As the three walked down that hall, Leia glanced from side to side. Something about all those doors wasn't right, she couldn't place what.
Han guessed that they we're headed for the room at the end of the hallway, which he could now begin to see. He felt that a pair of stun cuffs around his wrists would somehow fit into this predicament, easily. Obviously the planet did not obtain any of these cuffs, or they had not invented them yet.
"Han, duck!" Leia cried to him as she drew her lightsaber and deflected a blast. She turned around to find that out of all the doorways in the hall, there were now stormtroopers standing in each opening.
"Okay, so I was wrong, my Jedi senses aren't strong enough to sense danger as well as I thought that they could." Leia said.
"Now you admit it!" Han snapped back at her. "I'm sorry, but I told you something wasn't right here."
When Leia looked closer, she realized that Ethir was not who she had thought him to be. Leia did not know how she could've mistaken him for her childhood caretaker, Seron.
There was some blast fire, but Leia and her lightsaber was no match for fifty stormtroopers and Ethir. Leia hated to kill anything with her lightsaber. It was almost too much for her to stomach. Despite this, Leia had managed to deflect the blasts and kill a few stormtroopers in the process. She thought she had done rater nice for being one of her first times in hand to hand combat without her brother, Luke Skywalker, who had taught her how to use her lightsaber, around.
"All right, are you going to come quietly or will I have to stun you first?" the nearest stormtrooper, obviously the leader, said to the two.
"Yeah, yeah, we're coming," he answered. The trooper pulled two pairs of stun cuffs off his belt. Han knew that stun cuffs would fit nicely into this.
A few moments later, Han and Leia were walking down the hall with a blaster to their backs.
Han cocked his head over to one side to tell Leia something, but got jabbed in the back with the blaster startling him causing him to jump and shock him self on the cuffs around his wrists.
"Watch it!" Han snapped at the stormtrooper, but for the reply he got poked again. As it turned out, they were headed for the room at the end of the hallway. The bad thing about the huge room was that it was filled with cells.
"You there!" The trooper behind Leia said.
"I have a name!" she snapped back at him.
"Yes you do, don't you, Senator Organa Solo," He said to her. "But at this moment in time, I really don't care! Get in there." He took her lightsaber and shoved them into the room. It was an old fashioned cell. Just a room with metal bars for a door, nothing fancy. Obviously they hadn't developed the 'cell block' technology either. Before the stormtroopers left, one put the weapon on a table while the commander whispered something to the pig-like guard, then the troopers left.
"Oh my, how can we get inside to save them? The doors are locked and there are guards on the other side!" C-3PO wailed.
R2-D2 and Chewbacca begin talking together. Artoo rolled to the wall, opens the keypad and unlocks the door. As the door opens, Chewbacca began to shoot the two guards on the other side of it. Threepio, surprised, walks through the door muttering something about sorry locks on doors. "How does he do that?" he asked himself. Artoo whistled something back, C-3PO looked offended. Once inside, the three argued for about five minutes on which way to go to begin their search. Finally deciding to take the main hallway, Chewie looked as if he is ready to blast anything to pieces.
"I can't believe that we're stuck in here-with him out there." Leia said, pointing to the guard. "Well, I guess I could cut us out with my lightsaber, but there would be no way that we could get out without being noticed…"
"Yeah, and I'm sure ugly has reinforcements hidden somewhere. Well, we could wait until he starts pacing again and you use the Force to get your lightsaber over here, slice out then slice him."
"Sounds-um-" she thought about the plan, "like a good idea to me."
"But do you thing that it'll it work?"
"Of course it will, it was your idea." Leia smiled at Han. "And something tells me that it will. I can feel it."
"I hope this isn't the same feeling that you had earlier." Han smirked.
"It'll work." Leia sounded sure of herself.
Han walked over to the iron bars where the guard was pacing. He began to call out rather offensive names to him. The creature just looked at him. "Yeah, pig-face, I'm talking to you. Come here!" The critter came to the cellblock door. Han began talking to the thing about nothing in particular.
Meanwhile, Leia used the Force to grab her lightsaber, and began to cut the iron bars, as soon as she finished making their escape route, Han ran to Leia. She sliced the guard in two.
Chewbacca checked all the doors down the main hallway. Most of them were empty except for a couple storage rooms with boxes in them. There were no signs of life in the palace at all. By the time they reached the end of the hall, C-3PO was complaining about his joints hurting. Chewbacca carefully opened the door and peered inside. It was full of cells. Chewie cautiously walked inside. There was and elderly woman sitting hunched over in a corner of a cell who looked half starved.
"Excuse me ma'am, but I was wondering if you saw a male and female human come this way. It is possible that they were accompanied by stormtroopers," C-3PO asked the lady.
"Yes, as a matter-of-fact I did. Oh, it is hard for me to remember which way they went though. I am old and my mind is weak," she said in a shaky voice.
Chewbacca roared something to Threepio.
"We promise that we will come back and free you if you tell us where they went," the droid continued.
"Well, now that I think about, they went that way," she replied pointing a crooked finger to her left.
"Thank you very much!"
The woman looked as if it had taken all her energy just to speak those few seconds.
The three left in the direction she had told seeing them go. Just as they came to a corner, Chewbacca stopped and held out a furry paw to make the others stop as well. There it was again, the sound of someone walking nosily but trying to be quiet.
Han and Leia were trying to be as quiet as possible sneaking out of their cells. Han stopped suddenly. Leia had heard the sound too. It was like a stormtroopers' armor but more metallic. Han stuck his head around the corner trying to be unnoticed. He was more than relived to see who it was.
"Master Han!!! Oh, we were so worried about you!" C-3PO rang out. "We were afraid that you were in great danger when we found out that Seron was working for the Empire!"
"How nice of you to tell us all that, but we figured that out when he sent fifty or so stormtroopers on us." Han snapped back.
"Can we save the talking for later, please? Right now we're still in danger," Leia asked.
"There is some thing that I must attend to before we leave though." C-3PO said.
Once they had reached the front of the detention area, C-3PO went over to the cell where to old woman was. Meanwhile, Chewbacca told Han what they had promised her.
C-3PO turned around and looked back at the others, "She's dead."
It really had taken all her energy to tell them where Han and Leia were.
Chewie moaned and looked down; Artoo gave a slow, sad whistle.
"Okay, okay. We don't have time to cry over her," Han snapped. "Let's get moving before somebody figures out that we've escaped!"
"Oh, yes Master Han, I wholeheartedly agree." C-3PO said.
"Somebody shut the professor up, please!" Han growled.
Once they were outside of the prison area, Han told the rest to stay close to the wall while he and Chewie went to see if it was safe. As soon as Han gave the signal, Leia, and the droids came sneaking around to the other two. Leia wondered if Threepio could make any more noise, though he could've passed for a stormtrooper if he'd tried hard enough.
"This is too easy," Han remarked.
"You'd think that a place with as many stormtroopers as this one would have some of them on guard," Leia added. Chewbacca roared his agreement.
As soon as they touched the door handle, an alarm went off, the door locked and stormtroopers came running around the corner.
'Luke,' Leia used the force to call upon her brother 'Luke, were in trouble. Help!' Leia wondered if Luke was anywhere close enough to her to hear her.
Then in Leia's mind she knew that he was because she heard Luke's reply. He was on his way to save them but there was no time just to sit around and wait for his arrival.
Han guessed that they we're headed for the room at the end of the hallway, which he could now begin to see. He felt that a pair of stun cuffs around his wrists would somehow fit into this predicament, easily. Obviously the planet did not obtain any of these cuffs, or they had not invented them yet.
"Han, duck!" Leia cried to him as she drew her lightsaber and deflected a blast. She turned around to find that out of all the doorways in the hall, there were now stormtroopers standing in each opening.
"Okay, so I was wrong, my Jedi senses aren't strong enough to sense danger as well as I thought that they could." Leia said.
"Now you admit it!" Han snapped back at her. "I'm sorry, but I told you something wasn't right here."
When Leia looked closer, she realized that Ethir was not who she had thought him to be. Leia did not know how she could've mistaken him for her childhood caretaker, Seron.
There was some blast fire, but Leia and her lightsaber was no match for fifty stormtroopers and Ethir. Leia hated to kill anything with her lightsaber. It was almost too much for her to stomach. Despite this, Leia had managed to deflect the blasts and kill a few stormtroopers in the process. She thought she had done rater nice for being one of her first times in hand to hand combat without her brother, Luke Skywalker, who had taught her how to use her lightsaber, around.
"All right, are you going to come quietly or will I have to stun you first?" the nearest stormtrooper, obviously the leader, said to the two.
"Yeah, yeah, we're coming," he answered. The trooper pulled two pairs of stun cuffs off his belt. Han knew that stun cuffs would fit nicely into this.
A few moments later, Han and Leia were walking down the hall with a blaster to their backs.
Han cocked his head over to one side to tell Leia something, but got jabbed in the back with the blaster startling him causing him to jump and shock him self on the cuffs around his wrists.
"Watch it!" Han snapped at the stormtrooper, but for the reply he got poked again. As it turned out, they were headed for the room at the end of the hallway. The bad thing about the huge room was that it was filled with cells.
"You there!" The trooper behind Leia said.
"I have a name!" she snapped back at him.
"Yes you do, don't you, Senator Organa Solo," He said to her. "But at this moment in time, I really don't care! Get in there." He took her lightsaber and shoved them into the room. It was an old fashioned cell. Just a room with metal bars for a door, nothing fancy. Obviously they hadn't developed the 'cell block' technology either. Before the stormtroopers left, one put the weapon on a table while the commander whispered something to the pig-like guard, then the troopers left.
"Oh my, how can we get inside to save them? The doors are locked and there are guards on the other side!" C-3PO wailed.
R2-D2 and Chewbacca begin talking together. Artoo rolled to the wall, opens the keypad and unlocks the door. As the door opens, Chewbacca began to shoot the two guards on the other side of it. Threepio, surprised, walks through the door muttering something about sorry locks on doors. "How does he do that?" he asked himself. Artoo whistled something back, C-3PO looked offended. Once inside, the three argued for about five minutes on which way to go to begin their search. Finally deciding to take the main hallway, Chewie looked as if he is ready to blast anything to pieces.
"I can't believe that we're stuck in here-with him out there." Leia said, pointing to the guard. "Well, I guess I could cut us out with my lightsaber, but there would be no way that we could get out without being noticed…"
"Yeah, and I'm sure ugly has reinforcements hidden somewhere. Well, we could wait until he starts pacing again and you use the Force to get your lightsaber over here, slice out then slice him."
"Sounds-um-" she thought about the plan, "like a good idea to me."
"But do you thing that it'll it work?"
"Of course it will, it was your idea." Leia smiled at Han. "And something tells me that it will. I can feel it."
"I hope this isn't the same feeling that you had earlier." Han smirked.
"It'll work." Leia sounded sure of herself.
Han walked over to the iron bars where the guard was pacing. He began to call out rather offensive names to him. The creature just looked at him. "Yeah, pig-face, I'm talking to you. Come here!" The critter came to the cellblock door. Han began talking to the thing about nothing in particular.
Meanwhile, Leia used the Force to grab her lightsaber, and began to cut the iron bars, as soon as she finished making their escape route, Han ran to Leia. She sliced the guard in two.
Chewbacca checked all the doors down the main hallway. Most of them were empty except for a couple storage rooms with boxes in them. There were no signs of life in the palace at all. By the time they reached the end of the hall, C-3PO was complaining about his joints hurting. Chewbacca carefully opened the door and peered inside. It was full of cells. Chewie cautiously walked inside. There was and elderly woman sitting hunched over in a corner of a cell who looked half starved.
"Excuse me ma'am, but I was wondering if you saw a male and female human come this way. It is possible that they were accompanied by stormtroopers," C-3PO asked the lady.
"Yes, as a matter-of-fact I did. Oh, it is hard for me to remember which way they went though. I am old and my mind is weak," she said in a shaky voice.
Chewbacca roared something to Threepio.
"We promise that we will come back and free you if you tell us where they went," the droid continued.
"Well, now that I think about, they went that way," she replied pointing a crooked finger to her left.
"Thank you very much!"
The woman looked as if it had taken all her energy just to speak those few seconds.
The three left in the direction she had told seeing them go. Just as they came to a corner, Chewbacca stopped and held out a furry paw to make the others stop as well. There it was again, the sound of someone walking nosily but trying to be quiet.
Han and Leia were trying to be as quiet as possible sneaking out of their cells. Han stopped suddenly. Leia had heard the sound too. It was like a stormtroopers' armor but more metallic. Han stuck his head around the corner trying to be unnoticed. He was more than relived to see who it was.
"Master Han!!! Oh, we were so worried about you!" C-3PO rang out. "We were afraid that you were in great danger when we found out that Seron was working for the Empire!"
"How nice of you to tell us all that, but we figured that out when he sent fifty or so stormtroopers on us." Han snapped back.
"Can we save the talking for later, please? Right now we're still in danger," Leia asked.
"There is some thing that I must attend to before we leave though." C-3PO said.
Once they had reached the front of the detention area, C-3PO went over to the cell where to old woman was. Meanwhile, Chewbacca told Han what they had promised her.
C-3PO turned around and looked back at the others, "She's dead."
It really had taken all her energy to tell them where Han and Leia were.
Chewie moaned and looked down; Artoo gave a slow, sad whistle.
"Okay, okay. We don't have time to cry over her," Han snapped. "Let's get moving before somebody figures out that we've escaped!"
"Oh, yes Master Han, I wholeheartedly agree." C-3PO said.
"Somebody shut the professor up, please!" Han growled.
Once they were outside of the prison area, Han told the rest to stay close to the wall while he and Chewie went to see if it was safe. As soon as Han gave the signal, Leia, and the droids came sneaking around to the other two. Leia wondered if Threepio could make any more noise, though he could've passed for a stormtrooper if he'd tried hard enough.
"This is too easy," Han remarked.
"You'd think that a place with as many stormtroopers as this one would have some of them on guard," Leia added. Chewbacca roared his agreement.
As soon as they touched the door handle, an alarm went off, the door locked and stormtroopers came running around the corner.
'Luke,' Leia used the force to call upon her brother 'Luke, were in trouble. Help!' Leia wondered if Luke was anywhere close enough to her to hear her.
Then in Leia's mind she knew that he was because she heard Luke's reply. He was on his way to save them but there was no time just to sit around and wait for his arrival.