Hoth
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by Valerie Vancollie
valeriev84@hotmail.com
"Hobbie, I'm hit!" Luke cried out as his snowspeeder shuddered with the impact of the walker's fire.
Luke frantically fought the controls, trying to get some kind of control over the crashing snowspeeder, but it was no use. Just before the speeder hit the snow-covered plains of Hoth Luke heard Hobbie reply:
"Rogue Leader, are you okay?"
Then his speeder hit the snow and Luke hit his head against the controls before he slumped forward, unconscious.
"Rogue Leader, are you okay?" Hobbie's frantic voice came over Luke's com. "Commander Skywalker!"
"He's down," Wedge replied his voice cracking. "You're in charge now."
Seconds later Luke moaned softly as he came too. At first he didn't know what had happened, but then he vaguely saw the snowspeeder's controls before him and everything came rushing back. He couldn't see too well and found that there was blood running down the left side of his face. As he shifted his hand to touch his face he hit the com controls and accidentally turned it off.
As he lifted his head he realized that his helmet was the only reason he had survived the crash, for he saw that the impact of his helmet had made a dent in the control panel. Luke quickly removed his helmet and shook his head, he immediately regretted it as he felt like the left side of his face was on fire.
He then looked out of the snowspeeder and to his horror he saw that one of the two remaining walkers was heading straight for him. He quickly removed his restraints, but when he tried to get up pain shot through his right leg and he instantly knew that he had broken it in the crash. He started to panic as he saw the walker approaching, quickly he turned his com on:
"Hobbie, Wedge, are you guys still out there?" he asked desperately.
"Luke?" came Wedge's reply. "Thank the stars you're alive. Where are you?"
"Trapped in my snowspeeder directly in the path of an approaching walker," Luke replied as he realized that the walker would be on him before Wedge could do anything.
"Rogue Leader, which walker?" Hobbie asked.
"Too late," Luke replied just as the walker lifted its foot. "Goodbye."
"LUKE!" Wedge exclaimed frantically at those words.
But even though Luke heard his friend's frantic call he never had the time to respond as the walker's enormous foot came down on his speeder crushing it and Luke in an instant, without any effort at all.
Walking through the halls of the ruined Rebel base Darth Vader stopped so suddenly that the storm troopers following him nearly crashed into him. Vader remained frozen in place as he felt his son's presence fade and then vanish completely from the Force. Just before Luke's Force presence vanished forever Vader felt pain tear throw his right leg. The pain then disappeared along with his son's life.
January 1999
"I've a very bad feeling about this" -Luke Skywalker
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by Valerie Vancollie
valeriev84@hotmail.com
"Hobbie, I'm hit!" Luke cried out as his snowspeeder shuddered with the impact of the walker's fire.
Luke frantically fought the controls, trying to get some kind of control over the crashing snowspeeder, but it was no use. Just before the speeder hit the snow-covered plains of Hoth Luke heard Hobbie reply:
"Rogue Leader, are you okay?"
Then his speeder hit the snow and Luke hit his head against the controls before he slumped forward, unconscious.
"Rogue Leader, are you okay?" Hobbie's frantic voice came over Luke's com. "Commander Skywalker!"
"He's down," Wedge replied his voice cracking. "You're in charge now."
Seconds later Luke moaned softly as he came too. At first he didn't know what had happened, but then he vaguely saw the snowspeeder's controls before him and everything came rushing back. He couldn't see too well and found that there was blood running down the left side of his face. As he shifted his hand to touch his face he hit the com controls and accidentally turned it off.
As he lifted his head he realized that his helmet was the only reason he had survived the crash, for he saw that the impact of his helmet had made a dent in the control panel. Luke quickly removed his helmet and shook his head, he immediately regretted it as he felt like the left side of his face was on fire.
He then looked out of the snowspeeder and to his horror he saw that one of the two remaining walkers was heading straight for him. He quickly removed his restraints, but when he tried to get up pain shot through his right leg and he instantly knew that he had broken it in the crash. He started to panic as he saw the walker approaching, quickly he turned his com on:
"Hobbie, Wedge, are you guys still out there?" he asked desperately.
"Luke?" came Wedge's reply. "Thank the stars you're alive. Where are you?"
"Trapped in my snowspeeder directly in the path of an approaching walker," Luke replied as he realized that the walker would be on him before Wedge could do anything.
"Rogue Leader, which walker?" Hobbie asked.
"Too late," Luke replied just as the walker lifted its foot. "Goodbye."
"LUKE!" Wedge exclaimed frantically at those words.
But even though Luke heard his friend's frantic call he never had the time to respond as the walker's enormous foot came down on his speeder crushing it and Luke in an instant, without any effort at all.
Walking through the halls of the ruined Rebel base Darth Vader stopped so suddenly that the storm troopers following him nearly crashed into him. Vader remained frozen in place as he felt his son's presence fade and then vanish completely from the Force. Just before Luke's Force presence vanished forever Vader felt pain tear throw his right leg. The pain then disappeared along with his son's life.
January 1999
"I've a very bad feeling about this" -Luke Skywalker
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