Luke and Jelena pulled up to the wrecked sand-crawler, where Threepio and Artoo were stacking the dead Jawas on a funeral pyre. Ben saw the expression on their faces, and knew what had happened from that alone. He walked up to them, to offer what solace he could.

"There's nothing you both could have done.", he told them and to his surprise, Luke wasn't crying but Jelena was. "You'd have been killed too. And the droids would now be in the hands of the Empire."

Luke looked up at him. "We want to come with you to Alderaan." He said calmly, "There's nothing left for us here. We want to learn the ways of the Force, and become a Jedi like our father."

"I want to be a Jedi too, Ben. I want to make Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru proud" Jelena said in a hoarse voice.

Anakin smiled at the determination of his children but was scared for Jelena who wasn't able to pull herself together after the death of her uncle and Aunt.

The Masters present were impressed on how Luke controlled his anger and his grief despite not being raised as a Jedi youngling, as such losses that held so much attachment would surely lead to the Dark Side of of the Force whereas they weren't do sure about Jelena who wasn't able to pull herself together after the loss of Owen and Beru. Her grief.

Ben simply took them by shoulder, the fact that he was getting his way overshadowed by the reality of Luke and Jelena's situation. After the last of the Jawas was put to rest, everyone piled into the speeder and they took off. A few hours later, they sat on a ridge overlooking a bustling metropolis in the middle of the desert.

"Mos Eisley Space Port." Ben said, "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."

"I'd be surprised if Jabba is still alive at this point.", Anakin mused.

The town itself was madness. Droids were everywhere, doing all the heavy lifting in the sun, while the meatbags toiled in the shade, acting as merchants and laborers. Speeders filled the streets, and low-level aircraft buzzed overhead. One individual on a speeder biker almost crashed into some kind of brachiosaur animal carrying a pair of Jawas, but swerved at the last minute. The animal reared back, throwing one Jawa off, while the other held on for dear life as he hung from the reins.

As they approached the center of town, they were stopped by a team of Stormtroopers. Luke complied, not wanting to cause any trouble, and the leader of the troopers approached him.

"Imperial checkpoint? This isn't a good thing." Kit Fisto stated.

"What will Luke and Jelena do now?" Padme said in concern.

"Remember Master Kenobi is with them, Senator" Mace Windu said in assuring tone.

"I hope we don't get in trouble" Jelena whispered.

"We won't let me handle the situation" Obi Wan said.

"What are you going to do, Obi Wan?" Anakin asked his master.

"How long have you had these droids?", the Stormtrooper commander asked.

"Three, four seasons." Luke lied.

"They're up for sale if you want them." Ben added.

"What??" Anakin and Ashoka shouted at the same time.

"Calm down, both of you. I believe it is a part of my plan" Obi Wan said.

"Let me see your identification." He ordered.

"You don't need to see his identification." Obi-Wan said with a small grin, making a small gesture with his hands.

"We don't need to see his identifications." The trooper said to his men.

Anakin and the rest of the audience laughed at this, knowing this was the Jedi Mind Trick. "Classic Obi-Wan Kenobi!"

"These aren't the droids you're looking for."

"These aren't the droids we're looking for."

"He can go about his business."

"You can go about your business."

"Move along."

"Move along." He waved them forward, his squad backing up from the speeder.

"Crafty as always, Master Kenobi.", Luminara praised.

"Move along." Luke happily complied and didn't speak again until they stopped outside a collection of stone buildings.

"I don't get how we got past those troops, I thought we were dead." He said, shooing a Jawa away from his speeder.

"What you did there was great, Ben" Jelena said in the most happy voice since her Uncle's death.

"The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded." Ben said, expecting that to count as an explanation.

"I want to learn it" Luke said in a very excited voice.

"Me too" Jelena raised her hand.

"They can learn a lot from, Master Kenobi" Shaak Ti said.

"Well, let's just hope I'm not having an Anakin 2.0 and 3.0. I'd rather not deal with the whining inherited from their father", Obi-Wan joked with a smirk. A few chuckles were heard in room.

"Hey!"

Accepting that that was the best they were likely to get, Luke looked at the building they were headed to. "So, do you really we're gonna find a pilot here who can take us to Alderaan?"

"Well, most of the best freighter pilots can be found here. But, watch your step. This place can get a bit rough."

"I'm ready for anything." Luke said, patting the lightsaber hanging from his belt.

"What about you Jelena?" Ben asked her.

"I think I would like to remain outside" Jelena said nervously.

"You sure you will be okay outside?" Luke asked her.

"Yup, I am sure" Jelena said in a assuring tone. Luke reluctantly nodded and left with Ben.

"Why are you leaving her alone. You know that Most Eisley is full of criminals. Especially when she is vulnerable after the death of Owen and Beru" Anakin said angrily.

"Master,I am sure that Jelena can handle herself" Ashoka Tano said.

"But-"

"Anakin, I know that you are scared for her but you need to understand that she is an adult knows how to handle herself"

They walked in on a bustling cantina, filled to the gills with people, though only a few were actually human. The vast majority were aliens, no better way to put it. Vast majority of the patrons were leaning against the bar, drinking and smoking, while more filled the tables lining the walls.

"Other than pilots, what else can they find?", Caleb asked.

"Bounty Hunters, delinquents, mercenaries, thugs, you get the idea.", Rex answered the young Padawan.

Luke entered with Threepio and Artoo close by only to be stopped by the bartender.

"Hey! We don't serve their kind here." He said.

"What?" Luke asked, confused.

"Your droids! They'll have to wait outside, we don't want them here."

"Why don't you wait by the speeder? We don't want any trouble." He said to Threepio.

"I whole-heartedly agree, sir." He said, walking back up the stairs and leading Artoo outside.

Luke meanwhile, walked up to the bar, taking a spot between Ben and two thugs. He caught the bartender's attention and asked for whatever Ben was drinking.

He looked around the room, just innocently people-watching when he was forcefully turned to face a thug who spoke at him in a language he didn't understand. Not knowing what had just happened, he let it go and turned back to his drink. No sooner had it touched his lips than he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned to see it was another man, with a disfigured face.

"He doesn't like you." he said, pointing to his sneering partner

"I'm sorry." Luke said, trying desperately to make himself invisible.The other man made Luke look at him.

"I don't like you either. You better watch yourself. We're wanted men. I have the death sentence in twelve systems."

"Is he for serious saying this loudly in a cantina full of bounty hunters?" Mundi asked with his one eyebrow raised.

"I guess he is trying to sound dangerous in front of Luke" Ashoka said.

"Or maybe he is too overconfident about escaping" Obi Wan stated.

"Or he is dumb" Rex said.

"I'll be careful." He said, wishing they would go away.

"You'll be dead!"

"Step away from my son" Anakin said loudly to the man on screen. Not wanting his son to get hurt.

"This little one isn't worth your time." Ben said, intervening on Luke's behalf. "Now, let me buy you a drink."

With a roar, the criminal shoved Ben to the side, throwing him into a table. Ben went for his lightsaber, while the thug went for a blaster. Ben managed to parry the first shot and reversed into a slash, the blue blade cutting off the thug's arm above the elbow and cauterizing the wound to prevent blood loss.

"Master Kenobi, you will get yourselves caught!", Shaak Ti reprimanded the Jedi Master.

"If it's to help Luke, I wouldn't mind.", Anakin interjected.

The screen cut to the outside of the cantina where Jelena was standing by the speeder.

She looked at the Cantina looking for any signs of Luke and Ben. To her disappointment, she didn't find any.

Jelena closed her eyes and leaned her body against the speeder and sighed. "I think I should have gone with Ben and Luke"

"Hello beautiful" said a manly voice.

Jelena looked at her right and saw a man in his late 20s standing there. Blue eyes, fair skin, brown hair and beard with his lips curved in slight smirk.

"Hello to you too" Jelena said flatly. She was in no mood to talk right now but at least she can return the greeting.

"Who is that scoundrel?" Anakin said with narrowed eyes. He didn't liked the way that man was looking at his daughter. It felt like this man was going to be a big part of his children's life.

Everyone's eyes turned to him look at him incredulously.

"Anakin you haven't known the man for three seconds and you are calling him scoundrel?" Obi Wan asked him with an 'are you serious' look.

"I don't like him, master. Not around my daughter" Anakin said with a huff.

"Just look at his smirk and the way he said "Hello Beautiful". Is that a way to talk? No it's not. It's written all over his face that he is a scoundrel" Anakin stated and huffed in annoyance. He crossed his arms infront of his face.

"Skyguy, he may not be a scoundrel and what's so wrong by saying 'Hello'" Ashoka Tano stated with an eye roll.

"I don't like him. Case closed" Anakin said and turned back to the screen.

"Overprotective Skywalker" Yoda said and chuckled a little.

"Why a beautiful woman like you is standing here alone?" The man asked as he looked around.

"Because I want to" Jelena replied flatly but rudely. The man's eyes raised a little taken aback by rudeness.

"Okay, I fine. Will you mind if I give you company"

Jelena rolled her eyes in annoyance. This man was irritating he was riling her up but it was better to have a company instead of standing here all alone.

"No, I have no problem" she replied. The said man stood by her speeder.

"Where are you from?" The man asked.

"Tatooine and you?" Jelena asked.

"Corellia. Oh I forgot to introduce the humble and gorgeous person I am. Mike. Mike Solo" Mike said and extended his hand for a handshake.

"I am Jelena. Jelena Skywalker" Jelena replied as she shook his hand. She gave him a small smile.

"What are you doing here, Jelena?" Mike asked.

"Looking for a off planet transportation. You?"

"I am a smuggler" Mike said with a little smirk.

"I told you he is a scoundrel. No wonder he might have a lot of people looking for him" Anakin said.

"Geez, Skyguy. You are reacting like this when a man is talking to your daughter. How will you react when she goes on a date and has a boyfriend?" Ashoka said.

'Boyfriend?No not at all. She is too young for this' Anakin thought to himself in horror.

"You are a smuggler?" Jelena asked with her eyes wide in surprise wanting to make sure whether what he said was true or not.

"Of course I am, sweetheart" Mike said with a smile as he leaned a little close to her and bent his head down a little so that there eyes are on same level.

"Don't call her sweetheart. She has a name which is 'Jelena'." Anakin called out loudly as if wanting the man to hear him. Everyone else ignored him.

"Dont call me sweetheart. I have a name which is Jelena" Jelena said as she took a step behind to make some distance between them. Mike stepped back a little and raised his hand sin surrender.

"Skyguy Junior is repeating her father's words" Ashoka said to Rex which laughed a little.

Before anyone of them could say anything. The voice of Threepio came.

"Master Jelena, I was sent back by Master Luke"he said.

"Okay, Threepio" Jelena said and turned back to Mike.

"Well, is that your droid?" Mike asked her.

"Yeah" Jelena said while still maintaining a distance between them.

Meanwhile inside the cantina a whole different scenario was taking place.

Calmly, he returned to a standing position, daring anyone to try something, anything. When nobody did, he deactivated his saber. The other patrons returned to their business, the music resumed and Ben helped Luke to his feet. A large hairy Wookie was also beside him.

"Wait...it's Chewbacca!", Ahsoka pointed out at the hairy Wookie.

"You know him, 'Soka?", asked Plo Koon, curious.

"I met him once at Wasskah. We escaped together from Trandoshan slavers.", she stated.

"Thanks." He said with a grunt.

"Chewbacca here, is first mate of a ship that might suit us." He urged.

Outside, Threepio, Artoo, Jelena and Mike were waiting by the speeder. A squad of Stormtroopers had arrived nearby and were talking to some locals. Neither could quite figure out what they were talking about, but the pointing didn't seem good."I don't like the look of this." Threepio said to his counterpart, who whistled in agreement.

"Ma'am Jelena there are a lot of stormtroopers here" Threepio told her. The said woman was talking to Mike.

"W..What?" Jelena asked as she looked ta stormtroopers.

"Where is Luke an Ben?" Jelena asked Threepio with her eyes widen in surprise.

"They are inside. Looking for a way to get out." Threepio told her.

"Are you a runaway criminal, Jelena?" Mike asked her with amusement.

"No, I am not but I am asking about my brother that's it" Jelena said as she fidgeted with her fingers.

"I have to go" Jelena said and walked towards the Cantina. Mike following her inside.

"Are you following me?" Jelena asked him.

"Maybe I am or maybe I am not" Mike replied with an amused smile as they both reached the doors of Cantina.

"Are you to trying to flirt with me?" Jelena asked him. Mike simply gave her a smile and opened the door of Cantina gesturing her to enter it first.

"Is he trying to flirt with my daughter?" Anakin asked.

"Looks like he is" Padme said quietly.

"He is a terrible flirt" Anakin said angrily.

"At least it's better then hearing about your hatred for sand" Padme said with a smile.

Back inside, Ben, Luke and Chewie sat down at a table across from a pair of smugglers. One was fair-skinned man with a scruffy haircut, had the appearance of a mercenary and a rogue pilot.

"Han Solo. Captain of the Millennium Falcon." He introduced himself as he sat down. "Chewie here tells me you're looking for passage to the Alderaan system"

"Solo. Is he related to Mike?" Obi Wan asked.

"I guess he is" Plo Kaan stated.

"I don't trust him" Anakin said with a stern face.

"Seriously, why are you judging him just like Mike. You looked at them for like three seconds and you don't like them" Obi Wan said.

"Instinct" Jedi Knight said as he thought that these two men might be a very big part of his children's life.

"That's right, if it's a fast ship." Ben said.

"A fast ship? You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?"

"Should I have?"

"It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs." Seeing their looks of disbelief, he got a little irritated.

"That's impossible!", both Plo Koon and Saesee Tiin said at the same time. Being starpilots themselves, they knew that was no easy feat nor had anyone accomplished that.

"What are parsecs?" Caleb asked.

"It is a unit of astral distance measurement." Master Bilaba told her Padawan.

"So this Kessel Run usually takes 12 parsecs to complete, and he claims to have done so in less?" Ahsoka asked.

"Maybe."

"So, he cheated." Anakin guessed.

"We do not know. He may have took a shorter, albeit far more dangerous route than the norm.", Shaak Ti replied.

"Or maybe he is a very good pilot"

Author's Note

Here is our second OC,Mike Solo. Mike solo is portrayed by Chris Pine.

Hope you liked the chapter? Do tell your favorite moment from it.