Lord Vader ran forward into the full exploding plasma wake of the Millennium Falcon's engines as they went full throttle. His held out his lightsaber in front of him. He was using the force to split the waves of energy and they passed by his sides. The heat blasted past him, igniting his long dark cape into red flames. He raised his other hand and started guiding any and all objects that were lying on the dock to fly upwards toward the spacecraft at terrific speed. He reached back and swung his arm violently and the two small fighter craft that had given shelter to the crew just moments earlier were flung up towards the Falcon. They went spinning upward fast, easily catching up to the escaping ship.

R2-D2 was still plugged into the Falcon's computers when his own sensors picked up all of the debris and dense objects being shot towards them. He quickly switched power from the front deflector shields as well as some of the power from the rest of the ship and maxed out the rear deflector shields to full power. He aimed the laser cannons and fired multiple bursts at the largest chunks, but they still careened towards the stern of the ship.

Luke gathered himself up and saw Artoo was not far away. He was about to congratulate him on a great job when the ship was struck. He was thrown completely off his feet. The Falcon spun sideways sending any loose objects up into the air, including Artoo. The droid was just about to jump the ship into hyperspace when his connection with the Falcon's computer was lost.

The Falcon's sub-light engines sputtered and were clearly damaged. It had enough momentum to clear the air shields of the pirate base, but it was struggling to gain speed. Vader was trying in vain to control the Falcon so instead he concentrated on the small planetoids that surrounded the base. The large metal rocks were slow to move, but Vader's tremendous command of the force pushed them towards the ship. From all directions they would converge in a matter of seconds and crush the hull and its crew.

Artoo came crashing down onto the Falcon's main deck and was beeping to Luke the entire time. As Luke scampered again to his feet, he looked down onto his wristband and read the translation. He then ran towards the cockpit. Han and Chewie were there struggling to get the ship back under control. Ahead of them several Imperial Star Destroyers were closing fast, but that was not the most urgent problem. Chewie was trying to get the ship turned away from the approaching planetoids. Enormous chunks of metallic rock were closing in when Luke ran in between them.

"Punch the hyperspace!" Luke yelled out.

"What?" Han said back to Luke.

"Artoo's got it all set. We can jump right now!"

"In the middle of these rocks? Are you nuts? They put in a new nav computer- we're still figuring it out", Han said as Chewie growled in agreement.

"I'm telling you, he's got it set and ready to go."

Han looked out at all of the massive planetoids that were quickly closing in on them and at the large Imperial destroyers beyond. He turned to Chewie and shook his head.

"I sure hope you're right, kid," Han said as he reached up and grabbed the hyperspace controls. "Here goes nothing," he paused to take a deep breath, and pulled them back.

The ship spun itself around in an automated roll and shot upwards through a thin seam in the planetoid field. A second later the hyperspace kicked on and all of the stars turned into long streaks in the cockpit windows. Luke was thrown back in the cockpit and landed against the rear wall. He let out a sigh of relief and, for the first time in many hours, he took a moment to lean back and relax.