Disclaimer: I own nothing, and I don't own star wars and except for original characters, Ghollan duuoca, hurak, xanas mulkra, and goorowah

This story was written by a friend of mine, but he is not able to post it his self so…..I am doing it for him. I.E. its his not mine

Chapter I

The Search for Zuckuss

The nights were always long on Glokon IV. The three small luminous suns had already set on the gray horizon, but the humid summer heat was still evident. Gohllan never really got used to the near year round heat. He was more accustomed to the frigid and icy world of Toola (the homeworld of Whiphids) or the cool halls of the Jedi temple. It had been over twenty-five years since The Empire took power and the Jedi were practically obliterated. He was for all he knew the last Jedi alive. Living on Glokon IV poses a difficult lifestyle; there are few towns and only two modestly sized cities. Ghollan lives on one of the outskirt towns of Glokon IV's largest and only spaceport-equipped city, Janort. For a living, he farms his uj fruit trees and hunts wild game for meat. Ghollan makes his real living by doing mercenary work and odd jobs for Hutts in the inner city. He still has his double bladed orange lightsaber but he prefers to use either his vibro axe or his automatic blaster rifle for his bounty hunting work. He had recently been chosen to do the very difficult job of eliminating a rival bounty hunter named Hurak. The Devaroinan could have given up his weapons to the hulking, nearly seven foot tall, Whiphid and lived. But, his choice to fight cost him his limbs and eventually his life.

Now, he had a different and more challenging mission given to him by a very powerful Hutt named Duuoca. Duuoca had assigned Ghollan the task of rounding up a group of highly dangerous, renegade smugglers and slave traders. Ghollan had done many other lower profile missions but he had never attempted to do something like this on his own before. He had heard that several other bounty hunters were also hired by Hutts to retrieve the same group. This was quite a dilemma. He knew he could not compete with other more seasoned mercenaries so he decided to try and make an alliance with another bounty hunter, but whom? He finally decided to try his luck with the Gand Findsman, Zuckuss, who had recently lost his droid partner 4LOM and needed an ally as well.

Ghollan asked around at bars and the spaceport and discovered that Zuckuss was on Takan II so he took his rent-a-ship (which he bought from a "junk" dealer) and sought out his prospective ally. He arrived at his destination in the early morning when the sun was not even up yet. He decided to get a bite to eat before he looked for Zuckuss. Ghollan had heard that Zuckuss was on planet looking for a merc (mercenary) job but he had no specifics on his whereabouts. He had to ask around and eventually he found out he was in The Jarti, the local cantina. Zuckuss was sitting at the front counter drinking a Coriscantian ale and looking like he was mad and depressed. Ghollan realized the best thing to do was to talk to him when he was good and drunk so he waited until he had a few more ales before he confronted him.

It was late in the afternoon when Ghollan decided to talk to Zuckuss about joining him. He walked up to the bar and offered to buy him a drink, but Zuckuss refused the offer and threatened him with his blaster rifle. Ghollan tried to calm him down but it was no use, old Zucky would not accept his offer. He had to try another way so he left the bar to think about how he was going to do that. But before he could, he heard a loud explosion inside the bar. He quickly jumped into the bar to see what was going on and he found three thugs - two Gammorians, and one human confronting Zuckuss and threatening to throw another light flash bang stun grenade.

Zuckss just said that if they threatened him again he would shoot them all in the gut with a blaster. The three thugs tried to get off another grenade but Zuckuss was too quick he shot one Gammorian in the chest and almost got the other one but he ducked and charged at him. Ghollan sprang to his feet and extended his long and muscular arms to grab the human and rip his arms off. The other Gammorian tried to escape the chaos by diving under a table, but Zuckuss and Ghollan simultaneously put two blaster bolts through his back. The Gammorian squealed with pain and Zuckuss shot him fatally in the head. The two victorious mercs quickly ran out the door from the onlookers in the bar who just happened to be in the same gang as the other thugs. They ran down an alley, jumped over a pair of speeder bikes then turned onto a crowded street to blend in and escape.

The pair of bounty hunters had a long time to talk while in hyperspace on their way to Tatooine. Zuckuss decided that the best thing to do was to join up with Ghollan temporarily just until they could get out of this star system. But Ghollan had other plans; he talked to the four foot tall Gand for hours about his new mission but Zuckuss would not join him permanently. Ghollan would have to ask him again when the time was right.

They approached Tatooine in their craft at a relatively fast speed. Both Zuckuss and Ghollan were eager to get far away from the Takan system after their bout with the thugs and hit men. As the planet came into view, so did a luminous pirate frigate and it was headed right for them! Ghollan swerved the craft to the right to try to avoid the laser fire coming from the frigate and then dipped down for a counter attack. The laser cannon fire hit but did not penetrate the pirate ship's shields. He did not expect them to either. His ship was not exactly up to par with the galactic standard; but neither were the pirate ship's shields. The pirate frigate took a sharp right turn to try to return fire but it did not need to, a modified Corilian corvette came into the scene and it activated its tractor beam. Or at least it seemed so because their ship started gravitating right toward it!

There was nothing they could do about the tractor beam, but they could try to take over the ship from the inside out. That seemed impossible at the time, because of the overwhelming odds. The cockpit opened and Ghollan used the force to leap out of the ship and avoid blaster fire while Zuckuss returned fire. Ghollan ignited his lightsaber and started mowing down the pirates. Zuckuss threw two carbon grenades at the remaining pirates and killed them all. More pirates immediately arrived but Ghollan used the force to hurl the scumbags at some explosive crates filled with fragment grenades, Zuckuss got the idea and shot the crates. They exploded; killing the remainder of the pirates. Now Ghollan and Zuckuss had to get to the command deck and take over the ship.