Chapter Four: Acting Like Anakin
About a day later, Vader arrived with his fleet on Kashyyyk. The shuttles, carrying the troopers landed, and Vader came out with them. He'd told them to secure the Wookiees, but be on the lookout for a small, human boy, and that the boy was not to be harmed, but brought to Vader immediately.
Despite Vader's confidence in his storm troopers, he had wanted to come down and look for Luke personally. Something as precious as his child could not be trusted to the harsh troopers.
It was near the middle of the night, so most of the Wookiees would be sleeping, therefore, unaware of what was happening until it was too late.
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Achabacciac awoke with a start to the sound of blaster fire. What was going on? Wookiees didn't use blasters, so there was only one explanation left; they were under attack!
Achabacciac stood up, ran to the bed next to his, where Sunshine was sleeping, and picked him up gently, making sure that he didn't wake him up. If Sunshine woke up, he'd just be scared.
The sound of the door opening caused Achabacciac to roar violently. But when he saw that it was just Cachiecae, and Baccichith, he relaxed.
/Achabac!/ Cachiecae exclaimed. /Come on, we've got to go! The Empire is attacking us!/
/The Empire?/
/Yeah,/ Baccichith confirmed. /We'll explain it on the way. Right now, we've got to move it!/
Achabac followed the other two out of the house, still holding the sleeping Luke in his arms. He knew where they were headed. There was a little secret hiding place that the Wookiees had, hidden in one of the big trees. It had some ships, just in case something like this happened, and the Wookiees needed to get off the planet quickly.
/Hurry up, Baccich!/ Cachiecae said to Baccichith, who had fallen behind.
/I'm going as fast as I can, Cachie! Don't rush me!/
Soon they would be at the ships, if all went well.
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Obi-Wan arrived on Kashyyyk about half an hour after the attack had begun. As soon as he landed, he made his way to the Wookiee's hiding place for ships. Master Yoda had told him where it was back during the fall of the Old Republic.
Since Obi-Wan couldn't climb like the Wookiees could, and he didn't dare use the Force because Vader was on the planet, he arrived at the hiding place a split second too late to get to Luke before he was able to get off the planet. He got there right when the ship with Luke was lifting off.
"No! Wait!" Either the pilot couldn't see him, or they thought that it was too much of a risk to let the ship down, and all Obi-Wan could do was watch the ship leave. "Blast it! Late again! I'm beginning to behave like Anakin!"
A Sudden commotion on the other side of the platform, drew Obi-Wan's attention away from the leaving ship.
It was a couple of storm troopers trying to contain a maddened Wookiee. Obi-Wan wanted to help the Wookiee, but he also wanted to go after Luke, so he was torn.
"Alright, Obi-Wan, you must make a decision. On one hand, if you help the Wookiee, you will be able to get a friend who may assist you in getting Luke back. On the other hand, if you help him out, you'll have to use the Force, and it would be dangerous to use the Force considering that Vader is on the planet." Speaking to himself didn't help. Obi-Wan knew what he was going to end up doing. "Okay, time to go blindly into a rescue mission. Now I know that I'm acting like Anakin!"
Igniting his lightsaber, Obi-Wan made his way to where to scuffle was taking place. The troopers stopped when they saw the Jedi approaching them.
"Hello there!"
With that, he plunged his lightsaber into the closest trooper, and, blocking blaster fire now coming from the other troops, he commenced with the rescue, and killed the other four troopers within three minutes.
"Troopers these days," Obi-Wan said, shaking his head in disapproval at the now dead troops. "They have no idea how to fight!"
The Wookiee that Obi-Wan just rescued ran up to him in gratitude.
/Thank you so much! You saved my life!/
"No problem. I used to do this all the time."
/You can't say that! What you just did deserves a reward!/
Obi-Wan waved his hands in protest. "No, no, I don't need any reward!"
/Yes you do! I owe you a life debt!/
"No, that's really not necessary!" Obi-Wan said. He knew what a life debt among Wookiees was.
/Yes it is! Where you go, I go!/
"Very well. We need to get to a ship to begin with."
/Come on, I have one over here!/
The Wookiee led Obi-Wan to the last remaining ship, and nearly pushed him aboard, and then led him to the cockpit.
/Hold on! This is going to be a little rough!/
"I was afraid you'd say that!"
After a quick exchange of gunfire, witch was surprisingly short, Obi-Wan and the Wookiee made the jump into hyperspace.
"Well, thank you!" Obi-Wan said after they were safe. "By the way, I never caught your name! I'm Obi-Wan Kenobi. Who are you?"
/My name is Chewbacca./
Obi-Wan threw his head back, startled. "Chewbacca? You were the one who rescued Master Yoda that day that the clones turned on us!"
Chewie turned to the Jedi in interest. /You know Master Yoda?/
"Of course I do! He was a wonderful mentor, and a good friend."
/I'm honored to meet a friend of Master Yoda's./
"Well, I'm honored to meet the Wookiee who rescued him. So… I guess we're even, huh?"
/Sure, we're even. But that doesn't mean that I'm not going to help you./
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Obi-Wan asked, grinning.
/That means that I'm going to stick with you and help you with whatever you need help with. You are a friend of Yoda's, and I will always want to help him and his friends./
"Well, that's very kind of you, Chewbacca, thanks. Now, if you don't mind, I think I'll go to one of the bunks and take a little nap."
Chewie watched the young Jedi master leave the cockpit. At least, he assumed that Obi-Wan was young. He didn't look any older than perhaps thirty-five. But it didn't matter how old Obi-Wan was. Chewie was just happy that he could help him.
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You couldn't explain Vader's anger when he felt Luke leave the planet. How could this happen to him!? He had been so close to getting his son, and now he was gone! Life could be so cruel sometimes!
The only bright side was that most of the Wookiees had been kept from escaping the planet. The few that had been able to leave the planet had obviously taken Luke with them. Vader would have to report back to the Emperor, and tell him that Kashyyyk had been secured. But not right now. Vader was too angry to speak to anyone.
Maybe that's why the first five officers that approached Vader after that were killed without mercy.
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When Luke woke up, he could tell that he wasn't on Kashyyyk anymore. It was too cold. It was cold enough for Luke to know that they were in space. Why hadn't anyone told him that they were leaving the planet?
Luke stood up, and went to find one of his Wookiee friends to find out what had happened. The Wookiees had learned how to understand Luke a little, and Luke could understand them if they simply shook or nodded their head to answer his questions.
"Achabac!" Luke said, seeing the oldest of the three Wookiees. "What happened? Were we attacked or something?" Achabac nodded. "Was it the Empire?" Achabac nodded again. "I hate the Empire!" Luke declared. Achabac roared his agreement.
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To Be Continued…
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