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The Ghost jumped out of Hyperspace as it neared Seelos with Rex in the ship's cockpit wearing a rebels forest commando uniform as he activated the ship's comms, "Ghost to Joopa base, do you copy?"
"This is Joopa base," Wolffe responded on the comm system as Hera walked forward as Kallus sat next to Rex in the cockpit, "Ghost, proceed to coordinates 6-7-8-2."
The Ghost then flew down towards the planet and approached a modified AT-AT walker that Wolffe and Gregor took over after their AT-TE was destroyed by the AT-AT that they took over and landed on it's landing platform on top of the walker with Wolffe saluting them from a staircase at the landing platform.
"We were expecting you last rotation," Wolffe told Hera and the others as he led them into the cockpit of the AT-AT after opening the door of the section of the walker where Gregor and Ketsu Onyo were at.
"I had trouble escaping Lothal. The Empire's blockade is tougher than ever," Hera said, apologizing to them for the delay.
"That would be no problem for me," she heard a familiar voice sigh and saw Hondo sitting with Melch at a desk behind Wolffe, Gregor and Ketsu.
"Hondo, I see you got my message," Hera told the pirate.
"At your service," Hondo said after getting up from the desk and walking over Melch's face and took his hat off as he bowed before her for a second bef de placing his hat back on his head as he walked up to her, "And mine too, of course."
"He wasn't hard to find. Talks a lot for a smuggler," Ketsu remarked as Hondo walked past her.
"Bup-bup-bup. Pirate!" Hondo said, correcting her, "That is pirate, my dear. So much more romantic than a smug… Mug… Word that… Ugh, never mind."
"I think it's time we discussed the mission," Kallus suggested.
"Of course," Hondo said, agreeing with the ex-ISB agent, "But with such an odd collection of characters, I'm curious, how are we going to split the profits? Are we stealing? Are we liberating?"
"Rebel command never sent a briefing," Wolffe stated.
"That's because, old friend, this mission isn't for the Rebellion," Rex told Wolffe as he placed his hand on his shoulder.
"It's for Ezra," Hera told Wolffe, "We are liberating her birth planet, and we need your help. All of you."
"Against a planet of Imperials?" Wolffe remarked with disbelief, "General, those are difficult odds."
"I agree," Hondo said, "But that girl has spirit, even for a Mandalorian like herself! She reminds me of the time when there was still something you could believe in."
"The Jedi," Ketsu added.
"We followed them into battle so many times," Wolffe stated.
"Well, how about one more time, eh?" Gregor asked before laughing.
"So you're in?" Hera asked.
"Madam, for that girl, there is nothing I would not do," Hondo answered as he took his hat off of his head.
Back on Lothal, Ezra sat on a Boulder with her legs folded as her sister walked towards her, "Ezra… you okay, Sis?" She asked as she noticed her twin's uneasiness as she placed her hand on her shoulder.
"Something's changed. Something's happening," Ezra answered.
"What's wrong?" Sabine asked her.
"I have to go talk to Hera," Ezra told her.
Moments later, both twins walked along the side of the cliff dwelling area of their base with the crawler they stole a while back near the base, touching it while Vizago appeared in front of them, "Ezra, I have General Syndulla," Vizago told them as a hologram of Hera with Chopper projecting her image as she stood around the others which included Ryder, Jai, Mart and Zeb as the twins walked into the room.
"Ezra, what's the emergency?" Hera asked as she turned around towards her.
"We need to act right now if we're gonna take Capital City from the Empire," Ezra explained.
"Your plan is crazy enough as it is," Zeb remarked, "What's the rush?"
"I had a vision. The Emperor is sending Thrawn back to Lothal," she announced, "It's now or never."
"Then it's never," Ryder told her as he had his arms crossed, "We won't stand a chance. We already tried that and failed. Our best hope is to lay low, reorganize, and rebuild."
"Ryder, you have to trust me," Ezra told him.
"Ezra, we need an army to take the city," Ryder argued, "Look around. I don't see an army."
"We don't need an army," Ezra told him, "We just need one person."
"Well?" Pryce asked an Imperial officer as she slammed her fist onto her desk as she sat at it as a hologram of Lothal was projected from a holoprojector on the desk.
"We've scanned the outer reaches, and we found the remains of several small encampments, but no signs of the rebels' current whereabouts," the Imperial officer reported as Pryce switched off the holoprojector.
"Thrawn will return soon, and if I do not have the rebels, I will be executed," she told him as she stood up from her seat, "But before that happens to me, do you know what I will do to you for failing?"
"I will commit more troops to the search," the Imperial officer responded and went to exit the room only to bump into another Imperial officer on his way out.
"Governor, you have received an incoming transmission on an old pre-Imperial frequency," the Imperial officer that just burst into the room told Pryce as he approached her desk.
"Hmm. Put it through," Pryce requested and the Imperial officer clicked on a datapad he was holding and a hologram of Ryder appeared from the holoprojector on her desk.
"Hello, Arihnda," Ryder said, greeting her as he crossed his arms.
"Ryder Azadi. This is a bold move," she told him.
"I do what I have to do to survive," he responded.
"Barely. That strategy didn't stop me from usurping you as governor," she remarked.
"And yet here I am, alive, to offer you something you can't resist," he went on.
"Your head on a platter?" She scoffed.
"Not mine. The rebels, all of them," he answered.
"You're betraying them? Why?" She asked.
"They can't win, and I don't want to end up back in an Imperial prison… Or worse," he answered.
"Ugh. You want amnesty?" She inquired.
"Yes," he confirmed, "In return, I give you the Mandalorian twins, Syndulla, and the rest of them."
"This is cowardly, even for you," Pryce remarked.
"Do we have a deal, Governor?" He asked.
"Send me your coordinates," she answered.
Ezra and Sabine were walking along the side of the cliff dwelling with their helmet's to their sides as well as wearing their jetpacks on their backs and stopped as they heard Loth-Wolves howling from a cliff above them in the distance and stared at the cliff.
"What is this connection you have with them?" Sabine asked her twin, "I've never understood it."
"I can't explain it. Sometimes the connection is strong, and sometimes I'm just on my own, Sis," Ezra answered and began walking back where they came from.
"Well, if you're plan's going to work, let's hope whatever you feel is there when you need it," Sabine said as she followed her.
"Mmm, it has been so far," Ezra responded as the Loth-wolves howled before walking away.
"Where are they going?" Sabine asked when suddenly everyone at the base heard engines in the distance, "Wait. Do you hear that?"
"Zeb, they're coming!" Ezra cried out as she and Sabine towards the others as Zeb who was standing on the top of the crawler turned around and saw six Imperial patrol transports flying towards them.
"Agh, Karabast," Zeb muttered to himself as the gunships began firing at them with their missile's hitting the decks of their base as the gunships rotated around with jumptroopers jumping out of the Imperial Patrol transports and began flying with their jetpacks as a human male and an aqualish with blaster pistols ran up behind two box shaped containers and began firing their blaster pistols at the jumptroopers.
"I'll handle those flyers," Sabine announced before turning to her sister who was deflecting blaster bolts with her lightsaber after placing her helmet over her head as she placed her own helmet over her head as well, "You wanna help, Sis?"
"Sure," Ezra answered as she activated her jetpack and flew up into the air with her twin.
"Make sure to capture the Mandalorian Jedi girl, so-called 'twin sister' of Sabine Wren alive. We don't want to disappoint our Emperor," Pryce told stormtroopers with here on an Imperial patrol transport as it's door opened as she wore her Imperial battle armor over her Imperial officer Imperial and her nearly identical AT-ST driver helmet over her head as she held onto the rail above them in the gunship.
"Get in the fight! Man those cannons!" Zeb ordered Jai as he fired his bo-rifle at the Imperials and with that, Jai got behind a turret he was standing nearby and began firing at the gunships with it, causing one of the gunships to retreat as the twins flew after two different jumptroopers, firing their WESTAR-35s at them.
Soon a gunship that had Rukh, and a group of stormtroopers, including a stormtrooper commander landed on a rock with Rukh and the stormtroopers departing off of as the twins in the air flew by a gunship and fired at a stormtrooper on it, causing one of the stormtroopers to fall off of the gunship as the jumptroopers that they were chasing followed them from behind, causing them to turn around and fired their WESTAR-35s at them, knocking them to the ground below.
"Ready, Sis?" Sabine asked her twin as she was ready to launch a rocket from her jetpack into the patrol transport that was below them.
"Ready," Ezra answered before they flew towards the gunship and fired their jetpack's rockets at the gunship, destroying it in a fiery blaze as they flew away from the destroyed gunship with Ezra activating her helmet's comlink, "Chopper! Warn Hera that we're under attack!"
Meanwhile on the base below them, Chopper activated his transmitter grunting a response to the Mandalorian Jedi as he did so while Ruke appeared with his stormtroopers grabbed his electro-staff, aimed it at Ezra and sniped her with it, causing her to fall from the sky and landed near Chopper.
She tried to reactivate her jetpack, only for it to spark with electricity, "What the kriff?" She swore as Rukh continued to fire upon her, leading her to grab her lightsaber and reignited it as she leaped onto a cylinder shaped object next to her before Force jumping over to Rukh and slashed her saber against the stormtroopers, killing them instantly as Rukh climbed up the rock wall next to them and fired a muzzle at her with a middle launcher on wrist, causing her to extend her arm and Force pushed the missile into the wall, causing her to fall onto a metal ledge below and Rukh leaped towards her with his electro-staff to stun her with it as she, evaded it and got onto the ledge below the one he was on and reignited her saber yet again and charged right at her.
Chopper grunted as a stormtrooper fired at him as he tried to contact Hera and rolled away from him before tripping down a hole on the deck, making a whining sound as he fell through the hole and the stormtrooper approached the hole only to not see a hopped anywhere only for Chopper to grab him by the foot with one of his metal arms, surprising the stormtrooper as Chopper flew up with his rocket booster activated with the stormtrooper in his hand making a whirring sound before dropping the stormtrooper to his death below.
"Just received a transmission from Chopper. They're under attack," Rex reported to Hera on the Ghost's comm system as she flew the ship through Hyperspace with Kallus in the seat next to her.
"Coming up on Lothal. Get ready to power down," Hera announced as the Ghost jumped out of Hyperspace with the ship powering off.
"I don't think we were detected," Kallus said as he didn't see any Imperial ships coming for them.
"Hondo, time to join the Rebellion," Hera said.
"Very good. Move us to these coordinates," Hondo said pointing at some coordinates.
"That's a Hyperspace lane, Hondo," Hera told him.
"Technically it is just outside a Hyperspace lane," he told her, "We shall wait there for a cargo ship to arrive."
"Are you mad?" Kallus asked the pirate as he stood up, "It'll crash into us!"
"This is the risk you take when you are a pirate," Hondo explained, "Houndo want to get through the blockade, yes? You want to help Ezra, yes? Then you must listen to Hondo. I have done this many times and have only been struck…" Hondo went on after Kallus sat back in his seat as he turned around and began to count his fingers, "I have done this many times!"
Sabine fired her WESTAR-35s at another jumptroopers that she was chasing as she into an Imperial patrol transport and kicked one of the two stormtroopers that were in the gunship out before kicking the other one out as she planted a thermal detonator on the gunship and quickly flew over to the gunship across from it and knocked one of the stormtroopers out of the other Imperial patrol transport and fired at the another jumptroopers with her WESTAR-35 as the thermal detonator that she planted in the gunship went off and exploded.
Meanwhile back with Ezra and Rukh, the Noghri jumped off of the ledge he was standing on to the one Ezra was standing on and began clashing his electro-staff with her saber as she backed away onto another ledge and he soon kicked her in the chest with his foot, only for her to Force push him back, letting go of his electro-staff in the process, causing him to lean in to get it only for Ezra to beat him to it and handed him the electro-staff as he fell off of the ledge as she went off.
Rukh grabbed onto the wall of the rock face before placing his electro-staff onto his back as he began to climb up the wall.
Vizago, Mart and a few others fired their blasters at the Imperials as they hid behind containers as Zeb came out from behind a corner and began firing his bo-rifle at a gunship that was approaching as it rotated around showing that Pryce was on board that Imperial patrol transport.
"Storm that ore crawler. I want it taken," Pryce ordered the stormtroopers next to her and soon the gunship hovered around the crawler as Zeb picked up the gun of a turret next to him after placing his bo-rifle on his back before rushing over to one of the gunships and began firing the turret's firepower at it at a high speed, growling as the blaster bolts hit stormtroopers that departed the gunship before the gunship blew up as it went to fly away as it fell down to the ground below
"Yeah! You'd better get off!" Zeb cheered when two more gunships appeared and landed on the crawler and Seb went to fire the turret at one of the gunships only for the cannon to click and not shoot any blaster bolts before charging right at the stormtroopers and threw the cannon at the stormtroopers and landed on the stomachs of two of them as one of them ran from it as Zeb grabbed his bo-rifle from his back and shot a blaster bolt at him in the chest, killing him instantly and soon Ezra appeared in the center of the deck of the crawler with her lightsaber ignited.
"Hera, where are you?" Ezra asked after Force pushing the stormtroopers that were in front of her back.
"Listen, we can't just sit here. Who knows how long Ezra can hold out down there?" Rex said arguing with Hera before getting off from the seat that he was sitting in across from Hera's seat as Kallus stood behind them before he got up from the seat and walked towards Hondo.
"Patience, patience, my friends. The Empire runs shipments all the time…" Hondo reassured them before an alarm on the dashboard started beeping, "Here comes one now." With that an Imperial cargo ship jumped out of Hyperspace behind the Ghost, "You see? What did I tell you?" Rex instantly ran past the pirate and slid down the ladder that leads to the cargo hold as Hera and Kallus sat back down with Hondo walking up between them, "I admire your crew's efficiency, but you must not power up the ship until the last moment, or…"
"Or we'll be detected. I know," she finished for the pirate as the ship continued to float towards the side of the Imperial cargo ship, "Rex, stand by on the magnetic clamp.
"Sir, yes, sir," Rex replied from the cargo hold below as he removed the hoist.
"Now!" She said, seconds later as the ship continued to float closer towards the Imperial cargo ship and Rex twisted the hoist's switch around before pulling it downwards, causing the Ghost to magnetically latch onto the side of the Imperial cargo ship as Hera tuned the Ghost into the Imperials comms.
"Cargo freighter EF-75, stand by for code authentication," an Imperial captain said from one of the Star Destroyers as the Imperial cargo ship flew towards the Star Destroyers at a slow speed as Wolffe and Ketsu observed the ships as they stood in the Ghost's rear cannon, "Freighter EF-75, you are cleared to proceed."
"Once again, Hondo comes through!" Hondo cheered as he removed his hat and began to walk out of the room, "No need to thank me."
"As soon as we enter the atmosphere, I'll give Ezra the signal," Hera told Kallus.
As two jumptroopers flew after Sabine she turned around as she reached the bottom of the crawler's deck and fire one of her WESTAR-35's at one of them, causing him to fly into the bottom of the deck as she flew towards the other one firing her WESTAR-35s at the other one as she flew out from the hole and soon hovered next to her sister and Zeb as Ezra deflected blaster bolts with her lightsaber while Zeb fired his bo-rifle at the stormtroopers as they began to get overrun by stormtroopers.
"There's too many!" Zeb exclaimed while Rukh finished back up onto the crawler and ran on all four limbs past Ryder, who aimed his blaster rifle at him for a second.
"I'm beginning to regret the day I met you, Ezra Wren!" Vizago told Ezra.
"Day's not over yet, Vizago," the Mandalorian Jedi stated as she continued to deflect blaster bolts with her lightsaber and as she said that, one of the human male rebels fell to the floor dead after getting shot in the shoulder from a blaster bolt.
"I've seen enough. Target the crawler," Pryce ordered from a gunship that was in the distance away from the crawler.
"Incoming!" Zeb announced as missiles from the gunship collided with the side of the crawler before doing the same to one of the thrusters, causing the crawler to tilt downwards.
"Going down! Abandon ship!" Ezra ordered as she began to run towards the other side of it as Chopper flew up in the air as he activated his rocket booster while the stormtroopers ran back towards the Imperial patrol transports on the deck as they took off.
Mart jumped onto the ledge of the cliff dwelling above and climbed up the ledge as stormtroopers who were still on the crawler fell to the floor before falling off the crawler.
"Take Vizago, Sis. We'll jump," Ezra told her twin as she stood with her sister, Vizago and Zeb.
"What about your jetpack, Sis?" Sabine asked.
"It's unable to work at the moment, that one grey skinned creature shot it as we were flying earlier," Ezra explained and with that Sabine grabbed Vizago and flew up into the air while Ezra and Zeb ran across the deck, avoiding the box shaped containers and jumped towards the ledge of the cliff dwelling above and soon climbed up the ledge and saw everyone held hostage with stormtroopers behind everyone except Sabine who had Rukh behind her instead and had his electro-staff to her neck as her helmet was removed her her head.
"Drop your weapons," Rukh ordered and with that Zeb took his bo-rifle from his back threw it to the floor while Ezra grabbed her lightsaber and threw them to the floor before taking both of her WESTAR-35s from their holsters and threw them to the ground as well before two of the stormtroopers walked up to them and aimed their blaster rifles at them to move them forwards as they took them hostage as well as Rukh activated his comlink, "The rebel base is secure, Governor. And I have the Mandalorian Jedi."
With that, Pryce's gunship along with two other Imperial patrol transports landed on the cliff dwelling nearby as Ezra and Zeb were forced onto the ground with their legs folded with the others with the stormtroopers taking Ezra's helmet off and placed in front of her like they did with her twin.
"Ezra and Sabine Wren, Garazeb Orrelios, and Ryder Azadi," Pryce greeted as she walked off of her Imperial patrol transport, "Stand up, my old friend. I thank you for helping me to bring peace to Lothal."
"Ryder, you betrayed us?" Sabine asked Ryder with disbelief as he stood up.
"It's like I said. We were never going to win without an army," Ryder explained to her.
"A wise choice," Pryce told him.
"I knew you'd think so. We wouldn't have been able to fool Thrawn, but you?" Ezra told Pryce.
"Well, it looks like we both took a gamble today. But I won," Pryce told her when Ezra's backup comlink on her wrist started beeping.
"Do you want to tell her, or should I?" Ezra asked Ryder as she turned to him.
"Oh, I've been waiting years for this," Ryder told the Mandalorian, causing Sabine to look confused as Ryder walked towards Pryce, "Getting you to come all the way out here was all part of our plan."
"For all the good it did you," Pryce remarked, "Your little rebellion ends right now. You are my prisoners."
Just then the Ghost appeared from above and blew up the Imperial patrol ship that was behind Pryce and the stormtroopers that accompanied her and she turned around to see the Ghost hovering in front of her with Hera smirking at her from the Ghost's cockpit.
"Get down!" Ezra ordered as the Ghost continued to fire at the Imperials as the remaining gunships retreated away from the cliff dwelling and one the gunships began to fire upon the Ghost from above with Melch who was in the rear cannon shooting at it as Hondo was in the frontal cannon below the cockpit where Ketsu was sitting with Hera as Melch squealed happily as he destroyed one of the gunships.
Ezra and Sabine had their helmet's back on and took back their WESTAR-35s back as they fired at stormtroopers along with Zeb and Mart who had their weapons back as well with a hopped and Ryder sitting back the behind the boxes they were sitting at while Rukh and Pryce hid behind box shaped containers across from them while the door of the Ghost's cargo hold opened up with Rex, Wolffe, Gregor and Kallus ran down the ramp who began to fire upon the stormtroopers with their blaster rifles and DC-17 dual blaster pistols and knocked some to the floor as their blaster bolts hit the stormtroopers' armor.
"Chopper, jam their transmissions!" Sabine ordered Chopper who grunted a response as he activated his transmitter, causing the comlinks within the stormtroopers helmets to make a high pitched electrical whining sound, disorienting them as Pryce and Rukh to back away as the Ghost flew away with two of the gunships following it.
"We're still outnumbered!" Vizago stated as Ezra turned her eyes to a cave next to them.
"Not for long," she told him, "Fall back to the cave!"
Everyone began to retreat back to the cave while Ezra deflected the stormtroopers' blaster bolts with her lightsaber as she backed into the cave.
"They're trapped," Pryce stated as she stood with Rukh who was standing next to her, "Bring me Ezra Wren. Eliminate the rest, including her twin sister." With that, Rukh and the stormtroopers ran into the cave and Rukh began sniffing as he sensed Ezra standing in front of him, shrouded in darkness by the shadows.
"Where is your army now, Mandalorian Jedi?" Rukh asked her before she opened her eyes from within her helmet with the eyes of creatures in the shadows opened up behind her, growling as she ignited her saber's green colored blade, causing Rukh to see the creatures that were behind her and saw that they were Loth-wolves as he looked at them in fear as the wolves snarled and leaped towards them and one of them grabbed Rukh up with his electro-staff as they ran out of the cave with Pryce looking on in fear as one of the kicked some of the stormtroopers off the cliff dwelling with its tail.
"Look out!" One of the stormtroopers that ran out of the cave yelled as they were being chased by the other Loth-wolves with Pryce looking on as the wolves ran past her as the white Loth-wolf threw Rukh off the cliff dwelling before turning to face Pryce as she got up as the stormtrooper that was next to her was clobbered by one of the wolves, causing her to back away on her back only for the white Loth Wolf to walk towards her and knocked her away with its mouth before picked up another stormtrooper and flung him towards another stormtrooper at the entrance of the cave as Ezra and the others ran back out of the cave with her saber ignited and saw the carnage that the wolves were doing to the Imperials as the Ghost flew by as it chased the last two remaining gunships.
"I got him. I got him!" Hondo muttered as he fired upon the gunships from the Ghost's frontal cannons, "Melch, Melch! Turn around. Be productive!" With that, Melch swirled the rear cannon around and fired upon one of the gunships, destroying it before squealing happily, "Yes, yes, you perform well when I pull your strings."
"Hang on!" Hera ordered as she saw the stormtroopers in the last gunship firing at the Ghost with their blaster rifles before she twirled the Ghost at the gunship, ramming it into one of the rock-like pillar structures nearby with one of the Ghost's wings.
"Oh, no, no, no, no!" A stormtrooper cried as he climbed up one side of a tent's sticks on the cave dwelling only for one of the wolves to grab him with its mouth and threw him across the floor before picking up another stormtrooper with its mouth.
"Hey, Wolffe, can you believe it?" Gregor asked Wolffe S he saw the wolves mauling the stormtroopers.
"What?" Wolffe asked as he fired his blaster rifle at the stormtroopers.
"The wolves! You got your wolf pack back!" Gregor joked before crackling a laugh as the Loth-Wolves continued to maul the stormtroopers.
"Yeah, they fight just like the boys," Wolffe remarked, recalling his Wolfpack clone battalion squadron during the clone wars.
"Just like 'em!" Gregor added, crackling another laugh as the wolves killed the stormtrooper before tossing the stormtrooper's dead body off of the cliff dwelling and they rejoined the fight with the others as one of the wolves leaped over two stormtroopers, causing them to fall down the hole as another wolf chased after three stormtroopers before knocking them off the cliff dwelling with its mouth before the wolves turned to the four remaining stormtroopers who raised their arms up in defeat as they surrendered.
"I'd drop your weapons if I were you," Zeb told the stormtroopers who then placed their E-11 blaster rifles on the ground.
"Don't let it eat me! Please!" Pryce pleaded, gasping as the white Loth-wolf held her by the collar with its mouth with Ezra walking in front of it with her helmet to her side, she then began to pant as the wolf dropped her to the ground in front of Ryder, Zeb and Kallus, who were all smirking at her as she whimpered in fear.
"Why don't you do the honors, governor-to-governor?" Ezra asked Ryder as she handed him a pair of stuncuffs.
"Ezra, it would be my pleasure," Ryder answered as Pryce bowed her head down in defeat.
"You did it," Hera told Ezra as she walked down the Ghost's ramp with Ketsu, Hondo and Melch after landing the ship by some of the Lothal hills alongside two Imperial patrol transports with Rex, Wolffe, Gregor, Kallus, Ryder and Vizago behind her while Mart, Sabine and Zeb sat on box shaped containers next to them, "Somehow, against all the odds, you actually did it."
"I couldn't have without you," Ezra told her before turning to the others, "All of you."
"So true, my young friend," Hondo told her, "You're welcome. So I, uh…" he went on before sniffing as he walked over to her, "I guess the fight is won and we all get paid and go home now?"
"I wish it was over, but it's not," she told him, "Not until we chase the Empire from Lothal, like we did for Mandalore and show the galaxy that for all their power, they can be defeated."
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