Chris didn't know how or when the note had been slipped into her robes, she just knew it told the planet Luke was on. Although she knew she shouldn't, Chris immediately had the urge to leave Leia and Han alone and travel to Mustafar. She didn't want to turn dark or train under him, she just wanted to meet him. She wanted to find out why he turned, and why he would not return.
Most of all, she wanted to know what he meant by her heritage, and why she specifically was linked to the dark side. Chris shoved the letter back into her robes and scurried through the halls until she reached what she though was a door to the loading dock, but what was really a door to outside. She flung the door open, not realizing it led to the forest, and ran outside. When she spun around the door had closed and locked behind her. Chris pulled on the handle for a few minutes, but when it didn't open she turned her beck to the door and slid down it into a sitting position.
The she heard a beep. It wasn't coming from inside the base, but instead from the forest. Chris stood up and began to walk through the thick brush and forestry. As she got further into the forest the beeping got louder and louder until she realized the was right near the source. She looked around until she saw a red light flash from beneath a pile of leaves and vines. Chris dropped down and her hands and knees and began to sweep away at the leaves and such. Once about one square foot of the leaves was clear a silver and blue rounded surface was visible. It appeared to be part of a droid. Chris continued to clear the brush until a full silver, white, and blue droid was visible. The droid was laying on its back so Chris, with much struggling, lifted the droid up on to it's wheels. As soon as she did the droid lit up and it's head spun around to face Chris. Chris jumped back.
"Well lookie there, who are you?" she said, brushing a stray leaf off of the droid. The droid beeped. "R2-D2, what a strange name." Chris easily understood the droid, she just wasn't sure how.
"How did you end up here?" Chris asked, kneeling down in front of the droid. "I'm not sure either, to be honest." R2 began to roll back and forth, stuck in the mud. Chris pushed the droid out of the rut it was stuck in and on to the forest ground. the droid beeped at her.
"You're welcome," she said, stepping out of the mud herself. "Who's your owner?" Chris asked, brushing some mud and leaves off of her bare feet. R2 beeped again and Chris jumped in front of him. "Luke Skywalker! Maybe you can help me," Chris said. R2 beeped at her, questioning how he could help.
"How can you help, ha, why don't you just follow me." R2 followed after Chris as she trekked around the base to the loading dock where the doors were unlocked.
"Come on, but be quiet." Chris said, ushering the droid through a door. Chris and R2 scoured the loading dock until Chris found and X-Wing. "Do you know how to work in one of these?" Chris asked, pointing to the ship. R2 beeped. "Good, can you get yourself in?" Chris asked again. R2 once again beeped. "Good," Chris repeated. "You do that, I need to run and grab something quickly." R2 rolled underneath the plane and waited for an automatic clamp to reach down and pick him up. As he did Chris rushed to the Falcon, grabbed her bag, and changed into the same clothes as the day before. When she ran back to the X-Wing R2 was secured in the back and ready to go. He beeped at Chris as she climbed up a ladder and hoisted herself into the pilot seat.
"Is this my X-Wing? No, but I'm sure I can borrow it." Chris said to the droid as she closed the hatch. R2 beeped again. "It will be fine, they probably have a million of these things, they wont miss one!" Chris turned on the controls and slowly maneuvered her way out of the loading dock. As she took off from the landing pad R2 beeped at her one last time.
"Where are we going? Set a course to Mustafar, I have some business I have to conduct."
