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On an Arquitens-class command cruiser above Lothal, in Kallus's personal quarters, alarms began blaring, waking the Fulcrum agent up as he walked to his quarter's doorway and opened the door and a stormtrooper stopped towards him. "Battle stations, sir!" Kallus closed the door as he walked to his quarter's sink and stared at himself in the mirror as he turned on the sink's water.


"Lieutenant Lyste, are we under attack?" Kallus asked Lyste as he entered the Light Cruiser's bridge with two stormtroopers who stood on both sides of the entrance as he entered.

"No, and I intend to keep it that way," Lyste answered as they stared out the bridge's window as a Star Commuter 2000 flew outside the ship, "This stolen shuttle reportedly blasted its way out of the Lothal spaceport. I'm moving to intercept. Prepare tractor beam."

TIEs fired upon the shuttle as they chased the shuttle and damaged its right fin.

"We have tractor lock," one of the Imperial officers in front of Lyste and Kallus said.

"I'll head up the boarding party," Kallus stated as he left the bridge.


Kallus enters the Light Cruiser's airlock as he saw two stormtroopers aiming their E-11 blaster rifles at the door on the other side of the hall as they bent their knees as a stormtrooper and a stormtrooper commander dragged someone wearing Mandalorian bounty hunter styled armor with stuncuffds placed on her wrists with her arms behind her back.

"Let me go you di'kuts! You're making a mistake!" A feminine voice came from the bounty hunter.

"Remove her helmet," Kallus ordered, which one of the stormtroopers that dragged the bounty hunter from her shuttle did just that to reveal that the bounty hunter was the Mandalorian rebel, Ezra Wren.

"What are you looking at, Imperial scum?!" She yelled at Kallus as she saw him staring at her.

"Bring her to the detention cells," Kallus ordered as he walked away.

"Hey, be careful with those," Ezra told the stormtrooper commander as he took her extra WESTAR-35s from her blaster holsters before escorting her forward.

"Commander, I found two more," a stormtrooper said walking through the door from the shuttle with AP-5 and Chopper, who was painted in an Imperial color scheme.

"Droids?" The stormtrooper commander said in confusion as he turned around and saw AP-5 and Chopper.

"We were aboard the shuttle when it was stolen," AP-5 explained to him.

"Well, stay here and wait for processing," he told them.

"Oh, we can do that. We can do that just fine," AP-5 said as Chopper grunted quietly.


Kallus accompanied the stormtroopers as they escorted Ezra to the detention cells with one of the stormtroopers pushing her into one of the cells and threw her Mandalorian bounty hunter helmet into the cell as well.

"Leave us," Kallus told the stormtroopers, "I'll interrogate her myself." Kallus inserted his code cylinder into the port of Ezra's cell, turning off the cell's security cameras. He entered the cell as the door closed behind him, "Don't you realize how dangerous it is for you to be here? If anyone recognizes you…"

"They won't," she reassured him as he removed her stuncuffs, "You know how big the Empire is. Most troopers don't even know me and my sister look like now."

"I hope that's true for both our sakes. If they discover you here, I'll be executed for treason!" Kallus told her.

"You might be anyway," she chuckled, "We think the Empire was monitoring your last Fulcrum transmission."

"So you got captured to warn me?" Kallus asked her.

"Nope. To get you out of here," she told him.

"Well, I guess I have no choice now," Kallus said with anger.

"Look, I'm not happy about it, either," she told him, "For all I know, you're playing a long game to set us up."

"I could say the same to you," Kallus countered back at her, "I suppose for now, we'll just have to trust...each other."

"Open this door!" they suddenly hear Lyste call out from outside the cell as Ezra pulls Kallus's arm at her to punch her in the cheek as she fell on her butt in front of the steps as the door opened.

"Stop!" She cried out to him, "I'll tell you anything!"

"A confession already?" Lyste stated with surprise, "You are good. But it will have to wait. Admiral Thrawn's fleet's just arrived, and he has summoned us aboard his ship." Lyste then turned to one of the stormtroopers accompanying him, "Bring the prisoner."

"The prisoner?" Kallus asked with confusion.

"To show the Grand Admiral how effective I am in dealing with the rebel threat," Lyste explained.

"She's a bounty hunter, not a rebel," Kallus stated.

"She came from Lothal on a shuttle. That's enough," Lyste said as the stormtrooper escorted the Mandalorian out of the cell after placing her stuncuffs back on her wrists with Kallus and Lyste following as they left her Mandalorian bounty hunter helmet on the cell's floor.


"Excuse me," AP-5 told Lyste, the stormtrooper escorting Ezra and Kallus as they approached him, Chopper and the stormtroopers guarding the airlock door as they walked towards them in the airlock.

"I don't request any droids to accompany us," Lyste stated.

"My counterpart has a recording of the shuttle theft. Protocol is for us to provide it as testimony against the thief," AP-5 explained.

"Very well," Lyste relented as he walked through the airlock's door with Kallus, the stormtrooper escorting Ezra, and the droids to an Imperial shuttle deployed from the bow of the Light Cruiser's docking clamps.


"I haven't been summoned by ranking officers since that incident with the princess from Alderaan," Lyste recalled as he sat in the shuttle's cockpit with Kallus, "Oh, that was not a pleasant meeting. I shall endeavor to make a better impression this time."

"I'm sure you will, Lieutenant," Kallus assured him.

"Shuttle TYA77, transmit clearance codes," a voice said over the shuttle's comm system.

"Copy, Chimera, transmitting codes now," one of the shuttle's pilots said as the shuttle flew into the Star Destroyer's hangar before landing on the hangar.

"A rebel prisoner for the Grand Admiral," Lyste informed a stormtrooper commander standing by the side of the ship a few feet away from the ramp as Lyste, Kallus and the stormtrooper escorting Ezra walked down the ramp.

"Take her to detention block B-7," the stormtrooper commander said as he began to escort er along with the other stormtrooper commander as the stormtrooper tat was escorting Ezra walked back up the ramp as Kallus and Lyste walked away.

"We need to update our status to the retrieval team," AP-5 told Chopper as they walked down the shuttle's ramp with Chopper grunting a response.


"You're where?" Kanan said with disbelief as he Rex wore stormtrooper armor as they flew a stolen Imperial shuttle through Hyperspace, Chopper grunted a response on the shuttle's comm system.

"Grand Admiral Thrawn's Star Destroyer?" Rex repeated with confusion, "What in blazes are you doing there?" Chopper grunted a response yet again.

"They transferred Ezra there after she got captured," Kanan stated as he heard what Chopper said.

"Well, that really changes the plan," Rex mused, "Our clearance codes are for the light cruiser, not Thrawn's Star Destroyer."

"Chop, you've got to get us those clearance codes," Kanan told Chopper, who grunted a response.


"Clearance codes?" AP-5 repeated Chopper as the astromech grunted, placing his scomp link into an astromech port in the hangar, "We can't just download those from any terminal." This statement caused Chopper to make a sign that sounded like a grunt as he took his scomp link out of the astromech port as they walked from the astromech port, "We'll have to find an officer's port."


"Those were sector command staff," Lyste observed as he and Kallus watched two stormtrooper commanders escorted three Imperial officers out of the area, the officers were Slavin, Brom Titus and the Imperial officer that attempted to destroy the Ghost over Geonosis, "What are they doing here?"

"I can only guess," Kallus answered as he began to suspect that Ezra was right about his last Fulcrum transmission.

They soon approached the door to Thrawn's office where a stormtrooper commander stood in front of the door, on guard duty and placed his hand in front of them to stop the duo, "Your code cylinders."

"Now, see here, I am a Lieutenant!" Lyste protested.

"Understood, sir," the stormtrooper commander said before extending his arm out, "Your cylinders?"

"Thrawn is known for being thorough," Kallus stated as he handed his code cylinder to the stormtrooper commander before Lyste reluctantly did the same. The stormtrooper commander then placed both code cylinders into the panel next to the door before the panel beeped with a confirmation sound.

"You're clear to proceed, Lieutenant," the stormtrooper commander said as he handed them back their code cylinders as he pressed the button on the panel, causing the door to open.

As Lyste and Kallus entered the office, they heard Thrawn making a grunting sound as they saw him out of his Grand Admiral uniform, wearing a tank top and sweatpants battling DT-series sentry droids with a metal rod and knocked one onto the floor before turning to the other one which grabbed the metal rod from him and tossed it aside as he began to fight them in hand-to-hand combat as the one he knocked to the ground got back on its feet before he kicked the one in front of him as he noticed Lyste and Kallus watching him and stopped fighting, "Override code: Rukh."

The door in front of them sealed shut as the DT-series sentry droids powered down as another door opened in front of them where they encountered Admiral Konstantine, "He's ready for us," Konstantine told them as they walked into Thrawn's office where they saw an elderly man wearing the uniform of the head of the ISB who turned around and saw that it was the head of the ISB, Colonel, formerly Admiral Yularen, Anakin Skywalker's Admiral during the Clone Wars.

"Colonel Yularen," Kallus greeted as YulRen began to approach him, "I don't know if you recognize me from the academy…"

"Of course, young Agent Kallus," Yularen told him as he held his hand out to shake his hand as they shaked each other's hand, "I keep tabs on all my star pupils."

"What brings you to Lothal?" Kallus asked him.

"We are in need of his expertise," Thrawn began as he walked into the room wearing his Grand Admiral uniform, "There's a rebel spying on me. Codename 'Fulcrum'. And perhaps today, we're going to learn their true identity." As Thrawn said this, Kallus realized that Ezra was right as Thrawn walked up to the back of his desk, "A traitor in our ranks is feeding the rebels information. That is the only logical explanation for their success. And our failure."

"I will do everything in my power to find this spy, Grand Admiral," Lyste said as he stood up from his chair.

"Thank you for your enthusiasm, Lieutenant," Thrawn told him as he turned around, "However, few are above suspicion. ISB Colonel Yularen will question each of you."

"In the meantime, be vigilant. Watch your subordinates closely, and your peers even closer," Yularen said as Lyste sat back down.

"Our spy must be unmasked quickly, as I'm on the verge of locating the rebel base in this sector," Thrawn said as he pulled up a holographic projection of the Star map that he has been using as he located the base of Phoenix Squadron. "I've narrowed it down to these worlds."

"From among thousands," Konstantine observed as multiple of the planets was colored red, "How?"

"An analysis of rebel Hyperspace routes, their attacks on Imperial ships and facilities, and rather importantly, proximity to Lothal," Thrawn answered as he turned the star map projection off, "You're dismissed."

"Agent Kallus, you've had multiple encounters with the rebels in this sector," Yularen told Kallus, stopping him as everyone but Thrawn left Thrawn's office, "Any thoughts on our traitor?"

"A high-level intelligence leak suggests an officer," Kallus noted.

"True, but in our technological system, accessing information tends to be easier than having the means to transmit it without the Empire's knowledge," Yularen stated.

"Perhaps the communication division?" Kallus suggested.

"Too obvious," Yularen dismissed, "Whoever this spy is, they have a method of transmitting that we are, as yet, unaware of."

"If I can do anything to help…" Kallus began.

"I'll let you know," Yularen reassured him, "Agent."

Yularen walked back into Thrawn's office as Kallus followed Lyste and Yularen.

"It is said no traitor escapes the eye of Yularen for long," Lyste told Kallus as they walked together through the corridors from Thrawn's office.

"I guess we'll see," Kallus responded as Governor Pryce approached them from the corridor intersection.

"Kallus. I saw a report that a shuttle thief from Lothal was prevented," Pryce told him.

"Actually, Lieutenant Lyste was responsible for that," Kallus told her.

"Really?" Pryce said with disbelief, "Well, that deserves commendation."

"Thank you, Governor," Lyste said as she walked past them.

"Step carefully. ISB is watching her. You should, too," Kallus said as they continued walking, while he switched their code cylinders.

"What? Why?" Lyste asked with confusion, "You don't mean Pryce is the rebel spy? That's why she wasn't in the meeting!"

"Thrawn has no proof yet, but I'm sure he'd be grateful if you kept an eye on her," Kallus suggested.

"He can count on me," Lyste said as he began to follow her while Kallus smirked as he began heading towards Detention block B-7.


"Any Progress?" Pryce asked Thrawn as she entered his office where he was holding and admiring Hera's kalikori while Yularen was sitting in a chair with a datapad in his hand.

"I'm certain the spy was present at our interviews," Thrawn informed her, "Now, to see if they take our bait and warn the rebels."

"I may have something," Yularen spoke up, "A coded rebel message was beamed from this ship right after an off-ship prisoner was transferred to your detention block, B-7."

"Well, then… Shall we visit this mysterious prisoner?" Thrawn asked.


"No, we should get the codes before we release Wren," AP-5 told Chopper as they stood in front of Ezra's cell in detention block B-7 as Kallus approached them and inserted Lyste's code cylinder into the port of Ezra's cell, powering off the cameras.

"This way," Kallus said as he walked into Ezra's cell and saw that she did the same thing she did when they met back was she was still male, hiding, "Please stop that."

"What? It worked before," she said as she jumped down from the ceiling, "Now let's get out of here."

"None of us will be leaving without the clearance codes to this ship," AP-5 told her as he and Chopper stood in the doorway as Kallus removed her stuncuffs.

"I hadn't thought of that," she said.

"And I'm afraid there's another complication. I've just learned that Thrawn is very close to locating your base," Kallus told her, "You have to tell me where it is."

"So you can tell him? No way! You'll find out when we get there," she said, as she still didn't fully trust him.

"Not if Thrawn destroys it first," he countered, "I need to know its location so I can remove it from his database."

"If it's even on his list," she remarked.

"If I may…" AP-5 interjected, "We can accomplish both our goals by infiltrating Grand Admiral Thrawn's office. Agent Kallus can keep our base hidden and we can gain the clearance codes we so desperately need."

"Okay, we'll do it," she relented, "But how will we know if Thrawn is in his office?"

"Lieutenant Lyste, where are you?" Kallus said into his comlink as he took it out.

"Following Pryce," Lyste responded, "She's headed to the detention cells with Admiral Thrawn and Colonel Yularen."

"Stay on her. But remember, Lieutenant, don't let them see you," Kallus responded as he placed his comlink back in his pocket as he left the cell with Ezra and the droids, "We'll have to get you a uniform."


"Surveillance has been deactivated," Thrawn observed as he, Pryce and Yularen walked down the corridors to detention block B-7.

"And where are the guards?" Pryce added as they walked towards the cell that held Ezra as Yularen inserted his code cylinder into the port next to the cell.

"And where is the prisoner?" Thrawn asked as the door to the cell opened as they saw no prisoner in the cell.

"The code records show your Lieutenant Lyste was the last person to access this cell," Yularen informed them.


"I liked being a Mandalorian bounty hunter better," Ezra told Kallus as she was now wearing a female Imperial officer uniform as they walked down the corridor intersection to Thrawn's office with AP-5 and Chopper, "I am a Mandalorian after all."

"We all make sacrifices," Kallus told her.

"Okay. AP-5, stand guard here and let us know if anyone's coming," Ezra told AP-5 as she, Kallus and Chopper went down the corridor to Thrawn's office.

"Oh, good, the thankless job," AP-5 muttered.

"See that trooper?" Kallus asked Ezra, "Convince him you are Lieutenant Lyste."

"How?" She asked him, "He's male and I'm female."

"With a Jedi mind trick," he answered as he handed her Lyste's code cylinder, "Here is his code cylinder. Get him to open the door with it."

"I am Lieutenant Lyste. Admiral Thrawn told you to expect us," Ezra said, putting on a male voice with an Imperial accent as she waved her hand in front of him, using a mind trick on the stormtrooper commander.

"Lieutenant Lyste. Thrawn told me to expect you," he repeated her as she gave him the code cylinder and inserted it into the port next to the door before the panel beeped in confirmation before handing it back to her as she, Kallus and Chopper walked through the door.

"Hey, that's Hera's…" Ezra began as she saw Hera's Kalikori on a table next to her as she, Kallus and Chopper entered Kallus's office and went to grab it only for Kallus to stop her.

"We're not here to steal art," he reminded her as Chopper grunted from Thrawn's desk.

"Chopper just stole the codes," she told him, "Fine. Chop, transmit the codes to Kanan."

"Are you crazy? They'll intercept the transmission!" Kallus stated with disbelief.

"Yeah, that a secret code was transmitted from Thrawn's office," she explained.

"Good point," Kallus said as he realized that she was right.


"Chop, what's going on?" Kanan asked Chopper with the stolen Imperial shuttle's comm system as he got a transmission from him before Chopper grunted a response as Kanan turned to Rex, "The codes are coming through now."

"Good job, Chopper," Rex complimented, "Tell them to get to the hangar. Hurry!"


"You were right. Thrawn is close to finding out base," Ezra said as she saw Atollon on the projected star map of Thrawn's.

"Droid, erase that planet and add another as a decoy," Kallus told Chopper, who grunted a response as he removed Atollon from the star map.

"Unfortunate news. Grand Admiral Thrawn is headed for his office," AP-5 announced on Kallus's comlink.

"What?!" Ezra said with surprise, "Try to stall him!"

"Oh, wait, I can't. He's at the door," AP-5 responded.

"I'll handle it," Kallus told her.


"Lieutenant Lyste is inside, sir," the stormtrooper commander guarding the door to Thrawn's office told Thrawn.

"Ready your weapon and follow me," Thrawn ordered the stormtrooper commanders as the stormtrooper commander opened the door before Thrawn began to walk through the doorway.


"Chopper, shut off the holo map," Ezra ordered Chopper who immediately grunted as he switched off the holographic star map before calling out to Kallus, "Come on! Kallus, let's…" She then noticed that he was missing, "Where'd he go? Hide!" She ran behind the canvas of a painting with the Rebellion insignia, with a Loth-cat and a red line over a stormtrooper helmet at the top made by her sister with Chopper hiding with her.

Thrawn and the two stormtrooper commanders then walked into the office as Kallus hid behind the door to Thrawn's training room as Thrawn walked over to his star map and turned it on and stared at it

Kallus walked over to one of Thrawn's DT-series sentry droids and began to tamper with it.

"Is everything all right, Sir?" One of the stormtrooper commanders asked as Thrawn turned the star map off.

"Apparently so. Yes," Thrawn answered as he turned around when suddenly Thrawn's DT-series sentry droids walked through the door of the office and began to attack the stormtrooper commanders as one of them picked one of the stormtrooper commanders up before throwing him at the wall and the other one slammed its hand on the other stormtrooper before they began to approach Thrawn, "Override code: Rukh." The sentry droids didn't power down as Thrawn said the code phrase to power them off and went to attack him, only for Drawn to leap behind his desk and pull out his blaster pistol and began to fire upon them with it. The sentry droids soon surrounded him as they took his blaster from him and tossed it aside before he grabbed the arm of one of the droids only to be kicked towards the canvas Ezra was hiding behind.

"Come on, while he's distracted," Ezra whispered to Chopper as she saw Thrawn battling his own droids and quickly ran out of the room with Chopper.

"Lyste!" Thrawn yelled as he saw Ezra run out of the room, thinking that she was Lyste as he evaded his sentry droids attacks.

"Assassin droids?" Ezra remarked as she and Chopper reached Kallus at the edge of Thrawn's office hallway.

"You're welcome," Kallus said as he ran out of the hallway to the corridor.

"Nice work," she complimented as she and Chopper followed him and they soon ran past AP-5, "Come on, we're getting out of here."


Thrawn slid behind his desk again as his sentry droids continued to attack him before one of him punched the other sentry droid by accident, damaging it as Thrawn rushed to one of the stormtrooper commanders and grabbed their E-11 blaster rifle and began firing at the one of the droids approaching him with it and turned around and fired it at the other sentry droid, damaging it as it powered off as well. "Colonel, listen to me carefully…" Thrawn said as he took out his comlink.


"Well, here goes nothing," Rex said as the stolen Imperial shuttle he and Kanan jumped out of Hyperspace and saw three Star Destroyers above Lothal, "Whoa."

"Hey, gramps, you want to fill me in?" Kanan asked Rex.

"Lot of ships," Rex answered.

"How many?" Kanan asked the clone.

"Don't worry about it," Rex stated, "Just transmit the codes. Fast."


"Shuttle TY992, you are cleared to land," an Imperial officer said from the Chimera's bridge with Yularen standing on the deck.

"Get me Governor Pryce," Yularen ordered.


The stolen Imperial shuttle soon landed in the Chimera's hangar. Kanan and Rex placed their stormtrooper helmets as the ramp lowered to the hangar bay floor of the Chimera.

"Comfortable?" Kanan asked Rex.

"I thought I lost a little weight," Rex answered.

Ezra, Kallus, Chopper and AP-5 ran through the corridor to the hangar bay as the door opened, "There's our ride," Ezra told him.

"And there's Governor Pryce," Kallus said as he saw Pryce in the hangar bay as well as she walked towards the disguised Kanan and Rex with a stormtrooper commander.

"Troopers, stand down and remove your helmets," Pryce ordered the disguised Kanan and Rex, "I'm placing you under arrest."

"There must be some kind of mistake, sir," Kanan began before waving his hand in front of her to use a Jedi Mind trick on her, "I'm sure we can…"

"Shoot him," Pryce ordered as she realized that he was a Jedi. The stormtrooper commander immediately fired his E-11 blaster rifle's stun blast at Kanan, knocking him out, causing Rex to begin firing his E-11 blaster rifle T the stormtrooper commander before Pryce began to fight him as she kicked his blaster rifle away as she kneed him in the chest.

"I don't want to hurt you, lady," Rex told her as he rushed towards her.

"Don't worry, you won't," Pryce assured him as they began to fight in hand-to-hand combat.

"She is the traitor!" Lyste said, thinking Pryce was fighting real stormtroopers as he hid behind a ladder.

"Chopper, seal the doors," Ezra ordered Chopper as she, Chopper, AP-5 and Kallus stood in the hangar before Chopper plugged his scomp link into the astromech port next to the door which then sealed shut.

On a catwalk above, Yularen watched as Pryce and Rex continued to fight in hand-to-hand combat before Rex rushed at her, knocking her to the ground before she saw a E-11 blaster next to her and picked it up and aimed it at him as Rex went to punch her as Kanan regained consciousness while Lyste fired his blaster pistol's stun feature at her, stunning her.

"I've got her! She's the traitor!" Lyste told the disguised Kanan and Rex as they got up and began following Ezra up the ramp, "Trooper, are you all right? Trooper?"

"Bad choice," Ezra told Lyste.

"You!" Lyste said as he recognized Ezra's face from earlier, "You're the shuttle thief who…" he was then interrupted as Kallus clobbered him to the ground.

"Come on, we've got to go," Rex told Kallus as the Fulcrum agent placed Lyste's code cylinder back on his uniform's chest pocket and took his own code cylinder back from Lyste's uniform's chest pocket.

"Kallus, come on," Ezra urged the Fulcrum agent as Kallus stood up.

"There's been a change of plans now that I've captured 'Fulcrum'," Kallus told her as the shuttle's ramp began to raise as she realized that he's going to frame Lyste for being Fulcrum, "I can do more good here."

The sealed door then blew open as Yularen and a squad of stormtrooper commanders ran through the door as the stolen shuttle began to take off with Kallus shooting at it in order to maintain his cover as Fulcrum.

"Traitor! You're the rebel spy!" Kallus yelled at Lyste as he pulled him to his feet and called out to the stormtrooper commanders, "Troopers!"

"What?" Lyste gasped in confusion.

"Seize him!" Kallus ordered the stormtrooper commanders.

"What are you talking about?" Lyste asked Kallus with confusion.

"Take him away," Yularen ordered the stormtrooper commanders.

"No. Wait!" Lyste protested as the stormtrooper commanders began to take Lyste away, "I'm not the spy, Governor Pryce is!"

"It seems you stopped our spy from escaping, Agent Kallus," Yularen told Kallus as one of the stormtrooper commanders helped Pryce up as she regained consciousness.

"Tell them, Kallus! It's her! She's the one! Kallus!" Lyste continued as the stormtrooper commanders continued to take him away.


"Lyste's code cylinder confirms our suspicions," Yularen said as he sat in his chair in front of Thrawn's desk in Thrawn's office holding Lyste's code cylinder before placing it on Thrawn's desk, "He used it to override security, release the prisoner, and contact the rebels."

"I have my own proof of Lyste's treachery," Pryce remarked as she rubbed her shoulder as she turned to Kallus as she sat in the chair next to Yularen, "Thank you for your brave actions, Agent Kallus."

"Well done," Konstantine told Kallus.

"Unfortunately, not in time to stop him from an assasination attempt on the Admiral," Kallus added before turning to Thrawn, "My apologies, sir."

"None required. He did not succeed. The Empire will make a note of your service, Agent Kallus. You may go," Thrawn told him.

"Thank you, Grand Admiral," Kallus told him as Pryce stood up from her chair before he, Konstantine and Pryce left the room.

"Things have fallen into place a little too perfectly for my liking. And I don't think Lieutenant Lyste is capable of what you've accused him of," Yularen admitted as he stood up as Thrawn walked around his desk towards him.

"I agree," Thrawn told him when the door suddenly opened back up.

"Sir, the prisoner's effects have arrived, as you requested," a stormtrooper commander said as he entered the room with Ezra's Mandalorian bounty hunter helmet in his hand and placed it on Thrawn's desk before leaving the room.

"Colonel Yularen, what do you think of this design?" Thrawn asked Yularen as he placed his hand on the Mandalorian helmet.

"A best of some kind," Yularen replied.

"A stylized expression of a Loth-cat, a ubiquitous native of Lothal. And rendered by a very familiar artist," Thrawn began as he turned to the canvas behind him, "The use of this specific color, the angle of the line, this is the work of the rebel Sabine Wren. I believe this helmet belongs to her compatriot and sister, the Mandalorian Jedi and our escaped prisoner, Ezra Wren."

"Wren?" Yularen repeated in disbelief, "If Ezra Wren was the shuttle thief, why didn't Kallus alert us?"

"Because, Colonel Yularen, Kallus is the rebel spy, Fulcrum," Thrawn said with anger, "He used Lyste's cylinder to impersonate and implicate him. And more importantly he used the young Mandalorian Jedi's power to gain access to my office and reprogram my droids. Very skillfully, I might add."

"I would never have suspected one of my best students was capable of this betrayal," Yularen said with regret.

"And that is why you and so many others have been deceived," Thrawn stated, "I believe Agent Fulcrum will prove far more useful to the Empire than Kallus ever was."

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