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Epilogue

"And you are certain that there is nothing salvageable?"

"Yes, my Master," Darth Vader answered as he knelt before the image of the Emperor Sheev Palpatine. "There is nothing left of the Zillo Beast or its genetic material. The destruction of Atlas and Mantle saw to that." 

"Everything of value in the Academy was destroyed." Princess Azula added.

"And the Kaiju all bowed to this. . . Gojira?" The Emperor asked next. "General Schnee and the other leaders of Remnant are not responding to our calls?"

"Yes," Vader replied.

"And what of Shredder? Megatron?"

"There is no sign of them," Azula replied. "The Batman may not have killed Shredder, but the Foot may have taken him to one of his secret bases. Megatron is missing and Starscream had declared to be the new leader and the Decepticons have left our forces."

"This is of no consequence," the Emperor assured them. "The Rebels have only forced us to place more resources towards our true endeavors. We will find other ways of maintaining order in the meantime."

Both Vader and Azula supposed that he was right. But Vader couldn't shake the nagging feeling. Something he head thought of after everything was done. 

"Did you suspect any of the project leads or staff to be working with the Rebels?" he asked. "That the project was compromised?"

"The possibility did cross my mind." The Emperor admitted. "It would explain the delays in the project. At the very least, your actions routed out the traitor in the end. They are no longer a concern."

"Yes, but did you suspect a Rebel attack was forthcoming?" Vader pressed further. "Is that why you really sent me? In an attempt to insure their destruction in some manner?"

Vader's thoughts were not with precedent, Azula knew that. Darth Sidious had done similar things in the past. It was not without reason that he'd have plans within plans. 

More importantly to Vader, a part of him had started to wonder why he had been sent along with Azula and not someone else. Did he suspect who it would draw out? The Emperor himself seemed to sense his feelings on the matter.

"You believe I was offering you an opportunity to capture Skywalker's Apprentice," Palpatine inferred. "As well as crush the fledgling Rebellion you had frightened away from Lothal."

Azula frowned, looking away at the mention of the other apprentice. Former apprentice, she reminded herself. "It has occurred to me as a likely explanation," Vader answered promptly.

"I was not fully certain of what would occur," the Emperor assured him. "Let alone the intrusion of this Gojira, if that is what you are insinuating. I merely felt its possibility. As I told you time and again, Lord Vader, what events I foresee are for me alone to know in full. What I do with that information is for me to decide."

"I would have been more prepared had I known she would arrive," Vader elaborated.

"It was not a certain vision," the Emperor snapped back. "I didn't wish for you to endanger the project with a potential miscalculation of my knowledge. And in any case, how can you be sure she was there?"

Darth Vader raised his head and looked sternly at his Master. "I am certain that it was her," he assured. "It could no other Jedi."

"Ex-Jedi, if your suspicions are true," Palpatine corrected. "She has grown more powerful than we realized. She and the other would-be Jedi are a threat that grows ever greater with each passing moment."