The Princess Is Here

Chapter 10

"What are we gonna do?" Nadia asked, her nerves was up. Luke was standing beside her waiting for Han and Chewie to stop talking. Nadia kept looking back at the ship door waiting for it to open so they could be busted. They could hear talking and lots of footsteps from the outside. Han rushed back to them.

"Easy, sweetheart we gonna wait for them then take them out."

Nadia gulped and looked at Luke. He looked quite worried himself, "Ok. Be quiet now, I think they are coming."

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The crewmen carried a heavy box on board the ship, past the two storm troopers guarding either side of the ramp. "The ship's all yours. If the scanners pick up anything, report it immediately. All right, let's go."

The crewmen entered the pirate ship and a loud crashing sound is followed by a voice calling to the guard below. "Hey down there, could you give us a hand with this?!"

The storm troopers entered the ship and a quick round of gunfire is heard.

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Nadia almost felt sorry for the troopers as Han shot them with his blaster and he and Chewie dumped them in to the smugglers hold. Luke and Nadia stood by while Chewie and Han stripped them of their clothes, leaving their underpants on obviously. Chewie moaned disagreeing with Han about something.

"Come on, kid put this on." Han said throwing the storm troopers uniforms to Luke. Nadia turned her back while Han and Luke got ready. Ben was waiting patiently with her as they waited for the boys to change. She remembered what Ben was wanting to say to her before they got cut off by Han informing them that Alderran had been blown away.

"So Ben what was you going to say before?"

He looked at her strangly. "Maybe we should discuss it later."

"Okay?"

Han whistled, motioning for them to come around. Luke and Han had their helmets on. "Ready?"

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In a very small command office near the entrance to the pirate ship, a Gantry Officer looked out his window and notice the guards were missing. He spoke into the comlink.

"TX-four-one-two. Why aren't you at your post? TX-four-one-two, do you copy?"

A storm trooper came down the ramp of the pirate ship and waved to the gantry officer, pointing to his ear indicating his comlink was not working. The gantry officer shook head in disgust and headed for the door, giving his aide an annoyed look.

"Take over. We've got a bad transmitter. I'll see what I can do." As the officer approached the door, it slides open revealing the towering Chewbacca. The gantry officer, in a momentary state of shock, stumbled backward, with a bone-chilling howl, the giant Wookiee flattened the officer with one blow. The aide immediately reached for his pistol, but was blasted by Han, dressed as an Imperial storm trooper. Ben and Nadia who was wearing her cloak with her hood up and the robots entered the room quickly followed by Luke, also dressed as a storm trooper. Luke quickly removed 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 fumed, and placed his helmet on the side.

"Bring them on! I prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around." Han fired back. Artoo whistled, Nadia sat down on the chair.

"We found the computer outlet, sir." Threepio informed them.

Ben fed some information into the computer and a map of the city appears 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. He should be able to interpret the entire Imperial computer network." Artoo punched his claw arm into the computer socket and the vast Imperial brain network comes to life, feeding information to the little robot. After a few moments, he beeped 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."

"Will that let us take off?" Nadia asked. She was getting a slight headache and realized her bun was in to tightly. The computer monitor flashed 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." Ben studied the data on the monitor readout.

"I don't think you boys can help. I must go alone."

"You can't just go alone." Nadia said as she looked at him. Ben gave her a half grin.

Han was more than pleased with his statement and settled himself down on the chair next to Nadia. "Whatever you say. I've done more that I bargained for on this trip already."

Luke stood by him as Ben reached for the opening of the door. "I want to go with you."

"Be patient, Luke. Stay and watch over the droids." He glanced back at the droids.

Luke pointed to Han, "But he can..."

Ben put a hand on his forearm stopping him completely. "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."

He glanced back at Nadia, "Your destiny also awaits." Ben adjusted the lightsaber on his belt and silently stepped out of the command office, then disappeared down a long grey hallway. Chewbacca barked a comment and Han shook his head in agreement.

"Boy you said it, Chewie." Han looked at Luke.

"Where did you dig up that old fossil?"

Nadia felt anger course through her. "Listen Solo, you don't even know him so don't judge him. Ben is a great man."

Han scoffed and rolled his eyes, "Yeah, great at getting us into trouble."

Luke walked right up to him, he was frustrated with Han as much as Nadia was. "I didn't hear you give any ideas..."

Han shot back. "Well, anything would be better than just hanging around waiting for him to pick us up..."

"Who do you think..." Nadia was about to intervene when Artoo began to whistle and beep a blue streak, Luke went over to him.

"What is it?" Nadia asked, as Luke stood by her.

"I'm afraid I'm not quite sure, miss. He says "I found her", and keeps repeating, she's here."

Nadia was curious. "Well, who... who has he found?" Luke asked looking down at Artoo. He whistled a frantic reply.

Threepio looked up at Luke. "Princess Leia."

"The princess? She's here?" Luke said in surprise.

"Really?" Nadia asked and stood by Luke.

"Princess?" Han stated confused by this. "What's going on?" He turned to Nadia as Luke demanded to know where she was. Nadia shrugged and gave him a look to say don't look at me.

"Level five. Detention block A A-twenty three. Oh, I'm afraid she's scheduled to be terminated."

Luke looked shocked. Nadia felt her stomach drop. No! "Oh, no! We've got to do something."

"What are you talking about?" Han shook his head still deeply confused by all this. This was so not what he had in mind while going on this little adventure his new friends had took him on.

Luke was full of energy now and walked right up to Han, "The droid belongs to her. She's the one in the message... We've got to help her."

"Now, look, don't get any funny ideas. The old man wants us to wait right here." Han sat back on his chair.

"I know, Luke how would we get to her anyway?"

Luke ignored Nadia for a moment while still trying talk Han into going. "But he didn't know she was here." He turned to the droids. "Look, will you just find a way back into the detention block?"

"I'm not going anywhere."

Nadia felt like hitting the idiot on his head, how could he be so selfish?

"Come on Solo. You like adventure don't you…"

"Marching into the detention area is not what I had in mind." He said sharply to Nadia.

"But they're going to kill 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." He shouted.

Nadia had to admit she wondered why Luke so adamant about rescuing the princess? She was beautiful and he did seem fascinated by her when they sore her on Artoo's hologram. He didn't like her did he? No he didn't. He just had to much of a good heart and he cared too much. That's what I loved about him.

He glared at the two. "Better her than me..." and he turned away from them. Clearly ending the conversation.

Nadia slapped him on the head. "You are so selfish!" He whipped around. "OW! Watch it Sister!"

Luke thought of something and smiled at Nadia while he leant down by Han's chair. "She's rich." Chewbacca growled softly. "Rich?" He repeated turning to him.

"Yes Solo rich!" She said.

Luke threw his hands up. "Rich, powerful! Listen, if you were to rescue her, the reward would be..."

"What?" Han said curiously, wanting more information. He was interested now that was a good sign. Nadia thought.

"Well more wealth that you can imagine!"

Han was still unsure about it but they could see he was considering it. "I don't know, I can imagine quite a bit!"

Nadia put a thumbs up to Luke. He nodded and smiled. "You'll get it."

"I better!" He said seriously, he was not joking at all.

"You will if that's all you care about." Nadia said harshly, she couldn't believe that he was only doing it for the money. But she was thankful he was doing it anyway. She knew that he had more to him than they think.

He glanced at Nadia. "All right, sunshine." He glanced back at Luke and pointed. "But you'd better be right about this." Han looked at Chewie, who grunted a short grunt.

"All right." Luke put his hands together trying to think of something.

"What's your plan?"

Nadia seen some binders next to her. She picked them up and showed them to Luke. He smiled, "Great idea." He tried to move toward Chewbacca with the electronic cuffs.

"Okay. Now, I'm going to put these on you." He was about to touch him with the cuffs until Chewie let out a hideous growl and moved his hands away.

Luke backed off. "Okay. Han, you put these on." He sheepishly handed the binders to Han.

Han grinned, "Don't worry, Chewie. I think I know what he has in mind." The Wookiee had a worried and frightened look on his face as Han binded him with the electronic cuffs.

Luke walked over to Nadia. "I need you to stay here and watch over the droids. Here is a comlink press that button if you need me and I'll hear you." He handed her the comlink.

"I want to come with you aswell." She protested, he shook his head. "Nadie it will only work if me and Han and Chewie are going. We're going to make it look like we are taking Chewie as prisoner."

She couldn't help but feel a little worried. What if something goes wrong?

"Master Luke, sir! Pardon me for asking... but, ah... what should Artoo and I do if we're discovered here?"

Nadia turned back at Luke. "That's a good point."

He walked away from them. "Just lock the door."

"And hope they don't have blasters." Han added as they walked to the door. Chewie agreed now binded.

"That isn't very reassuring." Threepio said and put a hand on Artoo who whistled. Nadia stood by them. "I agree."

Luke glanced at Nadia. "You'll be fine. I'll see you soon." Before he and Han put on their armored storm trooper helmets and started off into the giant Imperial Death Star.

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