Hey y'all! I had this idea from someone who left a comment on this story. Thank you person who did that! This chapter made me laugh while writing, and I hope it makes y'all laugh as well.
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2)I am doing this for my own enjoyment and it will not be in any particular order even though I do have a tentative plan.
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1 ABY (1 month after the pranking of the Emperor)
Mon Mothma stood before the various commanders and leaders of the Rebel Alliance for an unplanned meeting with an uncharacteristic grin on her face. Many noted that the last time she had this look was when the Emperor and Vader were, for lack of a better word (there is no better word), pranked. This time is not different at all.
"I'm sure all of you are wondering why we are meeting today."
She observed nods from most everybody, except Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa (Mon was keeping a close eye on these two. She knew they were behind the pranks, but they'd gotten more secretive after they came back from Jedi training 3 months ago. They had something big planned, and this was just the beginning. She was almost never wrong). Luke and Leia simply smiled at her in a way that gave her a feeling of trepidation, but couldn't pinpoint why.
"We are here today to cover the newest… prank… that was committed against the Empire a day ago. Someone, or someones (she looked at Luke and Leia), spray-painted the words "REAL MEN WEAR PINK" onto the walls of Palpatine's palace, in obvious reference to the… wardrobe malfunction that happened a month ago."
The room filled with chuckles remembering the legendary video that still circulated through the Rebellion and even made appearances on the black market. Mon's smile got wider as she remembered it as well, but reminiscing on the wonders a pink robe does to one's complexion was not the purpose of the meeting today.
"I come before with an idea. We take the slogan that the Empire is trying to hide, and we run with it."
Wedge Antilles spoke right after she finished, glee shining through his eyes. "So you mean we can finally make our uniforms and flight suits pink?"
"Yes it does." Clearly the man and his team had been waiting for this for a long time, as the leaders of the various squads whooped and pumped fists into the air.
"If it makes the Empire squirm, I'm all for it. However, what are the ramifications of this proposition? Some of the uniforms we wear need to blend in, as well as equipment. In certain areas, it is not wise to wear pink." General Madine voiced thoughts that several others seemed to be thinking as well, wanting to do it, but worried at giving themselves away.
"What if we all wear pink armbands instead? It's easier than painting everything pink, and it can be concealed, but we'd still be 'Real Men'." Luke Skywalker threw his idea out there, almost like he planned this (and even though he's painted most Rebel equipment pink by now).
'If Luke wants to cause chaos, as I suspect he's been doing for sometime, then it's time to cause some well meant chaos. Skywalkers are usually right when it comes to inserting chaos into a situation.' Mon thought to herself while out loud she said, "Brilliant idea. Does any of the rest of the council either object or have something else to add?"
Nobody spoke, but many had smiles on their faces that spoke of the glee that comes from getting back at the Empire. Luke and Leia looked satisfied and happy with the result. Mon had a feeling that the already pink Rebellion was about to get a lot pinker soon, and she was generally right.
The Empire tried to cover it up. They really did (bless their hearts). But they really underestimated their opponents in this one-sided prank war. Their opponents in this prank war had taken pictures of the done deed and somehow used the Force to make sure that the paint could never come off (but don't ask them how. They'll claim that they don't know how they did it since they don't even know what the Force means and then change the subject really fast. How do I know this? Well, that's a story for a different day). On an outside wall of the Emperor's palace is a message in large, hot pink letters: REAL MEN WEAR PINK! Nobody is quite sure how it got there, or if they do know, then they aren't telling and are content to watch the Empire try to throw hands at somebody they could never hope to catch. Since they still cannot get the offensive words off, workers decided to cover them with a big sheet, with the excuse that the area is undergoing renovation now, and that they are so sorry for the inconvenience.
'The Skywalker genes really are strong with him,' a person who will go unnamed for this mental dialog says to himself when he's finally alone. 'However, his mother's genes are all too present in him.' He'd finally figured out that the assassin and the prankster were one and the same (definitely on accident, the twins didn't mean to leak that to him At All, why would you suggest such a thing? How dare-!) about 2 weeks after the prank on the Emperor, causing the sill unnamed person to actually laugh out loud and tell the Emperor that the culprit must be as good as Anakin Skywalker, because the Empire cannot seem to catch him. At this point, the Emperor still gets furious at any mention of the Incident-That-Will-Not-Be-Named, as any self-respecting Evil Overlord does when all their dark, ominous clothes get painted pink. Anyways, the person still had enough preservation instinct that he did not want to be close to the Emperor anytime soon, because his legendary anger is bound to strike him at the fact that this happened and he still hadn't caught the culprit.
The unnamed person shuddered at the thought of facing Palpatine's wrath and decided that it was time to take a long vacation to the Outer Rim to tr and find those damned Rebels, who have become harder to find because of Skywalker pulling pranks and offing his actually good officers and the Rebellion taking advantage of the confusion to target places that stored supplies, thus refilling their own and depleting the Empire's.
The person started to wonder if it all was done on purpose, so that the Empire would be easier to take down, but ended up dismissing the idea. No Skywalker actually thinks that far in advance.
Yoda sat upon his log, meditating and listening to the Force. When he came out of his trance, the old Jedi Master grimaced and let his thoughts wander over to the twins of Skywalker. It'd been 2 or 3 months since they'd left his care, and already they were in a position to take down the main ruling force of the galaxy. He figured that Luke was doing this just for fun, because that's how the boy is, but Leia… Leia definitely knows what she is doing. She was more her mother than her father, and it was well known by those who were close to the lady that she would have been able to take over the galaxy and that nobody would know until it was too late. Leia might use pranks like her father, but the intention could have only come from her mother. The old Jedi had vowed 20 years ago to watch from the side line in Dagobah and not get involved, but now he was wishing he hadn't. Yoda would have liked to visit a few places one last time before they were burned to the ground with the rest of the galaxy.
