AKwxlady Obi Wans Daughter Part one Chapter two

Obi-Wan’s life settled into a routine of domestic chores (cooking, cleaning, gardening), watching Luke from afar, and meditation. During one session of meditation a few weeks after the party, Obi-Wan’s mind was touched by another’s.

“Help me!” 

 “Who are you?”  he reached back to the cry for help. There was no response. It had to be another surviving Jedi calling for help. Or it could be a trap of Vader’s. Obi-Wan cleared his mind and relaxed back into the Force.  “Who are you?” 

 “Help me, please.”

Obi-Wan relaxed again and tried a different approach.  “Where are you?”

 “Ryloth.”

Ryloth, the Twi’lek homeworld. But, the few Twi’lek Jedi were reported killed during the Purge, Order 66. Obi-Wan relaxed into the Force again and ask,  “Tell me your name?”

 “Lesanni.” 

Lesanni Topan! A young, human, male who had made Jedi knight just weeks before Order 66. If only he could be rescued…?  “Who is chasing you?”

'' “Vader. Please…help me.” ''

The Starfighter Obi-Wan had used to bring Luke to Tatooine was still berthed at Mos Eisley space port. He could be at Ryloth in less than two days. He cleared his mind and touched the Force,  “I’m on my way to help you.”

The Starfighter’s hyperspace timer was counting down. Obi-Wan readied to move the lever that would bring the ship back into realspace and at the same time he started reaching into the Force to contact the young Jedi Lesanni. He pushed the control and the stars returned to normal, with the planet Ryloth off in the distance. Obi-Wan stretched out with the Force,  “Lesanni, are you there?” 

No answer.

Obi-Wan deepened his connection to the Force,  “Lesanni Topan, can you hear me?” 

'' “The young one is dead, and you should not have come my old Master. Now you will, also, die.”'' The voice was deep and dark in Obi-Wan’s mind, but there was no mistaking the evil behind it. Darth Vader, and he was near.

Obi-Wan quickly rolled his Starfighter as a salvo of laser fire ripped past his canopy. He feared this old fighter was not up to battle, its shields were minimal and the laser batteries had not been charged for two years. Vader was coming up behind him. Obi-Wan had to think quickly. He pointed the nose of the ship toward Wild Space and calculated a microjump. It only took the navcomputer a few seconds to signal a course and he pulled the hyperspace lever. The stars blurred to hyperspace for a minute, then snapped back into place at the end of the quick jump. Laser fire exploded over his starboard wing. Blast. Vader had followed him. They knew each other too well. Obi-Wan quickly turned his Starfighter toward Shadd-Br-Borran and programmed for another microjump. Only, this time he planned to follow it with a second jump back toward Ryloth to confuse Vader’s sensors. It was a tricky maneuver, but it should give him time to find a place hide for a while.

The jump toward Shadd-Br-Borran ended well, but when Obi-Wan engaged the hyperdrive for the microjump back toward Ryloth there was an ominous thud from the drive section. There was a definite vibration of the ship as the stars stretched into hyperspace, then the drive began making a sound that reminded Obi-Wan oddly of the call of a krayt dragon. Suddenly, the Starfighter dropped out of hyperspace and smoke started to fill the cockpit.

“I’ve got a bad feeling about this,” Obi-Wan said as he grabbed a respirator. He did a visual recon of the area and spotted a yellow sun with several planets not too far away. He didn’t recognize the star system, but sensor scans showed the third planted had humanoid life and a breathable atmosphere. He shut down all unnecessary systems and headed toward the third planet.

The Starfighter entered the atmosphere with much less control than Obi-Wan had anticipated. “Seams I’ve lost some of that starboard wing surface. That’s a bit of a problem.” The terrain below was rapidly changing from villages and fields to mountains and a lake. “Maybe, I’ll try for a swim in the lake,” he said trying to coax the ship away from the mountain rapidly approaching his vector. The Starfighter controls would not respond to his attempts to maneuver toward the lake, and the mountain kept getting closer. “Oh, this is not good.”

Obi-Wan fought the controls as the fighter brushed the tops of the forest trees. He could hear the metal of the ship being torn apart and knew he would soon lose control. He hit the canopy hatch release, then Force jumped free of the ship. The Starfighter burst into flames as it crashed through the forest trees and finally skid along the ground. Even with the Force, Obi-Wan was traveling too fast to control his descent. His body smashed into several trees before making it to the forest floor, where he lost consciousness.

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