A/N: Hello there! I dunno if a lot of people is already reading this or not, but I'll carry on anyway, especially since this chapter is Cas' first introduction to most of the cast. :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Star Wars or any of its characters. I only own my OCs Cas, Tani and Sehr along with the plot of this story.

4. Troublemaking

Cas didn't heed her mother's advice. While the shuttle turned away from the fight and went to land safely into the forest, she directed the Jedi fighter right into it.

Below her, she could see the ruins of an old stone building, and in the rubble, people fighting. She could see beams of red light from the blasters, and thought she saw a strange blue hue once before she had to focus onto the mess she had driven into.

"Shit" she cursed as a TIE started chasing after her.

In moments like these, Cas was glad she had some sort of link to the Force. She could feel the bastard behind her without having to use her radar, knew when and how to flip, and soon, the faded red ship started showing acrobatics the TIE could barely follow.

It fell down, struck by a beam of plasma, when she flipped her ship upside down and faced him again.

"Woohoo!" she launched into thin air. She had never flown like that before, ever. Her only flying had been on land-speeders back home, and she had never shot anyone either.

A sudden wave of discomfort took over her as she realised the ship she had just shot down had a pilot. Who was most likely dead.

"Cas, where the hell are you?" she heard her mother's call not a second later. Tani was angry, no seething, and Cas felt like this was probably the right time to actually do what she was supposed to do and go hide somewhere safe.

"I got...delayed. Coming."

"You better, young lady." She heard over the com a strange buzzing, and her blood started boiling when she understood what it was. A lightsaber.

Cas directed her ship towards the forest too, but did take care of a couple more TIE fighters before she did.

And could not miss the X-wing flying as if it was a freaking bird and taking out many more enemies than the rest of its squad altogether. She got distracted when the pilot made a rather impressive acrobatic, and she found herself whistling in appreciation. That was one hell of a pilot.

Following her instinct, she reached for her mother's signature through the Force and landed right next to the shuttle. Sehr was still half inside the ship, pointing a blaster at the trees in a vague attempt to protect himself.

Cas grabbed her own blaster - well, not really, just...the blaster that was in the cockpit - and joined the Gungan. "Uncle, where's Ma?"

Sehr was frozen, but with a nod of his head, he directed her where she could hear a great deal of buzzing and blasting.

What she saw when she reached the source was a sight she was never going to forget.

Tani was flying, there was no other word for it. The six Stormtroopers that had taken to fighting her were all falling one after the other as her blue lightsaber whirled into the air into complex motions no one could ever recover from.

Cas stared, open-mouthed, and thought for a second that her mother was a freaking badass.

Then she saw another group of white-wearing bastards coming their way and she decided she too wanted her fun.

"Ma?" she said as she took her place next to the Jedi Master.

Tani's eyes were black, a sight she had never seen before. The blade in her hand gave her an almost mad look, and Cas felt as though her mother was an angel from Death.

"Stay close. I'll deflect most of the blasts."

That was before the same X-wing as before came barging into view and started bloody taking down the Stormtroopers. Without touching either of them once.

Cas stared after the ship. "Well kill me now, that bastard can shoot."

"Language," Tani said just has her blade retracted with a hissing sound. Or maybe that was her, as she checked on a blast wound just over her wrist.

"Ma!" Cas said in alarm, but her eyes widened as she saw that it was actually not flesh under the skin, but...wires? "Ma? What in the freaking-"

There was another blast, up close, and both women moved towards the centre of the ruins just as a menacing-looking shuttle took off, its wings spreading like a bat's. Tani's eyes squinted in anger, as if she knew who that ship belonged to, until she pressed her comlink to her lips. "Sehr, all clear, come over here."

They walked through rubble and pillars and wires and bodies, which made Cas' toes curl in her boots, until they reached a strange kind of ship that had just landed.

Before it stood four...people?

Well, one was a tall bear-looking being carrying a crossbow - or what looked like it; the second one was an average-looking boy with dark skin and a leather jacket that looked strangely fitting on him; and the last two were a man and a woman currently standing too close to each other for them to be strangers.

"Leia! Han! Chewie!" Tani called, and Cas stopped in her steps in shock. Her mother knew these guys?

The couple stepped away from each other. The woman, petite, with greying brown hair and dark eyes, gasped just as the taller woman reached her. Their arms closed around each other and they seemed to tell each other something Cas did not catch from that distance.

Then the man, with his leather jacket and rugged look, pulled Tani from the woman's arms and hugged her so tight Tani thought he was going to kiss her. And then the bear-like creature hugged both, lifting the two from the ground with a strange wail.

"Ah, so these are the friends..." Sehr said as he reached Cas. She looked up at her uncle, half-surprised half-angry that he knew something she didn't. The Gungan looked down at her with a kind of sad smile - if a sad smile was possible to produce for Gungans. "I'm sorry you have to discover all this only now..."

Cas shrugged and huffed. "You know, whatever dark secrets she keeps, it's her shit. I'm too old to wheep over it." She angrily wiped at the tears that had started welling up in her purple eyes, and lifted her chin.

She then strode decidedly towards the group, and cleared her throat.

Tani untangled herself from the man's arms, a big smile on her lips, and her blue eyes widened as if she had just realised her daughter was standing there.

"Can somebody please explain what in Force's name in happening here?"