Sonic Come Home

## Premise

When a band of bounty hunters leads Daniel and Rhino into a deadly trap on Vanqor, it's up to Sonic to battle his way back to the Valley of Peace and warn the Masters.

## Synopsis

The Venator-class Star Destroyer Endurance has crashed on the reserve Vanqor after the sabotage caused by young Boba Fett in his quest to kill Master Thundering Rhino. Hoping that Admiral Kilian, Commander Ponds, and others may still be alive, Rhino and Daniel transfer the survivors to a Kung fu medical ship before heading down to the reserve to look for survivors. Daniel points out upon coming across the ship that, while it is in a terrible shape, the bridge appears to be in one piece. The two mesterne set down behind the ship, at which point Sonic say that he has a 'bad feeling about this place'. Rhino chastises Daniel for encouraging individuality in his hedgehog brother. Rhino, Daniel, Sonic and R8-B7 proceed to the ship, unaware of gundarks following them.

Once inside, the masters come across clone troopers killed not by the crash but by execution; Rhino theorizes that those who tried to assassinate him may have come down looking for his body and killed the survivors. The droids are sent to search for survivors while the masters head to the bridge. In the process of their search Sonic and R8 are attacked by a pair of gundarks: R8 is ripped apart and Sonic is knocked across the floor.

On the bridge, Rhino and Daniel come across several dead clones, but note there is no sign of the Admiral or Ponds. Rhino reports this to the medical ship in orbit, which proceeds to leave for the nearest Kung fu medical station. Noticing a Mandalorian helmet sitting on a piece of rubble, Daniel advances. Rhino, spotting the helmet, is reminded of Jango Fett, the template for the Clone army, whom Rhino killed on Lost City of Arkus, and then remembers his son, Boba, who watched his father die at Rhino's hands. Too late, Rhino uses the unstoppable strength to pull Daniel away from the helmet, which explodes, severely damaging the bridge and causing debris to rain down on the gundarks that were advancing on Sonic; one is killed while the other flees.

In the distance Aurra Sing, Bossk, Boba and Castas watch the explosion with satisfaction. Boba insists on finding Rhino's body, but his companions initially refuse, stating they have enough to sell Master Bear with their three hostages; Admiral Kilian, Commander Ponds, and a navigation officer. In the end Aurra and Boba win out, leaving Bossk to guard the hostages as they head to the downed ship.

Sonic, now realizing the master and his brother may be in danger, heads to the bridge and finds Rhino unconscious and Daniel wounded, both trapped under rubble. As Sonic tries to move the debris, he causes the bridge to shudder, and Daniel warns him against it. Instead he instructs his brother to head back to the kung fu starfighters and send a message to the Jade Palace in the Valley of Peace  for help. Sonic proceeds to leave the bridge, but spots the bounty hunters approaching and instead decides to try and halt their advance. He first pushes debris down a tunnel the bounty hunters are coming through, then closes the doors on them. When they come up another tunnel, he pushes yet more debris and boxes at them, before detaching a grenade from a dead clone and dropping that down the tunnel. Deterred, Aurra declares that they will instead use Slave I to destroy the remains of the ship, thereby ensuring the master's death.

Sonic then proceeds to the kung fu starfighters, but is accosted on the way by the remaining gundark. Using quick thinking him attaches the gundark, via a cable, to one of the starfighters and activates the fighter's engines, crashing it some miles away and killing the gundark. Having witnessed the explosion, and realizing that it came from near the kung fu starfighters, the bounty hunters believe Rhino has survived and jam all communications before heading to the location of the starfighters in Slave I. Sonic activates the remaining starfighter and pilots it away from Slave I, now shooting at it, and into the atmosphere. Seeing this, Rhino states that his astromech was meant to get help, not abandon them, but Daniel returns his faith in his brother.

Avoiding the blaster fire from Slave I, the hedgehog gets into the sky, but its communication device is destroyed: the only solution now is to use the hyperdrive rings and get to the Valley of Peace. Realizing the  hedgehog's plan, Boba fires at the hyperdrive rings but succeeds only in destroying one, allowing Sonic to use the other to escape. Aurra states not to worry, as she can draw Rhino to her using the hostages, before Slave I makes the jump to hyperspace.

In the Valley of Peace, Sonic interrupts a meeting with Chao's droid and replays Daniel's message to several other masters. Chao, Esther and Corporal Comet, along with Commander Wolffe, make their way to Vanqor with rescue ships. They help the injured masters just as the bridge of the Endurance collapses. Rhino, at the end, compliments Sonic on his bravery.