-1Chapter twenty

Blitzkrieg down

"We need to evacuate!" a tech shouted before being shot in the leg with a plasma blaster. Both Order and Empire troops had been dispatched to attack The Blitzkrieg.

"These guys have bad aim…" a trooper laughed at his observation before getting his unmentionables shot off.

Lucky rolled out, shooting down several Empire troopers before going for cover, "I'm running out of ammo!"

"Why not go make a bet with them, you are sure to win, Lucky." Blade hissed at Lucky, obviously not really caring about the sure-shot card shark. He shot down a few clumsy troopers.

"Aw shucks General! I would but…I don't think I could get close enough to talk card bets before they would shoot me down." Lucky shot at another that Blade had missed. This didn't make the General much happier at this point.

Mer and HB finally reached the small group of rebels. "Smeety!" Blade sounded suspiciously pleased to see Mer, "perfect timing as always. Why not go out there and give those guys shooting at poor defenseless us a speech about harming innocents or some shit."

Mer almost blew Blades head off with her volume, "WE HAVE TO GO! THERE IS NO TIME FOR SILLY SPEECHES!" She tugged on the general's skin tight uniform, worry in her eyes.

"That's what I said!" The bleeding tech yelled in agony.

Blade growled darkly when more Empire Elite troops flooded the hallway, shouting their commands to one another. "Fine let's go!" The group ran as fast as their legs could carry them.

On the way to the hanger, the group took out several more bands of Empire and Order grunts, rouges, troopers, and full on squads. Their small band soon became a platoon of rebel troops gathering together. "We're almost there!" Lucky shouted.

The platoon came into the hanger. Fine had already loaded pretty much all of the rebellion into evacuation pods, set for the nearest planet. He spotted Blade with the last of the Rebellion. He loaded them up and set out in his own pod. This ship was going down, there was no stopping it.

The Blitzkrieg, however, still had a few passengers aboard. They did not make it to the hanger for each their own reason. In their honor, the crew built a memorial out of parts they found in the wreckage. Many names were engraved. Among them, Head of Science Dirt, Head of strategy Mono, Vortian Vexa-Lai, and Mer (Smeety). Dirt, Vexa and Mono were trapped in the lab. Mer was last seen with Blade and his group, but never made it onto the hanger. The crew wept knowing not only were huge figures in the Rebellion like Dirt and Mono gone, many Vortian rebels saw Vexa's death as a wakeup call for them. And Mer…well…the situation would have seemed a little brighter with her smiling face right now.

…Their bodies…

…Were never found…