Star Wars: Cross Paths Part 3
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Chapter 67 – The Rescue
When Luke left the prison, Fennec and Boba were passing by at the right moment, and with a simple nod, they knew that Luke had made contact with the kids and where they were.
They didn't have time to talk cause Anuska appeared at that moment.
"There you are, I was about to call you. Lunch is ready."
"Good cause I'm starving," Boba replied.
"Then follow me," Anuska replied smiling.
Following her, they entered in a room, with a big table, filled with every type of food.
After a while, and they had eat the main course, they were waiting for desert.
"This was delicious," Luke said smiling at Anuska.
"I'm glad you enjoy it. It makes me feel good for tomorrow when Grand Admiral arrives."
"Then he will love it."
"I see that you enjoy it," she smiled.
"You know Tatooine is not famous for the best food. We have food but not like this. Except in Boba's Palace," he laughed looking at Boba.
"Indeed I can have anything I want in my Palace," Boba smiled looking at Anuska.
"I believe it," Anuska smiled while the desert was brought from the kitchen. Looking at Luke, she remembered, "By the way Cobb how was it in there?"
Luke looked at her after glare at Boba and Fennec.
"It was easy. Like I told you, sometimes kids need to see a new authority, so I didn't have any problem."
"Is that right? Then maybe you can take them dinner later on."
"I will love that actually," Luke smiled back, but deep inside he was eager to leave that place.
"Speaking of that, is there any reason why Thrawn wants kids? They always slows us down." Fennec spoke making Anuska look at him.
"I agree. But apparently one of the kids is very important. But I think he is more focus on the crystal one of the kids has. I don't know much, but I know it is very important."
"May I ask how you started working for Thrawn?" Boba asked her.
Anuska looked at him and stayed in silence for a while.
"I used to worked for Moff Gideon, but he is busy with his own problems with the Mandalorians and I found out Thrawn was after the Skywalkers and well I know them very well, specially Ines and Leia since we were kids, so I knew I could help."
"Something tell me you are for revenge," Fennec replied with a smirk.
"You are right. I want to get my revenge on Ines, specially after she put me in jail. So I have one of her kids here."
"She put you in jail?" Boba asked.
"She was lucky, that's all but now it is me who is laughing now, because she will never see her little brat."
"You know they are Jedi. If they know you are involve, you can be in big trouble," Boba continue.
"They will never find out where the kids are. I don't care. She stole the life I should have. I should be the one to be popular, and marry with the most famous guy in the galaxy and have his kids and she is the one who have all of that."
"So you are jealous of her!" Fennec replied making Anuska glare at her right away.
"Jealous? Never. She is just lucky I didn't arrive earlier, that's all."
Fennec smirked and glare at Luke and Boba. Not wanted to continue the conversation, Anuska stood up.
"Well I need to continue to make sure everything is ready for tomorrow. Dinner is served at 1900 hours. Feel free to walk around or rest. 15 minutes earlier you can pick the little brats dinner."
"I can't wait for that." Luke smiled looking at Anuska leaving.
"Maybe we should rest too," Boba said making them nod and standing up, they all head to their rooms hall.
Once they made sure they were alone, they entered in Luke's room.
"So you saw the kids?" Boba asked him right away.
"Yes. Don't worry, I made sure that they are ready. But there are another prisoner that we need to take with us."
"Are you sure?" Fennec asked.
"Yes. He is Ahsoka long time friend. I can't leave him here."
"Fine. Fennec and I already had everything plan. While you get the kids and that person, we will go the clone facility and out explosives."
"Once we put those, we have 10 minutes to leave this place, so you better have them out of here," Fennec said.
"So we will do when I take dinner towards them. I take the them with me. The guards will be easy to knocked down and then I will meet you at the entrance of the elevator."
"Perfect. Let's get do this and get out of here," Fennec said.
Hours Later:
Luke was walking down the hallway towards the door where his kid and nephew where, holding the tray on his hands. Boba and Fennec had left towards the facility, to put explosives and he knew he had minutes to leave there, before the whole thing blew up.
Opening the door he entered, smiling when the kids walked towards him.
"Hello Cobb," Ani said smiling and showing his little thumb, making Luke try everything to not to laugh.
"Very good," he said and closing the door behind him, he put the tray aside and sat down, pulling the kids towards him.
"Are we leaving?" Padmé asked.
"Yes sweetie. Papa is only waiting for my friends to warn me. So eat quickly while I talk to Ezra, okay?"
The kids nod and started to eat, while Luke walked towards the wall.
"Ezra, are you okay?"
"Yes, I'm here and I'm ready."
"Good cause we need to be quick and I need your help, especially to protect my daughter and nephew."
"You can count on me," Ezra said.
After a few minutes, Luke heard on his comlink Boba's voice.
"It is done. Go."
There was the sign that Luke was waiting. The moment he heard that on his ear, he looked at the kids.
"It is time. Don't be afraid. Nothing will happen to you okay?"
The kids nod, and grabbing their hands, the got out of the room, and stopped in front of Ezra's door, opening it.
A young man, clearly the same age as his, appeared.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome," Luke said. "Are you good shooting?"
"Yes. I'm better with a lightsaber but I don't have mine at the moment."
"Well then take this. I need backup," Luke said handling his weapon, while he took his green lightsaber, and looked at the kids. "Stay close to me and Ezra, okay?"
"Okay." the kids said at the same time.
Ezra and Luke looked at each other, and with a nod, they started to walked down the hallway. Once they reach the door, the guards turned around, and seeing the two men armed with a gun and a lightsaber, they were ready to shoot but Luke and Ezra just knocked them down with the force, making them leave unconscious on the floor.
Looking around, Luke glare at Ezra.
"Let's go."
"Where are we going?" Ezra asked.
"We need to go to the elevator that will take us to the surface. We will met my two friends there. Come on before someone pass by and see this."
Grabbing the kids hands, they head to the elevator. Going half way, they came across with some guards, that stopped them.
"Where are you going with the prisoners?" one of them asked.
Stepping in front, Luke raised his hand.
"You will let us pass."
The guards stood straight.
"We will let you pass," they repeat.
"You saw nothing."
"We saw nothing."
"Go back to your work."
"We need to get back to our work," they said and walked away, making Luke sighed, but at that moment, an alarm echoed through the all facility.
"I have a bad feeling about this," Ezra said.
"We better go now," Luke said and both picked the kids and ran towards the elevator.
When they reached, Boba and Fennec were not there yet. Looking at the time, he saw they only had 10 minutes.
"Where are your friends?" Ezra asked.
"They should be here by now." Luke replied trying not to sound worried to not scare the kids.
"Maybe something went wrong." Ezra replied.
"They will be here, trust me," Luke replied when he heard a woman's voice, that made the kids gasped in fear.
"What are you doing?"
Turning around, he saw Anuska with a gun on her hand. Putting his daughter on the ground and put the kids behind him and Ezra, Luke held his lightsaber tightly on his hands.
"Anuska, I don't want to hurt you, so put the gun down now."
"Who are you?" she asked glaring at the green lightsaber, and Luke could see her facial expression the moment she started to realize something. "You? Luke Skywalker."
"Anuska, don't make me hurt you. You don't have a chance." he said.
Behind them the elevator door opened, and Ezra took the kids inside.
"Luke come on, we need to go now."
"You did a big mistake coming back. You will never be able to leave this place and even if you do, Grand Admiral will get to you."
"We will see about that. Now put the gun down or I have to take some action."
"You will never be able to do anything. You don't have the courage." she said and pointed the gun but not at him but to Ezra.
Before Luke could do anything, a shot was heard and all of the sudden, Anuska fell on the ground.
"Well I do," Fennec said and looked back at Luke. "You were taking to long."
"We better leave cause we have company," Boba said and looking back they all saw some soldiers running towards them.
Running towards the elevator, Luke started to block the gun shots, and him and Ezra force push some of them, while the others started to shoot until the elevator door was closed and started to go up.
"Why you took so long?" Ezra asked making Boba looked at him and then to Luke.
"Boba, Fennec this is Ezra Bridger. Ezra this is Boba and Fennec."
"Is he like you?" Fennec asked which Luke nod.
"Well Ezra, Boba started. "As you just saw we had some problems along the way. And because of that we need to hurry cause we have less than 5 minutes to get out of here."
"Why? What happened after that?" Ezra asked.
Fennec looked at him and smirk.
"Boom," she said making Ezra looked at her with wide eyes.
"Then we need to hurry," she said.
Once the elevator stopped and once the doors opened, they picked up the kids and ran towards slave 1.
Boba went to the cockpit and started the ship.
Sitting on the back, Luke hold Padmé and Ani on his lap, as the ship lift up and right after they left the planet atmosphere, a bright light was saw followed by a big explosion sound. Covering the kids eyes, the ship shook for a while, until a few seconds later, everything went quite.
"We made it," Boba said, making the kids looked at Luke.
"I knew you would come Papa," Padmé said making Luke kissed her cheek.
"Always sweet girl." he replied smiling and looked at Ezra. "Ready to go home?"
"More than ready," Ezra replied at the same time the ship went into the lightspeed.
The kids are saved and Anuska is finally dead. What will be Ahsoka reaction when she sees Ezra coming with them?
