Princess Leia sat in the copilot's seat of the Millennium Falcon. Han Solo, her husband, stood behind her, rubbing her shoulders.
"Isn't that a beautiful view?" Leia asked.
"Almost as beautiful as you are." Han answered as he bent forward and kissed her, then turned around and headed for the rec room. His friend Chewbacca was roaring in laughter at their conversation -- Leia didn't see what was so funny.
"Princess Leia, Princess Leia?" C-3PO, the protocol droid, came into the room saying, "R2-D2 has picked up some static. It is an enemy code, possibly Imperial!"
At this Leia sprung to action, doing a quick visual scan. Han came running in from the back and sat down in the pilot's seat. He was flipping switches and pushing buttons as fast as he could.
"Chewie, get up here and take Leia place! Leia, go up to the top gun well and start scanning." Leia hopped to her feet, Han shouted, "Be careful!" Just as he said this, a TIE fighter came onto the view screen. Almost immediately, you could here firing from the gun well. "This is General Solo of the Millennium Falcon state your destination." Han said into the communicator. He got no reply. "Repeat, this is General Solo of the Millennium Falcon state your destination." There was still no answer, only a fire of his lasers that went over the top of the ship.
"Blast him, Leia." Han shouted over the intercom. About two seconds later the fighter went up in flames. Leia came back down the stairs.
"Oh my, Princess, you really should be careful when he puts you up to things like that!"
A small round R2 unit came rolling through the door, beeping loudly. "R2-D2 says that the ship was headed for Yavin, and what the static was must have been an access code. Oh my!" Threepio said in his matter-of-fact voice.
Then Leia asked, "Why would a TIE fighter be headed in this direction?"
"Have you ever noticed that where ever we go," Han began, "the Empire is already there, waiting for us?"
"No, General Solo, I have never noticed the remarkable discovery. Amazing!" Threepio said.
"Was I asking you?" Han snapped, glaring at the golden droid.
"Well, no, but..."
"Would somebody please shut him up?" Han growled. C-3PO looked rather offinded. Han didn't know that it was in his programming allowed him to be offended.
* * *
A few hours later, Han was in his bunk snoring away. Chewbacca and C-3PO were in the rec room, while Leia still sat in the co-pilots chair looking out at the blackness of the sky. She happened to look down; it was a good thing too, because small red light was flashing on the nava-computer. "Chewie?" she called. She saw the tall Wookie come into the cockpit roaring in surprise at the sight of the light blinking. C-3PO was crowding in the doorway.
"Master Chewbacca says that the nava-computer is not functioning correctly and that you should go and wake Han." Then he realized that they were in trouble if Han and Chewie couldn't fix this. "We're doomed! We're all going to die!" He cried. Leia got up and went to Han's bunk to wake him.
"Han, sweetie? Wake up, we have a problem with the nava-computer and Chewie needs you!" Leia said in her sweet, calm voice. She needed this talent, if you want to call it that, because she was the Chief of State of the New Republic. This job required a lot of patience.
Han sat up and jumped down from his bunk and raced to the cockpit. As soon a he reached it, Chewie started roaring and complaining in his own Wookie-language. Leia wondered if Han could understand him but it was obvious that he could because they seemed to be caring on a conversation about what to do to save the navigation systems. Chewbacca roared loudly and flung his hands up in the air as if giving up on his task. The light continued to blink wildly. Then the coordinates began to flash; they changed and told directions to places that they weren't even going.
"What's going on?" Leia screamed, loosing all of her patients. Han could tell that she was terrified, almost a terrified as he had ever seen her. Han took his hands away from the buttons and switches for a moment to hug his wife and give her a word of reassurance. Just in this sort moment that he wasn't working, something else when wrong.
"Ugh...this is NOT what I had planned for our vacation, sweetheart. I promise!" Han said, a little angry.
Han looked out the view window and saw nothing but darkness-no stars, no nothing. Then a few intense moments later the Falcon felt as if it were spinning around in circles. In fact it was.
"Oh my, Master Han, it seems that we have-" C-3PO said but Han cut him off with a threat to cut him off. "But, but-" Han looked at him sternly and the droid hushed up quickly.
Han and Chewie were working a hard as they could in their time of trouble. Leia came from the back of the ship only to report that the power drive generator was broken and they would have to land to fix it.
"Great! Just great!" Han answered to the bad news. "We're spinning around in some unidentified-"
"That's exactly what I have been trying to tell you! This is a black hole!!! If R2-D2's calculations are correct, it was created when we destroyed the TIE fighter!" Threepio sounded a little worried, "Now we're going to die for sure! Oh, the Maker!!!"
Slowly the Millennium Falcon began to stop spinning and they passengers could see the
stars beginning to come out again.
"We must be on the outer rim of the black hole. I'm surprised that we made it thought there safely!" Leia said.
"Chewie, go to the back with my flashlight and see if you can fix the power." Han said handing Chewbacca a small flashlight from his belt loop. A few moments later Chewie came roaring a negative to seeing if he could fix it.
"Look, there's a planet. I'll see if I can land us there safely on it. Maybe we can find some spare parts for sale," said Han hopefully.
"I have been here before." Leia said her eyes were looking far off. "It is Alderaan." She sniffed and a tear ran down her cheek. Chewbacca moaned softly.
"But Leia, I thought Alderaan was destroyed twenty years ago?" Han asked.
"It was. I was there. I had the pleasure of watching my own home planet be destroyed by Grand Moff Tarken on the Executer!" Leia was now sobbing. "What is happening?"
"My counterpart, R2-D2, is working on finding out what happened at this very moment." A series of whistles and beeps came form the small droid. C-3PO continued, "It appears he has found the problem! The Empire has found a way to, apparently, contain black holes. When we shot down the TIE fighter the container burst and the black hole escaped and caused a time warp to form. If his calculations are correct we are twenty years into the past and in the Alderaan system."
"We have to land and get the parts to fix out ship, then we'll worry about how to get to present day home." Han stated.
"Isn't that a beautiful view?" Leia asked.
"Almost as beautiful as you are." Han answered as he bent forward and kissed her, then turned around and headed for the rec room. His friend Chewbacca was roaring in laughter at their conversation -- Leia didn't see what was so funny.
"Princess Leia, Princess Leia?" C-3PO, the protocol droid, came into the room saying, "R2-D2 has picked up some static. It is an enemy code, possibly Imperial!"
At this Leia sprung to action, doing a quick visual scan. Han came running in from the back and sat down in the pilot's seat. He was flipping switches and pushing buttons as fast as he could.
"Chewie, get up here and take Leia place! Leia, go up to the top gun well and start scanning." Leia hopped to her feet, Han shouted, "Be careful!" Just as he said this, a TIE fighter came onto the view screen. Almost immediately, you could here firing from the gun well. "This is General Solo of the Millennium Falcon state your destination." Han said into the communicator. He got no reply. "Repeat, this is General Solo of the Millennium Falcon state your destination." There was still no answer, only a fire of his lasers that went over the top of the ship.
"Blast him, Leia." Han shouted over the intercom. About two seconds later the fighter went up in flames. Leia came back down the stairs.
"Oh my, Princess, you really should be careful when he puts you up to things like that!"
A small round R2 unit came rolling through the door, beeping loudly. "R2-D2 says that the ship was headed for Yavin, and what the static was must have been an access code. Oh my!" Threepio said in his matter-of-fact voice.
Then Leia asked, "Why would a TIE fighter be headed in this direction?"
"Have you ever noticed that where ever we go," Han began, "the Empire is already there, waiting for us?"
"No, General Solo, I have never noticed the remarkable discovery. Amazing!" Threepio said.
"Was I asking you?" Han snapped, glaring at the golden droid.
"Well, no, but..."
"Would somebody please shut him up?" Han growled. C-3PO looked rather offinded. Han didn't know that it was in his programming allowed him to be offended.
* * *
A few hours later, Han was in his bunk snoring away. Chewbacca and C-3PO were in the rec room, while Leia still sat in the co-pilots chair looking out at the blackness of the sky. She happened to look down; it was a good thing too, because small red light was flashing on the nava-computer. "Chewie?" she called. She saw the tall Wookie come into the cockpit roaring in surprise at the sight of the light blinking. C-3PO was crowding in the doorway.
"Master Chewbacca says that the nava-computer is not functioning correctly and that you should go and wake Han." Then he realized that they were in trouble if Han and Chewie couldn't fix this. "We're doomed! We're all going to die!" He cried. Leia got up and went to Han's bunk to wake him.
"Han, sweetie? Wake up, we have a problem with the nava-computer and Chewie needs you!" Leia said in her sweet, calm voice. She needed this talent, if you want to call it that, because she was the Chief of State of the New Republic. This job required a lot of patience.
Han sat up and jumped down from his bunk and raced to the cockpit. As soon a he reached it, Chewie started roaring and complaining in his own Wookie-language. Leia wondered if Han could understand him but it was obvious that he could because they seemed to be caring on a conversation about what to do to save the navigation systems. Chewbacca roared loudly and flung his hands up in the air as if giving up on his task. The light continued to blink wildly. Then the coordinates began to flash; they changed and told directions to places that they weren't even going.
"What's going on?" Leia screamed, loosing all of her patients. Han could tell that she was terrified, almost a terrified as he had ever seen her. Han took his hands away from the buttons and switches for a moment to hug his wife and give her a word of reassurance. Just in this sort moment that he wasn't working, something else when wrong.
"Ugh...this is NOT what I had planned for our vacation, sweetheart. I promise!" Han said, a little angry.
Han looked out the view window and saw nothing but darkness-no stars, no nothing. Then a few intense moments later the Falcon felt as if it were spinning around in circles. In fact it was.
"Oh my, Master Han, it seems that we have-" C-3PO said but Han cut him off with a threat to cut him off. "But, but-" Han looked at him sternly and the droid hushed up quickly.
Han and Chewie were working a hard as they could in their time of trouble. Leia came from the back of the ship only to report that the power drive generator was broken and they would have to land to fix it.
"Great! Just great!" Han answered to the bad news. "We're spinning around in some unidentified-"
"That's exactly what I have been trying to tell you! This is a black hole!!! If R2-D2's calculations are correct, it was created when we destroyed the TIE fighter!" Threepio sounded a little worried, "Now we're going to die for sure! Oh, the Maker!!!"
Slowly the Millennium Falcon began to stop spinning and they passengers could see the
stars beginning to come out again.
"We must be on the outer rim of the black hole. I'm surprised that we made it thought there safely!" Leia said.
"Chewie, go to the back with my flashlight and see if you can fix the power." Han said handing Chewbacca a small flashlight from his belt loop. A few moments later Chewie came roaring a negative to seeing if he could fix it.
"Look, there's a planet. I'll see if I can land us there safely on it. Maybe we can find some spare parts for sale," said Han hopefully.
"I have been here before." Leia said her eyes were looking far off. "It is Alderaan." She sniffed and a tear ran down her cheek. Chewbacca moaned softly.
"But Leia, I thought Alderaan was destroyed twenty years ago?" Han asked.
"It was. I was there. I had the pleasure of watching my own home planet be destroyed by Grand Moff Tarken on the Executer!" Leia was now sobbing. "What is happening?"
"My counterpart, R2-D2, is working on finding out what happened at this very moment." A series of whistles and beeps came form the small droid. C-3PO continued, "It appears he has found the problem! The Empire has found a way to, apparently, contain black holes. When we shot down the TIE fighter the container burst and the black hole escaped and caused a time warp to form. If his calculations are correct we are twenty years into the past and in the Alderaan system."
"We have to land and get the parts to fix out ship, then we'll worry about how to get to present day home." Han stated.