"I'm bored." Wes
said.
"So?" Hobbie commented without even looking up or
stopping his idle chipping at the ice that made up the walls of the
Hoth base, "Anything else that is new?"
"No, I mean
really bored!" Wes stated, "I don't even have any prank
ideas to fiddle with."
"Huh?" Now Hobbie looked up,
"You're not coming down with something are you? I don't Luke
think will appreciate having another sick pilot around."
"I'm
not sick!" Wes was getting irritated. "Just bored!
"Maybe
you should..." Hobbie was cut off by some sound coming from the
other side of the hangar.
"What was that?" Wes said,
his eyes already shining from the promise of something happening. The
two pilots sat quietly listening for more sounds.
"There it
was again." Hobbie said.
"It sounds like someone is
yelling." Wes said then paused to listen. "Let's check it
out." He continued grinning.
The two friends headed across
the hangar towards the sound. As they came closer they became sure
that the sounds had to be yells, but they could not hear the words
being yelled.
When they had almost reached the hangar doors on
the other side they ran into Wedge, who was hurrying in the opposite
directing.
"Hey, Wedge." Wes waved at the other. "What's
going on?"
"Huh? Something's going on?" Wedge asked
clearly fighting to make it sound innocent.
"Yes, and you
clearly know what it is." Wes stated coldly.
Just then the
yell was repeated again and this time close enough for them to make
out the word. "ANTILLES!"
Wes looked at Wedge. "So
you have nothing to do with anything?" He asked. "The voice
sounds like Commander Skywalker if I'm not mistaken."
Before
Wedge could answer Commander Skywalker appeared in the hangar doors
and immediately spotted the three pilots. Though Wes reckoned he
probably only really saw Wedge.
"Almost made it." Wedge
mumbled under his breath, as Luke marched directly towards them, then
he slowly straightened his back and looked at the commander.
"You
have got to be the stupidest fighter pilot in the whole rebellion!
How dare you do that to me again? You stupid mynock. And with my new
underwear? Are you completely colour blind? Or are you just to stupid
to separate the colours? Force Antilles! Haven't you got it yet? This
is the third batch of laundry you have ruined! You have to separate
your flight suits from the rest of the clothes!" By the end of
his speech Luke was almost out of breath and Wedge had shrunken into
something no one would ever have guessed was one of the best fighter
pilots in the galaxy.
For a few moments the whole hangar was quite
and it seemed like everybody was holding their breath in suspense
then Luke to a deep breath, continued to stare straight at Wedge and
said, "When I come back from my meeting I expect to find the
check of your fighter, which should have been done days ago, done!
Understand!" And with that he turned around and marched back
outside the hangar.
"Yes sir." Wedge mumbled at the
commanders back.
"Wow." Wes said clearly in awe, "How
does he stand the cold in only his underwear?"
