Chapter Four – Rescue

Two years later…

The more interesting jobs for Harry were when he was hired by locals to retrieve stolen items. He had to investigate to find out who the thief was and sometimes that led to others involved who simply hired the thief to retrieve the valuable item for them. He started out small but the more jobs he did the more dangerous and complicated they seemed to get.

With his reputation so widespread now there were very few needs for his security services any more as fewer and fewer would be tough guys wanted to take him on. His show of power was very impressive at this point and they were afraid of him, especially since he was no longer a scrawny little kid.

With the slow down in his security business, he started taking on more and more jobs to retrieve stolen items or collect needed material from dangerous gang infected zones. He found that he enjoyed the intensity of the work and that it helped to sharpen his skills even more as he used them in various difficult situations.

Being young helped him constantly since they usually underestimated him and when they underestimated him they really, really underestimated him. They quickly learned their lesson though and never forgot it after he was done.

One very interesting job was when Harry was hired to find and retrieve a man's daughter. Evidently, she had been taken from him and he feared they were going to sell her into slavery. The man was a Zeltron with red skin and blue hair. An image of his daughter he provided to Harry's datapad showed that she too had red skin and blue hair, only she was far more attractive than her father Harry noted. She also happened to be the same age as Harry, 14 years. Her name was Endriestra.

Recalling his lessons on different cultures with OP, Harry reminded himself about Zeltrons by researching them on his datapad.

Zeltrons are from the planet Zeltros and they possess two biological traits that are noteworthy. The first is that they all produce potent pheromones, which enhance their attractiveness and likeability. The second is a limited telepathic ability, used to project emotions onto others, as well as allowing them to read and even feel the emotions of others.

Harry decided he would have to keep that in mind when looking for the girl.

The authorities had been notified but they were so busy. There had been so many other young females and males taken that they were of no use it seemed. By the time they would finally get to the father's case, his daughter would likely be off world somewhere and enslaved, never to be found again.

The man was rich and offered Harry a large reward if he could bring his daughter back to him safely. Not liking the idea of slavery and not shying from a possible big payout, Harry gladly accepted the job. Now he just had to figure out where to look. He was familiar with finding objects because usually there was information about them he could look up on his datapad. But, how do you locate a stolen girl?

He figured the best place to start was to ask people if they knew where any slave traders might be hanging out. If he could then figure out how to change his appearance a little then maybe he too could be kidnapped so he could find this missing girl once he was on the inside. He just had to make sure he was captured by the same slave traders. That could be tricky if there was more than one group.

He eventually found the information he needed from some gang members that were very much afraid of him due to what he did to them the last time they met. They were very helpful with telling him all they knew about the slave trade business and who were involved. As it turned out there was more than one group so Harry was likely going to have to check them both out to find the girl it seems.

Now that he knew where he needed to go and who he was looking for Harry decided it was time to see if he could disguise himself so he might get kidnapped. Teleporting back to his room, he worked for about thirty minutes trying to change his hair. He discovered that he could easily change the length to make it longer or shorter but he felt he could do that without using his power.

When he tried to change the color of his hair using the same method he could not. So, next he tried to concentrate on using his power and willing his hair to change color. After another ten minutes, he managed to change it to a very light blond. He then focused on his eyes and using his power and will the same way, he managed to change his eye color to a light blue. Next, he lengthened his hair until it reached his shoulders.

Harry changed his clothes before going out again so he would look even more different than he did earlier. Once he was ready he teleported over to the area he was told the first group of slave traders were located. Coming out from behind a large crate that was at least twenty times bigger than he was, Harry looked around carefully.

He saw what he thought was the main entrance as described by his very fearful friends, but just as he was about to walk that way he saw a Rattataki and two Gamorreans that looked very familiar. They were headed for that same door. Of course, it was his old friends from the alley. Perhaps this time he would allow them to take him prisoner.

Harry stepped out into the open and began looking around as if he was lost.

"Man, where am I?" he said loud enough for them to hear.

The three slave traders stopped and turned to look at him.

"Say kid, are you lost?" asked the Rattataki.

"Yes, can you help me?"

"Sure, sure, no problem at all. Come with us and we'll get you sorted out."

Harry ran over to them.

"Thanks, I was getting worried that I would never find my way home."

As soon as he stopped talking, the two Gamorreans grabbed him.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

"Sorry kid, but you walked right into that one," the Rattataki chuckled. "We're going to sell you off and make some credits. You should fetch a good price."

"That's not very nice," replied Harry as the two Gamorreans carried him behind the Rattataki through the doorway.

"Shut up, kid."

Harry quit talking and decided he had put up enough fuss with a wiggle every now again like he was trying to escape. Of course, he was not anywhere near as physically strong as the Gamorreans so his physical efforts were futile at best.

After entering the building, they appeared to be in a front reception area with doors going off on each side. There was also a door on the back wall, which is where they took him through.

The door opened up into a room with many cages. Most of them contained a prisoner. Only a few were still empty. They put him in one of the cages and shackled him to it so he could only move so far even inside the cage. They manhandled him a bit while they chained him up but most of that was due to the fake fight he put up as they secured him.

Once they were done, they left him and the others and went back out of the room. When they didn't return after a few minutes, Harry decided to see if Endriestra was in one of the other cages. There were about thirty cages in all with twenty to twenty-five filled. Harry decided he had better speak up.

"Hey, is there an Endriestra here? She was taken and I'm looking for her."

No one answered.

"ENDRIESTRA?"

Nothing.

"ENDRIESTRA? Your father sent me."

No answer at all.

"Come on people, I need to find her. Is she here?"

"I don't know of any Endriestra here but I don't know everyone's name either," replied someone from over to his far left.

"Thank you, that was helpful. Please look around you, everyone, and tell me if you see anyone that is not awake."

"NO" he heard from many people.

"Okay, then she must have been taken by the other group. Let's get out of here."

"How do you propose to do that?" asked one of the prisoners next to him. "We are all locked in cages and chained to them."

"Easy, like this!"

Harry raised his hands, everyone's chains fell off, and their cage doors opened including Harry's. There was a shout of appreciation and wonder at how he managed that. Unfortunately, the three slave traders came back into the room wondering what all the noise was about. Some of the prisoners screamed when they saw them, especially when they drew their blasters.

Harry waved his hand at them and they all fell down stunned, their weapons clattering across the floor. Harry summoned the weapons to him. He could always sell them for extra money. Next, he emptied their pockets of all their credits and keys to the cages. He pocketed the credits and destroyed the keys. He also found a few more weapons on them that he took as well.

Harry floated them into separate cages, chained them up, and locked the cage doors. He then melted the locks so they couldn't be opened by any means. The cages and chains would have to be cut to get them out.

Turning to his fellow former prisoners, who were amazed at what they just saw him do, Harry asked if everyone could get home okay by themselves since he still needed to find the girl. They all assured him that they could with a few of the older ones helping some of the younger ones.

"Excellent! Let's get out of here then. I'll notify the authorities to pick up the trash from here."

"What's your name?" one of the girls asked as they were leaving.

Harry stopped and waved in front of his face so that his hair turned black again and his eyes turned back to green.

"I know you," someone in the back said.

"Yes, I'm Harry Potter. I was in disguise since these guys know who I am."

"Can you believe it? We were rescued by Harry Potter!" a teenage girl said. "My parents are going to be so amazed when I tell them."

"Everyone needs to leave now and go home. I still have to do this again so I can find the girl before they ship her off world. Once you are all out I'll seal the doors."

They started moving again this time and left saying 'thank you' and 'good-bye' to Harry as they exited. Once they were all out, Harry sealed the door to the room with the cages and then sealed the outer door after he exited the building. Next, he teleported to the area where he should find the next group.

Seeing where he needed to enter, he started to put on his disguise again but decided against it. He figured enough time had been wasted already and time was of the essence. Who knew when this group would be taking her away? He needed to find her fast.

There were two large droids standing guard in front of the door he needed to go through. Making up his mind Harry calmly walked toward the door and the droids. When he got close, the droids snapped to attention and pointed their blasters at him. Harry stopped and raised his hands.

"Stop! You are not welcome here. If you do not leave then we will be forced to kill you," said the droid on the left.

"Leave or else!" added the droid on the right.

"No," replied Harry. "Step aside."

Immediately Harry put up a shield that covered his entire body as the droids opened fire. The shots were coming rapidly from both droids but Harry's shield just ate them up and used the energy of the blaster fire to strengthen his shield even more.

Harry reached out with his spare hand and disabled both droids by overpowering them with bolts of lightning. Soon both droids were broken down to smoldering piles of metal. Tossing them aside away from the door with a slight wave of his hand, Harry moved forward and turned the handle on the door only to find it locked.

Harry raised his hand again and blew the door out of its frame. The door flew inward at an alarming rate and took out a slave trader standing in the way. It crushed him against the wall on the other side of the room. As soon as Harry entered the building, he was met with more blaster fire coming from slave traders and droids alike.

Keeping his shield up with his left hand, Harry began stunning the slave traders. Once that was done, he teleported behind each droid and took it out quickly with a bolt of lightning to the right circuit. He did this to both of the droids in the room before it was quiet again with no more blaster fire. That is until a slave trader ran into the room to see what was going on.

Harry had taken down his full shield but put up a hand-sized one quickly when the slave trader fired his blaster. Harry caught the blaster fire. However, the guy only managed to get one shot off before Harry stunned him.

Thinking this was likely the way back to the holding cells, Harry went through the door the last slave trader had entered from. Sure enough, Harry found a room similar to the last place, full of cages and young people chained within them. Only this operation was a lot bigger.

There was one droid patrolling around the room guarding them so Harry teleported behind the droid and disabled it quickly. After that was done, Harry looked for any others to subdue when he felt some emotions that weren't his. Thinking Endriestra was here, he called out to her.

"ENDRIESTRA? I'M HARRY POTTER. YOUR FATHER SENT ME TO BRING YOU HOME."

"Here! Over here!" she cried. Harry felt the emotions change to relief and love for her father.

Harry walked toward where he heard her. The closer he got to her the stronger her emotions were hitting him. Zigzagging through the cages, he finally came upon her. She looked like her photo on his datapad only it did not do her justice. She was much better looking in person he decided.

"Are you alright? Do you hurt anywhere?"

"I'm much better now that you are here to rescue me. I've heard of you Harry Potter."

"Who hasn't?" said someone over to her right.

"Did they hurt you in any way?" Harry asked.

"No, I suppose they didn't want to sell damaged goods."

Harry waved his hand and her chains fell off. The cage door opened as well.

"Shall we go?"

"Oh, thank you!" she rushed out of the cave and grabbed Harry in a big hug. Harry discovered he liked the feel of her body against his. He had received hugs from some of the women that worked in the restaurant while growing up but none of them felt remotely like this and not near as good.

Harry had nearly lost all train of thought when he realized he had forgotten something. Raising his head out of Endriestra's hair for a second Harry waved his hand and all the chains and cages unlocked for everyone.

"What are you guys waiting on? Get out of here and go home," Harry told them.

There was a sudden explosion of sound as the prisoners cheered and thanked Harry. They all left as quickly as they could while Harry and Endriestra still stood in front of her cage hugging. She was holding onto Harry like he was her lifeline. She obviously had been very scared of what was going to happen to her and possibly never seeing her family again.

"Come on Endriestra, let me take you home."

Harry led her toward the door but when they got there, he stopped.

"Hang on just a second while I take care of these guys."

Harry did like he did before, he collected all their weapons and credits then put them in separate cages locking and chaining them up. He followed up by melting the locks as well and destroying the keys. Once done with that he sealed the doors and collected Endriestra.

Harry started to teleport both of them back to her home but he was not sure how she would react to it or if it would be harmful to her. Instead, they walked back with Harry keeping a close-eye out for any trouble. The long walk allowed them to become more acquainted with each other so they were no longer strangers by the time they reached her home.

Her father was beside himself when Harry reunited him with his daughter again. Tears were flowing from both as they hugged and consoled one another. When they parted, Endriestra explained to her father how Harry took care of all the droids and the slave traders then rescued her. She also told how he released all the other kids and sent them home. They were all excited about being rescued by Harry Potter, she told him.

Harry explained how he had to go to two different groups before he found Endriestra and how he had released all the kids from the first group as well. He then gave Endriestra's father the locations of the two slave trader groups and asked if he would notify the authorities so they could arrest the slave traders that were chained up in their own cages.

The father said he would also tell them how Harry Potter did their jobs for them and they should check all their cases of missing children to see if the kids were back at home now since Harry had rescued them.

When Harry started to leave, the man stopped him so he could pay him for rescuing his daughter. Harry wanted to refuse payment since he ended up rescuing all the kids and Endriestra had agreed to see him again for a date. In addition, he had collected a tremendous amount of credits already from the slave traders, not to mention the weapons he could sell.

The man was not having any of that though and told Harry that a deal was a deal. Harry left their home with more credits than he had ever made before. He took it back home to his stockpile and added them to it.

oOo

Harry continued to see Endriestra and she introduced him to several of her friends when they would go out to have some fun. Harry noted that Zeltrons in general tended to be very sexual, physical beings and Endriestra was no exception.

Even then, Harry was surprised when she introduced him to one of her friends who was a Twi'lek. She turned out to be worse than Endriestra about it. Harry was finding it difficult to keep a calm head with all the emotions and physical advances directed at him.

Harry thought he had seen a lot in his short life but his social life had definitely taken a huge upturn since he started hanging out with Endriestra and her friends. They went to parties a lot and celebrated pretty much anything. However, what was starting to bother Harry was Endriestra's constant push with her emotions. It was as if she could not control them well enough yet so he was constantly bombarded with what she was feeling.

He read that teenage Zeltrons sometimes had difficulty reining that in until they got a better handle on it. Plus, like most teenagers, hormones ran rapid during that age and played a big part in the out of control emotions.

Harry took that as a challenge and began working on a way to block out her projected feelings. Every time they were together, Harry would work on shutting them out so he would not be as affected by them. He tried over several days while hanging around with her without much success then decided to work on the issue at night before he went to sleep so he would have no distractions.

Somehow, he needed to shield his mind from her emotions so he could better function without her influencing him in that way. Over the course of a few weeks, Harry concentrated on that issue. Many of the things he tried missed the mark until he decided to use his power and his will again to form an impenetrable shield over his mind.

At first, he was actually forming a real shield that covered his head, but he adjusted it so that it was a shield that only existed in his mind. He then worked with it a bit so he could pull it up quickly and when he thought he had it down, he decided he would try it the next day while with Endriestra.

Harry let the emotions flood over him while they were going out then he pulled up his shield and was surprised when it worked. All the emotions were shut down and kept out of his head. He was amazed at how much clearer his thinking was once he had them blocked.

He continued to enjoy himself for several weeks partying and hanging out with his new friends but after a while, the people he met were more interested in his fame and abilities. This grew tiresome rather quickly since they were more interested in his fame than him as a person.

Soon hanging out with Endriestra and her friends, plus all the partying was getting rather old to Harry. He had also let a lot of his work slide while he had fun and decided it was time he got back to it. So with a fond farewell to Endriestra and some of her friends he had come to know, Harry returned to his regular life and the intense work he had grown to love.

oOo

Harry continued to take on more jobs as his reputation grew even more. Most of the jobs were very dangerous; otherwise, they really didn't need Harry's help. He could easily get in and out of places others would not dare to attempt.

He continued to retrieve valuable objects and rescued more people. Occasionally the local authority would even ask him to carry out a task they were not capable of completing. He took the jobs without a second thought and performed them quickly and concisely. There never seemed to be an end to the amount of people who needed help with one thing or another and they were happy to pay for his services.

oOo

News of a young kid in the city's underworld with incredible power and amazing accomplishments piqued the interest of the Jedi Council, but since they had no requests for their services in regards to this kid then they left well enough alone. There were other bigger interests at the moment that they were concerned with so they never checked to see what was so special about him.

However, one of their best padawans was very interested in this kid's story and repeatedly asked to go check him out, but so far, they had not allowed him to go. His trials were coming up soon though so he decided he would go check out the kid after he became a Jedi Knight if the Jedi Council continued to refuse his request.