Death Star: episode #69 The Trench Battle
Previously: Mon Mothma told me a little about her late husband, and she tired to comfort me about Luke. She doesn't know who Luke is, only that he is a friend of mine. Luke, Wedge, Biggs, and Joseph go into battle. Darth Vader sent TIEs after the Rebels, before joining the battle himself after Luke, Wedge, and Biggs broke off from the main group.
�We�ve analyzed their attack, and there is a danger. Should we have your ship standing by?� Tarkin looks at the guy like he�s crazy. �In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.� Meanwhile, Joseph is approaching the target. Some of the TIEs destroyed some of the ships, but none of the main characters yet. Instead of immediately going for Luke, Wedge, and Biggs, Vader decided to go for the main group. It was super easy for him�he was an excellent pilot�he was a Sith, and he used the Force to help him in this battle. That is the reason he was so dangerous to the Rebels. Vader almost laughed as he destroyed ship after ship in Blue Squadron. The only ones left now are blue Leader, Wedge, Biggs, Luke, and Joseph. Joseph, as I said was approaching the target. He turned his targeting computer on, which was supposed to provide the exact target of the exhaust port. He shot it as soon as the computer told him he was in range. �I got it! It�s all over.� I looked up at Bail. He shook his head just as Joseph realized something, �Negative, negative. Id didn�t go in.� He hadn�t hit a direct hit, so it did not set off a chain reaction. Joseph�s ship was a little hurt, and they didn�t� have time for another run. Luke, Wedge, and Biggs were now the only hope for the Rebellion. Kitster and Joseph had to return to base. Blue Leader says, �Luke, it�s now up to you.� Luke then remember what Ben had told him and tired to go with his feelings more than before. Luke says, �Let�s accelerate to top speed for the attack run.� Wedge makes a comment. �Just trust me,� says Luke. Luke pulled his targeting computer down to prepare for destroying the Death Star. Wedge says, as Darth Vader and his TIEs came, �Here they come.� One of Vader�s men says, �They�re going too fast for us to destroy them. They�ll never pull out in time.� �Stay with them,� said Vader. Then he adds, �They�ll have to slow down before they reach the tower anyway.� Vader detected how fast Luke, Wedge, and Biggs were going, and went off his feelings of when to get them. Finally, Vader says, �Take them.� Luke says, �We�ll have to spilt up, otherwise we�ll all be dad. �I�ll stay on the leader, you two take the others,� Vader says. Vader stayed on Luke�s ship while other TIEs followed Wedge and Biggs. Vader fired on Luke�s ship, expecting it to be destroyed just as easily as the other, but through the Force, Luke was able to crazily dodge shots that should have killed him. Vader tried doing all the trickiest and fastest moves he knew, relying on the Force, but he still missed Luke. Vader frowned after missing yet another time. �This one has a strong Force. Strange. I�ll take him myself.� As soon as Vader�s ship got behind Luke�s (Luke�s was marked as Blue 5), Mon Mothma turned to me. �I�m afraid to say that your friend�s in deep trouble right now. Once Vader gets on an enemy, he doesn�t let it go. He�s a Sith�he has special powers called the Force. I don�t think your friend�s going to get out of it.� NO one could hear the opposite side�s comments, so no one at the rebel Base heard Vader�s comment about Luke. Vader was tight on Luke, even though he wasn�t able to destroy Luke. Bail says, �Watch it blue Five.� �I can�t shake him,� came Luke�s reply. �Someone, help me.� Finally, Vader was able to hit Luke�s ship, but it wasn�t bad. Luke fought to retain control. �I�m hit,� Luke says. �But it�s not bad. Artoo, see what you can do with it.� Artoo repaired Luke�s� ship. Luke flipped, changed speed, and took a crazy path. Finally, Darth Vader lost him. Luke says, �Looks like we lost those fighters.� Wedge says, �I�m clear, too.� Biggs says, I think I lost mine.� But the TIE was still behind Biggs. But Biggs lost him. They all joined back together. Biggs and Wedge tired to confuse the TIEs that again began to chase them. The two other TIEs were tricked by this, but Vader wasn�t. They were nearing the exhaust port. Vader decided to go after one of the others before trying Luke again. He got behind Biggs, and with the Force to provide precision no one should be able to make, hit Biggs easily, and killed him. Luke tired to hold back the tears. Wedge pulled up beside Luke�s ship. Luke was leading Biggs a little. Vader says,� I�m on the leader. Take the other one. Wedge got hit. �I have a bad malfunction. I can�t stay with you Luke, sorry...� Wedge pulled out of the trench to go back to the Base. As Wedge left, the TIE fighters started to turn their ships, but Vader said, �let him go. Stay on the leader.� One of the TIEs hit the trench wall and exploded. Suddenly, a shot came from nowhere at the TIEs. It was the Millennium Falcon! Han shot at the TIE, who crashed into the wall. Vader�s ship was hit, too, but not bad. It did cause him to lose control of his ship completely, and he started spinning as he was sent out at a safe distance from the Death Star, still spinning. �You�re all clear now, kid. Let�s blow this thing and go home.� Luke looked into his targeting computer, but something was wrong. His instincts told him to turn it off and rely on his own instincts for the shot. Luke closes his eyes and turned it off. Bail says, �Base One to Blue Five, you switched off your targeting computer. What�s wrong?� �Nothing.� He took the shot, not consciously, and he pulled out of there at the last second after firing, at top speed. Wedge says, �You did it! They went right in.� Han says, �Great shot, kid. That was one in a million!� They all got out safely, and the Death Star exploded just as it had cleared Yavin. Vader had seen the explosion from where he was.
Until next time!
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Death Star: episode #69 The Trench Battle