Chapter 2: Rescuing Leia
Anakin, Luke, and Padmé soon met Ben Kenobi when the three were jumped by a group of Tusken raiders, chasing R2-D2.
"Luke, are you OK?" Padmé asked.
Luke nodded and said, "We're looking for an Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ben. Do you know him?"
"Yes, he's me," the older man replied.
"Master?!" Anakin gasped.
They returned to Ben's house and played the message.
"Hey, she looks like you, Padmé," Anakin murmured.
"She should, she is your daughter, Leia," Obi-Wan responded, without thinking.
"I have a sister? We gotta go save her," Luke said quickly.
"I agree," Padmé replied.
The four, along, with Han Solo and Chewbacca, went to get the young princess Organa.
Luke and Padmé went after Leia, while Anakin and Obi-Wan freed the ship and dealt with Darth Vader.
Luke found Leia and she asked, "Aren't you a little short to be a Stormtrooper?"
"Uh, what? Oh the uniform," Luke realized. "I'm Luke Skywalker. I'm here to rescue you, sis."
Leia raised her eyebrows. Luke grabbed her arm and said, "Oh, come on, Leia."
"Hey, Han, hi, Mom," Luke waved and the foursome found themselves trapped by a line of Stormtroopers.
"Congratulations, you managed to seal off our only escape route," Leia yelled at Han.
"Don't blame me. I'm the muscle, he's the brains," Han responded, nodding to Luke.
Leia grabbed a blaster. Padmé nodded and then the two women blasted a hole through the grate leading to the garbage disposal. "Well, someone has to save our skins," Leia snapped. "Into the garbage chute, flyboy."
Luke snickered, swiftly following his mother and sister into the dumpster.
"Anakin, go make sure the others are alright," Obi-Wan ordered.
Anakin nodded and dove quickly into the garbage after his family. "Leia, Angel, Luke, are you OK?" He asked.
Luke and Leia both nodded. "Who's Angel?" Leia asked, standing on a pile of garbage, wrinkling her nose.
"Me," Padmé replied. "It's what Ani calls me."
"Padmé, not in front of the kids," Anakin whined.
Leia and Luke giggled. "So, you're my brother, Luke," Leia said. "Does that mean you're my parents too?"
"Yes," Padmé replied, reaching over to take her daughter's hand. "We'll talk later, princess?"
Leia nodded and then Han shot at the door. "Get down," Anakin yelled, dropping to the ground, holding his breath.
Padmé and Leia both ducked. "Put that thing away," Padmé snapped. "Or you'll get us all killed and getting Leia out of her cell will be for nothing."
Then Luke was suddenly grabbed by a tentacle and vanished. "LUKE!" Leia screamed hysterically.
Padmé wrapped her arms around her daughter as Anakin and Han searched for her son. As soon as Luke was rescued, Leia grabbed him and Padmé wrapped one arm around each twin.
"That didn't sound good," Leia shifted closer to her mother.
Luke desperately contacted 3PO, eventually getting the walls to stop moving. They ran out of the garbage disposal and raced to the Falcon, getting separated—the Skywalkers went one way and Han and Chewbacca went another.
Leia hugged her brother tightly. "For luck," she murmured, as they followed their parents to the opposite side of the room.
"I never want to see another imperial cell as long as I live," Leia muttered as she ran alongside her mother.
Padmé nodded.
Anakin signaled Padmé, Luke, and Leia to get on the Falcon while he helped Obi-Wan.
Anakin successfully kept Vader from killing Obi-Wan. "That's twice, Master," Anakin sang as they boarded the ship.
"Oh, stop keeping count, Padawan," Obi-Wan countered.
"You're my brother?" Leia asked Luke again. Now they had time for a family reunion.
Luke nodded. "Twin brother, to be more precise," Obi-Wan added.
"We're twins?" Luke and Leia asked, staring at each other, searching for some resemblance.
"Twins?!" Padmé shrieked.
Anakin grinned at her. Then Obi-Wan froze. "Force help me," he groaned.
"What?" Anakin asked innocently.
"I have to put up with four Skywalkers," Obi-Wan grimaced. "You were bad enough."
"I wasn't that bad," Anakin protested.
Obi-Wan rolled his eyes and said "Whatever you say, little brother."
Then Luke asked, "Ben, what's a Padawan?"
"An apprentice, technically, Anakin here is a Jedi Knight, but sometimes the Knight's teacher will continue to refer to them as Padawan, regardless of rank, out of habit," Ben explained, "Like Count Dooku used to with Master Qui-Gon, when they were still alive."
"Who were they?" Luke asked.
"Qui-Gon Jinn was a great Jedi Master who died on Naboo, thirty-two years ago, during the Trade Federation droid army invasion," Padmé replied.
"Count Dooku was once Master Dooku, and Qui-Gon's mentor," Obi-Wan continued. "Just as Qui-Gon was my mentor and I was Anakin's mentor."
Luke nodded. Then Leia scrambled onto Padmé's lap while Chewie, Han, Anakin, Luke, and Obi-Wan dealt with the Tie Fighters coming after them.