"Well don't just stand there try to stop it with something!" Leia pushed Anakin back to reality of the situation.

"Here, grab a hold of this." Han held up a long pole. Anakin, Leia, and he tried to keep it propped in between the walls.

"3PO! Come in 3PO!" Luke started hollering into his com link. Anakin watched from where he tried to hold the beam as Luke was frantically yelling and climbing on top of the garbage. "3PO?! Where could he be?"

"Hey, aren't you a 'Jedi Master'? Can't you fix all this with your magic?" Han asked, noticing the beam wasn't working.

"I thought you didn't believe in the Force." Anakin breathed out, noticing the same thing.

"I don't, but now is a better time than ever to prove me wrong!" Han pleaded.

"That's not how the Force works!" Anakin explained back to him. Han looked at him for a brief moment before returning to trying something else.

"Get on top of it!" Han tried to help Leia, who struggled to find her footing.

"3PO?! 3PO!" Luke continued to spam the com link.

"One things for sure, we're all going to be a lot thinner." Han brushed his hair off his sweat matted forehead.

Anakin was panicking. Leia and Luke both were struggling to reach the top of the garbage. Anakin saw Luke's face twist with pain as the garbage squished into his sides. Anakin did the only thing he could think of doing to help, he did his best to grab hold of them, using the force that tingled in his fingertips to lift them above and on top of the garbage. He then did the same for Han and Chewie.

With his focus he hardly could hear 3PO finally respond.

"Are you there, sir?" 3PO's mechanical voice spoke.

"3PO?" Luke responded right away.

"We have some issues-" 3PO began but that was the least of Luke's worries.

"Will you shut up and listen to me:" Luke rushed, "shut down all the garbage disposals on the detention level!" He would repeat that statement over and over until finally, peace. It all stopped.

"3PO, we're alright!" Luke told the concerned robot, "You did great!" They all cheered in relief.

"Tell him to open up Trash Compacter #287!" Leia discovered the number above the door.

"Open up #287!" Luke happily cheered into his mic. They wouldn't die there.

~

She crinkled her nose in frustration as the scene unfolded in front of her. Only further proving her past keeps living.

"Why did it stop?" She calmly shook into the operators ear.

"I-I don't know, my Lady. It should've crushed them by now-" the man fumbled as he raced for controls that were dying out of his control, his shaky voice annoyed Majka.

"If you want something done right," she began as she lined up her lightsaber to the back of his chair, "have to have it done yourself." She ignited the saber as the red glow illuminated his last moments.

She sucked in a breath of air as if the living force was sucked out of him and into her. Making Majka stronger as she did more evil deeds to remind herself that she is no longer the girl she once was. She could never be that girl again. Instead she was a strong woman.

"From now on," she announced as she released the man in his chair and to the rest of the room, "Everyone stays out of my way. The Rebels are mine to handle. You all do as I say, when I say it. Do I make myself clear?"

~

Many levels further, Obi-Wan is hiding amongst the shadows of the Death Star. He dangles along a panel he knows shuts off the magnetic field that holds the Millennium Falcon.

A few troopers walk directly past him without any knowledge to his presence. He makes sure the reactor is slowly shut down as to not bring any attention to himself.

"Stand guard." Obi-Wan hears the troopers interactions.

"Do you know what's going on?" Another asks.

"Maybe another drill?" The other responds. Obi-Wan smiles, these troopers have no clue what they're guarding from. An excellent slip. They have no clue Obi-Wan is there and he can easily slip away while their guard is down.

"You seen that new VT-16?" The first one asks. Obi-Wan checked over the edge to make sure, they were turned the other way.

"Yeah, some maintenance guy was telling me about it." The other responded. Obi-Wan slipped away right past them, another fatal flaw of their helmets that they cannot see very much. Just to be sure, Obi-Wan moved a screw to the other side of them.

"What was that?" One of them asked as he turned. But Obi-Wan didn't bother to listen to them another moment. He rushed away to meet the other rebels at the rendezvous.

~

"C3PO, do you copy?" Luke asked into the com link.

"Yes, sir." 3PO responded.

"Are you safe?" Luke asked, Anakin smiled. He loved how much he cared for the droids.

"For the moment. We're in the main hangar across from the ship." 3PO reported.

"Perfect. We're right above you." Then Luke shut off his comlink.

Leia peered out the window to the hangar: "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought."

Yup, just like her mother. Anakin thought.

"Nice." Han dismissed the comment, "Lets get out of here."

The 5 walked slowly to avoid being spotted. Anakin felt a chill just as Han was about to turn the corner.

"Wait!" He whisper shouted, he could feel more troopers.

"It's them!" The bucket head's voice echoed to his friends. Han by reflex shot the first man in the chest, which the other 5 troopers took as a sign to run for more help.

"Where are you going?" Luke shouted after Han and Chewie who followed the troopers.

"Get back to the ship!" Han screamed back as he turned the corner and out of the family's sight.

"Well, he sure has courage." Leia smiled a little.

"It won't do him any good if he gets himself killed." Anakin muttered, noticing Leia's growing liking to the rugged man.

"C'mon!" Luke grabbed a hold of Leia's hand, and led the three off to the ship.

It wasn't long after that troops caught up to them. Luke and Anakin shot back at them with precision, Anakin more so than Luke. Anakin was regaining himself back.

"Can't you use your light saber?!" Luke asked, hoping for something to help.

"If I do that they'll know a Jedi is here. It's too dangerous to do that in the middle of an Imperial Military station, this giant death trap, it would make everything worse. I can't do that!" Anakin said, knowing that if he pulled his lightsaber out Lady Majka would be alerted. That would be the last fight he wanted to relive. Plus the security would be quintupled for a Jedi, and if they knew which Jedi were in their midst, even more than that.

"It can't get much worse than this! They already know we're here." Luke said firing back another shot. Anakin didn't respond, he wasn't ready to reveal himself yet, not completely.

They followed the path and came across a bridge. They shut the blast door behind them.

"There's no lock!" Leia alerted them. Luke panicked and shot the controls to the door.

"That'll hold them for a while." He muttered.

"Press the controls to extend the bridge." Leia demanded, staring at the gaping hole in front of them.

"Pretty sure he just blasted them." Anakin clenched his jaw in frustration. Then shots came from above. Another bridge, not even 100 feet above them shot down at their platform. The three ducked behind the doorway as a shield.

Luke and Anakin used their blasters to shoot back.

"You're sure this isn't a good time to pull out that light saber?" Luke pushed. Anakin weighed his pros and cons. He closed his eyes and felt through the force to the woman he was bonded to. She knew, he could feel it. She knew he was alive.

Anakin unsheathed his saber, felt it tingle in his hands as the way it was meant to be. He felt young again, like he was back in the days of the Republic and on another mission. Sure, it was reckless, but when we're any of his plans not? He smiled, this was his element.