Disclaimer: This story is based on George Lucas's series of movies Star Wars…I claim most of the characters, I just base the ideas on the movie…so don't sue me…I don't plan on owning Star Wars by the end of this story, so this applies to all the chapters.

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I looked out of the small, dirt window of the underground, hand-built house, and gazed at the two beautiful suns rising in the sky. I felt a cool sensation trickle down my back inducing seductive thoughts involuntarily into my subconscious thoughts. I glanced over my shoulder at a female figure standing in a meditative stance behind me. She was about 5' 8" and weight about 105 lbs. She had a curvaceous figure, light hazel eyes, and milky chocolate skin. Her white hair fell around her face in a bright contrast to the rest of her body, making her seem to glow brilliantly even in the direct sunlight.

"You know, I kind of like the change," I commented on her new hair. "As much attention as it seems to be drawing."

"Try as I might," Raena said in a soft voice. "I can't seem to sneak up on you. Now what makes you think some clumsy bounty hunter will manage to penetrate your mental defenses?"

"Nothing is absolute, especially my mental abilities. It's this knowledge of weakness that keeps me sharp." I said turning around to face her. "Plus, your presence is so familiar to me now, it can sense you several systems away."

Raena giggled, "a week and a half of spending all day indoors with one person will do that I guess. But you have to admit, you are becoming extremely sensitive to anything out of the ordinary."

"Oh?" I raised an eyebrow. "What makes you think that?" I challenged her, a favorite game of mine.

"Yesterday I saw you slice a rat scurrying around the chair. Now you were half asleep, and the sizzling from the dinner I was fixing made it nearly impossible to hear." Raena complimented me proudly. "If you didn't smell it, or see it, or hear it, or touch it. How did you know it was there?"
"Maybe I got lucky?" I shrugged.

"A Jedi is never lucky or unlucky." Raena wrapped her arms around me. "A Jedi simply goes where the force takes him."

"You are getting good." I said following her lead and embracing her.

"So why this newfound sensitivity? As useful as it's bound to be, I'm shocked it came so suddenly." Raena asked slightly concerned.

"It wasn't sudden, it was about as gradual as it could have been. You're just now seeing evidence of it," I corrected her. "And let's just say, about 10 of our 11 days here, I've spent over ¾ of the day sensing for possible enemies."

"Déshawn, we need to get out, you're gonna lose it if you keep it up." Raena pulled back looking at me worriedly.

"I'm fine."

"You're getting paranoid."

"What happened to being sensitive?" I asked.

"To a rat?" she asked.

"Well, he probably had rabies." I defended myself.

"You can't be cooped up here just looking for some conspiracy by the Federation to kill us." Raena scolded me.

"Raena…" I started, but I was suddenly stopped by a powerful wave of intense heat passing through my body. It didn't burn, but it did wake me up to the warning that it was delivering, and the way that it just passed through me indicated the direction of our danger.

"You felt it too?" Raena asked, cuing in on my sudden pause.

"It's a ship," I explained reaching out further with my senses. "Just entered orbit, and passed over us…that's the only thing that would've moved that quickly overhead."

"Is it big?" she asked, her concentrated expression showing that she too was trying to sense what I was.

My mind warped my vision into outer space and I saw a hazy outline becoming more and more bold as I focused more and more Force power into sensing our enemies.

"No, about average size. Larger than the one we rode with Trance on, but smaller than the one Shomari stole." I said as I saw the red painted battleship. I assumed it was a battleship because of the extensive weaponry on it.

"Can you tell how many people?" she prodded still focusing harder.

"Hmm," I sat down and closed my eyes. The ship seemed to grow larger as my vision zoomed in. "It's a battleship, all those guns," as my mind passed to the inside of the bounty hunter's transport I noticed something else. "And the armor is thicker than my light saber is long."

"Oh no…it's small enough to enter the atmosphere for a direct attack on us," Raena gasped.

"They won't," I said as I watched about 7 bounty hunters file out into separate escape pods. "They're entering the escape pods now. Besides, the Hutts have enough power to make the Federation leave them alone. Bounty hunters wouldn't stand a chance."

"Let's get ready," Raena said, yanking me out of my vision.

"How'd they find us?" I asked as I swept into my room putting on my black Jedi robe and pulled up the hood. Grabbing my light saber I spun around to find Raena in the doorway.

"Someone told them," she said solemnly.

"Only Shomari and Trance knew where we were. Even the Council has no idea." I said with disbelief in my voice.

"But they wouldn't have…" Raena refused to believe what seemed the obvious truth.

"No, it's not hard to think to look for someone on Tatooine. They probably don't know where we're at." I reasoned. "Let's just relax, you're right. I am paranoid."

"But Déshawn, you sensed them yourself," Raena said.

Suddenly another wave of heat came into existence on my chest and I tensed up again. The heat grew in intensity until I was sure that the danger was right in front of me.

"They're here." I said simply.

"So we were betrayed," Raena said with finality in her tone.

I ignited my light saber, which has been re-built so as to avoid anyone recognizing my old blade. It was now a double-sided blade, which could have one or both sides ignited at once. The main side, that I was currently using, glowed a deep blue, however the other side, which I used occasionally to confuse anyone who might have seen my light saber but not my face, was a deep red, so I could pass as a Sith if needed. This was in case I needed to fool anyone I recognized that might have seen me fight before. Also, I liked the double-sided blades for more effective combat against surrounding enemies.

I looked up to the ceiling and cut a hole large enough for Raena and I to fit through at the same time. Then the warnings I'd constantly been sensing suddenly increased in a flash as the wall was blown inwards by what seemed to be a rocket. Dust, rocks, and other debris hit Raena and me as we covered our faces to defend ourselves. Using the now-stirred dust was in the air; we jumped through the hole quickly escaping the large group of bounty hunters, which was bigger than I'd estimated at first, before they spotted us. Since our hide-away had been underground we'd made a seeming manhole in the middle of the market. We looked around at the shoppers who were staring at Raena and I in disbelief and shock. Then I realized what the explosion and our sudden appearance had probably done to the people on the ground above us.

"We weren't here," Raena said quickly.

The two of us took off running down the street, making a right turn into an alley as soon as possible, just as we heard jetpacks firing behind us. I turned suddenly, looking behind us as I saw almost 15 armored bounty hunters flying behind us.

"Not good," I said to myself.

"We can't fight that many bounty hunters at once!" Raena said in a sharp voice that shook me out of my daze. "Let's go Déshawn!"

"You go ahead, I'll try to split them up," I decided heroically.

"You always do this," Raena said. Then she consented, her eyes pleading as she slipped backwards into the shadows, "come back to me Déshawn."

I turned and jumped, using the Force to boost myself up, leapt onto the bottom level of the fire escape. About 5 of the bounty hunters landed below me while the rest dropped onto the fire escape above and below me, effectively trapping me in the middle. Looking back at the 5 on the ground I saw that they had assembled sniper blasters and were taking careful aim at me. Then, I felt a warning flash of heat on my feet, letting me know it was time to move on. I ran to the edge of the railing as my assailants closed in on me, I leapt off the fire escape and hit the side of the building; my hands barely catching the edge of the roof, as I'd fallen short in my attempt to squeeze below the stairs above me, which would have been painful to hit. Then I felt several warning flashes as every bounty hunter prepared to fire at my exposed and unprotected back.