Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:26:32 +0000 (GMT)
From: Colin Ford <Phoenix@chdpf.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Fan Fict Liberator Nine.
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Right Here we go again !!
The usual bad Speeling an grammar will have to be taken into account
and thanks to everyone who requested this. As Usual Any opionions to

Phoenix@chdpf.demon.co.uk



Liberator Nine.

	A small R2 unit stood amongst the deserted ruins of 
a base. It's antenna span round frantically as it searched for 
someone. The base was situated in a jungle on a very rarely 
visited planet of Mykre. The droid spotted his target and 
started to roll towards him, whistling a greeting as it went.
	"Any Luck ?" said Luke.
	A rather negative bleep came from R2.
	Luke repressed a sigh and looked about Talon 
Karrde's deserted base. This was the one place in the known 
galaxy that Luke was limited. It was also, the only logical 
place that Mara Jade would use to hide from the emperor, 
when he'd been resurrected.
	If the Emperor didn't know she was alive, then he 
wouldn't have come looking for her. What puzzled Luke is 
the problems with the Emperor had finished, finally, just over 
a year ago, but had been no word from her.
	Mykre was special to Luke, if only for the reason 
that the force could not be called apon. Small Animals called 
Yamisari, live in the forest. Each of these creatures creates a 
force bubble of around ten metres in diameter. However when 
there are a number of these creatures, the bubbles reinforce 
one another and a larger bubble is created.
	During Thawn`s campain against the new republic, 
these creatures were used extensively against himself, Mad 
Jedi clone Ch'broath and also to create a huge army, in 
conjunction with cloning technology.
	Luke grimaced that these harmless creatures could be 
exploited in such a way to seem dangerous. He had looked 
around the camp twice, but only small animals had taken up 
residence in the moss covered structures.
	Mara had run when she had first got an impression 
that the emperor was still alive. He would have demanded that 
she become the Emperor's Hand again and Luke knew that 
Mara liked her freedom too much for that.
	The problem lay in the fact that since the Emperor 
couldn't finder her using the force, he didn't stand much 
chance using the same methods. He turned round and started 
to walk back towards his X wing. He had to think of another 
way to track Mara down.
 	He glanced up at his X-wing and then at Artoo. He 
realised that he was going to have help his little droid in his 
socket without using the force. This was yet another reminder 
that here he was a normal human being. He gave a little sigh 
and looked back at Artoo. 
	"I guess I'll have to get you in there the hard way." 
He said to Artoo while pointing at the X wing. The little droid 
bleeped in resignation and started to wheel his way back to 
the x wing. It just felt so right that she would be here, Luke 
mused over the problem. 
	Luke walked round the X wing just checking for 
damage and small areas of repair, that needed doing. 
	"Artoo, Are there any components that are unique to 
a z-95 Headhunter ?"
	The little droid seem to be taken back by the 
question and thought. Finally he bleeped a negative.
	"Just a thought !" said  Luke, "Right then, we've got 
to get you up in your socket."
	Both Luke and Artoo made their way to the front of 
the x wing. Luke pressed a small button on the nose cone and 
the front landing skid wined as it contracted, letting the nose 
sink until it was almost touching the ground.
	"Now the difficult part !" he muttered he bent down 
and picked Artoo up and slowly began to lift him onto the 
nose cone. Artoo kept still as his master slowly lifted him, on 
to the nose cone. Luke almost had put him onto the nose cone 
when he heard a tapping sound coming down from his waist. 
He looked down to see his lightsabre softly banging against 
the nose cone of the xwing and then it struck him. 
	"Her Lightsabre." He said as his hand went to his 
Lightsabre.
	However he forgot about Artoo who, without the 
support of Luke`s other hand, fell off the nose cone and onto 
Luke. The both fell to the floor into a undignified heap on the 
floor. Luke looked up at the small droid, who was beeping 
and making a lot of distictly rude noises.
	He rolled the little droid off him and lay on his back 
looking up at the sky. He couldn't help it, he laughed. He 
laughed out loud and it felt so good. Artoo managed to get 
himself onto his feet and trundled over to his master. 
	Every time Luke looked up at Artoo, he burst out 
laughing even louder. The droid looked down at him, 
probably wondering what had caused his master to short 
circuit. After a couple of minutes Luke had calmed down 
enough to sit up straight, his shoulders still quivered as he 
tried to repress the giggles.
	Artoo Bleeped.
	"Yes, OK. I'm Sorry." He said, pausing for breath, " 
We must have looked so funny."
	Artoo didn't seem to have the same opinion. He 
trundled to the X wing's nose and waited. Luke stared at him. 
	"Artoo, I wasn't laughing at you." said Luke, "Oh I 
Don't know."
	With That Luke lifted him up onto the X wing's 
nose and watched him wheel his way to the droid socket at 
the back He pressed the button back and the X wing 
straightened up. Luke climbed into the cockpit.
	"Artoo, I would like you to recalibrate the scanners."
	The droid bleeped an affirmative  and asked what he 
was scanning for. 
	Luke told him.

Forty minutes later, the X wing touched down in a 
small clearing on the other side of the planet. He jumped out 
of the cockpit and looked around. In a corner, there was a  
Headhunter, hidden under a lot of camouflage netting, a small 
treehouse up in one of the trees and a small power generator 
on the ground next to the tree.
Artoo got out of his droid socket and got to the nose 
cone. Luke helped him down and they both looked about. 
Apart from all the quiet noises from the jungle, there wasn't 
any sound from the encampment.
"Maybe no-one's home !" He said and climbed the 
up the tree to the tree house. It was very well constructed, 
solid and didn't sway in the tree. He ventured inside. There 
was only one room with a single light hanging from the 
ceiling. On a petite desk, there was a small computer terminal 
which had a wire connected to something outside. In the 
corner was a home made bed. It almost looked cosy. Next to 
the bed on top of a small table was what he was looking for. 
His Father's old Lightsabre.  
If it wasn't for the fact he knew the exact frequencies 
of the crystal inside it, he wouldn't have stood a chance of 
tracking this down. He walked over and picked it up. 
Examined it from end to end, smiled and put it back. She'd 
taken good care of it.
"Is there anything I can do, or are you just looking ?"
Luke span round to face the voice. Mara Jade was 
looking at him intently, whilst holding her blaster was 
levelled at his chest.


Luke was marched out of the tree house and towards 
his X wing. He could see Artoo was stood by it, unable to 
move thanks to a restraining bolt. 
"This is familiar." He said, with a slight smile, 
"Reminds me of old times ?"
"I'm just wanting to make sure of something, and if 
I'm right I'll kill you where you stand"
"What ?" He dropped his smile, "What's happened 
to you ?"
"I think that's the other way round." She said and 
walked him up to his X wing.
"OK that's far enough, you can turn round now ?"  
she said.
Luke turned round and looked about. Mara was sat 
on a tree trunk five metres away from him with her blaster still 
leveled at him. 
"OK. You have five minutes to explain to me why 
your here and what the Emperor's up too ?"
"The Emperor's dead !" He said, "He thought he 
could regenerate in another clone but we stopped him."
Mara nodded and gestured with her blaster for him 
to continue.
" The Emperor's forces fled to the rim and we started 
mopping up again until Trake appeared."
The was a slight reaction to the name but she didn't 
lower the blaster.
Luke decided to try the open approach. " I don't 
know what's happened to you but I need your help, the 
republic needs you help."
"Last I heard, you weren't with the Alliance 
anymore." Said Mara, "And I'm still not sure about things."
Luke sighed. She was referring to his biggest 
mistake. In an attempt to destroy the resurrected Emperor, 
he'd taken up the offer of becoming the Emperor's new right 
hand man. He intended using the dark side to destroy his 
enemy. It nearly cost him everything. If it wasn't for his 
family, then ... Luke shuddered at the thought.
"Mara. I got out. It look everybody to get me out but 
we made it. If I was still with the Emperor, do you think I 
would come alone ?"
The blaster was no longer aimed at his chest. Mara 
just looked at him.
"No, you would have just told him the location and a 
couple of star destroyers would have turned up. "
Luke let out the breath he was holding, he turned to 
Artoo and deactivated the restraining bolt. He couldn't pick 
up Mara's sense because of the Yamasair effect, but he didn't 
need to. He could tell how she was feeling by looking at her. 
Her red hair had lightened and the green eyes continued to 
examine him from where she stood. The tension in her 
shoulders was obvious. She didn't trust him but was giving 
him the benefit of the doubt.
"Do you ever get tired of the honest farm boy 
approach ?" she asked.
"No." replied Luke, "It's the only approach that I 
know."
"I don't know if I'm ready to leave here." She said 
and turned back to the hut.
Luke stared after her and then looked down at Artoo.
"Could you prep the ship? I've got to sort this out !"

She was sat on her bed looking at the computer 
terminal when Luke walked in. He sat down across from her 
and waited. She looked up at him and sighed. It seemed to 
Luke that she had been almost enjoying her solitude and 
didn't want to leave.
"You underestimated him didn't you ?" she said,
Luke nodded. 
"Who paid for that mistake ? "
"I did." Luke replied, "I really shouldn't have been 
supprised. There wasn't a depth he would sink to, to get what 
he wanted. I forgot how cunning he was. "
"You forgot your lesson to me didn't you ?" Mara 
looked up from her computer. Luke seemed puzzled by that.
"Don't underestimate the dark side." She continued.
"I know. Leia reminded me when it was all over. I 
still feel things about what happened. Maybe he did survive 
again but it's going to be long time until we hear from him 
again. What happened to you ?"
" I ran." She replied, " As soon as I felt him looking 
for me I ran. He never knew about Mykre so I hid here. How 
did you find me ?"
" You have my father's old lightsabre, I could detect 
the crystal's frequency." 
" I didn't realise that you had bugged me ?"
" I didn't realise ...." started Luke, but then he 
noticed that she was smiling.
"I'm only joking. Your too honest to have someone 
bugged." 
"Will you help ? " asked Luke.
"Trake right ? Well I don't know much. Him and 
Vader didn't get on. He was good. He could have been a 
threat to The Emperor but since he didn't make a move 
against him, I assumed that the Emperor had something big 
over him. His loyalty was never questioned."
She lent over and picked up her lightsabre. She put 
her blaster down. Mara stood up and stared at Luke intently.
"It will take a couple of hour to pack, if your willing 
to help."
Luke nodded.

I've been offline for two months and I missed it ...
To Be Continued ...

-- 
"I plan to Live forever or Die trying !"
Phoenix D'fire