Star Wars: Remix version
Chapter Thirty Nine: Trap
As Luke and Artoo moved carefully down a deserted corridor, they heard a group of people coming down a side hallway. Artoo let out an excited series of beeps and whistles. Luke glared at the tiny droid, who stopped in his tracks with a feeble squeak.
Boba Fett entered from a side hallway followed by two guards pushing the floating, encased body of Han Solo. Two stormtroopers, who followed, immediately spotted Luke and open fired on him. The youth drew his weapon and blasted the two troopers before they could get off a second shot. The two guards whisked Han into another hallway as Fett lowered his arm and fired a deadly laser at Luke, which exploded to one side and tore up a huge chunk of wall.
Luke rushed to a side hallway, but by the time he reached it, Fett, Han, and the guards were gone. A think metal door blocked the passage. Luke turned to see Leia, Padme, Anna, Chewie, Threepio, and Lando being herded down a second hallway by several other stormtroopers. Leia turned just in timeto see Luke.
"Luke! Luke, what are you - it's a trap! It's a trap!" She shouted. Before she could finish, she was pulled through a doorway and disappeared from sight. Luke raced after the group, leaving little Artoo trailing behind.
Luke ran into an anteroom and stopped to get his bearings. Leia and the others were nowhere to be seen. Behind Luke, Artoo scooted down the corridor toward the anteroom when suddenly a giant metal door came slamming down, cutting off Luke's exit. Several more doors clanged shut, echoing through the chamber.
Artoo stood with his nose pressed against the giant metal door. He whistled a long sigh of relief and, a little dazed, wandered off in the other direction.
Luke cautiously walked forward among hissing pipes and steam. Seeing an opening above him, he stopped to look up. As he did, the platform he stood on began to move.
Luke rose into the chamber, borne by the platform. The room was deathly quiet. Very little steam escaped the pipes and no one else seemed to be in the large room. Warily, Luke walked toward the stairway. Steam began to build up in the chamber. Looking up through the steam, Luke saw a dark figure standing on a walkway above him. Luke holstered his gun and moved up the stairs to face SKy. He felt confident, eager to engage his enemy.
"The Force is with you, young Skywalker. But you are not a Jedi yet" Sky said harshly. Luke ignited his sword in answer. In an instant, Vader's own sword was lit. Luke lunged forward, but Vader repeled the blow. Again Luke attacked, and the swords of the two combatants clashed in battle.
Leia, Padme, Anna, Lando, and Chewie, with Threepio on his back, marched along, guarded by six stormtroopers. The group reached an intersection where Lobot and a dozen of Lando's guards stoodd at attention.
The guards immediately aimed their weapons at the startled stormtroopers. Taking the stormtroopers' weapons from them, Lobot handed one to Leia and one to Lando.
"Well done. Hold them in the security tower - and keep it quiet. Move" As Lando's guards quickly marched the stormtroopers away, Lando began to undo Chewie's binding.
"You had this planned, didn't you?" Anna asked. Lando shrugged.
"I had to have a back up plan incase I wasn't able to deter you guys before Sky found out what I was up to" He said.
"Can we save Han?" Leia asked worriedly as the cuffs came fully off of Chewie. He howled in agreement.
"There's still a chance to save Han... At the East Platform" Lando replied.
"Let's go" Padme said.
The two guards slid Han's encased body into an opening in the side of the bounty hunter's ship. Boba Fett climbed aboard on a ladder next to the cargo hold.
"Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold" Boba Fett ordered. And with that, the door slammed shut.
The group ran down a Cloud City corridor when suddenly they spotted Artoo who rushed toward them, beeping wildly.
"Artoo! Artoo! Where have you been?" Threepio asked. Chewie turned around to see the stubby droid, causing Threepio to be spun out of sight of his friend. Padme shook her head at the antics of the two robots.
"Hurry, hurry! We're trying to save Han from the bounty hunter!" Threepio shouted. Whistling frantically to Threepio, Artoo scooted along with the racing group.
"Well, at least your still in one piece! Look what happened to me!" Threepio declared. Leia hid a smiled.
An elevator door slid open and the group raced for a large bay overlooking the East Landing Platform. Just as they arrived, Boba Fett's ship took off against a cloudy sunset sky. In wild anguish, Chewie howled and started firing at the ship.
"Oh, no! Chewie, they're behind you!" Threepio shouted. A laser bolt exploded near the princess. Everyone turned to see what Threepio had already spotted coming from the other direction; a squad of stormtroopers running toward them. Artoo peeked out from the elevator. Leia and Chewbacca started firing at the troopers as Lando made a break for the elevator. Laser bolts continued to explode around Leia and the Wookiee, but they refused to budge. Anna and Padme followed Lando, who stuck his head out of the elevator and motioned for the pair to run, but they barely noticed. They seem possessed, transported, as all the frustration of captivity and anger of loss poured through their death-dealing weapons.
But after a few moments, they began to move through the rain of laser fire toward the elevator. Once they were inside, the door slammed shut and the stormtroopers raced forward.