Captured By Darth Vader

Rencounter

As I was landing in Coruscant, I noticed there were more people on the planet than usually. I figured they were all there because of the conference, Yoda had told me they had invited almost all the remaining Jedi, that's why this meeting was top secret and nobody was allowed to tell any living soul about it. The Jedi order was scared that the dark side of the force would take advantage of it and plan another attack. To end the Jedi once in for all.

Right after I landed, some droids started to fill up my ship with hypermatter. My droid Zara-3 unfortunately had to stay on the ship, because of the conference being so secret.

I started walking inside the rebuilt Jedi temple, it was big and imposing, just like it was before. I was happy to be there again, after so many years. Seeing the temple full of life again brought up a lot of memories. There were Jedi everywhere, some of them familiar, but the majority were new faces. The survivors of order 66, had been training more people to become Jedi, like my friend Willow, who started training Younglings to use the force wisely.

Just when I was walking towards the conference room, I heard a familiar voice saying my nickname.

"Lilly?"

I turned around to see a beautiful blonde woman. As I had a closer look, I was petrified. It was Willow. She was running towards me with a big smile on her lips and tears in her marvellous ocean blue eyes.

"Willy!" Now I was running towards her too. On the verge of crying out of happiness. I never thought we would see each other again, but there she was, in my arms. As we hugged, happy tears were running down our faces. I guess it was as unexpected to her as to me. Furthermore, I think I could have figured seeing her there, I mean, almost every Jedi was in the temple, what would the conference be without Willow Skywalker.

"How are you, it's been so long?" I asked her, curious to know how she had been doing.

"I am good, still teaching Younglings, and you?" She replied. We started walking towards the conference room together, with a big smile on our faces that wouldn't fade away so fast.

"Me too, always on missions." I told her.

The conference room was a big round room with windows instead of walls. You could see everything that was going on outside. The floor was made out of red and yellow tiles, it had a red inner circle with lots of little yellow drawings on it. Around the inner red circle there were some rows of red armchairs for everyone to sit on, I didn't count them, but they must have been over 200 armchairs. Some Jedi were already sitting in the front row, when I looked closer I noticed they were Yoda, Ahsoka and Obi-Wan, the ones who had planned this rencounter.

Willow and I decided to go over to them, while all the other Jedi were entering the room and taking their seats.

"Hey, I see you're reunited!" Ahsoka greeted us.

"Hey, yeah, we ran into each other some seconds ago." Willow explained to them, while smiling at me.

"Yeah, it was a joyful surprise." I added.

"Well, it's good to see you all in person again and not only through the comlink." Ahsoka said with a warm smile on her face.

"Conference about to start is, sit down you should." Yoda advised us standing up and going to in the middle of the red circle. The room was full of Jedi now, there were only two armchairs left in the last row. Willow and I followed Yoda's advice and sat down so they could start their speech.

"Hello, for far away coming we thank you. Today talk about new plans we will." Yoda started introducing the speech.

"That's right, we have some new plans to destroy the Death Star and hopefully end the war." Obi-Wan continued.

"We have already planned a mission to destroy the Death Star that will be executed soon, and hopefully end in a success." Ashoka mentioned.

"However this is only a small part from our strategy, we decided to join the Resistance, together we will be stronger and hopefully defeat the Empire. This will take time and a lot of effort, so we ask you to be patient." Obi-Wan continued.

Thenceforth, they started talking about their alliance with the Resistance and specify every single step they had planned. They gave detailed information on every attack and mission they had been planning with the help of the excellent pilots of the Resistance. In spite of the Resistance not being able to come to the meeting because of security reasons, they had filmed a hologram giving some more information about themselves and their methods.

While they were talking, Willow and I were whispering in the back, talking about our lives and what we had missed out on. I think we should have listened to the Jedi's explanation, but we were so eager to catch up on what we had done all those years.

"So, are you going on any mission soon?" I asked her.

"No, not that I know of, however I will be teaching Younglings in the temple of Endor for a while." She replied. I heard of the temple in Endor, apparently they built it some years after they burned down the main temple. Unfortunately I never got there to see it, maybe after my mission I could go there to pay her a visit.

"How about you, are you going on any missions soon?" She asked me curiously.

"Yeah, I am actually, tomorrow I am going to the Death Star." I replied nervously, I didn't feel the need to explain the mission again since Ashoka did such a great job on it just a few seconds ago.

"No way, you're the one they're sending to destroy the Death Star?" She said in disbelief.

"Yeah, I am a bit unsure about it since I am going alone, but I am sure I will figure it out." I told her. We were still whispering, since Obi-Wan and the other masters were still talking about the alliance.

"I am sure you will succeed, you were always so clever." She complimented me.

"Thanks." I replied to her comment.

" For listening, we thank you." Yoda closed the reunion after one hour of unnecessary details about our alliance that I will probably forget about.

"May the force be with you." Ashoka said before everybody stood up and went out of the room to get to their ships or, like in my case, to their chamber. Since I had to go on a mission the day after, the Jedi provided me with a room in the Jedi temple. As Willow and I were walking down the hallway, she stopped at a brown wooden door and said:

"Wait, that's my room." She had a room in the temple since she was here as a teacher. We walked into her room, to my surprise it was big and cosy looking. I had expected something more modest. When we were Padawans our rooms were less than modest, they were small and dirty, but that's my fault. Luckily they had changed that in the construction of the new temple.