Chapter 10
Walking down the hall, toward them, was none other than Natasi Daala. Luke turned back toward the conference room, with Ben and approached the door, he felt Daala hurry to catch up, he moved his hand the door opened they stepped in, he waved his hand and closed the door. Sitting in a circle was the Jedi High Council.
"Daala is planet side, she was trying to catch up with us." There was a knocking at the door. "And it seems she won't be going away unless we send someone out to tell her to. Any volunteers?"
"Thiz one will speak with her." Master Sebatyne said
"Thank you, Master Sebatyne, I really don't want to speak with her yet." Luke said
As Saba stepped out, Shelley stood up from her seat by Luke and walked to the bar, pulled out a bottle of soda water and a glass put some ice in it, Luke saw Jaina get up walked over to the bar also, pulled out a glass as well, put some ice in it as well and put the glass in front of his wife, she filled them both, Shelley still looked ill as did Jaina? They stepped back over to their Council seats and both sat with grace that been drilled into them from childhood, a Queen and a princess, they were sipping there drinks. Luke leaned over toward his wife, took her hand kissed it.
"Sweetheart, are you still feeling ill?" she took her hand back, sat her glass down, and shot out of her chair and through the door as fast as she could, within a minute Jaina did as well.
"We have to do something about this, they can't keep doing this, they are going to get to weak, you must do something now Master Cilghal. I mean, Shelley went straight into a healing trance when she laid down. And I haven't spoken to Master Solo-Fel if she did the same and since Jag was only there for a moment before I had to leave." When he was saying Solo-Fel he saw both Shelley and Jaina walking in, and Daala's head snap his direction as the door shut closed.
"I don't feel, any better I went into a Healing trance when I got to my room, I can't do this much more."
"Neither can I, Morning sickness that attacks all day, isn't working for me, and you know I'm not a baby went in comes pain or discomfort. But this is bad, worse than bad."
"Very well, I will get some things together after the meeting." Master Cilghal said
"Master Sebatyne, what did she say?"
"She was asking for an audience earlier than two dayz." She sat. "I told her we would contact her, if we were able to get her in sooner."
"Yeah, were not going to be doing that, we told her, we probably won't be able to we have things to do, that don't involve the governments even, Hapes and The Empire are waiting as well." Shelley said. "Excuse me, I need to go get away, I'm not going to be here tomorrow, I have a meeting on Naboo, I'll be back tomorrow evening." Shelley got up without being dismissed walked to the door it opened, she quickly walked to the Shadow got Motor in her X-Wing he had it out before she was done throwing on her nondescript flight suit, she was leaping into the cockpit when Luke and Ben, Jaina and Leia and Cilghal came scurrying into the room, she pulled on her helmet and the canopy lowered, she engaged her engines and lifted off before the made it halfway to her, Luke was on his comm, probably ordering someone to put a tractor beam on her and get her back planer side. She hit space and left the gravity well before anyone could do anything and she was gone.
Luke could feel her in the Force as she was lifting off, she was still hurt and still felt betrayed. Then like nothing he'd felt she was hurt and excited at the same time. The she was in hyperspace much too fast for anyone to intercept her.
"Luke what happened, why did a Master just take off during a meeting like that Shelley has never been one to lose her cool over anything, the most I've ever felt from her was today when she sent you flying down the hall, you didn't talk to her did you?" She demanded. "Luke she is still too weak to be doing anything like this, and what meeting on Naboo?"
"She had a ship built, she probably went to get it. Maybe we could send Han and maybe Jag if he'd like to tail her, make sure she is okay?"
"I think that's probably best, but I don't know how she'd feel to having someone tail her and we all know, she'll know." Jaina was gesturing. "I'll comm Jag and Dad, see if they don't mind tailing a very trained Jedi Master." Jaina got on the comm was talking to her dad and then Jag, when Ben came running to him out of the Shadow. He had a data-pad in his hand he gave it to him.
Luke, Ben.
I'm sorry I left the meeting the way I did, I couldn't stop myself and now I feel more foolish then I ever have, I'm going to blow off some steam, please don't be angry with me. Tell the master's I'm sorry, and I will do it again when I return, I could not go back in that room and tell them I had a hormonal outburst without feeling like I should just shoot myself to save myself the embarrassment that would cause, and after earlier today they already know many things I didn't want them to ever know, but if Luke statement didn't tell them then my overreaction most certainly did.
I will stop by Dagobah on my return journey that would probably be the easiest place for Han and Jag to track me, but then they'd have to stay for the hatching and we wouldn't want that. Just tell them not to leave the ship if you absolutely have to send them and I know you will, I'll find them when I make planet fall. I have surprise for you when I get back.
Love always,
Shelley Skywalker
AKA Mom.
"Leia, tell them to head to Dagobah, and not leave the ship unless they want to stay for a few months and believe me, I'm not joking." Leia and Jaina nodded and began speaking into the commlink's again. Luke hadn't notice Cilghal had left. When Leia and Jaina came back to them, he heard a very familiar ship taking off, they all looked up as the Falcon went toward space.
"They are head toward Dagobah, and I told them not to leave the ship at first Han thought I was joking until I told him I would not be coming to rescue them if they did, I left out why. Jaina told Jag that this was a situation that even the Sword of the Jedi couldn't help with." Luke laughed
"She's right about that nesting Barabel would sooner eat them, then let them go."
"Why did it need to be either you or Shelley that went, aren't you the leader of the order? Wouldn't it be you they would obey?"
"Yes, and no. I may be the leader but Shelley has trained many Barabel's so as a master she must be obeyed. And the fact she is a master swordswomen, and could take all four of them at once and still be the winner."
"I hope so, I would have felt more comfortable if she had taken someone with her."
"But she is the only one that can see, the nest and get away alive. Anyone else would be made to stay. Come on let's get back to the Council."
They walked in silence. As they enter the Master stood.
"She is having problems dealing with her emotion because her hormones are changing so much, she asked me to apologize for her, but she'll do it again when she returns. I hope no know will look at her in a different light now, she was upset with me earlier and we didn't have a chance to deal with it, it seems it may have just eaten at her. So once again I apologize."
"I think we can all agree, that she has never acted in this manner before and is unlikely too again once she gets a hold of herself which knowing her is what she is doing now there is no reason to look at her in any way that would be disrespectful, she is a strong women I have never know her to just leave a meet accept the pass few time and that was only because she was sick, she has nothing to apologize for." Corran said
"Agreed."
Shelley dropped out of Hyperspace above Naboo a world she once ruled as Queen, now she was a Jedi Master and that is where she belonged.
"This is Naboo control to unidentified fighter."
"Control, this is Master Harris of the Jedi Order requesting permission to land at the Nubian Ship Yard, I'm picking up my new ship."
"Of course Master, proceed to Nubian Ship Yards landing zone 10 a worker will meet you there."
"Thanks control, May the Force be with you."
It took all of few minutes to make land fall. The sales person she had met with all those time as she had her ship built.
"Master Harris, it's good to see you again."
"Thank you too, I'm here to pick up my vessel, I have to be back by late this evening my time, and I have a stop to make before I get there."
"Very well its right in here." He opened a landing bay door and there was her ship. "As you requested it's the color of your lightsaber everything you added has also be tested except the Force used ones only because well no one here is Force sensitive. If you'll follow me you can try all of your things."
She stepped up to the craft exerted in the Force and it opened she walked up the ramp right into the living room which was done in creams, purples, and silvers as was her full stocked kitchen and dining area. She took a left and enter the Flight deck, with a few swift buttons the ship came to life, with an exertion in the Force the torpedo tubes that was hidden opened as did the laser canons, and the tractor beam, she put them back, She stood and walked down the hall into Ben's room, just as she'd foreseen, blue and silver hues and a Red/Blue lightsabers crossed, next what she now knew was Hayden and Halie's room was silver and purple hues respectively but went of one another perfectly, across the hall was the other room 4 bunk beds in cream and purples and silver hues, then she entered her room it was better then she even seen, a two-tone purple hue, and purple/green lightsabers crossed on the headboard. She walked back into the hall where the lift was it took her to the equipment hold and the fighter hold where her new Stealth X-Wing was already sitting and enough room for both Luke's and Ben's.
"It's perfect." She pulled out her bank voucher and handed it to him."Here is your final payment."
"Thank you for your business, I hope if in the future you need another vessel you contact me." He bowed handed her the data-pad that had her final paper work and left. She went up to the flight deck started it took it out and landed it by her x-wing. She lowered the ramp after opening the bay door.
"Alright motor load it up. We have to get going." Motor picked the x-wing up and very gentle put it into the hold she used the Force to lift him out of his socket. "Alright you, let's go we have to get back." She walked up the ramp with Motor right behind her once he was in she used the Force to close the ramp. "Come on you go straight into your new perch." She motioned for him to follow her she enter the flight deck and motion him into one of the two unit spots. "Alright let's get out of here." She lifted off.
"Outgoing vessel please Identify yourself for record."
"This is the Queens Legacy outbound see you around." As soon as she hit the gravity well she prepared to jump. "Motor surge for tracking devices." She saw the eclectic current working over the vessel. "Alright Dagobah here we come." And she jumped. "Okay motor let me know when we drop out of hyperspace." She undid her restrains and walked back into the living room sat crossed legged on the couch and sank into a meditative state. Sometime later she heard an alarm going off. "Thanks I'm up."
"Incoming vessel Identify yourself, this plant is under Jedi control."
"Hello Han, please tell me you didn't leave the Falcon?"
"No, we have been talking, your making land fall right?"
"Yeah Han, I'll be down in a moment, I'll land next to the Falcon so you two can come look around to your heart's content while I deal with Jedi business."
"Yes, Jag come on let's go get ready because I'm not leave that craft till she give me the okay, if the sword of the Jedi is no help then I'm not staying out there a second longer then I have to."
"Hey Han you left your comm on."
"Yeah, I can tell." She laughed she landed just a bit away from the Falcon as she unstrapped she lowered the ramp as Han did his she could see once it was down two people hurrying toward her ship she walked out of the flight deck to greet them as they stared around. She laughed again. She snapped her fingers in front of their faces that got them.
"Wow." They said together
"Thanks, I have to take care of something hopefully I won't be long, but don't be worried if you need me I have my commlink, I'm going to shut your ramp when I leave there is a button to lower this one but it's also Force activated most systems on here are, if you have any question motor is in there he will probably be able to answer most of them at least." She secured her Lightsaber to her hip and a bag of food and a commlink for Tesar and the others, just in case someone came to close. "I'll be back as soon as I can, if you want to do me a favor when you go down to the hold go to the x-wing and grab my pilots bag and put it in my room I forgot it earlier."
"This has a Fighter hold?" Jag asked
"Yes it can hold 3 stealth X-wing or 4 X-wings."
"Really? I might have to get one of these made for Jaina this ship and I've only seen the outside and a small part of this room is amazing."
"You might want to do that, just remind me to get you the comm codes for the guy that helped me with this." She pointed around her. "I'll see you later, have fun and the vid has prerecorded holomovies on it." She walked down the ramp used the Force and closed it. She looked at Han's and did the same. She reached out with the Force searching for them. "Tesar, Dordi, Zal, Wilyem, Its Master Harris I need to speak with you, the Grand Master and I ordered you here Tesar, Wilyem. I can feel you watching me I need to speak with you all you know I will not harm you, reach out with the Force search me and you will know, I understand your protectiveness." She felt them searching her, and the surprise rolling off of them when they found her children, even though she knew exactly where they were, she sat cross legged on the ground the bag in front of her. She closed her eye and just meditated she knew they would feel more comfortable if she was at the disadvantage even though they all knew she wasn't, she heard slithering and sissing and then they sat too. She opened her eyes and smiled. "Hello Tesar, Dordi, Zal, Wilyem. It's good to see you."
It was Dordi that spoke first. "Your with young?"
"Yes, Master Skywalker and I are married as are Jaina and Jag, but are big wedding will be in a few months hopefully you will be able to make it. And Jaina is pregnant as well. The reason I have come, you know about the sith, yes?" they nodded. "We need to build a new shelter for them and we're going to do it here, but I've come to make sure it is as far away from your nest as I can get it. I will come personal put up warning beacons so they will not go past a certain point, I will need you to show me your nest, and you know I would die the most painful death you could imagine before I even tell your mother, Tesar where it's at, the beacons will be in a wide square so no one will know, the High Council knows this is why you were sent but will still not know where, I swear on the life of Ben and my twins here that I will only share this information with the Grand Master Skywalker, and that only because of some unsettling vision I've had."
"Are you okay, master?"
"I.I.I hope so, but the Master's have already seen how I will die as have a great many Jedi across the Galaxy, I don't know if you had it as well?"
"I did master, you gave up your life for your young." Zal answered Shelley had figured she was one of her Jedi knights.
"Yes, I did. It was me or Hayden and I chose him. I have lived a very long time already, he hadn't." she knew why Luke had wanted her to come, this was why, Tesar had been on Borealis when Shelley had almost died protecting Ben and he knew Zal would most likely have had the vision like so many others. Suddenly the Force grew sad, Shelley looked up at Zal. "You just showed them didn't you?"
"Yes, Master, it would be easier for them to understand after they saw it." Zal answered
"Master, you did it selflessly your only concern was those you left behind, your young and your mate." Dordi said
"Yes. But that is a mothers concern, our job is it not."
"Yes." Zal and Dordi answered.
"Alright, show me the nest, I'll give you the things I brought for you…" That's when they heard a fighter land. "Go to your nest guard your eggs, don't come unless you hear me calling you." They nodded and slithered off taking the bag with them. She walked toward the sound, a single fighter landed the person go down very haphazardly and watching the Falcon and the Legacy with Macrobinoculars, she slipped up behind him and pressed her blaster the back of the persons neck. "Who are you?"
"My name is Saia Sumala, I'm a G.A. Marine, I was sent to follow the Millennium Falcon, and we couldn't follow the X-Wing which was probably you."
"Yes, why are you here? What was your assignment specifically?"
"I promise, I won't hurt you will you remove the blaster?"
"Oh, I know you won't." She removed the blaster he stood slowly he hand in the air he turned slowly. "Unless you want to be sliced into pieces."
"You're a Jedi?" She lit her lightsaber and deactivated.
"What do you think?"
"You're a master?"
"It matters not, who I am, why are you following, Han Solo? Answer me?"
"Chief Daala wanted to know what you all are doing. I didn't want to come but orders are orders."
"You understand that if I hadn't have been here, you'd be dead right now? If I let you leave will you tell Daala you came here?"
"I could change my flight records that stated I followed them to I don't know, pick some place and that was it."
"If you're willing to do that, then I might let you go. But what insurance do I have you won't tell Daala, where you really went."
"Your Master Harris, you were the Queen of Naboo, my mother told me all about you, she said you killed your own brother to keep him well safe from Palpatine and sacrificed yourself in his place."
"I never killed my brother, he's on Kessel right now, I sent him away, with some Jedi protectors to keep him safe, and I love my brother."
"You were the best Queen in a very long time, and this makes you even more so, and I would willing do as you asked my Queen."
"You understand that, if you betray me, you will have very pissed off Jedi after you, do not?"
"Yes, and I swear if you tell me where, that's what I'll do."
"I picked my ship up on Naboo, do that, and remember I will know if you betray me."
"I swear I'll do it, you are my queen, and I'll tell them you made land fall and that you picked up your vessel and that's it."
"Then go. And may the Force be with you."
"Um, do you think you could help me up?" she lifted her hand and he floated up and stood on his fuselage. "Thanks."
"You're welcome."
"Bye." He shut his canopy, and fired up, lifted off.
Shelley pulled up her commlink coded in Tesar new number.
"Master we heard, the ship take off do you want me to come and get you?"
"Yes come and get me, I'll be at the place you left me."
"Alright master, I'll see you in a minute."
She walked over to the spot where she had left the Barabel's, within a few minutes Tesar came to get her, they walked for a few minutes and he showed her, his nest there were 4 eggs in it.
"Congratulation."
"Thank you, Master."
"Alright, when we bring the team, I will come to a point and begin putting the beacons in, I'm sorry for disturbing your nest."
"Itz alright, your keeping uz safe."
"Yes and if anyone else comes you may eat them."
"Oh, do you think will getz to eat anyone?"
"Unless there Jedi or support personnel then you have free reign."
"Thankz, Master."
"You're welcome, now the High Council is waiting for me. I must go."
"May the Force be with you, Master."
"And May the Force be with you, if you'd like for me to come for the hatching you have my codes just give me a few hours."
"Yes, Master. Will let you know."
"Alright, I'll see you in a few months call if you need a ride, though we'll probably already have the shelter built here."
"Okay."
"Bye."
Shelley waved and begun to walk away, toward her ship. She opened the ramp of her ship to find Han and Jag both hanging into the hyper drive looking.
"You said, this was Chiss made? .6 past light speed, I wonder if I could possibly work on mine to make it go faster, or maybe I could get a new Hyper drive?"
"Well, I don't know Han, I've never had to do this before, but I'm telling you as soon as I get back to Bastion I'm making that call to get a ship built."
"I would say getting a new hyper drive is probably the best way to go, Han." Both Jag and Han jumped out of the Hyper drive compartment.
"So how did it go, we saw you dealing with the guy that followed us here, did you kill him and send the ship into space and have it blow itself."
"No, it so happened he knew I was the Queen of Naboo."
"Well, that's useful."
"It was, now how did you like the ship?"
"It's amazing."
"I couldn't believe how much room you have here."
"Yes, well its custom made."
"Okay, I think we need to get going, I'm still not feeling well, and as soon as I hit hyper space, I'm in the Sonic Shower."
"Okay, will you lower the ramp?"
"Yes, give me just a minute." She walked over to the Falcon used the Force and lowered the ramp. She walked back to the Queen's Legacy. "Alright its open."
"See you later." They walked back to their ship and got in as soon as they were in. She closed her ramp, walked to the flight deck. "Motor let's get going."
She got the ship into space and jumped into hyper space. She went and got a shower, came back to flight deck. "Alright wake me when were preparing to drop out of Hyper space." She got into a cross legged position, meditation was hard coming, when a beeping finally came, she was going back to the Flight Deck.
"Unidentified vessel this is Kessel control."
"Kessel control, this is Master Harris-Skywalker in the Queen's Legacy requesting landing clearance."
"Queen's Legacy permission granted, land by the Jade Shadow you have company waiting for you."
"Thank you." She began to make planet fall when the ship shuttered to a stop and began to reverse. Someone had a tractor beam locked on her.