Planet of Vandor One:

A large city with vast industrial-sites and at its center a huge Imperial facility. A huge dam creates a massive lake, the dam itself lets water through to power the city and its facilities as great waterfalls keeps generators working. Shuttles lands and leaves every second, Imperial and civilian. Large bulk-freighters of a hundred different versions deliver and retrieve cargo. One of the ships flying in to land is the Crimson Dawn. The Dawn lands in a dockingbay and Chewbacca and the other two crew-members deliver six large crates that are taken care of by Imperial staff.

"Six crates in total?" the officer in charge asks.

"Yeah, that's right" Elyssa says, taking the role of captain.

"How long do you plan to stay?"

"I was hoping to refuel and resupply" Elyssa says.

The officer nods. "Alright. You are not allowed to leave the dockingbay during your visit. You will contact the crew foreman and he will help you have your supplies delivered. Payment?"

"Credits" Elyssa replies.

"Very well" the officer says. "If you leave the dockingbay, we will confiscate your ship and you will serve for a maximum of two years doing hard labor."

"Gotcha".

The officer hands Elyssa a datapad and she signs the delivery.

"Welcome to Vandor One" the officer says and turns to leave.

Chewbacca watches as the crates are moved away while the other two return to the ship.

The crates are placed in storage. As the Imperial crew leave, a narrow hatch close to the bottom open on one of the crates and Solo and Qi'ra climb outside, barely able to fit in the small compartment. Once out, they pull out a backpack each and hurry along.

Some time later, Solo and Qi'ra, now disguised as Imperial officers, step out onto a balcony that overlooks the train-station; currently, several crates are loaded onto the train that has cars both ontop and below the tracks.

Solo seems a bit skeptical. "That train has fifty cars carrying cargo. How will we know which one carries the item?"

"It has a distinct power-signature" Qi'ra explains, holding up a scanner. "It wont be hard to find."

Solo nods. "Alright… Let's do this."

XXX XXX

Lando and L3 fly a speeder over mountains and snowy glaciers and eventually come to a stop below the railroad-tracks that follow the mountains. Lando uses a cable-gun to get up to a bridge between two mountains; once up, he secures explosives to the bridge, before dropping down to L3 again and getting back on the speeder.

L3 is still not impressed. "The odds for this heist to fail are thirty to one, calculating everything that could go wrong along the way from start to finish."

"Thank you, L3" Lando says. "But I don't recall asking for your opinion."

"It's not an opinion. It is mathematical fact."

"L3, just shut up and drive."

"How you meat-bags have managed to become our masters I will never know."

"Maybe because we built you all?"

"You organics may have built us all, but in the end, you are still inferior. The only thing that maintains the status-quo is the fact that you make use of restraining-bolts and motivator-units to secure your position as our masters."

Lando eyes L3 suspiciously. "I think it's time to have your memory wiped, L3. Time to reset that AI processor of yours."

"Off course, master" L3 says and they drive off.

XXX XXX

Solo and Qi'ra are on the train-station, moving towards the train. The six rearmost cars, three above and three below, are dedicated for passengers. Before stepping on, they have to stick their security-rods into a device held by an office, four stormtroopers standing by. They check out and are allowed to step onboard. The officers-car is a luxurious train-experience with comfortable chairs, servants, a bar, music and all the comforts you could require. Solo and Qi'ra sit down and are served drinks; there are twenty other officers onboard.

"Relax" Solo says and drinks. "There's nothing to it. Act casual."

"We're surrounded by imperial officers. You're not even a little concerned? Not worried what might go wrong?" Qi'ra asks.

"All I need to know is what can go right and how much money that will earn me."

Qi'ra shakes her head and smiles. "Always about the money. Is there nothing else to your life, Han? No dreams? No hopes? No future plans?"

Solo shakes his head and sips his drink. "What's the point in planning ahead? I might die a month from now, killed by pirates, the Empire, the Hutt's. Hell, I might die today, doing this crazy mission. Have dreams to open a bar? Settle down on my homeworld and live a quiet life?" Solo snaps his fingers. "Those dreams will be snuffed out in an instant. That's just how it is, doing this kind of work. You should know that better than most."

Qi'ra nods. "Yeah, I know. Still… didn't prevent me from chasing my dream."

"And what dream was that?"

Qi'ra smiles. "The Kessel Run" she then says. "A stable income, money, power, influence. My route through the Kessel nebula has given me all that and more. I have moved up in the world. I live a good life, wear fancy clothes and eat expensive food and drink luxurious drinks. I have friends on Hosnian Prime, on Coruscant, on Alderaan. Hell, I even have friends on Nal Hutta these days. You're wrong, Han. The lucky ones, however few, get to live their dream."

Solo offers a charming smile. "If you're so successful, then what are you doing here?"

Qi'ra smiles warmly. "Every now and then you need to get your hands dirty. It builds character."

Solo shakes his head and chuckles. "Banta poodoo" he says in Huttese.

They both laugh, and at that point, the train begins to move. The train goes at reckless speeds along the track, following the mountains of the planet. An officer stops next to Solo and Qi'ra.

"Solo?" the officer asks. "Han Solo?"

Solo looks up. "Commander Relkys."

"Han Solo! Long time no see" Relkys says with a smile. "Mind if I joined you?"

"Please do" Qi'ra says and offers Relkys a seat.

"Where have you been?" Relkys asks Solo. "I haven't seen you in years. I heard a rumor that you went AWOL."

"Worse" Solo says. "I got promoted."

They all laugh.

"So what brings you back to Vandor?" Relkys wonders.

"Boring administrative duty" Solo says, shrugging his shoulders. "Doing an estimate for running cargo through here from Abrega to Bonadan for the navy logistics-department."

Relkys nods. "So you're not here… on business?"

Solo laughs. "No, not this time, I'm afraid. What about you?"

"Oh, I'm earning my keep" Relkys says. "Personally overseeing a major shipment. You wouldn't believe what they're paying."

"So who's paying?" Solo asks. "Never mind her, she's with me" he says and nods at Qi'ra.

"Lieutenant Nerrys" Qi'ra says. "A pleasure to meet you in person, commander."

"Likewise, lieutenant. Likewise" Relkys says, he then looks around to make sure no-one is listening. "A bigtime crimelord from the Core Worlds. Top of the food-chain. When I make this delivery, I can retire."

"What's the cargo?" Solo wonders.

Relkys shakes his head with a smile. "Sorry, Solo. That is none of your business."

Solo grins. "They pay that much, huh?"

Relkys nods. "That they do." Relkys then turns to the staff. "Waiter! A round of drinks, if you will!" Relkys turns his attention back to Solo and Qi'ra. "We should celebrate. It's been a long time since this train offered such good company."

The train moves on and as it gains speed, it moves at incredible speed along the mountain ranges of the planet.

Relkys is still with Solo and Qi'ra. "So, if you're working with logistics" Relkys asks Solo, "maybe you could tell me what's up with all the mining operations on that old temple planet, Jedah, and some place called Ilum."

"What about them?" Solo asks.

"Well, noone knows where the transports are going" Relkys says. "Dozens of transports pick up cargo at the planets, but noone knows where they are shipping it. Rumor has it that it concerns crystals."

Solo shrugs his shoulders. "Sorry, old friend. Above my paygrade."

"Nothings above your paygrade" Relkys smiles and they all laugh.

Qi'ra checks her chronometer. "Excuse me, gentlemen, but Im not feeling all that well."

Solo gets on his feet. "Here, let me help you. I'll take you to a less crowded car."

Relkys gets on his feet as well. "I'll make sure a medical-droid joins you in a moment."

Qi'ra waves off the offer. "No, that's alright. All I need is peace and quiet, I think."

"See ya around, Relkys" Solo says and helps Qi'ra along.

Relkys watches as Solo and Qi'ra leaves the compartment through a door. Solo and Qi'ra then move further up the train, moving through a couple of more areas where officers and other Imperials are seated during transit. They rely on their security-rods to enter other cars. One car they enter is full of stormtroopers off-duty, most not wearing helmets. Trying to act casual, they walk past all the stormtroopers who are a bit unsure of why officers are walking through their car. Eventually, they reach the cargo-cars and Solo opens a panel and tries to hotwire the doors.

"There, I got it" Solo says and the door opens.

They step through and Qi'ra retrieves the scanning-device, looking for the power-signature of the item they are after as they walk past several crates and boxes.

"Anything?" Solo asks.

"Nothing" Qi'ra says. "Let's get to the next car."

Solo opens a couple of doors to various cars on the train and Qi'ra scans them all. Eventually, they enter a car after Solo has opened the door and find themselves sharing the car with four thugs; a Gamorrean, a red-skinned Nikto, a Rodian and a Mon Calamari. The aliens are obviously mercenaries and are armed to the teeth.

Solo glances at Qi'ra. "Something tells me we found the right car."

The Nikto takes a step forward. "Who the hell are you?"

"Relkys sent us" Solo says. "He wanted to know if you guys needed anything."

"Needed anything?" the Nikto says, a bit suspicious.

"Yeah" Solo says. "You know, something to eat? To drink? They got the best alcohol in the Empire in the bar. So how about it? Need anything?"

"Commander Relkys sent you?" the Nikto asks.

"Sure did" Solo says, trying to sound confident. "He want the people guarding his special cargo to be happy. A hungry or thirsty guard is not good at his job, am I right?"

The guards begins to laugh and nod and so does Solo and Qi'ra. Solo then drops a punch on the Nikto, sending him crashing into the Rodian. Solo lands a second punch on the Mon Calamari. Then the Gamorrean hits Solo and sends him flying. Qi'ra goes after the Rodian and then the Mon Calamari. Solo is on his own against the Gamorrean, and then the Nikto joins in on the fun. Qi'ra has more success against her opponents than Solo does.

The fight should be a classic Han Solo/Indiana Jones type of slugfest, where punches are hard hitting and anything not bolted down is used to get an advantage.

Somewhere along the fight, a side-door on the car opens as Solo manages to send thee Nikto crashing into the control-panel next to it; this gives Solo the opportunity to release a crate from its straps, the crate pushing the Gamorrean off the train along with it. The fight turns in our heroes favor and they eventually overcome the last three mercenaries, throwing them off the train, one by one.

Qi'ra turns to Solo. "If you threw off the crate we're looking for, I'll god damn kill you."

Solo realizes what he might have done. "I'll admit, that might have been a bad call on my part. But the fact that that fat, ugly Gamorrean was about to KILL ME kinda made me panic."

Qi'ra frowns, sneers and then uses her scanner to pinpoint the crate they are after. She lets out a sigh of relief, puts the scanner away and then uses her lock-picking skills to open the crate and then retrieves a case from within it. Solo watches as Qi'ra manages to open the case and retrieves the item from inside.

"What is it?" Solo asks.

"A lightsaber" Qi'ra says, fascinated by the device she's holding.

"What? A Jedi laser-sword?" Solo can't believe it.

Qi'ra nods. "The lightsaber of Grand Master Mace Windu himself. It's worth a fortune. Ten fortunes."

"I know what else it is" Solo says. "A death-penalty. It's punishable by death to own one."

"Since when has that ever stopped you?" Qi'ra asks.

"Never" Solo admits. "But few things in the galaxy will ensure that the entire Empire comes gunning for you. And that there is one of those things."

"Are you backing out?"

"Calm down, sister" Solo says. "It was just an observation." Solo reaches out and takes the lightsaber from Qi'ra and feels its weight. "A laser-sword, huh? I've heard so many weird stories about the Jedi and their swords. Nothing but simple tricks and…"

The lightsaber is ignited and burns a hole straight through the wall of the car, startling Solo and he drops the weapon as it shuts down. Solo looks with disbelief at the glowing hole in the wall. Qi'ra picks up the lightsaber from the floor.

"Simple tricks, huh?" Qi'ra says and secures the lightsaber in a pouch on her belt.

"I take it back" Solo says. "A damn good trick."

They move to the open side-door and look out. Solo points as he spots the two incoming ships, the Falcon and the Dawn, the ships closing in towards the train at speed.

XXX XXX

Commander Relkys is enjoying a drink with fellow officers when a lieutenant walks up to him.

"Commander, two ships are closing in fast. We think they might be marauders intent on stealing cargo."

Relkys instantly gets on his feet. "Go to high alert! Activate the droids!" He moves down the car, stops and takes a look around. "Where's Solo?"

XXX XXX

The Crimson Dawn settles at a distance from the train. It's side-door opens and there, Chewie and the Bothan stands ready with blaster-rifles. The Falcon moves in towards the train.

Lando gets out of the pilots-seat. "Take over, L3" he says and leaves the cock-pit.

The Falcon follows the train and tracks it perfectly. Solo and Qi'ra are waiting by the open door. The Falcon's airlock opens ( not the ramp ); Lando secures himself with a belt and tether before he steps out into the open door, wearing a headset.

"Alright, L3!" Lando shouts to be heard over the strong winds. "Get us in close!"

The Falcon slowly closes the distance to the train and Solo and Qi'ra. Then, Lando suddenly comes under fire and ducks into cover; the same goes for Solo and Qi'ra. The fire comes from four-legged droids that are crawling over the train, firing blasters from their heads/turrets. Chewie and Ferask starts sniping droids from their position. Lando returns fire as well. In the car, stormtroopers comes rushing in; Solo and Qi'ra end up in a firefight with the stormtroopers, a firefight that forces them outside, climbing up on top of the train! Our anti-heroes are in real trouble, getting shot at by both droids and stormtroopers. Lando does what he can from his position, as does Chewie and the Bothan, to provide cover for Solo and Qi'ra. Solo manages during the fight to crawl down between the cars and unhooks them; the train still attached to the engine starts pulling away, while the rest of the train gently slows down. The droids and stormtroopers are now separated from our anti-heroes.

The Falcon moves in closer to pick up Qi'ra and Solo. That's when, all of a sudden, the Crimson Dawn comes under fire! A privateer with two heavy cannons, along with two smaller gunships, comes in at full speed and blasts at the Dawn. The Dawn begins to smoke and burn, and crashes towards the mountains. Chewbacca and the Bothan jump and land on the train as the Dawn flies in over it, moments before the ship crashes into the mountain that the tracks run along; Elyssa screams as she, seated in the cockpit, smashes into the mountain. The Falcon is next to get shot at, forcing the Falcon to move away from the train; Lando closes the airlock and the Falcon begins evasive maneuvers to avoid taking fire. The privateer follows the Falcon as the Falcon makes its escape among the mountains and valleys.

One of the gunships moves in above the train and lets six mercenaries jump down; one of them is Enfys Ness! The mercenaries and Solo and the rest ends up in a firefight! Qi'ra stays in cover though and doesnt shoot back. Two mercenaries are shot dead in the fighting, but eventually Enfys Ness manage to close the distance and gets into a fight with Chewbacca! Enfys Ness manages to throw Chewie off the train during the fighting and ends up hanging from the side of the train.

Solo calls out "Chewie!" and climbs down to rescue his friend.

Ferask is unable to hold off the mercenaries on his own, but kills one more before he is shot dead. Solo rescues Chewbacca after some effort, and they climb back up; they see Qi'ra being helped onboard the gunship by the mercenaries. Chewie growls and roars, gaining the attention of Qi'ra and the mercenaries; Qi'ra pulls out her gun and fires at Solo and Chewbacca! Qi'ra gets onboard the gunship and it flies off. Enfys Ness and the two last mercs turn their attention to Solo and Chewbacca and the fight continues. Solo and Chewie begin a fighting retreat, followed by the mercenaries; the shoot-out is ontop of the train, on the sides, in between and below. Enfys Ness is relentless in his pursuit!

Eventually, Solo and Chewie reach the front of the train with nowhere else to go. They are forced to climb down below the train to find cover. The gunship flies in over the train and Enfys Ness and his mercs climb onboard. Solo and Chewie watch as the gunship distances itself from the train. Solo turns around and sees them closing in fast on the bridge.

On the gunship, Enfys Ness, still fully armored, catches his breath as he turns to Qi'ra; Qi'ra retrieves a detonator from her belt.

Solo and Chewie hurry to climb into an emergency escape-speeder located below the engine of the train. Solo pulls the lever that detaches the speeder from the train. As it drops, the high-speed train instantly distances itself from the speeder.

Qi'ra presses a trigger on the detonator which blows up the bridge and moments later, the train crashes as it falls into the valley below.

The escape-speeder hits the slopes as Solo struggles to gain control of it. The speeder unleashes an avalanche as it goes downhill and Chewie growls as he notices that they are chased by a wall of snow and ice. Solo steers towards a cliff and uses it to jump out of harms way, landing on another slope; the avalanche thundering downhill behind them as they watch it all from the speeder, now safe. Solo and Chewbacca, sitting in the escape-speeder, watch as the gunship with Qi'ra and the mercenaries flies off, making their escape from the planet. Chewie growls with anger.

"We'll get her, Chewie" Solo says as he retrieves a warm jacket from a survival-kit fastened to the speeder. "I promise you. We'll get her."

They continue down the mountain using their speeder.

XXX XXX

Solo and Chewie return to the Imperial city/spaceport with the emergency-speeder. Following a ridge they get a perfect view of the city and its industries. Chewie growls and points and Solo stops and then retrieves a pair of magnoculars from a satchel attached to the speeder. Using the magnoculars, he too spots what Chewie had noticed.

"The Millenium Falcon?" Solo says, spying on the ship where it has landed on a platform. "Only a handful of guards" he then says, the ship guarded by six stormtroopers. Chewie speaks in Shyriiwook and argues a point. "Yeah… I think you're right. Any ideas?" Chewie speaks his mind. "Alright" Solo says and nods, "why not. Let's give it a shot."

An Imperial Prison Transport, a converted RTT speeder, drives up to a waiting Sentinel-class landing-craft. Four stormtroopers and two officers are waiting by the shuttle. The prison-transport slows down to a halt and an officer and two tank-troopers steps outside and are followed by Lando and L3, both shackled. Lando and L3 are escorted towards the shuttle and are just about to be handed over to the shuttles crew when a second prison-transport drives up to them all. An officer steps out of the second transport; Solo in disguise!

"Halt!" Solo says. "These prisoners are not to leave the planet. The governor has issued a three-ten-eleven for the human and a salvage-order on the droid. The criminal scumbag is to serve his sentence working the carbonite-mines and the droid will be used for spare-parts to keep the mining-droids operational."

The officer that came with the first transport is a bit confused. "A three-ten-eleven? I was not informed of this."

"I'm informing you now, lieutenant" Solo says, sounding as strict as possible. "I am assuming responsibility for the prisoners as of now. They are no longer any of your concern."

The commanding officer from the shuttle walks over to them. "What's going on?"

"New orders it would seem" the transport officer says.

"A three-ten-eleven" Solo says. "Straight from the governors office. The train-heist they tried to pull off seems to have upset the governor. They will now repay him for the damages they've caused by providing him with carbonite for the rest of their lives." Solo grabs Lando and L3. "Come along, filthy criminals! I got a nice set of chains waiting just for you in our deepest, darkest mine-shaft. You'll be an old man the next time you see the sun, scumbag."

The other officers are not sure what has taken place as Solo pushes the prisoners onto his prison-transport. The transport drives off, leaving the Imperials behind. Onboard, Solo frees Lando and L3 from their shackles while Chewie is driving. Solo also removes a restraining-bolt from L3.

"Thanks" Lando says. "I can't believe you came back for us."

L3 is equally surprised. "I concur. The odds for these turn of events are extremely improbable."

Solo grins. "I never did care all that much about odds."

"Why did you come back?" Lando asks.

"The Falcon is our only way out of here" Solo says. "The only problem is that I suspect you have installed a proper amount of security-measures, in case someone tries to steal it. Am I right?"

Lando smiles and nods. "Oh, you're right about that."

"Thought so." Solo hands Lando a tank-trooper helmet. "Put this on."

The prison-transport moves along the streets. Lando, now dressed as a tank-trooper, is standing in the top-hatch, armed with a repeating blaster. Solo is driving with L3 next to him, Chewie is in the back, armed to the teeth.

"So what happened?" Solo asks.

"We were attacked by a gang of bounty-hunters" L3 explains. "They must have been lying in wait because I didn't see them on any scanners before they attacked us. They knew we were hitting that train. And it appears as if they knew when they were supposed to attack us."

Lando kneels down and removes the helmet. "They're called the Cloud Riders. Guns for hire, that's all they are. Their leader is Enfys Ness; he's as mean as a Rancor protecting its cubs. They forced us to land and took us prisoner. Brought us to the local law-enforcer and collected their bounty."

Solo frowns. "Qi'ra shot at me. She took off with the bounty-hunters."

L3 would have frowned if she could. "So they were waiting for us after all. She set us up to pull off the job."

Lando do frown. "And then had her goons sweep in to take us out, leaving the reward entirely in her hands. She didn't even have to worry about paying them. They would just collect the bounty on our heads."

Chewie growls from the back of the transports and L3 agrees. "The Wookie has a point. The bounty-hunters wont let Solo and Chewbacca leave this planet without a fight. Why only collect half the bounty when they could collect it all?"

Chewie growls again; this time, it is Solo who does the nodding. "What better bait, then, than the fastest ship in the galaxy, barely guarded at all."

Lando sneers. "And her captain secured with a minimal escort."

Solo glances over his shoulder at Lando. "Get back up there and man that gun."

"You got it, buddy" Lando says and puts the helmet back on.

Chewie growls, clearly irritated, making Solo frown. "Yeah, well, you think all ideas are bad ideas."

Lando spots a swoop-gang closing in from behind. Taking a closer look, he recognizes Enfys Ness who is piloting one of the swoops.

"Bounty-hunters coming up from behind on swoop-bikes!" Lando tells the others.

Chewie growls and readies his blasters. Lando swings his blaster-cannon around and opens fire, taking out two bounty-hunters and their swoops. The bounty-hunters return fire, forcing Lando to duck into cover.

L3 extends an antenna from her head. "Accessing city-grid data… Access. Turn right up ahead."

"Turn right?" Solo asks.

"Turn right!" L3 demands.

Solo does as L3 tells him and turns down another street.

"Turn left after the Falleen restaurant" L3 then says.

Solo follows her instructions and manage to lose two of the bounty-hunters. Enfys Ness is not as easily fooled, nor are four others of his henchmen. One of the bounty-hunters comes up next to the prison-transports; Chewbacca opens the side-door and shoots the bounty-hunter at point-blank range. Two other bounty-hunters, and Enfys Ness, jump from their swoops onto the transport like cowboys jumping from horses onto a train.

"Turn left!" L3 says and Solo does, resulting in a bounty-hunter crashing. "Yeah! Die worthless meat-bag!" L3 shouts as she looks back at the crash.

Solo glances worriedly at L3, truly uncomfortable. Lando fires his gun, but it gets destroyed by Enfys Ness. Lando gets down and closes the hatch, leaving Enfys on the transport, hitting the drivers-section with his electro-staff several times. Inside, sparks are flying all around Solo and L3. One of the bounty-hunters climbs inside via the open side-door, only to find himself face to face with a roaring Chewbacca! Seconds later we see how an arm and then a leg gets thrown out of the transports.

"Yeah! That's how you deal with useless organics!" L3 calls back to Chewbacca. "I'm so glad we took this job! Turn right!"

Solo almost misses the turn, he's so worried by sitting next to L3. Solo then quickly tosses a glance back at Lando.

"You really need to reset your droids AI! I'm not kidding, I mean right now!"

Chewbacca argues and throws out the body of the bounty-hunter, now missing an arm and a leg.

"I like this Wookie!" L3 says.

Lando takes aim at the open door with a blaster, "Watch out!" and pushes Chewie out of the way and blasts a bounty-hunter that has moved up next to them.

Enfys Ness drives his electro-staff down through the top of the transport, almost impaling Solo in the process. Solo pulls out his pistol and fires up at the ceiling, forcing Enfys Ness to duck out of the way as blaster-rounds pierce the top of the transport. Now, Imperial law-enforcers join in on the chase, riding speeders, gun-fire erupting all over the place by now.

"Take a right" L3 says "Then go straight until I say so."

"Got it!" Solo says and does as he's told.

The turn shakes bounty-hunters and law-enforcers alike. Enfys Ness is almost thrown off, but he clings to the side of the transports; Ness fires a blaster at Solo through the side-window but misses.

"Kill that meat-bag!" L3 tells Solo.

"I'm trying!" Solo says and tries to crush Ness up against a wall while he goes full throttle.

Ness activates boosters on his boots that sends him up on top of the transport once more, saving him from being thrown off as the transport slides alongside some structures.

"Where to now, L3?" Solo asks as he notice they are heading for a railing running along a platform.

"I told you" L3 says. "Keep going straight."

"Straight?!" Solo says. "There's no street!"

"Keep going straight!" L3 tells him.

Lando catches on to what is going on. "L3, we're not droids! We wont survive a crash!"

"The odds for you surviving are three to one" L3 says. "I am confident you'll be alright."

"New rule" Solo says. "Never tell me the odds!"

"Han!" Lando growls.

Chewbacca actually growls!

Solo grins. "If it can't fly, I'll make it fly! Hold on!"

They crash through the railing and the transport flies though the air. Enfys Ness holds on tight. Chewie and Lando scream with fear. Solo lets out a cocky cowboy yell! They crash onto a lower level, sending Ness flying off and rolling along the ground. Ness looks up from the ground as the transport drives off.

"See" L3 tells the others. "I wasn't worried for a second."

Chewie and Lando are not happy at all, but Solo is grinning wide and chuckles. The transport drives off through the city.

XXX XXX

At the Millennium Falcon the guards are on patrol. They react to a shot to pieces prison-transport driving out onto the platoform and they open fire. The transport slams into two of them and then Chewbacca and Lando jump out and guns down the rest. Solo and L3 hurry after them and they all make a run for it towards the Falcon. Soon after, Imperial law-enforcers comes running after them, arriving with speeders.

"Hold them off while we power up the Falcon!" Lando tells Chewie and Solo.

Lando and L3 run aboard the Falcon, leaving Solo and Chewie to fight off the enforcers while taking cover by the airlock and ramp. Lando and L3 reach the cockpit and powers up the ship. A TIE Reaper flies in over the platform and drops off Stormtroopers, together with Commander Relkys, who join in on the fight. The airlock and ramp closes with Solo and Chewie hurrying onboard and the Falcon takes off.

"Man the guns!" Lando calls back from his seat. "It's gonna get rough!"

Solo and Chewie climb into a gun-pit each and man the turrets. As the Falcon heads for space, it is instantly pursued by four TIE Strikers. Gunfire fills the sky during the chase. Chewie guns down one of the TIE's. Soon after, Solo manages to gun down one of the Strikers also.

"Hahaha! This is a piece of cake!" Chewie growls at Solo. "Look who's talking!" Solo replies a bit annoyed.

The last Striker abandons the pursuit and soon after the Falcon leaves the planet.

"Two patrol-ships are coming straight at us" Lando says.

"Don't worry, master" L3 says. "The navi-computer will be ready… now."

Lando speaks into the headset. "Buckle up, baby!" Then he reaches out and pulls the hyperdrive-levers.

The Falcon blasts off into hyperspace and Solo is actually pressed into his seat by the sheer force of the hyperdrive.

To be continued...