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"You know they already left to get the Hyperdrive," Hera said, approaching Kanan who was sitting on the ground near Ryder's camp with his legs folded, "Figured you'd go."

"I wanted to stay," he explained before chuckling a bit, "It's funny, no matter what happens, we always end up back here on Lothal."

"Well, Ezra has a strong connection to this place, stronger than her connection with Mandalore," Hera said sitting next to him, "It is her birth planet after all."

"Before we knew Ezra, we were drawn here," Kanan stated.

"The mission was here," Hera told him.

"There were a lot of missions in a lot of places, but we kept coming back," Kanan explained.

"Are you saying we were meant to come here?" She asked him, "Maybe to meet Ezra?"

"I don't know, something like that, but also her turning into a twin of Sabine as well," Kanan answered, "But there's more to it. I'm just not sure what."


"We have recovered your prototype, Grand Admiral, but its data recorder and Hyperdrive are gone," Pryce said, speaking to Thrawn with a holocommunicator in her hand as she walked around the area of the crash site of the TIE defender Elite while she wore an Imperial officer battle armor over her Imperial officer uniform with a helmet that was nearly identical to that of an AT-ST driver over her head.

"The rebels will attempt to deliver the recorder to rebel command in hopes of studying the TIE defender design for a weakness," Thrawn told her.

"The Hyperdrive is too cumbersome for the rebels to have carried it far on foot," Pryce stated, "They must have hidden it in the area."

"Which is why I've dispatched specialized assistance to your aid," Thrawn informed her.

"Uh, I do not require assistance," Pryce protested.

"The return of these rebels to Lothal and the theft of my ship are two recent lapses proving otherwise," Thrawn said, disagreeing with her, "My agent, Rukh, will arrive shortly."


"Hurry up!" Ezra said as she flipped up the helmet of a scout trooper as she and Jai wore scout trooper armor, hers was made for women while his was made for men as they walked through the area near where she and Sabine hid the TIE defender's Hyperdrive.

"Where's the Hyperdrive?" Zeb asked from below the cliff next to a speeder bike with a loading dolly attached to it.

"Over here somewhere," Ezra answered pointing at the rocks in the area before turning to Jai, "Jai, keep watch."

"Over here somewhere? All these rocks look the same," Zeb stated as Ezra walked towards him as she walked down a slope.

"It was dark, and we just crashed. I didn't have time to make a map," she explained when suddenly she heard a Loth-cat meowing and looked up and saw the white Loth-cat standing on top of a Boulder and realized that was where she and her sister hid the Hyperdrive, "Hey, when in doubt, follow the loth-cat."

"You're kidding, right?" Zeb asked the Mandalorian as they approached the Boulder as the Loth-cat hopped off of the Boulder and flipped it over to reveal the Hyperdrive, "You and your loth-cats."


Meanwhile at the crash site of the TIE defender, an Imperial patrol transport landed near Pryce as its door opened up as she approached the ship as she saw a Noghri in the ship's doorway, a humanoid species with grey skin, a row of horns on their heads and could run on all four of their limbs and are known for their combat and assasination skills and keen sense of smell.

"As you must know, I'm Governor Pryce " Pryce said introducing herself to the Noghri as he exited the transport, sniffing around, "I assume you are Thrawn's assassin, Rukh."

"I smell it," Rukh said in a southern Germanic sounding accent that sounded like an Austrian one.

"You smell what?" Pryce asked him.

"I smell Lasat," Rukh answered after sniffing again as he stared in the area where Ezra, Zeb and Jai were at, "And he's not alone." He then rushed forward as he began running on all of his four limbs towards where he sensed where the rebels were.


"Uh, Ezra," Jai said, calling out to his Mandalorian friend as he was using a pair of electrobinoculars as he saw Rukh running towards them, "We have a problem."

"What is that?" Ezra asked as she came up next to Jai.

"I don't know, and I don't think I wanna know," Jai answered.

"We'll draw them away," Ezra told Jai as she flipped her scout trooper helmet down before walking to Zeb, "You get the Hyperdrive out of here."

Jai flipped his scout trooper helmet down as he followed her while Zeb ran towards the speeder bike as they went in separate directions.

"Just let me blast it," Jai pleaded with Ezra as they walked towards Rukh.

"It's okay. I can get us out of this," Ezra told him before she approached Rukh, "LS-3226 and LS-3227 reporting." Rukh sniffed around including her scout trooper armor as she said that, "We've checked out this area and found nothing. Should we continue our search?"

"No," Rukh answered before turning around and went to punch her only for her to dodge as he realized that they were the rebels and soon he hopped onto her neck before knocking her forward onto the ground as Jai began firing his blaster pistol at him and Rukh saw this as he evaded the blaster bolts.

"Don't shoot me! Shoot him!" Ezra told Jai as she flipped her helmet's visor up as she turned around on her stomach, "Blast it!"

"I'm trying, I'm trying!" Jai yelled as he fired his blaster pistol at Rukh as he ran towards him on all four before he was pushed to a wall behind him as Ezra Force pushed him as she extended her arms.

"Jedi that is a Mandalorian," Rukh stated, recalling what Thrawn told him about the rebels as Imperial troop transports neared them with Pryce in one of them and exited the transport.

"It's one of the Wrens," Pryce stated as she recognized Ezra as she took out her blaster pistol and fired it at her, "Blast her."

Ezra instantly grabbed her Mandalorian lightsaber and ignited it as Pryce said that and began to use it to deflect the Governor's blaster bolts as Jai hopped onto a speeder bike behind them before Ezra sat in the back seat of the bike as Rukh went to strike her as he followed her only for the broke to take off before he got a chance to attack them.

"Lasat is still close. Find him!" Rukh told Pryce as he hopped on a speeder bike of his own before taking off as he went to follow Jai and Ezra.

"Are they following us?" Jai asked Ezra as he flipped his helmet's visor up.

"What do you think?" She answered.


"Governor, over here," a stormtrooper called to Pryce as he stood in front of a sabotaged speeder bike with a loading dolly attached to it and Pryce walk towards him as Zeb, who was hiding above them on a boulder watched them as he held the Hyperdrive in his arms as he turned to see an unguarded Imperial troop transport.

"The Lasat is here somewhere," Pryce stated as she stood in front of the loading dolly next to the stormtrooper, "Spread out! I'll summon the air patrol."

Zeb quietly jumped off of the Boulder as she said that and approached the Imperial troop transport and saw that there was an Imperial combat driver sitting in the driver's seat of the transport, "Hey."

"Huh?" The combat driver said as he noticed the Lasat before Zeb kicked him out as he entered the transport and began to drive the transport forward towards Pryce and the stormtrooper who both dodged as the transport drove past them.

"Specter-4 to Specter-2," Zeb said as he took out his comlink, "I've acquired the Hyperdrive."

"Good work, Specter-4. What about Specter-6?" Hera asked on the comlink.

"Oh, I'm sure she'll be along," Zeb answered, "Besides, Sabine said that they'll both install the Hyperdrive together with Sabine teaching her mechanics."


"How many of them are back there?" Jai asked Ezra as he continued to ride the speeder bike as they were being chased by Rukh and two scout troopers on speeder bikes.

"More than enough," Ezra answered after looking behind for a second and saw that the Imperials were still chasing them before pointing at a canyon in the distance, "Let's try to lose them in there!" With that said, Jai drove the speeder into the canyon with the scout troopers and Rukh following as Rukh grabbed an electrostaff from his back and activated it as he swung it at Ezra, who grabbed and ignited her saber, blocking his attack with it. "Can't this thing go faster?" She asked Jai.

"Hold him there. Just hold him there," Jai told her and soon the two separated their blades from one another as went into two separate pathways and as this was happening, Rukh aimed a device on his wrist at the bike before firing a tracking device at the bike as it attached to the back end of the bike with the Mandalorian and Lothalite not even noticing.

As the tracker activated, Rukh and the scout troopers appeared behind both Ezra and Jai before the scout troopers began to fire their speeder bikes turbolasers at them, only for the rebels to evade the turbolasers and soon entered a maze as Jai swooped the bike around rock shaped spires.

"Up ahead! Go through there!" Ezra told Jai, pointing at an area in front of them as she reached for a thermal detonator that her sister lended her and activated its timer and flung it onto a partially collapsed rock spire as they flew underneath it and it detonated as soon as a scout trooper approached it, killing him and destroying his bike instantly.

The other scout trooper stopped his bike as he reached the destroyed structure, caused by Ezra, but Rukh didn't stop his bike as he flew up the structure with his speeder bike.

On the other side, Ezra saw Rukh fly towards her as Jai stopped the speeder bike they were riding and took out a blaster pistol and began firing it at Thrawn's assassin, but instead of the blaster bolts hitting him, they instead hit the speeder bike, snapping it in half as Rukh jumped off of the bike and grabbed onto a rock spire next to him, Ezra saluted him as Jai started the speeder back up as they went to leave the area as Rukh just glared at them with anger.


"Zeb should be here soon," Hera told Sabine as she held a datapad in her hand, "you ready?"

"Not without Ezra, I will," Sabine answered as she took the datapad from Hera, "But once she gets here as I teach her mechanics we'll be able to just drop the Hyperdrive in and run power to it."

"This ship is old," Kanan told Hera as he approached her with his mask removed from his eyes as Sabine walked away, "There's no guarantee the defender's Hyperdrive will even work in this thing, never mind the Imperial blockade."

"Getting this TIE defender data to the rebellion is vital," Hera stated.

"When are you going to feel you've done enough for this rebellion?" He asked her.

"I guess when the Empire is overthrown and people are free to live their lives the way they want again," she answered.

"And when that time comes, how do you want to live your life?" He asked her.

"Huh. I don't know," she answered, "Guess I never really thought about it."

"So I guess you really never thought about us," he stated.

"Kanan, we've talked about that before," she responded as she crossed her arms.

"Have we?" He replied as he grabbed her by her hands.

"You know how I feel," she stated.

"Do I?" He asked before they leaned into each other to kiss.

"Hey, excuse me!" Ryder called out to them, interrupting them as they were about to kiss S he held a blaster rifle in his arms, "We've got incoming!"

Ryder placed his rifle on a container box aiming it at an Imperial troop transport that was approaching them and Hera stood beside him pulling her blaster pistol out and aimed it at the transport as it turned around, stopping as its doors opened.

"Look what I got," they heard Zeb say as he appeared from the transport's door only for him to evade a blaster bolt as one hit the top of the doorway from Ryder's blaster rifle, causing Zeb to chuckle, "Oh. Guess I should have mentioned I stole the transport."

Just then Jai's speeder bike arrived at the camp as Kanan approached Jai and his Padawan, "Good job. Looks like our Hyperdrive problem is solved."

"Yeah, well, you know how one problem usually leads to another?" Ezra began as she and Jai got up from the speeder.

"Yeah…" Kanan began as he had his arms crossed.

"We have another," she stated as she and Jai walked forward, "And it's small, creepy and very dangerous."


"Governor, I've located the rebel camp," Rukh said as he contacted Pryce with his comlink after sniffing as he looked in the distance as he tracked his tracking device that he placed on the rebels' speeder, "Transmitting coordinates."


Later on at the rebel camp, Ezra stood next to her sister and Chopper on top of Ryder's U-wing as they were welding the Hyperdrive into the ship as Ezra was back in her Mandalorian armor.

"Well, it wasn't easy, but we patched it in," Sabine said as she walked away from the Hyperdrive, "Still, I give it a 50-50 chance of working."

"I'll have to live with 50-50," Hera stated when Ezra got up as she heard engines in the distance and placed her helmet over her head and flipped her helmet's macrobinocular viewplate down.

"Oh, no," Ezra muttered as she saw scout troopers riding speeder bikes along with Imperial tanks, one of them containing Pryce and Rukh coming towards them, "We're out of time!"


"I could've dealt with these rebels myself, Governor," Rukh told Pryce.

"The Mandalorian Jedi escaped you once, assassin," Pryce reminded him, "Besides, where will they go?"

"Courtesy of the Lasat, who escaped you, they now have a Hyperdrive and can go anywhere," Rukh reminded her.

"Even if they get airborne, they'll never make it out of the system," Pryce assured him.


"We'll hold off the Empire until you're clear," Ryder told Jai who was sitting in a landspeeder with crates on the back of the speeder that Zeb placed on the speeder, "We'll signal a rendezvous coordinates later."

"And if we don't hear from you?" Jai asked the former Governor.

"You will," Ezra reassured Jai as she weld her helmet to her side.

"All right, Wren. Good luck," Jai told her before flying away in the speeder.

"Neither me nor Ezra got a chance to double-check navicomputer sync, but we…" Sabine began as she walked with Hera who was holding the TIE defender Elite's data recorder.

"Sabine, I trust your and Ezra's work," Hera assured her.

"Good luck," Sabine said before walking away from her.

"Hera, about what happened. I don't want you to think," Kanan sighed as he walked off the U-wing's deck, "I just…" she then pulled him in for a kiss as the twins had their helmets over their heads with their WESTAR-35s in their hands as they hid behind and around box shaped containers with Zeb who held us bo-rifle in his hand and aimed it forward, while Ryder held his blaster rifle in his hand as well, Sabine saw the two missing and hit Zeb with one of her WESTAR-35s and he turned around and smiled as he saw Kanan and Hera kissing.

"May the Force be with you," Hera told Kanan as he walked away from him after they stopped kissing each other and with that the doorway of the U-wing closed as Hera rushed to the cockpit with Chopper who plugged his scomp link into an astromech port in the cockpit, activating the ship's engines before it flew up into the atmosphere.


"Alert Admiral Thrawn of that rebel ship," Pryce said into her comlink as she and Rukh saw the U-wing fly up into the atmosphere.


Chopper grunted to Hera as the U-wing passed by an ICM-092792 space station above Lothal's atmosphere as they left the planet, "I'm not worried about the TIE fighters. I'm worried about getting torn to pieces by those Star Destroyers." TIE fighters began to shoot and chase the U-wing as she said that while turbolasers from one of the Star Destroyers began to fire on her as she evaded the lasers.


"We won't stand long against those tanks," Zeb stated as the speeder bikes and Imperial tanks began firing at him and the other rebels as they hid behind the boxes.

"We have that transport and a bike," Ryder stated as he looked at the Imperial transport that Zeb stole and the speeder that Jai and Ezra rode on earlier only for the transport to get blown up by the tank.

"How many can we get on a bike?" Zeb asked.

"We're out of options!" Ryder told everyone when Ezra suddenly heard a howling sound in the distance and stood up as she saw Loth-wolfs running in the distance and saw one looking at her.

"There! That's our way out," Ezra said pointing at the Loth-wolf.

"Loth-wolves?" Ryder stated with disbelief as he turned and saw the Loth-wolf.

"Look, they helped me before," Ezra explained to him, "We should follow them."

"Are you serious?" He asked her with disbelief.

"Do you know the way out?" She asked the Loth-wolf as she turned to the wolf, the wolf's response was running ahead and she went to follow the wolf, "Come on."

"Kanan?" Sabine said with surprise as he went to follow her sister and the wolves.

"Seems like the best idea we've got," Kanan stated as he went to follow his Padawan, "Let's go."

"This is good. When it gets strange like this, it's a good thing," Zeb told Ryder as Sabine followed Kanan and her sister.

"How have you people stayed alive for so long?" Ryder asked as he and Zeb began to follow the others.


Soon the tank that Pryce and Rukh were on arrived at the spot where the rebels were hiding and Rukh leaped off of the tank onto the ground and began sniffing the area before turning back to Pryce with the corner of his eye, "The rebels have gone deeper into the rocks."

"Then they have trapped themselves," Pryce stated as she climbed off of the tank and began to approach him.

"Perhaps. But they're not alone," Rukh added, "I'll hunt them down."

"You had your chance. We're going to finish them my way," she reminded him as she took out her comlink and activated it, "Get me air support."


"There! That's what we're looking for!" Hera stated as she evaded the TIE fighters that continued to chase and fire at her as she piloted the U-wing and stared at one of the ICM space stations, "Heading for point 7-6. Calculate the jump, Chop." Chopped grunted a response as he plugged his scomp link back into the astromech port.


"She's headed into the construction spheres. She'll be trapped," one of Thrawn's officers reported to the Grand Admiral who was standing in front of a holotable on his Star Destroyer, the Chimera.

As soon as Hera entered the hangar bay of the ICM space station that she was heading for, the U-wing jumped into Hyperspace, destroying the space station and everything inside as she did so.

"Sir, I regret to report that Captain Syndulla has escaped," the same officer reported to Thrawn after seeing the U-wing Hera was flying jump to Hyperspace through the ICM space station.


"Ezra, wait up!" Zeb called out to the Mandalorian Jedi as he and the others followed her and the Loth-wolves through rocks.

"Sis!" Sabine said, calling out to her twin as they continued to follow Ezra.

"I don't want to lose them, Sis," Ezra told her before she continued to follow the wolves, "Come on!" They soon stopped at a location where three Loth-wolves were standing at, with one of the f them being the white one that Ezra encountered earlier and they snarled at them and soon the others caught up to her and she stopped them as she placed her arms in front of them, "Hold it. Stay back."

"Why have they stopped?" Kanan asked as he walked up to her.

"I don't know, she answered before beginning to walk towards them.

"Ezra, stay back!" Kanan warned his Padawan as she slowly began to approach the whit Loth-wolf.

"There is a way out of here. Isn't there?" She asked the white Loth-wolf as she continued to approach the wolf, who growled softly, "You wanted us to follow you. Didn't you?"


"This is bomber LS-21, approaching your position " a female voice announced from Pryce's comlink, "What is our primary target?"

"Just turn those mountains into dust," Pryce answered as she pointed at the mountains that Ezra and the other rebels fled towards.

"Copy that, command. Commencing bombing run," LS-21 responded as she flew her TIE bomber towards the mountains as another TIE bomber pilot did the same.


"What are you waiting for?" Ezra who now had her helmet to her side as she had it off of her head and her sister did the same asked the white Loth-wolf, who snuffled softly as it stared at her master, she noticed this and turned around, "Kanan? Kanan, it's looking…"

"At me," Kanan finished for her, "I know." He then began to approach her and the Loth-wolf, "What does it want?"

"I guess they were waiting for you," she answered as the wolves stood up as they began to enter a cave that was behind them and with that Ezra began leading them into the cave with her arm extended out towards the wolves and as she did this, her sister took out a flashlight and activated it as she shined it at cave paintings she saw inside the cave.

"There are images here of people," Sabine noted as she moved the light of her flashlight around the wall and saw an images of humanoid figures following a wolf, "People following a wolf."

"I guess we're not the first ones," Zeb realized before they continued on, following Ezra.

"Hold on. Shut your light off, Sis," Ezra ordered her twin as she moved her arms in front of Kanan and Sabine before doing what she was told.

"What now, Ezra?" Kanan asked her as the wolves snarled across from them.

"I'm not sure," she answered.

"There wasn't a picture of wolves eating those people, was there?" Zeb asked when they suddenly heard a muffled explosion coming from outside as well as a rumbling sound, causing the wolves to growl.

"The Empire's bombing the mountains!" Ryder stated as outside the cave, the TIE bombers dropped proton torpedoes onto the mountains below.

"We've gotta get out of here," Ezra stated as the white Loth-wolf stood up as it offered her its tail, surprising her before grabbing seconds later and turned to her master, sister and the others, "Everyone, join hands."

"Sis…"Sabine began.

"Just do it, Sabine!" Ezra ordered her sister.

"The cave is going to collapse!" Zeb announced.

"There's no way out of here," Ryder added.

"That we know of," Kanan told him and soon a bright blue colored light began to appear as they slowly entered a tunnel as they unknowingly entered a realm known as the World Between Worlds.

The rebels later laid on the ground of Lothal inside of another cave, unconscious as the white loth-cat stood between them and meowed and purred as it walked up to Ezra and began licking her face before walking away as she opened her eyes and stood up as everyone else did the same as they all regained consciousness and she stared at the white Loth-wolf which growled softly.

"Huh? Where in blazes are we? Zeb asked.

"Let's find out," Ezra replied as she walked out of the cave with Zeb, her sister and Ryder accompanying her with two of the Loth-wolves snarling at them as they exited the cave, towering over them.

"Uh, Sis… You're not going to believe this," Sabine told Ezra as her twin stared out at the plains in the distance as she held a datapad in her hand, "We were in the northern hemisphere. Now we're in the southern hemisphere. Somehow, we've moved halfway across the planet."

"I'm not even gonna ask how we got here," Ryder stated.

"Ezra, how did you know the wolves could do that?" Zeb asked Ezra.

"I didn't," she answered as the two wolves walked back into the cave behind them and followed them back into the cave as she saw her master standing in front of the white Loth-wolf, "Kanan."

"Look around, Ezra. Tell me what you see," Kanan told her.

"This place reminds me of the Jedi Temple here on Lothal," she answered as she walked up next to him and began to stare at the cave paintings on the wall, "the walls are telling a story. There are people coming down from the sky. I think they might be Jedi."

"There's a message here for us," Kanan stated.

"Because you're a Jedi, while I'm a Mandalorian Jedi?" She asked.

"Dume," the white Loth-wolf answered, shocking Kanan.

"What does that mean?" She asked him as she noticed his shocked facial expression, "The wolf said it before."

"Dume is my name," Kanan answered as he removed the masked covering his eyes, "Caleb Dume is the name I was born with."

"How does the wolf know that?" She stammered as Kanan stared at the Loth-wolf, who then placed his hand on the wolf's forehead.

"It has a deep connection to the Force, to the energy of this planet," Kanan answered.

"Don't all living things?" She asked him.

"This is different. More focused, like it has a purpose," he answered.

"And we're a part of it," she realized.

"I'm getting a feeling building the TIE defender isn't the worst thing the Empire's doing here. There's something else," he told her, "Something more sinister."

"Dume," the Loth-wolf said again as it phased through the wall behind him.

"So, all the paths are coming together, right?" She asked him.

"Yeah," he confirmed, "I'm just not sure if we're going to like where they lead."

"Do we ever?" She asked him.

"No. And yes," he scoffed.

"I wonder if Hera made it," she stated.

"I know she did," Kanan told her.


Meanwhile on Yavin IV, the U-wing Hera piloted landed near the Ghost at the Great Temple on a landing pad with Mon Mothma and Erskin walking towards the U-wing as Hera walked out of the U-wing holding the data recorder from the TIE defender Elite in her hands as a hopped rolled next to her before she handed the data recorder to the Senator before they both smirked at one another.

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