Millennium Falcon:

Luke smiled as he deflected laser blasts from the laser remote that hovered above him Ben encouraged him to practice frequently and he enjoyed practice. Just as he continued to practice He gasped in shock and horror and dropped his lightsaber.

He looked over at Ben, "Can you feel it Master?"

Obi-Wan nodded grimly as Luke spoke, "It felt like millions just cried out in terror before being silenced forever."

Obi-Wan nodded, "I know Luke I can feel it. Something terrible has happened, but there is nothing that we can do. You'd better get back with your exercises because I believe that there will be a battle soon."

Luke nodded and within moments his Green lightsaber was shinning again as he continued practicing with the remote.

At the same time R2 and 3PO were sitting at the Dejarik table with Chewbacca. Chewbacca and R2 were both playing a game of Dejarik while 3PO observed.

At the same time Han entered the room, "Well you can forget about our trouble with those Imperial slugs. I told you that I would lose them." Han looked around the room noticing that no one was giving him notice.

"Don't everyone thank me at once?," he stated sarcastically. "Anyway we should be at Alderaan at around 0200 hours."

At that moment R2 made a move in the Dejarik game as 3PO spoke, "Now be careful R2."

At that moment R2 moved his piece and claimed Chewbacca's game piece, ending the game with R2 as the winner. Chewbacca roared in anger as 3PO spoke, "He made a fair move. Screaming about it won't do anything."

Han who was watching the situation spoke, "Let him have it it's not wise to upset a Wookiee."

"But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid."

Han smirked, "That's cause Droids don't pull the arms out of people's sockets when they lose. Wookiee's have been known to do that."

Chewbacca roared in response as he glared at R2.

3PO nodded and spoke, "I see your point sir."

3PO then turned to R2, "I suggest a new strategy R2, let the Wookiee win."

Chewbacca roared in response.

Han then turned to see Ben observing Luke's training feeling slightly shocked to see a lightsaber ignited inside of his ship. Obi-Wan spoke, "Remember a Jedi can feel the Force flowing through him."

Luke nodded in silence as Han laughed, "Hokey religions and Ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side kid."

Luke deactivated his lightsaber and looked Han in the eye, "You don't believe in the Force do you?"

"Kid I've flown from one side of this Galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff but nothing to convince me that there is an almighty Force controlling everything. No Mystical energy field controls my destiny."

Obi-Wan smiled at Luke and in response Luke smirked knowing that it was time to show Han an example of how real the Force was.

"It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense," finished Han.

Luke then took a helmet that contained a blast shield that covered his eyes that Ben had taught him to use as a child and began to deflect the laser blasts blindfolded while using the Force to see.

Han then spoke, "I call it luck," said Han with a cocky smile.

Obi-Wan shook his head, "In my experience there is no such thing as luck."

Han gave Obi-Wan a smirk, "Look good against remotes is one thing. Good against the living, That is something else."

At that moment there was a beep and Han spoke, "Looks like we're coming up on Alderaan."

Obi-Wan nodded and Luke removed his helmet and gave his Master a smile. Together they headed into the cockpit of the Falcon behind Han and Chewbacca.


Han looked at Chewie who was in the copilot's seat.

"Alright Chewie I am going to turn on the sublight engines."

As they came out of Hyperspace there was no planet in sight and only debris and astroids floating around them. Han looked in shock at their surroundings and spoke, "What the..."

Chewbacca then roared, "What is this?"

"Ah we came out of Hyperspace in the middle of an astroid field some kind of collision or meteor shower."

Han was in shock in all of his life he had never seen anything like this. Was it an error in his navigation system?

Han looked at his computer and spoke, "None of this is not on any of the charts."

At that moment Ben and Luke entered the cockpit as Luke spoke, "What's going on?"

Han glanced at Luke and spoke, "Our position is correct but there is no Alderaan."

Luke frowned, "Where is it?"

"Thats what I am telling you kid it ain't there. Its been completely blown away."

"What how?" asked Luke as something came to mind, the horrible feeling of death that he had felt while training moments before through the Force.

"Destroyed by the Empire," said Ben in response to Luke's unanswered question. At that moment it all dawned upon Luke as he gasped in horror. The feeling that he had felt. Ben had also felt the terror from millions. It had been the terror that the millions of people on Alderaan had felt as the Empire had destroyed them.

Han skeptically spoke, bringing and end to Luke's thoughts, "The entire Starfleet couldn't destroy the whole planet. It would take a thousand ships and more firepower than..."

Han's words trailed off as he heard a beep and checked his sensors.

"There is another ship coming through."

At that moment a small Tie fighter flew past the Falcon and Han looked at the ship as he heard Ben speak.

"Its an imperial fighter," stated Ben.

"It followed us," added Luke.

Obi-Wan took a closer look at the fighter as it flew past the Falcon, "No its a short range fighter. A fighter that size couldn't get this far into space on its own."

"If there aren't any bases around here than where did they come from?" asked Han

"He must have gotten lost been part of a convoy or something," stated Luke.

Han smirked, "Well he won't be around to tell anyone about us. Jam his signal Chewie."

"It is just a small fighter it is just best to let him go," stated Ben.

Everyone ignored Ben as they followed the small Tie Fighter.

"Look he's heading for that small moon," stated Luke as he looked out the viewport at the small sphere that was a small distance away and growing in size.

"I Think I can get him before he gets there he's almost in range," said Han.

Obi-Wan looked at the massive sphere outside of the viewport that was coming into visual range realizing that it was made of durasteel.

"Thats no moon. It's a space station," he stated grimly.

"Its to big to be a space station," countered Han.

Han paused as he looked in shock and horror at what Ben was pointing out realizing that the old Jedi Master was right.

"I have a very bad feeling about this," stated Luke.

Obi-Wan then spoke, "Turn the ship around."

"Yeah, I think you're right. Chewie Full reverse!"

At that moment the Falcon began to shake uncontrollably.

Han looked at the Wookiee and spoke, "Chewie lock in the auxiliary power"

Chewbacca obeyed as Han felt the ship continue to shake as it was pulled towards the massive space station.

"Chewie lock in the auxiliary power," repeated Han in frustration.

"I did," Chewie roared back in response.

Luke in anger spoke, "Why are we still going towards it."

"We're caught in a tractor beam there's nothing I can do," stated Han

"I'm at full power I'm gonna have to shut her down they aren't going to get me without a fight," stated Han angrily

Obi-Wan calmly looked at Han and spoke, "You cannot win but there are alternatives to fighting."

Obi-Wan then looked at Han who spoke, "Follow me I have a place that we can hide in."

Immediately everyone followed the smuggler out of the small cockpit without questioning.


Death Star:

Within the Death Star, Governor Tarkin stood in the Conference room as a middle aged Officer entered and spoke, "Our scout ships have reached Dantooine, they have found the remains of what they guess to have been a Rebel Base but they believe it to have been deserted for some time. They are now conducting a search of the surrounding systems."

Tarkin felt rage and spoke, "She lied. She lied to us!"

Vader smirked, Thats my girl, he thought with a smile of pride.

"I told you that she would never consciously betray the Rebellion."

"Terminate her immediately," stated Tarkin firmly

Vader nodded, "I will take care of her right away."

At that moment the intercom beeped and Tarkin spoke, "Yes?"

"We have captured a freighter entering the remains of the Alderaan system its markings resemble that of a ship that blasted its way out of Mos Eisley."

Vader smiled, "They must be trying to return the stolen plans to the Princess. She may yet be of some use to us."

Tarkin smirked as Vader spoke, "I will see to the ship and then I will supervise the Execution of the Princess."

"Why does it matter?"

"I have some issues with the lack of respect that she showed," stated Vader.

Tarkin nodded in silence as Vader left.


A short time later Vader stood in the hanger bay and looked at the Correllian Freighter as an Officer approached him, "There is nobody onboard sir according to the Log the crew abandoned ship shortly after take off."

The young man paused before continuing, "It must be a decoy sir several of the Escape Pods were jettisoned as well."

"Did you find any droids?" asked Vader.

"No sir if they were also onboard they must have used the escape pods as well."

Vader nodded, "Get a scanning crew onboard that ship I want every part of it checked."

"Yes sir!"

Vader turned from the Officer and spoke to himself, "I sense something, a presence I have not felt since..."

Kenobi, thought Vader in silence the man that had stolen his son and daughter from him after their birth.

Vader walked out of the Hanger Bay as he heard the Officer yell, "Get me a scanning crew on the double I want every part of this ship checked."

The fact that the young man was following his orders didn't matter at this point. All that mattered was revenge which was something that he wanted. However something else mattered far more then his revenge and that was the life of his daughter who Tarkin wanted dead within a few hours. If Kenobi attempted to rescue her then he would have her taken care of. He had originally planned to send her off on a shuttle that was leaving the Death Star.

Unfortunately that shuttle wasn't due to leave for a few more hours and by the time that that was done Tarkin would have demanded to see Leia's corpse. As much as he hated it his only choice was going to be to allow Kenobi to rescue his daughter.

Two naive stormtroopers marched onboard of the Falcon and one spoke, "There is no one here." Immediately the two Stormtroopers left the Falcon having no clue as to how wrong they were.


Just seconds after the Stormtroopers left the floor of the Falcon moved as Han and Luke emerged from one Compartment with Ben.

"Boy its lucky that you have these things," stated Luke

Han nodded, "I use them for smuggling I never thought that I would be smuggling myself in them."

Chewbacca at the same time appeared right at Han's knee as Han sat on the floor and roared as Han petted his head.

Han shook his head, "This is ridiculous even if I could take off I would never get past the tractor beam."

"Leave that to me," stated Ben calmly.

Han sneered, "Dam fool I knew that you would say that."

"Who's the more foolish the fool? Or the fool who follows?"

Han was silent in response.

Just at the boarding ramp of the Falcon a scanning crew appeared and the squad leader of the squad of Stormtroopers spoke, "The ship is all yours if the scanners pick up anything report it immediately."

"Come on."

Immediately the Squad left the Hanger bay leaving only two stormtroopers posted at the boarding ramp.

At the same time the stormtroopers heard a heavy thud and some shaking that was onboard the ship followed by a voice, "Hey down there could you give us a hand with this?"

The Stormtroopers disappeared without questioning and a short time later there were two laser blasts.

Within the control room of the small hanger bay an Imperial officer spoke into his comlink, "TK-421 why aren't you at your post? TK-421 do you copy?"

At that moment TK-421 appeared in sight and pointed to his helmet.

The mystified Officer looked at another officer and spoke, "Take over we have a bad transmitter I am going to see what I can to about it."

He immediately opened his door to see a Stormtrooper along with an old man, A Wookiee and a pair of droids.

The Wookiee roared as the first Stormtrooper shot the shocked Officer.

Han smiled and fired upon the second officer as Luke came into the room at his side and ripped off his helmet. Han took off his helmet and spoke in anger, "Between his howling and you blasting everything its a wonder that the entire Station doesn't know that we are here."

Han smirked in anger, "Bring it on I prefer a straight fight to all of this sneaking around."

R2 at the same time started beeping as he ignored the arguing and 3PO quickly translated, "He says that he has found the main controls to the power beam that is holding the ship here.

"Hell try to make the more precise location appear on the monitor."

Within moments an image appeared on the Monitor as 3PO began to lay out the details, "The tractor beam is coupled to the main reactor in seven locations. A power loss at one of the seven terminals will allow the ship to leave."

Obi-Wan nodded and looked at Han and Luke, "I don't think that you boys can help. I must do this alone."

"Yeah Old Man I already got more in this trip then I bargained for."

Luke frowned, "I want to go with you Master."

"Stay with the Droids and get them safely to the Alliance or other systems will suffer the same fate as Alderaan."

At that moment Ben had a sever coughing fit and he managed to regain himself as he looked at Luke, "Your destiny lies along a different path. The Force will be with you, always."

Obi-Wan then pulled his hood on and turned and left the room.

Chewbacca roared as Han spoke, "Where did you dig up that old fossil?"

Luke glared at Han, "Ben is a great man."

"Great at getting us into trouble."

"I didn't hear you offer any ideas."

"Anything is better than just sitting around.

Luke was about to respond when R2 started beeping.

"What is going on? asked Luke.

3PO turned to Luke and spoke, "Pardon me Master Luke but R2 keeps insisting that she is here and that he has found her."

"Who?" asked Luke.

"Princess Leia."

Luke gasped in shock, "The Princess? She's here?" asked Luke.

"Princess?" asked Han. "Princess? what's going on."

At that moment R2 beeped as 3PO spoke, "Level five, Detention block AA twenty three."

R2 then beeped as 3PO spoke, "I am afraid that she is scheduled to be terminated."

"No we have to do something," said Luke as a look of horror came onto his face.

Han who was still mystified spoke, "What are you talking about?

"She's the one in the message. The droids belong to her," Luke finished talking realizing that he had already said to much.

Han shook his head, "Listen Kid the Old Man told us to stay right here and that is exactly what I am going to do."

"But he didn't know that she was here"

"I'm not going anywhere," stated Han in anger.

"They are going to execute her."

Luke then decided to press further by continuing, "Look a few minutes ago you were saying that you wanted to do something else besides stay here.

"Marching marching into the detention area is not what I had in mind," stated Han in irritation.

"But they are going to kill her!"

"Better her than me," stated Han.

Luke frowned as something came to mind, Obi-Wan had taught him once that men like Han would do anything for money.

"She's rich."

"Rich?" asked Han.

"Rich powerful, The reward for rescuing her would be..." Luke let his words trail off as Chewbacca roared.

"Yeah I can imagine that it would be quite a bit," said Han sarcastically.

At the same time an idea came into the young smuggler's mind if he got more money out of this then he could pay Jabba off and who knows what else.

Han pointed a warning finger at Luke, "You better be right about this."

Luke nodded as Han continued, "Alright Kid I am listening what is your idea?"

Luke looked around the room and spoke, "3PO hand me those binders."

Luke then headed for Chewie.

"Alright I am going to put these on you."

Chewbacca roared in anger in response.

Luke was shocked by the Wookiee's outburst and in dismay looked at Han, "Han you you put those on."

Han took the binders and approached Chewbacca.

"Don't worry Chewie I think I know what he has in mind."

Chewbacca roared in reassurance.

C-3PO then looked at Luke, "Pardon me for asking Master Luke but what are R2 and I to do."

"Just remain here."

"Lock the door and hope that they don't have blasters," added Han as he turned with Luke and the now bound Chewbacca.

"That is not very reassuring," said 3PO as his hand hit R2's dome with a clank.

Han and Luke ignored the droid as they headed into the hallways of the massive space station to begin their mission. Luke smiled knowing that he would show Han soon just what Hokey religions and ancient weapons were against a blaster as Han had quoted.


OK that is it for now. I am working on more. I am trying to keep as many authentic lines from A New Hope as Possible so bear with me in the event that updates take long but I am hoping to get this part done soon. It is soon going to get more and more AU so be ready. Thank you everyone for the reviews they are fairly encouraging. Enjoy this chapter. I will have more up this weekend hopefully.

-Fallen Jedi 79