Part 11 -

Otus and Gwaine have went to the market district, in search of a bacta pod. They have searched for a while and they need one soon. After a long search Gwaine finally came across the bacta pod.

"Yo Cross, I got one." Gwaine shouted across the stretch of merchants.

Otus walked over to his friend and looked at it. It was a 2 foot tall cylinder full of bacta, which was a healing supplement liquid used to cure wounds. "Alright thats it."

The merchant selling the pod stepped forward, he was a Chiss, missing his right eye. "Hello there, gentlemen. Do you see something choo like?"

Gwaine nodded, "Yes, how much for the bacta pod?"

"Ahhh.. The bacta pod.." The chiss said rubbing his chin. "Well, I had it for 2.5K. But since you choo are such nice young men. Make it 2,000 credits."

"2,000 credits?" Otus asked. "I could afford a bacta tank for that much."

"Hey now, hey now. It is the only pod you are gonna get out here." This Chiss merchant said, smirking at Otus and Gwaine.

Both men took a few steps back from the merchant and looked at each other and conversed. "We need that tank or Jonto will kill us." Gwaine stated.

"I know, let me try to talk him down." Otus whispered.

"But what if it doesn't work?" Gwaine whispered back.

Otus began working towards the Chiss. "Then 'plan B'."

Gwaine wondered what he meant by "Plan B."

Mandore stood in front of the Chiss with the bacta pod between them. He looked into the merchant's red eyes. "Look friend, I really need this bacta pod. Because my mother will die without it." Otus lied.

"I'm sorry to hear that." The Chiss said sounding upset. "I'll give you the pod."

Otus was happy to hear it and reached for it.

"But first I will need 2,000 credits." The Chiss snickered.

Mandore got annoyed, "I will buy it for 1,000."

"2,000." The Chiss haggled.

"1,200."

"2,000."

"1,500."

"2,000."

Mandore took a long, deep breath. "Fine, 2,000."

The merchant sat back in his chair stretching his arms. "Ya know, I actually like this pod a lot. I used it to save my mother. I can't sell it for less than 3,000, take it or leave it."

Otus gave the Chiss a death stare and could not believe what he just heard. However, Mandore didn't have the 3,000 credits, and needed the pod. "Fine.. I'll take it." Otus grabbed the pod and began to run down the street.

Gwaine stood still, shocked about what Otus had just done. "That's what he meant by Plan B." Gwaine said then took off right behind Mandore.

The Chiss yelled for someone to stop the thieves but only a single man chased after them on his speeder. Otus looked back and saw the speeder with a man coming right for them.

"Boog! Duck!" He yelled jumping over a guard railing of one of the ledges, and hurled towards the planet's core.

Gwaine dropped and the speeder hovered over him, continuing to the edge where Mandore leaped off. The armored driver of the speeder launched himself into a free fall after Otus. Otus started his jet pack and the thrusters began to rage, bringing him steady. As he looked up he saw the man in robes coming right for him. Mandore tried to fly back out of the way, but the unknown man grabbed onto his foot. Otus started to fly towards a lower alley, barely missing a huge pipe. They both crashed into the metal street, and the bacta pod fell from Otus' grip, rolling across the ground.

Mandore stood to his feet and reached for his pistol at the same time. He aimed his barrel at the man, and quickly he kicked the weapon from Mandore's hand. Otus did not know how to respond so he started by throwing a punch, that the man dodged. Mandore whipped out his assault knife and went for the kill, but the man disarmed him then quickly spun and kicked him in the chest sending a few feet back slamming against a wall. Otus fell to his bottom back against the wall and opened his eye's. To his shock, the unknown hostile had already picked up Otus' blaster and had it pointed at his head.

Otus knew he was bested and sat in silence for a few seconds, waiting for the man to finish him. "I'm not gonna beg for my life, if that is what you are trying to get out of me?"

The hooded man just stared at him, with the blaster only inches from Otus' face, his finger on the trigger. "I wish not for your life hunter." The man finally said. "I wish for your knowledge."

Otus didn't know how to respond. The man flipped the blaster around pointing the handle back to Mandore. He gripped it and tucked it away from the man. "What knowledge?"

Gwaine ran around the corner of the building to see the man standing over Otus. "I got you, Cross!" Gwaine yelled taking a shot at the hooded man with his own blaster.

Within a second, the unknown man wielded a green light saber and deflected the blast right back at Gwaine, barely missing his face, and hitting the wall behind him. He pulled down his hood revealing a young man. "I'm looking for a Jedi, and I know, you know where he is."

- End of Part 11 -