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"Thrawn is preparing a planetary bombardment," Hera reported to Dodonna as they stood in front of the command center's holotable where multiple Star Destroyers and interdictors were displayed on the holotable before contacting Zeb, "How's the shield coming, Zeb?"

"We're about to fire it up now," Zeb answered from Sabine's modified shield generator, "Rex and I have done our best, but this is really Sabine's baby."

"Then it should work," Hera surmised.

"Should, yes, but there are a lot of modifications and special fuses," Rex told her, "We never got to test it while Sabine was still here, so if it overloads, I'm not sure we can fix it."

"Let's hope you don't have to," she said from the command center, "Fire it up!"

"Copy that," Zeb said before he activated the shield generator's power switch as it came to life while a shield appeared over the base. "It's working. The shield is stabilized!"

"Nice work, boys," Hera told them from the command center before contacting her boyfriend, "Kanan, do you copy?"


"I read you, Hera," Kanan answered as he took his comlink out as he was riding his speeder back back to base.

"Thrawn is planning an orbital bombardment. You need to get back to base immediately," Hera told him.

"I'm moving as fast as I can," he responded.


"Faster. Please," she pleaded before crossing her arms, "All right, Thrawn. Your move."


"Our capital ships are in position. The blockade is secure," Pryce reported to Thrawn.

"And the status of the rebel fleet?" Thrawn asked as he approached her from the window.

"The remaining vessels have fled back to the surface and are taking shelter under a localized shield," Pryce answered.

"Hmm. Very good " Thrawn replied, "Let's test their mettle. Commence the attack." As he said that, the Star Destroyer's turrets rotated to aim at a Atollon before they began to fire at the planet below.


"We have incoming fire," Dodonna said from Chopper Base's communications monitor with a rebel trooper next to him.

"Kanan, find cover!" Hera said, contacting Kanan.


Outside the base, as Kanan drove the speeder, he avoided the laser blasts from the Star Destroyers in space above.


"Come on, come on!" Zeb pleaded with the shield generator as it began to fry up.

Soon the turbolaser blasts from the Star Destroyers in space destroyed Kanan's speeder but luckily for him, he survived as he fell off of the bike.

"The shield is overheating!" Rex reported as the shield generator began to overheat.


"They've had enough. Cease fire," Thrawn said, moments later and the Star Destroyers soon stopped firing at Chopper Base from space.


"It held! It held!" Zeb exclaimed as the shield was still up as Rex laughed with relief.

"Kanan?" Hera said as she contacted her boyfriend yet again, hoping that he survived the bombardment, "Kanan, do you copy?"

"I'm gettin' the feeling Thrawn's actually trying to kill us this time," Kanan groaned as he responded.

"Oh, that is only funny because you're still alive," she told him before pleading, "Now, please, come home, love."

Kanan placed his mask back over his eyes as he walked away from the wreckage of his speeder bike.


"Ezra, you are clear to land," a Mandalorian pilot told Ezra from a Mandalorian Fang fighter next to Ezra's gauntlet fighter as they escorted her as she entered the atmosphere of Krownest. "Follow us in."


"Sis, what's going on?" Sabine asked Ezra as the Mandalorian padawan entered the Wren Stronghold's throne room where Rau and Tristan who now wore his regular Clan Wren armor along with other Clan Wren Mandalorians standing with them, "Why weren't you at the meeting with us?" Chopper grunted a response, "You escaped? What's he talking about?"

"Thrawn ambushed us on Atollon," Ezra answered, causing Sabine's expression to turn into one of shock, "You and Mom are our only hope, Sis."

"You have poor timing, Ezra," Rau told Ezra as he crossed his arms.

"As you know, Ezra, our people are in the middle of a civil war," Ursa reminded her youngest daughter. "Clan Saxon has the Empire's backing, and our forces are stretched to their limit just to protect what ground we have."

"I know, Mom," Ezra responded to her.

"Mother, there must be something we can do," Sabine said to Ursa.

"Please, Mom. Me and Chopper risked everything to get here," Ezra pleaded, "And if you do, I'll see to it that the Rebellion will help us rescue Dad from Imperial custody on Sundari." Ursa nodded in agreement as her youngest daughter said that.


"Governor Pryce, you're in command of the fleet while I lead the ground assault," Thrawn informed Pryce as they walked across the floor of the Chimera's only to have Kallus to start laughing. "Hmm. The plight of your friends amuses you.

"I've been in your position before, only to have these rebels pull a victory from certain defeat," Kallus said, mocking the Grand Admiral.

"You and I are not the same, Kallus as these Rebels are about to learn," Thrawn told him before leaving the bridge with two Death troopers as one of them stayed behind, guarding Kallus hostage.


"Our shield generator's taken a beating," Zeb reported to Hera, Rex, Dodonna, Wedge as well as a rebel pilot as they stood around a holotable as a hologram of the coral mesa was displayed on the holotable as he crossed his arms, "I doubt it'll survive another attack like the last one."

"I don't think it will have to. Thrawn was trying to soften us up," Hera told them, "He'll send in ground forces to do the dirty work."

"I agree, Captain," Dodonna told her as he pointed at a narrow canyon on the hologram, "My guess is he will most likely stage a direct assault from this position."

"If we mine these approaches here and here, we can slow 'em down," Rex suggested as he pointed at the approaches that Dodonna suggested that Thrawn and his forces will attack from.

"Good. You and Zeb take a squad down and get it done," Hera told the clone as the hologram turned off and Rex nodded in confirmation as he and Zeb left to take a squad down to the canyon and mine the pathway.

"Scanners have picked up Imperial transports on the western quadrant," AP-5 announced.

"He's launching the first wave," Hera realized.


"Here's the problem, that Interdictor cruiser," Sabine said, pointing at a holographic image of an Interdictor as a holographic projection of the Imperial fleet that was over Atollon was projected from Chopper's projector as she, Ezra, Rau, Ursa and Tristan stood around the projection.

"If not for Commander Sato, there would be two," Ezra said as she recalled Sato's sacrifice and kamikaze attack on Konstantine's Interdictor with the Phoenix Nest.

"With Thrawn in command, you should count your losses, Ezra and consider yourself fortunate to have escaped," Rau stated.

"Like I said, without the help of our Clan, they're trapped," Ezra retorted.

"I wish we could offer it, but we just don't have the resources, even with the rebellion's help," Tristan told his other sister, "We can barely take care of our own."

"Might I remind you, I am Sabine's second-in-command," Ezra said, reminding her brother, "And I know that Sabine here would help me."

"She's right," Sabine spoke up, "I would help her."

"I appreciate your loyalty to our sister and your friends, Sabine, but this mission is impossible," Tristan told her.

"I never thought that I would be standing here with all of you, have a twin sister or have you all to accept her as one of us," Sabine began, "And I bet you never thought Clan Wren would be free from the grip of Gar Saxon. But we are. One thing I know is that our friends make the impossible possible. If Ezra thinks we can make a difference, then I believe in her."

"Ezra's Jedi Master restored my daughter to me and helped me accept her as my daughter as well, and that is a debt worth repaying," Ursa began as she stood up from her throne and approach Sabine, "We can't leave ourselves undefended but you can take a few ships and any warriors who are willing."

"Thank you, Mother," Sabine told her.

"I agree, thanks, Mom," Ezra said as well.

"Neither of you have much of an army to take down their blockade," Rau stated.

"Chopper, bring up the Interdictor," Sabine ordered the astromech, who pulled the projector of the Interdictor back up with his projector and began to study the Interdictor, "Maybe we don't need an army."


"I hope this plan of yours works," Zeb told Rex as they hid behind some parts of the coral Mesa in the pass with Rex holding a pair of macrobinoculars in his hands.

"Yeah, me, too," Rex said before placing the macrobinoculars on his eyes and saw AT-DPs slowly walking towards them.

"Here they come," Zeb said as Rex clicked a button on a device that triggers the detonators that they mined in the area, causing three of the AT-DPs to collapse to the ground, he then clicked the button again, causing another explosion with two of the three AT-DPs left to fall to the ground with the one in the center to continue walking forward towards them.

"I left one for you," Rex told Zeb as Zeb grabbed a rocket launcher that was on his back and aimed it at the AT-DP before firing it at the AT-DP with the AT-DP being destroyed by the rocket as it fell to the ground.


"They've revealed their meager defenses," Thrawn stated from his shuttle that was landed as he removed a pair of macrobinoculars from his eyes as he wore a white Imperial officer's battle armor with golden shoulder boards over his Grand Admiral uniform as well as the helmet of a helmet that was nearly identical to that of an AT-ST driver, "Now we will crush them. Mark enemy mines and firing positions. Heavy battalions, advance."

"I know that sound," Rex stated as he heard the footsteps of a familiar type of walker as he, Zeb and a rebel trooper that was standing with them turned around.

"Yeah. And I hate that sound," Zeb said, agreeing with him as they saw AT-ATs, slowly walking towards them from a far distance away.

"Lousy four-leggers," Rex muttered.

"Hit 'em with the detonators," Zeb suggested before Rex clicked the button on the detonators' remote trigger, causing an explosion to occur around the AT-ATs only for nothing to happen to the walkers as they passed through the shield.

"We need Sabine to invent a shield you can't walk through!" Zeb remarked as he saw the AT-AT pass through the shield.

"Let's hope we get a chance to tell her!" Rex responded as they began fleeing the area with the AT-ATs beginning to open fire on them as they went into hiding as stormtroopers charged into the area after they cleared the mines from the area.

As this happened, a group of A-wings flew into the area, two of them contained Wedge and Hobbie.

"Hobbie, follow me!" Wedge ordered Hobbie.


"Air groups, clear the sky of that annoyance," Thrawn ordered as he saw the A-wings in the air after removing his macrobinoculars back from his eyes.


With that said, TIE fighters began flying and firing at the A-wings.

"Hostiles incoming!" Wedge announced as they began flying with the TIEs following them.

Rex and Zeb fired their DC-17 pistol blasters and bo-rifle at the AT-ATs before going back into cover. Kanan suddenly appeared near the AT-ATs, igniting his lightsaber, jumped up as he slashed across two of the walker's legs and as two stormtroopers began firing upon Kanan, the walker fell onto them, killing them instantly.

"Kanan, glad you could join us," Zeb told Kanan as he approached them as they began retreating from the area, "Hera said you're bringing help?"

"Maybe. Maybe not," Kanan admitted, not sure if the Bendu is gonna help them even if he went as far to accuse the Bendu a coward. They soon entered a cave with Kanan stopping and turning around as he saw Thrawn's Imperial shuttle fly towards them as the sky began to spark with thunder and electricity before following Zeb and Rex.

"Armored division, hold your position and destroy any rebel ships that attempt to flee," Thrawn began as he and a group of Death troopers left the shuttle after it's ramp lowered with the Death troopers going into firing position as stormtroopers ran into the cave after the Jedi Knight and the other rebels, "Disembark all ground troops and storm the base. And if possible, capture the rebel officers."


"Here they come!" Dodonna announced as Hera and two rebel troopers fired their blasters at stormtroopers below, with one of them beginning to fire back with their E-11 blaster rifle.

"General Dodonna, prepare any remaking ships for takeoff," Hera told Dodonna.

"What about the blockade?" Dodonna asked her.

"If I go out, it's gonna be on the Ghost!" She responded as they left the area.


Inside the cave, Kanan was leading Zeb and Rex before stopping as they heard chatter from an intercom and turned around, "This way!" He ordered and ran the other way before a Death trooper came out of nowhere in a corner and began firing their blaster rifle at them with Kanan deflecting their blaster bolt with his saber before going in yet another direction as Zeb and fired their blaster pistol and no-rifle as they ran past the doorway, "The other way, the other way!"


"Chopper, jam their transmissions," Ezra ordered the astromech as she flew her Mandalorian Gauntlet fighter with Sabine next to her as multiple other Fang fighters jumped out of Hyperspace into the Atollon system and Chopper grunted as he went to jam the Empire's transmissions.

"Rau, you know what to do," Sabine said, contacting Rau, who was piloting one of the Fang fighters.

"All wings, engage," Rau ordered the Fang fighters from his own Fang fighter as they began to approach the Imperial fleet.


"Governor, we have ships approaching," an Imperial officer reported to Pryce on the bridge of the Chimera.

"Rebel reinforcements?" Pryce asked him.

"Mandalorian, by the look of them," he corrected.

"It's the Wren twins," Pryce realized, "Send fighters to intercept and move our capital ships to reinforce them."


"Chopper, patch in Hera," Ezra ordered Chopper as the Fang fighters and TIEs began to battle each other in a dogfight, Chopper grunted as he activated his dish on his dome which began to spin around in a circle.


The AT-ATs on Atollon continued to fire upon Zeb, Rex and Kanan above as they approached and reached Chopper Base.

"Kanan, you made it," Hera said with relief as he, Zeb and Rex ran towards her, Dodonna and AP-5 at the base's holotable, "What happened with your friend?"

"Oh, don't worry. I think he's coming," he reassured her.

"Phoenix Leader, do you read me?" Ezra's voice suddenly came through from Hera's comlink.

"Ezra?" Hera answered.

"I brought help. We're taking out the Interdictor," the Mandalorian informed them.

"Okay, this might be our only chance," Kanan stated, "Let's move!" They all began to run from the holotable to evacuate from the base and ran next to Hera, "Looks like the family's together again."

"Let's try and keep it that way," Hera told him as the shield generator exploded as stormtroopers fired their E-11 blaster rifles at it.

"There goes our shield," Zeb remarked as the shield surrounding the base powered down, the A-wing flew across the base with TIEs following them as ships began to take off with one of them getting shot down by an AT-AT and crashed on the ground of Atollon with Hera, Kanan, Zeb, Rex, Dodonna and AP-5 watching as Death troopers came up from behind them as they aimed their rifles at them.

"And now, Captain Syndulla, I will accept your formal surrender. Or you will watch your friends perish, one by one, beginning with the Jedi," Thrawn said, approaching them as Kanan ignited his lightsaber, "I require an answer, Captain."

"You already know my answer," she told him when suddenly they all heard Thunder and lightning crackling from the sky above with Kanan looking around, knowing what was causing the storm.

"Do you fear the storm, Master Jedi?" Thrawn asked Kanan.

"Yeah. And you should, too," Kanan answered when suddenly a lightning strike nearly hit Thrawn in the back and turned to his friends and Dodonna as he deactivated his lightsaber, "Hang on to something!"

"What Jedo devilry is this?" Thrawn asked.

"I am the Bendu!" The Bendu suddenly said as his face formed in the clouds.

"What is that?" Zeb asked.

"Uh, Kanan?" Hera asked.

"I told you my friend was coming," Kanan reminded her.

"I bring death!" The Bendu added as he electrocuted the AT-ATs before electrocuting the A-wings that were landed on Chopper base's landing bay, destroying the starfighters. Thrawn fled the area with Kanan and the others doing the same but in a different direction.


"Hera! Hera, do you read me?" Ezra said into her helmet's comlink as she had her helmet over her head while the Manfo'ade kad'au was being pursued by TIE fighters.

"She'll get them out. We've got a job to do, Sis," Sabine reminded her as she got up from her seat.

"Get us onto the Interdictor, now!" Ezra told Chopper, who grunted a response as she grabbed her jetpack and placed it on her back as Sabine did the same before heading to the ship's deployment racks where multiple Mandalorian were stationed including their brother, Tristan. They all jumped off the racks as the Manfo'ade kad'au began to approach the Interdictor and landed on the hull of the Interdictor.

"Ready your jetpacks and target those gravity well projectors," Sabine ordered as they began running across the hull of the ship as they all took took out their WESTAR-35s while the Manfo'ade kad'au flew past the Interdictor as it continued to be chased by TIE fighters.


"Governor, the enemy fighters have deployed a strike team onto the hull of our Interdictor!" An Imperial comms officer reported to Pryce as Kallus was being guarded by two stormtroopers behind her.

"Well, repel them!" Pryce ordered, "We will not lose to this rabble!"


Ezra, Sabine and their fellow Clan Wren Mandalorians fired their WESTAR-35s at the Interdictor's gravity wells when suddenly Jumptroopers flew into the area.

"Incoming!" Ezra shouted as she noticed the troopers and they started to fire her WESTAR-35 at them as she placed one of her WESTAR-35s back in their holster as she grabbed her lightsaber from her armor's belt and ignited it and began to use it to deflect the blaster bolts, "They've cut us off!"


"Leave this place," the Bendu ordered, "I am the light, I am the dark, I am the Bendu!"

Electricity then stuck one of the Death troopers, knocking them backwards.

"You heard him! Make for the ship!" Kanan told Hera, Zeb, Rex, Dodonna and AP-5 before they began running towards the Ghost. As they did this Thrawn's Death troopers began to fire their rifles at the Bendu in the sky. The Ghost's ramp closed after everyone boarded it with Hera and Kanan rushing into the cockpit with Hera sitting in the pilot's seat and Kanan sitting in the seat next to her before the Ghost and the other rebel ships began to takeoff with lightning strikes going in between the ships.

"Kanan Jarrus, Jedi Knight!" The Bendu called out to Kanan before strike the Ghost with lightning, but not enough to damage it.

"This is your friend?!" Hera asked him.

"Uh, I might've made him angry," Kanan admitted.

"Yeah, I can relate!" Hera said as she snapped at him before the Bendu struck an A-wing down with lightning before the rebels began to leave the area in their ships.


"Leave this place," the Bendu ordered Thrawn.

"Concentrate fire on the center of the storm!" Thrawn ordered his troops as he pointed at the cloud that had the Bendu's face embedded within. The AT-ATs began to fire upon the cloud as Thrawn said to shoot it with the one in the center getting destroyed as it was electrocuted by the lightning from the Bendu. The Death troopers soon started to fire upon the Bendu with their blaster rifles and soon began to crash down from the sky in the distance like a meteor.


Sabine had her jetpack activated as she flew away from two Jumptroopers before she rotated towards them and fired her WESTAR-35s at them with them flying past Ezra on the hull of the ship below deflecting blaster bolts with her lightsaber and fired her WESTAR-35 at one of the jump troopers before turning to another one and used her vambrace's grappling hook, pulling him towards her before slashing her saber across the chest of the Jumptrooper, cutting him in half.

"Ezra, we're headed for the blockade," Hera informed Ezra on her helmet's comlink, "Is the Interdictor disabled yet?"

"Working on it!" She responded as she deflected more blaster bolts with her saber back at TIE fighters as they began to fly towards her as the gravity well next to her began to crack open before one of the TIEs crash landed in the hull in the distance from where she was standing after the other one was shot down and flew away from the Interdictor.

Sabine turned around as she fired one of her WESTAR-35s at two Jumptroopers that were following her, killing them on contact. Ezra watched what her sister did before turning back around and deactivated her saber and placed it back on her belt as she took her other WESTAR-35 back from its holster and began firing them at the gravity well that was cracking open alongside her sister and fellow Clan Wren Mandalorians and bent down as she, Sabine and their fellow Clan Wren Mandalorians fired rockets from their jetpacks, causing an explosion as Ezra activated her jetpack and flew away and climbed back onto her ship's deployment rack with her sister, brother.

"Chopper, get us outta here!" Ezra called out to the astromech piloting her ship and he grunted as the deployment rack retracted back into the ship as the Manfo'ade kad'au flew from the Interdictor, the Imperial vessel blew up.


"Governor, we have a problem," the comm officer told Pryce.

"I don't want to hear it!" Pryce said, snapping at him, "Just stop them. Nothing gets through!"

"Thrawn's not going to be happy with you making a mess of his fleet," Kallus told her.

"Throw this traitor out the airlock," Pryce ordered the stormtroopers, who dragged him out of the room and pushed him into a turbolift with the butt of their rifle before they entered the airlock with him as Kallus smiling as the door sealed shut.


"Hera, we took out the Interdictor ," Ezra announced on the Ghost's comm system, "You're all clear."

"That's the first good news I've gotten today," Hera told her.

"Meet me at point 8-7. We'll lead the way," Ezra added.

"Copy that," Hera replied.


As the turbolift door opened up, it revealed Kallus was free from his stuncuffs with his stormtrooper guards unconscious on the floor inside the turbolift before he quickly left the turbolift and took out stormtroopers who tried to stop him as he went to the door to the escape pods and opened it, he clicked a button on the side of an escape pod before it's hatch opened and walked into the pod and sat in it's seat as he closed the hatch and launched the pod from the Chimera. He stopped the escape pod from continuing to fly away as it left the Chimera and began typing in coordinates for the Ghost so they could pick him up.


"We've got an incoming transmission?" Hera announced to Kanan and Zeb before the symbol of Fulcrum appeared on the holoprojector before them.

"It's Kallus!" Zeb realized, "He's sending coordinates."

"There's an escape pod on my scope," Hera added and began flying towards Kallus's escape pod with the escape latching onto the bottom of the cargo hold after the Ghost evaded TIE fighters that were chasing them, "Got him!" The TIEs continued to chase and fire upon them as the Ghost began to follow the Manfo'ade kad'au. "I'm on your six, Mandalorians lightsaber. Phoenix Squadron, let's get outta here!"

"Roger Phoenix Leader. We're right behind you," Wedge replied on the Ghost's comm system and soon Rex, Dodonna and Kallus entered the cockpit as they jumped into Hyperspace after Ezra's Gauntlet fighter did and the other rebel ships followed suit.


"The remaining rebel ships have jumped to Hyperspace," the comms officer reported to Pryce on the Chimera.


"What manner of creature are you?" Thrawn asked as he approached place where the Bendu crashed landed at.

"One beyond your power to destroy," the Bendu answered.

"It would not seem so," Thrawn dismissed as he took his blaster pistol out and aimed it at him.

"You cannot see… But I can," the Bendu told him.

"What? What do you see?" Thrawn asked him

"I see your defeat, like many arms surrounding you in a cold embrace, while a Mandalorian escapes from your ship as you are being defeated," the Bendu answered, causing Thrawn to narrow his eyes in anger before firing his blaster at the Bendu only for the Bendu to vanish, surprising him as the Bendu laughing around them.


"I'm sorry for your losses," Ursa told Hera through the holocommunicator on the holotable in the entertainment center as Sabine, Ezra, Tristan stood around the table with Zeb standing in the back of the room wit his arms crossed as Kanan entered the room.

"We are grateful for your aid in our time of need," Hera reassured her.

"Hera, the rebellion needs to fulfil their end of the bargain I put in place to have our mother help us," Ezra began.

"What bargain?" Hera asked with confusion.

"Ezra said that we'd help the rebellion if they help free our father in return," Sabine responded.

"Kanan and the others can go with you to free him," Hera stated, "But I can't go with you. I have to get our survivors to Rebel Command on Yavin IV."

"Kanan," Kallus called out to the edi Knight as he walked through the hallway with Ezra going into the cockpit's nose gun to watch the view outside the ship, "Thank you...For taking me in."

"Thank you for risking everything," Kanan replied as he placed his hand on his shoulder before he went into the room at the edge of the hall.

"I would suggest a second Hyperspace jump before heading to Yavin," AP-5 suggested as Chopper stood next to him with Rex in front of him, in the pilot's seat.

"If we want to cover our tracks, we should make it three," Rex stated with Chopper grunting.

"You and your sister really saved the day," Kanan told Ezra as he approached her in the nose gun.

"But, Kanan, we lost everything," she replied.

"I understand you feel defeated, but I've learned to see things differently," Kanan told her, "There's a future for us where we're all free and you living on Mandalore." This statement caused her to turn to him, "But it's up to us to make it happen." With that every rebel ship jumped into Hyperspace.

Please favorite and review. Would you like me to continue adding the Imperial scenes or not? Also, could someone tell me how to change the next chapter as Ezra knows how to use a jetpack? And would like a suggestion on her meeting with her and Sabine's father.