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A/N- sorry, it's been a long time, life sort of got away from me
Recollection
"Thank ye lass," said Kilian, still standing over Bossk.
Bossk looked mightily annoyed, must have been due to his comrade ditching him and trying to save her own skin or the fact that he would never be able to spend any of the mission money. Ahsoka, Admiral Kilian and the clone captain stood over their captive, Ahsoka looking pleased with herself.
"No problem," replied Ahsoka, with a large smile on her face, "I'm happy to help admiral."
"You're going to jail for a long time," snarled Admiral Kilian.
"I'll be out before yous knows it," hissed back Bossk.
Kilian looked like he was about to attack Bossk for all the injustices that happened when Kilian was the prisoner. A reassuring hand from the clone captain made Kilian think twice about doing something he would regret.
"We got company."
A large speeder approached the group over the cliffs at an alarming speed, several feet from the group the speeder came to an abrupt stop revealing the occupants. Hondo was in the driving seat with several of his pirate group in the back along with a very frightened Plo Koon in the passenger seat holding onto the dashboard for dear life.
"You are never driving again," muttered Plo.
Hondo began to laugh his head off as his pirate friends joined in, but their chuckle was rather forced.
"I like you Jedi, you are good fun," laughed Hondo.
The group piled out of the speeder, one of the pirates put cuffs on Bossk as Hondo approached Ahsoka and stood before you.
"And you, young Jedi owe me a new speeder."
"You owe me nothing," replied Ahsoka, waving her hand in the Jedi fashion.
Hondo began laughing his head off once more and stared at Ahsoka.
"Jedi tricks don't work on me child. Nice try though."
"Sorry," smiled Ahsoka sheepishly.
"I love you Jedi," shouted Hondo once more, "Come, come. You are invited for some drinks to show there are no hard feelings…"
"No hard feelings?"
"Me and my… business partners, want to show you we had no part in this. We want to remain neutral in this war, we do not want your republic to send a fleet against us."
"If you say so," muttered Ahsoka, feeling slightly intimidated.
"To the bar."
The pirates all cheered and high fived one another, Ahsoka did not know what to do. According to galactic law she was far to young to be drinking, but then again she was with pirates so they did not care for the law. The Jedi code for some reason did not mention alcohol so the Jedi were free to get absolutely hammered if they wished.
- 2 hours later -
The bar was filled with a lot of noise, all coming from the very, very drunk occupants, most of them being the pirates. In the centre of the bar several of the pirates were engaged in an all out bar brawl. At the back was where the party was… quiet. At a large table in the back Hondo sat with Ahsoka who were the only sober people in the entire place. Well Hondo was not actually sober, he acted it but Ahsoka could pretty much tell he was drunk. Kilian and the clone captain were engaged in a drinking game with a few pirates and Plo Koon was trying to stop the bar brawl with little success.
"I like you kid," laughed Hondo.
"Sure," muttered Ahsoka, feeling rather uncomfortable.
"I'm an honourable man," slurred Hondo, "If you need any help in the future I am here."
"Thanks."
That was many years ago, Hondo would have probably forgotten that, he would most likely turn them over to the emperor.
"Ahsoka!"
Then again.
"Lower your weapons."
The pirates did as they were told as Hondo raced up the ramp and pulled Ahsoka into a bone crushing hug.
"I thought may have been killed by the emperor. Welcome to my ship."
Numa and Cody withdrew their hands from their weapons seeing the pirates were friendly. Barriss stood by Ahsoka looking confused unsure of what to do in that situation.
"Come, come. You are my guests."
Hondo led the way through the endless corridors with the others in tow, many of the pirates hid crates as they walked by. It didn't take a genius to work out the boxes were either filled with drugs or guns. Every pirate they passed, the pirate seemed to glare at them, clearly they had survived this long by being suspicious. After several minutes the group arrived at a very large room that looked it belonged to someone of royalty. The floor was lined with expensive red carpet, the walls were lined with shelves with all sorts of weird objects on them. Probably stolen trophies from raids most likely. Hanging from the ceiling was a very expensive looking chandelier, at the back of the room stood a very large desk with several black leather sofas before it. Hondo strode right in and made himself at home at the desk.
"Make yourselves at home," said Hondo, pulling out a bottle from the desk.
Ahsoka and Barriss sat at one of the sofas with Numa on the other one, Cody stood not all comfortable, he didn't trust easy and with good reason.
"So, what brings you to my humble ship?"
"What, besides you high jacking ours?" snarled Cody.
A glare from Ahsoka told him to shut up before anything bad happened. But luckily Hondo looked like he didn't care much as he roared with laughter.
"We are tracking a nobleman from Ryloth who crashed on the moon below…"
"Yes our sensors did pick that up, what can this old man do to help?"
"Help us to find him before he tells the emperor of us."
Ahsoka and the others looked hopeful that Hondo would offer his help to locate the man they were after.
"I'm afraid I can not help you."
"What? Why?"
Hondo reached forwards and tapped on a hidden panel on the desk, from the centre a hologram appeared of the moon below. The hologram zoomed in to a large compound that looked like a prison.
"This is a prison for this side of the galaxy run by the bounty hunter's guild. They bring in fugitives and anyone against the emperor and then they either sell to the empire or kill 'em. A few days ago they received new prisoners and one of them is my son."
Typing on the panel once more a new hologram came up of his son, who looked a lot like his father.
"Why should we care about your son?" asked Cody, "We're here for something else."
"Well then, my sources tell me that he is in the same cell as a resistance member. Ladies and gentleman. This is Captain Akbar…."
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