Chapter 3

There was a long silence between the two, as Master Ralkitta was a little bit unsure what to say to calm her down a little bit and Padme's head was flooding with so much questions that it felt a little bit like her head was going to explode into a thousand pieces at any moment. She was trying so hard to determine if the man, that had presented himself to her as a Jedi Master was just messing with her or really telling the truth even if she didn't know why she should start to question the character of a Jedi Master. It took quite some thinking but then he finally broke the uncomfortable silence between them: "As sad as it is for you Miss Amidala it's the truth, now let me help you out of the stasis pod." Padme of course was being a little reluctant at first to take the hand of the Jedi, because she just never had been that kind of person to trust a total stranger that quickly even if he was a Jedi Master.

She finally allowed the man to help her out of the stasis pod, still being so unfamiliar with her surroundings the former Senator from Naboo took only very small steps and kept studying this very huge chamber inside the cave. As she finally let go of the Jedi's hand, now wanting to stand on her own another question popped up in her mind that she really needed to be answered:

"What happened after Palpatine transformed the Republic into a Galactic Empire? "

"There was a long war between the Alliance of the Free Planets and the Galactic Empire, Chief of State Mon Mothma and Leia Organa Solo being the driving force during the Galactic Civil War. The Rebels had to endure a lot of loses during it but with the Destruction of the Second Death Star in the Orbit of the Planet Endor the Rebel Alliance was finally able to win the war in the very end." Master Ralkitta told her in short form what had happened after former Supreme Chancellor Palpatine had used his Emergency Powers that the Senate had given to him during the Clone Wars to install a terror regime that had been known for a lot of years as the Galactic Empire.

Of course Padme was glad to know, that Mon Mothma had been one of the people who stood up to Palapatine even if that had meant a lot sacrifices for her and her allies to be made through the whole very hard war but wasn't that the thing that happened in every single one in the end? As she tried to imagine how it most have been like for Mon Mothma and the others to fight against the Empire, she couldn't help but think back to one of her own war memories.

Flashback

There she was on Geonosis, an unkown planet to her up until now chained to a big pole out of stone next to the man that she had recently felt in love with: the Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker. Had it been foolish to think that she and her Annie would be able to get Obi Wan out of this mess on their own? Of course she hadn't left the cell area unprepared; she had hidden a hair clip in one of the pockets of her outfit before the Geonsians had escorted them out into the area where they would probably be excuted.

Without the two guards noticing anything, she was already very busy with losing up the shackles on her arms just a little bit so that it would a lot easier to fully open them later and just after they she had pledged her love to Anakin she had promised herself not to die out here because she didn't want to give the leader of the Separatists the idea that she had given up herself. Finally she and Anakin had been chained to their stone poles and deep down she knew that she would able to escape this pretty dangerous predicament very quick because her shackles were now very loose.

From her position she could hear that someone said some words in a language that she didn't understand, but she kind of had the feeling that it was something like: Let the executions begin because shortly after this person little speech, several doors made out of solid slowly opened and now Padme and the two Jedi by her sight were looking directly into the eyes of some very disgusting monsters. She finally was able to see that some Geonosians were giving the monsters some electric shocks, probably to get them more and more angry by the minute and that surely made her realize that she had to act fast.

Before the one monster that was aiming for her stone pole got to close, she was finally able to get one of her hands free and climbed onto the stone pole before she was hit fatally by that disgusting beast. Of course it didn't leave her alone because she was up in a higher position; Padme tried her best to keep the disgusting monster at bay by keep hitting it with the other part of the chain but to no avail. The beast was still trying his best to get to her and no matter how many times she hit it with the chain, it didn't seem to bothered by any pain instead it surprisingly was very quick to close the distance between him and his chosen victim and Padme cried out in pain shortly as the monster injured her back with one of its very sharp claws.

Even if it hurt so much, she was very determined to don't let the enormous pain get to her so she quickly tried to figure out a plan to finally get rid of this beast. Carefully she swung down the stone pole using one part of the chain as an rope, with one good aimed she finally sent the monster down the ground but with that problem done momentarily she now had one problem left: How could get off this high stone pole?

In the arena Anakin had been able to tame one of the monsters, Padme was quite amazed as she saw her Anni riding the monster and finally taking care of the one that had been patrolling around her stone pole. She jumped down onto the monster, quickly kissed Anakin on his right cheek as they continued to make their way through the arena.

End Flashback

Master Ralkitta watched from the distance for the moment as the former Republic Senator was practically lost in thought for quite a while before she finally snapped back into reality as she continued: "Do you have the possibility to get a ship with hyper drive? I think that I want to go to Corcusant and talk to Mon Mothma."

Master Ralkitta thought about that question for a moment before he finally replied: "I don't have a own ship but I definitely know where we can get a ship with hyper drive."

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