Chapter 2

Chewbacca threw the unconscious captive into a seat in the cockpit behind Han were he could swipe him in an instant to knock him out again if necessary. He dropped his weight down into his seat with a thud.

"I wish you wouldn't do that, please!" Han complained over the whining of the lifter engines warming up to full heat, he was done flipping switches and ready to fly. Chewbacca snorted and spray of snot and blood from where he took a rifle butt to the nose and it decorated the bottom of the cockpit glass on his side. "And your cleaning that up, come on this thing is new!"

Chewbacca grunted barks of disapproval at the pilot's arrogance, "If it wasn't for me you would be dead and this ape would be flying right now, I should clean it up with your face!"

"Use his, it's his fault anyway!" Han barked back. "Any way, hold on!" Han looked up to the overhead doors of the landing bay splitting apart and saw a sky full of glistening stars, it was dark on this side of the planet and it made him feel free again to be heading back out.

"What are you doing? Stop!" The captive had awoke surprising them both and Chewbacca reached over with two fingers and flicked him upside the head and his lights went out again.

"I hate this part!" Chewbacca roared over the screaming lifter jets echoing off the wet cement underground walls and rattling the cockpit assembly. "Easy!"

"Sure pal!" Han smiled at him and did not break eye contact with the Wookie death machine as he slapped the control stick downward with his left hand.

The main engines rumbled a moment as they ignited then grabbed with a deep, muffled 'boom' and shot the Millennium Falcon like a rocket driven elevator up into the night sky, Han let out a rebel yell of delight as Chewbacca screamed and gripped the crash restraint belts he never had time to put on. The knocked out human prisoner melted down to the floor.

"I think I am going to be sick!" Chewbacca groaned as Han slowed to a stop hovering the craft at a fifty thousand meters above the surface of the modestly populated planet.

"Then don't eat before flying, big guy."

"I hate you apes sometimes." Chewbacca rolled his eyes to the sunrise that would be on its way soon.

"Are you gonna be alright?" Chewbacca new Han was more concerned about the craft than his health.

"Shut up." he grunted flatly.

"Well we can try to find Jabba the Hutt, and see if the worm is all they say he is." Han waited for a response, not being given one was the same as a yes as far as the Wookie was concerned.

"All righty, here we go. Han flipped a switch and pushed the chromed throttle stick forward. A box mounted the wall behind them flashed in blue, filling the cockpit in a sapphire colored strobe light.

"Whoa!" Han exclaimed as the crafts controls pulled loose from his grip. The display read;…Hyper-drive coordinates engaged.

"What did you do!" Chewbacca roared it Han.

"Nothing, honest!" Han threw his hands up as the glass of the cockpit filled with stars being stretched into paper thin rays of white light and jumped into hyperspace.

By the time Han could yell, 'What the heck is going on here!" The Millennium Falcon dropped out of light speed and came to a gentle stop.

Both of the would-be pirates sat back awestruck. The bow of a battle cruiser larger and different than anything they had ever seen filled their view. Multiple sets of cannons and laser-plasma mortars swiveled and locked in on them.

Both of the pilots jumped in their seats as the voice of their captive barked, "Good job you hacks, now you've gone and done it!"