But as it happened Han wasn't too annoyed. 'Nice to see someone with skill,' he replied with flattery, but truth was that he was simply encouraging Gram to return. 'Then, I'll have his credits off him, he thought to himself. But Gram and Matt where to have a busy next day with some smuggling.
In the meantime, on his homeworld, Dave was just settling down for the evening. But he felt something. Dave looked outside into the night air. 'Had he heard a noise?' thought he. Dave thought he could see something in the bushes near his home.
'Dave get down,' screamed Judi his wife and a blaster shot whistled past him. Dave now could see some kind of droid firing a blaster at him. Dave made a dash for his Spacebike which was parked in his drive. He started it's engines and fortunately it was all in working order. This Spacebike looked like a simple bike, but it's design was actually quite sophisticated. Plus the device was capable of flight. And Spaceflight even! However Dave took off. Despite it's wheels screaming as he dashed down a quiet road, it was clear that the Droid was still following him and possibly catching.
So, Dave took of into the stary sky. Unfortunately his potential assasin was also capable of flight and sped up after him. Dave flew high, above the huge Turbosteel smelting works and he could see the smoke rising out of the factories. Dave increased the bike's speed up to nearly it's maximum which was about 800 kph. Pretty quick, eh? But his pursuer was persistant if anything. Dave tried ducking, swerving, diving but still the chase continued.
Dave tried flying up above the clouds. Down to just above the surface. Through a wood and just above the tops of trees. But apart from bruising himself, he didn't achieve anything. Dave could hear in the distance the whirl of other vehicles joining the chase. These, however, he could tell where his friends, trying to help. But they where too far behind to be of any assistance. Now he realized he was running low on fuel. So Dave tried his last trick. Down below, he noticed the River Withywindle. Dave checked his Bike's oxygen cylinder, then dived down onto it, then with a splash disappeared underwater. His bike was adapt at underwater travel as well!
Surprisingly this worked. Swimming underwater seemed to confuse the chaser. The droid decided to follow Dave's manuevor. But whoever had designed the Droid had not put in underwater capabilities. And pesumably the droid didn't know this. After a few minutes under the river it short-circuited, spluttered and exploded! Seeing this, Dave surfaced, landed on the River bank and sat down. Dave was alive, but he was cold and soaking wet as assistance finally arrived.
Later, Whitesnake read a report onto the failure of the assasination attempt. He sighed, not been too surprised. 'If you want something done properly, you have to do it yourself, or at least not rely on a Droid!' He muttered.