"One is the
loneliest number
that you'll ever
do.."
"Papa! Papa!" The little asparagus exclaims as her father had just come home after a long day tilling the fields.
"Hey sweetheart!" Galen chuckled and lifted up his daughter.
Llana quickly joined her daughter and husband.
"Two can be as
bad as one
It's the loneliest
number since the
number one.."
Jyn watched her mother fall to the ground and die in front of her. She
ran from all the activity, crying, but trying not to get caught by the Stormtroopers.
"No is the
saddest
experience you'll
ever know,
Yes, it's the
saddest
experience you'll
ever know..."
Five-year old Jyn smelled the air, then took out the pan.
"COOKIES ARE DONE!!" She called.
Her parents did not come. They were probably in the fields. Jyn took a plate outside to her parents.
"'Cause one is
the loneliest
number that you'll
ever do
One is the
loneliest number,
whoa-oh, worse
than two"
"C'mon, Jynny!" Llana coaxed.
Little Jyn, with some effort, hopped from the living room, outside the door. She then hopped back to
her parents, who applauded her for now knowing how to walk.
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Jyn jolted awake.
She looked around.
She was still on the ship, and it was nearing the afternoon.
Jedha, Imperial Occupation
0500 hours
The trio had landed on a desert planet. It was clearly the afternoon, with the sun high into the atmosphere. In the distance, was Jedha, the Holy City of the Jedis.
"..you live in my
soul,
Hmm-hmm-hmm-
hmm-hmm,
There's love about
love
and it's ours
cause I love you
too much.."
Cassian hummed as he landed the ship. He, Jyn, and K left the ship once it landed, and Cassian pulled out various supplies. Jyn was given a large gun. She examined it--never had she held a weapon of such power before.
"You're giving HER a gun?!" Said K.
"Mm-hmm." Said Cassian.
"Well, why can't I have a gun?!"
"Believe me, K." Cassian handed him a box. "We have our reasons."
K walked back to the ship, when he stopped.
"Would you care to know the probability of her using it against you?" K snarked.
Cassian wasn't having any of his robot's attitude.
"Stay here, rust bucket." He said.
"And don't touch anything."
"It's high." The robot chuckled. "It's very high."
The radish and the asparagus hopped away. K dropped the box and walked into the ship.
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The town was mostly buildings composed of rock and mortar, with tarps and woven rugs shielding the inhabitants from the hot sun.
Posters labeled "The Imperial Army is Watching...FIGHT BACK NOW!!"
covered the walls with toony depictions of a carrot Jedi punching Krennic in the face. Every now and then, someone would yell at Jyn or any other passers-by to purchase their articles.
"Hey tuts...wanna buy a droid?" Some guy selling meshed-together,
slightly fake droids sneakily whispered.
"WAR BONDS!!" A shop owner called out. "GET YOUR WAR BONDS HERE!! CAN'T WIN THE WAR WITHOUT EM'!"
"Stick with me..." said Cassian.
"Don't know who you can trust these days..."
Jyn and Cassian continued to walk the streets. In this area, there were a few street performers and fortune tellers.
"HEY!!" A voice called out. "YOU WITH THE NECKLACE!! If you want to know how I just did that..."
Jyn gazed between the people and found a small, blind mushroom sitting on a stool with others surrounding him.
"You could trade it to me for a glimpse into your future!"
Jyn didn't know whether to be shocked or weirded out by this. If he was blind, how the heck could this guy know about her?
"Who...are you, exactly?" Asked
Jyn.
"I," said the mushroom, "am Chirrut Îmwe. I may be blind, but I have seen the Lite Vinaigrette.."
"JYN!!" Cassian grabbed her and pulled her away. "Don't listen to that looney. He's one of Saw's boys--as soon as the war ended and they all came here the only thing they could do was con people."
Jyn looked back at Chirrut. He was surprisingly adorable for such a wise shroom.
"You can lead a horse to water...but you cannot make it drink..." he called to her.
Jyn smiled and waved at him. Cassian pulled her away again.
"We need to find JigSaw Gerrera."
Cassian looked ahead. "He'll know about your father."
Jyn still didn't know what to make of this. She and Cassian walked,
until both heard a voice say;
"Halt."
"Oh no." Said Cassian.
"What?" Asked Jyn.
Thousands of Stormtroopers noticed the two, and started to run after them.
"RUUUUNN!!" Yelled Cassian.
Jyn and Cassian ran, certainly much faster than the Stormtroopers. They jumped, dived, and avoided every blast the Troopers had to deal at them.
"This way!" Called Cassian.
Jyn and Cassian rounded a corner, but they clearly hadn't anywhere else to run. Stormtroopers surrounded them. One by one, all the white armored men cocked their guns.
Jyn and Cassian fearfully embraced.
It looked like the end of the line for our heroes...
Until Chirrut poked his head out from behind a wall.
"Ni Hao!" He piped. Chirrut stuck out his staff, and walked around.
"Nice day, eh?" The Stormtroopers
aimed their guns at Chirrut. Jyn and Cassian gasped.
"...nice day to kick some butt.." Chirrut mumbled.
"DON'T SHOOT HIM!" Exclaimed Jyn.
Chirrut simply raised his hands.
"Yeah." Said a Stormtrooper to the lead. "What use is he to us? He's BLIND YOU IDIOT!"
"I fear nothing..." said Chirrut. "ALL, IS AS THE LITE VINAIGRETTE
WILLS!!"
"Chirrut..." said Cassian, slightly terrified for the sake of the tiny
mushroom. "...what're you doin'?"
Chirrut stared at a Stormtrooper, creeping him out with his pure white eyes.
"KEEEEEEEEEEEE-YA!" He gave a kung fu chop to the Stormtrooper's upper body, breaking it. "HUUUUUAAAAAAIII-
YAIYAIYAIYAIYAAAAA!!"
"NECK! BACK! NECK! HEAD! SPACEBETWEENYOURLEGS!BACK!"
He called out as he kicked and punched said body parts. Chirrut pinned a Stormtrooper to the ground.
"SAYING WHAT IM' DOIIIIIING!!"
Chirrut continued to use his staff and fight the Stormtroopers. He grabbed one's head, then bashed it with the head of another trooper. He did a backflip and caught a Stormtrooper's metaphorical foot with his staff.
"Oh, I'm sorry..." he said. "Is your foot okay?"
Chirrut crunched the Stormtrooper's foot with his staff, the trooper yelled in pain. Upon taking on five Stormtroopers at once, he finished with a headlock on a trooper, then punched another behind his back. He bowed in traditional fashion, everyone applauded.
"The biggest things come in the smallest packages." Said Chirrut, proudly standing on the head of a dead Stormtrooper, non-existent arms on his hips.
Another trooper lunged at the shroom, only to be blocked by Chirrut's rock-hard fist.
"yOLOOOOOOOOOO!!" He shouted, delusional.
