Sirrana was ticked! She had just lost her chance to defeat Katie. She angrily stalked back through the base after the Falcon had taken off. The walls crumbled around her, and she had to dodge the caving ceiling as she made her way to the Imperial landing shuttle. They were about to take off back to Vader's ship.
Sirrana climbed into a seat and strapped in, she tapped her fingers impatiently on the metallic armrest. Finally when she could not take it any more, she ripped off the crash restraint and flew out of her chair. Annoyed she stomped down the corridor and climbed down the ladder into a cannon turret. Her decision was weighted heavily on the urge to cause mass destruction. So she situated herself there instead.
She was just itching to take out some of those rebel scum. She felt the rumble of engines underneath her feat as the ship took off. It was odd sitting in a cannon turret, the design was a throwback to the days of the Clone War's circular ones. The overall effect was one of a theme park ride, or one of those houses of mirrors. The amusement factor alone was almost enough to make her smile, but the true contributor was the lone star fighter she saw ahead.
The model was an x-wing fighter, all alone, no back up. Sirrana laughed to herself. It would be too easy, one shot to the cockpit before it was sucked into hyperspace…
She didn't even use a scope; the dark side would guide her shot. She needed an outlet for her anger, why not the obvious rebel scum. With an evil smirk on her face, she aimed and shot.
" Pow!" she exclaimed as she pulled her hand off the gun. With her hands she made an imaginary gun and shot it, almost like a small child would. For once, the immaturity of her true age shone through. She laughed, all anger gone.
As the cannon fire connected with the small enemy ship, it created a massive explosion. Then…the most extraordinary thing happened. The flash was much larger than it should have been. The white engulfed everything and blinded Sirrana. On instinct she lifted her hands to cover her eyes. A complete absence of noise followed. Sirrana screamed, the headache came back, and this time it felt as if a vacuum was sucking her up. Just as suddenly as it had came upon her, it dissipated, and blackness engulfed her…
The same happened Alec on the Slave One. They were traveling through hyperspace on the way to another assignment. He was watching the stars streak past the front shield. When that little ball of light appeared again.
"Hey" said Alec. He shifted a little in his seat.
" Hello" the ball answered back as it grew to the size of a basketball.
" So, what information do you have to teach me today?" Alec asked the light.
" Do you remember when I told you that there will come a time when you will get your memories back?" the light asked as it hovered in front of him.
" Yeah, but I thought you said that wouldn't be for a while." Alec commented. He turned away to watch the stars again.
" Yes, I did, but plans have changed." The ball said. It floated around so that it was in font of Alec's field of vision.
" Ok, in what way?" Alec asked, trying not to be annoyed at the light.
" Oh, nothing you need to worry about, just remember, what happens to you in the near future is only temporary." The ball told him. A sound that reminded Alec of laughing came from the ball.
" What are you talking about?" Alec asked curiously. The continuous streak of stars from hyperspace, and the glow of the ball gave him a headache, so he turned back around to stare at the wall.
" Oh, nothing" the ball replied. It zoomed around so that it was in front of him again. Alec sighed, defeated.
" Can I ask you a personal question?" he asked.
" Sure, why not." The ball answered back. For some reason, the ball seemed incredibly human to Alec at this point, but he couldn't exactly put his finger on why.
" Do you have a name?" Alec asked, his tone light.
" Yes, my name is Lumio Purio" he said, a little embarrassed. " I don't really like that name though, it sounds to old. I really like to go by Jett, but that isn't a very good idea in this timeline's future, so I want to go by Jake. Sounds close enough to me." He added talking only to himself by the end.
" Ok…Jake" Alec said with a smile. He smirked; something told him that if anyone at home heard he was talking to a light, they would call him crazy. Though maybe letting them know he was transferred into a different dimension would do that too…
" You will get your memories back…" Jake paused for a moment, and Alec counted to three in his head. "…NOW!" he exclaimed.
All of the sudden, Alec felt as if a truck had hit him. He nearly screamed as the headache came back. Literally he felt like a jet engine was pulling him towards it, and then a vacuum sucked him up. But then, just as he had been warned, it was over, and all that he knew was blackness….
Meanwhile, in the Millennium Falcon, the crew was just trying to make it out alive. Katie and Kevin were running around trying to help. They had to make the jump to hyperspace, or risk being blown up by Imperial ships.
A stray laser bolt hit the ship. Katie lost her footing and was knocked to the floor by the impact. She hit her head hard. Cursing, she rubbed her forehead with the palm of her hand and blinked rapidly. Stars blossomed before her eyes. Funny, up until now she would have thought that was only a special affect for cartoons. Never would she have believed that if one hits their head hard enough they would actually see stars. That probably meant that it wasn't a good thing she was seeing them then. Kevin ran past her, heading towards the cockpit. He backtracked and helped her up, and then she followed him.
It happened to her first, the headache came back. It came out of nowhere, blinding her. She collapsed to the ground again and held her head in her hands. A feeling of disorientation like she was being squeezed out of a massive tube of toothpaste engulfed her. All of the sudden, the sensation vanished, and she drifted into an all-consuming blackness…
SWSWSWSWS
Katie felt disoriented still; in the way that one might feel after falling asleep in a foreign place. A horrible feeling quickly spread from her head to her toes. She hurt all over and her head ached. She sat up and her head spun. Clutching the edge of her mattress for support, she ran her shaky hands through her hair. Immediately, she opened her eyes and looked around. She was at home, in her bed, in her own room.
The sound of her cell phone buzzing startled her. She fumbled around and found it. This prompted the discovery of five new messages, all from Kevin and Alec. She flipped her phone open, and saw the date. November 7, 2006. She gasped; no time had passed at all! She was back to being thirteen again. Drat! She thought to herself, now I have to grow up again! An urge came over her to stare out her window and look for the portal. So she opened up her blinds. It did not surprise her that she observed nothing but a cloudy Washington night.
Had the adventure never happened? She wondered to her self as she shut the blinds and turned to stare at the brightly lit screen of her cell phone. Was it all just the most elaborate dream she ever had? Though deep down she didn't think so, her rational surface did not know what to think.
Suddenly it hit her, she was home, not at Anna's birthday party. She should be at her sleepover, not at home in her own bed! What happened? Had their leaving screwed the whole world up?
She continued to open and read the flashing messages. They all read something along the lines of, " We screwed up!" or "Look up Empire Strikes Back on wikipedia". They seemed pretty urgent to her, so she crept out of bed and tiptoed to her desk. As she opened up her laptop, and slid into her desk chair, she turned it on. Not knowing whether or not she had left her laptop muted, she covered the speakers with her hands.
It was times like these that she wished her laptop was not old an decrepit piece of early nineties machinery, but new and fast, because it took for ever for her boot it up, and load the web browser. Finally, she keyed in and waited, and waited, and waited. When that loaded, she typed in the movie title. An article popped up, and she read it. Everything happened pretty much the same, but there was mention of a teenage, sith apprentice, a traveling partner for Boba-Fett, and two you Rebels. The biggest change frightened her the most. A sentence in the middle of the article read " …as Luke Skywalker headed up to Dagobah after the attack on Hoth, the sith apprentice Sirrana destroyed his ship, killing him before she disappeared."
Katie stared at the screen, eyes wide. She could not believe what she was reading; they had screwed up the Star Wars world. She sighed and turned off her computer. Obviously, they had to find a way to fix it. Whatever where they going to do?
A/N And so the story Be Careful What You Wish For ends. Sort of anyway, I am writing a short sequel in which the kids learn that they destroyed their own world as well as the Star Wars one, and need to figure out how to fix it, if you Like the Character Sirrana, check out the story my friend wrote that takes place after my story is done. (Don't worry; if you want to read it, it contains no spoilers to my sequel!). Her name is SirranaSkywaker. check it out!
~CrystalSkywalker
