STAR WARS
Episode VII: Escape from Peril
An Original Screenplay
By
Jeremy Lazar
And
GenMadine

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EXT. TATOOINE ? DUNES/MOS ESPA

The speeders fly over the dunes and enter the ruins of Mos Espa. The city has fallen into disrepair. Kane looks around as they go through the abandoned slums and reach an arid patch of ground.

EXT. TATOOINE ? MOS ESPA SLAVE QUARTERS

They get off of their speeders and the boys look around, confused. The ground is barren, with ruined building foundations around them.

KANE
Where are we?

LUKE
Where my father grew up. This used to be the Mos Espa slave quarters.

Kane looks at his father.

KANE
The Great Anakin Skywalker - the Chosen One ? grew up a slave?

Luke nods.

LUKE
And under the Emperor he was a slave for most of his life.

Kane digests the information. Luke looks up.

KANE
What is it?

BEN
Dad ? look.

Luke looks and sees footprints in the desert sand.

WOMAN
Master Skywalker.

The Skywalkers all look to the pale woman who has appeared directly in front of them. She is DARTH NYX, a young Sith Lord cloaked in black. Attached to her belt are two small saber handles with long knife blades protruding from them. She throws back her hood, revealing white dreadlocks, and smiles, before making a grab for Kane with her right arm.

KANE
Hey!

Luke ignites his green saber and charges. Nyx swings her back towards him and ignites one of her small red sabers. Luke parries it, but she releases Kane and brings her second saber around towards his face, which Luke barely blocks in time. Kane and Ben ignite their blue sabers.

LUKE
No ? get back.

Nyx continues to fiercely duel with Luke. Kane leaps to his father?s rescue, but Nyx easily deflects his saber and knocks him to the ground. Ben runs to Kane to help him up.

KANE
I?m fine, help dad.

Ben looks up and sees Nyx trying to throw Luke off in order to get closer to them. Luke looks to his boys.

LUKE
Take the speeders ? go!

Nyx punches Luke in the face and knees him in the stomach. He falls back and she runs after Kane and Ben. Kane stands his ground and re-ignites his saber. Ben starts in to help Luke, stops, thinks a minute, then turns to run, grabbing Kane by the shoulder.

BEN
You heard him, lets go.

KANE
No, we stay here.

Nyx leaps into the air, her sabers outstretched towards the boys. Ben pulls Kane around.

BEN
Now.

As Nyx is about to land, Luke?s saber flies at her head and she hits the ground prematurely. Luke?s saber flies back to his hand as he charges after her. She flips around, barely blocking Luke?s saber coming at her face. She uses his momentum to flip him over her onto the ground.

Ben and Kane reach the speeder bikes.

BEN
Get on, let?s go.

Kane looks back and sees Nyx getting up, with Luke lying on his back.

KANE
We can?t leave him.

BEN
We don?t have a choice right now.

Nyx runs past Luke, but he grabs her ankle and pulls her backwards. As she falls back to the ground she brings a saber towards Luke, which he parries as he gets up. Spinning, he puts himself between her and the boys and yells to them.

LUKE
Kane ? trust me!

Kane looks his father in the eyes and gets on his speeder bike. Ben jumps on his as well and they take off as Nyx gets up, swinging her sabers upwards. Luke turns back and catches one saber, but the other cuts the side of his knee. He screams in pain and drops to the ground, his chin stopping just above Nyx?s other saber.

EXT. TATOOINE ? DUNES


Ben and Kane speed away along side each other. Kane turns his head back and sees Nyx standing over Luke, bringing her sabers to either side of his neck.

KANE
We need to go back.

BEN
We can?t. She?s not after him she?s after us. Keep going.

KANE
She?ll kill him.

BEN
If she wanted to he?d be dead right now, so move.

Ben speeds up. Kane takes one last look and follows after his brother.

EXT. TATOOINE ? MOS ESPA SLAVE QUARTERS

Nyx speaks into a commlink near her shoulder.


DARTH NYX
I have the father. The sons are heading your way.

Smiling, she turns back to Luke, who shuts off his saber and drops it.

DARTH NYX (con?d)
Looks like you?re mine, Skywalker.

She turns back to her commlink.

DARTH NYX (con?d)
Bring the Capture Droid.

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