Author Note: Hey peeps! I'm back. Sorry it took me so long to post, but I've been unpacking...plus I have to admit that I totally forgot to post because I was so thrilled with my GCSE results. All A's and B's!

So anyways, another cliffhanger I'm afraid...but I hope it was worth the wait.

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A few hours later, chaos had broken out on the moon of Onderon.

The others had managed to land and find Padme's tracker up on the platform. All was going well until a loud explosion caused a cave inwhich seperated them. Thats when things started going wrong.

Luke and Leia had dissapeared without a trace, Lomas and Ronteza had found the Emperor's cloning room and had begun smashing all the pods, only to discover that they were empty anyway, Serena had fallen in a hiddenpit and when Scotty tried to pull her out, he had fallen in aswell, Han and Chewie had got locked in the trash compactor and Anakin and Obi-Wan were following an unidentified ship to another platform a few miles away.

As for Padme, she had cleverly managed to escape from the clones after the explotion only to get lost in the maze of underground tunnels. She still had her lightsaber because the clones had stupidly forgotten to confiscate it, but seeing as her hands were shackled tightly behind her back, it was pretty useless anyway.

Why can't things just go to plan for once. Why do they always end up going completely the opposite to how they should go? she thought angrily as she traipsed along yet another corridor. They all looked so familiar that she had no idea if she was going round in circles or simply just walking up and down the same one.

Suddenly she heard footsteps in the distance and ducked behind a pillar just as someone came running down the tunnel.

It was Luke.

"Luke, help me!" she called as he ran past, stepping out of the shadows. Luke spun on the spot in surprise.

"Mum? What happened?"

"Long story!" she sighed as Luke cut the chains and she rubbed her wrists sorely. "Where is everyone?"

"Good question!" Luke replied as they set off again. "After the explotion we all got seperated and you're the first person I've met since."

"Well, I think we should first find our way out of here and then we can focus on finding the others."

"I agree," Luke said as they rounded yet another corner and came to a dead end.

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"Eww! What is that?" Serena cried as something wet ran over her feet. Scotty looked down to find that the pit was slowly filling with water.

"Um...water...with no where else to go," he replied worriedly.

"Oh great, we have to get out of here now, otherwise we'll end up drowning."

"You think I don't know that!" Scotty snapped as they scrabbled at the sides of the pit, trying to pull themselves out. But the sides were smooth and slipery. Impossible to climb. A perfectly made death trap.

"Great. I get to spend the rest of my very short life, stuck in a hole with a hotheaded jerk who thinks he the best, just because he's related to the 'Chosen One'!" Serena groaned and Scotty glared at her angrily.

"What, and you think I like being stuck in here with an insufferable know-it-all like you!" he shot back.

For a while there was silence and the water rose even higher. It was up to their waists now and Serena was starting to shiver from the cold.

Scotty began to soften a little when he saw the look on her face. She obviously hadn't meant what she had said. It was just her way of trying to put on a brave face.

Taking off his cloak, he wrapped it around her and hugged her to keep her warm. She didn't resist, but looked up into his eyes gratefully.

"Thankyou..." she whispered and Scotty finally summoned up the courage to say what he had been hiding for a long time.

"I love you Serena. I have done, ever since we were padawans together."

To his surprise, she answered with a kiss on his lips that lingered and deepened, expressing her true feelings for him aswell. When they parted at last, she looked up into his eyes again and said "I love you too. But I was afraid that you didn't love me."

"Of course I did. Who couldn't love someone as happy and carefree...and beautiful as you?"

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"What do you mean 'It's my fault we're down here'? You were the one who said you smelt food!" Han snapped at Chewbacca as the two tried to prize the door of the compactor open with metal bars.

Chewbacca barked an angry reply and Han stopped what he was doing and raised his eyebrows at the Wookie.

"You're the one who's always thinking with your stomach! At least I can keep my mind off food for more than five seconds!"

Chewie opened his mouth to argue, but the sound of metal grinding stopped them both dead. A few seconds later the walls began to close in on them as the compactor began compacting the trash.

The two grabbed up as many large poles as they could, trying to jam the walls back, but the poles just buckled and bent under the strength of the walls.

"Well, this is it Chewie...there's nothing more we can do. I'm sorry old pal," Han sighed, climbing to the top of the highest junk pile and sitting down on a rusty bucket. Chewie joined him, saying nothing as the two waited for the inevitable.

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"Lomas, you've missed one!" Ronteza called as he smashed yet another pod, allowing the sticky goo to slither out and soak his already wet boots. The goo was now almost knee height and was becoming more and more difficult to walk in, but the Princes refused to give in until every last pod was smashed.

"Ronteza, look out!" Lomas called and Ronteza had to jump out of the way as a hole split in the side of a large water tank and began spilling water out into the room aswell. To make matters worse, an electric cable dangled a few feet above the water. If the tank burst, it would mean the cable was actually in the water...meaning Ronteza and Lomas would be fried.

"HELP ME!" Ronteza yelled, realising the danger they were in and trying to jam the hole with his fist, but it wasn't working. Lomas began wading his way towards his brother, but he had a feeling he would be too late. So instead, he dived towards the wire, hoping to hook it up, out of the way. Just as his hand closed around it, the tank burst and Rontteza was swept backwards by the strong current.