Lokey grew more anxious when he reached ozone and wasn't paying attention to what she was doing. Kess unscrewed the panel as fast as she could, took a moment to figure out what was what, and pounded on the tubing inside with the butt of the screwdriver. After several hits, the little tube collapsed, fuel squirted out of a crack, and the port thruster went out.
The Y-wing banked into a giant, wavering U-turn. Lokey fought for control of the stick until he saw his trailers and screamed.
X-wings and came out of the clouds and shot past him like rain in his face. Lokey put half power to the shields and the other half to the engines and shoved the stick left. Instead of fighting the missing thruster, he dove into it and scooped down into the atmosphere and back out again.
By now, Green-strip
