Hi all! So it seems that people like this story and want more, so I'm happy to oblige!
To the guest who left a REALLY rude review: I said at the beginning of the last chapter that these were just ramblings that I had and wanted to get down. It was never going to be perfect, and I don't know where I want to take this story. If you don't like that, then I'm not forcing you to read this. Also, the next time you want to make a writer feel bad like that, have the guts to login and do it.
But anyway, let's go on with the chapter! Enjoy!
(totally not procrastinating in any way I can, including cleaning my room while watching Star Wars cast interviews)
Padme didn't know what to think. Standing in front of her were her children, while standing next to her were also her children. She looked at Anakin, and saw that her husband was just as surprised as she was, along with the others in their party. Luke and Leia themselves were looking at their doubles with a look that she couldn't quite describe. It was somewhere between amazement, horror, and surprise. The two who looked like her children had similar expressions. Then the Leia-look-alike stepped forward.
"Han has already told us who you are, or rather who you claim to be. I can tell from the looks on your faces that you all are as surprised by this as we are. I can assure you, though, that we mean you no harm if you can do the same for us. Seeing as we are far too exposed standing here, please come with us to our base, and we will try to figure out what has happened along the way." And with that, she, Han, and "Luke" went into the transport, the two men leading their tauntauns.
After a short exchange of looks, the group followed her.
Once settled inside the transport, the two sets of twins stared at each other, with everyone else watching them. After "Luke" started up the transport and they were headed towards the base (a part of Padme's mind wondered what the base was for). Then Bail spoke up.
"I'm sorry, but we never got your names. Who are you? And why do you look so much like the Skywalker twins?" At his words, "Leia" looked at him, an odd expression on her face.
"I doubt that you'll believe us, but this is Alliance Commander Luke Skywalker of Tatooine, and I am Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan."
There was a long pause after these words. Then Anakin spoke.
"Tatooine? Tatooine? What sort of game do you think you're playing? Do you honestly think that I would EVER let my son set foot on that dustbowl, let alone be raised there?" He would have continued for who knows how long, but Padme put a hand on her husband's arm, silencing him with a soft but firm look. The expression she got back clearly said You take care of this. You're the politician, the mediator.
So Padme turned to the people who looked like her children.
"How about you start at the beginning? Where are you from? What's your history? Why are you here on Hoth? We then can tell you our history and then we might be able to figure out what has happened." Their three guides looked at each other and appeared to have a silent agreement. "Leia" turned towards them.
"Well, I guess I might as well start. I will say this: if what Viceroy Organa said is true, and Luke and I are twins, this is the first either of us have heard about it. We didn't even know each other until three years ago, when we were 19.
As I said before, I am Princess Leia Organa. I was adopted by Bail and Breha Organa as an infant, and I grew up thinking that I was a war orphan. Both my father and I have been prominent figures in the Rebellion against The Galactic Empire, which started two days before I was born. Three years ago, my transport was carrying the schematics for The Empire's ultimate weapon, known as The Death Star, which was able to destroy an entire planet." At this, the princess's expression turned to one that Padme could only describe as ultimate heartbreak. "Luke" and Han both put hands on her shoulder, comforting her. The princess looked up at the others in the room, an apologetic look on her face.
"I'm sorry, I'm just remembering unpleasant memories. Anyway, while over Tatooine my ship was boarded by none other than the emperor's second-in-command, Darth Vader. Desperate to keep the plans out of his hands, I put them into my father's astromech droid, R2-D2 and gave him instructions to leave in an escape pod and find Obi-Wan Kenobi, who my father had told me was on the planet." Once again, Anakin interrupted the young woman.
"Wait, what? Why would Obi-Wan be on Tatooine? And R2-D2? As in a little blue and white astromech?" This time, it was Luke's look-alike that answered him.
"I'm the one who can answer that. He was there to protect me. I spent the first nineteen years of my life thinking that my father was a navigator on a spice freighter who died in a speeder crash and that my mother died in childbirth. I lived with my aunt and uncle on their moisture farm and didn't expect to be anything else beyond that.
My whole life, I knew that there was an old hermit that lived nearby, named Old Ben. My uncle didn't let me talk to him much, and there was one occasion where he treated to call law enforcement on the man for trying to talk to me.
Anyway, my uncle bought R2-D2 and C-3PO from a group of jawas. While cleaning R2, I discovered the recording Leia had made to Obi-Wan. Long story short, R2 escaped the farm that night in search of Obi-Wan, and I had to follow him. I had a short encounter with some Tuskins, but found Ben in the process. He then revealed to me that HE was Obi-Wan, and took me back to his hut. There he told me the truth about my father: that he was a great Jedi Knight who was killed in the initial rising of the Empire, betrayed and murdered by Darth Vader, who had been a student of Ben's. He also gave me my father's lightsaber." At this, "Luke" unclipped a lightsaber form his belt that Padme had not seen before. One look and she knew that it was Anakin's.
"Wait, so are we in some sort of alternate timeline where this Vader guy comes to power? He must've either never been brought to the Temple or never born in our timeline, because Dad and Luke are the only padawans Uncle Obi-Wan has ever had." Padme looks at her son, realizing that he is right. Regardless of who is master was, this Vader would most likely have turned if he had been a Jedi. Han shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't know, kid. Three years ago I never would've believed it. Now? A part of me is saying that you might be on to something. Either way, if Skywalker and Kenobi are half as good as everyone says they are, we could use your help against The Empire. You two are sort of like legends around here."
Padme shared a look with her family and friends. She saw the same expression on all of their faces, and she was sure that they could see the same one on her. Obi-Wan turned to "Luke", "Leia", and Han.
"We don't know what is going on here, but we certainly will do our best to help you in any way we can." The princess nodded at Obi-Wan.
"In that case, first order of business is to establish what we're going to call you guys in public. Because all of you are either dead or Luke and I. Of course command will have to know who you actually are, but otherwise it should be need to know." This was when "Luke" spoke up.
"Well, Obi-Wan can go as Ben, like he did on Tatooine. I haven't told anyone the name he used. As for the others, let me think... how about Aaron and Pam Starkiller with their twin children Liam and Lucy? You're here with your friends Ben, Baxley, and Ava? If anyone asks why you two look like Leia and I, we can say you're my distant cousins or something." None of them had any problems with the names, but suddenly there is a beeping noise coming from the dashboard. Luke goes up to look at it.
"Well, you better get used to those names. We're here."
I know, I know, the names are kinda crappy. I have no idea where Baxley came from. I found it on a list of guy names. I'm not a very creative person. I don't know what I'm doing here.
Anyway, hope you guys like this! If you have any suggestions past them getting to the Hoth base, maybe Luke's encounter with a wampa, and The Empire's attack, please let me know. I honestly haven't thought much past that.