Chapter Four: Just Watch Me

While Obi-Wan used the Force to unlock the door, Anakin walked over to where Luke was standing.

"Son, I wanna see you being more active. I'm surprised you haven't escaped from here by yourself yet."

"I'm sorry. I was just worried about all the guards."

"See, that's the problem with you, son. You worry almost as much as Obi-Wan does. You need to just take a chance and go for it! Don't worry, just watch me, and you'll do fine!"

"Anakin, I need a little help here," Obi-Wan said.

Anakin walked back to his former master, while Tiilaa snuck up behind Luke.

"Don't listen to a word Anakin says, Luke," Tiilaa said to him. "How do you think Anakin lost his arm?"

Luke looked back at his father and saw that he did have a fake arm. His transformation was already beginning. Luke wondered if he had a chance to change history, to keep his father from going to the Dark Side. A meeting with Vader would do the trick! But not now. They had way too many things going against them here.

"Got it!" Obi-Wan declared triumphantly. "Let's go."

They had one bounty hunter to deal with as soon as they got out. He was guarding the door. Anakin and Tiilaa just edged him into the room that Luke had been imprisoned in, and locked the door.

So far, so good. And it would have stayed that way if Luke hadn't insisted on going back for his lightsaber.

"Who's there? Move or I'll shot!" they heard a bounty hunter say.

"Bring it!" Anakin called back.

They bounty hunter began shooting at them, and Anakin blocked the bolts easily. Luke grabbed his lightsaber, and they ran past the now dead bounty hunter.

But the shooting alerted the others, and soon they were engaged in a full blown fight.

Despite the fact that they were outnumbered, Luke and his new friends were able to make it outside.

"Alright," Obi-Wan said. "Where would the nearest space station be?"

"I want to get my X-Wing back," Luke declared.

"Later, son. Right now, the grown-ups are planning."

"I'm a grown-up too!" Luke shot back.

"Well son, you fight like a six-year-old padawan. Until you're fighting improves, you're still a child.

"Still a child! Still a child! I've been taking care of myself for years, and I've been doing just fine!"

"Yeah, it shows!" Anakin said sarcastically. "As soon as I saw you, locked in a cell, captured by fifteen bounty hunters, I thought to myself, oh, that guy really knows how to take care of himself!"

"Shut up!"

"Admit it, son. You have a lot to learn!"

"This was just a minor set back!"

"And I bet you have been in other dangerous situations before!"

"Well……."

"Come on!"

"There was that time on Hoth."

"Ha! See? I knew it!"

"That's beside the point! The point is that I am a grown-up, and I can take care of myself just fine!"

"Prove it!" and then they heard a deep, dark voice say behind them.

"Yes, son. I'd like to see you prove it."

Uh-oh!

Author's Notes: Another cliffhanger! Sorry. I could not resist!