Chapter 6: Escaping the Death Star

Obi Wan's P.O.V

I started making my way back to the ship to meet with the others, until I felt a presence. It was dark and it was a presence I haven't felt since, since the rise of the Empire. I could not believe that this was going to occur again as I made my way down the halls to be met with the dark figure ahead of me.

He had a red lightsaber in his hand and I activated my blue one, raising it in a defensive stance. The figure began walking towards me, his breathing disturbing as the man under the helmet, the man who I once considered my friend.

"I have been waiting for you, Obi Wan." he said. "We meet again at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner, and now I am the master."

"Only a master of evil, Darth." I retorted, taking a swing at the menace. He deflected it and came back at me. He was rather slow under the suit, most likely from the injuries he sustained back then. Some time passed as we were dueling, and I sensed another force presence nearby. Vader stopped dueling for a moment and looked at whoever it was that was with us. I turned around and saw that Ezra was here with us.

"Ezra? What are you doing here?"

"I'm helping you out." he answered, igniting his green lightsaber.

"So, it was foreseen that you would be here." Vader said. "It has been a long time since we met face to face, boy, a long time since Malachor. A long time since the death of her."

"How about a little less talking and a little more dueling." Ezra retorted. He gave me a nod and we swung at Vader.

Vader blocked our attacks, managing to keep pace with me and Ezra. We were engaged in a blade lock. "Your powers are weak, old man." Vader said.

"You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine." I responded, Ezra and I both going for an opening that we saw. Vader, however, blocked our attacks, until Ezra struck him in the shoulder. Vader groaned in pain.

"You have become powerful, boy. But nothing can save you." Ezra didn't respond as we continued swinging at him, Vader doing his best to block our attacks. I blocked another attack from him and parried him, and that was when Ezra used his force abilities on him. He pushed Vader back, him ending up on one knee. We approached him and held our sabers at his face.

"It's over, Vader." Ezra said.

"No. It is not yet over." Ezra started choking, him being lifted up in the air and forcefully grabbing his neck.

"Help me!" he was able to say with effort.

"Let him go!" I warned Vader. Vader refused and kept on choking him, this time choking him harder. I sensed two more force signatures entering the hangar. I looked over to my left and saw the others, and Luke took a few steps to where I was. He gasped when he what was going on, and that was when I knew that sometimes sacrificing yourself for the sake of others is sometimes the right thing to do.

Ezra's P.O.V

As I was being choked, I saw the others head to the Ghost, and Luke just looked at Ben. At that moment, Ben raised his lightsaber. Vader got up and brought his up, about to deliver the killing blow. When the red blade was swung, we gasped as we saw that Ben was no more. "No!" I heard Luke yell. Some nearby stormtroopers turned around and started blasting him and the others.

As I watched them make their way to the Ghost, I thought that I was going to be done for, until Vader approached me, letting me go. I breathed heavily as I regained myself after going through that. However, it didn't look like he wanted to kill me, just yet that is. I gulped, nervous to see what was going to happen. Vader didn't say anything and threw me towards the door with the force. I gave him a confused look. Was he letting me escape? He didn't say anything, and that moment I force pushed the stormtroopers out of the way and sprinted towards the Ghost, jumping onto the ramp. The ramp closed and we took off from the Death Star. Finally!

I walked over to the common area, seeing Leia, Luke, R2, and 3PO there. Concerned, I walked over to them. "Can't believe he's gone." Luke said.

"I'm sorry about what happened." I responded.

"There wasn't anything you could have done." Leia said. At that moment, Kanan ran in.

"We're not outta here yet." he informed us. I knew what to do, sprinting to the upper gun, manning it.

"Man a gun!" I ordered over the intercom, waiting on whoever else was in position.

"Forward gun is operational." Zeb said.

"TIE fighters inbound." Kanan said.

Zeb and I opened fire on those fighters as they flew near us. I was going for the second one that was flying around where I was shooting them from, opening fire. Just as Zeb and I continued blasting them, we heard a few more fighters incoming.

"Dang it, that's a lot of them! Sabine, Alex, take the Phantom!" Hera ordered.

"On it." Alex and Sabine said at the same time. The Phantom detached from the Ghost the second I took out one of the fighters.

"He's down." I said.

"Great job, Ez, don't get too cocky now." Zeb replied. At that moment the TIE that he was dealing with blew up. "That TIE is down." Another TIE came around, me opening fire on it. As I continued firing, the Phantom flew around the Ghost a couple of times and took out the others, with one more remaining. I looked down at my scope, waiting for the fighter to get in range. When it got in range, my scope went off, and I fired on it until it blew up. That was the last of those fighters.

"Good job, guys." Sabine said over the intercom.

"You too, Sabine." Hera replied. "Phantom, head back." I shut my gun's systems off and slid down the ladder, heading over to the cockpit. When I got there, the others were already there.

"So what now?" I asked.

"Well, now that we got you out of there, Your Highness, do you need to head to the base?" Hera asked Leia.

"Yes. R2 has info that's critical to the Rebellion. The sooner we get to Yavin 4 the better." Leia answered.

"We're heading there now." Hera replied, entering hyperspace.

An hour later

We exited hyperspace and were now orbiting Yavin. We entered the atmosphere and set the Ghost down on the base grounds. We exited the Ghost and headed over to the briefing room in the base, waiting on debriefing the intel that Leia has.