A Mogwai looks out of the box it is currently sleeping in among its brothers. He lifts his brown fur covered head, the stripe of white fur that sticks up from the top of its head an odd coloring, among the cinnamon that covers all of its body.
The Mogwai carefully observes the room, trying to think of some type of mischief that it can cause. It notices its progenitor calmly sleeping on a high shelf, and thinks that that is a good place for him; it will keep the progenitor away from him as he gets into mischief.
He stumbles out of the container, and rushes to the door, his short legs carrying him far faster than one would normally believe possible. As he nears it, the door slides open, and the Mogwai looks down the hall, seeing the humans in the other room engrossed in their conversation. Smiling to himself, he steps back into the room, and once more looks around the room for some mischief.
First he climbs into a dresser door, and unfolds all the socks found within, taking time to remove the right sock from half of the pairs. Not satisfied, the small creature climbs back down and once more looks around the room.
Next he spies Zekk's travel bag. Opening it, he decides to take all the undergarments out, and quickly looks for somewhere to stash all the stolen clothes. Dragging the pile of clothes under the large bed, he hides them in the furthest corner, where there is little light, and even less possibility of them being found. Sneezing, the Mogwai crawls out from under the bed, brushing the dust from his fur.
Yet his desire for mischief still has not been satisfied. He notices the chrono, and climbs up to it, making a few additional modifications to its programming. This particular mischief the Mogwai truly loves knowing it will pay off truly well later, but it still does not slack the desire for immediate mischief.
Mumbling Mogwai-speak to itself, it once more looks around the room, and debates on whether he should take the third datacard from every datapack on the shelves. But then he sees something even better, something that is guaranteed to cause great mischief.
The Mogwai's smile turns large and mean as he looks at, and starts towards, Jacen's menagerie.
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"Jacen Solo!"
Jacen's head pops up from the datapad he's reading at the sound of his father's voice. A confused look quickly crosses his face, as he wonders what has happened. He quickly glances around at the others in the room with him, seeing equally confused looks on their faces. Shrugging his shoulders, he answers. "Yes Dad?"
"Get in here, now!"
Jacen stands and rushes to his parent's bedrooms, stumbling to a stop as he sees his ralvarian copper snake curled up in the middle of the floor of the bedroom. Glancing at his father, he swallows slightly as he can see the anger covering his dad's face.
"Do you mind telling me what that snake is doing on my floor?"
Jacen looks down once more and shakes his head. "I'm not sure Dad; I know he was safely locked into his cage earlier today."
"Well get him back in that cage now!"
"Yes sir."
Jacen bends down and begins the process of coaxing the snake into his arms. Once its there, he carefully walks it back to his room, and looks at his menagerie. As he glances into cage after cage he has a horrid sinking feeling.
Every cage is open.
Every animal is loose.
Without even thinking, the curse rolls off his tongue. "Sithspit."
From the doorway he can hear his mother's voice. "You better have a really good reason to be using that type of language son."
He turns towards his mother, his face somewhat ashen. "They've all escaped."
Leia looks towards her oldest son for a moment, and then as realization sinks in glances towards the cages on the wall. Jacen spins back to the wall of cages, and quickly slides the snake he is holding back into its habitat. Then looking closer at the latch, he frowns slightly; someone or something had jimmied the latch. He looks at the next cage and then the next one, and it is the same for them all.
He looks around the room, and notices the box of Mogwai, the fifteen which came from Gizmo all asleep in a pile of fur. Frowning he looks around trying to find Gizmo, and finally spies him, sleeping on a shelf high off the floor.
Turning back to his mother, he sees her standing there, that somewhat shocked look on her face, and steps closer to her. "Mom?"
"Mom!""
She shakes her head slightly and focuses on her son. "Jacen, find your animals now."
Then she spins from him, and walks from the room, calling out in a raised voice. "Han, you're taking me out of this house now."
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Two hours later, Jacen has found his final pet, a poisonous trispider from Courkus. Picking the deadly animal up, he whistles as he walks back to his room to put away the trispider. Once it is safely put away, he frowns at the cages, trying to figure out once more just how they all got out in the first place. Hearing a sound, he turns and sees Tenel Ka walking into his room, wearing her customary lizard-skin armor.
She graces him with a flicker of a smile. "Are you ready to visit the university now?"
Jacen stands, and grabs a box. Walking over to the bundle of sleeping Mogwai, he looks down at them. "I wonder which of you want to go for a little trip."
Tenel Ka steps past him and picks up one that is all white except for a brown spot on his stomach. "This one."
"Why that one?"
"No reason. We are just pressed for time, and I did not wish to wait while you attempted to make a decision."
Jacen's mouth drops open slightly, as he tries to come up with a rebuke. Tenel Ka just smiles at him as Jacen opens the box, allowing her to put the furry animal in, and together they walk out of the room. Neither of them sees the Mogwai with the large stripe of white hair lift his head and watch as they leave; a malicious smile decorating his face.