Mustafar. A volcanic planet, in a system of the Outer Rims, corward of Rutan and between the Hydian Way and the Ninth Quadrant. A world with a history. The place Darth Vader was seriously injured during a fight with Obi-Wan Kenobi, which led to the looks we know. The place Luke's mother got her heart broken which lead to her death. Yeah, a sad histrory was surrounding this planet. But that couldn't be the reason for what Robin felt looking at this planet. "Where should we land?", Mara asked. "I dunno. Just find a place to get us down. We will have to see what awaits us down there", Robin said without taking her eyes of the sight infront of her. Red lava, dark clouds of ashes in the sky. This place not only felt evil, it also looked evil. They found an old landing platform and Robin was at the hatch already, armed to the teeth. Mara and Luke approached her from behind and Luke could feel what Robin was about to say, so he snapped Mara, held her back. Mara, being the smart lady she was, asked: "You sure you wanna go alone? This is a dangerous place." Robin just nodded, pushed the "open"-button and went outside.
The blazing heat welcomed her, a hot wind swirled her cloak up behind her, pushing her cap down, freeing her long, dark hair. One hand on her lightsaber, the other on her com, she looked around. The darkness of the place was amazing. Darkness to the core. To the soul. A regular Jedi might have been freaked out by the temptation of this call. But Robin had learned to deal with it, knew how to keep herself from falling to the dark side. So she walked on, dauntless.
Quite some time had passed by. Robin was still trying to find out where she was going when she saw something sticking out of the black rocks of Mustafar. It was somehow out of place but somehow it seemed like it belonged there. A silver cylinder, slim, almost looking like…Yeah, when she pulled it out, it turned out that her first thought about it was right: a lightsaber. Judging from the handle it might either belong to a man or to a big humaniod, maybe like a wookie. The metal in her hand was cold, even though it was stuck in the hot stone. Stones on Mustafar were always hot due to the volcanic nature of the planet. She hit the switch and a blinding, blood-red blade came up. It was HIS ligthsaber.
Back at the "Dark Revelation" Mara and Luke were celebrating the good news. "How come Robin knew it before I did? I don't understand…" Luke smiled: "See, that always has been one of Robin's gifts in the force. She is very sensitive to life. She can sense death and life with every fiber of her body. In the battle of Bakura versus the Ssi-ruu, she could tell you exactly which fighter would be the next to be wiped out of the space. She just pointed at the map and seconds later it happened. That is how I became aware of her talents." Mara nodded: "That makes sense. She must have sensed the baby. Our son…"
A clacking on the hull made both jump up. There was nothing in the force, no danger. Maybe a stone? Luke checked the monitors and his faced darkend. Mara looked over his shoulder. "Uh oh. We gotta get outta here NOW!" While Mara started the engines, Luke hit the com. "Robs, do you hear me? Robs, come in!" "Luke, what's wrong?" "You gotta come back here ASAP. The platform is giving in and the lava is already drizzeling to the hull." Silence for a moment. "Get my ship up in the air. Come and find me." Luke just nodded, realizing that Robin could not see him. Mara allowed herself to giggle because of that. A minute later the ship was at a safe height, away from the Lava. With a little help of the force they found Robin very quickly. "Open the hatch, I will jump in." Luke hit a switch and 5 seconds later the light showing the hatch to open went from red to green. She was in. Mara directed the ship to a higher Orbit so Luke and her could find out about what Robin found. She was sitting in the launch, staring at the lightsaber. "It was stuck in a stone. It felt like it kinda belonged there. And now I know why: its crystal is from Mustafar. Millions of years old. And, check this out… " She activated it: "Usually red blades are connected to the Sith." "That would give some sense to your vision", Luke said, with a look on his face. The look he always had when he was thinking AND worried about his thoughts. "Robin, I think you should call this off." "I can't, Luke." "Robin, he might be right."; Mara interrupted. "The both of you should know fucking better!", Robin's faced darkened. "I've made up my mind. I will continue. If you wanna try and stop me: give it your best shot." She called them out. And Mara responded: "I will not allow you to waste your life!" and stepped towards Robin. But Luke squeezed himself between the women before they could beat the crap out of each other. "If you wanna go, go! But you will give me a call when you need help, promise that to me!" There was no doubt in Luke about what he said. And Robin knew better then to argue with the first of the new Jedi. "Ok. Where do you want me to drop you?"
Robin had brought Luke and Mara back to Coruscant. I didn't matter that that cost her some time, there was no urgency in the force yet. Back in hyperspace, the navsystem programmed to bring her to the planet she grew up, she knew that she had the time for processing the lightsaber fully. First by using the force. Opening her mind she felt that the owner of it was powerful, scared, afraid of losses…tortured…
Then another vision came to her: she saw a Twi'Lek woman, a lethan. Tattoos. She was standing over the man, torturing him with force lightening. He suffered greatly. She talked to him but Robin could not hear the words. The Twi'Lek went away, leaving the man to himself. After a while his flesh stopped smoking and he tried to get up. He dragged himself through a hallway, into a small room. There was a bed. It was his room. He needed some rest. Before he put himself down he passsed by a mirror, stopped for a moment, checking is burns. He was in tears, his face looking so handsome and…
The vision was over and Robin realized that her shoulder hurt exactly at the same spot she just had seen his burns. Interesting. After a while she started checking the lightsaber for trace, epithelia, fingerprints, everything that might tell her something about the owner, the place it was made or had been. After hours she finally had what she needed: a location. Smiling and satisfied she tried to get some sleep. Just a few hours later she looked upon a sight she had missed more than she knew. Tatoo I and Tatoo II orbiting Tatooine. The planet dry and dusty just the way she had left it. That was the one thing Mara would never understand: the connection Luke and she had since they'd been kids by growing up here. Setting her course to Mos Eisley, her heart warmed up just like the hull of her ship did because of the heat of the two suns. And all of a sudden, she felt an urge to do something. And she did it without hesitating.
After bribing the spaceport employees in an appropiate way, she stepped outside to the dusty, dirty streets of Mos Eisley. Ben Kenobi once said: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." And it still was. Somethings never changed. She rented herself a speederbike, heading into the direction of the Jundland Wastes. The suns had already set when she arrived at her destination. All you could see in the darkness was a hole in the stone, high as buildings, standing out of the sand. Robin sat down at a cliff, crossed-legged, her cloak with the cap soflty moving in the warm wind. There she sat all night. Every now and then you could here a Krayt-Dragon scream in the distance, some banthas passed by, Tusken were talking loudly in another cave. Robin did not mind all of them. It all belonged here. She woulnd't bother them as they wouldn't bother her. If there was one thing all Tatooine-creatures knew then this: they knew when someone was from this planet. Born here.
The suns rose again and Robin still didn't move until a person came out of the cave. "My child. You have returned to me.", an old, soft voice said, reaching out for Robin with fragile, bony arms. Robin got up from the ground, pulling her cap back. "Yes, Grandma, as I promised." She embraced the old lady that had raised her under the worst kind of cirumstances. They went inside the cave and Robin revealed a package that was hidden under her cloak. Grandma looked at her. "What have you done?" "I brought you some nice stuff, Grandma. Here, you really should try th..." "No, child. Your HAIR! You cut it off." It was short indeed. Her hair used to be all the way down to the hips, now it was just above her shoulders. "I didn't like it anymore, Grandma." "You know what they say about a woman who cuts off her hair.", the old lady said and twinkled. Robin laughed. Together they prepared a nice breakfast and Grandma was amazed by all the nice food and some other supplies Robin had brought her. They chatted until the suns almost set again when Grandma finally asked: "So, why did you come here?" "Well, there is a chance that this might be my last visit. I am on some kind of mission the force brought to me and i am not sure if i will survive." Grandma turned pale. "Well, child. We all have to leave some day. It would be unfortunated if you had to go before me but then again, I believe in the force and that it only leads us to places we are really needed. Even though i am not capable of what you are and don't understand the ways of the force fully, if that is what you have to do, you have to go." Both got up and embraced each other lovingly. "But try to come back, child." "I will try, Grandma. May the force be with you." Robin turned away, jumped down the small cliff, started her speeder and was gone into the night. "And may the force be with you, child. Always."
Back in Mos Eisley, Robin allowed herself a few drinks in Chalmun's Cantina. Old Wuher, the bar tender, was as grumpy as always but his drinks still rocked. Hopefully, this one wasn't made of dead Rodians.
Her head was kinda spinning when she got back to the "Revelation" but that didn't keep the force from telling her about the danger in the hangar and with the blink of an eye, she was sober again. She had almost reached her ship when a voice from behind her said: "Hold it right there." Robin raised her hands and turned around. Two defel stood right there. Of course, that was why she couldn't see them before. Defel had the curious ablilty to absorb light with ther fur. Nevermind, there they stood, holding blasters, threatening Robin. "Give us the code to your ship", one of the small but dangerous creatures. "You don't wanna do this", Robin said and did a little gesture with her right hand. The defels looked at each other in confusion. "We don't wanna do this", one said with a monoton voice. Robin gestured again. "You wanna go home and re-think your life." "We will go home and re-think our life", they both said with almost no conviction in their voices, but they turned around and left. Robin lowered her arms and shook her head. Was is so hard to see that she was a Jedi? She looked down on herself and realized that this wasn't the the contrary, she not only wore her lightsaber, no, she also had the lightsaber of the mystery man on her belt! And she couldn't even remember putting it there. Stange thing.
She went inside her ship, to the cockpit, started to warm up the engines. And programme the navsystem. After half an hour she was up in space again, looking at her home for maybe the last time. With a sigh she hit a button and the ship went to lightspeed.
Takt watched the YT-1300 freighter jump to lightspeed and allowed himself an evil grin. Like his master predicted. The coordinates locked into his system, he gave the signal to his associates and jumped himself. Didn't take this Jedi-Bitch as long to find out as he thought. Seemed like a smart gal. He had to be careful.