Lily's shaking and trying to get back to her feet. "He can't get away," she gasps.

"With luck someone will blast his ship, but we seem to be at about the limit."

"No, you don't - "

"He has Anakin. She's not - gone - he trapped her."

"What?"

"I don't know how, but he's - he's kidnapped her - "

"Well fuck."

"We need to catch him..."

(His ship's already taking off.)

"Yeah."

She straightens. "Can you tell the pilots that he definitely can't get away? Would that - help - "

She tries to raise the X-wings on her comm, cycling through resistance frequencies.

She gets someone -

The voice sounds like Anathema's, actually, as she quickly identifies herself.

She identifies Inkil's ship. "Priority target, disable or destroy."

"Roger."

The X-wings start making Inkil's day very horrible. They get a few hits, but -

He's getting hits back, and shots are veering wildly off course while his are eerily accurate, and he's flying like he knows what the pilots will do before they do it, and his ship's fast and maneuverable -

He gets away.

Damn.

Still stormtroopers to mop up down here.

Lily's no help, other than keeping anyone from shooting at Ellaita. She seems really, really miserable.

The X-wings are more helpful. Soon enough, the remaining stormtroopers are dead or surrendered.

Good.

Are they going to meet with their mysterious rescuers now?

Seems so; someone needs to process the surrendered troopers, if nothing else.

Several of the X-wings turn out to contain -

Clones of Anathema. One of them's striding rapidly over to Ellaita. It's hard to tell them apart, some, but - the way she styles her hair, the subtle wear on her face...

Looks like Anathema herself.

"Ellaita!" she calls, confirming this is probably actually Anathema.

"Anathema?"

"Yeah!" She gets up to Ellaita. "Are you alright? I was worried..."

"I survived. Mostly intact, even. Looks like you did the same."

"Yeah. I looked for you for a bit, but - "

"My girls needed me. So we went to the resistance with information on Vader and the First Order and all. And then I had a really strong feeling I needed to be here, so - we got some X-wings no one needed urgently and came out to see what was up."

"Good call."

"Glad we could help."

"What was up?"