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Anna was prodded slightly with the spear from the creature, she recoiled from it.

'Hey' she exclaimed to the furry thing, 'that hurt'

It started jabbering at her, and Anna looked over to Leia who just held her arms up in an 'I have no idea' gesture. Then the little thing took Anna's hand gingerly, doubtful that she wouldn't recoil again, but she didn't. He held it for a second before shaking it and then pulling her along after him, after a few steps he paused to ensure that Leia, too, was following him.

'What are they?' Anna frowned back to Leia, and the princess shook her head.

'Luke's a mess by the way' Leia commented.

'Why? What happened?' Anna's fear rose in her chest, 'is he okay?'

'He's fine' Leia reassured her, putting a hand on her arm and squeezing it, 'well he was when I got knocked off my speeder' she frowned.

'It's good to see you Leia' Anna hugged her awkwardly, the small creature still holding her other hand, chatting away to himself as he walked.

'He thought you were dead Anna' Leia said lowly, 'I thought you were too- we rushed past you on the speeder and all we could see was an explosion'

'I know I jumped clear' then she gestured to her head, 'well almost' with a short laugh she smiled at her friend.

'I hope they're alright' Anna whispered, with Leia nodding in agreement.

They walked through the forest, the little creature let go of Anna's hand after several minutes. They followed him uphill, before beginning to ascend some wooden ramp structures. Leia and Anna looked upwards to find a community of tree houses build into the landscape of this strange moon.

'What is this place?' Leia muttered.

'This is quite adorable' Anna chuckled lightly, before being met with a group of more furry creatures. They were jabbering to the one who had met them, and their little friend gestured towards them both.

'What?' Anna asked them and they continued to jabber on, she looked round at Leia, she was just as confused as she was.

Suddenly, the small animals started gesturing at them, the group moving towards them and they were both hurried into a large hut.

*BREAK*

After being fed with copious amounts of fruit and stew and given several warm drinks that were not quite tea, but they weren't bad, the creatures had undone the braids that Anna and Leia had in their hair and dressed them in odd dresses that they assumed the creatures had made for them.

They were currently sat around a fire inside a hut, as the group elder was discussing something with about twenty other furry creatures, they couldn't understand a word they were saying but they continued to look at the two humans.

Anna looked at Leia, they both looked pretty similar in their odd dresses; Leia's hair was just below her waist, and Anna's had grown to just above hers, Leia's was wavier than Anna's curlier hair.

'I think we should stay the night here' Anna said, lowly to her friend, 'and then tomorrow try and regroup with the rest of the team'

'I think you're right' Leia said, 'we should ask for supplies, there's no knowing when we might catch up with them'

'I hope they're alright' Anna replied, almost to herself.

Suddenly there was a commotion from outside, Anna mirrored Leia's quizzical expression as the group elders hurried out of the hut. Leia followed them out into the main square of the treehouse community, with Anna close behind.

'Leia!' Anna heard Luke's voice through the commotion, 'Anna?' he called, and she made her way around Leia who was currently rushing to Han trying to convince the creatures that they should let them go.

'What are you doing tied up like that?!' Anna exclaimed at Luke, and he just rolled his eyes.

Long story, they think Threepio's a God and they're cooking us for him he sent through the Force.

Ahh okay Anna replied, then frowned; why had she accepted that crazy turn of events?

Because everything these past four years has been crazy Luke sent again, with a rueful grin.

'Threepio!' Anna yelled, 'tell them to let them go!'

Threepio started to try and talk to the creatures, but there was no use.

'Somehow I get the feeling that didn't help us very much!' Han exclaimed, bitterly.

'Threepio, tell them if they don't do as you wish that you will become angry and use your magic' Luke intervened, Anna looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

'But master Luke, what magic? I couldn't possibly-' Threepio chattered.

'Tell them!' Luke ordered the shiny droid.

Threepio translated the message that Luke had instructed, they all stopped what they were doing, before they shrugged and carried on building the fire.

'You see Master Luke?' Threepio whined, 'They didn't believe me just as I said you wouldn't'

'Wait' Han called, trying to blow out the torch that they were trying to light the fire with.

'Luke-' Anna stepped towards him, but he shut his eyes, concentrating. Anna looked round to the commotion as she saw Threepio floating on his make-shift throne, and the creatures whom Threepio had named Ewoks were squealing and cowering from him. They rushed at Anna, some of the smaller ones grabbing hold of her legs and hiding behind them.

'Put me down!' Threepio yelled, 'Help!'

Anna laughed, as the droid continued to yelp and she looked over at Luke who gave her a smile. The Ewoks ran about to untie their prisoners, when Han was free Leia ran at him, he picked her up and swirled her around with a kiss.

'Luke!' Anna called, rushing over to him but snagging her foot on a log and she fell over. Hitting the ground with a huff she rolled her eyes, why am I like this?

'Anna what you doing?' Luke mumbled, helping her to her feet.

'Thanks' she muttered, brushing herself off, 'I think I have some twigs in my hair' she laughed.

'Um yeah' he laughed, pulling a few bits of tree out of her hair, and brushed it off her face, 'you look nice'

'You don't have to day that' she laughed, rolling her eyes, but he grabbed her hand.

'I thought you were gone, Anna' he frowned.

'Nahh, I'm not going anywhere' she smiled, leaning in to press a kiss to his lips.

'You better not be' he mumbled against her lips, snaking an arm around her waist, they followed the rest of the congregation inside the largest hut.

Anna sat down with Luke, along with the rest of the crew as Threepio managed to negotiate the Ewoks to help them in their mission tomorrow. Once everyone had settled, Threepio began telling the Ewoks their entire story, with help from sound effects from Artoo.

Anna laughed as Artoo made blaster noises, and the smaller of the furry creatures shrinking from them in fear. She managed to get quick snippets from the story Threepio was telling the group, she looked up at Luke, who was stood up next to her, his eyebrows were furrowed and his jaw was clenched.

'Wonderful!' Threepio exclaimed suddenly, 'we are now part of the tribe!'

'Hey' she said softly, tugging on his hand lightly, he bent down to lean near her, 'what's up?'

'Nothing Anna' he smiled weakly and she rolled her eyes.

'I can still tell when you're lying you know' Anna said lowly, and he smirked at her.

'I'll be back in a minute' he sighed, holding her hand up to his lips to press a quick kiss there before pulling his hand out of her grip and straightening himself to leave the hut.

Anna frowned, watching Luke leave the hut with a sigh. She was terrified at what tomorrow might bring, she was afraid to love Luke, but she knew she did, maybe it wasn't a fear of loving him, but more losing him? Something that Anna could so easily do tomorrow. She wanted to tell him, but was afraid he might not feel the same, but she had to tell him- tomorrow it could be too late.

'Right' she muttered, determined, under her breath, before getting up with a huff and trying to pick her way around the Ewoks and out of the hut into the night.

'Hey-'Anna said her greeting softly, but stopped abruptly when she saw Luke kissing Leia's cheek and walking away. Her stomach lurched and her heart pounded in her ears.

'Where's he going?' Anna probed Leia, the betrayal laced in her voice, but the princess just looked at Anna with teary eyes.

He hadn't even looked back at her- what was she thinking? He didn't love her, he's always loved the princess, he'd been besotted ever since he lay eyes on her little blue form in that message he'd told her about years before.

A lump rose in Anna's chest and she had to bite her lip to stop a sob from appearing, this is what she'd been afraid of- she hated feeling things. With eyes filling with tears she turned around to see Han, with a puzzled expression on his face.

'Hey' he looked at Luke's disappearing form, to Anna and then Leia, 'what's going on?'

'Nothing' Leia looked at him, 'I just wanna be alone for a little while'

'Nothing?' Han wasn't buying it, and neither was Anna, 'Come one, tell me.' He perched on the edge of the railing, 'What's going on?'

'I-I can't tell you' Leia replied, a pained expression on her face, Han stood up out of anger and gestured in the direction Luke had left in.

'Could you tell Luke?' he spat, 'Is that who you could tell?'

Leia let out a cry and turned from him, her face a picture of anguish, Anna's anger soften a bit- her friend was in pain. Han went to storm off but stopped when he saw Anna's face drawn in concern for her friend, she nodded towards Leia before turning around and walking to the hut she was to sleep in.

*BREAK*

Anna was crouched behind a fallen tree with her squad, waiting from the order from Han's people in front. Han turned around and gestured to her, she ran, crouched, over to him.

'Sup?' she asked with a grin.

'There's another entrance the other side of the ridge' Han informed her, 'we're going to go around'

'Okay, great' Anna smiled, her hair was back up in her braids and she had changed out of her dress.

'Stay up front for now' Han said, with a hand on her arm, 'I could use your thinking A'

'Sure' Anna was still angry that Luke had gone, she didn't know where- but she could guess he'd gone to confront his father.

They began to trek around the large landing platform at a safe distance, ensuring that they would not attract the attention of any guards, nor those troopers on patrol. One of the Ewoks had gone on ahead to make sure that the route was clear of any patrols, when they had stopped- the little creature waved her and Han over.

They moved quickly and quietly through the bush, Han almost tripping over a log, but they made it and peered through the forest shrubbery to find a small entrance to the shield generator centre.

'Back door huh?' Han mumbled to the little fellow, looking up and Anna and Leia, 'good idea'

The two leading Ewoks were wittering as Han, Anna and Leia discussed tactics.

'It's only a few guards' Han said lowly.

'Shouldn't be too much trouble' Anna replied with a shrug.

'It only takes one to sound the alarm' Leia muttered as they went back to staring at the situation in front of them, Threepio talking in the background.

'Then we'll do it real quiet-like' Han turned his head to grin at her, Anna smiled.

'Oh' Threepio exclaimed, 'Oh, my- Princess Leia'

Leia hopped up out of her crouch and covered Threepio's mouth, Anna turned and glared at him.

'Quiet!' she whispered to him, before she let his mouth go.

'I'm afraid' Threepio began, in a much lower register, 'our furry companion has gone and done something rather rash'

He gesticulated towards some speeders off in the distance, near the entrance, Leia and Anna looked, whilst Chewie whined in dissatisfaction.

'Oh no' Anna and Leia said at the same time, everyone's attention was now on the little furry creature and how he was about to give them away.

'There goes our surprise attack' Han grumbled as they watched him fiddle with one of the speeders before clambering onto it. He started it up, which immediately attracted the attention of the loitering guards.

'Look!' One of them called, 'Over there! Stop him!'

The four guards ran over to the Ewok just as he sped away, three of them hopped onto their speeders and one was left standing there in bewilderment. Anna smiled.

'Ha, not so bad after all' she looked to Han and Leia who had the same expression.

'Not bad for a little furball' Han grinned, 'now there's only one left'

'You stay here' Han pointed his finger in Threepio's face as he got up from his crouch, Anna doing the same behind him, 'we'll take care of this'

Threepio scurried off towards Artoo, turning around to look at them.

'I have decided that we shall stay here' he announced proudly, Anna rolled her eyes.

'Come on, let's go' She mumbled to the small group.

The small strike team manoeuvred themselves around to the side of the building, out of sight from the guard. Han took his position the other side, before sneaking up on the trooper and tapping him on the shoulder. He ran around to the side of the building, leading the trooper straight into a trap.

He stopped dead when he game face-to-face with fifteen blasters, and dropped his weapon. Using his code they were able to open the doors to the shield generator cautiously. They all had their weapons drawn and gingerly made their way inside, it looked deserted and Anna felt a twist in her stomach that something was wrong.

'Han?' she whispered, and he stepped closer to her, 'something's not right'

'It's just you overthinking things' he replied with a pat to her arm, but she wasn't convinced.

They made their way deeper inside the compound before realising that there was no one there.

'Han!' Anna called to him as she felt a blaster press to her lower back.

'You rebel scum' the harsh voice called, as Anna was pushed by her assailant towards the rest of them. She turned to see a group of soldiers all standing with their blasters out.

'Scum!?' Anna, Han and Leia scoffed in unison, before being marched out of the compound with the rest of the group.

They were led out the way they had come in, squinting in the sunlight, they saw the full military power this base had. There were walkers, storm troopers, regular troopers and lots of blasters pointed at their now small looking rebel offensive. Anna let out a sigh and stepped closer to Chewie, feeling safer with him.

'Alright' one of the troopers called, 'move it'

They all continued walking down towards the rest of their group with grin expressions, Anna's mind was whirring, trying desperately to come up with a plan that would help them escape this dreadful experience.

'Hello!' Anna's head whipped round to Threepio's voice, 'I say, over there!' Anna bit her lip, force she loved that stupid tin man. 'were you looking for me?'

Anna nudged Han with her elbow now they all had their hands on their heads.

'Be ready' she mouthed and he nodded once.

There was a commotion as the energy that filled the band of rebels started to buzz again, this was their only chance, they had to make it work.

'Bring those two down here!' one of the soldiers ordered the troopers, as the commotion continued to build.

Just as the squad of troopers had reached the two droids, there was a shriek as the green plants on the forest floor erupted with a mass of furry animals. They jumped on the storm troopers, and Anna heard a horn sound before more of the creatures revealed themselves from the undergrowth, bow and arrows trained and makeshift weapons trained on the Imperial forces.

They fired, and Anna jumped into action, they all did.

Taking her chance, Anna jumped at one of the unarmoured soldiers, kneeing him in the stomach, she grabbed his blaster out of his hand. She spun around, trying to shoot at the drivers of the big walkers that could so easily cause such many losses.

Right, here goes nothing Anna thought with a gruff, all this practice might have been for nothing.

Anna took a deep breath and focused her mind, doing what Luke had taught her, she allowed the force to flow through her. Once she felt it buzzing through her veins, she let go with a grunt.

It shocked backwards a group of storm troopers who were running towards Han and her, they fell back a hundred feet and Han paused a moment looking at Anna- mouth agape.

'I'll go after the walkers, you get the door open!' she ordered, with a grin before running off into the forest, quickly knocking out a storm trooper and taking his blaster as she went.

Anna ran full force after the slower walking robots that towered above the ground forces, almost at tree level. Past a platoon of storm troopers who were chasing after a small group of Ewoks, Anna skidded to a halt when she saw one of the furry creatures being hit by laser blast.

'Nope' she grunted, before changing direction and firing her blaster at the trooper whom had fired at the Ewok. Three of the soldiers spun around to the source of blaster fire, all shooting at Anna, who was coming in fast, all missing the direct target but one blast clipping Anna's shoulder.

Anna winced from the searing pain, but carried on running at them, hoping she had given the Ewoks enough time to prepare what they were trying to. She smiled when she saw the small group leader hold up a rope and throw it to her, she tugged on it slightly, still running, before plunging her blaster away and gripping the rope firmly. When she saw the group of Ewoks hit the deck she put all her weight on the rope and swung around on it, she looked down and saw a massive log rolling out of nowhere and hitting the bewildered Storm troopers at full force.

Laughing Anna then realised that she was quickly becoming a sitting duck, as the rope swung her around she managed to grasp herself onto one of the low-lying branches of one of the trees. She grinned, she had always loved climbing trees when she was little, and she hoped it was something you couldn't easily forget.

With a huff, she hauled her body onto the precarious branch and began to make her ascent towards the canopy of the forest, and ultimately her aim: the walkers.

After several cuts to her hands and forearms, and the muscle in her left shoulder screaming at her through the blaster wound, Anna had finally made her way to the height of one of the walkers.

Unfortunately for Anna; there were no walkers nearby.

She could see one, about five trees over, blasting at a cowering group of her squadron, having made its destructive path through the forest, had reverted on its course back towards the shield generator and Anna's precious friends.

'Shit' she mumbled, as she wobbled slightly on the branch, thinking quickly.

She was going to have to jump.

Please let there be a different way.

Nope, I'm going to have to try and jump them.

And hope for the best.

And hope that the damn thing gets closer and I only have to jump a couple.

Ha. When has my life ever been that lucky?

Anna breathed deeply and focused her eyes on the next branch, she let the Force's power flow through her veins, hoping that it might, just maybe, give her some help. She let go of every sense she had, tensing her muscles in her legs before rolling her eyes, taking a deep breath and jumping through the air.

It was about six metres between each tree and Anna was extremely surprised when she made it across the gap, scrambling at the branches on her second tree to regain balance and some kind of composure.

She took another breath and again, tensed her muscles before taking another leap across the second gap between trees. Again, she made it, and thanked the force that she was now closer to the moving walker.

Just one more jump and she could probably reach the walker.

Anna breathed again, regaining her concentration and calm, before taking another leap into the air towards the next tree.

It wasn't third time lucky.

Anna felt herself falling through the air, panic ensued as she scrabbled at the branches to try and desperately stop herself from falling to almost certain death on the forest floor. After falling a good twenty feet, Anna managed to grip a branch, regrettably with her left arm, causing the fairly small blaster wound to rip and tear in her arm, causing her to cry out in pain.

She hauled her right arm up to grip the branch and pulled herself onto it, shuffling so that she was sitting tight against the tree. She winced at the agonizing pain in her arm, feeling the sticky wetness of blood pooling down her sleeve, seeing the shot of red through the whole the blast had mad in her sleeve.

'Crap' She muttered, resting her head against the tree she watched from twenty-five feet of the ground, the scene unfolding below her, she glanced up, 'oh Luke, I hope you're alright'

Closing her eyes for a second, Anna took a deep breath before regaining her composure and checking the status of the approaching walker. It was closing in on her fast, so she had to move.

Ignoring (to the best of her abilities, but let's face it, as much as she'd like to think it, Anna was no superwoman) the pain in her arm, Anna pulled herself up and stumbled along the branch. Finding the right kind of footing, she started to uncoil the cable she had on a roll on her belt, swinging out the grapple hook on the end of it she got a good momentum going. As soon as the walker came in close enough proximity, she swung it clean and it landed with a thud.

Anna braced herself, before being pulled along with the walker, swaying like a doll with the motion of the giant metal beast, she began to zip the wire in closing the distance between her and the underside of the cab.

Once she reached the cool metal of the walker's cab, she scrambled to get a grip onto the metal, and once she had got herself into a safe enough position, she detached her grapple hook. Climbing up the side of the walker's cab, Anna managed to secure herself well, and once she had done so clambered up onto the top of the cab.

Taking another deep breath, something she was doing a lot that day, she hauled on the large metal door as it opened she pulled her blaster out of her holster. She shot the three occupants of the cab and climbed in.

Pushing them to the side, still alive and groaning in their semi-unconscious state , she took all of their weapons and then took control of the walker. Anna started it walking, it lurched forwards and she stopped it again, before pulling on the controls and gaining back momentum and steering the walker towards a group of storm troopers who were shooting at the entrance where Han and Leia were trying to open it.

Once she had taken out that threat to her friends, Anna manoeuvred it around towards another walker in the distance. She squinted her eyes and aimed the walker's blasters at the other one, that was currently destroying the trees, along with the little furry creatures who had helped them so much at this point.

She looked around and realised that her walker was now just hindering the effort by the rebel forces by getting in the way, she pulled two grenades from her belt and clicked the button to arm them. Throwing them down one on each side of the cab, she clambered out of the open hatch and onto the top of the walker.

She hurled her grapple hook around a branch of a near tree and swung on it just in time, before the interior of the cab was consumed by two explosions, causing the walker's legs to cripple. The metal beast crumpled to the forest floor, still slightly ablaze, Anna tried to smoothly hit the ground but she'd misjudged the length of her cord, hitting the ground with a thud.

Clambering to her feet, she took off in direction of the shield generator.

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