Pinnard opened his eyes, and looked around, he did not see much, except for blackness with white and purple light shining in his eyes.
He stood up, and used his senses trying to detect any life forms near him, but he found nothing. At least, he thought so.
Without warning, a shadow which had emerged from the blackness leaped towards Pinnard, sinking its black, almost invisible arm into his chest.
Pinnard looked at the shadow, staring into the part where there's supposed to be a face.
Quick and sudden, pain went through Pinnard's body, a pain that would drive any normal human's body into shock.
But Pinnard wasn't a normal human, he had his Jedi training.
He quickly leaped his body backwards in a flip, ending up in a handstand, and removing the shadow's arm from his chest. He then pushed himself back towards the shadow, spinning around, making himself into a living torpedo, with his feet at the tip.
The shadow was pounded backwards, onto the ground, and it merged with the blackness of it's surroundings.
Pinnard took this short pause to examine the wound the shadow might have made, and noticed that he was wearing padawan robes. The shadow had made a large hole in it, which was bleeding badly, even though it didn't hurt a bit.
Pinnard touched the wound, when suddenly the blood turned black, and then became a void: total blackness, which could not be touched.
The blood suddenly begun rushing over his body, quickly making it disappear.
He feel to his knees, and dissolved into darkness.
"Sir? Sir, are you alright?" a voice from the darkness said.
Pinnard quickly opened his eyes, seeing a man standing over him, and saw that the transport he was in is mostly destroyed, but that most other transports landed intact.
"Just a minor headache, as you were." Pinnard said while he stood up.
He noticed he was heavily sweating, and his chest hurted, although the wound he had in the dream wasn't there.
He walked to a few small buildings that were quick and easy to build, requiring no labor force.
These buildings were used as command posts, and the largest one was used for short meetings, while the others had other uses, like first aid, or temporary sleeping places.
Pinnard walked into one of the buildings, which was used for short range scanning.
"Report!" He said harshly.
"We've scanned a few life forms in the forests around us, but no technology, these life forms are probably just animals." The commander said. He was armored from head to toe in green and brown padding. It was not strong enough to withstand any blaster shots, but was strong enough to protect him from heat, and most primitive weaponry.
Pinnard nodded, and walked towards one of the terminals, looking at the undetailed map the scanners made. "Here…" Pinnard said, pointing his finger at a spot located on the border of the forest, "here is what we seek, I'm sure of it."
"A minor concentration, could also be a nest of…whatever animals roam this planet." The commander said.
"Commander, ready a squad of your best men, no more then six or so, and we'll head out." Pinnard said, turning his head back towards the commander.
"Of course sir, as you wish." The commander said. He walked away from Pinnard, towards the door, and out of the building.
About twenty minutes later, seven people were standing at the edge of the camp.
The commander, a Wookiee female, a Wookiee male, a Trandoshan, a Twi'lek and two other human males. Pinnard, who had taken of his robes, and now wore simple garments, approached them.
"Sir!" The commander said, saluting him.
"At ease, commander, let me take a look at the squad you assembled." Pinnard said, he turned towards the others, moving their eyes over them. The commander was still wearing his padded armor, but the two Wookiees were completely unarmed.
The male Wookiee's fur was brown colored, and longer then at least 2 meters, while the female Wookiee had a black fur, was a bit tinier, fatter, and she had two hair tails hanging alongside her head.
"I remember a male Wookiee and his son being with the mercenarys, but not a…" Pinnard said, he stared at the female Wookiee's belly, "Ah yes, I now remember, we picked you up at Kashyyyk, under…uneasy circumstances." The female started roaring towards Pinnard. He smiled with confidence and said: "You're still pregnant, are you sure you're able to fight… What's your name again?" The Wookiee female growled softly.
"No matter," he looked across the others, the Trandoshan was wearing tight protective armor and a metal helmet, the Twi'lek was dressed in the same type of armor the commander was wearing, except for it covering the head. The two humans were dressed in bone armor. "Yes, you all will do, commander, lead this group to the spot I showed you on the screen, I will be close." Pinnard said, while moving his head back so it faces the commander.
"Yes sir! Move out!" the commander screamed, and they all ran away into the woods.
It was hot, too hot. Pinnard didn't like it, he preferred cooler climates.
He wasn't born and raised in one of the cities, but in a very tiny swamp village. With a population of no more then twenty or so.
He jumped from tree to tree, using the force to thrust himself forward, making jumps no normal man, or any kind of humanoid, for that matter, could normally do.
Occasionally he had to push away some vines, or jump through a wall of leaves.
He was sweating, it was dripping down, which could alert anything below him of his presence.
Suddenly, he stopped, he felt a presence, but it wasn't clear where it came from. He looked around carefully. He made a short jump to a large branch, and sat down, in a meditating position. He closed his eyes, and sat there for half a minute.
He jumped up into the air and spread his arms and his legs, right then, a huge snake-like flying creature emerged from in between some trees behind him and flew right against him with his mouth opened. It was red, and had dozens of small wings instead of two large ones.
Pinnard, who jumped right before the creature emerged, was now stuck with his arms and legs right in between the creature's teeth, one centimeter of, and he would've found himself having some major cuts.
The creature, still having Pinnard in between it's teeth was still flying through the trees with beautiful elegance. It evaded every one of the many trees and the only voice to be heard from it was the wind being pushed away by it's many wings.
"You're a quick little beast, aren't you?", Pinnard said to the creature, as if it could understand him, "Maybe we can become friends, I wouldn't want to hurt you."
The creature ignored Pinnard and kept on flying through the trees.
"Alright, if you insist." Pinnard said, smiling, "I need to help some people now anyway. And you just happen to go in the right direction."
Pinnard pulled loose his right arm, and opened one of his satchels. He grabbed a small metal ball from it with three fingers, and closed it again with the others.
He uncomfortably pressed some buttons on the metal ball and put it in between the teeth his right arm was stuck in between.
He then pulled loose his other arm, and because of the very hard wind caused by the speed at which the creature was going, his legs also came loose.
He made himself into an arrow, flying from the creatures head to the end of it's tail, making no mistakes, and going with every turn.
He went through the stomach, and then proceeded through a long, straight tunnel.
About ten seconds before he reached the end, he pressed a small button on his belt.
The commander, who had just cleared the forest together with his team, he saw long green plains, he also saw a camp not far from here, but at the moment, something else had drawn his attention.
The red flying snake-like creature emerged from the trees, but right after it's head was visible, it exploded, which resulted in a small rain of red, thick blood.
The creature's body went at such a speed that it didn't right away go down, but passed the camp first, which was Pinnard's chance to make his entry.
The only thing that did fall into the camp was the tip of the creature's tail, and Pinnard.
Whilst Pinnard was falling down, he reached for one of his satchels, and grabbed his lightsaber out of it. His was different then others. It had the shape of the letter Y, with the top ends both pointing up, in a parallel direction. It was made mostly out of metal, but the part of it was black and had rebated joints for a better grip.
Even though Pinnard could use the Force to do his bidding, he fell from such a height that he needed more then the Force to break his fall.
He fell onto one of the tents, which was just enough to keep him from painfully bruising his whole body.
A figure covered by worn pieces of cloth and leaves approached the tent.
But before the figure could react, the tent was blown into every direction, by a wind that took the figure with it.
Pinnard wiped some dust off of his clothing, which was now covered with the creature's blood and drool.
Pinnard looked around, seemingly unable to locate the figure which he blew away using the Force.
He pressed one of two red buttons on his lightsaber, which activated the left beam of energy, it was green, like the leaves of the forest behind him. He then pressed the other red button, which activated a small green beam of energy flowing between the two tops of lightsaber, and then also the right beam of energy.
He looked around, and within a split second the sound of another lightsaber being activated could be heard. And the figure emerged from one of the laps that was once part of the tent Pinnard destroyed.
The figure jumped towards Pinnard in a spiral, with a lightsaber with a blue energy beam pointed in Pinnard's direction. Whilst flying towards him, the cloak made out of cloth and leaves broke apart, leaving the beautiful woman from Pinnard's hologram behind, with just enough clothing left to cover her breasts and her thighs.
Pinnard, sawing this attack coming quick enough, made a jump to his right, and then stopped in the grass.
The woman turned around after also stopping, and ran towards Pinnard, who was now also running towards her.
Their lightsabers flew towards each other, and were now set against each other.
Pinnard gazed through the green and blue light, and saw the face of his wife, Lanara, her face enlightened by her blue saber.
Pinnard quickly turned his arms around, putting the energy beams of his saber behind him and then quickly made a strike at Lanara's side, which she parried just in time. But before Pinnard could do anything else, Lanara raised her hand and put it in front of Pinnard's face, after which he flew backwards, into the high grass.
He quickly made a back flip, putting him on his feet once again. He noticed he had lost his lightsaber. Pinnard looked around, "Bad timing, very bad timing.", he whispered to himself.
He looked around, and saw that his lightsaber was lying on the ground, in front of Lanara, deactivated. "Come and get it." Lanara said with a challenging, but seductive smile.
He ran towards her, but Lanara stood still. She raised her saber, ready to strike as Pinnard came near. But Pinnard made a move she did not expect. He jumped up and over her, and used the Force to have a small blaster, hidden on the inside of his cloak, fly to his hand.
Lanara, who saw this, jumped up, lightsaber pointing at Pinnard, who was now directly above her. But before she reached him, a she got caught in a net made from a substance found in Ïkornian spider webs. The net came with such speed that she was pushed back by it onto the ground, caught in it. The net kept getting smaller and smaller, until Lanara cut it in half with her saber. Pinnard had already landed, and was now backed by the commander and the six men he had assembled. "I'll unarm her, just keep your weapon's barrels pointed at her.." Pinnard said softly to them.
Lanara who had quickly recovered from the net, ran towards Pinnard.
"You're being foolish, Lanara!" Pinnard screamed before raising the small blaster.
One quick shot, and it was over. Lanara's lightsaber had been hit, and quick, but powerful shocks went through her body, forcing her to her legs.
Pinnard used the Force to quickly pull his own saber back to him. He walked up to Lanara, and grabbed her right hand, gently raising it. Lanara cooperated and stood up, she smiled to Pinnard.
"You've never been good at deflecting blaster shots, but I forgive you." Pinnard said, smiling gently. Lanara moved closer towards Pinnard, holding him. Pinnard did the same thing, and they kissed.
"You do know that I have to take you back to the Jedi Council now, do you?" Pinnard asked Lanara, with a sad tone in his voice.
"Yes, unfortunately, but there is one thing I must show you, the reason why I left, why I killed Mor'uk Nak." Lanara said, "Here, let me show you." Lanara walked a bit towards the camp, and nodded her head. "I already wondered what you needed all these tents for." Pinnard said, now standing next to her.
She motioned with her hand, and Pinnard suddenly saw everything move, making it look like hot air was rising.
"What is this?" Pinnard whispered to himself, perhaps to Lanara aswell.
"You'll see." Lanara answered…
To be continued…