Chapter Twenty-One: Summary

If Mission sat any longer watching gizkas hop around the beach, she'd go insane.

Jolee and T3 were working on fixing the hyperdrive as much as they could, Juhani was meditating—as per usual, Mission thought—and hadn't been seen since Revan, Carth, and Canderous left, HK-47 was busy patrolling the beach looking for "hostile, bug-eyed meatbags," and Zaalbar was taking a nap in the sand simply because he could.

"I'm bored," Mission sighed. She sat cross-legged in the shade of the Ebon Hawk and began drawing patterns in the sand. She wrote her name in Basic, then in Huttese, Bocce, and Rodese. She attempted her name in Mando'a, but couldn't remember the corresponding characters. Mission frowned, then erased her names from the sand. She sighed again and lay down on her stomach, watching Zaalbar nap.

Revan, Carth, and Canderous had been gone for eight standard hours. Did it really take that long to find the temple? Mission rolled over on her back and looked up at the sky. "You know, Zaalbar," she said, "I couldn't wait to get off the Hawk and on the ground so I could look up at the sky again. But now…" She looked over at Zaalbar. "Oh, not like you're listening anyway." Mission grumbled to herself then closed her eyes, soaking in the warm sun…

Mission eventually fell asleep. She awoke to a squawking gizka in her ear. She opened her eyes and noticed that it was dusk. Mission sat up, gave the gizka a pet, then looked around. Zaalbar was awake, sitting on a rock talking to Jolee. Mission stood up, brushed the sand off her slacks, then walked over. "They back yet?" she asked.

Jolee shook his head. "It's been twelve hours."

"What could be taking so long?" Mission asked.

"Well, they have to find parts for the ship and make their way inside that temple," Jolee said.

"Isn't there some way to contact them?"

Jolee smiled. "They're fine, Mission. I can feel it."

Zaalbar barked and growled. Mission smiled. "We'll feed you, don't worry." She stretched her legs, then sat down on a nearby rock. "I still kinda wish we coulda gone with them."

"And who's here to protect the ship?" Jolee asked.

Mission snorted. "Oh, yeah, sure, like it's goin' anywhere."

"That's not what—"

HK interrupted. "Warning: Someone's approaching!"

Mission grabbed her blaster and Jolee his lightsaber. Zaalbar let out a cry and stood ready to attack.

"Declaration," HK yelled. "Identify yourselves!"

"Will you put that frackin' thing down before you kill someone?"

Mission smiled. "Canderous!"

Canderous and Carth walked around the corner and right for the Ebon Hawk. Mission noticed right away their armor was covered in blood splatters and dirt smears, and Canderous was donning a new bloody scar on his face. Carth looked even more depressed than usual, while Canderous looked alive and happy.

"Wait, where's Revan?" Mission asked. She looked all around, then at Carth. "Where is she?"

"It's… a long story, Mission," Carth said. "I'm… I'm gonna go get… cleaned up." He walked past Mission and onto the ship.

Mission watched him walk past, then turned to Canderous. "Well?" she demanded. "Where is she?"

"Republic's right," Canderous snorted. "It is a long story."

"So tell us, already!" Jolee cried.

Canderous sat down on a boulder. "So we get to the temple," he said. "Took us about half an hour to get there, give or take. The temple's doorway is guarded by an energy shield. We spent time trying to hack into it, but we couldn't. While we're tryin' to get in, a band of Mandalorian raiders ambushes us. There were seven, no eight of them. Comin' from all sides. So you know Revan. One flick of that lightsaber o'hers. Man, I'm tellin' ya. She sliced right through 'em—"

"Get to the part where you tell us where Revan is," Mission snapped.

"I'm gettin' there," Canderous said. "So Revan, Republic, and I mow these pirates down. We go back to fussin' with the energy field when Revan has another one of those visions of hers. She didn't say what she saw, only that we needed to go south." Canderous shrugged. He opened up a pocket on his armor and pulled out a cigar. "So we go south. We walk for another mile or two and come across these two baby rancors."

"Baby rancor?" Jolee asked.

"Two of 'em," Canderous said. "Revan flicks on that lightsaber, they're dead."

Mission snorted. "You're makin' that up."

Canderous pointed to the blood on his cheek. "Where do you think I got this?" He turned to Jolee. "Turn on that lightsaber of yours."

Jolee's brow wrinkled, and he did as told. Canderous placed the tip of his cigar on the blade of the saber, lighting the end of his cigar. "Thanks."

Jolee snorted and turned the saber back off.

"Anyway," Canderous said. "So we leave the two baby rancor there, and keep goin'. At the end of the beach there's his complex. We walk up and this hologram starts talkin' to Revan. She understands what it's sayin', and then we go inside."

"And that's where Revan is," Mission said.

"Will you let me finish?" Canderous took a puff on the cigar. "We get inside and there're these bug-eyed things. They call themselves Rakatan. They know who she is, and they talk for a while. Carth and I just stood there, listening, not understanding a word."

"So where's Revan?"

Canderous glared at the twi'lek. "The Rakatan tell us they control the energy field on the temple. They tell Revan that they'll open the temple, but first we gotta go do somethin' for them. Seems there's a rival tribe on the island that kidnapped one of their people… or fishes… whatever the hell they are. Anyway, if we want access into the temple, we gotta go rescue their friend."

Canderous took another puff on his cigar. "So we make our way back the way we came, kill two more rancors, back to the temple—"

"Two more rancors?" Mission asked. "Now I know you're makin' that up."

"Back to the temple," Canderous continued, "back down the path that originally took us to the temple, then down this tiny trail that leads north. We're greeted by more of these bug-eyed-things along the way—oh, and Carth picked up the parts he needs, by the way—then we're greeted by the army of this rival tribe and their pet rancors."

Mission shook her head.

"So we plow through them," Canderous said. He chuckled and shook his head. "Man, I'm tellin' ya. You shoulda see the way Revan—"

"Will you get on with it!" Mission cried.

Canderous snorted. "We plow through those guys, get inside their enclave, and the entire place is ready to kill us. Carth and I are shootin', Revan's hackin' and slashin'… We're hittin' anything that moves. There were hundreds of these bug-eyed-things. And Revan, she's like a one-woman fightin' machine. I've never seen her—"

"So did you rescue the guy?"

"Yes, Mission, we rescued him," he said, "only after having to fight four more rancors, and another mini-army of those creatures. Happy?" He spit on the ground and took another puff of the cigar. "So that guy goes back home to his friends, we hike all the way back to the first tribe, they agree to open up the energy field."

"So where's Revan?"

"The Rakatan wouldn't let me and Carth go in with her," Canderous explained. "Said it was against their law, or religion, or somethin' like that. I don't speak their language."

"So Revan's inside all by herself?" Jolee asked.

Canderous shrugged. "Apparently they gotta chant, or somethin', for the field to go down. Said it could take hours."

"And you let her do this?" Jolee cried.

"Hey, it wasn't my idea, old man!" Canderous defended. "Half the reason we're so late gettin' back here is good ol' Republic boy threw a temper-tantrum he couldn't go with her. Then he damn near sucked her face off in a goodbye kiss. Almost had to stun him and tie him up in order to get him to leave her side."

"You shouldn't've left her!" Jolee said. "She can't do this alone!"

"You wanna go back and argue with the giant squids, then be my guest!" Canderous cried. "Force knows they didn't listen to me! And Carth didn't exactly go quietly, either!"

Jolee shook his head. "You could have at least stood outside—"

"They weren't gonna start the Energy Field Please Go Down chant if we were there, old man," Canderous said. "Like I said, go there and see for yourself. Take a right then a left and keep walkin'."

"Something's not right," Jolee muttered to himself.

Canderous snorted. "Yeah, I'll tell you what's not right. Republic boy screamin' he wanted nothing to do with the woman who destroyed his life, now he's boffin' her every chance he gets."

Mission groaned.

"Tellin' ya, the man should just walk around naked," Canderous continued. "Saves time."

"You know, I really didn't need that mental image," Mission snapped.

Jolee suddenly turned and ran up the Ebon Hawk ramp. Mission and Canderous watched, Canderous theorizing he had the sudden urge to use the refresher. A few moments later, Jolee and Juhani emerged from the ship. "What's up?" Canderous asked.

"We're going after her," Jolee said. "She's not going in there alone."

"Yeah, good luck with that," Canderous snorted. "If the Rakatan stop their chanting cuz you two show up, they'll need to start at the beginning…"

For those of you who have not played the game, I apologize for the summary of the "Unknown Planet." If you really want to know exactly what occured, please play the video game. If I had spelled out all the events, it would have derailed the fan fic. So the summary will have to sufice.