Adrianne Palicki as Lilah Amidala
Shelley Hennig as Thalia Kenobi
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After selling the speeder they headed to the hanger directed with a quick pace. The sooner they got off this planet the better it would be for them. However when they got there. Lilah was surprised to see the ship they were taking was old, it looked in working order though.
"What a piece of junk." Luke stated a bit too loudly as he pulled on a dark brown poncho. How was this supposed to get them anywhere? He wondered if this thing could even get off the ground.
"Don't be so sure Luke-looks can be deceiving." Lilah said in casual defense as she scanned the room. Moments earlier she was arguing with him (Han) and now she was defending his ship. She was never going to hear the end of it.
"As long as this old tin-can can fly. I say we're fine. I just really hope it can get off the ground, if not-" Thalia trailed off as she looked toward Luke and after hearing Lilah's words and thinking it over for a second she smiled a little. "You're defending Han, you must like him because you've never defended a ship in this state before."
"She'll make point five beyond light speed." Han explained to the group that arrived. "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kids." Finishing his words and looking directly at Thalia and Luke due to them insulting his ship when Lilah didn't-which was a surprise because everyone that he's ever met always insulted his ship before they see the machine in action. "We're in a little rush, so if you hurry aboard we'll be on our way."
Obi-Wan got on board with Luke and Thalia, and the droids, letting Lilah stay outside to look at the ship along with their captain. Once on board they sat down and Luke watched Thalia for a moment, she was pretty, younger then he was Luke realized with a fierceness.
"So I've been meaning to ask you this." Luke leaned forward slightly. "Are you a Jedi?" He asked with curiosity.
Thalia looked toward Luke with some surprise showing on her face. She had been trained by her father, mother, along with the Force ghost of her father's late Master Qui-Gon Jinn shortly after Lilah had joined them. Thalia was always one to keep her Jedi weapon counseled from everyone's eyesight.
"Yes. I'm a Jedi. I was trained by my family and a friend of my parents shortly after Lilah arrived from Naboo after my father brought her here." Thalia explained to the former farm boy as she showed him her lightsaber, the one she's kept hidden under her poncho. "But my saber is kind of odd." She answered, looking into Luke's blue eyes.
"Odd how?" Luke asked, curiously in his blue eyes. He wondered what was odd about it due to seeing Lilah's being a Magenta color, the lightsaber Ben gave Luke himself had been blue. So what made Thalia's different?
"It's two colors." Thalia answered. Her lightsaber blade had been different due to her crystal being purple on one side and white on the other. Two colors. Unlike other kinds of lightsabers.
Outside of the Falcon, Han turned his eyes toward Lilah and asked; "What do you think of my ship, sunshine?" She had been looking over his ship over the last few minutes and he was getting curious about what she was looking for when it came to his ship.
Lilah made no sound as she walked around to study the ship. She was curious about the ship. It seemed sturdy enough as she ran her hand over some parts. The metal was rough, but still smooth, old and reliable (she hoped) full of contradictions.
"I think you put a lot of work into her. That she's old and loved. Sturdy enough." Lilah hummed to the human with strange fascination. She liked to see the mechanics of things, how they ran, how they worked. She was always fixing things at the Kenobi household, finding it a rather calming activity. "I'm a mechanic myself."
Han was surprised to hear those words from the female before him- a strong and beautiful woman like her was a mechanic, not many women that he knew could fix or understand machines of a machine-let alone a Star Ship. "You are?" He asked a question and wondered if every female on the planet had to be one. He raised an eyebrow in question. "I meant nothing by it, I just thought you were like most women. Not having time or interest in mechanics. What got you into being a mechanic? That other brown haired girl didn't break anything, did she?"
"Thalia's skills lie elsewhere." Technology was not her adopted sister's forte. The tall woman looked up at him for a moment and met his gaze. He was taller than her 5'11 by a few inches. "But she's not- '' Suddenly Lilah cut herself off and turned on her heels, looking at the hanger door. "Oh hell." She stated as a dozen Stormtroopers flooded in with blasters ready and firing at them.
Lilah drew her blaster she kept on her side and shot at them. She always knew carrying extra weapons would come in handy.
Luke, Thalia, and Ben heard the serious commotion outside. Luke felt his body go rigid sort of alert as he heard shots being fired from blasters.
"We gotta go!" Lilah yelled to the group inside, as she stayed by the door, shooting at the troopers. She heard the Wookiee, Chewie, as Han called him, let out a loud noise.
"Chewie, get us out of here!" Han shouts as he ran onto his ship with Lilah giving him cover as he made his way into the cockpit of the falcon and sat on the pilot's seat with Chewie in the seat next to him.
"What's going on?" Thalia asked as she watched Han and Chewie run off to start piloting the Falcon. She and Luke looked toward Lilah as she made her way onto the ship and shut the door behind her.
"Stormtroopers." Lilah informed and quickly followed to the cockpit as they rose from the ground and sped into the black deep space before them.
Thalia and Luke followed after Lilah as Obi-Wan stayed behind in his seat. Sitting back and feeling a slight change in the Force as he felt someone watching over him.
"You know it's almost time, Obi." A female voice of his late wife informed him with the male's mind. Keeping herself hidden from Lilah and Thalia because she feared the two would stop or prevent what had to happen to Obi-Wan soon.
"Maria." He breathed out. She was always by his side even within the Force the women he loves will be by his side until the very end. He wondered if Ivy was still standing beside Vader, the man she loved within the Force, waiting for him to join her there. "I know. And I'll be ready."
The whole window of the Falcon's cockpit filled the glass with inky black mixed with blue and shining stars. It was beautiful and very terrifying at the same time. Lilah could feel the tension rising but chose to say nothing. From the black she could hear the complaints from C-3PO and the beeping of R2-D2.
"Why don't you outrun them?" Luke asked as he got near Chewie's seat. Obi-Wan arrived a few seconds later, having walked instead of running behind the young ones, he held a more conservative look on his face. Yet something had changed in him-he looked...haunted almost. "I thought you said this thing was fast." Luke pointed out to Han Solo with a little more attitude. It didn't seem so fast now, and after all his boasting.
The Empire had found the ship right away the moment it entered space. TIE Fighters were speeding after the Falcon and trying to blast the ship out of the sky or explode it into space dust. The message must have been broadcasting saying the Falcon had the droid with the stolen plans inside it. The group now had to find a way to get into Hyperspace with the old ship that might not be as fast as Han had boasted about earlier.
"Look on the bright side." Thalia said to Luke and everyone within the cockpit. Trying to lighten the mood of the situation. "At least the ship got off the ground and can fly. Now all we have to do is hope the force lets us get to Alderaan in one piece." In others may the force be with them. Then her brown eyes drifted toward her father when she noticed the haunted look on his face. "Dad?"
Obi-Wan looked toward Thalia for a moment. Not knowing what to tell her.
"Watch your mouth kids." Han told Luke and Thalia once again. This was the second time the two of them have insisted on his ship and he was keeping count. "Or you're going to find yourselves floating home. We'll be safe enough once we make the jump to hyperspace. Besides, I know a few maneuvers. We'll lose them." Han started to get his ship ready for Hyperspace and flipped a few switches.
The ship shook and shuddered as the bolts shot from the TIE Fighters made contact with the shields. Bringing bright flashes of white light shining into the ship's window that brought forth flashes that were almost blinding to those that never experienced a space battle before in their lives. Thalia, Lilah, and Luke took hold of the backseats of the Falcon's cockpit to keep their balance.
"How long before you can make the jump to lightspeed?" Obi-Wan asked Han Solo, keeping his tone and voice calm for everyone around him. Being the wise old man that Luke thought of him as.
"It will take a few moments to get the coordinates from the nav computer." Han explained just as the ship was hit once again and shook.
Chewie let out a roar and Lilah looked at them both as explosions continued to rock outside the ship. Luke looked alarmed at the Captain and could feel the panic rise inside of him. Never before had he felt such panic hitting him fast like a sandstorm.
"At the rate they're gaining..." Luke trailed off at that as the ship continued to shake from getting hit.
"Luke I swear to god if you don't be quiet I will make you." Lilah let out a low warning to the younger man beside her. This wasn't like anything else Luke, a mere farm boy, experienced ever before in his life. She could feel the nervous energy in the room and knew Ben and Thalia could feel it too. Most of it was coming off Luke, but some from herself and the others. "Thalia, you guys should go grab some seats." It's going to be a rough rid.
Thalia nods her head toward Lilah due to agreeing with the older female's suggestion. Thalia already knew that her father would like to set down then be standing when it came to a space battle. "Good idea, Lilah." She said, taking her father's hand in her own. "Come on Daddy." Then the two started to walk to the back of the falcon to sit down, only Thalia turned around and said, "Come on, Luke."
"Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy!" Han shouts toward Luke because the older male wanted to get toward hyperspace as well. "Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?" he asked the farm boy encase if the kid wished for a quick death because he was in space for the first time. "We're losing the deflector shield. Go strap yourselves in. I'm going to make the jump to lightspeed."
With that Luke followed Thalia and Obi-Wan to the back of the ship and wondered why Lilah was staying in the cockpit.
Lilah, being more of a front seat kind of girl, sat down in the open seat behind Chewie. The Wookiee made a loud noise as she strapped herself in. "oh suck it up you big baby-I won't touch the controls." Was her response to the Wookiee as she rolled her blue eyes. That meant she could understand him-few could that was for sure.
Han stopped what he was going for the second and turned around in his chair to look back at Lilah. Impressed once more with the female. She could understand his copilot. "You can understand him?" He had to ask because not many people in the galaxy could due to there being far and few people that knew how too.
"Yeah." Lilah answered. Not finding it to be a big deal. She studied a lot of languages on Naboo because of her aunt.
Obi-Wan or Ben, quickly got up and left to strap himself in. Luke strapped himself next to Thalia, looking at her and trying to soothe his anxiety. He gave a wobbly smile to her. "You think we'll get to hyperspace in time?" He asked her suddenly.
Thalia turned her head toward Luke as brown hair blew in her face as she did the action. She didn't wish to lie to the farm boy about how she felt about the situation. Did she really believe they would make it to hyperspace? "If the force wills it, then we will make it to Alderann, but if it doesn't then we don't."
Luke didn't seem to understand anything that Thalia meant by the forces willing things to happen. "What are you talking about?" He asked the female in confusion. Everything she had said until now had been straight forward and not in a strange kind of rhyme or saying about the Force.
Thalia just shook her head and said, "A friend of mine used to say that all is as the force wills it. But I do believe that the force is with us." She admits as her brown eyes locked with Luke's blue and smiled at him.
Luke watched her with curiosity. It seems like the mystery surrounding the Kenobi family was getting more and more interesting by the moment.
Suddenly the galaxy before them brightened. The ship moved faster and faster until it made the jump. It was such a subtle thing too that none of them noticed really. After a while in hyperspace, they all unbuckled and Luke got up, following Ben. His whole body was shaky, not used to space travel. He hoped he didn't get sick. Now that would be embarrassing, especially with the others on board.
Lilah went to the main room and learned against one of the walls with crossed arms. She watched Luke trained with an analytical expression as she studied his movements.
Luke was training with his lightsaber, the blue blade glowing in the poorly lit ship, facing off against a remote globe that Ben Kenobi had packed in his bag before leaving their home for Luke's training. Only Ben had turned away and so had Thalia and Lilah due to all of them feeling something.
It was like a thousand voices rang out and were silenced within the Force. Something had happened and none of them knew what the Force was trying to tell them. Some kind of death had happened to thousands of people a few seconds ago but none of them knew from where in the galaxy the event took place.
Luke, seeing what was happening, turned off his lightsaber and moved toward Ben. "Are you alright? What's wrong?" He needed to know what was wrong with them. He clearly hadn't felt what the others had. The farm boy just started his training within the Force and wouldn't be able to understand what the others had felt within the Force.
Thalia moved over to her father, placing a hand around Ben's arm and guided him toward a chair to sit down. "Father?"
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force," Ben answered toward Luke. "As if millions of voices suddenly cried out of terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened." He rubbed his eyes. He didn't wish to worry his daughter or Luke. "You'd better get on with your exercises." He addressed Luke.
Luke nodded his head and moved back to the center of the room with the globe and activated his lightsaber. The program within the device brought forth harmless bolts that would only sting and not burn. It was a good device to practice blasting a blaster at or deflecting bolts with a lightsaber.
Chewbacca was seated at the table with R2-D2 with a hologram chess board game that C-3PO was watching carefully, making sure no one cheated.
Han entered the room and overlooked the group, announcing his achievement of the hour. "Well, you can forget your troubles with those imperial ships." He then sat down within one of the seats. Acting cool and calm for Lilah. "I told you I'd outrun them." Only everyone was busy with their own activities to pay any attention to Han Solo.
Thalia Kenobi standing by her seated father with her tree-brown eyes watching Luke's movements of the lightsaber and the sphere shook bolts towards the boy, which was being deflected by a blue blade that Han had never seen before or knew the name of the object the boy wields. The device fired at Luke as the kid moved the blade to deflect the bolts, keeping blue eyes focused on the remote then on anyone else within the room. Lilah was standing off to the side near the wall, eyeing and watching anything that moved within the room but her focus and mind were elsewhere. While the droids and Wookiee continued to play their game without much of a word in Han's direction.
Han, feeling insulted, grumbled to himself. "Don't everyone thank me at once." Turning to watch the droids and his Wookiee copilots' game.
"He's not half bad," Thalia commented toward Lilah, moving to stand beside the taller woman. They were both watching Luke's training with the lightsaber. The female looked down toward her own for a second because of how strange her own lightsaber would be compared to Luke and Lilah's.
"No, not terrible." Lilah informed a little loudly as Han let his eyes drift toward the training. The pain within Lilah had subsided within the back of her mind from whatever the Force tried to tell them earlier.
"Remember, a Jedi can feel the Force flowing through them." Ben explained as he watched the younger man. Trying to ignore the dread they had all felt earlier. So much pain, so much crying and too much silence and dread. His face is still haunted by his wife's voice-oh Maria. He said with a mourning thought.
Luke's face contorted into confusion as he stood in place. "You mean it controls your actions?"
"Sometimes." Lilah answered and looked at him closely with a critical eye. To the untrained eye, it would seem as though she was checking him out almost, but she wasn't. "But it also obeys your commands." She explained to the newly sanctioned Padawan.
He tried to focus again as the chrome robot ball moved around. Suddenly the seeker made a move at Luke's feet but he didn't move. But then with lighting swift movement it swindled around him and shot a blood red laser at his leg causing him to falter. Two sets of laughter filled the room, Lilah being one of them.
Han had been the other one laughing and that caused Lilah to turn toward him. "What?" He questioned the female which only earned him a slight smirk. "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."
Luke deactivated his blade and glared toward Han. "You don't believe in the Force?" The farm boy himself had heard of the Force before because of the old saying of; may the force be with you. But he didn't fully understand it unlike the females and Ben did. But at least he believed in the force, unlike Han.
Han shook his head because he's heard of it but never seen anything to make him believe in the stories that went with the Force. "Kid, I've flown from one side of the galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. There's no mystical energy that controls my destiny." It was luck and simple tricks of nonsense.
Lilah rolled her eyes at Han, obviously he was not a believer, and Ben just smiled. Thalia remained on phased and stayed silent which was a surprise.
Ben got up from his seat. "I suggest you try again Luke." He told the younger man and placed a large helmet over his head, shielding his eyes. "This time, let go of your conscious self and act on instinct." He said and took a seat as old feelings swan within him.
Luke laughed in disbelief. "With the blast shield down. I can't even see. How am I supposed to fight?" He questioned. There was no way he could do this-he could barely fight with seeing, let alone without.
"If there's one thing I learned is that eyes deceive people Luke, feelings cannot." Lilah explained, getting up in front of the wall and walking to him. "It's something we learn from a young age. Thalia and I have done this exercise many times, even now we still do it to practice our skills." She stated. "So, if I did it-so can you."
Thalia nods her head, moving over to Luke and Lilah. She took out her own lightsaber." I'll show him." She activated her lightsaber which sprang free as a white on one side and purple on the other side of the blade.
Two colors and now Luke understood why Thalia called her lightsaber weird. "Why is your blade like that?" He asked as he watched Thalia in wonder.
"The lightsaber is purple on one side to it being my color but its white on the other because half of the blade the corrupt by the dark." The white side of the blade had once been red so it took Thalia a long while to cure the Kyber crystal. "Unlike how Lilah and you inherited your sabers from your parents I ended up getting my crystal at the temple on Jedha when we went there on a trip with my mother an thanks to the bravery of a spiritual warrior Chirrut Imwe and his mercenary friend Baze Malbus helped me get it." It had been one of the best trips with her mother that she could remember. "Now focus and you can do it Luke. Like this..."
Thalia closed her eyes as she stood in a stance as the sphere made noise and then released two bolts which she reflected with her lightsaber. She trusted the force and instinct which made it easier after a few years of training with Qui-Gon Jinn in the hidden caves on Tatooine.
"Now your stance is also wrong." Lilah adjusted Luke and he let her, before moving to the wall she was at.
Now the young man looked ready.
"Stretch out with your feelings Luke," Thalia insisted to him, making sure the helmet was on right before walking back toward Lilah. "Remember to trust the Force, Luke." She hoped he could do it.
Luke reached out to the Force as best he could. He could feel something within the core of his very being telling him what he should and shouldn't do. He reached for it because some part of him trusted it. It would guide him. He relaxed his mind and stopped thinking. He could almost see the machine behind the helmet and saw the bolt coming as he used the blue blade to block the shot before turning the lightsaber off and pulling off his helmet, smiling toward the girls in a way of saying; he did it.
Thalia clapped her hand together and smiled.
Ben stood up and said; "You see, you can do it."
"I call it luck." Han commented to the group once again.
"You would think that." Lilah sassed at him, a small smile on her face toward Luke as he beamed like a child. "And honestly I'd like to see you try." She told him simply and crossed the floor to pat Luke on the back. "You did good Luke just keep on practicing." She said and went to sit down, stretching her long legs. Maybe one day he could be as good as Thalia and her.
"You think so?" He asked the woman, beaming at the gratification.
"And in my experience, there's no such thing as luck." Obi-Wan responded knowingly with a weary smile on his weathered face. After his decades in this world, he knew luck did not exist. Not really. It was skill and sheer will and hard work, but not luck.
Suddenly lights flashed above them, meaning that Alderaan was coming up.
Thalia smiled to herself and wanted to jump up and down. They had made it to Alderaan with very few problems happening to any of them. "I can't believe we made it to Alderaan on this ship." Taking one last insult toward Han's ship for the pilot to hear for the fun of it. She spins herself around before looking toward Luke and Lilah. "Let's get going, team misfits."
Team misfits. One of the few names Thalia was trying to come up with for Luke, Lilah, and herself. She would honestly agree that she needs a better them for the lot of them.
Obi-Wan smiled toward his daughter. He missed the days when she was six and was fond of the times she let herself be a child. At least he lived long enough to see it one last time. That made the father-old Jedi Master smile.
Han rolled his eyes at Thalia's actions because the female was behaving like a child. "Looks like we're coming up on Alderaan." He comments as he stood up from his seat and began to move toward the cockpit with Chewie. "Stand by Chewie. Here we go. Cut in the sub light engines."
Dropping out of hyperspace, the ship was met by an uncharted asteroid territory. Hot fast meteors raced past them and the Falcon began to rock violently as they weaved, trying to avoid being hit.
"Solo, what the hell is going on?" Lilah questioned the captain, coming up behind them, staring outside into space. It was empty-like a giant gaping hole in the universe, there was nothing. No planet, no sun, no moon-nothing. Luke frowned, walking up behind them with Thalia and Ben.
"Aw, we've come out of hyperspace into a meteor shower." Han explained to the group as the started to pile into the cockpit once more. He didn't understand what was going on. Did someone forget to update the space routes once more because this asteroid field shouldn't be here?
"What's going on?" Luke asked.
Thalia looked out into the vast void of space from the Falcon's window. She didn't see a planet or anything. "Are you sure you put in the right cornets?" She asked Han Solo. There should honestly be a planet in front of them and not empty space. It could be a simple miscalculation.
Han had first thought that only to look at his computer. Checking the cornets over for a third time. "Our position is correct, except...no Alderaan!" The planet should be here. Why wasn't he had no idea why it wasn't?
"What do you mean?" Luke asked the pilot because the farm boy never once heard about a planet disappearing off the charts from Biggs or any one of his friends back on his home planet. He could feel the distress show within his voice with his next words. "Where is it?"
"It's gone." Lilah said, looking out the window and saw nothing. She thought back to the feeling she had felt earlier. It had to have been Alderaan. All those crying voices, helpless and frightened. Their planet had been destroyed and its people had died with it.
Obi-Wan entered the cockpit with a grave look on his face. He used Thalia as a means to steady himself. "Destroyed ... by the Empire." He claimed with a shake of his head.
Han shook his head and found the old man's explanation as unbelievable because he doubted it. "The entire Starfleet couldn't destroy the whole planet. It'd take a thousand ships with more firepower than I've-" seen the Imperials ever have. He couldn't finish due to an alarm sounding which caused Han to turn toward the sensor scope. It was saying an incoming ship was heading their way. "There's another ship coming in."
"Maybe they know what happened?" Luke suggested the group. It would be easier for them to find out what had taken place by asking someone that might know about what happened. His blue eyes drifted toward Thalia as he took notice she was using the Force to see who the ship belonged to. "What do you think?"
Thalia shook her head once the female got a feeling from the Force about the incoming ship. "I wouldn't because the ship is an Imperial freighter. Good luck getting answers from the Empire." The Jedi female doubted the Empire would be willing to tell anyone anything. Unless it was a thin lie.
At Thalia's response toward Luke about the incoming ship, making itself known by flying over the Falcon. It was a TIE Fighter that streaked past the Falcon after shooting a bolt at them with lightning speed. The enemy ship was zipping through the empty void of space, staying in the center of the stars and in the line of sight from the Falcon window.
"Thalia's right." Lilah said in a weary tone as she learned back, ignoring the disgruntled looks of distress on the faces around her. "It's an imperial fighter." Chewie barked out his concern and distress as a huge explosion rocked the ship. Lilah and the others rocked with it and gripped what they could to steady themselves.
"It followed us!" Luke yelped out, terrified a little bit at the prospects of it all. Had the Empire followed them from Tatooine?
"No, it's a short range fighter." Ben informed Luke with a shake of his head.
Han took in the new information with some confusion within his own mind. A short-range fighter shouldn't be able survive in open space like this. It would run out of power and oxygen. "There aren't any bases around here." Not any bases that he knew about within the area. "Where did it come from?"
"It sure is leaving in a big hurry." Luke pointed out, watching the ship fly fast away from them.
Thalia felt a ripple of fear run though her own body in waves due to being scared for her friends and family. The Empire might figure out that the Falcon was the ship with the stolen plans if the message from her home planet got to them by the imperials stationed there. Now a TIE Fighter saw them and could report their whereabouts to the Empire once more.
"If they identify us, then we're in big trouble." Thalia explained to the group. At this rate the Empire would get their hands on R2-D2 and the plans the droid carried. If Alderaan was destroyed, then they would be next.
"Not if we jam the transmission." Lilah thought up quickly and pointed to Han and Chewie. Her mind reeling fast, as the fighter got farther away from them. "If you guys do that then we might be able to save ourselves." That was if they got close enough to them though.
"It is best to let it go." Ben explained, shaking his head realizing it was too late. "It's too far out of range." He informed the younger ones and the Wookiee.
"Not for long..." Han announced as he increased the power to the sub-light engines. Making the Falcon speeder faster after the TIE Fighter without much trouble. They were easily catching up to the ship within seconds.
Obi-Wan let his old eyes stay focused on the TIE Fighter and was trying to make his aging brain think. Something was very off about the whole situation with the TIE Fighter. It was the size and how far a ship like that troubled out allowed in the vast void of space. "A fighter that size couldn't get this deep into space on its own."
"Then he must have gotten lost, been part of a convoy, or something..." Luke explained to the group as well. Adding to what Ben had explained about the TIE Fighter.
"Well, he ain't going to be around long enough to tell anyone about us." Han explained, getting ready to fire his own lasers at the ship.
Thalia thought about everything for a moment as the female Jedi took in her father's and Luke's words about the Tie Fighter because it was far too small to get to one side of the galaxy without going down. This was all wrong and without Alderann being here it made this encounter even stranger. "I think we should go." Thalia suggested to the others. For some reason she really wanted to leave the area.
"I don't think so." Lilah said toward Han, sensing something uneasy about the whole situation as they approached something that looked like a small moon. It seemed too coincidental to just be so random. Tension had already set them all on edge and this did nothing to help them.
"Look at him." Luke pointed to the TIE Fighter with his free hand, moving past Thalia. His face still scrunched with pure confusion. "He's headed for that small moon." But there was no moon.
"That's no moon." Ben said, shock washing over him as he looked at his daughter before turning back his face. "That's a space station." Ben said as he looked shocked. That sense of dread fills him up to the brim with worry, but not fear.
"It's too big to be a space station," Han protested to the old man. Only the pilot didn't believe his own words as the man looked closer toward the object up ahead. Like everyone else within the cockpit they noticed seen to have details a moon didn't have that were made from hard metal. It also had an unnatural symmetry that a moon or a planet wouldn't have unless the object was man made from Imperial hands.
Luke's blue eyes stayed on the space station. He let out a small breath to try and help his nerves. "I have a bad feeling about this." Saying what everyone around him must have been thinking.
Thalia nods in agreement. "I agree, Luke."
"Turn the ship around." Ben insisted toward Han as the ship got closer to the space station. The Jedi Master didn't believe that any of them should get any closer to the station before them. It was giving off an uneasy feeling within the Force around them.
Han nods his head, agreeing with the old man because the pilot was starting to feel uneasy. It took a lot to creep Han Solo out and this space station was one of them. "Yeah, I think you're right. Full reverse! Chewie, lock in the auxiliary power." Chewbacca did as instructed, but the Falcon only started to shake like it was going through an earthquake in space. The ship wasn't backing away from the space station but continued to follow the Tie Fighter toward the space station. "Chewie, lock in the auxiliary power." Han repeated toward his partner, shouting over the shaking of the ship around him.
Luke hanged onto the seat that was nearest to him, keeping himself standing and grabbing Thalia's hand to help her. "Why are we still moving toward it?" Luke shirked toward the captain of the ship. Why weren't they coming away from the station? What was going on?
"We're caught in a tractor beam!" Han explained to the group, paling a little himself. "It's pulling us in." They weren't getting him without a fight because Han Solo wasn't one to be easily caught or captured by anyone within this galaxy. He was the one that outsmarted or caught them. It wasn't the other way around.
Tractor beams were like modified force fields that could immobilize objects (ships in the case of the station) and move them within the range of the beam's projector. Some hangar bays within the larger ships had things along with some spaceports across the galaxy to help land and guide ships into them without much difficulty. It was even an easy way to capture enemy ships and within the moment that was what the Falcon was to the Empire.
No one could break out a tractor beam easily due to engines one the ship and the shields wouldn't help anything due to the Falcon being caught within the beam which was why the ship shook from the produced friction. Weapons wouldn't be able to work unless Han wanted his own ship to be destroyed along with everyone on it.
There was no escape.
Suddenly though the Falcon shuttered violently and lights began to flicker on and off as the TIE Fighter kept moving ahead toward the large space station. Had they been caught in the gravity of the station now?
"There's gotta be something you can do." Luke cried out to them all, particularly toward the captain.
Lilah watched as they were helplessly pulled into the gravitational field of the base. "I don't think there's anything he can do Luke." Lilah wasn't a pessimist, but she was a realist. And right now she knew it was too late. They had been caught in the web of the Empire.
Chewie tried to reverse the ship with Han but it was too late and they couldn't get out. "You can't win." Ben said with a slow and wise voice. He placed hands on the girl's shoulders, causing them to look at him. "But there are alternatives to fighting."