Chapter 21: No Stone Unturned

Kalifa kept as quiet as she could as Stormtroopers patrolled the Falcon looking for the group, although at first she thought that it was a stupid idea. Hiding under the smuggler's floorboards was a pretty good idea thought up by Han, it would seem that her new friend was cleverer than she thought she was. Although the area she had picked was pretty cramped, she somehow named to sense her mother's presence nearby, she was so close now.

"Are they here?" She heard one of the Stormtroopers say, they were right above Kalifa now and that was scary, if they looked underneath them, they would find her and eventually her friends, she prayed silently that wouldn't happen. After all a lot was riding on her rescue mission, the two Stormtroopers above her decided that they had looked enough, so they had left the Falcon taking the rest of the patrol with them.

Once she was sure they were all gone, Kalifa lifted up the panel and got out, she let out a deep breath of relief and looked at Han who was in the panel next to her "that" she said smiling "was a close one."

"Who knew that these would make decent hiding spot?" Han said sarcasticly and Kalifa couldn't help but laugh a little, it had been a long time since she had done this and although she and Han had gotten off to a rocky start, she felt like they were going to be the best of friends, once she had rescued Ahsoka.

"So?" Luke asked braking the awkward silence between them, "what now?" He looked at both Kalifa and Han as if they had the answers to everything. And Kalifa had to admit, she had no idea what to do next, now that she was aboard the Ddath Star, she hadn't thought this far ahead.

"Now" Kalifa said smiling "we rescue my mother" she then looked at Anakin and nodded her head "and Leia" at this Han looked at her with new appricaition. But Kalifa could tell that there was more going on in the Smuggler's head.

"Just how do we do that?" Luke asked curiously and fortunately for Kalifa this was Han's time to voice his own plan, he then led them towards where the Falcon's exit was and said

"Leave that to me" he whispered as he spotted those same Stormtroopers from earlier, only this time there were three of them, I'm so close now, Kalifa thought in her head as she silently prayed for the Troopers not to spot the,, luckilly they'd isn't as Anakin was using his force power to shield them from view. He just let it down briefly just for Hannto call out to the Three Troopers "hey down there, could you give us a little help?"

The trio of troopers came into the Falcon looking for who ever called out to them, but they were met by silent blaster fire instead, "what are you?" Kalifa whispered but Han shushed her and pointed to the now dead Stormtroopers, "oh" Kalifa said nodding as she got Han's plan.

"Right" Han said "now we disguise ourselves" at this he looked at the group as he expected a negative reaction when he didn't get one, Han smiled and the Trio of Luke, Kalifa and Han began disguising theirselves. Kalifa had to admit that this was a good plan by Han, but it felt weird to wear Stormtrooper armour.

"I can't see a thing in this" both she and Luke complained as they started to leave the Falcon, however something wasn't right, there was something wrong. Anakin wasn't coming with them. At this sudden move Kalifa rushed back into the Falcon and found him contemplating his thoughts.

"What are you doing?"

"Heading on my own path"

"What does that mean?" She asked having no clue what Anakin meant "I need you. Ahsoka needs you" at this Anakin smiled at her but Kalifa wasn't buying it "you're hear for more than just Leia aren't you?"

"I can see there's no fooling you" he placed a hand on her shoulder "you remind me of your father so much." That surprised Kalifa as it was the first time Anakin had mention him "oh yes" Anakin said smiling "I knew him." He walked around "in fact you might as well say we were the best of friends"

"Until Vader killed him?"

Anakin looked at her solemnly and Kalifa guessed this as much. Kalifa didn't know that much about her father but she was always delighted to find out more information "the thing is" Anakin said trying to change the subject "I have to leave you now, this is your own journey," he sighed and looked at her "I'm sorry I was never to fully train you. That is something you'll have to figure out yourself"

"Where are you going"

"I'm leaving no stone unturned. Kalifa may the force be with you" at this Anakin left leaving Kalifa to wonder what he meant by that, so she went to find Han and the others,

"Where's my dad going?" Luke asked when he noticed Anakin's absence. When Kalifa didn't say anything, Luke took this as a bad sign "let's hope he gets the Tractor beam down"

"Let's hope so" Kalifa said and at this they continued the mission with Han in the lead position, however they said nothing as they went forward in silence...