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Chapter 7: Saved By The Robot
The Rebel team walked through the forest, keeping as quiet as they could. Luke, Leia, Han, Lila and Chewie were at the front.
"I told you it was dangerous here," complained Threepio.
"It'll get a lot more dangerous if your talking gets us discovered!" hissed Lila.
The group stopped as a stormtrooper scouting party came into view. "Should we try going around them?" asked Leia.
"It'll take time," said Luke.
Lila shook her head. "The attack on the Death Star isn't until tomorrow. We'll still have plenty of time to get to the shield generator if we go around them."
"Yeah, and this whole party'll be for nothing if the see us," muttered Han. "Chewie and I'll take care of this, you stay here."
"Quietly, there might be more of them out there!" whispered Luke.
Han shrugged and smiled. "Hey, it's me!"
"We're all doomed," sighed Lila. Luke and Leia exchanged a glance.
Han and Chewie managed to knock out one and get three feet behind the other before Han made the world's most obvious mistake—he stepped on a twig.
Lila smacked her forehead. The stormtrooper sent his partner off for help. "Great, let's go!" said Luke as Chewie shot down the messenger.
"Over there, two more of them!" shouted Leia as two more stormtroopers took off on speedbikes. Leia herself hopped onto a spare bike.
"I see them—wait, Leia!" yelled Luke, taking the other bike.
Han and Lila stared at each other. "Are they insane?" asked Lila mildly. Recklessness must run in the family.
"It's a definite possibility," agreed Han.
"Well, what the hell are we supposed to do now?"
"Now," said Han, "we wait."
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After rejoining the rest of the group and explaining that two of their number had gone on a little detour, they sent out scouts ("If you find either of them dead, tell us. If not, keep looking," said Lila) and sat down to wait.
Despite the odd skeptical glance from Han, Lila was meditating. There was the presence of the Dark Side on this moon, and she wanted to know where it was and/or who it was. Closing her eyes she reached out with the Force.
Big surprise. They're at the shield generator. Whoops, better not go too deep. They might sense me…oh dear. It would be Eris.
Hello Lila, said Darth Eris.
Well good afternoon to you too, responded Lila, quickly manipulating the Force to keep her adversary from discovering her location. How go things at the shield generator?
Wonderfully. The Emperor saw fit to grant us more than enough soldiers to wipe out your pathetic team.
Aren't we feeling confident today, said Lila snidely. You know you'll have to deal with me, right?
You? Ha! answered Eris. I could kill you within a minute.
You say that now, but— Lila paused. So sorry, gotta go. She broke off the conversation and stood up. "Here comes Luke."
The erstwhile Jedi jogged into the clearing.
"Where's Leia?" demanded Han and Lila at the same time.
"What, she didn't come back?" Luke asked. Lila groaned.
"We thought she was with you," said Han.
Luke frowned. "We got separated. We better go look for her!"
Han sighed, and signaled to another Rebel. "Take your squad ahead, we'll meet you at the shield generator."
"This is all your fault," Lila muttered to Luke as they walked.
"What?! Why is it my—" he stopped. "You know what, whatever. Just because you like to complain does not make it my fault."
"Are you accusing me of being whiny?" inquired Lila. "Mister Oh-no-my-daddy's-evil-why-didn't-you-tell-me-Ben-I'm-so-angsty?"
"I had every right to be angry with him for not telling me!" Luke objected.
"Oh, please," snorted Lila. "He raised me and didn't tell me until I was eighteen. You knew him for two days. What makes you think you had more right to know than I did? Vader is my father too, you know!" she snapped. "What in the Force makes you think you deserved to know about it before I did?"
"I…" Luke stammered. "When I was angry at Ben I didn't know you were related to me."
"So? That still doesn't excuse the fact that you knew him for exactly 2 days. What, you want an old man who—let's face it—you barely know to tell you your father caused the downfall of all that was good?" Lila sighed. "Look, you ended up finding out anyway, so just let it go. Jedi are supposed to let go of their anger."
"And who was it that said the Jedi Code was in shambles, so it didn't matter if you fell in love with Lando?" teased Luke.
Lila blinked, and looked as if she was about to say something but thought better of it. "Shut up."
"I don't even know what you're talking about, but both of you need to shut up before someone hears us!" said one of their team in an aggravated tone of voice.
"Yeah, yeah," muttered Lila. As Luke stopped to pick something large and round off the ground, Han called them over to look at something.
That something was a wrecked speedbike. Luke quickly confirmed it wasn't his., and the three of them stood and looked at each other. "Well, there's no body, she's probably still alive," said Lila.
Luke tossed Leia's helmet at Han. "I hope she's all right," he said, before the Wookiee decided to run into the woods.
"I don't get it," said Lila as they followed Chewie to a dead animal propped up on a stick.
"It's just a dead animal," said Han as if he didn't get it either. "Come on Chewie, get away from—"
As one the entire group was hoisted into the air in a large rope net. "Way to go Chewie, always thinking with your stomach."
"Will you take it easy? Let's just figure out a way to get out of this thing!" yelled Luke. "Han, can you reach my lightsaber?"
"Yeah...sure…" Han grabbed around the side of the net, causing it to swing back and forth. Lila meanwhile was twisting her arm behind her back in a painful attempt to reach her own lightsaber. Before anyone's weapons could be reached, however, R2 activated a saw and cut the net down.
"Always saved by the robot," commented Lila. "This is just getting embarrassing."
At that moment, in what could have possibly been the weirdest situation Lila had ever been in, what looked to be a tribe of small, furry animals bearing spears surrounded them, chanting a duo-syllabic chant in unison.
Hey, you know I had to leave it on a cliffhanger with the Ewoks.
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