*DISCLAIMER*

I do not own Star Wars, all rights go to LucasFilm and any other associated parties.

I only own the character of 'Inari Obscuro' and the plot of this story.

Luke Skywalker had been sitting in a Rebellion progress meeting for the past two hours… and he was very bored. So far the only item Luke had found remotely interesting was Han's new updates to the Millennium Falcon to enhance speed and manoeuvrability. But then again, updates like these happened every other day so they couldn't exactly be considered 'news'. At the moment, Princess Leia Organa, Luke's companion on most of his quests and friend was giving an incredibly dreary debrief on the last mission. Luke hadn't even known the mission had been arranged let alone carried out and it's participants returned. That just showed how much attention Luke payed to the more logistical and statistical part of the Rebellion. He was much more interested in flying and demonstrating his rather formidable skills as a Jedi.

Luke propped up his chin using his elbow on the desk and stared, unseeing, past Leia; completely tuning out her clipped tones and Mon Mothma's drone which sounded at intervals in Leia's report.

Han is so lucky, thought Luke. Han never had to go to meeting and sit through hour after hour of pointless information that was seldom worthwhile hearing. Even if Han did have to put in an appearance, it was only at Battle Plan meetings and even then he would only stay for about five minutes; just long enough to hear the basics of the plan before he was off to summon Chewbacca and prep the Millennium Falcon for battle.

This is painful, thought Luke. He would much rather be down in the training centre in the flight simulator or with some of the old Clone Wars battle droids that the centre was kitted out with. They weren't exactly difficult to defeat, not by a long shot, but at least fighting them would be more interesting than hearing about how intel hand found that Darth Vader was right-handed. Fighting Darth Vader would be easier than sitting through this, Luke muttered inwardly. I think I've read instruction manuals more interesting.

Luke gazed at Leia absent-mindedly. I wonder if it is particularly difficult for her to get her hair into those buns on the sides of her head. It must take her ages… and a lot of hair pins. How do I even know what hair pins are? I barely even brush my hair. I wonder if Chewie has to brush his fur. He has an awful lot of it; that would take ages too. Maybe Leia and Chewie can do each other's hair…

"… Luke? "asked Leia.

"Huh?" replied Luke unintelligently. Leia's question had pulled Luke out of his bizarre day dream and now she stood before him, hands on hips and glaring. Luke had no idea what the question was. In fact, he had no idea about anything that had been said in the last five minutes. He may as well have been asleep. Maybe I was asleep, he thought. In that case, he was in major trouble.

"Luke," repeated Leia with a little more forcefulness. "Will you do it?"

Luke knew there was no getting out of asking the question,

"I'm sorry, can you repeat what you said?"

Leia grimaced, spun on her heel and marched back to the holographic projector in the middle of the room.

"Give me strength." She muttered as she turned on the projector again and bought up the image she needed. It was an image of a small, diamond shaped crystal that was coloured a bright, glowing blue.

"This is the Kaiburr Crystal," began Leia. "It is a very old artifact and more powerful than most people can fathom. It can only be used by a Force user with a very strong connection to and in depth understanding of said Force. Intel has told us that the Emperor has a plan to find and use the Crystal to destroy the Rebellion in one very short battle; and that would be bad." She said, looking Luke right in the eyes to make sure he was understanding the parameters of the situation. Luke rolled his eyes.

"Alright, where do I come in?" he asked.

"Myself, you, Han and Chewie are to go on a mission of great importance to find and retrieve the Kaiburr Crystal before the Emperor can. That way he can't use it to completely obliterate us which, in case I needed to reiterate: would be BAD." Leia finished with a rather large note of sarcasm.

"Okay," said Luke. "When do we leave?"

Leia stared at him. Luke stared back with a growing look of confusion on his face. They remained like this for another few seconds before finally Luke said,

"What?"

Leia shook her head placed her hand on her forehead in despair.

"And how do you think we are going to find the Crystal, Luke? Considering none of us know where it is, unless you have an in depth knowledge of ancient artifacts you haven't been telling me about?"

Luke folded his arms lent back in his chair, half annoyed that he hadn't thought of that, half annoyed that Leia had made such a big deal out of it.

"Okay," he said finally. "How do we find it?"

Leia turned back to the projector whilst saying,

"Three days ago, a patrol captured a small interplanetary speeder in the air space above our base. Under interrogation, the pilot revealed themselves to be a Sith apprentice." She turned to face Luke. "A Sith apprentice that just so happens to know where to find the Kaiburr Crystal. They agreed to take us to it in return for their freedom."

At the words, 'Sith apprentice', Luke's expression hardened. After two Sith had taken over his galaxy, brutally murdered some of his friends and allies, he couldn't exactly consider himself one of the Sith's biggest fans.

"No way," said Luke strongly. "We can't trust him to lead us to the Kaiburr Crystal. He will probably just lead us straight back to his master. How do you know he even really know were the Crystal is? He's a Sith, he's lying. It's what they do. Please Leia, trust me on this: we can't trust a Sith to help us. They only serve themselves."

"I understand your concerns but Luke; right now they are the only chance we have at stopping the Emperor from destroying us entirely. Either we trust them or we blunder around the galaxy looking for something that is smaller than the palm of my hand. We don't have any other options. If we did then that is what we would be doing. We don't have a choice, Luke."

Luke said nothing. His ominous expression spoke volumes.

"Come on, Luke. We're meeting the apprentice in the spacecraft hanger. Han has already prepped the ship." Leia started moving towards the door and Luke followed reluctantly. "Oh, and Luke?" Leia said. "The apprentice is a 'she'."