The Antilles Trap

by Paul Nankier

Jump back to the high-flying 70's with this AU sequel to A New Hope. Han Solo is forcefully reunited with his swashbuckling past and the harsh pirate, Captain Antilles. Go back when Darth Vader was not Luke's father, just the baddest bad guy in the galaxy

5. Chapter 5

"That is the Millennium Falcon, General," Vader's voice boomed across the bridge of the lead destroyer. "It's the same rebel ship captured on the Death Star. Get a tractor beam. I want that ship in one piece."

"Yes sir" the general replied and then barked orders to his fighters.

"Commander, do not let that ship escape. I am holding you personally responsible," Vader turned and spoke to Commander Vinn with an outstretched hand, directed at his throat.

"Yes, Lord Vader" he replied. "Tell the other captains to surround and contain that ship" he said to one of the communications officers on a lower deck of the large bridge. At the same time he slowly made his way from the side of Vader who was standing at the front of the long platform that went down the center of the large bridge. Vader was suddenly fixated on the darting moves of a small speck that was somehow evading direct assault by entire squadrons of TIE fighters.