Exegol preplay

[bb8_dad]

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.

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Re: Finale

[nothowtheforceworks]

"Ground team!" Finn yelled, waving everyone toward the lander. "Get back on, go go go!"

They'd all be quick enough, right?

Re: Finale

[defenderofdesmoines]

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.)

Re: Finale

[dishesonthetoprack]

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!

Re: Finale

[heroic_jawline]

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.

Re: Finale

[imafuturist]

"Need a lift?" Tony asked, making a pass over where Steve was running.

Re: Finale

[heroic_jawline]

"Please," Steve said, grinning under the cowl. "How was space?"

Re: Finale

[imafuturist]

"Dark, explosive," Tony said, scooping him up under his arms. "No one would exchange insurance information. It was a real mess."

Re: Finale

[heroic_jawline]

"Sounds terrible," Steve said. "Scott can turn really tiny?"

Re: Finale

[imafuturist]

"Ant-Man," Tony said like he expected that one. "Can he also turn really big?"

Re: Finale

[heroic_jawline]

"I'm not sure," Steve said. "Do ants get really big?"

Re: Finale

[imafuturist]

"Depends on if they're attacking the city!" Tony replied brightly.

Re: Finale

[heroic_jawline]

"I'll pretend that made sense," Steve decided, looking around for something else to hit. While flying. Seemed like the thing to do.

Re: Finale

[imafuturist]

"Ten o'clock," Tony said, already ready to just yeet Steve in that direction on his signal.

Weren't you all so glad these madmen were here, folks?

Re: Finale

[heroic_jawline]

"Got 'em," Steve said, getting his shield into place like this was a very normal day.

And it was, for them.

Re: Finale

[stykera]

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.

Re: Finale

[tros_npcs]

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.

Re: Finale

[stykera]

This had been going too well for Stark so far so of course he was going to get attacked by a flying enemy. Of course.

One shot struck his upper arm and he cried out, dropping his blaster as he stumbled a few steps before falling forward. It hurt. But he needed to get back up or it was going to hurt more.

Re: Finale

[nothowtheforceworks]

Finn just happened to look over at the right time while waving people through to the lander. He wasn't sure what happened, and he didn't have time to ask, so instead he let instinct take over.

He stuck a hand out, and suddenly Stark was picked up into the air and moved him the rest of the way into the lander.

If he was slightly more dropped than set down, well, he was real brand new to this.

Re: Finale

[stykera]

Being sent flying through the air with no warning was a new experience. If Stark let out another yell that sounded suspiciously like "what the frell" at the sensation that was perfectly understandable.

Hitting the ground was considerably less new, at least, and resulted in a much smaller yelp followed by a thud and a quiet groan.

"How...?" He'd be very thankful later. For now he was confused and he'd just been shot.

Re: Finale

[nothowtheforceworks]

Did Finn look shocked that that worked? He sure did!

He'd deal with it later. Right now they had to get everyone on board.

Re: Finale

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri was a trained, experienced Jedi, so of course she'd be quick enough even if she had to break about five laws of physics in the process.

Which was why she'd chosen to stay to the back of the group, to keep an eye out for stragglers and guard their rear: her golden lightsaber was ignited and in her hand, flicking out with casual ease to deflect any blaster bolts that came too close, and occasionally she might reach out and gesture with her other hand to send would-be assailants flying or drop a boulder into their path or any number of fun telekinetic tricks.

Re: Finale

[solo_sword]

The hard part was not being the one staying behind and making sure everyone else got on the lander. Not her mission.

She was however sticking to the periphery to take out troopers that were trying to stop them, though.

Re: Finale

[unusual_sith]

Lana had Force speed, which she was pouring on now, lightsaber weaving in front of her to take down any troopers who got in her way. She'd come this far, she wasn't getting killed by not getting out of the way in time.