The ship escaped the sector, and I marvelled at the tricks of the cave I had visited. I didn't know where to go next, or how to plan my future, but only one rule, keep moving. I rubbed my eyes and blinked several times as I still didn't feel ship shape. The events of recent kept replaying inside my head, the crashing Consular, the green monster, the red tunnel and the silhouette. And the crystals, their secrets, Ryloth, the village, the family of Twi'leks, and, in the crystal, I killed them. At this thought I shook my head, no. I tried not recall the hall of crystals, each one with their own twisted scene of a Sith Mace Windu. My head swirled around and collapsed backwards, I was out for the count.

The dreams didn't bring me much salvation, as the constant scene that replayed was the huddling Twi'lek family, and the approaching Sith Lord. I wanted something else, to be something else, but I didn't know whether the crystals showed the future, or a twisted could-be future. I was snapped out of the torturous sleep. I looked around to see what the cause of this was, the answer was outside, a massive ship was docking with mine, I quickly scrambled to find my location, the Sertar Sector. Oh no, just my luck! The ship rattled violently as the vessel was boarded. A few moments later I could hear voices.

'Tyber Zann's mark was on the outside of the ship, I'm sure Hondo will be very pleased.' said one pirate.

'Well, is he headed for loot, or coming back from looting?' came another pirate.

'That doesn't explain why he didn't flee, or fight back.' debated a third pirate.

'Oh yeah, maybe he's asleep?' said pirate one. 'You two check the cockpit to make sure. Me and Shahan will search the rest of the ship.'

'Good idea.' said pirate three.

Now I could hear footsteps approaching, getting louder and louder, until I heard a voice.

'The door's locked!' Pirate two exclaimed. I then heard blaster fire, and the doors swung open, I turned limp and pretended to be asleep. 'Yeah, he's out, but I don't think this is Zann.'

'Just kill him.' said pirate three.

The pirate readied his gun, my hand perched on my lightsaber. The blaster fired, and I twisted round, activated the blade and deflected the shop all in time. The pirate looked startled, and fired his weapon again, which bounced back off my blade straight into his stomach. The pirate dropped to the floor, revealing his accomplice who was hiding behind him, who quickly fired a stun shot at me before I could react. And I guess I was out for the count. Again. Although I didn't have to go through the events on Dagobah this time.

I woke up in a prison cell, on the floor, I called to a sentry who was guarding the cell. 'Hey! I didn't do anything to you guys, let me go!'

The guard looked into the cell, then turned back and nodded. Then the cell door flashed open and through it walked a Weequay captain with dark green glasses, a red and grey cloak and several braids. 'Aha, a Jedi?' The Weequay asked. I nodded. 'Good, good. You haven't been killed by your clone troopers yet?' He asked. I shook my head. 'Not to talkative, are you?' I gave him a look, the I'm-not-talking-to-you-because-you-captured-me-as-your-hostage-and-jailed-me-in-this-boring-cell look. Then the Weequay crouched down next to me and whispered in my ears. 'You know this new Emperor is paying one billion credits for a Jedi.' He then stood up and introduced himself. 'I'm Hondo Ohnaka, and welcome to Florrum!' He proudly walked out the cell, and the guard closed the door. I guess I was stuck on this planet, with nowhere to go...

Over the coming weeks I was fed well by the pirates and hadn't seen Hondo around at all, occasionally the guard would open the door and warn me not to try anything, but by the umpteenth time I just rolled my eyes, I didn't have my weapon, to be frank, I didn't even know where it was! So there was no physical way to escape. One particular day I was met by a visitor, and it was Hondo.

'Hello, my friend, good news! Well, good news for me, not so much for you, ha! Me and your friend Darth Vader, that's what he called himself, arranged a price for you, because you were one of the heads of the Jedi council, they've decided to octuple the price, yes, octuple it, that would be eight billion credits! Tell me my friend, how have you become so popular, if I was captured I'd like to see my men offer that kind of money for ransom to free me, not really, that would ruin my business. They're coming tomorrow.' I sighed, wait, Darth Vader? I didn't know anyone named Darth Vader. Unless it was Skywalker, now a Sith, no doubt. I scratched my head as Hondo left the cell. How could I escape? Was I going to be collected and killed by this mysterious Sith? Hopefully not, I decided to sleep on it, maybe the answer comes tomorrow, my head hit the concrete floor, and I closed my eyes...

Back came the nightmares, of Dagobah and the crystals, I spoke aloud, no, no, no! As for the umpteenth time, Mace Windu went over and mercilessly slaughtered an innocent family of Twi'leks. I gasped and I woke up in the middle of the night, I walked over to my cell door and looked out of the bars, a guard was slumped against the block exit, his blaster lay next to him, abandoned. This gave me an idea. I held up my hand and used the Force to gently and subtly picked it up, I sensed where one of the cell doors were, I aimed it towards the control pad, I fired it. I heard the door clang open, the guard sprung awake, but could not find his weapon, the resident of the cell that I shot ran out of it, it was a agilely roundhouse kicked his captor in the face, grabbed the floating gun, and fired thrice at the weary Weequay. The Calamari twisted round and spotted me.

'Jedi?' The Calamari spoke with a gruff, low voice, he ran over to my cell and unlocked the door. 'Thank you!'

'Well,' I said. 'Thank YOU.'

'What for?'

'Unlocking the cell!'

'Oh, right! I'm Gial Ackbar.' The Calamari introduced himself.

'I'm Jedi Master Mace Windu, well I used to be a Jedi Master, but not now.' I introduced myself.

'I used to be Captain in charge of the Mon Calamari guard. I served in the second battle of Mon Cala.'

I was about to reply, but I heard a commotion outside, so I pushed Ackbar back in his cell and jumped upwards, latching onto the ceiling. I used the Force to pull Ackbar's cell door shut. Two Weequay pirates with bandanas ran into the block.

'He's dead!' said one, pointing to the guard's corpse.

'Thanks Captain Obvious!' said the other.

Weequay one turned to the prisoners. 'Did you scoundrels see anything?'

Ackbar replied. 'No.'

'No, sir.' Weequay two corrected him.

'You scumbags tell me right now or else I'll blow your heads off and rip out your tongues!' Weequay one demanded, brandishing his weapon.

I took this moment to strike, I dropped down from the roof on top of Weequay two, he nor his comrade knew what happened at first, but then they got the gist of it.

'Shoot him, shoot him!' The victimised pirate shrieked. The other looked stunned.

'You're moving to fast!' He screamed.

Weequay two stood still, facing his back against his friend, leaving me open to be killed.

'FIRE!' He ordered.

Quickly, I pinched the base of Weequay two's neck, causing him to twist round and facing his comrade, who, with slow reactions, still fired. His shot hit his pal in the chest, causing him to fly backwards, while I jumped off of the body before it had even hit the floor, I stood in a combative stance against the pirate, who dropped his gun in an act mixed with clumsiness, shock and fear. The pirate hesitantly picked up his rifle, and he aimed. Gial Ackbar then opened the cell door and smacked the pirate round the back of the head, causing him to slump, unconsciously to the floor. Akbar crouched down and picked up the rifle, which was shaped like a musket. I quickly headed for the exit, Ackbar trailing, which led into corridors which led into forks which led into junctions, it was like a maze, Hondo must have been really good at what he did. Me and the Calamari sticked to the shadows, and watched pirates in their groups and pairs conversing about their life outside Florrum.

'So then she said to me-' said one, the rest was blocked out by a louder voice.

'...then it turns out he had no credits!' Spoke a pirate who was reasonably closer talking in a huddle with several others, who burst into laughter after his speech.

'Here about that prisoner?' This particular voice gripped my attention, I moved closer to the source, which was one peculiarly shifty-looking specimen, talking to his buddy at a table, who, like me, was listening intently.

'Who, the Jedi?' replied he.

'Yeah, the Jedi, Hondo's let slip that this new Emperor is willing to pay eight billion credits for him, alive. His right-hand man is coming for the Jedi tomorrow, so make up your, mind, are you in or not?' The shifty pirate spoke. 'In fact, let's move somewhere more private, we don't want anyone who is more loyal to Hondo than us overhearing this.' I wasn't that loyal to Hondo Onhaka at all, so I guess I could still listen to this intriguing conversation.

The two moved to a broom cupboard, where they continued the conversation, still sticking to the shadows, I signalled to Ackbar to come, then we headed to the cupboard, I pressed my ear to the door.

'So, here's the deal, we're moving in soon, we're going to take the Jedi to a rendezvous point, where a few friends will escort us to Coruscant, where we can hand him over personally with this... Emperor.'

'What about Hondo?' asked the enquired pirate.

'I've got it planned out, when this right hand finds the Jedi isn't there, his army will blow this place to smithereens, and, in foresight, the Emperor may even raise the price of the bounty, we just need to make it swift, and stealthily, so, now I've told you, are you in or not?'

The Weequay still had a few questions. 'Who else is there on this job?'

'Remember Vowsq and Jemer?' The shifty one asked.

'Yeah, the ones who quit.'

'Yeah, well, they'll be there at the rendezvous with a inconspicuous carrier ship, and bring us to Nar Shaddaa, where we'll wait five days for information on our success, them off to Coruscant!' He finished.

'Us?'

'You are coming?'

'Of course!'

'Shush! We move out now, you provide back up if anything goes wrong, we all get a quarter of the cut, deal?'

'Deal.'

'Let's go!' The mastermind concluded.

I moved Ackbar back into hiding and tracked back myself into the shadows as the two cautiously made their way to the prison block. Oh no, they were going to find two empty cells, one dead and one unconscious body, then they'll alert the rest. We needed to move quickly. I found a vent cover and notified Gial, who nodded. He slowly moved the cover and began crawling through the vents, I went through after, looking back for danger, finding none, I quietly replaced the vent cover.

We were about five meters through the vent when I heard a howl.

'THE PRISONER HAS ESCAPED! THE JEDI HAS ESCAPED!' Me and Ackbar began to move a lot quicker, as an alarm signalled the complex of our escape.

The end of the vent passage led to outside, where we revelled to get to. Ackbar moved backwards slightly, before moving forward at pace enough to barge the vent cover down. He crawled out into the twilight darkness, and I closely followed. We walked for a long time until we found and made our way into a small crater in the ground, but beforehand I made sure this geyser wan't active. Me and Ackbar sat in a small ridge in the wall of the geyser, we decided we'd stop here, then wait until noon tomorrow to escape. We arranged day and night shifts so we weren't found, and if we were, we'd at least be able to react. I was to take shift 1:AM-2:AM (I'll just say that shift was dull.), Ackbar took 2:AM-3:AM and so on. It was on Ackbar's second shift (4:AM-5:AM) that the action happened.

I was taking my turn to rest while Ackbar had the rifle he stole when we were found. Gial Ackbar shouted the alert when two Starhawk speeder bikes pulled up near our spot of hiding, I quickly woke up and climbed up onto the surface, where the shady pirate and his accomplice were admiring their luck.

'Guess who we got here?' The shady mastermind teased. 'What a coincidence you decided to hide at our rendezvous point. Ha ha ha!' The mastermind revealed two pistols from his belt and pointed them at me and Ackbar. 'And our friends are gonna show up in... five minutes.' His friend branded his carbine at me.

We glared at each other for what seemed like hours, before I pulled one of the shady pirate's pistols out of his hand towards me. I caught it and pulled back ,my arm as it's owner fired a laser bolt after it. I twirled to dodge it, ducking and weaving past the snaking bolt. I spotted a rock I could take cover behind, and as I ran towards it I could feel Florrum's earth skipping at my heals as shady pirate blasted at my feet, not intending to kill his prize. I made it to the rock, where I could see Ackbar cross firing shady pirate's friend. Shady pirate fired thrice at the ground near the rock. I returned my helping of lasers at shady pirate, who slipped over while trying to dodge them. I looked across to my Calamari friend, who was doing quite well, until he was hit in the shoulder with a blaster bolt, he fell like a tower with his rifle spiralling away from him. I could only watch as his attacker approached him, gun held at the ready.

I dropped my weapon, jumped high in air towards my fallen friend and his attacker. As shady pirate's friend pulled the trigger, I pushed the gun away, causing him to stagger backwards. He glared at me and readied his gun. I pushed it one way and the bolt went into the sky, as he fired I did it again only in the opposite direction. As he began his next shot I pushed his gun out of his hands and away from him, far, away. The pirate growled and lunged at me, I ducked under his flailing body and struck with my elbow on his back, causing him to crash to the ground, where Ackbar decided to even out the score on the ground. As they were scuffling I turned to the shady pirate, who had regained his second blaster. I began to run at him. He fired. I dodged. He fired. I dodged. I got closer. His firing became frantic. I got closer. He fired. Again, and again. I dodged them all. I got close enough to uppercut him, sending him flying backwards, his weapons had gone. Shady pirate got back up again, he went to punch me, but I danced away, then struck both elbows into his back, and he fell spreadeagled onto the floor. I stood above shady pirate, he looked up at me and looked down again, I thought he'd given up, until his leg swept across the ground, flinging my feet into the air, and I fell to the ground. We both got up, I swung my left, he ducked under the blow and locked my floating arm in place with his, then moving behind me, causing my shoulder to sear with pain. I raised my elbow and smashed it into his face, he remained unnerved, I repeated the motion, the product the same, I repeated several times, until I felt his head go back slightly, and his grip loosen. I took this opportunity to swing round and smack shady pirate in the face, and his back fell back onto the ground. Shady pirate flipped onto his stomach and crawled away, headed for his blaster, I caught up with him, before he imprinted his footprint into my shin, and I fell. I looked up as shady pirate got closer to his weapon, and he placed one hand on it when a boot landed on the gun. Shady pirate looked up to see Gial Ackbar pointing a rifle at his face. He fired. As our enemies lay limp in the dirt, Ackbar helped my up onto my feet. We trudged back into our hiding place, waiting for the sun to rise. We rested.

That night wasn't torturous like every single night since Dagobah. It was just blank, nothing. I woke up to meet a blinding sun in my face. I stretched my aching bones and tiredly climbed up to the top, where I looked around. There wasn't anything of interest I could see, until I heard a deafening whirr, I looked around for answers, and that it was, as blatant as ever. A Consular Class (Or later to be named, Star Destroyers.) hovered down to the ground. Skywalker was here.

Here to finish the job.