THE TRANSPORTS lowered more and more on Crait. The ground was white, making those in the transport worried.

Amara frowns, "Mom, we aren't equipped for the weather."

Leia placed her hand on her daughter's shoulder, "Dear, it's not snow."

Amara glanced at her mom, "Then what is it?"

"Salt." Leia answers.

Vira looks at Leia, "Have you been here before, General?"

Leia turns to those in the transport. She glanced at them all and then brought her attention to Vira.

"Leia, I do not want the formality right now." Leia says, "And yes, once. A long time ago."

Leia sat back down on the bench in the transport, sure she knew it would only be minutes before they land on the ground surface.

Leia glanced her head to look out the window, "It used to be a mining colony long ago." She says, "It was abandoned because of the labor dispute that ate into their profit margins. The mining company that had built the shelter had included it with blast doors to protect itself from crystal storms. It was that feature that caught my father- Bail Organa's attention back in the time of the old Rebellion." She says.

Amara's eyes drift from the window to Poe. She saw something in his eyes. He was invested in the stories of the Old Rebellion. He just ate up any old stories or old relics of the Empire and those heroes and legends. It didn't help that Poe was told stories when he was child by his mother and father.

Amara kept her eyes on him. He looked like a child. She couldn't help but smile.

"So this was a rebel base, Leia?" Poe asks.

Leia looks to the boy, "No." She says, "The Alliance didn't exist at that point. When the Alliance was finally formed, the Empire had changed their patrols. My father worried that having ships travel the area would be detected and risk many lives. Crait was considered as a new base after Yavin, but there was some complications."

Amara looks at her mom, "What sort of complications?"

Leia smiles at her daughter, "Another time perhaps." She says to Amara and the others on board.

The transports grew closer and closer to the base. Leia pulling out her comm link to mutter something in it, Amara wasn't listening to it. Amara leaned toward the window as did some others, to watch as the rather large blast doors open, revealing the inner part of the base. The ships loom inside the dark and gloomy base, before touching on the hangar. Slowly one by one, each of the remaining Resistances exited their transports.

Amara got out and felt odd. It felt like ages since she had been on a surface that wasn't floating in space. It almost felt uneasy being here. She looked around and noticed her mom standing by the entrance. Amara walked over and stood next to her mother.

Leia doesn't even look at Amara, "Do you still sense light in him?"

Amara shakes her head, "I don't know what I sense anymore." She glanced at her mother.

Leia glanced at her daughter. The two look back to the outside. Just barely in their sight were the outlines of First Order ships. They were here, closing in on them.

Leia doesn't even bat an eye, "They're coming." She says, "Close the doors."

{THE LAST JEDI}

ALARMS GOING haywire inside the base. It kept getting louder and louder as the enemy shipes grew closer and closer to the base. People moving around, fanatically, but also in order. There some at command centers, trying to send out a message for help. Which is what Kaydel Connix was doing. Vira was helping with some of the others find weapons to defend themselves.

"Incoming-!" A resistance soldier yells.

Poe watches from the center of the hangar as a a Xi-class shuttle pulls away from a squadron of TIE fighters. It was speeding toward the halfway opened blast doors at such an alarming rate.

Poe grit his teeth before shouting, "Go, go, move!" He yells, "Get that shield door down!"

Amara glanced from the command center to Poe. She looked at the shuttle, it wasn't slowing down.

"Poe-!" Amara shouts.

She had stepped out, closer to him and in the open. Poe turns his attention to her and furrows his brows.

"Amara," Poe says, "You need to get-,"

Amara steps over toward him, "I need to get out of the way? Um- that shuttle isn't slowing down. It's heading straight for us."

Poe glanced at her and then outside. The craft pulls further and further away from the TIE fighters.

"The door isn't closing fast enough," She says.

Poe grit his teeth and mentally sore. The door was taking too long to shut and with this ship coming in hot, it would be likely to come in after the doors shut.

"Shit," Poe says.

He grabs her arm and pulls her away. She almost yelped by his firm hold as he pulled her toward the direction he was heading in.

"Alright, everyone!" He shouts and let's go of Amara, "That ship is coming in hot and likely going to be in here within minutes. Find cover and have your weapons on standby."

Amara and Poe glanced at each other.

"It's about to get ugly." Poe says.

Poe expected Amara to find shelter with Connix and the others in a much safer area than out in the open, however, Amara stay firm where she stood. Poe glanced back at her.

"Amara, you need to find cover." He says.

Amara looks at him and placed her hand on his cheek, "Listen, flyboy, I'm staying right here." She says, "With you."

Poe tilts her head, "Alright." He grins.

Poe and Amara lift their heads and saw the ship much closer. A ten seconds or less and the ship will be in there. Amara this time, grabs Poe's hand and pulls him in the direction where others were taking cover. Both of them hid behind it and braced themselves. Amara felt Poe hold onto her. They heard the sounds of screeching, likely the ship. The top of the ship was sheared off by the top of the door frame of the base. The shuttle slides through the base, causing some sparks, until it comes to a complete stop. Leia was the first one out in the open and fired at the ship. Without wasting another minute, a few others, including Poe and Amara fired at the shuttle in front of them.

"No-!" A familiar female scream came from the shuttle, "Wait, don't shoot!"

Amara lowered the blaster. A few people still blasted at the ship. Just then two sets of hands appear, up as a surrender.

"It's us!" She shouts again, "No, don't shoot!"

Poe narrows his eyes and turns to those firing, "Hold your fire!"

Another shot fired.

"Don't shoot!" This time the voice was male.

Amara snapped her head, "Stop firing your weapons!" She yells.

Just then after no more shots were fired, Finn and Rose poked their heads out. This was met with shock but amazement.

"Finn?" Leia asks.

Poe looks up and grins, "Finn! Rose!" He says with glee, "You're not dead!"

Finn and Rose share smiles at them.

"Where's my droid?" Poe asks after that.

BB-8 appeared and it didn't take long for Poe to run over to his droid. Poe knelt down and began to give his 88 unit attention.

"I'm so glad to see you!" Poe says to his droid.

Amara glanced up and watched as Finn and Rose climbed out of the shuttle, some of the officers helped the two out. Finn landed on the ground first, and he offered his hand to Rose to help her.

When the two made it to the ground, Amara walked over to them and embraced them in a hug. A hug that neither of them were expecting. The hug was short and when she pulled back, Poe reached over to hug Finn.

Rose looks around with somber in her eyes, "Is this all that's left?" She asks.

Finn looks from Poe, who looked exhausted. The past few days have been rough on them all. Leaving D'Qar and this crazy attempt to save everyone had really taken a lot out of them all.

Amara looks at Finn and nods, "Yeah."

Out of the original number of Resistances from D'Qar, that being over four hundred, now there is less than a hundred left. The number was small, resources were limited, and time was not on the Resistance's side.

{THE LAST JEDI}

THEY WEREN'T done yet, not by a long short. People were moving, just like they were before, but this time they had Finn and Rose. It put seemed to rid Poe of a little bit of guilt he carried on his shoulders. Amara stared at Poe from the command center, she stood next to Kaydel.

Poe looked like he was carrying a lot of heavy baggage inside. He was keeping his morale high and inspiring for the other Resistances, those who survived. She can see it in his eyes, the exhaustion was a lot, but the loss they've had to endure was far worst. When Amara saw Poe turn after giving Vira an order, he had something in his eyes. Hope. He really believed everything was going to be okay, that they were going to make it.

"Alright," Poe began barking orders, "Our shields are up so they can't hit us from orbit. Use whatever power we've got left to broadcast a distress signal to the Outer Rim."

Poe said that last part looking at Connix, who was by the computers. The woman nods and began to do just that.

"Use my personal code," Leia says halting Connix, "If there are any allies to the Resistance, it's now or never."

Leia and Poe made eyes contact after that and nodded at one an other. Connix nods and goes back to her work.

Poe's eyes drift to Rose's direction, "Rose, what do you got?" He asks.

Rose looks at him and shakes his head, "Rotting munitions, rusted artillery, some half-gutted skim speedster." She says.

Poe sighs, "Well," He placed his hands on his hips, "Let's just pray that big-ass door holds long enough for us to get help."

Just then there was a violent shake. The violent tremor caused some debris to fall from the ceiling.

Amara's eyes snap to the door, "Something is here."

One by one, people made their way to the command room near the blast door. Finn makes his way to a viewing apparatus that monitors outside of the base. He lowers it down and takes in the sight that is outside. He lifts it up and turns to everyone in the room, based off his expression alone, Amara knew this wasn't good news.

"A battering ram cannon," Finn says.

"A what now?" Poe asks.

Finn frowns, "Miniaturized Death Star tech." He explains, "It'll crack that door open like an egg."

Rose shakes her head nervously, "There has to be a back way out of here, right?" She asks everyone in the room.

No one answered her. There were nervous muttering among the survivors of the Resistance. Though, the tense atmosphere was slightly lifted when the droids; BB-8 and C-3PO appeared. BB-8 begins to beep at Poe, everyone, but looked only to his master.

Poe looks at his droid, "What do you got, buddy?" He asks.

C-3PO steps further, "BB-8 has analyzed the mine's schematics." 3PO gestures to the blast door, "This is the only way in or out."

There was yet another boom. It shook the inside like the first one. Debris coming down from the ceiling. When the impact hit the blast door, people flinched even yelped in fear. Rose looks and sees the looks of defeat in these people's faces. Finn saw this too.

"Come on," Finn tries to rally them, "We have allies. People believe in Leia. They'll get our message, they'll come. But we have to buy time."

Around the room, people were looking to Finn. Finn held hope. He felt it when he saw people looking to him and even believing what he had to say. Rose stands near him and couldn't help but smile as she looks at him, this is the Resistance hero, this is the Finn she heard about.

"We gotta take out that cannon." Finn finishes.

Poe looks to his friend with a smirk on his face. Poe agreed. Poe approved.

"Alright," Poe says, "You heard the man, let's do this."

People began to move. The first thought was the speedsters, it was their only hope on some sort of delay tactic.

Amara glanced at the speedsters, only thirteen of them, which meant they had to convince thirteen people to risk their lives for this. Amara was certain Poe was going to be one of them, hell she expected Finn to go after what he just said. She also looked at Rose and saw the look on her face, she too was going.

Amara's eyes linger to Vira. Her dear friend. Vira was talking to Poe, it seemed to be important.

Amara's eyes narrowed as she stared at her friend. Amara looked at Vira's eyes, trying to get a read, an understanding to what Vira was doing. And then it clicked for her.

Vira was signing herself up to be a pilot.