Chapter 1: Prologue
Agent Kallus' P.O.V
I walked into the imperial facility outside Capital City, and went there to pay a visit to an imperial asset held up there. For the last year or so, we have had this "asset" brainwashed, and he became an assassin for the Empire. Over the course of the last couple of months, we had also been tasking him to go around the outer rim, and the rest of the galaxy on occasion, and to assassinate rebel sympathizers and cells operating there. Out of all the cells, he has not targeted our old friends from Lothal, who have a new member on the team, and are now a part of a larger rebellion. It was time to task him with removing them piece by piece.
"Is he ready?" I asked the two troopers guarding the doors to where he was held up in stasis. "Yes sir, Agent Kallus." one of them replied, opening the door for me afterwards. I walked in with my datapad, where I saw the asset strapped in a chair. I approached him, clicked the button to deactivate stasis, and he awoke, groaning and grunting. "Let me go now!" he ordered. "I'm sorry, but protocol is protocol, my friend." I answered as I pulled up my datapad, and began to say out loud the numbers we said to him during his brainwashing.
"2," I started. "32,4,19..." "No! No! Get out of my head!" he cried out. "21,9,12,1,3..." I continued. "No!Get out now!" he cried out. "14,22,46." I ended. He let out a "no," and then stopped, then looked at me, now ready to go. "Good morning, assassin." I said. "Ready to comply." he responded. "We have a new mission for you." I said as I showed him my datapad, which showed the Lothal rebels and their newest member, as well as those of the Phoenix cell, who they have been apart following the death of the Grand Inquisitor. "These rebels, they are orbiting Lothal, and may potentially be on the planet if anything. They could also be potentially on Garel due to its location near Lothal. Hunt down each and every one of them, and make sure that they are nothing. Your friend who betrayed you is also with them. kill him also. These are your orders from your empire, assassin." I ended. "Understood." he replied.
I released him from his chair, and he went to collect his gear. Before he got his weapons, he put on black imperial assassin armor, which was similar to inquisitor combat armor, and went to collect his weapons and the rest of his gear. He was trained by us in sniping, and he was an expert at it. He grabbed a sniper rifle that was imperial issued, collected additional gadgets, like ammo and what not, and put on a Mandalorian helmet which was black and grey to conceal his face.
He left the room, and took off to find our rebels.
Meanwhile on Lothal
Ezra's P.O.V
It was just another day on Lothal on board the Ghost. Hera and Kanan were fixing up something outside, Zeb was sleeping, and I, with Sabine and our newest member, Alex, were playing sabacc in the common area because we got bored.
"Idiots array!" Alex said, meaning he won. "Again? Dude, you are on a streak." I said. "What can I say? I'm just too good." he replied. "New round?" "New round, boys." Sabine replied.
We got our cards set up, and were ready to go again, just when Chopper came rolling in. "Hey, Chop." Alex said. "You guys got a message." he said in binary, which I understood some of, but the other two knew way more and understood it better. "From whom?" I asked. Chopper played a hologram of Rex and Sato.
"We have a mission that we would like you to take." Rex stated. "What is it?" Alex asked. "We have a rebel sympathizer who said that he's willing to give intel to us about where we could set up a potential base." Sato answered. "Where can me meet him?" I inquired. "He is held up somewhere in Capital City. He wouldn't give us an exact address, but he did say that he would send it only to the people who he could expect. However, he doesn't want you to reveal your faces to him because you have gotten yourself a reputation, and so has this sympathizer." Rex said.
"Which is why we are sending the three of you in on this one." Kanan said as he and Hera entered. "So you overheard everything?" Alex asked. Kanan nodded at him. "Head to Capital City, and meet this guy, the three of you. However, be careful. An imperial sniper assassin is a possible threat down there, and we've been receiving reports of him being seen across the outer rim by allied cells. Be careful, and good luck." Sato said. "We will not let you down." I responded. The hologram ended.
The three of us got our gear, as well as our helmets, or masks if one of us was Alex since that was all he had to cover his face, and headed to the cargo bay to get on our speeder bikes that we were gonna be taking to Capital City. We stole one recently in case of future ops, and we gave Alex that one.
"This is a nice bike, Ezra. Is this imperial issued?" Alex asked after he got on. "It is as a matter of fact." I answered, getting on my bike, and closing up my custom cadet helmet. "And it's got some nice colors to it too. You sprayed it, Sabine?" he asked. "Yup. Besides, it was time for that bike to get a new color other than white anyway." she answered under her helmet.
"Let's roll out." I said, starting up my bike, followed by the others. Before we rolled out, I saw Alex put on sunglasses with red lenses to use as a visor since he had only a ski mask and not a helmet, as pointed out earlier. We left the cargo bay, and drove our bikes across Lothal's plains into Capital City.