CHAPTER 24

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On the main deck of the Fellfire, Armitage Hux was fidgeting

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On the main deck of the Fellfire, Armitage Hux was fidgeting.

"Sergeant Elkarr, why don't I already have Captain Peavey online?" he railed at the operator.

"I'm trying to contact him General, but the Finalizer is ..."

"General!" Corporal Cherm, responsible for the sensors, suddenly cut off his colleague. "Several ships have just come out of hyperspace!"

Hux rushed towards him to see around twenty points of light flashing on the radars.

"What do we have?" he asked without taking his eyes off the screens in front of him.

"CR90 corvettes and CC9600 Corellian frigates, X-wings, B-wing starfighters, a Starfortress MG-100 and a Mon Calamari star cruiser. There are also bombers."

The ships obviously belonged to the Resistance, and Armitage's eyes widened. He had a hard time imagining that a handful of rebel vessels were planning to attack his fleet. He had heard Poe Dameron's fool's statement via the Holonet too, but he had believed it to be just a bluff. An empty declaration to make the galaxy believe that the Rebellion still had a breath of life.

However, here they were, before him. Although Hux found their little attempt ridiculous, the timing was bad. He had better things to do right now than deal with these pitiful pests.

"Their starfighters have started firing on the Ravenous and the Desolation. And part of their bomber fleet is approaching the Harbinger."

Hux's face was now contorted with anger. He wouldn't make the same mistake twice. He had the opportunity to get rid of them once again, and he knew he could rely on the firepower of his warships as well as his TIE squadrons to do so.

He climbed back on deck and watched through the large panoramic bay as the Resistance ships advanced and enemy missiles attempted to pierce their high-tech shields.

"Send all our starfighters and arm all the cannons," he ordered. "Reduce this band of renegades to dust immediately."

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The beams of the turbolasers streaked the void of space all around him. His cockpit vibrated and the noise of the ionic guns of the First Order destroyers was deafening. The shock wave of a turret exploding to his left made him shift slightly from his trajectory and he corrected his position by tightening his fingers on the handle and pulling to the right with all his strength. Too bad he wasn't in his trusty Black One. That starship had exploded with the rest of the other X-wings when Kylo Ren had launched a deadly torpedo into the Raddus hangar four months earlier. But it didn't matter. No time to give in to nostalgia when a pair of TIE fighters was chasing and shooting at you. He made several loops to avoid being atomized by his pursuers and yelled in the com for the attention of BB-8:

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