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…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. In a panic I let go of the 2-story building, dropping right as they all let loose crumbling the edge of the wall I'd been hanging on seconds ago. However, the resulting explosions blew me away from the wall and ruined my landing, causing my drop onto my right ankle to be at a painful angle. The following snap was nearly loud enough for Raena to hear. I groaned in pain as another barrage of laser bolts flew out at my helpless form. However, the rain of debris from above me finally managed to catch up and covered me in a heavy pile of rocks. My lucky, but painful, shield didn't last long as the massive fire rained uninterrupted blasting away the unusual cover. The rocks that landed in front of me were soon decimated to small pebbles. The group advanced upon me, and they lifted the rocks off of me throwing them to the side. 3 of the bounty hunters picked me up, and the rest trained large, automatic, blasters at my face.
"Good job men," one of them said through his helmet. "We managed to get one alive."
"I'm very proud of you," I mocked.
"Shut it!" the apparent leader hit me in the back of the head causing my vision to blur.
I reached behind me with a blanket of Force, and slipped it under the pile of rocks that they'd unburied me from.
"That hurt," I complained sarcastically. "You could of just asked me to shut it."
"Get his light saber." The leader ordered.
I then pulled the blanket of Force back to myself violently, causing a rainstorm of rocks to hit the bounty hunter, knocking most of them out painfully. Leaving the 3 that were holding me awake, simply because I didn't want to get hit. They backed up, letting go of my arm, causing me to fall, from the weight on my broken ankle, and pointed their blasters at me. I pushed myself up on my hands, and leaned completely to my left side, taking the weight off of my ankle.
"I'm pretty sure I can find 3 more of those," I bluffed, lifting the only boulders that hadn't been broken.
The last 3 turned tail, ignited their jetpacks, and were gone as fast as possible. I sat down on a stray rock and leaned back against the wall of the destroyed building, my head throbbing in rhythm with my ankle.
"As sensitive as you've gotten, that was the most sloppy work ever." Shomari snickered walking up to me.
"You overheard that?" I asked, looking at Shomari's unsympathetic face. Hell, he even looked ready to laugh.
"You two aren't very quiet, as much as you're supposed to be in hiding. The bounty hunter probably landed and heard you two talking as they were walking around." Shomari said.
"They came in from the side of an underground hut Shomari. How'd they know where we were?" I asked.
"I don't know, but I guarantee that is wasn't me or Trance. I think someone else found out and is selling information on where you and Raena are hiding." Shomari said.
"You've been watching us carefully." I snorted back. "Who?"
"The 'who' most likely refers to a group, because I've noticed a rotation of 3 different people watching you and Raena all this week. So it's very recent at least." He answered moving over in front of me. He placed his hands gently on my injured ankle.
"I would've sensed them. I've constantly been looking for threats," I started.
"No, you wouldn't sense this unless you knew where to look. You see, there's a space station a few light years from here," he absolved my oversight simply. "And they have special probes that work well outside the range of the Hutts' scouts, but can see within 3 kilometers of the surface."
"And how'd they know where we were staying at?" I asked.
"It was a simple matter of finding any hint that you two are Jedi and then just tracking you until you disappeared. From there, they figured it was a 'smash and grab'." Shomari laughed ironically. "They seem to have gotten to the 'smash' part down to a art form."
"We should move before they learn to grab." I said worriedly as Shomari gathered the Force to himself and let it flow around my broken bone.
"I figured you'd welcome the excitement, but you seem to have gotten sloppy." Shomari criticized. "Of course you can't really practice in that cramped hideout can you?"
"Shomari, you have any ideas where we could go?" Raena said, somehow, suddenly ending up next to my younger brother.
"Couldn't tell you. The Hutts seem to favor smugglers with offers however. If you can get your hands on anything rare, or worth betting, you might have some luck." Shomari said standing up, after finishing healing my ankle the best he could. "As for me, I've got a few bets to place my self."
"You shouldn't be gambling Shomari," Raena sounded scandalized.
"Calm down, I'm not." He chuckled. "Good luck you two."
"Thanks," I said standing up gingerly on my injured appendage.
"I thought you did great," Raena whispered to me as Shomari retreated.
"Yoda help me if I'm ever bad enough to make you think I'm sloppy," I said bitterly.
"Don't get angry with me cause your brother makes you feel bad," she walked off briskly.
"It's because I know he's right," I said to myself limping after her. "There's no way all those bounty hunters should have such an easy time getting their hands on me."