Rebel {Luke Skywalker}

"did you just slap me?"

If anyone didn't notice, I edited "a critical error" chapter, changing the way Luke and Ace kissed. If you read the version where he did NOT swing her around, then you're fine and this doesn't apply to you, but if you read the version where he did, you might want to go reread that portion of it!

          "Wake up!"

Groaning loudly, Ace refused to open her eyes as she shifted her body away from the voice. Her entire body felt sore and broken as she moved, the ground beneath her rough and uneven as it poked into her skin.

"Just one more moment..." Ace trailed off, slipping back into sleep, "Just another..."

"Ace!" Repeated the voice, sharply.

Ace made no movement to get up, only letting out a sigh, her hands moving to cover up her ears.

     Suddenly, there was a harsh sound that rang through the forest. A hand had came into contact with Ace's exposed cheeks, with a red splotch blooming across the pale skin. In s flash, Ace was sitting up fully, glaring up at her attacker; Leia.

     "Did you just-did you just slap me?" Asked Ace incredulously, feeling the spot where she had been hit.

"Yes." Stated Leia, her hands on her hips as she stared Ace down. "Now get up before Wicket and I leave you alone out here."

"Wicket?" Echoed Ace, "Who on earth-"

Peaking out from behind Leia was a three foot tall little bear like creature. Brown, fuzzy fur covered its body from head to toe with two large, chocolate eyes blinking down at Ace. A large, four foot spear was strapped to its back, but Ace took no notice of it as she scrambled up.

     "Oh my stars, an Ewok!" Squealed Ace loudly, reaching towards it as if to touch it but it took a nervous step back and her hand fell to her side. "Where in the galaxy did you find him?"

     "He found me." Leia corrected her, taking in Ace's full appearance. "Oh-you're foreheads bleeding-you're an absolute mess."

     "Yeah, well, you're not much better." Retorted Ace, noting the fact that all of Leia's hair had fallen out of her usually neat hairdo, her clothes ripped and torn. Raising up a hand, she felt a long but shallow cut crooked on her forehead, damp with blood. "What are we gonna do now?"

     "I don't know." Said Leia unsurely, glancing around nervously at the forest that seemed to loom around them. "But we've got to go somewhere, there are scouts around here."

     "Shoot." Ace felt around for her holster, only to find that her blaster was gone. "And we haven't got weapons."

     The little Ewok finally moved forwards again, this time mumbling in a foreign language and tugging both Leia and Ace forwards, gesturing for them to follow him as he pointed deeper into the woods.

     "Are we gonna follow him?" Asked Ace.

     "Might as well. It's not like we've got anything better planned."

~~~~~

Han, Luke, Chewie, and the droids were fanned out as they scoured the forest floors for the missing Leia and Ace. The sun was slowly but surely lowering in the sky as it grew darker, but that did not stop them.

"Luke, Luke!" Exclaimed Han, clutching a helmet in his hands. "Come over here!"

Jogging over quickly, Luke took in a sharp breath as he realized what Han was pointing too. Smoldering in the shrubbery were the remains of two speeder bikes, both charred and completely and utterly wrecked.