Chapter 20

It had taken quite a while but Padme had finally accomplished to get her daughter to calm down again but she know very well out of experience that Leia would continue to be worried about the man she loves so much until he finally returns back to her in one piece and because of that she would be trying to distract her from that as much as possible. Meanwhile Chewbacca had finally spotted the TIE Fighter Squadron on the sensors of Millennium Falcon and with his usual noises he immediately notified Han of the incoming danger: "Okay Chewie then get the artillery ready and let's give those arrogant Imperials a little welcoming party that they won't forget that easily."

Chewie shortly confirmed that order with his usual noises and then finally made his way to the battle station to get ready for the arrival of TIE Fighter Squadron. Back in the cockpit Han was very sure that they would get through this battle in one piece at the end, they just had to because he knew that the love of his life Leia Organa was waiting on Coruscant for him and those TIE Fighters out certainly wouldn't stop him from delivering the medical goods to the Rebel Alliance Outpost in the Correlia System. But because he couldn't let himself get distracted in way at this crucial point of this mission, he put those thoughts to rest for now and shifted his focus back on the impending danger from the incoming imperial ships. Han then had another look at the sensor data at Chewie's station, that showed that the TIE Fighters were closing in very fast on their position and so he screamed back to the Battle Station where Chewbacca had positioned himself battle ready: "Get the canons ready to fire those TIE Fighters are coming in really fast."

Han continued to keep the ship in front of his pursuers for a couple more minutes before he finally disengaged the hyper drive, because no matter how many ships was up against in battle he wasn't going to back away from a fight. Now the TIE Fighters had almost closed the gap to the Millennium Falcon and the leader of the squadron gave out the order to the other fighter pilots over the radio: "Fire at will once you are in weapons range and take out the deflector shields and first."

From the rest of the squadron came the acknowledgement one by one: "That's understood Sir." The big space battle finally begun as the TIE Fighters fired the first shots at the Millennium Falcon that were thrown back from the Deflector Shields at once but of course Chewie answered back at once with firing back at the incoming Imperial Ships.

As best as was able to Han tried to fly evasive maneuvers, so that his ship wouldn't take that much hits by the fire of the attacking Imperial Fighters but he kind of cursed a little bit as he had realize that the Stoormtrooper Pilots were able to adapt very quickly to his evasive maneuvers. As the Wookie grew a little bit frustrated because the TIE Fighters were able to avoid a lot of shots by breaking their formation a lot Han said to his friend: "Don't worry Chewie we will pin them down one by one sooner or later, so don't lose your patience my friend just yet. "

The Wookie finally acknowledged that little pep talk by Han and then continued to focus on firing shots at the TIE Fighters, of course Han couldn't avoid all hits to the deflector shields so he slowly but surely started to get a little bit shaken in the pilot seat.

Finally Chewie was able to take out two Fighters in rapid succession and even he needed to focus on piloting the ship he couldn't help but scream shortly over his headset: "Yes, that's a very good job so far Chewie and that means two down and three to go."

Corcusant, Office of the Chief of State

Mon Mothma was standing at the big window of her office, still kind of busy with wrapping her head around the fact that her friend and Senate Colleague from the Days of the Old Republic Padme Amidala was alive and not dead like she and so many other people had assumed for the last couple of years. Of course she felt very sorry for her, because of the fact that the man she loved had died a already a long time ago and by that it certainly made the Family somehow incomplete.

Of course Padme had a lot of other things on her plate right now: Like trying to make up for the lost time with her children the best way she could but Mon Mothma couldn't help but ask herself if the former Senator was maybe considering to go back into politics at some point. She clearly would be a great addition to the new Senate with all her political expertise, which she had collected over the years both as the Queen of Naboo and during the Clone Wars as not only the Senator for Naboo but also one of the Founding Members of the "Coalition of the 2000", this Organization that would later become the Rebel Alliance that would fight the Empire during the big Galactic War.

Most of the worlds that already belonged to the New Republic had already appointed Senators to represent their people in the Capital of the newly formed Democracy but not Naboo and Mon Mothma certainly didn't blame the new Queen Mairayn one bit for that. The Galactic War had hit the little peaceful planet very hard and rebuilding everything that had been destroyed during the Battle for Naboo had been such quite hard work, that the New Republic of course had supported the best way possible the whole time because Mon Mothma had been very determined to not abandon any Member of the New Republic that was in dire need for help. Finally one of her aids came into the room holding a notepad in her hand and said: "Ma'am those are the newest Intelligence Reports that you've asked for."

Jedi Training Center, Yavin IV

Considering the fate of her beloved home world Padme was clearly in some kind of dilemma right now: Did she really want to know what did happen on Naboo during the Galactic War or just don't think about that question at all? Maybe she would really choose the second option, because she really didn't know if she could handle any more bad news right now.

The One Thing that she just wanted to hold was, that her whole family had made it through alive the War against the Empire and she could already imagine how shocked they would be when they would see her alive after all these years.

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