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[log] Nothing better than a good old fashioned reunion [closed]

Characters: Zach, Kesara, Terezi, Vriska
Location Building 51
Date: Day 112 - Evening
Summary: a heartwarming reunion...maybe?
Warnings: none, afaik. May be updated later.

[Zach had arrived early to the house, putting his bags down quickly and flopping down on the couch, not even taking in his surroundings much. There's something akin to nervousness thrumming through him - he's not quite sure what's going to happen once he meets back up with Kesara and Lil' T, and he definitely doesn't feel in the mood to take Marquise's bullshit. It's probably going to be...well. Tense. Kesara's probably still sort of mad at him.

Oh, well. It's all too late now, and he's here, so might as well relax while he can. Soon he's not going to be alone any more and he's going to have to keep thinking about people's well-being and he can't keep going and putting himself in danger for no reason. That's probably going to be the hardest part of it all...

He pulls out one of the books he's pilfered from one of the random houses he's visited on his way, settling himself to wait and trying not to stress out too much about the upcoming reunion. Who knows, maybe they wo't show.

Zach is out like a light, and snoring soundly, the book on his chest, in minutes.]

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[Zach can't help himself, he starts laughing, loudly. That is the best thing ever, she is such an excellent kid.]

Okay so - yes, they sail in the stars! They are startships, and there are tons of different ones. Some even have lightspeed, which means it can travel at the speed of light and go from end of the galaxy to the other super quick! These ships are how they travel between planets, like we do on boats, between continents. And droids are like, super elaborated tin cans, they have tons of electronics inside, like our tablets, and they can be super clever.

As for the Force...[Zach leans back a little, looking at the ceiling for a moment.] It's not like anything we know. It's like...energy, like a life force. It flows through everyone, but just some people are able to manipulate it. You can't - like, you can't keep it in a bottle, or anything. It doesn't work like that.

[That's kind of a hard concept to explain, isn't it, Zach, especially when you, yourself, as a kid, just took it for granted and accepted it as such. Why does Kesara need to understand how it works? Nobody knows how it works!]

The Empire's evil. That's why they have Darth Vader. And he wasn't choked himself per se, but when he was younger, he had a very bad accident that left him unable to breathe without his helnmet, and the raspy breathing is because of the breathing apparatus. It's all pretty tragic, but it's another story entirely!

[This is a lot to learn, and if she had the slightest suspicion that the story was meant to be a real one, Kesara wouldn't have been willing to swallow half these big fish. But for now all she needs is for the story to fit together.]

You mean the Force is like, like Prana. And this Hungarian fellow puts it to terrible and wicked use that will cost him merit and probably cause him be born as pariah dog in the next life.

[See, it all makes sense if you just put it in simple terms.]

So Kenobi, the holy man, he was going to teach Skywalker the technique to use the Force? So he can fight the evil sorcerer? But what does the princess have to go with it? If Skywalker was meant to be a yogi, he can't expend his energy on women!

[Well, Zach doesn't know what Prana is, but sure, why not? He shrugs.]

He's definitely a pariah dog in the next life. For sure.

Obi Wan, indeed, teaches Luke as much as he can about the Force in the limited time frame they have, so that Luke can go and save the world. At first, it's not even about the Princess! Although, hey, she is super important. You see, what we learn is that the Princess is also the leader of the Rebel Alliance, a group of goodhearted misfits who want to stop the Galactic Empire from ruling the galaxy and destroying planets full of innocent people. I mean, c'mon. It's the typical hero journey, Kesara. There's always someone in distress to save. He's becoming a Jedi to save people, it's the whole point!

[C'mon.]

Basically, R2-D2 has some blueprints for a mega killing weapon that the Empire has built that can destroy entire planets in one go, which is pretty shitty if you ask my opinion. And he has to deliver them to the Rebel Alliance so that they can destroy it!

So, Luke and Obi Wan hire a charming fellow called Han Solo, who is one of the best pilots in the galaxy and also a smuggler and a man that deals in illegal things, to fly them off of Tatooine and out to Alderaan where they can deliver the blueprints. But! Dun dun dun!

When they get to the Alderaan system, they discover that the planet has been destroyed by the weapon! [Lots of gestures and dramatic pauses for effect, here. This is all super important!]

[The hero's journey is another thing Kesara does not know. But she knows rebellions and alliances - mostly as something that needs to be put down for the Queen's peace, but this is an evil empire - and she is quite keen on important princesses. And on smugglers. She is very keen on smugglers. She sits up sharply when Zach mentions this Solo fellow.]

What kind of things does he deal with? Is he secretly in league with the rebels?

[When he tells about the planet being destroyed, her eyes widen, and not in an affected gesture. His gestures are nice, but it's mostly the concept of the whole planet being - well - destroyed. It's difficult for her to imagine, and she doesn't lack imagination. What would that be like, if you happened to live on that planet?]

Do you mean it was - was it made cold and dead, like this town? It can't have just been gone. A planet's a big thing, Zach!

Han Solo? No, he deals in like, smuggled goods and illegal stuff. Drugs, possibly? They don't say much about his past, you see, because he has to be mysterious and aloof.

[A planet is definitely a big thing, it's a massive thing, and it's the whole point, isn't it? The small people with good intentions saving the galaxy.]

No, it exploded. Properly exploded, poof, gone. Leia watches it happen, and it's very sad, because it's her homeworld, and her father's there, and then he's dead and she's all alone.

The Death Star is about the size of a big moon, and its power is big enough that it can destroy entire planets just like that, at the flick of a switch. Which is why Princess Leia and the Rebels have to destroy it!

Ohh. Drugs. [She says it with a nod of great authority. She knows all about drug smugglers. Well, about opium smugglers. Well, about the stories that young officers tell about capturing opium smugglers.] What a vile fellow.

[This may not be the response Zach was hoping to elicit.]

But if they destroyed the whole planet, [this is a sticking point] that would've been more than just the princess's father. It would have been - her whole family, her whole nation, everyone she's ever known! Zach, that's horrible! How do you destroy something like that?

[Zach chuckles.] Han's pretty awesome, actually, but at the beginning he's not someone that they trust very much, no. They are a job for him!

[Nodding sagely, Zach brings his legs together to sit cross-legged on the couch, taking his cap off to run a hand through his gross hair, before putting the hat back on.] Yeah, it is horrible. Everyone died! It was a planet that was known to host the Rebel Alliance, so the Empire just took it all out, because they're mega evil and gross. Like suuuuuuuper gross.

I wouldn't trust an opium runner either. Books are a much more respectable contraband.

[By now Kesara is also sitting cross-legged across from him, hands in her lap, rocking back and forth slightly with the energy of excitement. This is a good story. A very good story. And Zach is doing so well, letting her ask all her questions!]

Were the rebels wiped out? No - the princess will surely rebuild them, with Skywalker's help. Because the cause is most righteous!

Indeed, the cause is most righteous, you're right! [Finger in the air, Zach gives it a pause before going back into the fray of the story.]

The rebels were not all wiped out - there were secret bases all over the Galaxy, but that is for later. First! Luke and Han and Obi-Wan need to come aboard an Empire ship to rescue Princess Leia!

[Leaning forward with his hands on his knees, Zach grins.] And how do they do that? By disguising themselves as Stormtroopers, of course! Stormtroopers are the Empire's foot soldiers. They're really terrible shots. They hack into the ship's internal systems to find out where she is, and then pretend that Chewbacca's a prisoner they're transferring there to go and save Leia.

But of course they didn't even think about they'd escape! So Leia tkes charge, because she's badass, and she blasts them out....right into a massive garbage compactor!

[Kesara is not always terribly concerned with the justness of causes, but she does like Zach's emphasis. It makes the story better. She also grins brightly in approval and nods at the tale of disguise and infiltration, and decides to let go the issue of how the soldiers of the great and powerful Empire can be terrible shots. Perhaps they're very good with swords instead. What matters is that the cause is just and the heroes are clever.]

Wait - who is this Chew Baccy fellow? That's a filthy habit. [Well, if he is a smuggler... still, she shakes her head, some approval retracted. Filthy habits are meant to be eschewed in the transition to the side of light.

She quite likes the hear about Leia takes charge - all the signs point to Leia being quite her favourite. There is just the one problem, though.]

Zach... what is a garbage compactor?

[Damn you, the science fiction genre!]

[Zach grins, rubbing his hands together. This is so great. Kesara has so many questions, and they're the right questions. Sure, it'll take them five years to get through the whole story - Zach's not going to bother telling her much about the prequels - but it's worth it. Her brain is so engaged in the story.]

Chewbacca! Chewbacca is Han's second in command slash copilot. He's a Wookie - they're aliens from this planet far far away. He's like, super furry, he looks like a giant cross between a bear and a dog, and he's super sassy even though he only speaks in grunts. Han understands him, though. He's like, 7 feet tall, and he wields a bowcaster, which is a cross between a crossbow and a blaster, it's real cool. He's badass.

[Cracking his knuckles, Zach goes on to tackle her second question.]

As for a garbage compactor - or trash compactor - it's basically a massive room in which all the ship's garbage gets thrown into, and then it compacts it all into little cubes that gets thrown into space. It's better than throwing everything as is and polluting the Galaxy too much, I guess?

And it's got like, these walls that compress everything, so they close in tiny tiny, so when the lot of them are thrown in there they're sure they're going to get compacted to death! But R2-D2 was hacking into the ship's systems, and he manages to turn it off before our three intrepid heroes get turned into tiny cubes.

And then they escape the garbage compactor! And they form a plan to escape the ship because Obi Wan managed to turn off the tractor beam that was forcing the Millenium Falcon to stay aboard, so they run over it.

That's when they see that Darth Vader is coming to them, and Obi Wan throws himself into a fight with him to give the rest of them time to fly away!

[That is a lot of information on a new supporting character. Zach needs to learn some technique, Kesara thinks, though he makes up for it by being very vivid in his descriptions. The dog-bear cross she pictures is perhaps more dog than bear, something like an upright Tibetan mastiff, and she shudders in delight at the thought of how powerful and dangerous such a companion must be.]

Does he speak a language of grunts? What a queer business. [In the best way, clearly.

She makes all the right ooh-ing noises at the trash compactor episode, though she has a very hard time picturing that - people tend to turn to mush rather than neat cube, and hacking systems is still a very vague concept, and what is a tractor beam? But all the words and terms, because there are no many, because Zach juggles them so easily, because they are mysterious and wonderful, are like magical chanting. She occasionally repeats one under her breath just to treasure the sound of it. Droids, bowcaster, tractor beam... like running her fingers over shining beads in the story's rosary.]

Oah, so now the dark and light masters are fighting each other! But where is Skywalker? It's meant to be him who defeats the evil man, not his teacher! He can't fly away and leave his master behind!

He does speak a language of grunts, actually! Han Solo can understand him, and so can C3PO, which is another droid that's traveling with them all. He's R2-D2 best friend, sorta, and Luke bought both of them together back on Tatooine. He talks a lot, and he understands every language in the galaxy, and he's kinda cowardly but also very loyal.

[Zach can see it all in his head, and his memories might be fuzzy, but the main story is still so clear and important, it's easy to retell it, and give it all the passion he can muster right now. It's good to have an attentive audience.]

Luke's here! He's actually witnessing the fight and he's super upset and mad that he can't join in, especially since he got a lightsaber too, but then - then the tragic moment happens where Darth Vader cuts Obi Wan in two! Which is awful, obviously, because he's become quite important to Luke very quickly and here, look, he's dead, and it's very sad.

[A pause, for effect.]

Han and Leia drag Luke to the Millenium Falcon and they have to make a very daring escape from the Empire's ship, it's all super heart pounding! There's a space battle and they only escape by the skin of their teeth.

[Dramatic pause.]

But it's not finished. They must destroy the Death Star!

Every language in the galaxy?!

[However exciting the next part is, Kesara is going to be distracted for a while there. A galaxy, she knows, is an exceptionally big thing, and "every language" must mean thousands. Tens of thousands. Millions. She only speaks eight. Lao Dian only speaks about fifteen. For a moment there she sits paralysed with awe and jealousy so intense that she can practically feel it sizzle.

He's not real, this C3PO, she comforts herself with the thought. Being jealous of a droid who isn't real is really very childish. It's much more important that Luke's old master died. Cut in two. That is horrible. So horrible it's almost exciting.]

That must have been so horribly bloody. [Her voice is hushed with the imagining of it. So bloody.] Poor Luke. He has to kill that evil man. And finish his work!

Yeah! C3PO speaks like, millions of languages. He's a protocol droid, that's the whole reason why he's programmed - he helps diplomacy by knowing all languages and customs of every race in the galaxy. Very useful, but he's also kind of a dink sometimes.

[How to explain that Obi Wan actually jut sort of vanished? Zach ponders that one, because himself as a kid never really got that part. There's no body. Maybe it's a Jedi thing - only when Darth Vader dies, his body remains.

One of the great Star Wars mysteries.]

Finish his work, first and foremost! Of course Luke wants vengeance but he also wants to do good for the galaxy, so he and Han and Leia join back with the Rebel Alliance to plan an assault on the Death Star. And it's a gigantic space battle! And lots of people die!

Luke's piloting an X-Wing, which is a one-person battle ship that's real good for dogfights and the likes. He's like, super good at it. But every time one of his squadron tries to bomb the Death Star's weak point, they get exploded. So, guess what Luke does?

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