I still don't own Star Wars or RWBY, hopefully that will change someday.

Yang and her squad exited from the tunnel leading inside one of the hangars the Imperials were supposed to be storing their fighters in, she had expected at least a few guards but was confused to see not a single soldier or troopers around. At least the TIE fighters were here, she pulled her comlink and called back to the HQ but found her signal was not there. "Guys are we out of range?" she asked over her shoulder to her squad, a few shrugged or gave non committal answers since they weren't comms guys they were just troopers if it didn't involve shooting at Imperials they didn't know a lot about it. Shaking her head as they spread out to secure the hangar she noticed there wasn't anything else here, no fuel, crates or anything other than the fighters mounted to their racks.

"I've got a bad feeling about this" Her lieutenant nodded in agreement with the statement. As her troops began setting up the detonators to wipe out the enemy TIE's she heard a hissing sound, looking around she tried to figure out where it was coming from she saw it. A thin spray of green gas pours from the vents in the ceiling and drifting down into the room. "Everyone back to the tunnel now!" Her troops stop what they are doing and grab their equipment before they begin to run for the tunnels, just as they do the main doors open and squads of stormtroopers begin to pour in and open fire on the retreating rebels striking and killing a few and wounding many more. "Dammit, get the wounded, we are leaving" Yang yells over the blaster fire as she returns fire from the entrance of the tunnel before her and several troops rush back grabbing their wounded friends while trying to return fire as they pull them back to the tunnel.

The rebels manage to get away killing a few stormtroopers bubt sadly lose some of their own before sealing the tunnel. "Shit we need to get back to the base, are our communications still down?" Yang turns to her troops, a few try but still can't get through. "We are being jammed, we need to leave right now." With only half her squad still alive they begin to limp back towards the base.

Across the city this scene was repeated in some cases significantly less rebels escaping from the traps and being unable to alert their allies to the danger, the survivors all trying to make it home alive. Meanwhile unaware of the fate of their ground forces Ruby and her attack squadrons continue their charge towards their target, the Imperial hangars and fuel stations.

"Alright fighters form up in a screen and prepare to make your runs or engage the fighters depending on their reaction. Bombers follow me and we will begin our attack runs on the fuel stations." Ruby gives her orders from her heavily modified Barloz freighter 'The Crescent Rose' having opted for firepower and equipped it to give her a lot of fighting power for a relatively small ship. Having spent an immense amount of time tinkering with the vessel even going so far as to make her own droid brains to operate two of the turrets with a relatively high degree of success meaning she only needed one other copilot and left room for a few more people on the ship.

As her ship and the bombers formed up and the fighters rushed ahead of them to form a protective screen to keep any TIEs that might take off from attacking the slower bombers. "They don't seem to have noticed us boss" came the fighter leaders voice over the comlink, she had noticed as well that not a single fighter had launched which she found very odd, there was no way unless an atmospheric electrical storm was messing with their detection systems. She checked her systems and wasn't detecting anything either. Her brow scrunches up and Lika looks over and makes a small growl "I think you are right, something isn't right here." one last glance at the readout reaffirmed the growing pit in her stomach.

"Everyone break off, something isn't right. Fall back now." She waited for a response, after a minute she realized no one had responded or began to act, it all clicked at the last moment as she gunned it to get out front to the fighters rushing past them before making her ship tilt hard left and right before breaking hard to the left. Her pilots realizing what that meant immediately broke off to follow her, but beneath her rose up like some kind of sea monster was the second Venator Star Destroyer with its ventral hangar bay wide open and TIE fighters pouring out at the same time the floating hangers also begin to scramble all of its fighters as well, suddenly the skies are full of hundreds of screeching TIE's and streaks of bright green lasers as the Venators batteries open fire.

Ruby can practically feel her brain sprinting as she is forced to make a choice, try and run. Hope that they can lose the TIE's before they make it back to Cloud City and can hide, or turn and desperately try to fight off the massive swarm of enemies. "DAMMIT" she yells as she forces the Rose into a dive into the gas with all of her pilots diving to follow, all she can do is hope they can stick close enough to see her engines to follow her and that the enemy wouldn't be able to follow or at the least wouldn't risk firing into the Tibanna gas. As she moves through the gas she continuously checks her scanners but gives up after the first few minutes, the gasses would be blocking them if the Empire wasn't still in range of jamming them all she could do now is continue and hope her fellow rebels hadn't lost her or could find their way back on their own. "Lika you don't think the knew we were going to attack do you? If they did… what about the ground attacks, oh force I hope Yang and Blake are safe with the others." Lika just makes a small comforting growl knowing just as well as the younger woman that if they were ready enough to have a star ship ready that they probably had been ready in Cloud City as well.

Meanwhile aboard the bridge of 'The Ever Resolute' Winter and Weiss stood as their communications officer informs them of the plans proceeding. "It's unfortunate that their fighters managed to slip away but our ground troops report success across the city, current estimates are 70 percent of the rebel ground forces are dead or captured. So I'd call it a resounding success Winter, good work predicting their plan." Winter smirks, this is the first but hopefully not the last success here and soon their work will be done so they can relax for a bit.

Ruby settles the Rose onto the landing platform and watches as maybe half of their original fighters and bombers land in the warehouse, how many she lost to TIE's and how many are lost somewhere in the gas she isn't sure, and she doesn't feel any better either way. As she makes her way back to the HQ she sees Yang sitting at the entrance with her head resting on her hands, putting two and two together she nearly collapses "How many?" she asks in a shaky voice, Yang simply looks up at her younger sister and shakes her head forlornly.

Hope you all enjoyed, might be a bit more graphic in the future if you all seem to want it.