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"It was a simple story about a girl who was lost and left on Lothal who reunited with her twin sister who was broken. They fought alongside another of their kind, a survivor, a war veteran and a fallen knight. I led them into battle against an evil so terrible, it tried to black out the stars. We fought for each other. We fought for those who could not. But we never imagined it would end like this," Hera Syndulla's thoughts prior to the Liberation of Lothal.
One month later, the Ghost jumped out of Hyperspace as it neared Seelos with Rex piloting the ship as he wore a rebels' forest commando uniform with his armor's gauntlets over his wrists with Cody sitting in the co-pilot's seat next to him, wearing a rebels' forest commando uniform along with his armor's gauntlets along with his clone commander's rank plaque over the left side of his chest as well, while Kallus sat in the seat behind Rex with Howzer sitting in the seat behind Cody with Khan and Spinner standing behind them as Rex activated the Ghost's communications systems, "Ghost to Joopa base, do you copy?"
"This is Joopa base," Wolffe responded on the Ghost's communications system as Hera walked forward and stood in between Rex and Cody, "Ghost, proceed to coordinates 6-7-8-3. Marauder just arrived."
The Ghost then flew down towards the planet and approached a modified and repurposed AT-AT that Wolffe and Gregor took over after their modified and repurposed AT-TE was destroyed by the AT-AT that they took over with parts from their destroyed AT-TE along with a ladder that leads to the landing pad on top of the AT-AT as the Marauder landed on the desert floor of Seelos with its wings flipped upwards as the Ghost landed on top of the landing pad on top of the AT-AT with Wolffe saluting the Ghost from a staircase at the AT-AT's landing platform.
"We were expecting you last rotation," Wolffe told Hera, Rex, Cody, Howzer, Kallus as he led them into the cockpit of the AT-AT as he opened the door that leads into the AT-AT's cockpit, where Gregor was as he stood across from them with his hands over his hips, "Although, I'm shocked to see that you're part of the rebellion, Cody."
"Commander?" Gregor said with shock and surprise in his voice as soon as he saw Cody, "I haven't seen you since we, General Kenobi and my Foxtrot group, fought in the Battle of Sarrish. But I agree with Wolffe, I thought you were still with the Empire."
"Well, I was part of the Empire for a while after Order 66 was executed before I had my inhibitor Chip removed, Wollfe," Cody explained to his fellow Clone Commanders.
"And, we along with Tech and Omega were on a mission for Rebel Command when we got the message from Hera," Hunter added as he, Echo and Wrecker followed Hera, Kallus, Rex, Cody, Howzer and Wolffe into the AT-AT's cockpit as they had their armor repainted to black, blue, gray and white with both he and Wrecker having two Rebel Alliance Starbirds on their armor pauldrons, while Echo had one on the left side of his chest.
"It's the defective clones!" Gregor said, happily and crazily as he crackled a laugh.
"Nice to see you guys again," Wolffe told Hunter, Wrecker and Echo.
"Haven't seen you both since we helped you both escape the Empire!" Wrecker said in a loud and excited tone.
"They remember, Wrecker," Rex told the defective clone.
"Rex!" Wrecker said, excitedly as he turned towards Rex and picked him up.
"Yeah. Good to see you too, Wrecker," Rex told him as he grunted in pain before Wrecker let go of Rex.
"Anyways, I had trouble escaping Lothal. The Empire's blockade is tougher than ever," Hera said, apologizing to Wolffe and Gregor for the delay.
"That would be no problem for me," she heard a familiar voice say as they sighed and saw Hondo sitting at a desk with Melch behind Wolffe and Gregor with Melch holding a cup of caff in his hands and Hondo having his legs on the desk with Ketsu sitting at a command chair nearby.
"Hondo, I see you got my message," Hera told the Weequay pirate with distaste in her voice.
"Hondo," Echo said with distaste in his voice as he, Hunter and Wrecker looked at him, "We had to go on a search and rescue mission for him and his people for Cid a few months after the Clone Wars ended."
"I'm surprised that you guys remember me after all these years," Hondo told them with surprise in his voice.
"We clones don't exactly forget people that easily, especially for enhanced clones such as ourselves," Hunter explained as he crossed his arms.
"Anyways, at your service, General Syndulla," Hondo told Hera after getting up and walking over the desk and placing his right hand over Melch's face for a second, causing the Ugnaught to squeal before Hondo removed his hat and placed it over his chest for a second before placing it back over his head as he walked over to her, "And mine too, of course."
"He wasn't hard to find. Talks a lot for a smuggler," Ketsu remarked as he 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 former ISB/Fulcrum 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 right hand over Wolffe's right shoulder.
"It's for Satele," Hera informed Wolffe, "We are liberating Lothal and its people, and we need your help. All of you."
"Against a planet of Imperials?" Wolffe remarked with disbelief, "General, those are difficult odds."
"It was also difficult rescuing both you and Gregor from the Empire when our squad rescued the both of you during the times when you both were defecting and Rex here sent us to rescue you both," Hunter reminded Wolffe, "So, I believe it's safe to say that we can pull this off."
"I agree with the clone about this having difficult odds," Hondo said, agreeing with Wolffe, "But that girl has spirit, even for a Mandalorian like herself! She reminds me of the time when there was something you could believe in."
"The Jedi," Ketsu stated.
"We followed them into battle so many times," Wolffe added.
"Well, not me and my squad, Wolffe, me and my squad were never under the command of a Jedi General and were under the command of General Cham Syndulla after Jedi Master Mace Windu helped him free Ryloth from Separatist control and had us transferred to Ryloth in order to keep the peace on the planet for the duration of the war," Howzer told Wolffe, "But let's just say that after the Empire rose, we began having doubts about the Empire and soon defected from the Empire and were imprisoned for a few years till the Empire began to phase the clones out in favor of stormtroopers and escaped Imperial custody by tricking and outsmarting them and soon joined the rebellion on Ryloth under the command of Cham Syndulla."
"Anyways, well, how about one more time, eh?" Gregor asked before laughing.
"So you're in?" Hera asked them.
"Madam, for that girl, there is nothing I would not do," Hondo answered as he removed his hat from his head.
"We're also going to help you guys free that planet from Imperial occupation," Hunter told them.
"And me and my two lieutenants can provide backup for you in liberating Lothal," Howzer added, telling them that he, Khan and Spinner will also help Hera and the others free Lothal.
Back on Lothal, both Satele and Sabine sat on a boulder with their legs folded and their eyes closed as Satele's boyfriend walked towards them as they had their Beskar armors back over their undersuits, "Satele… Sabine… you both okay?" He asked as he noticed his girlfriend and her sister's uneasiness, causing them to open their eyes as he placed his right hand over his girlfriend's left shoulder.
"Something's changed. Something's happening," Satele answered.
"What's wrong," Janus asked them as he removed his right hand from Satele's left shoulder.
"We have to go talk to Hera," Sabine told him.
Moments later, Sabine, Satele and Janus walked along the side of the cliff dwelling of their base with the crawler they stole a while back near the base with it touching the base, while Vizago appeared in front of them.
"Satele, Sabine, I have General Syndulla," Vizago told them as a hologram of Hera with Chopper projecting her image with his holoprojector as she stood around the others, which included Ryder, Jai, Mart and Zeb as the three Mandalorians walked into the base's command center as Ryder had his arms crossed.
"Girls, what's the emergency?" Hera asked the twins as she turned around towards them.
"We need to act now if we're gonna take Capital City from the Empire," Satele explained.
"Your plan is crazy enough as it is, Satele," Zeb remarked, "What's the rush?"
"She's right, if we want to succeed, we'll have to act now as we had a vision of the Emperor sending Thrawn back to Lothal," Sabine said, agreeing with her sister.
"It's now or never," Satele added.
"Then it's never," Ryder told her, "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," Satele assured him.
"Satele, we need an army to take the city," Ryder argued, "Look around. I don't see an army."
"We don't need an army," Satele told him, "We need one person."
"Anyways, we just got a transmission from Fulcrum," Hera informed everyone before she activated the transmission from Yularen.
"I have information that could help you rebels free Lothal," the distorted voice of Yularen said as the symbol of Fulcrum appeared next to Hera, "I've recently learned that the Empire is sending an Inquisitor by the name of the Thirteenth Brother to Lothal with a pair of Purge Troopers to help reinforce Governor Pryce and the Imperial forces on Lothal."
Everyone looked shocked and surprised as they heard Yularen say that the Empire is sending an Inquisitor and a group of Purge Troopers to Lothal as the hologram of the symbol of Fulcrum switched to a hologram of a human male with fair skin, brown eyes and hair in a style of a buzz cut, wearing the uniform of an Inquisitor.
"This is the Thirteenth Brother also known as Starkiller or if we use his birth name, Galen Marek," Yularen went on in the distorted voice of Fulcrum, "He was born on Kashyyyk to two Jedi who deserted the Jedi Order when they fell in love during the Clone Wars. His lightsaber design is a split saber, which means he could separate it in two parts and wield two lightsabers. He is the secret apprentice of Darth Vader after he killed his father when the Empire kidnapped him as a child and inducted him into Project Harvester."
They looked at each other as they heard Yularen explain the new Inquisitor's backstory as the hologram of Starkiller switched to a hologram of four middle aged clones, wearing the uniforms of Purge Troopers with their helmets under their arms with one of them having a haircut similar to that of a military hairstyle colored black but looked like that it had begun to gray with the rest of the Purge Troopers' hairstyles beginning to gray as well as one of the other Purge Troopers having a mullet hairstyle, another having their hair in the style of a military hairstyle with both sides of his head being shaved of hair and the last one having a buzz cut.
"These are PT-3005 'Arrow,' PT-8686 'Shield,' PT-1411 'Taser,' and PT-1212 'Stark.' They're some of the final clones to ever be made by the Kaminoans before the Empire destroyed Tipoca City after they canceled all of their contracts with the Kaminoans. Two of them will be wielding electrostaffs, wearing jetpacks over their backs and the other two will be wielding DC-15A blaster rifles," Yularen stated as he continued his Fulcrum transmission before the holograms of the Purge Troopers switched back to the symbol of Fulcrum, "Good luck to you all, I hope you succeed in defeating the Inquisitor and his Purge Troopers. Fulcrum out."
"With the Inquisitor and those Purge Troopers coming to Lothal, we'll have no chance of succeeding and will have to postpone our plan to liberate Lothal," Ryder said, telling everyone that they should postpone their plan to liberate Lothal as Yularen's Fulcrum transmission ended.
"I agree with Ryder," Jai stated, agreeing with the former governor of Lothal, "What if he comes to take me away to become an Inquisitor?"
"Don't worry, Jai, I'll make sure that won't happen," Satele assured Jai before turning to her sister and the others, "Okay, so here's the new plan, it's the same as before but modified to include the Inquisitor and his Purge Troopers. Sabine, you and Zeb will handle the Purge Troopers with electrostaffs, Janus, you and jai and Mart will handle the Purge Troopers with DC-15A blaster rifles."
"So how do we begin our plan?" Jai asked her.
"As I said before," Satele answered, "We just need one person."
"Well?" Pryce asked as she slammed her fist onto her desk as she sat on a chair to her desk with Jesse standing behind her in front of the room's window with his arms behind his back as a hologram of Lothal was projected from the holoprojector on her desk.
"We've scanned the outer reaches, and 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 neither me or Commander Jesse have the rebels, I will be executed," she told him as she stood up from her chair, "But before that happens to me, do you know what I'll have Commander Jesse do to you for failing?"
"I'll commit more troops to the search?" The Imperial officer responded with fear in his voice before he began to exit the room, only to bump into another Imperial officer that was holding a datapad 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 before the Imperial officer clicked on their datapad as a hologram of Ryder appeared from the holoprojector on her desk.
"Hello, Arhinda," Ryder said, greeting the governor of Lothal.
"Ryder Azadi. This is a bold move," she told him.
"I do what I have to do to survive," Ryder responded.
"Barely," she remarked, "That didn't stop me from usurping you as governor."
"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 corrected her.
"You're betraying them? Why?" She asked him as she clenched her left hand into a fist and placed it near her chin.
"They can't win, and I don't want to end back up in an Imperial prison… Or worse," he answered.
"Ugh. You want amnesty?" She realized as she moved her left hand away from near her chin.
"Yes," he confirmed, "In return, I give you the Mandalorian twins, Janus Wren, Syndulla and the rest of them."
"This is cowardly, even for you," Pryce remarked, causing him to sigh.
"Do we have a deal, Governor?" He asked her.
"Send me your coordinates," she answered before the hologram of Ryder disappeared as a hologram of a clone that was fit and in shape with gray hair in the style of a military hairstyle with both sides of his head being shaved with a scar over the right side of his face that began above his right eye, wearing the armor of a 501st clone commander with his helmet having a blue arrow over the part of his helmet where the forehead would be and had a macrobinocular viewplate's rangefinder attached to it and under their arm.
Starkiller, who had an Inquisitor's helmet under his arms stood next to the Clone trooper with the armor of that of a 501st clone commander with his Purge Troopers behind him, who also had their helmets under their arms with Taser wielding DC-15A blaster rifles having Jaig eyes over his helmet and a pauldron of a Purge Trooper sergeant as his pauldron was colored orange, while Stark had a helmet that had markings that went down both sides of his helmet's cheeks with a pauldron of a Purge Trooper Commander.
Shield's helmet had the markings of a 501st Clone trooper over his Purge Trooper helmet and a pauldron of a Purge Trooper corporal as his pauldron was colored red, while Arrow's helmet had the markings of a 212th Attack Battalion Clone trooper over his Purge Trooper's helmet and the pauldron of a Purge Trooper lieutenant as his pauldron was colored gray.
"This is CC-1119 also known as Commander Appo with the Thirteenth Brother," the clone commander introduced himself and Starkiller to her.
"Nice to see you again, Appo," Jesse said, greeting his fellow clone.
"Nice to see you too, Jesse," Appo told the ARC Commander.
"Hello, Commander Appo and Thirteenth Brother," Pryce said, greeting both the clone commander and Starkiller, "What can I do for you both?"
"We're contacting you because Lord Vader is sending me, the commander of Vader's Fist to reinforce you," Appo answered.
"Vader is sending me Lothal for the same reason and an additional one as well, Governor. Besides reinforcing you on Lothal, my other mission is to capture and bring the Mandalorian Jedi Sabine and Satele Wren to the Emperor himself," Starkiller added before gesturing to his Purge Troopers, "And these are my Purge Troopers, Commander Stark, Sergeant Taser, Corporal Shield and Lieutenant Arrow."
"I heard about how you and your Purge Troopers handled that Jedi several months ago in your report, Inquisitor," Pryce told the Inquisitor.
"There are some things about that day I wish I could forget," Starkiller said with his voice filled somewhat with regret.
"We all have things that we regret," Pryce told the Inquisitor, "Also Commander Appo, I heard that you were deployed to Kashyyyk about a decade ago to participate in the pacification of the planet."
"Yeah, I did serve in the pacification of Kashyyyk, Governor," Appo confirmed before pointing at his scar, "It was there where I earned this scar when I was saved by Lord Vader. If not for him, I wouldn't be here today."
"We along with Commander Crosshair and Lieutenant Lyste will be heading to a set of coordinates that leads to the rebels' base here on Lothal that the former governor of Lothal, Ryder Azadi sent me because he wants amnesty," Pryce told them, "See you both soon."
Satele, Sabine and Janus were walking along the side of the cliff dwellings with their helmets under their arms and were wearing their jetpacks over their backs and stopped as they heard Loth-wolves howling from a cliff above them in the distance and stared at the Loth-wolves on the cliff.
"What is this connection you have with them, Sis?" Sabine asked her sister, "I'm not even able to connect with them as much as you can."
"Yeah, and I've never understood it, Teal'ika," Janus said, agreeing with Sabine.
"I can't explain it. Sometimes the connection is strong, like I'm more stronger in the Force than you are, Sis, and sometimes we're just on our own," Satele answered as they began walking back where they came from.
"Well, if your plan's going to work, let's hope that whatever you feel is there when you need it," Sabine told her as she began following her.
"I agree, let's hope your plan works, Satele," Janus said, agreeing with Sabine as he began following them.
"Mmm, it has been so far," Satele answered as the Loth-wolves howled before walking away.
"Where are they going?" Sabine asked when she and everyone else within the base suddenly heard engines in the distance as Jai and Mart were standing behind and next to an E-Web repeating blaster cannon to see if it was usable, while Ryder was crouching inside of a tent within the base and checking his sniper rifle's scope with Chopper nearby before rolling away from him as they looked around to see where the source of the sound was coming from, "Wait. Do you both hear that?"
"Yeah, I hear it too," Janus answered.
"Zeb, they're coming!" Satele called out to Zeb as she, Sabine and Janus ran towards the other as Zeb, who was standing on top of the crawler turned around and saw six Imperial patrol transports flying towards them.
"Argh, karabast," Zeb muttered to himself as the Imperial patrol transports began firing upon them with their laser cannons before firing their missiles at the deck of the crawler as the Imperial patrol transports rotated around with Jumptroopers, Arrow and Taser jumping out of the Imperial patrol transports and began flying with their jetpacks as the two Purge Troopers were wielding their electrostaffs and had their helmets over their heads, while the jumptroopers were wielding E-11 blaster rifles as the former Mining Guild slaves, which included an Aqualish and the human male with tan skin and dark hair as they wielded blaster pistols and ran behind two box shaped containers and began firing their blaster pistols at the jumptroopers.
"Lieutenant Arrow, go after Sabine and Sergeant Taser, you help Rukh deal with the Lasat when they begin fighting," Starkiller told Taser and arrow as he stood inside of one of the Imperial patrol transports' troop bays with Shield and Stark standing next to him as he and the two Purge Troopers had their helmets over their heads as Starkiller was holding a comlink in his hand.
"Yes, Inquisitor!" Both Taser and Arrow replied at the same time.
"I'll handle those fliers before going after Arrow," Sabine announced to her sister, Janus and Zeb as both she and Satele grabbed their lightsabers from their armors' belts and ignited their blades as Satele held them in a reverse grip after they along with Janus placed their helmets over their heads before Sabine activated her jetpacks's thruster and flew up into the air.
"Make sure to help the Thirteenth Brother capture Sabine and Satele Wren alive," Pryce told Stormtroopers, Appo, Jesse, Crosshair and Lyste that were standing with her on an Imperial patrol transport with both clones having their helmets over their heads as its door was open, while she was wearing her Imperial battle armor over her Imperial officer uniform and her nearly identical AT-ST driver helmet over her head, while Lyste only an Imperial lieutenant's battle armor over his tunic as she held onto the rail above them in the Imperial patrol transport, "We don't want to disappoint him or our Emperor."
"You heard what Governor Pryce said," Starkiller told Stark, Shield, Taser and Arrow as he activated his comlink so Taser and Arrow could hear what he was saying, "As I said before, Arrow and Taser, you both go after Sabine Wren and Garazeb Orrelios respectively with Rukh helping you, Taser, and Stark, you'll go after Satele Wren's boyfriend, Janus Wren, while Shield you'll go after the former Imperial cadet turned rebel, Jai Kell and the nephew of the late Commander Sato, Mart Matton. Clear?"
"Yes, Thirteenth Brother," Taser and Arrow replied from outside the Imperial patrol transport as they flew with the Jumptroopers, while Stark and Shield nodded a response.
"Get in the fight! Man those cannons!" Zeb ordered Jai as he fired his bo-rifle at the Jumptroopers as Janus did the same with his WESTAR-35s before Jai got behind one of the E-Web repeating blaster cannons that he was standing near and began firing at the Imperial patrol transports with it, causing one of the Imperial patrol transports to retreat as Sabine flew after one of the Jumptroopers, firing her WESTAR-35s at them.
Soon an Imperial patrol transport that Rukh and a squad of stormtroopers that included a stormtrooper with an orange pauldron landed on a boulder within the wilderness near the cliff dwelling with another Imperial patrol transport that Starkiller, Stark and Shield were on board of doing the same thing nearby as Rukh and the stormtroopers departing off of their Imperial patrol transport with Starkiller, Stark and Shield doing the same thing from their Imperial patrol transport as Sabine, in the air flew by an Imperial patrol transport and fired her WESTAR-35s at a Jumptrooper following her before flying pass an Imperial patrol transport and fired her jetpack's rocket at it, destroying it instantly, knocking the stormtroopers out of the Imperial patrol transport.
"Chopper! Warn Hera that we're under attack!" Satele ordered Chopper as he stood next to her as she deflected stormtroopers' blaster bolts with her lightsabers as Sabine flew past her.
Chopper activated his transmitter, grunting a response to her as Satele sensed someone walking towards her with the Force before turning around as she saw Starkiller approaching her from behind, while Stark, Shield and Rukh ran past her towards Jai, Janus, Mart and Zeb.
"Well, well, well, we meet at last, Satele Wren," Starkiller said, greeting her in a taunting tone.
"Who are you?" She asked him before he removed his helmet, causing her to realize who he was, "Starkiller."
"How do you know that name?" Starkiller asked her with shock and surprise in his voice.
"From our intelligence agent, Fulcrum," Satele answered.
"Now, let us begin our battle," Starkiller said as he placed his helmet on the floor as he grabbed his lightsaber from his armor's belt and split it into two lightsabers before igniting them with crimson red blades coming from their hilts and held them in a reverse grip before they charged at each other as they began clashing their sabers together.
Chopper grunted as a stormtrooper fired their E-11 blaster rifle at him as he tried to contact Hera and rolled away from him as he pulled both of his metal arms out before tripping down a hole on the deck, making a whining sound as he fell through the hole before the stormtrooper approached the hole, only for the stormtrooper to not see Chopper anywhere, "Huh?" The stormtrooper muttered before Chopper grabbed the stormtrooper's foot with his left metal arm as he flew up with his rocket booster activated as he held the stormtrooper in his left metal arm, making a whirring sound before dropping the stormtrooper to his death before with the stormtrooper yelling as Chopper grunted before flying away from the hole.
"Just received a transmission from Chopper. They're under attack," Rex reported to Hera on the Ghost's communications system as she flew the ship through Hyperspace with the Marauder flying beside them as Kallus sat in the co-pilot's seat next to her.
"And they say that the new Inquisitor is there assisting the Empire," Cody added on the Ghost's communications system.
"Coming up on Lothal. Get ready to power down," Hera announced as she began to power down the Ghost, "You better do the same, Marauder."
"Will do, General Syndulla," Tech replied as both ships jumped out of Hyperspace and powered down near the Imperial blockade of Lothal, which now had Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers.
"I don't think we were detected," Kallus told them as he didn't see any Imperial ships coming for them.
"Yeah, I don't see any Imperial ships coming towards us either, Captain Kallus," Hunter said, agreeing with Kallus from the Ghost's communications system.
"Hondo, time to join the Rebellion," Hera told hondo.
"Very good. Move us to these coordinates," Hondo said as he stood up from the seat behind Hera and pointed at some coordinates on the Ghost's console.
"That's a Hyperspace lane, Hondo," Hera protested.
"Technically it is just outside a Hyperspace lane," he corrected her, "We shall wait there for a cargo ship to arrive."
"Are you mad?" Kallus asked the pirate with disbelief in his voice as he stood up and turned around towards him, "It'll crash into us!"
"Kallus is right, it'll crash into both of our ships if we attempt to do that, Hondo," Hunter said, agreeing with Kallus from the Ghost's communications system.
"This is the risk you take when you are a pirate," Hondo explained as he placed his right hand over Kallus' left shoulder and his left hand over Hera's right shoulder, "You do want to get through the blockade, yes? You want to help Satele, yes? Then you must listen to Hondo." Kallus then sat back down in the co-pilot's seat, "I have done this many times and have only been struck…" He then turned around and began counting his fingers as he began to walk away from them, "I have done this many times!"
Sabine fired her WESTAR-35s at another Jumptrooper that was following her with their jetpacks as she flew through an Imperial patrol transport's troop bays and kicked one of the two stormtroopers that were standing inside of the Imperial patrol transport's troop bay and kicked one of them out of the Imperial patrol transport before kicking the other one out as well and planted a thermal detonator on the wall of the Imperial patrol transport's troop bay as she quickly flew over to the other Imperial patrol transport from the one that she was standing inside of a few seconds ago.
She then knocked one of the stormtroopers standing inside of the other Imperial patrol transports out as she flew towards them before she fired her WESTAR-35s at another Jumptrooper that began to chase her, killing him instantly as the thermal detonator she planted in the other Imperial patrol transport a few seconds ago went off and exploded as she grabbed her lightsaber from her armor's belt and ignited its blue blade and placed both of her WESTAR-35s back in their holsters as she went after Arrow as she sensed him flying after her with the Force.
As Arrow approached Sabine, he reached for his electrostaff from his back and extended it as they went into battle positions within the air before Sabine clashed her saber against his electrostaff.
"You really don't want to fight me, Arrow, it is your inhibitor chip that is making you and your fellow Purge Troopers go after Jedi and rebels," Sabine told Arrow as her lightsaber went into a saberlock with his electrostaff.
"Me and the other Purge Troopers here are more loyal to the Thirteenth Brother than the Empire," Arrow informed her, "And we never had our Inhibitor chips activated and he secretly removed them from our brains a few years ago."
Her lightsaber and his electrostaff soon exited from their saberlock before she clashed her saber against his electrostaff again.
Meanwhile back with Satele and Starkiller, the two Force-Sensitives used their sabers to clash against each other before Starkiller used the Force to leap backwards onto a ledge behind him.
"Well, it seems like you know Jar'Kai pretty well," Starkiller told her, "Who taught you?"
"I taught myself, Starkiller," Satele answered, "I started to train myself to wield two lightsabers after me, my sister and our late master returned from Malachor and after I got my second Kyber Crystal from that planet."
"Well, then, let's see how good you actually are," Starkiller said as he jumped down from the ledge and stood in a Jar'Kai battle position and narrowed his eyes before they charged at each other and began clashing their sabers against each other again before they went into a saberlock, "You'll never be able to become as strong as your Jedi ancestors like Revan was."
"I don't need to be as powerful as my Jedi ancestors, I just have to be skilled and in check with my emotions to not make me vulnerable to the dark side," she retorted before using the Force to leap backwards and bent her middle finger into the palm of her hand as she extended it towards Starkiller as she used the Force to push him towards a wall behind him, knocking him unconscious as both parts of his lightsabers deactivated as they fell on both sides of him as they dropped out of his hands.
Meanwhile back with Zeb, Janus, Jai and Mart, Taser landed on the cliff dwelling in front of Zeb and grabbed his electrostaff from his back as Rukh, Shield and Stark approached them, causing Jai and Mart to step away from the E-Web repeating blaster cannon and hide behind two box-shaped containers as they took out a pair of blasters as Janus hid behind another box-shaped container with both of his WESTAR-35s in his hands as Zeb grabbed his bo-rifle from his back and activated its electrostaff feature as he charged towards Rukh and Taser before Rukh grabbed his own electro-staff from his back as both he and Taser began to clash their electrostaffs with Zeb's bo-rifle.
As both Rukh and Taser continued to clash their electrostaffs with the Lasat, Rukh leaped backwards before he charged towards Zeb as he went to knock him out with his electrostaff's electricity, only for Zeb to kick him in the stomach, causing him to let go of his electrostaff as he was sent flying off of the Cliff dwelling.
Rukh grabbed onto the wall of the rock face before placing his electrostaff back behind his back onto his back as he began to climb back up the wall.
Janus began firing his WESTAR-35s at Stark as he bent upwards from the box-shaped container that he was hiding behind and aimed both of his Mandalorian blaster pistols at the Purge Trooper before Stark did the same with his DC-15A blaster rifle. As the Mandalorian and Purge Trooper were firing their blasters at each other, Zeb and Taser continued to battle each other with their electrostaff and bo-rifle with Zeb evading a few of the Purge Trooper's swings at him. While Janus and Zeb were fighting Stark and Taser, Jai and Mart bent upwards from the box-shaped container they were hiding behind and began firing their blasters at Shield as he began firing his DC-15A blaster rifle back at them.
After a few moments of Janus and Stark firing blaster bolts at each other with their blasters, Janus fired two blaster bolts at both of Stark's hands with his WESTAR-35s, disarming the Purge Trooper as he dropped his DC-15A blaster rifle before Janus switched the settings of one of his WESTAR-35s and fired a stun blast at Stark, causing the Purge Trooper to fall onto the floor on his stomach as he fell unconscious.
As Shield continued to fire blaster bolts at Jai and Mart with his DC-15A blaster rifle, Jai evaded one of the blaster bolts as if on instinct and knew that it was coming towards him before they fired blaster bolts at the Purge Trooper's hands, causing him to drop his DC-15A blaster rifle as well before Jai switched his blaster's setting to stun as he fired a stun blast at Shield, causing him to fall to the floor on his stomach, unconscious.
Zeb continued to clash his bo-rifle with Taser's electrostaff as he evaded the Purge Trooper's strikes at him before he charged at Taser and zapped him with his bo-rifle's electricity, causing him to scream in pain before collapsing to the ground as he fell unconscious before the Lasat switched his bo-rifle back into its rifle mode as they along with Vizago began to fire their blasters at stormtroopers as Vizago hid behind a box-shaped container with Janus, Jai and Mart as Zeb began firing his bo-rifle at an Imperial patrol transport as it began approaching them as it rotated around, showing them that Pryce, Crosshair and Lyste were on board that Imperial patrol transport.
"Storm that ore crawler. I want it taken," Pryce ordered the stormtroopers that were standing next to her within the Imperial patrol transport along with Jesse, Crosshair, Appo and Lyste as the Imperial patrol transport soon hovered around the crawler as and destroyed one of the E-Web heavy repeating blaster cannons with Crosshair and Lyste departing the Imperial patrol transport as they began to pretend to follow Pryce's orders as Zeb picked up the gun of the E-Web heavy repeating cannon that wasn't destroyed from its tripod after placing his bo-rifle back behind his back before rushing over to one of the Imperial patrol transport and began to fire the E-Web heavy repeating cannon at it at a high speed, growling as the blaster bolts hit stormtroopers that departed the Imperial patrol transport before the Imperial patrol transport blew up as it began to fly away from the cliff dwelling before it fell down to the ground below.
"Yeah! You'd better get off!" Zeb cheered when two more Imperial patrol transports suddenly appeared and landed on the crawler before Zeb went to fire the E-Web heavy repeating blaster cannon at one of the Imperial patrol transports, only for the E-Web heavy repeating blaster cannon to not fire any blaster bolts at the stormtroopers before charging right at them and threw the cannon at the stormtroopers, which landed on two of the stormtroopers' stomachs as Zeb grabbed his bo-rifle from his back and shot a blaster bolt at a stormtrooper in the chest, who evaded the cannon landing on their stomach as well, killing him instantly and soon Satele appeared in the center of the deck of the crawler with both of her lightsabers ignited.
"Hera, where are you?" Satele asked herself after extended her left arm out towards three stormtroopers with one of them having a black pauldron hiding behind a flipped over box box-shaped container as she bent her left hand's middle finger as she used the Force to push them backwards and away from the flipped over box-shaped container.
"Listen, we can't just sit here. Who knows how long Satele can hold out down there?" Rex told Hera as he sat in the co-pilot's seat of the Ghost next to her with Cody sitting in the seat behind her as Kallus stood behind Rex and Hera with Hondo and Melch standing behind the former ISB/Fulcrum agent.
"I concur with Captain Rex, General Syndulla. Mandalorians can't hold out forever, even ones that are Jedi or Force-Sensitive cannot hold out forever either. And we should know this because we were cloned by a Mandalorian bounty hunter and trained by Mandalorians ourselves," Cody said, agreeing with Rex before the clone captain got up from the co-pilot's seat and walked towards Hondo.
"Patience, patience, my friends. The Empire runs shipments all the time…" Hondo assured them.
"I hate to admit it, but I agree with Hondo on this one," Hunter said from the Ghost's communications system, "Me and our team had to do something like this for a mission to Corellia on a mission for the head of a T-Series tactical droid for Cid a few weeks after the Republic became the Empire."
"And it was there where you guys met Trace and Rafa Martez, who contacted me and told me where to find you guys before we went to Bracca to remove your inhibitor chips," Rex stated before an alarm on the Ghost's console started beeping.
"Here one comes now," Hondo told everyone as an Imperial cargo ship suddenly jumped out of Hyperspace behind both the Ghost and the Marauder, "You see? What did I tell you?" Rex then suddenly ran past the pirate and slid down the ladder that leads to the cargo hold as Hera and Kallus sat back down on the co-pilot's seat with Hondo walking between them and Cody, "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.
"And the same goes for you, Marauder," Hondo said, contacting the Bad Batch with the Ghost's communication system.
"Yes, Hondo. We know as well," Tech replied from the Ghost's communication system as both ships continued to float towards two sides of the Imperial cargo ship.
"Rex, stand by on the magnetic clamp," Hera told Rex.
"Sir, yes, sir," Rex replied from the cargo hold below as he pulled the hoist out from the wall.
"Now!" Hera said as the Ghost and the Marauder continued to float closer towards two sides of the Imperial cargo ship before Rex twisted the hoist around before pulling it downwards, causing the Ghost to magnetically latch onto one side of the Imperial cargo ship with the Marauder doing the same on the other side of the Imperial cargo ship as Hera tuned the Ghost into Imperial communications.
"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 stated as he removed his hat and began to walk out of the cockpit, "No need to thank me."
"As soon as we enter the atmosphere, I'll give Satele the signal," Hera told Kallus and Cody.
Sabine continued to duel Arrow with her lightsaber as he clashed his electrostaff with her lightsaber as they went into a saberlock before she flew away from him as she extended her left hand towards him as she used the Force to push him towards the ground below as he landed on the cliff dwelling near Starkiller.
She soon deactivated her lightsaber and clipped it back onto her armor's belt and pulled both her WESTAR-35s back out as two Jumptrooper flew after her as she turned around after she flew down towards the bottom of the crawler's deck and fired one of her WESTAR-35s at them, causing him to fly into the bottom of the deck as she flew towards the other Jumptrooper, firing her WESTAR-35s at him as she flew out from the hole on the crawler and soon hovered next to her sister, Janus and Zeb as Satele deflected blaster bolts with her lightsabers, while Janus fired blaster bolts from his WESTAR-35s at the stormtroopers with Zeb doing the same with his bo-rifle as they began to get overrun by the stormtroopers as Sabine placed both of her WESTAR-35s back in their holsters and unclipped her lightsaber from her armor's belt again and ignited its blade as she began to help her sister with deflecting the stormtroopers' blaster bolts.
"There's too many!" Zeb exclaimed as Rukh finished climbing back up the cliff dwelling and ran on all four of his limbs past Ryder, who aimed his blaster at the Noghri for a second before lowering it.
"I'm beginning to regret the day I met you, Satele Wren!" Vizago told Satele.
"Day's not over yet, Vizago," the Mandalorian Jedi Knight stated as she continued to deflect the stormtroopers' blaster bolts with her lightsabers and as she said that, one of the human male rebels fell to the floor, dead after getting shot in the shoulder by a blaster bolt from one of the stormtroopers.
"I've seen enough. Target the crawler," Pryce ordered from the Imperial patrol transport that she was onboard with Jesse and Appo as it was flying a distance away from the crawler.
Back with Starkiller, he groaned with his hand over his forehead as he regained consciousness before lowering his hand from his forehead and stood up as he grabbed both parts of his lightsaber and reconnected them together and clipped it back onto his armor's belt before seeing that the Imperial patrol transport that Pryce was onboard of was firing missiles at the crawler, causing him to look on with a facial expression filled with one that of anger.
"Incoming!" Zeb announced as the missions from the Imperial patrol transport that Pryce was onboard collided with the side of the crawler before doing the same to one of the crawler's thrusters, causing the crawler to begin to tilt downwards.
"Going down! Abandon ship!" Satele ordered as she began to run towards the other side of the crawler 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.
"Take Vizago, Sis, and Janus, you take Jai. I'll wait till everyone's off of the crawler before rejoining the two of you," Satele told Sabine and Janus as she stood with them, Vizago and Zeb on the crawler.
Sabine and Janus both nodded a response as she grabbed Vizago and he grabbed Mart and flew up into the air with their jetpacks as Satele looked around to see if there was anyone left on the crawler and saw that everyone had departed before she followed Zeb off of the crawler as he avoided the box-shaped containers that were sliding across the floor and jumped onto the edge of the cliff dwelling above them, while Satele activated her jetpack and flew up into the air and landed on the cliff dwelling and saw that everyone was being held hostage by Crosshair, Lyste, stormtroopers and the four Purge Troopers, who had regained consciousness, except for Sabine and Janus, who had Rukh and Starkiller behind them with Rukh having his electrostaff to Sabine's neck, while Starkiller had his lightsaber under Janus' neck as both Mandalorians had their helmets removed and next to them.
"Drop your weapons," Rukh ordered Satele and Zeb before the Lasat took his bo-rifle from his back and threw it to the floor, while Satele grabbed both of her lightsabers from her armor's belt and threw them to the floor before taking out 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 E-11 blaster rifles at them as Satele and Zeb raised their arms in defeat as they took them hostage as well before Rukh took out his comlink and activated it, "The rebel base is secure, Governor. And both me and the Thirteenth Brother both have the Mandalorian Jedi."
The Imperial patrol transport that Pryce, Jesse and Appo were aboard along with two other Imperial patrol transports soon landed on the cliff dwelling nearby as Satele and Zeb were forced onto the ground with their legs folded with the others as one of the stormtroopers took her helmet off and placed it in front of her like they did with her sister and boyfriend.
"Satele, Sabine and Janus Wren, Garazeb Orrelios, and Ryder Azadi," Pryce said, greeting the rebels as she, Jesse and Appo walked off of their Imperial patrol transport before Pryce gestured Ryder to get up, "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 in her voice as he stood up.
"Why would you betray us, Governor?" Janus asked Ryder at the same time with disbelief in his voice as well.
"It's like I said. We were never going to win without an army," Ryder explained to them, "Even more so after Fulcrum told us that the Empire was bringing another Inquisitor to Lothal along with four Purge Troopers to reinforce Governor Pryce."
"A wise choice," Pryce told him as she placed both of her arms behind her back.
"I knew you'd think so," Satele informed Pryce, "We wouldn't have been able to fool Thrawn, but you?"
"Well, it looks like we both took a gamble today. But I won," Pryce told her as she moved her right hand from her back and clenched it into a fist when Satele's wrist communicator started beeping.
"Do you want to tell her, or should I?" Satele asked Ryder as she turned to him.
"Oh, I've been waiting years for this," Ryder told her, causing Sabine and Janus to look confused as Sabine noticed that Crosshair's special disks had been placed around where the stormtroopers were standing 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."
Both the Ghost and Marauder suddenly appeared from above as the Ghost destroyed the Imperial patrol transport that was behind Pryce, Jesse, Appo and the stormtroopers that were accompanying them, while the Marauder destroyed one of the other Imperial patrol transports before she turned around to see the Ghost hovering in front of her with Hera smirking at her from the Ghost's cockpit with the Marauder hovering beside the VCX-100 light freighter before Crosshair grabbed his modified 773 Firepuncher sniper rifle from his back and fired a blaster bolt at one of his special disks, causing the blaster bolt to ricochet off of one of the special discs, killing multiple stormtroopers in the process as Lyste grabbed a blaster pistol from his tunic's holster and fired a blaster bolt at one of the stormtroopers, which collided with the stormtrooper's chest, killing him instantly.
"You traitors!" Pryce snarled at Crosshair and Lyste with anger in his voice, "Why would either of you betray your Empire and fight for the rebels?"
"Because with you destroying the fuel depot here on Lothal to take out all of the rebels, only for it to only kill Caleb Dume instead of all of them and Imperial High Command not giving you punishment for endangering Thrawn's TIE Defender project and halting its production without the fuel from the fuel depot," Crosshair explained.
"Same with me, but I slowly became disillusioned with the Empire's ideals since Thrawn had that factory worker killed two years ago," Lyste told her.
"Get down!" Satele ordered everyone as the Ghost and Marauder continued to fire at the Imperials as the remaining Imperial patrol transports retreated as they flew away from the cliff dwelling as one of them began to fire upon the Ghost from above with Melch, who was sitting in the seat of the Ghost's rear cannon as he fired its cannons at the Imperial patrol transport as Hondo, who was sitting in the ship's nose gun with Ketsu sitting next to Hera in the cockpit as Melch squealed, happily as he destroyed one of the Imperial patrol transports.
Satele, Sabine and Janus had their helmets back over their heads and took their WESTAR-35s back as the twins' had their back in their armors' holsters with their lightsabers in their hands with the blades ignited, while Janus fired at stormtroopers along with Zeb, Jai, Mart, Crosshair and Lyste as they also had their weapons back as they hid behind a group of box-shaped containers as Satele began to duel Starkiller again, who had his lightsaber separated in two parts again, while Sabine began to battle Arrow again.
As this was happening, Chopper as Ryder were sitting behind the group of box-shaped containers that the others were hiding behind as Rukh and Pryce hid behind another group of box-shaped containers across from the rebels, evading their blaster bolts as the door of the Ghost's cargo hold opened up with Rex, Cody, Howzer, Khan, Spinner Wolffe, Gregor and Kallus running down the ramp with Rex, Cody, Howzer and his lieutenants wearing their helmets over their heads and landed on the cliff dwelling with Rex, Howzer and his lieutenants wielding DC-17 blaster pistols as Cody wielded his DC-15A blaster rifle after he grabbed it from his back as Wolffe and Gregor were wielding E-11 blaster rifles, while Kallus was wielding his bo-rifle after grabbing it from his back as they began to their blaster bolts at the stormtroopers' armor, while the door to the Marauder opened up as well with Hunter, Echo, Wrecker and Omega, who had also repainted her armor to black, blue and gray with Rebel Alliance Starbirds on both of her pauldrons exiting the modified Omicron-class attack shuttle with Hunter and Echo wielding their DC-17 blaster pistols, while Wrecker wielded his DC-17m Repeating Blaster Rifle with Omega wielding her Zygerrian energy bow as they aimed them at Crosshair.
"Guys, didn't you hear? I'm back on your side now and not the Empire's," Crosshair told the Bad Batch.
"Yeah, but we'll need some concrete evidence of your defection first, Crosshair," Hunter explained.
"Okay, if you want proof, then here it is," Crosshair said as he fired his modified 773 Firepuncher sniper rifle at one of the stormtroopers, causing them to look at him with shock as they realized that he was indeed defecting.
"Okay, now we see that you're actually defecting," Hunter stated after he and the rest of the Bad Batch looked at each other with shock before they all began to fire their weapons at the stormtroopers, knocking a few of them to the floor as their blaster bolts and energy bolt at the stormtroopers' armor.
"Nice to have you fighting alongside me again, Alexsandr," Lyste told Kallus as the former ISB/Fulcrum agent continued to fire his bo-rifle at the stormtroopers.
"Yeah, you too, Yogar," Kallus said, agreeing with Lyste.
"Chopper, jam their transmissions!" Sabine ordered Chopper, who grunted a response as he activated his transmitter, causing the comlinks within Jesse, Appo, Purge Troopers and stormtroopers helmets to make a high-pitched electrical whining sound, disorienting them, causing Sabine to gain the upper advantage to extend her left hand towards Arrow and used the Force to push him backwards towards a wall, knocking him unconscious and dropped his electrostaff as Pryce and Rukh to back away as the Ghost and Marauder flew away with two of the Imperial patrol transports following them.
"Ah, Captain Rex," Jesse said, greeting his fellow clone that he hasn't seen since the crash of the Tribunal and the execution of Order 66 after he recovered from the high-pitched electrical whining sound that his helmet's comlink made, "We meet again after 19 years."
"Jesse?!" Rex said with shock and surprise in his voice as he turned around and saw Jesse standing before him, "How are you still alive? I saw you and the other clones of the 332nd Company perish on the Tribunal as it crashed into that moon."
"I am alive because I faked my death and hopped in a Republic gunship just as the Tribunal crashed into the moon and left the moon's surface, but unbeknownst to me at the time, the gunship's Hyperdrive was damaged and took me at least a year to get back to Coruscant," Jesse answered, "You should have checked for all of the bodies, not just the helmets."
"Well, well, if it isn't Captain Rex," Rex suddenly heard Appo say and turned behind him and saw Appo standing behind him after he also recovered from the high-pitched electrical whining sound that his helmet's comlink made.
"Appo," Rex muttered, "So you're still with the Empire and haven't removed your inhibitor chip?"
"Indeed I am, Rex," Appo confirmed.
"Jesse, Appo, let me remove your inhibitor chips and join the Rebellion," Rex pleaded with both clones, "I know you both, neither of you would work for the Empire willingly."
"No," both Jesse and Appo told him at the same time.
"Why not?" Rex asked them.
"Because the Empire provides stability," Jesse answered.
"And it has done so for the last 19 years," Appo added, agreeing with Jesse, "It also gives us a purpose in life."
"You both are acting like how General Krell treated us on Umbara all those years ago," Rex stated, "You both are also acting like Dogma on how he blindly followed his orders without question like a battle droid."
This statement angered both Jesse and Appo, causing them to rush towards Rex as the clone captain switched his DC-17s blaster pistols' settings to stun and fired stun blasts at them, causing them onto the floor, unconscious.
"Like I told Hunter, Echo, Tech and Wrecker after meeting up with them after Order 66, I don't want to bury yet another brother," Rex told the unconscious Jesse and Appo as he walked away from them as he continued to help the others as he began to help the others as he continued to fired his DC-17s back at the stormtroopers, Stark and Shield.
"We're still outnumbered!" Vizago stated as Satele turned her eyes away from Starkiller and towards the cliff dwellings cave next to them.
"Not for long," she told him as she bent her right hand's middle finger and used the Force to push Starkiller back a bit, "Fall back to the cave!"
Everyone began to retreat back to the cave, while Satele and Sabine deflected the stormtroopers' blaster bolts with their lightsabers as they backed into the cave.
"They're trapped," Pryce stated as she stood with Rukh, who was standing next to her as Starkiller stood back up and walked up to them after deactivating both parts of his lightsabers and reconnecting them, "Bring me the Wren twins. Eliminate the rest." With that said, Rukh, Starkiller, Shield, Stark and the stormtroopers ran into the cave as Rukh began sniffing around, while Starkiller closed his eyes as they sensed Satele and Sabine standing in front of them, shrouded by darkness by the shadows.
"Where is your army now, Mandalorian Jedi?" Rukh asked Satele and Sabine.
"Yeah, where's your army, Mandos?" Starkiller said, agreeing with Rukh as Satele and Sabine reopened their eyes from under their helmets with yellow eyes of creatures in the shadows opened up behind them, growling as Satele reignited her sabers' blue and green colored blades, while Sabine did the same with her lightsaber's blue colored blade, causing Rukh and Starkiller to see the creatures behind Satele and Sabine and saw that they were in fact Loth-Wolves as Rukh looked at them with fear as the Loth-Wolves snarled and leaped towards them as the white Loth-Wolf picked Rukh up with his electrostaff in its mouth and ran out of the cave with Pryce looking on in fear as the white Loth-Wolves kicked some of the stormtroopers onto the ground, barking as the other stormtroopers, Shield and Stark fired upon the Loth-Wolves with their blaster rifles as it kicked Starkiller off of the cliff dwelling with its tail as he ran towards the Loth-Wolf after reigniting his lightsaber's blade.
The white Loth-Wolf soon came to a stop and knocked two stormtroopers out with its tails as it began to maul Rukh as if he was a chew toy, snarling in the process.
"Look out!" One of the stormtroopers that ran out of the cave yelled as they were being chased by the other Loth-Wolves, who were snarling with Pryce looking on as the Loth-Wolves ran past her as the white Loth-Wolf picked Rukh back up by the arm with its mouth before throwing him off the cliff dwelling before turning to face Pryce, growling as she got back 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 as Shield and Stark began firing upon the white Loth-Wolf with their DC-15A blaster rifles, only for the white Loth-Wolf to knock them out as it swung its tail at them as they fell on their stomachs, unconscious before it picked up another stormtrooper and flung him towards another stormtrooper at the entrance of the cave.
Satele, Sabine and the others soon ran back out of the cave as Satele and Sabine reignited their sabers' blades as they saw the carnage that the Loth-Wolves were doing to the Imperials as the Ghost and Marauder flew by as they chased the last two remaining Imperial patrol transports.
"I got him. I got him!" Hondo muttered as he fired upon the Imperial patrol transports with the Ghost's nose guns, "Melch, Melch! Turn around. Be productive!" With that said, Melch swirled the Ghost's rear cannon around and fired upon one of the Imperial patrol transports, destroying it before squealing happily, "Yes, yes, you perform well when I pull your strings."
"General Syndulla, don't worry, I'll take care of that Imperial gunship," Tech informed Hera on the Ghost's communications system before the Marauder began to fire its laser cannons at the only remaining Imperial patrol transport, causing it to spiral out of control as it crashed into one of the Lothalian mound-like structures, destroying it instantly.
"Oh, no, no, no, no!" A stormtrooper cried as he climbed up one side of a pole of a tent around the cliff 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.
"I don't believe it," Hunter muttered to himself with shock in his voice.
"Yeah, I feel the same, Hunter," Echo said, agreeing with the clone sergeant.
"I don't get it," Omega said with confusion.
"Those stormtroopers are getting wrecked!" Wrecker said, excitedly but also with a tint of shock in his voice with Howzer and his lieutenants looking on with facial expressions of shock on their faces under their helmets.
"Hey, Wolffe, can you believe it?" Gregor asked Wolffe as he saw the Loth-Wolves mauling the stormtroopers up.
"What?" Wolffe asked him 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 Loth-Wolves continued to maul the stormtrooper, who began screaming before tossing the stormtrooper off of the cliff dwelling as the clones rejoined the fight with the others as one of the Loth-Wolves leaped over two stormtroopers, causing them to fall down the hole as another Loth-Wolf chased after three stormtroopers before knocking them off of the cliff dwelling with its mouth before the Loth-Wolves turned around towards the remaining stormtroopers as Rex, Cody, the Bad Batch, Crosshair and Lyste aimed their blasters at them, who surrendered as they raised their arms up in defeat.
"I'd drop my weapons if I were you," Zeb told the stormtroopers as he and Kallus aimed their bo-rifles at them, who then placed their E-11 blaster rifles on the ground.
"No. Don't let it eat me! Please!" Pryce pleaded, gasping as the White Loth-Wolf held her by the collar of her tunic with its mouth as Satele, who had her lightsabers' blades deactivated and clipped to her armor's belt walked in front of the White Loth-Wolf with her helmet under her arm before Pryce began to pant as the White Loth-Wolf dropped her to the ground in front of Ryder, Zeb, Kallus, Crosshair and Lyste, who were all smirking at her as she whimpered in fear.
"Why don't you do the honors, governor-to-governor?" Satele asked Ryder as she handed him a pair of stuncuffs.
"Satele, it would be my pleasure," Ryder answered as Pryce bowed her head down in defeat, while Rex, who had his helmet removed and under his arm walked up to Appo and Jesse as both of them had stuncuffs around their wrists as they were sitting down on the floor with Jesse still being unconscious and their helmets removed from their heads, while Appo looked at Rex with anger as he regained consciousness.
"Wanna know what happened to General Skywalker?" Appo asked Rex.
"He's dead," Rex answered.
"No, you're wrong, Captain, he's alive," Appo corrected him before chuckling a bit as he smiled, "General Skywalker and Darth Vader are one and the same as he became Vader at the tail end of the Clone Wars, while you and Commander Tano were on Mandalore."
"No, that's not true!" Rex said, shocked and horrified as he dismissed his claim, "General SKywalker would never turn to the dark side as he was very compassionate to the people around him and Vader is the exact opposite of what he was."
"Believe me, they are one and the same, Captain," Appo assured him.
"I don't believe you, Commander," Rex told him.
"What's going on here?" Satele asked Rex as she walked up to him and Appo.
"Appo here is saying that General Skywalker and Vader are the same person," Rex answered, "Tell him that they're not the same person."
"I hate to break it to you, Rex, but what he's saying is true," Satele sighed, "I learned that he became Vader last month from Ahsoka."
"How could you have learned that from Ahsoka, Satele?" Rex asked her with confusion in his voice, "She was killed by Vader when you, her, Sabine and Kanan went to Malachor three years ago."
"That's what she wanted us to think, Rex," Satele told him, "I saved her from getting cut down by Vader on Malachor in a realm made by the Force known as the World between Worlds."
"What should we do with this information, Satele?" Rex asked the Mandalorian.
"I think we should keep this information from Rebel command," Satele answered, "As we don't know what they would do if they found out if she was alive."
"Hmm, I guess you're right, Satele," he told her as he realized that she had a point.
"You did it," Hera told Satele as she walked down the Ghost's ramp with Ketsu, Hondo and Melch with Tech, who had repainted his armor to black, blue and gray as well with a Rebel Alliance Starbird over his armor's right pauldron and two more on both sides of his helmet as he held it under his arm after landing both the Ghost and Marauder by some Lothalian mound-like structures alongside two Imperial patrol transports with Rex, Cody, Wolffe, Gregor, Hunter, Echo, Wrecker, Crosshair, Omega, Ryder, Vizago and Lyste standing behind them, while Mart, Jai, Sabine, Janus and Zeb sat on box-shaped containers in front of one of the Imperial patrol transports, "Somehow, against all the odds, you actually did it."
"Yeah, you did it, Satele," Tech said, agreeing with Hera, "That was a great plan of yours."
"I couldn't have without either of you," Satele told them before turning to the others, "All of you."
"So true, my young friend," Hondo said, agreeing with her, "You're welcome. So I, uh…" he then sniffed as he walked over to her and placed his left arm around her back and over her armor's left pauldron, "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 admitted as he removed his left hand from her armor's left pauldron and walked back towards Hera, Melch, Ketsu and Tech, "Not until we chase the Empire from Lothal for Mira and Ephraim Bridger and show the galaxy that for all their power, they can be defeated."
Please favorite and review. Would you like me to continue adding the Imperial scenes or not?
Also who else has seen the last six episodes of Andor and Tales of the Jedi?