Hiya folks! I havent written anything for FF.N in aaaages, Ive had soo much going on! went to america for three weeks, left on guess what day...July 7th. On the way to heathrow when the underground was blown to bits! Guess how freaked we all were! eek! Then had all the horses shipped from Ireland over to us, they're real nice horsiedoodles! LOL, and Ive been in rehearsals for a local production of the musical 'Barnum!' its with a real big company producing it! Such good fun!
Can I apologize in advance for any continuety problems in this piece as I know things like 'The refugee ship' in chapter 1, wasnt actually used in chapter 2 but this isnt a major problem, but if anything major, like, 'this changes the whole story' major, then write in and Ill see what I can do, but dont bother if its only small.
I hope u guys like this chapter, I thought it was oddly amusing, its good fun to write dialogue for Kenobi and Skywalker, I love exploring relationships in writing, not in a dodgey way, but as in pushing the extremes of friendship, quesitons like, how far would you go for another kinda thing, I find it really interesting...mmm...LOL
Anyway enjoy this chappie and PLEEEASSE R/R!
lots of luv!
Soph xoxox
Anakin swept his gaze over the control panels, such things would look like a maze of colour, blinking, general meaninglessness, but to Anakin, it almost seemed that ships spoke to him, worked with him and not for him, Obi-Wan was always complaining at how he formed such deep connections to machines, the same was with his R2 unit, R2-D2, Anakin would never describe that droid as anything but his friend.
"Picking up some strange signals from the sensors, could be background noise, could you take a look at it?" Anakin brought up the readings from Obi-Wan's control panel.
"They're….transmissions, all coming from Alderaan?"
"Really, you don't sound too sure."
"It's just strange that's all, why would there be so many outgoing transmissions from Alderaan now?" There was a jolt in the cockpit which sent Anakin flying back down on his seat with a thump, immediately warning lights and alarms flickered and whirred throughout the small, Jedi cruiser, and more grating shudders took the ships hull in violent convulsions, Anakin could only just hear his former master's voice over the noise.
"Well……whatever the reason, it's seems to be disrupting all the ships systems!"
"This is useless; I've got nothing, no propulsion, no weapons, not even engines!" There was a massive crash, and a sickening scraping sound as the ship's battered hull gave out to the lack of support from the engines, both Anakin and Obi-Wan were flung forward.
"One good thing in all this I suppose!" Obi-Wan called out, despite the difficulty in being shaken and thrown around constantly.
"What's that?"
"This is the first time the ship has malfunctioned through no fault of your own!"
Anakin was about to retort when a violent, and shrieking alarm rang just inches above Anakin's head, angrily, he reached up and flicked a switch, the alarm powered down, and the red light stilled.
"Can you land us?"
"In one piece?"
"Preferably, but right now anything will do."
"I can land us, but I can't be too sure as to whether the ship will remain intact, let alone ourselves, but I'll try my best!" Anakin wasn't sure, but he thought he heard Obi-Wan murmur a quiet 'you always do' under his breath. Whether he did or did not say it, it gave Anakin the confidence he needed, he switched off the engines completely, one thing he had always learnt in his years of flying, 'better to crash with no engines rather than faulty ones.' He let the ship cruise in an eerie silence for several moments.
"We're through the atmosphere." Obi-Wan called out to him, gripping onto his panel for dear life.
"30 seconds till impact." Anakin turned to face his master. "Better hold on to something."
All either of the Jedi could hear was the beating of wind against the ships hull, wisps of smoke blew past Anakin's side window, blocking out most of the sunlight from his right. He hauled heavily on the steer to desperately bring the ship up to a more angled, and suitable landing position, though he was struggling quite intensely. After what seemed like an eternity, a loud scream sounded from the lower hull, and only milliseconds following, was an almighty crash! Both Anakin and Obi-Wan were thrown forward in their seats, as the ship was stopped suddenly, a fresh grating sound echoed throughout the cockpit, and the familiar sense of rocking and swaying indicated clearly to Anakin that they had crashed into water.
Anakin took several moments to compose himself, his head spun ad his limbs tingled, he sat up, shaking out his hands and checking himself over for any injuries, beside him, Obi-Wan was already shifting and trying to pull himself free.
"Are you hurt master?"
"No, but I'm stuck." Anakin freed himself from his belt, and moved to help Obi-Wan, who's panel had de-fused and crashed on to his lap.
"Phew, you're lucky this didn't fry you alive master."
"Thank you for the input Anakin but I do need help if you don't mind." Anakin gave the contraption a rather unnecessary tug, and kicked it a couple of times with his boot. His master cried out as the machine shifted weight onto his leg.
"AGH! Not working Anakin just use your blasted lightsaber!" Flustered now, Anakin reached for is lightsaber, an uncomfortable look settled over his pale features.
"You won't hold me responsible if I take one or two limbs with me?"
"Anakin!"
"Right sorry." He activated the elegant, blue-glowing weapon and thrust it in a downward spiral straight into the computers main-wired circuitry. He arched his upper-arms down bringing the lightsaber into an angle, splitting the panel in two. Consequently freeing his master. The fried machine clattered in bits around the cock-pit floor, and smoke momentarily filled the cockpit. Anakin covered his mouth and nose with the sleeve of his tunic to stifle his coughs, while deactivating his weapon.
"You still intact master?" After the smoke had cleared enough for Anakin to see, he winced at the disapproving look from his master as the older Jedi swiped smoke away from his face, while carefully pulling himself to his feet.
"You could have been a bit more…..sparing?"
"You were in trouble."
"I was stuck Anakin, not being digested by a mutated bantha, it might have occurred to you that at some point we may need that computer?" Anakin flailed his arms in utter incredulity, his face a mask of annoyance. Obi-Wan continued to gaze upon the smoking machinery with something akin to pity.
"Nothing I do pleases you does it? You ask me to use my lightsaber, I use my lightsaber, you always complain about my being disobedient, so when I do obey, I'm lectured." To Anakin's surprise, Obi-Wan laughed.
"On the contrary my young padawan, the fact that a simple tease can get you so riled is something I find highly amusing, and that, I find almost pleasing, so I do recommend you keep it up it could prove to be a source of great comedy." He flashed a grin at his apprentice, before gathering up his pack, which seemed relatively untouched by the ridiculously violent crash, and made to activate the landing ramp. It opened to reveal a snowy, mountainous view, one rather daunting, to an inexperienced traveller, however, a minor inconvenience for a Jedi.
"One more thing."
"What's that?"
"Don't forget your lightsaber again, besides, you never know when we might find some impenetrable surface that your just dying to start slashing at." With one final, taunting smile, Kenobi turned, his cloak blowing slightly in the winter storm, and descended the ramp. Leaving Anakin to mutter under his breath.
"You're impossible, you know that?" He stepped out to join his master.
Obi-Wan stood at the foot of the landing ramp, turned at an angle slightly, taking in his surroundings, as well as inspecting the considerable damage taken to the ship, he watched casually as his Padawan navigated the slippery ramp, half blinded by the ever increasing blizzards.
"Our next course of action master?" Anakin had to shout over the wind."
"Well," Obi-Wan called in reply, "We can't make any real progress in this storm." He turned to face Anakin, squinting as the cold wind struck his eyes and cheeks.
"I suggest we find shelter, and wait it out." There was a pause, Anakin held his hand up to his brow, trying to mask some of his face from the piercing wind as he took in his white, and blanketed surroundings. His restless gaze returned to meet his master's calm and assertive one.
"I agree."
"Good" came the light hearted reply, the pair began to set off in the direction of the ice capped mountains, hoping to find some form of caved shelter if anything.
"Oh and Anakin," Anakin stopped.
"Yes master?" His voice was hoarse from shouting over the howling wind.
"The impossible master takes on the impossible apprentice, its only natural isn't it?" It wasn't a question. Anakin gaped as his master chuckled amusedly and pushed forward through the snow, Anakin followed. It was high time he realized that even if Anakin had said it on the other side of the galaxy, his master would have heard it, only in the time it would have taken for the pair to meet up again, Obi-Wan would have only come up with an even snider remark.
