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Star Wars Episode VII
Rebirth of the Counsel
(Chapter I)
Luke's small aircraft fluttered swiftly onto a landing pad near a towering building. He walked impatiently towards the skyscraper's entrance. The red glowing sign above read hotel, it flickered portraying the low amount of maintenance this building had been subjected to. As he entered the lobby he pulled down the hood of his cloak and stepped up to the counter to find a boggy looking hotel worker accompanied by a broken down service droid. Luke stood before the slightly overweight female twi'lek. Her blood-shot eyes underlined with deep slowly darkening bags met Luke's and then once again turned away.
"Could you show me to room 18C?" Luke asked trying to be as pleasant as possible.
"Don't count on it" The irritable twi'lek replied in an annoying tone.
"I need to go to room 18C" Luke restated with a fake smile on his face.
"It's too late at night, why don't you go home huh?" She growled even more irritating than before.
"You will escort me to room 18C, it is your only desire" Luke stated truthfully waving his hand briefly.
"I will take you to room 18C, it is my only desire" The twi'lek regurgitated as she sat up from behind the service counter and began to lead Luke down the dimly lit hallway.
Luke followed the pudgy hotel worker as she waddled across the hallway's carpeted floors. They came to a brightly illuminated stairwell next to an open elevator door with a busy maintenance droid inside searching for a 'misplaced' welding torch. Luke felt a bit of irony as he continued up the ascending stairs.
Up and up he followed. From stair case to stair case passing many heavy metal doors that waited at the top of each fleet to greet him and then quickly bid him farewell again. This process continued for an uncountable number of times until his guide came to a quick stop at an almost random door. She opened the door and walked through giving that familiar image of the polite gesture of holding the door but then leaving it unfulfilled as she nearly closed the door on Luke's face, Luke grasping the door handle just in time.
His guide walked again down another labyrinth like hallway seemingly identical to the last and equally as poorly lighted. Luke looked at the doors beside him reading there worn numbers. Until he finally saw a number remotely close to the room he was searching for. Two moments and a minute later the obese twi'lek came to a much needed stop as she panted with exhaustion.
"Hear ya' are" she informed as she waddled further down the hall stopping at a restroom.
Luke stood before the aging door. Bits of grey paint were peeled off of the rusty door revealing its strong iron body. So this is the hotel that cheapo found for us to stay in Luke thought, as he knocked on the door waiting for someone to open it. Luke saw a lonely eyeball emerge from a slot near the top of the door and then disappear right before the door opened to reveal the occupant of the room.
"Hey buddy, so you finally found the place did ya?" The familiar voice of Han Solo questioned as Luke entered the room.
"Yeah, had quite a time with these Coruscant flyers though" Luke replied looking aggravated.
"Ha, Yeah. Well it took you long enough, we've been up waitin' for ya for the good part of the night!" Han joked as he showed Luke in. Luke's sister Leia came into view as Han moved out of Luke's way. She walked over and gave Luke a short hug then pulled away from him.
"How was your tr-" CRASH! The Large pane glass window of Luke, Han, and Leia's hotel room, gave way to a small hole from which a small egg-shaped metallic object came bursting threw. Luke and Han half ran over to it to investigate. Han waited a moment before giving it a perplexed look until he noticed a small flashing red light on the side of it. "It's a bomb!" He yelled. Luke pulled his light saber from his belt loop and ignited it. The small metallic cylinder burst to life in a green tinted hissing beam. He slashed the glass of the window into a million shards and kicked the bomb as hard as he could, hoping it would not explode. The object hurled out the window and down towards the streets exploding before reaching the ground.
Luke crawled out through the window to search for the deliverer of the bomb. He stepped onto the small ledge that lined each level of the sky scraper and looked around his light saber still active. He looked sideways, up, down, and in every other direction that could possibly be imagined… no one. Luke crawled back through the broken window obtaining a scratch from the shattered glass on his way in. He looked at Leia and Han.
"What'd ya do that for?" Han demanded.
"We don't have any money to pay for a broken window" He added completely unconcerned that just a minute ago they had almost died.
It had become a regular occurrence in there days. A brush with death was more common than Han brushing his teeth.
"Were not staying" Luke stated trying to be calming.
"What'd ya mean 'were not staying'? Of course were staying do you think I paid for this fine hotel room for nothing?"
"What do you mean 'fine' hotel? This has to be the worst hotel on Coruscant" Luke argued.
"Luke's right Han, we can't stay here… the hotel administration will be here any minute to see what happened" Leia remarked trying to convince Han that they had to leave, while her and Luke knew the real reason was because of the bomber.
"Alright, alright we'll leave, but I hope you guys realize how much money this cost me"
Luke rolled his eyes and pulled open the heavy door. He passed through and looked down the hallway. The overweight Twi'lek he had met earlier was approaching their room. He turned his head the other way. His heart jumped when he saw another hotel worker approaching from the opposite direction. Luke scrambled back into the room.
"The hotel workers are coming!" Luke exclaimed
"So, give 'em the old one two"
"Are you insane?" Luke protested "We're already in enough trouble now! We'll have to go out through the window."
"Oh yeah, you mean that one, THE ONE YOU BROKE INTO A MILLION PIECES!" Han yelled
"Shhh, quiet down they'll hear you!" Leia said sternly.
"Common" Luke said "out the window, it's the only way."
Luke once again carefully stepped out through the broken window, except this time Han and Leia followed. They went around the corner of the building before climbing up to the ledge that lined the next row of windows. Luke pressed his face up against the glass, the room appeared empty. He once again ignited his light saber and slashed through the window in an identical motion. A loud crashing sound echoed through the pitch black room. The only lighting present was that from the blade of Luke's saber. Suddenly there was a click and the room's light snapped on to reveal an elderly Zabrak and a child sitting up in a worn bed. The Elderly Zabrak reached for in his night stand drawer and reveled a blaster he held it up pointing it straight at them. They were caught…