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I knew the kid was lucky but I never dreamed he had a gift! How he held his breath and managed to survive while that monster dragged him under the sewage kinda tipped me off?

Then in a moment of utter fear, I blurted out for him to shoot a door console from over 50
feet away with a blaster!

I wasn't even thinking that this kid, this farmboy with no prior combat training, could hit such a target from that distance! Somehow, I just knew he could do it...I just knew. It must've been something about him.

As we made our escape, the first thing I did was ask the kid to man the Falcon's cannons.
The kid took down 2 of them before I could, and it was my ship! The kid was so excited that all he could do is yell "I got one!" in that brief moment he looked at me almost like that of a kid brother. I told him 'not to get cocky!' Well, it was sound advice at the time!

The one moment that changed my life forever was what he said to me on the base on Yavin.

He actually scolded me for taking the money and moving on! I mean, I've already had one confrontation with Jabba and his goons earlier to this mess and this kid has the nerve to get in my face about it. I told him it was suicide. C'mon, most of the pilots were Luke's age...they were mostly wild-eyed kids! I even asked him to join us. He would've made one hellva smuggler!

Then he gave me a look that tore right through me.

May the Force be with you.

Those six words changed my life. Chewie begged me to reconsider but all I could think was just about getting out of there. I was already acting crazy enough as it was. Thing is I was starting to really believe that the kid truly had something.

We took off and were making our way to our hyperspace point when something compelled me to check up on the kid. I just had to! By the time we got close to the fighting, I saw the Luke's best friend get blasted by Vader. It was amazing he had lasted this long with so many being lost already. At that point, I took matters into my own hands.

My distraction had served its purpose. Tell ya the truth I was scared as hell shooting on Vader and everything but something made me do it. It guided me. Next thing you know, I saw Luke do the impossible. He zeroed his torpedoes in on a target less than 6 feet wide without a targeting computer...going at it full throttle in an X-Wing!

The rest of it was a blur.

We had an awards ceremony in our honour.

Luke was all pumped up about it.

All I was thinking was how was I gonna explain my paying Jabba late. It was only supposed to be a simple drop-off! Yet, all it took was one look at Leia all decked out like that...she made me forget all about Jabba and his cronies.

Soon enough, there I was before her, ready to accept my medal, so I did the only thing that naturally came to mind.

As if I was totally out of my mind!

Then that's when it happened. I couldn't believe I was saying it. It sounded corny at the time and man, let me tell you, I felt corny saying it, but I let it slip anyway.

Yeah, she wants me!

They even made a special medal to accomodate Chewie's big head the next day after the ceromonies but they should have made it a bit bigger since his head really swelled after that. Fuzball wouldn't take it off for an entire week!

Let me tell ya, I've been on one side of this galaxy to another and before meeting Luke, I'd have never believed that there was some all powerful Force controlling my destiny. Then again, I never would have dreamed about fallin' head over heels for a beautiful princess!