Star Wars: Tie Fighter | End of the War

Chapter X. Escape

A pair of Z-95s fly across the hangar of the Liberation, a fleet of Tie Fighters darting around all over the place, Rebel fighters and corvettes falling one by one.

"Mako, really hoping your plan will work, we just lost our shields for this move." A CR-90 captain says, a corvette on the side of the formation taking laser fire from the swarm.

"It will work, we just need to get their attention." One of the pilots says, intercepting a pair of bombers on a run toward a Nebulan-B Frigate.

He flies past a group of Tie Fighters, firing a flurry of concussion missiles, disabling or destroying most of them.

"Commander, we have a pair of elite pilots causing havoc to our squadron, requesting permission to concentrate fire." A Tie Pilot asks over comm, another bomber getting shot down, the wreckage crashing on the hull of the Bulk Cruiser.

"Affirmative, send Alpha and Charlie groups to intercept, make sure they take them out." The squadron leader orders, tailing a pieced-together V-Wing, disabling its shields, and destroying an engine, sending it in a random spinout before exploding midair.

"Sure as hell got their attention! Revel, set your turrets to sector 2-4!" Mako says, flying out of the formations of Rebel ships.

The TIEs follow, pairs of green lasers darting out into space and reflecting off of shields.

The CR-90 begins firing far more rapidly than its turrets have any right to, nearly every non-necessary power source dedicated to the lasers, firing into the Imperial Fighter formation, scoring kill after kill.

Mako turns toward the Corvette, placing his hand on the throttle and setting it to zero, performing a complete stop before firing and demoting a quad group of Tie Fighters to scrap.

"Squadron down, you're free to reset your power levels, corvette," Mako says, flying past the CR-90 and tailing a Tie Fighter.

"Admiral, all weapons are on full charge, we're ready to finish off their fleet." A Commodore aboard the Blade says, a group of turbolasers dispatching a gunship.

"Well, they've had their fun, destroy them." Cruz orders, dozens upon dozens of turbolasers on both he Venator and the Star Destroyer firing rapidly, eviscerating Rebel corvettes and frigates as the Liberations shields hold on to the oncoming fire, held together by an advanced shield system.

"We're reporting combat in the hangar, not sure what it is, but it's preventing us from sending fighter reinforcements."

"Send a platoon to deal with the interference, I don't want us to lose the engagement at their fleet." Cruz orders.

Weapons aboard the Blade suddenly stop firing, the sole Venator to the side of the formation continuing fire.

"What's going on Commodore?" Cruz asks, confused.

"The disturbance appears to have reached the weapons targeting bay, looks to be disabled rather quickly." The officer says.

"That can only be the work of... Dispatch every available group of infantry, kill that Jedi as soon as possible before he wreaks more havoc. And get that targeting system back online." Cruz orders.

"Sir, looks like Maize has disabled weapons aboard the Star Destroyer, we've taken losses but it's given us time." An officer says aboard the Liberation.

"Good, set a route to Yavin IV, I heard a Rebel cell is being established there." Shack orders, a turbolasers bouncing off of the shields directly in front of the bridge.

Mako flies past a crippled Nebulan B, blasting a Tie Fighters wing off, sending it crashing into the abyss.

"Attention all fighters, dock aboard the Liberation as soon as you can, we're making the jump to hyperspace in two minutes." The fighter officer orders over the comms, the fleet slowly changing position, angled to leave the gravity well.

Mako does an immediate U-Turn, flying toward the damaged Venator, seeing the squadron of A-Wings land in the hangar, following immediately after as the wreck of a Tie Fighter slams into a group of ammo containers inside of the hangar, causing a serious explosion, dealing damage to ships and equipment across the hangar.

Mako lands the moment the blue hue of hyperspace ignites over the hangar, closing over their heads.