"Like we're going to surrender," hissed Kirana Ti, looking at the men with daggers in her eyes.
"You're going to come with us, or we'll leave you to the spiders. You're all within their colony's hunting range," replied the man, leveling a blaster rifle at her.
"We're not scared of some bugs!" said Dorsk 82, "You'd better tell us what's going on here!"
"SHUT THE KRIFF UP!" yelled the tall man, turning to a squat man behind him, "Send out the senislugs."
The squat man threw a fistful of squirming grubs at the Jedi. As soon as the grubs impacted on the ground, they exploded in a cloud of pungent cobalt gas. The Jedi felt drowsiness overcome them before they could even hold their breath. The world spiraled into darkness around them…
Jaina woke up from her drugged sleep, mucus streaming from her nose. She wiped it away, and felt as though she had inhaled a whole fistful of Ithorian Fire Pepper. Looking around, she saw that Jacen, Kirana Ti, Dorsk 82, herself, and the Chaa triplets had been bound with stun cuffs and put in a Universal Energy Cage. Jaina recognized it as a relic from the Imperial era, designed by the mad scientist Umak Leth, who had also been the engineer of the Galaxy Gun and World Devastators. The cage held them securely in the cargo hold of the armored patrol craft that had picked them up from the cliff where they had been attacked by strange spiders. From occasional bumps and jerks, she knew the craft was in motion.
"Any idea who's running this show?" asked Jacen, as he looked around the cargo hold.
"Probably those guys who drugged us just now," said Kirana Ti, wiping the mucus off her face with an obvious look of disgust, "What's with the mucus, though?"
"Normal sssside effectsss of sssenissssslug gassss," hissed one of the Chaa triplets, "Irritated nassssssal membranesssssss, nassssssal disssssschargessssss, ssssskin inflammationssssss, and probably irritated eyesssss."
"Right….," said Jacen, cleaning himself up after a fresh bout of streaming mucus, "Where're we?"
Before anyone could answer, the ship came to a rough stop. They crashed into each other, piling up in a corner of the cage. The cargo hold's door opened, and ten of the men-in-bodysuits they had seen earlier stepped in. The tall men stepped forward and used a remote to activate the cage's base-mounted repulsorlifts, lifting the cage off the floor. Turning around, he made the cage follow him out of the cargo hold, out of the ship, and onto a pier, towards a boat that seemed to be running on repulsorlifts. Jacen thought he saw several things moving about under the water's surface, but was distracted by the man's loud voice.
"Listen here, you Jedi. We're going to cross the Lake Alpha, and if any of you misbehave… Well, suffice to say that Doctor Carlz won't notice one of you missing," said the man, starting up the boat after the cage had been bolted to the deck.
"We'll have the last laugh," said Jaina, glaring at the man, who ignored her.
The boat hovered sped forward, never touching the surface of the lake due to its repulsorlifts. Under the water, Jacen saw that the moving things were actually large, pallid fishes with luminescent green eyes. The fish kept pace with the boat, and often got knocked aside by the repulsor beams underneath the boat. The fish would then continue to pursue the boat, occasionally jumping out of the water to snap at the boat.
When the boat finally docked, they saw that they were in an indoor pier, which had numerous empty cages on it. They saw a richly-dressed man approach, and felt a growing apprehension.
The man stepped right up to the cage. Smiling, he said, "Welcome, my dear Jedi. Welcome to my planet."