"ETA to the Rebel fleet, 3 hours," Akko said, as she was checking the star map.
"Roger that Akko," Diana said, as she was pressing a few buttons, putting the ship on autopilot.
"So, how's Luke doing?" Akko asked.
"He is in pain, both mentally and physically. Whatever Vader did to him must have got to him," Leia answered.
"Yeah, I think Luke knows the truth of his heritage," Akko said, then realized she accidentally let slip something she shouldn't.
"What do you mean by that?" Leia asked.
"It's a long story," Akko said, trying to avoid the question.
"It is a long way toward the Rebel Fleet," Leia said.
"Too shay," Akko said. She think a bit and asked, "What do you remember of your biological parents?"
"I remember that my mother was very beautiful, but yet was always in pain," Leia answered.
"And your father?" Akko asked.
"Not that much. My mother died when I was born and I don't know a lot about my father," Leia answered, "Why are you asking about this?"
"You see, Vader is Luke's daddy," Akko said, bluntly.
"Wait, what?" Leia asked, surprised at what Akko said.
"Luke and also your daddy is Vader," Akko said.
"So wait, me and Luke are brother and sister. Which means…oh god," Leia said, realizing what she had done.
"Yup you were making out with your brother on Hoth," Akko said, "If it makes you better, Luke doesn't know you're his sister yet. He is still in shock that Vader is his daddy."
"That doesn't make anything better," Leia said, shaking her head in disgust.
Diana and Akko pull the ship out of hyperspace as the ship arrived at their destination. The meetup point for the rebel fleet was filled with ships of every class, shape, and design. The witches stared in awe and shock as they realized that the end of the war might be near.
Landing onto a capital ship, everyone was glad that they finally made it safely. Even though they lost Han, the crew was at least glad they survived and succeeded in their attempt to escape. Leia was the first to get off the ship, helping Chewy down and sending him to the medical bay. Next was Lando, who carried Luke and laid him down on a medical bed. The droids followed behind them and lastly were the witches.
"General Organa, General Cavendish, General Kagari, am I so glad to see you guys are safe and sound. But what happened to General Solo?" General Rieken asked.
"Vader captured General Solo and almost caught us too," Leia said.
"Oh…I'm…I'm sorry," General Rieken said with sympathy.
'It's not your fault, General. Anyways, we might know where the bounty hunter might be taking him. We just gotta know the exact location," Diana said.
"I see, where once we know where General Solo is, we will send an extraction team to go rescue him," General Rieken said.
"Seems risky, if anything the girls, Leia, Chewbacca, that man, the droids, and I might rescue him,' Akko said.
As the generals were talking, an officer came up to them. Saluting to them, the officer said, "Excuse me General Kagari and General Cavendish, there is someone here who says you might know them."
"Knows us?" Diana and Akko asked in unison.
"If you don't mind, can you lead the way?" Diana asked.
"Yes ma'am, this way," the officer said.
The officer leads them through the white hallways of the Mon Calamari ship towards a set of elevators. The hallways were filled with pilots, generals, soldiers, custodians, droids, and even diplomats talking amongst themselves. Taking the elevator down towards the brig, the officer leads them to a cell. Opening it reveals a group of girls, one tall with pink hair, the second one medium size with yellow-goldish hair, and the third one who was short, with blue hair. The one with pink hair was arguing with another deck officer.
"So you are willing to tell me that know General Kagari and General Cavendish all because you girls went to school together?" the officer asked.
"Yes, that's what I have been telling you, shitheads," the pink hair girl said in frustration.
"That is highly unlikely. How do we know you are an imperial spy? We did spot you three snooping around the cruiser," the officer said.
"For the love of the nine old witches, why can't we just talk to Akko and Diana?" the pink hair girl asked.
"Because General Kagari and General Cavendish haven't arrived yet," the officer answered.
The pink-haired girl was grabbing her hair in frustration as the yellow hair girl looked towards the open door and saw that General Kagari, General Cavendish, and an officer were standing in the doorway, looking a bit shocked. Nudging the pink-haired girl next to her, the trio of girls looked and stood there in shock.
"Akko! Diana!" the pink hair girl shouted in tears, as she got up and was about to give them a hug.
"Stay back, prisoner!" the officer shouted, pulling out his pistol.
"Stand down soldier," Diana said calmly.
"Do you know these girls, General?" the officer asked.
"I…I do," Diana said, as she and the rest of her friends entered the room and hugged the pink-haired girl.
"Amanda, Lotte, Constanze, do we miss you guys so much," Akko said.
The officers left the Generals to the prisoners, seeing how familiar they are in. Everyone else in the room was crying heavily as everyone was in one huge tight hug. The tears were a mix of happiness and sadness. Relief and regret. Joy and sorrow.
"We really do miss you guys," Hannah said, the first to get out of the hug.
"How have you guys been?" Amanda asked.
"Shit," Akko said, "We just barely escaped Vader and the Empire from Bespin. Well, most of us did."
"We will find him, Akko," Diana said.
"I know, just…just damn that bounty hunter to hell," Akko said.
"Anyways, how have you girls been? How's Luna Nova treating our disappearance?" Diana asked.
"Not great, your parents are wondering what has happened to you girls. Well, except for your Aunt, Diana, sorry about that," Amanda said.
"Don't worry about it, my aunt will use my disappearance as an excuse to take control of the Cavendish estate," Diana said.
"Anyways, the professors lied to your parents saying you have been busy, which only bought them some time. Not a lot, but enough for us to come and rescue you guys," Amanda said.
"We are really the professors' only hope since most of them think that you girls are already dead," Lotte added on.
"So it's that bad, huh?" Akko asked.
"Yeah, we came here to rescue you, girls, before any of you go get yourselves killed," Amanda said.
"I'm sorry, but we can't leave now. We still have to rescue Han, and defeated this tyrannical Galactic Regime," Akko said.
"But this is not your home. This is not real. Everyone here is just a piece of someone's imagination!" Amanda argued.
"It feels real to us. These people, these creatures, they are real. They breathe the same air as we do, and have the same emotion as we do. I will be damn if I leave them here with the iron grip the Empire has!" Akko shouted in tears.
"And what about your parents, Akko? Or your parents, Hannah? Or your parents Barbara? What do you guys think the Headmistress will say when they figured out what really happened?" Amanda asked.
"I…I don't know," Akko said, as her voice sadden a bit.
"We do miss our parents, Amanda, but we have made friends here. Friends that we have laughed with, cry with, hell even seen the horrors of war with. Now one of our friends is in deep trouble and leaving right now is not the best option," Hannah said.
"So, none of you guys are going to change your mind?" Amanda asked.
"No," the girls answered.
Amanda took a deep breath and sighed a bit. "How about this, you guys will leave after we save Han and after the Empire is defeated," Amanda offered.
"Really?" Akko asked, shocked.
"Yes, but on one condition. Constanze, Lotte, and I will be joining you guys, making sure none of you get yourself killed,"
"Thank you, thank you so much, Amanda!" Akko shouted, with tears in her eyes.
"Yeah, also I just want to see why the hell they put Akko as a general of all people," Amanda said, causing Diana to chuckle a bit.
Everyone started to leave the room, when Diana stopped and asked, "By the way, how did you guys manage to come into this universe?"
"We recreated the potion that transported you guys here. And if it wasn't for the help of Yoda, we have the hope to rescue you guys," Amanda explained.
"Wait, Yoda helped you guys out?" Akko asked.
"Yeah, interesting it was to see a movie character come into our world," Amanda said.
"Unless he is not a movie character," Diana said.
"What?" Amanda asked.
"I am afraid there might be something bigger at play right now. It helps explain why have our own trading cards. Also explains Akko's new ability and Yoda appearing in front of you," Diana inferred.
"Wait, Akko has a new ability?" Lotte asked in shock.
"Yeah, a story for another time. Right now, we should report back to Leia and Rieken," Akko said.
"Agree," Diana said.
With that, Akko, Diana, Hannah, and Barbara led the newcomers toward Medical Bay. There, they greeted Leia and General Rieken to their friends. After the introductions, The witches walked toward Luke and saw that a droid was giving the young Skywalker a new hand. While testing the hand out, Akko noticed that Luke was talking to someone on the comms.
"Who was that?" Akko asked as Luke turned the comms off.
"It's Lando and Chewie, they made their preparations and are prepared to take off to go find Han," Luke answered.
"Do you think it was a smart idea to let Chewie go, even though he is still wounded?" Diana asked.
"No, not really, but that Wookie is very stubborn. He insisted that he will go with Lando. I might be crazy to fight Vader, but I am not crazy enough to get a Wookie mad," Luke said, with a pained chuckle.
After the droid was done healing Luke of his injuries, Luke climbed out of the seat, and walked towards Leia and Reiken. The witches, followed by the droids, joined them as they saw the Falcon leaving the Nebulon-B and jumping into hyperspace. The room was filled with a little hope as everyone silently prayed to the force that Han can be rescued.