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My mind did not wish to return to consciousness, but someone was starting to shake my shoulder roughly, clearly in an effort to get me to wake. My head felt like a thousand pound heavier than it should, and the pain continued to grow after what I assumed was a blow to the back head. Everything else in my body was hurting in some way or another. The cold metal floor was freezing but it was actually also a bit nice, for my head it was nice to have something cold to reduce the pain. Slowly I managed to open both my eyes, the swelling made it hard to but I managed to do so, and saw that I was in a shuttle.

"Kallus you are finally wakening, that is good for you will be required to walk yourself, my troopers has better things to do than drag you" I heard Thrawn say.

I turned my head and saw that he was sitting at a seat in this back of his shuttle which was probably transporting us to his star destroyer. Instead of replaying I just put my head down again and tried to move my hands which I found was still bound.

"We will be arriving in a few minutes, but before that happen, I am giving you a new chance to explain why you chose the rebellion" Thrawn said to me.

"I told you Thrawn this is one thing I will take to my grave to protect it, it is all that I have left. You claim to be so smart figure it out" I snapped at him.

Even as I spoke I could not help but wonder why it had become so important for me to help the rebels or why I would not tell. Well the first was largely due to Garazeb and those questions that he had set in my head, it had made me question everything until the point where I had lost all believe in the empire. The things I had discovered was horribly, and it had spiralled to even more horrifying questions and answers. Even so why would I not tell? Well it was of course the importance of not giving Thrawn any more information than he already had – which was frightening much already. However, it was also satisfying to see the frustration Thrawn had, over the fact that there was something he did not know. It was worth to see that, even though it would no doubt cost me quite a bit of pain for defying him. He I had barely reached the end of the last though before one of the death troopers slammed his (hers?) foot right into my stomach.

You dog" the female death trooper shouted.

She continued to slam her foot into my stomach which made me caught and gasp for air, the pain that had settled flamed up and made it even harder to breath.

"I told you traitor it is Grand Admiral Thrawn, you will address him with respect and don't you forget it" she shouted.

"Enough" was all Thrawn had to say to make her stop.

He did not even have to race his voice to get the death trooper to stop. I laid gasped for air as it felt like I was starving from it but every breath I took was painful, I had a suspicion that at least one maybe more of my ribs was broken.

"Since you refuse to answer me I will find out myself, I will send word to confiscate your possessions and have them brought to me when we arrive. Even so you might want to think about cooperating, I have spent my life studying the art of war and through that I have learned of many different types of torture. Many are illegal but I can put in a request to overrule that in your case and I have often wondered how effective they are. If I test them you will end up begging me to be allowed to be shoot at the firing squad" said Thrawn in a cold manner.

For the time being I could only focus on the pain and lack of air that threaten to overtake me, but it was hard not to shutter at such a threat. It send shiver down my spine of the thought. As I slowly managed to focus again I looked up at the female death trooper and I could not help to wonder why she was angry. I had heard rumors about Thrawn allowing females into his personal guards and that they were fiercely loyal to him.

"It seams like the roomers are true" I muttered to myself.

"What roomers?" Thrawn said in a tone that told me he would not settle for anything less than the truth.

Was it worth getting another beating just to frustrate Thrawn even further I considered, but no I might throw him a little off with this.

"Well the roomers say that Thrawn's fleet is filled with people that is unbelievable loyal to you and that the male to female ratio is far more equal than other ships or fleets. Many call you the freak fleet due to your ability to find odd people all kinds of places, people whose life your turn upside down or people which carries has stranded for some reason" I answered and stared at him.

It was indeed worth it as I saw Thrawn hiss at my word and I also heard a snare from the female death trooper. The female death trooper would probably like to hit me once again for speaking so direct and bluntly to the grand admiral. Even so it did not matter, if I was to be shot I no longer had to address people by the title or rank. I was however saved by the pilot that came and announced that we would be there in a minute.

"On your feet Kallus we are going to the command bridge and I am not having my troopers drag you" Thrawn said.

I was forced to my feet and the two troopers followed right behind, me as my capture walked down the ramp and out in the Star Destroyer. My right leg was protesting at this and for every step I took it hurt even worse. I kept my head low, but even so I could feel how people stared as I looked like one of the empire, but was being treated like a traitor. Even so I could not do much as we walked down the corridors.

"Go faster you rebel scum" did the male death trooper smeared to me as he pushed me forward.

He used his blaster to push me forward when I had struggled to keep paste due to my leg. I tried to go faster, but my leg just did not wanted to corporate.

"I said move it rebel scum" he shouted at me.

This time I received a hit in my back from the grip on the blaster which made me stumble forward. That was one step to many and my leg gave away and without my hands I could do nothing but fall to the ground. I landed quite hard and pain powered through my body, from both my leg and the other places that had collided with the floor.

"Get him back up and get him to move we don't have all day" I could hear Thrawn say.

Hands grabbed me and forced me to get back up. It was painful to put weight back on my leg but I had no choice but to endure it. Step after step I took while the troopers kept pushing me forward, it was very painful, but finally we were at the lift.

"Grand Admiral Thrawn sir" called a young man that came running towards us.

The breath break allowed me to sight a little without anyone noticing. As he drew closer I spotted an opportunity to get a little payback. I could not run, but I could provoke a little reaction. Just as he ran over to Thrawn I lifted my left leg just a tiny inch of the ground and the young officer felt over it and collided with one of the death trooper and cried out. The unexpected weight made the death trooper fell down with the officer over him/her? He kept his face surprised and then shifted to uninterested as he stared at the two. The young officer got up and looked quite embarrassed by this while Thrawn looked angry.

"I am sorry sir" the young man rambled.

"Your message" Thrawn snapped.

"Grand Moff Tarkin reminds you that he wishes an update when you can" the officer said.

"I will thank you" Thrawn answered and waved the officer away that almost fleet the area.

Thrawn then opened the elevator and I was pressed into the wall of it while the three others went in as well. I had barely hit the wall before the troopers had slammed me into, before I received a punch in the stomach which pressed all the air out of me, again.

"It was you that did that, you made the officer land on top of me" the male trooper snapped.

"Grand Admiral allow me to break his right leg, it won't take much" the male death trooper requested which made me swallow hard.

"No not yet, but when I give you the signal break his right leg for now, he needs it a little longer" Thrawn said angrily staring at me.

I stiffened and tried to brace myself for what would come at one point or another, this was not going to be pleasant. The elevator stopped and I was forced to continue walking despite my leg painfully protesting against it, and I dreaded to think that it would soon enough be worse when they broke it. It was hard not to fear when Thrawn would allow them to break my leg, I had to get away but how was I going to do so? Right now, it was hard enough just to keep paste and I received numerus hits in the back from the grip on the death trooper's shooters when he could not keep up the speed. My back was hurting badly from the many hits when we finally made to the bridge and I was pressed to my knees. We were still in hyperspace and I looked up at Thrawn scared if he would order the death troopers to break my leg but he instead looked at Pryce.

"Debrief me" he ordered her.

Pryce glared at me which I returned before she turned to Thrawn, I also noticed that she did not look surprised so Thrawn must have told her. At this point I would be surprised if less than half the empire did not knew.

"We will be out of hyperspace within the next couple of minutes there the rest of fleet is already in battle with the rebels. Admiral Konstantine has activated the gravity wells preventing any rebels ship from leaving" Pryce informed and smiled coldly to me.

I kept my face straight and glared back but inside it hurt as I knew what was waiting me when we arrived. I would see those I have tried to help pay the price for my effort, how would anyone ever trust me if they lived to find out?

"Good Guvnor I need you to get someone to send someone to collect Kallus possessions and bring them here, I wish to study them" Thrawn said.

It made Pryce walk out my line a sight for a little time while we poured through hyper space. She came back and nodded to Thrawn and I gitterned my teeth in frustration.

"Pay attention Kallus we are there" I heard Thrawn say.

I looked up and saw that we exit hyperspace and arrived near Atalon and I could see that there was a frigate that was under heavy fire.

"What of Governor Tarkin's prisoners?" Governor Pryce asked as the frigate started to break up in peace's and flames poured over the ship. It was the most horribly sight I had ever seen and I had a hard time not to feel despair. Even so I knew that the rebels would not give up that easily, I knew they had found way out of impossible situations before. As long as they were willing to fight, I too had to, I had to find a way to help them somehow.
"General Dodanna is known for his courage" Thrawn answered blankly.

"He would not be aboard the first vessel to flee, its crew is therefore irrelevant" Thrawn finished in a dismissing voice.

I could not help but shutter remembering how cold and dismissing I once had been and I felt ashamed over it. It was for these things that I had stopped helping the empire, I tried to make up for all the bad things I had done.

"Now that we've got their attention" Thrawn said eyes taking in the wreckage.

"Let's meet our opponents" He activated the hologram and I saw the holograms of the rebel commanders pop up.

My heart rate kicked up a knock and I was filled with guilt over this.
"General Dodanna, Commander Sato, Captain Syndulla" Thrawn said.

I could watch and study their faces of the rebels, I saw that there surprise quickly turned over to anger, as they glared at Thrawn. That did not seem to do anything to the chriss, as Thrawn just continued.

"At last we meet in this theater of war, however briefly" Thrawn said and he sounded much happier than I liked.

He had been waiting for this planning and preparing and now it had lead him to this moment. He was ready to play, and I could only hope that the rebels was so as well.
"There is no escape and your forces are badly outnumbered, this rebellion ends today" he concluded.
"We'll never surrender to you Thrawn" Hera growled.
"You misunderstand captain, I'm not accepting surrenders this time. I want you to know failure, utter defeat, and that it is I who delivers it, crushing down upon you" he answered back and I could see that the rebels were not happy.

Thrawn then turned his head to me and nodded to the death trooper and before I registered what was going to happen I was slammed to the ground and held. One of the death trooper held me down as the other grabbed my leg and started to pull … the wrong way.

"NO" I hissed and tried to get away, but to no avail.

"The best thing is that I could not have done so without agent Fulcrum, or should we call him Kallus?" I heard Thrawn say.

Even in pain I lifted my head and saw the rebels stiffen at this.

SNAP

It could be heard on the entire bridge as my leg broke and I screamed as pain consumed me and my vision went reed. I did not even register that I pulled on my retainers it hurt that much, and I could not prevent myself from keep crying out and try to get my leg away from the death trooper. Finally, the death troopers let go of me, but I just laid on the floor trying to catch my breath, as my crying gradually stopped.

"Now let us proceed" I heard Thrawn say.

I sent shiwer down my spine for I was incapable of seeing, how I should manage to proceed.