Star Wars
Reincarnated as a Tooka
A Isekai Star Wars Story
Part 3 – Tooka Time
The last thing I remember hearing before everything went black was a calm voice. It was soft, melodic, almost like a soft chorus was trying to keep me from panicking. Why is everything suddenly so huge and loud ?
- Undryl Stathe, Rishi 21 days before Battle of Geonosis
Stepping out onto the main walkway of Raiders Cove, Undryl came to a fast halt at the sudden meowing noise to her left. Turning her feline face towards it she saw a much smaller Tooka curled up and grooming herself. The other tooka was clearly female and much smaller than Undryl might have liked. A beautiful white fur pattern with a dark colored tail and face
The other tooka meowed when Undryl halted and looked at her. But when she started to reach for the other tooka to pet her, a voice called out. "Muffin! Where are you girl ?!" it was a young boyish voice for sure. Looking around as the other tooka suddenly softened up and meowed again as if saying where she was to the person calling for her Undryl spotted a young boy about twice her size with long black hair and pale blue eyes.
A Cathar boy for sure. "There you are! You gotta stop rushing off like that ,you make me worried every time you do!" The boy picked up the smaller Tooka who purred in his arms and made a funny blep face at him as the boy snuggled her. "Did you make a friend, Muffin ?"
"Martin!" Called out a much older womans voice. The boy blushed and turned
"Over here Mother!" another Cathar, this time an older woman came into view, the dark fur with bright green eyes, long brown hair, she made Undryl nervous. "Muffin ran off, I had to get her again, you know how she doesnt like her kitty stroller."
The older Cathar woman sighed, "It is alright son, I managed to keep you in my eyesight, did you make a new friend ?" She asked her son.
Martin smiled slightly, "I asked Muffin that and she just meowed at me." he said truthfully. In truth he was nervous that there was a Tooka, a big Tooka, and was dressed like a Cathar, only much prettier. In Catharese the boy asked his mother "Mom, why is she dressed like that woman on the holo back home ?"
"I'm not sure son, but its something your father can try to explain when he gets back from his mission the Jedi wanted him for last week." The mother replied.
"Excuse me" Undryl asked out of the blue causing both much larger cats to look at her in confusion as Muffin purred and reached a paw towards Undryl. Booping her on the nose cutely "Can you tell me which way it is to the Blasters Path Cantina ?"
Martin smiled "The Tooka speaks ?!" He asked in both awe and somewhat in shock. His mother was much more well mannered and replied simply with a few directional points
"Down that walk, on the right. Cant miss it ,the music gets loud sometimes." She was however, as Undryl could tell, unnerved as to why a Tooka could not only speak basic so fluently, but also dress like a certain human on a holonet relay nearby.
"Thank you" Undryl said simply with a slight bow before parting from them, soliciting a somewhat mourned cry from the little Tooka in the boys arms.
Entering the Blasters Path Cantina was easier than Undryl, the now Tooka who was formally a beautiful human woman from Corellia thought possible. A three and a half foot tall Tooka dressed as a human walking on two legs was somehow normal in the galaxy then apparently, at least she wasnt green.
Humans, and aliens alike packed the structure and she went for the lower level and found the bar near the dance floor, the place was nearly empty down there but it was still poplated with beings from across the galaxy. The Holonet was broadcasting. And Undryl turned towards it.
The Tooka was curious and also hungry, apparently the bar keeper knew what she wanted and set it before her with a drink along with a question "Anything else ?"
"Yes" The Tooka replied "Personal holo for the holonet please, thank you" A moment later and Undryl the Tooka was reading the Holonet news broadcast of her own death and upcoming funeral. Bodgey would be present for it and Shianniah had been returned to her squad. The funeral was in two days time from that point. "How long have I beed dead ?"
"Answer:" Came the voice of the Force within her mind, "Two days to transfer to the new form, reaction speed has increased thirtyfold"
"Oh boy" Undryl the Tooka thought before sighing as she ate, "Can you at least tell me how to turn the loudness factor down or at least make it acceptable ? Everything is so loud for me right now." A few seconds passed and most of the louder noises were properly drowned out. The sounds in the room were still loud but it wasnt too bad, at least not as bad as it was before.
Undryl stared at her picture, she missed her old body already, too much so that she wanted to be at her own funeral. Which was possibly the strangest idea she had in her life. She needed a pilot or at least the means to get to a ship, preferably a CR90, or even a YT series would do. Anything to get to Corellia in time for her funeral all she needed at that moment was a pilot willing to take her to Corellia.
Finshing her meal she fished in her pocket for her credit stick and handed it to the keeper, the man scanned it, confirmed the founds transfer of credits and handed the credit stick back. "You seem troubled friend. What your problems ?" Came a voice
A very Rishii voice, a birdlike tone to it. Turning her beady eyes towards the Rishii, Undryl smirked, seeing the birdman "Are you a pilot ?"
"Name's Tooge, and yeah I got a ship, what does the Jedi Order need this Rishii for this time ? I swear I'm on the up and up since the last mission" Tooge was a brown and white feathered Rishii. He seemed nice enough, but his words made Undryl confused for a brief second or so.
"The last mission is not the concern, I need to get to..." Undryl stopped briefly, she had to get to Corellia, but she didnt want to say her home planet. "I need to get to Corellia, and quickly."
Tooge took a look at the holonet on the wall nearby. "I see, you want to attend the funeral of Undryl Stathe ? Is it that important to you to be there ?" The Rishii asked her.
"Yes, more then you realise." Undryl the Tooka replied with a calm nod, suddenly she felt calmer than she should have been, a Jedi was a calm person but a Sith was prone to anger issues. She was somewhere in the middle. "Undryl Stathe was a good friend of mine, if I cant be there in time for the funeral,..."
"I can understand that, Undryl was a close friend of a few Jedi so I hear, I can get you there. I have another passenger I need to pick up to take there as well, I wonder if you'll know them ? They're also Jedi. Nice guy too, though big and brutelike, he's got a good heart." Tooge said, he then gave Undryl the information of where his ship was currently docked then he left her to get his other passengers.
Undryl left the cantina had headed for the docks, the spacedocks were more or less landing pads and zones, and when she found the docking bay where Tooge's ship waited, a young woman was there waiting.
Seeing the Tooka wearing a rather beautiful designed dress that looked as if it would look absoutely stunning on a human being, the woman, a Jedi Padawan named Nyxia La Masou took a careful look at the Tooka and then her eyes widened, the brown haired girl recognised the Tooka. "Master ? What are you doing here ?"
"I have need to get to Corellia, it is of the utmost importantce I do so. There are... complications I must see to before the funeral of Undryl Stathe. You saw the holonet ?"
"Its all over the holonet. Undryl Stathe cut down in a attack at Axial Park, when the Chancellor heard about he called for a full week long recess of the Senate and went right to Corellia to speak with Tobias Stathe to express his condolences" The Padawan replid
"You feel familiar to me do I know you ?" Undryl herself asked
"I'm Nyxia La Masou" Nyxia replied "Almost everyone I know calls me Nyx or Nyxia" She said extending a hand, The Tooka took it and the two briefly shook hand and paw. "What should I call you ?"
"You recognised me as a fellow Jedi Master, that for now will do" Undrtyl said, thinking at that moment it was best to keep her real name hidden at this time.
"Very well, Master, were you a close friend of Undryl ? Word at the Temple was that Master Yodas old padawan, Master Stardrifter, was distrought when she heard the news" Nyxia said as the two stepped to the boarding ramp to get aboard the CR90, it made Undryl smile. She recognised the number for the SSI, she had explored it while it was on the assembly line, even pulled it off the line because of a crack in the pillar lines
So Tooge is the one who bought this ship ? It will do, the modification to the hyperdrive he wanted was illegal but thanks to Dad it got done. I hope it can get me to Corellia safely Undryl thought as Nyxia took her aboard.
"Master Boazi said for me to wait here for him to get back with our pilot. I wasnt expecting you to arrive before them." Nyxia said as they stopped in the foyer, Undryl knew the ins and outs of such a vessel easily
But she had to stopp herself, she knew it would be rude to do such a thing, the ship after all was not on the production line, and therefore it was not in the best interests whatsoever to even think of sneaking around in it. It not only wasnt lady like, but it also wasnt jedi like either.
So the two simply waited for Tooge and Master Vanvaris to return. As they waited, Undryl asked "Have you been with Master Vanvaris long ?"
"Three months now, he's my second master. Master Tang died in combat on Sullust, an alley fight between two rival gangs, he insisted I return to the temple. He never made it" Nyxia replied
"I am sorry I asked" Undryl replied, regret in her voice.
"Dont be, Master Vanvaris took it on himself to train me to the Trials. Master Tang took me on even before the Initate Trials at the Temple eighteen years ago" Nyixa said with a soft smile. Turning to the Tooka she regarded the small creature "Do you have a Padawan yet Master ?"
Undryl shook her head. "No, at least, not yet. For now I am content to carefully meditate if I should have one or not. So far I havent come to the conclusion that I should take on a Padawan" Undryl said truthfully, to be honest with herself, she even found that there were things she didnt know about the Force itself.
Honestly she thought it was just something that gave Bodgey her power and skills, and also enabled the eyeless Jedi she had called her best friend to see clearly. And from what Undryl knew, Tooka cats were colorblind. To a point. But Undryl herself saw clearly.
Nyxia seemed worried and excused herself, allowing undryl to be alone. "Once my funeral is over I wont be able to keep using my name, Undryl Stathe, will I ?" Undryl was partial to her own name, the name she had all her life, up until she was killed and woke up as a Tooka, on Rishi of all planets
"Answer: You will need to either be renamed by someone you can trust, or think up a name for yourself, Undryl Stathe was killed in an attack." Came the melodic reply as Undryl sat and meditated in the starships foyer.
"Great, so I cant be me anymore ?" Undryl thought
"Answer: No, you are you, but you cannot be who you were" Came the reply
"Even with a new name, I will always be Undryl Stathe in my heart, nothing will change that" Undryl thought
"Answer: Agreed, you are who you are, but you are now someone different" Came the melodic reply. Crypitc as ever.
"Fine, until I say otherwise, I will still use my true name, Undryl Stathe, the human, may be dead, but she is still alive in me." Undryl thought. There was no answer from the Force at that moment, had she been to heavy handed on her thoughts ? She hoped not.
Finally Undryl sighed Aside from my name issue, what importance was the relic I wanted Shenniah to take to Bodgey ?
"Answer: The relic you requested Sianniah to take is unknown, without details of the relic Jedi Master ability cannot give a proper answer" came the reply. Well great.
"I see, thank you Jedi Master, I think for now I will try to meditate and wait until Nyxia comes back with her master and also the pilot. Until then can you give me a rundown of the modifications to this CR90 since Tooge came to possess it ?" Undryl then asked
"Answer: Yes, Pilot Tooge, male Rishii native, an avian spieces, purchased the vessel through a credit line he was awarded by helping two Jedi on a mission. With his modifications sience purchase he has reinforced a few of the more vunreble sections and increased engine output twofold. Hyperdrive moficiations were done between himself and another pilot. Without the modifications, the hyperdrive is a class 1, military grade. Standard on all CR90 Corvettes. With the modifications, the hyperdrive is a class 0.23. Once cleared of Rishi, time to Corellia will be one hour"
"Thank you" Undryl sighed and sat as if meditating as nyxia came back, with her was the pilot, and behind him after a few paces was a big brute of a mancat that Undryl had ever seen. She had seen a few Cathar in her days, but nothing like this massive man-cat.
"Once you get settled, we can get underway, I already got clearance for liftoff." Tooge said
The Tooka woman opened her eyes and looked up at the Rishii, "Can we lift off now ? Before settling in ?"
"I can understand the need for urgency, but there are still a few minor things I need to do. Such as preflight." Tooge said
"Get to it then, the sooner we lift off the sooner I can get to Corellia to attend a few important things." Undryl replied, though she said it in a very polite manner, Tooge understood her desire for urgencey and movement over sitting around doing nothing.
"I can get started on the preflight, it shouldnt take more then a few minutes. Master Vanvaris, if you and your Padawan can see to it that our tanks are full could also speed things up." Tooge said as he unlocked the foyer and the four stepped into the corridor, Tooge headed for the bridge, Undryl right behind him.
Baozi watched the Tooka, dressed in hauntingly familiar pink and white clothing, where had he seen such clothing before ? It didnt matter at that moment. He could speak totheir mystery Jedi on the trip. He briefly watched however as the Tooka woman, it was clear the Tooka like creature was female, it kind of reminded him of a Jawa in terms of her size.
With a nod, Baozi and Nyxia headed down the ramp to check the fuel tanks, they were nearly full, only a few moments longer. "Master, is something wrong ?" Nyxia asked after a moment.
"Everything is wrong, nothing feels right. That womans urgent need to get to Corellia concerns me greatly, and yet the way she is dressed is not like a Jawa, nor does she refer to herself like a Jawa would." Baozi replied
Nyxia was confused and briefly tilted her head in the direction of the boarding ramp. "I dont understand Master, whats wrong with her ?"
"The way she is dressed, did you see the holonet reports of what Undryl Stathe looked like when she was viewed on the table in the hospital to be prepared for burial ?" Baozi asked
"You think that she had something to do with it ?" Nyxia asked confused, there was something odd with how the Tooka was dressed, the only other two people infact that had such an outfit was Undryl Stathe and her bodyguard Shianniah Twang of Coronet's Heroes. "Maybe she liked the outfit design and had one made for herself ?"
"You are thinking through the Force or through your mouth ?" Baozi asked her, a slight smirk on his face, making Nyxia blush briefly before she shrugged. "No matter, I will find out more on the flight to Corellia, you go ahead and get on board, the tanks are full. I will be right behind you" He told her, the girl nodded and went to go up the ramp as Boazi disconnected the fuel pipes and hoses before going up the boarding ramp.
It was going to be an eventful flight for certain.