Mr. Haziq: I guess technically a Lightsaber Pike would have two Kyber Crystals, but for the purposes of this story, it only has one. Lincoln's personal fighting style would make double-wielding (a weapon in each hand) a hindrance rather than an advantage.
Chapter 4
With the mix of emotions from witnessing her homeworld being bombed to oblivion occupying her thoughts, Stella accidentally overshot the mark set for her and her passengers, pulling out of Hyperspace inside Escobar's atmosphere. Said atmosphere was currently so charged with electricity that the ship's computers started to go haywire.
"What the heck?! What's going on here?!" Stella cried, thumping a fist on top of a monitor to try and clear the static. Lincoln gulped and had a sheepish look on his face.
"Ah. Perhaps I neglected to mention that Escobar is known for its...fierce electrical storms?"
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Why didn't you say anything?!" Stella yelled.
"I'm afraid it was the heat of the moment. I was just as surprised about Mandalor as you were." Just then, the ship was struck by lightning, and Meli screamed as the ship lurched violently and started to plummet.
Stella swore and said, "The whole ship is dead! We're gonna have to make an emergency landing!" Stella wrestled with the steering rod, hoping to glide into a landing rather than outright crashing.
"Meli, stay in the cockpit. I'm going to see if I can manually deploy the landing gear," Lincoln instructed before prying open the door. His Padawan nodded while clinging to a chair to keep from being tossed about by the turbulence. Lincoln carefully chose a path through the inner workings of the ship until he located the lever on the wall he was looking for. They were close to the ground now, and Stella had fortunately managed to pull them out of their steep nosedive. A second violent lurch as they skimmed the top of a tall tree knocked Lincoln flat on his back, and his legs exploded with pain as a heavy piece of machinery fell on top of him. Fighting to stay conscious, Lincoln reached out with the Force. Compelled to obey, the lever slowly moved until the landing gear deployed with a loud hiss. The ship touched down at last, plowing a deep trench into an enormous rice paddy that stretched for miles in every direction and was dotted with trees.
"We made it! Are you okay, kid?" Stella asked. Too shaken for a verbal reply, Meli nodded once more. "What about you Lincoln?...Lincoln?" A groan of pain from the bowels of the ship was the only reply Stella received. She and Meli rushed to Lincoln's aid, only to find the situation much worse than they initially thought: Lincoln's legs weren't trapped.
They were severed.
Fumbling with her tool belt, Stella procured a small blowtorch and used it to cauterize the stumps and prevent further blood loss. She then wrapped the stumps in gauze from the med-pack that Meli fetched from the cockpit.
"What do we do now?" the girl asked Stella. Using brute strength, Stella wrenched open a small service hatch that led to the outside of the ship.
"I can't leave the ship with no power to the loading ramp. Since you're the only one small enough to fit through that hatch, you need to find civilization and get help. I'll stay with Lincoln and try to keep him alive. Go!" Stella instructed. Meli slipped into the hatch, found her way to the corresponding hatch in the hull, and managed to open it by kicking it with all her might several times. Meli waded through the knee-deep (to her, anyway) water of the paddy for over an hour, until she spotted someone taking readings from a distant monitoring station. Meli picked up her pace until she was just a few dozen meters away.
"Help! Please, help me!" she cried before tripping and falling face-first into the grimy water. The startled farmhand (for a rice farm it was) hopped down from the platform she stood on and helped Meli to her feet. She was a slender girl with short, choppy brown hair, pale skin, a long sand-colored coat, a belt with various gadgets attached, and waterproof knee-length boots. She wore a thick pair of goggles to improve her poor eyesight.
"How can I be of assistance?" the girl asked with a faint trace of a lisp that she had almost grown out of.
"Our ship crashed! And my master, he's hurt!" Meli told her.
"Say no more. Which direction did you come from?" Meli pointed, and the girl helped her into the seat of a nearby speeder bike. "My name is Lisa. What's your name?" she asked as she climbed into the seat behind Meli. Meli introduced herself as they raced away, her words nearly lost to the wind. They reached the crash site in only a few minutes. "Force be reckoned with. What happened?" Lisa asked incredulously. Meli explained how they had pulled out of Hyperspace in the middle of an electrical storm and lost power as a result.
Lisa went over to the wreck, pried open a panel in the hull, and used her tools to reroute the power. Moments later, there was a loud hiss of hydraulics as the loading ramp swung open.
Lisa then activated the comlink strapped to her wrist and said, "Family units, I am at the site of a downed ship near the eastern boundary of the rice paddy. There is a possibility that one or more personnel members are in dire need of medical assistance. Sending coordinates now."
"Copy that, Lisa. We're on our way," replied a feminine voice. Lisa and Meli then entered the ship, where Meli had to explain the situation to Stella, who kept one hand hovering near the holster on her hip. A larger vehicle soon arrived, its passengers exclusively female. One had short brown hair like Lisa, but had taken more of an effort to style it. Another had waist-length pale blond hair that was only a few shades away from being white. The one behind the steering mechanism had shoulder-length blond hair that shined like gold. The three women all wore clothing in various shades of brown, beige, and cream, and introduced themselves as Luna, Leni, and Lori respectively. An unconscious Lincoln was loaded onto a stretcher, and everyone rode the transport back to the farming family's home.
During the ride, Stella lifted her helmet just past her mouth and whispered to Meli, "Remember, we can't let them know that you and Lincoln are Jedi." Meli nodded. No matter how hospitable this family seemed, they may have ulterior motives. All three of them would need to tread carefully.
