Chapter 8. Jedi Master Jason Solo

Jacen had decided to skip the conference as he and his apprentice were practicing lightsaber techniques in the arena. Dena was good, but Jacen's form seemed to be perfect. Dena twisted into him arcing for Jacen's head, but he blocked and redirected her saber. She backed away and thrust forward, but no matter what she did Jacen always met her blade. He disarmed her and swept her feet from under her.
"How did I beat you again…" Jacen asked as he stood over her pointing his lightsaber in her face.
"You are too fast master…"
"You have the force…"
"You are stronger than I am…" She said in aggravation.
"You lost because you fight by a set of rules… each style from the Shii-Cho to Ataru is just a bases… Something to fall back on… a foundation for which to build on…." He helped her up and Dena summoned her lightsaber to her hand. "…I can help you develop your own style of fighting, but you must do the work…"
They were approached by a droid, "Excuse me Master Solo… The Galactic Conference has ended and Queen Mother Tenal Ka is getting ready to board her ship…"
"Thank you N12…"

Hapan Royal one space shuttle:

When Jacen and Dena arrived at the shuttle the Jedi Council was there along with Cal Omas, and military command to see her off. When they boarded the shuttle it took off after everyone was seated and strapped in. The ship rose into the air and as it crossed over into space the Yuuzhan Vong battle flotilla could be seen in orbit. As Jacen followed Tenel Ka down the ramp one of her guards ran up and whispered into her ear.
"Jacen you have a transmission from someone named Ricard…"
"Is there somewhere private I can take this…"
"Yes… Gizelle…"
The captain of the guard lead Jacen to a private room in the hangar, when the door was locked Jacen activated the holo-com. "Jacen long time no see…" A tall muscular man said.
"I am glad to see that you aren't dead…"
"I have some news for you… I saw that prince friend of yours on Terroth…"
"Terroth…"
"Yeah he was sold as a slave to a Neimodian trader…"
Jacen sighed, "And then he'll wind up in that dam arena of theirs… Alright thanks Ricard I owe you one…"
"Call it even man…" When the transmission ended Jacen left the room and went looking for his apprentice and Queen Tenel Ka. The two women were in the ship lounge talking, "Um… Something has come up and I need to go… My apprentice can handle escorting you home…"
"What sort of emergency…" Tenel asked.
"The good kind… I will join you on Hapes…"

When Jacen left Dana looked at Tenel, "What do I do… Master Skywalker told me to keep an eye on him…"
"I will have one of my guards place a tracking device on his ship…"
"Okay, but before I left Master Skywalker taught me to track him by blood…"

Jacen left aboard a four man ship lent to him by Tenel Ka Queen Mother of the Hapes. He set course for Cato Neimodia and made the jump to hyperspace, but unknown to him Jaina's ship followed him into hyperspace. The Neimodians had declared their independence after the empire fell and had been that way ever since. During the Yuuzhan Vong invasion the Vong left the planet alone after an alliance was forged, but the Vong discovered that the Neimodians was supplying weapons to the Alliance. An invasion force was sent, but they walked into a trap and the system was spared.
When Jacen entered the system he gave a story that he was there to see the yearly arena matches held in the Tarko-Se Arena. He hid his ship in the cliffs of the hanging city near the arena and climbed his way to the slave pits. He knocked out one of the slaves and took his place. He hid the body in the sewer pipe and walked around the pit until he found Prince Isolder. Twith he Prince sat in a corner by himself with his head down.
"So this is your new profession…"
"Jacen…" He beamed looking up.
"Yes sir…" He squat down on the floor next to him, "Are you alright…"
"I am fine… Are you here by yourself…"
"Well yes… One Jedi is less likely to draw attention to himself… What happened…"
"We were attacked heading back to hapes and I got separated from the others… The Vong took me hostage, but I escaped… only to be captured by pirates of all things… I have been on Cato Neimodia for the past six months… I am undefeated in the arena…"
"Okay sit tight I am going to figure a way out of this…"
"What about them…" Isolder said nodding at the other slaves.
"I don't know… I shall see…"

The arena was filled to capacity and the bets were flowing as Isolder was scheduled to fight the decimator, a Yuuzhan Vong that had been captured and forced to fight in the arena. The crowd roared as Isolder and Jacen, along with several others enter the arena armed with swords and axes. Then from the opposite side of the arena the Decimator came.
"Everyone stay behind me… I will handle this…" Jacen ran towards the Vong stretching his arm out and force pushed the Vong into the wall, then he ignited his lightsaber causing the crowd to boo and hiss. The Vong flung some thud bugs at Jacen who just sliced them up with his saber. As Jacen still held the Vong to the wall he stabbed him in the head with his saber. Jacen gritted his teeth and ripped a hole into the wall.
"This way!" Jacen screamed.
Prince Isolder had made it half away across the arena when the overseer of the arena hit the button releasing all the animals. There were two full grown Rancor, two Nexu, a Krayt Dargon, a howler, one Ziklag, and four Bomas. The creatures charged the slaves. The Nexu charged Prince Isolder and Jacen ran acroos the arena pointing his hand out, he grabbed the Nexu and slung it across the ground and into the path of the Rancor who scooped the creatutre up and ate it. He grabbed Isolder by the arm and pulled him towards the hole with eight slaves following them.

As pandemonium broke out in the arena, Darth Lumiya and Veger sat in a private sky box observing everything. "I told you he would come here…" Veger said.
"You were right… for once… Maybe we can still turn him to the Dark side…"
The two women stood up to leave and when the doors opened Jaina Solo was behind the door. She punched Lumiya in the face and kicked Alema in the stomach, then she kicked her in the face. Jaina ignited her lightsaber to finish Alema off, but Lumiya uncoiled her whip and caught the blade in it. She disarmed Jaina and cracked the whip again, but Jain rolled to the side. Then she sent the lamp, chair, the rug, and then a server droid t her. Jaina threw out both hands and force shooved Lumiya over the rail and summoned her lightsaber. Alema got up just in time to see Lumiya go over the rail, she smiled and jumped after her. Then both women ran into the crowd, Jaina sneered and turned on her heels speaking into her wrist COM.

"Thank you…" Isolder said to Jacen when they reached his ship.
"Well I couldn't allow my future father in-law to die… and it will be a wedding present to Tenel…"
Isolder smiled, "So you have asked my daughter?"
"Not yet, but we have grown closer…"
They boarded the ship and micro-jumped to the corporate sector so that the slaves could get their own ships, then they set course for the Hapes Consortium.