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A/n: Another chapter in one day! Enjoy!

Chapter 16: Evacuate

Everything was set into place. The bombers. The X-Wings. And Lt. Connix and her team were working around the clock onto getting everyone out of D'Qar immediately. Elle was helping the lieutenant search the planet's perimeters for any loose stragglers.

But it was barely enough time to get off the planet.

"Just so you know, your brother's an ass," Tally had said, passing by Elle in the base as she nearly ran to her post, where her x-wing was, as everyone prepared for this moment. It wasn't enough time. Not at all.

Elle sighed gloomily at the x-wing fighter. "Yeah, I don't blame you for thinking that," she muttered disdainfully.

"Hey, the plan is going to go great, it'll be fine," Poe had assured her before he too headed toward his x-wing with BB-8 in toe. Elle nodded, straining a smile.

"Sure."

"Do you doubt me?"

Elle tilted her head to the side. "Well, my mother did promote you…but, you are kind of, a bit, reckless sometimes…"

"Hmm, well I didn't hear you complain about that last night, for the third time, I should go on more missions more often," he grinned and then stole a kiss from Elle, when no one was looking and she grinned within the kiss, kissing him back.

"All right. I take that back."

"You better. I'll be back on that bridge before you know it. I'll meet you there."

"You better," she poked him lightly in the chest, and watched him head off to his x-wing to get it in the air with the other squad members of his team of whomever was left.

It all happened so fast, Elle barely had time to think or blink. Everyone rushed to their stations. She was staying behind to make sure everyone got off okay. She and Kaydel would get the job done, while they stalled the First Order's invasion and attempt to destroy the planet.

Her mother an the main crew were already on the Raddus's bridge overseeing perpetrations for Poe's daring plan to stall the First Order from invading the planet. It'd been a good plan, conducted by Poe and his team. Everyone was on board for the idea. Elle and Kaydel were the ones left behind on the planet, trying to make sure every civilian and every resistance member were not left behind. Elle wouldn't be able to handle it.

She would never forgive herself if any single person were left behind.

Poe would distract General Hux, giving them just enough time to escape, and find a new base.

And while Elle soared through the skies, searching, circling the premises one more time, she could feel him near. She looked up over her clear canopy of her starship. It was reminisce of her old one that her brother had given her, silver and sleak. It reminded her of the past. There was a time when kings and queens drove beautiful ships like these, or at least had a whole arsenal of people that did it for them and protected them in the process. She knew her grandmother's story, loud and clear. A fear she once had growing up of dying of a broken heart like she did. It has since diminished when she reconciled with Poe Dameron, her old childhood friend, and now best friend, maybe even more. She smiled at the thought of him. Definitely more.

And she knew he would kick their ass if necessary. This was just buying time for Kaydel and Elle to get everyone off planet and into the remaining transports.

She flicked a control button that allowed frequency to come through t her from the other channels so she could listen to what was going on up in space.

Elle heard the sound of a few beeps coming from none other than Poe's droid, BB-8.

"Happy beeps, buddy, come on," she heard him on the other end of their comms. She placed it in her ear and listened in.

Okay good. She still had time.

That was her cue for last minute stragglers on the other side of the planet.

"Elle, how we doing on the east side?" Kaydel's voice came into her ear.

"Fine. I think. I'm still not sure though. I feel like I should keep searching."

"Elle…" Kaydel exclaimed worriedly.

"Relax. It'll be fine. I want to make sure we're all on board," Elle promised her.

"Just for the record, Commander Dameron, I'm with the droid on this one," she heard her mom on the other end and she smiled. Her mom never estimated droids at all, and neither did Elle for that matter.

"Thank you for the support, General," Poe said dryly. "Happy beeps."

"Attention. This is Commander Poe Dameron of the Republic Fleet. I have an urgent message for General Hux."

"This is General Hux from the First Order. The Republic Fleet is no more, your fleet, are rebel scum and war criminals. Tell your precious princess to surrender."

"Hi, I'm holding for General Hux," Poe said that made Elle smirk.

"Hello?"

"Yep. This is Poe. Still here."

"Can you…can you hear me?"

"Hux with an H? Skinny guy? Kinda pasty?"

"We can hear you, can you hear me?"

"Look, I can't hold forever. If you reach him, tell him Leia has an urgent message for him about his mother."

Elle smirked and flicked off the controls once more. She drew in a deep breath to concentrate on her feelings to search the planet, knowing where her feeling was coming from.

She soared over the forest trees, lot's of green underneath her. D'Qar had been her home for a long time. It'd been the perfect cover for any opposing enemy.

She drove her ship forward, heading into a clearing and the outskirts of the forest. She could feel the enemy's feelings very tight and very irate, as if on edge. She tried to ignore it.

Suddenly, her controls beeped at her, alarm blinking at her, and she finally pressed on it, letting the transmission come through. "What?" she demanded, and bit back a grimace at her tone of voice for being interrupted with her search. She had hovered her ship within the trees, scanning, searching, and hoping to find movement. She felt that there was someone here, but she didn't see anything.

"Elle. Damn it, where are you? Last transport's full. We're ready to go!"

"I'll be right there. Just hold on…"

"We've cleared the planet. Everyone's on board! Now it's time to get your ass on board with us! That's an order, Elle!"

Elle sighed at the lieutenant's commands. She swore she felt a straggler in the trees. Lost. Afraid. Elle connected to it very well, and she was certain she'd find-

A brushing of the trees caught her eye. Then she saw it. She turned to the thermostat on her control panel that could read heat signatures like the quadnoculars.

She parked her ship down at a clearing in a swooping heap and opened up the ramp. She walked out of her ship to meet with the mystery straggler. She ran out into the clearing, hoping to get a clear sign of him or her.

The figure came to, and walked forward to meet her. She stared at him and felt her heart beat quicken.

"Get off D'Qar, Elle. Go home."

"Dad…" she whispered. "You're…."

"You're in trouble if you stay here, kid. Go. And don't let the monsters fool you anymore. There aren't any left under your bed," her father said, giving her a small smile. She wanted to hug him so desperately, but she knew he wasn't there. He dissolved into Ben's form, and then Ben dissolved into Kylo Ren.

"You son of a bitch. Get out!" Elle cried, wanting to shove him out of the way but he just dissolved into a thin black swirl of dust, leaving her speechless.

She breathed heard and gulped.

"Ugh, hallucinations…" Elle muttered, and pressed her fingers to her forehead, feeling her sweat trickling down the sides of her temples.

"That can't be good."

She felt her legs turn and run back to her ship and up on the ramp. She pushed the button of the ramp and let it close. She ran to her console and saw the lights blinking repeatedly again on the console.

She was starting to feel a little nauseous too. Maybe it was the flying and just the circling the planet for so long that made her dizzy, maybe dehydrated too. And stress. Stress too. She was all the above. But why did she have this weird feeling within her? Why did she feel the need to stay out here longer when there was nothing there but her own shadowy past? Elle placed a worried hand over her stomach. But the alarms were too bright to ignore them so she punched them back online.

"I got it, Kaydel. I'm coming, I promise. Let's go, we're all clear," Elle promised, and flew up in the air. She was ready tp punch it, and get the hell out of here.

"The last transport is in the air. The evacuation is complete."

"You did it, Poe, now get your squad back here so we can get out of this place," her mother pleaded with him.

"No, General we can do this! We have a chance to take out a dreadnought! These things are freekillers! We can't let them get away!"

Elle looked down worriedly, furrowing her brows together as she listened, while heading up in the air to be with Kaydel and the others, heading for the Raddus.

"Disengage now, Commander. That is an order!"

Elle pressed a button and leaned in, listening, pleading for him to listen, but when he didn't respond, she knew he'd gone offline.

That only made her press forward up and into the planet's atmosphere. A planet that once she called home, would be no more. At least no one would be on it.

~*TLJ*~

A/n: :O! Yeah, Kylo's definitely playing on her emotions…XD