21. MED VAC EMERGENCY ROOM - UNDERGROUND FORTRESS
Captain
Starkiller waits in an outer chamber as General Skywalker rushes into
the Med Vac
emergency room where several doctors are working on the prostrate
Whitsun.
GENERAL
What's his
condition? Is he conscious?
DOCTOR
Partially. He's be all right - a few bruises, primary
exhaustion....
Whitsun
thrashes around in a semi-conscious state. He
sees the general.
GENERAL
What happened,
boy? What's going on?
WHITSUN (with
difficulty)
The Imperial
Starforce is already on its way, not far behind me... They're
going to
attack.
GENERAL
Are you sure?
WHITSUN
I have
tapes...A giant space fortress....
He struggles to
give General Skywalker his ring.
GENERAL
As big as our
Third Moon?
WHITSUN
Bigger. It's unlike anything I've ever seen. Sophisticated deflection
systems....
work in opposition to the suns.
GENERAL
They will show
up on our screens at sunrise. They'll attack
before that.
The general
rushes into the outer chamber where Captain Starkiller is waiting
for him.
GENERAL
Take the
fastest landspeeder to Chathos. Pick up
Princess Leia... and only
Princess Leia. Return by way of the Great Reef. Most speed.
Starkiller
exits and the general goes to an intercom and pushes several
buttons.
GENERAL
Montross.
MONTROSS
Sir!
GENERAL
Full
alert....everything! Get the Royal Family
back here.
MONTROSS
The princess is
at Chathos. There are no transports....
GENERAL
I've already
sent Captain Starkiller for her! Contact the
king, first
priority. He's probably still en route to Amsel. Use the scan com.
I'm on
my way.
22. WAR ROOM - UNDERGROUND FORTRESS - AQUILAE
The war room is
on full alert. Everyone is at attention,
waiting for the
command that
will put them into action. The general enters
a communication
center,
followed by many aides. Captain Montross and
the com aide salute.
MONTROSS
We're having a
problem getting through, Sir. There is a
great deal of
interference.
PRUE
It could be
jamming.
GENERAL
Try a surface
link through Amsel.
The aides go
back to the com-link system to try to get a line through to the
king.
PRUE
We should be
able to spot them at sunrise....That's not too far off.
GENERAL
They'll attack
with sunrise. Until the king gives us that
code to start the
war computers,
we'll just have to sit tight.
PRUE
All units are
on alert, Sir.
GENERAL (to
Montross)
Have you made
contact yet? (to himself) This is one hell of a way to run a
war.
PRUE
Sir?
23. COURTYARD - ACADEMY OF CHATHOS - AQUILAE
A landspeeder
roars into a courtyard of the Academy at Chathos. Starkiller
jumps out, and
runs up to the large, heavy doors of the academy. They
are
locked. He bangs madly on the carved metallic door, until
finally an old
woman manages
to swing it open. Starkiller rushes past her
into the main
courtyard where
Princess Leia and her hand-maiden, Mina, struggle with two
large cases. They are followed by two very old matrons,
dragging several more
cases.
STARKILLER
Forget the
cases - we've no time.
LEIA
These are my
things. They must...
STARKILLER
I said forget
them, and hurry...
LEIA
Just who do you
think you are?
Starkiller
grabs the princess by the arm, and hauls her to the speeder. Mina
and the old
women run after them.
LEIA
I will not be
treated like this! You bring my
things.... My father will have
your head...
(etc.)
Leia struggles
to break away from the young warrior's grasp as he opens the
door of the
speeder.
STARKILLER
Settle down!
When the door
to the speeder is opened, Mina starts in, and Starkiller stops
her.
STARKILLER
You must stay. Here, take the Crest.