Chapter 6
72 hours later
Crusifidge sat in his chair letting memories flow through his head. He remembered after he joined Slain, how he had gotten the metal hand. Of course, he wouldn't have needed it if it weren't for Skywalker. How he hated Skywalker. He remembered when he was crouched down to discover that his wife was dead, and only to discover later it was his friend and partner who killed her. He saw the hologram with his own eyes. Luke had betrayed him, and he betrayed the Republic. But you betrayed the Republic also, remember? A voice in Kyle's head spoke.
I had to betray them. They had Luke on their side, and they wouldn't believe me if I told them Luke was against us. But Kyle knew that Luke wasn't with Slain either because he saw Luke trying to kill Slain once.
"Sir, we are landing," said a trooper snapping Crusifidge out of his world.
"Good, now we have the ultimate base with the ultimate weapon," Crusifidge said smiling. The next time the Republic tries to attack us, they will be totally off guard, and we will kill them," Crusifidge laughed.
Luke walked into the mapping room to find most of the equipment had been repaired. Including R2 and 3P0. 3P0 had on his usual gold coverings, and was shining while R2 looked like he used to with his leg repaired. They had helped repair most of the equipment.
"Master Skywalker, I would like to know exactly what happened to us," 3P0 demanded politely. R2 supported him in his own language.
"You were stolen, and I'm guessing the people who stole you couldn't sell you, so they threw you in a junk yard," Luke responded. "Is the equipment running?" Luke questioned.
"Yes Master Skywalker. It is complete," 3P0 responded.
"Then we shall check on their whereabouts." Luke said. He turned on the equipment, scanning planets for a new base. "Ah ha. I found a new base. They still have their old one on Kamino though," Luke stated. He called a meeting in the main room. Everybody was there.
"The new planet they have set a base on is Dranium. It is full of canyons, and is very dangerous, because at pit of the canyons, there is a highly dangerous acid. You see, if you fall in it, you would be very lucky to survive. Not saying no one has survived after falling in it, but every person who has survived came out not looking too pretty," Luke explained to the group. "There is still Kamino to be worrying about though. Another group will have to go there and destroy the base. It will be very hard to destroy the Dranium base when the Kamino base is still up," Luke said. Han stood up.
"Luke, you lead a group to Dranium along with me. Leia and Lando can lead a group to Kamino," Han said. Luke had an uneasy feeling about this. He could sense something wrong with this plan.