A/N: I do not own Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order! I only own my original characters! And this one follows the whole gameplay of the journey!
Chapter One: The Beginning
It has only been minutes after the clone troopers betrayed the Jedi which this new order was called Order 66.
Every Jedi and even their Masters were on the run and fighting their way to escape the clone troopers, but gravely a few survived.
And this is one story which starts with two Padawans.
After landing on Bracca, 14 year old Cal Kestis managed to climb out of the escape pod while feeling the cold rain dripping down on his Jedi clothes. He was still trying to recover after when the clone troopers were shooting at him and his late Master Jaro Tapal. Gripping onto his master's lightsaber, Cal turned around to see that his master's body was there instead of the escape pod. Cal knew deep down that knowing that if he was brave enough back on the ship instead of being afraid, he and his master would be alive up to this point.
But now, Cal must face the new world alone.
After calming down, the 14 year old Padawan remembered that he wasn't alone during the escape. He remembered that Master Rin Sotah was on the ship when he came to visit Jaro Tapal about important Jedi business, concerning his own Padawan, Kairi Jabami.
Looking around the muddy area which Cal believed that he landed in a scrapyard, he hooked his master's lightsaber onto his belt before he started climbing up a hill, hoping to find a way out or see another escape pod.
When he finally made it to the top after slipping down on it a few times, Cal stood up and he noticed an escape pod. His emerald green eyes widened before he started climbing down until he slipped and fell onto the muddy hill, causing him to yell out in pain. Once his body made it down, Cal can hear a loud thumping noise which came from the other escape pod before the sound of glass shattering was heard.
He saw a hand poking out and heard a cry when the person's arm got glass in it's arm when it was trying to reach out to unlock the door. Cal quickly stood up and immediately ran towards it before pulling the emergency handle to open it.
"Kairi?" Cal called out, before he looked inside to see her, trying to pull out Master Rin Sotah who was wounded at the moment.
"Cal, help me!" Kairi cried out as her head was turning to face the 14 year old.
"No… I got it… Just get out." Master Rin Sotah managed to say as he sounded weak.
Kairi nodded, before she cried out in pain once more while she noticed that there was a glass shard in her arm, but Cal gently took her hand into his own and pulled her out while one hand was touching the ground.
"It hurts…" Kairi responded quietly, before Cal watched Master Rin Sotah crawling out of the escape pod until he stopped moving halfway out of it.
His face fell into the mud before Kairi and Cal made it to his side and turned him over.
"Don't worry, we'll get you outta here. And everything will be okay." Kairi responded as she sounded frantic, knowing that she was worried for her wounded Jedi Master.
"No… You two... You have to go." Rin Sotah managed to say as it was almost audible, due to the heavy rainfall of Bracca.
"But Master-" Kairi tried to reason with him, but he stopped her from talking by his hand on the 11 year old's cheek.
Rin Sotah smiled gently, before Kairi had her hands hovering over his chest. Cal was confused at what Kairi was trying to do, but Rin pushed Kairi's hands away.
"It's too late… Save yourself, Kairi… You deserve to live more." Rin Sotah explained after pushing Kairi's small hands down while holding onto them to make sure that the younger Padawan doesn't do anything to draw attention. He turned his face to Cal, before he noticed Jaro Tapal's lightsaber on his belt clip. "I'm guessing he didn't make it." He stated.
Cal nodded before he looked away from Rin Sotah.
"Cal Kestis, look up at me… Everyone makes sacrifices in their lives… You and Kairi… are both young Padawans… you two deserve to live more." Rin Sotah explained as he was trying his best to hold on, before Cal slowly looked at him. "Promise me something as a Jedi Master's dying wish…" He responded.
"Yes, sure. Anything." Cal stated as Kairi was trying her best to break out of Rin's grip.
"Keep an eye on her… She can be a handful… but she needs someone… who she can trust… I know you two have talked a lot since Corestaunt… but I'll make an exception." Rin Sotah responded, before Cal nodded.
"I will." Cal agreed which Kairi was in shock.
"What? No, not him, Master. I need you!" Kairi pleaded.
"Kairi… be strong… you two look after each other… and… May the Force be with you." Rin Sotah responded once more, before Kairi felt her Master's hand shaking during his last bit of strength, until he slowly let go of her smaller hands. "You have… your mother's eyes." He managed to say, but Kairi was the only person who heard that part, before seeing his pale blue eyes closed.
At that moment, Cal and Kairi both lost their Masters.
The rain was making their small pitter patter sound which echoed along with the thunder as Kairi yelled out in despair. Her forehead symbol glowed purple which gave out a large amount of the Force, causing the trash and broken pieces to fall along with the shaky ground.
Cal's green eyes widened in shock as he managed to stay still, before he saw debris sliding down while it was heading down towards the two.
"Kairi! Calm down! We need to run!" Cal called out as Kairi was still crying with her eyes closed, ignoring everything around her until he quickly grabbed her left hand and ran off.
"Master Sotah, no!" Kairi cried as she looked back at Rin's lifeless body before she started picking up her feet when they could hear more blasters shooting.
"Where did that happen?"
"The ground started shaking out of nowhere?"
"Remember if we see any Jedi, eliminate them."
Kairi was breathing heavily as she was holding onto Cal's hand while running through the scrapyard. She was still scared even after what happened in front of her, but she had to stay calm even through dangerous times like this.
"Cal… we need to stop. I can't breathe." Kairi responded as she managed to say, before she started coughing.
"Don't stop, Kairi." Cal pleaded as he looked back at her with his emerald green eyes, until the 11 year old Padawan maged to pick up her feet again.
Breathing in and out through her nose and mouth, Kairi started looking around to make sure that she didn't see a clone trooper heading their way by surprise.
The two Padawans stopped suddenly as they could see clone troopers with their blasters in the distance, ready to gun down any Jedi who dared try to stop them.
Quickly thinking, Cal led Kairi into a small place underneath all the debris to hide when one of the clone troopers somehow saw them. He climbed inside after helping her, before he heard them heading towards their way.
"I saw something over there."
"Could it be those traitors?"
"If it's them, our orders are to shoot them on sight."
Cal held Kairi in his arms as the 11 year old Padawan was still trying to catch her breath, before covering her mouth.
Looking at Cal with widened eyes, he shook his head for her not to be so loud or they were going to be caught.
"They should be around here. Search for them."
Kairi watched as the clone troopers were searching the area for them, until she noticed that the commander clone trooper in front of their hiding hole, before the 11year old Youngling hugged Cal tightly while staying calm.
"Protect us." Kairi thought to herself, as her purple forehead symbol glowed before Cal noticed a green aura glowing around them... until the commander clone trooper started searching the hiding hole.
As he was looking, Cal and Kairi held their breath as the clone trooper was looking dead at them, but to their surprise, he walked away from it.
"Maybe they ran off this way."
"Let's go!"
The clone troopers ran off as Cal and Kairi stayed quiet until Kairi's forehead symbol stopped glowing which caused them to be visible.
"That was you?" Cal asked quietly, while looking at the younger Padawan.
Kairi nodded slowly.
"Did you use the Force?" Cal asked once more, before Kairi crawled off of Cal's lap.
"No… Ever since I was a Youngling growing up with my father. He told me that… I was a bridge. That was his way of telling me that I was special. I never quite understood him." Kairi explained as she had her knees up to her chest, showing her brown boots.
"Whatever you just did. You save us from being killed." Cal responded, before Kairi looked at him, and gently smiled at him.
After leaving the hiding spot, Cal and Kairi managed to climb out of the scrapyard's hole and noticed a train arriving which could lead them somewhere away from the scrapyard.
Stopping Kairi from running towards it, Cal managed to find some oversized hoodies and a beanie hat for the 11 year old Padawan.
Quickly putting their oversized clothes on over their Jedi robes, the two ran inside of the train as they almost nearly didn't make it, before they sat down together in the back of the train.
"Cal… I'm scared. Will they come after us?" Kairi whispered.
"I hope not. Kai… for now, we cannot use the Force anymore. It's not safe. Cal responded quietly.
"What about… that?" Kairi asked once more as she pointed to where Cal kept Jaro's damaged lightsaber hidden on the side of his clothes.
"We can't use them either. We have to make rules, Kairi if we are going to survive here on Bracca." Cal responded quietly.
"What are they?" Kairi asked.
"Accept the past." Cal stated.
"But Cal-" Kairi whispered back, knowing that she can't accept it.
"Kairi. We can't do anything. We're too young to understand the truth." Cal explained.
"Okay… What else?" Kairi whispered.
"Never go alone. Never talk about our past. We'll just say that we're… brother and sister just running away."
Kairi nodded.
"Don't stand out. Which means… never use the Force or our lightsabers." Cal stated.
"I don't have mines. One of them broke it and I used it to knock them out." Kairi explained as she was looking at her small hands, feeling the effects of how her lightsaber was shot out of her hands and split into two.
"And most of all. We can only trust each other. No one else." Cal responded.
"What if they tried to help us?" Kairi asked.
"We can't trust no one. It could be someone who might turn us in." Cal explained, before Kairi can feel her eyelids getting heavy.
Kairi nodded before she started yawning.
"Okay. I remember that…" Kairi whispered before she leaned back into her seat and gently closed her eyes.
Cal gently placed the 11 year old Padawan's head on his lap, before hiding her black Padawan braid inside of the grey beanie. He watched her fall asleep before he closed his emerald green eyes as he fell asleep as well, knowing that the train ride was putting both of them to rest..
Without their Masters or how they were ill prepared to go fight their way on living on Bracca, the two Padawans were going to be on an emotional rollercoaster of being hidden.
