Anakin didn't try to fight the smile Ahsoka's quip elicited. "And she's already at it." He said that to himself.

He thumbed his comm again, "Haven't I instructed you about the proper Padawan attitude before?"

He boosted his speed. Once their ships were 'passed' a certain point as determined by the simulation, vulture droids appeared on the horizon of their trajectory.

A lot of them. And they were chasing a lone shuttle bearing Republic markings. It was doing it's best to evade the blasts of the droid vessels, but there was only so much a shuttle could do.

And if vulture droids were present, that meant their flagship wasn't far behind.