As she flies past, Skerris realizes who she is based on the piloting skill and pursues. As Phoenix Four flees, Skerris shoots her down, and Hera attacks him, taking out both of his wingmen. She reports that she's lost control, and Hera responds, telling Cleat to scissor right so she can cut them off. He then pursues Cleat and fires on her, taking out one of her engines. Cleat warns him that he's picked up three more, but Duke is swiftly shot down by Skerris. He tells his two wingmen to stay on him and comes in behind Duke. As the two pilots shoot down TIEs, Vult Skerris enters the fray in his gold-striped TIE/D Defender Elite. She tells Duke to keep up, and he responds that he's trying. Cleat confirms the orders, before she and her wingmate attack. She compliments him on his shot, before ordering Phoenix Four and Five, Cleat and Duke, to thin out the Imperials. Hera tells Mart, Phoenix Two, to handle a wingman, and he shoots down another TIE, which crashes into a light cruiser. Up above, the X-wings shoot down many TIE fighters. Sabine notes that Hera will be there any minute.

Ezra responds that they only have one tower left, and they sign off. As the Rebels hide from a watching stormtrooper, Ezra contacts Ryder Azadi, who reports that his team is done planting their explosives, and says he'll meet them at the rendezvous. Zeb asks Sabine if she's sure that the explosives are powerful enough, and when she responds yes, he says that the towers are much larger up close. As the TIE fighters are launched, Hera tells her pilots to accelerate to attack speed, and the fighting begins.Дown below, as a siren wails, the Spectres Ezra Bridger, Sabine Wren, Garazeb Orrelios and Kanan Jarrus plant explosives on the turrets of the air defenses installed to protect the Imperial Armory Complex. Thrawn orders fighters launched, and tells his best pilot, Vult Skerris, that the Rebels must not be allowed to reach the planet's surface. Commander Woldar informs the Grand Admiral that they are counting 24 ships. On the bridge of the Star Destroyer Chimaera, Grand Admiral Thrawn, entering the bridge, states that the Rebels have finally come to Lothal. She orders her squadron to lock their S-foils in attack position. Chopper beeps that it's triple for him, prompting Hera to sigh in exasperation. Cleat says that the Imperials have numbers, but they have talent, and Mart Mattin responds that that goes double for him. Hera orders her pilots to stay with their wingmates, as they need to protect the slower Y-wings. A squadron of T-65B X-wing starfighters appears, led by General Hera Syndulla and her astromech droid Chopper. On board an Arquitens-class cruiser above the planet Lothal, part of the Imperial blockade in orbit, an officer reports to the cruiser's captain that they have detected something coming out of hyperspace. Hera's strike team arrives above Lothal Strike Hera leads the rebel attack on the Imperial blockade at Lothal, with Grand Admiral Thrawn determined to stop her.

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