Hey all! Sorry I haven't updated in a while I have been totally busy (high school takes wayyyy to much time). Anyway in the star wars movies empire strikes back takes place a little over three years after a new hope and I will honor that.

It was a…. cold day on the ice planet Hoth, the rebel alliances current top secret base location. A teenage girl stood in the corner of the huge ice cavern that served as a hanger and watched the many pilots work on their ships. She thought a bout sitting on the floor while she watched, but decided against it, for it would make her even colder. she was startled when she heard a loud clang. Not surprisingly, the next thing she heard was an obnoxious string of curses and a Wookie roar.

" Chewie your supposed to hook up this hose to the hyper drive motivator not that one!"

Another Wookie roar racked the cavernous makeshift hanger.

" hey that's a great idea ill ask her!" Han says as he wiped his hand on his pants and stood up.

" hey kid I know your watching from one of your hiding places, but its time for you to come out I need you to give us a hand."

Katie groaned, she had been found out again. Not only that, but she hated being called kid. In her mind she was not a kid anymore so why did he continue to call her one?

" what do you want Han?" she inquired.

" could you hook the hose up the right way, I'm busy up here and Chewie cant get down either."

Katie rolled her eyes " sure, and while I'm at it why don't I just bring you A drink to?" she said with more than just a hint of sarcasm. As expected, Han took her seriously due to the fact he was busy working on his ship. ( boys and their toys!  )

" yeah, yeah go ahead, you know what I like." He responded distractedly. A result of him going back to work. Katie was fuming, oh how she couldn't wait to be considered grown up!

Luckily, she was saved from becoming Han's temporary slave by Luke who ran into the hanger bay.

" Han!" he said as he stopped to catch his breath. " we have sentry duty, remember? We have to due the lookout job" the news that Han would have to do work other than rebuilding his precious ship caught his attention.

" when!" he asked carefully.

" now!" replied Luke. " why due think I ran all over base trying to find you!" he added. Han jumped down from his ship so that he could go. As an after thought he yelled instructions to Chewie. And then both Han and Luke jogged over to tan tans. Katie followed after them.

Sentry duty may be boring and cold, but at least it is doing something. " hey wait up!" she called out to them. " can I come too?"

" yeah sure, what ever, just hurry" called Han urgently. So katie ran after them, hopped on a Taun-taun and happily rode out behind them.

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the cold surrounded him like a miserable blanket, it sunk through his clothes to his bones, like nothing he had ever experienced before. It wasn't supposed to be this cold, not in Washington in early November. That's why he was confused. He had gotten off the buss and slipped on the wet concrete. Landing flat on his back. Then the slightly chilly air turned frigid. He opened up his eyes, sat up and straightened his glasses.

He was not in Washington anymore, instead of evergreen trees and houses of a suburban neighbor hood, white ice and snow stretched on forever. Forever into a white horizon.

As an icy breeze swept through the ice plane he shivered. How was he ever going to get out of this?

Just then he heard a noise and squinted off into the distance. Something was coming near him, and it looked like a lama! But that made no sense, lamas don't live in artic conditions.

As it came nearer, he saw something was riding the queer beast. Finally, the thing approached him and its rider dismounted and came for him. The rider offered him a hand to stand up. Then it asked him a couple questions, starting with the most obvious.

"What is your name ?" it asked curiously. The boy was quick to respond, for he knew this being was his only chance for rescue.

" Kevin Emery" he replied quickly. The rider nodded, " ok Techie, this is probably the coldest conditions you've ever been in, so unless you want to become fuzzy wuzzy the boy popsicle wonder I suggest you come with me to get out of the cold."

Kevin quickly obliged and hopped on the back of the snow beast behind the rider. questions bubbled rapidly in his mind as they rode along to who knows where. Finally he spoke up " I have got a question for you" he asked the rider.

" ok , shoot" she replied.

" well, I only told you my name was Kevin, how did you know my nicknames?"

Surprisingly, the girl laughed.

" life is full of surprises and secrets, nobody has to know all of them" she explained.

He let out an exasperated sigh, he should have known that a straight answer was not headed his way.

Surprisingly, it wasn't long before the thing they were riding slowed from a run to a walk and a bubbly metallic structure loomed before them. They went inside a door the size of a three car garage. Apparently, this was only the service gate. That thought got Kevin wondering what the real thing looked like!

After passing through the gate, they were in a huge cavernous structure. A huge structure with spaceships!

The animal they were riding trotted to the side and came to a stop. Its rider gracefully jumped off. When her feet were planted firmly on the ground she offered a hand to Kevin and he took it and jumped down too.

Now that they were in this shelter, Kevin wanted answers.

" look, thanks for rescuing me, I really want to know your name though!"

As Kevin expected, she laughed " well, why don't you guess" she said as she took of the helmet and weather protective gear she wore.

Out of the helmet spilled dirty blond hair, blue eyes, and a face he swore he had seen only an hour ago only…..older.

"Katie!" he asked in disbelief.

"Yep!" she said.

" how is that possible? Less than an hour ago I saw you at school, in 8th grade and now your 16?"

" 17 and a half actually" she corrected them.

"where exactly are we?" he asked. As they started walking to see the base supervisor.

She shrugged " Hoth"

The name sounded familiar, of course! It was a star wars world! " nooooo way, we are not on Hoth because Hoth is fiction!"

She cocked her head to the side " fiction? Where did you get that idea! Its as real as the rebel alliance!"

"You Know." Prompted Kevin ." Hoth , From Star Wars". He added.

Katie preformed the funny head action again " what's star wars?" she asked. Kevin was bewildered he could not believe he was having this conversation with her.

"You know! Good vs. evil, lightsabers, sith and jedi !" Kevin explained. " the poster on our teachers wall! Your favorite movies?"

Katie laughed, again, " oh I know what that stuff is, but I don't know what the 'Star Wars' as a whole is" said katie as they walked in the command center.

They approached princess Leia. " oh, your back. Did Han and Luke come back to?" she asked. Katie shook her head " no, I didn't see them" Leia looked lost for a second and then noticed Kevin.

"Who is your friend?" She asked

"Oh, this is Kevin, he's from earth like me I found him on our rounds and didn't want him to freeze so I came back early."

Leia nodded then said " you are responsible for him make sure he doesn't get into trouble." Kevin did not like being treated like a little kid. They started to leave when Leia called over to them " katie, I'm worried, would you mind checking for Luke and Han?"

"No problem" she called back and with that Kevin and katie left again to go back to the hanger.

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As they strode into the hanger Han was just coming back.

" where's Luke?" katie asked as she ran up to him. " We split up I …. Hey Wait, he is not back yet?"

" no, Leia was trying to comm. You and she couldn't reach you. She wants to know where you were."

"Well first of all I shut my comm. I'm tired of her holiness barking orders at me. and second of all I don't know. Hold on a sec" he finished his speech and jumped down of the creature he was riding he ran over to the surveying deck officer.

" have you seen commander Skywalker?" he asked his voice full of worry.

"No I haven't, its possible he came in the south entrance" said the officer.

" well than check on it !" ordered Han. They waited while he checked.

" I'm sorry sir, but no word if him has been recorded. Perhaps he forgot to check in?" offered the young man.

Han shook his head " not likely, are the speeders ready?" he asked.

The other man sighed, " no, its extremely difficult to get them conditioned for the cold" he explained.

"Well" said Han, "then will have to take tan tans".

The officer tried to stop him, " no, the temperature is falling to rapidly, you'll surely…"

As Han mounted his tan-tan he yelled back to the officer " than ill see you in hell!"

Before katie could say a word Han yelled to her " not this time kid, go help her bossiness" and then he was gone, through the hanger doors and into the cold mess outside.

Katie sighed as she watched him go, hoping he made it back ok. She turned back to Kevin who saw her worry. This seemed to confuse him.

" why the long face? You know they both make it back." He said.

Katie's face lit up " they do?"

"Yeah, don't you remember?"

"No, I don't" she said. Then she continued " we better go back and report to Leia"

And so with that they headed off.

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The hours past and Leia was still waiting worriedly in the corner of the hanger for her secret love, (though she would tell nobody) to return with her best friend. The droids C3P0 and R2D2 were trying to calm her down. But all they succeed in was upsetting her more.

They were trying to tell her the odds of Han and Luke's survival when katie and Kevin returned. " there hasn't been any word from Luke, but Han is going after him"

Leia nodded and an officer approached them. " your highness, we cant risk keeping the blast doors open any longer, we will have to close them until dawn"

Num with worry, the princess nodded and the officer gave the signal. They all watched as the humongous doors slowly shut, holding back the ferocious wind and pelting snow. The princess looked on barley seeing the doors shut, for all she could think of were her two best friends trapped out in the frozen waste land. It all seemed so final as the durasteel doors slammed together setting in stone the two stranded hero's fates. Were they dead or, by a miracle alive? That is what everyone wanted to know. Only the morning that seemed so far away could tell…..

A/N in order to avoid the problem of omniscient fans (a classic Mary – sue trait) as my characters become more immersed in the star wars world, they will loose knowledge of earth , hence katie not remembering star wars.