“Fulcrum?”, Cassian said in disbelief. “What are you doing here?”

“Shh…”, Ahsoka said, “I’m here to rescue you. Stop gawking. Lets get out of here.”

“You know we could have escaped ourselves right?”, he said as they dashed through corridors carrying blasters Ahsoka had given each of them from the fallen storm troopers.

“Haha…”, she laughed dryly, “Of course, of course…did you find out anything useful before you were captured?”

“Unfortunately not much…just that this operation is enormous and that whatever they’re building is in orbit, not on the surface.”

“In orbit…?”, she wondered out loud. That was equally impressive and worrying. “Let’s head to one of the command centres on the lower levels, maybe the engine room, so we can access the ships logs and find out more.”, she instructed.

They made it to the engine room without too much trouble, and then allowed Andor’s partner to hack into the system and download whatever information they could find. A lot of it was encrypted, and some of it was so vaguely written it didn’t really tell them much. This much caution and secrecy was new for the Imperials, and not a good sign.

Once Ahsoka decided they had what they needed, she led them to the hanger where she thought she’d landed her ship. When they arrived she discovered they were in the wrong one. There were so many troopers between them and the hanger they needed to go to. She didn’t know if they’d make it. “I suppose we could steal some TIE’s…”, she thought out loud…

“You can fly a TIE fighter?”, Cassian replied incredulously.

She gave him an I’m-so-done-with-you look and said, “I can fly anything…plus these used to be Republic ships…”

They all looked a little awed and dumb struck but she didn’t notice because the thought of the republic made her feel a wave of sadness that she wasn’t expecting after all these years. She quickly shook herself out of it. They had a job to finish.

To be continued… 

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