The Dark Side of Luke Skywalker

Chapter 5~ Clash of Siblings

   It was chaos. Rebel officers and and pilots scrambling to flee. Leia could hear the shots of Storm Troopers above ground, and the growls of terror from the wookies. Panic and fear overwhelmed the princess of Alderaan, as she started to run to the closest exit with the other rebels officers.

"Princess! Princess! Are you alright?" Shrieked Mon Mothma, who was a few yards away from Leia, looking over the heads in the crowd to find Leia.

    "I've got her, Mothma!" yelled General Kleeve, who was right next to Leia. He grabbed her tightly around her upper arm and started to pull her towards Mothma. Storm troopers were starting to break ino the underground safe haven; hundreds of troopers in white armour sliding down the shoot, firing at anyone they saw who had the symbol of the rebellion on their clothes. It was utter chaos.

People were tripping over each other left and right, some falling on the ground from blaster wounds. Mostly it was the rebels who were falling down, fatally injured, not the rebels, for most of the rebles had not had enough time to grab their weapons before they were shot down by the trooper's E-11 blaster rifles.

   Shortly after grabbing hold and pulling Leia, General Kleeve was shot down by an Imperial trooper. Leia looked at him, stunned, to see him lying on the ground, dead. She turned and ran, trying her best to get out of there as soon as possible. She could here Mon Mothma screaming at her from behind to come back, but she kept running.

By now, Imperial Flame Troopers had entered the large base, and were shooting fire everywhere, burning down the roots of the tree. Leia scrambled to get to the slide that led aboveground, trying to avoid any shots from blasters.

   She started to climb the up the slide, but it was very difficult. Many rebels were trying to do the same, which made it very crowded. This, combined with the fact that there were troopers coming the opposite direction, shooting as many of the alliance made it very hard to escape.

   After what seemed like hours of chaos and fright(fright that she would get shot done by a trooper or get trampled), she finally was able to climb to the surface. She froze for a second, not knowing where to go. There were troops everywhere; from standard stormtroopers to flametroopers to shocktroopers. She started to run to a revel ship fleeing the planet, but a stormtrooper stopped her. He grabbed the front of her shirt and pointed his blaster at her face.

   But before he could shoot- "You! DN-1138!" A stormtrooper commander called to the trooper. Apparently this was the troopers number, because he turned to the commander. "Let go of her! Lord Nero said to leave her for him to deal with!" DN-1138, with one last look at Leia, let go of her and started shooting other rebels.

   Leia had no idea what had just happened. Who was this "Lord Nero" anyway, and why did he request to deal with her personally?

She continued to stumbled mindlessly, confused and dazed in all the chaos. Rebel bodies lay motionless on the ground.

"C'mon!" Yelled a rebel pilot running past her. It took her a second to realize it was Lando. She hurried behind him, trying to keep up. They were running towards a rebel ship that was preparing to take off. Rebels were running for their lifes, jumping onto the ship.

The ship was starting to leave the ground, but it seemed that they could just make it. Until- "AAAAHHH!" Screamed Lando in pain. A blaster bolt had caught his lower right leg. He feel to his knees, wincing in pain. Leia bent down over him.

   "Come on! Lando! We have to keep going! They kill us all if we don't get on the ship!" Leia yelled at Lando.

   "I-I can't... go on without me, Leia. Leave me here." Replied Lando.