Meanwhile at the Resistance Base, Finn was hooking up D-O to the navigational chart to find Exegol.
"All the information you need for an airstrike on Exegol." Finn explained.
"Yeah, except how to get there. Are you seeing these atmo readings?" Poe asked.
"It's a mess out there. Magnetic crossfields. Gravity wells, solar winds." Kira said.
"How does a fleet even take off from there?" Poe asked.
"Terribly sorry, I'm afraid Artoo's memory bank must be crossed with his logic receptors." Threepio said getting his memory back from Artoo. "He says he's receiving a transmission from… Master Luke." He said taking everyone by surprise. They studied the nav chart again to find a ship heading to Exegol.
"That's an old craft ID. That's Luke Skywalker's X-wing." Poe said.
"It's transmitting course marker signals on it's way to the Unknown regions." Threepio explained.
"It's Rey." Finn concluded. "She's going to Exegol."
"She's showing us how to get there." Kira realized.
"Then we go together." Poe said. Everyone in the Resistance gathered around to hear the plan to take down the Sith Fleet.
"As long as those Destroyers are on Exegol, we can hit them." Finn explained.
"Hit them how?" Beaumont asked.
"They can't activate their shields until they leave atmosphere." Kira said.
"Which isn't easy on Exegol. Ships that size need help taking off." Poe said.
"Nav can't tell which way's up out there." Kira added.
"So how do the ships take off?" A Resistance pilot asked.
"They use a signal from a navigation tower like this one." Poe said before showing what it looked like on a hologram.
"Except they won't." Finn said. "Air team's gonna find the tower, ground team's gonna blast it."
"Ground team?" Another Resistance pilot asked.
"I have an idea for that." Finn said.
"I'm probably not gonna like it am I?" Kira asked under her breath.
"Not really." Finn answered.
"Once the tower's down, the fleet will be stuck in atmo for just minutes. With no shields and no way out." Poe said.
"We think hitting the cannons might ignite the main reactor." Kira said.
"Then that's our chance." Lando said.
"We need to pull some Holdo maneuvers. Do some real damage." Beaumont said.
"Come on, that move is one in a million." Finn said.
"Besides, from what I've heard, Holdo did it as a last ditch effort and her ship was empty." Hera added.
"Hera's right. Fighters and freighters can take out their cannons if there are enough of us." Kira said.
"There aren't enough of us." Nien Nunb said.
"He's right, we'd be no more than bugs to them." Connix added.
"That's where Lando, Chewie and Hera come in." Finn said.
"They'll take the Falcon and the Ghost to the Core Systems. Send out a call for help for anybody listening." Kira said.
"We've got friends out there. They'll come if they know there's hope." Poe said. But there was some murmuring among the Resistance with doubt in their hearts. "They will." Poe said more firmly. "The First Order wins by making us think we're alone. We're not alone. Good people will fight if we lead them."
"Leia never gave up. And neither will we." Finn said.
"We're gonna show them, we're not afraid." Kira said.
"What our mothers and fathers fought for, we will not let die. Not today. Today we make our final stand, for the galaxy. For Leia. For everyone we've lost." Poe said.
"They've taken the fight to us for so long. Now we take the war to them." Kira said.
The Resistance members all got ready for the final battle against the First Order, while the Falcon and the Ghost made their way to call for help. This would be it, the final battle for the galaxy. And they would win.
Rey, meanwhile, in Luke's X-wing made her way to Exegol. She saw the vast fleet there but they didn't fire on her. She knew why they wouldn't. They wouldn't dare hit the granddaughter of their leader. She made her way to the Sith palace and landed in the front, she could feel the darkness already, but she was prepared for it. She wouldn't fall.
The Resistance ships were making their way to Exegol as well. Poe and Kira in their X-wings and Finn on a troop transport.
"Damn! It's a little rocky." Kira said.
"I know, just stay on Rey's course." Poe assured her. they eventually jumped to lightspeed and entered Exegol. There must have been hundreds, thousands of Star Destroyers there. "Look at that fleet."
"Well, if they made three different Death Stars, then this doesn't surprise me." Kira said. The cannons from the Sith fleet began firing at the Resistance taking them by surprise.
"Welcome to Exegol!" Poe exclaimed.
"Get to their altitude, they can't hit us if they fire on each other." Kira said maneuvering her X-wing. "Oh, this should be fun." Some of the Resistance ships were being shot down but some managed to make it through.
"Don't give up! Help is coming!" Poe shouted. Finn was looking for the nav tower and spotted it beneath the fleet.
"There it is. Poe, I see it. I've got a visual on the tower." Finn reported. The Resistance fighters were making their way to the tower to cover the ground team but something happened. It shut off.
"The navigation tower's been deactivated." One of the pilots said.
"They need that signal, it's gotta be coming from somewhere." Snap said.
"They figure out what we were doing." Poe said. "Call off the ground invasion."
"Wait, the nav signals coming from that command ship. That's our drop zone." Finn said.
"You want to launch a ground invasion on a Star Destroyer?" Kira asked.
"I don't want to hon, but we can't take out that ship's nav system from the air. Give us cover. We gotta take out that flee there until help arrives." Finn said.
"Alright, I trust you." Kira said.
"You heard General Finn, all wings, cover that lander." Poe ordered. Kira could see from above the lander opened up to reveal dozens of mounted troops with Finn and Jannah leading them.
Meanwhile, Rey eventually made her way to the throne room of the Sith. She saw the chair itself, it looked monstrous, evil. It was filled with the dark side, as was the room itself. She started hearing chanting from behind her. There were thousands of Sith cultists all in robes waiting for her. Then, a figure came behind her.
"Long have I waited." The voice said. She turned around to find Darth Sidious himself, Emperor Palpatine, her grandfather. He was hooked up to some machine that seemed to be keeping him alive. "For my grandchild to come home. I never wanted you dead. I wanted you here, Empress Palpatine." He gestured to the throne. "You will take the throne. It is you birthright to rule here. It is in your blood. Our blood."
"I haven't come to lead the Sith." Rey said defiant. "I've come to end them."
"As a Jedi?" Palpatine asked.
"Yes." Rey said.
"No. You're filled with hatred, with anger. You want to kill me. That is what I want." Palpatine explained. This confused Rey. "Kill me and my spirit will pass into you. As all the Sith live in me, you will be Empress, we will be one."
Kira could see that the plan had worked. After a while the nav tower on the command ship was destroyed.
"Nice one Finn! Nav signal's down but not for long." Poe exclaimed. The fight was continuing but it didn't seem like help was coming.
"Still no Falcon or Ghost." Snap said.
"I don't know, Artoo. Maybe no one else is coming." Kira said.
"What do we do general?" Junior asked.
"We gotta hit them ourselves." Poe said.
"What can we do against these things?" A pilot asked.
"Just stay alive!" Poe exclaimed.
"The time has come!" Palpatine declared. The room erupted in cheers as the Sith followers prepared for the ritual. "With your hatred you will take my life. And you will ascend."
"All you want is for me to hate but I won't." Rey said firmly.
"Weak." Palpatine scoffed. "Like your parents."
"My parents were strong. they saved me from you." Rey said.
"Your master Luke Skywalker was saved by his father. The only family you have here, is me." Palpatine said before opening up the roof to show her what was happening. The Resistance wasn't doing too well against the First Order. Dozens of ships were being destroyed. It didn't seem like they were going to win. "They don't have long. No one is coming to help them. and you are the one who led them here. Strike me down, take the throne, reign over the new Empire and the fleet will be yours. Only you have the power to save them. Refuse and your new family dies." Palpatine said. But then Rey felt someone on the planet with her. Someone familiar. Not Finn, not Poe, not even Kira.
Caden.
Yeah, this is gonna be epic.
