I'm back! Ready for more chaos from Lila? She and Leia are really going to be friends . . .

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Chapter 5: Princess Leia

Lila crouched in a smuggling compartment, trying to keep as still as possible as she heard stormtroopers walk above her. The footsteps vanished.

She heard a distant voice say, "Get me a scanning crew on the double. I want every part of that ship checked!"

Ben stood up and lifted the top of the compartment. Lila rose and saw Han and Chewie also coming up. Luke lifted his head.

"Boy, its lucky you had those compartments," he said weakly.

"I use them for smuggling. Never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them," replied Han.

"This is stupid," said Lila. "We'll never make it past the tractor beam."

"Leave that to me," said Ben. Lila groaned.

"I should have known the old fool was going to say something like that," muttered Han. Chewie roared in agreement.

"Who's more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?" asked Ben. Han had no reply to that.

Lila motioned for him to shut up. They all heard a scanning crew board the ship. The two men's faces gaped in surprise. Han punched one under the throat. He fell to the floor. Lila drove her palm into the second one's nose. It broke with a sickening crunch.

"Hey down there, give us a hand with this!" called Han. Three stormtroopers hurried up the ramp. Lila's lightsaber hummed through their necks.

Han put one's white armor on and picked up it's gun. Lila and Luke likewise outfitted themselves.

As they walked across the docking bay of the space station, Lila could feel Luke's nervousness. Well, she didn't blame him. She herself was terrified at having to walk through the Death Star.

They reached the door of a control room. A man opened the door from the inside and gasped when he saw Chewbacca. The Wookie roared and flattened him. The 'stormtroopers' fired their blasters and disposed of the rest of the guards.

Han threw himself into a seat and took off his helmet. Lila did the same.

"Between his howling and your blasting everything in sight it's a wonder the whole station doesn't know we're here!" commented Luke.

"Well, bring it on! I prefer a straight fight to all this waiting around!" retorted Han.

"Artoo, plug into the computer," ordered Lila.

Threepio translated the astrodroid's beeps. "He says he found the main controls to the power that's holding the ship here. The tractor beam is linked to the main reactor in seven locations. A loss of power at one such location will allow the ship to leave."

Ben stood up. "I don't think you can help. I must go alone."

"Aww, come on," whined Lila.

"I want to go!" protested Luke.

"Be patient. See the droids delivered safely, or other star systems will suffer like Alderaan. Your destiny lies apart from mine. Stay here. May the Force be with you."

"Yes, Master," sulked Lila.

"Where'd you dig up that old fossil?" asked Han.

"Ben is a great man," said Luke stubbornly.

"Yeah, great at getting us in trouble . . ."

"Well I don't hear you offering any ideas!" said Lila.

At that moment, Artoo went crazy.

He beeped and whistled like nothing Lila had ever heard. "What's going on?" asked Lila.

"I'm not quite sure," said Threepio confusedly. "He said "I've found her" and keeps repeating "she's here! She's here!""

"Who?"

"Princess Leia."

Luke looked up. "What? The princess? She's here?""

Lila vaulted over her chair to look at Threepio. "What? Princess Leia? Are you sure?"

"Well where is she?" they cried at the same time.

"Level five, detention block AA23. I . . . I'm afraid she's scheduled to be terminated."

"WHAT?"

"We have to help her!" exclaimed Luke.

"What are you talking about?" said Han.

"The princess! These droids belong to her . . . she was the one in the message! We have to help her!"

"Hold on, kid. The old man told us to stay here."

"He didn't know she was here!" yelled Lila. "Artoo, find a way to the detention block!"

"I'm not going anywhere!" protested Han.

"They're going to execute her!" said Luke.

"A few minutes ago you said you wanted to do something, now all you want to do is stay?" said Lila.

"Walking into the detention area is NOT what I had in mind." Han crossed his arms.

"But they're gonna kill her!" cried Luke.

"Better her than me!"

Lila let out a frustrated sigh. She slowly approached Han. "She's rich" was all she said.

Han looked up. "Rich?"

"Rich, powerful. If you were to rescue her the reward would be . . ." she struggled for words.

"What?" asked Han suspiciously.

"More than you could imagine!" burst out Luke. "I can imagine a lot," said Han.

"Argh. You're being difficult," said Lila. "Look, will you just get off your lazy butt and help? Or is laziness a trait in you smugglers?"

Han glared at her. "You win, but you'd better be right about this!"

Luke threw up his hands in exasperation. "Lila, hand me those binders over there."

Lila grinned and handed him a pair of binders. He attempted to put them on Chewie's hands. The Wookie growled. Lila glared at him and whacked his head.

"If you have any common sense you will not threaten us," she snarled softly.

"Don't worry, Chewie. I think I know what he has in mind," said Han.

They made to leave the room. "Um, master Luke, what should we do?" asked Threepio.

"Lock the door," suggested Luke.

"And hope they don't have blasters," added Han.

They waited for an elevator. Any passing people ignored them. As the doors opened, Luke muttered, "I can't see a thing in this helmet."

"This is never going to work," replied Han.

"Why didn't you say so before?" asked Lila.

"I did say so before!" he hissed.

They got off at the detention level. An officer approached them. "Where are you taking this . . . thing?"

"Prisoner transfer, from block 1138," stated Luke.

The man frowned. "I wasn't notified. I'll have to clear it." He walked back to a computer console. Han quietly undid Chewie's binders. The Wookie roared and grabbed Lila's blaster.

"Look out! It's loose!" shouted Lila.

Luke and Han fired at Chewbacca, carefully missing him and hitting instead the cameras and stormtroopers.

Lila checked the computer readout. "She's in cell 2187. Han, you take care of things here." She darted off after Luke to the Princess's cell.

They rushed down the cramped corridor and heard Han call out, "Guys, we're gonna have company!"

Luke skidded to a stop and blasted a cell door to bits. They rushed inside and stared at the princess.

"Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?" asked Leia skeptically.

"Idiot," muttered Lila. "We were supposed to take the helmets off." She pulled Luke's helmet off, whapped his head, and removed her own helmet. "Lila Kenobi, Luke Skywalker. We're here to rescue you."

"You're who?"

"Come on, we're here with Ben Kenobi."

"Ben Kenobi! Where is he?" cried Leia.

"Come on!" said Luke. They rushed out of the cell and into a blaster shoot-off.

"Han, what the hell is going on?" demanded Lila.

"It looks like you managed to cut off our only escape route!" shouted Leia over the laser fire.

"Maybe you would prefer it in your cell, Highness!" retorted Han.

Luke grabbed his comlink. "Threepio! We've been cut off! Are there any other ways out?"

"All systems have been alerted to your presence. The main entrance is the only way out."

"There's no way out!" yelled Luke.

"Now what? We can't hold them off forever!" shouted Han.

"This is some rescue. You came in here and you didn't have a plan for getting out?" said Leia.

"He's the brains, sweetheart!" Han pointed to Luke.

Lila grabbed Luke's blaster and shot a small grate on the wall. It exploded.

"What are you doing?" yelled Han.

"Someone has to save our skins!" shouted Lila.

"Into the garbage chute, flyboy!" added Leia. She and Lila jumped through the burnt grating and down the garbage chute.

Well, there goes chapter 5. In case any of you were wondering, Lila says she is Lila Kenobi because she thinks of Obi-Wan as her father instead of Vader (she's in denial) and for 18 years she thought Obi-Wan was her father, so she says she's his daughter. Psychological therapy.

Okay, peoples, I am going to camp tomorrow. Don't expect any new updates untill mid-August, because I will be having the time of my life! And no, I do not feel guilty in the slightest, leaving you while I go and get tan and meet boys and have fun and learn how to wakeboard. My conscience is pretty muchnonexistent.

Cowgirl4Christ: Yeah, that's why she could only lift R2 a little, then it got to hard and he fell. She's not better than him. He may be old, but he could still kick her ass.

StarWarsPAFan: thank you.

Paige Hawill: yep, three Skywalkers going through adolescence . . . sniff sniff I smell a fight.