G'day Casters! Yay! Another Short! Well, this time it's actually based after Episode VI of Sister Holidays. Time for a sneak-peak of a certain new character or two… (Also, just a warning, there's a small, maybe kinda big, spoiler to Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens, so be careful if you haven't seen the movie)

This story has been gone over and fixed, for continuity issues later on, and just fixing silly little mistakes. (Plus added Paragraphs)

Enjoy!

Story IV: Death Star Assault

It's 4 ABY and the Galactic Empire has built a second Death Star! The Rebel Fleet has been sent to destroy it, and the Virtcast have decided to join! But there may be a small issue on Queen Rivatha's part…

One-Shot: Death Star Assault

Rivatha Furai Borne's POV:

4 ABY; 2041 Earth Time

Sleep

The Rebel Fleet was amassing to destroy the newly built Death Star II over Endor.

I was on the Imperial Destructor II, an Imperator II -class Star Destroyer of the Qeios Empire, and the only Earth Alliance ship available for support on this attack.

"Alright, Han and the ground team have gone. Won't be long before we join in the fight," said Elsa, a good friend of mine, Queen of Arendelle, and the leader of the Virtcast.

"Then you can return to taking care of your daughter in the Wake," I smiled. "Yeah. She's three now, so she's a little less demanding. But I would still rather be there than here," she said. "I know what you mean," I said.

Elsa looked at me, before I realised what it seemed like I was implying.

"Oh n-no, n-not like that. I-I don't mean I know how you feel about the Wake. I've never even been there," I quickly said. Elsa seemed to drop it, which made me sigh in relief.

Okay, I admit, I'm lying. I have been to the Wake. In fact, I'm the same as Elsa and the rest of the Virtcast. I have a life in the Wake, just as much as I do here.

I also have a seven-year-old daughter in the Wake named Sonia, after my child-hood friend, Sonia, here in the Dream Realm.

I kept it a secret because, unlike the Virtcast, I wasn't prepared to be the Warrior Queen I am here, in the Wake.

"Well, we should get some rest before the battle," Elsa said. I nodded. "Yeah, sounds good," we both went to our quarters, and had a nap.

Wake

It was still night when I woke up in the Wake.

I looked to my side and saw Max, my husband, still sound asleep.

I got out of bed without waking him. I went to the kitchen to get a snack, but I stopped when I heard a sound.

It sounded like talking, and I felt like I recognised the voice.

I went to another door, and slowly opened it.

"No, stop," came the voice. I could see Sonia in her bed, but she was restless.

I guess she's having a nightmare, I thought.

I walked to her bed and tried to wake her up.

"AH!" she awoke with a quick yelp. "Shh, you're okay sweetie, it was just a nightmare," I said. I could see her tears glistening in the moonlight. "You wanna tell me what it was?" I asked, trying to comfort her. "A guy in a black outfit and mask was killing people. He had a red Star Wars lightsabre, and then he came towards me. You woke me up as he was trying to use the Force on my mind," she said.

Only one Sith I know can do that. Kylo Ren from Disney's Star Wars. I guess The Sky Walker is still able to influence our kids. But we won't have to worry about Ren, right? I swear if Han and Leia have a kid named, was it Ben? I'm going to kill him, I thought.

"It's okay, that Sith won't get to you," I said. "Because you'll protect me, right?" she asked. I smiled and nodded. "Yeah, because I'll protect you. Wanna have a snack before you go back to sleep?" I asked. Sonia smiled and nodded. "Okay!"

I laughed as the young girl practically jumped out of bed.

It was eleven at night, but she was always full of energy.

We had a quick snack, and I tucked Sonia back into bed, before going back to bed myself.

Sleep

I woke up back in my quarters on the Imperial Destructor II.

I was about to leave the room, when I heard something. I put my hand on my darksabre, which I had gotten since it was more effective than a sword in this place, and looked around the room.

My eyes fell on my cupboard.

Darksabre in hand, I crept towards the cupboard. I opened the doors quickly and ignited the black sabre.

In the cupboard, there was a scared looking girl who was still a kid.

I recognised her instantly.

"Sonia?" I asked. She seemed to recognise my voice, as a bit of her fear disappeared.

"Mummy? Is that you?" she asked. I deactivated my darksabre. "Yeah, it's me sweetie. How'd you get here?" I asked. "I don't know. When I went back to sleep, I woke up here. I saw you in bed, and didn't recognise you because of your hair and outfit, and hid in the closet," she explained. "I see. So, you're old enough to enter the Dream Realm now… Interesting," I said, more to myself.

"The Dream Realm?" asked Sonia. "This place, it's a different realm from our own. Me and some others go here when we sleep, and we're kinda famous. Not gonna lie. I'm the Queen of a kingdom called Qeios, people usually dub me the Warrior Queen of Qeios. I have close ties with the Virtcast, who I'm assuming you've heard of," I said. Sonia nodded.

"You're a Queen?" she asked excitedly. "Yep!" I said. "Does that mean, I'm a Princess?" I nodded. "Princess Sonia of Qeios. Not bad," I smirked. "I wanna be a Warrior like you," she said. "One day, my girl. One day, you'll be taking my place in this realm," I said.

A knock on the door was heard.

"Riva, it's almost time to go. You awake?" came Elsa's voice. "Yeah, I'm awake. I'll be out in a sec Els," I replied. "Where are you going?" asked Sonia. "To destroy the second Death Star," I answered. "Whoa, this Dream Realm is set in Star Wars? Awesome!" I laughed at her reaction.

I then realised something.

"It won't be safe for you here, but taking you out there means the others will probably find out I'm from the Wake… Ah whatever. They'll find out sooner or later, come on," I took her hand and opened the door to find Elsa and Anna across the hall.

"And who's this?" asked Anna, spotting Sonia instantly. I sighed, and hesitated. "This is my daughter, Sonia," I said. "Your dau- hang on. You're from the Wake aren't you!" said Elsa, a lot quicker at putting the dots together than I thought she would be.

That's my Elsa.

"Yeah, I am," I said. "So earlier, you actually did mean you knew how I felt," she said. I nodded. "Yep. Because I felt the same way about Sonia," I said. "Well, this is all good and stuff, but where's she gonna stay during the fight?" asked Anna. "There's a chance the Death Star will focus on the Imperial Destructor II instead of the Rebel ship it's supposed to destroy. So she won't be safe here," said Elsa. "The Night Fury would be a safer bet, though it'll be right in the middle of battle," said Anna. "Nothing can keep up with a Qeios-class Starfighter, especially the Royal Q-90 series that I fly. I hate putting her in the middle of battle, but maybe Sonia will be safer with me. After all, our fighters are two seaters," I said. "Alright. Just make sure you do your best out there," said Elsa. I nodded, and looked at Sonia.

"Don't worry, I'll help out in the fighter," she said.

"This is Gold Leader, we're in position and awaiting orders," came Lando Calrissian's voice over our commlinks. "Alright, it's time. Let's get to our fighters and get out there. Remember, we're on skeletal squads this time because it's all we could fit in this cruiser," said Elsa.

She was right, because we had to fit fighters from the Qeios Empire, the Arendelle Royal Army, the Republic Remnant, and the Virtcast Army all on one Star Destroyer, we were limited.

"It's all we'll need," I said.

We ran to the hangar which was full of Qeian Q-75 Qeios-class Starfighters, Arendelleian XJ5 'ChaseX' X-Wings, Republic ARC-170 Fighters, and Virtcast Stealth-Xs, along with the Night Fury, an Eta 2 Actis-class Interceptor, a Delta-7B Aethersprite-class Light Interceptor, three T-70 X-Wings, and a Q-90 Qeios-class Starfighter.

"Good luck out there," said Vestara as she and Chris passed us and headed to the Night Fury. "You too," I said.

I saw Ahsoka and Clarissa getting ready in their Jedi Starfighters, while Elsa and Anna joined Kairi with their T-70 X-Wings. The various remaining members of the Virtcast were mainly flying Stealth-Xs.

"Alright, come on," I said. I led Sonia to my Q-90 Starfighter. The normal Q-75 Qeios-class Starfighter had a similar look to that of the Clone Z-95 Starfighter used in the Clone Wars, but was built more like a T-65 X-Wing, apart from the lack of X-Wing S-foils. It was much more manoeuvrable than most other Starfighters too. My Q-90 however, had even more manoeuvrability, and was much upgraded from the previous Q-75 model used by the Qeios Empire. It also had more of a similarity to the Z-95 Headhunter than the T-65 X-Wing.

"R5 will aid us in battle, but I'm going to be relying on you. You have control over the rear guns, and will need to take out any pursuers that we get," I said to Sonia. "Got it. Now to figure out how to use the guns," "I'll show you how before we take off," I said.

I gave Sonia a quick tutorial on the rear guns, before we both got in the fighter with my R5 Astromech.

"Alright, let's give these Imperial bastards some hell," came Chris's voice over the comms.

"Remember Sonia, stay calm. Don't panic. I'm relying on you," I said. "Don't worry mum, nothing's gonna get past me!" Sonia replied from behind me. "That's my girl," I smirked as I powered the engines up.

The Star Destroyer was in hyperspace with the Rebel ships, but we came out near Endor as the last of the fighters in the hangar powered up.

"Alright move out!" I yelled through the comms.

We all took off out of the hangar and joined the Rebel fighters and the Millennium Falcon on the run towards the half-finished Death Star. The Night Fury passed me as they were to join the attack first with the Falcon.

"Get ready," I said to Sonia. "I've never been readier," she replied. I was surprised at how calm she sounded, considering she was seven and in a Starfighter going towards an Imperial Death Star.

"Here come the TIEs," said Chris over the comms. I started blasting away at the TIEs in front of me as they went through our cloud of fighters.

I kept an eye behind me to see how Sonia went.

I was shocked when she blasted a TIE out of existence as soon as it came into her view.

"Nice shot," I said. I quickly pulled up to avoid a crash, which pretty much stopped any reply from Sonia as the g-force was hard on both of us. "You'll get used to that," I assured her. "You sure?" she laughed.

"The shields are still up," said Lando. I checked my scanners and didn't get a reading on them, which is exactly what Wedge said.

We broke off the attack anyway, and I spotted a bunch of Imperial Star Destroyers closing in.

"Now the real fight starts," I said. "Bring it on," said Sonia.

I came in behind the Falcon and took out a couple of TIE Fighters that were following it.

"Drats," I heard Sonia say. "What's going on back there," I asked, pulling evasive manoeuvres as a precaution. "We got a TIE Interceptor behind us who is evading my shots," she replied. "Interceptor behind us that we can't take out. A little help would be appreciated," I said over the comms. "I got ya Rivatha," said Cierra who was flying her own personalized purple Z-95 Starfighter with the batman logo on it.

The old Clone Z-95 Starfighter was not a common sight anymore, but it was very good in combat which is why I based our fighters on it.

I avoided green shots from the TIE, which was then destroyed by the blue shots from Cierra's Z-95.

"Thanks Skywalker," I said. "Anytime, Your Majesty," she replied.

I was doing a fly-by of the Imperial Destructor II when I caught a glimpse of green in the corner of my eye. By instinct, I pulled away from the Star Destroyer and did a sharp U-turn. The Imperial Destructor II was blown to bits behind us as the Death Star revealed that it was indeed operational.

"It's a trap!" said Sonia, though I could tell she was just making fun of Admiral Ackbar's famous line. "Joking at a time like this? You're already a true Virtcast member," I laughed. "Yippee!" she said, also laughing.

"I hope that shield goes down soon," said Sarah. We all knew it would though. "Han will get it done soon, we just gotta give him some more time!" said Lando.

I flew towards an Imperial Star Destroyer and sent some torpedoes at the bridge. "Bulls eye," I smirked as I flew over the explosion.

Sonia was still firing away at the TIEs around us, and I think she'd probably gotten more kills than me by now.

"Gun's jammed!" panicked Sonia. "Ah shit. R5, try to get the gun working again," I said as I avoided a group of TIEs that were behind us. "It's no use, there's too many," Sonia said.

A TIE Fighter hit our fighter and knocked out our communication.

"We've lost the comms. We're on our own unless R5 can fix it up," I said.

I flew as close to the Death Star as I could with the shields still up, and managed to evade the TIEs.

Until one came out from the Death Star and got a direct hit on R5.

"That's not good. We've lost R5," said Sonia. "Hold on, we're gonna go back to one of the cruisers," I said. "Too late!" she yelled as a shot hit directly on one of our engines. "Fuck. Okay, I'm going to try to bring us down on the planet," I said.

Sonia shot the TIE as I tried to get the ship under control, resulting in her clean shot.

My vision was blocked as we entered the atmosphere of Endor's forest moon. The scanners exploded from the heat, so I was flying blind. I used the feeling of gravity to level the fighter out, and tried to get what was left of the engines to slow us down.

The flaming died down enough for me to see, and I dodged a tree that we almost crashed into.

"Hold on tight, we're crashing this thing," I said. "Not entirely comforting," said Sonia.

I brought the ship down into the jungle. Dodging the trees wasn't easy, but I managed.

"Ah crap. There's an Imperial base up ahead," I said, seeing a building through the trees.

I brought us lower to the ground.

We were still going over 500 kilometres per hour. I took a deep breath and made the final descent.

I lurched forward as we hit the ground, and knocked myself unconscious on the controls.

Sonia Borne's POV:

I was forced into my seat when the fighter touched the ground.

We slid through the jungle at high speeds, and by the time we finally stopped, there wasn't much left of the fighter. The wings were gone, any remains of R5 were probably a kilometre or two behind us, and most of the body of the Fighter was destroyed too. The glass had shattered, and had given me a lot of cuts. My vision was blurry and I had a headache, but I slowly lifted myself out of the ruined fighter.

I looked behind me and saw my mum unconscious in her seat, a massive cut on her head with blood pouring down her face.

I hope she's okay, I thought to myself.

I knew there wasn't much point in trying to wake her, since she had probably returned to the Wake.

I grabbed a rag and did a quick bandage over the cut.

That'll have to do.

"Don't worry mum, I'll get us out of here," I said.

I looked around, and my heart sank. We were in the middle of an Imperial base.

"Or not…"

I looked back in the ruined cockpit and spotted a blaster. I picked it up, along with mum's darksabre.

I heard heavy footsteps on the forest floor, and looked around. I spotted some Stormtroopers coming towards us.

Crap.

I checked the blaster and took off the safety switch.

Hmm, a DC-15S huh? Let's see if I can shoot a blaster instead of a Starfighter's guns.

I aimed at a Stormtrooper, and shot. Surprisingly, my aim with a blaster was just as good as my aim with a Starfighter, as I killed him with my first shot.

"There! Blast her!"

They started returning fire, so I ignited mum's darksabre. I may not be a Jedi, but it was worth a go if I could deflect some of the shots.

I blasted another Stormtrooper as I tried to dodge and deflect as many of their shots as I could.

Unfortunately, more came.

I was outgunned.

Until an explosion took most of them out.

I looked up and saw three Q-75 Qeios-class Starfighters flying overhead.

"Thank you Qeios," I said to myself as I ran to one of the Stormtroopers. I grabbed his commlink and tried to contact the Night Fury.

"Night Fury here, what's up?" came a girl's voice. "This is Sonia, Queen Rivatha's daughter. I'm stuck on the moon, and Rivatha's unconscious," I said. "Copy that. You think you can still fight?" she asked. "Yeah," I said. "Alright. We'll send a shuttle down for Rivatha. You can go with one of the other Qeios fighters," she said.

As she said that, a Qeios Starfighter landed next to our crashed one. The gunner got out.

"I'll take care of Queen Rivatha, you go help destroy the Death Star," he said. I nodded, and jumped in the Starfighter.

The gun controls were a little different, but still had the same basic design.

"You ready kid?" asked the pilot. "I sure am," I replied. We took off and went back into space.

"The shields are down, let's go," said Elsa. "Alright, cover us from behind," said the pilot. "You don't have to worry about a thing," I said as I shot down a TIE Interceptor.

We followed the Falcon and some other fighters into the Death Star. I shot down as many TIEs as I could, but the gun on this fighter seemed to overheat easily, so I couldn't shoot as much as I would have been able to in the Q-90.

Most of the rebel fighters split and went back to the surface, with some TIEs following them, but we kept following into the Death Star.

My next shots were at a pipe because the fighter turned too sharply for me to react as the radar dish of the Millennium Falcon flew right past us and almost hit us.

We came out in the main reactor room and all shot at the reactor. As we left again, I sent some more shots into it just to be sure.

"Might want to go a bit faster," I said. "Once we get a pocket where we can get past the Falcon," said the pilot.

Fortunately, one came shortly and we sped past the Falcon and the other fighters.

We were the first ones out as our fighter was the fastest, but everyone else made it out too.

"Hell yeah! Second Death Star down!" said someone over the comms.

The giant space station exploded behind us, and I had the best view of it in the back of the fighter.

!=-{+}-=!

After that, we went back to the planet and partied with the Ewoks. Though I didn't stick around for long, and went to sleep.

Wake

When I woke up, it was daylight outside. I groaned and got out of bed.

When I exited my room, I saw mum and was relieved to see she was okay. Though the scar on her head was visible.

"Mum!" I said. "Sonia! How'd you go after I was knocked out?" she asked. "A fighter picked me up and I helped destroy the Death Star," I said. "Not bad. We'll make a warrior out of you yet," she laughed. "I'll be sure to help out however I can now that I go to the Dream Realm," I said. "I'm sure you will," mum smiled.

And that is the end! I hope you liked that little chapter. Think of it as an introduction to the eldest member of the New Virtcast. The current members are getting a little old, so it's best to bring new ones in. I've got a chart of all the new members, and their ages, abilities, relatives, etc. and will introduce them either in Episode VI or Episode VII of Sister Holidays. Or maybe even another Short? We'll see. See ya!

-Virtcast Chris
Virtcast Productions 2015

Edited in 2017
-Night Fury Warrior

(DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything apart from my OCs.)