The Past Never Stays Buried
Chapter One -Being Found
By Princess Raye Fire
Leia was walking toward the landing pad were an unidentified YT-1300 was landing. It might be Han, but why wouldn't he identify himself? It made no sense.
As she got to the doors she could already tell it wasn't Han. The ship's Armor plates were black, stealth armor. But, still, she felt drawn to it.
She watched as the investigators got the boarding ramp down and walked up. Or rather, tried to walk up. They were pushed back be an unseen barrier.
One guard kept trying to go through, and kept being pushed back. The other put his hands on the barrier and she could feel the ripples in the Force as he gently pushed through. He was almost through, too, but the Barrier rejected him and he fell backwards.
Before she knew what she was doing she was out the door and at the base of the ramp.
She took a breath and let it out slowly to calm herself. She put her hand at the corner, between the right bulkhead and ceiling and opened herself to the Force, allowing it to fill and soothe her. She then put it to work. She traced across the roof, down the left bulkhead, across the deck, and up the right bulkhead.
She put her hand in the middle and pushed, she could feel the barrier shatter.
She stepped through, followed by her Nagori bodyguard, and waved the investigators in. When she did this she felt Force tendrils slowly begin to investigate her. She traced them back to the cockpit.
She hit a button and when the hatch was opened she let her guard proceed her. Strapped into the Pilot and co-Pilot seats were two unconscious young women, neither looking older then 20, but something was off about them.
She couldn't place it. And she had felt many forms of Force precedence. She had felt blocked spaces, blanked spaces, violent spaces, evil spaces, death spaces, but this, she had never felt anything like this.
"Summon the guards. These girls need medical attention." She said and her guard ran down the hall. With one last look, she turned and walked after him.
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Luke jumped out of the X-Wings cockpit just as Leia came out to greet him.
After a hug and polite 'how's everybody doing' he jumped right to the point. "What did you need me here for?"
She seemed to think about it. "It would be better if you saw them before I say any thing."
That was when he noticed the Millennium Falcon doppelganger on the next pad over, he read the name aloud. "Feline Strike," His eyes glazed over and he felt like he should know something, but he couldn't remember.
"What?"
He shook his head, "Nothing, don't worry."
Leia didn't seem to buy it. When it was clear to her he wouldn't say more she turned and lead him inside and down the hall.
They had reached the door to the room the Girls had been put in. Leia opened it and let Luke go in first.
The technician looked up. "Master Skywalker, Princess Leia, the investigators found their belongings." The man pointed to two duffel bags in the corner. "According to their Id's the one on the right is Kix Shi and the one on the Left is Ai Brooks. The Id's also say that they're Old Republic Padawans, If you believe that." The man laughed silently to himself, totally missing the incredulous look Luke shot him.
Kix had black/red hair with three rings in her right eyebrow, three in the lower part and one at the top of each ear, and a star flattened through the ridge in her left nostril.
Ai had silver/blue hair and no peircings, but a blue star tattooed covering her right eye with the edges spilling over on to her nose, cheek, and forehead.
The things they had been wearing where folded at the foot of the pad they were laying on, beside Lightsabers -and a blaster whose belt was on the pile at Kix's feet. Piling their stuff there was possible because neither Kix nor Ai were very tall.