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Chapter 5: A Call For Help

(Later, at Luna's home. It's a small, spartan hovel on top of a cliffside. The interior is cluttered with desert junk. The group sits around a table.)

Lincoln: My sister didn't fight in any wars. She was a navigator on a spice freighter.

Luna: That's just what your uncle told you. He didn't hold your sister's ideals. Thought she should've stayed home and not gotten involved.

Lincoln: You fought in the Clone Wars?

Luna: Yes, I was once a Jedi Knight. The same as your sister.

Lincoln: Man, I sure wish I'd known her.

Luna: She was the best star-pilot in the galaxy, a cunning warrior, (with a sad tone) and a good friend. I understand you've become quite the pilot yourself. Which reminds me…

(Luna gets up and goes to the side of the room where there's a large chest. She open it and rummages around. She eventually pulls out short handle with several electronic gadgets on it.)

Luna: …I have something here for you. Your sister would've wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. (chuckles) He feared to might follow me on some damned-fool idealistic crusade like she did.

Lincoln: What is it?

(Luna hands Lincoln the handle.)

Luna: Your sister's lightsaber. The weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or as random as a blaster.

(Lincoln pushes a button on the handle and a long, blue glowing beam shoots out the end and flickers there. Lincoln stares in amazement at the weapon and gently swings it around. Leni and Lisa are speechless as they see it.)

Lincoln: Wow! This is awesome!

Luna: (smiles proudly) An elegant weapon for a more civilized time.

Lincoln: The Jedi must've been one heck of a thing back in the day!

Luna: (sitting down) Indeed, they were. For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the old Republic. (coldly) Before the dark times. Before the Empire…

(Lincoln pressed the button again and the blade went back in the handle. He saw Luna looking a bit depressed and sat down next to her.)

Lincoln: How did my sister die?

Luna: (taking a deep breath) A young Jedi named Darth Lola, who was a pupil of mine until she turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights… She betrayed and murdered your sister… Now the Jedi are all but extinct with only a few exceptions such as myself. Lola was seduced by the dark side of the Force.

Lincoln: The Force?

Luna: Well, the Force is what gives the Jedi their power. It's an energy shield created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the energy together. (satisfyingly) And when you master it, it's more than a feeling, it's the best dang feeling in the universe. Also, try to remember, if someone mentions the word "midi-chlorians" when talking about the Force, they're describing it wrong. And if someone says that they can just "use the Force" to get just about anything done, you tell them that's not how the Force works.

Lincoln: (fascinated) Well, okay, that all sounds incredible.

Luna: (turns to Lisa) Now then, little dude, you said you had a very special message for me. Let's take a look at it.

Lisa: (happily) With pleasure, one called Kenobi!

Leni: (happily) Yay! Finally get to see what Lori has to say!

Lincoln: I only saw a small part of it…

Luna: Here it is.

(Lisa's projector activates and Lori's hologram appears on the table. This time the message is played in its entirety. Everyone watches with anticipation.)

Lori: Luna Kenobi, I am Princess Lori of the Imperial Senate and secretly a member of the Rebel Alliance. Years ago, you served the old Republic as a member of the Jedi Order. Now I beg you to help us in our struggle against the Empire. Also, you still owe us for the trouble you gave us during your "rebellious rocker" phase. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about! Anyway, I regret that I'm unable to present this request to you in person, but my ship has fallen under attack and I'm afraid my mission to bring you to my home planet of Alderaan has failed. So please listen closely, I have placed information vital to the survival of the Rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit. They'll know how to retrieve it on Alderaan. You must see this droid safely delivered there. This is literally our most desperate hour. Help me, Luna Kenobi, you're my only hope. Alright, now what do I click?

(The hologram disappears and everyone is in silence for a moment.)

Leni: (gloomy) Gosh… that was a lot sadder than I thought it would be.

Lisa: Well, she did have me record it when the ship was conquered.

Lincoln: (astonished) Man, I knew what Lisa had was important, but the "vital to the survival of the Rebellion"? I never would've believed it. (to Luna) What do you think?

(Luna sat there quietly deep in thought for a moment before speaking again.)

Luna: (serious) I'm thinking I should've known it was just a matter of time before I'd get called back into the line of duty. (to Lincoln) You must learn the ways of the Force if you're to come with me to Alderaan.

Lincoln: (baffled) Alderaan!? I can't go to Alderaan! I've got to get home. It's late. I'm in for it as it is.

Luna: I need your help, Lincoln. She needs your help. I'm getting too old for this sort of thing. I may have the appearance of a teenage girl, but in this version, I'm actually much older that.

Lincoln: I can't get involved! I've got work to do! I mean, yeah, it's always been a life-long dream of mine to join the Rebellion and bring down the Empire, but there's just nothing I can do right now!

Luna: That's just your uncle, taking.

Lincoln: (sighs) Oh, geez, my uncle. How am I ever gonna explain this? The droids we just bought aren't even supposed to be here.

Luna: Face it, Lincoln, you're meant for greater things. Come with me and learn about the Force.

Lincoln: Look, I can take you as far as Anchorhead. You can get a transport to Mos Eisley or wherever you're going.

Luna: Well, you must do what you feel is right, of course.

(Back in space, a squad of Imperial TIE Fighters race towards the Death Star. Somewhere in the armored station, a pair of Death Star troopers, in black uniforms and swooping black helmets, walk down a hallway of prison cells. Darth Lola walks behind them. They stop at one cell door and open it. Inside the cell, Princess Lori sits anxiously on a bench. Lola and the troopers walk in and stand in front of Lori.)

Lola: And now, missy, we will discuss the location of your hidden Rebel base.

(An interrogator droid, a hovering black orb with gadgets and antennas, enters the cell and approaches Lori. The droid extends a metal arm holding a hypodermic needle form its side. Lori looks fearful at first but puts on a face of defiance.)

Lori: Do your worst!

(Lola turns to a trooper outside the door and indicates him to leave them. He closes the cell door and walks back down the cell bay.)

(Back on Tatooine, the group arrives in Lincoln's landspeeder at the Jawas' sandcrawler which is now burnt on the side. Several dead Jawas are scattered on the ground next to it. Lincoln and Luna investigate the sight while Leni and Lisa stay with the speeder, not wanting to get to close to the carnage.)

Lincoln: It looks like the Sandpeople did this. Look there's gaffi sticks, Bantha tracks. It's just… I never heard of them hitting something this hard before.

Luna: (closely observing tracks on the ground) They didn't. We're only meant to think they did. These tracks are side by side. Sandpeople always ride single file to hide their numbers.

Lincoln: These are the same Jawas that sold Leni and Lisa to me.

Luna: And these blast points. Too accurate for Sandpeople. Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise. (realizes what she just said) Huh, funny I just said that.

Lincoln: But why would Imperial troops want to slaughter Jawas? What were they even doing here?

(Lincoln then looked back at the landspeeder and saw Leni and Lisa. He remembers Lori's message about her ship being attacked and Lisa carrying important information. He puts two and two together and realizes the stormtroopers were here tracking down the droids.)

Lincoln: (fearful) If they traced the droids here, they must have learned who they sold them to. And that would lead them back… home!

(He rushes over to his speeder, gets in and drives off.)

Luna: Wait, Lincoln! It's too dangerous! Get your space butt back here!

(Lincoln races across the desert back to his home. When he arrives he finds it in ruins with smoke coming out of the holes in the ground. He gets out of the speeder and frantically looks around.)

Lincoln: Uncle Lynn! Aunt Rita!

(He stumbles around in a daze searching among the scattered debris. Then he comes across the smoldering remains of two skeletons that look like their bodies were disintegrated. He is stunned and cannot speak. He is now sad and angry and a new resolve comes over him. Then he turns and sees another horrible sight.)

Lincoln: (gasps) John Williams!

(He sees the disintegrated remains of John Williams and his orchestra.)

Lincoln: Great, now we gotta do this thing with Danny Elfman.

(He looks behind him and sees Danny Elfman conducting his own orchestra. Lincoln ignores them and leaves the scene.)

(Lincoln drives his speeder back to the sandcrawler. He sees that the others have burned the dead Jawas while he was gone. He gets out of the speeder and walks up to them. Though he says nothing, the look on his face tells them what he found.)

Luna: (sympathetic) Aw, dude, I'm sorry. But there's nothing you could've done. If you were there, you'd have been killed, too, and the droids would be the Empire's hands.

Lincoln: (determined) The Empire has to be stopped. There's nothing left for me here now. I'm coming with you to Alderaan. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my sister.