The Fight for Justice by John Peel

Author:John Peel [Peel, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780590189026
Amazon: 0590189026
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1998-01-01T23:00:00+00:00

As I was thinking about this, Ben gave a cry and almost collapsed.

He assured me he was all right, but that he’d felt a great disturbance in the Force. Like a billion voices all crying out at once. He said he’d never felt anything like it before, and I could see that it bothered him. He didn’t know what had caused it.

I was afraid that the strain of everything was getting to be too much for him. I didn’t know how old Ben was, but he certainly wasn’t used to all of this activity anymore.

I should have known better by then—that Ben was stronger than he looked—but I didn’t completely trust Ben’s feeling for the Force.

Then Han said we were ready to come out of lightspeed near Alderaan. That was really exciting news, because I was picturing us landing at the royal palace, being greeted as honored guests… maybe even dining with royalty, that sort of thing.

But the Millennium Falcon didn’t come out into normal space next to Alderaan as planned. We came out of lightspeed in an asteroid belt, rocks of all shapes and sizes whizzing all around us. Han had to do some tricky flying to avoid getting us smashed to bits.

My first thought, of course, was that he’d messed up his navigation. But the truth was a lot worse than that. I could see that we were close to Alderaan’s star, and this was where Alderaan should have been…

But it wasn’t.

It took us a while to realize what we were seeing, and longer to accept the truth: the rubble and rocks were all that was left of Alderaan.

That was the disturbance in the Force that Ben had felt, the voices all crying out at once: the cry of all the people on Alderaan just before they died.

Now we were in serious trouble. I mean, we were stunned by the planet’s destruction and the deaths of all those people. It didn’t seem real somehow. I’d never been to Alderaan, but I’ve heard it was lovely and peaceful. And now it was dust and rocks, everyone on the planet gone.

What were we going to do now? The message from Princess Leia had told us to take the droids to her father, and that he’d know what to do with them. Now her father was dead. Han still needed to be paid, and we couldn’t cover the charge. All of these thoughts were whirling about in my head as we came under the attack of a TIE fighter.

This was the first time I’d ever seen a TIE in action. It’s sort of dumpy, with stubby wings, but it sure can move. This one fired off a single burst at us, and then ran for it. Han started to chase him, then realized something important. TIE fighters can’t go to lightspeed, so they always have Imperial cruisers nearby. But there weren’t any around. So where was this one from?

The answer was literally right in front of us. We all thought it was a small moon at first.

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