SCENE 1.
Aboard the rebel ship.
Enter C-3PO and R2-D2.
Now is the summer of our happiness
Made winter by this sudden, fierce attack!
Our ship is under siege, I know not how.
O hast thou heard? The main reactor fails!
We shall most surely be destroy’d by this.
I’ll warrant madness lies herein!
—Beep beep,
Beep, beep, meep, squeak, beep, beep, beep, whee!
—We’re doomed.
The princess shall have no escape this time!
I fear this battle doth portend the end
Of the Rebellion. O! What misery!
[Exeunt C-3PO and R2-D2.
Now watch, amaz’d, as swiftly through the door
The army of the Empire flyeth in.
And as the troopers through the passage pour,
They murder sev’ral dozen rebel men.
[Fighting begins.
Enter REBELS. Many die. Enter STORMTROOPERS and DARTH VADER. Exeunt. Enter R2-D2 with PRINCESS LEIA. C-3PO is across the stage.
—Beep, meep.
At last, where hast thou been? I fear they come
In this direction. Pray, what shall we do?
My circuitry o’erloads, my mind’s o’erthrown!
And fear hath put its grip into my wires.
We shall be sent unto that place I dread—
The Kessel spice mines whence no droid returns—
And there be blasted into who knows what!
[R2-D2 begins to exit.
Anon, anon, R2! Where dost thou go?
O prithee, patience, leave me not alone.
[Aside:] Aye, even though I mock and injure thee,
I’ll surely die if e’er thou leavest me!
[Exeunt droids.