Death Star: episode #65 The Accident
Previously: Luke went through the entire registration process and was assigned to the Blue Squadron as Blue 5. I gave Bail the sword and R2 and told him about being captured by Vader and Tarkin.
After I gave him the droid, I saw Han and Chewie walking towards me. I hurried up to meet them, and then we saw Luke coming towards us in the distance. Mon Mothma was thinking over her recent discussion with her good friend Bail as she was walking in the opposite direction form Luke, Han, Chewie, and me. I think it�s high time you know a little more bout her. She had gone through so much�no one really knew all that she had gone through except a couple of people. She had seen the Republic deteriorate as Palpatine took it over and turned it into the Empire during the Clone Wars. She had been in love once, and had had a very caring husband. But the times had not been good�she had lost her husband in the worst possible way ever. She had had t hide for almost 20 years. She no longer had much hope for anything in the galaxy. She had not been able to laugh or anything�the word fun had no meaning to her anymore. She really wanted the Rebellion to crush the Empire she hated, but even that she didn�t let herself become too hopeful in. You can imagine how depressed and down she really was. She paid little attention to the people around her as she walked along. In contrast to this, Luke, me, Han, and Chewie were actually having fun. As soon as we all met up, Luke says, �Hey guess what I�m going to be fighting in an X-wing.� Han looks at Luke. �Yeah, congratulations, kid.� Luke was in a wonderful mood. �Come on, I want to check out my new ship. I finally get to do some damage to the Empire.� We were laughing and talking amongst ourselves. Han said something so funny that if we even looked at each other, we�d bust up laughing. We were in that state when Mon Mothma was where we were, but in the opposite direction. Luke wasn�t paying attention to where he was going, because he had just said something to Han, and Han said, �Come here kid, I�ll get you for that.� Luke, trying to avoid Han ran into Mon Mothma, not hard enough to knock her over, but hard enough to throw her off balance. Luke, trying to keep a straight face, while glancing at us says, �Sorry�you�ll have to excuse us, we�re just�� She cuts him off with, �You kids better watch where you�re going in a place like this.� She was not humored at all by this. She had been carrying a coffee mug with steaming hot coffee in it, and it had gotten all over her and a tiny bit on Luke. Luke hadn�t noticed that until now. �Look,� he says. �I�m sorry.� �This dress was a gift from my husband.� Luke doesn�t know what to say�he feels terrible. �Like I said, I�m sorry�I feel bad about it�really I do. I�d give you credits to buy another outfit, for your husband to buy you another one, but I don�t have any credits. I spent them all on pictures.� She continues to look annoyed, �my husband�s dead. This kind of fabric is not available anymore. I got it during the Clone Wars.� Han says, �My�look at the time. We have to get going if you want to look at that ship.� Luke realizes that Han�s trying to get Luke out of the situation he�s in, he turns and says, �again I�m sorry, but there�s nothing I can do about it now.� We all walk away as fast as possible towards the x-wings, not looking back. We don�t say anything to each other until we reach the ship. We pretend as though that incident had not happened, but Luke still feels bad about it. We all do, but he was the one who had run into her. Mon Mothma shook her head as we left. She didn�t understand how anyone could laugh or be happy. �Kids these days,� she said t herself. The dress hadn�t been all that her husband had given to her, and it mattered to her, but she was pretty sure she could get the stains out. She had called us all kids, but Han was quite a bit older than Luke and me�he was 31, and she was 44 herself, but she hadn�t noticed. Anyway, the reason why she was headed this way was to see Bail Organa and the other top Rebel officials about the Death Star plans. Shmi, Bail, Mon Mothma, and the rest sat down. Bail says, �We found a weakness in the plans. My daughter, Leia brought these. Looks like we could have small one-man fighters as our only option. That is the reason I asked you to be here, Shmi. You know the numbers. Do we have enough x-wing and y-wing pilots?� She nods. �Good, send out a message. We need a briefing for everyone here, whether they�re going to do the fighting or not.� Shmi left to make the announcement. Bail comes up to Mon Mothma, �What happened?� Mon Mothma, very embarrassed says, �Some careless kid ran into me.� Bail nods. �Um, you haven�t met Leia yet have you?� �No,� she says. �I�ll introduce you to her before the briefing.� �Thanks,� she says as people had heard the announcement and began filing in.
Until next time!
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Death Star: episode #65 The Accident