Chapter 11

The death star emerged form hyperspace into the Yavin system. The empire had arrived; ground crew and pilots ran around getting ready for launch. They all knew their chances of success were slim, but they had to try.

Luke had been assigned an X-wing and given the call sign red five, Mai had been given the call sign red seven. As Luke ran to his fighter he saw Han loading the falcon up with credits "Han" he called before going over to him "So that's it you're just going to leave, we could use a good pilot like you, you know what we're up against" he said looking Han dead in the eyes.

"Marching on the death star is suicide plain and simply. I have a lot of things in need to pay off with this." Han replied not looking Luke in the eye.

"Well look after yourself I guess that's what you best at" Luke said angrily before turning to leave.

"Hey kid, May the force be with you" Han called back Luke just turned and nodded.

A few minutes' later three squadrons of X-wings, two squadrons of Y-wings and one A-wing squadron left the surface of Yavin and headed to the death star.

Death star command centre

Sabine walked over to Ahsoka and whispered to her "Mother, 42 fighters have left the planet. I have analysed them and taking in the information they have. I have calculated that there is a 49% chance that they could effectively destroy this station" she reported.

Ahsoka nodded "Very well, launch all fighters and begin evacuating the senior staff and clones." Ahsoka ordered.

"Yes Ma'am. What about Tarkin?" Sabine asked

"Leave him for now; if we succeed he will be hero if not he will fall with the station." Ahsoka said simply. Sabine nodded and left. Ahsoka then hit her com "Leia get to your fighter I want you to fly fighter escort o the shuttles that are evacuating the station, take two clone squadrons with you" she ordered.

"Yes my aster" Came Leia's reply. Ahsoka left the command centre and headed for her fighter it was time to kill a few rebels.

Yavin space.

The group of rebel fighters neared the death star many of the pilots where amazed and in belief of the size of the station. "Look at the size of that thing" one pilot remarked. As the fighter got closer several tie-fighter emerged from the station and headed right for them. "Enemy fighter all ships break off and engage, Red squadron prepare for your runs." Hera ordered as the rebel and imperial fighters engaged. The space between Yavin and the death star lit up in a spectacular light show of blaster fire and explosions, as rebel and imperial forces clashed in their first major space battle. Both side where going all out and both sides wanted to win, the fighters would have to survive by their skill and cunning alone. The rebels scored the first few hit destroying a few imperial fighters but then the rebels started to losing fighters. Hera weaved in-between enemy fighter hitting as many as she could she was flanked by Anakin who was proving that even through he was old he still had his skills.

"Hera there a several imperial shuttles over there" Anakin said pointing out the shuttle. Hera nodded and rallyed her squad to her. They shot off toward the shuttle and found that they were unprotected.

Hera thought this was odd "Oh this will be easy" one of her fighter pilots said as he and three other went for the first shuttle but as he did all three were destroyed.

"What" Hera said as she looked up and saw a tie-advanced and two whole squadrons of fighters attacked her squad. "Phoenix squad break off" she ordered.

Leia was in her fighter she saw the rebels breaking off and ordered her men to engage "Hawk, take the left flank I'll go down the middle" she said through the com. Leia centred on one fighter and fired destroying it. She had always been a great pilot and now she was proving it.

Leia's fighters were ripping through Hera squad with only a few losses themselves however in the confusion of the fight, Hera had managed to get close to a shuttle and destroyed it. Leia saw this and shot after Hera, flanked by to tie-fighter. Leia began firing at Hera; the shots landed and crippled Hera's hyper drive, while another shot damaged her port engine. "Oh you want to be like that huh" she said as she cut power to her engines and let the fighter past her, she then started her engines up and fired destroying both of Leia's wing men.

Leia was enraged and wanted to destroy Hera, but she had just received word that the shuttles were ready to head to hyper space. So Leia pulled back he fighter slowly so they could dock with the transports and leave. Within minutes the shuttle where away. Hera had lost 10 of her 14 fighters and had only managed to destroy 11 of the enemy's 21 and one shuttle out of 5 shuttles and two transports.

Space above the death star

The rebellion where losing fighter fast they had lost over half their fighter already and not even one run on the death star had been successful. So here Anakin was with Luke on his wing and one other fighter, trying to cut their way through the dense imperial fighter defence. As they reached the death star the fighter on their wing suddenly exploded as a tie advance shot towards them "Ahsoka" Anakin said. "Luke link up with wedge and one other and get ready for your attack run" Anakin ordered "I'll cover you from above." He added. Every fibre of Anakin's being wanted to go fate Ahsoka but he knew that he had to keep Luke safe, he was more important now.

"Roger that" Luke replied as he linked up with wedge and began his run. Anakin stayed above them taking out what fighter he could, one was particularly tough and caused him to fall behind, that was when he saw Ahsoka and two fighters head down into the trench. He dealt with the fighter and then shot off after them, hoping he could catch up to them. That was when a fighter headed straight for him, he didn't need this right now, but then the fighter exploded. "What" Anakin exclaimed.

When he looked around he saw the millennium flacon swoop in and destroy another three fighters "Well you're a sight for sore eyes. What made you come back?" Anakin asked.

"That kid" Han replied "Now do want to keep talking or shall we deal with those rats on Luke tail?" Han asked.

Anakin Just smirked and made bee line for the trench, when he got there he saw that Luke was the only person fighter left. Once they were in range both Anakin and Han fired at the fighter in the trench, Han hit ne fighter causing it to explode and Anakin hit the other which span out of control knocking Ahsoka's fighter into an uncontrollable spin "You're all clear kid now let's blow this thing and go home" Han called out over the coms.

Sure enough Luke fired his missiles and hit his target. The death star was destroyed the rebels had won but it was not a complete victory and it had cost many lives. Out 0f 42 fighters only 8 made it back Luke, Hera and her three fighters, Wedge, Anakin and one y-wing.

It was indeed a victory but the empire was still out there and they were looking for blood. The fight was far from over but the rebels celebrated their victory and mourned their dead, for they knew the war was far from over and many more would pay the price before the end.

AN: Hi all. So this brings us to the end of a new hope. Sorry if I's not great but I'm not the best when it comes to writing action.

The next few chapters will be a bit different as I'm going to be writing what happens to certain characters during the four years between a new hope and empire strikes back.

As always let me know what you think by either reviewing or PMing me.