The Last Hope: Part One: Leia's Ascension
By Wildchartermage
Summary of The Last Hope Series: After killing Palaptine, Vader is now the emperor of the Empire and Luke is his heir to the Imperial throne. Rebellion is crushed, but still survives to continue to fight the Empire and its new emperor. Before that, Vader had ensnared Luke to the dark side when he ran away from Tatooine to join the Academy to be a pilot. Since Luke had fallen to the dark side, as Obi-wan and Yoda feared, the galaxy and Rebellion must hope for their last hope: Leia Organa.
Summary of Flashback (last chapter): It has been three months since Leia joined the rebellion to avenge the death of Alderaan and her friends and families and to fight against the Empire. While the chapter is a flashback, Leia had an encounter with Prince Vader or Luke. She was suspected of smuggling illegal cargoes to other planets, he confronted her about it. And Leia assuaged him by saying it's for her people, the remaining Alderaanians. Aw, crap. I don't feel like writing summary now. Just go and read my new chappie.
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Chapter Three: Assigned
Some New Rebel Base…
"Princess Leia Organa, we have assigned you a new mission. A mission of the utmost importance, except this time it is a little different," said Mon Mothma, the leader of the Alliance, in a shrill voice.
Leia, Mon Mothma, and the rest of the Council members, are in a designated conference room for this recent Rebel base. The room is large and rectangular. There is a horizontal steel table in front of the Council members, forming a barrier between Leia and them. However, if the base had to be evacuated, the table can fold itself into a small briefcase size with a press of a button. Harsh light hung over their heads, giving their face an unflattering glow.
Of the nine members, Mon Mothma with her coppery red hair with clear blue eyes sat in the center and exuded an air of authority and confidence. She is the lady who leads, supports, and boosts the morals of the Rebellion. Also, most people like and admire her, especially for her unwavering determination to get things done and her leadership of the Rebellion.
Mon Mothma continued, "You will be going to Tatooine to retrieve your droids that you helpfully supplied to us. We recently intercepted a transmission from Jade Star, who is aboard on the Death Star in disguise. She said she had placed the schematics of the Death Star into those droids and released them into space."
"Not only that, Jade Star told us that the Imps are chasing after her and found about those droids with the schematics. She programmed them to go to Tatooine for us to retrieve. So, we must hurry and get your droids before Vader finds them. Or everything we've worked for are all lost," said General Rieekan.
Mon Mothma added, " We have thought of several candidates, especially you, to get the droids. But we think you are the best for this mission because nobody know your droids better than you do and you have field experiences that outmatches other candidates. So, please be careful, for you are very important to us."
Leia took all of this in with a calm expression, thought about it for a moment and said,
"Fine. I will do it."
The Council members nodded and said, "Go now. Hurry before it's too late."
The young lady turned to leave, but not until she was interrupted by the Council leader, who said, "Oh one more thing. Do you know who is General Obi-wan Kenobi? I'm sure you had studied him somewhere in your studies."
"Yeah, I know who he was. He was the famous Old Republic hero and the teacher of the famous Jedi Anakin Skywalker."
"Can you find him in Tatooine? Long time ago, during the start of the Empire, he said if we ever truly need him, we could find him on Tatooine. We need his help now."
"Fine. I'll find him."
So, Leia prepared for her journey and hopped into her ship to hyperspace.
While in hyperspace, she mulled over the conversation she just had with the Council, and tried to recall more information about General Kenobi from her studies. Then, she drew up a mental list of to-dos and where to start finding him and the droids.