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Chapter 10: Back to the Ship
(Bobby tumbles into the large room filled with garbage and knee deep dirty water. Several broken and rusted pieces of metal and scrap lay everywhere. Lincoln and Lori are rummaging around while Ronnie Anne tried to open the exit.)
Bobby: (to Lori, sarcastically) Oh, the garbage chute was a really wonderful idea. What an incredible smell you've discovered. (to Ronnie Anne, pointing his blaster at the door) Let's get outta here. Get away from there.
Lincoln: No, wait!
(Bobby shoots his blaster at the hatch. The laserbolt ricochets wildly around the metal room. Everyone ducks down until the bolt explodes above them. Everyone gets mad at Bobby.)
Lincoln: Will you forget it!? I already tried it! It's magnetically sealed!
Lori: Put that thing away! You'll literally get us all killed!
Bobby: (to Lori, annoyed) Absolutely, your worship. Look, I had everything under control until you led us down here. It's not gonna take them long to figure out what happened to us.
Lori: Well, it could be worse…
(Suddenly, a loud, horrible, inhuman moan is heard. Everyone is startled and holds up their weapons.)
Ronnie Anne: Yep, it's worse.
Lincoln: There's something alive in here!
Bobby: C'mon, that's your imagination.
Lincoln: (sees movement) Something just moved past my leg! (Points to a snake- like thing appearing on the water's surface and disappearing) Look! You see that!
Bobby: What?
(They wait in silence for anything to happen. A reptilian head that looks like Lily pops up from the water then goes back down. They don't see it. Something moves over to Lincoln and suddenly wraps around his leg and pulls him down.)
Lincoln: Gah!
Bobby and Ronnie Anne: (shocked) Lincoln!
(They frantically start searching for him in the water.)
Lori: (worried) Lincoln!
(Lincoln surfaces gasping for air and thrashing his limbs. A large, membrane tentacle is wrapped around him. Bobby tried to help him.)
Bobby: Lincoln, hold on!
Lincoln: Blast it, will you! My guns jammed!
Bobby: Where!?
Lincoln: Anywhere!
(Bobby shoots his gun in the water. Lincoln is pulled back in and disappears again.)
Bobby: Lincoln!
(It's all quiet again until a clanging sound is heard in the walls. Then, Lincoln emerges again, coughing. This time the creature isn't holding him. Bobby and Ronnie Anne help him up.)
Lori: Lincoln, what happened?
Lincoln: I don't know, it just let go of me and disappeared...
(The clanging sound is heard again. Everyone gets concerned.)
Bobby: I got a bad feeling about this.
Ronnie Anne: Don't we all?
(Suddenly, The walls start closing in on them very slowly. The trash compactor had been activated.)
Lincoln: The walls are moving!
Lori: Well, don't just stand there, try to brace it with something!
(They start to lift long poles and metal beams between the closing walls but are unsuccessful as the beams are snapped and bent by the walls.)
Lincoln: Wait a minute! (pulls out his comlink) Leni! Come in, Leni…! Where could she be!?
(In the hanger control room, Leni's comlink is left on a desk. The droids are nowhere in sight. There's a small explosion at the door and it is opened. A few stormtroopers enter and one hits his head on the door.)
Stormtrooper leader: Look around! Check the closet!
(They go over to the closet and hear voices inside.)
Leni: Don't come in! We're cleaning!
Lisa: Shut up and let me handle it!
(The troops open the door. They find the droids huddled in the corner.)
Lisa: (pretending to panic) The intruders locked us in here! They were heading for the detention level! You must capture them!
Stormtrooper leader: Follow me. You stand guard.
(All the troops except for one leave the office. Leni picks up her comlink and the droids head for the door.)
Leni: (to the stormtrooper) This madness has like overrun our circuits! We'd like to go to maintenance to get ourselves checked.
Stormtrooper: Alright.
(They leave the room and go down the hall.)
Leni: Good thinking. I didn't know we could make them think we work here!
Lisa: We must take advantage of the henchmen's lack of intelligence.
(Back in the trash compactor, The walls are getting closer together and the group is desperately trying to hold them back.)
Bobby: Get on top!
Lori: I'm trying!
(Bobby lifts Lori up the pile. Ronnie Anne tries to push the wall back on the other side. Lincoln continues to shout in his comlink.)
Lincoln: Leni! Will you come in!?
Ronnie Anne: One thing's for sure. We're all gonna be a lot thinner!
(Leni and Lisa get to a control panel on the edge of the docking bay with the Millennium Falcon. They look around the corner and see a squad of stormtroopers guarding the ship.)
Leni: (worries) They aren't here. Something must've happened to them.
Lisa: Why not use the comlink to find out where they are?
Leni: Oh! (chuckles) I forgot I had that! (turns on comlink) Hello, Lincoln. You all right?
Lincoln: Leni?!
Leni: We've been having some problems…
Lincoln: Will you shut up and listen to me!? Shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level! You hear me!?
Leni: What was that?
Lincoln: I said shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level!
Leni: (confused) Eh… say that again?
Lincoln: SHUT DOWN ALL THE GARBAGE MASHERS ON THE DETENTION LEVEL!
Leni: (to Lisa, panicking) Ah! Shut them all down! Hurry!
Lisa: On it!
(Lisa inserts her arm in the panel and goes to work. The compactor walls are only a few feet apart. They struggle to slow them down. Suddenly, the walls come to a stop. Everyone gets relieved and joyful.)
Lincoln: What!? Ha-ha!
(Leni hears them and holds her head in agony.)
Leni: Listen to them! They're dying, Lisa! Curse my metal body! We weren't fast enough! It's all my fault! Our poor master!
Lisa: (rolling her eyes) I'm sure those aren't screams of despair.
Lincoln: (in the comlink) Leni, we're all right! You did great!
Lisa: See?
Leni: (smiles and blushes) Oh, it was nothing.
(In the garbage room, Bobby, Lori and Ronnie Anne embrace each other cheerfully. Lincoln looks at the number on the door.)
Lincoln: Hey, while your at it, open the hatch on unit number - where are we? - 326827.
Leni: Okay, Linky!
(As the door opens, the group looks around the trash piles. Lincoln picks up a pizza box.)
Lincoln: Look at this. These Imperials are such wasters! Who throws out half of a good pizza?
(Bobby and Ronnie Anne find a couch.)
Bobby: And Look at this couch. Someone threw out a whole couch and it's in great shape.
Ronnie Anne: Yeah, just scrub it out a bit, spray a little febreze on it and it'll look pretty good on the Falcon.
Bobby: I know we have a dangerous job to do right now, but I think we should take this couch.
(On a bridge with a power generator over a deep trench, Luna enters and sneaks behind the generator. Some Imperials walk across the bridge and don't see her. Luna sees the controls for the tractor beam on the generator and messes with until the power of the beam goes all the way down.)
(Outside the trash compactor, Lincoln and Lori had gotten out and behind them, Bobby and Ronnie Anne try to carry the couch out.)
Ronnie Anne: Alright, ready!
Bobby: One, two, three. Easy.
Ronnie Anne: Okay.
Bobby: Whoa, whoa, stop, stop, stop.
Ronnie Anne: What?
Bobby: Twist it.
Ronnie Anne: I am.
Bobby: No, the other way. You're twisting the wrong way.
Ronnie Anne: What do you want me to do?
Bobby: Just look down, alright? Look what I'm doing. See the way I'm twisting it?
Ronnie Anne: Yeah?
Bobby: Turn it that way from your end.
Ronnie Anne: Okay.
Bobby: No, no, no, no. Put it down. Just drop it.
Ronnie Anne: (annoyed) Alright, alright!
(They put the couch down.)
Bobby: Alright, let's just hang on and figure this out.
Ronnie Anne: Dang it, Bobby! They're gonna come looking for us!
Bobby: Okay, I got it. Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take the cushions off, unscrew the legs, take the mattress out and this whole thing is gonna be a lot simpler. It's easier than we're making it.
(Lincoln and Lori just watch them impatiently. Soon, they finally got the couch out. Lincoln and Bobby took off the stormtrooper suits and kept the utility belts.)
Bobby: If we can avoid any more bad advice, we ought to get out of here real soon.
Lincoln: Well, let's get moving!
(An alarm in the hatch of the garbage room goes off and Ronnie Anne walks away covering her ears.)
Ronnie Anne: (irritated) Ah, I can't take anymore alarms!
(Bobby shakes his head and points his blaster at the alarm.)
Lori: No, wait, they'll hear!
(Bobby fires at the alarm and destroys it. Lori shakes her head in disgust.)
Bobby: (to Ronnie Anne) That better, Ronnie?
Lori: (to Bobby and Ronnie Anne, sternly) Listen. I don't who you guys are or where you came from, but from now on, you do as I tell you. Okay?
Bobby: (stunned) Look, your worshipfulness, let's get one thing straight. I take orders from one person, me!
Lori: It's a wonder you're still alive.
Bobby: No reward is worth this!
Ronnie Anne: Let's just get this finished already.
(They begin to move down the hall, the pilots carrying the couch. In the tractor beam control area, a squad of stormtroopers walk over the bridge and past the generator with Luna still behind it.)
Stormtrooper leader: Secure this area until the alert is canceled.
(Most of the troops leave. Two stay at the end of the bridge.)
Stormtrooper #1: You know what's going on?
Stormtrooper #2: Maybe it's another drill.
(Luna sneaks around the generator and gestures her hand, creating a sound in the other hallway. The stormtroopers turn their attention to it as Luna slips away.)
Stormtrooper #1: What was that?
Stormtrooper #2: That's nothing.
(The group runs down the empty hallway and stop before a bay window overlooking the hanger with Millennium Falcon.)
Bobby: There she is.
Lincoln: (in his comlink) Leni, do you copy?
Leni: For the moment. We're in the main hanger across from the ship.
Lincoln: We're right above you. Stand by.
Leni: Sure thing. (to Lisa) "Stand by", that means…
Lisa: Don't move and wait for them.
Leni: Right.
(Lori looks down at the Falcon and sees how old and beat up it is.)
Lori: (to Bobby) You came here in that thing? You're braver than I thought.
Bobby: (unamused) Nice. Now come on!
(They continue down the hallway and turn a corner, only to run right into a stormtrooper squad that outnumbers them two to one.)
Stormtrooper: It's them! Blast them!
(Bobby immediately shoots one of them and then for some reason, the others turned around and ran off. Bobby drops his side of the couch and charges after them.)
Bobby: (to the others) Get back to the ship!
Ronnie Anne: (dropping her side and following Bobby) Hey, wait!
Lincoln: Where're you going!? Come back!?
(The two pilots turn a corner and are out of sight.)
Lori: Well, he certainly has courage.
Lincoln: What good will it do us if he gets himself killed? Come on!
(Lincoln and Lori run off in the opposite direction. Bobby continues to chase the stormtroopers down a long sub-hallway, brandishing his blaster.)
Bobby: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
(The troopers turn a corner and enter a large hanger area. Bobby rounds the corner and stops dead in his tracks as he comes face to face with at least a hundred stormtroopers in the hanger. His determined look becomes one of fear. They notice him and he bolts before they start shooting. Ronnie Anne runs down the hall and stops at the corner as she hears gunshots. Bobby turns and runs toward her.)
Bobby: Nope! Not that way!
(The two begin sprinting back the way they came with several stormtroopers in hot pursuit. Meanwhile, Lincoln and Lori race through another sub-hallway and through a hatch onto a narrow bridge over a huge, deep shaft. They immediately stop as the bridge had been retracted into the wall.)
Lincoln: I think we took a wrong turn!
Lori: You think!?
(The stormtroopers pursuing them see them and start shooting again. Lori quickly hits the switch to the hatch door and closes it.)
Lori: There's no lock!
Lincoln: (blasting the controls) That oughta hold 'em for a while.
Lori: We've got to get across. Find the controls that extends the bridge.
Lincoln: (sheepishly) I, uh, think I just blasted it.
Lori: (panicking) They're literally coming through!
(Lincoln notices some pipes hanging up above them and gets an idea. He reaches for the grappling hook on his belt when a few stormtroopers on a higher bridge overhang across the shaft shoot down at them. Lincoln shoots back and hits one, sending him falling into the abyss. Lincoln gives Lori his blaster.)
Lincoln: Hold this.
(Lincoln pulls out a thin nylon cable connected to the grappling hook from his belt as Lori shoots up at the troopers. The hatch door opens slightly from behind them.)
Lori: Here they come!
(Lori hits another trooper above as Lincoln tosses the hook up and it wraps itself around an outcropping of pipes. He tugs on the rope to make sure it's secure and grabs Lori in his arms. Lori kneels down, wraps her arms around Lincoln and gives him a quick kiss on the cheek.)
Lori: For luck!
(Lincoln pushes off and they swing across the wide shaft to the corresponding hatchway on the opposite side. The stormtroopers break through the hatch and fire at them but the duo run off into the opposite hallway.)
(Luna hides in the shadows of a narrow passageway as more stormtroopers rush past him in the main hallway. When they're gone, she runs in the opposite direction. Suddenly, she feels a cold, dark presence with the Force coming from the end of the passage. She takes out her lightsaber and bravely walks down towards it.)
(Leni and Lisa continue to wait desperately for their friends by the hanger.)
Leni: Where could they be?
(Bobby and Ronnie Anne run nervously down long corridor carrying their couch with several stormtroopers right behind them.)
Stormtrooper: Close the blast doors!
(At the end of the hallway, blast doors begin to close on front of them. The duo manage to race right through the doors just as they're closing and get to the other side before the doors slam shut, separating them from their pursuers.)
Stormtrooper: Open the blast doors! Open the blast doors!
(Luna slowly walks down the corridor and comes to a stop when the end of it is in sight. Just a few dozen feet from her, at the end of the hallway, was Darth Lola, standing still and staring at her with a red lightsaber in her hand.)