Disclaimer: This story is based on George Lucas's series of movies Star Wars…I claim most of the characters, I just base the ideas on the movie…so don't sue me…I don't plan on owning Star Wars by the end of this story, so this applies to all the chapters.

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I was sweating furiously. It poured down my bare chest, between my shoulder blades, and completely drenched my face. I was on a harsh planet, the name of which I either didn't know or had forgotten, part of the prisoner work force. We were mining for some kind of odd material I'd never seen before, but it was extremely valuable. Many of the prisoners had tried to hoard some for personal use, and later barter amongst themselves. However, most of the guards caught them and offenders were executed. I soon came to learn that the entire planet was one giant prison, but it was just separated into different sectors where the prisoners were sorted based on the degree of their crime. Because I'd killed a highly ranked official I was put into the maximum security on the planet. I felt almost grateful that I hadn't let Raena get arrested with me, as I wouldn't have wanted her to live through what I'd been going through for the past 6 months. Every morning, we were woken up from whatever creatively sadistic means the guards could think of then. A favorite to wake me up was to hit me with their electro whips. Because of this tactic, my chest and back had become thoroughly scarred depending how I was sleeping when they came to wake me up. I had long discarded my shirt, as the environment was hot. It was almost like the planet Mustafar, but it was mostly rock with only a few cracks or pits filled with lava. Another hardship I dealt with was the constant harassment from the other prisoners. I knew this would be a problem as I was in the maximum security; so many of the convicts there were more sadistic than the evil-minded security officers there. I also noticed that I was the only human in my sector so I was mostly isolated as none of them took a liking to human's period. It was because of this hostility that I was grateful I'd learned Raena's ability to conceal other people. However, I'd used it to conceal something much smaller: my light saber. It took news of my first conflict to end the physical hostilities altogether. They decided to take a new tactic and simply isolate me as much as possible, which I preferred in the first place. It was at this thought that I heard the familiar sounds of the wake up call, roars of pain, anger, guards laughing and poking fun at the prisoners. As soon as the shadow of a familiar security officer was cast over my cell I moved my arm from over my eyes and looked boredly at the grinning guard.

"I'm already up," I mumbled tiredly as he raised his electro whip. "No need to use that."

He growled, and stopped raising the whip. Then his seemingly endless grin redressed his features. "Well, I hadn't planned on it. But since you want to give me lip."

With a quick snap of his wrist, the whip cracked across my uncovered chest causing my body to jerk violently for a second. The burning reminded me of my battle with Darth Brogan every time I was whipped. It was like a split second of the torture he put me through during our fight. Ironically, it was this previous experience that allowed me to endure their whips. Knowing that I'd endured much worse made it seem all the less painful. I calmed my mind quickly holding back the urge to grab my light saber and leave the planet. An escape on my part would undoubtedly shed more negative light on Trance's efforts to get Raena and I cleared of the charges. I felt that I could live through a few months, maybe even a year, of prison to have a lifetime of no longer running. I'd done my running already, and I hated it. I rather face my consequences. Which is exactly what I am doing. I got up off of the rusty metal bed and stood in front of the bars as they slid open releasing the prisoners to their work. The same guard from before came back slamming pickaxes and shovels into the prisoners' chests while telling them where they would be looking for the precious mineral the whole day.

"Bottom floor," he growled at me as he shoved a pickaxe into my stomach.

I caught my breath before it was forced out of my lungs and snatched the pickaxe from him with a fire of vengeance in my eyes.

"Mind who you're speaking to," I threatened him for what seemed like the 5000th time.

"You threaten me again," he leaned in towards me, speaking in a low voice. "And I'll whip you until your skin slides off."

I'd gotten into a habit of threatening the guards every time I felt an opportune moment. This is probably what had earned me most of the scars that marred my back and chest. I smirked as he cracked his whip menacingly at my feet and continued down the hall with his heavy bag.

"How'd you get sent down here?" a gruff voice inquired as I descended the steps to the bottom floor.

The bottom floor seemed to be the worst place on the entire planet to be sent to work. Not only was it at least 100 degrees hotter than the rest of the planet, on average, but also it was made of more lava than rock as it was nearer to the planets core. So the sweltering heat seemed to be multiplied. In fact, most of the bottom level's mining set up contained more steel platforms built specially for standing on to work as there was more lava than rock.

"You," another guard called to me. "Over there."

He pointed me to a small outcropping of rock on top of the lava. I was sure they'd chosen this particular spot because it was the most dangerous, and most uncomfortable spot to mine. I nodded and walked over to it with a smirk, all I had to do was find a good amount of the mineral and I would be allowed to rest for the rest of the day. My hand rested on a light saber concealed within the folds of my pockets as I went into the isolated mining spot. Closing my eyes I created a shield of Force to conceal my presence as I inconspicuously drew my light saber out. I put it to the rock face and ignited the blade, using the rocks to muffle the hum. I cut out several big pieces of the mining surface, and quickly put my light saber back. I pulled them out with a blanket of Force and laid them at my feet. I brought my axe down on each piece several times in quick succession, splitting them open revealing a white material in each of the stones. I closed my eyes with a satisfied smile, taking a hold of them with a ringlet of Force. I extracted them easily and kicked the, now, useless rocks into the pool of lava that surrounded me. I was sure I'd gotten a few kilograms so I gathered it all into my pack and waved a guard over.

"That enough for you?" I smirked at his face.

"We'll see," he said with a frustrated tone. "They have this thing standardized you know."

"Of course," I nodded in compliance.

Closing my eyes I entered the guards mind and mentally watched as he weighed my collection up in their post. How could he have gotten three times the minimum requirement so soon? Fine, since he's so good at his job I'll just let him continue to do it. I re-centered my thoughts back into my mind and as he came towards me with a sly, satisfied, and concealing smirk.

"Ah, you seem to have come up a little short," he said in a voice that feigned sympathy.

"Are you sure? Cause that load felt at least three times the minimum requirement to be done for the day," I responded.

He breathed out heavily, "it was only twice. Come with me."

I was back in my cell, lying on my uncomfortable bed with an arm over my eyes blocking out the light of the lava and various lamps hanging around. However, I couldn't seem to relax. There was some kind of unrest nearing the planet. I sat straight up and began to sense the area with the Force. I found nothing so I extended the range I was scanning to just beyond the planet's thin atmosphere and found five beings. The most prominent one emanated a self-proud state of mind but in the background was a humorous side. The next one I noticed gave off waves of power, but it made me feel at home, as if the enormous power was there to protect me. The third presence was soft, I barely noticed it, and it sort of blended in with the other two Force sensitive beings near her. After identifying Trance, Shomari, and Raena, I began to reach out towards the other two people with them. After simple minds scan I came to recognize them as the officials that had the papers authorizing my release. A smile stretched across my features. My release!