I Don't own Star Wars or the Mummy. But I do have tickets to the Midnight premiere of TLJ :) Also, No Chewbacca's were harmed in the making of this chapter.
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The sounds of blaster fire erupted from the museum. Sabe cursed and pulled Luke and Leia off the hood of their father's speeder. At least the shoot out was in there and not out here. And there weren't any undead creatures trying to disembowel them just yet.
"Get in the speeder now!" Sabe yelled pushing the twins into the front passenger seat and then throwing herself into the driver's seat, fumbling for Anakin's keys. Finally she grabbed them from the top of the consul and tried to get them into the ignition. Her hands couldn't stop shaking. Finally after what felt like an eternity she jammed a key into the switch and turned. But nothing happened, the engine wouldn't turn over. It was the wrong bloody key. And now it was jammed in the ignition. Sabe swore again, aware of her niece and nephew yelling at her. She pulled the key and with a snap the cursed thing broke. The speeder fell silent as Sabe held up the top half of the key. Anakin was going to be furious.
"Sabe you idiot!" Leia shrieked.
"Not now kid! I have enough of a time acting like an adult in high pressure situations as it is!" Sabe yelled back, was it her or was the blaster fire getting a lot louder. "You two got any brilliant ideas? Sabe asked jumping out of the now useless speeder, Luke followed his aunt. Looking around the boy spotted something down the street.
"I do!" Luke took off running towards what he had seen. Sabe followed the boy, seeing what he meant the woman whooped with joy and ran after him.
"Luke you little genius!" Leia was left to follow her aunt and brother.
"Wait for me!" She shouted running after the pair.
Inside the museum the blaster fight had taken a turn. Dooku's forces had rallied and vastly outnumbered Padme, Anakin, and Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan leapt from the balcony he had been perched on just as Barriss Offee lit the entire platform up with blaster fire. Anakin and Padme were across the vast room, pinned down behind a large stack of crates.
"Anakin!" Padme pointed towards the men currently trying to murder them. Behind the hostiles were several large tanks, with clear warnings marking them as flammable. Anakin looked over at his wife and grinned.
"I love you."
"I know." Padme replied. Then the couple shot up from behind the crates and shot at the tanks. The explosion and ensuing fireball consumed Dooku's goons. Husband and wife shot out from behind their barricade taking their chance to run for it. Shooting as they went. In a small break, Anakin tossed Padme his blaster rifle and drew out his Saber, feeling the Force course through him like an old friend he ignited the blade and continued fighting. Padme covering him with blaster fire. The two working in perfect harmony. Padme felt the rifle's charge die on her flipping the gun she used it to club a Bothan in the head before shouldering the strap and going back to her pistol. It too was on its last energy clip. Just then, the Wookie who had grabbed her earlier roared and charged towards her. She holstered the pistol in her belt.
"Anakin." She shouted. With only the Force guiding him Anakin threw his lightsaber in the air. Padme caught the brilliant blade, holding it firmly, she pivoted smoothly swinging the plasma sword just as the Wookie reached her, cutting through the hairy creature's body with unnatural ease. Anakin couldn't help but watch in awe as his petite wife took down the massive being. Since when had she gotten so good at using his saber? The smell of burning hair and charred fat filled the air bringing Anakin back to reality as the Wookie's now lifeless body fell to the ground. Padme deactivated the saber and tossed it back to her husband. Obi-Wan in the meanwhile had cleared enough of a path for the trio to make their get away.
"Let's go!" Anakin grabbed Padme's hand and the pair ran after the Jedi.
"That's heavier than it looks." Padme panted running next to Anakin looking down at the saber still clutched in his hand.
"It is." Anakin looked over at his wife, the pair still running after Obi-Wan. "You've been practicing?"
"No." Padme shook her head. That gave Anakin a moment of pause. But then another volley of blaster fire ricochet through the corridor. They could talk about the Lightsaber later.
Sidious growled, watching his enemies escape. If something was to be done right then he needed to do it himself. The creature grabbed an urn from a nearby table and threw it to the ground. As it shattered, ash swirled from within. Sidious chanted a spell and the particles came together forming into four of his ancient Sith warriors. The mummies looked to their master, awaiting his command. Sidious pointed in the direction the Jedi and the woman had escaped through.
"After them." The mummies shrieked and set off to find their prey.
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The trio slid to a stop in the darkened museum. Shrieks echoing all around them.
"We're being followed." Anakin stated. He could feel strong, dark entities closing in.
"Sidious?" Padme asked.
"No but let's not stay and find out. Sabe and the kids are out front with the speeder." They took off once again, now keenly aware the inhuman shrieks and growls that were coming from behind them. Finally they burst out of the museum's main entrance. Only to slide to a sudden halt. Anakin's speeder was there, but Sabe, Luke, and Leia were nowhere to be seen.
"What the hells?" Just then a double-decker speeder bus tore into the lot. Sabe and Luke were in the driver's compartment and Leia stood in the isle hanging on to a seat for dear life. Sabe rolled down the window.
"What are you waiting for? Get in!"
"Sabe what about my speeder?" The woman shrugged. "Let's just say we were forced to find another means of transportation." Anakin looked at her incredulously.
"A double-decker bus?!" Sabe looked over at Luke and shrugged. Anakin swore and took off to the back of the bus where the door was. Padme and Obi-Wan were already inside. He would deal with his speeder later. Or not at all. Four beings burst through an upper window in the museum, landing on his speeder, crushing it.
"Oh come on!" The mummies quickly jumped off the ruined speeder and ran after the bus.
"Sabe punch it!" Padme screamed as the mummies chased after them, Sabe hit the accelerator and they were off careening through the darkened streets of Theed. The warrior mummies were still hot on their tail.
"It never ends does it?" Obi-Wan asked, pulling out his lightsaber. Anakin reloaded his blaster rifle and turned off the safety.
"I really hate mummies." He muttered in response.
"Well let's get this over with then." Obi-Wan stated. Anakin nodded and climbed up the stairs to the bus's top deck. Reaching out with the Force, he shattered the back window sending the shards of glass at the undead pursuers, cutting through them uselessly. Anakin shrugged and opened fire. A direct hit that only had some interference from the Force turned one of the creatures back to dust. Changing their tactics the mummies jumped out of Anakin's line of fire and began scaling the fronts of buildings. One managed to get onto the lower level of the bus only to be cut in half by Obi-Wan. Up top a metallic thud echoed around Anakin as the other two landed on the roof of the bus, denting the roof. Anakin raised the blaster and shot through the roof. Below him, Obi-Wan was still trying to fight off the top half of the Sith warrior. Apparently, simply cutting them in half didn't do much good.
"Why won't you just bloody die!" He shouted dodging the creature's sharp claws as it used the poles around the bus to swing on.
"Sabe turn!" Padme yelled to her sister while grabbing Leia and pulling her to the front of the bus. Sabe turned as hard as she could, sending the occupants flying. Luke's fingers digging into her shoulder she grit her teeth, trying to keep control of the bus.
Up above, Anakin crashed into one of the windows, the force of the collision knocking his rifle from his grasp. The rifle fell through a gap in the floor. The mummy tackled Anakin, pulling him from the floor. Swearing in every language he knew Anakin tried to reach for the saber on his belt. Down below Leia saw her father's blaster fall through the floor landing right behind the driver's cubicle. She ran and grabbed the weapon.
"Mom!" Padme turned just as Leia tossed her the rifle; catching it with ease she turned activating the blaster.
"Obi-Wan duck!" The Jedi threw himself down onto the seats and Padme fired, blasting the warrior mummy until nothing remained but a desiccated hand hanging from one of the poles. Sabe took another sharp turn down a deserted pedestrian street. At this point she was pretty sure she had broken every traffic law in the whole damn galaxy. Not that she cared, but maybe there was some merit to said traffic laws as a sign for a low hanging bridge passed.
"Damn it. Everyone hang one." Luke was clutching his aunt so tightly she was sure the little boy was going to break her skin. Up top Anakin again was sent flying into the front window. Groaning he stood preparing to face another attach when he saw the approaching overhang. He dropped to the floor covering his head just in time. With a huge crash and a deafening shriek of metal being torn to bits, the bus's top half was torn off as it sped under the bridge. The last two mummies were now pancaked on the overhang. Once clear a slightly dazed Anakin stood up on the now topless bus, the Force pulsed around him and his heart raced in his chest. At least the mummies were gone, for now.
Luke hugged his aunt as she pulled the bus to a shaky stop.
"Great driving Aunt Sabe."
"Uh-." Sabe replied standing on very shaky legs. Padme clutched Leia tightly and turned to Obi-Wan, who was still collapsed on one of the seats, looking slightly green.
"Are you alright?" The Jedi nodded wearily.
"Sabe hasn't been taking driving advice from Anakin by any chance has she?"
"Hey!" Sabe squawked from the cubicle indignantly. Padme laughed and saw Anakin come down the stairs from the totaled upper level. He looked disheveled but still in one piece. She grinned seductively and beckoned him over to her. Leia groaned at the impending disgusting display of affection her parents were about to shower each other with.
"What would I do without my noble Jedi?" Anakin wrapped an arm around Padme's slim waist and pulled her to him.
"No idea." He said before leaning down into a passionate, heated kiss with his wife. Padme wrapped her arms around her husband's neck the pair lost in each other. Leia rolled her eyes and wandered over to the back of the bus, looking up the staircase to the ruined top. She was about to go up the stairs when an arm wrapped around her and lifted her into the air. The little girl screamed before a clawed hand covered her mouth, pulled from the ruined bus by Grievous. Hearing their daughter's scream Anakin and Padme broke apart.
"Leia!" Padme shrieked pulling away from Anakin.
"No!" Anakin raced out of the bus and after his daughter and her kidnaper. The Force around him became electrified and he picked up speed. He practically flew after the speeder that his daughter had been dragged into, it flew into a large square where a ship was parked and up onto the open loading ramp. The ramp started to close; Anakin pushed himself to run faster. Then the ship's engine started and the Ion Vents ignited. A wave of energy hit Anakin, throwing him back to the ground, his head connecting painfully with the cobblestones of the square. He was forced to watch as the ship took off disappearing into space, along with one of his beloved children. "Leia." He whispered, dread filled his body. In the distance he could sense the other's approaching. His vision started to darken and that was the last thing he knew.
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Padme was the first to reach the square after Anakin. Heart pounding in her chest, she rushed to the unconscious form of her husband sliding down next to him, she started shaking him.
"Anakin, Anakin wake up, please wake up." Tears began to stream down her face as her husband finally stirred.
"Padme." He sat up quickly, ignoring the spinning world around him wrapped his wife in his arms. "They took her, they took Leia, I tried." His breathing hitched as he failed to fight back tears of his own. "I tried but I was too slow." He sobbed, Padme shook in his arms. Finally, she looked up at her husband. Her face stained with tears but a look of resolve had taken hold. These people had made the worst mistake in the galaxy, getting between a mother and her child.
"We'll get her back." Anakin nodded. A seed of darkness and thirst for justice or was it something else, began to sew itself within him.
"I swear to the Force we will get Leia back even if we have to go to the very end of the galaxy." He said darkly, tightening his grip on Padme ever so slightly. Luke, who had been standing with Sabe and Obi-Wan broke away and ran to his parents. Sobbing he threw himself into their waiting arms. Anakin wrapped his arms around his wife and son. His blue eyes darkening like the sky as a storm approached. They would get Leia back and then he would destroy those who had taken his little girl.
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Author's Note: My life is literally work, school, sleep repeat. With eating scattered in between when convenient. Welcome to adult life and University and deciding to study the most difficult subfield in your Major. (Physical Anthropology with a focus on Biological Archeology) . Hope you like the chapter, and hope the cliffhanger will be able to satisfy you for a while cause I have no idea when this is gonna be updated again. Maybe December, definitely sometime in 2018. Later lovelies! And HAPPY ALL HALLOW'S EVE!