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The Rebel Alliance founded a new base on the windswept icecovered planet Hoth. Certainly the last place the Empire would look. Han and Luke were still helping out, however, they disappeared. First Luke didn't check in, and then Han went after them. R2D2's sensors couldn't find any trace of them, and the doors had just been closed for the night. Leia knew she wouldn't get any sleep and spent the entire night pretending to be busy. Early next morning search parties were sent out, and they found Han & Luke. They soon found another problem as well - an imperial probe droid.
Leia knew they had to evacuate immediately which was a blow. She began making preparations, but Han kept bothering her. One time, when she was particularly angry at him she called him a "halfwitted nerfherder". The ships were being loaded with the more important, harder to obtain items, and the first transport was sent off just as the Imperial Fleet arrived. Through no fault of her own, Leia had to escape on the Millenium Falcon with Han. Unfortunately the trouble didn't end there. The Falcon was damaged, and they couldn't go to lightspeed. Chewie worked on trying to repair it while Han piloted the ship into an asteroid field to get the fighters off their back. He sent the ship into a large cavern in one of the asteroids and went back to help Chewie. This seemed like a good idea, however, Han figured out that they weren't in a cavern at all - they were inside a huge monster. He took off and only just made it out as the mouth closed.
Soon the fleet found them and began blasting at the small Falcon. The shields were almost down when Han nipped onto one of the star destroyer's towers and docked! When the fleet began to disperse, they let go and floated off with the garbage. Leia was beginning to admire Han for his creativity and courage. The nearest friendly planet was Besbin. Han had a friend on Cloud City called Lando. They arrived and were allowed to land. Lando seemed to remember Han, and agreed to repair the Falcon. He was very kind to Leia and so when Lando invited them both to lunch they were not suspicious. There was a lunch waiting for them all right - and an unexpected guest, crasher of many parties known as Vader. They were flung into a prison, and Han was harshly inflicted with electrical shots. Lando said the Empire had arrived just before them and threatened him if he did not cooperate. Apparently all this was to get Luke.
By now Leia cared very deeply for Han, which made Vader's next plan very difficult for her to handle. Han was to be put into carbon freeze and handed over to a bounty hunter. She would never forget seeing him leave her, not knowing if he would live or die. Lando was becoming more and more nervous about the situation and ended up helping her escape. She picked up Luke and they all headed back to join the Rebel Fleet massing near Sollust.
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