Chapter 3
Valerie
The room was dark. I heard the screech of wheelchairs coming. I sensed out to my surroundings. I could sense a table, a bed and some chairs. It was some kind of bedroom.
"Marietta..." I whispered, calling to my friend.
"Valerie? Is that you?" She called.
"Yes." I whispered back. "Someone's coming!" I squeak. I heard the wheels getting closer. I had a blindfold on, so I couldn't see anything except a pale light through the thin cloth. The light gave me a good advantage. I could make out the outline of Marietta sitting next to me. We were in wheelchairs too, and had ropes tying us down. A third person was wheeled in. The person that was pushing her came over to me. She pulled out a knife from her belt. I'm dead! I thought and shut my eyes. But the person didn't stab me. They simply cut off my blindfold. She did the same to Marietta and... Senator Chu-Chi! Then I saw who our 'kidnapper' was. Senator Padme. I gasped. This Senator was working with the Sepratist? I was very astonished. I about leaped out of my chair and put my lightsaber to her neck. Three things wrong with my plan. Number one, I didn't have my blue lightsaber. Number two, I didn't know that great minds think alike. Three, it is against the Jedi code to kill. I wriggled in my binds muttering things like "Backstabbing traitor! I'll have you reported to the Senate! My nose hurts." The senator ignored me and bent down to whisper in Chu-Chi's ear. The blue girl nodded and sat back in the chair and closed her eyes. Next she came over to me. She bent and I was about to say something bitter, she whispered,
" Valerie, stay still. I'll bust you out of here."
Now I understood. She was helping us! She must of thought of pretending to be a bounty hunter to find Chu-Chi. I copied the Pantorian and closed my eyes. Three more bounty hunters walked in.
"Open your eyes!" Padme commanded. My eyes flickered open, Marietta and Chu-Chi did the same.
"Good job, Passedene." A scratchy voice said. I looked over to see Bossk, a Trandoshian bounty hunter with sharp teeth and a reptilian body. His small beady eyes showed hatred, hunger... and, my gosh, was that amusement? "A senator and TWO Jedi? You have earned double your payment."
'Passedene' nodded with gratitude. Then I noticed the other two figures standing with Bossk. I recognized Aurra Sing, another bounty hunter. She had milk-white skin and a large pony-tail on the back of her head, otherwise she was bald. Her red jumper suit was shiny and glossy, as if it has just been washed. Aurra put her hand in the pocket of her brown leather vest and pulled out a few hundred thousand credits and passed them to Padme. And next to her was a young boy, about ten years old. He had dark brown hair, with a ragged haircut, and it fell down to his earlobes. His eyes were a chocolate-brown, full of sadness and regret. His skin was kind of tan, and had all sorts of blisters, cuts and bruises.
"Jabba ask you to kidnap an innocent little boy?" I asked Aurra. My plan was that when Padme busted me put of here, I would return that little boy to his mother, and I would get a lot of praise from my master, Fona Glairto. Man, was I shocked with the response I got.
Aurra laughed. "You mean Boba? He's attached himself to me. After his father, Jango Fett, was killed by the Jedi, Windu, I was the only one that would look after him." She answered. My jaw dropped. I had heard stories about Boba, and how his father was killed. But I though that Boba was in his mid- twenties, not a little kid.
"You're Boba Fett?" I asked. He bit his lip and nodded, and Aurra said in annoyance,
"Yes! I just told you that!"
"I was asking him, not you, you little slithering, slimy son of a gundark!" I insulted. And apparently, Boba took this as a threat to himself. He pulled a blaster out of nowhere, and started to shoot at me. I tipped my wheelchair over and used that for cover.
"Boba!" Aurra scolded, and I'm guessing she took away his blaster and threw it on the floor because I heard a clatter. Padme came over and pulled my chair upright.
"Ow." I declared.
"You deserved it." Boba said quietly, but loud enough we could hear. Padme flashed him a look that said, Shut up or else. Boba did indeed shut up. Not only did he close his mouth, he backed up to the wall, sat down, and bit his lip. I didn't blame the kid for shooting me. If someone has said that to my friends, I would have done the same. I sighed. Then I noticed that Bossk and my friends where no where in sight.
"Were are my friends?" I demanded. Aurra laughed and simply stated, "Oh, Bossk took care of them."
"WHAT!?" I screamed.
"Ow." Aurra declared. It was my turn to laugh.
"Passedene." I said quietly. Padme tossed me my lightsaber and I quickly cut my binds and I put my lighhtsaber to Aurra's neck. Again, Boba took this as a threat. He stood up as quick as a flash, but Padme pointed her blaster at the kid. Boba's eyes grew wide and he quickly put his hands up in the air. I turned on my communicator and tried to reach Tula.
"Tula, Tula, Come in." I said.
"Copy that, Valerie. Are you alright?" Tula answered.
"Yes. I found the senator, no, scratch that. I found TWO senators." I replied into the microphone.
"Two?" Boba asked. Padme removed the wig she was wearing. Boba's eyes grew even wider. "S-S-Senator Amidala?" He whimpered.
"Who else?" I joked. "Senator Free Ta?" Padme cracked a smile.
"Two?" Tula asked, a little confused.
"Chu-Chi and, Guess who? Padme Amidala." I answered, proud of myself.
"Little Miss Traitor." Boba corrected. Padme cleared her throat to remind Boba she still had the gun. I would not want to be in his place right now.
"OK, Makina and Michelle are fine, and we have a few suspects on how you were kidnaped in the Temple and how Makina was poisoned. Come back as soon as you can." Tula said.
"Well, we will need some transport. We caught some bounty hunters and a kid which I am not sure what he is doing here off guard..." Boba looked up and snarled. But with a glance from Padme, he went right back to sitting down, bowing his head and hugging his legs. "...and made them surrender." Boba growled but did not lift his head.
"I did NOT surrender." He mumbled. I took this as a sign to stop saying things.
"Aurra." Padme called. Aurra was sitting down, tugging at her ponytail so hard that she had tears down her cheeks. She looked up at Padme and screamed.
"WHAT?!" She asked.
"Call in Bossk and tell him to bring the Jedi and the Senator." Padme ordered.
"NEVER!" Aurra screeched. Padme pointed her gun at the mad woman and I pointed my gun at Boba. "Fine." Aurra spat. "Bossk bring the prisoners- I mean, girls up here." She said into a holoprojector.
Soon Bossk was wheeling Marietta and Chu-Chi up, and was captured too.
"Tula, Bring a cruiser. We're..." I sensed out. I figured out that we were on the other side of Corasaunt. In a town called Mos Leemo. "...in Mos Leemo. The abandoned bar."
"OK. Be there in a few." Tula said.
"Well, You guys are going where you belong." I said to Aurra. She snarled. Boba started mumbling things about his dad, and that he would have not mistaken a senator for a bounty hunter. Aurra reached out to smack him, but out of nowhere Padme pulled out a second blaster. Now she had one pointed at each criminal. Aurra froze and pulled her hand back. Boba started weeping. I looked around the room and saw a stuffed rancor. I picked it up and tossed it to the crying boy. He looked up and started to snarl, like he thought I was tossing him a bomb. Then he looked at the toy, smiled a little bit and hugged the rancor. This made me feel good. At that moment, Bossk came through the door, with a wheel chair in each hand. I ran and closed the door. Padme aimed the gun she had been aiming at Boba at Bossk, and I gave Boba a stren look to let him know then he wasn't off the hook. I untied Chu-Chi and Marietta, and Tula said she was outside. Padme cuffed Bossk and Aurra, but didn't cuff Boba. I walked behind him, and when he got out of line, I tugged on the neck of his navy blue jumper suit. "You know," I whispered to him. "If you want, I can get you a nice foster family, with lots of children. And you won't ever have to see that nasty Aurra Sing again."
He immediately smacked me lightly, then whipered back in my ear,
"She's not nasty. And I want to stay with her."
I shrugged and got into Tula's gunship. A clone was flying it, and Tula said, "We need to talk."
