Capturing a Princess

Vader's first thought was that this was a test put on him by his master. His second thought was that perhaps his child hadn't died with his wife, perhaps his master had lied to him and this was his son. He peered at the boy carefully, he did look like Anakin Skywalker had, then he frowned, the boy was much too young. There was no other way he could be his son, he was just TOO young. Then, as he took in the boy who didn't look at all like Padme, he would have had to have some of her features he began to wonder and then the alert went off.

"Red Alert! We've caught the princess."

When Vader turned around, Anakin had disappeared.

Anakin wasn't going to let them hurt the Princess, when he had heard the alert he had used the Force to move very quickly down the hallways. That man was kinda creepy looking. He looked like he wanted to scare people. He knew that the princess was close. He had to rescue her. The big black meany didn't look like he would be nice to her. First, he had to make sure he could protect her. He knew that his training saber wouldn't do enough damage. Blast Obi-Wan for not giving him a real saber. The only thing this one would do were mild burns, how was he supposed to defend her then? Obi-Wan had believed that their missions would not require a real lightsaber and most sentinents would be nursing their burns. Anakin felt his way to the weapons room and grabbed a smaller blaster and a larger one, he had no idea how old this Princess Leia was, or what she could hold, or even if she could fire but he hoped so. Despite the fact that he had to grip the blaster in both hands, he longed to use a REAL lightsaber. He watched as the stormtroopers followed Vader's orders. Vader was close, he knew. Blast it, he shouldn't have gone for the weapons.

"Set to stun," he heard and use the Force to make his run quicker so they wouldn't see him. He found the Princess, or he could only assume was a Princess with Artoo.

"Artoo-Detoo, boy am I glad to see you."

"You know Artoo."

"Yes, mam," his mother had taught him good manners. "Me and Artoo we blew up the Trade Federation together."

"I don't understand."

"You need to get out of here. They are after you."

"I need to get these plans to the Alliance." Anakin looked at her funny, again they were using funny words that he could guess the meaning to but not how they played into the scheme of things.

"You mean the Rebel Alliance?"

"You know of it?" Anakin avoided his eyes, he didn't think it best to tell her that he knew of it from her enemies.

"Where are you sending the plans?"

"To General Obi-Wan Kenobi."

"I'm going to Obi-Wan, I have to find him!" Anakin stated and then his eyes welled up with tears and Leia picked him up.

"It will be okay, what's your name?"

"My name is Anakin, Anakin Skywalker. But you can call me Ani. Obi-Wan has been like a father to me."

"Well, do you think you could watch out for Artoo, he has a habit of getting himself into trouble." Artoo beeped and Anakin laughed. "You understand what he said?"

"Yeah, Artoo, he said that he only gets himself into trouble watching out for you."

"Three-pio?" she asked.

"That is correct, Mistress."

"Three-pio, this is wizard! Boy, am I glad to see you. Where's Mom?"

"I'm sorry, sir. I don't know who you are talking about?"

"When did you get coverings and stuff?"

"I'm not sure I understand. Allow me to introduce myself, I am See Three-pio, human cyborg relations."

"I know who you are. I'm your maker." Leia looked at him strangely, this boy was younger than she was, and she had known Three-pio her entire life.

"Ani, I need for you to be very brave, can you do that?"

"I'm a Jedi aren't I?" Leia's frowned deepened, had Obi-Wan been training him?

"I need you to make sure these droids get to saftey, can you do that?"

"Sure," he thrust a blaster at her. "Be careful, Leia."

"I will."

"And may the Force be with you. If you see Padme, Queen Amidala, tell her I miss her and I think about her."

"Okay, now go," she watched as they went into the escape pod and pressed the launch as she prepared herself to deal with Lord Vader.

Lord Vader watched as the stormtroopers stunned her. He picked her up and carried her to the bed and waited for her to wake up. What had Anakin done? Why had he been drawn to save her? He stared at her chocolate brown hair and a memory seemed to stir, one that he couldn't quite grasp. She came to and Captain Piett came up to him.

"Why do you think Ani tried to save her?"

"I'm not sure. He will be back. I want you to let the entire battallion know that that child is not to be harmed. You will set your weapons to stun, is that understood?"

"Permission to speak?" asked a random stormtrooper.

"Permission granted."

"Do you think he knows of the location of the Rebellion?"

"No. Now go check the rest of the ship."

"Yes sir."

"Lord Vader, only you could be so bold," she spoke to him sharply her brown eyes on what passed for his face.

"You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor and you will tell me what you know about the boy."

Princess Leia Organa stared up into the mask of Darth Vader and stated simply, "What boy? I have seen no boy."

Darth Vader was furious, how dare she look at him with those eyes and lie to him. He used the Force to lift her from her feet and dropped her to the ground. "Take her to the detention block. He will be back for her and then we will get our answers."