Han and Chewbacca head back to the cockpit followed by Obi-Wan. Before Anakin could head back to the cockpit Luke stopped him.
"Where did you say you were from again?" Luke asked hoping to catch Anakin off guard.
"Coruscant," Anakin replied.
"Imperial City?" Luke said and Anakin shrugged. "How'd you end up on Tatooine and how do you know old Ben?"
"I don't know how I ended up on Tatooine, my ship blew up, this world is so different than what I know," Anakin said.
"What's your last name?" Luke asked hoping that maybe he could get this mysterious person to open up for reasons unknown to him.
Anakin narrowed his eyes at him. "What's with all the questions?" he asked.
Luke shrugged, "Just trying to get to know who I'm traveling with, that's all," he said and headed to the cockpit.
Anakin watched Luke leave and heaved a heavy sigh, he had to tell him the truth, no matter what Obi-wan said. Coming to his new resolution he followed Luke into the cockpit.
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"Stand by, Chewie, here we go. Cut in the sublight engines," Han said pulling back on a lever.
Outside the cockpit window stars began streaking past, seeming to decrease in speed, then stopped. Suddenly the starship began shuddering and violently shaking about. Asteroids began racing toward them, battering the sides of the ship.
"What the...? Aw, we've come out of hyperspace into a meteor shower. Some kind of asteroid collision. It's not on any of the charts," Han said
Chewbacca flipped off several controls as Luke and Anakin enters the cockpit.
"Are you sure we're in the right spot?" Obi-Wan asked.
"What's going on?" Luke asked seeing the asteroids racing towards them.
"Our position is correct, except...no, Alderaan!" Han said trying not to sound alarmed.
"What do you mean? Where is it?" Luke asked alarmed.
"Thats what I'm trying to tell you, kid. It ain't there. It's been totally blown away," Han said.
"What? How?" Anakin asked both outraged and shocked. What could destroy a planet?!
"Destroyed...by the Empire!" Obi-Wan said and turned to Anakin, "That was the disturbance in the force that we felt," he said gravely.
"The entire starfleet couldn't destroy the whole planet. It'd take a thousand ships with more fire power than I've..." Han was saying, he did want to believe that the Empire could destroy a planet.
A signal started flashing on the control panel and a muffled alarm started humming.
" There's another ship coming in," Han said getting ready to fight.
"Maybe they know what happened," Luke suggested.
"It's an Imperial fighter," Obi-Wan said.
Chewbacca roared his concern. A huge explosion bursts outside the cockpit window, shaking the ship violently. A tiny, finned Imperial TIE fighter races past the cockpit window.
"It followed us!" Luke shouted.
"No. It's a short range fighter, I can sense it," Anakin said closing his eyes.
"There aren't any bases around here. Where did it come from?" Han asked nervously.
The fighter raced past the Millennium Falcon.
"It sure is leaving in a big hurry. If they identify us, we're in big trouble," Luke said.
"Not if I can help it. Chewie...jam it's transmissions," Han said.
"It'd be as well to let it go. It's too far out of range," Obi-Wan told him.
"Not for long," Han said as he raced the ship after the TIE fighter until they noticed one of the stars growing brighter. It seems as though the TIE fighter was heading straight for the star as the Falcon continued to gain on it.
"A fighter that size couldn't get this deep into space on its own," Anakin told them.
"It must have gotten lost, been part of a convoy or something," Luke suggested.
"Well, he ain't going to be around long enough to tell anyone about us," Han told them. "I think I can get him before he gets there...he's almost in range,"
In the distance the star started to resemble a small moon and as they got closer it began to resemble not a small moon or a star but a monstrous spherical battle station!
"That's no moon! It's a space station," Obi-Wan told them with wide eyes.
"It's too big to be a space station," Anakin protested.
"I have a very bad feeling about this," Luke said.
"Yeah, I think your right. Full reverse! Chewie, lock in the auxiliary power," Obi-Wan said in a commanding voice.
The ship shuddered and the TIE fighter accelerated away toward the gargantuan battle station. Han tries to pull the ship in reverse but they continued to move towards it.
"Why are we still moving towards it?" Luke asked alarmed.
"We're caught in a tractor beam! It's pulling us in!" Anakin said.
"But there's gotta be something you can do!" Luke said looking at Han sounding desperate.
"There's nothin' I can do about it, kid. I'm in full power. I'm going to have to shut down. But they're not going to get me without a fight!" Han said but Obi-Wan put a hand on his shoulder.
"You can't win. But there are alternatives to fighting," Obi-Wan told him.
Han looked at the old jedi skeptically, "Oh yeah? What?"
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"Quickly, get in here," Han said lifting up four floor panels in the hall.
Luke and Anakin quickly put the two droids in the middle one, "Now be quiet, we don't want to be detected," Luke told them.
"Yes, Master Luke," Threepio said and Artoo made a few beeping sounds.
Han and Obi-Wan climbed into the panel to the left and Chewbacca gets inside the one to the left of that one leaving the right one for Luke and Anakin. Once they were safely inside the panel, Anakin spoke up.
"I know you have your suspicions of me, Luke, and with just cause," Anakin said in a hushed voice.
"You're going to tell me now when we're supposed to be quiet," Luke said raising an eyebrow.
"There might not be another chance," Anakin hurriedly whispered. "My name is Anakin Skywalker and I'm not from this time. I'm a jedi from the Galactic Republic, before this dreaded Empire,"
Luke's eyes widened and he shook his head, "You're crazy," Luke told him.
"Search your feelings, Luke. You know I'm telling you the truth. Now we need to be quiet, we're entering the space station," Anakin hurriedly whispered.
Not long afterward they heard footsteps above them. The Imperials were searching the ship. They could hear an officer giving orders When the footsteps stopped and the voice of the officer faded, Did Obi-Wan and Anakin give the okay to lift themselves out of the compartments.
"Boy, it's lucky you had these compartments," Luke said to Han not looking at Anakin.
"I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous. Even if I could take off, I'd never get past the tractor beam," Han said.
"Leave that to me!" Obi-Wan said.
"Damn fool. I knew that you were going to say that!" Han said.
"Who's the more foolish...the fool or the fool who follows him?" Anakin said echoing Obi-Wans famous words from years back and grinned at Obi-Wan and only smiled.
Han shook his head and muttered to himself, Chewbacca agreed with him.
Not long after a few storm troopers entered the ship carrying a create. Anakin, Han and Chewbacca knocked them out while Obi-Wan and Luke tied them up. Han shouted out to the other two storm troopers on the ground below.
"Hey down there, could you give us a hand with this?" Han shouted down.
The two remaining storm troopers come up and Han and Anakin fired at them.
"Quickly put their armer on," Obi-Wan ordered Anakin, Luke and Han, "We're going to need a distraction." after protesting, Anakin quickly put the storm trooper on himself, Luke and Han followed suit.
They quickly made their way out of the ship and further into the space station. The group headed up to the command post. When they got to the door an officer was leaving. The officer backs up in a state of shock at seeing the wookiee and Chewbacca quickly flattens him, the other officer in the command post pulls out a blaster but Han blasts him first. The group enters the command post and shuts the door behind them.
Luke quickly removes his helmet. "You know, between his howling and your blasting everything in sight, it's a wonder the whole station doesn't know we're here," he said.
Han and Anakin both pulled off their helmets, "Bring them on! I prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around," Han said defiantly.
"I agree, I say we take them out just as we did with the droid army!" Anakin said pointedly to Obi-Wan.
"You still need to learn patience, Anakin. If you cause attention to yourself, you'll be killed quickly," Obi-Wan said placing a hand on Anakin's shoulder.
"Sorry master, You know I never liked waiting around like this," Anakin replied.
Obi-Wan smiled and turned to the computer outlet that Threepio pointed out. He fed some information into it and a map of the city appeared on the monitor. He began to inspect it carefully. Threepio and Artoo look over the control panel. Artoo finds something that makes him whistle wildly.
"Plug in Artoo. We should be able to interpret the entire Imperial computer network," Anakin ordered the little droid.
Artoo punches his arm into the computer socket and the vast Imperial brain network comes to life, feeding information to the little droid. After a few moments, he beeps something.
"He says he's found the main computer to power the tractor beam that's holding the ship here. He'll try to make the precise location appear on the monitor," Threepio said. The computer monitor flashes readouts. "The tractor beam is coupled to the main reactor in seven locations. A power loss at one of the terminals will allow the ship to leave," he finished.
Obi-Wan studied the readout, "I don't think you boys can help. I must go alone," he said.
"Whatever you say. I've done more that I bargained for on this trip already," Han said crossing his arms.
Luke walks up to Obi-Wan, "I want to go with you," he said.
Obi-Wan placed a hand on his shoulder. "Be patient, Luke. Stay and watch over the droids," he instructed.
"But he can..." Luke protested.
"They must be delivered safely or other star systems will suffer the same fate as Alderaan. Your destiny lies along a different path than mine. The Force will be with you...always!" Obi-Wan told him and nodded at Anakin who stood up straighter.
"My the force be with you, old friend," Anakin said encouragingly nodding his understanding.
Obi-Wan adjusts the lightsaber on his belt and silently steps out of the command office, then disappears down a long gray hallway. Anakin placed a hand on Luke's shoulder but Luke shrugged it off.
Chewbacca barks a comment and Han shakes his head in agreement. "Boy you said it, Chewie," he then looked Luke and Anakin, "Where did you dig up that old fossil?" he asked.
"Ben is a great man," Luke said and Anakin smiled to himself.
"Yeah, great at getting us into trouble," Han told them.
"I didn't hear you give any ideas... " Luke told him.
"Well, anything would be better than just hanging around waiting for him to pick us up... " Han interjected.
"Who do you think..." Anakin began pointing his finger at Han.
Suddenly Artoo began to whistle and beep a blue streak. Luke went over to him.
"What is it?" he asked.
"I'm afraid I'm not quite sure, sir. He says 'I found her', and keeps repeating, 'She's here.'" Threepio said interpreting Artoo's beeps and whistles.
"Well, who...who has he found?" Anakin asked at Luke's side.
Artoo whistles a frantic reply. "Princess Leia," Threepio said.
"The princess? She's here?" Luke said sounding excited.
"Princess? What's going on?" Han demanded to know.
"Level five. Detention block A A-twenty-three. I'm afraid she's scheduled to be terminated," Threepio told them.
"That's an outrage! They can't kill her!" Anakin said outraged.
"We've got to do something!" Luke said.
"We can't just walk into the detention block and take her out, we need a plan," Anakin told him.
"What are you talking about?" Han asked.
"The droid belongs to her. She's the one in the message.. We've got to help her," Luke told him.
"Now, look, don't get any funny ideas. The old man wants us to wait right here," Han said being defiant.
"He didn't know she was here. Look, we'll just find a way back into the detention block and get her, we just need a plan," Anakin said thinking.
"I'm not going anywhere," Han told them.
"They're going to execute her. Look, a few minutes ago you said you didn't want to just wait here to be captured. Now all you want to do is stay," Luke argued with him.
"Marching into the detention area is not what I had in mind," Han told him.
"But they're going to kill her!" Luke told him desperately.
"Better her than me," Han said.
Luke got an idea. "She's rich," he said catching Han's attention. Anakin raised an eyebrow at Luke listening in. Luke really wanted Han to join them and Anakin agreed, three would be better than two.
"Rich?" Han said raising an eyebrow.
"Yes. Rich, powerful! Listen, if you were to rescue her, the reward would be..." Anakin said walking over to Han and Luke.
"What?" Han said getting interested.
"Well more wealth that you can imagine," Luke said.
"I don't know, I can imagine quite a bit," Han said thoughtfully.
"You'll get it," Luke said.
"I better," Han told them.
"You will," Anakin told him.
"All right, kid. But you'd better be right about this," Han said agreeing and looks at Chewie who growls a reply, "what's your plan?" he asked.
Anakin spots a pair of binders and hands them to Luke. "Put these on Chewbacca, we're bringing a prisoner into the detention block," he said.
Luke attempts to put the binders on Chewbacca who growls in protests. Luke backs away and hands the binders to Han.
"Don't worry, Chewie, you wont be harmed," Han said putting the binders on Chewbacca.
"Master Luke, sir! Pardon me for asking...but, ah...what should Artoo and I do if we're discovered here?" Threepio asked.
"Lock the door," Luke said simply,
"And hope they don't have blasters," Han told them.
"That isn't very reassuring," Threepio said.
"Ready?" Anakin said putting on his helmet followed by Luke and Han.
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The group travels through the space station without being stopped until they reached the detention block. When they enter the detention block A tall, grim looking Officer approaches them.
"Where are you taking this...thing?" the officer said.
Chewie growls a bit at the remark but Han nudges him to shut up.
"Prisoner transfer from Block one-one-three-eight," Anakin said.
"I wasn't notified. I'll have to clear it," The officer said going back to his console and begins to punch in the information.
There are only three other troopers in the area. Luke and Han survey the situation, checking all of the alarms, laser gates, and camera eyes. Han unfastens one of Chewbacca's electronic cuffs and shrugs to Luke. Suddenly Chewbacca throws up his hands and lets out with one of his ear-piercing howls. He grabs Han's laser rifle.
"Look out! He's loose!" Han shouted
"He's going to pull us all apart!" Luke shouted.
"Go get him!" Anakin shouted, under his helmet he was grinning, this was getting fun.
The startled guards are momentarily dumbfounded. Anakin, Luke and Han have already pulled out their laser pistols and are blasting away at the terrifying Wookiee. Their barrage of laserfire misses Chewbacca, but hits the camera eyes, laser gate controls, and the Imperial guards. The officer is the last of the guards to fall under the laserfire just as he is about to push the alarm system.
Han rushes to the comlink system, which is screeching questions about what is going on. He quickly checks the computer readout.
"We've got to find out which cell this princess of yours is in. Here it is...cell twenty-one-eight-seven. You go get her. I'll hold them here," Han said.
Anakin stands guard at the door, blaster ready while Luke rushed down one of the cell corridors.
"Everything is under control. Situation normal," Han said into the buzzing comlink.
"What happened?" a voice in the comlink asked.
"Uh...had a slight weapons malfunction. But, uh, everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?" Han said nervously.
"We're sending a squad up," the voice said.
"Uh, uh, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak...very dangerous," Han told them frantically.
"Who is this? What's your operating number?" the voice demanded.
Han blasted the comlink and it explodes. "Boring conversation anyway," Han muttered.
"Luke! We're going to have company!" Anakin shouted down the hall.
Luke stops in front of one of the cells and blasts the door away with a laser pistol. When the smoke clears, Luke sees the dazzling young princess-senator. She had been sleeping and is now looking at him with an uncomprehending look on her face. Luke is stunned by her incredible beauty and stands staring at her with his mouth hanging open.
"Aren't you a little short to be a storm trooper?" Leia said.
"What? Oh...the uniform. I'm Luke Skywalker. I'm here to rescue you," Luke said taking off his helmet.
"What? You're who?" Leia asked.
"I'm here to rescue you. I've got your R2 unit. I'm here with Ben Kenobi," Luke told her.
Leia jumped up. "Ben Kenobi is here! Where is he?" she asked.
Luke grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the cell. "Come on," he said.
The group gets out into the hall and heads to the elevator only to have several stormtroopers come through. Anakin, Luke and Han try to blast them but they kept coming. They went back into the cell block with no where to go.
"We can't go out that way," Han said.
Luke takes a small comlink transmitter from his belt as they continue to exchange fire with stormtroopers making their way down the corridor.
"Threepio, Threepio!" Luke called into the comlink.
"Yes sir?" came Threepio's reply.
"We've been cut off! Are there any other ways out of the cell bay?...What was that? I didn't copy!" Luke called.
"I said, all systems have been alerted to your presence, sir. The main entrance seems to be the only way in or out; all other information on your level is restricted," Threepio said.
Luke and Leia crouch together in an alcove for protection as they continue to exchange fire with troops. Han, Anakin and Chewbacca are barely able to keep the stormtroopers at bay at the far and of the hallway. The laserfire is very intense, and smoke fills the narrow cell corridor.
"There isn't any other way out," Luke told them.
"We can't hold them off any longer!" Anakin and Han shouted.
"This is some rescue. When you came in here, didn't you have a plan for getting out?" Leia shouted.
"We didn't think that far!" Anakin shouted.
Leia grabs Luke's gun and fires at a small grate in the wall next to Han, almost frying him.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Han shouted.
"Somebody has to save our skins. Into the garbage chute, wise guy," Leia shouts.
She jumps through the narrow opening as Han, Anakin, Luke and Chewbacca look on in amazement. Anakin is suddenly reminded of Padme as he pulls Luke along and shoves him down the garbage shoot
"Wonderful girl! Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her. Get in there!" Han shouts before Anakin follows his son.
Chewbacca sniffs the garbage chute and says something.
"Get in there you big furry oaf! I don't care what you smell! Get in there and don't worry about it!" Han shouts kicking the wookiee down the garbage shoot before he too jumps down.
Han tumbles into the large room filled with garbage and muck. Luke is already stumbling around looking for an exit. He finds a small hatchway and struggles to get it open. It won't budge.
"Oh! The garbage chute was a really wonderful idea. What an incredible smell you've discovered!" Han said sarcastically "Let's get out of here! Get away from there..." he said moving to the hatchway and pulled out his blaster. Everyone yells at him to stop but he uses it anyways.
The laserbolt ricochets wildly around the small metal room. Everyone dives for cover in the garbage as the bolt explodes almost on top of them. Leia climbs out of the garbage with a rather grim look on her face.
"Will you forget it? I already tried it. It's magnetically sealed!" Luke yelled.
"Put that thing away! You're going to get us all killed," Leia shouted at Han.
"Absolutely, Your Worship. Look, I had everything under control until you led us down here. You know, it's not going to take them long to figure out what happened to us," Han told her.
"It could be worst... " Anakin told them and grimaced as a loud, horrible, inhuman moan works its way up from the murky depths.
Chewbacca lets out a terrified howl and begins to back away. Han and Luke stand fast with their laser pistols drawn. Anakin's lightsaber is gripped tightly in his hand and ignited. Chewbacca is cowering near one of the wall.
"It's worst," Han said.
"There's something alive in here!" Luke said.
"That's your imagination," Han dismissed.
"Something just moves past my leg! Look! Did you see that?" Luke said pointing down.
"What?" Han and Anakin asked.
Suddenly Luke is yanked under the garbage.
"Luke! Luke! Luke!"Anakin shouted rushing over to where his son was moments before and brushing the garbage aside frantically.
Luke surfaces with a gasp of air and thrashing of limbs. A membrane tentacle is wrapped around his throat.
"Luke!" Leia extends a pipe to him. "Grab a hold of this!"
"Blast it, will you! My gun's jammed," Luke said struggling with whatever was trying to hold him down.
"Where!" Han asked.
"Anywhere!" Luke said and was pulled under again.
Anakin doved under water with his lightsaber and suddenly the walls of the garbage receptacle shudder and move in a couple of inches. Then everything is deathly quiet. Han and Leia give each other a worried look as Chewbacca howls in the corner. With a rush of bubbles and muck Luke and Anakin suddenly bobed to the surface.
"What happened?" Leia asked.
"I don't know, it just let go of me and disappeared" Luke said.
"I've got a very bad feeling about this," Han said.
Before anyone can say anything the walls begin to rumble and edge toward the Rebels.
"The walls are moving!" Luke shouted.
"Don't just stand there. Try to brace it with something!" Leia shouted as she, Han and Chewie tried to brace the walls.
Anakin grabbed Luke's shoulder, "Still got your lightsaber?" he asked. Luke nodded. "Come on, I know what to do," he said drawing his lightsaber and moving to the hatch. Luke followed suit.
"Now just do what I do, it'll take the two of us," Anakin said as Luke took out his lightsaber. Anakin jammed his blade along the door of the hatchway.
Luke did the same finding it rather difficult to glide the blade along the door. He looked over to Anakin to find that he was having the same difficulty.
"Is this supposed to work?" Luke asked.
"Almost there," Anakin said as they got to the bottom of the hatch. He then turned off his lightsaber and Luke followed suit. Anakin kicked at the door and it fell outwards.
"Alright, anybody who doesn't want to get squished, follow us!" Anakin shouted shoving Luke out the door.
Chewbacca was the first one out after Luke followed by Leia and Han last. They were now in a dusty hallway clearly not used much. Anakin, Luke and Han strip themselves from the storm trooper armer. Luke and Han strapped on the blaster belts. Anakin handed Leia his blaster, preferring his lightsaber.
"If we can just avoid any more female advice, we ought to be able to get out of here," Han said pointedly.
"Easy there, Solo, you're underestimating women They're a lot more useful in war than you think," Anakin said not noticing Leia giving him an appreciative look.
"Well, let's get moving!" Luke said.
Chewie begins growling and points to the hatch to the garbage room, as he runs away and then stops howling.
"Where are you going?" Han calls after him.
The Dianogu bangs against the hatch and a long, slimy tentacle works its way out of the doorway searching for a victim. Luke quickly gets out it's reach not wanting to become it's victim again. Anakin swiftly cuts off the tentacle with his lightsaber. The dianogu howls and disappears. The Dianogu's howl echoes relentlessly throughout the empty passageway.
"Filthy disgusting creatures, " Anakin mutters bitterly.
"Come here, you big coward!" Han yells to Chewie. Chewbacca shakes his head no. "Chewie! Come here!"
"Listen. I don't know who you are, or where you came from, but from now on, you do as I tell you. Okay?" Leia said dangerously in a commanding voice.
Han is momentarily stunned at the command of the petite young girl. He recovers quickly, "Look, Your Worshipfulness, let's get one thing straight! I take orders from one person! Me!" he said.
Leia regards him momentarily, "It's a wonder you're still alive," she said and turned to Chewie who is infront of her. "Will somebody get this big walking carpet out of my way," she said and took the lead out of the corridor.
Han looks at both Skywalkers. "No reward is worth this!" he shouts. Anakin grinned while Luke shrugged. All three men plus wookiee follow the princess.
Luke, Han, Chewbacca, and Leia run down an empty hallway and stop before a bay window overlooking the Falcon. Troopers are milling about the ship. Luke takes out his pocket comlink.
"There she is," Han said pointing to his ship.
"Threepio, do you copy?" Luke said into his comlink.
"For the moment. Uh, we're in the main hangar across from the ship," came Threepio's voice.
"We're right above you. Stand by," Luke ordered.
Anakin and Han are watching the dozen or so troops moving in and out of the Falcon. Leia moves towards Han, touches his arm and points out the window to the ship.
"You came in that thing? You're braver that I thought," Leia said and Anakin grinned.
"Nice! Come on!" Han said giving Leia a dirty look.
They start off down the hallway. They round a corner and run right into twenty Imperial stormtroopers heading toward them. Both groups are taken by surprise and stop in their tracks.
"It's them! Blast them!" the first storm trooper said.
Before even thinking, Han draws his laser pistol and charges the troops, firing. Anakin ignited his lightsaber and charged at the storm troopers cutting off their arms along the way, his blade becoming nothing but a blur in the attack. Han's blaster knocks one of the stormtroopers into the air. Chewie follows Anakin and Han down the corridor, stepping over the fallen trooper on the floor as more storm troopers came after them. Anakin shouts back to Luke and Leia to get to the ship.
"Where are you going? Come back!" Luke shouts.
"They certainly have courage," Leia commented.
"What good will it do us if they gets themselves killed? Come on!" Luke said grabbing her hand as they flew down to the hanger.
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Han, Anakin and Chewbacca, their weapons in hand, lean back against the wall surveying the forward bay, watching the Imperial stormtroopers make their rounds of the hangar.
"Didn't we just leave this party?" Han said.
"We can take them," Anakin said arrogantly getting ready to charge at the storm troopers with his lightsaber as Luke and the princess join them.
"What took you?" Han demanded.
"We ran into some old friends," Leia said.
"Is the ship all right?" Luke asked.
"Seems okay, if we can get to it. Just hope the old man got the tractor beam out of commission," Han said.
Anakin caught Obi-Wan dueling a sith lord in all black. This must be Darth Vader. Anakin was about to charge at them with his lightsaber when he heard Obi-Wan's voice in his head. Anakin, get Luke and the others out of here! You can't let Vader get Luke, he's the only one who can stop him and he's not ready yet! Don't worry about me I have the force on my side.
Anakin turned back to the group. "Get to the ship now!" he ordered as the two droids hurried forward.
"But what about Ben?" Luke asked as Han, Leia and Chewbacca ran to the ship followed by the droids.
"Don't worry about him, now lets go!" Anakin said as he shoved Luke towards the ship. Suddenly Obi-Wan stopped dueling Vader and Vader killed him.
Luke saw this and screamed, "No!" and he starts firring his blaster at the sith lord who saw them and starts forward. Luke is frozen in his spot firing his blaster and missing as the sith lord came forward. Anakin took the blaster from Luke's hands and fired a shot at the sith lord and hitting him. The sith lord stops and takes a hard look at the two Skywalkers. Anakin grins and gives the sith lord a mocking salute before pulling Luke aboard the ship.
Once inside the Falcon Han pulls back on the controls and the ship begins to move. The dull thud of laser bolts bouncing off the outside of the ship as Chewie adjusts his controls.
"I hope the old man got that tractor beam out if commission, or this is going to be a real short trip. Okay, hit it!" Han shouted. Chewbacca growls in agreement. The ship manages to get out of the dreaded space station and head for space.
In the lounge area, Luke, saddened by the loss of Obi-Wan Kenobi, stares off blankly as the droids look on. Leia puts a blanket around him protectively, and Luke turns and looks up at her. She sits down beside him. Anakin leans against the wall with his hand covering his eyes.
"I'm sorry for your loss," Leia told them.
"Obi-Wan was a great jedi, his death will not be in vain. Luke and I will pledge ourselves to your rebellion under one condition," Anakin said.
Leia looks up at him. "What would that be?" she asked.
Anakin turned to her, "Luke and I get the pleasure of destroying Vader," he said.
Leia looked at them skeptically, "That'll be a very touch job, Vader is pretty much indestructible," she said.
"Sith lords are a jedi's specialty," Anakin said sternly.
Leia nodded, "I'll leave you two to yourselves then," she said and kissed Luke's cheek.
Once she was gone Luke turned to Anakin. "Say I believe you and you are my father from the past, How and why did you come here now?" he asked.
Anakin raked a hand through what hair he had due to his padawan cut. "I have no clue," he said and sighed. "One moment I was in battle with Obi-Wan and the next I'm on Tatooine in the future where I have a son, my wife was murdered and my best friend, brother and mentor is an old suspicious man attacking me on sight!"
"Ben attacked you?" Luke asked raising an eyebrow smirking.
Anakin waved a hand dismissively, "It's not important," he said and began pacing. "What is important is how we're going to restore the Republic, Kill Vader and maybe this Emperor," he said 'Vader' with vehemence and continued on. "For now we'll say that we're brothers, can't have people knowing I'm from the past since I'm supposed to be dead, they'll think we're crazy."
"I know what I have to gain in getting rid of Vader, but what about you? Besides the killing you part," Luke said sounding less enthusiastic about having to kill someone.
Anakin stopped pacing. "Vader killed Padme, Obi-Wan told me," he said.
"Who's Padme?" Luke asked.
Anakin turned to Luke astonished, "You don't know anything about your family do you?!" he said outraged. Luke shook his head and Anakin gritted his teeth.
Suddenly Han runs into the lounge, "Fire up the main guns, we've got company!" he shouted pointing to the cannons.
Anakin and Luke rushed over to the cannons, Anakin taking the top and Luke at the bottom. Both got into position and began blasting TIE fighters as the ship rocked from laserfire.
"Okay, stay sharp! This where the fun begins!" Anakin said into his head piece.
A TIE fighter maneuvers in front of Anakin, who follows it and fires at it with the laser cannon. Luke does likewise, as the fighter streaks into view. The ship has suffered a minor hit, and bounces slightly.
"They're coming in too fast!" Luke shouts as he fires at an unseen fighter.
Luke swivels in his gun mount, following the TIE fighter with his laser cannon. Anakin aims his laser cannon at the enemy fighter. TIE fighters keep coming at them, their fire making the ship rock. Luke fires at a TIE fighter. At his port, Anakin follows a fighter in his sights, releasing a blast of laserfire. He connects, and the fighter explodes into fiery dust. He laughs victoriously. Two TIE fighters move toward and over the Millennium Falcon, unleashing a barrage of laserbolts at the ship. Another TIE fighter moves in on the ship and Luke, smiling, fires the laser cannon at it, scoring a spectacular direct hit.
"Got him! I got him!" Luke shouted.
Anakin grinned, "Don't let your victory cloud you, Luke, there's two more moving towards you," he said.
Two more TIE fighters cross in front of the Falcon and Luke gets them easily.
In the cockpit Han attempts to fire up the hyperdrive, but it fails. "Great! They disabled the hyperdrive!" he shouted.
Artoo beeps and moved over to the control panel. He sticks out his arm and makes a few switches. Instantly the hyperdrive acts up and they make it out of there.
"Whadda you know, that little droid did it!" Han shouted.
Luke and Anakin tore off their head pieces and ran out from the spots and into the main lounge meeting everyone else, Han and Luke shouting in victory.
"Live in that small victory, because they let us go," Leia told them.
"I wouldn't be surprised if they were tracking us," Anakin said.
Luke stopped where he was as the weight of his fathers words sunk in and Han looked at him incredulously.
"If they were tracking us, I'd know," Han said. And turned to Leia, "Where to Princess?" he asked.