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"There she is! Get her!"
The squad of six Imperial Storm troopers opened fire with their blasters as the girl they were aiming at ducked from cover to what little cover she could find in the open grass land. When she had picked up a distress call from this planet she had no idea that the transmission was a trap set up by the Empire until she had entered the atmosphere and was shot down by them. Now she was stuck here with a broken ship and being hunted by every trooper on this godforsaken rock! She didn't even know the name of this planet to send a SOS herself and even if she did, her droid was destroyed when her ship crash landed so she was completely alone. He only hope now was to lose the troops she had on her tail and hide somewhere until she could get back to her ship and see if anything was salvageable. As she hit the last cover she realized her only option here was to fight her way out of this situation. There was no way she could reach the treeline ahead of her without being killed. She pulled her blaster from the holster on her leg and raised it in preparation. Taking a deep breath she leaned around the side of the box she was hiding behind and took a shot, firing three times she managed to hit one of them in the chest, taking it out. She ducked back in the cover as the rest opened fire on her. When they needed to allow their weapons to cool down, she peaked out again and took out two more. If she could just take out one more she would be able to dodge the shots of the two that was left and make it to the tree line. She ducked in and out one more time and manage to take two more down with her final round of shots. Deciding it was time she left the relative safety of her cover and ran as fast as she could to the trees, dodging blaster shots by zig-zaging. She just about made it to where she needed to be when all of a sudden she felt something burning on her side, knocking her to the ground. She cried out loud, clutching her left side waiting for death. The storm trooper would defiantly now have the time to get to her and finish her off but it never came. She struggled to her feet feeling the ache in her side and she looked in the direction of where the trooper was raising her blaster to take him out but as she looked she saw him already on the floor lifeless. She looked around for any indication of what killed him but she couldn't see anything. Holstering her blaster, she turned and ran not really knowing where she was running to.
After she ran for what felt like hours, she reached an abandoned hanger. She ran inside it and collapsed behind a stack of crates in a dark corner. She closed her eyes as breathed deep. The blaster hit in her side was hurting like hell and she could feel herself getting light headed. She had to get to her ship soon to get the supplies to treat her wounds otherwise she'd be a goner for sure. She was just thinking about making a move again when from her left she heard something...Something that sounded like running electricity. She turned just in time to see a black claded Purge Trooper swing his Electro Hammer down at her. She rolled out of the way dodging it just in time as it slammed into the ground where she had just been sat. She stumbled to her feet and pulled out her blaster. There was no way she'd be able to defeat a Purge Trooper in her condition but maybe she could slow it down enough for her to escape. She fired several blast shots at it which he managed to reflect, one bouncing off his hammer and knocking the blaster for her hand. She was very quickly running out of options.
"Your trespassing here....Your choices are to surrender or die..."
She tilted her head downwards, taking a fight or flight stance. "To surrender to the Empire is to die..."
"So be it..." The Purge trooper swirled his hammer in his hand and then slammed it onto the ground. It sent out a shock wave so strong that it knocked the girl off her feet, landing on her back and winding her. Between the shock of the fall and the wound on her side she found she couldn't get back up again. The Purge Trooper advanced on her and raised his hammer over his head for the final blow. He swung down wards and just before it hit her the girl raised her right hand and the hammer slowed, eventually stopping as the Trooper was blasted off his own feet and blown against the hard metal wall of the hanger. With a grunt he feel to the floor and didn't get back up again. He wasn't dead, just knocked out. The girl fell back against the cold floor trying to catch her breath. She knew she had to get moving before he woke up because as soon as he did she would be in more danger than she was before. She rolled onto her stomach and with much effort pushed up on her hands and feet into a standing position. She still clung to the wound on her side and she was feeling even more light headed than she was before. She stumbled out of the hanger, stumbling every few feet, and rounded the corner to the landing pad. She didn't know if she was hallucinating because of the blood loss or if it was real but she was surprised to see a ship touched down at the far end. It defiantly wasn't one that had been there for a while. It looked in way to good a condition and on top of that the engine was running. She scanned the area for any sign of Imprial scouts but she saw none. Her next decision would mean life or death. Either take a chance and find out if the ships owners were friend or foe or try and make it back to her ship and risk bleeding out before she got there. Either way she would probably die. Taking a deep breath she started to make her way towards the downed ramp of the ship but was stopped in her tracks when the blast doors opposite the ship opened and the sound of blaster fire sounded out followed by another familiar sound. As she watched the blue length of light from a Lightsaber appeared out of the door way being swung around and taking out several troopers with ease. The wielder of the Lightsaber was a thin man with deep red hair. The girl couldn't see much of his face as her vision was starting to get blurry but she could see enough to know that he was young. A Jedi? It looked like her gamble had paid off.
"Cal! Come on...!" She looked towards where the voice came from and saw a dark skinned woman half way down the ramp of the ship shooting a blaster in aid of the Jedi.
"Cal...?" The girl whispered to herself, the name settling on her lips in a familiar way. She pushed herself forward hoping to reach the ship before it took off. She was nearly there when her legs suddenly gave way causing her to fall to her knees switch an audible grunt. The woman on the ramp turned to the girl, pointing the blaster in her direction. The girl looked up at the woman, trying to plead with her eyes and her vision started to become dark, the power of speech leaving her as she succumbed to her wounds. The woman lowered her blaster, her eyes narrowing as she looked at the girl. She tried to get to her feet once more but instead she fell forward, landing on her side on the ground. With her last bit of vision left she saw the Purge Trooper from before leaning over her. "...Found you..." She had no fight left in her and waited for the inevitable but once again it never came. The last thing she remembered before she lost consciousness was the Purge Trooper being struck down by the Jedi's saber and his red hair so much like fire blowing in the wind...