ezra interrupted putting his hands over his ears.
Zeb chuckled. "Yeah Sabine. We don't want to corrupt the kids innocent mind."
"I'm not innocent." Ezra pouted, folding his arms across his chest like a child. "I've kissed people."
"Your mama doesn't count."
"Does yours?"
Kanan stepped between the pair as Zeb made a lunge at Ezra.
"That's enough." He ordered. The pair reluctantly backed down.
"I need more caf to deal with this." Zeb grumbled getting himself another cup.
"If you are quite finished." Kallus said, done with the usual family drama that surrounded this group.
"Sorry Agent Kallus. Please continue." Hera replied, quickly regaining her professional manner.
"Thank you. Now Thrawn cares deeply about this man."
"How deeply?" Kanan asked, his clouded eyes narrowing.
"Deeply enough that the last person to insult him hasn't slept since."
"We're not kidnapping him. We're not like Saw and his gang of extremists." Hera said firmly.
"No. Thrawn would kill you if you did that. However I propose a different idea."
"Go on." Kanan said interested.
"We try to convince him to join the Rebels."
Ezra scoffed. "Yeah because the guy hooking up with Thrawn is really going to chose the rebellion over his big blue d-"
"Language!" Kanan shouted at his Padawan.
"Anyway." Kallus stressed. "I've looked through the commander's files and up until the battle on Batonn, he and Thrawn held the record for the least amount of civilian casualties and have previously chosen to save officers lives over valuable goods. Vanto has also spoken out against The Empire's use of slaves. I believe it is possible that we could persuade him to become a rebel and if could convince him, then maybe he could convince Thrawn. And if Thrawn was on our side-"
"Then we could use his genius instead of being on the receiving end of it." Hera mused, liking Kallus's plan.
"And how exactly are we going to convince him to join us?" Zeb asked.
Even though they were light years apart they could almost see the smirk in Kallus's voice.
"I have an idea."