AN: Okay, this is the last part of this movie so we can now move on to Empire. First of all, do any of you shits even read my Author's notes? I specifically explained how this trash site erases Diva's name acronym and then some dumbass is crying on the reviews about some names being missing? Usually I would not get incensed over someone ponting this kind of stuff; but receiving complaints over something I've already addressed just pisses me off since it does nothing for me but waste time; time I only have in short amounts.
As some of you might know, I was writing the next chapter for my Death Battle story. Stupid thing started to stretch and take too damn long to be ready to the point I just had enough and decided to move to another thing and archive all I the work I had already done for later. Hundreds of pages es and still not ready!? It breaks my balls, fuck it I say, I'll deal with it later.
I haven't had much time to write fanfiction lately since last year due to the fact I was promoted at my work around July, obviously that's good news for me since that means I earn more money. On the other hand, the workload also increases due to higher responsibility, so I have less time to dedicate to my stories. Also spending all day working on a computer leaves me pretty unwilling to stay more hours on it to write fanfiction once I get home. I just fucking want to rest and play videogames in the afternoon.
I've been pretty busy lately, not only with work, the stupid endless chapter that refuses to be finished, all the stupid everyday nuisances and Christmas. Yes, Christmas... One would think that because it's a holyday you would have the chance to rest a little. But no, fuck you, you're now an adult so that means you don't have the right to rest ever, not even during holydays. You have to go and travel to visit your parents and relatives in other cities and once there help to get everything ready for the celebrations. Luckily I did not have to help with the tree, but I did had to help making the dessert for the 24th and moving around the fucking boxes of the decorations and put away the surplus of spheres and other trinkets. And then more travel to go visit more relatives that you haven't seen ever for the entire year until now. And then move and travel again to spent the new year back in your home city but with the rest of the family tagging along. So why the fuck decorate if you're not even going to spend the 25 there? fuck this shit. Whatever, it was a lot of stupid things I had to do because of all that christmas spirit trash. No time to write on my stories.
But that was just the holidays, another thing that has the attention of a great deal of my time is Fate Grand Order. Is a good game, but requires a lot of investment since the events and campaigns come one after another with very little off time in between, sometimes there's none when an event ends and the very next day another begins. And they are grindy, so yeah, it requires a lot of my focus to be dedicated on it.
Man, on my last upload back at the end of January, I hadn't updated any story since the re-run of Rashomon. Somehow, between that event and today, I managed without even trying or paying much attention, to get all of the currently available Saber-faces for Artoria. The only exception being Heroine X alter. When I realized this, I was like… How the hell did this happened?
It's been quite a ride for my account since I first began playing back during the first-year anniversary. With my very first 5 stars servant being Mordred. During the Rashomon re-run I managed to acquire myself a Mama Raikou, she's been part of my farming teams ever since. Though I wasn't able to make her 10/10/10 on all her skills until the Nerofest Lotto.
After that came the second Anniversary, so I paid for the guaranteed 5 star banner, despite being a horrible pot in which all SSR servants were shoved in, but the gods of gambling were smiling on me and I managed to get Gramps! King Hassan old man of the mountain! And my first 5 stars assassin, and currently the best I have in roster.
The re-run of last 2018 summer event came and went, and I only focused enough to get me some Ascension and skill materials and Legendary Lores, which you can only get during events and are necessary to maximize skills.
Then came last year summer event, the races! And all my quartz and tickets went away in the summer banners. But I got myself a Nero caster with only 2 pulls of 10x, and everything else went into getting a Mama Raikou Lancer. And I also got me a Kiyohime Lancer… But that's another thing… Anyway, it was fun, and with all the Craft Essences I got from the banners I had an easy time grinding the event. The easiest event I've experienced so far.
Three days after event ends Nerofest begins. It was actually really fun farming for the lotto and fighting boss battles one after another for gacha tickets. Then came the banner of Merlin and I tried to roll for it with what remained from the summer banners, also had to pay for some quarz, but that dick mage didn't wanted to came home and all I got was a spook with Saberlot. Which made me rage a lot. Well, at least I got a Salter to NP 2 and a Lartoria alter to NP 3 as consolation. Which I used her to complete my daily farming team with Mama Raikou and Arash.
Anyway, then September came and with it Shimosa. I didn't felt like participating in the pseudo-singularity campaign banner, since I was pretty spent after failure with Merlin, I only had managed to scramble like 15 tickets or so with the monthly purchases on Da Vinci's shop. But then I started seeing videos about how good Saitama Lancer was and that he could rival best doggo Cu-Chulain and shit and I was like… Mmmmph…? Perhaps it might be a good idea to roll the Gacha for him? I have 15 tickets how hard can it be to get a 3 stars? I could maybe get 2 or 3 copies of him before I ran out.
So I make my first pull with the tickets, and I get a Mr. Jekyll… Tis' fine I'm just starting…
Then came the second pull. I get a rider card…. And then it turns golden! And I'm like… Whore mother! Am I about to get my first five stars rider? - Nope… Pure sausage is all you get. It was only, Astolfo….
I'm like… Get the fuck out of here, you skank! I already have you…
By this time, I already had enough, and it was only my second pull. So I slap my cheeks and said. AAAARGH! Enough of this shit already! Come on Saitama! Come over here! Stop wasting my time! One Punch Man! One Punch Man!
So then it came… Third pull… Numero tres…
And it was a Golden Saber card from the very beginning, and I'm like— 0.0 ! FUUUUUUUUCK! No fucking way! Is it true!? And yes it was! It was Musashi!
And that's the story how I got the singularity waifu without even trying. With only 3 tickets… I quickly leveled her up to 90 and maxed her out to 10/10/10 with all I still had from the Nerofest lotto.
Anyhow… Then came the re-run of the Halloween event Super Ghouls & Pumpkins… Not much there. Then Came the actual Halloween event of the year in course. It was fun, yes… Especially with that bullshit of the Amazoness delivery service and Pentasilea being the CEO. Did not participate in the banners of these events since I was saving for the next year guaranteed SSR. They gave a free 4 stars ticket before Halloween and I used it to get a copy of Gorgon, since I had zero Avengers. And it was her or Lobo. So naturally I went for waifu, for obvious reasons…
Wasn't actually able to finish the story campaign of Shimosa until the middle of December with all these events. Way after Salem had already arrived. And Salem I didn't finish until the end of February. Anyway the next event was the Christmas re-run and the actual Christmas event. Again not much to say since I was saving… Except how stupidly high difficult was the event of Altera, seriously you nedded to have maxed out servants of 4 or 5 stars since the fucking enemies were too tough. Than good I already had maxed out 5 stars servants thanks to the Nerofest like Musashi, Nero Caster and Raikou. Also the Alter Egos helped me a lot since I had obtained a Kiara and a Meltrylis from the BB event in May. And also Mecha Eli-chan from Halloween helped. Wasn't too particularly difficult for me, thanks to my servants but it forced to pay extra attention to every single battle during the event farming due to the high level enemies. It was doubly compounded since this event was another lotto. It was pretty meh… but the golden stars for class skills were nice and the only things why I bothered to run the lotto. But yeah, that was an event that new players would not have been able to participate.
After that came the last big haul of 2019. The next year banners, the guaranteed SRR gave me rider Artoria Alter Maid. Good enough, I suppose. But the real prize was the Hokusai banner. After 4 friend point pulls of 10 to reeve the engine, so to say, I got my squid waifu on the fourth ticket. Then I made another 4 friend pulls, and went into the Lancer banner, and 6 tickets later, Scathach! J Big grin ensues.
In the second week of January, the first event of the year arrives with the re-run of the Da Vinci event, a double lotto! With double the prizes, and tons of ascension materials….
This event pissed me off… Because Scathach nedded more than a hundred fifty red bones for her to be maxed out, and it was the last time were you can farm for bones in an event for the entire year until the Christmas lotto. And Hokusai and Gorgon also wanted bones for their own skills. Fuck this shit, I said to myself, I had to farm like a dumbass every single day during all the event. It's the only time I had to do something like that and it sucked. But in the end I managed to maxed out Scathach and Hokusai… The lengths one has to go for his waifus… Two weeks of pure grinding.
I only had one week to rest before the next event came kicking at the door… General Setsubun... A 200 floors challenge tower with a boss fight every 10 floors… And you couldn't reuse servants after finishing a floor since they entered into a 4 hour cooldown, so you had to go through your entire roster and plan when to include your most powerful servants… It was fun.
The very next day that Setsubun ended came the Valentine's event. Seeing it was going to be a bit grindy I decided to make a single 30 quartz 10x pull to get me some CE's. 4 friend pulls later, I went to the banner event… And got Semiramis… No CE….
I didn't knew how to feel, but I still took her and put her to work on the event, got everything from the store and prize ladder. Again, the very next day that Valentine ended, the re-run of the Kara no Kyokai event began. Had to spend 60 quartz to get me a copy of Asagami Fujino. Not much to tell after that, it was a standard mission-based event.
A week went by, that I spent during interludes because of all the updates of serants, and in came Saber Wars. I saw the event description. No one seems to like it in the forums, I gave a call to my cousin to see if it was good idea to roll for Mysterious Heroine X. He said she was not too shabby. I wans't particularly convinced. Decided to roll for event CE's instead.
4 friend points pulls of 10 and I went for the 30 quartz pull in the event banner. I got Nero, red saber… A single copy of Tamamo's CE… … And Misteryous Heroine X. By this time I knew better than to raise questions about my luck.
This stupid event was grindy indeed and not particularly interesting. But thanks to the daily free event quests I managed to easily obtain the 2,000,000 points I needed to empty the prize ladder. Because I had Sabers on all my team slots, and MHX, I had a 150x bonification in point acquisition. So I really wasn't bothered by the farming and took my leisure with the event.
On the last week of the event I realized we were having daily banners rotating between each of the main classes. I saw the Lancer class, it was between Karna and Lartoria. And I'm… I truly do not need an AOE 5* Lancer, Lartoria alter is strong enough enough for that despite being 4*. But Karna is husbando, and next year during the Hindu lostbelt he's going to get a cool new skin. Okay, let's do it.
4 pulls of 2,000 friend points later, I do the 30 quartzs pull… And got Lartoria… I just don't know how this keeps happening… This is when I realized I had all the Saber faces of Artoria except for MHX Alter.
A couple of days later I saw the Berseker banner, it was between Cu alter and Nightingale. Another husbando worth pulling for. But by this point I kind off temporarily gained the ability to peer into the future and I knew that if I pulled for this Banner I would end up getting Nightingale instead of Cu… So, no, I decided to better keep saving for Skadi.
Saber Wars just finished this Thursday, but yesterday on Friday the first lostbelt was finally released. I'm like… (-_-) Not especifically impressed nor pleased with this pacing. Fucking lostbelt has some really long cutscenes. I've just played like 5 nodes and it's been almost like two hours of cutscenes with only a single battle that only lasted 3 turns before ending.
Well, whatever I fell like I'ts going to take me a while to finish the lostbelt before the next event, Apocrypha arrives. So yeah, I've been having fun with the game… But it really takes a lot of my attention and time.
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This chapter is bein uploaded on the 28/03/2020
Movie Time
STAR WARS
Episode IV
A NEW HOPE
Part 4
The battered pirateship drifts into orbit around the planet Yavin and proceeds to one of its tiny green moons. The Millenium Falcon soars over the dense jungle.
An alert guard, his laser gun in hand, scans the countryside. He sets the gun down and looks toward the temple, barely visible in the foliage.
Rotting in a forest of gargantuan trees, an ancient temple lies shrouded in an eerie mist. The air is heavy with the fantastic cries of unimaginable creatures. Han, Luke and the others are greeted by the Rebel troops.
Then Luke and the group ride into the massive temple on an armored military speeder.
The military speeder stops in a huge spaceship hangar, set up in the interior of the crumbling temple. Willard, the commander of the Rebel forces, rushes up to the group and gives Leia a big hug. Everyone is pleased to see her.
Willard: (holding Leia) You're safe! We had feared the worst.
Willard composes himself, steps back and bows formally.
Willard: When we heard about Alderaan, we were afraid that you were... lost along with your father.
("That's an understandable assumption, considering…" Shrike began but left the matter unsaid as they all knew what she was referring about. The destruction of an entire planet.)
Leia: We don't have time for our sorrows, Commander. The battle station has surely tracked us here. (looking pointedly to Han) It's the only explanation for the ease of our escape. You must use the information in this R2 unit to plan the attack. It is our only hope.
("Things are about to come to a head…" 76 simply said.)
The surface of the Death Star ominously approaches the red planet Yavin.
Grand Moff Tarkin and Lord Vader are interrupted in their discussion by the buzz of the comlink. Tarkin moves to answer the call.
Tarkin: Yes.
We are approaching the planet Yavin. The Rebel base is on a moon on the far side. We are preparing to orbit the planet.
A lone guard stands in a tower high above the Yavin landscape, surveying the countryside. A mist hangs over the jungle of twisted green.
Dodonna stands before a large electronic wall display. Leia and several other senators are to one side of the giant readout. The low-ceilinged room is filled with starpilots, navigators, and a sprinkling of R2-type robots. Everyone is listening intently to what Dodonna is saying. Han and Chewbacca are standing near the back.
(Tracer began to rub her thights with some anxiousness. "Oh, mission debriefing… I can feel all the tension hanging in the air…")
Dodonna: The battle station is heavily shielded and carries a firepower greater than half the star fleet. It's defenses are designed around a direct large-scale assault. A small one-man fighter should be able to penetrate the outer defense.
Gold Leader, a rough looking man in his early thirties, stands and addresses Dodonna.
Gold Leader: Pardon me for asking, sir, but what good are snub fighters going to be against that?
("I would like to know that too…" Tracer piped in. "I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't mind losing my life fighting the good fight. But expecting me to take on a monster of that size with only my lil' ol' ship is bonkers…")
Dodonna: Well, the Empire doesn't consider a small one-man fighter to be any threat, or they'd have a tighter defense. An analysis of the plans provided by Princess Leia has demonstrated a weakness in the battle station.
Artoo-Detoo stands next to a similar robot, makes beeping sounds, and turns his head from right to left.
Dodonna: The approach will not be easy. You are required to maneuver straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point. The target area is only two meters wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system. A precise hit will start a chain reaction which should destroy the station.
A murmur of disbelief runs through the room.
Tracer blinks. "That might actually work… It would be risky as all nine hells… But it might be doable…" She said pensive, rubbing her chin with a hand underneath it.
"Well, a weapon of that size capable of destroying entire planets would certainly expel a lot of heat and thus require a lot of ventilation…" Winston began to speak, fixing his glasses a little. "I would assume that an explosion inside the main reactor would have catastrophic results."
"Hurray for explosions!" Diva declared.
"Yes Hana! That's the spirit!" Tracer congratulated.
Dodonna: Only a precise hit will set up a chain reaction. The shaft is ray- shielded, so you'll have to use proton torpedoes.
Luke is sitting next to Wedge Antilles, a hotshot pilot about sixteen years old.
Wedge: That's impossible, even for a computer.
Luke: It's not impossible. I used to bull's-eye womp rats in my T-sixteen back home. They're not much bigger than two meters.
"What kind of rat is that big!? OMG that's disgusting!" Hana exclaimed with a grimace of disgust.
Sombra smiled. "The alien kind!"
Dodonna: Man your ships! And may the Force be with you!
The group rises and begins to leave.
("Yes, they sure as hell will going to need it, not that it helped Obi-Wan that much…"" McCree comented)
The Death Star begins to move around the planet toward the tiny green moon.
Tarkin and Vader watch the computer projected screen with interest, as a circle of lights intertwines around one another on the screen showing its position in relation to Yavin and the forth moon.
Intercom Voice: Orbiting the planet at maximum velocity. The moon with the Rebel base will be in range in thirty minutes.
Vader: This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of Kenobi and it will soon see the end of the Rebellion.
("He's counting his chickens before they hatch…" McCree said with a shake of his head.)
Luke, Threepio and little Artoo enter the huge spaceship hangar and hurry along a long line of gleaming spacefighters.
Flight crews rush around loading last-minute armaments and unlocking power couplings. In an area isolated from this activity Luke finds Han and Chewbacca loading small boxes onto an armored speeder.
Voice (over loudspeaker) All flight trooper, man your stations. All flight troops, man your stations.
Han is deliberately ignoring the activity of the fighter pilots' preparation. Luke is quite saddened at the sight of his friend's departure.
Luke: So... you got your reward and you're just leaving then?
Han: That's right, yeah! I got some old debts I've got to pay off with this stuff. Even if I didn't, you don't think I'd be fool enough to stick around here, do you? Why don't you come with us? You're pretty good in a fight. I could use you.
Luke: (getting angry) Come on! Why don't you take a look around? You know what's about to happen, what they're up against. They could use a good pilot like you. You're turning your back on them.
Han: What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides, attacking that battle station ain't my idea of courage. It's more like suicide.
Luke: All right. Well, take care of yourself, Han. I guess that's what you're best at, isn't it?
"Nooo! Do not break up the team!" Tracer wailed overdramatically.
"Han's right, there's no point in staying when you've already got what you came for…" Sombra said.
McCree shrugged unconcerned. "A Man got to do what he's got to do…")
Luke goes off and Han hesitates, then calls to him.
Han: Hey, Luke... may the Force be with you!
Luke turns and sees Han wink at him. Luke lifts his hand in a small wave and then goes off.
Han turns to Chewie who growls at his captain,
Han: What're you lookin' at? I know what I'm doing.
"Yeah? Like that time when you tried to carry a prison break from a highly secured space station?" Zarya commented with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh burn!?" Hana declares.
Luke, Leia, and Dodonna meet under a huge space fighter.
Leia: What's wrong?
Luke: Oh, it's Han! I don't know, I really thought he'd change his mind.
Leia: He's got to follow his own path. No one can choose it for him.
Luke: I only wish Ben were here.
Leia gives Luke a little kiss, turns, and goes off. As Luke heads for his ship, another pilot rushes up to him and grabs his arm.
Biggs: Luke! I don't believe it! How'd you get here... are you going out with us?!
Luke: Biggs! Of course, I'll be up there with you! Listen, have I got some stories to tell...
Red Leader, a rugged handsome man in his forties, comes up behind Luke and Biggs. He has the confident smile of a born leader.
Red Leader: Are you... Luke Skywalker? Have you been checked out on the Incom T-sixty-five?
Biggs: Sir, Luke is the best bushpilot in the outer rim territories.
Red Leader pats Luke on the back as they stop in front of his fighter.
Red Leader: I met your father once when I was just a boy, he was a great pilot. You'll do all right. If you've got half of your father's skill, you'll do better than all right.
Luke: Thank you, sir. I'll try.
Red Leader hurries to his own ship.
Bigg: I've got to get aboard. Listen, you'll tell me your stories when we come back. All right?
Luke: I told you I'd make it someday, Biggs.
Bigg: (going off) You did, all right. It's going to be like old times, Luke. We're a couple of shooting stars that'll never be stopped!
Luke laughs and shakes his head in agreement. He heads for his ship.
("It's good to have friends." Tracer said with a smile. "Especially when they are also your wingman…")
As Luke begins to climb up the ladder into his sleek, deadly spaceship, the crew chief, who is working on the craft, points to little Artoo, who is being hoisted into a socket on the back of the fighter.
Chief: This R2 unit of yours seems a bit beat up. Do you want a new one?
Luke: Not on your life! That little droid and I have been through a lot together. (to Artoo) You okay, Artoo?
("That was a little rude in my opinion towards someone who is only trying to do his job which revolves around ensuring the safety of the pilots." Winston said.)
The crewmen lower Artoo-Detoo into the craft. Now a part of the exterior shell of the starship, the little droid beeps that he is fine.
Luke climbs up into the cockpit of his fighter and puts an his helmet. Threepio looks on from the floor of the massive hangar as the crewmen secure his little electronic partner into Luke's X-wing. It's an emotional-filled moment as Artoo beeps goodbye.
"Awww, Artoo is so cute…" Diva gushed.
Zarya looked at her strangely. "How can a garbage tincan on wheels be cute?"
"Rude!" Hana scowled.
Chief: Okay, easy she goes!
Threepio: Hang on tight, Artoo, you've got to come back.
Artoo beeps in agreement.
Threepio: You wouldn't want my life to get boring, would you?
Artoo whistles his reply.
All final preparations are made for the approaching battle. The hangar is buzzing with the last-minute activity as the pilots and crewmen alike make their final adjustments. The hum of activity is occasionally trespassed by the distorted voice of the loudspeaker issuing commands. Coupling hoses are disconnected from the ships as they are fueled. Cockpit shields roll smoothly into place over each pilot. A signalman, holding red guiding lights, directs the ships. Luke, a trace of a smile gracing his lips, peers about through his goggles.
Ben's voice: Luke, the Force will be with you.
Luke is confused at the voice and taps his headphones.
"A message from beyond the grave, wooooooooooh!" Tracer exclaimed, making spooky ghost noises.
"Stop that, woman, it's annoying…!" 76 frowned.
"You're just a grumpy old meanie…" Lena pouted, crossing her arms.
All that can be seen of the fortress is a lone guard standing on a small pedestal jutting out above the dense jungle. The muted gruesome crying sounds that naturally permeate this eerie purgatory are overwhelmed by the thundering din of ion rockets as four silver starships catapult from the foliage in a tight formation and disappears into the morning cloud cover.
The princess, Threepio, and a field commander sit quietly before the giant display showing the planet Yavin and its four moons. The red dot that represents the Death Star moves ever closer to the system. A series of green dots appear around the fourth moon. A din of indistinct chatter fills the war room.
Intercom voice: Stand-by alert. Death Star approaching. Estimated time to firing range, fifteen minutes.
The Death Star slowly moves behind the massive yellow surface of Yavin in the foreground, as many X-wing fighters flying in formation zoom toward us and out of the frame.
Light from a distant sun creates an eerie atmospheric glow around a huge planet, Yavin. Rebel fighters flying in formation settle ominously in the foreground and very slowly pull away as a tense but grandiose orchestral music blares in the background.
("So, it begins…" 76 mutters as all the Overwatch members present keep silent.)
Red Leader lowers his visor and adjusts his gun sights, looking to each side at his wing men.
Red Leader: All wings report in.
One of the Rebel fighters checks in through his mike.
:Red Ten standing by:
Biggs checks his fighter's controls inside his cockpit, alert and ready for combat. The camera then begins to transition into each of the speaking pilots insi their cockpits.
Red 7: (over Biggs' headset) Red Seven standing by.
Biggs: Red Three standing by.
Porkins: Red Six standing by.
("That's one fat pilot…" Sombra says at seeing the overweight Porkins.)
Red 9: (over headset) Red Nine standing by.
Wedge: Red Two standing by.
The camera now changes into Luke's cockpit.
Red 11: (over headset) Red Eleven standing by.
Luke: Red Five standing by.
Artoo-Detoo, in position outside of the fighter, turns his head from side to side and makes beeping sounds.
Red Leader: Lock S-foils in attack position.
The group of X-wing fighters move in formation toward the Death Star, unfolding the wings and locking them in the "X" position. The camera shows Biggs.
Red Leader: (over headset) We're passing through their magnetic field.
Now it shows red leader.
Red Leader: Hold tight!
Luke adjusts his controls as he concentrates on the approaching Death Star. The ship begins to be buffeted slightly.
Red Leader: (over headset) Switch your deflectors on. Double front!
The fighters, now X-shaped darts, move in formation. The Death Star now appears to be a small moon growing rapidly in size as the Rebel fighters' approach. Complex patterns on the metallic surface begin to become visible. A large dish antenna is built into the surface on one side.
Wedge is amazed and slightly frightened at the awesome spectacle.
Wedge: Look at the size of that thing!
"That's what she said!" Sombra said with a huge grin, making Tracer laugh while Diva looked at her with a shellshocked expression of disgust.
76 just turned towards her with a deadpan. "Seriously…?" He shooked he's head. "I'm surrounded by children…"
"I'm wet and hungry, I want my bottle and a change of daiper…" Sombra sassed back shamelessly, even Zarya was trying to hold her laughter at this point.
"You are going to keep quiet and watch the movie in peace, young lady, or I'm going to send you back to your room with no dinner!" 76 replied, showing he too could play the same game.
Sombra just rolled her eyes. "Whatever you say, dad…" Making Mercy laugh at their interaction.
Red Leader (over headset): Cut the chatter, Red Two.
The rebels are in position to begin their assault.
Red Leader: Accelerate to attack speed. This is it, boys!
As the fighters move closer to the Death Star, the awesome size of the gargantuan Imperial fortress is revealed. Half of the deadly space station is in shadow and this area sparkles with thousands of small lights running in thin lines and occasionally grouped in large clusters; somewhat like a city at night as seen from a weather satellite.
Gold Leader: Red Leader, this is Gold Leader.
Red Leader: (over headset) I copy, Gold Leader.
Gold Leader: We're starting for the target shaft now.
Red Leader looks around at his wingmen; the Death Star looming in from behind. Two Y-wing fighters bob back and forth in the background. He moves his computer targeting device into position.
Red Leader: We're in position. I'm going to cut across the axis and try and draw their fire.
Two squads of Rebel fighters peel off. The X-wings dive towards the Death Star surface. A thousand lights glow across the dark grey expanse of the huge station.
Alarm sirens scream as soldiers scramble to large turbo- powered laser gun emplacements. Electronic drivers rotate the huge guns into position as crew adjust their targeting devices.
Laserbolts streak through the star-filled night. The Rebel X-wing fighters move in toward the Imperial base, as the Death Star aims its massive laser guns at the Rebel forces and fires.
Meanwhile, back on the moon base, Princess Leia listens to the battle over the intercom. Threepio is at her side.
Wedge (over speaker system) Heavy fire, boss! Twenty-degrees.
Red Leader: (over speaker) I see it. Stay low.
An X-wing zooms across the surface of the Death Star.
Technical crews scurry here and there loading last-minute armaments and unlocking power cables.
Wedge maneuvers his fighter toward the menacing Death Star.
X-wings continue in their attack course on the Death Star.
Luke nosedives radically, starting his attack on the monstrous fortress. The Death Star surface streaks past the cockpit window.
Luke: This is Red Five; I'm going in!
Luke's X-wing races toward the Death Star. Laserbolts streak from Luke's weapons, creating a huge fireball explosion on the dim surface.
Terror crosses Luke's face as he realizes he won't be able to pull out in time to avoid the fireball.
Biggs: (over headset) Luke, pull up!
Luke's ship emerges from the fireball, with the leading edges of his wings slightly scorched.
Luke: Are you all right?
Luke adjusts his controls and breathes a sigh of relief. Flak bursts outside the cockpit window.
Luke: I got a little cooked, but I'm okay.
Rebel fighters continue to strafe the Death Star's surface with laserbolts.
"Fiuuu… That was close…" Diva says in relief, letting out a breath she didn't know she was holding.
"A little too close for comfort I would say…" McCree commented.
"He's still a little too green as a pilot… Luckily, he had his wingman watching his back… Hoooray! For teamwork!" Tracer declared.
Inside the Death Star walls buckle and cave in. Troops and equipment are blown in all directions. Stormtroopers stagger out of the rubble. Standing in the middle of the chaos, a vision of calm and foreboding, is Darth Vader. One of his Astro-Officers rushes up to him.
Officer: We count thirty Rebel ships, Lord Vader. But they're so small they're evading our turbo-lasers!
Vader: We'll have to destroy them ship to ship. Get the crews to their fighters.
Smoke belches from the giant laser guns as they wind up their turbine generators to create enough power. The crew rushes about preparing for another blast. Even the troopers head gear is not adequate to protect them from the overwhelming noise of the monstrous weapon. One trooper bangs his helmet with his hand in an attempt to stop the ringing.
Red Leader flies through a heavy hail of flak.
Red Leader: Luke, let me know when you're going in.
The Red Leader's X-wing flies past Luke as he puts his nose down and starts his attack dive.
Luke: I'm on my way in now...
Red Leader: Watch yourself! There's a lot of fire coming from the right side of that deflection tower.
Luke: I'm on it.
Luke flings his X-wing into a twisting dive across the horizon and down onto the dim grey surface.
A shot hurls from Luke's guns. Laserbolts streak toward the onrushing Death Star surface. Several small radar emplacements erupt in flame. Laserfire erupts from a protruding tower on the surface.
The blurry Death Star surface races past the cockpit window as a big smile sweeps across Luke's face at the success of his run. Flak thunders on all sides of him.
The Death Star superstructure races past Luke as he maneuvers his craft through a wall of laserfire and peels away from the surface towards the heavens.
The thunder and smoke of the big guns reverberate throughout the massive structure. Many soldiers rush about in the smoke and chaos, silhouetted by the almost continual flash of explosions.
(The agents of Overwatch watch in silence at the very edge of their seats as the space battle rages on. Enraptured by the sheer spectacle and blaring orchestral symphony)
Biggs dives through a forest of radar domes, antennae, and gun towers as he shoots low across the Death Star surface. A dense barrage of laserfire streaks by on all sides.
Imperial star pilots dash in unison to a line of small auxiliary hatches that lead to Imperial TIE fighters.
Meanwhile, Princess Leia, surrounded by her generals and aides, paces nervously before a lighted computer table. On all side's technicians work in front of many lighted glass walls. Dodonna watches quietly from one corner. One of the officers working over a screen speaks into his headset.
Comm. Officer: Squad leaders, we've picked up a new group of signals. Enemy fighters coming your way.
Luke looks around to see if he can spot the approaching Imperial fighters.
Luke: My scope's negative. I don't see anything.
The Death Star's surface sweeps past as Red Leader searches the sky for the Imperial fighters. Flak pounds at his ship.
Red Leader: Keep up your visual scanning. With all this jamming, they'll be on top of you before your scope can pick them up.
Silhouetted against the rim lights of the Death Star horizon, four ferocious Imperial TIE ships dive on the Rebel fighters. Two of the TIE fighters peel off and drop out of sight. The two remaining swiping past their targets.
Biggs panics when he discovers a TIE ship on his tail. The horizon in the background twists around as he peels off, hoping to lose the Imperial fighter.
Red Leader: Biggs! You've picked one up... watch it!
Biggs: I can't see it! Where is he?!
Biggs zooms off the surface and into space, closely followed by an Imperial TIE fighter. The TIE ship fires several laserbolts at Biggs but misses.
Biggs sees the TIE ship behind him and swings around, trying to avoid him.
Biggs: He's on me tight, I can't shake him... I can't shake him.
Biggs, flying at high altitude, peels off and dives toward the Death Star surface, but he is unable to lose the TIE fighter, who sticks close to his tail.
Luke is flying upside down. He rotates his ship around to normal attitude as he comes out of his dive.
Luke: Hang on, Biggs, I'm coming in.
Biggs and the tailing TIE ship dive for the surface, now followed by a fast-gaining Luke. After Biggs dives out of sight, Luke chases the Imperial fighter.
In the foreground, the Imperial fighter races across the Death Star's surface, closely followed by Luke in the background.
There is a shot from Luke's X-wing of the TIE ship exploding in a mass of flames.
Luke: Got him!
(Fiuuu… Just in the nick of time… Nice shot!" Tracer said with a thumb up. Approving of Luke saving his friend.
"He seems a better shooter behind a steer than on a mounted turret…" McCree commented.
"But of course! We pilots are always able to hit our targets better inside our birds!" Tracer declared.
Darth Vader strides purposefully down a Death Star corridor, flanked by Imperial stormtroopers.
Vader: Several fighters have broken off from the main group. Come with me!
Back on the rebel base, a concerned Princess Leia, Threepio, Dodonna, and other officers of the Rebellion stand around the huge round readout screen, listening to the ship-to-ship communication on the room's loudspeaker.
Biggs: (over speaker) Pull in! Luke... pull in!
Wedge: (over speaker) Watch your back, Luke!
Luke pays attention to wedge's voice through his headset.
Wedge: (over headset) Watch your back! Fighter's above you, coming in!
Luke's ship soars away from the Death Star's surface as he spots the tailing TIE fighter.
The TIE pilot takes aim at Luke's X-wing. He manages to score a hit on Luke's ship. Fire breaks out on the right side of the X-wing.
("Oh no! He's been hit!" Diva exclaims in alarm)
Luke looks out of his cockpit at the flames on his ship.
Luke: I'm hit, but not bad.
Smoke pours out from behind Artoo-Detoo.
"Not sure about that…" 76 says with boundless skepticism.
Tracer shrugs. "Hey, as long as you can still remain on the air…"
Luke: Artoo, see what you can do with it. Hang on back there.
Green laserfire moves past the beeping little robot as his head turns.
Luke nervously works his controls.
Red Leader: (over headset) Red Six...
In the war room, Leia stands frozen as she listens and worries about Luke.
Red Leader: (over speaker) Can you see Red Five?
Red Ten (over speaker) There's a heavy fire zone on this side. Red Five, where are you?
Luke spots the TIE fighter behind him and soars away from the Death Star surface.
Luke: I can't shake him!
Luke's ship soars closer to the surface of the Death Star, an Imperial TIE fighter closing in on him in hot pursuit.
The Death Star whips below Wedge.
Wesge: I'm on him, Luke! Hold on!
Wedge dives across the horizon toward Luke and the TIE fighter. He moves his X-wing in rapidly.
Luke reacts frantically.
Luke: Blast it! Wedge, where are you?
The fighter pilot watches Wedge's X-wing approach. Another X-wing joins him, and both unleash a volley of laserfire on
the Imperial fighter. The TIE fighter explodes, filling the screen with white light. Luke's ship can be seen far in the distance.
Luke looks about in relief.
Luke: Thanks, Wedge.
"He's still too green" 76 grunts.
Tracer grimaces, knowing he is right. "Well… At least he has excellent wingmen covering his behind…"
Leia, Threepio, Dodonna and other Rebel officers are listening to the Rebel Fighter's radio transmissions over the war room intercom.
Biggs: (over speaker) Good shooting, Wedge!
Gold Leader: (over speaker) Red Leader...
Gold Leader peels off and starts toward the long trenches at the Death Star surface pole.
Gold Leader: This is Gold Leader. We're starting out attack run.
Three Y-wing fighters of the Gold group dive out of the stars toward the Death Star surface.
Leia and the others are grouped around the screen, as technicians move about attending to their duties.
Red Leader: (over speaker) I copy, Gold Leader. Move into position.
Three Imperial TIE ships in precise formation dive toward the Death Star surface.
Darth Vader calmly adjusts his control stick as the stars whip past in the window above his head.
Vader: Stay in attack formation!
Back on the rebel base, Technicians are seated at the computer readout table.
Gold Leader: (over speaker) The exhaust post is... Marked and locked in!
Gold Leader approaches the surface and pulls out to skim the surface of the huge station. The ship moves into a deep trench, firing laserbolts. The surface streaks past as laserfire is returned by the Death Star.
Gold Five is a pilot in his early fifties with a very battered helmet that looks like it's been through many battles. He looks around to see if enemy ships are near. His fighter is buffeted by Imperial flak.
Gold Leader races down the enormous trench that leads to the exhaust port. Laserbolts blast toward him in increasing numbers, occasionally exploding near the ship causing it to bounce about.
Gold Leader: Switch power to front deflector screens.
Three Y-wing skim the Death Star surface deep in the trench, as laserbolts streak past on all sides. An exterior surface gun blazes away at the oncoming Rebel fighters.
Gold Leader: How many guns do you think, Gold Five.
Gold Five: (over speaker) I'd say about twenty guns. Some on the surface, some on the towers.
Leia, Threepio, and the technicians view the projected target screen, as red and blue target lights glow. The red target near the center blinks on and off.
Intercomm voice: (over speaker) Death Star will be in range in five minutes.
The three Y-wing fighters' race toward camera and zoom overhead through a hail of laserfire.
Gold Leader pulls his computer targeting device down in front of his eye. Laserbolts continue to batter the Rebel craft.
Gold Leader: Switching to targeting computer.
Gold Two, a younger pilot about Luke's age, pulls down his targeting eye viewer and adjusts it. His ship shudders under intense laser barrage.
Gold Two: Computer's locked. Getting a signal.
As the fighters begin to approach the target area, suddenly all the laserfire stops. An eerie clam clings over the trench as the surface whips past in a blur.
("Okay… That can't be good…" McCree said with obvious unease.)
Gold Two: The guns... they've stopped!
Gold Five looks behind him.
Gold Five: Stabilize your read deflectors. Watch for enemy fighters.
Gold Leader: They're coming in! Three marks at two ten.
Three Imperial TIE ships, Darth Vader in the center flanked by two wingmen, dive in precise formation almost vertically toward the Death Star surface.
Darth Vader calmly adjusts his control stick as the stars zoom by.
Vader: I'll take them myself! Cover me!
Wingman: (over speaker) Yes, sir.
Three TIE fighters zoom across the surface of the Death Star. Vader lines up Gold Two in his targeting computer. Vader's hands grip the control stick as he presses the button.
The cockpit explodes around Gold Two. His head falls forward. As Gold Two's ship explodes, debris is flung out into space. Gold Leader looks over his shoulder at the scene.
The three TIE fighters race along in the trench in a tight formation. Gold Leader panics.
Gold Leader: (into mike) I can't maneuver!
Gold Five, the old veteran, trys to calm Gold Leader.
Gold Five: Stay on target.
The Death Star races by outside the cockpit window as he adjusts his targeting device.
Gold Leader: We're too close.
The older pilot remains calm.
Gold Five: Stay on target!
Now he's really panicked.
Gold Leader: Loosen up!
("Oh no! He just lost his mettle!" Tracer exclaims in alarm.)
Vader calmly adjusts his targeting computer and pushes the fire button.
Gold Leader's ship is hit by Vader's laser and explodes in a ball of flames, throwing debris in all directions.
Gold Five moves in on the exhaust port.
Gold Five: Gold Five to Red Leader...
Luke looks over his shoulder at the action outside of his cockpit.
Gold Five: (over headset) Lost Tiree, lost Dutch.
Red Leader: I copy, Gold Five.
Gold Five: They came from behind...
One of the engines explodes on Gold Five's Y-wing fighter, blazing out of control. He dives past the horizon toward the Death Star's surface, passing a TIE fighter during his descent. Gold Five, a veteran of countless campaigns, spins toward his death.
"Well, shit! There goes the entire assault squadron…" 76 exclaimed.
For once, Tracer usual upbeat demeanor was gone, replaced by a mounting tension.
Diva was unaware of this as she bit her nails in worry.
Luke looks nervously about him at the explosive battle.
Grant Moff Tarkin and a Chief Officer stand in the Death Star's control room.
Officer: We've analyzed their attack, sir, and there is a danger. Should I have your ship standing by?
Tarkin: Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!
Tarkin turns to the computer readout screen. Flames move around the green disk at the center of the screen, as numbers read across the bottom.
Intercomm Voice: (over speaker) Rebel base, three minutes and closing.
Red Leader looks over at his wingmen.
Red Leader: Red Group, this is Red Leader.
Dodonna moves to the intercom as he fiddles with the computer keys.
Red Leader: (over speaker) Rendezvous at mark six point one.
Wedge: (over speaker) This is Red Two. Flying toward you.
Biggs: (over speaker) Red Three, standing by.
The scene changes to Luke's cockpit.
Dodonna: (over headset) Red Leader, this is Base One. Keep half your group out of range for the next run.
Red Leader: (over headset) Copy, Base One. Luke, take Red Two and Three. Hold up here and wait for my signal to start your run.
Luke nods his head.
The X-wing fighters of Luke, Biggs, and Wedge fly in formation high above the Death Star's surface.
Luke peers out from his cockpit.
Two X-wings move across the surface of the Death Star. Red Leader's X-wing drops down to the surface leading to the
exhaust port.
Red Leader looks around to watch for the TIE fighters. He begins to perspire.
Red Leader: This is it!
Red Leader roams down the trench of the Death Star as lasers streak across the black heavens.
A huge remote-control laser cannon fires at the approaching Rebel fighters. The Rebel fighters evade the Imperial laser blasts.
Red Ten looks around for the Imperial fighters.
Red Ten: We should be able to see it by now.
From the cockpits of the Rebel pilots, the surface of the Death Star streaks by, with Imperial laserfire shooting toward them.
Red Leader: Keep your eyes open for those fighters!
Red Ten: There's too much interference!
Three X-wing fighters move in formation down the Death Star trench.
Red Ten: Red Five, can you see them from where you are?
Luke looks down at the Death Star surface below.
Luke: No sign of any... wait!
Red Ten looks up and sees the Imperial fighters.
("There thay are!" Diva exclaims)
Luke: (over headset) Coming in point three five.
Red Ten: I see them.
Three TIE fighters, Vader flanked by two wingmen, dive in a tight formation. The sun reflects off their dominate solar fins as they loop toward the Death Star's surface.
Red Leader pulls his targeting device in front of his eyes and makes several adjustments.
Red Leader: I'm in range.
Red Leader's X-wing moves up the Death Star trench.
Red Leader: Target's coming up!
Red Leader looks at his computer target readout screen. He then looks into his targeting device.
Red Leader: Just hold them off for a few seconds.
Vader adjusts his control lever and dives on the X-wing fighters.
Vader: Close up formation.
The three TIE fighters move in formation across the Death Star surface.
Red Leader lines up his target on the targeting device cross-airs.
Vader and his wingmen zoom down the trench. The Dark Lord rapidly approaches the two X-wings of Red Ten and Red Twelve. Vader's laser cannon flashes below the view of the front porthole. the X-wings show in the center of Vader's computer screen.
Red Twelve's X-wing fighter is hit by Vader's laserfire, and it explodes into flames against the trench.
Red Ten works at his controls furiously, trying to avoid Vader's fighter behind him.
Red Ten: You'd better let her loose.
Red Leader is concentrating on his targeting device.
Red Leader: Almost there!
Red Ten panics.
Red Ten: I can't hold them!
("Oh No!" Tracer panics.)
Vader and his wingmen whip through the trench in pursuit of the Rebel fighters.
Vader cooly pushes the fire button on his control stick. Darth Vader's well-aimed laserfire proves to be unavoidable and strikes Red Ten's ship. Red Ten screams in anguish and pain.
Red Ten's ship explodes and bursts into flames.
Grimly, Red Leader takes careful aim and watches his computer targeting device, which shows the target lined up in the cross hairs, and fires.
Red Leader: It's away!
An armed Imperial stormtrooper is knocked to the floor from the attack explosion. Other troopers scurrying about the corridors are knocked against the wall and lose their balance.
Leia and the others stare at the computer screen.
Red Nine: (over speaker) It's a hit!
Red Leader: (over speaker) Negative.
Red Leader looks back at the receding Death Star. Tiny explosions are visible in the distance.
Red Leader: Negative! It didn't go in. It just impacted on the surface.
("Damn!" McCree exclaims.)
Darth Vader peels off in pursuit as Red Leader's X-wing passes the Death Star horizon. He swings his ship around for the next kill.
Luke: (over headset) Red Leader, we're right above you. Turn to point...
Luke tries to spot Red Leader. He looks down at the Death Star surface.
Luke: ...oh-five; we'll cover for you.
Red Leader: (over headset) Stay there...
A wary Red Leader looks about nervously.
Red Leader: ...I just lost my starboard engine.
Luke looks excitedly toward Red Leader's X-wing.
Red Leader: (over headset) Get set to make your attack run.
Vader's gloved hands make contact with the control sticks, and he presses their firing buttons.
Red Leader fights to gain control of his ship.
Laserbolts are flung from Vader's TIE fighter, connecting with Red Leader's Rebel X-wing fighter. Red Leader buys it, creating a tremendous explosion far below. He screams and is destroyed.
Luke looks out the window of his X-wing at the explosion far below. For the first time, he feels the helplessness of his situation.
Inside the Death Star, Grand Moff Tarkin casts a sinister eye at the computer screen.
Intercomm Voice: Rebel base, one minute and closing.
Back on the Rebel's War Room, Dodonna and Princess Leia, with Threepio beside them, listen intently to the talk between the pilots. The room is grim after Red Leader's death. Princess Leia nervously paces the room.
Luke: (over speaker) Biggs, Wedge, let's close it up. We're going in. We're going in full throttle.
The horizon twists as Wedge begins to pull out.
Wedge: Right with you, boss.
The two X-wings peel off against a background of stars and dive toward the Death Star.
Biggs: Luke, at that speed will you be able to pull out in time?
Luke: It'll be just like Beggar's Canyon back home.
The three X-wings move in, unleashing a barrage of laserfire. Laserbolts are returned from the Death Star.
Luke's lifelong friend struggles with his controls.
Biggs: We'll stay back far enough to cover you.
Flak and laserbolts flash outside Luke's cockpit window.
Wedge: (over headset) My scope shows the tower, but I can't see the exhaust port! Are you sure the computer can hit it?
The Death Star laser cannon slowly rotates as it shoots laserbolts.
Luke looks around for the Imperial TIE fighters. He thinks for a moment and then moves his targeting device into position.
Luke: Watch yourself! Increase speed full throttle!
Wedge looks excitedly about for any sign of the TIE fighters.
Wedge: What about the tower?
Luke: You worry about those fighters! I'll worry about the tower!
Luke's X-wing streaks through the trench, firing lasers.
Luke breaks into a nervous sweat as the laserfire is returned, knicking one of his wings close to the engine.
Luke: (to Artoo) Artoo... that, that stabilizer's broken loose again! See if you can't lock it down!
Artoo works to repair the damages. The canyon wall rushes by in the background, making his delicate task seem even more precarious.
Two laser cannons are firing on the Rebel fighters.
Wedge looks up and sees the TIE ships.
Luke's targeting device marks off the distance to the target.
Vader and his wingmen zoom closer. He adjusts his controls and fires laserbolts at two X-wings flying down the trench. He scores a direct hit on Wedge.
Leia and the others are grouped around the computer board.
Wedge: (over speaker) I'm hit! I can't stay with you.
Luke: (over speaker) Get clear, Wedge. You can't do any more good back there!
Wedge: Sorry!
Wedge pulls his crippled X-wing back away from the battle.
Vader watches the escape but issues a command to his wingmen.
Vader: Let him go! Stay on the leader!
("Great! Now they're one man down…" Sombra sarcastically says.)
Luke's X-wing speeds down the trench; the three TIE fighters, still in perfect unbroken formation, tail close behind.
Biggs looks around at the TIE fighters. He is worried.
Biggs: Hurry, Luke, they're coming in much faster this time. I can't hold them!
The three TIE fighters move ever closer, closing in on Luke and Biggs.
Luke looks back anxiously at little Artoo.
Luke: Artoo, try and increase the power!
Ignoring the bumpy ride, flak, and lasers, a beeping Artoo-Detoo struggles to increase the power, his dome turning from side to side.
Stealthily, the TIE formation creeps closer.
Vader adjusts his control stick.
Biggs looks around at the TIE fighters.
Luke looks into his targeting device. He moves it away for a moment and ponders its use. He looks back into the computer targeter.
Biggs: (over headset) Hurry up, Luke!
Vader and his wingmen race through the Death Star trench. Biggs moves in to cover for Luke, but Vader gains on him.
Biggs sees the TIE fighter aiming at him.
Biggs: Wait!
Vader squeezes the fire button on his controls.
Biggs' cockpit explodes around him, lighting him in red. The star-fighter bursts into a million flaming bits and scatters across the surface.
("Fuck!" McCree states.)
Leia and the others stare at the computer board.
Luke is stunned by Biggs' death. His eyes are watering, but his anger is also growing.
Grand Moff Tarkin watches the projected target screen with satisfaction.
Intercomm Voice: Rebel base, thirty seconds and closing.
"This is bad…" Pharah interjects. "Scratch that… This is terrible! They're basically out of time…"
"No! It's not over yet!" Tracer counters.
Vader takes aim on Luke and talks to the wingmen.
Vader: I'm on the leader.
Luke's ship streaks through the trench of the Death Star.
Princess Leia returns her general's worried and doubtful glances with solid, grim determination. Threepio seems nervous.
Threepio: Hang on, Artoo!
Luke concentrates on his targeting device.
Three TIE fighters charge away down the trench toward Luke.
Vader's finger's curls around the control stick.
Luke adjusts the lens of his targeting device. Hi ship charges down the trench.
Luke lines up the yellow cross-hair lines of the targeting device's screen. He looks into the targeting device, then starts at a voice he hears.
Ben's voice: Use the Force, Luke.
"A little creepy, hearing voices from beyond the grave, but okay…" Sombra comments.
"Don't tell me you're a little scared a bout ghosts, Olivia?" Tracer teased.
The Death Star trench zooms by.
Luke looks up, then starts to look back into the targeting device. He has second thoughts.
Ben's voice: Let go, Luke.
A grim determination sweeps across Luke's face as he closes his eyes and starts to mumble Ben's training to himself.
Luke's fighter streaks through the trench.
Vader: The Force is strong with this one!
Vader follows Luke's X-wing down the trench.
Luke looks to the targeting device, then away as he hears Ben's voice.
Ben's voice: Luke, trust me.
Luke's hand reaches for the control panel and presses the button. The targeting device moves away.
Leia and the others stand watching the projected screen.
Comm. Officer: (over speaker) His computer's off. Luke, you switched off your targeting computer. What's wrong?
Luke: (over speaker) Nothing. I'm all right.
Luke's ship streaks ever close to the exhaust port.
"Eyeballing an important shot like that… Ballsy, but completely reckless…" Shrike said with obvious disapproval on er voice.
"He has the Force! He cannot fail!" Hana declared.
Luke looks at the Death Star surface streaking by.
Artoo-Detoo turns his head from side to side, beeping in anticipation.
The three TIE fighters, manned by Vader and his two wingmen, follow Luke's X-wing down the trench.
Vader maneuvers his controls as he looks at his doomed target. He presses the fire buttons on his control sticks. Laserfire shoots toward Luke's X-wing fighter.
A large burst of Vader's laserfire engulfs Artoo. The arms go limp on the smoking little droid as he makes a high-pitched sound.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO! THEY KILLED ARTOOO!" Dia wailed in despair.
"Meh, he's literally a bot on wheels. They can fix him…" Zarya said.
"That's not the point, you soulless meat-head!" Diva replied, incensed.
"Quiet the two of you!" 76 warned.
Luke looks frantically back over his shoulder at Artoo.
Smoke billows out around little Artoo and sparks begin to fly.
Luke: I've lost Artoo!
Artoo's beeping sounds die out.
Leia and the others stare intently at the projected screen, while Threepio watches the Princess. Lights representing the Death Star and targets glow brightly.
Intercomm Voice: The Death Star has cleared the planet. The Death Star has cleared the planet.
Tarkin glares at the projected target screen.
Rebel base, in range.
Tarkin: You may fire when ready.
Death Star's Intercomm Voice: Commence primary ignition.
("Well, they're all fucked. It was good while it lasted." Sombra said.)
An officer reaches up and pushes buttons on the control panel, as green lighted buttons turn to red.
The three TIE fighters zoom down the Death Star trench in pursuit of Luke, never breaking formation.
Luke looks anxiously at the exhaust port.
Vader adjusts his control sticks, checking his projected targeting screen.
Luke's ship barrels down the trench.
Vader's targeting computer swings around into position. Vader takes careful aim on Luke's X-wing fighter.
Vader: I have you now.
He pushes the fire buttons.
The three TIE fighters move in on Luke. As Vader's center fighter unleashes a volley of laserfire, one of the TIE ships at his side is hit and explodes into flame. The two remaining ships continue to move in.
Luke looks about, wondering whose laserfire destroyed Vader's wingman.
Vader is taken by surprise and looks out from his cockpit.
Vader: What?
Vader's wingman searches around him trying to locate the unknown attacker.
Han and Chewbacca grin from ear to ear.
Han: (yelling) Yahoo!
"Yes! I knew he would come around in the end!" Tracer declared with a big shit-eating grin.
"Lame! What a cop-out!" Sombra exclaimed, not liking being wrong.
"Oh Olivia, don't be a sore loser…" Tracer replied without losing her smile. Sombra simply crossed her arms and huffed.
Zarya found it hilarious.
The Millennium Falcon heads right at the two TIE fighters. It's a collision course.
The wingman spots the pirateship coming at him and warns the Dark Lord.
Wingman: Look out!
Vader's wingman panics at the sight of the oncoming pirate starship and veers radically to one side, colliding with Vader's TIE fighter in the process. Vader's wingman crashes into the side wall of the trench and explodes. Vader's damaged ship spins out of the trench with a damaged wing.
Vader's ship spins out of control with a bent solar fin, heading for deep space. Vader turns round and round in circles as his ship spins into the void.
Solo's ship moves in toward the Death Star trench. The smuggler captain, smiling, speaks to Luke over his headset mike.
Han: (into mike) You're all clear, kid.
Leia and the others listen to Solo's transmission.
Han: (over speaker) Now let's blow this thing and go home!
Luke looks up and smiles. He concentrates on the exhaust port, then fires his laser torpedoes.
Luke's torpedoes shoot toward the port and seems to simply disappear into the surface and not explode. But the shots do find their mark and have gone into the exhaust port, heading for the main reactor.
Luke throws his head back in relief.
An Imperial soldier runs to the control panel board and pulls the attack lever as the board behind him lights up.
Intercomm Voice: Stand by to fire at Rebel base.
Two X-wings, a Y-wing, and the pirateship race toward Yavin in the distance.
Several Imperial soldiers, flanking a pensive Grand Moff Tarkin, busily push control levers and buttons.
Intercomm Voice: Standing by.
The rumble of a distant explosion begins.
The Rebel ships race out of sight, leaving the moon-like Death Star alone against a blanket of stars. Several small flashes appear on the surface. The Death Star, suddenly, bursts into a supernova, creating a spectacular heavenly display.
("Whoa!" Diva declares.)
Han: Great shot, kid. That was one in a million.
("You got that right pal'!" McCree agreed.)
Luke is at ease, and his eyes are closed.
Ben's voice: Remember, the Force will be with you... Always.
The ship rocks back and forth.
Vader's ship spins off into space.
The Rebel ships race toward the fourth moon of Yavin.
Luke climbs out of his starship fighter and is cheered by a throng of ground crew and pilots. Luke climbs down the ladder as they all welcome him with laughter, cheers, and shouting. Princess Leia rushes toward him.
Leia: Luke! Luke! Luke!
She throws her arms around Luke and hugs him as they dance around in a circle. Solo runs in toward Luke and they embrace one another, slapping each other on the back.
Han: (laughing) Hey! Hey!
Luke: (laughing) I knew you'd come back! I just knew it!
Han: Well, I wasn't gonna let you get all the credit and take all the reward.
Luke and Han look at one another, as Solo playfully shoves at Luke's face. Leia moves in between them.
Leia: (laughing) Hey, I knew there was more to you than money.
Luke looks toward the ship.
Luke: Oh, no!
The fried little Artoo-Detoo is lifted off the back of the fighter and carried off under the worried eyes of Threepio.
(Diva felt like crying. "Waaah! Poor Artoo! Look what those savages did to him!")
Threepio: Oh, my! Artoo! Can you hear me? Say something! (to mechanic) You can repair him, can't you?
Technician: We'll get to work on him right away.
("You better!" Diva warned.)
Threepio: You must repair him! Sir, if any of my circuits or gears will help, I'll gladly donate them.
Luke: He'll be all right.
Diva wasn't pleased by that answer. "Not cool, Luke! Your friend is at risk of being scrapped forever and you're acting as if you don't care! And after he helped your from being blown to smithereens by Vader! I'm shocked at you! Shocked I tell you!" Hana declared, laying it a little bit too thick.
"Yeah, even I am surprised by Luke's callousness." Tracer agreed.
Zarya shrugged. "Nyet, as I said, it's a machine and it can be put back together as necessary every time is broken."
"Shut it you soulless one! You don't get it!" Diva replied, rather dramatically.
Luke, Han, and Chewbacca enter the huge ruins of the main temple as an orchestra begins to play. Hundreds of troops are lined up in neat rows. Banners are flying and at the far end stands a vision in white, the beautiful young Senator Leia. Luke and the others solemnly march up the long aisle and kneel before Senator Leia. From one side of the temple marches a shined-up and fully repaired Artoo-Detoo. He waddles up to the group and stands next to an equally pristine Threepio, who is rather awestruck by the whole event.
("See! What did I tell you!" Zarya declared, pointing at Artoo. "He was broken and got fixed, good as new because he's nothing but a machine!" Diva could do nothing but pout in frustration.)
Chewbacca is confused. Dodonna and several other dignitaries sit on the left of the Princess Leia. Leia is dressed in a long white dress and is staggeringly beautiful. She rises and places a gold medallion around Han's neck. He winks at her. She then repeats the ceremony with Luke, who is moved by the event. They turn and face the assembled troops, who all bow before them. Chewbacca growls and Artoo beeps with happiness.
FADE OUT:
END CREDITS OVER STARS
THE END
Now that the movie was over, several of the Overwatch members stood up and began to stretch a little to make the blood flow back into the limbs, others decided to let their opinions about the movie known.
"This was the most awesome movie I've ever seen!" A bubbly Diva bounced on her seat rather animatedly. "None of the movies nowadays can even come close, even my own movies that I've acted in fall short!" She declared with excited certainty.
Tracer nodded. "Yes, I have to agree there with you, luv'. It had everything, intriguing plot, lots of danger and excitement, terrifying villains and amazing spacebattles!"
Mercy giggled. "It seems the movie earned your glowing recommendation. It was a very entertaining and technical impressive movie despite its age. I do agree with you that the space battle was rather immersive."
"Of course, you girls would get awestruck by flying spaceships…" 76 grumbled.
"Don't start sounding like the old man you are 76. Let the youngsters have their fun." Shrike chided. "I personally found the movie pretty entertaining, for what it was at least…"
"It was pretty exciting…" Phara acknowledged with a nod.
"Eh…? It was good enough I suppose…" Sombra admitted with a nonchalant shrug.
"Dah…" Zarya agreed.
"Man, you lasses are a tough crowd aren't ya'?" McCree said with a smug smirk. Sombra simply replied with a cheeky toothy smile.
"I liked it..." Reinhardt said, speaking for the first time in ages.
There were a few moments of silence, then Tracer put her hand inside the movie box and pulled out a new CD case.
"IT HAS A SEQUEL!" She declared dramatically.
"LET'S WATCH IT!" Diva exclaimed.
76 just sighed. "Sure, why not…?"
Okay, that's it! One movie down, now comes another...!? Sigh... No rest for the wicked it seems.
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