Just a bit of an in between chapter because there's no way a facility could be attacked and not get back up. Plus Juno needs something to do since this revolves around her.

Homeward

"My master is safely aboard," PROXY announced. "Take us back to the Executor."

"Yeah, about that," Juno said, eyeing the TIE fighters and the star destroyer that had recently exited hyperspace and arrived on scene. "I have a feeling that's not it."

Starkiller stumbled into the cockpit grasping his arm and breathing heavily. "We…must not…be found," he said in between gasps of air and winces of pain. "If we are captured, we would have to wipe out the entire ship. And I'm not keen on doing that at this moment."

"You're hurt," Juno said, glancing at his arm.

"It can wait," he hissed. "We need to go."

"Well we just can't jump to hyperspace, we'll be followed too easily," Juno grumbled, letting the Rogue Shadow drift. "I'll run the ship dark and guide it towards the wreckage."

"Towards the wreckage?" queried PROXY. "We cannot simply hide among the debris. Activate the stealth."

"She's right," Starkiller said, surprising the pilot. "It'll look like we were in the wrong place at the wrong time. If debris were to bounce off of seemingly nothing, they would investigate."

"Exactly, they'll do a scan, and leave. Facilities like this mean nothing to the Empire," Juno reasoned. "Then we'll make our escape."

"Do it."

"Master, you're not seriously suggesting we do this?" the droid asked incredulously as Juno swiftly went to work. "We will surely get hit by the debris General Kota created along with the destroyed TIE fighters."

"I'll take care of them," Starkiller said simply before taking a seat next to Juno and helping her shutdown the Rogue Shadow. "Don't mind PROXY, he doesn't trust the abilities of humans."

"It doesn't matter what the droid thinks," Juno said as everything went dark inside the cockpit and the field of debris grew closer. "Vader picked me because he believes I'm the best suited for the mission. Or he wants to kill me."

"Yes well, I'm glad you're here," he replied, causing Juno to do a double take.

"Oh?"

"Nobody else would have had the skill to get underneath the control room," the apprentice noted. "It's the only reason why I jumped."

"I have the feeling that this won't be the only time I'll have to do something that dangerous in order to save you," Juno replied with a smirk.

"I didn't need saving," Starkiller countered.

"And what would you call what just happened?" queried the pilot hotly.

"I call it a timely extraction," he said with a small chuckle, which sounded like he had not laughed his entire life. The small action however, caused him to wince in pain and grab his arm.

"Are you going to heal yourself or am I going to have to stitch you up?" Juno asked, peering at the wound in the soft blue glow of PROXY.

"I never learned how to heal myself with the Force," Starkiller replied, watching the TIE fighters and debris carefully. "Even if I could, Vader wouldn't allow it. He said that it would slow my learning from the torture and duels."

"That would explain all the other scars," Juno said, as she grabbed a medkit and began dabbing kolto on the wound. "How exactly did you get this?"

"One of the walkers threw a TIE wing at me."

"An AT-CT? Not usually used for battle, but can obviously use its tractor beam to throw things," Juno noted as she inserted the needle, causing a hiss of pain. "Don't be such a wimp."

"PROXY, get closer so Juno can see what she's doing," Starkiller said as he raised his other arm to slowly move a piece of oncoming debris.

"Master, I can do many things, but must you give me such an embarrassing task?" the droid asked, obviously disgusted.

"Look at it this way," the apprentice reasoned. "The faster she stitches the faster you can try and kill me."

"Master, if you're expecting an attack, it ruins all the fun," PROXY said with a sigh that sounded so human like it sent shivers down Juno's spine.

With her work finished, Juno threw aside the used medkit and looked out at the scene in front of them. "Those TIE fighters are getting closer. What are we going to do if the find us?"

"We'll have to add them to the debris, and make a jump before they can send more or the destroyer can get a lock on us. You were in the Black Squadron, you should know all about the weaknesses of those fighters," Starkiller encouraged.

Juno thought back to her days as an everyday Imperial pilot. Back when orders were orders and fear, not secrecy was her best weapon. She remembered that they flew in wide formations, and that they made sure to have another team back them up. "TIE fighters can't turn to quickly change direction, once they complete a run past a target they have t arc back around, that, and they have poor shielding in the rear."

"Alright, knowing things is fine, but we have to exploit the weaknesses. It doesn't look like they're leaving anytime soon, so it's up to us to strike," the apprentice planned. "They're sweeping left to right, so as soon as they're too close to fire, power everything up. I'll do what I do, and you back me up. Then we'll have to jump inside the debris field."

"Inside the debris field?" asked Juno. "That's insane."

"So was flying under the control room. Just do it."

Juno nodded and watched as the TIE fighters began another sweep. The pilot had never fired on Imperial targets before, and now, she was unsure if she could. They were both fighting for the same cause weren't they? Galactic order and everything else the Emperor promised. But it wasn't like she had a choice. Either she fired on them or they would be stuck here. The fighters were close now, and Juno's hands hovered over the flips that would quickly get the Rogue Shadow ready. There were ten of them; Juno hoped that they could destroy them all before they were out of range of either the lasers or Starkiller's powers.

"Now," Juno said, and quickly fired up the ship. Instantly Starkiller's hand flashed up as he grabbed hold of a fighter and threw it into two others. Juno called up the targeting system, locked onto the nearest one and fired. The ensuing explosion engulfed another fighter, and it was soon added to casualty list. Starkiller grabbed two this time, and sandwiched the two between them adding his total up to seven.

The last one was beginning to arc and Juno was having trouble locking on. "Juno," Starkiller said uneasily.

"I'm working on it," the pilot said hurriedly.

"I can't grab him, I'm exhausted."

"Shush," she said, furrowing her brow in concentration. Finally, she was locked and fired. She was rewarded with another explosion.

"No time to celebrate, we have to jump. Now!"

Juno swiftly punched in the coordinates for the Executor and slammed the button down. The stars turned into beams of light before blanketing the entire view screen with white light. They were free and heading to the safety of the Executor. Well, safety being a matter of opinion to Juno. She hoped that Vader deemed the mission a success or she was sure that her Imperial career would come to an abrupt end.

A big thank you to everybody that has read and/or reviewed sorry it took so long to update. So let me know what you loved/hated and I'll be sure to write more.