Rebel Force trapped by Alex Wheeler

Author:Alex Wheeler [Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Action & Adventure, General, Science fiction, Media Tie-In, Fantasy, JUVENILE FICTION, Romance, Science fiction (Children's, Children: Grades 4-6, Juvenile Science Fiction, YA), Ages 9-12 Fiction, Children's Fiction, Children's Books, Action & Adventure - General, Movie or Television Tie-In, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780545140850
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2010-07-14T23:00:00+00:00

RF5 - Trapped

went down. The other dropped at nearly the same instant. Leia pocketed her smoking blaster pistol. Han shook his head in appreciation. The princess might have an attitude— but she also had perfect aim. “Ready?” Leia asked, preparing the detonite charge that would blow open the locked door. Han nodded and raised his blaster. There were no security holocams in the basement records room, which meant they were going in blind. He was ready, all right. Ready for anything. Except for the door exploding out toward them before Leia even had a chance to plant the charge. Han and Leia flew backward, slamming hard into the wall. Their blasters clattered out of their hands. Han lifted himself up. He shook his head and blinked hard, hoping he was seeing double. Maybe triple. But the vision was real. A line of stormtroopers emerged from the dark basement and opened fire. “Han!” Luke shouted into the comlink, starting to panic. “Leia! Han! What's going on?” But the comlink broadcast nothing but shouting and explosions. Luke was certain that amid the chaos, he heard Leia scream. “Chewie! Come on—we're going in!” Luke cried, already springing into motion. He'd been monitoring the mission from a hidden spot by the freight entrance while Chewbacca waited nearby with the landspeeder, ready to take off at a moment's notice. The Wookiee didn't hesitate. He threw himself against the door, which gave way like it was made of flimsiplast. Luke and Chewbacca barreled down the hallway. Luke led the way, the building's twisting corridors engraved in his mind. Not that it was difficult to find their way to the basement; all they had to do was follow the noise. Laserfire pings, shouts, grunts, explosions, and, again, something that sounded terrifyingly like Leia's scream. They rounded the corner. Stormtrooper bodies littered the corridor. Han and Leia were battling their way through a storm of plastoid armor and laserfire. Smoke billowed through the hallway, giving their faces a gray, sickly pallor. Han aimed his weapon at one of the stormtroopers, but nothing happened. Luke realized he was out of ammo. “Han, heads up!” he shouted, and without thinking, tossed his blaster over to his friend. Han jumped up and snatched it out of the air, then began firing again before his feet touched the ground. Chewbacca's bowcaster was of little use in such a cramped space, but the Wookiee didn't hesitate to charge into the fight. He grabbed the stormtrooper closest to Leia and twisted his blaster into a knot with one hand as he slammed the trooper against the wall with the other. Luke took it all in, even as he tried desperately to disarm the stormtroopers with his lightsaber. Loose grip, firm shoulders, don't lean too hard to the right, he thought, trying to remember all the advice Div had given him. He bent his knees slightly and tried to remember the first form—but was he supposed to parry before thrust, or thrust before parry? A blast of laserfire whizzing past his ear knocked him out of his confusion.

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