Chapter 2
Once the door of the elevator opened, a Twi'lek stooped them. "Hey, what are you doing here? Tell me or I will hit the alarm." She said.
"Wait, don't hit the alarm. Here, I have 50 credits they are all yours if you don't hit the alarm." Conner said.
"50 credits? It's a deal, but let me get out of here before you start shooting." The Twi'lek said, she took the 50 credits and left the base. Conner approached to the computer and entered on the system.
"What are you doing?" Bastila asked.
"Hacking the system. It's a trick Mission thought me." Conner answered. "C'mon."
They walked trough the hallway until they reached at the main hall, were more hallways were, also were some energy cells and in one of those cells was the Duros alien Conner had helped. The Duros asked Conner if he could free him, Conner nodded and deactivated the cell. The Duros thanked Conner and got out from the Sith Base. After walking for a moment, the trio reached at the Control room. There Sith troopers started to shoot at them. Conner took his blaster pistol and started to shoot at the Sith. Bastila took her lightsaber from her belt and charged against the Sith. Once they killed the Sith troopers, Conner hacked the system again and opened the elevator. They walked towards the elevator, but more Sith troopers attacked them, after killing them, they reached at door where the area of the elevator was. The door opened and revealed a big droid with a powerful shield; fortunately, they destroyed the droid and opened the door of the elevator.
When reached at the main control center, Conner opened the door and inside was a man with a double-vibroblade.
"Who are you to break my concentration?" The man said. "Wait, I sense that the Force is strong within you. But you aren't a Jedi. This is strange."
"Are you a Sith?" Conner asked.
"No yet, but once I kill you my master will reward me giving me my lightsaber." The man said and charged against Conner. Conner dodged the attack and started to shoot at him. Bastila ignited her lightsaber and tried to hit the man with her lightsaber. He blocked the blow and charged against her; Bastila blocked the blade and swung her lightsaber. The man put Bastila in stasis and turned to Conner, he charged at him and Conner took his vibroblade. He blocked every blow of the man, Conner rolled down and stood up behind the man and killed him.
When the man died, Bastila came out from stasis and asked what happened, Conner told her that he had killed the man, then he searched for the codes, when he found the codes, they went out from the Sith base and returned to the apartment. The next day, Conner, Carth and Bastila went to the Cantina in the Lower City where Canderous was waiting.
"He said it was here?" Carth asked outside the cantina.
"Yes." Conner nodded.
"Okay, let's go." Carth said and they went inside. After looking for Canderous, they found him near the bar.
"I hear what happened. The Sith base had a break in. You know something?" He asked.
"About?" Conner asked sarcastically.
Canderous smiled and Conner gave him the codes, "Good, now you can come with me at Davik's state." Canderous said. "I have a speeder here, the sooner we get there the better."
Conner nodded and turned to his friends. "Carth, do you want to accompany me?" Conner asked. Carth nodded. "Bastila, you return to the apartment and tell Mission and Zaalbar to be ready, I'll call you when we have the ship." Conner said.
Bastila nodded and returned to the apartment. Carth, Conner and Canderous left the cantina and headed to Davik's state, once they reached at the state, Davik greeted Canderous. "Ah, Canderous I see you have brought a friend." Davik said.
"Are you getting tired of being alone Canderous?" Calo Nord, a bounty hunter said. "You're getting soft."
"Watch yourself Calo; you may be the newest kath hound of the pack, but you still have to learn a lot." Canderous said.
"Alright, I won't allow that my top men kill each other. Canderous must have good reasons why he is not working solo anymore." Davik said.
"That's right. Davik, I brought someone who is looking to work with you, he raced at the swoop race the other day." Canderous said.
"Ah, yes…I now recognize your friend. Well, if Canderous said you're good, then you must be." Davik said. "Please stay here, I'll check your backgrounds, you can go to the slavers' room down the hallway, but don't disturb my other guests or you will deal with the guards."
"Thanks Davik, I'm looking forward to work with you." Conner said.
Davik nodded, "Come Calo let our guests have a peaceful rest." He said getting out from the room with Calo behind him.
"Okay, we are in. Now we must go to the hangar." Canderous said.
"Let's move." Conner said. The trio left the room and looked the hallway for guards; they walked down the hallway and entered in the main hall of the state. They kept walking but found a Rodian guard who started to shoot at them. When the guard was killed, they kept walking down the hallways of the state until they reached at the "special guest room". When they walked inside, a man was being tortured in an energy cell. Conner got close to the panel control and deactivated the cell.
"Oh, thanks. You have no idea how's to be in that energy cell." The man said.
"I couldn't sit there and watch you suffer." Conner answered.
"I have nothing to give you, nothing tangible anyway, but I can give you the security codes to deactivate the security system of the Ebon Hawk. I used to be the pilot of the ship, but Davik locked me here later." The man said.
"Thanks for the codes. Go now." Conner said.
The man nodded and left the room. "Good, we better leave. The sooner we get out from this planet, the better." Canderous said.
The group continued walking along the hallways until they reached at a mess hall, when they entered, a group of guards attacked them, they shoot at the guards and killed them, and they continued walking fighting with more guards. Once they reached at the hangar, they saw that the Sith were starting to bombard the planet.
"Damn those Sith, they are going to destroy the whole planet!" Davik said from the opposite side of the hangar. "I wonder…oh look what we have here, thieves in the hangar." He said looking at the trio.
"So you think you could steal my ship from me and let me here to die while the Sith are bombarding the planet? Sorry, but that ain't going to happen."
"Let me take care of them Davik, I've been waiting for this." Calo said.
"Make it quick Calo; I'd hate to be on this rock." Davik answered. He and Calo pointed their blaster towards the group. Conner and the other two made the same and started to fire at them, Conner and Carth concentrated their fire on Davik and Canderous shoot at Calo. Finally, Davik died, but that didn't stop Calo, who take out a thermal detonator.
"You may have killed Davik, but if I'm going down, you're coming with me." Calo said, but before he could activate the detonator, the ceiling fell on top of him, the group stayed surprised but ran towards the Ebon Hawk. Once they went inside the ship, Carth entered in the cockpit and took off. Conner called Bastila through the communicator and told her that she and the others needed to be ready. Five minutes later, the Ebon Hawk was outside the apartment complex, the rest of the group came out running and climbed on the ship, once everyone was on the ship, the Hawk left the surface of the planet. Once the ship passed through the Sith blockade, Sith fighters started to chase the Ebon Hawk.
"I have introduced the coordinates to go to Dantooine; there we can seek refuge on the Jedi Enclave." Bastila said.
But one of the Sith fighters shoot at the ship causing to shake. "Quickly, to the gun turrets! You need to stop those fighters while the ship is tracing the route." Carth said.
Conner nodded and he and Canderous went to the gun turrets and started to fire at the Sith ships. Six ships were shooting at the Hawk, Conner started to fire and destroyed one when it came at the target look. Meanwhile, Canderous destroyed two Sith fighters with one shoot. Once the six fighters were destroyed, the Hawk entered in hyperspace. Conner came out from the gun turret happy but also sad for the destruction of Taris. He entered in the cockpit and sat on the navigator's chair.
"How long it will take to arrive at Dantooine?" Conner asked a little sad.
"Two days, once we land, I'll talk with the Jedi Council about the mission." Bastila answered with the same tone of voice.
"Damn man. Mission has just lost her home. I can't believe how hard this is for her." Conner said.
"I know the feeling." Carth said. Conner looked at him oddly about the statement but ignore it. "I'm going to see how she is." He said getting up and walking to the main hold. Carth stood up behind Conner and also walked to the main hold.
When Conner entered in the main hold, he saw Mission sitting in front of the holoprojector the Hawk had, behind the seat was Zaalbar. Conner approached to the seat and sat next to Mission. "Hey kiddo." He said.
"Huh?...Oh. Sorry I'm just a little bit shaken. I just can't believe Taris is gone, I grew up there and now…it's…just gone." Mission said sadly.
"Don't worry; Malak will pay for what he did." Conner said placing his hand on her shoulder.
"Yeah, well if the Jedi get rid of Revan, then I guess they will get rid of Malak too." Mission answered.
"Don't worry. We are all here for you." Carth said.
"So, where are we heading?" Canderous asked moments later entering in the main hold.
"Dantooine, there's a Jedi Enclave there, we can seek refuge. Also I need to speak with the Council about some new developments." Bastila said.
"We'll be arriving in two days, so I suggest we relax until we arrive." Conner said.
Everyone agreed and went to their bunkers, the next day, Conner found Mission in the main hold looking at some holocrons. "Hey Mission." Conner said.
"Hi Conner." She answered.
"How you been feeling?" He asked.
"Better, thanks. But right now, I'm bored."
"Yeah, I can see that. Hey, you want to play a prank on someone?" He asked.
Mission's eyes lit up, "That will be cool, but who are we going to do the prank?" She asked.
"Well, certainly not our Jedi commander. I wouldn't like her stabbing me with her lightsaber." Conner said. "But I know who is the perfect victim, c'mon. I'll show a prank I used to do when I used to hang with a gang of smugglers." The two left the main hold and walked towards Carth's room. An hour later, everyone was on the main hold, when a very angry scream came from one of the hallways. Carth stepped inside the main hold with his face covered with blue circles.
"Wow, what happened with you?" Conner asked.
"I don't. I was just taking a nap and when I woke up I was covered with blue circles!" Carth said upset.
"Do you know anything?" Carth asked.
"No, I've been here all day." Conner answered shaking his head.
"Mission, do you know anything?" Carth asked.
"No." She said shaking her head. "I've been with T3 all day."
Carth walked outside from the main hold to the bathroom to wash off the blue circles. "I promise if I found who did this, he will know who is to be trained in the Republic fleet." His voice said as he walked off. Once, Carth was away, Conner and Mission started to laugh.
"Nice one Conner." Mission said.
"I told you, it will work." Conner said.
"Wait, you did that?" Canderous asked.
"Yeah, and if I were Carth, I wouldn't leave the ship in the next days until the ink is completely away." Conner answered.
"Don't you think you are old enough to make pranks?" Bastila said a little upset.
"C'mon Bastila. Even you thought it was funny, I think I saw a faint smile on you face when Carth entered." Conner said.
"Do you always act so childish?" She asked.
"Sometimes." Conner answered giving her a smirk. She rolled her eyes and returned to read her book. After two days, the Hawk arrived at the system were Dantooine was, they were only a few hours from the planet. Before the ship reached the planet's orbit, Conner decided to take a shower. He came out from the refresher and dressed up with his khaki pants and his black boots, with his towel across his shoulders and his white long-sleeve shirt in his right hand, he returned to his room to put on a clean shirt.
As he was walking to his room, he was drying his hair with the towel. From the opposite direction, Bastila was walking with two datapads in her hands; she was reading one of them so she didn't notice Conner, as he didn't notice her until they bumped with each other. She dropped the datapads and he dropped his shirt.
"Sorry, I didn't saw you there." Conner said bending down to pick up the datapads.
"No, it's okay. I was distracted." Bastila said bending down to help him. She grabbed one of the datapads and saw a white cloth and picked up. She examined it and realized it was Conner's shirt.
Conner was already standing up and examining the datapad, just to be sure if it wasn't broken. Bastila stood up and turned to Conner to give him his shirt, but when she looked at him, she found with a shirtless Conner. She could feel a small blush appearing on her face at the sight of his bare chest. Conner had a well-defined six pack and muscular arms, his entire upper body was muscle. Bastila couldn't tell what it was, but she liked how Conner looked with his wet hair and shirtless.
"Here's your datapad." Conner said giving her the datapad.
"Oh…thanks." Bastila said shyly. "Here's…your…your shirt." She said giving him his shirt.
"Thanks." Conner answered, then he realized that Bastila hadn't take her sight from him. "See anything you like?" Conner asked teasing.
"No, I…I was just thinking that we are going to arrive at Dantooine in a few hours so I suggest you should go and put some clothes on." She said.
"Okay, see you later." Conner said and winked at her. Three hours later, the Hawk landed on Dantooine near the Jedi Enclave, as soon as the ramp lowered down, Bastila left the ship and headed to the Enclave. She walked along the courtyard and stepped inside where the Council was.
"Masters." She said bowing in front of the Council.
"Padawan Shan, it´s good to see you. After we heard what happened in Taris, we were afraid you didn´t make it in time." Master Dorak, a historian of the Order said.
"Thank you Master, but I need to discuss some recent discoveries." Bastila said.
