Author's note

I apologise. I made a mistake with one of the Star Wars species. I mentioned a barman of an Itotchi species (Chapters 2 & 3) when I meant Ithorian (Chapter 5 used the correct species name). Anyways, enjoy Chapter 6... I hope.

Chapter 6

Dyna walked through the quiet hall of the spaceship. She looked around to make sure she was alone and when she was sure she was, she reached into her pocket and withdrew an item. The cylindrical device was stolen from Zack's room. She doesn't know why she took it but it felt as if it called out to her. Not sure what the item was exactly, she pressed a button and twisted the hilt to see what would happen and to her surprise a green blade leapt out heading towards her face. She barely dodged the green extending blade. The girl's eyes lit up. She had never seen something like this before. The green blade of light was beautiful and she looked down its length and noted that near the base of the hilt there was a green halo around the base.

Dyna swung the weightless blade around in the air and was amazed at the slight change in light intensity and the hum as he did it. She was no fool and she doubted that even a fool would fail to see that this item was a weapon. However her youth did not make her respect the weapon, even though she could recognised how dangerous it was. She swung the lightsaber again but overshot it and it sliced into the hallway wall. When she realised what she had done, she quickly withdrew the blade from the wall. When she pulled the lightsaber free the halo of the lightsaber cut her wrist. She dropped the lightsaber and squealed in pain. Sparks rained out of the sliced wall before there was an explosion which engulfed the area in fire.

Buck woke up with a start when he heard a high pitched scream. He grabbed his blaster as he ran out of his room with only his underwear on. He met with Zack and Lona.

"Do you guys know what's going on?" Buck asked panicking.

Zack and Lona ignored him as they ran past him. Buck followed close behind. An alarm began ringing and Buck recognised the alarm meant that the spaceship had sustained damage. What had caused that damage was yet unknown. They reached a hallway engulfed in fire.

"How did this happen?" Buck asked.

"She's in there!" Zack said.

Buck instantly understood who he was talking about. Adrenaline was running through his veins and without thinking he jumped into the fire. He was blinded by an orange light before he saw Dyna lying on the floor. He gritted his teeth in an attempt to ignore the pain of his exposed skin being burnt. Dyna needed help immediately which meant that he would have to ignore his own health for the time being. Buck picked up her little body off the floor and did his best to cover her to protect her from the heat. He jumped back out of the fire and grunted as his body once again passed through the flames. He landed on the other side of the fire. Smoke rose from his dark skin and where he was burnt his skin became lighter. His underwear was slightly singed.

When he rose Lona rushed to check on the girl. She checked her and was relieved to see that she was still alive. "We need to take her to the medical room." She said.

Buck ran ahead with the girl in his arms. Lona looked at Zack worryingly. "Go," Zack said. "I'll stay here and put out the fire."

Lona nodded. It made sense that one of them should put out the fire to avoid the ship getting anymore damaged then it already was. She ran after Buck.

Buck got to the medical room and laid Dyna down on the table. He looked around the room for anything that could help. Lona came running in and activated a button on a counter. A section of the wall opened and a medical droid walked out. Buck was surprised to see the droid as he did not even know the ship had one.

"How may I be of assistance." The Medical droid asked.

"Check if she's okay!" Lona said gesturing to Dyna on the bed.

The medical droid inspected the Twi'Lek girl. "Mild concussion and minor burns and some second degree burns. The girl will be fine after some time and a little medicine."

Buck and Lona took a collective sigh of relief. She would be okay. "Do you know how she got hurt?"

"No," was the cold response that Lona said while checking on Dyna to be sure that she was fine.

Buck sighed. It looked like Zack told Lona that he killed Ru' Bik's wife. He began exiting the room with the intent of helping Zack put out the fire after he got dressed.

"Sir!" The medical droid said to Buck as he was leaving. "I have been analysing you and you have more serious burns than the girl."

Buck looked at his burnt arm. It made sense since Dyna was fully clothed, which meant she had a layer of protection while he faced the fire with only his bare skin. "I'll put some ice on it." He said before he left the medical room.

"Ice? That is not a viable medical solution." The droid said but it was too late as Buck was already gone.

/

Zack had finally put out the electrical fire. He looked at the damage to the ship. There was a vertical slit in the wall. His initial guess was that there was internal error with the ship that caused an explosion from the inside, however, that notion changed when he saw his lightsaber hilt lying on the floor. He picked it up and realised what had really happened.

"I see you took care of the fire." Buck said.

Zack looked back at him, thankful that he was dressed and not in his underwear.

"Yes." He said. "We need to have a meeting about fixing this damage." Zack said as he walked past him.

"When?" Buck asked but Zack kept walking on silently.

Lona was thankful to see Dyna was awake and feeling okay. Zack walked in on them as they were talking.

"You little thief!" Zack angrily said. "You swiped this from my room." He said producing his lightsaber.

"I... I didn't know it was your room and I didn't know it was your... lightsaber." Dyna said in a soft voice.

"Liar!" Zack shouted, scaring the Twi'Lek girl.

"Zack!" Lona said comforting Dyna in her arms.

"Don't excuse her actions! This is a dangerous weapon. I trained for years with a stick before I got to even practice with a lightsaber." Zack informed them. "You could have cut your head off with this. Don't ever touch it or any other of my stuff!" Zack angrily stormed out of the room.

Zack got to his room and sat on the floor, crossed legged in an attempt to calm down. Meditation was not his strong skill, so he just got frustrated with sitting on the floor. Soon he began fidgeting and all he could think about was getting up from the floor and resting on his soft bed. He got up, having been angry at being defeated by the practice and threw himself on his bed. Questions and problems were wrestling for the attention of his mind. It was Buck on one side, how to save Ru' Bik without getting himself and Lona killed on the other and the Twi'Lek girl, the new addition to their group.

Why is the Twi'Lek girl even a problem? He thought to himself. He reached behind his head, under his pillow and produced one of his only possessions, his holocron. He withdrew his lightasber and held the two items above him, side by side. "I should really put these in a safer place." He said to himself. Before he was a Rebel, he was just a man trying to make his way in the galaxy as a low paid taxi driver and after that he lived as a poor Rebel with only the clothes on his back, his lightsaber and holocron and Lona at his side. . Now he had or at least had a third of a spaceship and had his own room.

His lightsaber and holocron were always on his person even when he slept, now he had a room of his own where could safely put them. Or at least he thought he could safely put them here but apparently he had to have better places to put his things. He put the lightsaber at his side and looked up at the hexagonal holocron. An idea ran through his mind. The question of why the Twi'Lek girl was a problem, his problem specifically, he had just answered himself. He got up to a sitting position on the bed and focused on the holocron. The holocron levitated above his palm and changed shape. Individual pieces rearranged themselves until it looked like a brown box. The now locked holocron fell onto his palm.

/

Dyna was resting on the medical bed. Lona had ordered her to stay put until she felt that she had recovered. It did not matter how much she argued with the human, she would not leave the bed until told otherwise. She accepted Lona's order as her punishment for damaging the ship and stealing.

She sat in the bed bored. Her mind grew tired of looking at the room and its other occupant, the medical droid. Buck had come to check on her once. She was happy for the distraction. She spoke to Buck and noticed that he did not know that it was she who had caused the damage. He was nice and seemed to genuinely care about her well being, which surprised her since it was her presence that had gotten him in trouble with the rest of his crew members. He soon left to tend to other things and was sure that she was going to be okay. Once again she was left alone and bored being watched over by the droid. She was now pretty sure that the rest of the crew would try to kick her out because of her latest stunt and by rest of the crew she meant Zack. She made a pact with herself to avoid him for a while. And to her horror her next visitor was Zack. She kept quiet and looked at him with wide eyes. He said nothing while folded his arms and looking at her.

"Well?" Zack asked.

"Well what?" Dyna asked in her sweetest and most innocent voice.

"Aren't you going to apologise for coming into my room and stealing my stuff?"

She resisted the urge to roll he eyes. She only took a single item from his room. There was not much to steal except some blue and brown hexagonal thing and the lightsaber. "I'm sorry Mr... Zack?" She began in her soft tone, looking down like she was ashamed of her actions. "I'm sorry I stole from you, I'll never do it ever again." She said knowing that her continued existence on this ship relied on her good acting skills.

"Oh, shut up. You're not fooling anyone with that, let alone me." Zack said walking closer to her.

She was crushed that her show had not fooled him and flinched when he came near. But to her relief and surprise, he sat on her bed and showed her something in his palm.

"Do you know what this is?" Zack asked.

She shook her head, still trying to keep up with her sweet innocent girl act.

"It's called a holocron. Right now it's locked and I want you to open it."

Dyna cautiously took the holocron from his hand. She turned it slowly in her hands trying to find a button or anything that she could use to open it.

"You can't open it the same way you open other things. Only a certain kind of people can open it." Zack said.

"Why would you think that I'm one of these... certain people?"

"I'm not really sure but I suspect you are. Hasn't anything strange ever happened to you? Haven't you ever done something that you should not be able to do? Haven't you ever ran faster than normal; acted quicker than usual, knew things that you were not suppose to?" Zack asked.

Dyna was quiet for a moment as she thought of her life. She remembered a few times she did things that normal Twi'Lek girls her age should not be able to do. "I once played Ang Bak and was very lucky at it. Won a lot of credits too but I was accused of cheating and being too young and got kicked out of the casino."

Zack raised his eyebrow. He expected something more profound than winning at gambling. He shrugged, "that could be because of the Force. It can help you, lead you, make you strong, give abilities that no one else has."

"The Force? What's that?"

"The Force is in all living things. And I think you are sensitive to it. You can use it to open this holocron."

Dyna looked at the box in her hands. "And... and if I can't open it?"

"Then you're just another normal Twi'Lek girl who we need to get rid of before you steal something that will get us all killed." Zack said. "Focus on it, want to open it and you will."

Dyna closed her eyes and focused on the box in her hands. The room was quiet and all that could be heard was her steady breathing. Nothing happened. Even though she felt strange, nothing changed. The feeling was not a bad feeling and it increased the more she tried to will the holocron to open. Nothing still happened but then she felt an energy come forth from her, or was it from around her, and reach out to the holocron. Although she could not see it, she knew the holocron flew into the air and pieces of it broke off and levitated some distance away from the main body. She opened her eyes to see a blue hue hologram appear in front of a smaller blue and brown box. Other pieces of the holocron levitated in static positions around the main square. The hologram above the centre piece was of a [species] in a long cloak with the hood down.

"Hello, these are the recordings and documented knowledge of I, Jedi Master Sauvin..." The hologram began.

"Well done." Zack said, deactivating the holocron and making it land in his hand in its now open form.

"What does this mean now?" Dyna asked.

"It means, if you want... what am I talking about, who doesn't want to be a Jedi." Zack said the last part to himself. "I'm going to teach you to be a Jedi, kid."

"Your going to teach me to be a Jedi?" She excitedly said.

"Yes."

"Great! Uhm... what's a Jedi?"

/

"The ship needs repairs. I don't think anyone of us can deny that." Lona said. They had decided to hold a meeting to discuss the repairs the ship would need because of Dyna's accident.

"Yes and the ship needs weapons upgrade. We can't take on the Empire without a ship with weapons." Zack said.

"This is all good and well but where are we going to get someone who will install a weapons system and fix the ship without demanding credits?" Buck asked.

"We got some credits on Ciraaso from the botched ship trade. A deposit fee, if you will. We can use it to pay for any costs." Lona said.

"Buck scratched his head. To his knowledge they had never received the deposit fee as they had left the deal. "And when were you going to tell me we received credits from that messed up deal?"

"Calm down, Trooper. It's news to me too." Zack said.

"Yes. I only recently found out." Lona said in accusatory tone to Buck.

"And while I searched the ship for stuff to sell, I found a secret stash of credits on the ship." Zack said. "We can use it to refuel and buy some weapons."

Buck raised his eyebrow. Another piece of information that Zack and Lona had kept from him. He wondered if he was serious about the truce he spoke of the last time.

"This sounds like it's going to take long. We'll we be able to do all these things and save Ru' Bik on time?" Lona asked.

"These are things that we will have to do give us a better chance at succeeding." Buck said. "We'll have to hope they are done as fast as possible."

Zack and Lona agreed before they discussed several plans for rescuing Ru' Bik.

/

They landed on a planet called Jovin 3. They looked for an engineer and finally found one who operated on the black market. They promised to pay him more if he finished work on the ship faster.

It was the day after they had landed on Jovin 3 and Buck waited on the ship's entrance while the Engineer. He was preparing to go out into the town to get some supplies when Zack and Dyna appeared. They were walking out of the ship side by side. He looked at them quizzically.

"Where are you two going?" Buck asked.

"I'm going to teach Dyna a few things. Some of us are going to use this time constructively and not just stand around like some other people." Zack said, being hostile with the last part.

Buck opened and closed his mouth because he was about to say that he planned on doing something constructive but Zack was walking further away, clearly not interested in what he had to say. Dyna looked back at him and waved goodbye. He smiled and raised his palm to gesture good bye too. It looked like they would not be guarding the ship while the engineer worked on their ship. It looked like Lona will have to stay with the ship while it was being worked on. To his surprise Lona walked out with a backpack at her back. He was about to speak when Lona cut her off.

"I'm going for a supply run. Weapons, food, medicine." She said without emotion as she walked passed him.

"But... I..." Buck started but Lona ignored him as she walked on. He sighed to himself. It looked like he was going to have to stay with the ship.