Olivia
I sat on my little patch of space on the bench and continued to hum to Grenade. It was very boring in the tiny cell they had stuck us in. There was absolutely nothing to do now that Leia had fallen in a light asleep. So I just practiced my humming, since singing would wake up Leia. It was kind of sad at times, because I found at certain points that I was humming off tune. That takes skill.
I finally heard laser blasts down the hall, indicating that our rescuers were here. Any moment now the adorable Luke Skywalker would burst in to recue us.
"Leia, get up!" I said, shaking her. She simply batted my hand away and mumbled something I couldn't make out.
Then the door slid open and there stood Luke Skywalker. Or at least I hoped it was Luke Skywalker, I couldn't really tell with the uniform.
When Leia heard the door open she decided to wake-up and sit up. She rolled her eyes when she saw what she thought was another storm-trooper.
"Aren't you a little short for a storm-trooper?" She asked, indicating that this was in fact Luke Skywalker and he was in fact here to rescue us.
"Huh? Oh, the uniform." He reached up and pulled off his helmet, revealing himself to be Luke Skywalker. He was so cute. "I'm Luke Skywalker, I'm here to rescue you."
"You're who?"
"It's help, let's go!" I said, starting to stand up. Leia instantly pulled me back down, but sat up a little herself.
"I'm here to rescue you, I've got your R2 unit. I'm here with Ben Kenobi!" Leia's eyes widened when he said Kenobi and she stood up to leave.
"Ben Kenobi? Where is he?" She demanded.
"Come on," Luke nodded towards the open door and Leia pulled me out into the hallway.
Suddenly there was the loud sound of blaster shoots and explosives down the hall. Chewbacca and Han Solo slowly came down the hallway, towards us.
"Can't get out that way," Han report.
"Thanks captain obvious." I said, glancing down the other direction to see if we could get out that way. Then I remembered that that way was a dead end.
"Yes, good job cutting off only escape route." Leia added.
"Maybe you'd like it back your cell your highnesses." Han snapped at us.
Just then a shot went directly overhead and shot an electric panel, causing a loud explosion. We all hurried further back down the hallway.
"C3PO, C3PO!" Luke shouted into the comlink he was holding.
"Yes sir?" C3PO's robotic voice answered.
"Are there any other ways out of the cell bay? We've been cut off!"
Han shot at the troopers, but missed a good bit of them.
"What was that? I didn't copy." Luke asked, trying to stay close to the wall and not shooting. I wanted to take his blaster and start shooting at them myself, but I had no clue how to shoot the thing.
"I said all systems have been alerted to your presence, sir." C3PO repeated. "The main entrance seems to be the only way in or out. All other information on your level is restricted.
"Blast it, there isn't any another other way out." Luke reported before finally shooting his gun.
"Well we can't hold them off forever! Now what?"
"This is some rescue!" Leia said, the sarcasm in her voice high. "You came in here, didn't you have a plan for getting out?"
"He's the brains, sweetheart." Leia rolled her eyes and took the gun from Luke. She aimed it at a vent and shot.
"What the heck are you doing?" Han demanded, thinking she was trying to shoot his feet.
"Somebody has to save our skins!" She retorted before grabbing my hand, shooting down some troopers and tossing back the gun as she made it to the other side. "Into the garbage chute, flyboy!" With that she crawled into the vent. I jumped in after her and the sound of lasers quickly went away as I slid down the shaft.
I landed in the disgusting wet garbage and quickly moved out of the way before I was crushed by a Wookiee. I glanced around the small room and noticed that Leia and I weren't the only ones in here. Nicky and Haven were both down here and dressed in storm-trooper gear.
"Guys?" I asked them. They quickly shook their heads and their faces read 'no, pretend you don't know us'.
"Who are you two?" Leia demanded. They just looked at her for a few seconds before returning their glance to the chute. Next came Chewie and then a few seconds later Luke.
"Haven? Nicky? How did you guys get down here, where did you go? We were almost to the point of staying up there to try and find you."
"Well, it's a really long story and we don't have time for it now. To say it quickly we got lost, got captured, got free and then came down here to escape the storm-troopers." Haven said in a rush. How did she know Luke?
Han came crashing down the chute and landed face first in the pile of garbage. He quickly stood up and wiped the filth off his face. "Nicky? How did you get down here?"
"Tell you later Han." She said quickly, trying to pry the door open at the same time.
"Okay, well on the other hand, the garbage chute was a really wonderful idea princess!" He snapped at her. "What an incredible smell you've discovered!" Leia did nothing but glare at him for a few seconds before trying to climb up the mountain of garbage.
"Let's get out of here, move it Nicky!" He shouted and as soon as she was out of the way he raised blaster.
"No wait!" Luke shouted a bit too late. Han shot and the laser reflected off door and all the wall before hitting the garbage and stopping.
"Will you forget it? I've already tried it!" Luke shouted. "It's magnetically sealed!"
Leia joined in on the shouting. "Put that thing away before you get us all killed!"
"Absolutely, your Worship. Look, I had everything under control until you led us down here!"
"Shut up!" Nicky shouted from her place by the door. "We have other things to worry about, okay? So quit your arguing and try to get out of the water!" She snapped.
"Why?" I asked out of pure curiosity while the others stared at Nicky. Apparently they've never had a 13 year-old yell at them.
Just then there was a loud rumble and I instantly felt really scarred.
"There's something alive in here." Luke said.
"No duh, that's why she told you to get out of the water." Haven said from her perch on top of the garbage mountain.
"Please, that's just your imaginations."
I felt something slimly touch my leg and then jerk back quickly. I took a deep breath and tried not to freak out. "Guys, something just touched my leg."
"Get out!" Haven said, grabbing my arm and trying to pull me up the mountain.
"Did you see that?" Luke pointed at something that slid up above the water for a split second before returning under.
"See what?" Han demanded, looking at the spot the creature used to be.
I let myself be pulled up the pile of garbage and tried to help Leia do the same.
The rumbling noise came again and again Nicky and Haven tried to get everyone out of the water.
"Luke, get out. Now." Haven said in a stern voice.
Luke just simply ignored her, as did Han. Leia was seemingly the only one who wanted to get out.
Suddenly Luke was pulled under and everyone began freaking out. Even Nicky, Haven and I, who knew what was happening and that he was going to be fine.
"Luke!" Haven shouted, stumbling down her mountain.
"Kid!" Han was the next to shout. "Luke!"
"Luke!" Leia was last as Han began searching the water for his friend.
Han pulled his hand out of the water once he found he couldn't feel him. His eyes desperately searched for him and everything was silent.
Then Luke burst through the surface of the water with a giant tentacle wrapped around his body.
"Luke!" Haven and Han shouted in unison as they both pulled Luke out of the water.
"Shoot it, my guns jammed!" Luke shouted as he tried to pull the tentacle off his neck. Haven joined him while Han searched the water for the beast.
"Where?"
"Anywhere!" Luke shouted.
So Han shot randomly into the water and Luke managed to stand up. But he was quickly pulled back down under the water and everything was silent for a minute. As if Luke's death was certain and everyone finally excepted it.
"Come on, we can't stop we need to find him!" Haven shouted searching around in the water. But Han pulled her away and everything returned to the creepy silence.
Suddenly there was a loud clanking in the walls and seconds later Luke shot up, tentacle free.
"What happened?" Leia asked as Han and Haven pulled Luke out of the water as best they could. I suddenly felt very unhelpful.
"I don't know!" He was completely soaked and gasping for air as they helped him stand. "It just let go of me and disappeared." He coughed a few times, trying to get the water out of his throat.
The walls clanked again.
"I got a bad feeling about this." Han said, glancing around the room.
Nicky snorted. "You're not the only one." She said, leaning against the wall and staring up at the ceiling she couldn't see.
There was more clanking and then suddenly the walls start moving in.
"The walls are moving in!" Way to state the obvious, Skywalker.
"Well don't just stand there, try and brace it with something!" Leia said before picking up a metal pole and trying to turn it. I joined her and realized it's harder and heavier than it looks.
Chewie just went straight to the walls and started pressing against them.
"Help me!" Leia said, and Han helped us try to lift the pole. He quickly lifted it in the air, making us look like wimps, but honestly I didn't care at the moment.
Luke and Chewie were both uselessly pushing against the walls as Haven, Nicky, Han, Leia and I held up the metal pole, hoping that would stop it.
"Threepio!" Luke shouted through his comlink. "Come in Threepio! Threepio! Blast it, where could he be?"
While we waited for a reply the walls continued to close in and the pole was having no effect.
We were all pushing against the wall now, with the exception of Han who was still trying to hold the pole it place.
"Threepio! Please come in!" Luke shouted into his comlink as the pole began to bend.
"Get on top!" Han shouted as he tried pushing Leia up so her legs wouldn't get stuck in the garbage.
"I can't!" I reached down and tried pulling Leia up but I almost fell every time I pulled hard.
"Where could he be? Threepio!"
"Is it working?" Nicky shouted, showing the nervousness in her voice. What if it wasn't? What if we were doomed?
"One thing's for sure, we're all gonna be a lot thinner." Han's attempt at humor only added to the tension.
The walls were now so close that if I reached out both my fingertips would be touching either side.
"Ow!" I heard Haven shout in pain. I turned around to see her legs trapped in between the garbage.
"Are you there sir?" A muffled voice asked.
"Threepio?" Luke asked in disbelief.
"We've had some problems-"
"Would you shut up and listen to me? Shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level, will ya?" Luke was now trying to pull Haven out of the garbage with little success. "Do you copy? Shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level!"
Haven shouted in pain again and Luke tried desperately to pull her out. The rest of us pushed against the walls with all we had.
Suddenly the walls stopped. Just like that. The noise stopped, the walls stopped. We couldn't believe it.
"What?" "Haha!" "Whoo!" Everyone began screaming in joy.
"We're all right! You did great!" Luke reported through the comlink to Threepio, who thought we were all dying. "Haha! Open the pressure maintenance hatch on unit number… where are we?" He shouted. Han quickly told him the number and he reported it to Threepio.
Threepio got to work on that and we all came over and pulled out Haven.
The hatch slid open and we, along with a bunch of trash, crawled out. The people who had on trooper gear began prying it off and everyone dried as best we could.
"Now if we could just avoid anymore female advice we 'ought to be able to get out of here.
"Oh, you mean like when I was telling you to get out of the water? Yes, let's avoid anymore lifesaving advice given by females, sexist." Nicky said with an angry glint in her eyes.
"Anyway, let's get out of here." Luke said, ignoring Nicky's statement.
Chewie growled and hurried away from the door.
"Where are ya going?" Han asked the fleeing Wookiee. "Ah," He aimed his gun at something in the room and against Leia's advice (remember, no more of that) he shot. The sound echoed just as Leia said it would.
"Come here you big coward." Han called to Chewie, who was a good bit down the hall and partway behind some bins. "Chewie come here." Chewie shook his head.
"Listen," Leia said, demanding attention. "I don't know who you are or where you came from but from now on, you do as I tell you, okay?" With that she started down the hallway.
"Look, your Worshipfulness, let's get one thing straight. I take orders from just one person- me."
"Not anymore, it's a wonder you're still alive." I remarked, pushing past him in the process.
"Will somebody get this big walking carpet out of my way?" She snapped before hurrying a head of Chewie.
"No reward is worth this." Han said. Leia laughed and turned around.
"Reward? You think you're going to get a reward for this? The rebellion is practically broke, what little money we have goes towards building weapons and ships. Now that Alderaan is destroyed there's no possible way of paying you."
"What? Kid, you said there was going to be a reward bigger than anyway I could think of."
"Well, I thought there was." Luke said, quickly whipping around to glare at Haven for a second before returning his gaze ahead.
"Ugh, I'd turn you all in right now if they weren't out to kill me too!" Han shouted.
"Try to keep up boys." Leia called.
Wow, this chapter was LONG. I am so, so, so, so sorry for leaving you guys for so long. This story went almost 2 weeks without an update! And the worst part is my first excuse sucks. The first week I was just lazy and had writers block. This past week I learned my grandfather had a stroke and my family and I flew up to visit him. So I've barely had time to write, plus it's hard to write about something you forgot, as I did not bring Star Wars with me. But my amazing brother did so I am able to write you this chapter while still up in Boston. Also I really hoping I didn't cross my rating line by saying sexist. Tell me if I did and I'll change it. Anyway, Review Response time.
Blueblazeheart: Thank you, and I agree that would be gross.
Cobalt Diamond: THANK YOU! That is awesome that this story means that much to you, thank you so much!
MysticRyter: Yep, pretty much fluff there, I just thought it'd be interesting. And yes, I love PJO!
xXRavensclawXx: Random reviews are excepted and understood here, as I am often random myself. I've been thinking about sequels and so far I think I'm going to do the next 2 movies with these girls. Then make another group of OC's to go into the first 3 episodes.
EmeraldEyedJedi: I know, they are so very boring! They need Jedi or Sith or Nightsisters or SOMETHING else.
Also on a side note from now on I will be IMing the review responses except for the anonymous people, they will still be here. See you guys soon!
~Clover