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The Inquisitor and the TIEs he was leading as he flew his Advanced TIE starfighter followed the Ghost as the ship left Lothal's atmosphere into space and began to open fire at it with their turbolasers.
"Chopper, I'm rolling us starboard. Be ready to fire those rear guns," Hera said as she spoke into the ship's comlink while Zeb finished climbing the ladder to the Phantom and ran down the hall as he saw that Chopper was offline.
"Karabast! Chopper's down!" Zeb announced as he ran towards the astromech and turned the seat in front of him around and saw flames on it before using his hands to blow the fire away, "Ow. Ow!" He then sat in the seat, "I've got you covered, Hera. Roll away!" Hera then flipped the Ghost upside down as Zeb began firing the Phantom's guns at the TIEs with the turbolasers destroying one of them in the process.
"Open fire. Their shields will not hold indefinitely," the Inquisitor ordered the TIE fighter pilots as he began to fire on the Ghost yet again with his Advanced TIE starfighter.
"Sabine, I need you in the nose gun, now!" Hera said on the Ghost's comlink.
"Didn't you hear Hera?" Satele told Sabine.
"Didn't you hear Tseebo? He said he knows what happened to the Bridgers," Sabine reminded her.
"I already know what happened to them. They're dead, Sis. So go!" Satele told her and Sabine left the room a few seconds later after hesitating for a few seconds and after she left she placed her hands over Tseebo's shoulders, "Are they? Are the Bridgers dead?"
"Someone want to explain to me why we're extra popular tonight?" Hera asked.
"Remember that friend of the Bridgers that Satele told us about?" Sabine asked Hera on the Ghost's comlink as she fired at the TIE fighters from the Ghost's nowe gun, "Well, he was the one the Imperials were after."
"And he's important because…" Hera asked.
"Because his cybernetic implant has downloaded half of the Empire's secrets," Sabine answered.
"Okay, I can see why that's important. Let's get him out of here;" Hera told them as they destroyed one of the TIEs following them.
"The Bridgers should hide. The troopers came. They took Mira and Ephraim Bridger away," Tseebo told Satele.
"Where? Where did they take them?" Satele asked him.
"Forgive Tseebo," Tseebo muttered and sighed at her as he looked down, "Forgive him."
"Forgive you?" She said with disbelief.
"Tseebo failed. Tseebo was afraid. Tseebo could not raise Satele Wren," Tseebo admitted.
"Coward! You could have stopped them! Why didn't you stop them?" She asked him as his implant hegan to beep as he went back to his motionless state, "Tseebo!"
"Shields down! Satele, I need you in the cockpit!" Hera said on the comm system.
"Yeah. On my way," Satele told Hera before looking back at Tseebo, "Forgive you? The Bridgers trusted you and you failed them and you failed me. I'm irritated with you at what you did and I might never forgive you for that."
"Quite a ship," the Inquisitor remarked as he and the TIEs that he was leading continued to fire their ship's turbolasers at the Ghost before pressing a button above him as he launched a small device from his Advanced TIE starfighter with the device soon landing on the Phantom's hull with its shell ejecting off of the device as it began beeping as it activated.
"Satele, nav-computer's offline. With Chopper down, I need you to fix it," Hera told Satele as the Mandalorian entered the cockpit with a container with tools in her hand.
"I'll see what I can do," Satele told her as she set the container with the tools down.
"Do as best as you can or else this ship becomes a real ghost," Hera told her as she looked out the cockpit's viewport and saw two Star Destroyers in the distance as Satele got underneath the cockpit's maintenance compartment and took a tool out from the container containing the tools that she brought with her and began to use it to repair the nav-computer, "Could really use that nav-computer!"
"Rewiring as fast as I…" Satele began.
"For fast travel over interstellar distances, Hyperspace is optimal," Tseebo said as he waltzed into the cockpit and bent down towards the maintenance compartment.
"What is he doing?" Hera asked as Tseebo began to help Satele repair the nav-computer as the Star Destroyers began to open fire on the Ghost as the nav-computer beeped as it reactivated, "I don't believe it. Hang on!" She then pulled the Ghost's piloting sticks towards her as the Ghost jumped into Hyperspace.
The Inquisitor removed his helmet from his head as he watched the Ghost enter Hyperspace from his Advanced TIE starfighter.
"Uh, Hera. This is Tseebo, he's the friend of the Bridger's that I told you and the others about earlier," Satele told Hera after the Ghost entered Hyperspace and as Hera got off from the pilot's seat.
"And did Tseebo juat signal Hyperspace coordinates directly to my ship?" Her asked.
"I think so," Satele told her.
"Well, then, thank you, Tseebo," Hera told Tseebo before sighing, "I think you saved our lives."
The Inquisitor soon entered the bridge of one of the Star Destroyers called 'the Relentless' with his helmet to his side and walked past two Imperial officers, one of them was a human male with a brown colored thin mustache and sideburns and was the Star Destroyer's Admiral named Admiral Konstanine.
"We are receiving a signal from the tracker. They will not be able to outrun us for long," Konstantine told the Inquisitor
"I still sense the Jedi and his Padawan within my grasp," the Inquisitor told Konstantine as the Star Destroyer followed the Ghost into Hyperspace.
As the Ghost continued to travel through Hyperspace with everyone standing inside the common room as Sabine was repairing Chopper with a wrench behind Chopper as Hera sat in front of him.
"I think we should remove all that data from Tseebo's cybernetic implant," Satele said as she plugged a cable from the implant into a datapad.
"Why remove all the data from his cybernetic implant?" Kanan asked her.
"I'm actually moving the data from his cybernetic implant into this datapad, so his brain won't overload from the amount of data from within the implant and so he can think straight," Satele answered as she activated the datapad's data transfer as she clicked on the datapad's screen before taking Tseebo over to the couch and then made him lay on the couch as she placed the datapad on the table in front of the couch, "Sleep, Tseebo, when you wake up you'll be able to think more clearly." She then turned to Kanan, "What should we do with him?"
"We have a few ideas. But you're the one who has history with Tseebo," he told her, "What do you think we should do?"
"I think we should give him to Fulcrum after we transfer enough data for him to think clearly, they'll know what to do with him," Satele answered.
"I was suggesting that as well," Hera answered, "I'll go and contact them."
"The Empire's developing a new kind of tracking device," Satele said as she picked up the datapad from the table.
"What do you mean?" Sabine asked her.
"Imperial-XX-23 S-thread tracker was developed by Sienar systems to trace ships through Hyperspace to destination," Satele said as she read the description of the tracker from the datapad after placing it on a holopad from the table with a hologram of the tracker that was Inquisitor launched onto the Ghost appearing from the holopad.
"Hera, could they have tagged us with that thing?" Kanan asked.
"Guess we better find out," Hera answered as she powered Chopper back on, who then began grunting violently, "Whoa, whoa,whoa. Calm down, Chop. You were just offline for a few minutes. We need you to scan the Ghost for that while I contact Fulcrum," Chopper then turned around and grunted a response after looking at the hologram of the tracker that Hera pointed at.
"Stop grumbling and find that tracker, you rust bucket!" Zeb told Chopper with Chopper grunting as he left the common room.
"I'm gonna help him boost his scanner to find the scanner easier," Satele said as she placed the datapad back on the table after taking it off the holopad off it and placed it on the table before leaving the common room with Chopper.
"So they did tag us," Sabine remarked after Satele and Chopper came back with Chopper projecting an image of the Ghost while Satele sat in the co-pilot seat.
"Yes. But the good news is the tracer's actually on the hull of the Phantom," Hera added.
"How is that good news exactly?" Zeb asked her with confusion.
"It'll allow us to detach the Phantom and lure the Imperials away from the Ghost and Tseebo," Kanan explained.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! You want to detach while in Hyperspace?" Sabine said with disbelief, "Do you know how incredibly dangerous that is?"
"She's right. That's incredibly dangerous," Satele added, "I read about it on the HoloNet."
"Not as dangerous as what I plan to do with the ship," Kanan added.
"Can't wait to hear this," Zeb remarked.
"I checked our current trajectory," Kanan said as he turned to Hera, "If you modify the Hyperspace coordinates…"
"I could," Hera told him.
"Then we can pass the asteroid field where the old Clone base is," Kanan went on.
"You mean the base with the nasties who live in the shadows?" Sabine asked.
"Wait, what? Why would we want to go down there?" Satele asked.
"She's right, Kanan," Hera told him, "Why not just drop the Phantom into our trail and let the Imperials chase after their tracker?"
"Because there's more than a tracker at work here. Back on Lothal, I sensed it. The Inquisitor ia on our trail, and as long as Satele and I are on board the Ghost, we're jeopardizing Tseebo's escape," Kanan said as Chopper switched his holoprojector.
"If it's to help Tseebo escape, then I'm in," Satele told him.
"Good and don't worry Satele, I'll be right beside you," Kanan told her.
"Sis, do you really believe that the Bridgers are dead?" Sabine asked Satele as they stood in the Ghost's kitchen with her helmet on the table behind her while Sabine had her's under her arm.
"Yes. No. I...I don't know " Satele answered with confusion, "Does it matter?"
"Yeah, of course it matters," Sabine answered, "When Hera stops the transfer of data from Tseebo's implant to your datapad you might not see him again. Besides I know that you're irritated with him."
"How do you know?" Satele asked her.
"We're twin sisters, I can sense how you feel about him after all," Sabine answered.
"It's just he let the Bridgers down and if I had known that they were alive I would've attempted to rescue them," Satele explained as she walked away from the table with her under her arm.
"You ready?" Kanan asked Satele.
"Yes, I am," Satele answered as she placed her helmet over her head.
"Okay," Kanan said as they left the kitchen.
"Strap in," Kann told Satele as she flipped down a seat from the wall and down on it and removed her helmet, "Prepping for separation. Once we're out of Hyperspace, we'll head towards the asteroid base and lead the Empire there."
"You sure about this? You won't be anymore welcome there than the Imperials," Hera told him through the Ghost's comm system.
"That's what I'm counting on," Kanan told her.
"Just be safe. And Satele? Look out for Kanan," Hera told Satele through the comm system.
"Somebody has to," Satele told her.
"Ready for separation," Hera told them.
"Copy that, Ghost," Kanan replied.
"Five, four...three, two… one. Detach!" Hera said through the comm system before the Phantom detached from the Ghost and a bright light appeared throughout the shuttle and over the shuttle before it exited Hyperspace and moments after it left Hyperspace, Kanan pulled a switch forward and stabilized the Phantom with it.
"Okay. Okay," Kanan said before chuckling as the Phantom deployed its wings outwards as the shuttle began flying towards the asteroid containing the old Republic base, "That was the easy part."
"I sense movement in the Force," the Inquisitor told Konstantine as he had his eyes closed while the Star Destroyer continued to travel through Hyperspace as he opened eyes.
"Y-Yes. The tracker indicates the rebel ship has emerged from Hyperspace," Konstantine informed him, "Should we…"
"At once," the Inquisitor answered as he interrupted him.
"Should we go over the plan again?" Satele asked Kanan as the Phantom lowered towards the old Republic base on the asteroid.
"Didn't I tell you what the plan was already?" He asked her.
"Yeah, but I want to hear it again," she answered.
"As I explained before, you remember the creatures Hera and your sister, Sabine found here?" Kanan asked her.
"Yeah. Oh, I'd rather forget them, but yes," Satele answered.
"Well, I'm gonna need you to connect with them, like I taught you before, if we're gonna survive this," Kanan told her.
"not sure about this Kanan, I just feel nervous around them," she told him as the Phantom's wings closed back up as it neared closer to the ground near the base.
"I'm afraid, too. Everyone's nervous, but admitting it as you just did, makes you braver than most and it's a step forward," Kanan told her.
"Yeah, into the jaws of a nightmare," she added as she began breathing heavily as her voice quivered as well, "Okay. Okay."
"I'll get the tracking device off the Phantom. You make some new friends," Kanan told Satele after the Phantom landed inside the base as he walked away from the seat he was sitting in as Satele placed her helmet on the cockpit before following Kanan out of the Phantom, "Here we go."
They then exited the Phantom as it's rear hatch opened upwards as Kanan climbed into the hull of the Phantom and walked over to the viewport and took the tracking device off after a few seconds of trouble and threw it across the base as the rear hatched sealed itself.
"One with the Force. One with the Force. One with the Force," Satele chanted with her voice quivering as she extended her arm outwards as to connect with the Fyrnocks that were growling, as well as quietly screeching and slowly walked towards her aggressively as they walked away from the damaged Low Altitude Assault Transport while some jumped down from the damaged ship, "I'm one with the Force. One with the Force. One with the Force. I'm one with the Force. One with the Force." The Fyrnocks began growling louder as they came closer towards her, "One with the Force." The Fyrnocks then screeched at her loudly as they surrounded as Kanan with his arms extended at the Fyrnocks appeared from behind her.
"You're blocked! Let go," he told her.
"I can't!" She told him.
"Don't be afraid," he urged her.
"I'm not afraid of them," she told him.
"Then what?" He asked her.
"I don't know," she answered.
"Yes, you do!" He told her.
"I…" she began as she stuttered.
"Satele! What are you afraid of?!" He asked her.
"I'm afraid of… I'm afraid of everyone finding out that I'm irritated with Tseebo and knowing what happened to the Bridgers," she admitted, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry. I forgive you, Tseebo."
"I, too, am sorry. Forgive me… for everything," Tseebo said as he stood up.
"I see you're up, Tseebo. And good timing too as we need to remove the cable from your implant," Hera said as she approached him.
"Who are you and why is this cable connected to my cybernetic implant?" He asked her.
"I'm a friend of Satele's and that cable's connected to your implant because she was trying to help fix your implant due to how much data you downloaded," Hera answered.
"No wonder my mind feels clearer," Tseebo remarked as Hera removed the cable from his cybernetic implant.
"We're taking you to someone named Fulcrum, they'll help you escape the Empire more easily than we can," Hera told him.
"Thank you, uh…" He began.
"Hera," she answered, "Hera Syndulla."
"Thank you, Hera," he told her as they left the room.
Meanwhile back on the asteroid where Kanan and Satele were, Satele had suddenly tamed the Fyrnocks after she admitted what she was afraid of and Kanan looked on as he saw that they weren't being aggressive towards them anymore.
"Fulcrum to Ghost. Docking complete. Heading to airlock now," the distorted voice of Fulcrum said on the Ghost's comm system as a CR-90 corvette latched its docking bridge onto the Ghost's docking port.
"Acknowledged, Fulcrum. We're ready and waiting," Hera said, answering Fulcrum's transmission.
"I don't suppose Zeb and I could get to meet Fulcrum this time?" Sabine asked Hera from the co-pilot seat.
"Nope. This time, you stay in the cockpit," Hera told them as she left the cockpit.
"That's what we did last time," Zeb remarked as Sabine took out the disk she took from the Bridger's house.
"You seem better," Hera told Tseebo as she approached him in the hallway near the dodking bay.
"Thanks to Satele transferring some of the data I downloaded from my cybernetic implant to her datapad, Tseebo's mind is clearer now. But it is difficult. Despite Satele's best efforts on transferring the data from my cybernetic implant to her datapad, there's still so much data inside my cybernetic implant," Tseebo told her.
"Fulcrum's people will help you with that and keep you safe," Hera told Tseebo, "So how do you know Sabine and Satele's birthday anyway?"
"I found out their birthday from the Imperial database where I downloaded all that data from," Tseebo answered, "But will Tseebo see Satele Wren again?"
"I hope so. Someday," Hera answered, "Is there anything you'd like me to tell her?"
"Oh, Tseebo failed Bridgers. Did not watch over their ward. But Tseebo tried to make it right by accessing Imperial files," These told her.
"And the rest of that intel will be invaluable," Hera told him.
"Oh, intel unimportant, an accident. Tseebo access file on Mira and Ephraim Bridger. Tseebo knows Bridgers' fate," Tseebo added.
"Then tell me, Tseebo. Tell me and I'll tell Satele," Hera told him.
The Relentless soon arrived near the asteroid as an Imperial shuttle flying out from its hangar bay and landed near the base where Kanan and Satele were hiding and a stormtrooper commander holding a datapad was leading a squad of stormtroopers as its ramp lowered with the Inquisitor following them as the stormtroopers stood in two rows.
"They're here all right. The rebel ship is inside," the stormtrooper commander told the Inquisitor.
"Keep them contained. I want them alive," the Inquisitor told him.
"Hold formation," the stormtrooper commander told his stormtroopers as they Ll slowly walked towards the base, "Lights up!" He then ordered his stormtroopers who then switched on their E-11 blaster rifle's flashlight, "Steady." The stormtroopers then moved their blaster rifles around and soon saw Kanan and Satele sitting in front of Fyrnocks, "Sir, they're over… here."
"Wait, I sense…" the Inquisitor began as he walked into the base and closed his eyes.
"Sir! They're not alone," the stormtrooper commander added as both Kanan and Satele extended both their arms out with the Fyrnoxks rushing out from behind the Jedi and Mandalorian, "Shoot it! Shoot it!" The stormtroopers then began to fire their blaster rifles only to miss the Fyrnocks as they leaped onto two of them. The Inquisitor then extended his arm out as a Fyrnock ran towards him as he lifted the Fyrnock up with the Force and threw him backwards.
"This was your plan?" The Inquisitor chuckled as he continued walking towards them, "To lure us here and allow these creatures to do your work for you?"
"How do you think it's going?" Kanan asked as he immediately stood up and ignited his lightsaber.
"Pathetically," the Inquisitor answered as he ignited his lightsaber after grabbing it from his back and killed a Fyrnock behind him with it.
"Guess if you want something done right…" Kanan began rushing towards the Inquisitor which the Inquisitor did as well as they began to clash their sabers together and began to duel each other. Kanan soon pulled out his DL-18 blaster pistol and went to fire it at the Inquisitor only for the Inquisitor to grab it with the Force before kicking him in the thigh, sending him backwards as he tossed Kanan's blaster aside before Force pushing him away.
"Kanan!" Satele cried as she extended her arm out towards Kanan's lightsaber and stood up as the lightsaber flew into her hand and ignited the lightsaber's blade as she rushed towards the Inquisitor.
"You think you can beat me?" The Inquisitor asked Satele as she clashed Kanan's lightsaber with his.
"You underestimate me," Satele told him as both sabers locked into a saberlock.
"You seem to be using Makashi, otherwise known as lightsaber combat Form II although a bit sloppy," the Inquisitor remarked.
"Why do you care, Sith?" She asked him as she moved the saber from the Inquisitor's saber.
"Count Dooku used this form but it wasn't enough to save him as Anakin Skywalker beheaded him with his and Dooku's lightsaber near the end of the Clone Wars. But aside from that, it won't be enough to save you," the Inquisitor told her as he slashed his saber onto Kanan's, causing it to be flown across the room before he went to strike Satele with his lightsaber's blade and as he went to do so, Satele placed her hand out in front of the blade, pushing the blade back for a few moments before it went back into the lightsaber's hilt, surprising everyone including Satele, "Impossible."
"What did I just do?" Satele asked herself.
"I don't think anyone has been able to use that Force Power for thousands of years," Kanan told her.
"What's it called?" Satele asked.
"It's known as Force block," he answered.
"It seems you're better alive to me than dead. You'll make a fine addition to my Inquisitors," the Inquisitor told her.
"I will never join you," Satele hissed with anger as she rose her hands upwards with three large Fyrnocks standing up behind her as she unconsciously began using a Dark Side power.
"Satele? No!" Kanan said with shock as he looked at his Mandalorian Padawan as the stormtroopers stopped firing at the normal Fyrnocks and stared at the larger ones that Satele created as the Inquisitor began swinging his lightsaber in a circle with both the blades ignited as Satele soon collapsed to the floor unconscious as Kanan got back up and grabbed his DL-18 blaster pistol as he rushed towards Satele as one of the large Fyrnocks rushed towards the Inquisitor with four of the normal ones which the Inquisitor killed easily, leaving the large one attacking him as the other two large Fyrnocks attacked and killed a few of the stormtroopers as Kanan approached Satele, "Satele."
"Kanan? What happened?" Satele asked as she regained consciousness, "I-I feel so cold."
"I know it's okay. We're leaving," Kanan told her as he picked up his lightsaber which had fallen where Satele was laying down on as he picked her up and placed her over his shoulder and began to approach the Phantom when a Stormtrooper noticed them and went to aim his blaster rifle at them only for one of the Fyrnocks to leap onto him and knock him to the ground as the large Fyrnock that was attacking the Inquisitor backed away as the Inquisitor turned around and saw Kanan and Satele heading towards the Phantom and used the Force to throw his lightsaber at Kanan as the Phantom's rear hatch to open up as Kanan saw the lightsaber fly towards him as he reactivated his lightsaber and slashed it away and deactivated it as he reentered the Phantom with its rear hatch closing as soon as they reentered the shuttle and moved Satele's helmet from the cockpit's seat and placed it on her lap after placing her back on the seat she was sitting on before they arrived on the asteroid before sitting on the pilot's seat as the Inquisitor used the Force to grab his lightsaber and ran after the Phantom as it began to take off and fired its cannons at the Imperial shuttle before flying off of the asteroid.
"My master will not be pleased," the Inquisitor told the stormtrooper commander who approached him.
"I saved us?" Satele asked Kanan after Kanan approached her and sat in the seat across from her after the Ghost arrived back in space away from the asteroid.
"You did," he said, answering her suspicions.
"But something doesn't feel right," she told him.
"If your isn't strong enough when you open yourself to the Force, you become vulnerable to the dark side," Kanan told her.
"Well, I got real angry when the Inquisitor said that I would make a fine addition to his Inquisitors," Satele told him.
"I know. But your anger and fear caused you to create those giant creatures and for them to attack," Kanan told her.
"I don't remember them," she told him.
"That's for the best," Kanan told her, "Your powers are growing so quickly, you weren't prepared. I didn't teach you what you needed to know, you even have a power that not even I can do and hasn't been seen since the days of the Old Republic. I'm sorry."
"Welcome back, you two," Sabine told Kanan and Satele as they climbed down the ladder to the common room where she, Zeb, Hera and Chopper were standing in.
"You outsmarted them again. Good job, boss," Zeb told Kanan.
"You made it," Hera told Kanan.
"Was there any doubt?" He asked her.
"Never," she answered as Satele began walking past her, "Satele, I have something to…"
"Satele needs a little time to herself right now," Kanan told her as Satele left the common room with her helmet under her arm, "We need to talk."
"Rough couple of days, Sis," Sabine said as she approached Satele who was staring out the Ghost's viewport from one of the turret's seats.
"Yeah. It's been strange," Satele said, agreeing with her.
"I have just what you need. It's the holo-disk from the Bridger's house. It was pretty degraded but I cleaned it up. And I found a few things on it," Sabine told her as she swiped the disk into a console next to them as two images appeared before them. One of the images had an image of Satele at around 7 years old with a man with tan skin and a beard and a woman with a lighter shade of tan skin.
"Mira? Ephraim?" Satele said as she stared at the image with her and the Bridger's before turning to the other one which had an image of her at around 5 years old with a Sabine at the same age with a 4 year old boy with a slight darker skin tone than them and stood between them while two adults stood between them, one of them was a female that looked like an older version of Sabine and Satele with brown hair was wearing traditional Mandalorian armor colored gold, black and silver while the other was a male with a thin shaped mustache on both sides of his philtrum Mandalorian clothing but wasn't armor but still had Beskar, "Mother? Father? Tristan?"
"Happy Empire Day, Sis," Sabine told her, chuckling a bit before leaving the room.
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