Death Star: episode #58 The Tractor Beam and a Vader/Obi-Wan fight
Previously: Luke rescued me, and I got Owen out of his cell. Darth Vader tells Tarkin his suspicions of Obi-Wan being on the Death Star. Then Vader goes off in hopes to fight and kill Obi-Wan Kenobi, his old master. Obi-Wan is preparing to take out the tractor beam.
He knew he would try and avoid confronting Darth Vader at all cost, but if he had to fight him he would. Obi-wan noticed that there were a whole bunch of stormtroopers searching for someone�he doubted it was him. �Must be Luke and the pilot. I wonder what they got themselves into�actually it�s probably because of Leia. If it is, good going Luke.� Obi-wan says as he approaches the tractor beam controller. It doesn�t take him long before he is in the same room as this controller. A couple of stormtroopers are at an exit to the room directly across form the one Obi-wan came in on. The stormtroopers are looking in the opposite direction and talking amongst themselves. �They won�t� be a problem,� says Obi-wan to himself. Obi-wan goes up too the device and turns all switches to off, and he hears a whining sound, as the tractor beam is no longer effective. The stormtroopers however heard the deactivation of the tractor beam. Obi-Wan is safely away from plain view and is in the shadows. One stormtrooper says to the other, �Did you hear that?� Obi-An quickly then uses the force to cause a loud clanking noise. The other stormtroopers says, �What was that?� So, convinced that something was amiss outside of the room, the stormtroopers leave, and Obi-Wan exits the room via that exit. His deed accomplished, Obi-wan relaxes slightly. �I hope Luke�s all right. He was kind of sick there, and all those storms troopers are after him. I�m sure he�s fine�but �not that that�s done what to do? I suppose I�d better get back to the ship. The others may be already waiting for me,� Obi-Wan says to himself as he goes in the direction of the hanger holding the Millennium Falcon. But just when it is within view, he feels the presence of one he�d just as soon stay away form��Darth Vader,� he thinks to himself. Soon the artificial breathing of Darth Vader becomes audible. Obi-wan unclips his lightsaber, but does not ignite it yet. Vader ignites his, �So we meet again, at last. Now the circle is complete. When last we parted, I was but a learner, and you were the master, but now I am the master.� �Only a master of evil, Darth,� says Obi-wan igniting his own lightsaber. Darth Vader swung at Obi-wan, but Obi-wan deflected it with is lightsaber. �Your powers are weak old man,� comments Vader. (But it was untrue.) As they continue to fight, Obi-Wan realizes that Darth Vader has grown stronger in the Force than the last time they had fought. �You can�t win, Darth. If I kill you, you will just cease to exist, but if you kill me, I shall become more powerful than you could ever imagine.� Vader says, �Your tricks don�t work on me anymore.� Obi-wan knew darn well how powerful his opponent was, but there were things Vader had never learned�lessons that could be the end of him. We must leave this fighting pair for now, don�t worry we�ll be getting back to them, but I need to go back and do the droids. Now R2-d2 and C-3PO had been in that first room all this time, remember. Well, they did lock the door, but sooner or later it was inevitable that some suspicious Imperials would come to check on things, especially since there had been no activity from that room. So ten or so stormtroopers went to the command room, found the door locked, said, �Hey! Open up in there!�, got not response, so they blasted won the door. C-3PO was an extremely well put together droid by the geniuses of the person that had built him, so the situation was not hopeless. C-3PO simply went up to the stormtrooper in charge and said loudly, �Help! Madmen�they went in that direction. If you hurry maybe you could catch up with them!� The stormtrooper nodded and all but one stormtrooper left. 3PO then said, �All this excitement has short-circuited some parts in my counterpart here. Do you mind if I take him down to maintenance?� �Okay,� agrees the bored and stupid stormtrooper. C-3PO and R2 make it to an area of the hanger directly across from where Obi-wan Kenobi is fighting Darth Vader. See-Threepio has a comlink that�s other end Luke has, but has switched it off. There is as computer terminal right here, so Artoo-Detoo is checking things. Threepio, worried, says, �Where could master Luke be. Hurry up�see if they�ve been captured.� R2-D2 gives a negative response after checking the entire database of the Imperial network. �Oh, good,� says C-3Po. �But here could they be?� That answer will be given in the next episode. So, until then�
Until next time!
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Death Star: episode #58 The Tractor Beam and a Vader/Obi-Wan fight