A Rebel's Destiny

Zero Hour

In The Ghost in the shared room of Sabine and Ezra the hunter looked at an painting of him and Sabine hugging out of armor "where is Ezra?" He heard Crow say as Zeb knocked on the doorframe making the hunter look up "Kanan want's us at the command center." The lasat said the hunter put the art and put on his helmet moving "sounds urgent." The hunter said making Zeb nod "it is." He said as they moved quickly "we've just received a new transmission from Fulcrum." Hera said as the hunter leaned against the table holding a holographic knife twirling it between his fingers "this is Fulcrum with an urgent message. Thrawn knows about..." the message played before it cut off making the hunter look up "Thrawn knows? Knows about what?" Kanan asked "maybe the attack on Lothal?" Ezra questioned with a raised brow "our base maybe?" Crow added as Osiris scratched his chin "it could very well be both." The old warlock said before Ryder looked up "something's happened. Most of the imperial fleet left the system. What does it mean?" He asked making Hera shake her head "Thrawn knows we're here. All ships, battle stations!" She ordered "how can you be certain?" Dodonna asked "last time this happened, the empire ambushed us on Garel." The hunter answered looking up to Crow who gave a nod "Commander Sato. We have imperial Star Destroyers incoming." A rebel pilot from Sato's side called out "alert rebel command!" Sato said as Ryder's holo turned off leaving Sato and Dodonna "what happened? Where's Ryder?" Ezra asked making Hera shake her head "they're jamming long-range transmissions." Hera answered looking to Dodonna's hologram "we have to scrub the mission." He said making the human hunter groan "we were so close!" Ezra complained hitting the table with a closed fist "Evacuate all ground staff. We're getting outta here!" Hera yelled as alarms blared the hunter gave an annoyed look as Thrawn popped up on the table "General Dodonna, Commander Sato, Captain Sydulla, and Guardian Ezra Bridger, oh what's this some new friends too, may I guess that they are also like you Mr. Bridger?" Thrawn asked making the hunter groan in annoyance "at last, we meet in this theater of war, however briefly. There is no escape, and your forces are badly outnumbered. This, uh, 'rebellion' ends today." The Grand Admiral said matter of factly "we'll never surrender to you, Thrawn." Hera said voice filled with venom "you misunderstand, Captain. I'm not accepting surrenders at this time. I want you to know failure, utter defeat, and that it is I who delivers it crashing down upon you. Now, let us proceed." Thrawn said as a projection of the rebel fleet and Imperial fleet was shown "damn I had a perfect comeback to that." Crow said making Ezra scoff "of course you did." The hunter said knowing his friend "we don't have the strength to meet Thrawn head-on, but I will get us to safety." Hera said looking to Sato's holographic projection "how do you propose we break his blockade?" Sato asked Ezra looked to Hera "Thrawn believes this is the entire rebel fleet, so we just need a big enough opening to get one ship through. Once clear of the jamming they can call for reinforcements to attack the empire's flank." Hera explained her plan "that should divide their forces and enable us all to escape." Dodonna said looking over to Sato "The Ghost stands the best chance. We'll make an opening for you." He said making the hunter shake his head "no The Radiant has a stealth drive in it plus it doesn't show up on radar due to it's Paracausual existence, Hera let me sneak past with the Radaint, it's fast enough to break through without problem." Ezra said with a determined face Hera gave a nod "alright but take Kanan with just in case who knows what could happen." The Twi'lek said making the hunter nod "no way. I'm not leaving you!" The Jedi said making the hunter groan "fine Crow, you with me." Ezra said making the Awoken chuckle "just like old times." He said flipping a knife "there's no time to argue, Kanan go with if The Crow is as good as Ezra says we're going to need him here. Besides as Jedi you two have the best chance to escape, and there's no one I trust more to get the help we need. You're going. Chopper, too. That's an order!" She said making the Jedi groan along with the Awoken hunter "next time buddy, come on Kanan let's go." Ezra said as he sprinted to the Radiant "Hera I can't leave yet. There's someone I have to warn about this, out there in the wilderness." Kanan said making Hera shake her head "what? Kanan, no! I need you and Ezra to go get help." She said making the blind Jedi nod "that's what I'm doing." Kanan said as Osiris groaned "the Young Wolf has taken more with less, Hera, let the Jedi do what he needs to I'll send Crow with." The old warlock said making Hera sigh "fine, just don't keep me waiting long." She said looking to the blind Jedi as he put a hand on her shoulder she put a hand on his arm before looking to the old Warlock who headed to the ship that the three brought back from Tatooine "where, are you going?" She asked making the warlock looked up "war breeds innovation I'm going to test the experimental FTL drive if it works I'll be back with a few new allies to help." Osiris said making Hera shake her head at the warlock's idea before pulling out her comm.