Adrianne Palicki as Lilah Amidala

Shelley Hennig as Thalia Kenobi

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The Falcon was gaining distance from the Imperial space station, Chewbacca gave a bark toward Han. Even though the two knew for certain that Ben had disabled the tractor beam, they still had one problem; the destruction of the planet Alderann had spread so much debris across the sector that it was no longer safe to use the nearest designated by a different route.

Chewbacca was waiting until the nav computer could come up with a new route for hyperspace when Han spotted four blips on a sensor scope. The Empire is sending ships-TIE Fighters- by the looks of them.

"We're coming up on their sentry ships." Han said to Chewie and ordered. "Hold'em off! Angle the deflector shields while I charge up the main guns!"

The Wookiee threw switches to adjust the shields as Han pulled on a pair of skintight leather gloves and bolted out of the cockpit. Han was going to need help holding off the TIE Fighters and could only hope that the kids, Lilah, the rebel, and the princess were ready for another fight after losing the old man.

In the Falcons main hold, the droids looked toward Luke, Thalia, and Lilah, who sat at the game table with blanked expression. Luke couldn't believe that Ben was gone and wondering why didn't the male defend himself against Darth Vader. The father of Thalia was gone, the Jedi Master that was training Luke and Lilah was gone as well. Now what were the three of them going to do?

Learn the ways of the force and get the droids to Alderann. That was the original plan which failed-the force was not with them. Maybe it never was with them to begin with in the first place. Everything had slowly fell apart since they left Tatooine. Nothing was going as plan.

Leia walked over with Cassian and a few blankets to give to the three Jedi. Leia drabbed a blanket around Luke when Cassian gave one to Thalia, the male rebel moved toward Lilah only for the female to shrug him off and got up from the table.

Luke's blue eyes drifted toward Thalia. "Is she alright?" he asked openly to everyone because Ben Kenobi had been Thalia's father. The father she just lost.

"She's in shock," Cassian admits. He'd seen it before with Jyn and other rebels before after they lost someone close to them. He'd been in shock over the last few days himself. So the male rebel knew the feeling.

"I'm in disbelief," Thalia corrected, voice hollow. She had a hard time understand that her father was gone. Ben had spelled out his goodbye to Thalia in the Death Star before he went to deactivate the tracker beam, but he was now one with the force like her mother. She'll see him again. It was just a question of when. "I can't believe he's gone."

R2-D2 emitted a sympathy beep. Although C-3PO was rarely at the lost for words, he remained silent.

"Yes he is." It was Lilah's voice, but at the same time it wasn't. Hers was too distant and void of everything that she felt. Her nails drug into her palms almost violently. She noted the twisted looks of anguish on their faces she couldn't feel her own pain. "But we're not out of the woods yet." She said as Han came out of the cockpit and walked to the guns.

No they weren't.

Cassian nodded and jumped up to the left front gun as Luke jumped fast, wiping his eyes, and ran to the other back gun. While Lilah ran to the right front gun. All of them climbed down the ladders with great haste and got on the headsets.

"Luke, Han, Cassian you there?" Lilah asked making sure the headset work as she moved the chair around. She was ready to roll when they were,

"I'm here." Cassian responded to the younger woman.

Chewie continued to fly, but it was a little hard without a second pilot to help him. This ship was specifically designed for two, not one, to pilot it.

Thalia and Leia headed to the Falcon's cockpit where Chewie was strangling to pilot the ship alone. Thalia moved toward the pilot seat and sat down besides the Wookiee. "I can you. I know how to fly." Kind of. Thalia had only started to learn how to pilot a ship when Lilah came to live with her family.

"Are you sure you can do it?" Leia asked worried. Since Thalia was still in grief over the loss of her father.

"I hope so." Thalia breathed toward the princess. She put on a headset in order to communicate with the others within the Falcon's communication system. They all needed to be connected as one in order to survive this together. If the group was going to get away from the Empire and too the rebel base in time with the droids, then they have a chance to save the galaxy from the super weapon so no other world will have the same fate as Alderaan. "Ready guys."

Han headed Lilah's voice over the headset and answered. "I can hear you loud and clear Sunshine!" He took notice of Thalia's voice in the cockpit and mumbled. "She better not break my ship." No one was allow to break the Falcon but him.

Luke's voice came over the headset next, "I hear you too." His blue eyes were on the large swivel-mounted quad laser cannon. The farm boy was sure they were military issue. He didn't even want to know where Han got those.

Thalia took notice of the beeping of the Falcon's alarms warning about in coming TIE Fighters. She looked out the cockpit window and notice the speed about how fast the TIE's were coming at them within the vastness of space. "Here they come. There coming in fast and to the left."

"Think you can figure out how this gun works, kid?" Han asked with a little seriousness in his voice. Making the question be drawn toward Luke than anyone else in the Falcon. He could only hope the farm boy knew what he was doing at the end of the day when it came to laser firing ships in space. Had the kid even been in a battle before until today?

"I think so." Oh Luke's lack of confidence makes Lilah so weary but she said nothing. This kid was a decent shot, she knew that, just focus on the positives. He was trying to familiarize himself with the controls. There was a targeting computer that worked in conjunction with the Falcon's navigational computer and sensor array to calculate trajectories and attack and intercept courses.

"Stay sharp!" Lilah said as the Imperial TIE Fighters flew toward the Millennium Falcon at a blinding speed. They veered off left and right, almost as though they were trying to surround them. And then they began to fire at them.

"They're coming in fast!" Luke yelled as he began to fire at the fighters instantly.

"You think?!" Lilah snapped back and, with a rather aggressive vigor, shot one of the TIE Fighters down with expert marksmanship. She was hitting pretty much every signal one that crossed her path now. Well know you knew never to get on her bad side for sure.

Cassian began shooting off the TIE Fighters as well, not used to the ships guns, but was a quick learner. He easily amassed to the ship as it jerked. "Keep the ship steady." He ordered Thalia on the head set.

As the ship shuttered, Chewie chattered to Thalia loudly as they turned the ship sharply and uneasily to evade the fire. The droids looked back to the princess, a bit wearily as they all clutched something for their dear lives.

"I am." Thalia said, curving the ship to the side to get out line from the laser fire. "Kind of." The female Jedi admits to Cassian with a smile bright as life on her face.

Everyone within the Kenobi household knew that Thalia had very bad flying skills. Regardless of having the force to help with those skills. The Kenobi's didn't have a ship expect for the one Lilah use to have, but when it came to Thalia learning how to fly everything always ended poorly. One should always run for cover if Thalia was flying a ship because the female Kenobi was always bound to hit something. Fortunately, Thalia's flying did some good because it caused the Falcon to hit a few TIE Fighters as the ship curved and causes the TIE to crash into one another and explode.

"Good shot, Lilah!" Han shouts toward the female. She really did have a good shot on her. He took notice of Luke's shouts and almost rolled his head. He was beginning to think the kid didn't know what he was going. "Watch your shooting, Kid. You too Cassian." He shouts as he took notice a few TIE's being hit by his ship. He was going to have words about this with Thalia later.

"You're not so bad yourself Han." It was the first time Lilah had called him Han. Not Solo or Captain, but his first name.

As the four continued to swivel and fire their guns at the fighters they lost their lateral control.

In the cockpit, Leia had been watching the computer readouts as Thalia and Chewie flew the ship. Chewbacca manipulated the ship's controls. "We've lost lateral controls," She reported.

Via comlink, Han answered the princess. "Don't worry, she'll hold together."

Near the droids a metal panel blew out in a shower of sparks beside the laser canon across the hatch. Han heard the explosion. Speaking directly to his ship, he said, "You hear me, baby? Hold together!"

R2-D2 hurried over to the smoking, sparking control panel. Among the astromech's many useful devices was a fire extinguisher. He sprayed the control panel until the fire was out.

The TIE's Fighters continued their attack. Luke and Han swiveled madly in their turrets as they returned fire. Han followed a TIE Fighter in his sights and pumped rapid bursts of laser bolts at it. He connected, and the TIE Fighter exploded. Han laughed victoriously. They continued to aim and fire at the enemy ships though as Chewie tried his best to manipulate the controls with Thalia. Which was harder than one might think. They needed to work on this woman's flying skills for one thing.

A moment later, another TIE Fighter swept into Luke's line of fire. The farm boy sung the cannon as he squeezed the firing grips and scored a direct hit, shattering the TIE Fighter. Luke finally connected with one and for a moment he smiled with glee. "I got one." He yelled with a new excited vigor. He hoped to impress the others with his shooting skills. He was a decent shot, but nowhere near as good as Lilah, Han, or Cassian were apparently.

"Great job, kid!" Han shouts over the laser fire, glancing down the passage tube toward Luke's location. "Don't get cocky." Getting cocky wasn't going to help anyone of them in a time like this. It would only cause problems. Han quickly turned his attention back to his own targeting computer.

The Falcon got hit once again which started to make Han Solo worried. He began to wonder if his ship would be in one piece once this fight was over.

Thalia was trying to stay taped into the force. Sensing how the enemy TIE's moved and trying to avoid laser fire as she turned the Falcon in the direction to stay away from the green lasers that kept on missing the Falcon only by a few inches. It was hard to try and keep the ship in one piece. Without shields they were going to need a miracle in the force.

Please be with us, Thalia thought to herself. The Force hadn't been with them since they left Tatooine. Now was the time for the Force to help them or this is as far as the Falcon will go in the galaxy.

Leia almost screamed as the ship started to turn into a flipping motion in space, getting out of the line of laser fire in time. Thalia flying might be bad, but it was staying away from the TIE's laser fire and keeping them from being destroyed.

C-3PO could feel his wires and circuitries starting to shake. "Oh dear." Miss. Kenobi's flying was treacherous.

R2-D2 beeped in worried.

"Just hold on." Thalia advised the group.

"Where did you learn how to shoot like this?" Cassian asked Lilah, wondering to the woman as they braced themselves and continued to fight.

"My aunt said I needed to learn how to defend myself-royalty or not she insisted on me learning." Lilah was royal in some odd way, as she was an Amidala. Her mother, as she was told, had been a Jedi senator. A great one from what she understood at that. Her aunt had been a senator too and a Queen before she died. "Then she died and Ben took me in. He honed what skills I had and taught me more."

Ben. Her thoughts drifted as she continued to shoot. He had trained her as a Jedi after her aunt had died and she was glad for that now.

Chewie let out a wail as more continued to descend upon them. Just two more enemy fighters left now and the battle would be over. He knew the younger woman-Thalia- barely understood him but he realized that despite the communication barrier he was getting through. He was attempting to guide her.

And if they got through this Thalia was never ever touching the ship again.

The Wookiee the young Kenobi couldn't understand in the slightest. His roaring and howling was enough to make Thalia realize her flying was a little off. She didn't understand the Wookiee like Lilah and Han Solo did because Tatooine was the only planet she knew for most of her life. The language of a Wookiee was lost to her.

From the cockpit, Leia reported, "There are still two more of them out there!"

Realizing that only two TIE Fighters were left in the battle. Thalia did one more back flip and brought the Falcon straight toward them. Making the ships head straight for each other but giving the gunner's an opening to blast the last two ships.

Chewie wailed again as Thalia curved the ship toward the TIE Fighters.

"Don't worry. I know what I'm doing. Lilah taught me." Thalia answered to the Wookiee.

"Wait, what?" Han asked in confusion. Lilah taught Thalia how to fly?

"Hey! I may have taught you the basics-but you were the one who can't fly better than a gundark!" Lilah yelled at her. But it was teasing, like between sisters and the slightly older woman knew Thalia knew that. As she moved in to get out the last TIE Fighter.

She trained her gun on one of them and shot it. She must have hit the core because it exploded into dust. That had been the last one, they were clear now.

Coming up from the gunners, they all greeted each other. Chewie hugged Thalia tightly and bounced up and down excitedly as the droid C-3PO let out a yell as he was tangled in sparking and smoking wires. "This is all your fault!" The protocol droid screamed at the R2 unit.

R2-D2 beeped in disagreement.

The trio had come up and Luke and Lilah were hugged by the others. Leia briefly before letting them all take turns with one another. "Good job Luke, Cassian." Lilah smiled and hugged Luke and then Cassian before ran off to hug the others.

What Lilah didn't expect was to be hugged by Han.

Han was happy that his precious ship was in one piece. They we're all alive. He ran over and hugged Lilah. This woman was amazing. "Good work out there."

Lilah was surprised but hugged the older man back before letting go. A small smile was on her lips. Maybe this man wasn't so bad after all...even if he did annoy the living force out of her. "You aren't half bad Solo." She told the man before her as she looked to Thalia.

Once Han pulled away and looked around at everyone in the Falcon. "Now where too?" he asked as he didn't know where to go next. He knew they had to talk about the princess and the rebel and make sure to get them back to where they belong. But as for everything else. He didn't know.

They were going to have to talk with the princess and rebel for what to do next. Everyone knew that.

"We did it." Thalia told the Wookiee that she was hugging. "And we had a safe flight." Kinda. Sorta. "I know my flying is bad." Her father and mother didn't teach the young female Kenobi about how to fly a ship until Lilah arrived for Jedi training.

Leia looked at Thalia for a moment. She was surprise that Thalia knew how bad her flying was. "You know? Then why did you..." Fly the Falcon to help Chewie.

Thalia smiled as she hugged the white dressed female. "For effectiveness. You can't hit a target that doesn't know how to fly. It's something my father use to say." She trailed off and remembered that her father was now gone and somewhere within the force around them.

The nav computer found a hyperspace portal. It was only good for a short jump, but Chewbacca seized the opportunity to gain more distance from the Death Star. He punched the controls, and the Falcon blasted into hyperspace.

The force was truly with them.

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Darth Vader joined Grand Moff Tarkin in the Death Star Control room. Both members of the Empire understood that the Falcon had fled into hyperspace with the Death Star plans, the Princess, the rebel from Scarif, the Jedi girl that helped Kenobi fight Vader, and the other members of the crew.

The Jedi Knight Obi-Wan might be deceased but a threat to the Empire remained. The rebels and those that got away from the space station.

Only that was part of the plan.

"Are they away?" Tarkin asked, looking at the view screen.

"They have just made the jump into Hyperspace," Vader reported.

"You're sure the homing beacon is secure aboard their ship?" Tarkin wondered to the Sith.

Only Vader didn't give an answer. The Sith warrior remained quiet because the male had already told Tarkin about the homing beacon that had been placed on the Corellian freighter and did not feel compelled to repeat himself. Everything had been Vader's idea to use the rescued Princess and rebel to the Empire's advantage. Which was why the Empire sent out Tie Fighters in pursuit of the Falcon, but if the princess suspects that the escape was easy, then they might not head to the rebel base.

Only the rebels needed the Death Star plans to defeat the Super Weapon which the Princess and her rescuers had within the ship somewhere. That reason alone insured that they'll head to the rebel base next. So risking those TIE Fighters had been a small prince to gain the base's location.

Now the rebellion will soon end.

"I'm taking an awful risk, Vader. This better work." Tarkin told the Emperor's enforcer.

It will work. Just have fate in the Force. Vader thought.

The Force was at work once again after being silent for years.