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Wow…. Well, this episode is the first one that I've actually done on a computer! It feels so nice to be able to type properly again… Also, this chappy (not the Chappy you're thinking of if you're a Bleach fan like me) will feature the return of Q AND A! Message me with questions that you want answered. I'll also be finishing up the Empire Strikes Back about here. Hope you enjoy!
Location- Just outside cloud city
Sean gritted his teeth as he attempted to pilot his way through the massive clouds that obstructed his view.
"Gaaah!" he screeched over the intercom. "Why in Bacon's name is this thing so hard to maneuver?"
Over in the other fighter, Tenko was having just as hard a time.
"I sympathise." She stated. "This is nuts. Where are we going, anyways?"
There was a silence for a while as the two continued to weave around the clouds. Meanwhile, Carys and Paco amused themselves by shooting random bolts around them. Finally, the pilots had enough of it.
"Carys! Paco! Quit it now! Or…"
As it often was, it appeared that the warning came too late, known by a—
BANG!
"Red alert! Red alert! A patrol ship is damaged, security forces on guard!"
The four member of the crew of the combustible chameleon gulped as ships started emerging from the clouds and promptly started to shoot at the little fighters.
"CARYS! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!"
"WHY ME? WHAT IF IT WAS PACO? I BET IT WAS!" Carys and Tenko turned to glare at the other ship.
"Oi!" said Paco, caving under the death glares. "It doesn't matter who it was! We need to get out of here!"
And so the ships flew and flew away from their pursuers, when the clouds suddenly cleared to reveal a strange and huge object floating in the sky.
"Hey, look! We finally made it to Cloud City!"
"Cloud City? What?"
"Our destination!"
"Destination? WHY WASN'T I TOLD ABOUT THIS PLACE!"
Sean and Paco, meanwhile shook their heads. Girls would be girls. But perhaps a more correct statement ran along the lines of- Carys and Tenko would be Carys and Tenko. And that meant the arguments. Oh, the arguments.
Yeah, that was a weird tangent. So Sean turned his fighter and pulled them onto a dock, then jumped out of the cockpit and hoped for the best. Because, if you have forgotten, dear reader, they were being pursued by security forces. Why does this feel like a deja vue?
Anyways, withing the space of 30 minutes, they were somehow roaming the halls of Cloud City. It was a bit odd, but it happened something like this.
Flashback time!
Paco and Sean were stretching their legs when Carys and Tenko landed.
"Finally made it?" asked Sean.
"Yeah!" said Carys as she and Tenko hopped out of the fighter. "Took a while, but everything should be fine."
"Mm," Tenko added on. "You should really be grateful."
"Why?" pondered Paco the Taco.
Flashback within a Flashback! (Is that cool or what?)
"—AND THAT'S WHY!" Tenko hissed as she finished venting out her frustrations. Grrr, her pyromaniac companion could seriously annoy her sometimes. And that was saying a lot, because it took quite a bit to irritate the formidably cool-headed Tenko.
"…. Hey, Tennie?" said the aforementioned girl sitting in the back of the fighter, still toying around with her gun. "Maybe we should do something."
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
"Well, for starters, I think that this fighter is surrounded by security forces."
"….. You are kidding, right?"
Carys smiled. "Nope! Not in the slightest."
So Tenko looked around and found that, in fact, Carys was totally right. Which may or may not have been a problem . Oh well, nothing a little flying couldn't solve. She shot up, and, momentarily confusing the forces, was able to escape. However, unfortunately for her, they got over it pretty quickly and started chasing the little fighter. She groaned and went a little faster, vaguely aware that Carys was shooting away behind her. They went on in this intense fashion for a few minutes, before Carys finally asked—
"Hey, Tennie?"
"What do you want? I'm a little busy here?"
"I was just thinking… would it be alright if I launched a mini A-Bomb?"
Inside Tenko's mind, she was only aware of the words 'launched' and 'bomb'. Well, Carys was always launching bombs. And if helped them, what harm would it do? It never occurred to Tenko's distracted brain to think of what an A-Bomb was. So,
"Sure, whatever."
End the Flashback within a Flashback
"And that's what happened." Concluded Tenko
"Oh….." Sean and Paco stared in wonder as Carys just hopped around the platform, poking her nose into everything.
"Well, Carys launching an atomic bomb would definitely explain that bang we just heard."
"Mmmmm."
"…."
"…."
"…."
In the distance, Carys squealed. "Oh, look at this!"
Sean sighed. "I guess it's time to find a way in, huh?"
End Flashback!
And that's how they got on Cloud City. Now, all that needed to be done was (hopefully) find the cannon characters before Han Solo got frozen in carbonite. Note the word hopefully. But Cloud City was such an amazing an fascinating place that nobody seemed to be paying attention to the mission. But finally, they neared the floor where Tenko was sensing the presence of a large force signature.
"Hm," she said "I think I'm sensing Vader in… THIS ROOM!" and she kicked open the door. Revealed inside was….
Not much, to be totally honest. Just a white room with a long table, where Vader sat at the end. He rose to face them.
"Oh no!" Paco muttered
"What's wrong?" Tenko asked, her being the only one of the three who hadn't watched the Star Wars movies.
"Well for starters," Carys said as the stormtroopers approached, "it looks like we got here early. A little too early, to be honest. Much, much to early, actually, this could get really bad. Darn. Just when we were being accepted by the alliance."
And just to prove her words, the door swung open letting Lando, Leia, Han, Chewbacca, and the two droids into the room. They stood in the doorway for a moment, totally frozen. To find out why, let us delve into Chewbacca's thoughts.
Arrh! Gahh! ROAR! GAHARROAR! YARRR! TAKKKKAKAKA! LIETEROAR! ROAR! GAHARROAR! YARRR! TAKKKKAKAKA! LIETEROAR! ROAR! GAHARROAR! YARRR! TAKKKKAKAKA! LIETEROAR!"
Right, okay, maybe not Chewbacca's thoughts. Anyways, they were frozen (mainly) because of Vader and partly because the people who appeared their allies were also in the room. However, a closer inspection revealed them to be surrounded and pretty much restrained by a load of stormtroopers.
Quick Time Skip, since I'm feeling a little lazy right now. Because if you don't know what happens next, you don't know Star Wars. So what are you doing reading Star Wars fanfiction? (Unless you happen to be (). Then it's okay.)
After Han was frozen, everyone affiliated with the empire turned to face the crew of the combustible chameleon as two extra chambers appeared out of nowhere. They gulped and stepped backwards.
"Aiyaa!"
"Oh, you've got to be kidding me!"
"Why? Why?"
"FOR BACON'S SAKE!"
"Well," Vader breathed out of his scratchy mask. "Freeze the two troublesome ones."
And before they knew it, Carys and Paco had been grabbed and were frozen in coffin-like boxes of carbonite.
Location: On the Millennium Falcon (which is still decorated Barbie style, thanks to Carys in the past) as Luke's arm is fixed up.
Sean and Tenko stood at the window, slightly apart from everyone else on the ship. They stood there, just looking at the stars.
"Man," Sean said "It's so quiet without them. Why do you think they were taken, anyways?"
"It's obvious, isn't it?"
"Um, no."
"Carys and Paco were the ones who nearly wiped out 5 regiments of stormtroopers back on Mos Eisley, remember?"
"Actually, I don't remember. But I see what you mean."
Tenko sighed softly, still gazing out at the stars. "Well, to be totally honest with you, I don't regret it. I'm sure they'll come back eventually, but for now we can have our peace."
Sean sweatdropped at her bluntness. "Wow. You're pretty cruel, aren't you?"
"Yep."
Another silence.
"Now what?"
"We play along with cannon. But in the meantime, I'm gonna go find some bacon."
END THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
START Q AND A
RUBY: Hello again! Long time no see. Well, if you exempt the authors notes, I guess. Hey, this was a really long chapter!
CARYS AND PACO: I. Can't. Believe. You. Had. Us. Frozen. In. Carbonite.
TENKO: Personally, I thought it was a rather good idea.
SEAN: eating bacon Well, I miss them.
PACO: Thank you so much! I knew I could depend on my best buddy!
CARYS: Whatever. I'll be out of there soon enough, anyways. All it ta—
RUBY: covers Carys's mouth with some ductape and laughs nervously There, there, Carys. Hehe. I'm sure our audience is perfectly fine without all the spoilers.
CARYS: Mmmmf!
RUBY: I won't translate that for you. So there.
TENKO: Nice job!
RUBY: curtsies I'm glad that you finally approve of me.
TENKO: I don't approve of you. I just like anyone who silences Carys.
RUBY: Wow. You're really cruel, huh?
SEAN: You have no idea. No idea at all.
