Chapter 7 – Understanding...Sort Of
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Lyta Alexander flew to the ground as the white vapor in the air began to dissipate. Ambassador Kosh replaced the head-piece on his environment suit and it sealed with a hiss. She slowly stood up and grabbed her arm. The fall must have knocked it out of the socket, because she was in extreme pain.
"Why are you so mean? The old Kosh would never hurt me," she said to the large alien.
"We are all Kosh. Leave, now," Kosh answered, enigmatic as always.
"What are you planning? I have a right to know, I have earned some respect," she said sternly.
Kosh's red "eye" suddenly opened wide and he said, "Respect from whom? You want to know? Then you will know."
Lyta screamed as information was suddenly shot into her brain. She saw a million images at once. Luke was there, he was on the bridge of a ship. Leia and Mara were standing next to him. There was a flash. A jump-point opened and they gasped as they were shot into real-space. Behind the ships, however, was something nobody had noticed. It was a Vorlon cruiser. What was a Vorlon cruiser doing with a New Republic fleet? It turned around and she fell to the ground. She stood up realizing what must have happened.
"You brought them here...Why?" she asked him.
"Do not ask questions you can't understand..." he replied
"Can't understand?" she said with confusion in her voice.
"Leave, go sleep," he commanded her.
She stood up once again and grabbed her arm as she walked out of the room. Dr. Franklin saw her lean up against the wall and hit his link.
"Franklin to MedLab; send a team down to Brown-19. We have a female human down, possible broken arm," he yelled into his link, "Lyta, what happened in there?"
"Nothing, I fell down, I'm just a little tired."
He picked her chin up and saw blood running down her cheek from her right eye.
"You're bleeding. You need help," he said as he picked her up and placed her on the gurney that came around the corner. They rolled her as fast as they could back to MedLab and injected her with painkillers. She looked up and grabbed Franklin's hand as she passed out. A split second before falling unconscious a brief telepathic link was created. He saw a few of the images, but mainly he noticed the Vorlon cruiser. She collapsed and he stopped where he was, letting the other staff to take her to MedLab. He suddenly hit his link.
"Franklin to C&C. John, I have some important news you need to hear in your office...Have Luke come too. This concerns him. I'm on my way now."
"See you in a few minutes Stephen," John replied.
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Luke looked up as Dr. Stephen Franklin walked into the room. He nodded at the Jedi and Sheridan.
"I have reason to believe that the Vorlons brought you and your fleet here, Luke. Our local telepath Lyta Alexander is very close to Ambassador Kosh. I found her seriously injured and just before she passed out I received a telepathic message, including an image of A Vorlon Cruiser behind your fleet. Nobody noticed it, because they were all distracted by your ships in the first place. I wish I could show you, so you can see for yourself."
"You can, Stephen, just think hard about the image, that way I don't have to probe for it," Luke said as he held his hand up toward the doctor. He closed his eyes and suddenly opened them, "Yes, I see it now. Why would the Vorlons want me and my friends here?"
"It could have to deal with your very powerful telepathic abilities," John said as he looked up from his desk.
"You are probably right, I need to see Ambassador Kosh, now..." Luke said as he walked out the door.
"I think I'll join you, Luke," John said to him as he followed him out the door.
"Yeah, me too, I want to know what happened to Lyta, she was very badly hurt, and she had just come out of his quarters," Dr. Franklin said as he ran up behind the two men.
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Chewbacca sat down in his old chair on the Millennium Falcon. It had been 4 years since he had been separated from his friend Han, to whom he owed a life debt. Han had saved him from enslavement to the Empire. Together they became outlaws and began smuggling for Jabba the Hutt and anybody else willing to pay them. He tightened the crash webbing around his large body and smiled over at Han as they flew out into space.
"Just like the good old days," Han said.
"Wrarrrrgh!" Chewie roared back.
"Yeah, I know, I wish you were there when we fought the Vong over Coruscant too. We could have used you a lot. Leia was starting to get used to your seat too."
"Rawwwrghgerr!"
"Ambassador Kosh, yeah, he seems nice enough, why?"
"Ruurrgh!"
"He recognized you when you arrived? How could he have known you?"
Chewie shrugged his shoulders and hit a switch next to his seat with a flick of a claw. Music began playing in the cabin.
"Leia still doesn't know about the system we put in here...On New Republic credits no doubt."
Han and Chewie began to nod their heads to the heavy beats of the Corellian band, Nazgul. They flew around the space station a few times, just checking it out. Then they decided to fly around the solar system. After a few minutes they reached the edge of the system and Chewie noticed a something weird on an asteroid floating by. He showed it to Han. Han saw it and decided to fly in closer to see what it was.
"What the heck is that thing?"
In front of them was a large black spider looking thing half-buried in the asteroid. Han grabbed the comm and said, "Han Solo to Wedge Antilles, Wedge come in."
"Wedge here," the aged commander said.
"Um...Wedge, what did you say the shadow ships looked like?"
"Big black spiders from Hell, why?"
"Um...I think me and Chewie found one. You might want to tell the Captain about this, we are returning to Babylon 5."
"Thanks Han, I'll tell him."
Chewie growled as they turned back to the space station, full speed. A squadron of Starfuries was flying out toward them.
"Please lead us to this asteroid," a voice said over the comm.
"Of course," Han said as they once again turned the ship around. Han flew off full speed but noticed the starfighters way behind him. He laughed and remembered that they didn't even come close to matching the acceleration of the Falcon.
After a few minutes they finally arrived at the asteroid. The shadow ship was gone, and there was a large hole in the asteroid.
"It's a false alarm Captain, there's nothing here."
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"Oh Han, that was amazing...Ever since we got Chewie back, I've gotten the old you back," Leia said as she rolled over and kissed him on the cheek.
Sweat dripping from Han's face he looked over and kissed her back.
"Yeah I know," he replied.
"If it means anything, I believe you."
"Huh? Oh the whole shadow ship thing, how'd you know?"
"I am a jedi after all, well sort of," she said with a laugh.
"How could I forget, you can see things before they happen too, right?" he asked her, "Well, did you see this coming?" He said as he rolled on top of her and kissed her forehead. Leia pulled the covers up using the force and giggled at his newly found youthful spirit.