"Charge the turbolasers!"
"There's too many of them!"
"We need to break through!"
Leia was standing in silence on her Mon Calamari
flag ship. The rebellion
was being crushed to nothing but a few ships. It had been four years since
she had last seen the Sith but she still remembered him sparing her.
"Organa Solo, we need the command."
Leia turned towards Mara Jade who was standing
there with her helmet tucked
under her arm.
"Organa Solo, one of the ships out there is the Executor."
"Don't deploy. All it will do is give them
more targets," Leia looked at
Mara's confused look.
"I beg your pardon princess but it would
confuse the Empire. They expect us
not to deploy."
"Leia!"
She turned to see Commander Wedge Antilles
standing there. "Our shields
won't last much longer. Those TIE's are picking off our large guns. Without
fighters we won't last much longer."
"We can't attack." Leia said desperately.
"I'm sorry Leia," Han came up behind
her. "But we have declared you unfit to
lead. You are going to get us all killed."
"You're too close to this Leia." Mara
told her. Leia of course knew they
were right. She had been skitting around Imperials to avoid possibly
destroying a ship that either her father or Luke had been aboard. She knew
this was coming but hoped it wouldn't be soon.
"Deploy fighters!" Wedge yelled through
the comm unit. Leia could feel the
ship shake as the fighters took off. They were outnumbered and Leia knew
they wouldn't survive. The Empire had them pinned down and things were
looking hopeless.
"Prepare to board the ship immediately."
"Yes Lord Vader," a young Imperial Officer answered him.
Luke stared out of the viewport at the Mon
Calamari cruiser. He had since
recently taken his father's name and used it to inspire fear in the rebels.
He knew Leia was aboard that ship, he could feel it. His father was a
pathetic weakling for not having killed her and Luke was not about to let
the rebels or the filthy Jedi live any longer. He could feel the fear
permeating the air around him and he breathed it in like a sweet fragrance.
"Your time has come rebels."