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Finally, the conclusion of the Battle of Jakku and the war is coming!

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Chapter 37: That Surreal Moment

With the destruction of the super star destroyer, just like at Endor, the Imperials became disorganized, however unlike at Endor they fought that much harder as the battle came down to Jakku's atmosphere. Every size and class of ship, from tiny fighters like myself to the huge capital ships of the fleets became mixed up as laser shots and missiles of every color filled the sky. If this wasn't a battle I would have thought it was a grand celebration of our victory, minus the ships falling from the sky to crash down on the surface.

"Come on Blue Flight, lets head for those TIEs." I told the other two X-Wings with me as we chased after several TIEs.

As the sky was more full of fire from both sides, there was a chance of friendly fire and it did happen… As Tiago was to the right of me, a shot from one of our blockade runners hit Tiago, causing him to lose his shields.

"I'm hit!" Tiago shouted.

"How bad is it!?" I shouted back as I became worried.

"I'm good, lost my shields however, Ashley get them back up and fast." Tiago answered and then got his droid to work.

"Blue Seven, stay with Tiago, I got the TIEs." I ordered.

"Alone?" Blue Seven asked, questioning my decision.

"Just do it." I replied in a stern voice as I returned my focus to the TIEs.

As the four TIEs saw me chase after them alone, they split up into two groups to surround me, I wasn't going to let them do that, so I continued flying straight, which confused the TIEs as they come back to me, now behind me, but that was the plan. I spotted a chance to kill them as there was a burning star destroyer up ahead, flying through the thick black smoke coming from the huge warship, the TIEs lost sight of me. Only I put the smoke between me and the TIEs, pulling the flight stick all the way to the right, I emerged behind the TIEs and shot down two of them with several bursts of fire. The other two panicked as they broke off.

"Where are you two going…" I said in my head as I picked a target and chased after the TIE, shooting him down before he managed to get far away.

Looking for the other TIE, I knew by now he must be behind me and that was true as the TIE started spraying his green laser fire at me. He was determined to not end up like his squadmates and stayed with me, keeping me in his sights.

"Damm, this guy's good." I cursed as I explored my options.

As I went through them, the TIE blew up as red laser fire came from the left, the TIE flying straight into the fire as he had no time to dodge. As I looked back and saw the TIE gone, there were two X-Wings now as a voice came through comms.

"Friendly X-Wing, this is Iden Versio of Inferno Squad, looks like you needed a little help." A female voice spoke to me.

"Thanks Inferno Squad, but I could have killed him myself." I replied in a smug tone.

"Well glad I could help." Iden told me back as two more X-Wings showed up behind me.

"Lisa, you okay?" Tiago's voice came.

"Yeah, if it wasn't for Inferno Squad, you got your shields back up?" I asked.

"Yes, it took a little longer than expected, that hit almost took its toll on me, but Ashley got it back up." Tiago answered with Ashley beeping at me after.

"Good job Ashley, come on you two, we still got a battle to win." I told my other two X-Wings in my flight.

"Let us know if you need help, me and Shriv are at your service." Iden told me as she and the other fighter with her broke off.

Before I could talk to Tiago and Blue Seven, Alex was beeping at me, a message from Admiral Ackbar to all Alliance fighters, was coming in.

"All Alliance fighters, this is Admiral Ackbar, drowned star destroyers are using their tractor beams to bring our ships down with them. If you can, destroy the tractor beams of any burning destroyers to save our ships." The admiral told all the fighter squadrons.

"You heard that Blue Flight?" I asked my other two squadmates.

"Copy that." Tiago and Blue Seven replied.

"Keep a lookout for them, but remember to stay alert for any TIEs." I ordered as we flew through the battle, shooting and killing any TIEs who wanted to challenge us.

As we flew through the battle, Alex was beeping at me, up ahead to the right was a burning destroyer and it was taking down a blockade runner with it. There were also a number of TIEs around to make sure any Alliance fighters didn't interfere.

"Tiago, Blue Seven, focus on the TIEs and keep them off me, I'm going for the tractor beam." I ordered as we split up and Tiago and Blue Seven flew ahead to distract the TIEs, which roared towards us. "Hang on Alex!" I told my droid as I put more power to the engines, switching to proton torpedoes and getting a lock on the tractor beam.

While Tiago and Blue Seven were trying their best to keep the TIEs off me, there were more of them than they could handle, which meant a few TIEs could still target me. As I got closer to getting a solid lock and guaranteed hit, a TIE came from the right and hit my fighter's shields, the shield indictor going from green to yellow and any second it would turn red, so I quickly dived down. Another TIE joined his squadmate as I now had two of them hot on my tail.

The blockade runner's crew had little time, for the destroyer was very close to hitting the surface, the blockade runner trying its best to break free, putting all power to the engines. And then an idea came to me, instead of using my torpedoes to destroy the tractor beam I would use the TIEs…

"Alright, you two want to chase me, come and get me!" I shouted as I flew back up towards the tractor beam, flying straight towards the projector, I waited until the very last second to fly out of the way before hitting the projector, the TIEs not as lucky as both of them collided with the projector, the projector breaking free from the hull of the destroyer and freeing the blockade runner as I saw it fly away from the destroyer, having just enough time to escape being crushed underneath the Imperial warship's hull.

As I smiled from the victory, I remember that Tiago and Blue Seven were still fighting the TIEs.

"Tiago, you still with me?" I spoke into comms and was relieved as Tiago's voice came a minute later.

"Yeah, I'm still with you, but Blue Seven got shot down…" Tiago reported in. "Looks like it's just you and me."

"Don't blame yourself Tiago, his sacrifice saved the crew of that blockade runner, now come on, we can mourn our losses after the fight." I told Tiago was we regrouped and looked for more targets.

The battle was swinging closer and closer in our favor as the Imperial fleet dwindled, one by one the star destroyers were burning wrecks, making huge metal mountains on the sandy surface of Jakku. The TIEs were also becoming less and less, falling victim to Alliance fighters or from anti-fighter ships. However, the Alliance still suffered huge losses as the Imperials fought with desperation for a lost and meaningless cause. This was their last stand after all.

As me and Tiago looked for more targets or for any Alliance forces who needed help, Alex was beeping at me that a distress signal was coming from not too far away.

"Calling to any Alliance fighters close by, this is Del Meeko of the raider Corvus, we are under attack by TIE bombers and taking heavy damage, please help!" A male voice shouted.

"The Corvus is part of Inferno Squad." Tiago told me. "We should help."

"Right, Alex pinpoint the Corvus' location." I told my droid as Alex beeped back and got to work, triangulating the Corvus' position from the message.

It wasn't far as me and Tiago flew as fast we we could to the former Imperial warship, as it came in our sights, we could see the Corvus trying its best to control its damage as missile damage was visible against the ship's whiteish hull. From our view it looked like the ship couldn't take much more as TIE bombers swarmed around.

"Come on Tiago, we got lives to save." I told my wingman as we charged froward, getting the attention of the bombers as they broke off their attacks and separated. "Focus on one at a time, shoot the one I'm shooting." I told Tiago.

"Roger that." Tiago replied as I picked the closet bomber and let leash with my laser fire, Tiago's fire joining mine as the bomber's back blew up and black smoke came out, the bomber falling down as the pilot must have been killed. "One down…"

"And many more to go, come on." I finished as we picked another bomber and killed him, watching the bomber spin out of control.

Me and Tiago, soon enough joined by several other Alliance fighters who responded to the call, cleared the area around the Corvus of TIE bombers.

"Corvus, this is Blue Five of Blue Squadron, you're safe now." I communicated to the warship.

"Hold on Blue Five, we got new contacts and it looks like they're coming straight for you." Del Meeko's voice told me.

As I had Alex scan for the contacts, several TIE Interceptors came towards the Corvus, firing and shooting down one of the Alliance fighters around the warship while the rest of us took evasive maneuvers.

"Alliance fighters, this is Iden Versio, me and Shriv got this handled, thanks for saving the Corvus." Iden's voice came in as I saw the two familiar X-Wings come in and fire on the Interceptors, drawing their attention away from the rest of us.

"We should help." Tiago told me as I saw Iden's fighter kill one of the Interceptors.

"No, those two got it, we should help whoever else needs it." I told Tiago as we flew past the Corvus to get back into the action.

A few hours later, it was over, after hard fighting and many losses, quietness over Jakku began to return as all of the star destroyers were lost, what few TIEs remained either still fought on to the end or crashed into the surface, preferring death to surrender. For the Imperial ground forces, many of them committed suicide, seeing there was no hope or forced to surrender by Alliance soldiers.

That moment when a battle comes to an end is always a good feeling, but this battle meant the end of the war and it was a strangle surreal moment as I was flying above the surface, looking down on the graveyard of ships. The quietness of it all was a lot to take in as Alliance forces regrouped and counted their losses. A voice coming through my comms broke the quietness I was enjoying.

"Blue Squadron, this is Commander Blu, regroup on the position that my droid is sending to your's." Blu's voice spoke.

As I got the location, me and Tiago flew to it, gently landing down our fighters on the sand, right next to one of the star destroyers, as what remained of our squadron gathered around Blu.

"The rest of your flight?" Blu asked me.

"Gone." I simply answered.

Blu didn't respond to that and only wanted to make things happy, after all, today marked the Empire's death. As it looked like the squadron was all here, Blu spoke to us.

"Blue Squadron, we did it, the Empire's officially gone and now the Alliance can form up the New Republic, all of you have fought with courage and determination and your effort has ensured that we won the day. We have lost so much, friends, family, loved ones, to come to this point, but their sacrifice and death was worth it, no longer do they have to worry that the rest of us will join them anytime soon. I'm proud of each one of you, I couldn't ask for a better squadron to lead and get to know. And now is the time to think about the future and what we will do to make sure that evil never returns to the galaxy." Blu giving us a short speech before dismissing us. "Now rest up for a little, the fleet's going to return to Coruscant in the next rotation."

As what remained of our Squadron relaxed, getting some shade and taking a nap, me and Tiago did something different as we walked up a small sand dune and looked down upon the result of the battle.

"I can't believe it's all over…" Tiago said as he looked at all the wrecks of destroyed ships from both sides.

"Yeah, but like what Blu said, we have a future to look froward to, I know we have one already for us." I added as I smiled and gently rubbed my belly.

"And I'm looking froward to it." Tiago replied as he also smiled and put his wing over my belly, feeling our boys, who by now must been almost fully developed.

Watching the sun start to set, me and Tiago shared a hug before getting into a kiss, careful not to take too much passion into it because of the boys in me, as we were looking froward to what life had next in store for us…

And so the war has come to an end…

We still have like two or maybe three chapters to go before this story is over! Either way, I hope everyone enjoys the final conclusion to this very long story!

See everybird later!