On the outskirts of the settlement, Andros and Kanan were loading the newly acquired supplies, while Rex and his men performed an inspection of the weaponry, both on the ship and their once hidden blaster rifles. While their weapons were still in working order despite the lack of use over the years, they quickly set to helping Hera and Zeb increase the power of the Ghost's guns. As the last containers of supplies were being loaded, Wolffe arrived with another attempt to convince his comrades one more time of the folly of aiding the Rebellion.

"Rex, you have a visitor. Wolffe wants to speak to you."

"I'll be right out, Andros. Keep checking the weapons arrays. Then report back to Captain Syndulla."

"Yes Sir."

Rex leaves his men to answer the call. He knew that Wolffe didn't have the coordinates for the ship, so his arrival came as a surprise. Even in the back of the Captain's mind something didn't feel right, as if there was an ulterior motive for Wolffe being here. Relying on his instincts, Rex kept his guard up, even as his friend seemed to fidget uncomfortably.

"I thought we already discussed this Wolffe. You didn't believe this was your fight. So why are you here?"

"Because it's not our fight Rex. I came to try one last time to convince you of that. We did our duty for the Republic. How much more war do we have to see? You know we don't need to be involved in this."

"No, you don't have to be. I owe Commander Tano a debt. I will see it through."

"Then you're going to your death. Why can't you see that? Commander Tano doesn't exist anymore. She pledged herself to the Dark Side, the Empire. She'll kill you just as soon as look at you."

"Then I'll die trying to save her."

As the two clones' argument begins to get more heated, Chopper picks up a signal entering Jakku's atmosphere. He registers a shuttle approaching their location, but the occupant is not transmitting an identification code. As the droid goes to report this to Hera, Andros and Kanan sense the danger first.

"KANAN!"

"I feel it too Andros. We've got an Imperial shuttle inbound."

"Not just a shuttle! You can't feel her? It's Ahsoka! We need to go, now!"

All conversation between Rex and Wolffe ceases at that moment. As the reality of what his friend has done settles in Rex feels betrayed, and furious at his fellow clone trooper at that moment.
"You double crossed me Wolffe! How could you?! Bantha poodoo, you led her right to us!"

"It was them or me Rex. You chose your side. We had a life without war, and you just had to reenter the fray."

"What did the Empire promise you?! How many credits did it take to sell us out!?"

Rex goes to grab Wolffe's collar, ready to physically beat him. But the Imperial shuttle has increased its' velocity with Wolffe's tracking signal echoing through the pilot's cockpit. A force push startles the two troopers as a voice screams out from behind them.

"Rex come on! There will be another time for this! She's got a small army in there! We're not ready to face them yet!"

Andros' voice shocked Rex back into his senses. He knew they had very little time to escape and threw Wolffe to the sand. Darting up the ramp, he closed it just as Hera engaged the engines for takeoff. Conversely the shuttle landed just as the Ghost took to the sky. Lady Melinoe's pilot was unable to open the hatch quick enough for her to descend and launch a tracking node with the Force. His mistake cost him his life, and she turned her attention to the clone still recovering on the ground at her feet.

"You were supposed to delay them long enough for me to arrive, Commander."

Wolffe could only look on in fear as Melinoe spoke. Her words were filled with fury at his perceived failure and the look in her eyes burned with pure hatred for him and everything around her.

"I despise desert planets and yet you brought me to this one because you assured me that you would keep the Rebels and Jedi from escaping."

"Milady I…"

"SILENCE! I will not hear your feeble excuses for failure!"

Wolffe screamed in agony as Force lightning struck his body. He continued to writhe and wail as the intensity of the energy assaulting his body increased. Melinoe was enjoying the pain she was inflicting, knowing that he was suffering from her vicious onslaught, but she was also aware that the Emperor would not be as kind when she returned empty handed. For a brief moment, she let the lightning abate to question the trooper once more.

"You will tell me where they are going. If your answer pleases me, I will let you live."

"Milady I; d...do not know where…"

A second blast of lightning burst forth from her fingertips; engulfing his body and felt even more intense than the first. The clone could feel his skin burning and the few times he could open his eyes despite the pain, electrical burns were beginning to form. But it was the sadistic smile on the Sith Lady's face that made his blood run cold. He could feel his death approaching and struggled to move when her attack ceased for the second time. As he waited for the end, there was no more lightning, only the feeling of being unable to control his limbs as he was lifted in the air.

"If you struggle Wolffe, I will crush the life from you with the Force. You have once last chance to tell me what I want to know. Where were the Rebels going?"

"I told you, I don't know. And you're wasting your time with me. You could have followed them instead of using your energy to torture me."

"I could have followed them had my ships' sensors not already indicated that they had programmed the coordinates for the jump to hyperspace. And for the moment I am without a pilot as he entered the atmosphere too early, thus alerting the Rebels to my presence. He paid for his mistake. Now you shall pay for yours."

The pressure surrounding his body began to increase, the feeling of being crushed to death was worse than the lightning that he had previously endured. Wolffe only had one last chance to speak as the air was being systematically expelled from his lungs.

"I-I-I can't tell you where they are going, but I have the tracking signal for the clone trooper assisting them…, he is…I…"

Instantly Wolffe was dropped to his knees, the pressure on his body having ceased. As he struggled to regain his breath as well as his senses, Melinoe kneeled down in front of him, her eyes still filled with unbridled rage. Slowly she reached forward and placed a very sharp fingernail under the clone's chin to regain his attention.

"Tell me what you know."

"The Rebels have another clone trooper helping them. He knew you during the war. He thinks he can save you."

"He will fail. I have already been saved from the lies the Jedi told me. What is his name?"

"Captain Rex. He believes that…,"

"Excellent. Soon he will feel what I felt from his betrayal. Lord Vader's mistake not hunting him down after he left the Grand Army. I will not repeat his failure."

Melinoe turned away from Wolffe to reenter her shuttle. The Emperor was waiting for an update on her search, and she was not going to disappoint him. She did however have to pause when the clone spoke up about the reward.

"Milady, what about my request?"

"Of course, the reward for information on the Rebels. You will receive your reward. Bring him with us."

"That wasn't what we agreed to! You…"

"I agreed to nothing. You held to a foolish belief that there was ever a reward to begin with. You will provide my men with the tracking signal for Captain Rex, and then we will take you to the Emperor. You will soon be entering the service of the Galactic Empire. Welcome back to the war, Commander."

Lady Melinoe's personal detachment of Storm-troopers roughly grabbed hold of Wolffe's arms. He was then unceremoniously dragged at blaster point up the ramp of the shuttle. When he and the troopers were secured for the jump to hyperspace, the Sith lady used the Force to throw her dead pilot's body to the back of the craft before taking the seat herself. While they made their way back to Coruscant, The Ghost was bound for the Rebel Alliance. But a very unpleasant conversation was taking place in the main shuttle bay.

"You should have let me kill him; Andros. And what were you thinking, leaving Jakku like that? We could have stayed and fought the Empire."

"And we would all be dead, or in the hands of the Emperor. Either way, it's the same thing. Andros didn't make that call Rex. Hera and I did. I was not going to let my team get captured."

"Kanan, I get that you want to protect your friends, but this is war. Casualties are inevitable. Better to die fighting, even our sacrifice would have shown the Systems that there is something worth fighting for."

"There is always something worth fighting for. But think for a moment, why did the Emperor send Ahsoka after us? What is it that he wants?"

"Complete control of the Galaxy, the Rebel Alliance crushed."

"In part, yes. But he wants Jedi. We are a threat to him. If he were to capture us, the last of the Jedi would be exterminated. I won't let my Padawan fall to the Dark Side. As long as we're out there fighting, the Galaxy still has hope."

"But you know that a confrontation with Commander Tano is coming. If she is as entrenched in the Dark Side as we are to believe, she will not stop until she finds us."

"That's why we need to be ready. We've already lost too much in this war. I will not let another Jedi fall at her hands or that of Vader and the Emperor."

"Who did you lose Andros?"

"My Master. Ahsoka killed him; Rex. The Rebel Alliance needs you, and Kanan. This is my fight, and mine alone."

"It's suicide and you know it."

"No, Master Togar believed she could be saved. He left that mission to me. I will prove him right."

"So all that talk back at my home, you didn't really believe any of it, did you? You're just going to rush off and leave us after saying that Commander Tano needed my help? I say no. I owe her a life debt, and I will see it through. Where you go, I go, whether you like it or not."

"We all go, or none of us go. Andros; we're all with you."

Andros looked around at the rest of the crew that had entered the shuttle bay. There was a look of determination on the face of everyone assembled. As he accepted that these Rebels, his friends were willing to go to the end with him, he thought back to his teachings. The one thing Master Togar had always tried to instill him is though attachments are forbidden for a Jedi, being a part of the Order was in itself an attachment. From the depths of his memory, his Master spoke to him.

"Friendship is a bond; Andros. Don't forget those who have helped you along the way. The Jedi will always be your family."