Chapter 14
Chapter 13: Farewell to a Jedi
(Winston, Harold and the other rebels are marched by the battle droids into the throne room. Schoffner and the Dogcatcher are there waiting.)
Schoffner: Your little insurrection is at an end, Your Highness. Time to stop being a brat and sign the treaty and end this pointless debate in the Senate.
(The rebels remain silent. Suddenly a second voice takes the droids and Schoffner and the Dogcatcher by surprise.)
Voice: Viceroy!...
(Everyone looks towards the door as Lexx, dressed like the King, and the other group of rebels run up from down the hall.)
Lexx: Your occupation here is ended!
(As the two droids guarding the door turn towards them in shock. Lexx immediately shoots them before running off to the side.
Schoffner: (startled) After him! (about Winston) He must be a decoy.
(The droids finally react and charge towards them. The other rebels follow after Lexx, taking some of the droids out as they retreat. With everyone else in the room distracted, Winston hurries to his throne and hits a button on the arm. A hidden compartment opens up, revealing a cache of blasters. Winston picks up two and tosses one to Harold.)
Winston: Captain!
(Harold catches it and the two open fire. The remaining droid guards attempt to fight back, but are caught completely off guard. Schoffner and the Dogcatcher look around dumbfounded as the droids are quickly taken out. Harold then turns the blaster on them, as Naboo grab the fall droids weapons.)
Harold: Jam the door!
(Two guards hurry over to the controls and shut the door. Winston walks over to Schoffner and the Dogcatcher.)
Winston: (smiles) Surprise! He was the decoy. (gets serious) But now, Viceroy, we will discuss a new treaty.
…
(In the laser gated tunnel, Luna is filled with rage as she watches Luke pace in front of her.)
Luke: (mocking) You know, classic mentor death trope cliché aside, the other Jedi was easy. I mean I know Jedi were weak, but this is just insulting.
(Luna has had enough. She switches on her lightsaber as the gate deactivates. She charges at Luke in a blind rage.)
Luna: SHUT UP!
(Luke ignites his own saber. Sparks fly as their sabers meet. Luna is now on a fierce offense, She slashes ferociously with her saber, blind to all thoughts except avenging Sam. Luna forces Luke back along the shafts edge. The Sith Lord is caught off guard by the attack. Luna strikes at him savagely again and again. The Sith can barely block the assault. He tries to counter but Luna doesn't give him a chance. They keep swinging. Luke raises his saber to prepare to strike out, but Luna's too fast. She slashes up with her saber and cuts straight through the handle of his weapon. Luna then kicks him in the chest , sending one half of his weapon down into the pit.)
(Luna then flips over and strikes at him from behind. Luke quickly rolls out of reach and regains his feet, readying the remaining half of his lightsaber. Luna lunges at him once more. They hit their sabers against each other. Luke kicks out and hits Luna in the face. She flips completely over and lands back on her feet, and aims a wide sweep at his legs. Luke easily leaps over. Luke delivers a masterful slash that Luna blocks. Luna presses her attack, backing Luke up to the laser gate. Their sabers clash and lock. As their hold their weapons against each other, Luna notices something.)
Luna: (bewildered) Huh, we do kinda look alike.
Luke: Thought it was just me. Weird.
(Luke suddenly breaks the saber lock. Luna's stance is broken. Before she can recover, Luke extends his hand and pushes her back with the Force. Luna loses her balance and topples over into the pit. She catches hold of an outcropping and clings there desperately.)
Luna: Damn. Second time today.
(Luke looks over the edge.)
Luke: (admittingly) Ok, so you Jedi do have a little fight in ya.
(Luke then sees Luna's lightsaber on the floor. He kicks it over the edge. Luna looks down as her weapons falls out of sight.)
…
(In the droid control ship, Lola sits in her damaged fighter, messing with the controls. The controls light up green as the engine hums to life.)
Lola: (relieved) Yes! We have power back. Shields up.
(The ships shields is heard starting up, just as the droids reach them. Lola's fighter lifts off the floor, and hovers there. The droids open fire, will the blasts being deflected off the shielding. Lola gets them in her targeting computer. She fires and several droids are decimated. Lola then pulls back on the firing trigger and fires proton torpedoes, that miss the droids and instead shoot down a corridor. Lola and droids watch them fly into a group of reactors. The reactors start to blow up.)
Lola: Oops. That can't be good.
(Up in the control bridge, the Numodians stumble around as the explosions are felt.)
Numodian #1: What was that?
Aide: We're losing power. There seems to be a problem will the main reactor.
Numodian #1: Impossible! Nothing can get through our shields. Even if they could they couldn't get far enough inside to hit the reactor.
(Lola pulls back on the throttle and fires up the engines.)
Lola: Let's get out of here!
Lisa: Brilliant!
(The starfighter takes off running over a Droid. In a hallway, battle droids run away I fear as the explosions from the main reactor reach them. They are unable to escape and are caught in the fireball. Outside, the other pilots see a series of explosions starting to break through the hull of the ship.)
Pilot #2: (baffled) What's that? It's blowing up from the inside!
Grant: We didn't hit it.
(Lola races through the hanger back to the exit. All around her, Ships and tanks are destroyed in the chain of explosions tearing through the ship.)
Lola: (excited) Now, this is Podracing!
Lisa: Indeed, these Trade Federation ner-do-wells will never know what hit them.
(Lola continues to make a bee line for the exit. The explosions become more intense, with the fire following the ship.)
Lola: (nervous) Almost…there.
(Just when it seemed they wouldn't make it the shoot out of the hanger and soar safely away.)
Pilot #1: Look, one of ours, out of the main hold!
Lola: Whoo!
(With the control ship going up in flames. The remaining Starfighters peel back towards Naboo.)
Lola: (relieved) Whoo.
Pilot #1: Yeah!
Pilot #2: Hee-hee!
(On the control bridge, the Numodians and battle droids throw their hands up screaming as the fireball tears through them. The entire bridge explodes, as the right wing tears off, explosions continue to decimate the ship.)
(Out on the plains off Naboo, the droids rounding up the Gungan's, deactivate seemingly on their own accord.)
Lane: (confused) Ok. That happened. (to Tarpals) What's up with them.
Tarpals: (ecstatic) Our allies are victorious. The control ship has been destroyed. Look!
(Tarpals pushes over droid that had been threatening him seconds ago. Lane does the same as all around Gungan's knock over the probe droids and cheer triumphant.)
(Over the mining shaft, Luke slashes his saber across the edge. Sparks rain down on Luna, as she struggles to maintain her grip.)
Luke: (annoyed) Ok, seriously you need to fall already. I got better things to do than just wait up here!
(Luna only glares up at him. Luna then remember what Lana always said about anger being that path to the Dark side, and that wasn't how she needed to defeat this Sith. Luna then managed to settle down, and concentrated on reaching out with the force. Through it she senses Sam's lightsaber lying behind Luke. Luna concentrates on that, through the power of the force the saber moves slightly.)
Luke: Now what are you doing?
(Luna's suddenly in the air, using the force to lift herself over Luke's head. Sam's lightsaber shoots into her hand. She summersaults completely over Luke and lands behind him. Luke spins around in shock just in time for the glowing green blade to slice into his chest.)
(Luke gasps in pain. He looks at his wound, then at Luna.)
Luke: (baffled) Huh.
(Luke falls backwards into the pit. Luna stares down after him, as his body hits the wall and separated in half. As he fades from view, Luna couldn't fight a strange vibe she got off him.)
Luna: (dead serious) He better NOT come back to haunt me.
(Luna then deactivates the lightsaber and rushes over to Sam. She gathers her up in her arms. After a second, Sam manages to open her eyes.)
Sam: (weak) No, Lunes, it-it's too late.
Luna: No.
Sam: Luna. Promise—Promise me you'll train Lola.
Luna: (tearing up) Yeah, Sam. For sure.
(Sam smiles weakly up at her, Luna smiles back sadly. Sam reaches up and puts her hand on Luna's face.)
Sam: (weary) She is the chosen one. She…will bring balance. Train her.
Luna: (sad) Sam, don't leave me.
Sam: (warmly) I'll always be you, Lunes... In the Force. See ya around.
(Sam then closes her eyes and breathes her last. Sam dies. Luna starts to cry softly and presses her forehead against Sam's, as they stay where they are beside the mining shaft.)
…
(In the street of the now liberated city, a red and white republic transport, flies over and lands carefully beside a line of Naboo guards standing at attention. At the end stand Viceroy Schoffner and the Dogcatcher. Winston along with Harold, Luna and Lola. Along with more guards and servants. Winston wears a formal black suit. Luna now wears Sam's lightsaber on her belt. She is wearing her Jedi robes once more. She has head bowed, deep in thought.)
Winston: (to Schoffner) Now, Schoffner, your gonna have to go back to the senate and explain all this.
Harold: (walks closer) I pretty sure you two can kiss your trade franchise good-bye.
(Harold, Scoffner, The Dogcatcher, Luna, Lola and Winston, and a few guards begin walking to the republic transport, the boarding ramp lowers and as Schoffner and the Dogcatcher head inside a few senate guards walk down into the street, then Lucy comes down wearing the bluish grey Chancellor suit. Supreme Chancellor Lucy stops before Luna and Lola. They both bow.)
Lucy: (to Luna) Sigh. My heart aches for you at the loss of your ,master Luna Kenobi. We are indebted to you for your bravery in dispatching that despicable Sith. (to Lola) And you Young Loudwalker… We will watch your career with great interest.
(Lucy makes her way past them towards Winston. Lola looks confused, and turns to the audience.)
Lola: (confused) Ok. Am I the only one that got a sense of foreshadowing from that? Just me?
(Several Jedi council members now make their way down the ramp. Among them are Lana, Mr. Skully and Mr. Nakamura, all wear a expression similar to Luna's. Luna and Lola bow to them, and allow them to pass first before following. Luna puts her hand on Lola's shoulders.)
(Lucy approaches Winston with a small smile.)
Winston: I understand congratulations are in order for you being elected Supreme Chancellor, Lucy.
Lucy: It was your boldness that saved our people, Your Majesty. It's you who should be congratulated. Working together we will bring peace and prosperity to the republic.
(The Sun starts to set, in a large empty room inside the palace, Luna kneels on the floor. Before her, Lana paces with the aid of her small wooden walking stick.)
Lana: The council is in agreement, only a ready Jedi could have defeated a opponent that you and Sam fought. Appoint you to level of Jedi knight, the council does. (to Luna) But to your request that you take Lola Loudwalker as your Padawan learner, I do not agree.
Luna: Sam believed in her.
Lana: (sighs sadly) Sam may have been a little unorthodox, but she was a great friend. Not just to you, but me as well, I will miss her. (about Lola) The chosen one the girl may be, but I sense great danger in her training. (under breath) It will lead to a better trilogy of sequel stories.
Luna: (determined) Lana, I gave Sam my word. I will train Lola…
(Lana scoffs and turns away.)
Luna:…With or without the approval of You and the other Jedi council dudes if I must.
Lana: (scoffs) Sam rubbed off on you in more ways than one, I sense you have her defiance in you. That you don't need. (sighs) Agree with you the council does. (to Luna) Your apprentice, Loudwalker will be.
(Lana then goes silent, thinking deeply. Day turns to night. In a small domed building, Luna, Lola, Lane, Lucy, Winston, the Supermarket manager, Lisa, the pilots and the Jedi council members watch as a torch is gently laid on a small funeral pyre where Sam's body rests. All the Jedi save Lana have their hoods up in respect for the fallen Jedi. Luna watches sadly as the remains of her friend and mentor burn on the pyre. It's a bittersweet moment for her. She's sad she's gone, but happy that the council agreed to honor her final wish, and Sam is now one with the Force.)
(Luna turns her head to where Lola stands beside her. Lola feels her and meets her gaze.)
Lola: (uneasy) What's gonna happen to me now?
Luna: (comforting) The Council has granted me permission to train you, little dudette. You will be a Jedi, I promise you that.
(Lola manages a small smile. Both her and Luna turn as one and continue to watch Sam's funeral. Up in the back, Mr. Skully turns to Lana.)
Mr. Skully: There can be no doubt, the mysterious warrior was a Sith.
Lana: (pondering) And there's always only two, no more, no less. A master and a apprentice.
Mr. Skully: But which one was destroyed…the Master…or the apprentice?
(Both Lana and Mr. Skully think deeply on this. But neither could come up with a the answer.)
…...
(The next morning, a parade of Gungans marches grandly through the streets of Naboo beating on drums and blowing trumpets, as ships zoom overhead. On the sides of the streets, hundreds of citizens of the city stand in neat rows applauding and waving banners and throwing flowers from the roofs. In the parade Lane, Tarpals and the Supermarket manager wave from their mounts. At the end of the street at the base of the palace. Winston, The Jedi, the pilots, Harold , Howard, and Lisa, and sveral other Naboo leaders are waiting.)
(Luna looks down at Lola, now her apprentice, wearing tan ragged clothes and a small braid among her hair.)
(The parade comes to a stop, and Lane, Tarpals and the Supermarket manager dismount. Lane gets caught on his harness and falls off. The three Gungan's walk the rest of the way up the steps. Winston, wearing a white suit, takes a glowing orb from Howard and comes to meet them. The two leaders stand before each other and Winston offers The Supermarket manager the orb. He takes it with a proud smile and turns to face the assembled crowds.)
Supermarket manager: (holds the orb high) Peace!
(The crowd applauds with increased vigor. Lola and Winston look at each other and smile.)
Lisa: We have won the day! It's time to party!
(Luna looks out over the crowd and smiles. Happy in the knowledge that Sam is watching from the Force with approval as a new dawn of peace beings for the two people who call Naboo home.)
Well that is it. Next chapters the epilogue. Hope me Retellings was worthy enough to be considered Canon in the Loud House Star Wars universe.