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Princess_Tranquility
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"It Can't Be Done..." (Luke becomes paralyzed in a starfighter crash) UPDATED 8/7!!!
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It's 2 years after the Battle of Endor, and the fragile New Republic has just begun to rebuild itself. During this time the Republic was experiencing difficulty with a new prototype A-wing starfighter, not knowing what the cause is, they decide to have Luke Skywalker fly a test run on it. They assume that his pilot skills, along with his Jedi abilities, could more accurately pinpoint the problem.
During the run however the ship crashes! After Luke is pulled from the wreckage, the medics discover during his treatment, that besides burns, cuts, and several broken ribs, that he suffered a spinal injury. Running tests they find that the 24 year old Jedi, is paralyzed from the waist down, with little hope of ever walking again.
His internal struggle of coping with his injury, a struggle with the overprotective nature of his friends, and a Republic who has lost all faith in him. Luke must prove them all wrong. Must prove that he is still the man he was before. That he can still fight and deserves more then just sympathy comments. In a galaxy that says "It Can't be Done..."
(If you can see the screen through your tears please post comments, I love feedback, keep tissues around, and feel free to PM me at any time)
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Good morning 
I say go for it; sounds one like one heck of a story
Love and care
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JediClare
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Sounds interesting.
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go for it!
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Hey, go right ahead!! Looking foward to reading 
*passes out popcorn and pepsi*
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thanks for the comments, glad you all like the idea
Well like I always I say on with the story!
Plesadia zoomed closer, and Luke began to feel nauseous from the banks and spirals that his damaged starfighter was taking. //Would he ever stop spinning?// he thought.
He remembered how last night he had been approached about taking a test run in the new prototype A-wing. Seemed that the techs and pilots were confused as to what was kicking the repulsors and shields out during midflight. One pilot had already died in a test run, and two techs had suffered severe injuries during a combustion from the ship's engines. He had been slightly worried about attempting a run himself. The A-wing however needed to be up and ready to go, before the Empire came knocking on their door again. The war was over, but the Imperials were far from gone. Luke knew that they were asking him, not just because he was an outstanding pilot, having proved himself gain and again during battle, but because he was a Jedi Knight. The last Jedi Knight. They needed his Force abilities to sense the problem within the ship. Reluctantly he accepted.
He told Leia and Han that night during dinner. Leia knew about the problems the crew was facing with the A-wing. Speechless, she begged Luke not to do this, not to fly the run. She could feel extreme danger for him if he did so. Han second the opinon learning to trust the strange bond the twins had. Luke told her he had to fly. The Republic needed the ship. The new technology might make or break them during a battle against the remenents of the Empire. She understood and knew her brother...her one and only brother was the only one who could find the malfunction. Han knew it as well, he had grown to trust Luke's strange powers, it had saved them all more then once.
The next morning under the watchful eye of what seemed like the entire base, Luke removed his worn black cape and donned his orange flight suit. Breathing in a deep sigh he hugged his friends. Lando, Han, Wedge, Chewie, and then...Leia. She had stood to the back, trying to not shed tears she knew were forming in the jungle planet's morning dampness. When he embraced her, she cried openly, but only to him. She hadn't wanted to let go, but knew this had to be done. Luke felt the strange feeling. He knew something was going to happen to him. Something horrible. He had felt it. He also knew however that if he flew the run, that even though something would happen, he might discover the problem, before the inevitable happened. He just prayed to the Force, that he would live to tell them about it.
Climbing into the prototype he turned his head one last time to see Leia grab on to Han. They both watched him with saddened expressions. The silence filled the air as he kicked the repulsors on and did the preflight. It had felt odd knowing Artoo was not in the ship with him, but he didn't want to endanger anyone or anything else in this run. He considered Artoo to be like one of his friends. He was deffinitly more then just a droid. After he had completed the preflight he took off. He had no longer felt the ground beneath him, and thought silently, as he slipped into the Force, he might not ever feel it again.
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Now as his ship continued to spin, and he relived the memories of this mornings events. He wondered if he should have listened to his and Leia's nagging feelings. The Force had known this was going to happen. Then again so did he. He willingly took this risk. For the good of the New Republic. He watched the ground spin closer, and he let the Force calm him. One good thing however, he did discover the problem. It was an overheated power cupling. The metal it was made of could not support the heat given off by the repulsor's engines. When it became to hot it's bolts melted. It then snapped, tearing the wires that connected to the repulsor system and then landed somewhere near the engine. The Republic would need to put a more effecent power cupling in the ships, or a better coolant system.
Relief that he had indeed found the problem was shortlived. He was still in mortal danger, as black smoke and flames engulfed the engines. As he passed over the stunned crowd he reached out to the Force, to try to levitate the ship to a graceful landing. All of a sudden, he felt a ripple as cold and as chilling as the darkside itself. A scream followed, shaking him out of his concentration. Her signature in the Force winked out, and he knew it was Leia. She was witnessing the danger from the ground below, or had been. She must have fainted at the sight of his firey starfighter. He saw the ground, it was too late to reach for the Force again. He would never grasp it in time. Had he not been so distraught by Leia's scream, he might have been able to float gentely to safety. Then abandon the ship before it exploded from the flames.
He desperetly tried to think of another idea, he figured scraping bottom would be better then hitting nose first. In a last ditch effort, he pulled his control stick toward him, straightening the ship, just before it collided with the planet below.
The ship scorched the plants in it's path as it continued it's journey through the wilderness. As the A-wing tore through the jungle, plants hitting his cockpit window, Luke vaguely remembered a similar situation, on Dagobah 4 years ago. He tried to reach for the Force again, trying to put himself in a hibernation trance. He wasn't quite sure if he made it though, as the ship struck a tree and the darkness overtook him.
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Great posts!! Good stuff
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yeah, what he said!
more more!
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Poor Luke! 
Interesting story idea.
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welcome RebelMom! Glad to see you in here! Thanks for the feedback. Another part will be up soon! Very soon...
Keep reading
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Here's the next post, lets see how things are going!
Leia watched as Luke's A-wing streaked across the sky. She had never heard a ship make those kind of sounds in her life! Something was terribly wrong! She knew he was in danger before he ever entered the cockpit. Luke knew something was going to happen, conveyed his message through the Force. Why did he go then? She remembered the night before, his discussion about having to do it for the good of the Republic.
Her brother, her Jedi brother, her selfless martyr Jedi brother. Did he ever put his own needs ahead of a galaxy that longed to be free? Did his own welfare ever cross his mind? No. Not Luke Skywalker. A poor moisture farmer, he slaved his whole life for everything he had had, even his meals. Nothing like how she was raised. All she had to do was ask, and the palace servants answered her requests. Now that she thought about it, Leia had never once, in all the time she had known him, ever heard him even mention wanting anything. He just wasn't used to it. Luke still insisted on doing things for himself. He always said he didn't want to burden anyone, even when she had insisted it was their jobs. All he longed for was flying, freedom, and to touch the Force. He had achieved all that. A hero in the eyes of millions, yet he still asked for nothing in return.
The A-wing screeched by again, but this time, she caught site of thick billows of black smoke!
His fighter was on fire! She raised her hands to her mouth in horror. Han wrapped his arms around her. She sought the calm within his soul, only to find his heart was beating as fast as hers. She let the Force wrap around her, and embraced it. She heard the silent cries of her friends around her, felt the fear in Han's body, and the calm state of her brother.
No! He was dying! She could feel his life slip through the fingers of the Force that he held so dear. Images flooded her mind. Things he was seeing. The smoke, the sparks, then the planet, and the wilderness. No! She said silently to herself again. The images changed and became memories. Luke's memories.
She watched as his life flash before her eyes! Tatooine, the farm, using the Force as a child, feeling a strap against his back for even daring to touch it! His loving aunt, his Jedi hating uncle, Ben Kenobi, Artoo and Threepio, lightsaber-father's lightsaber, death, discovery, Yoda, dreams coming true, sister, destiny, father redeemed, a new family. Through his memories she discovered more of him then what she thought existed. However all his memories were laced with pain. Always pain, every single one.
All this was information overload! Too much, too much of him to handle all at once! Her head began to hurt. She pounded at it with her fists, trying to fight back his pain. She reached blindly for him in the Force, only to find he had slipped away! "Nooooooooooo!" She screamed. She felt her blood run cold, and fell lifeless in Han's arms.
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Great post can't wait to see when they pull Luke out!!!! !!!! !!!! !!!!
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Glad to see a post from you Simone. I liked your PM so much
I wrote more!!
"Leia!" Han yelled.
He held her limp form in his outstretched hands. One moment she was standing stiff and in horror, as Luke's A-wing flew overhead. Then suddenly, she released a long surpressed sigh, as her back arched and she fell towards the ground. He had barely caught her, as he had been enthralled by the sight of the burning starfighter.
He fell to his knees, cradling her in his arms. Chewie fell immediatly at his side, to aid him with the uncoscious Princess.
"Leia? Sweetheart? You there?" He shook her gentely.
Lando, and Wedge, noticing what had happened joined their commrades on the flagstone enteranceway.
"What happened?" Lando asked in shocked amazement.
"I don't know?" Han said, stroking her long hair. "But I think it must have something to do with Luke." He gazed, towards the sky, wondering where the sith he had disappeared to.
The group strained their eyes, searching through the depleating black clouds. They desperetly tried to divide their attention between the fallen princess, and her missing Jedi twin.
All of a sudden a loud crash was heard to the west. All stares turned in the direction. A moment of silence filled the air, as no one in the hangerbay spoke a word. The quartet of friends looked in eachothers distressed eyes.
"Luke..." Wedge said breathlessly, refusing to look away from the forming smoke clouds.
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Here's more!
The silence broke as General Madine and Mon Mothma began hollering orders all over the place: "Get a medical staff hurry....someone get out....he may be gravely injured....he might be....dead"
The docking bay became a completely disfunctional array of confused pilots, techs, and government officials.
"I don't know about you but I'm heading out there!" Lando shouted to Han. He got to his feet, and began marching away.
"Lando-" Han started.
"Han, I owe it to him. After what happened at Bespin. I never forgave myself for letting him fall so willingly into Vader's hands like that. I'm reminded of it eveytime I see his right hand." Lando spoke in an unsettled tone.
"Besides, he's my friend. One of the few who never judged me for my past. Just liked me for who I was. The galaxy needs more men like that." He pointed towards the smoke. "I'll be damned I'm gonna let that boy suffer again, knowing I could do something about it!"
Han stared. He had never seen Lando like this. He had to admit, the Kid had that kind of an impact on people. All you had to do was look in those infamous blue eyes, and you could never imagine your life without his company. Han knew to well the impact. Luke had worked his magic of accute innocence on him several years ago. He brought out a part of Han that Han never knew existed, simply by just being Luke.
"I'm right with you boss!" Wedge exclaimed, jumping to his feet.
Lando nodded and they took off knowing full well Han had to stay with Leia.
Han had wanted to go with them. He was really worried about Luke. He was also worried about Leia too. The way she started shaking, when she placed her fists on her head. Then the blood curdling scream she let out before collapsing. He took off his jacket, and folded it into a pillow to lay her head on. Han knew her reaction had something to do with whatever was shared between her and Luke before he crashed, he just hoped the Kid was alright.
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Nooo! Luke! Hurry up and get him out.
I liked the section where Leia was thinking about the selfless nature of her brother. Very good points.
*RM impatiently waits for more.*
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