“Down!” Lula yelled, tackling Ram as she lunged for the ground. Laser
fire splattered across the rooftop, singeing the air just above where they
huddled. At the first pause Lula stood, lightsaber extended, and braced
herself for the next round of firing. It would only take one deflected hit,
angled just right, to take out one of their engines or a wing. She could do this.
Ram got to his feet beside her—unhurt, thank the Force—and lit his own
saber.
The attack never came.
Instead, a high-pitched caw sounded, and a long shadow swooped across
the rooftop where they stood.
Lula squinted up just in time to catch a flash of purple scaly flesh and two
immense wings swinging overhead and then barreling directly at the asteroid
hopper. The creature wrapped its long muscly tail around the ship and yanked
it backward. Lula barely had time to react to the spray of laser fire that
erupted in an upward arc from the wings—the gunner must’ve panicked. She
and Ram raised their lightsabers just in time to send each shot blitzing into
the rooftops around them.

Star Wars The High Republic Race to Crashpoint Tower Chapter 16