Star Wars Alliances S1 EP2 Unfriendly Senator

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Series: Star Wars Alliances

Category:Short stories

After the attack, Han and Luke are forced to find Leia, this Imperial traitor, and to end the deception, but this is not nearly as easy when this Traitor alerts the Empire to the Rebel's assemblage.

Among the now dark sky of Hojan Five, Garrick Sedwar sat on a pole-very similar to the ones back on Yavin Four-looking for any trace of Luke or the others, but he didn't see anything, though at this time of night it was beginning to darken. Soon he wouldn't be able to see anything,

Wedge Antilles had been the first person Garrick had tried to comm, but the comm machine told him that Wedge was unreachable.

"Kirzz's sake," Garrick muttered.

He tried General Rieekan, but it gave him the same answer. Maybe a little bit too fast this time...

And then, it hit him.

For the same reason Luke, Solo, and Leia had been staying on this moon for no reason, Garrick's comlink wasn't working either, though he was still receiving messages.

Garrick Sedwar muttered something, and took off after his team-

"Hold it right there, Rebel Scum!"

Two Stormtroopers appeared in front of Garrick, and he suspected three from behind. "So the trap has already been set," he murmured.

"Get moving, Scum. And throw your blaster." Garrick complied, and threw the blaster into the woods.

Suddenly, a loud bird cry was heard.

The five Stormtroopers snapped into defensive positions.

"Commander?" One in the front said.

"It's just one of those Irggahs bird cries that they told us about in the briefing," a Stormtrooper from behind said.

Garrick moved his head just a little to see a Stormtrooper Commander, with a side orange flap, indicating the fact he was higher ranked.

In the night of Hojan Five, Garrick smiled.

The bird call came again, then again, and then one final time.

Garrick made his move.

Han walked with care through the new building. The inside was dark, gloomy, and according to Pepin all the lights were broken.

None of it was overgrown, but all of it was creepy and scary. And while Han had learned not to only judge by that, he was pretty sure it was the case here.

"Nice place ya got here," Han said.

"It's not mine," Pepin said.

"Defensive, huh?"

Han said the words absently, while he was silently looking for anything-anything, a secret passage way, a door to an underground, a door to an attic, a door to a krifing kitchen-that would lead to Leia.

Of course, he didn't make it known, but Han himself knew that Luke and Chewie knew. Still, he could still salvage some of his respect if the Ambassadors didn't know it.

"Run down," Luke said.

Chewie roared.

"Probably older than the Clone Wars," Han agreed.

"We'd better find answers here," Luke said.

"I'm not sure about you, Luke, but I'm tired about running in circles when it won't get us anywhere. This plot ends here, and I'm not wasting anytime."

"Don't worry, the end of all this is near." Pepin smiled.

"Just... be careful, Han," Luke told him.

"Don't worry, kid. It's me."

"Master Luke," Threepio said. "Can we-me and Artoo-stay behind here? Ambassador Leekain Ruwn needs company."

Artoo beeped next to the golden droid.

"Scared? Are you calling me scared? Listen, you oversized trash compactor!... you're, uhm, scared too."

"It's fine, Threepio," Luke said. "Me and Han will check things out."

"Chewie, it'd be best if you stay. They alone probably couldn't fight off a bantha by themselves."

Chewie growled his thoughts on that.

"I'll go with them," Chancellor Pepin said.

"If you insist," Han murmured. He didn't care in who's company, he was going to find Leia, and no Empire in the Galaxy could stop him for long.

The thought was odd. Han had always been a scoundrel. But for all the old Smuggler knew, Leia was dead. At the very least, Han had to know that, or not the mystery would hang over his life. He might joke about it, but Leia was the first and the only woman Han had ever had feelings for. He wasn't gonna let her die or be imprisoned forever now.

"Be careful, Han," Luke warned again.

The basement cell was hardly a cell, and it was more of a closed off room in the basement, a last second thought on the part of the 'independent' defel.

"If they rushed us here, they could've made a mistake, maybe a mistake we could use to escape," Leia explained.

"We'd better start searching," Blohn said.

That was the thing about Blohn, Leia mused. She never gave up. If Blohn gave up, then the cause was likely hopeless.

Conduits marked the wall, which led power to lamps, doors, and other things. Leia saw if she could tinker with any of them, but so far she'd had no luck. "Blohn?"

"Not very well. When ever something begins to look interesting, it goes into the wall."

"Well," Leia began, "keep searching. See if you can-"

"Hello?" A new voice came. "Is anybody out there?"

For a moment, Leia stopped. "Senator Been Hun?"

"Leia! Princess! My lil Princess! We all seem to be in trouble, so shall we help one another?"

"This is Senator Been Hun?" Blohn murmured. "He's sounds... stupid."

"Wait until you see his hair," Leia retorted. "Senator Hun," she began, raising her voice. "Where are you?"

"Where are you?"

Leia thought for a moment on where his voice was coming from. "North of your cell."

"Whoa! How'd you know?"

"Just try and find some cracks, and peak through."

"On it," Hun said.

For several seconds, Leia heard faint sounds of Hun's footsteps, then him stopping. "I seem to have found something."

She looked through all of the cracks, but didn't see Hun's face. Then she saw a small, tiny, hole in the wall, in which a conduit went through to the next room.

Leia rushed over there, and tried to dislodge the stone.

She pushed, but then she stopped and gasped for breath. She couldn't do it alone...

She looked to see Blohn, and smiled.

Blohn, with a small durosteel rod, hit the stone with the rod, and the stone flew out. She looked into the gap.

And there was Senator Been Hun.

"Senator!"

"Princess," Hun said. "I hope you don't still think I'm the traitor because we're gonna have to work together to get out of this."

"Don't worry," Leia said. "See this conduit?" She said, and pointed towards the cable that ran through the small crack. "Where does it lead on you side?"

"Let me see..."

Hun moved away from the crack in the wall that let him see Leia. He made a 'huh' sound, and Leia saw him return back to the crack. "It leads to a door," Hun said.

"Good, because the power term for it is right in our room."

Hun was silent for a second. "I thought these people were professional."

"They are, but their defel isn't."

Leia looked back at the power terminal, and back to the crack.

"Want me to break it?" Blohn said, lifting her metal rod.

"Wait a second, first. Senator Hun, try and press the open button on the blast door."

"Sure," Hun said.

She heard a clicking sound, and Hun went back to the crack. Now Leia saw another version of him, a serious determined person, experienced in smooth talking, politics, and getting out of sticky situations.

"The very bottom will open, but then it stops and makes an odd noise. I think it has some sort of power jam."

Leia looked back to the terminal. "If we destroyed the power termimal, and you hit the button to open the door with good timing, could the power jam be released and the door open with what ever power is left in the cables?"

"It's our best shot. Or more like our only shot."

Leia nodded towards Blohn. "On my mark, both of you."

She gulped.

"One... Two... Three... Hun-Blohn!"

Blohn threw her rod at the power terminal, and it made a buzzing sound, and shut down.

"Hun?"

"It... it worked!"

She let out a gasp of air she didn't know she was holding. "Hun, quickly. Open our door and release a distress signal, or else all of this would have been for nothing."

"Copy."

She heard Hun go past the blast doors, and he began to tread on more of a durosteel platform.

She heard him at work, typing...

And suddenly, a blaster shot.

The door to their door opened, to reveal the defel. "You'd really think you'd be able to get away with that?" The shadow threw Hun's body back into the cell. "Unless he sees any medical attention in the next day, he'll die. But none of you will get any attention for a very long time."

The defel walked out, and closed the door.

A minutes after, she heard a steady beeping.

Luke, Han and Pepin walked through the corridors of the rusted building. Pepin had told them Leia was upwards, but Luke had to wonder how he was sure. In the last thirty minutes, Luke's suspicions had gone straight to Pepin.

Chancellor Pepin's data pad signaled, and muttered something. "I'm sorry, gentlemen, but you'll have to excuse me."

Luke began to turn around-

And jumped to the side.

A blaster shot flew through the space Luke had just been.

Han began to draw his blaster with the speed he alway did, he lifted it up and fired.

But the shot had only hit a blast door.

"He got away," Han said.

"I'll start cutting us an exist," Luke said. He ignited his lightsaber, and for a second stared at it. "You see what's left on this floor."

"Fine."

Garrick smacked the blaster out of the Stormtrooper's hand, sending his E11 flying.

To the credit of the Stormtroopers, they reacted instantly, but after blaster fire only two had noticed, excluding the one who no longer had a weapon.

Blaster fire was coming out of the trees by Rebel scouts, a blasterless prisoner wasn't much to worry about.

He made sure that the Stormtrooper was facing the other two so he wouldn't be shot-

With only a second of hesitation, the two Stormtroopers fired at their comrade. It was only a matter of time before they hit Garrick now.

He looked around the pockets of the Stormtrooper, and saw a glowing ball. A Thermal Detonator.

He grabbed one out of the Trooper's pocket, but he heard another one being activated-

He jumped out of the way, and threw his at the same time.

The three shots the Stormtroopers had gotten off before they had noticed the Detonator had missed, and once they noticed the bomb, it was too late.

Blaster fire from the forest had finished the last Stormtrooper, and now Rebel soldiers began to walk out.

"Garrick?" Lieutenant Bhrrn said.

"I'm fine, sir," he said, but looked towards the clearing which Luke and the others had gone into. "But I think the others are in trouble."

Han had returned to Luke just a minute after he'd finished cutting the door.

"Nothing?" He asked.

"No," Han growled. "There was a prison cell at the top, and I swear Leia was in it at some point, but they moved her."

"That leaves a lot of places where she could be," Luke murmured.

"It does, doesn't it?"

All of a sudden, Luke's datapad beeped. He'd turned off messages on almost all frequencies...

He pulled it out, and keyed for the message.

"Leia," Luke said. "Han, now! We need to go to the basement now!"

Luke began to put the datapad back into his pockets, when he saw it stopped transmitting. He gulped, but began running faster.

"How do you know where she is? Is it a Jedi thing?" Han asked.

"No, she left a distress signal. We're following it, but it just stopped transmitting."

"We better hurry then," Han murmured.

They rounded the corner to find a passage way underground. Both of them went through, and turned to left as the passage way demanded. The passage way ended, and now they were in the underground.

The underground was colored with red-ish stones, and the occasional durosteel, but mostly in the rods. The lights were working, that meant that this part of the house was getting lots more of attention then the upper levels.

Han and Luke walked with care, looking around every corner before going into them.

The next passage way was larger, with several different doors branching off in different directions. "We don't have time for this," Han said.

Luke closed his eyes for a second. Was the kid focusing?

"That way," Luke said, pointing.

Han wanted to object, or make some witty remark, but there was no time.

Luke ran through first, with Han right behind him.

A blast door opened automatically in front of them and-

Led them to Pepin and a Wraith.

"Fire!"

The door closed behind Han and Luke, and they both jumped for cover behind crates.

Pepin and the Defel fired aimlessly.

"You were the one that killed Senator Reenhen, eh, Pepin?" Han said.

"It was indeeed him," the defel said, "and now heee's going to kill you!"

Luke peaked out of cover to fire at them, and hit Pepin in the leg-

But the defel knocked his blaster flying, rendering it useless.

Han himself peaked out of cover to fire two shots, but none of them hit.

"We're not gonna get anywhere like this," Luke said. "Han, cover me, I'm going in."

"Kid, you don't even have a blaster... no."

"I'm going Han."

He went.

Han didn't waste time shacking his head, and instead fired shots at the Defel and Pepin.

Pepin, behind a line of tech, seemed to stop shooting.

The defel, on the opposite side, stayed. The wraith fired several bolts at Luke, but he panicked and they all missed.

Before he could fire again, Han shot the blaster out of his hand.

The wraith grabbed a small vibroblade, and tried to clash it with Luke's saber-

And the virboblade was cut in half.

The Wraith just stayed there and gaped at his lost weapon. Then, with what remained of his blade, he charged Luke-

And Han shot the shadow clean in his shadowy chest, and the Defel fell to the ground, still looking like a shadow.

"Where'd Pepin go?"

"He escaped," Luke said. "He must have some secret compartment. Either way, we don't have time. The building is set to self destruct."

"Oh, great."

Han and Luke ran towards the cells.

"Leia!" Han began to scream.

"Leia!" Luke screamed with him.

"Luke? Han?" Han heard Leia's voice.

"Leia!"

Luke began cutting down the blast door. A grin on both of his and Han's face.

The door opened, and both Leia and Blohn walked out.

Leia hugged Luke and Han, and they greeted Blohn.

But once Blohn moved out of the way, Han saw something. "Is that...?"

"We need to get him to a medical station," she said.

"We have one on the Falcon-but please, the building is set to self-destruct.

"What?"

Blohn and Luke picked up Hun. "Run!" Luke screamed.

With Hun's body, they ran out of the cell area.

A blast door opened automatically for them, and all of them ran through.

Coming out of a passage, they ran into a large area with at least seven doors from where they just came.

Once out of the large passage, they arrived at almost a strait, then a flight of stairs to go up.

"Quickly!' Blohn said.

They ran up the stairs, all of them tired, but they kept running.

Luke flicked on his comlink. "Threepio? Artoo?"

"Master Luke-"

"No time for that now, Threepio-you, Artoo, and Leekian, get out now!"

"If I may-"

"Now!"

"Very, uhm, well, Master Luke."

Now near the main lobby, Han, still in front, tapped a key and the blast door opened, and then they were into the main lobby.

"Run-" Leia began.

An explosion rocked behind them.

So close to the door....

Han jumped out, hauling Leia and Luke along with him.

Before they hit the ground, the building exploded.

"Master Luke! What I was trying to say was that LT Bhrrn's squad has arrived, and is willing to help."

"Thanks for the news, Threepio-"

A blaster shot landed right next to Leia.

Garrick, and all of the other five members of his squad fired on the doorway.

Pepin took one step out of the smoke, and fell over, blaster holes all over him.

Senator Hun was in the sickbay, with Threepio and Artoo taking care of him, and in the cockpit was Luke, Han, Leia, and Chewbacca.

Chewie roared.

"Very eventful," Han agreed.

"I know our goal changed all the time," Luke began, "but did we still finish our goal of gaining the Senators' supports?"

"Hun's and Leekian's, which were the ones who could offer us the least," Leia said.

"Well, at least we're still alive," Han said.

"It's something to be happy about," Leia said.

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Star Wars Alliances: Undercover Rogues S1 EP3