So this is for Pride Day. Happy Pride Day! I have better chapters for this but we're not there yet. This chapter gets really nerdy with Star Wars. Just a heads up. Everyone who's read this far will be pleased to hear I restarted writing this one again. I'm going to be writing it at the same time as my other story. I still love my other one more. But I've thought of new stuff to add in this and I can't wait to get to it.

Chapter 7

Luke left the medical center and sought out Leia. He hoped that she would answer his questions without too many questions of her own. He stopped outside of the command center and searched for her in the Force. He didn't want to go in there because of Pakmillu and Reekain. Luke couldn't find her in there so he went to someone he hoped would know where she is. Luke went into hangar bay 7 and went over to the Falcon. He heard Chewbacca talking and Jania laughing. It was nice to hear because of the Darth Caedus incident.

He saw them on top of the Falcon and called to them. They looked his way and went back through the hatch on the top to get inside. He waited for them to walk down the boarding ramp before Luke asked, "Do either one of you know where Leia is?" Chewie howled and Jania shook her head, "Okay, do you know where Han is then?" The wookie he had known for most of his life said he was back on patrol, "Hm...okay...is my younger self out on patrol, too?"

"No," Jaina started, "He went into the Tauntaun pen about five minutes ago. I haven't seen him leave it but I could've missed him. Why don't you just ask General Reekain where she is?"

"Because I might've just made it so he doesn't trust me anymore." He said slowly.

"You did what? How?" She demanded with Chewie hollering in the background.

"Apparently we weren't sent back in time." Luke said calmly.

"Huh?" She looked at Chewie and he shook his head and asked what did Luke mean.

"I'll explain my theory when we meet in the briefing room. But I'll say for now that the Alliance has allies that they didn't have in the past."

Jaina again looked at Chewie but asked, "What allies?" He shook his shaggy head again and said he had no idea what allies Luke was talking about.

"If you don't know about them…." Luke trailed off into his own thoughts. He looked up, "Thank you, Chewie, Jania. Now, I must go find myself to find my sister." Luke turned to walk away until Chewie asked what sister. Luke turned back to the wookie, "You can't tell anyone this Chewie, not even Han," To which he didn't like but agreed, "Leia is my twin sister." Luke turned to leave and wasn't interrupted this time.

Luke walked to the end of the hanger to the Tauntaun pen. He went over to the man that he knew was in charge of the pen and asked him, "Where is Commander Skywalker?"

The man didn't look up from his datapad, but said, "Gearing up to go on patrol. That way." He pointed and still didn't look up from his datapad.

"Thank you." Luke went over to where the man pointed. He remembered how bad the Tauntauns smelled when he entered. Young Luke was putting a saddle on his Tauntaun with his back to him when Luke got to him, "Commander Skywalker?"

"Yes?" Young Luke turned around, "Oh, it's you. What do you need...how do I address you?"

"Master Skywalker is fine. And I'm looking for Leia. Do you know where she is? Han's out on patrol and Chewie doesn't know where she is."

"She might still be in the main hangar bay." said young Luke.

"Thank you." Luke turned to leave.

"Wait!" Luke stopped and looked back at young Luke, "That's it? You came all the way out here, to this lovely smell, just to ask where the Princess is?"

"Yes." He said bluntly.

"Why didn't you just go to the General? Or someone else in the command center?"

"It's a long story. I'll tell you later at the briefing." This is why Luke made the lieutenant at the door stay looking at his datapad. He really didn't have the time or the patience right now for questions. So, Luke did what he really didn't want to do and nudged young Luke's mind into accepting that answer.

"Oh, okay." He turned around and continued to saddle his Tauntaun.

It's a good thing that he hasn't trained with Yoda yet, Luke thought. He left the terrible smell and went to the main hangar bay. When he entered, he saw what he thought impossible. The Alliance to Restore the Republic had a massive army.

There were a massive amount of infantry including clones, Espos and rebels in snow gear. Along with B1, B2, B3 battle droids and BX commando droids. Along with an army of other droid units that weren't considered infantry such as, Droideka Mark I and IIs, DSD1 Dwarf Spider droids and LM-432 crab droids. For heavy vehicles, they had AT-TEs, AT-APs, HAV/w A5 and A6 Juggernauts, MTTs and OG-9 homing spider droids, along with Persuader-Type droid enforcers. For medium vehicles,, they had AATs, Hailfire-Class droid tanks, a couple of Imperial Aratech 520 Battle Platforms, AT-XTs, T4-Bs and T3-Bs. Also for light vehicles, they had, Espo Walkers, X10 Groundcruisers, burrowing Spider droids, T2-Bs, T1-Bs and AAC-1 Hover Tanks and Armored Freerunners. And for scout vehicles, they had AT-RTs, AT-PTs and STAPs.

When Luke went in further, he saw the artillery. One massive SPHA-T next to two AV-7s, a few MPTL-2a Artillery and some Corporate Alliance Artillery. Luke looked around some more and saw their transports and gunships, AT-OTs, GX12 Hovervans, SX20 Airskimmers, a couple of A-A5 speeder trucks, Strikebreakers, JX40 Jailspeeders and Heavy Trackers, HTT-26 Heavy Troop Transports and HMP droid gunships and many LAAT/is and LAAT/cs. He also saw other starfighters that weren't Rebel. There were Vulture-class droids and Droid tri-fighters with Nantex-Class Territorial Defense Starfighters and their Geonosian pilots, along with Royal N-1 Starfighters and some Authority IRDs, Preybirds, Authority IRD-As and #2 Warpods, Mankvim-814s, T-wings and finally, in the back, a lot of Skipray Blastboats.

Luke figured that the hangar was enlarged compared to his time. He also wondered if there were more hangar bays like this. Because Luke didn't see any Gallofree Medium Transports or any X-Wings like he remembered it. He found Leia talking to someone with a CSA logo on his shoulder. He waited until she was done and went up to her, "Leia?" She turned to him, "May I speak to you in private?"

"Uh, sure." She said with uncertainty. She waved for him to follow into a side room that he didn't remember was there. Once inside and alone, she asked, "What do you need...older Luke?"

He remained unfazed by her comment and asked, "Where did all of these forces come from? Who are the Alliance's allies?"

She looked at him suspiciously, "You don't know? I thought you were from the future."

"So did I." He responded, "But now, I'm starting to think that we're not from this time."

"Then how can I trust you?" Leia asked as she backed away from him.

Luke sighed, "Look to your feelings. What do they tell you?"

"They tell me to be wary."

"That's good. What else?"

Leia frowned, "There isn't any…" She trailed off. Her brow creased in concentration and she looked down. Luke waited until Leia looked up again in surprise, "You're...you're my brother?"

That surprised him. He hadn't expected her to come to that realization. Unless-, "You trained with Ben?" He asked.

"Yeah, he trained me and my Luke. He didn't do that for you? And you didn't answer my question."

"Yes, I'm your brother. And no, he was dead by the time we rescued you."

"Oh, you are?" Luke nodded while she continued, "Okay, in this time the Tantive IV picked him up from Tatooine and then he trained me a little but we got captured by Vader. So we put the plans in Artoo and sent him, Threepio, and Ben to the surface in escape pods. There, he found you and-."

"-And we found Han and went to The Graveyard and the Death Star and got you. Then, to Yavin four and blew up the Death Star." He concluded.

"Yeah. Do you have any idea what happened to land you here?"

"Yeah," Luke started slowly, "I have a theory about what happened. I'll tell you when we all meet at the briefing room. But for now, who are your 'secret allies'? I can tell one of them is the CSA and one is Geonosian. But I don't know about the others."

"Well, we allied ourselves, secretly, with Kuat and Kuat Drive Yards for ships and credits, Corellia and Corellian Engineering Corporation also for ships and credits, the Corporate Sector Authority for men, vehicles, ships, credits and resources. Along with Rothana Heavy Engineering for vehicles, the Kaminoans for men, and many former Separatist forces for men, vehicles and ships along with what little credits and resources that they have left. A big Separatist that we got is the Geonosian, Gizor Dellso. Does that answer your question?"

"Yeah, it does." He said slowly, " But now I want to know how. All the manufacturers were nationalized. And the CSA care only for themselves. And the former Separatists weren't allowed in the Rebellion, at least in my time."

"KDY, CEC and Rothana secretly hate the Empire for what it did to the Jedi, Republic and the citizens of the Galaxy. Same with the CSA, and Han put in a good word for us, so there's that. The Separatists and Kaminoans are easy to answer for." Leia replied.

"Yeah, okay then. But you know that the Corporate Sector are slavers, right? That they are considered to be as bad, if not worse, then the Empire?" Luke asked.

"Yes, but they signed a treaty that stated that they are to cease all slaver and xenophobic activities when the Empire is defeated. Even if they agree with them. And you must know that once they sign something, they adhere to it."

"They adhere to it until they find a loophole."

"Most probably." She responded. Her patience seemed to wane at his line of questioning, "But we need their help to win this war."

"We didn't need any of these mega-corporations help to free the Galaxy in my time." Luke thought he muttered under his breath.

She seemed to have heard. And with her patience was gone, she let her anger come out, "Did the threat of the Sun Crusher blowing up the entirety of Bothan Space come up in your time?" Leia demanded, "Or the Second Death Star destroying Mon Calamari?" She walked toward Luke, jabbing her finger at him and raising her voice with each word, "Or how about the use of the Orbital Nightcloak on Geonosis? Or the First Death Star destroying Alderaan?" She yelled the last word.

Luke looked down. He felt bad about bringing the memories of Alderaan and all the other worlds that were destroyed in her time, "No." He said as he looked up into her eyes, "The only planet killed in my time by the Empire, at this point, was Alderaan. I didn't know about the others. I'm sorry. I didn't know that the situation was that bad in this time. I thought we had traveled into the past. Not somewhere where the war went much worse."

All the emotion in that was in her face from a few seconds ago was gone. What was left was the calm demeanor of Princess Leia Organa. Not the woman who lost almost everything to this war, "It's fine." She said her voice calm and even, "You didn't know. Is there anything else? Because I need to get things done before the briefing."

Luke wanted to ask about Garm but said, "No, that's all. Thank you for your time." Luke allowed her to leave so he had his thoughts to keep him company. He left the room and headed back into the base with his head down as he thought about what she said. Luke had reached a bend in the corridor when he ran into what seemed like a brick wall and he hit his head on something.

Korra quickly left the medical room and followed the snowy hallway. She had no idea where she was going but anywhere but there would work so she could think. What am I going to do? Korra thought Unless I love her. Was the line going through her head again and again. Along with, I'd love for it to become Mrs. Sato and Mrs. Sato. What was I thinking?! How can I think that?! We've only been dating for a few days now and I think that?! Especially now of all times?! When there was a mad man running around going on a rampage and hurting the old Team Avatar. Man, I wish I could talk to Tenzin or Pema...or anyone for that matter.

Just as she thought that, she ran into something and she hit her head. She was looking down so she didn't see what she hit as light returned to her eyes, "Oh, I'm so sorry!" Korra said as she saw an image of someone come into focus. Wow, was I going that fast? She thought idly. While she waited for her eyes to focus.

"That's quite alright." A calm and familiar voice said, "I guess both of us weren't looking. You alright, Korra? You seem cross-eyed."

"Luke?" The picture of the man came into clearity.

"Ah! There you go! Stang. You hit your head pretty hard on mine to lose vision for that long. Maybe we should go see Pakmillu, she should be back from seeing the General by now." Luke said as he took her arm and was trying to lead her back to where she came from.

"No!" She exclaimed. He looked at her funny, "I just...was trying to get away from there."

He huffed a laugh, "Why? You piss off Pakmillu too?"

"No, worse. My girlfriend." She said flatly.

"Oh, been there. Don't recommend it. What'd you do?" He asked with a smile on his face that Korra had never seen on him before.

"I-I-." She stopped. Should I tell him? Maybe he could be someone to talk to. She looked up and down at him. He looked at her curiously. Or maybe it would be as awkward as talking to a parent about it. Or Tenzin. Samething. But he's just a stranger. She thought, Could I ask a stranger something so personal? It's not like I have a choice here. The only one I can talk to here that knows me, is Asami. And I just messed that up big time.

She decided that she needed to talk to someone. So she asked, "Can we talk somewhere private?"

Luke looked rather surprised to be asked that. But nodded, "Yeah, sure. Uh, hold on." He closed his eyes for a few seconds. Then reopened them, "Come with me. I know a spot that's empty."

They went through a maze of hallways that Korra couldn't keep track of because she was planning on what to say to Luke. He led them into a room that looked like the barracks. She went to the end of the room and sat down on one of the bunk beds. Luke stayed in the middle of the room waiting for her to start.

Korra only thought of one question to ask so far. So she asked it, "Have you ever been in love?"

Luke looked like that wasn't the question he thought would be asked. But he said, "Yes, a couple of times." Korra didn't speak but looked for him to keep going. She wondered if this was a good time to talk about this, "I first fell in love with a woman by the name of Callista." He laughed, "We actually fell in love over a computer screen aboard the ship Eye of Palpatine." Korra tilted her head in confusion. What's a 'computer screen'? Korra figured it was another advanced technology and just let him continue. "It's a long story." He said simply. He, apparently, didn't realize that she didn't know what that technology was, "But we didn't make it. We were never meant to be and that hurt a lot at the time. I found out years later that she was killed by the Force creature Abeloth. Again, another long story but that hurt a lot, too."

"Did you ever fall in love again?" Korra asked. She was worried that she might bring up more unpleasant memories.

Luke smiled and his eyes were distant, "Yes. Yes, I did." He said slowly and also distantly.

"Can you tell me about her?" She asked when he stopped talking, "Or him!" She quickly said as she realized her mistake.

Luke frowned at that and he looked at her, "No, you were right the first time." Korra blushed at being so stupid. Luke pretended not to notice her blush and said, "I, then, fell in love with a woman who, at one point, was ordered to kill me." That caught her interest, "Her name was Mara Jade." Korra noticed the past tense but said nothing, "And she truly was the love of my life."

"Can you tell me more?" She again asked when he stopped talking.

Luke sighed, "I suppose it's been long enough to talk about her." Again with the past tense. What happened to her? Korra thought, "She was once an Emperor's Hand. One of the closest beings to Palpatine. Long story short, she did a lot of awful things in his service. But she did one good thing for him. She killed my doppelganger clone, Luuke Skywalker. And for years, we would work together on and off. I'd train her on and off. Until, one time, on the planet Nirauan when she was investigating the mysterious alien messages originating from that planet. When her signal abruptly cut off, I followed her to Nirauan, and together we infiltrated the Chiss outpost known as the Hand of Thrawn.

"And, again long story short, during our adventure we realized that we were a perfect match. Once we returned to Coruscant, we married in the Reflection Gardens. I can still remember it like it was yesterday. Even though it was over twenty years ago." Luke looked happy. Korra didn't want to spoil that but, she wanted to know what happened to her. She opened her mouth to ask but, Luke continued somberly, "She-she was murdered by a former pupil of mine by the name of Darth Caedus before he turned to evil. That-that was five years ago." He looked down and breathed in deeply, "Five years our son has been without a mother. Five years-." He stopped. Luke looked like he could burst into tears.

"I'm so sorry." Korra said, "I-I didn't mean to stir up bad memories."

Luke took another deep breath and the emotion faded from his face, "It's fine. You didn't know. But anyway, why did you want to know? This doesn't seem like the time." To which Korra nodded and tried to talk but Luke smiled again like nothing happened and said, "Unless you want to pop the question to your girlfriend?"

Korra panicked again. How did he know? She thought she was keeping a level and calm face until started Luke laughing. Then she knew she was blushing, "I-I don't know." Luke stopped laughing when he probably saw the scared look on her face. Or in her voice. Mentally, Korra berated herself for such a reaction.

"Just calm down and tell me what happened." Luke said calmly, "You said that you had a fight with your girlfriend?"

"Well...yes and no." Korra told him what happened earlier, "...and then I walked out of there and into you."

"Hm."

"Hm? Hm?! That's all you have to say is hm? I'm about to have a panic attack and you say hm?"

"I think that you need to calm down. You're already having a panic attack. And sorry, I was thinking."

Korra tried taking deep breaths to calm herself down like Tenzin taught her to do but it didn't work, "I don't know what to do." She said, "I've never felt this way towards someone before. I don't want to screw it up like I do everything else. But what if I do? What if she doesn't feel the same way toward me? What if the world doesn't accept us? What if our friends don't accept us? I mean...I said I would have her back. No matter what anyone says about us and she said the same. But what about her company? Could she handle her company going back under because of me?" Korra looked down, "What if she doesn't accept me? What if-?"

"Okay, that's where you need to stop." Korra looked up at him, "I don't need to be Force-sensitive to tell that she feels the same toward you. Just watching the way she was worried about you when you were in the prison, let me know that she feels the same way. Just in the way she helped you when you were in there, told me that she feels the same way about you. And what if the world doesn't accept you? Your friends that you brought here seemed to accept you. So, there are two of those problems for you."

"You don't understand. We went to my parents and they...had...I don't know how to put it other than...they had a problem with it. They wanted us to hide our relationship."

"They might have a issue with it. But something tells me that you fear someone else's judgment of your relationship. Her parents, perhaps?" Luke probed.

"No-no her parents are...gone." Korra said.

"Oh. Then someone that you consider a second mother and father?" Korra nodded, "Okay. Have they openly hated same-sex relationships?"

"Well, no-."

"Then you don't know for sure that they won't accept you."

"But I don't know that they will."

"Okay, let's approach this from a different angle." said Luke, "Have you ever been in a relationship before? Man or woman?"

"Yes, a-a guy." Korra said.

"Okay, did you love him?"

Korra didn't know where this line of questioning was going, but she said, "Yes. But it doesn't feel the same as with Asami. It feels...I don't know how to explain it but...more intense?"

"I know what you're talking about. It feels more consuming. Right?"

"Yeah." She said slowly.

"Okay, did your friends and family and your second family look at you any differently?"

"Well, no. But there's something different about being in a relationship with the same gender."

"Why?" Luke questioned. When she didn't answer right away, he continued, "Why should it be any different? If your friends are true friends, they'll accept you. Same goes with your second family. Unless you know someone that has relationships with the same gender and they don't accept them?"

"No, we don't know anyone! That's the problem! I never knew that this was a thing until now! And one problem is my first boyfriend was Asami's boyfriend right before. We both broke up with him and found each other over the months. But we're both still friends with him. And I thought that I would be fine with whatever the world threw at us. Even if it was just us. But now, for some reason, I'm panicking over them. And I don't know why! I mean Aang and the others were fine with it so why can't my mind accept it now?!" Now she'd done it. She was hyperventilating, "I just don't know what to do!" She moaned into her hands.

"I'm sorry I'm not of much help with this sort of thing. I've only seen same-sex relationships from the outside. Like old comrades from war. And people walking around the street. Maybe Lando or Tendra would know more about this-," Korra looked up hopeful but then he continued, "-But I don't even know if she exists here! Or if Lando is the same person!" Korra put her head back into her hands and tried to calm her breathing down, "I guess I could ask Han about Lando. Could you ask of the people who you came with about this?"

Korra was still hyperventilating but looked up again, "I-I don't kn-know." She said in between breaths.

He snapped his fingers, "I know who to go to for help."

"Wh-who?"

"First, let me help with that." Luke walked over to Korra and put his hand on her chest. He closed his eyes and Korra felt a wave of pressure released from his hand expand to her whole body. He opened his eyes and back away, "Better?"

Korra blinked, "Ye-yeah. Thanks, but who are you going to get help?"

The corner of his lip twisted up, "Asami."

"What?! No, no, no, no, no, no! You can't go to her. She hates me right now!"

"She could never hate you if what you say about her is true."

"But-!"

"But nothing." He interrupted, "Just tell her everything that you just told me and it will be fine. One thing I know about women is, they value honesty."

"But the whole reason I came to you was because I was afraid to tell her. I don't even know if that's how I feel-!"

"That's how you feel. You wouldn't be panicking over this if you didn't."

"Are-are you sure?" Why am I acting this way?! I'm like a scared little girl again! Even though I was never scared as a kid. I'm like how I was when I was alone and recovering. She thought somberly.

"I'm sure. You need to tell her."

"Okay."

Luke turned to leave. When he was in the doorway he chuckled a little bit, "You know, I just realized that I might have to do this kind of talk with my son." He turned to look at her, "Thanks for the experience." Then he left, leaving Korra with what to say to Asami when she got here.