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It had been a few days since Ezra constructed his lightsaber, and things were still tense among the teenagers on the ship. Specifically, Sonic and Sabine found every excuse to stay away from each other. Right now, Sabine was outside helping Zeb train Ezra to use his lightsaber. Sonic hid inside the ship, trying to talk to his friends, hoping it would be enough to avoid her.

"Okay, we've searched about half the galaxy at this point," Wolf reported into the hologram projection. "We can't seem to find anyone else. Are you sure there are any other survivors here?"

Snake reminded him, "You forgot Bowser, Luigi, Mario, Supergirl, Batwoman, DK, Yoshi, and White Canary is still out there."

"I meant other than then," Wolf said, defending himself. "Trust me, Supergirl isn't exactly someone you can easily forget about."

"Tell that to Oliver," Snake sighed, sporting a new look, along with the other Bad Guys rather their super suits.

"Loving the new outfit, Snake," Sonic said to the dnsje. "Did you decide to make a change?"

"The Empire is getting better at identifying us," Snake explains. "Figured it would be best to change our appearances."

"Then how come Shark doesn't do the same thing?" Silver asks.

Shark looked confused as he eyed the other hologram. "What are you talking about?" He then stroked his beard, which seemed to be growing out. "Look at this perfect disguise."

"Shark, a beard isn't a disguise; you still look like yourself who has simply forgotten to shave," Sonic said sarcastically.

"I love this communicator. It's easy to contact everyone and get notes on what's happening." Blaze told them.

"You know, you've been starting to do these calls more frequently," Silver took notice as he eyed Sonic. "Is there any particular reason why?"

Sonic shrugged as he took a seat. "Not really, I just wanted to catch up on the news from your guys' end."

"He's trying to avoid that Mandalorian girl," Snake said, somehow able to see through his act. Not that difficult, even if he weren't the Sage Force user.

"Why would I want to avoid Sabine?" Sonic chuckled and lightly blushed, trying to act like that wasn't the case.

Kilowog added in, "They were practically making out when me and Claire saw it."

"No, we weren't," Sonic said, not wanting any rumors to start. "Besides, even if we were, she's way out of my league."

"That's what I thought about Diane," Wolf said, gesturing about his wife. "I thought she was way out of my league."

"And yet she still is," Drago stated with a sly smile.

Then Hera entered the room and saw them. "Hey, Sonic," she said. "One of Senator Gall Trayvis' messages has been released. I'll let the others know if you want to listen as well."

"We were just finishing up; I'll join you in a minute," Sonic promised as Hera left the room. "Well, you guys heard her. I gotta go."

"Just take a bit of advice from us, Sonic," Silver tells the Hedgehog before they hang up. "Love isn't something that's easy to come by. Especially in our line of work. We're more likely to lose them if we keep secrets rather than the other way around."

Sonic nodded as he looked over at the doorway. "I'll think about it."

Then everyone started to slowly disappear and leave the boy alone. Sonic sighed as he looked over at R2 who had stopped projecting the holograms of the JL. He then made his way through the ship, walking into the room and finding the group on the holonet.

"...such as some very brave souls on Lothal. To those rebels, I have a message...the sun may have set on the Old Republic but a new freedom can be won if we are brave enough to fight for it today. See you soon, my friends."

The hologram shut down, and Hera leaned back. "Senator Travis is coming here to meet us."

Sonic asks, "How can you be sure of that?"

"My contact, Fulcrum, says that the Senator hides encoded messages in his transmissions," Hera explains. "When Trayvis mentions a world, it's always the next one he visits."

"How hasn't the Empire hasn't caught him yet?" Kanan asked, curiously.

"Travis is too smart," Ezra explains quickly, with pride. "I mean, he pirates the Empire's own signals just like my folks used to."

"And the clues he puts in his messages about where to meet him are obvious to the locals but go right over the Empire's heads," she added. "Watch."

She then played back the recording of the message. "The sun may have set on the Old Republic, but a new freedom can be won."

"He spoke of the Old Republic and a new freedom," Hera explained the subtle clues.

Ezra tried to decipher it. "Well, everyone on Lothal knows about the New Freedom mural. It's painted on the wall inside the old Republic Senate Building."

"Okay, but when is this meeting supposed to take place?" Zeb wonders.

"He worked the words 'sunset' and 'today' into his message, which was pretty obvious," Ezra stated.

"Yeah, maybe a little too obvious," Kanan commented. He then looked over at Sonic. "You think you can get in touch with the Green Arrow and his team, see if they're listening in on the Empire broadcasts?"

I can meet them at the marketplace," Sonic offered. "I don't want to risk my signal getting hacked and them discovering what we're talking about."

"Then you better get out there," Kanan told him. Sonic then left the room with R2 to meet up with Oliver and Barry and Kanan stopped Ezra. "Ezra, wait, I know you want what that vision said to be true, but-"

"Kanan, you're the one who's telling me to trust my instincts." Ezra reminded him. "Well, I've never felt more sure of anything in my life."

As soon as Ezra left the room, Kanan became concerned about his own need to make his vision a reality. However, Hera was a little confused by what he had said.

"Vision?" Hera questioned.

In the marketplace, Barry was sneaking around while his friend and pet watched him from a small distance away to keep him safe. When he found the meeting place, Sonic dropped down next to Flash, causing him to jump and aim a lightning punch at him. However, he relaxed his aim when he saw it was Sonic and was relieved to see him.

"Sonic." Barry greeted.

"Flash," Sonic greeted him as he dropped onto the ground. "See you got my message."

"Only a handful of people in this universe can tell Morris code." Barry shrugged and then noticed R2 next to him. "Who is your friend?"

"R2-B1, Barry. Barry, R2-B1." Sonic introduced the two to one another. R2 chirped and did a little pitter-patter with his feet. "Did you get any information on what I asked you?" Sonic asked her.

"I hacked into a few of their communication channels," Barry reported to him. "Seems that some Kallus guy is putting together a task force to attack an old Senate building. That sound like anything important to you?"

Sonic nodded and knew that Kallus must have figured out where the meeting was. "Yeah, it does," he said. Then he felt his Force senses go off, causing him to panic. "Hang on!"

Sonic quickly grabbed Barry and leaped upwards, causing him to squeal a little. As he attached himself to the wall, they watched a squadron of Stormtroopers walk around the area. They remained still and silent to ensure they wouldn't be spotted.

"Are you sure you heard something?" one of the troopers asked.

"I thought so," the second admitted, shrugging. "It was probably just a Lothcat."

Then after a moment, they stayed and waited to watch the Stormtroopers leave the area they were in. Deciding it was easier, he brought Barry to the roof where Oliver and his Gundark, Spike, was waiting.

"I've got to report this to my team," Sonic told the two of them. "Let them know that the senator might be walking into a trap."

"Do you need help?" asks Barry.

"No, I think we've got it." Sonic promised them. "But just for the sake of it, mind keeping an eye on the building?"

"We'll be there," Oliver promises as Spike growls a little.

Sonic and the superheroes then went their separate ways, as they needed to prepare for what was about to happen.

Sonic made his way through the city, sneaking past the troopers and heading toward Ezra's old home. Upon arriving, he and R2 found only Chopper aboard and wondered where everyone else was.

"Hey, Chop, where is everyone?" Sonic asked the droid.

Chopper gestured to the hole where they had found the hidden broadcast area that Ezra's parents used to use. "Ah. Thanks." He then leaped down and saw everyone looking over the area. "Hey, everyone. Miss me?"

"Eh, the quiet was nice for a change," Sabine quipped.

"Ouch! Now you're just hurting me." Sonic snidely replied.

"Hey, can you two do this later?" Hera asked the two. She then stood up and looked toward Sonic. "What did you find out?"

"Seems you were right, Kanan," Sonic reported back to them what he had learned. "Kallus has been setting up a squad to capture Trayvis. Oliver and Barry will be there if we need them."

"The Imperials are going to have us outnumbered," Zeb comments.

"But we will have the advantage of surprise," Kanan said.

"What gives you that idea?" Ezra wonders.

"I'm optimistic," Kanan shrugged.

When they reached a few blocks and had a clear view of the old Senate Building they were supposed to meet Trayvis, they kept to the high ground and had the superheroes with them. Sabine was using her helmet to get a look at the area where she saw a shuttle parked near the building.

"I got a dignitary shuttle and two protocol droids on the platform, The Senator might be inside. I am not seeing Imperial forces anywhere." Sabine reported.

"They got to be here somewhere." Kanan comments.

Sonic was using some new features on his suit for reconnaissance and did a quick scan for life in the area. What he came back with was a bunch of Troopers in the area, all of them surrounding the building.

"Yep, he's right. I found them." Sonic told the group. "Gideon, how many of them are there?"

"My scanners are picking up approximately twelve troops, Sonic." Gideon reported to him.

"Okay, any signs of our younger and scarier Jedi hunter?" Sonic wonders, recalling Mara Jade.

"My scanners aren't picking up any trace of her, Sonic." Karen assured him. "Seems this is an Imperial operation without her. Or the Grand Inquisitor."

"My, my, Kallus, being overconfident in ourselves, aren't we?" Sonic quipped to the man who couldn't hear or see him. "No Inquisitors, just troopers."

"Well, that makes things a little easier," Barry commented.

"They could also be hiding somewhere nearby." Oliver just had to be the voice of reason. "We must be cautious. They can move in and swarm us."

"Why haven't they moved in?" Hera started to question.

"It's a trap for us, too." Kanan took a guess. "They're waiting for us to move in."

"So, why don't we walk into a trap for once?" Zeb questions. "We don't even know if your precious Senator is even in there."

"Yes, we do. I saw it." Ezra stated.

Oliver and Barry looked over toward Sonic, who was just as confused. "It's hard to understand, even I don't understand, " Sonic said. Then he looked back over at the group.

"If we can get in there, maybe we fly him out in his own shuttle." Sabine offered.

"How do we get in there without being spotted?" Sonic asks them.

"I might have a way." Ezra offered to them.

Not going any further than that, Ezra led them into a cul-de-sac of sorts where there was an Imperial droid. Chopper went in first; as he approached the droid, he zapped it and shut it down. When he rolled over to the control panel, he opened the access hatch that led into a sewer system, and he even pushed the droid inside. Chopper let out a little cheer and did a little dance of victory.

"Ugh. It's a sewer pipe." Zeb could tell from the smell.

"Yes, it is. And I'm pretty confident to say we will not run into any Stormtroopers down there." Ezra tells them.

"Hm...Gideon, can you give us a scan?" Sonic wonders, kneeling closer to the hole.

"Activating sonar," Gideon said as Sonic heard a ping of sorts, followed by a scan of the sewer system appearing on his screen. "It seems there are a few drones of sorts. And it seems they're on the move. But no signs of troopers."

"Alright," Sonic said as he jumped down and allowed the AI to guide them. "Lead the way."

"Terrific," Sabine sighed as she wasn't stoked on the idea of going into the sewer.

Once everyone made their way inside, Kanan was the last to enter as he looked at Chopper. "Okay, Chopper, you stay here just in case we need a backup-hey!"

He didn't get to finish his sentence when Chopper closed the doorway to get him moving.

They began to make their way through the sewer with Sonic leading them since he had the AI. Ezra was also explaining to them how he came across this way of transport.

"There used to be a lot of water down here, but since the Empire started rationing, it's pretty dry," Ezra explained to them.

"Well, it doesn't help the smell much," Barry commented as he gagged a little.

"Speaking of which, it does smell like you," Sabine commented, getting a look from Zeb who was beside her. "I was referring to Ezra."

Sonic said, interrupting their conversation as they approached a ladder. "This should do it."

When they made their way up the ladder, the doors opened, allowing them to look around. When they saw the shuttle, Kanan decided to play it safe rather than sorry and distracted the droids. Once they were out of the way, they headed towards the building where Kanan had an idea.

"Wait, you two up top," Kanan tells Sabine and Zeb, thinking they should be out of the line of sight.

"I shall join them," Oliver said, preferring the stealthy approach with his Gundark.

The team then separated, with Flash joining the upfront party and heading toward the entrance. When they entered the room, they saw two robot guards and the Senator himself.

"Hello. Who's there?" Trayvis asked.

"Senator Trayvis. We're friends," Ezra said, introducing himself first.

"Welcome!" Trayvis said happily. "I was beginning to worry that nobody on Lothal had received my message."

"Senator Trayvis, you are in terrible danger. The Empire knows you're here," Hera informed him of the oncoming threat.

"That's impossible," Trayvis tells the group.

Sonic however felt his senses go off and knew they were coming. "It's about to become possible!" Then two gunshots are heard as blaster fire took down the Senator's robot guards. "And...great!"

Sonic turned around to get get ready. Flash did the same as he attacks the two troopers with his speed. Kanan and Ezra activated their lightsabers, and Hera moved closer to the Senator as more troopers came out of hiding and surrounded the small group. R2 even chirped a little in terror and hid behind Sonic to stay out of sight.

"Kanan Jarrus, Jedi Knight," Kallus greeted. "Padawan Jabba."

That was something Sonic didn't seem to understand since Kallus was looking at Ezra.

"Outsider, Sonic the Hedgehog." Then he noticed Flash, Kilowog, and Hera.

"And what have we here? Three members of your team I have yet to meet?" He looked at Flash and Kilowog first and noticed the JL logo on their belts.

"I'm going to guess by your attires you're related to our resident Lothal hero the Green Arrow." Then he looked to Hera. "And, Twi'lek, judging by your regalia, you must be our talented pilot."

"Where are the Lasat and the Mandalorian girl?" Minister Maketh Tua questioned from behind the squad. "And the Green Arrow, if he is any indication?"

"If you won't talk, then my troops will become a firing squad," Kallus warned the rebels.

"You better do as he says," Trayvis says to them.

"Ha!" Flash scoffed at the threat. "As if your troops could hit anything!"

"You know, I've gotta agree with him," Sonic said, agreeing with Flash. "Your troops aren't very good at aiming. I mean, how many times have we managed to escape from you guys?"

Meanwhile, up above, Oliver, Sabine, Zeb, and Spike made it to the top of the room where they saw everything. And they also heard Sonic ranting about troop accuracy.

"I'll tell you what," Sonic offered to Kallus. "If any of you can manage to get even one shot off, and if you can actually hit any of us, then we'll talk. Or maybe it's the helmets. You know, why do you guys all wear those outfits? It can't be for protection; you guys get hit once, and you're down. Isn't it hard to tell anyone apart under those? Wait, I said that the first time I encountered you guys, didn't I?"

"How long can he keep talking?" Zeb questioned as he heard all of Sonic's questions.

"From my experience, until someone shoots at him, and even then he'll keep talking," Sabine shrugged as she pulled out some smoke bombs.

"And how do you guys tell each other's genders? And how do you all go to the bathroom? Is it easily removable? I mean, at least get a variety of colors. Why are they all white?" Sonic asked them, still referring to the armor. "I mean, black, brown, even camouflage would be better armor colors. You all look like walking skeletons."

"Enough talking!" Kallus was getting sick of the Hedgehog. "Fire!"

And just like that, Sabine and Zeb dropped the smoke bombs to provide them with some cover. As the smoke filled the room, Green Arrow and Spike dropped down and used his arrows and skills to take down a squad of troops while Spike takes care of the rest.

Not only that, but Spike was beating up the troops senseless as he attack's aggressively like they were rag toys to him. However, he wasn't entirely alone; Sonic started Spin Dashing the troops, using his mask to detect heat signatures. Flash took off as he beats all the troopers, lightning fast taking them down. Zeb leaped down, using his heightened senses to tackle more troops from above.

"Seriously, though, think about what I said," Sonic said as he ran and tackled a trooper with his Speed. "Even a hint of blue would do you a world of favors. I know a pretty good artist if you're interested in a full makeover."

"Sonic, compliment later, let's get out of here!" Sabine said as she threw a grenade.

"Sorry, guys. I'll be sure to give you more tips during our next TED talk!" Sonic quickly ran his way outside, catching up with Sabine quickly. When they made it outside, Sonic grabbed the Mandalorian and leaped them both out of the way of the explosion and towards the landing pad. "Uh, where's the shuttle?"

"Seems the Empire moved it," Hera guessed. "They must have figured we'd use it as our escape route." An Imperial shuttlecraft emerged from the city.

"And that's not the ride we were looking for." Kanan panicked.

The Shuttle opened fire on them as the rebels made their way over to the sewer entrance. Sabine opened it with a device on her wrist and they ran to the pit.

"You want me to go in there?" Trayvis asks.

"It's not so bad once you get used to the smell," Ezra promises.

Zeb scoffed when he heard that. "You never get used to the smell."

"Ain't that the truth." Kilowog agreed with the Lasat.

The troops begin to gang up on them again, and they quickly race their way into the sewer and close it behind them. With that problem out of the way, they quickly ran through the tunnel to be sure they had a head start. Hera looked back only to notice that Trayvis was beginning to fall behind.

"You coming?" Kilowog shouts to him.

"Yes...I'm coming." Trayvis tried to keep up.

"Ezra, wait up," Hera asked for the Padawan to stay back a little.

"Sorry, Senator. We just wanna get out of here as fast as we can." Ezra explains the hurry.

"I am the one who should apologize, my young friend," Trayvis said as he stood back up. "I have been pursued, but never in such a place as this."

"I would have thought you'd be used to close calls," Sonic commented, feeling his senses tingle that something was off.

"Well...I have never come this close to capture before." Trayvis explains.

Sonic wasn't sure he believed it, but he didn't care when he felt his senses go off. "Watch out!" He quickly fired a repulser down the tunnel, impacting a troop coming around the corner. "We gotta move!"

More troops came in as they all ran down the tunnel and took cover in an intersection of tunnels. They began to open fire as the team was split up, between the two pipes.

"Well draw their fire, you get the Senator, Spectre-2 and 7, and the Flash to the hatch," Kanan tells Hera, referring to Trayvis, Sonic, Flash, and herself.

"Wait, how will you find us?" Sonic wonders.

"I'll listen for the annoying quips and questions," Sabine said with a mocking tone toward Sonic. "You're bound to be nearby."

Sonic wasn't entirely sure how to respond to that, and before he could come up with a response, Hera dragged him away. "Think of something clever to say later," she said as they ran down the pipe.

With help from Gideon, Sonic led the crew through the tunnels to try and find out where to go. The tunnels were a gigantic maze, but thanks to Karen's knowledge, she was able to set a trail for them to follow with the least amount of complications.

"You're so well-organized," Trayvis complimented their efforts.

"Ha! I've never heard anyone say that about me before," Sonic admitted.

"To evade the Empire as you have for as long as you have, you must have quite a support system," Trayvis guessed. "Powerful allies, good funding."

"Not really, this is all there is," Ezra admitted.

"You've got to be joking." Trayvis was more than surprised to hear that.

"Every once in a while, we run into more of Sonic's missing friends, like Flash and Green Arrow," Ezra admitted and gestured to the Flash in the back. "But they mostly go their separate ways."

"Yeah, every few days, we find more of my missing friends. We go on a quest with them, and then say goodbye to them." Sonic recapped the past few (Earth) months he had spent with the group.

"I hoped we could learn from you, Senator," Ezra said to him. "Your transmissions have already helped keep us going."

"Just to know someone else is out there has meant a lot," Hera said, keeping her eyes on the Senator.

Then they reached a clearing where Sonic saw there was a giant fan blocking the way. "Uh, Gideon, you said there would be no complications."

"Correction; I said I'd choose the path with minimal complications. This is one of those minimal complications," Gideon corrected him.

Sonic sighed and knew there were probably worse obstacles than a giant fan. "Alright, we can work with this," he said.

He then dropped down, followed with Hera and Ezra following him and smoothly landing, Kilowog and Flash landed smoothly. Trayvis however didn't have as smooth of a drop as they did as it seemed he fell and smacked into the steel floor. He got up on his own and wiped the dust off his suit.

"That must have hurt," Kilowog said.

"How are we going to get past that thing?" Hera questioned.

"I can try to cut the power." Ezra offered.

Hera and Sonic gestured for him to get to work on that. Sonic was going to give him a hand, and Hera handed Trayvis a blaster.

"Watch our backs, will you?" Hera asked as she went to help them.

However, that was when Trayvis showed his true colors as he raised his gun and aimed it at their backs. "That's far enough," he said. That got their attention when they looked over and noticed the gun. "We're not going anywhere."

"Thanks a lot, Force-Sense," Sonic commented as he slowly got up, knowing he couldn't use his blasters now.

R2 chirped to him.

"Yeah, I gotta work on that." Sonic agreed.

"Senator?" Ezra was shocked to see him aim the gun at them. "What are you doing?"

"Put your saber down, boy. Now!" Trayvis demanded him.

Ezra did as he asked, trying not to anger him. "You're with the Empire?" He asked.

"All your transmissions, those planets you visited," Hera commented. "How did word not get out about you?"

"Because no one ever knew," Trayvis explains. "Not even my own droids. Insurgents are not arrested. They're identified and watched. The troublesome ones have... accidents when I'm gone."

"But you're not a traitor," Ezra stated, trying to make sense of everything. "You're a voice of freedom, a light in the darkness like my parents."

"Parents? Nobody has spoken against the Empire on Lothal since..." Trayvis seemed to put it together. "The Bridger transmissions. I remember them. The original voice of freedom. You're their son."

"Why?!" Ezra questions.

"I joined the Empire as your parents should have. For their lives, for you. Your parents were very brave and very foolish." Trayvis mocked Ezra. "Where are they now? I'll tell you, my boy. They're gone!"

Ezra started to have a bit of a crisis when Hera took a step forward. "They're not gone, Trayvis."

"Stop right there!" Trayvis raised his gun at her.

"As long as we fight, all that they spoke out for will live on," Hera proclaimed.

"I said stop!" Trayvis demanded, trying to shoot. But then he realized his gun wouldn't fire. "What?"

Hers took the gun and punched him in the face. "A true rebel would know if he's holding a charged blasted."

"You knew?" Sonic was shocked to see.

"He tried to get us to surrender," she explains. "He wasn't tired when he stopped; he was waiting for Kallus to catch up. And he wanted our secrets."

"There is officially nobody in the universe we can trust," Kilowog commented sarcastically.

That was when the others showed up through the second pipe and dropped down to join them. They were confused when they saw Trayvis on the floor unconscious.

"What happened to the senator?" Oliver wonders.

"He's working for the Empire." Sonic recapped what they missed.

"Isn't there anyone on our side?" Sabine asks.

"So, I guess he stays here," Kanan says to the team. "What's the plan?"

"We were going to stop the fan and get through," Hera explains what they were planning.

"Okay, but what will keep our bucket friends from following?" Sabine asks them.

"We only need to stop it long enough for us to get past it," Kanan says.

Sonic then gets an idea and scanned the fan's speed and strength. "Gideon, you think we could accomplish that?"

"With Kilowog's power, I believe he can hold the fan back for a few moments, Sonic," Gideon confirmed this by doing a few calculations. "But if he does it wrong, it could shred him."

"Then, we better do this right," Kilowog quipped as he cracked his knuckles.

Using his constructs, they watched as Kilowog prepared to use his fingers to grip the fan. While he was concentrating on that, troopers showed up and opened fire, causing the rebels to cover their friend by taking them down. Once Kilowog got an opening, he grabbed the small opening and managed to get a grip, but it also dragged him along the floor until his anchor held him down.

"Go! Go! Go!" Kilowog cried, uncertain of how long he could keep this up.

Everyone ran to the other end just as Kallus showed up. "Blast the Jedi!" But it was too late, as they were on the other end, and they released the fan.

The team ran for it while R2 jumped while Kallus realized their Senator had been discovered to be a traitor and that the news would spread that he was indeed a traitor. When they made it to the sewer entrance, it was sealed shut thanks to the Empire. But Oliver's Gundark used his claws to get the welding undone and got them out.

Seemed Chopper was upset since he was hard at work trying to undo the welding himself and was angered with how fast Spike the Gundark undid it.

"Hey, you're supposed to be glad to see us!" Kanan reminded the droid as they ran.

Once the flames had died down, Kallus returned to his office and tried to figure out what he was going to do next. That was until the doorway opened and Mara Jade stepped inside. She raised her hand and lifted Kallus into the air. He grabbed at his neck, trying to breathe, but she made it difficult.

"You set a trap for these rebels, and the man whom our Emperor has ordered me to bring in," Mara Jade listed off why she was so angry. "And you let him slip through your fingers...again?"

Kallus tried to defend himself, but he was focused on breathing. "Please...

Mara Jade wanted to hear what he had to say before dropping him. "Defend yourself," she said. "I love watching the pleading eyes of my victims."

Kallus defended, "We almost had him. But I didn't expect him to bring the Green Arrow, his team, or his pet."

"Well, lucky for you, this is no longer your issue," Mara Jade stated, noticing Kallus's look of confusion. "I have asked for the return of Grand Moff Tarkin to relinquish you of your command. Now, the Empire will finally have these rebels." She then marched her way out of the office with a smile. "And I will finally have Sonic in my grasp. And then all of the Outsiders will fall."