star wars react: a new hope

III

1001 words

INT. POWER STATION - DAY

Luke bursts into the power station, waking The Fixer, a rugged mechanic and Camie, a sexy, disheveled girl who has been asleep in his lap. They grumbled ashe races through the office, yelling wildly.

FIXER "Did I hear a young noise blast through here?"

CAMIE "It was just Wormie, on another rampage."

Luke bounces into a small room behind the office where Deakand Windy, two tough boys about the same age as Luke, areplaying a computer pool-like game with Biggs, a burly, handsome boy a few years older than the rest.

His flashy city attire is a sharpcontrast to the loose-fitting tunics of the farm boys. A robot repairs someequipment in the background.

LUKE "Shape it up you guys! Biggs?"

Luke's surprise at the appearance of Biggs gives way togreat joy and emotion. They give each other a great bear hug. Biggs's held onto Luke's waist and let his hand linger when they let go.

LUKE "I didn't know you were back! When did you get in?"

BIGGS "Just now. I wanted to surprise you, hot shot. I thought you'd be here, certainly didn't expect you to be out working." laughing and looking at Luke with a certain look in his eyes.

You could tell they had a history.

"You guys had a history before he left? Did you guys date" Padmè asks in a soft tone

"No we didn't date, we were just friends with benefits we never wanted anything more." Luke says softly to her past mother

Anakin sits to the side pouting with is arms crossed feeling very over protective of the girl in front of him.

LUKE "The Academy didn't change you much, but you're back so soon? Hey, what happened, didn't you get your commission?"

Biggs has an air of cool that seems slightly phony.

BIGGS "Of course I got it. Signed aboard The Rand Ecliptic last week. First mate Biggs Darklighter at your service" as he salutes and gives Luke a cheeky wink "I just came back to say goodbye to all you unfortunate landlocked simpletons."

Everyone laughs. The dazzling spectacle of his dashingfriend is almost too much for Luke, but suddenly he snaps out of it.

LUKE "I almost forgot. There's a battle going on! Right here in our system. Come and look!"

DEAK "Not again! Forget it."

EXT. TATOOINE - ANCHORHEAD - SETTLEMENT - POWER STATION - DAY

The group stumbles out into the stifling desert sun. Camie and The Fixercomplain and are forced to shade their eyes. Luke has her binoculars outscanning the heavens.

LUKE "There they are!"

Biggs takes the electrobinoculars from Luke as the others strain to seesomething with the naked eye. Through the electrobinoculars Biggs sees twosmall silver specks.

BIGGS "That's no battle, hot shot, they're just sitting there! Probably a freighter-tanker refueling."

LUKE "But there was a lot of firing earlier"

Camie grabs the electrobinoculars away banging them against the building in theprocess. Luke grabs them giving Camie a dirty look or almost breaking them.

LUKE "Hey, easy with those"

CAMIE "Don't worry about it, Wormie."

The Fixer gives Luke a hard look and the young farm girl shrugs his shoulders in resignation.

FIXER "I keep telling you, the Rebellion is a long way from here. I doubt if the Empire would even fight to keep this system. Believe me Luke, this planet is a big hunk of nothing."

Luke agrees, although it's obvious she isn't sure why. Thegroup stumbles back into the power station, grumbling about Luke's ineptitude.

"Hey wanna have some fun?"

Biggs whispers in Luke's ear. Luke nods and lets him lead her away.

"You dog" Han says while laughing

INT. REBEL BLOCKADE RUNNER - HALLWAY

Princess Leia is led down a low-ceilinged hallway by a squad of armoredstormtroopers. Her hands are bound and she is brutally shoved when she isunable to keep up with the briskly marching troops. They stop in a smokyhallway as Darth Vader emerges from the shadows. The sinister Dark Lord stareshard at the frail young senator, but she doesn't move.

LEIA "Lord Vader, I should have known. Only you could be so bold. The Imperial Senate will not sit still for this, when they hear you've attacked a diplomatic" but she's cut off by Vader.

VADER "Don't play games with me, Your Highness. You weren't on any mercy mission this time. You passed directly through a restricted system. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you." growing impatient with this girls foolishness.

LEIA "I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan" with her head held high showing him that she's not scared of him.

VADER "You're a part of the Rebel Alliance, and a traitor. Take her away!"

Leia is marched away down the hallway and into the smoldering hole blasted inthe side of the ship. An Imperial Commander turns to Vader.

COMMANDER "Holding her is dangerous. If word of this gets out, it could generate sympathy for the Rebellion in the senate."

VADER "I have traced the Rebel spies to her. Now she is my only link to find their secret base!"

COMMANDER "She'll die before she will tell you anything."

VADER "Leave that to me. Send a distress signal and then inform the senate that all aboard were killed!"

Another Imperial Officer approaches Vader and the Commander. They stop and snapto attention.

SECOND OFFICER "Lord Vader, the battle station plans are not aboard this ship! And no transmissions were made. An escape pod was jettisoned during the fighting, but no life forms were aboard."

Vader turns to the Commander.

VADER "She must have hidden the plans in the escape pod. Send a detachment down to retrieve them. See to it personally, Commander. There'll be no one to stop us this time."

COMMANDER "Yes, sir."

EXT. SPACE

The Imperial Star Destroyer comes over the surface of theplanet Tatooine.