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(( Meh, I was gonna save this for Hoth, but ... ))

Zendia sprinted through the jungle, hugging the various trees and dodging various stormtroopers.
"You there! Hold it, Rebel scum," came the voice of a stormtrooper. Oddly, the voice was that of a woman, even beneath the helmet filter. But, that wasn't the only oddity. Her armor, unlike most stormtroopers, had blue markings.
Stang, stang, stang! were Zendia's thoughts, facing the blue armored woman.
There seemed to be a metallic sigh beneath the helmet. "You're just a kid,"
"Don't discount me!" Zendia cried out. "And ... you're a woman underneath the gundark suit?" she asked incredulously.
"I would give you the same advice, rebel," the woman coldly stated, not taking her blaster off Zendia.
As the woman's attention was fully on Zendia, Rusty snuck up, and gave the woman a nasty shock to the shin, via one of his built in electrical prods. The female stormtrooper cried out, leveling her blaster at the droid.
Zendia tackled the stormtrooper to the ground with a surge of adrenaline. She then yanked off the helmet, and punched her in the face, leaving a red mark on an otherwise porcelain white face.
"How dare you, rebel?" the helmetless woman spat. "You obviously don't know who you're dealing with,"
During the tirade, the woman dropped her rifle, with Zendia scooped up. She then switched it to stun. "Don't talk like you're big and bad, Imperial butcher!"
"Butcher?! It's you rebel scum that are the butchers!"
"Explain Alderaan, then," Zendia coldly snarled.
"What about Alderaan?" the woman asked Zendia, clearly confused. "I was told that a natural disaster destroyed the planet,"
"Liar!" Zendia snarled again. "I should waste you right now." Still, she gazed into the pair of sky blue eyes, much like her own. "But, perhaps I shouldn't,"

(( partly because it'd throw continuity out of whack! xd three guesses who Zendia's stormie is! ^_~ ))

Instead, Zendia dropped the butt of the rifle into her face, and then stun bolted her.
It seemed that most of the stormtroopers were still running around the woods.
"Captain Brunhildt! Where are you?" came the voice from the woman's comlink.
Zendia felt slightly mischievious, and picked up the comlink. "I am a vengeful Jedi knight! Zendia Starsinger, at your service, snowmen! Your captain took a nasty fall, and you are next!"
She then looked over to the fallen woman. "Maybe we'll meet again, 'Captain Brunhildt',"

After some weaving and dodging, Zendia made her way to the hangar, waving down the crew of a Tantive class corvette, with Rusty in tow.

((I saw that one coming a mile away... straight from the fact she was a woman.))

Orrin followed the odd looking TIE, blasting away. Nobody said he was smart, but he did it anyways.

"Guys, follow a transport and protect its a**. Let's get off this rock before it becomes too painful to stay."

With that, he dove into the trees again, just as the TIE sprayed another round of laserfire, but it wasn't about to play games in the trees. Orrin noticed Kefka fly right in front of him, followed by the trails of missiles.

Orrin was now faced with a choice. Either annoy the TIE, or save the kid. Boy, what a choice. He turned away, but not before giving a nice fat finger to the odd TIE, and homed in on the missiles. Two shots, two down.

"I don't think I can destroy them all..."

Gendis was actually having fun. He had scores of ties on his tail now, but this reminded him of some of the more fun holovid games on Cloud City. He made a barrel roll playfully, driving several ties into the side of an ancient temple, causing minimal damage to the structure but great damage to the ships. He gave a whoops and then dived, dive low and steep, pulling out to shoot towards the gaseous main planet, barely visible in the darkening sky, before dropping a few bombs in his payload on those unfortunate enough to be following. A tie exploded, another soared into the explosion and exploded, and a similar situation repeated itself a few times.

Gendis realized that during this time his transport had been destroyed. Somehow it didn't affect him. He'd zoned out, ignoring the death all around him, and concentrated only on his ship. He made a few spins and shot a tie down, then its wingman, then flew threw the ensuing light, shields shrugging off the heat with negligable effort.

Star destroyers then moved into position and attacked. The hell they unleashed on Yavin was indescribable. They decided to forget finesse and the possibility of capturing key officials and went in for the kill.

Green globs of turbolaser fire ignited the dense foliage, and Gendis barely managed to evade it. Allied fighters and enemy fighters were caught in the salvo, the green bolts landing and splattering indiscriminately over the green terrain.

A voice sounded on Gendis' comm. He wasn't sure, but it sounded like general Jan Dodanna. "All fighters retreat. Protect any remaining transports and get the hell out of here!"

Gendis nodded to himself, sped to a nearby transport, grimaced as it exploded from turbolaser hail, then made for a clearer part of the planet's orbit to make his escape.

((Nelo! FP! you gonna wrap it up so we can get off this rock?))

((Nelo, you b***h too much. And for the record, I did post since you "brought it to my attention." I can't help the fact that no one else posted for a week as well.))

Kefka dipped underneath a smoldering Gallofree transport, and some of the missiles hit the smoking hull. He pulled up and barrel rolled, before pulling an immelman in hopes of losing the trail.

"Looks like we're clear, kiddo!" the captain of the Drunken Bantha whooped. "Better strap yourself in,"
"You got it," Zendia replied, straping herself into a spare seat in the corvette's cockpit, with Rusty too clamping himself down with magnets in his feet. "Next stop, the rendevous point," she calmly told the little astromech.
And, at once, the Drunken Bantha lurched into hyperspace.

(( Next planet, please! ))

Gendis exited hyperspace at the rendezvous, "Well, I am obviously alive and well. But I think we lost a lot of people back there." He shook his head. "Too many." Normally he'd have blamed those in command, but once out of the thick of battle, the deaths started to weigh on him. "So where....where are we going?"

Gendis was so happy to see someone else had survived that he didn't mind repeating himself. "I'm alright, Zendia, don't know about Kefka..."