bb8_dad: (looking)
Poe Dameron ([personal profile] bb8_dad) wrote2021-08-16 09:43 pm

Exegol preplay

The ships exited hyperspace, and Poe's first thought upon seeing Exegol was that it looked dead. It was the the ugliest thing he'd seen in a long while, and he wondered if it had always been this way, or if building a colossal fleet of Star Destroyers here had killed the place.

And when the ships dived into the cloud cover, they nearly ran into the Sith fleet. It was massive. Their triangled hulls were enormous, but they grew even smaller as their numbers seemed to stretch into infinity.

"Great dark seas," Aftab Ackbar gasped across the comm. "Look at that!"

"No sign of the Falcon or allies," Tyce said from her ship.

"Help will get here," Poe assured them.
defenderofdesmoines: (annie - not that sure about you)

[personal profile] defenderofdesmoines 2022-08-18 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not me!" Annie confirmed, though whoever it was -- she admired your work, because that was neater than she would have done it. (Not to mention she wasn't sure she could do quite that much, anyway.) "Sure hope it was our side, though."

This was probably not the good news it looked like, if it hadn't been.
heroic_jawline: (pos: i am cute and grubby)

[personal profile] heroic_jawline 2022-08-18 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hi!" Steve said, the smile clear in his voice. "You're still okay! You could see that from space?"

It was a big boom.
imafuturist: (im - flying)

[personal profile] imafuturist 2022-08-18 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"J's keeping tack of you guys down there!" Tony replied. "We're doing great--"

Ignore the screaming sort of noise of one of those TIE fighters and then an explosion over the comms. "Doing great! I'll get back to you in a moment."
heroic_jawline: (neu: suited up)

[personal profile] heroic_jawline 2022-08-18 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Love you," Steve said. "Stay safe."

Well. Safe-ish. For them.
tros_npcs: (tie: in battle)

Re: Spaceships

[personal profile] tros_npcs 2022-08-18 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
He might, if the TIEs firing on him didn't do it first.
grenadesandohana: (neg: wait what)

Re: Spaceships

[personal profile] grenadesandohana 2022-08-18 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Shitshitshit," Steve said because there were all of the blaring lights and red flashing buttons he'd been hoping not to see on the control panel.

He looked out the cockpit to see one of the S-foils on the starboard side complete gone and the other shot full of laser holes.

"My ship's done," he said, with a sigh. "Punching out."

Into a combat zone. In space. This was probably bad, but better than being in a sitting duck of a ship?
imafuturist: (im - flying)

Re: Spaceships

[personal profile] imafuturist 2022-08-18 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"On it," Tony called back, turning into a bit of a red and yellow blur to reach him in time. Hopefully Steve wouldn't be too opposed to getting snagged like a bag of groceries.
grenadesandohana: (neg: bleeding and pissed about it)

Re: Spaceships

[personal profile] grenadesandohana 2022-08-18 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, if it was that or "dying like an idiot", he'd take this option very quickly. "Mahalo!"
imafuturist: (im - WAHBAM)

Re: Spaceships

[personal profile] imafuturist 2022-08-18 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Let's get you to another ship, shall we?" Mostly because he super didn't think he could get Steve back through atmo safely.
grenadesandohana: (neu: how so pretty)

Re: Spaceships

[personal profile] grenadesandohana 2022-08-18 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thanks," Steve said, nodding. "Maybe one towards the back? It'll be easier to get in when they aren't taking fire."
imafuturist: (im - flying)

Re: Spaceships

[personal profile] imafuturist 2022-08-18 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hold on tight." This was clearly the thrill ride that Steve wanted, right?
grenadesandohana: (pos: grinning)

Re: Spaceships

[personal profile] grenadesandohana 2022-08-18 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, as long as there was less shooting than that first bit, yes, this was awesome.

"Where'd you get your suit?" he asked.
imafuturist: (im - check out this suit)

Re: Spaceships

[personal profile] imafuturist 2022-08-18 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"I built it," Tony replied dryly. "It's not for sale, sorry."

He only made suits for his friends. Because he was insane like that.
grenadesandohana: (pos: grinning)

Re: Spaceships

[personal profile] grenadesandohana 2022-08-18 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"You built it?" Steve sounded very impressed. "That's awesome!"
nothowtheforceworks: (happiness)

Re: And then...

[personal profile] nothowtheforceworks 2022-08-19 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Lando, you did it!" Finn yelled, looking up from the hull of the Steadfast. "You did it!"
nothowtheforceworks: (resistance)

Re: Finale

[personal profile] nothowtheforceworks 2022-08-19 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Ground team!" Finn yelled, waving everyone toward the lander. "Get back on, go go go!"

They'd all be quick enough, right?
somethingwithturquoise: (lofty profile)

Re: Spaceships

[personal profile] somethingwithturquoise 2022-08-19 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
And you know what? It being successful even just the once was all Summer needed for encouragement to keep doing it. It required a bit of focus, really, so she was sort of on her own, doing her own thing, unless someone directed her otherwise, but zipping around between enemy ships to get their attention and then portaling out into a different area would at least provide a small amount of distraction and collateral damage.

A drop in the bucket, sure, but every little bit counted.
somethingwithturquoise: (determined at the wheel)

Re: Finale

[personal profile] somethingwithturquoise 2022-08-19 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
One of the nice things about basically having spent most of her time in the air being a portal-hopping erratic target was that Summer hadn't actually spend too much of her ammo resources on shooting things (although she'd definitely gotten a few pew-pews here and there, because, um, duh, obviously, why wouldn't she?), so she was ready to swoop back in with everyone else with plenty to volley at those cannons.
defenderofdesmoines: (annie - emergency)

Re: Finale

[personal profile] defenderofdesmoines 2022-08-19 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Annie didn't have to be told twice before she was running as fast as she could back towards the lander. She was keeping an eye out for anyone who seemed hurt enough to need a hand, as well as any enemy weaponry small enough that she knew she could confidently siphon power off it to just help with cover. (The cannons seemed a touch, perhaps, above her paygrade.)
Edited 2022-08-19 13:59 (UTC)
dishesonthetoprack: ([ant] in motion)

Re: Finale

[personal profile] dishesonthetoprack 2022-08-19 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
And the fastest way to get back to the ship, in Scott's opinion, was to hitch a ride back. So hopefully this blonde woman wouldn't notice or mind that he'd grabbed onto her shoelace.

Once Annie was close enough to the lander, he jumped down to the ground, sprang up to full size, and darted past her to board.

Normal stuff!
heroic_jawline: (neu: parkour!11!)

Re: Finale

[personal profile] heroic_jawline 2022-08-19 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Steve loved running. It was up there with punching bad guys as a hobby. He took a flying leap and ended up on top of the lander, looking around for any stragglers to help up.
stykera: (mask again)

Re: Finale

[personal profile] stykera 2022-08-19 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Quick enough? Maybe. But Stark was still hanging back a bit and trying to offer covering fire for the rest of the ground forces.

The problem was that he was watching the others too intently and once he started moving out from his fairly defensible position he wasn't compensating for his blind side.

tros_npcs: (sith trooper: firing)

Re: Finale

[personal profile] tros_npcs 2022-08-19 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
As he ran, one of the jet troopers landed in a good position to have a clear opening. He fired, trying to account for movement and probably shooting around arm level.

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