Chapter 4

LPOV:

As we came out of hyperspace the engines started to beep again.

"Shit, Chewie, can you fix that. It looks like this is going to be a ruff landing." Han shouted out from the cockpit. Even though Luke was in the lounge, he was sure you could hear Han's voice anywhere on the ship.

He, Han, Chewbacca, Leia, C-3P0 and R2-D2, were heading towards a planet called Naboo, which they were hoping would join the new republic. They were meeting their new senator Pooja Naberrie and Queen Kylantha (the queen of Naboo at that time) and were going to be living with the senator's family for the couple of days they were there.

They were only staying with the senator's family because Leia was apparently good friends with the other women.

"There it is!" shouted Leia, from beside the window in the lounge. She was in a happier mood than normal, but that might just be that they were on a mission that shouldn't be dangerous, or it could just be pregnancy after effects. Jason and this twin sister Jaina were hiding with Leia's friend Winter, who was planning meeting them on the planet in a couple of days.

He looked at the planet for the first time, it was mostly covered in greenery, but there was a lot more water than other planets he had been to. The colors had a peaceful effect on Luke and he could tell the force was quite strong there. But was most strange was he felt an unusual attachment to the place, even though this was the first time he had ever been there.

When Luke heard from Mon Mothma that they were going to the planet that the Emperor was born on, he thought that it would look more evil, like a pool of lava surrounding an island. But this was not what he had been expecting.

"Luke what is it?" he turned around and saw Leia looking at him anxiously. Her hair was done up in her buns and lilac gown with gold thread woven in, and a dark purple coat. The effects made her look more stern than usual, which was very frightening.

"Leia look out there and tell me you feel that unusual attachment to this planet." As she turned around and looked down at it again, she gasped.

"Oh… I didn't feel it before… it's hard to describe…but it feels like I know the place… like I should call it home." Then she looked back at him with such a helpless look, that he went over and hugged her. She turned towards him with tears streaming down her face.

"I know what you mean, but I also feel the planet holds a great secret that concerns us." He looked into his sisters eyes, and she slowed the tears that were falling.

"Oh Luke-"

"Stop your nattering back there and get ready to land!" shouted Han from the pilot's seat.

"Well we better do what he says…" he told Leia, the two of them went to their seats in the cockpit and fastened their seatbelts, getting ready for one of Han's landing, while thanking whatever gods out there that the twins weren't there with them.

One hour later...

LPOV:

"I am sorry about your landing platform officer, my husband likes to make an entrance, and of course we are flying a piece of junk." Leia apologised for the hundredth time for Han's abuse to the landing platform, which was now in ruins.

"It is perfectly all right Senator Solo, as I told you we were planning on rebuilding it anyway. He smiled down at her, amused. He was a quite an old man, definitely in his 60's, and he had an eye patch on his right eye.

"It is not the worst landing I have ever witnessed." He said gravely. "It was before the war, I was a body guard for Senator Amidala, and she was being targeted for assassination by a Sith. The ship exploded just after her decoy got off, and she and lots of others died." He then let out a breath and continued. "The Senator was then placed under the protection of the Jedi, her friends Obi-wan Kenobi and his padawan." They all physically jumped at Kenobi's name, and looked at the man in surprise, because if he knew Kenobi then surely he knew their father.

"Wait… did you just say Obi-wan Kenobi?" Leia asked.

"Who was his padawan?" Luke was nearly bouncing on the bolls of his feet. The captain looked startled at all the attention.

"Well I better start at the beginning…Amidala was once the Queen of Naboo, she was only 14 when it happened. Five months after her election, the Trade Federation enforced a blockade, Jedi were sent to sort it all out. Their names were Jedi Knights Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, eventually with the help of a young Tatooine boy who helped blow up the Trade Federation's starships, the small war was over. But unfortunately a Sith killed Jinn, and Kenobi succeed in killing the first seen Sith in years." He then toke a great sigh and visually his shoulders dropped as if a weight had been placed on them.

"The Tatooine boy? Who was he?" her brother Luke looked up in interest.

"The boy became Kenobi's Padawan, his name was Anakin Skywalker."

"What?" shouted an astonished Han, and a rough growl came from Chewie.

"Back then he was a Hero, people called him the Hero without fear. But everyone has fear you just need to know where to look." His face turned grave again and he continued. "Amidala is remembered by her people as a loyal citizen who gave up her life for her people. Though she did secretly marry Kenobi's Padawan just after the war started." As she looked at her twin's face she saw his face mirroring the astonishment that she felt. Was this their mother?

As they passed through the royal court yard, the Captain Typho brought them to a stop. He had stopped at a statue of a richly dressed women, she held a glowing orb in her hands. She wore a white dress with a layered cape and elaborate face paint covered her face. Her hair was done up in many buns, and as Leia looked at her face she felt a strange sense of Déjà vu.

Then scaring them all to their wits Artoo beeped and a hologram came into view. A young boy and man stood together both wearing Jedi robes, and next to them stood the exact Lady the statue was made of. Also there stood a Gungan who held up the orb between his huge hands, then a crowd clapped and screamed with excitement. And as quick as it came the projection stopped.

"R2-D2, is that you?" the captain bent down to Artoo laying a hand gently on the droid.

"Holy shit, what was that?" Han explained.

"Language, Han Solo how many times have I told you!" she looked at him in outrage, before looking around seeing if anyone heard. But luckily for him no one was close by. Then she turned to the captain in amazement. "How do you know our droid?"

"My Lady Amidala owned him, ma'am, he saved her life many a time. But then she gave him to her husband and he gave her a droid he personally built. What was his number… ah yes C-3P0, I've always wondered where those droids disappeared too." But his answer was met by silence apart from Threepio's feet that stepped closer to the man.

"Why sir I am C-3PO, human-cyborg relations. But how may I ask do you know me?" and now it was the captain's turn to look surprised.

"Why they must have whipped your memory, but left Artoo alone." Her looked like he was deep in thought, but Leia decided he was now going to answer her questions.

"What happened to her?" the captain looked up his face sadder than they had ever seen it.

"She died, before she could give birth to her child. Right after the war had ended, no one knows how she died, and no one who tried to investigate it has ever lived." Silence met his statement. After all this time their mother was dead, but how? Why hadn't their father saved her? And was she really their mother if she had supposedly died before child birth?

Han wrapped his arms around her waist and she leaned against his chest, scared at the thought of dying before child birth. After all the things Vador had done why couldn't he have saved his wife, or had he killed her. The captain's story made Anakin look like a genuine hero, who had saved a damsel in distress and then married her in secret, even if it was against his code.

All this didn't sit well with her, her feelings were all mixed up. Perhaps it was his wife's death that drove him to the dark side, or the other unborn child. But if she wasn't their mother who was, she must have given birth, and someone must have said in the end she hadn't so to protect her children from their father, that was more likely.

"Any how now we must be off the senator is awaiting you." He pointed to a woman across the square that was waving in their direction. She recognized Pooja's gold dress style which she liked to wear. And they all started to walk over to her.

One hour later…

Pooja and she walked towards the Queen's Court room, so she could give her speech and make an alliance with Naboo. While the others relaxed at Pooja's Grandmother's house.

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