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"Help! Somebody help me!"
Leia was in terrible danger. She had been kidnapped from her home planet of Alderaan to be taken hostage by an evil villain. He was towering over the chair his small captive was tied to. His eyes glowed in all his sinister nature. He was the most vile ruthless tyrant in all of the galaxy. It would take a very brave, courageous hero to face up to him in order to rescue her.
"I have you now," the villain declared in a wicked voice, "my dear princess!"
"Help!" Leia wailed. "Somebody! Anybody! Rescue me from this notorious scoundrel!"
At that moment, the door slid open and a figure raced swiftly into the base. He stood before the villain he had come to confront, seeing he had the princess in his clutches.
"Well, who do we have here?" the villain exclaimed. "Barging into my lair without even knocking the door? How rude!"
"Oh my!" Leia squealed. "A brave handsome hero! Come to rescue me!"
The hero made a sound that was filled with his determination to free the princess from her captor.
"This wicked field has kidnapped me!" Leia explained. "Please save me!"
"So you've come to take the princess from me, have you?" The villain cackled menacingly. "You'll have to face up against me first! There isn't anything a little lump like you can do to stop me-OUCH!"
The villain stopped floating to cry out in pain. He was being zapped by bolts of electricity that were being fired at him from the hero. He danced on the spot from the pain that was erupting through him. All the evil nature in his voice was dropped to be replaced by an irked tone.
"Don't do that, R2! That really hurts, you know!"
R2-D2 made some bleeps which sounded very much like snickering. He continued to shoot bolts of electricity at C-3PO, sending shockwaves through his fellow droid's body.
"OW!" 3PO cried. "Stop that at once, R2! I'm not really a villain! We're only playing, you fool!"
R2 took no noticed as he continued to zap 3PO. The spunky astromech bleeped in amusement at what he was doing to the pompous protocol droid. He found what he was doing to him very funny - and by the giggling which was coming from her, so did Princess Lei.
"Cut that out!" 3PO scolded. "In no way would a hero be as inhumane as this! Of course, you wouldn't know R2, since you are merely a mechanic. No way will you ever become a he-OW!"
With a final cry of pain from being zapped by his counterpart, 3PO's gold and silver leg gave way beneath him. His robotic body crumbled to the bedroom floor. R2 rolled past him with a triumphant bleep to go up to Leia. The astromech droid replaced his electrify zapper with a cutting disc, using to slice through the ropes binding the princess to the chair.
"You saved me!" Leia said happily, throwing her arms around R2 and kissing the top of his dome. "You're my hero!"
R2 whistled cheerily as 3PO struggled to his feet. This was the tenth time in a row Leia had made the droids who served her father play this game - and it had ended as badly as ever for him. His wasn't what he'd been programmed for at all. As always, Leia had cast herself in the role of the princess and had made 3PO play the villain who captured her as she couldn't see R2 as anything other than the hero who saved her. The storyline which they acted out may have been make believe - but whenever they reached the climax, the pain R2 always delivered him was always brutally real for 3PO.
"Excuse me, Princess Leia," the golden droid murmured. "Might I suggest we play something else now?"
"I suppose we could." Leia let go of R2 as she turned excitedly towards 3PO. "I have some new dresses and make-up which you can try on!"
"Oh no!" 3PO whined. "I didn't mean play dress-up, Your Highness!"
"You're my droid, 3PO, and I'm the princess!" Leia scowled. "You have to do everything I tell you!"
3PO shuddered. The princess was so scary whenever her temper was fired up. For a small girl, she could be extremely stubborn. The tall golden droid knew he was resign to do exactly as she ordered - even if it meant playing games which she found fun while he found them humiliating.
"Yes, Your Highness," he whimpered.
R2 snickered. He was looking forward to the amusing sight of 3PO wearing a pink dress and red lipstick coated around his static robotic mouth.
"While 3PO will be modelling for us…" Leia turned to smile at the small blue droid. "Would you care to have some tea with me, R2?"
R2 bleeped his reply. Grateful that he didn't have to be the one to play Dress-Up with Leia, he was more than willing to play Tea Party with her. He just had to make sure she'd remember he liked his tea with plenty of oil.
Little did Leia and the two droids knew that the game they'd just finished playing - which she enjoyed best of all - would become their reality when she would grow up. Someday, the princess would indeed be captured by the most sinister villain in the entire galaxy - and R2 would play an important role leading to her rescue…
THE END