Star Wars Science Adventures 001 - Emergency in Escape Pod Four by Jude Watson & K. D. Burkett

Author:Jude Watson & K. D. Burkett [Watson, Jude & Burkett, K. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

For a moment, Stuart and Threepio stood frozen. The gray haze ahead of them was actually a field full of careening asteroids.

“Master Stuart, may I suggest you make a hard left?” Threepio said, his eyes on the asteroid.

“No problem. I’ve got this baby down,” Stuart said confidently. He jerked the thruster control, and the pod lurched to the side. They were about to lose control again!

“Not that hard!” Threepio screamed.

Stuart corrected the maneuver. They came within a bantha whisker of the asteroid.

“Weeeee-hah!” Stuart yodeled. “Did you see that? Hypergalactic!”

“Yes, I did,” Threepio said. “Now, would you mind doing it one more time? Immediately?”

NOTE: Pages 45 & 46 are missing from the original and pages 55 & 56 were printed in their place. Therefore a small section of the story is missing at this point. Will we ever know what Stuart is grinning at?

Stuart grinned. “A kid has got to have fun, Threepio. Even trapped in an escape pod with a bunch of droids.”

“Fun? You were lucky you didn’t get us all killed,” Threepio scolded.

“Excuse me for interrupting,” Forbee-X said. “But may I point out that we have more important things to do than quarrel? Look ahead.”

“Not another asteroid field, I hope,” Threepio said, swiveling to peer out the viewport.

A planet rose in the distance. Clouds covered its surface, and Threepio could count three suns in his visual field.

“I wonder what planet it is,” Threepio said. “With three suns, it can’t be Romm. We’re terribly lost. We might even be out of the Delantine system completely.”

“It could be an Imperial planet,” Stuart said with a shiver. Suddenly, the blood-red clouds looked menacing.

“The cloud cover is extensive,” Forbee-X observed. “And something about the orbit of the planet is odd. I haven’t seen such a planet in my travels. I need time to compute.”

“I suggest we avoid it,” Threepio said, still staring at the deep red clouds. “There’s no telling what we’d find. If we keep going, we’re bound to find a planet we recognize. Now that Stuart knows how to fly, we should have no problem.”

“I wouldn’t say that,” Forbee-X warned.

“Forbee, do you have to be so negative?” Threepio complained. He was hardly ever snappish. After all, he was programmed for politeness. But he didn’t like the look of the forbidding, cloudy planet. Being frightened often made him cross.

“I cannot turn a negative into a positive, just because you want me to,” Forbee-X said huffily. “It wouldn’t be logical.”

Oh dear, now I’ve hurt her feelings, Threepio thought. Without Artoo, I get myself into all kinds of trouble.

Stuart spoke up before Threepio could apologize. “What do you mean, Forbee?” he asked.

“We are beginning to feel the planet’s gravitational pull,” Forbee-X said as numbers and formulas flickered across her viewscreen.

“So?” Stuart asked. “I can just pilot around it.”

Forbee-X’s screen blinked. “At the risk of sounding negative, I must disagree,” she said with a glance at Threepio.

Forbee-X’s long metal-scaled finger pointed to the console. Threepio followed the direction and saw a flashing red light.

“We can’t pilot around the planet.

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