The Last Hope: Part One: Leia's Ascension

By Wildchartermage

AN: Hey guys! Sorry for disappearing for about a month! I had midterms (thank god, it's over now), projects, and studying to do. Now, it seems like I have some spare time to write now. I know I should be doing my other story, The Empress, Jedi, & Sith, but I just want to write this story.:) Enjoy this chappie.

Disclaimer applies too. I'm not going into those boring details, where you already know. Why repeat it when I should be typing my story?

Question for you:

In the future, if I do not update very much (likely), and when I update, I think when you read a new chapter from me, your memories may be hazy about the previous chapters. So I guess it irritates you that you had to go back and skim through the story to "get" the story before reading a new chapter. (Same thing for me). Tell me:

1) Does the summary of the previous chapter help you? (Or otherwise, I wouldn't put summaries in each chapter).

2) Is any other way I can help you remember the previous chapters better?

Summary of The Last Hope Series: After killing Palaptine, Vader is now the emperor of the Empire and Luke is his heir to the Imperial throne. Rebellion is crushed, but still survives to continue to fight the Empire and its new emperor. Before that, Vader had ensnared Luke to the dark side when he ran away from Tatooine to join the Academy to be a pilot. Since Luke had fallen to the dark side, as Obi-wan and Yoda feared, the galaxy and Rebellion must hope for their last hope: Leia Organa.

Summary of The Last Hope: Part One: Leia's Ascension: It's time to see some girl power in Leia! So I wrote this fic where Leia is like the Luke in the Classical Trilogy. Watch Leia Organa rise from being a student of the University of Alderaan to the last leader of the Rebellion in this part one of the series. Throughout the ascension to her position of being the last leader of the Rebellion and the last Jedi, she had discovered her heritage; especially that she is the daughter of the famous Old Republic Hero, Anakin Skywalker. All of this happened before the rule of Emperor Vader and Prince Vader. More info when you read this story.

Chapter One: Alderaan's Destruction

(Remember, all of this happened during the Palaptine's rule, and the first Death Star still exists.)

Princess Leia Organa is anxious. Extremely anxious. She is sitting in her own private shuttle that will head to her home world, Alderaan. There was a feeling of that something bad, very bad will happen. It's like there will be something life changing, and Leia spent the rest of her journey mulling over what will change her life-forever. She does not like this one-bit at all. Whenever she tried to identify what will change her life forever, it danced front of her and teased her whenever she tried to grasp it. It annoyed the hell out of her.

She just had returned from her field trip, exclusively for the students of the University of Alderaan or UA. The field trip was about visiting the Imperial Senate and learning about the government and its Empire. All Leia had to do was sit in a seat and listen to a debate between two senators on the Death Star, a rumored new technological weapon that can blow up a planet. She thought it was quite riveting and interesting. Not only that, it was very, very disturbing to hear about that "technological terror." She hoped that the rumor was false about the Death Star, because she didn't like the idea of a civilization wiped out with a press of a button.

After she graduate from UA in a year, Leia will take a career in politics, maybe joining the Imperial Senate, to better the world. For her whole life, she always wanted to help people, and since she was a young girl, Leia would often volunteer to go on a charity or mercy mission to help people in need.

Because of her position as the princess of Alderaan, and her obviously noticed high intelligence, Leia was admitted into UA when she was fourteen, making her the youngest student in UA. In that college, Leia learned so much more of things than her tutors had taught her. The best thing being a student of UA is that she get to do hands-on activities, such as going on to field trips or actually engaging in the "art" of the politics without being a full-fledged politician exactly.

At the present time, Leia is staring at her window, where a view her home planet came into view.

Alderaan is a peaceful and beautiful planet, a luminous orb of blue and green planet. It is where the best scholars and students reside there or flock to there. Even Leia's school, the University of Alderaan, is one of the best colleges in the galaxy. She never knew any home like Alderaan, and Alderaan is her only and the only home in the galaxy. This is the home where she can discuss any issues with her professors after school, or just have fun with her friends in the Lower Downtown of Alderaan, a place hot for hangouts. A place she can always come home to see her parents and friends and feel the love in there. A place of her happy childhood. But little known to Leia, all of that will be shattered in the next blink of minute.

BOOM!

With a brilliant supernova-like explosion and a flash of white light, Alderaan just had been blown to pieces. Unseen tumultuous waves of debris had blasted in all direction, rocking Leia's shuttle and other shuttles.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" screamed Leia, pressing herself to the window.

She just had seen her worst nightmare. Her home planet is massacred and slaughtered cruelly in front of her eyes.

Suddenly, she felt dizzy and hot. There were thousands of screaming voices inside of her head. She couldn't identify who they were, but they caused her pain. Clapping her hands to her ears, she sank to the floor slowly and moaning. And then she broke down and sobbed loudly.

After several minutes of lying on the floor, Leia felt drained and exhausted. She slowly got up to look at the window for the last time. There was an ugly, gray sphere with a circular dent into it looming into her field of vision. It looked like a moon, but to Leia's knowledge, Alderaan do not have any gray moon.

Slowly, she began to feel more horrified with each passing minute when she realized what was it.

It is the Death Star. The one the two senators were debating on it. What a horrible and morbid name. But it is befitting to its uses.

So, the rumors were true after all, as Leia feared. What monster would want to destroy a planet, a peaceful planet like Alderaan? Worse, why it does have to be Alderaan, the only home and family she knew? Leia wanted to curse at the universe for its unfairness.

Leia realized what was the bad, life-changing feeling she had experienced earlier. It was the destruction of Alderaan. Definitely life changing for her.

From that moment on, Leia decided to join the Rebellion, so she can fight against the evil Empire, its evil Death Star, and its tyrannical Emperor. She will fight for justice, freedom, and democracy even it cost her life. Before, Leia did not have the guts to join the Rebellion or usually find no reason to do it. Now, she does.

AN: Whew! I hope you like it! I hope I can update soon, if time permitting.