Chapter 13
Chapter 12: Duel of the Fates
(Darth Luke slowly lifts his head to look at the Naboo, as intense, ominous orchestra music is heard . Sam and Luna approach slowly from behind, glaring at the Sith Lord.)
Sam: We'll handle this.
Winston: We'll take the long way.
(The Naboo split into two groups, heading off on opposite sides of the door. Sam and Luna walk forward until they were only a dozen feet from the Sith. Neither side wastes any words and calmly take off their hooded robes. Underneath them Sam and Luna wear tan, rugged cloths while Darth Luke has a similar outfit, only black as well as a small row horns under his faux hawk.)
(Over in the ship Lola was in, Lisa, in her socket swivels her head towards the hangers exit.)
Lisa: (alarmed) Look out! Several hostile droids are coming this way!
(Three droideka's roll into view from the door beside the hanger. The unfurl and activate their shields and open fire on the Naboo. Lola watches as they scurry for cover and return fire. She sees Winston among them and gets worried.)
Lola: We gotta do something, Lisa. Quick!
(With the Jedi and Sith, Darth Luke ignites his red bladed lightsaber, a second duel blade comes out the other end. Sam and Luna ignite their own Sabers as well, and form battle positions. Luke grins.)
Luke: (arrogant) You know one of the many benefits of having a double bladed lightsaber? I get to kill two Jedi at once.
Luna: Lightsaber's and big talk don't prove a thing. It's how you use it. Why don't you stop talking and show us!
Luke: Gladly!
(Luna leaps over Like and strikes at him with her Saber, While Sam strikes from the front. Luke deflects both attacks as their sabers continue to meet in combat.)
(The Naboo continue to fire at the droideka's in desperation, but are unable to hit them, due to their shielding. Several Naboo are hit.)
Lisa: Quickly! We must aid our allies!
Lola: I'm trying to I don't know where the trigger is on this thing!
(Lola hits a button and the ship lifts of the ground. It begins heading for the hanger exit.)
Lola: Oops, wrong one. Maybe this one.
(Lola pulls a switch and the cockpit closes.)
Lisa: (annoyed) Could it be the one underneath the targeting computer?!
Lola: (sheepish) Oh, yeah.
(Lola lines up the droideka's in the computer as they head for the exit. Lola unloads a barrage of lasers and a droideka is destroyed.)
Lola: (excited) Yeah! Eat Laser!
(Winston peers around his cover and watches as Lola takes out the other two droideka's before heading out of the hanger into open sky.)
Winston: Let's go!
(Winston and the others make a break for the door and leave the hanger. In the ship, Lola manages to avoid getting shot by the tank and rapidly begins to gain altitude.)
Lisa: Lola! Sam told you to stay somewhere safe! This isn't safe!
Lola: I can't turn back , this dang things on automatic pilot! Try and over ride it.
Lisa: Will do.
(Lola sees a pilot helmet in the cockpit and puts it on as her ship flies towards the droid control ship.)
(Back in the hanger, Sam and Luna are locked in combat with Luke. The Jedi attack aggressively while Luke appears to be on the defensive. After slashing with their sabers for a few moments Luke suddenly kicks out and knocks Sam to the floor. Luke leaps backwards, Luna follows, moving to a side door of the hanger. He moves a broken piece of droid into the control mechanism with the force. The door opens and Luke and Luna's hit their sabers against each other.)
(Sam rushes back into the fight. Luke deflects a slash from her, before he kicks Luna down. Luna grunts before she hits the floor and gets back up again. Sam keep on the offensive pushing Luke back. Luna runs back into the fight, as they head through the door into a massive generator room full of walkways and glowing energy tubes. The Jedi continue to slash with their sabers, backing Luke up to the edge. They stop fighting and Luke looks down, seeing how far the fall is.)
Luke: (to the Jedi) Ok. Guess you Jedi are tougher then you look. You got me cornered.
(Sam swings her Saber, but Luke suddenly flips backwards, landing on the walkway behind them.)
Luke: (grins) Psych!
(Sam and Luna leap after him. Luna and Luke swing their sabers at each other and make contact.)
(Winston, Harold and the other Naboo rebels run down the hall. They see a patrol of battle on the stairs beyond. A rebel fires but misses and hits a columns. The droids notice this and begin firing. The Naboo take cover behind the columns and return fire. Another shoot out occurs. After shots from both sides are exchanged, Winston turns to Harold.)
Winston: (impatient) We don't have time for this, Captain.
(Winston shoots at a Droid and takes it out. Out in space, Lola's ship leaves the Atmosphere and flies towards the battle around the droid control ship.)
Lisa: It would seem the auto pilot is taking us to knock out the power controlling the droids our Gungan allies are battling.
Lola: (sees the dog fight) Oh brother.
(Out on the Naboo plains, Droideka's join the battle droids inside the Gungan shield. They open fire, and a few Gungan's and their mounts are hit. The Gungan continue to fling artillery balls at the droids, and deflect bolts with their energy shields.)
(A Droid bisected by a return blast lands on Lane's back. Lane panics.)
Lane: Get it off! Get it off! Get it off!
(Lane throws it off and stomps on it.)
Lane: Dumb droid! Take that!
(Lane kicks the droid. His foot gets caught in the wiring.)
Lane: Hey let go! Or at least by me dinner first.
(Lane tries to shake it off. A Droid comes over and tries to shot him, Lanes shaking causes the bisected Droid to fire it's gun, the approaching droid is hit. Lane lights up, seeing this. He takes out a few more droids like this, then sees a droideka aiming at him. Lane drops down in fear, making the droid fire again, taking off one of the Droideka's legs. The droideka's flops over and crawls helplessly on the ground.)
(Up in space, Grant leads several Naboo starfighters in a nosedive radically towards the mounted gun turrets on the ship.)
Grant: Their deflector shields are too strong!
(The turrents fire and a starfighter goes up in flames. Lola and Lisa fly through the combat, with their ship on autopilot. They barely avoid getting hit.)
Lola: This is tense!
(Several vulture droids fly past them firing at the other starfighter.)
Lola: (to the droids) Space hogs! (to Lisa) Lisa, get us of this auto pilot, before both of us get killed!
(Lisa accesses the internal controls on the ship. The auto pilot gets turned off.)
Lola: You did it , Lisa!
Lisa: Duh, it was a very simple procedure.
Lola: Ok, let's go left.
(Lola turns the ships controls, the Naboo ship veers radically to the left, straight into the thick of the fighting.)
Lisa: Lola! What are you doing? Now that the ship is under your control, should we not turn back?
Lola: (shocked) What? Go back? No way? Sam told me to stay in this cockpit, so that's what I'm doing.
(Several laser bursts fly over them.)
Lisa: I do not think this is what the Jedi master had in mind!
(Several vulture follow Lola and attempt to shoot her down. Lola weaves through the structures along the ships hull.)
Lola: I'll try spinning. That ought to shake them.
Lisa: (panicked) Or kill us both!
(Lola twists the controls, making the ship spin crazily. The vulture droids manage to stay on her. Lisa looks like she may barf any second.)
Lisa: (nauseous) Oh, I think I may expel oil!
Lola: (annoyed) I know we're in trouble. Just hang on.
…
(In the hall of the palace , Winston, Harold and the Naboo are still locked in a shoot out with the battle droids. They exchange a few more shots with several droids getting hit. Harold suddenly turns his gun on a nearby window and shots the glass out.)
Harold: Go!
(Winston , Harold and several other Naboo across the hall, ducking laser fire to the window. While the rest of the Naboo stay and hold off the droids.)
Harold: Ascension guns.
(They pull out cable guns and crawl out the broken window on to the narrow ledge. They shot their cables up at the window sill above, and hit the winch control on the cable guns. They are pulled up, they reach the ledge on the window and release the cables and switch the guns to blaster mode. They get on either side of the window as Winston aims his blaster at the glass. The glass explodes into the hall. The Naboo crawl inside look to make sure it's deserted and run down the hallway.)
(In the generator room, , Sam ,Luna and Luke continue their fight on the walkway. They have somehow moved to the one above where they were originally. Together Sam and Luna hold their own against the Sith. Luke blocks a slash from both before suddenly kicking out again at Luna, knocking her towards the edge. Luna cries out as she hits the edge and goes over. Luna descends down until she hits the floor of a lower level and rolls off. Her Lightsaber hits the ground . She catches onto the edge and hangs there by her fingers.)
Luna: Whoa! Whoa!
(Above Luke slashes at Sam. Their sabers lock. Sam suddenly backhands him, sending him off the edge to the walkway below. He hits the floor hard.)
Luke: (pained) Not bad. That actually hurt.
(Sam deactivates her lightsaber and drops down after him. She lands next to him. Luke quickly regains his breath and kicks Sam in the face from the floor.)
Sam: (annoyed) Jeez, what is it with you and kicking!?
Luke: (getting back up) They wanted to show how a Jedi and Sith in their prime could fight. But also the guy in the Darth maul costume is a martial artist too, so I think he might have been showin' off a little bit too.
(Sam activates her lightsaber and lunges at him. Luke and Sam move further along the walkway, continuing to exchange blows. On the level she landed on, Luna manages to haul herself back up. She grabs her lightsaber and glances up to see Sam and Luke now fighting one on one. Luna leaps up onto the walkway through the force. She charges after them with her saber drawn.)
Luna: (calling) Hold on, Sam! I'm coming!
(Sam and Luke head towards the end of the walkway. A wall of laser gates bars their way. As Sith and Jedi continue slashing and blocking, the laser gates suddenly deactivate. Sam and Luke head into the tunnel, with Luna hurrying to catch up.)
(Sam makes wide slash at Luke's legs, but Luke just leaps over it. Another of Sam's blows is blocked. Luke backs further away down the tunnel, when the laser gates suddenly reactivate with him on one side and Sam on the other. Sam shuts off her saber as behind her the rest switch back on. Luna skids to a halt as she barely avoids slamming into them at the entrance. Luke hits the wall with his own lightsaber to see if there was a weakness, the wall holds.)
(Luna and Luke both deactivate their Lightsabers. Sam calmly kneels down and closes her eyes. Sam begins meditating, while Luke paces back and forth on his side like a caged animal.)
…
(Out in the plains, a Gungan on one of the the shield generators desperately dives out as a blast from the droids destroy it. The Gungan's look aghast as this causes a chain reaction shutting of all the generators. The shield deactivates.)
Tarpals: Fall back! They destroyed the shield!
(The Gungan army turns and begins retreating across the grass, as blasts explode around them from the Droid tanks that could now fire on them again. Lane runs towards a wagon holding artillery balls.)
Lane: Retreat! Retreat! (dives in the wagon) This is crazy! Knew I shouldn't have woke up, that day!
(The driver of the wagon starts to drive forward. Lane is uncovered. Lane is shocked as his hiding place moves away. He jumps onto the back and notices all the artillery.)
Lane: Uh Oh, big boomers.
(The door comes loose all of a sudden, Lane accidentally loosened the locking mechanism. Lane yelps in shock as he is spilt to the ground. Lane raises his head and sees all the artillery rolling off the wagon towards him. Lane gets up and starts running away towards the advancing Droids.)
Lane: (terrified) Oh my Gods!
(The artillery rolls into the droid army. One rolls into a tank and blasts a hole in it as it destroys it's interior. The tank stops.)
(Lane is still running in the wrong direction. He passes other Gungan's running away.)
Lane: Someone give me a lift! Someone! Anyone! I don't care who!
(A Gungan on a Kaadu rides over and snatches him up. Lane sits behind him, but they don't get far before they are hit by a blast. The other Gungan and Kaadu are killed while Lane flies into the air and lands on a tank. He hit the tanks gun and the turrets between his legs.)
Lane: (high, squeaky voice) Ouch.
(Captain Tarpals rides up beside him and the tank.)
Tarpals: Lane. Tank out that tank with a booka!
Lane: But I don't have a booma!
(Tarpals reaches into his saddle bag and pulls out a small artillery ball.)
Tarpals: Here, use this one!
(Tarpals tosses it up at him. Lane struggles to catch it, while staying balanced on the gun. A hatch on top of the tank opens and a Droid appears and takes an at him. At that moment Lane swipes the ball away from himself, the droid is hit and shorts out.)
(Turns out that droid was the driver. The tank veers off course. Lane nearly falls off, he is now holding on by only his hands. Both Droid and Gungan's sprint to get out of the way. Tarpals rides up to the tank again.)
Tarpals: Lane, you gotta jump! Don't worry I'll catch you!
(Lane let's go, Tarpals attempts to catch him but Lanes momentum proves to great. Tarpals is pulled of his mount. He and Lane hit the ground rolling. Droids move in.)
(In the Palace, Winston, Harold and the rest of their group run down the hall. The reach the end just as a squad of droideka's and battle droids roll in from out of nowhere. In seconds they surround the Naboo and point their guns at them. Harold and the rest prepare to start blasting.)
Winston: (sighs bitterly)) Put down your weapons. They win this round.
(The Naboo put down their weapons and are lead away. Over the droid control ship. Lola manuvers desperately to shake the vulture droids pursuing her. The droid opens unleashes a barrage of lasers and scores a hit on one of Lola's wings. The ship begins spinning radically.)
Lola: Lisa! We're hit! Hang on.
(The Ship continues to spin out of control. It heads for the hanger of the ship and by passes the guns. Lola manages to get the ship rightened and manages to veer through the ships, blocking their way. A pair of battle droids monitoring the battle from a control tower look up as they shoot past.)
Droids: (bewildered) What the-?
Lisa: Lola! Stop this thing, before we become scrap!
Lola: I'm trying to stop! I'm trying to stop!
(The ship crashes to the floor and skids to a stop. Their in a hanger holding MTT's
Lisa: The ship is damage, everything's overheated.
(Lola looks outside and sees battle droids stationed inside the hanger, notice them and begin running over to investigate.)
Lola: That's not all. Not good.
(Lola starts messing with controls trying to get the ship started back up. In the laser gated tunnel, Luke paces in front of Sam behind his wall, ready for the battle to resume. Sam remains in her meditating position. At the entrance, Luna switches on her lightsaber.)
(The gates switch off. Sam activates her lightsaber and Lunges at Luke from the floor. They engage in combat once again, as Luke continues to move down the tunnel. Luna waits impatiently for the gates to open at her end. The gate deactivates and Luna races down the tunnel after Sam and Luke.)
(Sam and Luke exit the tunnel into a circular room with a deep mining shaft occupying much of the floor. Their battle has gotten more violent with Sam swinging her saber wildly. Luna runs for the end of the tunnel as the laser gates activate again. She is stopped by the very last one.)
Luna: (annoyed) Bogus!
(Luna watches as Sam and Luke continue to battle. Luke is now on the offensive and aggressively swings his duel blades in a flurry of blows. Sam backs away along the narrow floor. The Jedi makes a sudden slash, but Luke blocks it with a behind the back guard.)
Luna: Come on, Sam. You got this.
(Luke flips Sam's saber over his head. The two swing at each other again, before Sam makes a powerful two handed downward stroke, he blocks it with ease. Sam rears back and prepares to strike again, but Luke's too quick. He suddenly smacks Sam in the face with his lightsaber hilt, before spinning around in a lightning move and puts his saber blade through her stomach.)
Luna: (devastated) No!
(Sam sinks to her knees weakly, as Luke pulls his saber free. Sam doesn't make a sound as rolls onto the floor and goes still. Luna looks at her in horror before glaring daggers at Luke. The Sith grins at her expression.)
Luke: (mocking) Aw, did I make the little Padawan angry?
(Out on the plains, the battle is over. Gungan's are led in formation by battle droids. Droids on STAP's fly over head while tanks patrol. The ground is littered with dead Gungan's and droid parts. Lane and Tarpals rise to their feet.)
Tarpals: (to Lane) Don't give up yet, Lane. I'll think of something.
(Several battle droids move in and surround them.)
Battle droid #1: (pointing his blaster) Hands up!
Lane: (instantly) I give up! I give up! (holds hands over his head)
Tarpals: (face palms) Oh Gods.
Oh no! Things aren't going well. The Gungan's have been defeated. Winston and his group of rebels are captured. Lola's inside the control ship. And now Luna's on her own against a Sith.