16-year-old Katooni ran back towards their freighter Rusty Angel as fast as she could, at the market on Chandrila she had somehow caught the attention of some Imperial Stormtroopers and when she didn't show her Identification the had started shooting after her and she'd been forced to pull her lightsaber on them, which they had avoided as much a possible but the situation had called for it, hopefully, no one had caught footage of what happened. Generally, they did not come to core worlds, it was to close to Coruscant or Imperial Center as it was now called, but they had needed to leave the outer rim for awhile the Rusty Angel had caught the attention of the Hutt's when they had helped some slaves escape from Tatooine, they had been transporting them to different worlds and one had been from Corellia, so they had dropped him off there and she'd grabbed some food well they were on the ground and it had been a mistake.

She ran onto the Rusty Angel and called "Petro can you please get us out of here!"

"Yeah, why what happened?" Petro called as he started the ship and piloted it off the surface of Corellia.

"Stormtroopers, I had to use my lightsaber, hopefully, no one got any footage, but it's a Core World so I'm pretty sure I am going to have an Imperial bounty on my head soon," Katooni told him as she sorted through the items she'd gotten at the market.

"You still got food, that's good," Ganodi said when she entered the room after hearing the conversation.

"Yep, I still haven't figured out what I did to catch the attention of the stormtroopers," Katooni said regretting whatever she did.

"Hey, it's not your fault, it was bound to happen sometime, and it could have been any one of us" Petro comforted her from his seat piloting the freighter.

"Petro's right, we have things to do not regretting something we don't even know we did" Ganodi prodded gently.

"Your right, is it time to go back to Dantooine and the others?" Katooni asked.

"Sure, I miss Zatt and the others" Petro nodded at her suggestion and he put the coordinates into the Navi-Computer, the ships name fit it, the ship was rusty and often needed repairs but it had gotten them out of several nasty situations, thus the name the Rusty Angel, it was Rusty and it was their Angel.

As the ship entered hyperspace Petro got up from his seat and went out to the main area and asked, "Who wants to spar?"

"I would love to," Katooni said as she got up and summoned her lightsaber towards her and they walked towards the training room where Ganodi was practicing with a seeker droid Zatt had built them.

They walked onto a different mat and ignited their lightsabers, two blades sprung out and Petro immediately went on the offensive striking at her head before switching directions and going towards her side, which she blocked before attacking and the became a blur of strikes and blocks, then Katooni jumped over him swinging at his back and he spun around and blocked the attack before slipping down and attacking her legs which she jumped over blocking his attack to her back and she turned around striking at his shoulder and he blocked pushing her back with his superior strength before using her speed she moved out of the way and used a force enhanced kick to his side and brought her blade to his neck and he was forced to admit defeat.

"You beat me there" Petro commented, "good move kicking me, it took me by surprise."

"Yeah, I decided it was time I brought some of more of our martial arts skills to our duels" Katooni replied smiling.

"That was a great move, Katooni," Ganodi said having finished practicing during the fight she joined their conversation.

"Thanks, Ganodi" Katooni thanked her smiling.

"We should see if they got footage of you" Petro suggested.

They turned on the HoloNews and what greeted them was Katooni, but the Empire had cut parts to make it seem that a Jedi that had survived the purge was going and killing people.

"Ugh, they changed the footage, so stupid, people who watch this stuff never get the truth," Ganodi said as she shut off the HoloNews.

"People who think the Empire is good need some help" Petro said thinking of all the evil things the empire had done.

"Not everyone, some of them have been manipulated to believe that the Empire is good when it isn't," Katooni said knowing that some people had been manipulated to believe the Empire was good.

"Katooni's right" Ganodi understood what she meant.

"I know, sometimes it's hard to think that anyone in the right mind would believe the Empire, but Palpatine is a master manipulator, which he would probably take as a great compliment," Petro said thinking about the man who had ordered the destruction of the Jedi a sad look past over his face as he thought of all the friends he'd lost.

"I wonder how Gungi is," Katooni thought of the last time they'd seen him he'd been shot by Hutt's, and they'd taken Rust Bucket back to Dantooine instead of coming with them to take the slaves to different planets.

"I'm sure he's doing good, he's tough and he had Zatt and Byph looking after him" Ganodi reassured her.

"I still can't wait to see them; it's been over a month," Katooni said extremely happy to be seeing her friends again.

"So, what should we do well were in hyperspace?" Katooni asked.

"What about a game of Sabacc?" Petro asked.

"Sure" Ganodi and Katooni answered.

An hour later a moan came from both Ganodi and Petro when Katooni won for the fifth time in a row.

"I can't believe I suggested this game" Petro complained.

"I can't believe I agreed to play this game" Ganodi joined in the complaining.

"We can quit now, you know" Katooni suggested tired of their groaning and complaining.

A game later Petro said "I quit" when she won again.

"Me too, we obviously can't beat you" Ganodi grumbled.

"Why don't we work on our martial arts sparring?" Katooni suggested happy to be done with their grumbling.

"Let's," Ganodi said excitedly at the prospect of doing something different.

xXx

They exited hyperspace and landed by the Rust Bucket and exited the Rusty Angel quickly when the saw the others they had a huge group hug.

"How are you Gungi?" Katooni asked.

Gungi answered in his language "Byph and Zatt took great care of me."

"That's good to hear, I'm glad you are all better now," Katooni said relieved as they moved into their base to catch up.