Authors Note: Fireyone here I hope you all enjoy the story I put a lot of thought into it so please enjoy.

Star Wars

The Rebel Squadron Chronicles:

First Flight

Written by: Fireyone

The outer rim, quite a nasty place where the empires control isn't as controlling as within the inner systems where they can exert their wonderful rules of tyranny upon them. In the outer rim many criminal organizations have grown and thrived even before the Empires coming into power. One of these Organizations was the hutts this mostly coming from and more specifically Jabba the hutt. His power reached quite far mostly to Nal hutta but, then again this story isn't about Jabba! Specifically it focuses on a young man of only Eighteen and his name is Fireyone Anfis and currently he is a in a Flight for his life.

Somewhere within a small field of Asteroids an old YT-1200. Its circular frame and small cockpit extending from what one could call the front of the vessel. The ship banked and dived within the asteroids trying to avoid the skilled pilots of the empire. The Ships quickly took another dive to avoid being smashed by two asteroids. The Ties maneuvered around the asteroids and searched the area for their lost target. Five minutes later one of the Fighter spotted the Freighter diving away from another asteroids. "Hound 1 this is Hound 5 Target has been found moving to engage" Came the sound over the comm of Hound 1 headset. "Roger Hound 5 all units move to engage." The Ties Quickly Ramped up their speed and dashed after the YT-1200.

Inside the YT-1200 sparks were flying in the cockpit. The pilot was letting a string of Correllian curse fly from his mouth as he tried getting everything settled down. "Great there go the Stabilizers! B5 If we make it out of this I'm getting us a new ship!" He yelled out to his droid counterpart. The astromech turned it domed head and made a smart remark back. "Better hold up to your words Fireyone or I'm gone!" Stated the Astromech More specifically B5 is a R3-series astromech with a clear dome with red patches on the dome but, his body is a dark navy blue with red on all the little compartment doors. Fireyone turned upward and to the right this brought it into a spot that was pretty clear of asteroids but, led straight to the Victory class Star Destroyer they came from. Though it may not be the best choice to escape his pursuers and get the spice were it needed to be on time he had to take it or this would be his final job with Jabba and not the good kind of last job.

Hound 1 noticed the Freighter heading through an opening in the asteroid field. He quickly ordered the squad after the Freighter before the opening closed up. The Tie increased the speed and made their way to the opening. The dodged a few of the asteroids but, unfortunately lost Hounds 4 and 7 due to the asteroid coming up from under them. Hound 1 wasn't even sad about it he knew that these were the kid of danger a pilot faced every time he took off in his fighter. They entered the opening and began firing their Laser cannons at the old Freighter which shield were barely holding against the barrage of the ten Tie Fighters.

The Freighter rocked as the laser fire made impact of the shields. Fireyone reached across the control board and turned on a few switches. B-5 quickly inserted his data socket arm into the droid slot in cockpit after being thrown from it by the laser fire. "B-5 Divert power to the aft shields and then divert power from the guns to engines and let's get out of here!" Fireyone kept his hand on the controls and hoped B-5 could get what he asked done. Once B-5 was back in the slot he gave the ship computer the orders and with a few minute the ship was rocking less and was picking up speed. Fireyone was smiling broadly at this turn of events; he could feel that they were going to make it out of here alive. He quickly punched the coordinates into the hyperdrive and watched as it charged up. The Freighter shot out of the asteroid field at high speeds and turned away from the Star Destroyer that just sat there watching. The Ties still hot on the freighter tail were pouring on the laser fire but, it was a useless gesture five seconds out of the asteroid field later in a flicker of Pseudo Motion the ship was gone.

Hound 1 and the rest of his squadron slowed their Ties to a stop and stared at in the direction of where their quarry had escaped. "All units return to the Ravager for Debriefing." Was all Hound one could say at this point he felt angry at himself for no being able to take down a single smuggler this also would tarnish his wonderful record.

Fireyone let out a sigh of relief as he closed his eyes. He smiled to himself then turned and looked at B5 who was unplugging himself from the ship. Fireyone turned and looked out the cockpits view port and saw the blue and black one would normally see in hyperspace. "So how much time do we have before we're for the transfer?" He asked his droid as he shut down a few un-needed systems. B5 turned his dome head and let out a smart reply. "Well we would have more if it weren't for your own stupidity! But, will be there with a few minutes to spare shouldn't be more than a two hour flight through Hyperspace." "That's great at least Garv won't be able to complain to Jabba" said Fireyone smiling "now lets just hope I get enough money to be able to buy some kind of ship." Fireyone got up and left the cockpit heading into one of the ships cargo areas was littered with boxes full of spice. He headed to what looked like a small Kitchen alcove and opened the refrigerator of sorts and pulled out a small bottle of Correllian Ale then he opened a small door which was his pantry and in the pantry he grabbed a few Quicksnack bars. He sat at a small table which was small it could really only seat himself and plate of food plus drink. B5 rolled into the room and jacked into a recharge unit. Fireyone looked up at the droid then opened his mouth to speak. "B5 this is our last job with Jabba. Once make the drop off I'm going have Garv give Jabba the message saying I quit. Then I think'll see about joining the rebellion." B5 Turned his dome quite quickly to look at him. If the droid could he'd have a face of shock and disbelief on. "What did you say!? Your going to join the Rebellion!?" "I said I'll think about beside I may not totally like the rebellion but, I do hate the Empire and you know that" was Fireyone response. B5 turned his dome and shook for no real reason Fireyone could but, then b5 spoke up. "Well itsa your life so yeah go for it." Was all B5 had to say about that and then they were quiet.

The Ravager made her way out of the system after all the patrols were called back. With a flicker of Pseudomotion the ship jumped into hyperspace. Hound 1 was not happy with his pilots today and even more so with himself the group. The debriefing basically went as follows. Hound 1 stood in front of his squad and discussed that if they couldn't catch one simple little smuggler than they need a harder training regiment starting with Asteroid maneuvering. The commander of the Ravager, Commander Kartin, entered the room right after the brief debriefing. He wanted to speak to YTX-2978 otherwise known as Hound 1 about what happened out there but, before he could even ask Hound 1 was explaining to him. "Well I'll see to it your squad gets the extra training the rest of the squads pulled in some smugglers and were taking them to nearest prison now I hope next time your squad can capture a smuggler." "Don't worry we intend to sir" with that Hound one headed off to his quarters."

In another system of open space an even older freighter a Barloz class Freighter named the Crypt keeper waiting for Fireyones YT-1200 to appear on the scanners. The ships captain was a man one didn't want to anger his name was Garv and he was a very important man within Jabba organization. He turned to his Rodian co-pilot who opened his mouth to speak "So captain what if he doesn't show? Do we track him down and give him a little present?" He asked Garv in Rodian. Garv smiled at the though of beating Fireyone to near death he never did like his punk attitude. "Well I guess so if he…" The sensors siren turned on as it scanned the right ship ID entering the system and it was none other than Fireyone YT-1200. Garv was both pleased and not pleased with this turn on events. He was glad the shipment on time but, this meant he wouldn't get to beat Fireyone at all. "Well he lucked out get him on the comm." Five minutes later both ships were docked with each ships docking tube attached. Garvs crew quickly unloaded the spice and was off Fireyone ships. "Well Fireyone looks like everything is in order and here's your payment…" Garv handed Fireyone a datacard that would get him his cash. "Thank you Garv most appreciated" he said with a grin he turned around and exited the Crypt keeper.

As soon as Fireyone stepped onto his ship he disengaged the docking tube and then he ran to the Cockpit B5 already at his Droid control slot. He took his seat and maneuvered away from the Crypt Keeper just far enough to be out of Firing range but, within comm. range. He quickly opened a Channel to his ship and opened his mouth to speak. When the Garv ship connected to his he spoke. "Well Guys its been fun but, you can tell jabba my work with him ends here so long!" With that's he closed the channel and speed off. He banked Right and shot forward.

Garv was in shock at what he just heard and also excited because now he could beat on Fireyone! "AFTER HIM NOW GET THE GUNS ON HIM NOW!" He screamed at his crew. The gunner quickly ran to the latter and got in the seat and began firing uselessly at him. The Crypt turned to follow and with amazing speed turned and shot forward and was gaining on the YT-1200. Garv opened up some hidden forward guns that he could control and fired them. The shot hit the aft shield but, didn't cause in structural damage. "You little punk your going down." He said to himself focused on his target.

Fireyone felt the shots come at him and he got up from his seat then looked to B5. "I'm going to need to you to fly the ship. While I give them some fire and get the hyperdrive up and get us to Correlia I think I can get us a ship there!" The ship rocked as more laser fire slammed on the aft shields. Fireyone climbed into the ships topside laser cannon and turned it completely around. He lined up the Crypt Keeper in his sights and fired as many times as the gun would allow before having to cool down. B5 down in the cockpit accessed the Maneuvering controls and set the hyperdrive for Correllia. He turned the ship hard left and dived. Fireyone responded to the and kept the gun as best he could trained on Garv ship though not much luck on hitting him. B5 checked to see how long it was before the Hyperdrive could ingaged another minute so they had to dodge Garv that long. "Fireyone we got a minute before the Hyperdrive is ready to go." Fireyone looked through the guns sites and fired off another five shots at Garvs ship lucky for them it could handle high speed turns like his YT-1200. Grave shot off a few missle then which caught up and slammed into the ship. The Damaged the hull as they past through the shields but, luckily no major damage was caused but, it did cause a loss of power to the weapon and controls leaving them open to attack. "Great hopefully the Hyperdrive will kick in soon…."

Garv was a please with himself and his crew from what he could tell Fireyones ship lost flight control and that meant he'd be able to get a docking tube on it. He quickly opened a channel to gloat. "Well Fireyone It looks you guys are coming with me might want to park that old crate of your….." Within the next few second the YT-1200 once again, with a flicker of Pseudomotion, vanished into Hyperspace. Once again Garv was not happy and this time someone was going to be in pain and that was unfortunately for him the gunner would be the one paying for the failure.

Fireyone let out another sigh of relief if there was one thing worse than a squad of Imperial Ties it had to be facing the wrath of Garv and, boy was his wrath bad. He switched off all the system controls for the gunners seat and headed down the latter. After he got down from the control seat he turned and looked inside the cockpit and saw a B5 heading his way. "Well now you've done it firing on Garv. Now he's going to have all manner of things after us." Said the droid as it rolled up to him. Fireyone patted B5 on the head and sighed once more then smiled at the small droid. "Yeah but, hopefully once we get a ship and join the Rebels will be well guarded….or to busy attacking the Empire to be found by him and his cronies." To this he went to the cock pit and checked the ETA on their course to Correllia. "Well looks like were going home. I think I can find a ship in much better condition than this one. Though she has been good to us I think its time we upgrade to a better ship." With that Fireyone sat at the control looking over data from the past few hours. B5 then moved back to his spot and they waited for their journey to Corellia to end.