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"What's going on, Yoda?" asked Mace as he rushed back into the hanger and, taking long strides, made his way over to Yoda, who was concentrating hard, and appeared not to hear him. "I just saw a Wookie carrying a man into the Centre. How did that happen?" After a few more moments, he spoke to Mace quietly so that nobody else could hear.
"Being feeling the disturbance, you have?" he asked his friend.
"Yes, unfortunately. It's going to be a tricky escape. Do you think their presence here is linked to this?" he gestured towards the doors through which Chewbacca and the boy had just gone.
"Yes, and judging by the scars on that man, a Light-Sabre Staff it was that was used".
"Like the one used by the Sith Assassin that was slain on Naboo? But we know that there has only been one Sith within a Thousand years that has the skill to wield one of them! So that means…"
"Yes, die that Sith did not. Still among us he is".
Mace knew what this meant. Their situation was getting more and more dangerous by the second. They needed another way to leave the Asteroid belt, and quick!
Obi Wan was watching the discrete conversation from across the Hanger, where he was holding baby Luke. As he began to walk over to them, intent on discovering what was wrong, he felt it: a dark disturbance in the balance of the force.
"So that's what they're talking about" he thought to himself. Despite his efforts, he could not suppress the feeling of dread that had washed over him. They needed a way out.
He hadn't even realised that he had stopped walking, and had come to a stop in the middle of the room. He resumed walking over to them with a quickened pace.
"What are we going to do?" he asked quietly, so not as to wake the baby. This was not necessary, however, as he was so deeply asleep that he would not wake for several hours yet, which was lucky, because the young boy that had arrived with Chewbacca ran at this point up toward them, shouting at the top of his voice. They shushed him as he approached, and he began to speak in a hushed, rushed voice.
"I need help! We need to get away from here; the Emperor is looking for us!"
"Who are you? Why are the Sith looking for you" asked Mace, a little harsher than was appropriate. "We are on an important mission, and we cannot risk interference from the Empire!"
"An advantage to us, this could be" said Yoda, while thinking quickly. "We need a Ship!" he looked at the boy. "Have the Sith seen this Ship? Is it marked by the Empire?" he asked.
"No, nobody saw me or the Ship. My Master and Chewbacca went alone to an agreed area of exchange for some goods that we were smuggling, and there was an ambush. Everybody was killed by a Dark Warrior and a battalion of Clones, but Chewbacca managed to escape with my Master. I don't know why they're still looking for us, but they probably know that we haven't gone far, because they'll have had us on radar until a while back, and they'll have been able to tell that our Hyperdrive isn't working!"
Obi Wan was momentarily stunned that a 10 year old boy was able to understand all of what he just said, but recovered almost immediately.
"I bet nobody was supposed to know that that Sith Warrior is still alive" he told the others. I bet nobody was supposed to escape, and now that somebody has, they need to be silenced!"
"At this time, we do not know their motives, but we know enough! This is a clean Ship, and we can use it to escape and go into hiding!" said Mace. "So that is what we will do! What is your name?" he asked the boy for a second time.
"Han" he replied. "Han Solo. And if my Master does not recover, I am now the Captain of the Millennium Falcon. If you can protect Chewbacca and I until we can also escape, then we will allow you to use our Ship"
"Thank you, Han" said Obi Wan. "We are Jedi, on the run from the Empire. We were framed for Treason against the Emperor and the Senate. We will be able to protect you, as you wish. It is, however, vital that your Master remain here! He looks to be beyond normal recovery. He is gravely injured, and Surgeons are not permitted to perform artificial recovery without the consent of the patient, or another adult with whom the patient is well known. It is likely that he will die."
Han hung his head for a moment, and seemed to be in thought. Obi Wan was thinking of Darth Vader, the man who had killed his Apprentice, and how he had to live as a machine. Nobody would want that, surely.
He was awoken from his thoughts by Bail Organa, who came walking over to them at this time. "I will take Leia and leave on Tantive IV. I will likely be stopped and searched, but they won't find anything. From now on, in the eyes of the Empire, Leia is my baby, and so she shall remain. But now you had better go. They will probably be here soon!"
"Go, we will now!" said Yoda as he began to walk slowly over to the Falcon. "Important that we get away now, it is."
As Yoda, Mace, Han, Chewbacca and Obi Wan, who was carrying Luke, began to climb up the ramp into the Ship, they heard the crackling of the Hologram Projector behind them, and heard heavy, deep breathing as a dark, artificial voice spoke out.
"This is Lord Vader, Deputy in Chief to the Supreme Emperor of the Galaxy, demanding access to the Pollis Massa Medical Centre to conduct a search for criminals and Jedi".
OK so that's another chapter out. I know that this one didn't contain much in the line of a story, but it was essential to get the "Star Wars" section of the story up and going. Let me know what you think please, and let me know if you have any character preferences for any of the three films/TV that haven't yet appeared or if you want to see more of them, because I will see if I can work them in, even if its just as a cameo.
The next chapter will have a bit of Lost in it as well, so for all Lost fans who are holding on, it will all come soon!