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Chapter 9: Last Moments
(Blu's POV)
Things were really getting desperate as no matter how many TIEs I managed to blast apart, they still swarmed around with near impunity, clipping away at the fleet and ganging up on lone rebel starfighters that broke formation. Working in conjunction with Red Squadron, helping them as much as Roberto, Blue Twelve, and I could as the shield gate remained intact as I spotted a trio of Red Squadron's X-Wings firing proton torpedoes right into the shield, to no avail.
"We're having no effect on that shield." One of the Red Squadron pilots reported in.
"How much more can that thing take?" Blue Twelve asked to no one in particular.
"That thing has to have a weakness…" I thought to myself as I remained focused on the present situation and that was clearing the space of TIEs, which seemed limitless.
With laser shots going everywhere of either red or green color, I spotted one of Red Squadron's X-Wings having strayed from a group of mixed X-Wings, trying desperately to shake off several TIEs on its tail.
"This is Red 5, I need help!" A shouting came from comms as I guessed that was the X-Wing trying to lose its pursers.
Before I could make a move to try and come help, I saw the TIEs break through the rear shields, their green lasers blowing apart the back of the starfighter as the broken pieces scattered about. Taking a moment to take a deep breath, Jewel was beeping at me.
"Don't worry girl, we'll make it out of here alright, I promise, just keep doing your job and I'll do the flying and shooting." I told Jewel as she gave back the bravest beep she could throughout this chaos. "I hope you're having an easier time than us dad…" I whispered.
(David's POV)
Whatever these new TIEs were, they were proving quite agile and deadly, not to mention the fact they outnumbered us and probably still had plenty of reserves just in case, I know I would…
"I got one on my tail." The voice of Blue Four spoke through comms as I spotted his X-Wing being chased by one of the TIEs, its laser cannons spitting out green lasers as it kept its fire on Blue Four.
"I'm on it." I told him as I quickly got my crosshairs on the TIE as I was careful not to hit Blue Four, keeping pace with the TIE as the pilot didn't see me, continuing to fire as Blue Four sped out of the way, the TIE flying right into my fire as it blew apart.
"Thanks General." Blue Four thanked me.
"Stay focused Blue Four, this isn't over yet." I replied as I continued keeping a 360 degree lookout as Evelyn alerted me to new, incoming contacts, one of which was larger than the others. Spotting it visually a couple seconds later, I saw three of those TIEs escorting what looked to be a troop transport version of the TIEs we were fighting.
"I'm on your side General." The voice of Blue Seven spoke as he appeared besides me, trying the lead as he flew head on towards the new threats.
However the TIEs escorting the troop transport of course saw us and blasted Blue Seven right out of the sky as I dodged the incoming fire while returning it myself, managing to take out one of the escorting TIEs in return while passing in between the TIE formation.
"General, behind you!" Blue Five alerting me as I turned my head around, watching the green laser fire zero in on me as there was no time to lose them…
The green fire soon enough hit my engines, completely rendering me useless as I braced myself for impact, knowing I will not survive as I yelled out. However deep inside I felt all my memories flash by as I last thought of Blu and the last hug I shared with him before we flew off into this battle. And right before the nose of my X-Wing clashed down into the jungle foliage of this mostly watery world with sandy islands, I wished Blu, my son, the best of luck taking over for me and hoped the Force will be with him, always…
(Blu's POV)
With every passing minute, with the fleet unable to break the shield, put us in more danger as the TIEs continued to prey on us, their constant barrages of fire actually breaking through the shields of the smaller frigates and corvettes and damaging their hulls. And not only that but both of the star destroyers were still 100 percent functional and now were starting to directly attack the fleet with turbolaser volleys.
The X-Wings of Red Squadron continued to suffer losses as I focused on finding targets of opportunity, with Roberto on my right as my wing partner for now. Spotting a trio of TIEs going in for a run on a group of Gold Squadron's Y-Wings, I sped up as I knew one of the Y-Wings was likely being piloted by Nico, if he was still alive that is.
"Roberto, pick one and I'll take one." I told Roberto.
"Copy that." Roberto replied as I locked in on the lead TIE as they were unaware of us.
Not wasting a second I hit the trigger, watching as the red lasers hit the TIE in the jolt between the cockpit and the left wing, the TIE spinning out of control before blowing up. Roberto hit his target to similar effect as the surviving TIE, now alert broke off its attack run, trying to shake us off.
"You want this one?" I asked Roberto.
"It'll be my pleasure." Roberto answered with joy as I let him take the lead now while I watched his back.
The TIE tried to lose us by putting one of our frigates in between us, but Roberto kept pace with him as once more Roberto shot up the TIE into flaming pieces. As we finished with that group of TIEs, up ahead I could see a very brief opening in the TIE swarm, watching as a group of five Gold Y-Wings took it. With no TIEs to worry about at the moment I saw the Y-Wings fire off ion torpedoes, impacting one of the star destroyers as blue lightning danced through the destroyer's hull. The strike was devastating as I saw the star destroyer lose its power and was helpless.
"Yeah, I know Jewel." I told my droid as she was rather happy. "Finally something good in this fight." I had to smile as that was one less star destroyer to worry about and it was about to get better.
Refocusing my attention back to what was currently around me, I continued protecting the fleet with Roberto flying besides me as the fleet was slowly making a dent into the TIE swarms. After all, even thought it didn't look like it, they had limited numbers and as long as we continued knocking them out of space and staying alive, we would come out on top. Easier said than done however…
As I was busy protecting the fleet, making sure to watch my back, my attention was turned when Roberto's voice came through, sounding very excited about something.
"Blu, look at the star destroyers!" Roberto told me as I took a couple of seconds to listen and turn my view towards the two star destroyers mauling our fleet…
A Hammerhead corvette managed to sneak around and ram straight into the disabled destroyer crippled earlier by Gold Squadron, its engines on full power as it pushed the disabled destroyer towards the other. Continuing to watch from afar, the other star destroyer, which was still functional, couldn't maneuver away in time, being such a big and slow ship. And well the destruction was sealed for both destroyers as the disabled destroyer the Hammerhead was pushing collided into its companion, shredding into the destroyer's superstructure and cutting it away from the hull of the massive ship. I was in awe at the amount of devastation inflicted by the small corvette as getting rid of those two star destroyers turned the fight completely in our favor now.
And that wasn't all…
The motivation and path of the ramming by the Hammerhead took the wrecks of the destroyers right above the shield gate as the first disabled destroyer dived down into the shield gate structure, it's nose cutting into the structure like a big knife. With that impact, explosions lit up in the shield gate structure as it lost power and the shield was now down, which meant that…
"Blue Leader, can you hear me!?" I said loudly through comms to reach dad.
And I'll leave it there!
Now next chapter will be on Star Wars Day, which is on Monday!
And also there will be only two, maybe three, (but most likely two) more chapters to this story!
I hope you all enjoyed and with that…
See everybird later!