Dev leaned over Skywalker as he placed his hand over the place his master
had hit him with his tail. //Skywalker, can you hear me? If you don't wake
up they will kill you.
Dev glanced at his master, "Dev are you not happy?" Firwirrung asked.
Dev nodded with the right amount of enthusiasm. "Yes master I am happy, I'm just worried about your wound. He hurt you." He put what he guessed just the right amount of concern in his voice.
Firwirrung said something softly that Dev could not catch. "As long as you're sure?"
Dev nodded as he repeated, "He hurt you."
//Skywalker can you hear me? Dev placed his hand over Skywalker's wound, or so he thought it was his wound. It was almost healed.
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When they landed, Dev noted that they had only brought one stretcher with them. He hefted Skywalker over his shoulders as he trudged down to the room with the new chair. Every step he took, he felt more hopeless that they were not going to get out of this. His back began to hurt, but he took pleasure in the pain. It was his fault he knew, he remembered how his hand was injured. His master had stuck a knife in it.
He walked up to the chair, and placed Skywalker on it.
"Well done Dev, you are strong indeed." Blue Scale said.
Manipulative praise, now Dev recognized it. He walked over to Firwirrung and placed his hand on his arm to show his concern.
"Dev, I think it is time to receive your fighter droid." His master said.
Dev froze; they were not buying this. "What do you mean?" Dev asked with fear.
"I think it is time for your reward, I will stick the tubes in like I had promised." Firwirrung replied.
"Don't you smell yourself human, you are reeking off treachery." Blue Scale pointed out.
Dev ran to Skywalker and put his hands around the Jedi's throat. "You won't get your wish this time." Dev yelled out as he began to strangle Skywalker. His next words died on his tongue as the lights went out.
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Luke was controlling the now confused P'w'ecks; they had unwittingly smashed their tails into the controls. Luke stretched out his hand; he knew his lightsaber had to be near by. He suddenly felt the comforting weight of his lightsaber.
He stood up as he quickly activated the green blade. "Dev, find some place to take cover." Luke yelled, as p'w'ecks charged Luke. He quickly sliced them in half.
Luke watched as the big blue one and the smaller brown one ran out. Luke choked a cough back. There must be something in the air that was beginning to irritate his lungs.
Dev looked over in awe mixed with concern, "Are you alright?"
Luke nodded, "I'm fine, there must be something in the air. You must be used to it by now." Dev flinched as he was reminded at how long he had been with them.
"Why did they run?" Luke asked.
"They are afraid to die while off of their world." Dev answered.
"Ok, how do we get off?" Luke asked as he swallowed another cough.
"The unmarked Imperial shuttle in the hanger bay should still be there." Dev replied, maybe there was a way out of here after all.
Luke nodded, "Ok, we'll head down there and hope that the shuttle is still there." Luke said, as the cough got a little stronger.
Dev glanced at Luke all concerned. Something was wrong.
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Padme glanced over as Threepio walked into the apartment. She was sitting on the couch with Kay leaning against Padme. There was something wrong, but what? She heard that the Ssi-Ruuk will be attacking with in half an hour, she could do nothing, she had to stay and protect Kay.
"Mistress Padme, the Ssi-Ruuk will be attacking in half an hour." Threepio informed her.
"Yes I already know." Padme replied. The sirens have been going off for the past few minutes now. She patted her blaster that she always carried around with her in the old days. The old days when the Trade Federation attacked her home world while she was the elected Queen ruler. The day she met her husband when he was only nine years old and she was sixteen. Ten years later she went seeking for the Jedi's help once more, Obi Wan and Anakin were assigned that mission. She sighed, they fell in love, when Anakin began to train as a jedi, he was forbidden to love, and yet it happened anyway, they kept it secret, when Obi Wan found out, Padme was sure that he would kick Anakin out of the jedi temple, but instead he kept his silence about the relationship. A year later they married, 3 months just before everything fell apart that is when she got pregnant with Luke and Leia.
Padme remembered that awful day that would change her life forever. Obi Wan told her that Anakin had died at the hands of Lord Darth Vader, she told Obi Wan that she was pregnant with jedi twins. Obi Wan suggested that once they were born, they should be separated to lead different lives. The twins found each other twenty years later, they didn't know they were brother and sister at the time. Three years after they met, she heard that Leia kissed Luke while on Hoth just to get a rise out of Han. She smirked, if Leia knew then, that kiss would've never happened. It's a year later, and she learns that Obi Wan had lied to her about Anakin, now she was back with her twins and husband.
She sighed as she glanced at the young girl that was leaning against her, and now there was a chance they could be adding to the family, if everything worked out in the end then Kay would be a Skywalker.
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Han, Chewie and Gaeriel ran up to the speeder that was just pulling up, what to tell Anakin Han did not even want to think about it. He grimaced as he caught sight of the black mask and armor.
Han stood stalk still as he was about to deliver bad news, "Anakin, I am sorry, but the Ssi-Ruuk got Luke. Chewie and I are about to board the Falcon; you are welcome to come. Somehow I don't think that shuttle is coming down that was suppose to pick up Luke and take him back to the carrier."
Anakin stiffened as he heard this. His son was with the enemy and was going to die if he did not reach him soon. "I will come." Sirens began to go off. Han and Chewie got in, "Gaeriel, could you do me a favor and check on Padme and Kay for me? Leia is at the old Bakura garrison, holding Nereus prisoner of war. Your Uncle and Beldon are there as well." Anakin asked.
Gaeriel smiled, as she nodded, "Sure." Anakin lifted the speeder and took off into the direction of the Falcon.
Nereus was out of the way, Gaeriel thought; the rebellion was beginning to rise as they took down stormtroopers left and right. The plan was when this was all over they would join the Alliance, they were planning on taking over the Imperial garrison. Oh yes Gaeriel thought, this should get interesting.
She walked towards a speeder, as Artoo followed her, oh right, she almost forgot about him. She took Artoo with her. She planned to leave him at the apartment with Padme.
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Anakin pulled up to the falcon as Han and Chewie bolted up the ramp to get the systems online. Anakin walked in as the ships engines came off standby. He heard Han muttered, "For once she is not up to her old tricks." Anakin smirked; yes he had heard so much about this ship. Now he was on it. Interesting, he thought that Han would never let him on his ship.
Anakin walked up to the cockpit. Han glanced over his shoulder, "General you better strap down. Because we are about to be gone." He sat down in the passengers seat.
That brought another smile to his lips; no one knew about his secret commission that Ackbar gave him before they left. Only a few people knew about it. They probably thought that Ackbar was off his rocker.
Han climbed hard for space, "Chewie get to the guns, take the dorsal, the shielding is better."
Chewie acknowledged as he left. Anakin gestured to the oversized co-pilot seat, "May I." He asked.
Han nodded, "By all means."
Anakin sat in the oversized co-pilots seat and punched in codes to the Alliance frequency, well it was about time everyone found out about his commission.
"Before you say anything, the fleet knows about your relationship to Luke and Leia." Han told him.
Anakin had already guessed that was about to happen, he wondered who let that part slip. "This is General Anakin Skywalker, all squad leaders report in."
"This is rogue leader, standing by." Wedge reported in with a smirk on his lips, so Anakin decided to let his true name come out. Here it comes, Wedge thought, Vader directing the Alliance Forces, and this was a kick in the teeth to the Imperials to have their ex-chief commander direct rebel forces.
"This is Grey leader, standing by." Commander Matthews reported in, he was a little surprised to hear Vader use the name Skywalker, or maybe that was his real name and Luke was allowed to retain his true last name.
"This is red leader standing by." Captain Cheries reported in. The general part confused her; did the Alliance Leaders activate a commission for him?
"This is gold leader, standing by." Colonel Frances reported in, hmm, She knew that she was not the only one confused by the general part. She heard it in the other voices except for Rogue Leader. Captain Antillies must've known the whole time and said nothing about it.
"This is blue leader, standing by." General Kern reported in. He was confused, how did Vader retain the rank of General? Why was nothing said about this?
""Stay in current positions until further notice." Anakin told them. He heard clicks over the comlink come back in acknowledgement.
Anakin switched to Wedge's private line to his x-wing. "Captain Antillies, Luke is being held prisoner aboard the main Ssi-Ruuk warship." He trusted Antillies.
"Are you sure General?" Wedge asked in confusion.
"I am positive, Captain. Han and I plan to sneak aboard to get him off. We need Rogue Squadron to run interference, if that is not too much to ask?" Anakin put it.
"No problem sir, Rogue Squadron is used to running unscheduled interferences." Wedge replied with another smirk on his lips.
"Good, I knew I could count on you. We'll be going aboard sometime during the battle. Just wait for my signal" Anakin replied.
"Yes sir." Wedge smiled, now what better time to sneak aboard while during the confusion of battle; no one kept track of who was where.
Anakin switched to the Alliance frequency, "Flurry, what is your current position?"
"We are Alpha eight one kilo charlie." Manchisco answered. Anakin noted that she was beside Thanas's flagship. He checked on the other ships that were part of the task force. He noted where every one of them was.
He switched to the Imperial/Alliance frequency, "Commander Thanas, this General Skywalker, Commander Skywalker is busy at the moment, to be directing forces, I am second in command of the Alliance Task force, I only ask for your cooperation."
Anakin knew that he would have a lot of explaining to do later.
"This is Commander Thanas. Anakin? Is that you? I thought you were dead?" Thanas said in a confused voice.
"We will talk about what happened later Pter, right now we have a battle to direct." Anakin said with regret in his voice.
"I am sorry to hear what happened with your son, I just hope everything works out in the end for you." Thanas said, he knew what Nereus told him; he was to keep Vader from climbing aboard the Ssi Ruuk warship, but he could not go against his old friend like that.
"Thanks old friend, if I know my son for one thing, he is good at getting out of tight spots." Anakin replied.
Han looked over startled as he mouthed old friend? There was a lot of confusion coming over the comlink.
"May I remind everyone that we are suppose to keep the comlink silent now?" Anakin asked.
Everyone fell silent as they heard this.
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Leia was sitting in a chair, watching Nereus stare right back at her. She did not like the look he was giving her. It could've fried lead. So what to do now? She thought. If Luke died she would know it somehow, no one would need to tell her. An old pray from Alderaan slipped into her mind, she prayed that her father would find Luke in time.
Leia fingered her lightsaber, there was something nagging in the back of her mind. Almost like something was about to happen. She thought it over when her father was in here earlier, Leia could not help but notice that his hand was covering the butt of his lightsaber, she was glad that he didn't use it, but what would've happened if she was not here to warn him. Would her father resort to it? Maybe. Then again. Maybe not.
Yeorg and Orn were using this time to check on their families. Leia glanced over her shoulder, it has been two hours and they were not back yet. It shouldn't be taking them this long. She brushed Nereus with the force; Leia did not like what she felt. She cautiously got up and walked over. Her hand was covering the butt of her lightsaber, just incase he tried anything. Her danger sense flared, she quickly glanced around the room, she caught site of a shadow looking in. Leia quickly drew her lightsaber, and deflected bolts back to the owners, she quickly used that time to run to the door. She drew her blaster and shot into the corridor and nailed two stormtroopers in the process. What she could not figure out is how they knew that she had Nereus here.
Leia ran out the door and flew down the hall, looking for Orn and Yeorg. She found them tied up near the back entrance over by the transmission field. She quickly untied them.
When they got back to where they were holding Nereus prisoner, they found an empty chair. Leia cursed one of Han's more colorful curses; she ran out the door as she poured out the speed. She knew where Nereus was going; he was heading to their apartment to kill Kay. Well she could let that happen. When Leia got outside, she caught sight of Nereus just taking off. She drew her blaster and began to fire at him; she found it useless.
Leia ran back inside, and over to the transmission field, this was the only way she could get a warning back to the apartment. But she found that he had been thorough, he had severed the transmission wires.
She ran back outside, and watched as a speeder was just going by. Leia quickly flagged down the person, he pulled over when he saw who it was. Leia ran up to him, "I need to get to the city and fast. There is a life at steak."
The driver nodded as he said, "Get in." Leia climbed in and said, "Lets go and do not hold back on the speed."
"Names, Collan Trend by the way. You're Leia Organa aren't you?" Collan asked.
"Yes I am." Leia replied truthfully.
Collan was silent for a few minutes, as they speeded in towards the city. "I heard a rumor, you can tell me if it is true or not."
Leia swallowed hard, her mind wondered to the two guards who ran off on Nereus, could they have possibly told someone about her relations to Vader? "Sure, what is it?"
"There has been this rumor going around the city for the past few hours now. I am not one much for gossip, but this one is a little hard to believe." He seemed to hesitate before going on. "Are you the daughter of Lord Vader?" Collan suddenly got out.
Just as Leia had feared the guards had let it slip, and now the whole city knows. She turned her glance back at Collan and brushed his presence, she felt just plain curiosity come from him, no tricks, and no deception. She took a deep breath, as she realized that the damage had already been done. "Yes Collan, he is my father."
She felt fear come off of Collan, "You do not have to fear him any longer. He is not the same person you were told about." Leia said to calm his fears. Collan nodded as he concentrated on his driving. "Whose life is at steak?"
Leia raised her voice to be heard over the wind, "a ten-year-old girl by the name of Kay Shran. She witnessed Nereus killing her parents. Now he wants to finish the job "
"I heard about the investigation on her parents murder, they were getting close to finding the person who did it. Did you just say the Governor is the murderer?" Collan replied.
Leia nodded, "Yes he is and now Nereus is planning on killing Kay."
Collan said no more as he floored it.
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Dev glanced at his master, "Dev are you not happy?" Firwirrung asked.
Dev nodded with the right amount of enthusiasm. "Yes master I am happy, I'm just worried about your wound. He hurt you." He put what he guessed just the right amount of concern in his voice.
Firwirrung said something softly that Dev could not catch. "As long as you're sure?"
Dev nodded as he repeated, "He hurt you."
//Skywalker can you hear me? Dev placed his hand over Skywalker's wound, or so he thought it was his wound. It was almost healed.
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When they landed, Dev noted that they had only brought one stretcher with them. He hefted Skywalker over his shoulders as he trudged down to the room with the new chair. Every step he took, he felt more hopeless that they were not going to get out of this. His back began to hurt, but he took pleasure in the pain. It was his fault he knew, he remembered how his hand was injured. His master had stuck a knife in it.
He walked up to the chair, and placed Skywalker on it.
"Well done Dev, you are strong indeed." Blue Scale said.
Manipulative praise, now Dev recognized it. He walked over to Firwirrung and placed his hand on his arm to show his concern.
"Dev, I think it is time to receive your fighter droid." His master said.
Dev froze; they were not buying this. "What do you mean?" Dev asked with fear.
"I think it is time for your reward, I will stick the tubes in like I had promised." Firwirrung replied.
"Don't you smell yourself human, you are reeking off treachery." Blue Scale pointed out.
Dev ran to Skywalker and put his hands around the Jedi's throat. "You won't get your wish this time." Dev yelled out as he began to strangle Skywalker. His next words died on his tongue as the lights went out.
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Luke was controlling the now confused P'w'ecks; they had unwittingly smashed their tails into the controls. Luke stretched out his hand; he knew his lightsaber had to be near by. He suddenly felt the comforting weight of his lightsaber.
He stood up as he quickly activated the green blade. "Dev, find some place to take cover." Luke yelled, as p'w'ecks charged Luke. He quickly sliced them in half.
Luke watched as the big blue one and the smaller brown one ran out. Luke choked a cough back. There must be something in the air that was beginning to irritate his lungs.
Dev looked over in awe mixed with concern, "Are you alright?"
Luke nodded, "I'm fine, there must be something in the air. You must be used to it by now." Dev flinched as he was reminded at how long he had been with them.
"Why did they run?" Luke asked.
"They are afraid to die while off of their world." Dev answered.
"Ok, how do we get off?" Luke asked as he swallowed another cough.
"The unmarked Imperial shuttle in the hanger bay should still be there." Dev replied, maybe there was a way out of here after all.
Luke nodded, "Ok, we'll head down there and hope that the shuttle is still there." Luke said, as the cough got a little stronger.
Dev glanced at Luke all concerned. Something was wrong.
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Padme glanced over as Threepio walked into the apartment. She was sitting on the couch with Kay leaning against Padme. There was something wrong, but what? She heard that the Ssi-Ruuk will be attacking with in half an hour, she could do nothing, she had to stay and protect Kay.
"Mistress Padme, the Ssi-Ruuk will be attacking in half an hour." Threepio informed her.
"Yes I already know." Padme replied. The sirens have been going off for the past few minutes now. She patted her blaster that she always carried around with her in the old days. The old days when the Trade Federation attacked her home world while she was the elected Queen ruler. The day she met her husband when he was only nine years old and she was sixteen. Ten years later she went seeking for the Jedi's help once more, Obi Wan and Anakin were assigned that mission. She sighed, they fell in love, when Anakin began to train as a jedi, he was forbidden to love, and yet it happened anyway, they kept it secret, when Obi Wan found out, Padme was sure that he would kick Anakin out of the jedi temple, but instead he kept his silence about the relationship. A year later they married, 3 months just before everything fell apart that is when she got pregnant with Luke and Leia.
Padme remembered that awful day that would change her life forever. Obi Wan told her that Anakin had died at the hands of Lord Darth Vader, she told Obi Wan that she was pregnant with jedi twins. Obi Wan suggested that once they were born, they should be separated to lead different lives. The twins found each other twenty years later, they didn't know they were brother and sister at the time. Three years after they met, she heard that Leia kissed Luke while on Hoth just to get a rise out of Han. She smirked, if Leia knew then, that kiss would've never happened. It's a year later, and she learns that Obi Wan had lied to her about Anakin, now she was back with her twins and husband.
She sighed as she glanced at the young girl that was leaning against her, and now there was a chance they could be adding to the family, if everything worked out in the end then Kay would be a Skywalker.
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Han, Chewie and Gaeriel ran up to the speeder that was just pulling up, what to tell Anakin Han did not even want to think about it. He grimaced as he caught sight of the black mask and armor.
Han stood stalk still as he was about to deliver bad news, "Anakin, I am sorry, but the Ssi-Ruuk got Luke. Chewie and I are about to board the Falcon; you are welcome to come. Somehow I don't think that shuttle is coming down that was suppose to pick up Luke and take him back to the carrier."
Anakin stiffened as he heard this. His son was with the enemy and was going to die if he did not reach him soon. "I will come." Sirens began to go off. Han and Chewie got in, "Gaeriel, could you do me a favor and check on Padme and Kay for me? Leia is at the old Bakura garrison, holding Nereus prisoner of war. Your Uncle and Beldon are there as well." Anakin asked.
Gaeriel smiled, as she nodded, "Sure." Anakin lifted the speeder and took off into the direction of the Falcon.
Nereus was out of the way, Gaeriel thought; the rebellion was beginning to rise as they took down stormtroopers left and right. The plan was when this was all over they would join the Alliance, they were planning on taking over the Imperial garrison. Oh yes Gaeriel thought, this should get interesting.
She walked towards a speeder, as Artoo followed her, oh right, she almost forgot about him. She took Artoo with her. She planned to leave him at the apartment with Padme.
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Anakin pulled up to the falcon as Han and Chewie bolted up the ramp to get the systems online. Anakin walked in as the ships engines came off standby. He heard Han muttered, "For once she is not up to her old tricks." Anakin smirked; yes he had heard so much about this ship. Now he was on it. Interesting, he thought that Han would never let him on his ship.
Anakin walked up to the cockpit. Han glanced over his shoulder, "General you better strap down. Because we are about to be gone." He sat down in the passengers seat.
That brought another smile to his lips; no one knew about his secret commission that Ackbar gave him before they left. Only a few people knew about it. They probably thought that Ackbar was off his rocker.
Han climbed hard for space, "Chewie get to the guns, take the dorsal, the shielding is better."
Chewie acknowledged as he left. Anakin gestured to the oversized co-pilot seat, "May I." He asked.
Han nodded, "By all means."
Anakin sat in the oversized co-pilots seat and punched in codes to the Alliance frequency, well it was about time everyone found out about his commission.
"Before you say anything, the fleet knows about your relationship to Luke and Leia." Han told him.
Anakin had already guessed that was about to happen, he wondered who let that part slip. "This is General Anakin Skywalker, all squad leaders report in."
"This is rogue leader, standing by." Wedge reported in with a smirk on his lips, so Anakin decided to let his true name come out. Here it comes, Wedge thought, Vader directing the Alliance Forces, and this was a kick in the teeth to the Imperials to have their ex-chief commander direct rebel forces.
"This is Grey leader, standing by." Commander Matthews reported in, he was a little surprised to hear Vader use the name Skywalker, or maybe that was his real name and Luke was allowed to retain his true last name.
"This is red leader standing by." Captain Cheries reported in. The general part confused her; did the Alliance Leaders activate a commission for him?
"This is gold leader, standing by." Colonel Frances reported in, hmm, She knew that she was not the only one confused by the general part. She heard it in the other voices except for Rogue Leader. Captain Antillies must've known the whole time and said nothing about it.
"This is blue leader, standing by." General Kern reported in. He was confused, how did Vader retain the rank of General? Why was nothing said about this?
""Stay in current positions until further notice." Anakin told them. He heard clicks over the comlink come back in acknowledgement.
Anakin switched to Wedge's private line to his x-wing. "Captain Antillies, Luke is being held prisoner aboard the main Ssi-Ruuk warship." He trusted Antillies.
"Are you sure General?" Wedge asked in confusion.
"I am positive, Captain. Han and I plan to sneak aboard to get him off. We need Rogue Squadron to run interference, if that is not too much to ask?" Anakin put it.
"No problem sir, Rogue Squadron is used to running unscheduled interferences." Wedge replied with another smirk on his lips.
"Good, I knew I could count on you. We'll be going aboard sometime during the battle. Just wait for my signal" Anakin replied.
"Yes sir." Wedge smiled, now what better time to sneak aboard while during the confusion of battle; no one kept track of who was where.
Anakin switched to the Alliance frequency, "Flurry, what is your current position?"
"We are Alpha eight one kilo charlie." Manchisco answered. Anakin noted that she was beside Thanas's flagship. He checked on the other ships that were part of the task force. He noted where every one of them was.
He switched to the Imperial/Alliance frequency, "Commander Thanas, this General Skywalker, Commander Skywalker is busy at the moment, to be directing forces, I am second in command of the Alliance Task force, I only ask for your cooperation."
Anakin knew that he would have a lot of explaining to do later.
"This is Commander Thanas. Anakin? Is that you? I thought you were dead?" Thanas said in a confused voice.
"We will talk about what happened later Pter, right now we have a battle to direct." Anakin said with regret in his voice.
"I am sorry to hear what happened with your son, I just hope everything works out in the end for you." Thanas said, he knew what Nereus told him; he was to keep Vader from climbing aboard the Ssi Ruuk warship, but he could not go against his old friend like that.
"Thanks old friend, if I know my son for one thing, he is good at getting out of tight spots." Anakin replied.
Han looked over startled as he mouthed old friend? There was a lot of confusion coming over the comlink.
"May I remind everyone that we are suppose to keep the comlink silent now?" Anakin asked.
Everyone fell silent as they heard this.
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Leia was sitting in a chair, watching Nereus stare right back at her. She did not like the look he was giving her. It could've fried lead. So what to do now? She thought. If Luke died she would know it somehow, no one would need to tell her. An old pray from Alderaan slipped into her mind, she prayed that her father would find Luke in time.
Leia fingered her lightsaber, there was something nagging in the back of her mind. Almost like something was about to happen. She thought it over when her father was in here earlier, Leia could not help but notice that his hand was covering the butt of his lightsaber, she was glad that he didn't use it, but what would've happened if she was not here to warn him. Would her father resort to it? Maybe. Then again. Maybe not.
Yeorg and Orn were using this time to check on their families. Leia glanced over her shoulder, it has been two hours and they were not back yet. It shouldn't be taking them this long. She brushed Nereus with the force; Leia did not like what she felt. She cautiously got up and walked over. Her hand was covering the butt of her lightsaber, just incase he tried anything. Her danger sense flared, she quickly glanced around the room, she caught site of a shadow looking in. Leia quickly drew her lightsaber, and deflected bolts back to the owners, she quickly used that time to run to the door. She drew her blaster and shot into the corridor and nailed two stormtroopers in the process. What she could not figure out is how they knew that she had Nereus here.
Leia ran out the door and flew down the hall, looking for Orn and Yeorg. She found them tied up near the back entrance over by the transmission field. She quickly untied them.
When they got back to where they were holding Nereus prisoner, they found an empty chair. Leia cursed one of Han's more colorful curses; she ran out the door as she poured out the speed. She knew where Nereus was going; he was heading to their apartment to kill Kay. Well she could let that happen. When Leia got outside, she caught sight of Nereus just taking off. She drew her blaster and began to fire at him; she found it useless.
Leia ran back inside, and over to the transmission field, this was the only way she could get a warning back to the apartment. But she found that he had been thorough, he had severed the transmission wires.
She ran back outside, and watched as a speeder was just going by. Leia quickly flagged down the person, he pulled over when he saw who it was. Leia ran up to him, "I need to get to the city and fast. There is a life at steak."
The driver nodded as he said, "Get in." Leia climbed in and said, "Lets go and do not hold back on the speed."
"Names, Collan Trend by the way. You're Leia Organa aren't you?" Collan asked.
"Yes I am." Leia replied truthfully.
Collan was silent for a few minutes, as they speeded in towards the city. "I heard a rumor, you can tell me if it is true or not."
Leia swallowed hard, her mind wondered to the two guards who ran off on Nereus, could they have possibly told someone about her relations to Vader? "Sure, what is it?"
"There has been this rumor going around the city for the past few hours now. I am not one much for gossip, but this one is a little hard to believe." He seemed to hesitate before going on. "Are you the daughter of Lord Vader?" Collan suddenly got out.
Just as Leia had feared the guards had let it slip, and now the whole city knows. She turned her glance back at Collan and brushed his presence, she felt just plain curiosity come from him, no tricks, and no deception. She took a deep breath, as she realized that the damage had already been done. "Yes Collan, he is my father."
She felt fear come off of Collan, "You do not have to fear him any longer. He is not the same person you were told about." Leia said to calm his fears. Collan nodded as he concentrated on his driving. "Whose life is at steak?"
Leia raised her voice to be heard over the wind, "a ten-year-old girl by the name of Kay Shran. She witnessed Nereus killing her parents. Now he wants to finish the job "
"I heard about the investigation on her parents murder, they were getting close to finding the person who did it. Did you just say the Governor is the murderer?" Collan replied.
Leia nodded, "Yes he is and now Nereus is planning on killing Kay."
Collan said no more as he floored it.
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