Chapter 1

Anakin sat at the controls of his master's Jedi shuttle, his eyes closed with his hands funneling the Force to keep the parts of his disassembled lightsaber suspended. Using the Force, he slowly moved his right hand down and around, spinning several of the pieces before slowly lining them up. Opening his right eye, he glanced over at Master Plo Koon in the co-pilot seat, where he sat observing the padawan until he felt it was the time to add the lightsaber crystal into the mix. Pulling it from his pocket, he held it on his palm before pushing it up into the air and then directing it into the area between Anakin's hands. Feeling a smile creeping across his lips, Anakin closed his eyes tight and felt the crystal glowing brightly in the Force. Directing his attention to it, he spun it once with the Force before sliding it into the emitter and closing the lightsaber's casing around it. Opening his eyes, he looked at the suspended lightsaber with a smile and went to grab it, but just as his fingers fell within a hairsbreadth of it, the weapon shot a few inches above his hand before floating into Plo Koon's extended hand.

Wrapping his fingers around the lightsaber with a chuckle, Plo Koon stood and held the hilt before him in an appraising manner, looking it over several times before looking to Anakin and speaking, "Padawan, I stress the importance of this for all of our safety: are you certain you put the crystal in just as you were instructed?" Seeing Anakin's shoulders drop before he nodded slowly, Plo Koon chuckled and knelt down before patting Anakin on the shoulder with his free hand as he spoke, "I know you did, I just wanted to make sure you knew the gravity of this moment. Now, why don't you light it up before showing it to your master?"

Holding his hand out with the lightsaber floating above his palm, Plo Koon watched as Anakin reached out for it, hesitating a mere second before wrapping his fingers around it slowly. Exhaling slowly, Anakin pulled it in tight and wrapped his fingers around the hilt beneath his other hand. Pointing the emitter up past his face, he slid his thumb over the button, taking a slow breath before pressing the button and igniting the bright blue laser. Smiling brightly, he looked to Plo Koon with the blue light shining on his face before speaking, "Look Master Plo, I did it! I really did it this time."

Chuckling softly and nodding slowly, Plo Koon dropped his right hand to his left hip, pulling his own lightsaber off his belt before igniting it as well, shining his own blue blade before the boy's excited face. Moving it slowly, he placed his blade against Anakin's causing a flashing white spark from the point of contact before speaking, "Of course you did Anakin, Master Kenobi is a fine teacher. Take your finished saber and show him." Pulling his lightsaber back from the boy's, he turned it off and slipped it back onto his belt, moving slowly towards his seat to prepare for the ship's drop from hyperspace. Turning his new lightsaber off, Anakin smiled brightly and took a step forward before the ship made a premature exit from hyperspace, slamming the two Jedi to the floor of the cab. Sliding forwards towards his chair as the ship pitched forward in a steep dive, Anakin rose with a bewildered expression as a planet grew rapidly larger and larger in their windshield. Pulling himself into his chair, he pulled the throttle back and engaged the reverse thruster, trying to slow the shuttle's plummet. Pulling back on the joystick in a desperate yet vain attempt to bring the nose of the ship up, he looked with wide eyes to Plo Koon, who was pulling himself up by the back of his chair with a hand on his chest.

Feeling a sharp pain in his side every time he breathed in, Plo Koon dug his fingers into the headrest of the seat and said, "Anakin, switch the flight controls to me and get in contact with the Jedi Temple. Once you raise them, call for a rescue and get your master out of his quarters." Flipping a switch by the throttle as Plo Koon got into his seat, Anakin, took his hands off the controls as they disengaged before moving his left hand to the side to the holocom placed on the top of the dashboard.

Activating it with a press of a button, he turned to the blue astromech droid that was now pushing itself off the ground, "R2, I need you to patch me through to the Jedi Temple. We have to get in contact with them, little guy." Turning back to the holocom, he glanced over at where Master Plo was moving quickly to do all he could to pull out of the dive before the holocom came to life with a form materializing.

"What is it, padawan Skywalker? Your astromech stressed a need for urgency," came the voice of Master Windu, his form coming together with his hands clasped behind his back.

Bowing his head quickly, Anakin decided the situation did not allow the customary gestures of greeting and instead spoke quickly, "Master Windu, we need help. We were in hyperspace and then we suddenly fell out and into a steep dive. We cannot pull out, it is like the planet is pulling us in." After saying that, Master Windu's response came back garbled as the holocom began to flicker off and on, a pattern that was soon adopted by all of the other systems of the ship. Feeling the engines kick off, Anakin looked to Plo Koon with terrified eyes before speaking softly, "Master?"

Pulling his hands back from the controls, Plo Koon turned to Anakin quickly before picking up the boy's lightsaber where it had fallen during the ship's lurch. Holding it in his fist in front of the boy's chest, he spoke slowly with a forced calm in his voice, "Do not be afraid child, this is not the first time you have been in a crashing ship. It is just like the simulators in the Temple. Go and get your master, then strap yourself into one of the chairs."

Taking his lightsaber from Plo Koon's now open hand, Anakin nodded with a sense of bolstered confidence before standing and placing his lightsaber onto his belt like he had been taught. Making sure not to show fear by running, he walked to the door of Obi-Wan's quarters and knocked quickly, stepping back then with his hands behind his back. Hearing his master's order to come in, he pressed his hand against the control panel and slid the door open, stepping in and seeing Master Kenobi levitating with his hands on his knees and his legs folded beneath him. Closing the door behind him, he chewed on his lip and went to speak when suddenly Obi-Wan opened his eyes and spoke as he dropped to his feet, "I trust that by your entrance into my room, the situation at the front of the ship is not under control. Which then means that you have managed to crash yet another ship, correct?"

Tucking his chin to his chest, Anakin moved his right heel around with his toes against the floor before looking up in an apologetic manner and speaking, "I'm sorry Master, I tried to bring it back in control. But, Master Plo is at the controls and we haven't crashed yet. Besides, it wasn't my fault."

Shaking his head, Obi-Wan spread his hands to the side before asking, "And how was it not your fault, my very young padawan? Were you not the one at the controls? Were you not the one who set the coordinates for the hyperspace jump? Were you not the one who said, if my memory serves me well, 'Don't worry master, I won't crash the ship. I'm the best pilot in my class, you have nothing to worry about'?"

Looking down again, Anakin blew out a breath of air slowly before pleading, "But Master, it really wasn't my fault. The ship fell out of hyperspace long before we reached our destination at Nar Shaddaa. And then, after falling out of hyperspace, the ship just fell forward and into a dive towards the planet. Our systems are failing too. That can't be all my fault."

Bringing his right hand up to his beard as he supported his elbow with his left hand, Obi-Wan nodded slowly before speaking, "Blast, I guess you have a point. But, that does not change the fact that you were in control of the ship when it went down, adding yet another fine shuttle to the collection of ships you have wrecked. Before the systems shut down, were you at least able to contact the Jedi Temple and call for support?"

Shaking his head, Anakin bit his lip before muttering, "I've only crashed three ships Master, this one doesn't count. And yes, I was able to contact the Temple and call for help." Nodding slowly, Obi-Wan went to step past Anakin as he spoke, "Well, we shall wait for them to come get us then." Hearing that, Anakin looked down and kicked his foot out before speaking softly, "Well, I made contact, but it kind of got shut down by the ship before I could really call for help." Blowing out a breath with a few choice words muttered beneath it, Obi-Wan turned on his heel to face his sulking padawan before kneeling down and speaking, "Anakin, were you able to relay our coordinates to them?" Seeing Anakin shake his head, Obi-Wan patted him on the shoulder reassuringly before standing up and ushering him towards the front of the ship. Raising his hand as he got to the front, he looked down and smiled at Anakin before speaking, "Master Plo, my padawan would like to apologize for getting us into this mess and would like to try his very best to get us out if he can."

Hearing his master, Anakin looked to Plo Koon and bowed deeply at the waist before speaking, "I'm sorry for getting us into this mess Master Plo. I'm going to do all I can to make sure your ship receives the least damage so we can leave." Getting into the pilot chair quickly, he flipped the switch giving him control again and took hold of the joystick before moving his right hand to a switch to the side. Flipping it and three more beside it, he raised all of the landing flaps, producing a large amount of drag on the ship and causing it to slow down substantially. Seeing the clouds they had been going through split and the ground coming up at an alarming speed, he grabbed hold of the ignition switch and pumped it several times to no avail. Turning to the masters behind him with fear in his eyes, Obi-Wan pulled him with the Force and set him in one of the seats behind the pilot's seat. Letting Anakin strap himself in, he jumped into the seat beside Plo Koon's and strapped himself in before looking over to his friend, "I hope you can bring us in softly, I'm going to look on the database to see where we are…landing." Listening to Plo Koon and R2 working to turn the engines on and power up the frontal shields, Obi-Wan pulled a datapad up from a compartment on the dash and typed their coordinates in quickly. Waiting for the page to load, he looked at it in confusion before muttering, "Master Plo, have you ever heard of the planet Unghr in the Honoghr system?"