Stardust- A Jyn and Cassian Fanfiction

Chapter 15- Cassian

"Where are you taking this... thing?" Is all I can hear from the Imperial officer.  Honestly, this is the most interesting thing that's happened all day, so I go to the door to see if I can hear more of the conversation.

"Prisoner transfer from Cell Block 1138." A young man says, although from the sound of his voice, he's in a stormtrooper outfit.  I have a strange feeling that this is fake.

"I wasn't notified." the officer continues. "I'll have to clear it."

This puzzles me.  This is very unlike the Empire.  They always know where their prisoners are, no matter what.  I can only think of two answers to the situation.  Either the Empire has become so big that they can't keep all of the people that they have under control, or this person isn't with the Empire.

To answer my question, blaster fire commences.  Yeah, I'm thinking that this isn't an Imperial thing.  The explosions shake the ground with a deafening noise.  After what seems to be about a minute and a half of shooting, I can hear another guy, most likely older than the first, talking.

"We gotta find out which cell this princess of yours is in." he says.  Princess?!  If they're rescuing Princess Leia, these guys are obviously with the Rebellion.  

"Here it is.  2187.  You go get her." he continues.  A beeping noise continues until he flips a switch.  "Everything's under control, uh, situation normal."

"What happened?" a man says over the comlink.  

"Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction. But, uh, everything's perfectly alright here now.  We're fine, we're all fine here now, thank you.  Uh, how are you?" he asks, clearly running out of things to say.

"We're sending a squad up." the man on the comlink replies.

Well, this definitely isn't going to go well for these rebels.  I hope that they can manage to make it out of here alive.

"Uh, negative! Negative! We have a reactor leak here, uh, now, give us a few minutes to lock it down. Uh, large leak, very dangerous." 

"Who is this? What's your operating number?" the man asks.  

This is quickly followed by the shot of a blaster.

"Boring conversation anyways." he mutters.  "LUKE! WE'RE GONNA HAVE COMPANY!"

So the first man is named Luke, and him and another man are reducing a Princess, who I assume to be Princess Leia.  This easily is the most interesting thing that has happened all day.  Which is a good thing, because then it takes my mind off of the fact that I've killed Jyn.

Upon the thought of Jyn, my heart weighs down in my chest.  Her beautiful green eyes, the ones she inherited from her father, will not see the light of day ever again.  I will never hold her small, trembling body in my arms again, nor will I silently laugh at one of her stupid puns once more.  The Empire is going down for separating us and killing her.  I need to get out of here whenever I can.  If the rebellion is here to rescue one of their leaders, they're probably going to try to blow this thing up soon.  I can hear the sound of a cell door opening next to me.

"Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?" A woman remarks smartly, presumably the Princess.

"Huh?" Luke asks.  "Oh, the uniform.  I'm Luke Skywalker, I'm here to rescue you."

"You're who?"

"I'm here to rescue you, I've got your R2 unit.  I'm here with Ben Kenobi."

This seems to interest Princess Leia.  "Ben Kenobi? Where is he?!"

"Come on!"

I can hear their footsteps run out of the cell, but I don't think that this rescue is going to end well.  There's only one entrance and exit.  And I can guarantee that there's a squad coming any second now.