Chapter 6-

Talon stood next to Cora and Behind Lena, resting his hand on both his daughters shoulders. Lena was doing much better, but he could tell with how quickly she sat that she still felt some of the effects of the Force lightening. Talon looked over at Luke who stood next to a BAC unit, that revealed that Thanas's group was being thinned out and falling back.

Stretching out with the Force, Talon felt that he had it all wrong. the Ssi-ruuk were the ones thinning out, not Thanas. They had thinned to press forward. It was an old feint that Talon had seen done maybe once or twice during the Clone Wars with the battalion of clones his master had been in charge of. Talon may not have seen battle as much as Ahsoka, Anakin's Padawan had, but Master Yoda and Master Windue had sent him to battles periodically as they felt that to be a good Jedi, one had to leave the library. A dry chuckle escaped his lips as he thought about it. What would his master have said if he knew that Talon organized battles now like Yoda and Mace Windue? "What is it, Papa?" Cora asked, turning to look at him.

"Nothing, young one. I was just remembering my life before the Empire and before I met your mother," Talon said, raising his hand from her shoulder to stroke her hair.

"Must have been a good memory," Lena commented.

"In a way. I used to hate battles like this. Most people, if they were looking for me, would have found me either in the library or playing with the younglings in the temple. I had a lightsaber, as all Jedi do, but I was not good at it. I think it was after the Jedi Purge I had to learn to use it more and plan battles," Talon said.

"And now you are the head of the Rebel Alliance, Your Highness," Manchisco said.

"Can't argue with that and the head of the Jedi order if we restart it, like Yoda told Luke and Lena on his deathbed," Talon said.

"I think you'll make a great Grand Master of the Jedi order, Papa," Lena said.

"I will do my best, but we will have to change a few things. But we'll think about that when the time comes," Talon said.

"Delckis, give me squadron leaders," Luke ordered.

It took only a matter of minutes for Luke to get an answer back. Okay, let's get their attention. Gold Leader, Rogue One, that's your's," Luke said to Wedge, who had fully recovered form his ordeal after the Battle of Endor.

"Got it, Flurry. Rogue Group, lock S-foils in attack position," Wedge ordered the fighters under him.

"Red Leader, split your squadron. Red One through Four, hold an escape cone open behind One and Gold groups. We'll draw them away from the planet," Talon ordered, picking up a headset. Talon shook is head at the irony of this. The yellow-gold lights were Imperials and the head of the Rebel Alliance had just sent out fighters to help them. "Red Five and the rest stay with the Flurry," Talon said.

"Why, thank you, Your Highness," Manchisco teased him. Talon smiled himself. Not everyone teased him as he was considered royalty and a Jedi. For someone to tease, they had to have started to feel comfortable around him.


Lena stretched out with the Force in the heat of the battle. They had just started fighting to protect the Imperials when Lena noticed the hive-like ships. Lena figured that the best thing to do was use the Force to figure out the enemy. Lena almost jolted as she couldn't feel anything. That wasn't that unusual as that considering these were new to this galaxy and, ergo, Lena wouldn't be able to feel them at first.

Lena looked at the small ship that Wedge was chasing and he scored a direct hit. What Lena felt then in the Force nearly crushed her. Two cries in the Force reached out to her and just as quickly faded away. "Lena, did you feel that?" Cora asked, looking up at her sister with large eyes.

"Yes. Papa, did you and Luke?" Lena asked, looking at first Talon and then her brother.

"Yes. I can't explain it. I couldn't touch the mind of whoever was flying until it exploded," Talon said, the anguish in the Force etched all over her father's face.

Lena looked toward the other enemy fighters and as they all winked out of existence, Lena opened herself fully to the Force. She heard a cry that was faint, but it was human; something that seemed hardly possible, given the size of the enemy ships. Lena looked at the large enemy ship. "Flurry, to Rogue One. Go for that cruiser. Now," Lena ordered.

"I'm on it," Wedge chirped, barely over a whistling sound.

Lena then noticed the enemy ship releasing new drones. "Abort, Wedge. They've launched another wave," Lena said sharply.

"Yeah, I noticed. BAC can't make up it's mind, huh?" Wedge drawled in a voice that wasn't very concerned as the X-wings scattered in pairs to meet the new ships. Lena looked over at Luke. He wanted to be out there with them instead of here and Lena couldn't really blame him for that. If she hadn't gotten the painful end of Force lightening, she'd have been out there too.

The BAC beeped again, revealing symbols that made up the enemy fleet. What could be said for Pter Thanas was that he was a good strategist. Lena turned to the Communications Officer, feeling a sense of alarm go down her spine in the Force. Luke and Lena both leaned to look at the BAC. Everything seemed to be going good. Wedge was flying to the ship, with nothing impeding him. The Force slammed icy fingers into her spine and from the look on Luke's, Talon's, and Cora's faces, they felt it too. A small enemy fighter came onto the screen had just entered the battle and was closing in on Wedge and his squadron. "Rogue One, Wedge, watch behind you. Big guns below. Red Five and your group. Get out there and shoot those fighters off Wedge's tail," Luke snapped into the comm board.

"What was that?" They barely heard Wedge exclaim through the jamming and X-wings scattered. Two of them exploded, lighting up the viewscreens. Lena closed her eyes as, through the Force she felt their deaths. Granted, they weren't Wedge or other close friends that they all had made over the years that there had been a Rebel Alliance, but they were still humans who had just become part of the Force. They had family and friends who would mourn and miss them.

Lena took a deep breath. Now wasn't the time to mourn in the middle of battle. The picket ship Wedge had been chasing had turned tables and was now chasing him. "Excuse me, Master Jedi Skywalker, but you're leaving the Flurry wide open to-" Manchisco started to say to Lena.

Lena looked down and saw what Manchisco had been about to say, Their ship was now under attack. "Sure enough. They saw it too. Crew's yours," Lena said, looking at Luke. He nodded his head, knowing what Lena was thinking. They needed to use the Force to save who they can.