Terri stirred awake slowly, what time was it? the last couple days had been such a blur, they had been so close to being caught on Jagomir she had been so scared but Zash had told her not to jump to hyperspace. She didn't understand why but she said it would keep them off their back, she had to trust her right? she hadn't steered her wrong so far.

Terri made her way to the cockpit where she could see a light green planet through the viewport "morning Zash" Zash seemed to come out of daze turning to look at Terri

Zash shook her head "oh good morning Terri my apologies I was miles away" Terri nodded sitting down next to her, Zash was probably meditating or something she had to get all that power from some kind of discipline. Zash gestured to the planet "I present the planet Kowak, commercially know for the export of the Kowakian Monkey Lizard but more notably for us a plant which has been reported to turn them mad" Terri frowned that was a lot of information all at once. She remembered Lusari had at one point been obsessed with the lizards, she thought they were adorable but Terri had to disagree they seemed so grumpy all the time Lusari had always liked weird things though.

Terri realised she hadn't responded for over a minute "uh um I assume the plant is the ingredient" Zash didn't seem to notice her get distracted at least

Zash nodded "well sort of, the list gives a very vague name of Stingwort extract, but I did some research and found out that common stingwort merely cause anaphylactic shock and death" Terri chuckled she'd clearly done her research

Terri smiled "merely death huh?" Zash looked confused at her but then her face softened into a smile

she let out a slight chuckle "yes, well anyway I found that a rare strain of red Stingwort present on Dathomir and on this planet, apparently there is research being done on Kowak about it's effects on animals" Terri nodded along trying her best to understand as Zash continued to ramble "apparently a bile secretion can cause the monkey lizards to become savage and or insane" Terri's eyes widened that was horrifying those poor lizards

Terri cocked her head "you found this all out on the holonet?" Zash gave her a coy smile

she chuckled "well not exactly it was a top secret project but clearly not well secured enough for me" Terri nodded she wasn't so sure the methods were right but taking down this lab seemed like a good idea, for the lizards of course and for Lusari she'd hate this.

Terri picked up the list of ingredients "are you sure this is the right thing?" she wouldn't exactly want to waste that time if it wasn't even the right ingredient

Zash shrugged "it's the best option we have but don't worry I've got a pretty good hunch about this one" Terri conceded if Zash was sure she trusted her judgement

After a short flight Zash landed the ship in a clearing and brought up a holopad, Terri was still unclear on the plan but she assumed Zash had one, she was certainly acting like she had one.

Zash made her way into the humid jungle air "ok the lab isn't too far from here and the security seems less than apt, we should be able to steal some of the bile as long as we're sneaky" Terri nodded glad she had a personal stealth field

Terri was curious about the lab though "are we just gonna get in and out? it seems kinda uh" Terri trailed off not sure if she should say it

Zash frowned at her "no go ahead speak your mind" Terri smiled she guessed it wasn't so bad

Terri held her neck "well uh doing experiments on animals seems a little wrong, I dunno Lusari always liked these lizard things and I think she wouldn't want it to continue" Zash nodded as they crept towards the compound

Zash smiled at Terri "tell you what if we have time we can also make sure they can't test anymore how about that" Terri smiled she didn't know how to explain it she just wanted to help

soon they were at the compound wall and Zash turned to Terri "ok I'm going to stride through I'll try and find something to help you get in" Terri nodded watching as Zash vanished through the wall, she wished she could do that it would certainly save a lot of time.

She poked at the floor with a stick as she waited around but suddenly she felt something land on her shoulder, she turned to see a red monkey lizard sitting there looking at her. Terri jumped back in alarm as it clinged to her shoulder looking at her quizzically

it cocked it's head at her "um hello?" Terri said cautiously it let out a friendly scree at her. Terri cautiously moved her finger closer to scratch its chin, it quickly moved in for a scratch "wow you're really friendly aren't you?" it cocked its head at her again. She looked around "um are you going to uh get off me" it didn't seem to understand just sitting on her shoulder "ok fine but if you're going to sit there you have to be quiet" it let out a quiet scree, Terri let out a sigh of relief it seemed to somewhat understand

Suddenly she noticed a long hose drape down the wall next to her, she guessed Zash had found a way to get over, she did her best to climb it but it did take her the better part of 15 minutes.

Finally she shimmied down next to Zash "finally Terri we're not trying to get caught you know" Terri looked away awkwardly

she stammered "sorry I'm not very good at climbing" Zash nodded seeming a little annoyed

Zash chuckled "just count yourself lucky this lab only built Ferrocrete walls…" she was going to continue but then she noticed the Monkey Lizard on Terri's shoulder "what exactly is that" Terri looked away she was really in for it today

"um well he landed on my shoulder and wont leave" Zash sighed holding her head

Zash turned to the lizard "ok fine but it better stay quiet or else" the lizard let out an aggravated scree at Zash before falling silent. Zash shook her head "lets just get inside activate your stealth field" Terri nodded as Zash disappeared from sight

Terri gave the lizard a scratch "Ok be quiet umm" how should she refer to him "Scrap" that seemed accurate enough. Scrap let out a little chuckle patting her shoulder before falling silent, Terri sighed she had a feeling she'd accidentally adopted a monkey lizard Lusari would be so proud.

They made their way into the lab following a scientist in and soon found themselves in the equivalent of a botanical garden, Terri had to admit it was very pretty in here.

Zash grabbed her hand leading her forward as she whispered "the red Stingwort is this way follow me, Zash lead her towards a large door. Once inside they were met with the sight of a large red almost bulb which sat with many tubes coming off it leading to different pieces of equipment.

They crept forward but Zash held Terri back as they noticed two figures in the room, they seemed to be discussing the plant the one facing towards them was a Duros they seemed to be holding a syringe hopefully of the Stingwort essence.

The other seemed human or at least near human her hair was short and a mix of red and black when she spoke her voice almost seemed to echo it was weirdly familiar "get this version of the formula finished as soon as possible this may be exactly what we need to gain control over the behaviour" the Duros nodded and the human left heading away from the plant lab.

The Duros seemed to get right back to work as Terri and Zash stood there, Terri whispered "what should we do?" could they just steal it now? was that even the right formula?

Zash responded quickly "leave the Duros for now head lets head over to the plant I can work out how to extract it from there" Terri nodded only then realising Zash couldn't see that. They crept over to the plant as the Duros began to hum a tune to himself, after a few minutes of Terri standing around not understanding any of the contraptions around her Zash tapped her on the shoulder "I got it they're extracting it out here" she lead her over to a terminal where a small jar half full of pink fluid was slotted in being very slowly filled "it's extremely volatile so we most likely will have to take it all or it will break down" Terri had no problem with that this all seemed very sketchy

But as Zash was carefully picking up the jar Scrap let out a scree, Terri jumped back in shock oh no why couldn't he have stayed quiet she began whispering "sshhhhh it's ok scrap" but it was too late the Duros looked over towards them

he narrowed his eyes "is someone there?" he made his way over as Terri froze up what should she do? before she could think of anything she saw Zash appear behind him and with a quick smack with the jar he was out cold

Zash looked to Terri "I told you that thing would be trouble" Terri let her invisibility drop too and nodded

she couldn't deny this was scraps fault "yeah sorry I thought he'd be quiet" Zash turned around without a word heading to where the Duros was working

she pocketed the syringe he'd been messing with "it's fine at least now we can take this as well, whatever that woman was talking about has piqued my interest" she made her way over to the plant "oh also I believe you wanted to stop this cruelty right?" she put her hand on the plant and concentrated. Terri watched as it slowly began to wither the buds leaves slowly cracking and releasing a black ichor, soon however all that was left was some dead plant matter and a puddle of black sludge. "there we are no more testing and we have our Stingwort essence" Terri was bewildered she made that look easy

Terri's eyes were wide "wow Zash you seem right in your element" Zash smiled at her passing Terri the jar of bile

Zash smiled "believe it or not this isn't the first time I've nicked a powerful compound from an enemy" Terri chuckled she definitely believed that. Terri put the jar in her bag as Zash dragged the Duros into a hiding spot, Terri would feel bad but he was doing experiments on animals he seemed like a baddie.

But then suddenly she heard something faint from behind her, she swivelled around and gasped in shock as the woman from before stood in front of her. But it wasn't just anyone, the cracked face, the yellow eyes, the red and black hair and that demeanour it was Darth Malora.

She frowned at her "well well well there appears to be some escaped acolytes in my lab" she put her arm into her labcoat and drew her lightsaber "now what could such entertainment be doing here?"…