"I hope Akko's okay," Diana said, worried. She was pacing back and forth in a cell that Vader and his men put her and the rest of the Falcon crew in.
"Yeah, I'm getting very worried about this situation," Barbara said, helping Chewy fix 3PO.
"I'm scared of what Vader might do to us," Hannah said frighten.
The door propped open, causing the girls to look in that direction. Two stormtroopers threw Akko into the cell, as her friends came running to her. Akko was feeling weak and pain in every part of her body.
"Akko, what have they done to you?" Diana asked worryingly.
"Vader was trying to read my mind," Akko said weakly, "But I showed him." The young Japanese witch laughed weakly as she try to get up.
"No, no, you should rest," Diana said, in a panic.
"Yeah, you are right. Can you take me to a bed please?" Akko asked.
Diana and Hannah both helped Akko up, as they carried her to a cot at one of the ends of the room. Laying down, Akko felt her pain shoot up in her body. Resting her eyes, Akko thought of what happened to her, thinking of ways to trick Vader. As Akko was laying down Chewy was able to turn 3PO back on and at least halfway fix. The issue was that his head was backwards, which the golden droid realized.
"Something's not right because now I can't see. Wait! Oh, my! What have you done, you stupid furball? I'm backwards! Only an overgrown mophead like you would be stupid enough…," 3PO complained as Chewie deactivates him midsentence. Akko smirked, glad to hear that 3PO is fine in a sense.
"Hey Diana," Akko said.
"Yes Akko," Diana said.
"Do you think opening up my big mouth was a bad idea?" Akko asked.
"No, no it was not. Honestly, I don't know what we will do without your optimism," Diana said, patting her girlfriend's head.
Akko chuckled in pain and said, "Thank you, Diana."
As Akko was resting her eyes, she heard the door open up. Looking up, she saw two stormtroopers carrying a weaken Han Solo to the room, dropping him onto the floor. She noticed that Han looked worse than her, as he seemed paler and exhausted. Hannah and Chewie helped the old captain up as Barbara got another cot to appear.
"I feel terrible," Han said weakly.
"You and me both captain, you and me both," Akko said weakly.
Han lay on the bed, feeling the hard cold mattress of the cot. His body, like Akko's, was in pain. He can not even think straight, instead his mind was on his body. Both of the wounded rebels looked up to see the door open again, revealing Leia being pushed by some more of the stormtroopers.
Looking around, Leia saw her wounded friends laying on the cots, writhing in pain and breathing heavily. Walking towards the smuggler, Leia got down on her knees and started stroking Han's head slowly and gently.
"Why are they doing this?" Leia asked.
"They never even asked me any questions," Han reflected.
"Vader wanted to know who we witches really are," Akko said, "Damn, and if we are not careful, who knows what he will do to the rest of our kind."
The door to the cell opens again. Akko groaned, tired of people entering, and stood up. There she saw Lando and two of his guards.
"Oh great, it's the traitor," Akko said in distaste.
"Get out of here, Lando!" Han ordered.
"Shut up and listen, all of you! Vader has agreed to turn the girls and Chewie over to me," Lando said.
"Over to you?" Han asked.
"They will have to stay here, but at least they will be safe," Lando said, trying to smooth things out.
"And what about Han?" Diana asked.
"Vader's giving him to the bounty hunter," Lando answered.
"Well, ain't that a lot of detarame," Akko said, as she couldn't believe in what she was hearing.
"Excuse me?" Lando asked, surprised.
"Do you honestly think that Vader will give us to you so willingly. He is just controlling you like a little marionette," Akko said, as she tried her best standing up.
Akko, fortunately, was able to stand up and started walking with a limp towards the leader of Cloud City. "Vader wants Leia and Chewie to be put up against a damn firing squad, while the rest of the girls and I to be his apprentice or something," Akko explained with fire as she took out her wand, attempting to cast a spell on Lando.
This ended up backfiring as Akko did not have a lot of strength left, causing her to miss the target and hit the wall. This caused a hole in the wall, as a small green fire was smoldering into it. Lando gulped in fear, realizing how lucky he was as the young Japanese girl fainted after using all of her strength in that spell.
Diana walked towards her girlfriend and scooped her up. She then walked towards the open cot and placed her back there. The young Cavendish went towards the bathroom they had and started to wet a cloth there with cold water. Coming back, she placed the cloth back on Akko's forehead.
"Look, Vader doesn't want you guys at all. He's after somebody called Skywalker," Lando explained, as he sighed.
"Luke?" Han asked in shock.
"Lord Vader has set a trap for him," Lando explained.
"And we are the bait. Well that's just great is it," Barbara said, kicking the wall in a tiny fit of anger.
"Well, he's on his way," Lando warned.
"Well, this is just perfect. You fixed us all pretty good, didn't you? My friend," Han spat out with acid. His rage was beyond any comprensible limit as the smuggler got off of cot and punched his friend right in the face.
This caused the two of them to enter a brief, but bloody quarrel. The guards that were with Lando started to hit the butts of their weapons onto Han, as Lando threw him across the room. This caused Chewie to growl and march toward the guards, who in return was pointing their blasters at the Wookie. In turn, this caused the witches to point their wands at the guards.
"Don't even try, unless you want to feel the wrath of a witch," Diana warned.
"Stop, everyone, just calm down!" Lando shouted, "Look, I've done all I can. I really did and I am truly sorry I could not do any better, but I have my own problems."
"Yeah, you're a real fucking hero aren't ya," Hannah said, rolling her eyes.
After adjusting his collar, Lando and his guards left. Han wiped the blood from his chin as Hannah and Leia helped him up.
"You certainly have a way with people," Leia said.
"Yeah… you can say that. Diana, how's Akko?" Han asked Diana.
"She's breathing. Akko just needs some rest," Diana said, looking at her friend.
"By any chance, do you witches know of a way we can escape from this fate?" Han asked.
"Unfortunately, no. Our best bet is to stun and create a smoke screen while Vader puts you into whatever trapped he has for Luke. But the chances of us succeeding are very, very low," Diana explained.
"Then I guess that will be our best opportunity," Han said.
Although he won't admit it, Han really did feel like the witches, Luke, Chewie, and Leia were his family. Through the many times they work together or just hanged out, Han really did enjoy their company. And he was willing to make sure they all escaped unharmed. Or at least die trying.
The group was being led by some stormtroopers into the dark, dimly golden-lit room of the carbon-freezing chamber. The carbon-freezing chamber room was filled with little creatures who were preparing the gigantic machine for use. The young witches shivered in fear as they realize that one misstep, and they all will be screwed. After telling Akko what their plan was, they all agreed that when Han is placed in the trap, then they will create a smoke screen and escape. Although agreeing to this plan, Akko did have her doubts about it. Especially considering that this chance to escape is not only based off of luck but also wit as they would have to outwit the Sith lord.
"If only you had attached my legs, I wouldn't be in this ridiculous position," 3PO complained, making Akko rolled her eyes.
"Remember, I will give the signal," Akko whispered.
"Roger that," the rest of the witches agreed.
As they approached the platform, Han leaned towards Lando and asked, "What's going on…buddy?"
"You're being put into carbon freeze," Lando answered.
"What if Captain Solo doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me alive," the bounty hunter asked.
"The Empire will compensate you if he dies. Put him in!" Vader ordered.
As two guards approached the rebel group, Chewie lets out a war cry, attacking the stormtroopers that were surrounding Captain Solo. More stormtroopers approached the Wookie, preparing to kill him before Han stepped in between them.
"Stop, Chewie, stop! Do you hear me? Stop!" Han pleaded.
"Yes, stop, please! I'm not ready to die," 3PO cried out.
Han broke away from his captors, who were about to shoot him. But Vader prevented that, allowing the Captain to go and break up the fight.
"Chewie! Chewie, this won't help me. Please, save your strength. There'll be another time. The princess, the witches, they need you. You will have to take care of them, you hear me?" Han asked.
The smuggler winked at his buddy, who gave a very saddened howl of farewell. Almost like clockwork, the guards put binders on Chewie, who was still distraught to protest. Han turned to the witches and gave them a smile that one can describe as a mix of emotion and hope. He then turned to look at Leia, who gave the Captain a sorrowful look. The Captain returned the look as he moved towards and gave her a kiss that is a mix of passion and long-lasting. This kiss was as if they will never have another go at this kiss again. As he was being pulled back onto the conveyor belt, he looked at all of his friends for a last time.
"I love you!" Leia said.
"I know," Han said in confirmation.
Before one of the little creatures turned on the machine, Akko drew her wand out as fast as she could, creating smoke. The other witches joined in too, but it was all in vain as they felt their bodies freezing up. Looking around, the witches notice Vader holding his hand out. This was what Akko feared as she realized that they lost. They did not even have a chance of winning, not with anybody surviving.
"Do you really expect me to underestimate you, witches?" Vader asked darkly, "There is no escape from Captain Solo's fate. Be lucky you are not going to experience the same for your foolishness. Now, as you were."
The little creature who was operating the machine pressed a button that started lowering the platform of the carbon freezing chamber. Han, realizing that the plan had failed, look on to his friends' faces for the final time and smiled in contempt. He was happy he had met them and had faith that they will meet again. The girls cried softly, with tears running down their faces.
"No," Akko cried out, tears falling down her face, "Captain Solo, Han."
As the platform dropped, Leia turned away into Chewie's arms in agony as the Wookie howled in anguish. The witches, though, could not do anything but watched. Watch as their ally and good friend was turned into a sick and demented popsicle. Lando winced in sorrow, as what is happening to Han changed something in him.
As the transformation was complete, Vader let go of the witches, who just stood there in shock and horror. A huge tong picked what remained of Han, presenting him to the room in a display of pure horror. Hannah and Barbara screamed in pain, as Akko and Diana watched the scene with numbness. Chewie, who was still holding Leia, turned half-way away from the carbonated form of Han, allowing 3PO to view the aftermath.
"What's going on? What's going on? Oh, they just encased Captain Solo in carbonite. He should be quite well-protected. If he survived the freezing process, that is," 3PO said. This caused him some glares from Hannah and Akko.
As the tongs placed Captain Solo on the ground, a few of the little creatures pushed the coffin-like carbonate onto the floor, giving the crew of the Falcon one last look at Captain Solo. Leia buried her faced into Chewie's chest, crying softly. Hannah and Barbara wept on to Diana and Akko's arms as Akko looked at Lando with silent fury. Lando, who was adjusting some of the knobs, checked on Han's heat signature. He shook his head in relief as he is glad that his friend is still alive.
"Well, Calrissian, did Captain Solo survive?" Vader asked menacingly.
"Yes, he's alive and in perfect hibernation," Lando answered.
"He's all yours bounty hunter, " Vader said as he turned to the bounty hunter, "The rest of you, reset the chamber for Skywalker."
"Skywalker has landed, my lord," an Imperial officer announced as he approached the sith lord.
"Good, see to it that Skywalker finds his way here," Vader ordered. The officer nodded in agreement and walked away to do what he is told. "Calrissian, take the princess, witches, and the Wookie to my ship," Vader ordered.
"You said they'd be left in the city under my supervision!" Lando shouted.
"I am altering the deal, pray that I don't alter it any further," Vader warned.
Lando unintentionally moved his hand on his throat, imagining what Vader meant by that. He then turned to the Falcon crew, most of them were looking at what remains of Han Solo. Although he notice one of them, the girl called Akko just staring daggers at him. She then motioned her hand in a way that told Lando that he was dead meat.
Lando was leading the prisoners toward Vader's ship as the Stormtroopers and an Imperial officer were guarding them. Without any of the guards noticing, Lando pressed a few buttons on his wrists, sending a transmission to his aide. As they were walking, Akko was thinking of ways to kill Lando and just run. Walking down the hallway, the witches noticed the lack of residents in the hallway. Just them and the imperial guards. Turning a corner, Diana heard some commotion as she turned to see Luke at the corner of her eye.
"Luke! Get out of here, it's a trap, they are planning to freeze you!" Diana shouted.
"Get the hell out of here Luke!" Hannah shouted.
The guards notice the young Skywalker and a few of them begin to shoot their weapons at him as the rest of the stormtroopers were dragging their prisoners into the next room. Akko saw her girlfriend's eyes becoming very teary, realizing that they might lose Luke too.
"Don't worry D, Luke has this," Akko said, trying to cheer Diana up.
"First Han, then Luke," Diana said in fear, "We are going to be next."
"Don't think like that, we are going to find a way out of this," Akko said.
"How? Vader is unstoppable. We couldn't save Han because we underestimated him," Diana asked.
"That is true, but we are witches from a witching school. We had face off against a nuclear warhead before, so how can this be different," Akko said.
"Quiet you two!" the Imperial officer ordered.
"Ahh, bite me," Akko shouted back, which the officer ignored.
As the group came upon an intersection, they were ambush by Lando's cyborg friend, who had a few dozen guards with him. The guards were aiming their pistols at the stormtroopers and the Imperial officers, with some of them taking their weapons off the soldiers. Lobot hands the weapons to the witches, Leia, Lando, and Chewie.
"Well done, hold them in the security tower, and keep it quiet," Lando ordered, "Now move."
As the Cloud City guards were marching the stormtroopers away, Lando began making his way toward Chewie.
"What the actual hell do you think you are doing?" Barbara asked, surprised.
"We're getting out of here," Lando said but felt something different. He felt his body freeze, which then moved towards a wall in force. His legs started to morph into the wall in a slow crawl.
"And, do you think after everything you have done to us, to Han, we are going to trust you?" Akko growled. Diana, for the first time, saw Akko's eyes turned a vengeful red as she held her wand towards Lando.
"I had no choice," Lando said, in fear of what is happening.
"Yeah, we understand don't we girls, Chewie? He had no choice," Leia said.
"Yeah, Leia, that's rich coming from someone like him. Han trusted him and he destroy that trust," Akko said.
"I am trying to help you guys escape," Lando said, pleading for his life as his torso became apart of the wall.
"We don't need it," Akko said, "But, unlike you, I am actually going to give you a chance. Give me one good reason to let you go and I will."
"Haaa," Lando tried to shout, but he felt like he couldn't speak anymore.
"What, I can't hear you?" Akko said, sweetly.
"It sounds like Han,"3PO said.
After thinking for a moment, Akko lowered her wand, causing the spell to cancel itself out. This released Lando from the wall, and possibly from a hellish prison. Rubbing his throat and gasping for air, Lando said, "There is still a chance we can save Han. We just need to go to the East Platform."
"You sure?" Hannah asked.
"Yeah, I'm sure," Lando said, as he uncuffed Chewie from his restraint.
Akko calmed herself down as her eyes turned back to her normal colors. She then looked at her friends with hope in her eyes. Everyone nodded as they started running towards the platform, in hopes of rescuing Han.
Everyone was running as fast as they can, trying to catch up to the bounty hunter. Lando was leading as Akko was running near him, just in case he did anything funny again. She still could not trust Lando, but if what this man said is true, then there is still a chance to save Han. As they were coming towards the platform, the group spotted R2 and ran past him as the droid followed him.
"R2! Where have you been?" 3PO asked.
The droid responded with beeps and whistles.
Chewy turned to see the astromech droid near him, but got yelled at by 3PO. "Turn around, you wooly beast!" 3PO shouted. He then turned to R2, and said, "We need to hurry R2! We're trying to save Han from the bounty hunter!"
R2 replied with frantic beeps and whistles as the droid was racing around, keeping up with the group.
"Well, at least your still in one piece!" 3PO cried out, "Look what happened to me!"
The group arrived at an elevator, as Akko pressed the button rapidly, cursing herself. "C'mon, c'mon, c'mon your damn thing, we don't have time for this," Akko said.
The elevator door opened, and the group piled in as the lift took them to a shuttle bay, overlooking the East Platform. As the group arrived on the platform, they saw the bounty hunter's ship taking off, with Han on board.
"Han!" Akko shouted, as she, the witches, and Chewie fired upon the ship in anguish.
"Guys, we have company!" Hannah shouted as some stormtroopers came towards the doorway firing their gun at the group.
Everyone got into cover and began to repel the attack from the stormtroopers. Firing their blasters, the witches, Leia, and Chewie were able to take a few of the stormtroopers down. Though the blaster fire was heavy, the group managed to dodge them from the doorway.
"We need to get to the Falcon!" Akko shouted, firing off her blaster.
"How are we going to do that if they just keep on coming!" Hannah shouted, trading off a few shots from her blaster.
"I have an idea. Hannah, you come with me, while the rest of you give us some covering fire!" Diana shouted.
Everyone nodded, as Diana and Hannah clipped their blasters and grabbed their wands. In unison, the two witches cast a spell that knocked most of the stormtroopers off of their feet. Unhooking their blasters, the two witches fired sporadically at the down stormtroopers, killing them.
"This is our chance; we need to go now!" Diana shouted as she took lead, running as fast as she can.
The group followed behind as they ran through the bland hallways of Cloud City. The hallways were tight as the group was fighting in close-quarters combat, going from corner to corner only to be met with a barrage of blaster fire. The crew of the Falcon focused all of their despair and loss through the fight as they were able to take down a good amount of stormtroopers. Each corner was as deadly as the firefight was becoming more animalistic. The fight itself was not for victory or defeat, but for mere survival.
Running across another set of hallways, the group was caught by surprise when one of the stormtroopers tackled Akko to the ground, trying to restrain her. Akko was fighting back, trying to get leverage. As the struggle was slowly leading into a fight, Akko managed to grab the Trooper's blaster and fired off a shot in his head, killing him.
Diana helped her girlfriend up, asking, "You okay, Akko?"
"Yeah, just a little shaken up is all," Akko said.
"Good, the fight is not over yet," Diana said, as she took her girlfriend by the arm, and bring her into cover.
Ducking into cover, Akko aimed down her sights and fired off some shots, killing a few stormtroopers.
"How much further towards the Falcon?" Leia asked over the blaster fire.
"Not much, we just need to pass the next set of elevators!" Lando shouted.
"We are in the thick of it now!" Akko shouted.
"You are right about that!" Hannah replied.
As the fight continued, a stormtrooper managed to hit Chewie on the arm, causing the Wookie to howl in pain.
"Chewie got hit! D, I need you to go and patch him up!" Akko ordered.
"Copy that Akko," Diana said, as Akko gave her some covering fire.
Diana was running towards Chewy, who was howling in pain holding his arm. Grabbing her wand, Diana casted a spell that bandage the Wookie up. The Wookie was a bit afraid of the magic, but trusted the witch in doing her job. Through the blaster fire and shouts, Diana managed to at least stop the wound from getting infected. However both the Wookie and the witch knew that Chewy couldn't fly.
The Falcon crew and Lando were able to clear the hallway, leaving a string of corpses in them. Running to a window, the rebels saw the Millenium Falcon, in all of its glory, on the platform. Relief washed on everyone's face as they were glad that they are almost out of this hell. Running to a door, it slammed shut as another group of stormtroopers came out of some of the elevators, firing their blasters. The witches, Leia, and Chewbacca were returning fire at the stormtroopers, as Lando was punching some buttons on the door.
"The security codes have been changed!" Lando shouted.
"What?" Hannah cried out.
"They must have put an Imperial code," Lando explained.
"R2, you can tell the computer to override the security system," 3PO said as he pointed towards a computer socket on the panel.
R2 beep a replied as he moved towards, while Lando ran across to a intercom system, dodging the laser bolts.
"Attention! Attention! This Lando Calrissian, the Empire has taken control of the city. I advised that everyone leave here before move Imperial troops arrive," Lando announced.
As Lando was doing his announcement, , R2 took off a computer cover and stuck one of his computer arms into the socket. Trying to manage to open the door, the astromech started freaking out, getting eletrouted everywhere. His head began to spin as his circuits light up and smoked was coming out of him. In quick succession, Barbara pulled the droid away from the socket.
"We have to take an alternative route!" Barbara shouted.
"Kuso!" Akko cursed, "Can this day get any worse?"
"Don't even tempted fate, Atusko," Diana said.
"I know another way we can take," Lando said, putting the comm back into its place, "Follow me."
"Don't blame me, R2, I'm an interpreter. I wasn't program to know the difference between a power socket and a computer terminal," 3PO defended as R2 beeped at him harshly.
The gang followed Lando through another building that was filled with people in pandenoium. Everyone was panicking as they were rushing, trying to get out of the city. The gang managed to cut through the crowd. Some of the inhabitants were going to different hallways, while a few were actually shooting at the stormtroopers. It was chaos as the gang passed through different hallways.
Some of the stormtroopers spotted the escaped prisoners, as they proceed to pursue them. The Imperial guards fired their blasters as the gang fired back at them getting into covered. As another skirmish took place, R2 managed to find another computer port. Plugging his computer arm, R2 worked on the door trying to unlocked it. As he was doing this, the young astromech droid found something interesting about the hyperdrive. It seemed that the Empire managed to tampered it.
Beeping this to 3PO, the protocol droid just berated him, saying, "What are talking about? We're not interested in the hyperdrive on the Millennium Falcon. It's fixed! Just open the door, you stupid lump."
The rest of gang started to retreat back to where R2 was as the droid beep in triumph, opening the door.
"I never doubted you for a second," 3PO said relieved.
As the crew began to retreat towards the ship, R2 deployed a smoke screen, obscuring everything in it's path. Everyone race towards the Falcon as more stormtroopers reached the main door. Leia, Lando, Hannah, and Barbara were giving covering fire as Akko, Chewy, and Diana climbed onto the ship. Diana guided Chewy towards the medbay, sedating him, while Akko climbed into the cockpit.
Looking at all of the buttons, Akko was freaking out. "C'mon Akko, you saw Han and Chewie starting the ship up. It can't be that hard. Now let's see, I need to find the power button," Akko said. Looking around, Akko just started pressing some random buttons hoping one of them will work. Some of the buttons did nothing, while a few of them managed to deploy the self defense system on the ship. While looking at the buttons, Akko managed to press the power button starting the Falcon.
"Hey, hey, now we getting somewhere," Akko said.
After feeling comfortable with Chewy, Diana joined Akko into the cockpit. "Hey Akko, you have everything under control?" Diana asked.
"Kinda. Just found where the power button was," Akko said.
"Wait, this is your first time flying a ship?" Leia asked, running to the cockpit.
"Yeah, but the good news is that I am a fast learner," Akko said, trying to look for the controls.
"That doesn't make things better," Leia said, shaking her head.
Diana jumped into the copilot seat, helping Akko out. The two managed to spot the controls and the takeoff button.
As the girls were making preparations, Barbara, Hannah, and Lando all squeeze into the cockpit. "Everyone's here and accounted for, now let's get the hell out of here!" Lando shouted.
"Got it," Akko said, pressing the takeoff button.
"Akko is controlling the ship, why do I feel like she is going to kill us all," Hannah said.
"I have everything under control!" Akko shouted, pulling on the throttle, causing the Falcon to pick up speed.
Diana managed to bring in the gears, as the ship began to takeoff the platform. The stormtroopers were firing at it, trying to shoot it down. The Falcon's engine roared as they gain some distance from the city.
"You see, I have everything under control," Akko said, smiling. At that moment, the scanner beeped aloud.
Taking a look at the scanner, Diana cursed and said, "Crap, TIEs at our six o'clock."
"Leave it to me," Akko said, "Hannah, Barbara, I need both of you on the turrets. On my mark shoot those fighters down."
The two girls nodded as they made their way towards the turret. Getting settle in, they both signaled Akko that they were ready. Once the stormtroopers got in range, Akko pulled on the reverse lever hard causing the ship to make a sharp reverse. "Now!" Akko shouted into the mic, and the two witches did as they were told, shooting down the TIE fighters.
Once they were clear, Akko and Diana proceed to fly towards the atmosphere. As they were making their ascent, Leia felt something. Putting her hand on Akko, Leia said, "We have to go back," she said.
"What?" everyone said in shocked.
"I know where Luke is," Leia said.
"But you do realized that we have fighters on our ass," Akko said.
"Akko, I need you to do it, Luke is in trouble," Leia said.
Akko thought about it and groaned in pain as she made a sharp turn towards back to the city. "But what about Vader?" Lando asked.
No one answered Lando's question except Diana who gave Lando a stern look. This cause Lando to back up and said, "All right, all right."
Flying underneanth the city, Akko, Diana, Lando, and Leia were searching for Luke. Lando spotted something interesting.
"Look, someone's up there," Lando said, pointing out the cockpit window.
"I see him. Let's get a closer look," Akko said.
"It's Luke! Akko, Diana, can you slow the ship down so that we can get under him. Lando, I need you to open the top hatch," Leia ordered.
The girls did as they were told, as Lando ran out of the cockpit onto the elevator to the roof. Akko and Diana were able to position the ship underneath Luke as Lando moved up through the opening of the hatch. Luke fell off the vane and Lando was able to catch him. As Lando was catching Luke, a few more TIE fighters found the Falcon and started to fire upon it.
"Shit, Lando do you have him?" Akko asked.
"Yes, let's go!" Lando said.
Akko and Diana were able to fly away from the underbelly of the city as more TIE Fighters were firing their weapons at it. Hannah and Barbara were doing their best trying to defend the ship, but it was getting too much for them. Lando brought Luke into the cockpit, where Diana and Leia turned around and hugged the battered warrior.
"Oh, Leia, Diana," Luke said happily, hugging them.
"All right kid, let's go," Lando said.
Leia took Luke to the med bay, where Chewy was laying down, hooked on bacta. Luke was a bit surprised by the tough-looking Wookie wounded. Setting the young Jedi down, Leia took care of him. Leia placed Luke onto a cot as he rested. Taking care of Luke, Leia made sure his wounds were sterilized, the stump was in a protective cuff, and she even wiped the blood off his face. As she was taking care of him, the Falcon moved side to side again, causing Leia to become a bit worried.
"Attention, ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking, we are having issues escaping as there is a large Destroyer blocking our entry," Akko said over the intercom.
"I'll be back," Leia said with a kiss to Luke.
She exited the medbay and ran towards the cockpit, seeing the massive Star Destroyers. Akko and Diana were pushing a lot of buttons, with Akko talking to herself in a weird language that Leia still didn't recognize.
"Hey, kid, try going into lightspeed," Lando said.
"Hopefully your people fixed it because if they didn't then this can become one short trip," Diana said, preparing the ship to go into light speed. Pressing a few more buttons, Diana said, "All the coordinates are set Akko, it's now or never. Punch it!"
Akko pulled down the light speed throttle as the sound of the ion engine was starting to wind up. Everyone was tense, hopefully, it will work, but nothing happened as the engine was turned off. Everyone was looking at Lando, as Lando became frustrated.
"Lando, why is the hyperdrive not fix?" Akko asked in a sweet tone.
"They told me they fixed it, I trusted them to fix it. It's not my fault, it's not," Lando said, frustrated.
"Of course it's not, why wouldn't it be the fault of the person who first of all led us into a trap, and then afterward expected the enemy to fix our ship," Akko said getting out of her seat, "Move out of the damn way."
She starts heading toward the hyperdrive room, muttering to herself in anger. The droids notice Akko talking to herself as R2 was repairing 3PO's leg. "Mistress Kagari seems to be very mad about this. I'm surprised we didn't just go into light-speed," 3PO said surprised.
R2 was whistling and beeping a response to 3PO
"What do you mean we can't go to light-speed and how do you know that the hyperdrive is deactivated?" 3PO asked surprised.
R2 replied to 3PO's question knowingly.
"Wait, the city's central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer," 3PO reprimanded R2. This in turn cause the astromech droid to miss a spot for the welding, causing 3PO to yelp in pain.
Meanwhile, Akko was inside the pit, which held the Falcon's hyperdrive, fixing it in ferocious anger. "I can't believe this. This is a stupid ship, with all of its stupid problems, and all of its stupid stuff. So why can't this stupid ship just get fixed already," Akko angrily said, as she was using the wrench on the hyperdrive. After attempting to loosen one of the screws, Akko just screams and slammed the wrench against the hyperdrive.
"Fuck this stupid piece of kuso," Akko shouted, throwing the wrench on the side.
Meanwhile, in the cockpit, Diana and Lando were controlling the ship, evading blaster fire and trying not to go toward the star destroyers. The three of them heard Akko cursing up a storm, banging the wrench against something.
"Akko, is everything fine down there?" Diana asked into the intercom.
"Oh, yeah, everything is dandy here. But I think, sooner or later we might need to get a new hyperdrive," Akko replied.
"Well you better fix the one we already have, cause we are in big trouble," Diana relayed.
"When are we not," Akko said sarcastically.
As Diana and Lando were trying to fly the ship away from the star destroyer's path, Luke came limping in, looking out at the window. Feeling the pain from his battle with Vader and sadness of what he was told, Luke just observed the situation.
"It's Vader," Luke said.
"What?" Diana asked, now in a panic.
"Vader is on that ship," Luke said.
"Well, things has just gotten more complicated," Diana said, pressing the radio, "Akko, were you able to fix the hyperdrive?"
"No, this stupid bloody thing is a pain to fix. I don't even know to start," Akko said.
"Well, you better find it because Vader is onboard one of the Destroyers," Diana said.
The intercomn was silent for a bit, then Diana heard Akko laughed. Not her normal laugh, but the type of laugh where it is a mix of pain and succumbing to her fate.
As the crew of the Falcon was going crazy trying to avoid the Star Destroyers, R2-D2 was racing towards a control panel and started working on a circuit board. While the astromech droid was working, his golden counterpart was hobbling on one leg, angry at the droid for not finishing him up.
"R2-D2, come back here at once! You haven't finished with me yet! And besides, you don't even know how to fix the hyperdrive. You can leave that with Mistress Kagari, she might have an idea on how to fix it," 3PO shouted, "And besides, I'm standing here in pieces, while you are having your delusions of grandeur!"
Ignoring 3PO, R2 managed to move one of the circuits on the control panel back into place, causing the control panel to light up. This cause the ship to accerlate, knocking everyone off their feet, with Diana and Lando falling backing into the seat. The ship tilting back, causing the astromech droid to roll backwards, into the hyperdrive station. He fell ontop of Akko, who landed on her butt hard.
"R2, whatever the hell you did, it worked," Akko said in relief.
The ship then zoomed off into hyperspace, leaving Vader and the rest of the crew of the Executor speechless.