Thank you so much for all the reviews, as usual! Hope you all enjoy this chapter. The plot thickens!
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PippinBaggins: Congrats! You finally joined! I'm very looking forward to reading your stories. Actually, Mara is just questioning Elena herself, cause she's a bit worried about her. She doesn't want her to be some kind of traitor. Thank you!
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PEOPLE! I have an announcement... to make! Pippin Baggins, normally known as Pip B, or Pip, has just become an official member of Fanfiction. net! CONGRATS!
Reviewers: All right!
Sith: NOOOOOO!
Maul: Do you know what this means? Now Pip will write stories about us... that make us out to be evil psychopaths!
Palps: But we ARE evil psychopaths...
Leia: You can say that again.
Angel: I agree with my sis. That least is a little payback, right Leia?
Leia: Totally!
Arie: I say, in total celebration, we should have triple the torture! Pip, will you begin the honors?
Pip: Nothing like an old fashioned punishment.
Xizor: What do you mean?
Pip: You have to write your name 350 times on the chalkboard.
Isolder: HA HA! LOSER!
Pip: And YOU, Isolder, must watch him carefully while scratching your fingernails ON the board.
Princes: NO!
Raven: And you, Sithies... GET 'EM, DELTAS! (watches in satisfaction as Sev runs around chasing them with a blaster and Fixer with his gaunlet blade) Now THAT'S funny...
Oh guys, I also wanna intro a new friend, Infinite Inferno.
Dooku: Infinite? Like, gonna be here forever?
Infinite: Just for speaking, you're gonna wear a ballerina, PINK ballerina tu-tu and dance ballet, just as a little welcoming gift.
Dooku: ACK!
Well, we'll get back to the fun... right after this important message. Uh, yeah... THE STORY!
Chapter 5
Disclaimer: See first chapter.
Mara and Elena finally reached the planet of Dantooine, which was mostly a farming and peaceful planet.
"Hm, doesn't appear to be the kind of planet a Rebel base would be on, would it?" Mara remarked, staring at the planet.
"I'm curious," Elena replied, pressing some buttons, "What kind of planet would a Rebel base be on?"
Mara shrugged. "I don't know, somewhere cold maybe... secluded... uninhabited... dangerous... where they know the Imperials would never dare to go; take your pick."
"Perhaps they've gotten bolder, more daring," Elena pointed out. "They can't be the cowards everyone says they are."
"How would you know?" Mara asked. "Have you ever met one?"
"Well... I..." Had she ever met one? Elena thought hard for a minute. "Yes, I think I have," she continued quietly.
Mara looked at her. "And.. what were they like?"
Elena turned to her firmly. "They were kind. Brave, passionate about what they believed in, weren't afraid to fight for what they though was right, honorable, well-bred, and were exactly what the Empire said they weren't." She cockily eyed Mara before turning back to the console.
Mara narrowed her eyes before looking back at the planet. "I'm really starting to hope that you're not in any way affiliated with the Rebellion, Elena," she said, "Because I don't know what I'd say if you were. Or what I'd tell your father." She looked back at Elena. "Let's just say you were. What would you say to your father if he found out?"
Elena snorted. "If he found out, then I'd probably be marked as a traitor and sentenced to death and torture by the Emperor himself," she remarked, "I doubt my father would have much to say in the matter. He would probably feel betrayed, angry, furious, sad, and felt that he had been a bad father. That is why I am not in any way affiliated with the Rebellion," she said, greatly emphasizing 'not'. "But if I were, what would you think, Mara?"
"I...uh..." Mara fumbled for words. "I'd feel sad, like you let me down. I'd feel angry, hurt, depressed... but a part of me would feel.. I don't know. Maybe proud." She glanced at Elena, who gave her a surprised look. "I mean, you were fighting for what you believed you thought was the right thing to do, no matter what anyone said, and despite the odds. You didn't care what anyone else thought, and you weren't doing it for yourself or your own glory, you were doing it for a cause."
There was silence for a minute.
"Truthfully?" Elena asked.
Mara smiled. "Truthfully," she replied. "We're entering the atmosphere now."
Upon first looking at the view of the planet, the girls whistled. "Wow, this is what I could call an undeveloped planet," Elena remarked.
Dantooine was mostly so, except for a few small villages. There were clean and beautiful oceans, where humanoids resided next to, many different animals, flat lavender fields, and it had a tranquil, peaceful air about it.
"I think I could stay here for a few months," Mara added.
"Where should we land the ship?" Elena questioned. "I don't see many landing pads here, do you?"
Mara looked down at the wide open fields. "We could just land there," she suggested, "I mean, it's flat and open."
"Sounds good to me," Elena replied, and brought the ship down into a landing.
Once on the ground, the girls took some provisions and exited the ship, walking out into the clear and mildly cloudy air. Mara was the last to get out.
"We got everything we need to find a base?" she asked.
Elena nodded distantly, admiring the scenery. "I guess," she shrugged, looking around.
"What is it?" Mara asked, walking up next to her.
Elena finally turned to Mara. "It's just this. After we find the base, who are we supposed to pose ourselves as? I thought we were under cover agents trying to find the base, not Imperial stormtroopers barging our way in."
Mara nodded thoughtfully. "You have a point," she laughed suddenly. "We'll have to think of different names for ourselves. I'll be... uh..."
"Stubborn," Elena muttered.
Mara shot her a glare.
"Atlanta?" Elena piped up again. "I have heard that means 'huntress'." This earned a raised eyebrow. "Just a suggestion!" she said, putting her hands up defensively. The two then began walking through the field towards the nearest village.
Mara frowned. "What does 'Elena' mean, anyways?" she asked, glancing at Elena curiously.
"You're not going to believe this, but it means 'light'," Elena admitted, grinning ruefully. "So does 'Luke'." She suddenly realized her mistake and said, "Not that the name Luke is important, I just like to find out the meanings of different names."
Mara slowly nodded. "All right then, name brain, what does my name mean?" she demanded, pretending to let the 'Luke' thing go. In truth, she was anxious to find out who exactly Luke was and what kind of connection he had with Elena. But then, it could have been that Elena was telling the truth. Mara wasn't sure.
"Your name means 'bitter'," Elena smirked.
"I am not bitter," Mara exclaimed in defiance.
"Right," Elena nodded sarcastically, "And I'm Moff Tarkin's sister." She gave Mara a cheeky grin, causing her friend to growl in annoyance. "Admit it, you are bitter, M. J.," Elena went on, "You're bitter that you never knew your parents, you're bitter at most of the people at the Imperial court, and you're bitter at the Emperor, even."
"Don't forget about Thrawn," Mara muttered.
"My dear, I never will," Elena assured her, "For you keep reminding me daily. I know you hate him, but I wish that you would allow me to meet him so that I may produce my own disgusted opinion of him."
"You won't like him," Mara said quickly and hatefully, "He's horrible. Terrible. A disgusting alien with bright red eyes, no pupils or anything. He's a despicable person."
"You make the Emperor sound like an angel," Elena retorted dryly.
Mara snorted. "Or your father. Or even Prince Xizor, for that matter."
"I highly doubt, then, that I will like Thrawn, Mara, because if he can make even Xizor look like an angel, he must be a real demon," Elena added.
Mara nodded. "But what were we talking about before? Oh, that's right, names for ourselves. I still need to think of one."
After a minute of silent thinking, Elena said, "Charmaine?"
Mara gave her an incredulous look. "You've got to be kidding me, Elena Skywalker."
"It means 'bountiful orchard'," Elena went on, shrugging. "I don't know, hurry up and think of a name. What about Anastasia?"
"Mmm... sounds too... fake," Mara replied, shaking her red head.
Elena growled. "Force, M. J., you're making this tougher than the mission on Corellia I had to do last year," she muttered.
"Fine, I pick Shayna," Mara admitted. She suddenly blushed deep to the roots of her hair.
"What's wrong with that?" Elena smiled.
Mara mumbled something incoherent.
"Yes?..." Elena leaned forward eagerly, straining to her what Mara was trying to say.
"I said it's what I would have liked my name to be!" Mara shouted, turning redder than her hair itself.
Elena shrugged and plastered on a grin. "It means 'beautiful,'" she replied, patting her on the back. "Good choice, and I'll be... erm..." she did not want to use her main choice of name, in case she would have need of it later. "I'll be Zora, I guess. That means 'dawn'."
Mara nodded. "Shayna Dask and Zora... Koon? Is that okay with your royal highness?" she teased, knowing how Elena hated the name with a passion.
"Don't call me that," Elena shot back, "I hate that title. Who in the heck ever started calling me a princess, anyways? I'm not a princess! Leia is a princess, not I!"
"Search me, Zora," Mara shrugged. "I guess, since your father's kinda in line to next be king or whatever, you would be considered a princess. Don't ask me, I just read books."
"Fine, Shayna," Elena returned, "Just don't call me that again, or you'll find yourself getting beat to death in a lightsaber duel."
Mara stared at her. "I highly doubt that," she sniffed.
"I don't," Elena grinned.
Well, actually.. he he he, it wasn't THAT interesting. The next one is, I promise. Don't forget to leave a review!
Palps: Why WOULD anyone want to review your rotten story?
( A sudden loud breathing makes him halt.)
Why, hello there, Lord Vader! Wassup?
Vader: Well, I want to join in on the fun torturing the Siths. I'm actually a member of
Infinite: No kidding!
Han: Hey, yer Lordship!
Vader: Solo, I didn't expect to see you here.
Zim: Well, now that you're here... and not a Sith, I guess, I'm going to make the Sith volunteer for the Fifa World Cup! To be the soccer ball.
Palps: Vader! Defend me!
Vader: Name's Anakin, you loser.
(Palps promptly faints, and Pip, Raven, Tela, and Luke begin paining a clown face on him.)
JediMan: I got the Deltas some slime shooters. (Looks at Sith, who back away.) Oh yeah, you guys are also gonna be going on a little maze trip. Have fun! (pushes them into the maze with no way out)
Angel: Isn't this fun!
I quite agree. Everyone, thanks for reading! Next update will come a bit sooner than this one. Don't forget to review! No reviewers, no story!
