KANE |Luke Skywalker|

Desert fighting

On second thought, let's pass on that, huh?" Says Han and Chewie barks his agreement. "You should have bargained, Jabba." I state loudly "That's the last mistake you'll ever make." Luke adds on. Jabba cackles evilly at this. As the guards drag the prisoners from the throne room, a loud cheer rises from the crowd as I am brought to stand beside Jabba much to her dismay by multiple guards and Boba Fett. Leia and Chewie exchange concerned looks, but Luke cannot suppress his smile, he wanted to fight. Jabba's huge sail barge moves above the desert surface accompanied by two smaller Skiffs. One of the skiffs glides close, Luke, Han, and Chewie all in bonds and surrounded by guards, one of whom is Lando in disguise. Jabba the Hutt rides like a sultan in the massive antigravity ship. His entire retinue is with him, drinking, eating, and having a good time. Leia is watching her friends in the skiff when the chain attached to her neck is pulled tight and Jabba tugs the scantily clad princess to him. I am forced to stand next to the disgusting Hutt with the Fett's blaster digging into my back so I won't move. "Soon you will learn to appreciate me." Jabba tells us in hutese causing them to both glance at each other for reassurance. The convoy moves up over a huge sand pit. The Sail Barge stops to one side of the depression, as does the escort skiff. But the prisoner's skiff moves out directly over the center and hovers. At the bottom of the deep cone of sand is a repulsive, mucous-lined hole, surrounded by thousands of needle-sharp teeth. This is the sarlacc. A plank is extended from the edge of the prisoner's skiff. Guards release Luke's bonds and shove him out onto the plank above the Sarlacc's mouth. Jabba, Leia and I are now by the rail, watching. Threepio leans forward and the slobbering villain mumbles something to him. As Threepio steps up to a comlink, Jabba raises his arm and the motley array of intergalactic pirates fall silent. Threepio's voice is amplified across loudspeakers "Victims of the almighty Sarlacc: His Excellency hopes that you will die honorably. But should any of you wish to beg for mercy, the great Jabba the Hutt will now listen to your pleas." Han steps forward arrogantly and begins to speak "Threepio, you tell that slimy piece of... worm-ridden filth he'll get no such pleasure from us. Right?" Chewie growls his agreement.

"Jabba! This is your last chance. Free us or die." Luke calls out. Lando moves unobtrusively along the skiff as Luke shoots a quick look of conspiracy to him. The assembled monsters rock with mocking laughter as Artoo zips unnoticed by the others up the ramp to the upper deck. Jabba's laughter subsides as he speaks into the comlink "Move him into position." Jabba makes a thumbs-down gesture. Leia looks at me worried about the boys. "Put him in." Jabba orders and Luke is prodded and jumps off the plank to the cheers of the bloodthirsty spectators. But, before anyone can even perceive what is happening, he spins around and grabs the end of the plank by his fingertips and I smirk. The plank bends wildly from his weight and catapults him skyward. In midair he does a complete flip and drops down on the end of the plank in the same spot he just vacated, but facing the skiff. He casually extends an open palm and his lightsaber, which Artoo has sent arcing toward him, drops into his hand.

With samurai speed, Luke ignites it and attacks the guard who prodded him off the plank, sending the hapless monster screaming overboard. The other guards swarm toward Luke. He wades into them, lightsaber flashing. Lando struggles with another guard at the back of the skiff. A bewildered guard lands in the soft, sandy slope of the pit, and begins sliding. He claws desperately as a Sarlacc tentacle grabs him and pulls him screaming into the viscous mouth. Jabba watches this and explodes in rage. He barks commands, and the guards around him rush off to do his bidding. The scuzzy creature watching the action from the window is in an uproar. Luke knocks another guard off the skiff and into the waiting mouth of the Sarlacc. He starts to untie Chewie's bonds. At that moment, the deck gunmen on the barge unleash a series of blasts from a big cannon on the upper deck. Lando is tossed from the deck of the rocking skiff. He manages to grab a rope, and dangles desperately above the Sarlacc pit. With two swift strides, the dangerous Boba Fett ignites his rocket pack, leaps into the air, and flies from the barge down to the skiff. Boba lands on the skiff and starts to aim his laser gun at Luke, who has freed Han and Chewie from their bonds. But before Boba can fire, the young Jedi spins on him, lightsaber sweeping, and hacks the bounty hunter's gun in half. Immediately, the skiff takes another direct hit from the barge's deck gun. Shards of skiff deck fly. Chewie and Han are thrown against the rail. For a moment, Luke is distracted, and in that moment, Boba fires a cable out of his armored sleeve. Instantly, Luke is wrapped in a strong cable, his arms pinned against his side, his sword arm free only from the wrist down. Luke bends his wrist so the lightsaber points straight up to reach the wire lasso and cuts through. Luke shrugs away the cable and stands free. Another blast from the Barge's deck gun hits near Boba and he is knocked unconscious to the deck, next to where Lando is hanging. Finally having enough of waiting around I slam my head back into the goon holding me since Boba left and twist around throwing him back with the force. I move towards Leia but she shakes her head and gestures to the boys who need help more than her. I nod and take off running towards the ramp to the top of the skiff. "R2!" I call out when I reach the upper deck and he launches my saber. I call to it with the force and it lands in my hand as I jump from the edge of the main skiff to the prisoner one. "Han! Chewie?" Lando calls out "Lando!" Han responds. Luke is a little shaken but remains standing as a fusillade brackets him. The second skiff, loaded with guards firing their weapons, moves in on Luke fast. Luke leaps toward the incoming second skiff. He leaps into the middle of the second skiff and begins decimating the guards from their midst. Deciding Luke could handle himself I moved to helping chewie and Han with Lando. Chewie, wounded, tries to lift himself as he barks directions to Han, guiding him toward a spear which has been dropped by one of the guards. Han searches the deck as Chewie barks directions; finally he grabs hold of the spear. Boba Fett, badly shaken, rises from the deck. He looks over at the other skiff, where Luke is whipping a mass of guards. Boba raises his arm, and aims his lethal appendage. Chewie barks desperately at Han. "Boba Fett?! Boba Fett?! Where?" The space pirate turns around blindly, and the long spear in his hand whacks squarely in the middle of Boba's rocket pack. The impact of the swing causes the rocket pack to ignite. Boba blasts off, flying over the second skiff like a missile, smashing against the side of the huge Sail Barge and sliding away into the pit. He screams as his armored body makes its last flight past Lando and directly into the mucous mouth of the Sarlacc. The Sarlacc burps. Chewie growls a weak congratulations to Han and I can't help but smirk at the Corellian man's actions. Luke continues to destroy the aliens on the guards' skiff, as Han extends his spear downward to Lando, who is still dangling precariously from a rope on the prisoner's skiff. I reach out with the force to ensure that if something happens he won't fall. "Lando, grab the damn spear" I say through gritted teeth. "Tell him to lower it!" Lando calls out, Han stretching as far as he could yells "I'm trying!" A major hit from the barge deck gun knocks the skiff on its side. Han and almost everything else on board slides overboard, causing me to break my hold on Lando. The rope breaks, and Lando falls to the side of the Sarlacc pit. Luckily, Han's foot catches on the skiff railing and he dangles above Lando and the pit. The wounded Wookiee holds onto the skiff for dear life as another hit from the deck gun rocks the skiff violently slamming me against the railing leaving me dazed. "Whoa! Whoa! Grab me, Chewie! I'm slipping." Han yells out. Chewie grabs hold of Han's feet, holding him upside down, as Han extends the spear toward Lando, who is clutching to the side of the pit. "Grab it! L--Lando. Grab!" Han tells him hurriedly Luke finishes off the last guard on the second skiff. He sees the deck gun blasting away at his helpless companions. Luke leaps from the skiff, across a chasm of air, to the sheer metallic side of the Sail Barge. Barely able to get a finger hold, he begins a painful climb up the hull, when suddenly an ax smashes through a window an inch from his head. With Jedi agility, Luke grasps the wrist holding the ax and yanks the helpless guard through the broken window and into the deadly pit. The injured Chewie is reaching over the rail for the dangling Han, who is in turn blindly reaching down toward the desperate Lando. The Baron has stopped his slippage down the sandy slope of the Sarlacc pit by lying very still. Every time he tries to reach for Han, the loose sand moves him closer to his final reward. "Grab it! Almost... You almost got it!" Han says as another blast hits the front of the tilted skiff, causing Lando to let go of the spear. "Kriff" I say trying to get my bearings enough to help the boys. "Hold it! Whoa!" Again Han extends the spear toward Lando. "Gently now. All... all right. Now easy, easy. Hold me, Chewie." Lando screams as one of the Sarlacc's tentacles has wrapped tightly around his ankle, dragging him down the side of the pit. "Not good, not good at all" I mutter. "Chewie! Chewie, give me the gun. Don't move, Lando." Han says and my eyes widen "Han no! I say as Lando protests. "It's all right. Trust me. Don't move." I look away to check on Luke's progress and see Luke, standing before them like a pirate king, igniting his lightsaber. The deck gunners have barely reached for their pistols before the Jedi has demolished them. Immediately, Luke turns to see two more gunners who have been uncovering a giant gun at the end of the barge racing for him, firing their laser pistols. Luke is warding off laser blasts with his lightsaber, surrounded by guards and fighting like a demon. Leia emerges onto the deck as Luke turns to face another guard. I watch as a laser blast hits Luke's mechanical hand and he bends over in pain, but manages to swing his lightsaber upward and take out the last of the guards. He checks it and continues on, running along the empty deck toward Leia and the barge gun, which she has brought around to point down at the deck. Luke has a hold on one of the rigging ropes from the mast. He gathers Leia in his other arm and kicks the trigger of the deck gun. The gun explodes into the deck as Luke and Leia swing out toward the skiff. Han and I lean panting against the rail as Chewie helps Lando onto the deck. Luke and Leia land on the skiff with flair. "Let's go! And don't forget the droids." Luke says as Han operates a magnetic claw to pick them up. The Sail Barge is exploding in stages in the distance. Half of the huge craft is on fire. I walk over to Luke and gesture for him to let me see his mechanical hand. "You know if you wanted to hold my hand you could have just asked" Luke mutters quietly to me after rolling up his sleeve so I could see. I look up at him amused as I test his hand functionality. "Looks good skywalker, just needs a few adjustments and a new coat of synthetic skin." I say with a smile as I release his robotic hand and grab his other one.

We make our way to the landing area through a sand storm and we practically have to yell to hear each other over the roar of the sand. "I don't know. All I can see is a lot of blowing sand!" Han calls out and I roll my eyes "That's all any of us can see." Leia and I call out at the same time. "Jinx," I say a moment after with a smirk. "Then I guess I'm getting better." Han tells us. As soon as the group huddles under the bulk of the Falcon, the wind dies down to something more describable as a severe weather condition. Threepio hits a switch, and the gang-plank lowers with a hum. Han turns to Luke and I "I've got to hand it to you, kids, you were pretty good out there" I smile at him as Luke tells him to think nothing of it. "No, I'm thinking a lot about it. That carbon freeze was the closest thing to dead there is. And it wasn't just sleeping. It was a big wide awake nothing!" Luke and I nod, as Chewie growls affectionately at the young Jedi warriors, Messing up Luke's hair like a proud uncle and hugging me and Leia warmly hugs us both. "We'll see you back at the fleet." Luke tells them as we move to our x-wings. R3 beeps at me impatiently from his spot and I wave him off. "Why don't you leave that crate and come with us?" Han asks but we both simply shake our heads. "We have a promise we have to keep first... to an old friend." Luke tells him and I nod. We climb into our respective spacecraft and take off.

a/n: Hi! I don't normally do these I swear but Kane just reached a little of 400 reads which I never thought would happen so thank you all so much