As the Lexel Cruiser hurtled through hyperspace, Anakin suddenly looked around frantically.

"Where's Boba?"

Obi-wan rushed out of the cockpit with Anakin and Nari following. Boba, a boy of about 16 with tan skin and dark floppy hair, was lounging on one of the couches, playing with a chess board on the table. He looked up as the Jedi walked in, quickly putting a holopiece down.

Obi-wan glanced at Anakin, not sure of what to do.

"You don't try anything to get in trouble, understand?" Anakin told the prisoner sternly.

Boba didn't move, only stared at the Jedi hatefully. Nari gazed at him curiously. Anakin and Obi-wan retired to their quarters, wanting to discuss plans about Boba and the war with the Separatists.

Ahsoka walked into the room. "So, uh... Nari right?"

"Right. You're..."

"Ahsoka Tano." She extended her hand, and Nari shook it. The Togruta Padawan gazed around at the skylights and other furniture. "Nice ship! How'd you get it?"

"My father was a merchant." Nari walked over to a couch and flopped onto it. "He owned a fleet of trading ships, and I took one."

Ahsoka walked over and lay down next to her, stretching out comfortably on the white couch. "This is so much better than a cramped cockpit." She glanced over at Nari. "What do you do on this ship for fun?"

Nari smiled. "We have holochess, music players, video games, pretty much whatever you want."

"Sweet!" Ahsoka sat up, reaching for a button on the table. "What does this do?"

Nari grinned. "Why don't you press it and find out, Jedi?"

Ahsoka pushed it, and suddenly tiny little balls of light came floating out of little holes in the wall and began to zip around them, leaving sparkles where they went. Ahsoka gazed around in suprise. "What are these?"

Nari pressed a button to turn off the lights, and the room lights turned off, leaving only the tiny balls on. The little spheres glowed in many different colors, flying around the room. "They're droids," Nari explained. "They're tiny hovering machines with built-in lights. You can try to catch them or just have them as ornaments and lights."

The light droids zipped around, leaving sparkles of light around the ship. Boba stared in surprise as a few zipped around him, encircling him with glitter, then scattered. He seemed entranced by the little lights, and Nari gazed at him, wondering why he was there. He didn't seem like a Jedi. Boba watched the droids, then as he was looking around, his eyes met with Nari's. They stared at each other for a moment, Nari lost in his dark brown eyes. Then, Ahsoka jumped up, slightly knocking her over. Ahsoka was trying to catch one, jumping onto the couch and reaching up to grab them.

Nari laughed. "That's enough, before you break something." She pressed some buttons on the table. The droids flew back into their holes, and the lights came back on.

Ahsoka sat with a flop onto the couch. Then she started to fidget a little. "Say, do have a... toilet on this ship?"

Nari nodded. "Turn into the right hallway, go all the way down, the door on your left."

"Thanks!" She sprinted from the room, leaving Nari sitting alone on a couch and Boba on the other one. She tentatively looked over at him.

"What's your name?" she asked with a small smirk.

He looked at her with his brown eyes, wondering whether it was ok to trust her or not. Finally, he said softly, "Boba Fett."

"I'm Nari," she said, her dark blue eyes filled with friendliness. "You don't look like a Jedi."

"No," Boba said, glancing down. "I don't."

"So... what are you?"

"A boy."

"What kind of boy?"

He didn't look like he wanted to answer. He only fidgeted with his shirt. Nari gazed at him, then Ahsoka came walking back in.

"Let's listen to some music!" she said excitedly. Nari jumped up and turned on the music, playing an upbeat techno-dance song. She turned the volume up, and Ahsoka jumped onto the couch, playing on an air guitar. Nari banged on some imaginary drums, while Boba sat on the corner of his couch, staring at the both of them like they were insane.


Obi-wan paced in the guest room, his hand stroking his well-trimmed beard. "What are we going to do once we get to Coruscant?"

"Drop off Boba at the prison, of course," Anakin replied, sitting comfortably in a lounge chair with his arms crossed. "Then we'll inform the Jedi Council of our success."

"What about the pirates?" Obi-wan stood in front of Anakin, staring at him. "What about what we found on that pirate ship? The secret plans?"

Anakin shook his head. "We'll tell the council about that too."

"The pirates still have the stolen plans, you know. If they have the plans, they can sell them to anyone. That includes Count Dooku."

"What will Count Dooku do with plans like that?"

"Anakin, listen." Obi-wan ran his hand over his beard. "The Geonosians would pay whatever they had to get those plans back. Count Dooku is affiliated with them, and there's no doubt in my mind that he wants those plans desperately as well. If we can steal those plans from the pirates, we'll have everything that Dooku has been planning."

Anakin sat up. "So we should go after the pirates to steal what they stole?"

"Precisely." Obi-wan nodded to Anakin, knowing that those plans the pirates had stolen from the Geonosians were extremely important, and that it could be used against the Republic in the war. He needed to get them before Dooku did.