INT. DEATH STAR - DETENTION AREA - ELEVATOR TUBE
Han and Luke try to look inconspicuous in their armored suits as they wait for a vacuum elevator to arrive. Troops, bureaucrats, and robots bustle about, ignoring the trio completely. Only a few give the giant Wookiee a curious glance.
Finally a small elevator arrives and the trio enters.
LUKE I can't see a thing in this helmet.
"Fun fact," said CrystalQueen. "That wasn't in the original script; that's just the actor complaining about his costume, but they thought it fit the scene so they left it in"
"Hmm," said Obi Wan. "Being fictional really makes me wonder how much of our lives are controlled by small mistakes people made on set,"
A bureaucrat races to get aboard also, but is signaled away by Han. The door to the pod-like vehicle slides closed and the elevator car takes off through a vacuum tube.
INT. DEATH STAR - MAIN HALLWAY
Several Imperial officers walk through the wide main passageway. They pass several stormtroopers and a robot similar to Threepio but with an insect face. At the far end of the hallway, a passing flash of Ben Kenobi appears, then disappears down a small hallway. His appearance is so fleeting that it is hard to tell if he is real or just an illusion. No one in the hallway seems to notice him.
"Kind of looked like a ghost," said Padmé
"Ghost-Obi Wan, I'd like to see that," said Anakin.
Yoda smiled a knowing grin thinking of what Qui Gon had been teaching him. If, after these two decades, Qui Gon had taught his former padawan as well, then...
INT. DEATH STAR - INTERIOR ELEVATOR - DETENTION SECURITY AREA
Luke and Han step forward to exit the elevator, but the door slides open behind them.
Everyone burst out laughing.
"Those two are going to need a tour of a Republic cruiser," said Anakin.
"But they're on an Imperial Death Star" said Padmé
"Yes, but it's still made by the same people. They defiantly kept basic designs like how the elevators work" Anakin explained.
The giant Wookiee and his two guards enter the old grey security station. Guards and laser gates are everywhere. Han whispers to Luke under his breath.
HAN This is not going to work.
LUKE Why didn't you say so before?
HAN I did say so before!
Everyone laughed. "We certainly know which is the cynical one" said Shaak Ti.
INT. DETENTION AREA
Elevator doors open. A tall, grim looking Officer approaches the trio.
OFFICER Where are you taking this... thing?
"He's never seen a wookiee before?" asked Ahsoka.
Chewie growls a bit at the remark but Han nudges him to shut up.
LUKE Prisoner transfer from Block one-one- three-eight.
"It's a good thing that happened to be a real block," said Mace Windu. "I highly doubt they had a way to check if it was"
OFFICER I wasn't notified. I'll have to clear it.
The officer goes back to his console and begins to punch in the information. There are only three other troopers in the area. Luke and Han survey the situation, checking all of the alarms, laser gates, and camera eyes. Han unfastens one of Chewbacca's electronic cuffs and shrugs to Luke.
Suddenly Chewbacca throws up his hands and lets out with one of his ear-piercing howls. He grabs Han's laser rifle.
HAN Look out! He's loose!
LUKE He's going to pull us all apart.
"Advantages of having a really strong friend," said Padmé
HAN Go get him!
The startled guards are momentarily dumbfounded. Luke and Han have already pulled out their laser pistols and are blasting away at the terrifying Wookiee. Their barrage of laserfire misses Chewbacca, but hits the camera eyes, laser gate controls, and the Imperial guards.
"Sure good thing stormtroopers are known for terrible aim" said Anakin.
"It's a good thing they don't have stormtrooper aim, or they'd miss the targets they're purposely aiming for that they're pretending to accidentally shoot, and they'd accidentally shoot the guy they're purposely missing that they're pretending to aim for" said Obi Wan.
"...What?" asked a very confused Anakin.
The officer is the last of the guards to fall under the laserfire just as he is about to push the alarm system. Han rushes to the comlink system, which is screeching questions about what is going on. He quickly checks the computer readout.
HAN We've got to find out which cell this princess of yours is in. Here it is... cell twenty-one-eight-seven. You go get her. I'll hold them here.
"FN-2187" said CrystalQueen.
"Hmm?" ashed Yoda.
"It'll make sense later"
Luke races down one of the cell corridors. Han speaks into the buzzing comlink.
HAN (sounding official) Everything is under control. Situation normal.
INTERCOM VOICE What happened?
HAN (getting nervous) Uh... had a slight weapons malfunction. But, uh, everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?
"Politeness" said Padmé sarcastically.
INTERCOM VOICE We're sending a squad up.
HAN Uh, uh, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak... very dangerous.
"So much for perfectly fine" said Anakin.
INTERCOM VOICE Who is this? What's your operating number?
Han blasts the comlink and it explodes.
"There goes the alternative to fighting" said Anakin as he elbowed Obi Wan.
HAN Boring conversation anyway. (yelling down the hall) Luke! We're going to have company!
Serveral people laughed.
INT. DEATH STAR - CELL ROW
Luke stops in front of one of the cells and blasts the door away with a laser pistol. When the smoke clears, Luke sees the dazzling young princess-senator. She had been sleeping and is now looking at him with an uncomprehending look on her face. Luke is stunned by her and stands staring at her with his mouth hanging open.
LEIA (finally) Aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper?
"He definitely g-uh, he definitely didn't get his height from me," said Anakin. He'd been about to say he definitely got that one from his mother but realized he couldn't imply he knew who Luke's mother was without the council asking about it. He wondered if he should even bother hiding his marriage anymore. Would the movies reveal all his secrets anyway?
Luke takes off his helmet, coming out of it.
LUKE What? Oh... the uniform. I'm Luke Skywalker. I'm here to rescue you.
"He kept my last name!" Anakin said excitedly.
"His aunt and uncle kept that as his last name, more likely" said Obi Wan. "Does it really make much of a difference?"
Anakin paused for a moment. "I'm glad he got something from me other than blood," he explained. Ob Wan nodded and turned back to the screen, but Anakin knew Obi Wan hadn't understood what he really meant.
Obi Wan hadn't been in the same situations he had, Anakin figured, so he probably hadn't realized what an important thing one's name is to their identity. When you're bought and sold as a piece of property, sometimes your name is all you truly own, and the only reminder that you really are a person.
To a former slave, having a child share his last name was a special thing.
LEIA You're who?
LUKE I'm here to rescue you. I've got your R2 unit. I'm here with Ben Kenobi.
LEIA Ben Kenobi is here! Where is he?
"Do you think she's ever met Obi Wan?" asked Padmé.
"I don't know" said Obi Wan
LUKE Come on!
