Ahsoka and the rest of the rebels knew they wouldn't have forever, in-fact, their time was running out quicker than they anticipated. The togruta female's body was covered in a light dry sweat from anticipation. Seated in a corner whilst her rebel comrades operated the computers, trying to call for help to discretely extract as many as possible.

How did I get here...?

Ahsoka remembered years ago, the last time she saw any Jedi was when she left the order, and during the confederate invasion of Coruscant. Battle droids were flooding the streets, and at first, the defense of the city was a massacre. Clones were being shot or discarded, hell, she remembered a SBD grabbing up an injured clone and crushing his neck. During what many considered the final great Separatist assault Ahsoka had felt remorse for leaving the order and not intervening when she should.

It was that guilt that drove her out of hiding when Palpatine revealed himself and declared the galaxy one large state under his rule. Ahsoka had been one of the few Jedi brave enough to risk getting caught by watching the public burning of Jedi corpses outside the ransacked temple the next day after operation knightfall. She had assumed her master, Anakin Skywalker, had also died in the assault. She knew for a fact Plo Koon was also dead, as was her other friends. Her trust for the clone troopers, no, her bonds to them had been severed when she realized what they were capable of.

Ahsoka never finished her training but she considered herself a Jedi Knight, as that was the rank Yoda offered her. She would live up to it and be damned if anyone was going to take it from her. She joined the rebellion soon after, ready to end the Empire ruled under by Palpatine and his Sith enforcer Darth Vader. Vader had been the one to lead the assault on the Jedi temple, Vader killed her master, and as such she was going to avenge his death.

First, however, she'd need to leave Dantooine alive with as many men as possible. "Zeloff, have any other rebel cruisers responded to our distress calls?" She asked, standing and turning her head over to the middle aged commander working a terminal. "No sir." He replied.

The Rebellion had found Jedi to be quite an important factor in their ranks; Ahsoka being given the position of a commander over the small 200 man force she held a position over. It was a title that Ahsoka had some experience in due to her days of the clone wars, and as such she practiced excellent protocol. However, even she found the fact that their need for help hadn't reached the ears of nearby Rebellion fleets to be quite a downer on her hope.

"Commander Appo," a storm-trooper called out, rushing over to his commander. "Lord Vader's craft is preparing to land." He reported.

Appo nodded, "get all the men lined up in columns for Lord Vader to inspect and command. Hurry." He ordered, immediately taking his T-21 and walking over to an area lined with beacons for Lord Vader to land in. The small lights served as a makeshift landing pad, letting the Sith and his escorts know the area was safe to land in. When the Imperial landing shuttle broke through the clouds and hovered over to the area, all the troops that were available lined up. Nervously, each white armored clad trooped brandished their E-11's across their chest in a formal fashion for the supreme general of the storm-trooper corps and leader of the 501'st squadron.

With a loud hiss, the door to the aircraft opened and out walked Vader escorted by two Imperial red guards. Silently, Vader looked back and forth at the forces he had to work with and signaled for Appo to walk over to him. The commander approached his general and reported "Sir, they escaped into the caves and blocked off the entrance by causing a cave in. However, their landing pad and aircraft was damaged sir and many of them were killed during the infantry rush. Out of the estimated 200 there's only probably 40 to 50 left."

Vader did not reply directly to the report, but rather followed with an order. "Search the area for another cave entrance. Cut off their escape if there is one, otherwise, the rest of the troopers have permission to remove the debris from the cave in and charge."

The stormtroopers immediately fanned out, whereas Appo got on his communication link and requested more MAAT gunships to scan over the area much quicker than the Stormtroopers could. Once the request was put in, he proceeded to request bulldozer equipment to unblock the cave entrance.

Ahsoka continued to stay silent amongst the rest of the mixed species of humanoids bustling around her clad in light equipment. She was useless at the moment, and only five minutes earlier had Zeloff reported that communications had been jammed by the Imperials. They weren't leaving. All of the men already came to the conclusion that their last breathes would be on this grassy rock.

"I know you all feel afraid..." Ahsoka spoke up, standing. "But we can't focus on the future right now. We still have a chance if we can steal one of those Imperial transports... at least some of us would make it." Some of us...

The chances of stealing anything from the imperials right now was quite low, especially right now. The young Jedi Knight felt something dark in the area, yet it felt familiar too. However, she hadn't brought it up, not wanting to cause more stress.

Specialized ships capable of carrying bulldozer equipment flew down from space, setting the heavy machinery down whilst other ships dropped ammo and a singular Imperial armored personal carrier. "Alright, get the explosives over here." Appo commanded, watching as an Imperial heavy trooper raced over with the det packs. Carefully and precisely, the explosives specialist rigged the explosives onto the large boulders that blocked the cave entrance, giving a simple hand signal when it was complete.

"Lord Vader, we are ready to breech." Appo reported to the tall Sith standing some feet away.

"Detonate the explosives." Vader replied, nodding.

Everyone heard the loud explosion that followed. Immediately, the bulldozer, operated by an imperial worker, quickly pushed the debris out of the way and then backed up. The gray construction machine which sat on top of tank-like tracks was now covered with dust, causing the imperial operating the open cockpit to cough a little before turning the machine off. Vader ignited his lightsaber and took point with Appo, racing into the caves with the majority of the stormtroopers following, their plastoid boots echoing a loud marching sound throughout the caves hollow structure.

"Kill the rebels, don't damage the computers." Vader stated, making sure all the soldiers knew their objective was to gain intel from the computer and wipe out the rebels with as little damage as possible. "No explosives." he added.

Ahsoka had heard the explosion the moment it happened, all the rebels had actually. The sound of stormtroopers racing to their location was all they needed to hear echoing around the cave to know their time was up. "Quick! Put what ever explosives you have and use them to blow up the terminals! They can't find out what we're planning!" Ahsoka shouted. Rebels that were carrying grenades or any form of explosives quickly activated them and then threw them on the computers whilst Ahsoka quickly sliced as many as she could with her light sabers. "Run!" Another rebel shouted, seeing as how all the grenades were about to go off.

"Let's go! We need to get to the other exit and try to take a transport! Those huge imperial drop ships will carry all of us and we should be able to jump to hyperspace quick enough!" Zeloff ordered. All the men quickly ran from the large cave-room towards a smaller tunnel, just in time for the explosives to go off, causing the roof to collapse and crush the damaged computers, though not enough to block off the other entrance as they were hoping.

"Did you hear that?" A stormtrooper asked when he heard something rumble and saw dust heading their way. Vader's breathing mask was becoming quite agitated due to all the dust around him as well as smoke, and coughed before using the force to clear the dust clouds from around them. "I need to get a better filter on this thing..." Vader murmured to himself before three stormtroopers raced ahead to scout a bit. Reaching what used to be the rebel command room to find nothing but smashed computers.

Vader was quite frustrated, having hoped to return the terminals to imperial intelligence. However, there was still the matters at hand. "They're trying to escape." Vader concluded as Imperials secured the room.

"I have an idea of where the cave's other entrance is, sir. We could bait them into a trap by leaving a transport in the open by the cave exit." Appo suggested. Vader didn't like the idea too much due to the fact it'd be an obvious trap to an experienced mind, but since these were only desperate insurgents trying to escape justice, he figured it could work.

"Excellent, yes. Leave a transport near the estimated exit point and then ambush them in the open. Our numbers will make it easy to pick them off like flies."

"It will be done, sir." Appo replied.

Ahsoka could still feel the ominous feeling inside of herself. It was like someone she knew and loved very much had been clouded by the dark side of the force. She knew she felt the presence of someone from long ago, but they had changed now... they were different. Her master was dead, as far as Kenobi told her. The last time she had seen Obi-Wan was on Tatooine before he told her to leave and hide Alderaan with the Organa family. She even temporarily found refuge with the Amidala family, heck, even Jar Jar Binks helped her stay hidden. Over the months however it seemed her contact with them were starting to become less and less. As of now, she wasn't even sure which of her contacts were alive and which were dead.

All she knew was, something terrible was coming for her and all of her men. She could feel it, and could only hope it was a false alarm.