CHAPTER 3: A SHORTCUT TO BOUNTY HUNTERS
"Mr. Jodo!" Greedo shouted frantically, having lost sight of his companion. He dashed through the trees. "Mr. Jodo!"
"I'm right here, you idiot," Kast said, stopping. "What's wrong with you?"
"It's just what IG-88 told me. 'Don't you lose him, Greedo.'"
Kast raised an eyebrow, even though Greedo couldn't see it. "Why would he say that?"
"Never mind!" Greedo said quickly. Suddenly, the bushes parted and a quickly-running armored figure crashed into Greedo, knocking him to the ground. A droid ran into Kast, and he pushed it over angrily.
Greedo stood up dizzily. "Boussh and 4-LOM! Never trust a droid and an Ubese--"
Boussh was indignant. "Quioto! Quioto!"
"Boba Fett!" 4-LOM said in surprise. "What are you doing on Endor?"
"None of your business," Kast said. "Now tell me what you're doing, or I might just have to shoot you."
"We are running from the Ewoks," 4-LOM said.
"And why would that be?"
"We have just stolen some hallucinogenic weeds from them which we intend to sell on the black market."
Boussh nodded furiously. "Quioto, quioto!" He shoved a pile of greenery into Greedo's hands.
The Rodian looked at the plants for a moment, until he realized that everyone else was running away and an angry herd of Ewoks was coming towards him. He screamed in terror and took off after the others. Too late, he realized that they had stopped, and he crashed into them. All four went tumbling down the side of a hill.
"You idiots!" Kast shouted. "Look what you've done! I just washed this armor!"
4-LOM held up his hands, begging for mercy. "Please do not shoot us, Boba Fett! We are terribly sorry!"
"Quioto!" Boussh said. "Quioto!"
The droid looked at him skeptically. "Shortcut to what?"
"Quioto!"
"Oh."
"But Mr. Jodo," Greedo whispered, stepping up to his companion's side, "you aren't Boba Fett."
Kast nodded. "But they don't know that." He looked up, feeling something amiss. His eyes widened. "Get off the road! GET OFF THE ROAD!"
The four bounty hunters hid in the bushes, waiting in horror. Moments later, a reptilian creature astride a Kaadu came riding past them. It paused in front of their hiding place. "Mesa thinkin'," it murmured to itself, "that this One DVD must be hidin' somewhere nearby. But mesa not seein' it nowhere!" It rode off.
The bounty hunters sighed in relief. Greedo shuddered, noticing that even the insects in the ground had fled from the monstrosity.
"What was that?" Kast exclaimed.
"Some creature of the Prequels, no doubt," 4-LOM said. "Probably a servant of the Flanneled One. But why would it be looking here?" The droid turned to look at Kast, as did its Ubese companion.
"Quioto, quioto," Boussh said suspiciously.
"Yes," 4-LOM agreed. "Is there something you'd like to tell us, Fett?"
Kast nodded ferociously. "There are more of them coming! RUN!"
They raced through the trees, dodging more and more of the Kaadu-riding terrors. "Quick!" 4-LOM shouted at them. "I have a ship waiting for us! This way!"