Luke Skywalker, the Last Jedi, faces his toughest challenge yet. To rebuild the Jedi Order, he must give up his personal hopes and dreams. Every move is critiqued by not only the New Republic Senate but also the Force-ghost Jedi Council of the past...
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Jedi Tandolleau Duwamba checked his console one more time, satisfied that the Y-wing operated properly. A few more minutes, and we'll be dropping out of hyperspace. The sooner we get Master Luke's fighter on the Freedom, the better.
"Hey, Dolly! How much longer until we reach Freedom? My legs are cramping," Jannah asked as she tried to pull her legs up to her chest to stretch out her taut muscles. She rested her boots on the canopy glass in front of her on either side of her gun controls, dancing across the viewport.
Tandolleau snorted and readjusted himself in the cockpit, trying to catch a few more minutes of sleep.
"Hey, Dolly, I asked you a question."
"I heard you," he muttered with a tinge of annoyance in his voice.
Jannah lowered her legs and turned the best she could, poking Tandolleau in the shoulder. "Then answer me."
"Not if you keep calling me 'Dolly.'" Tandolleau pushed her back around to face her gun controls.
"Fine, be that way. Only trying to have fun." Jannah crossed her arms and sulked, hoping to get a response from her partner.
After a few minutes, Tandolleau broke his self-imposed vow of silence. When he flicked the switches to bring the craft out of hyperspace, he fired up the short-range communicator. "Rogue Leader, this is Rogue Two. Come in, copy?"
Only static returned.
"Rogue Leader, come in. Repeat, Rogue Leader. Are you there?"
Jannah rotated in her seat and peered out the canopy with her hands pressed against the glass as she searched with both her eyes and the Force. "Tandolleau, I think I've found him. Follow trajectory 120 mark 50."
❶ Tandolleau pulled up his scope. "My scopes don't read any—wait a minute. Yeah. That's him. Wow! He's really far out."
"Hush! I'm trying to reach him."
At that moment, the flight controller from the Freedom sounded across their helmets. "Rogue Leader and Rogue Two, this is Freedom flight control. We have you on our scopes. You are cleared for landing in the secondary bay."
Tandolleau said, "Negative, Freedom. Rogue Leader is not responding. I'm going to go check him out." Tandolleau activated his sub-light engines at top speed, racing to Master Skywalker's position.
"Copy that, Rogue Two. We're sending the patrol squadron to assist."
Jannah continued trying to reach Master Luke through the Force. "Hurry, Tandolleau. I can't feel him in the Force. Something's not right."
