"Liberation"( Chapter Nine)
By Ennon
Padmé ached to be reunited with Luke and Leia but she decided neither would be safe until that horrible New Imperial Capital City Space Station (NICCSS) was no more but once it was gone, then she'd reunite with them- and warn Chewbacca and Han of Jabba's evil intentions .She knew this would be her only opportunity to save her family (and the galaxy) from at least one unpalatable fate-and hearing Vlov brag about his skill and Boba Fett get upset over not having worked with Vlov, Padmé knew what she had to do.
While Vlov and the corpulent Askajian female dancer named Gorda Medusa were in the next room getting intimate, Padmé came up with a plan. Since they'd already taken her boots so she couldn't run away across the scorching Tatooine desert , she silently tiptoed in her stocking feet to the doorway of Vlov and Gorda's room.
"Just as I thought. No bounty hunter worth his Spice would go without this," Padmé thought to herself as she picked up two Spice darts from a small pocket of Vlov's boots.
"What the. ..?" Gorda asked in alarm (in Huttese).
"Wanna make it a three-. ..?" Vlov eagerly asked- as the two of them noticed Padmé sneak towards them.
Padmé immediately threw the two Spice darts with her right index finger and thumb one after the other before Gorda or Vlov had a chance to react.
"Unh. . you can't DO that!" Gorda protested in Huttese as she started to get groggy.
"I just did,"Padmé replied.
"Stop!" Vlov gasped as he started to pass out while struggling to right himself to reach Padmé.
"You know, I think your jumpsuit, masked helmet and boots would look better on me!" Padmé pondered as she started putting on Vlov's attire.
"Jabba wants to see that brass bikini!" Gorda protested in Huttese while pointing to Padmé as she passed out.
"If he wants it, let HIM wear it! "Padmé sneered as she threw it at the completely unconsconscious and unclothed couple as she finished putting rags in Vlov's boots so they'd stay on her feet.
Padmé looked in the mirror on Gorda's ceiling and saw Vlov's jumpsuit was slightly big on her but the bagginess would help conceal her gender from the other saboteurs.
"To Kamino, we go!" Padmé exclaimed while turning the voice modifer in Vlov's helmet.
"To Kamino, we go!" the voice modifer translated into Huttese with a somewhat deeper tone.
This would do perfectly, Padmé thought. Vlov and Gorda would be out cold for at least another five hours from the Spice dart (which had enough concentrated Spice to do that on the tip) but, to give herself more of a window, Padmé dragged Vlov then Gorda to the room's nearby wardrobe, bound each of them up together so they couldn't get loose then put a large rag over the two of them in an effort to spare whatever modesty the first individual finding them have in coming upon these two naked beings.
"So, Boba, are you as good as Jabba says?" Padmé (disguised as the masked Vlov with the voice modifer sounding like a male Huttese speaker ) asked as she came upon him on the side of the Throne Room.
"My rep doesn't do me justice," 16-year-old Boba said through his mask.
"Let's cut the chatter and find Greedo so we can get the job done!" Padmé insisted.
"Professional,too! I like that!" Boba proclaimed.
"HEY!" Jabba was heard to yell (in Huttese) from across the room.
"Yes?" Padmé gulped (in Huttese).
"Where's Gorda and the New Acquisition? I don't see them up there!" Jabba snarled (in Huttese) while pointing to the ceiling grate.
Padmé knew she had to think of something quick.
"Oh, Gorda told me to tell you that she and the New Acquisition are planning a special dance for you as soon as they achieve their goal for you!"Padmé (with her voice modified) explained in Huttese.
"Oh, I want to see a preview!" Jabba boomed in Huttese.
"Gorda asks you to wait until their choreography's flawless- otherwise that would spoil things!" Padmé shrugged in Huttese.
"What is it with females and keeping us waiting?" Jabba snarled in Huttese.
"I find the anticipation makes the outcome more rewarding," Padmé proclaimed in Huttese.
"A Bounty Hunter philosopher, who'd have thought?" Jabba laughed in Huttese. .
"Anticipation's what bounty hunting's all about," Padmé proclaimed in Huttese.
"Well, don't anticipate your plan for hijacking the New Imperial Capital City Space Station too long!" Jabba laughed in Huttese while waving Boba Fett, Greedo and Vlov (Padmé in disguise onward).
In a few hours, Jabba took his palace's Freight Elevator up to the next level to Gorda's room to sneak a peak at the new dance she was supposed to be preparing.
"Wake up, you fools! Where's the New Acquisition? When's my dance?" Jabba boiled in Huttese while angrily hitting Vlov and Gorda across their heads.
"What dance?" Gorda asked groggily (in Huttese).
"A seasoned harem tender and a bounty hunter let a single New Acquisition get the better of you two? "Jabba boiled (in Huttese).
"She used my Spice darts to. .." Vlov groaned.
"BAH! You two aren't fit to be Rancor chow but I'll throw your bones to him anyway," Jabba snarled in Huttese as several guards took them away, though he'd later find another 'fat dancer' to replace Gorda.
As the three were coming out of hyperspace shortly before Kamino, Boba told them of the plan.
"I found out that the Emperor has opted to move the construction of his space station to another planet within this hour for security purposes so all we have to do is convince my brothers to help us out," Boba explained.
"Are you sure they won't turn you over?" Padmé (disguised as Vlov) asked.
"No, they'll think I'm doing them a favor on the Emperor's behalf. I'm the only one who got any real brains in the brood," Boba groaned.
Padmé knew that she couldn't reveal who she was to either Greedo or him- but especially not to Boba due to his father Jango having tried to assassinate her earlier and Boba would want to reap the bounty of HER capture if he knew who she was.
"Slave One, you are clear to land, Brother!" Clone #4569832 exclaimed.
"Very good! We're on our way!" Boba exclaimed as he landed their ship in one of the larger of the incomplete New Imperial Capital City Space Station docking bays.
"This certainly doesn't look like it's anything close to a capital city, " Greedo pondered (in Huttese).
"We're not here to dispute the Emperor's architectural tastes just hijack it for Jabba and become the richest private citizens in the galaxy," Boba sniffed.
Padmé silently had to agree with Greedo. She'd seen enough palaces and legislative buildings in her time to know that there was no way even the constructed fragments that appeared to be almost half of the space station could be a capital city.
They were about to land when. ..
"I can barely hear you, Jabba!" Boba protested as they heard some very heated garbled sounds from the transceiver.
"Didn't Jabba tell you? Since we don't want the Empire to have any inkling of who we are or what we're doing, we are to have COMPLETE RADIO SILENCE until we land this space station on the Tat VI Asteroid," Padmé suddenly gulped (in her disguised male Huttese modified voice).
"But why would Jabba himself be . . ?" Greedo asked in Huttese.
"Vlov's right! It could be someone using Jabba's frequency disguising his voice as Jabba to try to entrap us! We're switching off all communication until we achieve our goal,"Boba proclaimed.
" Seek out the steering controls! I'm getting my brothers to release us from Kamino's tractor beam!" Boba exclaimed to Greedo and 'Vlov' as they went in search of the steering controls.
The deeper they ran into the space station, the more Padmé was convinced that this was something military rather than governmental. When she saw the architectural readouts, she shuddered, while there was ample quarters for the Emperor to visit indefinitely onboard, Padmé could see that this New Imperial Capital City Space Station would have enough firepower to destroy any other space vessel in the galaxy- and any PLANET. Padmé shuddered when she realized she was on a proto-Death Star!
"We have permission! Fire the engines so we can get her to her new home!" Greedo laughed while Padmé frantically started the controls.
At once a small battalion of Imperial Star Cruisers gave chase but Padmé knew she had to get this thing into hyperspace to its 'new home' . .but not quite where Greedo and Boba Fett had in mind. With Boba and his thousands of unquestioning brothers shooting surface blaster cannons at the Star Cruisers, Greedo and Padmé were able to get the Proto-Death Star into hyperspace.
"Stolen! How! " boiled Palpatine.
"My interrogations have ascertained that the Clones' were duped by their brother- one Boba Fett," Darth Vader fumed.
"But WHY!" Palpatine asked.
"It would seem there's a challenger to our authority! No worry, I'll crush them as soon as the Proto-Death Star surfaces. I've already put ALL systems in the Empire on alert- making sure they believe it's ONLY a New Imperial Capital City," Darth Vader proclaimed.
"I knew I should have terminated ALL the Clones after you crushed the Separitists. Why didn't I listen to you?" Palpatine asked.
"Perhaps, your trust was misplaced," Darth Vader proclaimed.
"Never again! You're the only one I've ever been able to," Palpatine exclaimed.
"As you are with me, My Lord," Darth Vader reiterated.
"Here we are- and we moved it 27,000 light years without any trouble," Boba exclaimed as they came out of hyperdrive at the edge of the large gaseous surface of Tat VI, the sixth moon in the Tatoo System.
"How much farther to our Asteroid?" Greedo asked.
" Not far at all. It's just below the uppermost layer of Tat VI's atmosphere- and you'll note that it has a 1 kilometer deep coating of oxygen atop it," Boba exclaimed as Greedo and Padmé steered the Proto-Death Star.
" I've never seen so much scrap metal in one spot! Jabba must have stolen months' worth going to Coruscant," Padmé (as Vlov) exclaimed.
"He did but it turned out it wasn't going for the capital planet's construction but for THIS thing- and Tat VI's atmosphere makes a good hiding place for it, " Boba laughed.
"Jabba's used this rock for centuries!" Greedo exclaimed in Huttese.
"Slow down the engines," Boba cautioned.
"Oops! We missed the landing point! We'll have to orbit around Tat VI again," Greedo boiled in Huttese.
"I'll take her around again," Padmé exclaimed.
"We're within reach of the Asteroid. We'll have to start tethering this New Imperial Capital City to it at once! Greedo, follow me so we can get my brothers' help!" Boba exclaimed.
Padmé did a few atmospheric readings of Tat VI while they were hovering. It had a 100,000 kilometer radius with a 628,000 kilometer circumference and was composed almost entirely of liquid hydrogen and helium and was 700 million kilometers from Tatooine.
"This will do nicely. I'll let it do it's thing then escape in Boba's Slave One," Padmé thought to herself while she took the controls.
"We just got a report from the Tantooine System of a large hyperspace disturbance. That must be it!" Darth Vader exclaimed over the radio to Palpatine as his Star Cruiser went into hyperdrive.
"Destroy all on board but spare my Death Star!" Palpatine ordered.
"So be it, My Lord," Darth Vader replied- though not without feeling something amiss.
"Why are we going deeper into Tat VI's atmosphere?" Greedo asked in Huttese as he and Boba Fett were walking the outer perimeter of the Proto Death Star.
"I guess Vlov doesn't want to alert the Imperials needlessly. Good thing this thing has force field insulation or we'd be instant icicles," Boba exclaimed.
" I think we should turn make contact with Jabba now," Greedo suggested in Huttese.
"OK, Jabba we got the. .thing where you want it!" Boba exclaimed over the radio.
"The Newest Acquisition has escaped and disguised herself as Vlov! Bring her back alive! I want to torture her like I've never tortured anyone before!"Jabba boiled in Huttese.
"What!"Greedo and Boba asked in Huttese as they started running.
"Brothers! We've been duped! Seal off ALL doorways and set your weapons for stun!" Boba exclaimed over the Proto-Death Star's public address system.
"The engines' exhaust ports are getting clogged with liquid hydrogen but we're almost at the core! I'm turning on the engines to full strength but keeping them in stall," Padmé contemplated to herself as she switched the engines on full-strength and ran out of the Steering Room towards the dock with the Slave One ship.
"Going somewhere, Vlov or whoever?" Greedo asked in Huttest- as he pulled his blaster on the disguised Padmé.
"Greedo, tell Jabba and the Empire, it's useless!" Padmé (as Vlov) exclaimed in Huttese.
"Death Star Reactor Core Meltdown Imminent! Evacuate Immediately!" the automated PA system exclaimed.
"Come on! We're getting out of here!" Boba snarled as he grabbed Padmé's helmet.
"You're a woman! "Boba gasped.
"Yes and I'm not going anywhere with you!" Padmé exclaimed as she kicked Boba in the inseam of his jumpsuit as hard as she could.
"I'll get you!" Boba snarled as he grabbed her again
"No time! We're out of here!" Greedo gulped in Huttese as he pulled the two of them towards the Slave One.
Padmé gave Boba one last push and kick then slammed the Slave One ship which was already having clusters of Clones climbing over it like ants trying to get inside.
"Save us, Brother!" the Clones kept shouting.
"Save yourselves!" Boba snarled as he and Greedo blasted off from the deck of the Proto Death Star.
Suddenly a large boom and a bright light came from the center of the Death Star through its very framework.
"It's happening!" Padmé cringed as she suddenly felt an intense wave of sickness and nausea overtake her.
She was too weak to even move but she felt every single one of her body cells try to expel the massive doses of radiation that was fatally poisoning her. Despite all her best intentions, Padmé joined the chorus of thousands who were now screaming from horrific pain and anguish as their deaths were immiment.
" This is a million times WORSE than having born full-term twins! Goodbye, Luke, Leia and Ani. You'll be free and I'll always love you!" Padmé gasped as she collapsed into oblivion but then felt a wonderous peace and calm like she'd never felt in her life.
At that very moment, the reactor core collapsed then exploded with even more intensity causing the not only proto-Death Star's destruction- but also something no one but Padmé could have predicted. In less than a millionth of a second, the intense heat and radiation from the exploding Proto-Death Star caused the liquid hydrogen of Tat VI to vaporize. .and then suddenly IGNITE!
"Mama!" the nearly 3-year-old Luke Skywalker exclaimed as the night sky of Tatooine was lit up by a brightness so unbelievable that it even went inside his shuddered bedroom window.
"What's happening!" Beru and Owen Lars gasped as they threw their arms around each other in their now-brightly lit bedroom then ran towards Luke's room to protect him.
"Luke, are you alright?" Beru asked as the three noticed the intensity abating a bit- but then seeing in the Tatooine sky. . .
A NEW WHITE SUN!
A/N- Alright, I know, I know that Lucas had the 2nd sun of Tatooine from the beginning in the Star Wars Saga but let's have our sun here in this AU
" I don't believe it!" Owen gulped along with every other inhabitant of Tatooine at that moment who was staring at the new sun that had already completely consumed and Jabba's Asteroid and all the ill-gotten materials stored on it. .
"Mama's dead but she loves me!" Luke proclaimed with tears in his eyes- as he hugged his aunt and uncle.
"You think it's possible?" Owen asked while looking at Beru- not sure whether to resume his search for his stepsister-in-law.
"What do they mean there's a new star in Tatooine System?" Bail asked Yuermina as they were in their large canopied bed in their bedchamber in the Royal Palace in Aldera City in Alderaan watching a newsflash on the viso-hologram at the foot of their bed.
"We won't see it for another 38,000 years here. Too bad light speed hasn't caught up to hyperspace travel, as well as radio and viso-hologram instant transmissions," Yuermina scoffed.
"My Mama's dead but she loves me! My Mama's dead but she loves me!"the nearly 3-year-old Leia exclaimed as she ran into Bail and Yuemina's bedroom.
"Calm down! What are you talking about, I'm right here!" Yuermina said with a start as she and Bail covered themselves up to their chests in bedsheets while putting their arms to hug Leia.
"Mamie's gone and never coming back! My Mama's dead but she loves me!" Leia sobbed.
"Dear child, you know perfectly well that I'm your mother but she just took care of you," Yuermina exclaimed as she hugged Leia.
"We'll tuck you back in your bed. You just had a bad nightmare, Leia," Bail consoled.
"No, I know what I know," Leia insisted as she stomped her foot.
"It's okay! She did a wonderful job caring for you and your brothers. ." Yuermina started to say.
"They're not my REAL brothers," Leia protested.
"Of course they are, sweetheart. Just like we're your real parents! We'll always miss Mamie,too, but life will go on and be wonderful. You'll see!" Bail exclaimed as he and Yuermina hugged Leia and Bail slipped on his robe from under the sheets to cover his torso as he carried Leia back to bed.
"You've done a wondrous thing for us all, my lady! When your children are ready to hear and believe, I'll share it with them!" Yoda proclaimed on Dagobah.
"What is it, Chewie? Did you say Maddie?"Han gulped after Chewbacca let out a terrible, mournful cry.
"I'm sorry, too, Pal," 16-year-old Han Solo gulped as he hugged the wookiee.
As his ship came out of hyperspace, Darth Vader recalled that nightmare he'd had about Padmé a lifetime earlier and she seemed to be in even worse pain than one would usually have for childbirth- but she seemed oddly triumphant. For the first time in three years (and the last time in many more years), he decided NOT to share his insight with Palpatine but take some comfort in the knowledge that somehow he was reminded that she had stayed faithful to him no matter what.
Was this the end for Padmé? There was more to come. . .
Many years later, on an orbiting Medical Space Station as they watched
Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian blast the Millenium Falcon off for the Outer Rim System of Tatoo I (and the newer bright star Tatoo II) in search of the carbo-frozen Han Solo, Luke looked at his new prosthetic right hand and sighed.
"What's wrong?" Leia asked.
" I just wish Aunt Beru were here. She used to be the one who patched me up after I got myself in jams. Did Queen Yuermina ever do that for you?" Luke asked.
"Sometimes but not as often as my real mother," Leia replied.
"Real mother? I thought Her Majesty was," Luke gulped.
" I think she loved Papa enough to overlook his indiscretion with my Nursemaid Mamie and love me as her own daughter but I always knew that Mamie was my mother and I never doubted she loved me," Leia sighed.
"Did they ever tell you?" Luke asked.
"No, I just had the feeling,"Leia sighed.
"What happened to this nursemaid?" Luke asked.
"I just remember knowing she'd died," Leia sighed.
" I remember that,too, with my own mother," Luke groaned.
"Sir, the Medical Droid says you need to avoid stress so she advises you to get some more rest," Threepio insisted.
"Okay, we'll go over that another time," Luke sighed as he got back into his medical bed.
Roughly a year later, the Rebels celebrated the Destruction of the Second Death Star and the Death of the Emperor on the Forest Moon of Endor. After Luke saw the ghostly figures of Obi-Wan,Yoda and Anakin Skywalker give him their blessing, he wasn't all that perturbed when the celebration wound down just a little- just enough for Threepio to actually HEAR what Artoo had been frantically beeping ever since he heard news of the Emperor's Death.
"General Solo, General Calrissian, Chewbacca, Master Luke, Mistress Leia, Artoo suggests that since we likely will soon be parted to help the Galaxy heal, that we should gather one last time together in the Millenium Falcon," Threepio interpreted.
"Why not? It's been the closest thing to home any of us have known these past four years," Leia laughed.
"You're calling my 'bucket of bolts' home? I don't know how much better things can get!" Han beamed as he and Leia hugged.
In a short time, they were all back at the Millenium Falcon going over the past four years.
"Message? Haven't we gotten into enough trouble over your messages?" Threepio shudderred as Artoo stomped his pedals.
"This should be good," Han scoffed.
"Maybe it's porno!" Lando laughed.
"You'd better close your eyes, Leia,"Luke laughed.
"Oh, no. We owe Artoo too much to ignore him," Leia insisted- not knowing how MUCH as yet.
After a few rounds of beeps, Artoo was beaming a viso-holograph to the center of the group.
"Greetings, Children! If Artoo's playing this, that means the Empire has FALLEN and I'm going to join you in celebrating its defeat," the brunette in a khaki jumpsuit with folded hands exclaimed but it wasn't just her beauty that took everyone's breath away.
"Mama!"Luke and Leia exclaimed with a gulp at the very same time while Chewbacca let out a triumphal roar.
"Your mother's. .. Maddie?" Han gulped.
"I thought Leia looked familiar," Lando laughed.
"I'd like to think I'm standing there with the rest of you and you two are wondering how such an old crone could have started out so young while looking at this," Padmé half-laughed.
Luke,Leia and Chewbacca all sighed.
"But if not, then celebrate anyway because you're FREE! There's so much I've wanted to tell the two of you these last three years," Padmé beamed.
"I know," Luke sighed.
"But that would have put you in danger from the Emperor Palpatine and I love you too much to let him or anyone else do you any harm- even if that means you can't know who I am or spend your lives with me!"Padmé sighed.
Chewbacca groaned.
"Leia, you may remember me as Nursemaid Mamie but my name is Padmé Amidala Skywalker! You don't know how WONDERFUL it is to say that again and your father is Anakin Skywalker but, if he survives, he's forgotten that I'm sorry to say. However, you two havehim inside you and you have me and I believe that with our combined strength, he'll remember who he really is and when he DOES, the Empire won't last!" Padmé exclaimed triumphantly.
"You were right, Mama," Luke nodded to Padmé's image.
"Luke, I'll always regret that I didn't get to spend your first few years with you like I did with Leia but I believe the Jedi Master Yoda has brought you to where you need to be at this time,"Padmé exclaimed.
"Jedi Master Yoda? Kid, that's what you were babbling about in Hoth," Han exclaimed with a snap of his fingers.
Luke nodded.
"But from the moment I knew I had conceived, I've always loved you and Leia " Padmé exclaimed as her image put out her arms in embrace.
Despite both knowing the image had no substance, both Luke and Leia embraced the air edging where it filled the room.
"Just like there was chaos and uncertainty even during the Republic, there will likely be times of that again even with the Empire Fallen but use this time of Celebration and Triumph to strengthen your resolves and use the knowledge that I'll always love and be with you two in spirit to comfort you in those dark times. Take care and continue to live lives to make me proud of you two. I love you!" Padmé exclaimed as her image faded.
"Thanks, Artoo I'll always be grateful to you for playing that for us!"Leia exclaimed.
"Bring her back, please!" Luke sniffed.
Artoo beeped a bit.
"What!" Leia asked.
"He says that he will make viso-holograph copies for any of you here to replay whenever you like," Threepio beamed.
"Great!" Leia exclaimed.
" But that he believes you need time to let her image soak in to appreciate her. What kind of talk is that from a DROID!"Threepio sniffed.
"If I didn't know any better, I'd say Artoo's had a crush on Mama," Luke half-laughed.
"So, you and Chewie knew Mama," Leia laughed while banging Han's shoulder.
"We picked her up on Alderaan and took her to Tatooine but she only kissed me once- on the forehead. Nothing happened between us,I swear!"Han Solo gulped while raising his right hand.
"Tatooine! When!" Luke asked.
"Oh, 20 years ago! Just two days before Tat VI gas planet got turned into the Tatoo II Sun," Han explained.
"Yeah, and that was just one day before Biggs's 3rd Birthday Party. I remember Sand People crashing it and. . .a lady banging them off. .then the next day I remember Tatoo II lighting the sky for the very first time. Whenever I felt down and hopeless, I used to look at Tatoo II rising while Tatoo I was setting and would get inspired. Now I know WHY! That lady was Mama and now know I DO have a memory of her! " Luke exclaimed while he and Leia hugged.
Chewbacca barked in agreement.
"Old Jabba cursed that 2nd sun the rest of his days. Talked about how it and the 'new acquisition harem girl' robbed him of his empire," Han laughed.
"Whenthe Rebel Alliancefound the readouts of the First Death Star, we found out that there'd been a Proto-Death Star built sixteen years before but it got destroyed. We never knew how but now it looks like Mama gave us sixteen years to gain strengthbefore it was rebuilt," Leia concluded.
Chewbacca chortled a bit.
"Yeah, you and Maddie. .er Padmé um Mrs. Skywalker were right about Jabba and she was right about you but I ain't regretting signing up with him," Han scoffed.
"Are you kidding! After ALL he put you through!" Lando sputtered.
"And all that debt he tricked you into?" Leia boiled.
"Yeah, he did a lot of stuff to me and I ain't proud of all the jobs I did for him but if I hadn't gotten into hock with him, I'd have never met you two or met up again with Lando!" Han proclaimed as he pointed first to Leia and Luke with two fingers then to Lando with one.
"So why didn't you tell Jabba that you'd picked up Mama or where she came from?"Luke asked.
Chewbacca barked a bit.
"Really, Chewbacca! I can't believe you'd have torn General Solo's arms off if he said anything about her," Threepio gulped.
"So, I'd have had to learn to eat and steer with my feet," Han shrugged.
"How can you be so calm?" Threepio sputtered.
"Cos Chewie just wanted me to THINK he'd do that. Besides, I didn't want anything bad to happen to anyone linked with Maddie. .er Mrs. Skywalker either," Han explained.
Chewbacca growled proudly.
"Yes, I guess you two have grown for the better," Threepio surmised.
"So, Kid, was that swamp where ya found that Jedi Master Yoda still buggy?"Han laughed.
"How did you know?"Luke gulped.
"Chewbacca steered the Falcon to his home on the way to Tatooine. We'll have to trade notes with Leia," Han laughed.
"So tell me, how much of a scoundrel WERE you with Mama?" Leia laughed with a raised eyebrow as Han, Luke and Lando all followed out of the Falcon for some fresh Endor air.
" If Padmé was your mother. . what became of your father Anakin Skywalker anyway?"Han asked as they walked out.
Luke and Leia both made VERRY deep Vader breathing noises then laughed while Han shuddered while they exited..
"You certainly outdid yourself for droid dedication this time! There'll be no existing with you. " Threepio sniffed to Artoo then walked off to join the others watching the fireworks.
Chewbacca nodded at Artoo and patted Artoo's hood then and Artoo beeped affirmatively. Even though the Wookiee and the droid didn't share so much as a single word in common, they both knew WHY Artoo had stayed with Padmé,kept aclosewatch on her children,kept his memory intact, endured countless hardships and saved that message through two decades and several blasts. They each knew even though they both knew it could never be more than platonic both Chewbacca and Artoo DID love Padmé more than anyone else they'd ever meet in partbecause she believed in them more than anyone else had! From this point onwards, Chewbacca and Artoo would have a nonphysical, wordless bond no one else would understand- and they'd cherish the memories of Padmé along with that bond the rest of their lives!
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A/N- Okay, it's now finished and I hope my dedicated readers (and any future readers coming upon this) find this and like it. As I said earlier, I REALLY think Padmé was cool and she (and her twins) deserved a better exit for her than in ROTS. I think Padmé was someone who COULD have contributed more than she did without disrupting the storyflow or trashing any of the characters.
Cm1000- Yeah, Padmé got into a fix but, I think it was possible to get herself out of it. Glad to see you picked up how I twisted things from the original trilogy to bring them into this. I hope what Padmé planned was worth reading and I totally agree with you about Jabba. Thanks for all your encouragement these chapters and I hope things go great for you!
Jaina solo Potter- Glad you think this story's awesome and I hope you like how it ends.
Doreen- Summer's busy and I'm glad you understand but I hope you don't mind it being roughly a day later and I hope this chapter's as good as the rest for you!