A.N: Yo, that season finale. Bendu's awesome level hit the charts and then broke it. I swear… but that means I have a lot to think about as I'm writing these next few stories and story arcs. We know now Bendu is a literal Force of nature. How does Nitza fair?

Eye of Sparta: Right on!

I don't own Star Wars, just Nitza

Sneaking Around

Part 3

Though she was small and Bendu had taught her how to camouflage the best she can, it wasn't enough.

It had been a month since she started sneaking around High Trees. Nitza was on the first level of leaves where the crates were. She hid behind a tower of crates when she spotted something. A man…. Or a boy? Again she was having trouble figuring that out but she guessed boy considering he looked younger the colorful clothing woman. Even so, it was how young he was that made Nitza curious. He was the youngest she had seen since she had started sneaking around. He wore dark long bottom and an orange long sleeve top. His hair was cut really short, and since he wore no headgear like most she could see his bright blue eyes.

He was with one of the metal creatures that she had seen rolling around. She overheard the people call them droids and they were all shapes and sizes. She once saw one that walked on two legs like a person. The one with this boy was like most she had scene: short and round. But instead of a bumpy top and little color, this droid had a flat top painted orange. It made sounds that had Nitza trying hard not to laugh.

The boy and the droid were near a set of crates, their back towards Nitza's hiding place. As he looked down at a strange device in his hands, he pressed something on the flat surface of the device. He said to the droid. "No Chopper, I'm sure these crates come with us. We're taking the supplies to Kitwat and his family."

The droid, with a name of its own, made another series of sounds to which the boy said, "You don't even eat food, why are you so clingy to them?" Chopper responded. Nitza smiled, enjoying the sight before her.

Then the boy stopped looking at the device in his hands and stared blankly at the crates before him. "That's the fifth time…." He muttered. The droid made more sounds and the boy said to him. "I've been getting this feeling for a while… I just thought it was a side affect to opening the…." He didn't finish. Nitza's interest peaked. What does the boy mean? Chopper made a gurgling sound and the boy said, "Stop it you wouldn't know what—"

The boy suddenly turned around, holding his hand up and fingers curling. Suddenly the tower of crates that hid Nitza' toppled to the floor, making the girl jump out of the way to avoid getting crushed. She then realize what she had done. In moving away she exposed herself. Embarrassed knowing she had broken again Bendu's rule, she sat up on her knees and looked towards the boy. At first, his eyes were filled with anger and determination. It scared Nitza and she scooted back. The boy calmed down, his anger turning to confusion as if he wasn't expecting someone like Nitza, or just anyone behind the crates. But that got the girl thinking. How did he know she was there? How had his arm motion cause the crates to fall? Then she put it all together.

That's what Bendu does when he used the Force. And if this boy did the same…

And since Bendu said the source of the dark side came from High Trees….

"Bogen…." Nitza whispered fearfully.

The boy said calmly, "What the—hey—what are you doing-?" He never finished. Nitza was on her feet and running. Without caring that she will be spotted now that she was exposed, she ran without looking back. People all around gasped or yelled in surprise in seeing Nitza run by with the boy and Chopper right behind her. "Hey! Wait!" He called out. At one point, she noticed she had passed the colorful clothing women. The women had to double take to understand that this little girl was amongst them. She quickly joined chase with the boy. Nitza went down the stairs that wrapped around the trunk of High Trees. As she was half way down she saw someone coming half way up. It was the big purple one, Zeb.

From behind her, Nitza heard the women say, "Zeb! Grab her!"

Zeb blinked several times seeing Nitza but quickly tried to compose himself to focus on catching her. She was quicker. She ducked under him and then continued down the stairs. Zeb was now in the chase. As she got to the ground and started to run towards the edge of the clearing where the metal sticks were lined up, she had to pass a couple of ships along the way. One of them was the diamond shaped one. From the opening in the front, someone was jus coming down. The green skin women with head tails watched utterly surprised as Nitza ran by the ship. She yelled towards the pursuers running by, "What—who is that?"

They didn't answer, they just continued going after Nitza. She looked back only once, seeing all of them were now after her. But since they were all still far enough behind her, that wasn't what made her regret looking back. It's when all of them suddenly look collectively worried. The green women yelled, "Kanan, look out!"

Nitza only had enough time to turn her head back forward to see dark green before she collided with whoever it was. She and the person gave a load "UMPH!" as they fell and tumbled together in a heap before they both came to a stop on the ground just next to each other. The collision temporarily made Nitza dizzy and she sat up on her knees to look around. She gasped when she saw who she had collided and fallen next to. It was the man with the mask, the one who sat around every other day that Nitza would have to sneak past. The was the first time she had seen him do something other then sit around.

He sat up with a groan and for some reason Nitza had an instinct to help him. She stood up quickly and reached both her arms around his right arm so that she could use all her strength to help him up. She felt his body tense in surprise but he did not reject the help he got. As soon as he was on his feet, Nitza heard the boy yell, "Kanan!"

Nitza looked up and saw that the pursuers were dangerously close to catching up. Nitza let go of the man and ran for the edge of the clearing. She did not stop. Even when one of them, Zeb, yelled, "Kid! Don't go out there!" She didn't listen.

The green skinned on yelled out, "It's dangerous!" Nitza didn't look back. She ran past the line of metal sticks and into the thick of the coral forest.

Nitza continued running, never stopping. She felt she wouldn't be safe until she was at the Pit. She had been running for so long, she felt the need to stop and rest. But she didn't when she heard an odd sound. It sounded like a machine the people used. Nitza didn't know what or didn't care. She just needed to run faster now that the sound got closer. As she turned a corner she found herself almost about to run into a giant mound of coral leaves with fur. Looking up, she saw it was Bendu. "Nitza? What happened?" He asked.

"I-I- I didn't mean to—"

The sound of the machines got closer and quickly Bendu scooped Nitza up in his hands. Curling up to camouflage himself, Bendu kept hidden Nitza with him. She hid by curling up in his fur like she always did when there were storms. Bendu only poked his head up just a bit to see the source of the machine sound. Two people, a young women with painted armor and, from what Bendu could recall from memory, a Lasat came in and stopped behind Bendu. They had ridden in on small hovering vehicles that looked to only seat one. They each had their own as the surveyed the area. The Lasat said, "I don't see her… that girl moves fast."

The young women then said, "And the ground is too hard to leave any tracks. We completely lost her."

"We still have to look. Don't want those spiders getting to her."

"Yeah…"

"What?"

"Nothing, let's keep looking." The revved up their transports and continued forward leaving Bendu and Nitza behind.

When they were out of sight, Bendu unfolded himself and held Nitza cupped in his hands. He looked down to see she had been crying. "Nitza, what is wrong?"

"I-I'm so sorry Bendu, I didn't listen to what you said. I went too close to them. I got caught. I'm sorry Bendu!" She then began to cry harder, her head hiding behind her hands in shame as her shoulders shook with every chokes sob.

Seeing her distraught, full of fear, and not repeating her words, Bendu knew how serious this had affected her. He pulled his hands close to his chest so that the girl could take comfort in grabbing locks of hair as a way to embrace him, to find solace in being close to him. That was all Bendu could do. Nature wasn't always a comfort, but Nitza always found comfort in him anyway.

A.N: I'm beginning to add little nods to "Zero Hour" already…. Ahahah. Anyway so a familiar blueberry caught Nitza sneaking around and everyone ended up chasing her. And she runs right into Kanan. Nice move. Nitza has her reasons, we all know Ezra's been getting to close to a certain forbidden power of knowledge… which gives poor Nitza a bad image of him and scares her. How will she be now? I'm KikaKatTIOI, peace out!