rich and powerful :: penny

The next thing I know, I'm inches away from Luke Skywalker in one of the smuggling compartments.

 Han put us next to each other on purpose, I just know it. I'm gonna kill that stupid son of a bitch.

 The second Han opens the hatch I crawl out. He's bickering with Ben, but I've tuned it out because for some reason the only thing I can think about is how close I was to Luke and how he smelled faintly of oranges.

 There's no Alderaan, so when does this all end? Is it going to end at all?

 Are these guys gonna be stuck with us forever?

"But they're going to kill her!" Luke practically screams.

 "Better her than me," Han replies in almost the same volume.

 "Shh!" I hush the two of them. "We need to get off this deathtrap somehow. I'm sorry Luke, but we can't save her."

 The blond boy huffs. And then his face lights up, and he says, "She's rich."

 "Rich?" Han and I say aloud at the same time.

 "Yes," Luke assures us, "Rich, powerful! Listen, if you were to rescue her, the reward would be..."

 "What?"

 "More wealth than you can imagine."

 I feel my eyes grow wide. With money from this princess that's supposedly on the ship and the money we're getting from Ben, I could fully repair the Falcon, with plenty leftover.

 "I don't know, I can imagine quite a bit!" Han is too stubborn for this kid.

 "You'll get it!" Luke smiles.

 "I better."

 "You will..."

 And now I'm handcuffed. Luke holding my arms, while Han holds Chewie's. While Chewie and I have to pretend to be prisoners, they get to walk around as Stormtroopers. The two lead us into an elevator, and I pull away from Luke's hands.

 "Why do you two get to be Stormtroopers?" I ask. "Han, you could've been a prisoner with Chewie."

 Chewie lets out a small roar in agreement.

 "You're too short to be a Stormtrooper," Luke says, in a very duh tone. I'm gonna beat the smell of oranges right off of him.

 Somehow, we get past handfuls of people, but when we reach the detention are an officer says,

 "Where are you taking these...things."

 First I'm going to beat up Luke, and then this guy is next.

 "Prisoner transfers from block 1138," Luke answers.

 "I wasn't notified," the Officer frowns. "I'll have to clear it." He goes back to his console and begins to punch something in. I can't even see him, but I can tell Han is taking in the entire room. The alarms, laser gates, and camera eyes.

 I hear him unfasted Chewie's cuffs, but Luke doesn't do the same to me. Suddenly, Chewie throws his hands up and lets out an ear-piercing howl.

 Han subtly hands him his laser rifle and yells, "Look out! He's loose!"

 "He's going to pull us all apart!" Luke yells too. I can practically hear him holding back laughter.

 "Go get him!"

 The guards are startled and panic a little bit. Luke pushes me towards a wall and I make a mental note to beat his ass for real later. He and Han pull out their laser pistols and start to fire and the "terrifying escaped Wookiee." The (obviously) miss him but hit the cameras, laser gate controls, and all the Imperial guards.

 The officer is the last one to fall just as he is about to push the alarm system. Luke helps me get the cuffs off as Han rushes over to the comlink system which is screeching question after question about what the hell is going on up here.

 "We've got to find out which cell this princess is in," He says to us, reading the computer readout. "Here it is, cell 2187. You go get her, I'll hold them here."

 Luke and I race down one of the cell corridors as Han tries to talk to the comlink. I faintly hear, "We're sending a squad up" and begin to panic a bit.

 I hear Han blast something and then he yells, "Luke! Penny! We're going to have company!"

 I curse under my breath while Luke and I continue running, trying to find the princess.

 Luke stops in front of one of them, pulling out his blaster again. "Here it is," he says, blasting the door open.

 Inside the cell, a women sits up and looks at the two of us. Even with his Stormtrooper helmet still on, I can tell Luke is dumbfounded by her. I'm not even gonna lie though, I am too.

 I take a step back and the princess begins to speak. "Aren't you a little short to be a Stormtrooper?" She asks Luke, and I roll my eyes.

 "What? Oh...the uniform." Luke takes his helmet off and takes a step into her cell. "I'm Luke Skywalker. I'm here to rescue you."

 "You're who?" The princess asks and I try my hardest not to laugh.

 "I'm here to rescue you," Luke says again. "I've got your R2 unit. I"m here with ben Kenobi."

 "Ben Kenobi is here? Where is he?"

 "C'mon!" Luke says, stepping back out of the cell, and taking my hand, running back towards Han.

 "Who's she?" The princess asks.

 Luke introduces me to her because, for some reason, my brain won't let me talk. Maybe it's because I'm in the presence of a princess?

 God, I hope it's not because Luke's holding my hand.

Of course, because it's just out luck lately, we have company and no way out.

 "I can't hold them off forever!" Han yells. "Now what?"

 "This is some rescue," the princess yells back. "When you came in here, didn't you have a plan for getting out?"

 Han gestures to Luke, who finally let go of my hand. "He's the brains, sweetheart."

 Luke grins sheepishly at her and shrugs. "Well, I didn't..." But he's cut short by her grabbing his gun and firing at a small grate in the wall next to Han, almost hitting him.

 She should've hit him.

 "What the hell are you doing?" Han asks.

 "Somebody has to save our skins," she replies confidently. "Into the garbage chute, wise guy."

 And then one thing leads to another, and suddenly, we're in a room full of garbage.

 "Gross," I mutter, kicking my boot through a small pile next to me.

 "Oh! The garbage chute was a really wonderful idea," Han laughs sarcastically. "What an incredible smell you've discovered! Let's get out of here!" He pulls his blaster out and adds a, "Get away from there."

 "No! Wait!" Luke yells as Han fries at the hatch. The laser bolt ricochets all around the room, just barely missing me a few too many times.

 "Will you forget it? I already tried it. It's magnetically sealed!" Luke yells. His tone is all different since we came on this ship. He seems completely different to me.

 "Han, come here, I need to tell you something," I say, gesturing for him to duck down a bit.

 "What is it, Penn?" he asks. 

 And then I smack him in the back of the head again, causing the princess to laugh.

 Han rubs the back of his head. "Stop doing that!" 

 "Now, put that thing away! You're going to get us all killed!" the princess demands, trying to hold her balance.

 "Absolutely, your worship." Han jokes. "Look, I had everything under control until you led us down here. You know, it's not going to take them long to figure out what happened to us."

 "It could be worse," she answers and then turns to me. "So you're Penny?" I nod. "Leia. It's nice to meet you, even though you're friend here is probably going to get us killed."

 "That's just every day with him," I smile, causing her to laugh again.

 "I liked the," she makes a gesture similar to me hitting Han in the back of the head. "I hope you do it again."

 Out of nowhere, an awful, inhumane, moan comes from the murky water below us. Chewie lets out a terrified howl and backs away, while Luke and Han pull out their pistols.

 "Well, princess," Han says, "it's worse."

 "There's something alive in here!" Luke says.

 "It's your imagination."

 "Something just moved past my leg!" Luke panics. "Look! Did you see that?"

 "What?"

 "Help!" Luke yells as he's pulled under the water.

 "Luke!" Han and I yell, rushing towards where the blond was standing moments before. We both reach into the water, trying to pull him back out when he surfaces, a tentacle of some sort wrapped around his neck.

 "Luke!" I scream again, this time with Leia. She extends a long pipe towards him, telling him to take it as he pleads for us to blast at it.

 "My guns jammed!"

 "Where?" Han asks as I reach for his blaster.

 "Anywhere!" Luke moans. 

 I shoot at the creature and Luke is pulled back into the depths. We're all screaming for him, and I'm cursing because I just killed him, when the walls around us shudder and everything goes dead silent. And then Luke's at the surface and Han and I are running towards him.

 "What happened?" Leia asks as Han pulls him up. I help him get his balance and push his soaking bangs off his face as he coughs up water.

 "I don't know," he chokes, "it just let go of me and disappeared."

 "I've got a bad feeling about this," Han mumbles.

 Then out of nowhere, the walls begin to rumble and Luke pushes away from me, almost falling over in the process, and he starts to yell, "The walls are moving!"

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again, some more movie content but uh

stormtrooper!luke is hot, you can't change my mind