Chapter 5: The Trash Compactor
Kanan's P.O.V
"Why what a wonderful smell you discovered, Leia." Alex said sarcastically, covering up his nose.
"At least I actually saved our skins for crying out loud." she retorted.
"Yeah. By landing us in this garbage pile!"
"Will you two cut it out!" I stepped in. "If we bicker then we're not gonna get anywhere."
"Kanan's right." Ezra said. "Zeb, you able to get the door open?"
He grunted. "Karabast. I can't get this door open."
"I guess I'd better blow it then." Sabine said, taking out an explosive charge.
"No!" Leia said. "You'll attract more of them if a boom is heard."
"Zeb, get away from there." Alex said. Zeb did so and Alex aimed his right wrist blaster. "This'll do the trick." He fired, but then the blaster bolt got deflected and it kept on bouncing off the walls in here. We all got our heads down, hoping that it'll miss us. None of us were hurt when the bolt was no more.
"Woah! Alex, are you crazy!?" Hera yelled.
"Dude, you almost got us all killed!" Luke said.
"Take your weapons off before you get us all killed, Alex!" Leia said.
"We had everything under control, Leia, until you led us down here."
"She actually did make a good move, even if it's a smelly one." I said.
"It could be worse." Leia replied. Suddenly, some type of growling was heard, and we were all looking around here for danger.
"Well, every time that is said, something always happens." Sabine said.
"Guys, there's something alive down here." Luke said, jolting suddenly. "Something just grabbed my leg!" Ezra jolted at that moment.
"Gah! Mine too!" he said.
"Guys, look!" Zeb said, pointing to something. We looked down and saw some type of creature in here. That thing looked disgusting and it smelled, to me at least, worse than this stupid dump that we were in. An eye popped up out of nowhere and we all gasped. Hera unloaded blaster rounds and killed that thing. She was breathing heavily as she lowered her pistol.
"At least that thing's no more." she said.
"Hera, I don't thi-" Ezra gasped as he suddenly was taken down under.
"Ezra!" I yelled, trying to reach for him under there. We all called his name as we tried to frantically rescue him. Ezra did appear again, and it looked like that same creature that grabbed Luke's leg was here again. It wrapped around Ezra's body, him suffocating.
"Get his thing off me!" he ordered, slapping it. Sabine reacted and took out her darksaber, slashing the disgusting creature into bits. Its pieces fell to the ground. Her boyfriend was breathing heavily as he regained himself.
"You okay?" she asked.
"I'm good. Thanks, babe." he replied. We heard what sounded like a machine turning on, and we all went silent, scanning the area. A louder noise was heard, and the walls were starting to close!
"Woah woah woah! Get something to hold that wall!" I ordered. We all looked around for objects to use to hold the wall together, and just when we found some, they weren't working as the wall was still closing on us.
"It's not working!" Hera grunted.
"Come on, come on!" Alex grunted, trying his best with Zeb and Luke to hold the wall in place, but they got nowhere, the wall closing faster. "God dang it, it's not working! We're done for!"
"No we're not!" Hera pulled out her commlink. "Chopper, Chopper, come in." she said. "Chopper, shut down all the garbage patches on the detention level! Shut down all the garbage patches on the detention level! Chopper! Where could he be!?" We all pulled out our commlinks.
"Chopper, shut down all the garbage patches on the detention level! Shut down all the garbage patches on the detention level!" I yelled into my commlink. Finally some familiar grumbles came through.
"Chopper, will you shut up and listen to us!?" Sabine yelled. "Shut down all the garbage patches on the detention level! Shut down all the garbage patches on the detention level! NOW!" The walls were getting even tighter.
"Let's hope your droid will actually do something!" Luke yelled.
"He says he's almost got it." Hera grunted. "Chopper, hurry up!"
"He says he's almost there!" I grunted.
We all screamed as we closed our eyes, expecting the worse to come, but we were wrong. The walls suddenly stopped moving, and when we opened our eyes, we were all alive. We all yelled, glad to be alive.
"Ha ha! We're alive!" Luke yelled.
"Ha ha ha! We are, Luke!" Ezra yelled in happiness. "Chopper, open this door up and get us outta here."
The door opened up, and we all wasted no time getting out of that stinky place. At least Zeb and I in particular were glad to be out of there. However, when we got out of there our stormtrooper uniforms were messy, and the Empire knew we were here. "Guys, ditch the uniforms." I ordered Alex, Luke, and Ezra. We ditched them, getting back into our regular outfits. At that moment, I felt Obi Wan reaching to me through the force.
"Kanan. he said through the force.
"What is it, Master Kenobi?" I asked through the force.
"I shut down the tractor beam, but you'd better get yourselves out of here. The Empire knows you're here definitely."
"We'll get moving ASAP. We'll see you there."
"Kanan, if I don't make it, promise me that you'll look after Luke. His destiny lies with the force. Help train him with Ezra if anything happens to me."
"Yes, Master Kenobi. We'll try our best to."
"Caleb Dume. May the force be with you. Always."
"May the force be with you, Master Kenobi."
He stopped talking to me. I looked over my shoulder and saw the team waiting there. "What was that all about?" Ezra asked.
"Obi Wan informed me through the force that the tractor beam's been shut down, but we gotta move. The imperials are scrambling to find us. Let's move."
We moved out, moving away from the trash compactor and through the hallways of the Death Star.