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Zendia climbed into her X-wing, even noting that some thoughtful being had left her a fresh, hot packet of cocoa. "Aww, the old man left this?" she queried, more to herself. Still it didn't stop Rusty from beeping a response.
"Let's get off this ice-cube."
Thankfully, Rusty took the initiative, and the engines were primed and ready to go. With that, Zendia rocketed the little X-wing skyward, and within moments, she'd left the ice world's atmosphere.

Back on Hoth ...

With the last Rebels leaving Hoth, Lord Vader gave orders for all Imperial forces to return to their respective battleships.
"Understood, Lord Vader. Returning to Crusader now," Mordranna replied through her helmet's com. She absently glanced back, noting an X-wing taking off, and away. Zendia, was it? Maybe your cause is just, after all. If so ... then I salute you, and wish you luck,

((Works for me))
As Owen's X-wing and the transport it escorted left the Atmosphere of Hoth, He looked around him in despair, Two Imperial Star destroyers were bearing down on his position, Turbolasers ready for combat. Over the comm, he heard the Rebel Tech crew's voice, saying "Get, ready, we're firing now." Owen pulled to the left, out of the path of the Ion Cannon, which blew a hole in the closer Destroyer.

As the cannon recharged to take on the second, Owen locked his S-foils in attack position and prepared for a fight. Putting throttle on full, he nearly skipped across the surface of the transport to engage with the TIE fighters closing in on them. "Ion Cannon at 60% charge." Was heard in his ear as he blew a nearby TIE to bits. Unfortunately the second Star Destroyer had closed in to range and had begun battering the transport with light fire as it maneuvered into a position where it's turbolasers could do the most damage. "We don't have time to charge fully, fire it Now!" Owen shouted as he was forced to loop-the-loop to shake a following TIE, with a blast from his Proton Torpedos, it blew up as well. "Just try to hit it out of the way so we have time to escape!"

"Alright, firing." The tech crew member said, and the Cannon, now at 65% efficiency, blasted the underside of the oncoming destroyer, greatly weakening it's shields and knocking it up, pushing the turbolasers away from the transport again. "That's gonna take a bit to correct" Owen said to the transport pilot. "I'll take care of the TIE's in front of you, you get ready for Hyperspace."

As the crew prepared for the jump, Owen zoomed forewards, pushing his engine to the limits, and quickly eliminated one of the two TIE's harrasing the transport from the front. As he wheeled around to find the second on, a third zoomed in behind him, and before he could evade, rocked his ship with laser fire, and flew quickly over him and out of the way. The technical readout on his ship read that shields were still at 78%, so he wasn't that worryed, and calmly turned around and blasted the next TIE to pieces.

With the fighters gone, the transport was able to jump to Hyperspace, and did so. Owen checked the area around him, saw it was clear for the moment, and as the Now Fully charged Ion cannon, hit the second Star Destroyer again, doing a lot of damage, Owen said "Good luck everyone." Into the commlink, pulled the lever, and saw the stars, bright points of light, change into the streaming lines of Hyperspace.

While the rest of the crew was fighting for a jump to hyperspace, Kefka was fighting for his life. Through a seires of unfortunate TIE attacks, he became seperated from his shield trio, and was fleeing the pursuit of several TIE Interceptors. He was doing okay, that is until a TIE Advanced soared in from infront of him. Kefka rolled the X-Wing past the first few lasers, but in the end, it wasn't going to worth it. He pulled the plug.

Kefka Dragoon floated in space, almost lifelessly as his X-Wing was battered by laserfire above him.

The horrible fate of going EV.

"Let's go!" Zendia cheerfully whooped back. However, just as she was about to engage the hyperdrive, she noticed something. It seemed that Kefka was in trouble. "Boss?" she commed the squad leader. She then sent a message to the transport. "Hold off. Em Lead is down! I repeat: Em Lead is down!"

"It's too late Zendia. We can't save him. If we don't leave now, we'll end up like him," Azure said over the comms to her friend.

This is the first thing I remember. Now it's the last thing left on my mind. Afraid of the dark, do you hear me whisper? An empty heart, repalced with paranoia.

A hazy white corridor, several white men and a cold open space was all Kefka remembered before blacking out again.

Zendia had arrived out of hyperspace at the rendevous point, with permission to dock.
As techs helped unload Rusty from her X-wing, she made her way to Em Squad's new "home", after consulting the Admiral in charge of the frigate.
"Time to gather everyone up," Zendia stated, though there seemed to be a grim sorrow to her voice. "First, let's see the old man, and see if he's heard anything," At that, Rusty looked up to her, giving a mournful hoot.