Failure- An Alternate Ending to Return of the Jedi
By: Jacen Solo
jacen__solo@hotmail.com
I do not claim ownership to any of the names or items in
this story, all rights belong George Lucas and the
genius' at Lucasfilm who I wish long life, prosperity,
and.. oh yeah, just keep on making Star Wars movies.
"The shields are down," exclaimed Admiral Ackbar,"
all fighters commence the attack on the Death Star!"
"Red Wing, Gold Wing, Green Wing, Gray Wing, all
fighters follow me!" Commanded Lando Calrissian, then,
turning towards his Sullustan copilot, Nien Nunb,
exclaimed,"I told you they'd do it!" Referring to Han
and the Rebel commandoes mission to destroy the Death
Star II's shield generator on the forest moon of Endor.
"Nub, nub," his apprehensive copilot agreed.
As the remaining 6 fighters shot into the conduit that
led to the reactor core, a squadron of 3 TIE
Interceptors and 3 TIE Fighters chased them in with
their guns-a-blazing. A wild shot from one of the TIE
Interceptors hit one of the X-Wings, which bounced off a
pipe and slammed into a Y-Wing, utterly destroying both
craft.
The TIE Interceptor pilot, supremely confident in his
own ability, didn't see the construction crane until it
was too late.
Wedge Antilles looked through the back viewport just
in time to see a TIE Fighter barrelling down on him. The
TIE Fighter's first 3 shots were wide, but the fourth
shot hit his third engine and short-circuited his first
and fourth engines.
Wedge knew he was going to die, but he was set on
taking a few of those TIE's with him. So he cut all
power to his remaining engine and suddenly the TIE
Fighter behind him was chasing a stationary target! In
an act of desperation the pilot tried to pull up, and
almost made it, but, in pulling up, the TIE pilot pulled
straight up into a pipe. He ricocheted of the pipe and
slammed into a TIE Interceptor, destroying both of them.
The brilliant flash of the explosion was the last
thing Wedge saw before his X-Wing hit the bottom of the
conduit.
Lando was getting nervous, there were 3 TIE's
chasing the Falcon and Tycho Celchu's A-Wing. "Tycho,
head back to the surface and see if you can draw some of
those TIE's after you," he commanded.
Tycho pulled and followed a smaller tunnel to the
surface and the two TIE Fighters peeled off to follow
him.
The Falcon shot into the reactor chamber followed
closely by the remaining TIE Fighter.
Lando's crew was already starting to celebrate,
until Lando snapped at them,"We're not outta this yet,
now strap in and get ready for a bumpy ride!"
Beneath his grumpy demeanour, Lando was starting to
relax, the TIE was not yet in firing range and they were
about to destroy the main reactor with torpedoes. He
didn't have much chance of missing, but he fired two
torpedoes, just to be on the safe side. To his surprise
and extreme dismay, impenetrable energy shields had
popped up around the reactor, absorbing the energy of
the blast.
Because the Falcon had been rapidly approaching the
reactor, Lando was unable to pull up before the Falcon
slammed into the shield protecting the reactor.
Lando's last words before impact were directed
towards the Bothan spies who had obtained the Death
Star II's schematics for the Rebel Alliance. "Stupid
idiots," he mumbled, before the Millenium Falcon ceased
to exist.
With the destruction of the Rebel fighters, the
Rebel fleet was forced to retreat to a hidden world
called Haloth (known to us as Alpha Centauri) to escape
the near-invincible Imperial fleet, led by Darth Vader
and Luke Skywalker, who had fallen to the Dark Side
after turning on and killing the Emperor in his dark
rage.
The strike team on Endor recruited some of the
Imperials who had defected and exiled the others into
the forest to eke out a living. They armed the Ewoks
with energy weapons in exchange for their help in
modifying the Tyderian to carry the new Rebels and two
Ewoks who had decided to join the Alliance, Wicket W.
Warwick and Teebo. They wandered the galaxy for months
until they came upon a small Rebel transit point on Ord
Mantell used to as a stopover point for stragglers on
their way to Haloth.
Meanwhile Luke and Vader scour the galaxy for the
Rebel fleet, destroying everything in their way,
including Calamari and Chandrila, the homeworlds of the
two leaders of the Alliance, Admiral Ackbar and Mon
Mothma. Unknowingly, they are getting closer
everyday.....
TO BE CONTINUED...... (
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