Jedi Punks: Part 2: Return of the Sith
Jaina opened what seemed to be a small, round ball. It had the color of white on the bottom portion, and the top was colored red. She pressed the small, round button in the middle of it, and it seemed to open up slowly. Suddenly, a white flash came, and a small yellow creature with plump red cheeks and brown streaks on its back came out of the ball.
Jaina said, "Oh, how cute!" She hugged the little fur ball. Suddenly, she was shocked and her whole body was engulfed with lightning sparks. She immediately let go of the creature.
She screamed, "Sith! That creature knows Force lightning!"
She immediately took out her lightsaber and cut the little fur ball in half. "Well, that's one less Sith we have to take care of", she proclaimed.
The punks all left for their favorite tap caf to meet Leia, Han, and Luke there. (Jaina still was worried about the cute lighting thing. it had said, pickachu before she killed it...) They decided to skip the Tatooine concert, ignoring protests from Tahiri and Luke, and decided to go party on Endor for a while.
They were graciously made members of the Ewok tribe when they got there and introduced 'head banging' to the large teddy bears.
The Ewoks were especially interested in the electric guitars from the band. Tenel Ka gave one to one of the little fur balls, but their furry paw-like- hands kept getting stuck in the wires...
"Let's get out of here before they discover the stereos..." Jaina said, revving up the ship
On the ship, Anakin felt that a fan club wouldn't be forming anytime too soon on Endor. He decided that that would be okay, since the Ewoks really hadn't gotten head banging and they really couldn't mosh pit correctly: Anakin found that out the hard way. He remembered apologizing profusely to the four Ewoks he had reduced to gelatinous masses when he tried to mosh pit.
Oh, well. He reached for a new box of artificial hair coloring. The pink and blue thing was getting old, so he streaked his and Lowie's hair/fur with neon green and orange. Their next stop on the tour list was... he couldn't remember where. Jacen and Jaina were practicing/holding a private jam session with Tenel Ka and Zekk in the cargo hold, and though it was good music, he couldn't think straight. Either it was the music, or the beer. Maybe it was both.
Tahiri found Anakin in the 'fresher. "Whoa, love the hair!"
"Thanks!" Anakin decided that it was indeed, NOT the beer. He hadn't been drinking all day. Maybe the spice had something to do with it...?
A howl over the intercom from the cockpit cut the exchange short. Emteedee translated Lowie's howl with WAY too much pleasure. "Mistress Jaina, Master Zekk, Lowbacca says that there are several somethings emerging from hyperspace. Personally, I think we're doomed. This whole thing was a mistake. Now we have to pay for it with our lives!"
A snap-hiss, an electronic squeal, and the strange sound of charred metal silenced the C3PO-made translator.
"The only thing we've ever had to pay for," Jacen said from the cargo hold, "was letting Threepio make that stupid droid."
Jaina agreed. "Yup." Then to Lowie, "We'll be right up."
Upon entering the cockpit, Zekk identified the "several somethings" as being more of those pesky red and white orbs.
Zekk let out a wail. Jaina raised an eyebrow, "Oh, they wanna play, do they? Jacen, Tenel Ka, get in the guns! Don't fire until those little furry creatures come out though. Stupid little rodents."
The couple in the turrets never had to fire a single shot. The yellow creatures did come out of the little red and white balls, accompanied by orange creatures and birdlike things. But, the vacuum of space sucked the life out of the little devils before they could pump more Force lightning onto the Punks.
Zekk laughed out loud. Jaina muttered, "Serves you right, dumb little Sith things."
"I don't get it," said Anakin. "Where did they come from?"
"I don't know, Anakin. I don't know," replied Jaina.
Suddenly, a howl filled the comm unit. Now Jaina regretted hacking Emteedee into halves. She understood what Lowie said for the most part, though. Roughly translated, it was "Auuugh! More of them! Cargo hold 3!" Alarmed, Jacen, Anakin, Tahiri and Jaina sprinted off towards the cargo hold.
"Lowie? Lowie!" they called. They opened the door to hold #3,and were shocked to see hundreds upon hundreds of the red and white balls! Several yellow critters were saying "Pikachu!" and zapping poor Lowie, who was trying to fend the little savages off with his bronze lightsaber, but to no avail. He had smoldering patches of fur all over.
The four ignited their blades and slashed the creatures into smoking bits and then all five, plus Zekk who had rushed down, started hacking the balls apart. The orbs were opening and more and more vermin popped out, all shouting "Pikachu?" and zapping everyone.
They all cried out loud at various times when a little Sith thing got them with an energy bolt. Suddenly, one yellow thing started to glow, and then it morphed into another rat! The Knights cried out in horror and set about killing the things ten times faster. Then they sprinted for the door, gasping for breath and leaned heavily against it.
"That- (gasp) was (wheeze) close," whispered an out of breath Jaina. "I've never seen anything like that! Uncle Luke probably would be fascinated by them, but let's open the hold to vacuum before they reproduce or whatever!"
The Jedi punks were just going to open the hold when more of them appeared. Jaina screamed with exasperation as a little yellow creature said "Pickachu!" She hacked it up into pieces with her lightsaber. The others were just as busy, slashing up the creatures before they could 'morph.
Jaina found herself in front of an escape pod- she got an idea. "Hey! Grab some provisions and we can escape!" she said to Jacen. A few minutes later he came back with -what a wonder- a six-pack of beer and some ration bars.
Jaina opened the escape pod. She and Jacen hurried inside, followed by Anakin, Tahiri, Tenel Ka, and Lowie. She shut the door and they felt the escape pod shoot off into space.
They all sat there panting for a while. Jaina took a look at the burns from electrical shocks on her clothing. Her favorite gold tube top!
"Um, people?" Jacen said suddenly. Jaina glanced at him and instantly knew what he was thinking.
"We just left Zekk on the ship!" she said frantically. Anakin narrowed his eyes and stared out a window at the distant ship.
"What are you doing?" Jaina asked suspiciously when she felt her little brother reaching out with the force.
"I'm going to use the Force to take us back to the ship, but I need help." he said.
"Okay." Tahiri replied, also narrowing her eyes and staring at the ship. Jaina felt them lurch the other way- back towards the 'pickachu' things. Just the thought of the little creatures made her dizzy. Or maybe that was because she was in the cold of space wearing a tube top in a spinning capsule?
* * *
Zekk realized he was alone on the ship. He found about twenty more red and white balls in the food prep unit, and wondered if they were a food dish gone mad. He rejected the idea when a huge sleeping creature emerged from one of the balls.
"This is a new Sith creature. I'm sure it'll be twice as hard to defeat," he said to himself. Where was everyone else?
* * *
Jaina watched as the ship drew closer. Jacen had joined Anakin and Tahiri when they lost concentration and the ship started whirling all around space, straight for an asteroid. Zekk was reaching out with the Force for them, trying to find them. Jaina sent a feeling of reassurance, and then wondered if they would ever make it back to the ship with Anakin's lousy steering.
Zekk was very glad to see Jaina and Jacen join his fight against this new creature. It was holding two bent spoons and kept disappearing when he tried to kill it. "By the lords of the Sith, stay still!"
Jaina slashed up the creature as it materialized in front of her. Anakin and Tahiri were just sending the last of the red and white balls into space as they killed the last pickachu. He happily sat back down with Lowie in front of the ship's controls and they programmed a course to Eclipse to see what help they could get from the other Jedi against these red and white balls.
Jaina opened what seemed to be a small, round ball. It had the color of white on the bottom portion, and the top was colored red. She pressed the small, round button in the middle of it, and it seemed to open up slowly. Suddenly, a white flash came, and a small yellow creature with plump red cheeks and brown streaks on its back came out of the ball.
Jaina said, "Oh, how cute!" She hugged the little fur ball. Suddenly, she was shocked and her whole body was engulfed with lightning sparks. She immediately let go of the creature.
She screamed, "Sith! That creature knows Force lightning!"
She immediately took out her lightsaber and cut the little fur ball in half. "Well, that's one less Sith we have to take care of", she proclaimed.
The punks all left for their favorite tap caf to meet Leia, Han, and Luke there. (Jaina still was worried about the cute lighting thing. it had said, pickachu before she killed it...) They decided to skip the Tatooine concert, ignoring protests from Tahiri and Luke, and decided to go party on Endor for a while.
They were graciously made members of the Ewok tribe when they got there and introduced 'head banging' to the large teddy bears.
The Ewoks were especially interested in the electric guitars from the band. Tenel Ka gave one to one of the little fur balls, but their furry paw-like- hands kept getting stuck in the wires...
"Let's get out of here before they discover the stereos..." Jaina said, revving up the ship
On the ship, Anakin felt that a fan club wouldn't be forming anytime too soon on Endor. He decided that that would be okay, since the Ewoks really hadn't gotten head banging and they really couldn't mosh pit correctly: Anakin found that out the hard way. He remembered apologizing profusely to the four Ewoks he had reduced to gelatinous masses when he tried to mosh pit.
Oh, well. He reached for a new box of artificial hair coloring. The pink and blue thing was getting old, so he streaked his and Lowie's hair/fur with neon green and orange. Their next stop on the tour list was... he couldn't remember where. Jacen and Jaina were practicing/holding a private jam session with Tenel Ka and Zekk in the cargo hold, and though it was good music, he couldn't think straight. Either it was the music, or the beer. Maybe it was both.
Tahiri found Anakin in the 'fresher. "Whoa, love the hair!"
"Thanks!" Anakin decided that it was indeed, NOT the beer. He hadn't been drinking all day. Maybe the spice had something to do with it...?
A howl over the intercom from the cockpit cut the exchange short. Emteedee translated Lowie's howl with WAY too much pleasure. "Mistress Jaina, Master Zekk, Lowbacca says that there are several somethings emerging from hyperspace. Personally, I think we're doomed. This whole thing was a mistake. Now we have to pay for it with our lives!"
A snap-hiss, an electronic squeal, and the strange sound of charred metal silenced the C3PO-made translator.
"The only thing we've ever had to pay for," Jacen said from the cargo hold, "was letting Threepio make that stupid droid."
Jaina agreed. "Yup." Then to Lowie, "We'll be right up."
Upon entering the cockpit, Zekk identified the "several somethings" as being more of those pesky red and white orbs.
Zekk let out a wail. Jaina raised an eyebrow, "Oh, they wanna play, do they? Jacen, Tenel Ka, get in the guns! Don't fire until those little furry creatures come out though. Stupid little rodents."
The couple in the turrets never had to fire a single shot. The yellow creatures did come out of the little red and white balls, accompanied by orange creatures and birdlike things. But, the vacuum of space sucked the life out of the little devils before they could pump more Force lightning onto the Punks.
Zekk laughed out loud. Jaina muttered, "Serves you right, dumb little Sith things."
"I don't get it," said Anakin. "Where did they come from?"
"I don't know, Anakin. I don't know," replied Jaina.
Suddenly, a howl filled the comm unit. Now Jaina regretted hacking Emteedee into halves. She understood what Lowie said for the most part, though. Roughly translated, it was "Auuugh! More of them! Cargo hold 3!" Alarmed, Jacen, Anakin, Tahiri and Jaina sprinted off towards the cargo hold.
"Lowie? Lowie!" they called. They opened the door to hold #3,and were shocked to see hundreds upon hundreds of the red and white balls! Several yellow critters were saying "Pikachu!" and zapping poor Lowie, who was trying to fend the little savages off with his bronze lightsaber, but to no avail. He had smoldering patches of fur all over.
The four ignited their blades and slashed the creatures into smoking bits and then all five, plus Zekk who had rushed down, started hacking the balls apart. The orbs were opening and more and more vermin popped out, all shouting "Pikachu?" and zapping everyone.
They all cried out loud at various times when a little Sith thing got them with an energy bolt. Suddenly, one yellow thing started to glow, and then it morphed into another rat! The Knights cried out in horror and set about killing the things ten times faster. Then they sprinted for the door, gasping for breath and leaned heavily against it.
"That- (gasp) was (wheeze) close," whispered an out of breath Jaina. "I've never seen anything like that! Uncle Luke probably would be fascinated by them, but let's open the hold to vacuum before they reproduce or whatever!"
The Jedi punks were just going to open the hold when more of them appeared. Jaina screamed with exasperation as a little yellow creature said "Pickachu!" She hacked it up into pieces with her lightsaber. The others were just as busy, slashing up the creatures before they could 'morph.
Jaina found herself in front of an escape pod- she got an idea. "Hey! Grab some provisions and we can escape!" she said to Jacen. A few minutes later he came back with -what a wonder- a six-pack of beer and some ration bars.
Jaina opened the escape pod. She and Jacen hurried inside, followed by Anakin, Tahiri, Tenel Ka, and Lowie. She shut the door and they felt the escape pod shoot off into space.
They all sat there panting for a while. Jaina took a look at the burns from electrical shocks on her clothing. Her favorite gold tube top!
"Um, people?" Jacen said suddenly. Jaina glanced at him and instantly knew what he was thinking.
"We just left Zekk on the ship!" she said frantically. Anakin narrowed his eyes and stared out a window at the distant ship.
"What are you doing?" Jaina asked suspiciously when she felt her little brother reaching out with the force.
"I'm going to use the Force to take us back to the ship, but I need help." he said.
"Okay." Tahiri replied, also narrowing her eyes and staring at the ship. Jaina felt them lurch the other way- back towards the 'pickachu' things. Just the thought of the little creatures made her dizzy. Or maybe that was because she was in the cold of space wearing a tube top in a spinning capsule?
* * *
Zekk realized he was alone on the ship. He found about twenty more red and white balls in the food prep unit, and wondered if they were a food dish gone mad. He rejected the idea when a huge sleeping creature emerged from one of the balls.
"This is a new Sith creature. I'm sure it'll be twice as hard to defeat," he said to himself. Where was everyone else?
* * *
Jaina watched as the ship drew closer. Jacen had joined Anakin and Tahiri when they lost concentration and the ship started whirling all around space, straight for an asteroid. Zekk was reaching out with the Force for them, trying to find them. Jaina sent a feeling of reassurance, and then wondered if they would ever make it back to the ship with Anakin's lousy steering.
Zekk was very glad to see Jaina and Jacen join his fight against this new creature. It was holding two bent spoons and kept disappearing when he tried to kill it. "By the lords of the Sith, stay still!"
Jaina slashed up the creature as it materialized in front of her. Anakin and Tahiri were just sending the last of the red and white balls into space as they killed the last pickachu. He happily sat back down with Lowie in front of the ship's controls and they programmed a course to Eclipse to see what help they could get from the other Jedi against these red and white balls.