The Falleen jedi looked at his meditating Selkath apprentice and chuckled softly to himself. What a strange padawan. It was already the beginning of the Clone Wars and the padawan was acting like an adult. He was much more serious than most Jedi his age. The Selkath opened his dark black eyes. "Master Zek, what are you doing?" He asked. The Falleen chuckled and his short mustache and beard jiggled slightly while doing so. "I'm sorry for interupting you, Argo. I'm not exactly used to seeing Jedi your age act so strangely mature." The Selkath frowned and just like his master's facial hair, his side jowls typical to Selkath jiggled as his mouth moved. "Well war is a serious matter." He said. Zek Suukastros rolled his eyes. "Lighten up, Argo. We are on a mission to fight pirates and free slaves. Not Separatists. Besides, I avoid typical missions for a reason. They bore me. And they make terrible lessons." Zek said. A clone walked into the room where the Jedi were arguing and stood by the doorway silently. Zek looked behind his shoulder at the clone. "What?" He asked. "We are orbiting Florrum." The clone said. Zek turned around and Argo rose from the floor. "Alright prepare our fighters. I think mine is out of fuel. Oh, and thanks trooper." The clone saluted and left the room.

The two fighters left the Republic Cruiser and coasted onto the surface of the arid planet. Zed wasn't sure how his padawan would react to this mission. Argo's third mission. The two previous missions involved battles with Separatist forces but Zek doubted that argo was ready to fight (and likely kill) organic beings like the pirates. Zek also had his doubts about his padawan's ability to handle the horrors of slavery. Zek's thoughts were interrupted by his fighter slamming on the ground as it landed. He sighed and grabbed his lightsaber as the cockpit opened up. He crawled out and joined his padawan on the ground. "I hate arid planets like this. Makes my skin dry." Argo said. Zek pointed to Argo's starfighter. "I put a dryness prevention syringe in your med kit." Argo crawled back onto his starfighter and dug under the seat to grab the med kit. He buried the syringe into his skin and shuddered. He closed the med kit and stuck it back under the seat and closed the cockpit. Argo slid off the cockpit and sttod beside his master. "You look better." Zek said with his arms crossed. The Selkath had noticably more moist skin. Moist as usual at least. Argo frowned and scratched his neck. "Master, why did we land our starfighters in the middle of the desert?" Zek smiled deviously. "Trust me, it wasn't to irritate you. Over that hill there should be a cave that serves as an entrance to the slaver's den." Zek said. Argo scratched his neck a second time. "Did you get that information from an informant?" He asked. Zek nodded. "One of the other local pirates wanted his competition eliminated. He contacted the Republic with some info. Hopefully this isn't a trap." Zek said as he begun his long trek to the hill. The ground wasn't sandy as most other deserts. It was rocky. The hill was a mile away from the spot where they landed and when they finally reached the hill it was almost dark. They crouched behind the hill and gazed over it. "Well, at least the entrance is there, as promised." Argo whispered. "Yep. And no guards minus that protocol droid." Zek said putting his binoculars down. Suddenly a pair of weequay exited the cave. They scanned their surroundings and the two jedi ducked behind the hilltop. Zek and Argo could hear footsteps and gruff voices approaching the hill top.

Zek peeked over the hilltop. He slowly inched up the hilltop and suddenly leapt over the hill and pounced on a weequay guard. Before the other guard could attack Zek, Argo clumsily vaulted over the rocky hilltop and slid down the other side of the hill. Argo pulled his fist back and landed a punch on the weequay who was still standing and sent him spiralling down onto the ground. Argo shook his fist limply in pain as Zek tied the pirates together in not a double not but a triple knot. "Master, what about the droid?" Argo asked. Zek finished tieing his third knot and patted his hands together in satisfaction as he rose from his bended knee. "Droid, are you gonna alert your employers?" Zek asked plainly. The droid shook it's head slowly. "Too late Jedi, I've already notified my employe-" The brown painted C3 droid was cut short by Zek's lightsaber. "Well, I guess we can't go the stealthy way." Zek said as he stroked his chin. "Well, now what?" Argo asked. "Sadly, we don't have much time to plan our plan B. I can sense the pirates on their way." Zek said igniting his blue lightsaber. Argo ignited his green saber as the horde of six pirates ran up the stairs of the cave and threw the door open. Zek deflected their blaster fire and leapt behind them and struck two of them down. As the four remaing pirates spun around, Argo struck one of them and the remaing three's blaster's were struck rendering them useless and rendering their former operators cowardly. "Alright gentlemen, you should probably start running now." Zek said pointing his lightsaber at the remaining pirates. The pirates stumbled over the hill and disappeared into the crags of the nearby mountain. "Alright, most of the pirates are either dead or hiding. That still leaves the Zygerrian slavers." Zek said as he led his padawan into the dark staircase.