The smuggler's ship is just coming out of hyperspace; a strange, surreal light show surrounds the ship.

"Stand by, Chewie, here we go." Cut in the sublight engines. Han pulls back on a control lever to their arrival destination.

Outside the cockpit, window stars begin streaking past, seem to decrease in speed, then stop. Suddenly, the starship begins to shudder and violently shake about asteroids begin to race toward them, battering the ship's sides.

"Oh, crap!" Blake says as she sees the rocks hitting them.

"What the…?" Solo says, surprised about this. "Aw, we've come out of hyperspace into a meteor shower. Some kind of asteroid collision. It's not on any of the charts."

The Wookie flips off several controls and seems very cool in the emergency. Luke makes his way into the bouncing cockpit.

"What's going on?" Luke asked while he sees the asteroid field.

"Our position is correct, except… no, Alderaan!" Han replies he was baffled about this.

"What do you mean? Where is it?" Luke asked.

"That's what I'm trying to tell you, kid. It ain't there. It's been totally blown away!" Solo says.

"Blown away? Like exploded!" Blake asked in shock.

"What? How?" Luke askes then that seemed kinda impossible.

Ben moves into the cockpit behind Luke as the ship begins to settle down. He speaks calmly at this, but his tone is saddening at all the lost lives this day.

"Destroyed… by the Empire," he says, giving his answer to the crew.

"What! They can destroy planets!" Blake said in shock, blowing up planets!? In her mind, that is the evilest thing anything anyone can do. Not even Adam and Cinder, who attacked the Academy, were outclassed compared to this kind of evil. Not even the Remnant inhabitant's longest recorded enemy, the Grimm, was anything that horrifying. Whoever ordered the destruction of whatever killed the planet was simply a monster.

"The entire Starfleet couldn't destroy the whole planet. It'd take a thousand ships with more firepower than I've…"

A frenzied beeping threw off Solo's train of thought. He held his breath tightly as he rested his hands away from the control panel. Blake appeared behind him and saw the rogue's attention was laser-focused on the instrument to his left, making the beeping; a radar-like device was beeping at an increasingly rapid pace.

"There's another ship coming in," Solo announced.

"Maybe they know what happened," Luke says.

Blake snapped out of her train of thought then as she wondered what ship was out here with the, was it friendly? Maybe a survivor that escaped the world before it's destruction.

"It's an Imperial fighter," Ben says, answering Blakes on what she was thinking.

Chewbacca barks his concern. An explosion bursts outside the cockpit window, shaking the ship violently. A moment later, a tiny finned Imperial TIE fighter races past the cockpit window.

"It followed us," Skywalker declared.

"It's a short-range fighter," Kenobi said, correcting the eager boy. "They possess no hyperdrives."

"There aren't any bases around here. Where did it come from?" Solo asks. He knows those TIE fighters travel in groups and attack in large numbers.

"Maybe it was part of a convoy, got lost or something," Blake offered.

"It sure is leaving in a big hurry. If they identify us, we're in big trouble." Luke pointed out.

Blake wondered if the imperials they escaped from identified them before they left the system.

"Well, wherever he came from, he ain't gonna be around long enough to tell anybody about us," Solo confidently stated. His hands moving swiftly over the controls as the Falcon continued to follow the small ship. "Chewie…jam it's transmissions," Han says to his buddy.

"It'd be as well to let it go. It's too far out of range." Ben says he saw no reason to kill it, Blake silently agreeing with the old man.

"Not for long," Solo said, giving chase to the starfighter. The tension mounts as the smuggler's ship gains on the tiny fighter. One of the stars becomes brighter in the distance until it was evident that the TIE ship is heading for it.

Ben stands behind Chewbacca. "A fighter that size couldn't get this deep into space on its own," Ben says, feeling something is very off.

"Maybe it got lost." Blake says giving what she thinks.

"I agree with Blake. It had to be lost or got left behind," Luke says, thinking that was a logical idea on why this ship was alone.

Blake smiled slightly at the blond agreeing with her.

The fighter was steadily losing ground to the smuggler ship as they race to catch up to the TIE. The distant star can be distinguished as a small moon or planet.

"Look," Skywalker said, eagerly pointing ahead of them into space. "It's headed for that small moon in the distance." Blake saw it too. But had a feeling. One that she developed when used together with her semblance to impending danger started to rise. It was also the first moon in her opinion that looked whole, unlike the one that orbited her homeworld.

"I think I can get him before he gets there… he's almost in range," Han announced.

But with the Falcon moving ever closer to the moon, it started to look like something else. A pit began to form in Blake's gut as she realized what they were approaching.

"That's no moon. It's a space station," Ben said. The grimness and gravity of the situation flooding into his voice.

Everyone froze as they realized what they were heading towards… everyone except for Han, who snorted at the idea of the speck being a space station. "Impossible; that thing's too big to be a space station."

"I have a very bad feeling about this," Luke says he knew that this device must be dangerous.

"Ah Han," Blake says, having some fear in her voice. "I think we should be here anymore...turn us around," Blake says, thinking that might be a good idea. The thing was the biggest piece of technology she's ever seen. How does the Empire get the money to make something like that?! It's worth must have been beyond staggering. Then the resources to put together would bankrupt the atlas military, the strongest military in her world a hundred times over.

"Yeah…" Solo said, voice trailing off ever so briefly. His eyes locked on the 'moon,' but his hands were a blur as he worked to get his ship in the opposite direction. "I think you're right on this one, Blake. We're getting the hell out of here. Chewie, lock in the auxiliary power!" Solo orders.

The giant beast warbled anxiously and obliged, tapping in commands as an energy source from another section of the ship whined to life. But despite the auxiliary power kicking in, the freighter began to shake violently. The Falcon shudders as the TIE fighter accelerates away toward the gargantuan battle station.

"Dammit Chewie," Solo thundered as beads of sweat started to form on his brow. "I said to lock in the auxiliary power!"

"Why are we still moving towards it!?" Luke asks while still looking at the grey sphere grew larger and larger.

"We're caught in a tractor beam," Solo frustratedly answered. "It's pulling us inside it!"

"There's got to be something you can do," Skywalker asked in desperation. The space station continued to grow larger as the Falcon approached it.

"Nope, there's nothing I can do about it, kid," Solo bitterly replied. "I'm already at full power, and if I push her too hard, the primary drive will give out and we won't be going anywhere." The captain then furiously flipped several switches as a determined look was etched on his face. "But they won't get me without a fight."

"What? Han, no! That thing looks like the size of a planet and probably has who knows how many soldiers in it. We have no chance!" Blake points out. What Solo was thinking was just crazy, but soon it might be the only option.
"I will take a lot of them with me then," Solo says, ready for a fight even if it might be his last.

But then Ben Kenobi puts a hand on Solo shoulder. "You can't win. But there are alternatives to fighting." Ben says wisely.

As the battered starship is towed closer to the Death Star. The massive battle station's immense size becomes staggering running along the gigantic sphere's equator is a mile-high band of huge docking ports into which. The helpless Millennium Falcon is pulled past several docking ports towards a moderate-sized hanger. In contrast, several laser turret cannons tracked its approach in the event it became hostile.

Inside the Death Star, a voice on the com was heard. "Clear Bay twenty-three-seven. We are opening the magnetic field." The voice says as all people in did what the voice said.

The smuggler's ship is pulled in through one of its many hangers of the Death Star, coming to rest in a hangar that perfectly fits it.

Bleach-white Imperial Stormtroopers and grey-uniformed officers personally inspected every inch of their latest catch.

"To your stations!" An officer said to them.

"Come with me." The lead stormtrooper orders as he and the Stormtroopers run to their posts. The stormtroopers march toward the smuggler's ship in readiness to board it. At the same time, other troopers stand with weapons ready to fire on the ship's inhabitants.

An officer on the come spoke then. "Close all outboard shields! Close all outboard shields!"

Inside Death Star's admiralty conference room Grand Moff Tarkin responds to the buzz on his intercom.

"Yes?" Tarkin responds.

"We've captured a freighter entering the remains of the Alderaan system. It's markings match those of a ship that blasted its way out of Mos Eisley." The officer reports.

Tarkin looks at the Dark Lord Vader. "They must be trying to return the stolen plans to the Princess. She may yet be of some use to us."

"If that's so," Tarkin says. "Then, we will hold off on her execution...for now."

Tarkin may still be furious at the Princess for tricking him. But if she is still of some use, he won't let his pride blind him on a more logical choice to find the rebel base.

With that, Vader takes his leave, heading to the hangar where the Falcon was being held.

When he got there, he joined by an imperial commander. Vader and the commander approach the troops as an Officer, and several heavily armed troops exit the spacecraft.

"There's no one on board, sir," a nameless officer announced to Vader. "According to the ship's log, the crew abandoned the ship shortly after takeoff. It must be a decoy, sir; all of the escape pods have been jettisoned."

"Have you found any droids?"

"Negative, sir. If there were any, they would've most likely been jettisoned, as well."

Vader was not going to leave things to chance. "Send a scanning crew aboard," the towering Sith Lord ordered. "I want every part of this ship searched."

"Yes, Lord Vader."

Vader looked hard at the ship again. His sense ringing an unknown. "I sense something… an unknown presence and a presence I haven't felt since…"

Vader quickly turned and swiftly departed the hanger bay. The unknown was likely the girl he had his men keep an eye out for. He would first deal with his old master, then he would get to the bottom of this curious unknown.

The Officer was a little confused about what Vader meant by that. But he had no time to think of this as he gave orders. "Get me a scanning crew in here on the double. I want every part of this ship checked!"

Onboard Falcon, a trooper walks through the hallway heading for the exit. For a few moments, all is quiet. The muffled sounds of a distant officer giving orders finally faded out by the hull of the Falcon.

Unknown to them, two floor panels popped up, revealing Han Solo and Ben Kenobi, with Chewbacca sticking his head out of a second floor panel.

The Wookie smuggler grows as he gets out of his compartment.

"Never thought we be smuggling ourselves ether Chewie," the Smuggler replied.

A third floor covering popped up, and a red face Blake stood up and hurried out. Luke followed behind with his face, flushed red.

"So," Blake said as she straightens her shirt and jacket. "Why do you have these anyway?" The Faunus asked.

Han stared at the Faunus with a raised eyebrow. "I use them for smuggling. "Han answers Blake. " Although I'd never considered smuggling myself in them." He gets a little angry because of their situation. This was supposed to be an easy payday for him and his crew, only to be in hell's water with the Empire again. This got to be the second-worst thing that happened to him with the Empire...the first was when he and Chewie had to escape a Star Destroyer filled with zombies that they made. "This is ridiculous. Even if I could take off, I'd never get past the tractor beam."
"Leave that to me," Kenobi cryptically replied with a confident look.

Solo sighed as he scratched the back of his head with his blaster. "Damn fool. I knew you were going to say that."

"Who's the more foolish," the Jedi asked with a smile. "The fool, or the fool who follows him?"

Han shakes his head, muttering to himself. Chewbacca agrees while Blake just chuckles at what the old man said that was funny in her opinion on what he just said as they all got out then.

Outside the Falcon, two crewmen carry a heavy box walked past the two stormtroopers guarding either side of the ramp before entering the ship.

"The ship's all yours. If the scanners pick up anything, report it immediately. All right, let's go." He says as The crewmen enter the smuggling ship. A few seconds later, a loud crashing sound is followed by a voice calling to the guard below.

Blake had used her weapon's flat side to knock out the technicians while Chewie grabbed hold of them and dragged them to the side. Solo off to the side gave her a thumb up. With a sly grin, he cupped his hands around his mouth and leaned towards the exit. "Hey, down there! Could you give us a hand with this?"

A pair of Imperial Stormtroopers half-jogged up the ramp, where Solo was there to greet them with a couple of blaster bolts. The soldiers crashed to the deck, each sporting a smoldering, smoking crater in their backs. Luke and Han quickly stripped the two of their armor before Chewie unceremoniously dumped them into a smuggling container.

Blake jumped a little when the shots fired, but looks to the side. She really hated that she had to see that but sucked it in.

Ben puts a comforting hand on her shoulder. He senses her unease of death. "I can tell you did not like that, but now my young friend, there's not much of choice in this matter." He says to the girl.

"Okay, everyone." Solo says as he looks at Blake and Luke." We got our disguises." He says as he picks up the stormtrooper helmet. "Blake, take one of those ensign uniforms. They look to be your size."

Blake looks down at the knocked out Imperial and sighs at what Solo's plan. "Fine," she responds but fixes the men a look but mostly at Luke. "But if anyone peeks while I change, there will be more the words being exchanged."

Luke shivered under her gaze as she began to take off the Officer's uniform. When the Imp was wearing nothing but his undergarments, Blake went to her room to change.

While Luke and Solo were putting the stormtrooper's armor. Solo glanced at Luke. "Okay, I'll bite. What happened between you two?

Luke blushed at the thought of what happened.

A few minutes earlier.

Luke jumped down into the compartment. Down below, R2 was already there as it beeped at him.

"Don't worry little guy, we're only going to be in here for a bit and will be out of here," Luke assured the little droid.

Blake then jumped down and crouched next to him. When the two looked at each other, Luke blushed turned back to avoid eye contact. Realizing he was very close to an attractive girl. But Blake saw his blush and smiled at his reaction, finding it cute.

Their floor panel then sealed them shut, plunging the compartment to darkness.

The sound of the ship's engines and the two's breathing was all they could hear.

The ship landed hard, causing the two teens to slip. Blake retained her balance as did Luke when he reached out and grabbed something to hold onto.

What Luke grabbed made a gasping sound. Confused by this, he realized that what he held wasn't a pipe but something firm and soft.

"Luke...that's me, your grabbing."

The realization hit him like a proton torpedo.

Present

"I don't want to talk about it."

The smuggler raised an eyebrow at the kid just as Blake reappeared in the black officer uniform.

"Ready you, two?" Solo asked, his voice disorient due to the stormtrooper helmet's exterior speakers."

"Yep," Luke says, sounding different due to the helmet.

Blake had tied her hair into a ponytail as she puts the imperial hat on now to hide her cat ears. "I am as well. Let's go."

An Officer looks out his window and notices the guards are missing. He speaks into the comlink then to find out why they were no ordered to go anywhere else.

"TX-four-one-two Why aren't you at your post?" The black-clothed Lieutenant goes to a communications terminal, hearing no response, he repeats the message. "TX-four-one-two, do you copy?"

The LT looks back down at the impounded ship. Soon he spots a female officer, and a stormtrooper comes down the ramp of the smuggler's ship and waves to the Officer. The stormtrooper taps his helmet's side where his ear is, indicating his comlink is not working right. The Officer gives a small salute and heads for the door.

Down at the hanger bay, Luke spoke to Blake. "So think he bought it?" He asked.

"I think so," Blake says, looking at Luke when she saw the officer leave.

Back with the Officer, he looks at the Aid. "Take over. We've got a bad transmitter. I'll see what I can do."

As the Lieutenant approaches the door, it slides open, revealing a tall Wookie. The Wookie let out a roar and easily swiped the man aside into a row of barrels. The other Officer rose to his feet and was in the process of reaching for his pistol when Solo lifted his first. The laser's angry red bar impacted the Officer in his chest, sending the man flying back against the control panel.

Ben and the droids enter the room quickly followed by Skywalker and Belladona sprinted into the control room, pressing a button that closed the door. While Chewie guarded the entrance, Luke angrily removed his helmet and shot the rogue pilot a glare.

"You know between his howling and you blasting everything in sight, it's a wonder everyone in the whole station doesn't know we're here!"

Han arched an eyebrow and leaned his newly-acquired blaster rifle against his shoulder. "Bring 'em on! I prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around nonsense!"

Blake just looked at the dead imperials and sighed. She was getting small flashbacks of her time with the White Fang, but pushes them aside and lessens to the conversation between Luke and Han.

"We really don't need an argument right now," Blake says as she was ignored as Solo talks to Luke.

"Master Luke," 3PO said. He looked up from where he and R2 were tinkering with the controls, defusing the room's animosity for only a brief moment. "We've found the computer outlet."

"Plugin," Kenobi calmly said to the droids. "We should be able to interpret the entire Imperial network."

Artoo punches his claw arm into the computer socket. The vast Imperial brain network comes to life, feeding information to the little robot. After a few moments, he beeps something.

"He says he's found the main computer to power the tractor beam holding the ship here. He'll try to make the precise location appear on the monitor." 3P0 explains.

"Good, the faster that's done, the faster we can find it and get out of this...station full of white armored soldiers." Blake really wanted to get out of this ball of death fast as possible she really did not want to be here for long.

"Agreed," Ben says to the Faunus.

The computer monitor flashes readouts and found its location soon enough.

3P0 then turns to the group again. "The tractor beam is coupled to the main reactor in seven locations. A power loss at one of the terminals will allow the ship to leave."

Ben studies the data on the monitor readout and memorizes it as well carefully so he would not forget where it is as he was ready to go soon.

Kenobi turned to face the group, a look of worry replacing his normally relaxed demeanor. "I don't think either of you can help. I must go alone."

Han shrugged. "Whatever you say. I've gotten more than I've bargained for on this trip already."

Luke stepped in front of Kenobi as the old man made it for the door with a concerned expression painted on his young face. "But I want to go with you."

"Yeah, we can probably help and get this done faster," Blake says, wanting to help.

"Be patient, Luke, Blake," the Jedi encouraged, his calming voice working to defuse the farm boy's and Faunus's tension.

He did not mention it, but upon landing, he sensed an old foe here. An enemy that he knew very well and did not want either of them to run into him.

"But he can…" Luke was about to argue that Han could stand guard and watch the droids.

"You must stay and watch over the droids. They must be delivered safely, or other star systems will suffer the same fate as Alderaan." Kenobi gently placed his hand on Luke's shoulder. "Your destiny lies on a different path than mine." He then looks at Blake. "And you are a strong person Blake, so I ask you to help keep them safe."

Blake nodded then. "Alright...be careful," Blake said over. In a short time, like with Luke, she felt like she bonded with this man.

Bem gave her a smile as he adjusts the lightsaber on his belt and silently steps out of the command office. He disappears down a long grey hallway into the station filled with tens of thousands of imperials.

As Luke and Blake watched the door slide down shut, the Wookie let out several low warbles, to which Han smiled and leaned against his towering sidekick. "You said it, Chewie." The smuggler then turned to Luke with a smug grin. "Just where did you dig up that old fossil, anyway?"

"Ben is a great man," Luke angrily asserted, now standing just inches away from the slightly taller Solo.

"Yeah, great at getting us into trouble."

"Well, I didn't see you coming up with anything!"

Blake saw this was about to get into another argument and decides to steps in. "Okay, look guys. I know this has been a stressful day, but-"

Before Blake could say anything, she was interrupted by the excited squeals of R2. The astromech rocked back and forth on his two legs, continuing his squeals.

Dropping the argument, Luke goes over to him while Blake watches to see what was going on.

""What is it," Luke asked.

"I'm not quite sure, sir," 3PO replied. "He's saying 'I've found her,' and keeps repeating that she's here."

"Who's she? Who's here?"

"Princess Leia."

Astonished, Luke let his rifle fall clean from his hands as he approached the droid. "The Princess is here!? Where is she?"

"Princess," Solo said, obviously confused over the new developments. "What princess?"

3PO then keeps telling Luke the Location then. "Level five. Detention block AA-twenty- three. I'm afraid she's scheduled to be terminated."

Blake now had wide eyes. Termination what did this Princess do to deserve being killed? That kinda sounded harsh, in her opinion. That and she still dislikes killing.

"Oh no…" Luke lowly uttered. The boy looked around the room at Han and Blake, unsure of what to do next. "We have to do something!"

Han spoke next. "What are you talking about?"

"The droid belongs to her. She's the one in the message… We've got to help her."

"Now, look, don't get any funny ideas. The old man wants us to wait right here." Han reminds Luke.

Skywalker hustled back over to the console 3PO and R2 was occupying. "But he didn't know she was here! We have to find a way to the detention block."

Han defiantly took an empty seat and put his feet up. "I'm not goin' anywhere!"

""They're gonna execute her," Luke fired back. "Just a few minutes ago, you said you didn't want to wait here and be captured, and now all you want to do is stay?!"

"Marching into the detention area is not what I had in mind!

"But they're going to execute her!"

"Better her than me!"

"Cold..." Blake comments to herself.

Blake felt conflicted about what to do. She knew Han disapproved of the situation from the beginning. But was felt more being on Luke's side in wanting to save this person. She had a feeling that Ruby would do just that if she was in her situation.

As for Luke, he could feel Blake would help, but they needed Han's help. Luke looked like he was going to say something, but instead, he moved to the other end of the room for a moment. A wiry smile crept onto the boy's face as he headed back over to Han.

"She's rich."

"Rich?" The smuggler asked with an arched eyebrow. Blake tried her best not to smile at how Luke got Solo hooked.

Luke smiled at this as he goes on. "Yes. Rich, powerful! Listen, if you were to rescue her, the reward would be…" Luke stopped as Solo looked at him still.

"What?" He asked, telling Luke to continue.

"Well, more wealth than you can imagine."

I don't know, I can imagine quite a bit."

"You'll get it!" Luke says.

"I better!" Solo says.

"You will. I'll make sure of it." Luke replies.

"Well." Blake began while leaning on a nearby wall. "Looks like that all got settled." She says as Solo gets up.

"All right, kid. But you'd better be right about this." Han says he was going to be risking a lot on this rescue mission.

Han looks at Chewie, who grunts a short grunt, saying he has a bad feeling about this in his language.

"All right. What's your plan?" Han asks how they will get there, as Luke thinks.

"Uh… Threepio, hand me those binders there, will you?" Luke asks as the droid gave him the cuffs, and now Luke moves toward Chewbacca with electronic cuffs. "Okay. Now, I'm going to put these on you-"

Chewie lets out a hideous growl, and Luke jumped back, almost feeling like the Wookie would rip his arms off just then.

"Okay." He then turns to Blake. "Blake, can you put these on him?" Luke sheepishly hands the binders to the only girl in the room. She rolled her eyes and takes them before cuffing the Wookie.

"Hey, don't worry, Chewie. I think I know what he has in mind, and I'm sure it will work just fine." Blake says but the Wookiee has a worried and frightened look on his face as Blake binds him with the electronic cuffs.

3P0 then asks Luke something as he sees everyone about to go. "Master Luke, sir! Pardon me for asking… but, ah… what should Artoo and I do if we're discovered here?"

"Lock the door." Luke simply answers.

"And hope they don't have blasters," Solo says.

"That isn't very reassuring." The droid says as Luke and Han put on their armored stormtrooper helmets.

"Don't worry." Blake puts the imperial hat back on, covering her ears. "We will be back before anything bad happens," Blake assures. She may not have her weapon on her, but she placed it under Chewie sash and hide it with his fur.

Han then crotches down to the dead Imperial Officer and takes the rank pins and gun belt off and puts them on, Blake. "There, you go, Blake."

The girl raised an eyebrow at him. "What did you just do?"

"Just getting you a promotion. Lieutenant."

Note: Well heres the next chapter, hope you all like it also i like to thank Helljumper206 for helping me edit.

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