The One Beneath the Beige Cloak
Buck walked around the market place hoping to spot the beige cloaked figure and their golden astromech. He had o stop when he saw two familiar Gamorrian guards with droids carrying blasters talking to a few citizens.
He watched as one of the drods produced a disk and from it a spinning hologram of Buck's face showed. Buck clicked his tongue in annoyance a the picture which the droid that discovered him must have taken when they were escaping from the auction house.
"I should get myself a cloak." He said before remembering the Mandolorain helmet he had been carrying around. He put it on and passed by the querying Gamorrians and their droid companions.
While walking through he heard a loud commotion. He decided to investigate just in case it had something to do with his target. When he got closer he noted two beings on the floor, fighting. As the other kicked the being on top off, she recognised the two dark orange tendrils very well.
As the Zygerrian stepped on Dyna he approached him, which was easy because of how he was distracted. He fired a warning shot at the Zygerrian's foot before pressing the barrel to his chest before he could use his pistol.
"I suggest you leave her alone," Buck said, barely able to hold back the anger in his voice.
"B-Buck? Is that you?" Dyna said weakly as she rose to her feet.
"Yes," Buck said, not taking his eyes off the man with the elctro-whip. "Drop your weapon!"
Bajan dropped his whip as a charming smile spread across his face. "Now calm down friend, I'm sure we..."
Buck used the butt of his pistol to knock Bajan across the face. The other Zygerrians flinched forward but Buck trained his pistol on them. "Don't you dare!" Buck returned his aim at Bajan while he took Dyna's holster from him and tossed it to her.
Dyna withdrew her own pistol and shot her chains off before she pointed her gun at the Zygerrians.
"Are you okay?" Buck said as he stepped back to join Dyna while Bajan crawled on his butt and hands towards his comrades.
"Yes," Dyna said bitterly. "I think they wanted to make me a slave."
Buck gritted his teeth angrily. "Slavers, one of the biggest scum the galaxy."
There was more commotion behind them as the authorities were coming.
"Damn it, we can't stay here." Buck said.
Dyna heard the urgency in his voice. "Okay, then we'll leave."
"What should we do with this trash?" Buck said looking at the Zygerrians.
"Leave them," Dyna said as she put her gun back into her holster, "for now, they aren't worth our time."
As soon as the Zygerrians saw them put away their weapons they regained their confidence. "This... is not over." Bajan said as the two groups ran away in order to evade the authorities.
/
"I can't believe slavery still exists!" Buck said clenching his fists in anger.
"You and me both," Dyna said, exhaustedly. Her wrists and shoulder had already began taking on an unhealthy purple colour because of the bruising she sustained when she tried to escape.
"Maybe you should go and see a doctor," Buck suggested.
Dyna raised her hand no. "I'll be fine. I just need a rest. This has been quite a night and I didn't even find anything."
"We should quit while we're still ahead." Buck said.
Dyna sighed sadly. "Maybe you're right. I mean on our first night I get abducted. You must have lost all faith in me." Dyna looked down sadly.
"Never," Buck said stopping in front of her and putting his hands on her shoulder. "You're strong Dyna and you don't need no Jedi to be that."
"But I can be stronger Buck. If I find a master then I can be strong enough to save..." Dyna looked away as tears came unbidden to her eyes. "I know if we can find something. Did you find anything?"
Buck looked into her shinning eyes. They were filled with both hope and sadness, sadness that he could take away with the truth.
"No," he lied. Buck considered it a necessary lie. He had already lost an ally to the strange mechanisms of the Force and he was not going to allow it to take Dyna away from him.
"Let's go," Dyna said, hanging her head as they made their way to the Diversity.
/
They walked around for a while before they both realised that they did not know there way around the market and therefore they had no way to get back to their ship.
"Is there no end to this place?" Buck said annoyed.
"Maybe we should ask for directions," Dyna said.
"I can't believe I got lost while walking," Buck complained. "Who does that?"
They walked to a man who they would ask for directions. That was before someone crashed into them. Dyna and Buck looked at the person in surprise, both their hands on their blasters in case it was the Zyggerrians come back for their vengeance. Instead it was the cloaked figure!
The cloaked figure did not wait long before they continued on their way followed by the golden astromech and a few droids and Gammorians giving chase.
"That's-That's him!" Dyna excitedly said following the group.
Buck could not believe his bad luck as he chased after Dyna. "Dyna wait"
The cloaked figure entered an empty street with the droids following behind. Dyna caught up to the Gamorrians and eventually overtook them. They angrily raised their blasters at the Twi'lek.
"Oh no you don't!" Buck said before tackling both the round Gammorians down. He looked up to see Dyna running ahead paying him no heed. "Damn it, Dyna."
The droids were able to surround the beige cloaked figure and their astromech. There were four of these droids and each had a rifle blaster in their hand.
"Come in quietly. Resistance is futile." One of the four droid's said.
The cloaked figured reached within their cloak and produced what Dyna recognised as a lightsaber hilt. A green blade hummed to life as the first droid fired an energy shot. The shot bounced off the green blade and hit one of its comrade droids.
Dyna assisted by firing a few shots at two of the droids taking them out. The last droid looked back at Dyna, confused who it should focus on and for its indecision, it got sliced in half.
The green blade of energy quickly disappeared when it was no longer needed.
"You're-You're a Jedi!" Dyna said. "Please, teach me!"
"What?" A feminine voice said coming from the depths of the hood.
"You're a woman?"
The cloaked figure removed the hood to reveal her blue feminine face. "Of course I am. Who are you and why do you think you can be a Jedi?"
Dyna reached to her holster and unclasped the secret compartment where she withdrew her own lightsaber. "I have this," she said, tossing her lightsaber to the female Pantorian.
Her eyes widened as she looked at the lightsaber. "Suavin's lightsaber!"
/
Dyna quietly watched as the woman studied her lightsaber. She had yellow eyes and blue skin, with short, painted pink lines that followed the contours of her cheek on her face. Her pink hair was kept in two buns on either side of her head.
Buck looked around him in alertness. They had found a bar on the planet of Moropok that could hide them from the authorities looking for them while they conversed. They sat at the back of the club in a table in the corner where they could view the different races dancing on the floor to the music. The table they sat at had a wide couch where the Pantoran woman sat on one side and Buck sat on the other with Dyna in the middle and the astromech next to its owner.
The Pantoran placed the lightsaber on the table after having studied the lightsaber and nodded to Dyna who had been watching her eagerly. "I'll give you 50 credits for it."
"WHAT?!" Both Dyna and Buck said.
"The lightsaber, I'll give you 50 credits for it." She repeated.
"It's not for sale," Dyna said.
"Fine 65 but I'm not going any higher," She said looking away.
"You're kidding right?" Buck said. "This is a piece of technology not a toy. It costs at least 400 credits."
"Well, I employ you to find another buyer then," she said, with her nose turned up, "but I doubt you would get any higher than 65 credits for it. Remember, not many people know much about lightsabers, so I wonder how many people are willing to buy it when they know nothing about its maintenance and repair."
"I'm sure we could find someone," Buck said sitting back and folding his arms.
"I'm not selling it!" Dyna said before she looked at the Patron woman beside her. "I want you to teach me to use it, to be a Jedi."
The woman smiled sadly at Dyna. "Sorry girl but just because you have a lightsaber, doesn't mean you can be a Jedi. You need to have a disciplined mind and most importantly, you need to have an above average connection with the Force."
"I do have that! I have a connection with the Force!" Dyna said excitedly.
"Really?" The blue skinned woman asked, with an eyebrow rising sceptically. "Can you prove it?"
"Uhm... Uhm..." Dyna looked at Buck for inspiration and he just shrugged. "I had a vision! That's how I found you. I had a vision of a beige cloaked figure with a golden astromech on a planet with three moons. I had a vision of you."
"How am I suppose to believe that?" She retorted. "You could have made up that story on the spot."
Dyna opened and closed her mouth twice, unsure of how to retort.
Buck sighed at this. "Dyna, let's go. It's obvious that this woman is not a Jedi. She's a fraud."
"What?" The woman said, visibly annoyed by Buck's claims.
"Yeah," Buck said casually getting up before looking at the woman with contempt. "The last person we met who had a connection with the Force could sense Dyna's own connection. You on the other hand... well let's just say the most amazing thing you've done so far is swing a lightsaber, which anyone with opposable thumbs could do."
The Pantoran curled her lip in contempt for Buck. "How dare you?"
The golden droid had gotten next to Buck and bumped his foot in defence of its owner.
Buck grabbed his leg as he looked at the knee-high droid. "Why you... I'll turn you into spare parts!"
"Buck!"
"Arthree!"
Both woman warned the two as Buck raised his fist and the droid produced a taser from its body.
"I think I have had just about enough of this." The woman said before she got up and placed her hood over her head. "Arthree. Come along. We have some ways to go still."
"Wait," Dyna said getting up.
The Pantoran female weaved through the crowd followed by the orange Twi'Lek, a golden astromech and a dark skinned human.
"Wait... please Ms... uh..."
"Chifan Hiyochan," she said.
"Uh... Chi... Chi... Hiyo..." Dyna struggled to say her name.
"Fan," Fan sighed.
"Fan, how many Jedi have you seen since the Empire took over?" Dyna said.
Fan stopped and looked back at Dyna, causing Arthree to almost crash into her leg. "I... I may be the last."
"Don't you want to change that?" Dyna tilted her head sadly at her. "Especially when you have someone who is willing and able to help you do that."
"You don't want to be a Jedi, girl." Fan said.
"Because of your enemies?" Dyna said. "That's just another reason for you to have someone to watch your back. You're not short on enemies, Imperial forces, bounty hunters... Inquisitors."
"Inquisitors?" Fan said the unfamiliar word but it seemed something to fear from the way Dyna said it. She narrowed her eyes at the Twi'Lek in front of her. "And you..."
"Dyna... Dyna Johnson." Dyna said, looking back at Buck who smiled at her like a proud father.
This was the first time that Dyna had ever used Buck's last name as her own. She looked to him for permission and saw that she had it and nodded her thanks to her.
"Dyna Johnson, why do you want to be a Jedi?" Fan leaned in closer.
"I... I want to help bring peace to the universe."
"You say the right things but I suspect that you have ulterior motives for wanting to walk the path of the Jedi," Fan said. "A Jedi does not seek excitement or adventure..."
"I don't want any of those," Dyna firmly said.
"And if you seek to become a Jedi for any other reason than the one you stated, then you will only fall into the dark side," Fan gave the ominous warning. "You may come on t the ship with me while I chase my lead but that oaf is not allowed near my ship!" She pointed at Buck.
"Okay!"
"No way!"
Dyna and Buck both said respectively. Fan did not wait for them to settle the matter, instead she continued on her way.
"Dyna, I'm not going to let you go anywhere with this lady alone." Buck complained. "She may be crazy!"
"Buck, I can handle myself." Dyna gestured to the pistol holstered at her hip. "And besides, you'll be following me the whole time."
Buck sighed, "Okay. Be careful." HE PUT ON HIS Mandolorian helmet while going to his own ship.
A few minutes later the Diversity launched from the planet, following Fan's smaller ship, out into space.
/
The man in the white strapless eyepatch was in his ship, travelling through the cold and dark space. The screen in his ship came to life, showing a human face with pale skin and silver long hair.
"Randall, I hope you have good news." The man in the screen said.
"Sir, there may be a problem." Randall said. "I was able to obtain the scroll but someone had infiltrated the auction house and scanned the document."
"Really?" The man said casually before taking a sip of a green liquid in a wine glass. "That seems suspicious."
"What should I do, sir?"
"For now... nothing, continue on the mission." The man said. "But I will send the rest of the Graverobbers to assist you."
Randall nodded at this. "I'll meet them at the rendezvous point." The ship blasted into lightspeed...