The Turning Point

Katie opened her eyes in complete darkness momentarily forgetting where she was, until of course, the bittersweet memories of the past three weeks rushed back to her. She stood up and stretched, then after making sure the coast was clear she made her way out of the closet. She sat in the crew lounge which was just a booth with a checkered top table and hoped she wouldn't have to face anyone soon, that every one was asleep. It seemed however that Katie had a streak of bad luck for she'd had just put her head down when someone started to talk to her.

Luke came and sat down across from her, " you miss Anna don't you?" he asked. Oh Luke sweet, sweet Luke always was Katie's favorite star wars character.

Katie looked up why oh why did he have to ask her about that? " yes, I guess I do" she replied she really didn't want to talk and she was having second thoughts about leaving the safety of the closet.

"Why of all my hopes did this have to come true?" she asked herself. Luke looked at her confused.

" you wished for your best friend to be kidnapped by the second most evil man in the galaxy?!" Luke asked alarmed.

" second most evil?" asked Katie.

" well the emperor is the most evil" answered Luke.

She silently agreed with him on that, the emperor was an evil old prune.

Katie decided that her best bet was to explain the whole story to Luke so she started with how she and Anna were looking for adventure so they wished on a star. And a couple days later Anna asked Katie if she would like to spend the night at her house for her birthday and then she went on with the story from there….

"…..So that's why I said 'of all the things I wished to happen this one had to come true', because on earth, people wish on stars all the time it is sort of like a fun tradition. But it never comes true sooo, I wish we would never been transported to this galaxy so she wouldn't have been kidnapped." She said, completing her narration.

Luke looked at her " would you like to know what I think?" he asked her. Katie gave him no answer so he continued" I think that you were pulled through time and space and landed here for a reason, the same with Anna and that it will somehow all work out." He said.

Deep down, she knew he was right. She new they were here for a reason, she also knew that she had to find someway to rescue Anna.

As if he read her mind ( maybe he did ) Luke said to Katie. " I know how you can rescue Anna, or at least tick off the empire."

Now Katie was interested in what Luke had to say " you do" Katie asked.

" yep, all we need to do is sneak on board the Executor, Vader's private ship and steal the plans for a new type of tie fighter." Luke replied.

" how is that going to help Anna? " asked Katie.

" you'll see!" said Luke with a smile.

Katie sighed, she guessed she could go along with it.

"Alright I'll do it" she said.

" great!" said Luke and so he continued to tell her of his plan…….

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".. so all I have to do is hide In this crate of supplies, sneak through the vent system, grab the data chip with the plans, and then find Anna?" Katie asked, making sure to have the plan down.

" right, only be careful, the imperials will kill you if they find you" said Luke.

Katie let out a nervous laugh " heh, heh, so no pressure right?" she said sarcastically As she prepared to get into an empty supply crate. So she could be ejected to a supply shuttle and blend in, hopefully getting her onto the Executor to save Anna.

"Are you ready?" asked Luke.

" yep!" replied Katie as she slid into the crate.

" good luck" said Luke as he sealed her in the crate and pushed her onto the supply ship.

Katie was scared and excited at the same time but mostly nervous and it seemed like the supply ship ride was taking forever, finally she felt the ship touch down. Not long after that her crate was picked up and moved to a corner. She carefully pushed the top off her crate and hid in the shadows searching for a vent to climb up to, to finish the first part of her mission. Finding the plans.

They were supposed to be hidden in the deepest part of the ship, all she had was a map of the ventilation system to get her to the safe where they were kept, easy right? Not! There was always the danger of surveillance systems, stormtroopers, and Vader himself.

Katie spotted a rather large vent opening, called up the map to confirm it was the right one, and the carefully stacked crates one by one so she could get up to it.

Once she was inside and had checked the map once again to see what direction to crawl in she started her journey to the safe.

Getting there was the easiest part, but figuring out how to steal the plans was even harder. As she looked down into the room with the safe she saw that it had maximum security. Great! That makes my job even harder! She thought. She had several options; one, turn back, two, go ahead recklessly, and three be as careful as possible and hope for the best. She chose three.

As carefully as possible she jumped down and held her breath as she silently tiptoed to the safe. She then used a code that was supposedly correct from rebel code crackers and opened up the safe. She pulled out a single miniscule computer chip, about the size of a fingernail, I hope this is it she thought as she walked back over to the vents and climbed back up to complete the second part of her mission, to save Anna but what she didn't know, is that she had tripped a silent alarm……….

A/N a cliffhanger, muahahahaha! Ohhh don't worry, Katie will meet up with Anna again soon, or should I say darth Sirrana. Lets just say Katie is in for a BIG shock!!! Also, please review it would be awesome if I could get just 10 reviews! Have a great week!

--CrystalSkywalker