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Note From Cathy(the editor): As you can tell, I intercepted this chap before she ever posted, so the below is as edited as I –being only a sophomore- can get it. Enjoy and review! (or else…)
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Looking back at her house, Diana sighed longing to stay there forever. A glint of light caught her eye, looking at it she saw the spacecraft hanger standing boldly there. Inside were her prized pod racers and speederbikes. All, sadly, had to be left behind. Taking one last look at her home she tuned and started toward the Millennium Falcon, which was waiting for her.
Getting inside, the Falcon took off. Sitting down behind the pilot's seat, she sighed. Squeezing Diana's hand Leia looked at her niece, "Don't be so down, we need to go, the Alliance needs me."
"I know." Diana said glumly. She didn't care, she wanted to stay at home, not leave it.
"Cheer up squirt! You're a big girl now." Han said trying to help.
"Gee thanks," Diana said. "Where's Hanleio? Did we leave him behind hopefully?"
"No, we did not," Leia said, not amused.
Heading to her room Diana past Hanleio's. He was sitting in the middle of the room meditating, sneaking up to him Diana got close to Hanleio's ear and said, "What are you doing on the floor?"
Startled Hanleio jumped up in an attack position, without thinking he slapped Diana hard on the face. Breathing hard he said through his teeth, "Don't you ever do that again!"
Eyes growing wider Diana braced herself and tried to calm down, staring deep into her cousin's eyes, she tried to find what had made him slap her. He had never done that before. Calming down she turned slowly to go, her face still red where he had slapped her, but then she stopped, looking back at her cousin who was still mad.
"Why?" she questioned him.
He looked at her evilly, and smiled. "Never attack a man in mediation." He said meanly.
"Attack?" Diana said looking at him. She left his room. She had had about enough of his odd sayings. Reaching her room she ran for the bed, falling down on it she sighed heavily again and tried to sleep.
"Han, we have to get to Coruscant quickly." Leia said impatiently.
"I know that," Han said getting annoyed by his wife's constant nagging.
"Well can't you make this hunk of stone age junk go any faster?" she said looking over Han's shoulder.
Without saying a word Han pulled the hyper drive button, the large ship made a huge jerk, sending the unbuckled princess flying towards the back. Falling on the floor, Leia scowled at her husband and their co-pilot, Chewbacca, who were laughing at her. Getting up she walked over to Han and whapped him over the head with her hand.
"OW! What the heck was that for?!" he asked rubbing the top of his head.
"Oh, I wonder." She said.
"Well what did I do?" Han said playing around.
"Nothing." Leia said, and leaned down, giving Han a long passionate kiss.
A little stunned, Han watched his wife walk away turning his attention to Chewbacca, who was now laughing at him.
"What's so funny?" Han asked, slightly embarrassed. "Huh? You big ball of fur. What's so amusing?"
After listing to Chewbacca's explanation he touched his lips and fond that he had lipstick all over them.
"Well..." Han said trying to find an excuse, but finally gave up. Looking back the controls he asked Chewbacca, "You handle the controls for awhile, okay Chew?"
With Chewbacca's nod of approval Han left the cockpit, and headed towards his room. Opening the door he found his wife waiting for him.
"Come here, let me see that head. Does it still hurt?" She said reaching for his head.
Smiling Han went to his wife and kissed her. "It feels fine now."
Han picked Leia up and carried her to the bed. "There my princess, your bed awaits you."
"And my prince?" Leia asked, her eyes sparkling.
"He too is here waiting to fulfill your every wish and desire."
(Editor note: Mrrrowww….heh heh heh…)
Laughing Leia kissed Han again. "Well then for my first wish to be fulfilled is that I want you out of those smelly clothes. You smell like a pod racer in them." Laughing Han went to change, while Leia dimmed the lights and locked the door.
Diana woke up with a jolt, her eyes open wide. Wiping the sweat out of her eyes, she tried to stop breathing hard. Looking around her dark room she gathered her thoughts. Still somewhat terrified after her dream, she got out and looked out the window.
The Falcon was headed toward a huge blue planet, not sure what it was called, Diana knew that there her aunt was going to have to be sent on some mission.
Stupid Alliance, New Republic crap, she thought.
Walking back to her bed she tripped over something. Letting out a silent curse she turned on the light. The thing she had tripped over was a bag. Scowling she opened it up to see what it was. Inside she found a book, socks, and a red pen. Opening the book she saw that the first page with fancy silver scrip reading, Hanleio's.
"You've got to be kidding me." Diana said to herself. She tried to turn the page to see what else was in it but she couldn't. Pulling on the book a little harder Diana realized that she couldn't open it. Getting angry with the thought that Hanleio had dumped it in her room; she picked up the bag and went to Hanleio's room.
"Here you big goof. Why don't you keep your own junk in your room?!" She said tossing the bag in the dark room. Hearing the bag land on the bed she waited for him to stir, but there was nothing.
Flipping on the light she saw that Hanleio was not in his room at all. Looking above his bed she saw that a panel of the ceiling was opened. Standing on the bed she was about to put it back in place but she froze. In the silent night she heard Hanleio's voice. It was coming up above the ceiling.
Hoisting herself up into the small tunnel she listened for her cousin's voice once more. Turning her head to the left she began to crawl toward his voice. Passing all sorts of switches and controls, she saw a wench. Moving it aside she laughed at the thought of Chewbacca leaving his tools a mess.
The tunnel that she was in was used to fix the Millennium Falcon and only her uncle and Chewy aloud to go in it. Pushing onward Diana came into a part of the ship where she was able to stand. Getting up she saw a light shining at the end of the tunnel fowling it quietly she saw Hanleio and a holographic image. The hologram was a man in a black robe which hid his face.
"What the…" Diana murmured loudly.
Hanlei snapped his head around; his eyes looked as if they were on fire. "You!" he said.
All of a sudden there was a snap of electricity. Diana felt herself hit the wall, hard. Looking over she saw the hologram disappear. Then she blacked out.
"Diana?"
She could her aunt calling out her name but she was to nauseous answer back. Opening her eyes, she saw her uncle and aunt around her bed.
"Do you feel ok?" her worried aunt asked. Diana nodded slowly. She could feel her body gathering strength, opening her mouth she tried to speak, but nothing came out.
"You can't talk, you hit your head on one of the main electrical drives, and it's numbed your vocal cords. What were you doing up there?" Han asked with a mixture of angriness and concern in his voice.
Diana just shook her head she could barely remember and she felt terrible, the feeling of not throwing up was beginning to get too hard to control. Her head felt as if it were about to explode, all she wanted to do was sleep.
"You need sleep," Leia said as if she had read Diana's thoughts. "We'll leave you now, but when you get your voice back you have a lot of explaining to do."
Closing her eyes Diana could hear her aunt and uncle leave her room; she fell asleep and began to have a horrible nightmare, one that she could not stop, no matter how hard she cried out.
"So explain to me why your cousin was up in the work area?" Han said demandingly to his son.
"I don't know! I told you, I heard a noise and saw the hatch open, I went in and found her there crumpled over." Hanleio said.
They sat around the small table; Han stood across from his son studying him.
"What was she doing up there?!" Han said getting tense.
"I DON'T KNOW!" Hanleio erupted standing up meeting his father's height.
Looking him hard in the eye, Han backed down. He wasn't sure what had gone on, Hanleio's story seemed to fit but not entirely. Could he be lying?
Han squeezed his eyes shut, stop it. He thought to himself. He could never admit that he didn't believe his son. Another thought came to him mind, Hanleio… where did he go wrong? Han had always thought that he would have a better life after the war. But that wish had to be broken, and Han hated it. Now his son hated him and the family and Han could do nothing about it, and it seemed to be worse.
Putting his head down Han gave up and told Hanleio to go. Sitting down at the table he put his head down on the table.
"Hanleio…" he heard himself say without meaning to.
"I know." Leia said coming into the room. "Don't worry Han, when we land everything will go well. You'll see."
Picking his head up, he looked at his wife. She seemed to always try to look on the bright side, even if there was none. Nodding soberly he got up and walked past his wife and went to their room.
Leia squeezed her hands and hoped she was right. Heading to bed she said a silent prayer that everything would work out.
Diana looked out of the landspeeder's window at the people working and loading things into the ships. They had made it safely to the plant, and even though she didn't have her voice she felt much better. Hanleio sat in the back with a scowl on his face. The landspeeder slowed down in front of a tall white building, people were coming in and out. Getting out, Leia whispered something to Han. Nodding he took the data card from Leia's hand and went in head of them.
"Where is he going?" Hanleio asked tartly.
"He has to do something that's all, come on their waiting for us." Leia said walking up the steps.
Once inside Diana looked around, there were people of all species and ranks. Tall white pillars climbed to the top of the building. There were at least twenty floors that Diana could count.
So this is the New Republic head quarters, she thought. Looking around, she saw that Leia and Hanleio had moved on, she ran to catch up. Trying to get to them, Diana didn't look where she was going and crashed into a young man, causing her to trip and fall.
Surprised, Diana yelped, but because her voice wasn't back yet, no one heard.
"I'm terribly sorry." the man said helping Diana up. "Are you ok?"
Diana nodded; the man seemed to be the same age as her aunt. His sandy blond hair dusted his bright blue eyes. He was dressed in a black tunic with a brown robe-like covering over it. For some reason he looked very familiar to Diana.
He's dressed like a Jedi Knight she thought to herself, remembering pictures and the studies she had taken in school. Unfortunately she never cared for school and could not remember anything else about them. She mentally kicked herself for not paying closer attention. Diana thought that he was very handsome.
He smiled at her, not knowing what more to say, he asked her, "Do you know where you're going?"
Diana nodded and pointed toward her aunt. He looked and saw Leia; "Oh." was all he could say. Turning is attention back to Diana, he asked, "Can you speak?"
Diana, not sure how to answer, shook her head yes and then no. Putting a hand on her shoulder the man looked deep into her eyes and asked, "What?"
"Well…" Diana said out loud surprised, "Oh I can talk now." She said to herself.
Blushing realizing that she must look like a fool to the stranger she said, "It's a long story. I'm sorry I crashed into you, I was trying to get to my aunt."
"I see; I'm sorry to have gotten in your way. My name is Luke, what's your name?"
"Diana, I've got to get going my aunt doesn't know that I've left." Diana said.
"Let me walk you there, I'm headed in the direction, I would like to speak with your aunt." Luke said.
"Why you know her?" Diana said puzzled.
"Yes, everyone knows your aunt she's a very important part to the Alliance. Didn't you know that?"
Diana mumbled something, of course she knew that her aunt was important, why was she acting so weird around this guy?
"Oh Diana there you are!" her aunt said, looking at the man next to her she froze. "Luke I ….."
"Don't worry I didn't plan it either." Luke said.
Swallowing hard she said, "Dinner."
Nodding Luke went on his way without saying another thing.
"What was that all about?" Diana asked her aunt as they walked over to one of the many elevators.
"Nothing, just a dinner guest that I didn't expect to see." Leia said in a rush.
Traveling up they reached their floor and went in to one of the rooms.
"This is where we stay." Leia said. "Han should be here."
"I already am." He said coming from around the hallway. "We've got a meeting in thirty minutes. Mon Mothma wants us to go over the reports and all that other stuff."
Nodding Leia went into the next room and started away at typing into one of the computers. Han came behind his wife and rubbed her shoulders.
"He came." Leia said starting ahead at the screen still typing in commands.
"Luke?" Han asked her questionly.
"Yes, he's coming for dinner, don't say anything. I'm not sure how to tell them." She said pausing to look up at Han. He squeezed her shoulders and reached over to hit the enter key. The computer started to type up a report, "Come on." He said ripping it from the printer. "Duty calls."
Getting up, Leia noticed that both Diana and Hanleio were in their room's, doors shut. Sighing there was no time to tell them where they would be. Going outside and shutting the door Han and Leia walked to meeting.
Throwing her pillow up against the wall Diana was getting frustrated. Only Diana didn't know why she was and that made her even more so. Opening her bedroom door she saw that her aunt and uncle had left for their meeting. Walking over to the door she yelled to Hanleio, "I'm going to the canteen!"
There was no response, "As if you care." Diana muttered under her breath. Walking out she headed out toward the canteen, she passed different rooms, what looked like they were each holding important meetings.
She had never really thought about how important the New Republic was. They were a main part of why she and her family weren't part of the Empire. Diana's heart ached, her family, another thing she never thought of. Aunt Leia never told her much about her real family. It never came up at home.
Before her mind could start wondering she turned into the canteen. Sitting at the bar she asked the bartender for a hot chocolate with a shot of Grimblil in it, a Tattoonie alcohol.
The bar tender eyed her and asked for some ID, grumbling Diana pulled out her card and showed the man that she was indeed old enough to drink. Shrugging the bar tender pulled out a mug and started to fill it.
"I see you go for the heaver stuff." A man next to Diana said.
"What of it?" Diana said not in the mood to talk to anyone. She looked up to find that it was Luke, the man who she crashed into earlier. "Oh."
"Nothing." He said. "I was just surprised that's all."
"Well, sorry to have startled you." She said rudely.
The man shrugged and looked of into space. Sighing Diana loosened up a bit. "Sorry, I haven't been in the best of moods." She said apologizing to the stranger.
"It's ok…Diana, right?" He asked. Nodding she took a sip of her cooling drink.
"Would you care to take a table?" he asked.
"Why not- it was Luke right?" she said trying to be polite.
They walked over to a table sitting down there was an odd pause of silence.
"Are you still in school?" Luke asked trying to start a conversation.
"Ha! No, I quit that a long time ago." Diana said. "I was suppose to start in the flight academy but my aunt won't have it."
"Ah" Luke said remembering his days of trying to get into the academy. "She can worry a lot."
Smiling Diana agreed. Looking down at the belt he wore she saw something odd.
"What's that?" she asked him pointing at it. "It can't be a blaster."
"You've never seen one of these before?" Luke asked looking at Diana oddly.
"Should I?" Diana asked not sure what he was getting at.
"No I guess not." He said taking it from his belt and handing it to Diana. "It's a lightsaber."
"Lightsaber," she echoed, studding it carefully remembering the lessons. "I think I've heard of these, we learned about them in school, yeah…"
Diana looked at it recalling the article in the text book.
"Isn't that only Jedi Knights or people who are force sensitive have lightsabers?"
"You're right." Luke said.
Handing back the lightsaber Diana said, "So that means you're a Jedi Knight?"
Luke nodded taking a sip of his drink.
"They seem really neat, I wish I could have one" Diana said wishfully.
"You can." He said.
"But how? I'm not a Jedi Knight."
"Not yet." Luke said looking into Diana's eyes.
Getting a little scared Diana nervously took a sip of her drink finishing it, she absentmindedly licked her lips. She could taste the sweet chocolate against the bitter sour taste of the alcohol.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Diana said finally.
"You will be a Jedi Knight," the man said mysteriously. "You better get going Leia and Han will be back."
Diana looked at the man in wonder. Getting up, she tried to say something but she couldn't find the words.
"I…I…" coughing she finally was able to speak. " I'll see you at dinner."
"Until then." Luke said rising.
Diana walked out of the canteen still spooked by what Luke had said.
I will be a Jedi Knight? She wondered to herself. "How?" she said out loud.
"Hey you!" a man yelled at her.
Looking up Diana looked around to see who the man was yelling at; to her surprise it was her. "Me?"
"Yeah you. Nice move, trying to ditch the war briefing like that." The man said taking Diana by the shoulders.
"I don't need to be at the briefing." Diana said trying to pull back. "Leave me alone."
"Be quiet or I'll have you turned in. All pilots need to be at this meeting like it or not. And I suggest that you shut up before you get into anymore trouble." The man said taking Diana into the room.
Down below, on the briefing floor, she could see a map of the planet Diragon. Around her were about a hundred pilots all were taking their seats and preparing for the briefing. Looking over she saw the man, who appeared to be a guard, looking at her hard. Almost daring her to move. Turning back around she tried to blend into the crowd, hoping not be spotted by anyone she knew.
"The meeting will begin." A man in a white uniform said.
Diana looked down at the briefing floor, there were all kinds of generals and captions and their aids. She recognized all the men down there. A tall man with slicked back brown hair was Caption James Kristen; he was always at her aunt's business parties. It seemed to Diana that he never liked her.
"Now, we'll begin with the up coming battle." He said switching on the hologram. Up appeared another map of the plant this time in greater detail. We will begin on the outer core and work our way in. Then will have a tech team sneak their way in the temple."
Clearly Diana had missed the beginning of the meeting.
"Well have then enough time to bring the outer units in and have a full attack." The caption continued, "Our lasers sites will then be set to 0-632 and we'll aim for the control building. That should take them out partially and then well have the upper hand in catching them."
"No it won't."
The room began buzz, Diana swallowed hard, why did she have to open her big mouth.
"Excuse me?" the Caption asked looking ground the room. Clearly he was not amused at the thought that a pilot was correcting him.
"It won't work." Diana said plainly, she gathered every ounce of courage inside of her. "You've got it wrong."
A woman next to the caption stood up from her seat. Diana gave a shot gasp, Mon Mothma, here! Diana wished that she had never left her room.
"Will the pilot who is do bold enough to have thought that the Caption made a mistake please rise." Mon Mothma said looking around the room.
Standing up Dianna said "Over here."
"Identify yourself." Mon Mothma said coolly.
"Uh, I am Diana Solo." Diana said not sure of what the proper way a pilot identified themselves. The other pilots snickered at Diana's dumbness.
"Solo?" she said in shock looking at Diana for a minute. "Very well, go on Solo."
"Well you see setting your lasers at 0-632, won't half-way destroy them."
"Why of cores it would! You are you to-"The caption was cut off by Mon Mothma.
"Go on Solo. Caption no interruptions please." She said.
"Like I was saying…. it would destroy them completely, you would need to set you lasers at 1-325, if you were to destroy only half of their building or whatever. Or if you mean take the structure and destroy it from the inside only you would have to set them at 1558-6355." Diana said.
"She's right Mon," a Caption next to her said.
"I see, Captain Kristen, I tell see that your plan may have some bugs still in them I suggest you work them out and until then this briefing is over. I am sorry for the inconvenience." Mon Monthma said.
The room began to clear, Dianna heard one of the pilots say that the caption had never made a mistake or have one of the pilots correct him in front of Mon Mothma. Diana bit her lip; she didn't mean to cause trouble.
"Will Pilot Diana Solo please come to the floor?" Mon Mothma announced. Now what, Diana thought. She walked down, to the floor there she saw Caption Kristen gathering his papers looking very upset.
"Now Pilot Solo, how do you know so much about the settings for laser shootings?" she asked Diana.
"Well I've always had an interested in them. My uncle taught me most of it." Diana said hoping she didn't' cause any trouble. "And, um… I'm not a pilot."
"So we've heard." Mon Mothma told her stepping back. There behind Mon Mothma stood Diana's aunt Leia.
Leia looked at her niece. "What are you doing here?" she asked.
"The man over there said that I had to come in and here the briefing or else I would get in trouble." Diana said pointing over to the guard standing by the door. "I tried telling him that I wasn't a pilot but he wouldn't listen. I just went to the canteen for a minute and was going back. I really didn't mean to get mixed up in this." She suddenly felt sick. Swallowing she took a breath.
"I understand. I'll speak to the gaud to work on identifying pilots from civilians. Next time try to avoid getting to close the briefing doors, that way any guard won't mix you up with any rookie pilots skipping a briefing." Mon Mothma said. "Leia you can go now. Nice seeing you, Solo."
Nodding Leia started to walk out with Diana. Walking back to their room, Diana could feel her aunt thinking of what to do.
"Are you mad?" she asked.
"I don't know." Leia said calmly. "I'm not sure what to make of it."
"Well I didn't want to go in there in the first place, and I couldn't help but to correct the caption." Diana said trying to explain herself. Reaching the door Leia looked at Diana.
"I Believe you," she said. "But you've made Caption Kirsten very upset. But then I've never liked him much, so I guess I'll let it slide." She said joking.
Opening the door, Leia told Diana. "You need to get ready for dinner, we've got
company." Diana shuddered. The words Luke said to her back in the canteen about
becoming a Jedi, kept on repeating in her mind. You will be a Jedi Knight.
To Be Continued.
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Well there you go. I'm working on the forth chapter as we speak so keep an eye out of it. Please review and tell me what I should change and if it's good or not. If you want to yell at me go for it, I wanna hear the worse, so I can fix it in my story. ^__^
Thanks for reading and may the force be with you.
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