Disclaimer: I am Jaina Solo, of course, but unfortunately George won't give me my heritage of Star Wars. Something about Solos always lose things like rights in bets on sabacc games. Whatever.

A/N: Thank you to for pointing out that Jaina should have recognized Coruscant. I'm trying to decide if I'll update it or if she was just disoriented enough and so excited to see a planet that she didn't recognize it. Uh… I think I'll update... hopefully soon… maybe. Now you see why I need a Beta Reader. It's rather scary when I, the girl who pretends to be Jaina Solo all the time and calls Harrison Ford 'Dad' even while watching Indiana Jones, miss something like that. I'm stupid.

And yes, Datho, I could definitely still use a Beta! Make sure the subject of the email is 'for JainaEowyn' because it has to get forwarded to my regular email. Blech.

Okay, poll time! I also need people's feedback as to if you think this is set after Darkest Knight or not. I still can't decide, and I need to know because I was thinking of doing

Chapter Seven: Planetside

Two days later…

"Bored!" Jaina all but yelled. She had been having a thumb war with Zekk and had finally decided she'd had enough and let him pin her thumb. Their thumbs had gotten rather strong in the past few days.

Zekk jumped back, rubbing a finger in his ear. They had been close enough to touch foreheads while they concentrated on their thumb war and Jaina's yell had been perilously close to his ear.

"Whoa, Jay! Cool your engine!" He cried.

She sank back. "Sorry 'bout that. It's just that I can't stand this!"

Zekk sighed and fell back into his own seat in the cockpit. "I know what you mean. You Solos and me can't be still for too long without going crazy."

"Hey, I'm already crazy!" Jaina corrected him. "I was stuck in here with not much to do once already."

"Hey, I hear ya," Zekk agreed, "but there's not much we can do about it! I know: let's have a singing match." Everyone groaned. He'd suggested the same idea five times already that 'day'. They assumed it was day at any rate, because that's what their chronometers said.

"Oh, c'mon, it'll be fun!" Zekk protested.

"Fine then. You start," Jaina said in a monotone voice.

"Well, I, uh…" Zekk sighed. "Fine. But you know how rotten my voice is."

Jaina rolled her eyes and lounged back on her elbow. "Zekk, you and I sang at a club. Of course I know how rotten your voice is. It hasn't sung for four whole days, although it has been talking more than is good for it, so maybe it has gotten rotten," she added sarcastically. Zekk groaned.

"'Kay, 'kay, I'm singin', I'm singin'."

He sang a short ditty about some nonsense. Jaina gave him a pointed stare. He rolled his eyes.

"Fine. I'll do a better one!"

He started singing and everyone stared at him in surprise. It was actually a pretty good song! It was about some kids who were marooned on a deserted planet, but still!

When Zekk finished, everyone stared at him for a few moments. He looked around uneasily.

"What, was it that bad?"

Everyone shook their heads, dumbfounded.

"Wow, that was… good!" Jaina finally said, as if she'd thought it would be pretty bad. "Who wrote that? I've got to get more of their music chips!"

"Well, um…" Zekk said, squirming uncomfortably.

"Who?" Jaina prompted again, looking at him eagerly.

"Well… me," Zekk said, looking at his feet.

They all stared at him in silence again.

"You?" Jaina broke the silence again. "When did you write it!?"

"Just now."

"What!?"

Zekk flinched. "So now you're telling me it's bad again."

Jaina quickly shook her head. "No – no, no, no, no! That was good! Got any more?"

Zekk grinned, shaking his head. "I can show you another card game, though, but then I want to listen to a disk book."

Jaina looked surprised that he actually wanted to read something, but she shrugged.

"Hey, okay, okay! Go ahead and deal…"

Three days later…

They were still in the ship. Everyone was staring at the person or persons that were in the same compartment (cockpit or droid compartment) with them, that being the only thing left to do.

They'd read all the disk books, played all the many card games Zekk and all the rest of them knew, and done everything else they could think of. They had enough food to last for another day, maybe two. Zekk and Jaina were sitting in the cockpit again, staring at each other boredly just as the other three were in the back, although the threee in the back were seeing if they could get both their eyes to look in opposite directions at the same time (with no success). It looked like Zekk and Jaina were just staring at each other with bored expressions. Jacen thought maybe they were seeing who could look more bored, but he couldn't tell because he was trying to cross his eyes the wrong way so they would look at Morring and Gemeia at the same time. Suddenly, Jaina screamed.

"PLANET!!" Everyone jumped and pushed up front. Jacen's head ended up poking up between Jaina and Zekk, who were leaning forwards on their seats, seeing if they could figure out what the planet was. Morring and Gemeia managed to squish up the sides of the seats enough to see, too.

Jaina sighed. "I wish we knew which planet this is." Morring let out a growl.

"I think I know this place," he said in a grave voice as they got closer.

Jaina looked back at him, almost looking concerned, but too excited by the site of land to make it quite to genuine concern. "Which one is it?"

"The one we came from," came the solemn reply.

Jaina's face immediately went sober. "Oh. What should we do?"

Zekk looked back at them now, too. "What's the matter with the place you came from?"

Morring glanced at Zekk, then back at the approaching planet. "My uncle, who is our guardian now that our parents died, hates us. He was showing us this old relic that we're in now, and then he went and let it take off with us in it. It was on auto-pilot and it took us to Yavin IV. That is where you said we were, wasn't it, Jay?" Jaina nodded and he continued. "We don't know why he hated us, except that he was too busy for a couple of 'kids'." He grimaced at the word as he had when he explained it to Jaina. "I'm sure Jaina explained the rest to you on Coruscant, and that brings us back to where we are now." Zekk nodded and sighed.

"So we're landing on a hostile planet, huh?" Morring nodded. "Well then, we've got to get down to business," Zekk started briskly. "Okay, Jaina, you're going to have blond hair and blue contacts."

She stared at him. "Huh?"

"Just what I said. We're going to need disguises so that no one recognizes us, at least until we can get another ship to get back to wherever we all need to go." Jaina was still staring at him, not even listening to the last bit that he said.

"You actually brought disguises," she said incredulously.

Zekk nodded. "I always bring stuff like that. Just in case," he added.

Jaina rolled her eyes. "Whatever. Anyways, how are you going to turn my hair blond?" She had her suspicions, but she wanted him to deny them.

"I brought some dye."

"Dye!?" Jaina shrieked, and everyone covered their ears. "Dye!?" She asked again, quieter. "Look, I don't want my hair to be permanently blond, thank you, Zekk," she hissed dangerously.

Zekk grinned. "Oh, don't worry, I've got a special dye remover, and none of it will hurt your hair. Besides, I've always wanted to see you as a blue-eyed blond."

She glared at him, but allowed him to do it. When he finished, she saw Jacen smothering a grin, but then again, he was her brother, so that was expected.

"Jace, you're next," Zekk announced, which wiped the smile right off Jacen's face immediately and placed it onto Jaina's mug.

Zekk held his head in his hand and tapped a finger on his chin. "Hmm… I think you'll have red-brown hair and green eyes." Jacen groaned, but allowed Zekk to do his worst.

Morring became black-headed and brown-eyed, Gemeia kept her brown hair, but got more blond highlights and black eyes, and Zekk got brown hair and black eyes. Jaina got to do Zekk since he couldn't do it himself as easily as he did the others, and she took great pleasure in her revenge.

They were all finally ready, although the ship now smelled somewhat of the chemicals in the dye that was now on their hair.

The ship finally broke atmosphere and Jaina and Zekk got control of the ship again. This time they were ready and Jaina took the controls until they got hailed. Then she handed them over to Zekk and she took the comm unit.

"Unidentified ship, this is planet security. Please state your business."

They had already decided what they were doing there. "We're here to audition at the new night clubs," Jaina replied, sounding enough like her mom that Jacen and Zekk jumped.

Since there wasn't much of any way they could check into this since there wasn't much of any way that security could check into this since there were so many new night clubs all over this planet, they figured they were safe. Jaina thought she heard an annoyed sigh before security replied.

"Very well, E-wing, proceed. Clearance granted for pad B-114."

"Thank you," Jaina replied politely, then Zekk maneuvered them smoothly in for a landing. They disembarked and went out to find out what they could.

While they were wandering around, Jaina happened to glance in a store window and saw the reflection of a strange group of five kids who looked about their age. She looked around to see where they were, then jumped backwards when she realized that the kids were them. Zekk was walking next to her and caught her when she accidentally jumped into him.

"Hey, what's the matter, Jay?" He asked, letting her go quickly.

"Huh? Oh, nothing. I just saw our reflections in that window and I thought it was someone else."

Zekk only laughed.

Morring finally said they should probably go to his uncle's house and spy on him to find out why he disliked them so much. Everyone else agreed, although it took them longer than anticipated to find the place, even though Morring and Gemeia already knew where it was.

When they finally got there, they found that it was easier to spy on him than they thought. There were plenty of hiding spaces all around the house, both inside and out. Jaina and Zekk managed to get inside and the other three prowled around outside.

Once inside, Jaina and Zekk found some spare servants uniforms and each took turns changing into them in the supply closet while the other kept guard.

Once changed, they non-chalantly strode through the hallways, then stopped when they heard voices. They peeked into the room to see a man who somewhat resembled Morring.

'Uncle,' Jaina mouthed to Zekk, who nodded. They saw that there was a door in the left wall and they went into an adjoining room and put the ear buds of one of Zekk's little gadgets into their ears to enhance their hearing so they could clearly hear the conversation, which was also recorded in the same device so they could show the others later.

"Are you sure he's dead?" Asked a male voice, not sounding almost happy about whoever it was being dead.

"Yes, sir, I'm sure. The funeral is going to be held in three days," replied another male voice sounding about as sad as the first.

"Good. And the children are out of the way?" Asked the first voice.

"Yes sir. Morring and Gemeia will never be coming back," the second man replied with an almost evil tone to his voice. "In fact, they're probably dead and still floating in space since that planet you programmed into the coordinates was probably smashed to smithereens by the Empire."

Jaina stifled a gasp. He must mean Yavin IV! Blaster bolts, these people were really behind in the news department if they thought Yaving IV was 'smithereens'. This must be Morring and Gemeia's uncle and his second-hand man or something. But why did he want them dead and who's funeral was in three days? And how could he not know that it was the Death Star that was 'smithereens'? That was ages ago!

"Once the funeral is over, sir, you will be able to claim the throne and rule the planet as you've wanted for so many years," the second voice continued.

"Very good!" The first voice said gleefully. Jaina decided that he must be the uncle. "With the children out of the way, then I will be king!"

Jaina signaled to Zekk who retracted the listening device and pulled the ear bud out of Jaina's ear. She rubbed her other ear where it had been smashed up against Zekk's so they could both hear at the same time; since the device was made for one person and there were only two ear buds, they had had to share it.

After detaching the device, they picked up their clothes, not bothering to change, and made it outside to the others.

"We found him!" Jaina breathed, waving around the device. "We've got the whole conversation recorded!"

Morring and Gemeia jumped up and Jacen slowly got to his feet. Jaina turned down the volume on the device so it wouldn't attract attention and they all listened to the recorded conversation.

"That's him," Morring said grimly when he heard the first voice.

"Your uncle?" Jaina asked, already knowing the answer. Morring nodded and kept listening. His face hardened when he heard his and his sister's names, but he still said nothing. Then he heard the part about the king and his eyes widened.

"Why would he need us out of the way to be able to become king?" Morring asked in confusion. "And how come he would become king? I don't remember our tutor telling us about him having an heir when he taught us recent history and that sort of thing."

"Maybe you're the long lost prince and princess!" Jacen joked, laughing, but subsided when he saw Morring's solemn expression.

"It would be news to me, but maybe, somehow and for a reason unknown, you're right, Jacen. Maybe our parents kept this fact from us on purpose." He shrugged.

Then Gemeia piped up. "Come on, let's go to the city library and look up the old holo-net news. Maybe they'll have something in there."

She got up and started running and the others followed her.

They walked into the city library a little while later and went to the information desk. Jaina rang a small bell and a librarian pushed away from a desk and slid over to them on a wheeled desk chair.

"Yes? May I help you?" She asked.

"Yes. We're looking for the holo-net news archives," Zekk replied.

"Go right, take the first left and then the third right and you'll find the archives," the librarian instructed.

They all thanked her and headed off for the archives.

They quickly found them and put in a search. It took a while, but the results finally came up.

"Um… duh-fmm-su-dum," Morring mumbled incoherently as he scanned the results. "Ah, I think this is what we're looking for!" He opened the document and started reading aloud.

"King Jeremen's sister Sahlah was married yesterday to Pherell Derth, the son of a nobleman of the court. They have both renounced their titles with any connection to royalty, but should they have any children, they will be next in line for the throne should the king die. Until that time, Sahlah and Jeremen's cousin Theren will the heir to the throne and will also inherit it if anything happens to any children Sahlah or Jeremen should have before Theren dies."

Morring and Gemeia stared at each other in horror as Morring finished reading.

"He wanted to murder all of us to get the throne," Gemeia whispered.