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Chapter 36: The Last Stand

As our fleet exited hyperspace, the desert world of Jakku was in full view, with the Imperial fleet consisting of a single super star destroyer, along with 20 to 30 regular star destroyers around the massive fleet destroyer engaged with most of the Alliance fleet, both sides battering each other heavily, it remained me a lot of the Battle of Endor, the other major engagement I took part in.. However it was not our job to engage the fleet, as Alliance soldiers have just began to land down on Jakku's surface to battle the Imperial ground forces stationed there.

"All wings report in." Blu's voice came through.

"Blue Five standing by." I reported in as my turn came.

"Lock S-foils in attack position and may the force be with us for this last time." Blu told the squadron as we split into our three flights of four, escorting down troop reinforcements.

Just like on Crait, TIE fighters from the surface came up to engage us, looking to shot down as many troop transports as possible. As the flight I was leading, escorting three U-Wings, several TIEs came charging at us.

"Blue Seven and Eight, stay with the U-Wings, me and my wingman got the TIEs." I ordered.

"Roger that Blue Five." Blue Seven replied.

"Lets go Tiago." I told my wingman.

"Right behind you." Tiago replied as broke off from our escort positions to engage the TIEs.

The TIEs, having made an unsuccessful attack run were coming back for around, only they forgot that me and Tiago have broken off and were chasing them. As the TIEs started firing on the U-Wings, we came from above, destroying a TIE each and causing the other two to break off to avoid getting hit by the debris from their comrades.

"Two down, two to go." I told myself as the two TIEs tried to surround the U-Wings by firing from both sides. "Tiago, you take the one going on the left, I got the right one."

"Copy that." Tiago replied as he turned left.

As I turned right, the TIE, noticing that I was following him, took evasive maneuvers, trying to shake me off, he suddenly did a loop, flying up and around as he was now behind me. Green lasers started going above my cockpit as a voice entered through comms.

"Lisa, hang on, I'm coming!" Tiago shouted as I guessed he already finished off his TIE.

"Show off…" I thought in my head before replying. "Don't worry, I learned a new flying trick…"

As the TIE thought he had me, I suddenly slowed down and got pulled the flight stick towards me, so I was higher and pointing downward. The TIE, not having enough time to react flew right through my laser fire as I shredded him to pieces.

"Since when did you learn that?" Tiago asked.

"You don't think I spent all my time away from flying just preparing for the babies did you?" I chuckled as I got serious. "Blue Seven and Eight, how are you and the transports?"

"We're good Blue Five, the transports are close to landing." Blue Seven answered.

"Excellent, me and Blue Six are coming to regroup with you." I said back as me and Tiago headed on down towards the surface.

As we got closer to Jakku's surface, we could see a huge battle taking place between the Alliance and Imperial armies, with fighter and bomber squadrons from both sides either providing air support or fighting each other. I saw Blue Seven and eight up ahead as we regrouped and started to search for targets. I could see several TIE bombers up ahead, diving down upon Alliance soldiers and unloading their bombs.

"Blue Flight, lets go for those bombers up ahead, everyone pick a target." I ordered as everyone acknowledged my order.

As I was the leader of the flight, I fired first, since TIE bombers were more bulky and bigger than TIE fighters, but slower and far less maneuverable, it wasn't hard for me to get a solid lock on my target, but it took more shots to destroy the bomber. The TIE bombers, just finished with their bombing run had no time to respond to our attack as we all got our bombers, saving those Alliance soldiers as the survivors of the bombing run waved at us and went back into the battle. We had no time to respond to the thank you as three TIE Interceptors saw us and wanted revenge, coming up from above in a surprise attack.

"Blue Flight, break off!" I ordered in a yelling voice.

"I'm hit!" Blue Eight shouted as his shields were gone and the back of his fighter was engulfed in flames, spinning out of control before crashing down upon the surface.

"Take evasive maneuvers and destroy those Interceptors Blue Flight!" I shouted as I put my fighter in a dive, zigzagging to avoid the Interceptor getting a target lock on me.

This guy must be an ace as I flew left, right, up, every direction to try to lose this guy and get behind him, but he managed to always stay behind me and then it happened… The kicking in my belly started again.

"No boys!" I shouted to my belly as if they could hear. "Mommy's busy right now!" That kicking gave me the motivation I needed however as I noticed some of the desert world's rare clouds.

I flew right into the clouds, the Interceptor hot on my tail as he kept up his fire until he could no longer see me through the clouds. Little did the Interceptor know that I slowed down enough that he flew right past me and came out of the other side, of course I was no longer in front of him as I powered up my engines and came bursting out of the clouds, shooting my red lasers as I broke off one of the Interceptors' wings, the TIE spinning and falling down before exploding.

"Blue Six, Seven, do you two need help?" I called to my other flight members.

"I'm good." Blue Seven replied.

"Good here too, what now?" Tiago asked me as there was currently no TIEs coming at us.

I thought about it, but then Alex beeped at me, making my decisions for me.

"What is it Alex?" I asked my droid as the droid beeped back. "Distress message, put it through." I told my droid as a panicked voice came in.

"Calling to any Alliance fighters, this is Captain Lindsay of Twilight Company, me and my men are pinned down by walkers and stormtroopers, we need air support!" The captain shouted as I knew right away who this captain was.

"Captain Lindsay, isn't that the guy who saved me on Crait?" Tiago asked me, having heard the same message.

"Yes, it is." I replied as I talked to Alex. "Alex, get me on line with Captain Lindsay." And Alex got the captain. "Captain Lindsay, this is Blue Five of Blue Squadron, remember me?" It took a couple of seconds for the captain reply.

"Yes I do." The captain answered.

"It's time for me to return the favor, where are you?" I asked.

"Just south of Carbon Ridge, our U-Wing got shot down and we're barely holding on." The captain told me in a fearful voice.

"Hang on Captain, we're coming, mark your position with a flare when you see us above so we know your exact position." I told the captain as I asked Alex to pinpoint where the ridge was, which luckily was not too far. "Okay Blue Flight, lets save those troops."

As we arrived over the ridge, low enough for the captain to see us, but not too low in order for the Imperials to fire at us, I could see a couple of AT-ATs, with several AT-STs, along with stormtroopers laying down suppressing fire on a drowned U-Wing and the area around the troop transport, laser fire going back and fro. I then saw a green flare begin shot, marking the exact position of Captain Lindsay.

"Okay Blue Flight, target those AT-ATs first, switch to your torpedoes, but make sure to watch your fire, don't want to hit any of our troops by accident." I ordered the other two X-Wings with me.

Diving down, the Imperials noticed us and tried to shoot us down, but we stayed high enough that their fire was ineffective. Picking one of the AT-ATs, I let loose with a torpedo, watching as it impacted the heavily armored walker and ripped the metal skin apart, the "head" of the walker blowing apart as the metal beast fell on its side. The other AT-AT was destroyed to the same effect as we came around for another pass.

"Okay, Blue Flight, great job, now switch to your lasers and kill those smaller walkers." I ordered as we gained some attitude and turned around for another pass, spraying the target area with red laser fire, ripping apart a couple of the AT-STs and causing the stormtroopers to either lay down or run for cover as our lasers could melt and put a huge hole in a bird with ease, regardless of their armor.

We made several passes, destroying all the walkers attacking Captain Lindsay and his men, along with whatever stormtroopers were unlucky to have caught a powerful laser blast to the chest.

"Thanks for the assistance Blue Flight, I think me and my men can take it from here." Captain Lindsay's voice came through comms with a relieved tone of voice.

"You're welcome captain, glad I could help." I replied. "Okay Blue Flight, lets look for more targets."

However Alex was beeping crazily at me as I calmed him down.

"Calm down buddy, what is it?" I asked my droid and he replied that a message to all Alliance forces was coming from Admiral Ackbar. "Well okay, put it through." I would regret hearing the message as the admiral had a tone of alarm.

"I repeat, all Alliance forces on the ground around Carbon Ridge, retreat! Massive amount of debris incoming!" The admiral shouted.

And as I looked up, I saw it… The lone super star destroyer was disabled and crashing down upon Jakku's surface, much like how the super star destroyer at Endor, the Imperial flagship, was disabled and crashed down upon the second Death Star's surface.

"Blue Flight, hurry, lets get away before we get caught by the debris field." I ordered the other two X-Wings as the massive warship came closer and closer to the surface.

As it crashed down upon the surface, I could feel the shockwave of tons of metal hitting the sandy surface as I could imagine both sides on the ground feeling a quake. As I looked down, shaking off the feeling of the shockwave, I could see that the crash put up a temporary sandstorm mixed in with black smoke, blinding everyone around the area. I hope that Captain Lindsay and other Alliance forces had the time to escape, for the Imperial forces… Well I hope that a number of them were crushed under the long underbelly of the warship.

Admiral Ackbar's voice then came again.

"To all Alliance forces fighting on the ground and in the air, the Imperial fleet is retreating to the atmosphere, prepare for more debris fields falling down." The admiral warned the Alliance forces as soon enough we could see the remaining star destroyers' triangle forms start to appear from above and if there were star destroyers, than there would most certainly be hundreds of TIE fighters, Interceptors, and bombers that were still left.

"Blue Flight, prepare for a tougher fight." I told the other two as I breathed in and out, knowing the battle was far from over…

Now I did forget to say that I am taking influence again from the Star Wars Battlefront 2 campaign, but I changed the part with Captain Lindsay from the game. In the game, his support comes from Inferno Squad and orbital bombardments, but I wanted to have Lisa return the favor in one way.

Next chapter, we're going to include the Inferno squad characters again, so prepare yourself for that!

See everybird later!