Star Wars: The Jedi Twin

Ch: 9

Once the ships door closed, someone pulled me to the side of the hallway.

"The Queen would like to see you, Princess." The person who pulled me to the side tells me. And only then did I realized that it was Padmé who pulled me over.

"Right." I told her. Acting as if the Queen sent one of her hand maidens to come and get me. I followed Padmé to a room in the back of the ship. The room was empty and had a throne along the back wall to it. Once the door was closed, I asked her, "where is your decoy?"

"Talking to Captain Panaka." Padmé tells me. Once she realizes that I don't know the name she tells me. "The captain of the Guards."

"Alright." I told her.

"They are talking in another room, probably the bridge or near it." Padmé told me. "I haven't seen you in years!" She then comes and hugs me, and I hug her back. "Since when did you get two lightsabers?"

"I got them 4 years ago." I told her. "The crystals came from Hoth."

"Why would you go to Hoth to get your crystals?" Padmé asked me. "Don't the Jedi get their crystals on Ilum?"

"No crystals there called out to me." I told her. "And besides, they make such a pretty blade." I got out one of my lightsabers and turned it on, it's icy blue blade illuminated the white room.

"The color is pretty." Padmé told me. I turned my lightsaber off and put it back on my belt. "Your outfit is pretty simple for a Jedi."

"What do you mean?" I asked her.

"A tank top, really?" Padmé told me.

"I like simple." I told her.

"So, what happened when you guys tried to negotiate with the federation." Padmé asked me. "I heard you tell the governor that they never took place."

"They really didn't." I told. "It was easy getting onto the ship, a bit too easy if you can get onto a potentially enemy ship with your name."

"Did they try to make you sign the treaty?" Padmé asked me.

"They brought us to a meeting room where the treaty was laying on the table." I told her. "I looked over it and refused to sign it. It only went downhill from there."

"How so?" She asked me.

"They poisoned the drinks a droid brought to us, and then started to fill the room with dioxin." I told her.

"So, they tried to kill you after you refused to sign it." Padmé told me. "Would they have done the same with me?"

"I don't know." I told her. "It is possible that they would've if they ran out of patience with you."

"I just hope that the Republic is willing to do something." Padmé tells me. I froze as I felt something trailing the ship. "What is it?"

"I-" I started to say but couldn't as the ship jerked all of a sudden. It nearly brought me down to the ground, it brought Padmé down as she didn't expect it.

"What was that?" Padmé asked.

"I hope I'm wrong, but I think something hit the ship." I told her.

"Let's go to the bridge." Padmé told me. "You exit out first, I'll head there a couple seconds once you leave. After all, we are identical twins. Minus the part of me not being a Jedi."

I nodded my head and went towards the bridge of the ship. Once I was there, I asked the captain, "what got hit?"

"One of their ship laser's hit the shield generator." The pilot tells me. "The droids should be on it shortly, Princess." As if on cue, I could see astromech droids go out onto the top of the ship to fix the shield generator. I wonder why they built that on the outside of the ship.

I watched as the lasers from the federations ship shoots down the droids that are currently working to repair the shield generator. "The droids are dropping...fast." I noted as a pink and white droid was blasted off the ship, and a little blue droid takes its place. It's now the only droid out there.

"If we can't get the shield generators fixed, we'll be sitting ducks." The person that Padmé told me was Captain Panaka says.

I sensed Padmé's presence walk into the bridge of the small ship as the droid fixed the shield generators. I turned around to face her, she's still dressed like a handmaiden.

"Powers back! That little droid did it... bypassed the main power drive. Deflector shield up, at maximum." I heard someone say, probably the pilot again. I watched as Padmé walks over to me and stops right besides me.

"Thought you said we looked to similar to be together in a room." I whispered to her.

"That was before the 'queen' told me to look after you. Make sure your comfortable." Padmé tells me. "After all, you are her sister."

I do my best to stifle a laugh before I turned back over to look towards the pilot.

"There's not enough power to get us to Coruscant... the hyperdrive is leaking." The pilot tells us.

"We'll have to land somewhere to refuel and repair the ship." I heard Qui-Gon say.

"The closest planet to Naboo is Tatooine." I told him.

"It's small, out of the way, poor...the Trade Federation has no presence there." Obi wan tells the pilot.

"How can you be sure?" I heard Captain Panaka ask.

"The Hutts control it." Qui-Gon tells Captain Panaka.

"You can't take Her Royal Highness there!" Captain Panaka argues. "The Hutts are gangsters...if they discovered her...."

"...It would be no different than if we landed on a system controlled by the Federation" Qui-Gon says.

"But the Hutts aren't looking for her; therefore, we have the advatage." I told them. The room went silent except for the noises that the buttons on the control panel when the pilot plugs in the coordinates for Tatooine.