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A/N: Hi guys, this is the second grammar check for all my histories, sorry if I had been changing a lot the stories, but I haven't had time to really write my ideas. I hope this is the definitive version!
Chapter 1
Conner, Carth, Mission and Zaalbar were walking along the streets of the Lower city, once they reached at the Hidden Beks' base they went inside to tell Gadon that they had recovered the prototype accelerator.
"You have returned. Do you have the prototype?" Gadon asked.
Conner nodded. "Yep, here is it." He said and gave it to Gadon.
"Good, now we can install this in the swoop bike." Gadon said and gave the accelerator to his mechanic. "Thank you and as I promised, I'm going to let you run in the Swoop race tomorrow."
"Thanks Gadon." Conner said.
"You can stay here tonight and tomorrow one of the Beks can take you to the swoop track." Gadon said. Conner nodded then he turned to Carth. "Carth; you, Mission and Zaalbar return to the apartment and wait for me." He said.
"Are you sure?" Carth asked.
"Yes." Conner answered.
"Okay. Good luck." Carth said.
"Thanks."
"Good luck Conner." Mission said as Zaalbar growled. "Big Z also wishes you luck."
"Thanks Mission." Conner said, before leaving the young Twi'lek gave him a hug. She already saw Conner as an older brother for her. When they left, Gadon took Conner to his bunker, and he lay on the bed until he fell asleep. The next day, Conner woke up early, hours later; one of the Beks took Conner to the swoop track. Once he reached at the track, he saw a lot of riders. At the back of the swoop track was a silver cage and inside the cage there was a woman. Conner tried to look at the woman, but two of the guards of the Black Vulkars blocked his sight.
The mechanic of the Hidden Beks explained to Conner the rules of the race. Once the mechanic finished, Conner went with the announcer to know the time to beat. Minutes later Conner went to his track and entered in the swoop bike. Moments later, Conner exited from the swoop race as claps and cheers came from the crowd.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have the honor to announce the winner of the swoop race of this year." The announcer said. "Conner Desman from the Hidden Beks!"
Conner waved happily at the crowd as the Black Vulkars stared at him with anger. "And now to gave the prize to the champion, the leader of the Black Vulkars, Brejik." The announcer said. Brejik stood in front of the few members of his gang. "People hear me! Before I proclaim this so call champion, I must say the racer cheated!" Brejik said angrily.
"You're a damn liar Brejik. I won fair enough." Conner said. "Are you surprised that a rookie like me has beaten your swoop racer star?" He said.
Brejik growled at Conner, "Take the woman out of here. I will handle with the racer of the Beks personally."
"You can't do this Brejik." The announcer said. "This goes against our traditions."
"You fool, I'm the future and I do whatever I want." Brejik said, but before he could say anything else, Bastila freed herself from the neural restrainer and killed the two guards who were in front of her cage. She grabbed the vibroblade from one of the dead Vulkars.
"How did you managed to free from a neural restrainer?!" Brejik asked surprised.
"You underestimate the mind of a Jedi, a mistake you will never make again." Bastila said.
Brejik gave orders to his Vulkars to kill Conner and Bastila. The Vulkars charged against them, Conner grabbed his vibrosword and blocked the attacks from the Vulkars. Conner slashed the two Vulkars he had in front of him, when he turned around to see if there was more of those bloody Vulkars, he saw Bastila fighting against Brejik and one of his Vulkars. He tried to help her but one Vulkar surprised him from behind and knocked him on the floor, before the Vulkar could kill him, Conner kicked the Vulkar on the stomach and got up and killed the Vulkar. He turned around again and saw Brejik dead in front of Bastila as well as the other Vulkars. He smiled at their obviously victory, but Bastila looked at him with a cold look.
"If you think you could keep me like a prize, you are wrong." She said coldly.
"Whoa! Easy there princess, I came here to rescue you from those bloody thugs." Conner said raising his hands to calm Bastila.
"You call that a rescue?" She asked. "In fact, you can say I rescued you." She answered.
"Okay, okay have it your way princess." Conner said. "But we don't have time for this, Carth is waiting" He said.
"Carth? Carth Onasi is alive?" Bastila asked surprised. "Finally, good news. Sorry for how acted before, I'm sure that Carth haven't sent you if he didn't trust you. Can you take me to him?" She said.
"Sure, but before we return to the Upper City, you probably want to use something to cover yourself, before your slaver's outfit call unwanted attention." Conner said.
Bastila blushed at Conner's statement. Since they stop fighting against the Vulkars, she noticed that Conner stared at her a few seconds before she spoke with him. "Do you have something I can use?" She asked
Conner took off his red jacket and handle to her. "Here, this is the only thing I have."
"Thanks." Bastila said and put on the jacket. The jacket was a little baggy for her liking, but at least she wouldn't feel all eyes on her.
"You look good." Conner said with a smirk.
"Can we go?" She asked.
"After you." He said making a signal with his hands. Bastila past beside him taking the lead, Conner rushed to her side as she didn't know where were they going. After a few minutes, they were walking to the apartment in the South area. When they reached at the door, Conner introduced a card in a rabbet and the door opened a few seconds later. They walked inside and were greeted by Carth.
"Bastila!" He exclaimed. "You found her, good; we can now think a way to get out of this planet."
"You mean you don't have a plan to get out of here?" She asked upset. "What have you done in the mean time?"
"We were trying to find you, remember?" Conner said.
"I see, but now that I'm back we can figure something to get out of here." Bastila said.
"What makes you think you are in charge here?" Carth asked getting upset.
"I am a Jedi, which makes me the natural leader of this mission. I don't have to remind you that I was the one who was put in charge of this mission." She said.
Conner who was getting frustrated spoke louder that Carth and Bastila, "Hey! Stop it, you two. What am I, your babysitter or something?"
Carth and Bastila stooped arguing after this statement, leaving the two very surprised. "Wow." Was the only thing Carth could say.
"Okay, so what now?" Carth asked minutes later.
"First, we can't argue who is the leader. We are a team, so everybody is equal, okay?" Conner said the two just nodded. "And second, we are going to work together to get out of this planet."
Conner walked and bent down next to steel box and then he handled to Bastila some clothes.
"Here" He said.
"What is it?" Bastila asked.
"These are your Jedi robes and your lightsaber; we found it on the Vulkars' base." Conner answered.
"Thanks, at least I will be more comfortable." She said.
"Your welcome." Conner said smiling.
Bastila entered in the bathroom and changed her clothes, meanwhile Conner asked Carth where Mission and Zaalbar were, he answered that they had gone to buy food. Minutes later Mission and Zaalbar returned. After they ate dinner everyone went to their beds, except for Bastila.
Seeing that she didn't have a bed Conner rubbed the back of his neck and approached to her. "Hey you can have my bed." He said.
"Oh, no. I prefer to sleep on the couch." She said.
"Take it. I prefer to sleep on the couch." He said.
"Thanks."
"See you in the morning." Conner lying down on the couch and fell asleep.
Conner stood in the middle of a big hallway of a ship, red lights and smoke flood the atmosphere, at the distance, sounds of blaster shoots and lightsabers could be heard. Suddenly, Conner found himself on the bridge of the ship, everything seem destroyed. Smoke came from the consoles as corpses where on the floor.
"You can not win Revan!" A voice of a woman said.
Conner turned around and saw a group of Jedis standing in front of a Dark Lord. In front of the group, Bastila held her lightsaber with the yellow blade on. Darth Revan took his lightsaber from his belt and ignited it. A red blade from the lightsaber appeared and he swung it, but before he could fight the Jedi team, fire came from the window.
Conner woke up in cold sweat and was breathing heavily. He turned around and saw that the others were still asleep. Conner stood up and grabbed his jacket and exited the apartment and walked around the Upper City. An hour later, Conner returned to the apartment and found everyone up. Fortunately no one asked him where he had gone. After having breakfast, the group talked about where they could found someone who could take them out from Taris.
"Maybe we should look in the cantinas; there are many interesting things there." Conner said.
"Okay, but we should split out, three of us can go the cantina in the Lower city, and two of us can go to the cantina here in the Upper city." Carth said. Everyone else nodded and minutes later they exited the apartment. Carth and Conner would go to the cantina in the Upper city and Bastila, Mission and Zaalbar to the cantina in the Lower city.
After walking a few minutes they reach at the Cantina. Carth and Conner entered in the cantina looking for someone who could take them out from Taris.
"Okay, so what now?" Carth asked looking at the crowd.
"We split up. If you found anything, look for me. I would do the same if I found anything." Conner answered.
Carth nodded and started to walk away from Conner disappearing in the crowd. Conner walked to the bar and sat on a bank. "Hey, could you give me a Felucian drink?" He asked to the bartender. While he was waiting his drink, four thugs approached to Conner.
"Why this cantina still allows scumbag from the Lower city?" One of them asked.
"Great." Conner mumbled.
"Yeah, why you don't return to the Lower city where you belong?" Another asked.
"Well, I didn't know that they also allowed rich spoiled kids." Conner said.
"What did you say?" The first thug asked angry.
"Relax, Sugar Queen, I was joking." Conner said placing a hand on the thug's shoulder.
"Hey, bigmouth! Maybe you can't count, but there are four of us and one of you!" The thug said.
"So get more guys, and then it'll be an even fight" Conner said with a smirk and turned around. But one of them grabbed Conner from the shoulder and turned him around punching Conner on the face. He fell on the bar and turned to see the guy who had punched him. The thug smiled and tried to punch Conner again, but Conner kicked him in the chest, sending him against an empty table breaking the glasses that were on. The other thugs tried to punch Conner; one of them threw a punch but Conner blocked the fist and punched him on the face. Carth heard the noises and went to see what was happening, he made his way through the crowd and saw when Conner turned to fight the other two thugs, one threw at him, but Conner grabbed a bottle and hit him with it. The fourth thug pushed Conner against the bar, Conner get up and tried to punch the thug but the first thug grabbed Conner , so one of his friends could give him a beating, Conner saw what was about to happen and kicked him in the stomach and then he gave a header to the thug who was holding him. When Conner freed himself, the second thug punched Conner in the face and he fell on the ground, the thug grabbed him by the collar of his jacket and put him face up on a table and started to punch him on the face. But before he could break his nose, someone whistled stopping the fight. Conner saw a man with gray hair and big muscles.
"Get out of here before something happens to you." The man said. The four thugs run out from the cantina, the man drew his attention to Conner who still was on the table bleeding from the nose and mouth.
"Are you right kid?" The man asked.
"You have one hell of whistle you know that?" Conner said.
Minutes later, the cantina had returned to normal. Conner and the man, whose name was Canderous Ordo, were sitting on a table. Conner had napkins hanging from his nostrils and a big bruise near his right eye as well a small cut in his nose bone and on the forehead near his left eyebrow. Carth handled to Conner a bag with ice.
"Here" Carth said giving him the bag.
"Thanks." Conner said and put the bag on his eye. Carth sat next to him.
"Sorry, what were you saying?" Conner asked.
"That I've a plan to get out from this planet." Canderous said. "I watched you on the swoop race and I saw you standing against those four thugs, and while you were drooling on the floor I started thinking: Anyone crazy enough to race like that and to stand all alone in a fight, is crazy enough to break on the Sith base."
Conner seem surprised, he took off the napkins and said, "Why you want me to break in the Sith base?" Then he turned to the bartender asking for a beer.
"Here's the reason, no ship can get of from this rock without the proper codes, and those codes are on the Sith base." Canderous answered.
Conner sipped his beer, "So how do I fit in?" He asked.
Canderous chuckled, "You break in the Sith base, steal the codes and return with me. Once we have the codes I'll take you with Davik Kang. Lord of the exchange. There in is his state we can still his ship, the Ebon Hawk the fastest ship in the Outer Rim and then we can get out from this planet. What do you say?" He asked.
"I don't know if we can trust in this guy." Carth said.
"Hey, Orange! Do you have another plan?" Canderous asked.
"No." Carth answered.
Canderous turned to Conner, "So?"
"Let see, break into the Sith base, steal the codes, go with Davik Kaang, steal his ship and get out from this planet." Conner said and thought for a moment, "I'm in."
"That's good to hear. I'll be waiting in the cantina of the Lower City." Canderous said.
"Okay, Canderous right?" Conner said getting up.
He nodded his head. "I'm Conner and Orange here is Carth." Conner said shaking hands with Canderous.
"I'll be waiting." Canderous said.
Conner nodded and he and Carth walked to the exit and returned to the apartment. But before they could enter in the apartment, Carth stooped him.
"Sure you want to enter like this?" He asked pointing at the bruises and dry blood of his face.
"C'mon, it was a good fight." Conner said smiling.
"Sure, but if Canderous hadn't whistle, you probably would be on an infirmary unconscious." Carth said.
Conner chuckled and entered to the apartment. Inside Bastila was waiting for them.
"What take you so long?" She asked.
"We were looking for some one who could take out form the planet." Carth asked.
"Did you found anyone?"
"Yep, someone is going to take us out from the planet once I give him some codes." Conner said.
"And where are you going to take the codes?" Bastila asked.
"From the Sith base." Conner answered.
She looked at him with surprise but noticed the bruises on his face. "What happened with you?" She asked.
"I get into a fight in the cantina." Conner answered.
"Are you out of your mind?!" She asked upset.
"Relax, princess I wasn't kill right?" Conner said walking toward the bathroom to wash his face, Bastila only rolled her eyes. Hours later, Conner, Bastila and T3 (a droid they had bought thanks to Canderous) were walking towards the Sith base.
"Are you right?" Bastila asked.
"What?" Conner asked surprised.
"You seem distracted." She answered.
"Oh, it's just that last night I had a strange dream." He said.
"About?"
"I was on a ship and I saw you fighting a Dark Lord. Revan, I guess."
They stooped for a moment. "This is strange, but such dreams indicate visions." Bastila said.
Conner looked at her oddly. "This happens when an individual is Force sensitive."
"Wait, are you saying I can use the Force?" Conner asked.
"I don't know, but once we get out from this planet. We can seek the wisdom of the Jedi." Bastila said.
Conner nodded, minutes later they reached at the Sith base. T3 hacked the lock and the door opened. "Let's go." Conner said as they entered in the elevator.