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"Great shot, Seagull!" Zendia cheered. "Allrighty, Bullseye ... now!"

"You got it," Zendia said. "We'll cover you," And sure enough, she had a clear shot as Owen made his juke, and the TIE obligingly sailed into her crosshairs. The TIE blew apart, it's wreckage flying in several directions.

With that, Zendia brought her X-wing closer to the ground, in search of anything that may hamper the rescue crew. "Now, to keep the snowmen off Big Bantha's back," she said to the squadron in general.

Sure enough, a pair of chicken walkers seemed to be approaching the rescue team's position, with what looked to be a stormtrooper squad. "Chicken and snowmen on the ground, folks! And it looks like they're about the crash the party," she said, bringing her X-wing about, priming her laser cannons. "Everyone, report status, and form up."

(( snowman: stormtrooper 3nodding ))

"Seagull, can you take out a walker? My torps are dry," Zendia commed Azure. She then dived, unleashing a volley of laserfire, which made the stromtroopers on the ground scatter.

Bishop did lazy circles around the hanger after blasting a T.I.E that had tried shooting into the hanger at the shuttle. "Stupid imperials." His protical droid said.
"No beeping or blooping this time?" He beeped and blooped forcing a smile out of Bishop. The proximity alarm started blaring and a proton torpedo clashed with the port sheild rocking the ship.
"Damn it all to space." He throtttled up and started doing evasive manuvers. Green lasers blarred bast him scoring the ground far bellow. He pulled up going vertical into the air. The altimeter counted up and stoped. The X-Wing floated in midair for a spit second before Bishop fliped the engins of and started falling back to the ground bellow. A spec of black that was the T.I.E got bigger and bigger untill it was larg enough to shoot at, however he flicked the engins back on and boosted past the enemy. It was quick to flip over to shoot at him but he was ready. He'd pulleed the X-wing out of the dive right as he past the TIE's veiw port and fliped it around. The nose of the X-wing was only a couple of meters away from the ball shaped fighter. Anyone could hit somthing that close.
"Boost the forward sheilds power." He shouted into the comm and opened fire hoping the droid was fast enough. The shrapnal riped into the sheild and bounced off...almost. The X-Wing started to fall again doing uncontroled flips.
"Fire the port thrusters and boost the power from the sheilds to the repusors!" The ship soon leveled but plumeted none-the-less. The engins were offline but he fired them any ways. The flarred on and off. It was enough. The snub nose fighter flew forward. The levelness and slight boost forward should give him an advantge when crash landing, if it came to that. It did.
"Get ready to cut all power from everything but the repulsors and feed it into the lower sheilds...NOW!" The blue film formed a half sphear around the bottom of the aircraft. The sheilds exploded into sparks. He'd made it to about the same area as the hanger so the ground under him was metal. The dampeners were off and the rattling was extreme.
"Now shift the repuslers forward." The X-Wing tipped slightly up and their speed decresed. The sparks died down and they slid to a stop.
"Sheilds at 19%...18%...17%." The computer recited. "Get the landing gear out and set her down X3." The sheilds deactivated and the ship droped about a meter to the ground.
"Okay, get to work. Also, tell me and systems that need to be repaired on the outside."

"Certainly, Bullseye," Zendia replied. "Good to go, I take it?" she queried, making a strafing run on the ground, not expecting to hit anything. Still, it achieved the desired effect, with stormtroopers running around in chaos.

And then, a quartet of TIEs showed up on her scopes. "More company, people. I have four bogeys," she sighed with mild annoyance, sharply turning her X-wing around. She then readied her cannons, as Rusty focused the sheilds on the front.

As the lead TIE opened fire, Rusty shrieked as a green bolt narrowly missed him, with Zendia making a hard turn to starboard. "I have a visual," Zendia said. "We have squints!" she declared, using the nickname given to TIE Interceptors.

Zendia fired, the red bolts missing the lead squint. He's good, that one, she darkly mused, preparing another volley. This time, the dorsal port section of the squint's wing was shredded by her fire, as the squint attempted to withdraw.

(( you guys want a piece of the other three squints? ))

"I see them also," Azure said into the com. She pulled the craft around in a trun and went straight at the trio of squints. "Saph, transfer power to front shields," she said as she fired at the squints.

"Lets see....there we go. Okay X3, try it now." The engins fired and flared before burning out. He grabed the helmet off the seat and brought the comm to his mouth. "Looks like I'm gonna be out of action a little bit longer." He reported into the team comm. "I should be back up there soon though." He droped the helmet back onto the seat and jumped off the wing to repair the engins. X3 said somthing about the power coupling 4D and the fuel matrix. He'd go repair those and then see if it'd fire up. The fuel matrix some how got dislodged and the automatic safties had cut all flow. He fixed it and moved to the coupling. Great. The wires were fried.
"X3! Does this bird have any spare parts!?" Insted of answering he simply trigered a small aft bay to open. He found a coupling that almost fit. Not a permanent replacement but enough to get him home, though he'd have to take it easy.