dreams or down the rabbit hole

Title: dreams or down the rabbit hole Timeline: au Author: the katte bookkatte@yahoo.com Characters: Maul, Luke, Nymkatte(would i ever leave her out?), various extras Category: humor/angst Status: 1/1 Disclaimer: I am using places and Characters and bits of a storyline belonging to George Lucas (aka god of the sw universe) the creativity and the katte race belong to me. I make no money for this story I write for thine entertainment. this sory also contains so many other coprright infringements i'm afraid to count them so hey i dont own them either. Summary: a girl is kidnaped by Maul to lure Luke into a trap. Luke goes to rescue her and it just all goes to hell from there.(a description of a katte is found on the other message board. I will be happy to offer my file on the Katte race if asked)(please excuse in advance any misspellings or typos as i have no spellchecker on this dumb program) Down the Rabbit Hole Janelle walked a lonely path that day through the mall. Everyone she passed was enthusiated with the christmas spirit and it was all she could do to stop from crying. There was no one to spend christmas with this year. They were all gone, all taken away in one ragic moment. So many people had been at the funeral, but who had been left in the passing days to comfort the young adult daughter who had been left behind? Noone. Finally feeling a little tired, Janelle bought a coke and sat in the foodcourt for awhile. She nursed the coke until the ice was starting to melt and the bubbles were flat and people were starting to leave the mall to go home. Janelle was still staring into the brown liquid she stirred with a straw when she felt the presense of someone sitting down beside her. "What is your wish?" "I have no wishes left." Janelle said in reply to this person she did not look up to see. "Then what is your desire?" "I have nothing. I am nothing." "Then you are perfect for my plans." Janelle was startled into looking up into the cold yellow eyes of Darth Maul. His evil smile and dark laughter were all that she knew before darkness claimed her. ************* The Jedi knight, Luke Skywalker, walked the dark streets of curoscant alone. He was always alone these days. Leia had Han and Chewie for her famil,. all his friends from Tatoine had their own lives to lead, and Luke Sky walker was the last of the Jedi Knights. The last, and the most alone,Luke mused. His dream was to find someone to make his life less lonely. Suddenly, in his path, stood a pair of black boots shined bright enough to reflect Luke's blue eyes even in this dim lighting. Luke looked up into the cruelest pair of golden eyes ringed with red that he had ever seen. Even the eyes of the emporer had had more warmth in them. "Skywalker" The voice seemed to be the embodiment of evil and cruelty. Luke answered with a tremor of trepidation. "Who are you? Why do you seek me?" The red and black tattooed alien smiled cruelly. He took out a recording device and played back the holomessage on it. It showed a girl bound in chains; her screams lashed into Luke's soul. The image ended as it had begun, with the girl begging to be released. Luke could only imagine what tortures were being used on the girl. "Her life is forfeit if you do not follow." So, down twisted streets and into and out of doorways that led nowhere and everywhere they went. Luke follows this alien man until he was completely lost. The man opened one more door to a cellar going down and beconed Luke near. When Luke was close enough, he was grabbed and shoved down into the hole. ***** Janelle had never felt so much terror or pain in all her life. When the physical pain stopped they wracked her with emotional pain making her relive the accident from every veiw, her mother's, her sister's, her father's, her baby brother's. "Stop! Please stop it! Please!" It never ceased. No matter how much she begged, it went on and on and on. A never ending cycle, she thought she would go mad. ********* Luke awoke dizzy and groggy. The floor beneath him was damp and soggy. He clutched at it. It smelled vaguely familiar. Then it was sand he clutched, gritty, hot, and impossible to hold. Luke opened his eyes to see a desert before him and when he turned an opening to a vast temple. Suddenly the image wavered and he was looking at Master Yoda's hut on Degobah. He was standing on marshlands instead of sand. "What in the-?" Confused as all get out, Luke entered into Yoda's hut, or was it a temple in the desert? Each time Luke looked or blinked it was different. Inside he found Master Yoda arguing feircly with a goldish midget of his own size. "My place this is! Find your own you must!" "It's mine, I tell ya! I am the all mighty master of the schwartz, Yogurt!" "Mighty warrior are you? Wars do not make one great!" "No, but the almighty profit margin does! The royalties from this story are mine! Mine I tell ya!" Luke watched in shock as the two masters rolled on the floor in a brawling, drag out, knock out fight. Master Yoda was deadly with that stick of his, but that little gold midget, Yogurt was nothing to sneer at. Luke cleared his throat several times with no response. "Excuse me?" The two just ignored him and kept fighting. Finally, Luke walked over and picked them both up by the scruff of the neck. "Hello, could you two stop fighting for one minute?" The two looked at him, then at each other before both shouted, "NO!" and tried to reach each other for another hit. Luke dropped them both in exasperation and left out another door. "May the Schwartz be wit' youse!"The midget yelled after him, right before Yoda pounded him on the head with his stick. "Listen to the force. Guide you it can. Save you it must!" Next thing Luke knew he was walking the corridors of a hedge maze. Little goblins kept appearing and disappearing when he turned to look at them. Their laughter echoed in his head. He turned a corner and there before him stood a tall human dressed to the nines. A sardonic smile spread across the man's face. "So we have the great Jedi, Luke Skywalker," The man said. "Do I know you?" Luke asked. "I am Jareth, the goblin king. I rule everything you see and I can make your dreams come true." Jareth waved his hands and a perfect crystal sphere appeared in his hands. "What is that?" Luke watched him warily. "It's a crystal, nothing more." Jareth began flipping it all around his hands. "But, if you turn it this way, it will show you your dreams." Luke turned away and tried to ignore the charlaton, but the rogue called after him. "You only have 13 hours to find her. Turn back Luke, turn back before it's too late." Luke whirled around to find himself facing a long corridor in a spaceship sailing through the stars. "Such a pity," the goblin king's voice echoed in his head. Luke walked down the corridor and came face to face with a robotic cyborg turning the corner. "You will be assimulated." The thing intoned. Luke turned and ran the other way. A pair of hands yanked him up into the ceiling vents out of the cyborg's range. A bald headed man with a young man's figure led the way down the tube to a room with a platform that had several circles on it. The man positioned Luke on one of the circles and then walked over to the control board. "Beam him up, Scotty," the man said to someone, "Engage." The Jedi knight was startled to find himself dematerializing and rematerializing on another ship. "We got 'im, Cap'n Picard," a chubby man with an unfamiliar accent told his control board. Another man with pointed ears stood waiting to be noticed by Luke. As Luke stepped down, the man fell in step with him. "Master Luke, we have ascertained your mission and are prepared to help in every way we can, sir." By this time, Luke was just letting things happen to him, and he listened in silence all the way to the bridge. There he found the captain arguing aimiably with the ship's doctor. Seeing the man, who had told Luke his name was Spock, the captain settled down in his chair and told the navigator, "Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning." ********* Darth Maul's evil face loomed in Janelle's vision. She shreiked and straitened up. He laughed in a controled way before moving to the stand with the instruments being used to cause her physical pain. "I want Skywalker to hear your pain." ********* "Live long and prosper." Luke waves back but couldn't quite do the finger thing that the alien, Spock, did. On the shuttle's way down it became a house and looking out the window, Luke saw the emporer riding a broomstick and cackling. When it landed with a thud, Luke stepped out of the house and into a world of bright color and midgets that all looked like ewoks. They pulled him along singing, "Follow the dark imperial road! follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the dark imperial road!" Then the heartless tinman, looking suspiciously like bobafett, attacked, but had to quit when his cell phone rang. Boba Tinman told the breathless caller on his cell phone, "He's worth a lot to me." Luke escaped while Boba Tinman argued with Darth Helmet on the phone about stocks and buying and selling. Luke Skywalker next hitched a ride with a man in a hockey mask. When the chainsaw came out, Luke jumped out of the car. By this time Luke was tired and when he saw the hotel he didn't question it. "The Bates motel is about all you'll find out on this stretch of the woods," the proprietor told him. Luke was showering in the bathroom when a knife came slashing through the curtain. The brave jedi knight screamed like a girl, and cowered down in the floor of the tub. As the man dressed like a woman raised the knife again, Luke called his lightsaber to him through the force. The knife was melted by the saber flashing on and in moments the propietor was smoking chopped peices. Luke walked down the road and in the dying light he could see a woman on the hill shaking her fist at the sky and yelling, "As God is my witness..." Luke ignored her and kept walking past the mansion too. This was getting to the point of rediculousness and Luke was tired of it all. A speeding vehical came barreling down the road and the people in it were obviously terrified. Luke was now in a jungle and he looked to see what was scaring the passengers. A giant lizard crashed through the trees and roared in Luke's face. It's fetid breath stank worse than that rancor's had in Jabba's pit. Luke by this time was very exasperated and pulled out his saber. ******** Darth Maul stared at his little victem with sour displeasure. She had passed out again and was even now being tormented with the dreams his abilities induced. This was all just a game to amuse him until the farmboy showed up. Darth Maul growled and settled in to wait with never ending patience. ********* Luke sat in front of his fire cooking a steak from the now dead lizard. He didn't even blink when an arrow flew through the air landing at his feet. "Of course. The natives." Luke ran through a shower of arrows as red-skinned men rode horses all around him whooping it up. Then guns were fired and Luke saw men in rough clothing riding more horses firing projectile weapons at the red- skinned ones. Luke rolled his eyes and turned to find himself on the deck of a ship. "Now what?" The ship tilted and Luke found himself staring at a hull that said "Titanic" as the ship stood up on end. He dived into the water,pushing himself as far from the boat as he could. When Luke surfaced he was in the moat of a castle. He climbed up the slime slickened banks to look at the drawbridge. "Why am I reluctant to go in there?" He mused to himself. ******* Inside the castle Darth Maul could sense Luke's presense. "It won't be long now, my pretty one," he said to the girl. Her eyes were huge frightened orbs as she watched him pick up a cloth whip. ******* Luke was still hesitating outside the castle's entrance when he heard her scream. Those screams. It was the girl from the holomessage! At last he had found his destination! He entered into the castle and walked slowly across the stone floor. The girl's screams echoed and reverberated against the wall so that Luke could not figure out where the sound was coming from. He reached out with the force to find her and instead found a deadly dark presense advancing on him from behind! Luke whirled to see the twin bladed light saber of Darth Maul decending on him. In a flash his saber was up, blocking it. A dance of death commenced as they circled each other, lightsabers clashing every few seconds. Luke called heavily upon the force as he jumped and twirled to get away from that double blade. A sudden misstep and Luke was on his back, Maul's blade at his throat. "Maul, baby, I would think you didn't want me around with the way you ignore me," a throaty voice purred into Darth Maul's ear. Luke looked up and was shocked to see Nymkatte. So was Darth Maul by the look of him. The katte twined her arms around his body and licked his ear. Luke was not surprized by her actions, because he, himself had had the oppurtunity once or twice to sample this dilectibly lusty creature. Darth Maul was definately interested. Interested enough in fact to put away his lightsaber and carry Nymkatte off to his bedchamber. Nymkatte's delighted chuckle lightly caressed Luke's ears before they were out of sight. /Wat are you waiting for you big ninny?/ Nymkatte's voice now echoed in his head. /Go be the hero and save the girl ya big looby! You think I followed you down this rabbit hole just to get laid by Maul? Well, yeah, it was that too, but still!/ Luke chuckled and stretched out with the force. He encountered a terrorized mind and quickly found his way to it. The girl stood silently weeping, her torturing nemisis gone. It was all Luke could do not to break down and cry himself at this poor girl's pain. Luke quickly released her and she fell into his arms. He picked her up and carried her out of there. As he walked through the castle's entryway, he saw Darth Maul emerge from his chambers, Nymkatte leaning on his arm. An annoying man with a microphone appeared out of nowhere and shoved a microphone into Maul's face. "Darth Maul! You just fucked a katte! What are you going to do now?" Darth Maul grinned a terrifying smile and said, "I'm going to Disneyland, Chuck!" ********* Three weeks after rescuing the girl he now knew as Janelle, Luke was still not sure of what had gone on down there. Luke had found a stairway leading up into nowhere outside the castle and had carried Janelle up them into the streets of coruscant. Luke lay back on his bed watching Janelle breathing in her sleep. Somehow during Janelle's recovery from the experiance, Luke had fallen in love with this girl. He had fought his way through to save her, and now she was his. Just a few hours ago they had made love for the first time. It had been an experiance that Luke was sure he would never be able to top with another woman. A hand fell on Luke's shoulder. Luke looked up, startled to find someone in his private quarters. It was Nymkatte. Her smile for him was sad and pensive. "Hi, farmboy." Luke looked at her puzzled. Nymkatte sighed and spoke again, "You have to let me take her home now." Luke turned rigid in his shock. "No! She's mine! I love her!" "Don't you think she knows that? It is still her fate to live out her life in her own world. Just because Maul time jumped and created that "rabbit hole" doesn't mean you can just bloody well do what you want with her." "Dammit, Nymkatte-" "No, Luke! Listen to me! That rabbit hole won't close until she is returned to where she belongs. I have managed to return Maul to his right path, but I still need to close that hole before he remembers and uses it again!" The thought of anyone he knew being forced to go through that rabbit hole like he had chilled Luke to his very marrow. He loved Janelle, but at what price could he keep her? Nymkatte was right. Janelle would have to be returned to where Maul found her. /First I will make sure she does not suffer as I will./ Luke waved a hand over Janelle and touched her mind. "You will remember this only as a dream." Janelle repeated his words in her sleep. Nymkatte then picked her up and stepped out on the balcony. Luke did not watch as Nymkatte carried his dream of an end to his loneliness away. ********** Janelle opened her eyes and found herself still sitting in the mall staring into her flat coke. "What a strange dream." Somehow as she walked back to her car and drove home, Janelle felt she would not be so lonely in her dreams again. ********** Far away and Long ago, Luke Skywalker laid his head down on his pillow and dreamed he was once more sharing his bed with a girl from down the rabbit hole.

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