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A few days later after Sabine, Satele and their family caught up with their father and had a family dinner on Krownest, the Brental Star jumped out of Hyperspace and began flying towards the fourth moon of the Gas Giant, Yavin with Satele piloting the ship as Sabine, Kanan and Janus entered the cockpit.
"We're coming up on Yavin IV," Sabine said as Kanan sat in the seat behind Satele, Janus sat down in the seat next to him.
"I wonder what this rebel cell is like, and how big it is compared to Phoenix group," Satle told them as she looked at Sabine, who placed her hands over her hips.
"I think it's larger than Phoenix Squadron was, Teal," Janus surmised.
"According to Hera, it's more well-equipped than we were," Kanan told them, "The remnants of Phoenix group are now part of this cell." Chopper then grunted as he rolled out from behind the seat that Kanan was sitting behind with both of his metal arms out of his dome as Sabine sat down in the seat next to her sister and in front of the seat that Janus was sitting on, "No, Chop. Hera said you're getting an oil bath when we get there, whether you like it or not." He then grunted a response as he relented, knowing there would be no way arguing with Kanan about not taking an oil bath once they land on Yavin IV.
The ship soon entered the atmosphere of Yavin IV and saw the pyramid-shaped like temple Great Temple made by an enslaved and extinct species known as the Massassi over 4000 years ago before the ship's wings flipped upwards as it landed near the Temple as Zeb walked towards the ship as its ramp lowered with two other rebels.
"Welcome to Yavin IV," the Lasat said, greeting them as he placed both of his hands over his hips as Satele, Sabine, Kanan, Janus and Chopper walked down the ship's ramp.
"Zeb!" Sabine cried, happily as she playfully punched Zeb in the chest.
"Whoa, easy there," Zeb said, rubbing his upper arm.
"What, you haven't gotten weak since I've been gone, have you, big guy?" She jokingly asked him as they began walking away from the Kom'rk-class fighter.
"Nice to see you again, Zeb," Janus told Zeb.
"You too, Janus," Zeb responded.
"Where's Hera?" Kanan asked the Lasat.
"She's on a supply mission," Zeb answered, "Come on, I'll show you around."
"So many different ships and people," Satele observed as she walked with her sister, boyfriend, Kanan and Chopper as Zeb showed them around the Great Temple.
"There are cells gathered here from every corner of the galaxy. And it's still not enough against the Empire," Zeb told her.
"You mean most of the galaxy, right, Zeb?" Janus asked the Lasat, "Because the Mandalorian Resistance isn't part of the Rebellion."
"Yeah," he answered, "But I haven't heard of that rebellion movement."
"Oh, it's a rebel cell that was formed over a week ago by Bo-Katan, the new leader of the Mandalorians," Janus explained.
"As long as we can help Ryder, Lothal and Mandalore and free Lothal for Mira and Ephraim Bridger before doing the same for Mandalore, I'll take what help I can get," Satele told him, "And Sabine and Janus would agree with me. Right, guys?"
"Yeah, I agree with you, Sis," Sabine said, agreeing with her sister.
"I'll help free Lothal before helping free Mandalore, too, Satele," Janus told his girlfriend, agreeing with Sabine.
"Satele. You're back," Rex said as he and Cody approached her as the base's alarms began blaring, "And it seems that your boyfriend has joined the Rebellion."
"So, I take it that this is Cody, right?" Sabine asked as she looked at Cody.
"Yeah, I am," Cody confirmed, "And you must be Satele's twin sister, Sabine?"
"I am, Commander," Sabine answered.
"Anyways, Rex. What's going on? Where's Hera?" Satele asked Rex as she greeted the clone.
"Well, if you're looking for Hera, there she is, coming in hot with what's left of her squadron," Rex answered as he pointed at the sky where they saw Hera in a Y-wing with four other Y-wings with her, crashing down towards the moon's surface.
"Base One, this is Phoenix Leader. Stand by for emergency landings," Hera said from her Y-wing as she had a face plate-like helmet over her face as it was crashing towards the surface of Yavin IV.
"Come on! Come on! Move it!" Rex yelled to his and Cody's fellow rebels as they ran across the temple's courtyard.
"Check your speed. Angle forward deflectors," Hera ordered the other Y-wing pilots, "Wedge, Biggs, dump your fuels."
"Got it boss," Wedge replied before clicking a button in his Y-wing's cockpit and fuel began to fly out from his Y-wing's engine in the back of the starfighter.
"Will do," Biggs said before clicking a button in his Y-wing's as fuel began to fly out from his Y-wing's engine as well in the back of the starfighter with the other two Y-wings doing the same.
"Kanan?" Satele called out to her and Sabine's master as she, Kanan, Zeb, Janus and Sabine followed the other rebels across the temple's courtyard.
"Don't worry. She's got it," Kanan reassured Satele as the landing gear of Hera's Y-wing extended outwards as her Y-wing neared the landing area.
"Whoa!" Hera exclaimed as she pulled the control stick towards her as her starfighter began to make a rough landing as it skidded across the landing area.
Soon the Y-wing stopped near the other specters and one of the rebel troopers opened up the hatch of the cockpit of her Y-wing and extended an arm out towards her and grabbed his hand as he helped her out of the starfighter.
"No, my astromech didn't make it," Hera told the rebel trooper that helped her out of her Y-wing's cockpit as they walked down a ladder as Chopper rolled towards her, grunting before she looked down and saw him standing next to her, "What? Chopper!" She kneeled down towards him as she hugged him, "Boy, I could have used you on this mission, buddy."
"Captain, are you all right?" Wedge asked as he took off his pilot's helmet as he approached her with Biggs and two other rebel pilots.
"Yeah, are you alright, Captain Syndulla?" Biggs asked her, agreeing with Wedge as he also removed his pilot's helmet.
"I'm fine, you two," she answered as she stood back up, "I'm glad you all made it down in one piece."
"Sorry about the mission. If we just could've…" Wedge said as he began to apologize.
"This wasn't your fault. Any of yours. Our intel was bad," she told them, "If you hadn't handled yourselves so courageously, we would've lost everybody."
"Thanks, Captain," Wedge said, knowing that she was right.
"Now get cleaned up," Hera told Wedge, Biggs and the others as they began to walk away, "I want a full assessment of damage to the Y-wings to see what's salvageable."
"Uh, Captain Syndulla, one more thing," Biggs said as he stopped walking and turned to Hera.
"Yes, what is it, Biggs?" Hera asked him.
"In a few months, I would like to take a day or so off to visit my home planet of Tatooine to see a childhood friend of mine and tell them that I've joined the Rebellion and that I might never see them again in case I die in our fight against the Empire," Biggs answered, "When I do, could you tell Senator Mon Monthma?"
"I will tell her when you want to visit your home planet, Biggs," Hera assured him.
"Thanks, Captain Syndulla," Biggs told her as he walked away from her with Wedge and the other pilots.
"I've seen worse landings," she suddenly heard Kanan remark and was surprised as she saw him walk towards her with Zeb, Janus and the Mandalorian twins.
"Kanan?" Hera gasped, "You're all here including Janus. And Sabine, you came back. What about your and Satele's family on Mandalore?"
"They'll be fine," Sabine assured her, "Right now, our family here needs me more."
"And I've joined your crew as Specter-7," Janus stated, telling her why he was with them and not on Mandalore.
"Well, I'm glad to have you both," Hera told them, "And there's plenty enough work to go around."
"Well then, let's get to work," Satele suggested.
"A reunion. How nice," they suddenly heard Kallus' voice say from behind them and turned around to see him out of his ISB uniform, replacing it with an earth colored rebel officer's uniform and had grown his hair out a bit and had his bo-rifle strapped to his back, "But as Commander Wren suggests, it's time to get to work. Mon Monthma requests your presence."
"We'll do it in a moment, Kallus," Satele informed him, "But can I ask you something first?"
"You may," Kallus told her.
"How did you get your bo-rifle back?" She asked him, "I thought Thrawn confiscated it when he found out that you were Fulcrum."
"Oh, a high ranking rebel sympathizer in the Empire gave it back to me in a secret location away from the Empire's eyes," Kallus answered.
"Who was this rebel sympathizer?" Kanan asked him.
"Colonel Wulf Yularen of the Imperial Security Bureau," Kallus answered, "From what I hear he might become our next Fulcrum Agent."
"Well, let's hope he does," Hera told him, "From what I hear, he was a good admiral during the Clone Wars."
"He told me that he was," Kallus said, agreeing with her, "And he was the admiral that served alongside Rex in the Clone Wars."
"You said that Mon Mothma requests our presence, Kallus," Satele told the former ISB/Fulcrum Agent, "So let's report to her and introduce Janus to her so she'll know that my boyfriend has joined the Rebellion."
As they entered a briefing room within the Great Temple, the specters and Kallus saw Mon Mothma, Dodonna, Kalani, Senator Lux Boneri and a hologram of Senator Bail Organa standing in front of a holotable with Rex and Cody approaching it as Mon Mothma and Organa both having their arms crossed as Hera, who had removed her face plate-like helmet from her head along with the rest of the specters and Kallus stood next to her, while Dodonna, the clones, Lux and Kalani stood next to Organa from his side of the holotable.
"Captain, I commend your bravery in protecting your fellow pilots," Mon Mothma said, greeting Hera before noticing Janus as she turned to him, "And who are you?"
"Janus Wren, Senator, Satele's boyfriend," Janus answered, "I'm joining the Rebellion as part of the Ghost crew."
"Well, I'll be glad to have you as part of the Rebellion, Lieutenant Wren," Mon Mothma told Janus.
"Thanks for accepting me into the Rebellion, Senator," Janus replied as he smiled at her for the rank that she just gave him.
"Well, it's the least I can do for how you and the others of your clan helped save the day at Atollon," Mon Mothma explained.
"Anyway, I just want to know what went wrong," Hera told Mon Mothma.
"I want to know as well," Lux said, agreeing with the Twi'lek.
"As do I," Mon Mothma told them before turning to the hologram of Organa, "Senator Organa may be able to shed some light on that for us."
"My sources in the Senate confirm that the Empire has established a new communications relay in the Jalindi system," Bail stated as he pulled up a holographic image of a radio tower on the holotable as Kallus crossed his arms, "It greatly expands their command and control throughout the surrounding sectors, and enabled them to respond much more quickly to your incursion."
"I hate to admit it, but it appears Gerrera's rumors were true," Dodonna sighed with disbelief.
"Hmm. How does Saw's ragtag group have better intel than we do?" Rex asked everyone.
"Yeah, I want to know as well, Captain," Cody said, agreeing with his clone brother.
"Because Gerrera has absolutely no qualms about how he acquires it," Kallus explained as he placed his hands on the edges of the holotable.
"Agreed, Captain Kallus," Lux said, agreeing with Kallus.
"It may be my fault on why he became an extremist," Kalani stated.
"How so?" Kanan asked the Super tactical droid.
"Because when he and the other Onderonian rebels including his sister, Steela found out we were going to execute the former king of the planet, Dendup and he went to break him out, only to be captured in the process, I tortured him to order him to tell me the location of the other Onderonian rebels," Kalani explained, "Only for him to resist telling me the locations and after they freed the former king of their planet, we had droid dropships to search for him and the other rebels in the highlands. Once they destroyed one of my droid dropships, it crashed over to where Steela and a general who along with his forces defected from the Separatists were standing and the Jedi Padawan, Ahsoka Tano tried to save her, but only to be shot in the back by another droid dropship, causing her to lose concentration and letting go of her, which caused her to fall to her death."
"I also took part in the battle," Lux stated, "And I can say that everything that General Kalani says is true."
"I am so surprised that you would agree with me, Senator Bonteri, considering we were enemies in the Clone Wars after you defected from the Separatists," Kalani told Lux.
"Well like Saw once said after the Clone Wars ended, 'Times change, targets change,'" Lux explained.
"Well if he gets results…" Satele began to say.
"We do not mistreat our prisoners," Mon Mothma reminded her.
"And we are not Death Watch, Satele," Janus added, "They were almost as bad as Saw Gerrera, his partisans or the Empire are."
"Well said, Lieutenant Wren," Mon Mothma said, agreeing with Janus.
"Now, the question is, what course of action do we take?" Dodonna asked, "We can't allow this relay to hamper our missions."
"Perhaps there is another way," Kallus said as he walked up next to Hera and Mon Mothma in front of the holotable and pressed a button on the holotable, causing the hologram of the relay tower to turn around towards them as its antenna began flashing red, "If we could somehow tap into this relay, we could use it to monitor Imperial fleet movements and adjust our own operations to avoid them."
"That's a great idea, Kallus," Cody told the former ISB/Fulcrum Agent.
"Yeah, I agree," Lux said, agreeing with the Clone Commander, "That is an excellent plan, Kallus."
"Can it be done?" Mon Mothma asked Hera as she turned to the Twi'lek.
"My crew and I have done plenty of jobs like it," Hera answered as Zeb had his arms crossed.
"Are you confident your ship can get in and out undetected?" Dodonna asked her.
"We don't call it the Ghost for nothing," Hera responded.
"You are authorized to proceed," Mon Mothma told her as she turned Organa's holocommunicator off as his hologram disappeared.
"Wait. That's it?" Satele said with disbelief as everyone but her and Mon Mothma began to leave the room, "What about Lothal?"
"Satele, now's not the time," Hera told her as she, Zeb, Sabine and Janus stopped leaving the room.
"If not now, when? Huh?" Satele argued, "We promised their people support. Our attack failed, but they're still waiting. Ryder's counting on us."
"Lieutenant Commander Wren, let's you and I talk for a moment," Mon Mothma told Satele as Hera and the others left Satele and the senator, "I am sympathetic to the plight of the people of Lothal, Satele, like you are. Like Lothal and your home planet of Mandalore, which due to the help of you and your sister started a civil war on the planet, my home planet of Chandrila is suffering at the hands of the Empire." She then pressed a button on the holotable as she said this and a holographic image of a planet appeared on the holotable, "If we help these worlds, what of Onderon, or Ryloth, or Montross?" She then clicked the button again as thousands of planets popped up from the holotable's holoprojector, "What of the thousands of other worlds who need us? Where do we start?"
"Yeah, but we already told Ryder we would send help," Satele reminded her, "If Thrawn hadn't found our base, we would've launched an attack."
"But, instead, when we amassed our forces, we were routed by Thrawn's starfleet and taught a valuable lesson, that we are not ready for open war," Mon Mothma added.
"Yeah? Well, some people say it's already begun," Satele argued.
"Indeed they do," Mon Mothma said, agreeing with her, "This is a time of difficult choices, sometimes impossible ones."
"I understand. Thank you, Senator," Satele told her as she realized what Mon Mothma meant and left the room.
A while later, it was night as Satele left the Great Temple as a few rebel ships flew past the temple as she saw Kanan and Sabine sitting on the ground with their legs folded in the distance with Kanan having his mask removed from his eyes as Satele began to approach them as unbeknownst to her a white and green R4-series astromech droid followed her briefly, while they heard insects chirping around them in the distance.
"You're upset, Satele," Kanan told Satele as he sensed her approaching him and Sabine from behind, "What is it?"
"I sense it, too, Sis," Sabine said as she looked at her twin sister with the corner of her eye, "What's troubling you? Is it Lothal?"
"You're somewhat correct, Bine," Satele answered, "I just feel so helpless. I thought being here would get me closer to helping Lothal and Mandalore. But now that I am, it seems farther away than ever."
"Sit," Kanan told her before she sat next to him with her legs folded, "Find your center." She then closed her eyes with Sabine as birds began chirping around them as Kanan sighed as he felt that there was something else that was bothering Satele, "Something else, Satele?"
"When we were on Geonosis with Saw, we didn't always agree with how he did things, but it seems like he's the only one who doesn't care all about the politics," Satele answered, "He just fights."
"He's an extremist, Satele," Sabine reminded her, "What'd you expect."
"Your sister's right, Satele," Kanan said, agreeing with Sabine, "But it's not whether or not we fight, it's…"
"It's how we choose to fight that matters. I know, Kanan," Satele finished for him, "Maybe we're choosing the wrong way."
Just then, the white and green R4-series astromech droid projected a large hologram of Saw Gerrera, who now had grown his hair to a full head of an afro, a full beard and a cybernetic implant of an oxygen respirator around his pressurized suit's chest with its holoprojector as the Onderonian extremist began to address the members of the rebel alliance, "Members of the Alliance to restore the Republic…"
"Saw," Satele muttered as she stood up and turned around as she saw the holographic image of the extremist Onderonian rebel as Kanan and Sabine did the same.
"What's he doing here?" Sabine asked herself.
"We're probably going to find out, Sabine," Kanan told her.
"Your losses today stemmed from your leaders' cowardice, their unwillingness to take decisive action against the Empire. All across the galaxy, your people suffer, while the leaders of this…" Saw went on as he grabbed his oxygen respirator and breathed through it for a few seconds before letting go of it as it strapped back onto the chest of his pressurized suit before he chuckled, "Rebellion refuse to act."
"Should I shut it down?" A rebel trooper asked Mon Mothma as she walked past him with her arms behind her back.
"No. I want to speak with him," she answered.
"Madam Senator, I'm honored," Saw told her.
"What is your business here?" She asked him.
"You ignored my warning about the Jalindi relay and paid the price," Saw answered, "Now you have confirmation, yet you still refuse to destroy it."
"As long as our allies in the Senate have hope of a peaceful resolution to this conflict, I will not risk…" Mon Mothma began to explain as she moved one of her arms out from behind her back as a few of the rebel troopers had their arms crossed.
"If you continue to allow this war to be fought on the Empire's terms, not yours, you are going to lose," Saw said, interrupting the senator as she placed her arm back behind her back.
"I will not be lectured on military strategy by a man who has proven himself a criminal," Mon Mothma stated.
"The Empire considers both of us criminals," Saw replied before chuckling for a second, "At least I act like one."
"You target civilians, kill those who surrender, break every rule of engagement! If we degrade ourselves to the Empire's level, what will we become?!" Mon Mothma said, snapping at the Onderonian rebel extremist as she moved both of her arms from her back.
There she is!" Saw exclaimed, "That's the leader the Rebellion needs! Where is that fire, that passion, when your people need it most?" Mon Mothma didn't respond and just stared at him with anger on her face, "I hope, Senator, after you've lost, and the Empire reigns over the galaxy unopposed, you will find some comfort in the knowledge that you fought according to the rules."
"That's enough," Mon Mothma told one of the rebel troopers, who began to approach the R4-series astromech droid, who was projecting Saw's hologram with its holoprojector.
"What are you afraid of, Senator? The truth?" Saw asked Mon Mothma as the rebel trooper switched the R4-series astromech droid's holoprojector off, causing Saw's hologram to disappear.
"Return to your duties," Mon Mothma ordered everyone as she placed her arms behind her back again, which they did as they all, including Kanan and Sabine, walked away.
"The Imperial relay is situated in a field of towers on Jalindi. The Ghost will approach at a high altitude and Satele, Janus, Sabine and Chopper will rocket-jump down onto the dish to install the repeater spike," Hera said as she and the other specters, including the twins stared at a holographic image of the relay dish on Jalidi from the holotable in the Ghost's common room as the ship traveled through Hyperspace as Kanan sat around the holotable with his arms crossed and his mask over his eyes, while Satele sat on one of the stools with Janus sitting in the stood next to her as Sabine stood behind them and had one of her hands on her hips with Chopper standing next to her as Hera had her hands over both of her hips from a second before removing hem from her hips.
"When you're done, we'll swoop back in below the outpost's sensors to extract you," Kanan added.
"Any questions?" Hera asked them.
"Spiking it won't do anything to hurt the Empire. It'll just make it a little easier for us to sneak around them," Satele stated.
"Yeah, that's really more of a comment than a question, Sis, but you do have a point," Sabine said, agreeing with her sister.
"I agree with you both as well," Janus told Sabine and Satele.
"Neither of you are seeing the bigger picture," Hera said, turning away as she switched the holotable's holoprojector off as she began to leave the room, "If we destroy the relay, the Empire will just build another one. This way, we can use it to stay one step ahead of them."
"Yeah, but…" Satele began to argue as she stood up.
"It's not up for discussion, and we have our orders," Hera said, interrupting Satele before walking through the door as she left for the cockpit.
"You all right?" Kanan asked Hera as he walked into the cockpit as she sat in the Ghost's pilot seat as the ship continued to travel through Hyperspace.
"Never better," she replied, sarcastically.
"I don't need to see you to know something's wrong," he told her as he approached her.
"Satele's right," she admitted, "This won't hurt the Empire. And after what they did to my squadron, that's all I want. To hurt them the way they keep hurting us. Go straight at them and blow that relay right off the map!"
"That's Gerrera talking, not you," he told her as he sat down in the co-pilot's seat, "You're doing the right thing."
"I'm not even sure I know what the right thing is anymore," she stated as an alarm in the ship went off as the Ghost jumped out of Hyperspace and took the controls as they began to approach a planet in the distance, "Coming up on Jalindi."
"Better scramble the Ghost's signature so they won't detect us," Kanan suggested before she went to do just that as she scrambled the Ghost's signature, so the Empire couldn't detect them.
As the Ghost flew through Jalindi's thick mist, but breathable atmosphere, Sabine opened up the Ghost's ramp as she stood in the cargo hold near the ramp with Janus as they had their jetpacks on and helmets under their arms as Satele began to approach them with her helmet under her arm and her jetpack over her back as well as Chopper stood next to her, grunting.
"Chopper, we Mandalorians need to wear our jetpacks when we have to," Satele explained to Chopper.
"She's right, Chop," Janus said, agreeing with his girlfriend, "Every single Mandalorian has to wear their jetpack when they have to."
"Just don't hit your jetpacks' jet too early, or their sensor will pick us up," Sabine reminded them as she placed her helmet over her head.
"We know, Sabine," Janus told her as he placed his helmet over his head, "But what if we hit them too late?"
"Hey, we like abstract art, Janus. We just don't want to become it," Satele answered as she placed her helmet over her head before Sabine jumped out of the cargo hold with Janus and Satele follow after her as Satele moved her cape over her right shoulder as Chopper grunted in a disappointingly tone before jumping out as well, following the twins and Janus through Jalindi's atmosphere as Chopper began grunting frustratedly.
"Passing 2,000 meters! 1,800," Sabine said on the Ghost's communications system as Zeb stared at the Ghost's computers in the cockpit, showing the trajectory of all three Mandalorians and Chopper's as well.
"I don't like this. They're dropping too fast," Zeb told Kanan and Hera with worry in his voice.
"Relax, Zeb. They have to keep their speed until the last minute so they're not detected," Kanan reminded the Lasat as he placed his hand over his shoulder for a second as he walked past him and sat back down in the co-pilot's seat.
"Twelve-hundred meters coming up on us real fast!" Sabine added on the communications system.
"Five-hundred meters. Four," Sabine went on as she, Satele and Janus along with Chopper got closer to the relay dish, "Get ready. Now!" With that, Sabine flipped around as she activated her jetpack's thrusters as Satele, Janus and Chopper did the same with their thrusters on their jetpack and rocket booster.
"We're still flying too fast!" Janus cried as they flew closer towards the relay dish, "We're gonna crash!"
The twins and Janus soon landed on the rim of the relay dish, causing a brief disruption in the relay dish's signal, which an Imperial officer inside the relay tower noticed for a second before shrugging it off.
"Grab onto something, Sis! You too, Janus!" Sabine told her sister and Janus as they slid past multiple smaller antennas attached to the relay dish and soon stopped as they both grabbed onto one of the smaller antennas on both sides of the smaller antenna as Sabine began to slide past Satele.
"I got you!" Satele said as she grabbed her sister's hand, causing her to gasp in relief and sighed as she laid on her back.
"Well, that could have been worse," Satele told her sister and boyfriend before hearing Chopper grunting, frantically as he slid down the rim of the relay dish at a very high speed and saw him slide past them as the dodged him as he grunted frustratedly before flying towards the main antenna, crashing into the antenna before falling backwards, which this caused another disruption within the tower, "Chopper!" Satele called out to the astromech droid as she, Janus and Sabine ran towards him and helped him up, "You okay, pal?" Chopper grunted a response as they helped him back onto his feet as Satele moved her cape back behind her back.
"He's complaining. He must be fine," Sabine stated before pressing the button on the side of her helmet that activates her helmet's comlink, "Specter-5 to Ghost."
"We made it onto the dish in one piece," Sabine informed Hera from the Ghost's communications system.
"Copy that. Now get to work on that spike. We're on the clock here," Hera responded.
"Uh-oh. Picking up an incoming light cruiser. Headed for the relay," Zeb formed them as he noticed an Imperial Light Cruiser on the computer in the Ghost's cockpit in front of him.
"Guys, you've got an Imperial ship headed in your direction," Hera said, contacting the Mandalorians on the relay dish.
"What was that about you said how this could be worse, Sis?" Sabine asked her sister as the four of them rushed over to the other side of the antenna.
"If they see you, this mission's blown," Kanan told Satele, Sabine and Janus on their helmets' comlinks.
"They didn't see us," Satele replied as she pressed the button on the side of her helmet that activates her helmet's comlink, "At least I don't think they did. We're good."
"Yeah, I agree with Satele, I don't think they saw us either," Janus said, agreeing with Satele as he pressed the button on the side of his helmet that activates his helmet's comlink.
"Let's just do this fast and get out of here," Sabine told them as she opened one of the panels behind her, "Chopper, give me a hand." He then rolled up to the antenna as she said that and plugged his scomp link into the antenna's astromech port as she clicked a few buttons on the antenna's panel, "Okay, isolate the secondary comm circuitry. Yeah. There, there. Hold it right there." He then stopped rotating his scomp link as she said that, "Installing the spike." She continued to click buttons on the panel as she began to install the spike into the relay as Chopper rotated his scomp link a bit again before stopping again, "Got it! We're patched in."
"Jalindi outpost, this is Marauder requesting clearance to dock," they suddenly heard the voice of an Imperial officer say through the relay's main comm channel.
"What's going on?" Janus asked Sabine.
"We must have patched into the main comm circuit by mistake," Sabine answered as she clicked a few more buttons on the panel, "We're intercepting all incoming transmissions."
"I suspected as much as well," Satele said, agreeing with her sister.
"Jalindi outpost, your signal is garbled. Please repeat," they heard the Imperial officer from the Imperial Light cruiser say.
"Chopper, run a bypass, connect that ship to the outpost commander now!" Sabine ordered Chopper.
"Chopper, give me comm control. I've got an idea," Satele told Chopper, who grunted a response.
"We don't have time. If someone doesn't respond to them, they're gonna know something's wrong," Sabine told them.
"I think that's what she's doing, Sabine," Janus assured her.
"Uh, marauder, this is Jalindi outpost. You weren't scheduled to arrive until next rotation. You're creating a lot of difficulties for us," Satele said as she spoke into the top of Chopper's transmitter as she put on an Imperial accent, "Maybe come back tomorrow?"
"What difficulties? Who is this?" The Imperial officer asked her.
"This is Vice Admiral Rae Sloane," Satele answered, lying through her teeth.
"Is this some kind of joke?" The Imperial officer asked her.
"I just spoke to Vice Admiral Rae Sloane, she's on Coruscant," the Imperial Light Cruiser's captain, Commander Brom Titus said as he walked forward on the Imperial Light Cruiser's bridge as he placed both of his arms behind his back, "And I demand an explanation immediately."
"Ugh, this is so typical of our luck," Satele muttered to herself as she switched her accent back to normal.
"The Empire's realigning the dish!" Sabine said as the relay dish began to tilt, causing her to slide down from the antenna.
"Chopper, switch it back!" Satele said as she slid down the antenna with her sister.
"Yeah, do what Satele says, Chopper. Switch the dish back!" Janus told the astromech droid, agreeing with his girlfriend as he slid down the antenna with Satele and Sabine as Chopper grunted a response.
"What is that?" Titus asked himself as his Imperial Light Cruiser neared the relay dish as he saw three humanoid shapes slide down the dish and grabbed a pair of electrobinoculars from an Imperial officer that was standing next to him as Satele, Sabine and Janus stopped at the edge of the dish's rim after nearly falling off. He then placed the electrobinoculars over his eyes and immediately recognized Satele by her armor as she went to wave at him, only for Sabine to stop her from doing so, while Janus shook his head in disbelief as Titus removed the electrobinoculars from his eyes, "It's her! That female Mando! Get me the real commander of that outpost, now!"
"Ghost, we've been spotted! We're gonna need a pickup, fast!" Sabine said, contacting Hera with her helmet's comlink as she, Satele and Janus got up from the rim of the dish.
"Copy that. On our way," Hera replied on her helmet's comlink.
"Are you both thinking what I'm thinking?" Satele asked her sister and boyfriend.
"Blowing up the relay dish, Sis?" Sabine answered as she and Satele pulled out a few thermal detonators from their armors' bags, "Yeah,"
"Wait, you want to change the plan?" Janus said with shock in his voice.
"Janus, do you want to salvage something from this mission or not?" Sabine asked him.
"Okay, you make a pretty good argument, Sabine," Janus answered as they began running across the dish when suddenly stormtroopers climbed up from hatches from within the dish, aiming their E-11 blaster rifles at the three Mandalorians.
"Way to go, Rae Sloane!" Sabine said, teasingly at her sister.
"Well, I didn't know!" Satele told her, defending her actions.
"Satele's right, Sabine. How would she know that he just spoke to the real Rae Sloane?" Janus said, agreeing with his girlfriend.
"Hera, we've got stormtroopers over here. We need that pickup now!" Sabine exclaimed through the Ghost's communications system as the ship began to fly towards the radar dish.
"Hold on! We're almost there!" Hera responded.
"Janus, you plant the detonators! We'll hold them off!" Satele told her boyfriend as she and Sabine handed him their thermal detonators before they grabbed their lightsabers from their armors' belts and ignited their blades as they began to deflect the stormtroopers' blaster bolts with one of the blaster bolts being redirected into one of the stormtroopers' helmets, knocking them out as Janus began planting the thermal detonators along the rim of the dish before one of the stormtroopers to to fire at him, only for him to evade their blaster bolts and landed on his stomach.
"You're both not holding them off!" Janus told both his girlfriend and her sister.
"We're trying our best, Janus!" Sabine explained as she and Satele continued to use their lightsabers to deflect the stormtroopers' blaster bolts.
"Chopper, level out the dish!" Satele said, contacting Chopper with her helmet's comlink as she and Sabine continued to deflect the stormtroopers' blaster bolts with their lightsabers before Chopper grunted a response as he rotated his scomp link, which was still plugged into the astromech port, causing the dish to start to tilt back to where it was when they landed on the dish, causing everyone to fall as they began sliding across the dish.
"Sir, a small ship is approaching the relay at high speed," an Imperial officer reported to Titus in the Imperial Light Cruiser.
"Launch our new fighters to intercept and ready the gunners," Titus ordered, causing the Imperial Light Cruiser's turbolasers to rotate around towards the relay dish.
"Sis, Janus, come on!" Sabine said as she grabbed her sister by the hand, while Janus began running with her.
As this was happening, the Ghost began to approach the dish as the Imperial Light Cruiser began to shoot at them with its turbolasers before deploying two TIE Defenders from its docking port as they began to fly towards the Ghost.
"We've got two TIE Defenders coming in fast!" Zeb reported to Hera from one of the computers in the Ghost's cockpit.
"Zeb, I need you in the turret," Hera told the Lasat before contacting Satele, Sabine and Janus as she began to pilot the Ghost away from the relay dish as Zeb began to head towards the Ghost's rear cannon, "Specter-5, 6, and 7, I've got to break off."
"Hold tight. Be right back," Hera assured the three Mandalorians as they saw the TIE Defenders beginning to chase the Ghost before turning around as stormtroopers began firing at them again with their E-11 blaster rifles as Satele and Sabine reignited their lightsabers and deflected their blaster bolts before running with Janus away from the stormtroopers.
"Chopper, tilt the dish!" Satele exclaimed again into her helmet's comlink as she and Sabine deactivated their lightsabers and clipped them back onto their armors' belts as Chopper grunted a response before tilting the dish in the opposite direction.
As this happened, they began sliding across the dish again as a stormtrooper grabbed onto one of the smaller antennas, while Sabine and Janus stopped sliding as they placed their feet on opposite sides of the dish's struts as Sabine saw her sister continuing to slide down the dish on her stomach, yelling before Sabine grabbed her by the hand and helped her climb back up the strut as the three of them watched and saw the stormtroopers falling off the dish before screaming to their deaths.
"These aren't the normal TIEs. These are the nasty ones," Zeb told Hera from the rear cannon as the Ghost flew between red colored rock pillars with the TIE Defenders firing at them with Zeb firing back at them in retaliation.
"Just concentrate your fire. Their shields can't last forever," Hera assured the Lasat as she piloted the Ghost.
"Yeah? Well, tell them that," Zeb retorted.
"They may have the better fighters, but we've still got the better pilot," Hera told him.
"Would you like to prove that?" Kanan asked her.
"Try me," she answered.
"Go down into the fog," he suggested.
"How's she gonna see in the fog?" Zeb asked him.
"She won't have to. I will," Kanan explained.
"Boy, I must really trust you," Hera told him.
"I know you do," he replied before the Ghost swooped down into the fog with the TIE Defenders following, "Hera, on my mark, go left, then make a quick right." As he said that, Hera saw a red colored pillar in front of them, "Now!" The Ghost then swooped away from the pillar, evading with the TIE Defenders following, "Level out. Turn to point three." She then turned the Ghost's control stick, evading even more pillars, "Climb to point five, now." She then flew the Ghost upwards before diving back down into the fog after evading more pillars with one of the TIEs crashing into a pillar.
"One down," Zeb reported, "Whatever you're doing, keep it up."
"Sir, another ship just came out of Hyperspace," an Imperial officer reported to Titus on the Imperial Light Cruiser, "It's moving into attack position."
With that, a U-wing flew through the atmosphere of Jalindi as it opened its S-foils in attack position and began to open fire upon the Imperial Light Cruiser with its laser cannons with Sabine, Satele and Janus watching from the relay dish.
"Who is that?" Sabine asked her sister and Janus.
"I don't know, Sis, but they're my new favorites," Satele answered.
"I don't know either, but from what I can see, they're a rebel like us," Janus said, agreeing with his girlfriend.
"Deflectors are down!" An Imperial officer reported to Titus as the Imperial Light Cruiser has taken extensive damage due to the U-wing's laser cannons.
"We still have weapons," Titus told him, "Bring us about. I want that ship."
As the Ghost continued to travel through the fog with Kanan guiding Hera to pilot the ship as the last TIE Defender began flying towards them, firing its laser cannons at them, only for Zeb to fire the Ghost's rear cannon at it as the TIE Defender began to spiral out of control as it flew and crashed into one of the pillars.
"Whoo! Got them! We're clear!" Zeb reported.
"Let's pick up the twins and Janus," Hera said as she began to fly the Ghost back towards the relay dish.
The U-wing fied its laser cannons at the stormtroopers, who were still on the dish before they began running up the dish as Sabine, Satele and Janus began running towards the dish's rim as the U-wing rim pulled up next to them as the U-wing opened and saw Saw Gerrera standing at the U-wing's doorway with a proton bomb next to him.
"You rebels need a ride?" Saw asked the three Mandalorians.
"Saw?" Sabine and Satele both said with surprise in their voices.
"What's Saw Gerrera doing here?" Janus asked at the same time.
"Heads up," Saw said as he dropped the proton bomb onto the dish followed by two more, "I wouldn't think too long. Those charges are on a real short fuse." He then chuckled as Satele, Sabine and Janus shrugged before Sabine activated her jetpack's thrusters, followed by Janus as they began flying towards the U-wing.
"Chopper, we're leaving. Let's go," Satele told Chopper with her helmet's comlink before moving her cape back over her right shoulder and activating her jetpack's thrusters as well and as she said that, Chopper flew away from the astromech port as he removed his scomp link out from the astromech port as he activated his rocket booster.
"Explosives. Run for it!" A stormtrooper that regained consciousness exclaimed as he saw the proton bombs in front of him as they began beeping.
"We're out. Go! Go! Go!" Saw told his U-wing's pilot as Satele and Chopper landed inside the ship's cargo hold before the pilot began to pilot the U-wing away from the relay dish.
"Pursuit course. After them," Titus ordered as he saw the U-wing fleeing the area, only for the proton bombs from the relay dish to go off, causing an explosion as it began to destroy the relay and his Imperial Light Cruiser, killing all personnel on board the Imperial Light Cruiser, including him.
"Now, that's how you deal with the Empire," Saw told Sabine, Satele and Janus as the three of them had removed their helmets and held them under their arms as they watched the relay dish blow up, while Satele moved her cape back behind her back as he had his hands over his hips.
"Did they just…" Hera began to say with shock as she saw the explosion of the relay dish and the Ghost neared the dish as she went to contact the three Mandalorians, "Satele! Sabine! Janus! Are you there? Talk to me."
"Hera, we're okay," Satele reassured Hera on the Ghost's communications system.
"Relax, Captain Syndulla. I've got them," Hera and Kanan suddenly heard Saw say on the Ghost's communications system as they saw the Y-wing in the distance fly away from the planet's atmosphere.
"Gerrera," Hera said with disdain in her voice as she began to follow Saw's U-wing moved and closed its S-foils to the front of the ship.
"Hold your position. I'm coming alongside to get my people," Hera informed Saw on his ship's communications system as he sat next to a Tognath named Edrio in the cockpit, who spoke to Saw in his native language as a Star Destroyer jumped out of Hyperspace as the U-wing and the Ghost left Jalindi's atmosphere with four TIE fighters deploying from the Star Destroyer and began to intercept the rebel ships.
"Sorry, Captain. No time," Saw told her, "Don't worry. The Mandalorian twins along with the other Mandalorian will be fine with me. Besides, they might enjoy fighting with a real army for a change."
"Gerrera, return them to me at once," Hera demanded as Zeb reentered the cockpit and saw down in the seat behind Kanan before crossing his arms.
"Unless you three have any objections, we're going to leave," Saw said as he turned to Satele, Sabine and Janus.
"What choice do we have?" Satele told them with Sabine smiling as she said that.
"I agree, Teal, we don't have any other option at the moment," Janus said, agreeing with his girlfriend.
"Get us out of here," Saw ordered Edrio as he turned to him and with that, the U-wing jumped into Hyperspace.
"Where are they going?" Zeb asked as he, Hera and Kanan watched as the U-Wing jumped into Hyperspace with Satele, Sabine and Janus.
"I'm not worried about where they're going. I'm worried about who they're going with. But I'll have some old friends of mine track them from a tracker that I secretly placed in Sabine and Satele's armors from when they joined our crew," Hera told him.
"Anything I should know about these old friends of yours?" Kanan asked her.
"Let's just say they're a squad of genetic defective clones," Hera answered as the Ghost jumped into Hyperspace.
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