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A.N. Kyle Katarn has always been a long time fictional hero of mine, since I was about eleven! In fact he was the reason I became Star Wars fan, before I even knew the movies existed!

Here's my fanfic based on Kyle Katarn and his duty for the New Republic…he's in quite a sitch this time!

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Chapter 1- Obtaining the disk

Jan Ors, with one of her gloves off and leaning on the side of her new ship, the Denominator, patiently waited, and checked her nails, until Kyle was ready to leave. Last she heard, he was off to seize some disk the Empire had been keeping secret from the Republic. Whatever the information was on that disk, it must be vital to the Republic's discovery of The Empire's new plot.

But she couldn't care less, just as long as she doesn't get caught up in Kyle's missions as sometimes is the case. All she does is take him wherever he needs to go, that's her job, that's what she's been assigned and that's all she ever really wants to do.

Of course she does care about his safety, since he is a long time partner during the rebellion and now throughout the New Republic's existence, but as long as he's off taking these risks she's just going to have to sit them out.

Bang!

With a tremendous explosion, a hole appeared on the wall of the far side of the hangar.

Jan jumped to the eruption and slipped her glove back on. Quickly she removed her blaster pistol from its holster and directed it towards the smoke.

"Jan!" A deep croaky voice called, "Ready the ship!"

A bearded man charged through the smoke, dressed in a white shirt, black trousers and brown boots and shoulder pad.

"Kyle?" Jan muttered.

"Ready the ship Jan! Hurry!" Kyle cried as he ran towards her.

Jan's puzzlement was answered when laser blasts appeared through the smoke directed at Kyle.

She hopped into the cockpit and frantically hit several buttons and flicked other switches, bringing the engines to life. Taking another peek behind her she saw a number of storm troopers sprinting through the hole in the wall.

Jan punched a lever beside her, resulting in the Denominator's approach to the hangar exit.

As Kyle slipped the disk in his pouch he directed his blaster pistol behind him while running towards the moving ship, taking several shots and putting down a couple of troopers.

The Denominator was now facing the exit and Jan called through her headset, "Kyle! Two more seconds and I'm out'a here!"

"I'm on it!" Kyle replied.

In the nick of time, Kyle hopped onto the Denominator's wing and dived into the cockpit before it closed shut.

"Nice to see you're keeping up tradition!" Jan mocked as Kyle settled himself in his seat and fixed his seatbelt.

The Denominator blasted itself out of the hangar as storm troopers stood at the edge firing away in its direction. As it disappeared on the horizon the storm troopers gave up firing.

"Blast those adversaries of ours! They always seem to get away in the nick of time!" spat a storm trooper as he joined his comrades in the remorseful bobbing of their heads.

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A.N. This is merely the introduction…typically Star Wars always has an explosive intro!