Here is the next chapter. Sorry it took so long. Things have been busy and my muse took a long vacation. I also have other stories I am writing that I have not started posting. One is a Star Wars story.
Luke was in the cockpit of the Escape getting the ship ready for the trip to Naboo. Mara was making sure the ship was secured and all their supplies were put away where she wanted them.
It didn't take much covincing for High Command to let them go. With Both Masters Yoda and Horn staying with the fleet along with the other Jedi Command granted their leave.
Luke was just finishin gup when Mara walked in the cockpit and sat in the pilotes chair.
"We are all set to go. Did you set a course that will take us to Bespin on the way to Naboo?" asked Mara.
Luke chuckled. Yes I did. If Anikin is there it will be a differant ending to out meeting."
"It better be or I will vape you myself." relied Mara.
"Love you too Mara." replied Luke.
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Mara brought the Escape out of Hyperspace just outside the Bespin system. "Lets hope we can land without drawing to much attention to ourselves." commented Luke.
Mara raised an eyebrow. "After all these you dought my ability to get into a system without drawing attention to myself."
"Forgive me for my slight lack in faith." answered Luke.
"I'll think about forgiving you but it depends on how well you apologize later in our quarters." said a smirking Mara. "Lets run a scan of the system and see if Daddy dearest has arrived yet."
Luke did a full scan while making sure the were not detected by other ships in the area. Mara brought the Escape around the planet so they could make sure there were no hidden ships on the far side of Bespin. After finding anything Mara set course for the mining colony on Bespin.
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Mara had landed on a pad near were Luke remembering the Falcon landed in the other time line. Neither of them saw the Falcon or any Star Destroyers on their way in.
"Looks like we got here first. Question is when do we confront Vader and his storm Troopers?" asked Luke.
"I say we keep an eye on things but we could wait till they were taken to the detention block and rescue them. Might even be able to get out before Vader knows we here." answered Mara.
"OK, we will go with that plan. Maybe if we can intercept them at the lannding bay." suggested Luke.
"Only problem is the Hyperdrive is probably down. That probably why they didn't meet up with us at the fleet. We can only guess they are on their way here." commented Mara.
It was tree days later that Vader showed up with Boba Fitt. To try to make sure that Fitt didn't get away with Han if things went wrong, Mara snuck out and sabatoged his ship.
The Falcon arrived the next day. Luke and Mara hid near the landing bay and waited for them to pass by with Lando. Mara followed them to find out where they were staying and to stop C3PO from getting blasted apart.
Luke snuck on the Falcon with R2-D2 to work on the Hyperdrive. It didn't take long to figure out what was wrong. Luckily Han had enough parts to get it to work long enough to get out of the system and to Naboo which was close by. He and R2 got to work. It took them a few hours to get it fixed enough to get out of here.
Mara stayed just far enough away not to be seen. When she notice C3PO stop and head through a side door she sped up and grabbed him from behind just before he went in the room the Stoor Troopers were hidding in.
With her hand over his mouth Mara pulled C3PO back out of the room they were in. "C3PO dodn't say a word. If you say one thing when I remove my hand I'll cut you up with my light saber. Nod your head if you understand."
C3PO nodded and Mara remover her hand. "Now there are things going on that can get us all killed. I am sending you to the Escape. You will stay there and sit and wait for Luke or I and if you touch anything I'll space you after I cut you in to a 100 little pieces. Nod if you understand."
C3PO nodded again. Mara gave Him the docking info and sent him on his way. After C3PO left Mara took off after the others. It took her a little while to find them. When she found their quarters she needed to wait for Lando to leave. She knew Lando would need to leave with them or Vader would more then likely kill him when Han and the others escaped.
It was about another hour for Lando to leave. When he was gone Mara checked to make sure no one was around. She had to be carefull as she didn't need anyone to see her enter the quarters her friends were in.
Mara knocked on their door. It only took a couple minutes for Chewie to answer the door. He was surprised but moved aside to let her in.
"Chewie I will tell all of you what's going on in a minute. Please get Han and Leia." Chewie left and came back with the others a minute later.
"Mara what are you doing her and where is the Kid?" asked Han.
"Luke is trying to get the Falcon running so you can get out of here. Vader is here. He got here yesterday along with Fett." Mara told them. "When Luke is done we will need to ge your friend Lando and get out of here fast."
Han was mad. Lando didn't warn them. "You want us to bring that traitor with us. He sold us out."
Mara glared at Han "Han thank about it. Vader just shows up. He has a whole city of people to look after. Once we get out of her talk with him but try to control your anger. Keep an open mind."
"OK, Sister but one wrong word and he is floating in space." said a still angery Han.
"Mara we need to find C3PO before we leave. He got seperated on the way here." Leia informed Mara.
"Don't worry about C3PO. I got him stashed on the Escape. I got a confermation from Little Trouble that he arrived." answered Mara.
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Luke was finishing up and was checking the ship for any surprises when he got a message that Lando had arrived to collect Hand, Leia and Chewie and take them to meet Vader. He sent a return message that everything seem to be in order and he would meet them at their quarters in 20 minutes.
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Mara and the others were talking when there was knock on the door. Mara moved so she would not be seen as soon as Lando walked in. Chewie answered the door and blocked the exit so Lando could not leave.
Han stood and faced is old friend. "Hey old friend. How is your knew friend Vader doing?"
Before Lando could even think about drawing a blaster it was yanked out of its holster by Mara using the force. He turned around quickly in surprise.
"Calrissian, relax and you will not be harmed. We are waiting for the OK and then all of us are getting out of here before Vader cn stop us. You are coming with us because if you stay you will be killed." Mara informed Lando.
A shaken Lando asked "Who are you and how did you know about Vade and the Empre showing up her?"
"As for how I know I will not say but as for who I am. I am Jedi Master Mara Jade Skywalker and I am here to rescue all of you along with help of my husband who will be here shortly." answered Mara.
Lando was just dumb founded. He thought all the Jedi were wipped out years ago. "How are you still alive I thought the Empire killed all of you."
"I can't say right now. We need to be reading to go. Lke is on his way and should be here any minute." Mara had heard over the comm piece she had in her ear while Lando was talking.
When Luke arrived he notice everyone was ready to go. "OK, Mara and I will lead with Leia bringing up the rear. Chewie I want you to cover her while Han and Lando cover Mara and I. If we run into any Storm Troopers Mara and I will deal with them quickly while the rest of you make a run for it. We will catch up with you. If Vader shows up. Clear out fast. Mara and I will delay him before making an escape to our ship."
Before anyone could ask any questions Luke turned and headed back out the door with Mara right behind him. They were half way to the Falcon when they ran into some Storm Troopers. Luke and Mara pulled out their light sabers and deflected blaster bolts back toward the storm troopers Han and Lando fired at the storm troopers taking a coupe down befor Leia was pushing them along. Luke and Mara joined back up a coupe minutes later.
When they joined back up Lando took a minute to warn the citizans of Clowd City. When he was done they off again. They were almost to the Falcon when they ran into more storm troopers with Vader with them. Luke and Mara threw off their cloaks and drew their sablers and ignited them. Han, Chewie and Lando opened up on the few storm troopers Vader had with him.
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Luke moved to wear he was between Vader and the others. Mara moved beside him but with enough distance to give the other room to move.
"Vader. You can't win. Surrender and face justice for the crimes you have commited." commanded Luke.
"It will be you who surrenders and Joins me or your friends will die." answered Vader.
"I think not Anakin. If you think I will join you you have another thing coming." responded Luke.
Vader attacked after Luke finished speaking. Both Luke and Mara went on the defence till the others were safe. Then they would attack to give them space enough to clear the area them selves.
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Han and the others took out the storm troopers farely fast. Leia deflected blaster bolts back at them while Han, Chewie and Lando shot the troopers. Once they killed the last storm trooper they started to take off. Han stopped to check on Luke and Mara before turning the corner to see the two of them start to push Vader back.
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Vader could not believe how well they were doing against him. He was not sure he would be able to defeat his son on a one on one much less while he had help of the red head. He was being pushed back and no matter what he tried he was not able to turn the fight back his way. They were in a major intersection when he felt the pain of losing the hand holding his saber.
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Luke and Mara had pushed Vader back to the intersection that had the coridor that they needed to take to get back to the Escape. They needed to keep Vader from coming after him. He signaled Mara to get rady. When she ackowleged him Luke stepped forward and increased his attack and managed to hit Vaders right wrist taking that hand off and cauing him to loses his saber.
Both Luke and Mara didn't wait to see what he did. Tey took off as fast as they could. It didn't take long to reach the Escape using the force to increase their speed. While Mara got the ship ready for take off Luke watched for more Storm Troopers. When she had the ship ready to go he ran up the ramp as the Escape took off.
When they caugh up with the Falcon they notice several Te Fighters chacing them. Mara took over the guns while Luke flew. Once both ships were clear Mara sent hyperspace cordinats for the Falon to meet them.
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Vader was angery. He had not been bested with a light saber since he lost to Obi-Wan on Mustafar. His son and who ever the redhead were, they were both powerfull and well trained. If he could get them to side with him it would garentee the end of the Emperor. His Master would not be happy. He headed back to his ship to report his failer to the Emperor.
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The Escape came out of Hyperspace a couple minutes after the Falcon. Mara maneuvered the Escape to come along tha Falcn. Lke radioed Han.
"Han to you copy?"
"Yea Kid. Thanks for the save back there." replied Han.
"No problem Han. How is the Hyperdrive?" asked Luke.
"It's working. What repairs you did are holding but I wnt to get some place and check thing out." said Han.
"OK, I used some old parts and fixed them enough to get you out of there nd hopefully to where we have the twins. If you don't think you can make it that far we can head back to Hoth and see if there is a base we can still land at and look for parts." replied Luke.
"Do you think it issafe enough on Hoth Luke?" asked Leia.
"Yea, chances are Vader was to busy trying to catch all of us after we fled. None of the At-At got close to the base. So unless it took time landing more, he didn't have any ground troops on Hoth and all the Star Destroyers in space above the base were hit but the ion cannon and fighters." answered Luke.
"Han why don't you gus park the Falcon near the astroid field and Luke and I will check out Hoth. We should be able to get there check it out and be back in about 6 hours." suggested Mara.
"OK hurry back. The parts Luke used were not in the best shape thats why they were replaced. They worked good to get us out of there but I don't want to take any chances on use making it all the way to where the twins are." answere Han.
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Mara had just landed the Escape in the main hanger bay at Echo Base. Luke and her were checking it out to make sure it was safe.
"Looks like the Empire never made it to the base." commented Mara.
"Yea and none of the wampa ice creatures made it either. I sence no life forms on the base but us. The Alliance could even move back. I dought the Empire would look here again for them." answered Luke.
"You really want to be stationed back here again?" asked Mara.
"No but even if the Alliance doesn't use it the Jedi could. I've been thinking when we finally win that we set up hidden bases for the Jedi to use and do training." replied Luke.
"Well if you want to sleep next to me Farmboy you might want to stick Horn here because I have no desire to be back." answered Mara.
"Don't worry Mara. If we do use Echo Base it will be upgraded before moving in."
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After they finished their search of Echo Base Luke and Mara went back and got the Falcon and its crew. Now Han and Luke were working on the Hyperdrive. Chewie and Lando were standing guard incase any wampas got in the base. Mara and Leia were in the command center speaking with General Rieekan and Admiral Ackbar about Echo base.
It took 4 hours to get the Falcon up and running right. Luckily Luke had some parts on the Escape that could be used to fix tha Falcon. When they got done with the hyperdrive they went through and checked other systems.
While Han and Luke worked on the Falcon Mara and Leia check the base for things that had been left behind. They got Chewie to help them and left Lando to watch for wampas.
When they got everything done everyone sat in the Escape's lounge and ate dinner.
"So are you off to see the twins?" asked Han.
"Yes. It's been to long and I hate being seperatd from them." said an upset Mara.
Luke wrapped his wife in his arms. "We wont be able to stay long but we will at least get a few days with them before having to head back to the fleet."
Lando looked confused "Who are these twins you keep talking about?"
"Mine and Mara's daughters. We sent them into hidding." replied Luke.
Lando didn't know what to say to that. Chewie spoke up. {When this is all over you will have the rest of your lives to show them how much love you have for them. One day they will understand.}
"Thanks Chewie." answered Luke. Mara was too upset to talk.
"Lets all get prefight done and get back in space. Once we leave I will send a signal and the base computer will lock the place down till the Alliance decides to come back." suggested Leia.
Everyone that was flying out on the Falcon left while Luke and Mara headed to the cockpit of the Escape. 30 minutes later both ships were heading into hyperspace.
Hope you enjoyed it. I will start working on the next chapter soon. I hope. We are heading into the 'Return of the Jedi' time line. Still trying to figure out the final battle and what happens after Endor.