THE EIGHTH [han solo]

[3.03]

[SARLACC PIT]

Luke knocked another guard off the skiff and into the waiting mouth of the Sarlacc. He started to untie Chewie's bonds.
"Easy, Chewie." He said, and Octavia worked on Han's, who was wriggling impatiently, worse than Chewie. At that moment, the deck gunmen on the barge unleashed a series of blasts from a large cannon on the upper deck. Lando was tossed from the deck of the rocking skiff. He managed to grab a rope, and dangled desperately above the Sarlacc pit.
"Whoa! Whoa! Help!" He yelled.
"Why should I?" Octavia said. "You betrayed us to Vader. You no-good, two-faced beast! Why should I save you when you were the one to betray us?!" She yelled her knife slowly cutting the rope.
"Aurelia!" Luke yelled, using her fake name. She raised her eyebrows at Lando.
"Why should I?" She said.
"Because I'm with the resistance now! I swear!" He said, beginning to sweat.
"You could be betraying all of them too!" Octavia's rage was uncontrolled. Luke grabbed her by the arm and pulled her away from the fraying rope, but was distracted before he could pull Lando up. Chewie, who was now free from his bonds, grabbed Octavia and held her back.
"Don't." Luke said dangerously. "We have bigger problems." He looked up and saw Boba Fett ignite his rocket pack and leap into the air. He flew from the barge down to the skiff, and Octavia's anger became directed at him. She pulled out her knife, but before she could stab him, Luke spun on Boba, his lightsaber sweeping, and hacked the bounty hunter's gun in half. Immediately, the skiff took another direct hit from the barge's deck gun. Shards of the deck flew everywhere, and Chewie and Han are thrown against the rail.
"Chewie, you okay? Where is he?" Han said, but The Wookiee had been wounded by the shards and he howled in pain.
"I'm okay, pal." Han said, and for a moment, Luke became distracted, and in that moment, Boba fired a cable out of his armoured sleeve. Luke became wrapped in the strong cable, his arms pinned against his side, his sword arm free only from the wrist down. Luke looked at Octavia, and tossed her the lightsaber. She caught it, charged at Boba, backing him up against the rail of the ship.
"I'm not sorry." She said, poising the lightsaber in an attack position, ready to strike, but luckily for Boba, another blast from the Barge's deck gun hit the railing where Boba was stood, and he was knocked unconscious, falling to the deck, next to where Lando is hanging.
"Han! Chewie?" Lando yelled, still hanging.
"Lando!" Han yelled back.
Luke was a little shaken but he remained standing as the skiff rocked. The second skiff, loaded with guards firing their weapons, moved in on Luke, fast. Luke leapt toward the incoming second skiff. Octavia watched as he jumped into the middle of the second skiff and began knocking down the guards from their midst. Chewie, wounded, tried to lift himself as he barked directions to Han, guiding him toward a spear which had been dropped by one of the guards. Octavia followed Luke into the Skiff, helping him take out the guards. Han searched the deck as Chewie barks directions; finally, he grabbed hold of the spear. Boba Fett, badly shaken, rose from the deck. He looked over at the other skiff, where Luke was knocking everyone down, and Octavia had killed a mass of guards. Boba raised his arm, and aimed his lethal weapon at Octavia, she was the bigger threat. He fired, and the charge skimmed Octavia' stomach. She screamed in pain but battled on, ignoring the issue.
Chewie barked desperately at Han.
"Boba Fett?! Boba Fett?! Where?" Han asked, confused. He turned around, still blind, and the long spear in his hand whacked squarely in the middle of Boba's rocket pack. The impact of the swing caused the rocket pack to ignite. It was quite comical really, Octavia watched as Boba blasted off, flying over the second skiff like a missile, then smashed against the side of the huge Sail Barge and sliding away into the pit. He screamed as his armoured body made its last flight past Lando and directly into the mucous mouth of the Sarlacc. Octavia looked to the sky. One less name on her list.

Luke continued to destroy the aliens on the guards' skiff, as Han extended his spear downward to Lando, who was still dangling precariously from a rope on the prisoner's skiff.
"Lando, grab it!" Han yelled.
"Lower it!" Lando reported.
"I'm trying!" Han said, exasperated.
A major hit from the barge deck gun knocked the skiff on its side. Solo and almost everything else on board slid overboard. The rope broke, and Lando fell to the side of the Sarlacc pit. Luckily, Han's foot was caught on the skiff railing and he dangled above Lando and the pit. The wounded Wookiee grabbed onto the skiff for dear life as another hit from the deck gun rocked the skiff violently.
"Whoa! Whoa! Grab me, Chewie! I'm slipping." Solo yelled. Chewie grabbed hold of Han's feet, holding him upside down, as Han extended the spear toward Lando, who was clutching to the side of the pit.
"Grab it! L--Lando. Grab!" Han yelled. Octavia finished off the last guard on the second skiff by kicking him in the chest sending him flying overboard. She saw the deck gun blasting away at her helpless companions. She signalled to Luke, and he leapt from the skiff, across a chasm of air, to the sheer metallic side of the Sail Barge. Barely able to get a fingerhold, he began a painful climb up the hull, when suddenly an axe smashed through a window an inch from his head. Octavia screamed, throwing her hand out and pulled, somehow, with the help of the force she pulled the guard through the broken window. She looked down at the other Skiff, seeing the injured Chewie was reaching over the rail for the dangling Han, who was in turn blindly reaching down toward the desperate Lando. The Baron had stopped his slippage down the sandy slope of the Sarlacc pit by lying very still. Every time he tried to reach for Han, the loose sand moved him closer to his final destination.
"Grab it! Almost... You almost got it!" Another blast hit the front of the tilted skiff, causing Lando to let go of the spear.
"Hold it! Whoa!" He yelled. Again Han extended the spear toward Lando. Octavia didn't know what to do, she could try and level out the Skiff, but that would send Han further away from Lando and he might not be happy with her for that.
"Gently now. All... all right. Now easy, easy. Hold me, Chewie."
Lando screamed. One of the Sarlacc's tentacles had wrapped tightly around his ankle, dragging him down the side of the pit.
"Aurelia! Aurelia, give me the gun. Don't move, Lando."
"No, wait! I thought you were blind!"
"Aurelia, shoot the monster," Han said, and Octavia was thinking of shooting Lando, Han never specified which monster he wanted dead. Regardless, she took aim.
"All right! A little higher! Just a little higher!" Lando lowered his head, and Octavia wildly fired at the tentacle. She wasn't aiming to hit or miss, she didn't mind, but it was somehow a direct hit. The tentacle released Lando, and Chewie started to pull them on board the skiff.
"Pull us up! Come on! Okay... up, Chewie, up!" Han yelled.

The deck gunners had Chewie and the desperate dangling human chain in their gun sights when something up on deck commanded their immediate attention: Luke, who stood before them like whirlwind, ignited his lightsaber. They barely had time to react to the young Jedi before he demolished them. Immediately, Luke turned to see two more gunners race toward him, firing their laser pistols.

Luke warded off laser blasts with his lightsaber, surrounded by guards and fighting like a demon, he was slowly becoming overwhelmed when Leia emerged onto the deck.
"Get the gun! Point it at the deck!" Luke instructed and Leia turned toward the barge cannon, climbed on the platform, and swivelled the gun around.
"Point it at the deck!" Luke repeated and Leia rolled her eyes. A laser blast hit Luke's mechanical hand and he bent over in pain but managed to swing his lightsaber upward and take out the last of the guards. He looked at the wounded hand, which revealed the working mechanism. He flexed the hand, and luckily it still moved. Near the rail of the upper deck, Artoo and Threepio steadied themselves as Threepio started to prepare to jump. Artoo beeped wildly.
"Artoo, where are we going? I couldn't possibly jump." He said. Artoo butted the golden droid over the edge and rolled off himself, tumbling toward the sand. Luke ran along the empty deck toward Leia and the barge gun, which she has brought around to point down at the deck.
"Come on!" He said with a hold on one of the rigging ropes from the mast. He gathered Leia in his other arm and kicked the trigger of the deck gun. The gun exploded into the deck as Luke and Leia swing out toward the skiff.

Han leant panting against the rail as Chewie helped Lando onto the deck. Octavia stood as far away as possible, sulking like the spoiled brat she pretended to be. Her stomach was bleeding but she tried to hide it from the others. Luke and Leia landed on the skiff with flair.
"Let's go! And don't forget the droids." Luke said.
"We're on our way." Lando said.

The little skiff skipped around the burning Sail Barge, which continued its chain of explosions. As the skiff sailed off across the desert, the barge settled to the sand and disappeared in one final, glorious, orange, glowing explosion.

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I think that I sufficiently tested Octavia's morality, she's very fun to write, as she has a lot of rage in her, which would make her a Sith by the laws of the movies, but she also has good in her, which makes her super fun to write, I think if Obi-Wan was alive he'd be terrified for his daughter, as she looks like she's taking Anakin's path...
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Love, Rainey xo