Han takes a more commanding role in the rescue of Princess Ana but still messes up when it comes to deflecting the suspicions of the Empire.

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"Alright Kid, if you're planning on rescuing this princess I need to know exactly what's going on in your head. I'm guessing that your plan involves pretending that Chewbacca is a prisoner that we have either found or is being transferred to the same detention block." Han stated.

"Pretty much." Luke replied.

"Alright then, be careful when you list off which Detention Block Chewie is being transferred from. Some of the detention blocks are holding cells for pirates, smugglers and other such riffraff while others are used to hold unruly Stormtroopers or officers that either had a little too much to drink or are awaiting court martial for some reason. Other blocks are used to hold different kind of prisoners like political dissenters, rebels, agitators, terrorists and so on. Then some detention blocks like AA-23 hold important prisoners that may or may not be executed for their crimes against the Empire." Han explained to the farm boy.

"How do you know all of this?" the Kid asked.

Han hesitated; he had been taught how to tell the truth without telling the whole truth or twist it a bit as a precaution and since he wasn't sure how much training Luke had it was better to tell some of the truth. "I received Imperial Training before I turned to Smuggling." Enough truth that even one of the Empire's Elite should fall for it.

"Oh," was all the Kid said.

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Han winced at the destruction at the Guard Post of Detention Block AA-23 but it couldn't be helped. They had to destroy the cameras and the other security measures but he had managed to stun the men in the Cell Block. Chewie had orders to drag them into an empty cell; he wasn't ready to kill his own people that were just doing their jobs and hadn't seen his face; he wasn't about to allow the Emperor the ability to find him and kill him all in the name of things he didn't understand.

"Princess Ana is in cell 2157, go get her, we don't have much time!" Han barked at Luke as he yanked off the stormtrooper helmet and pressed the comm button to stop the security alarm from beeping; the lieutenant had pressed the alarm before he had been stunned or had positioned himself in such a way that he would fall on the button if he was killed or stunned as security types were trained to do in bad situations.

"Sorry sir, we had a bit of an accident." He began.

"What happened?" the officer on the other end politely demanded.

"Some idiots decided to play a prank on us by pretending that there was a prisoner transfer supposed to happen and something went wrong and lost the security measures. We sent the clowns packing with orders to report to their superiors and we're trying to bring everything back online now; I apologize on behalf of my superiors for the inconvenience."

There was silence on the other end.

"We're sending techs up to help reboot the systems." The officer on the other end of the comm stated flatly.

"Negative sir, there's no need to send techs here; just send a couple droids to do the repairs." Han said quickly; they couldn't have techs come up here.

"I need your Operating Number trooper or you need place either Lieutenant Childsen or Sergeant Major Enfield on this line." the officer stated in a tone that brokered no room for arguments.

"CC-771942-J13, sir!" He rattled off without thinking and quickly snatched up the nearest blaster and destroyed the comm system before he could further incriminate himself.

"Blast it, I should have had the Kid answer all incoming calls." He snapped.

-You hate boring conversations anyway. - Chewie growled at him.

"Hurry Luke, company's coming!" He yelled down the cell bay; ignoring Chewie's comment.

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