Disclaimers: The same as the first one at the begining.
~Chapter Three~
(Found Strays)
Star System: Tatoo. Planet: Tatooine. Location: E.N.S Star Destroyer Nova.
Star Destroyer Nova had just dropped out of Hyperspace, the decadent planet of Tatooine loomed in the large view windows as they neared. The entire crew was on their toes as they were getting ready for anything the Hutts had to throw at them or anyone else for that matter. Admiral Slade was working on the bridge with Vice Admiral Adémar on the last of the specifications when Lieutenant Zoë Lauren came up to them with a datapad, she was one of the only Theelins on board that didn't have Diva as a first name.
"Sir, this just came in from HQ." Zoë said plainly as Slade took the datapad from her.
"Thank you lieutenant," Adémar express as Slade shook his head, the lieutenant's face was pink as she went back to her work leaving the two men be. Slade was fight off a smirk when Adémar looked over at him, a quizzed look came over his face as he looked at Slade. "What?"
"Nothing…nothing at all." Slade said not entirely truthful as he continued to fight off the smirk that seemed to be growing into a smile.
"Yeah and I'm a full Twi'lek lets hear it." Adémar said quietly, so no one could overhear them.
"You're really clueless about women, you know that?" Slade smiled at him as he looked over the datapad. "All you do is smile at them and their glamorized." Slade rolled his eyes as Adémar frowned.
"I don't do that." Adémar frowned as they moved towards the command center. "Do I?" He asked curiously.
Slade just gave him a look of shear pity, before climbing down the four steps. Unbeknownst to Adémar as he was following Slade down the stair, Slade was smiling like a Súla cat that had eaten the song bird while it's master wasn't looking. Reaching the commander center Slade and Adémar stopped behind Captain Dean Warin as he was ordering a scan of the planet in hopes of finding Nightshade's ship beckon.
"Any luck, Dean?" Adémar asked curiously as Slade was looking over the datapad again.
"None at the moment, but we're still searching sir." Dean answered as he stood up from the consol.
"You might want to be carefully you'll end up with a creek in you back by the time you reach Master Yuma's age." Slade jested as he looked up from the datapad, Dean rolled his eyes as he pushed his back into place with his hand.
"Like hell I will, sir. You know as well as I do, that Master Yuma is nearly three hundred years old and she is young compared to some of her kind." Dean smirked making Adémar chuckle as his headtails twitched.
Looking at the screen Slade shook his head as he pointed to a small dot on the Northern side of Mos Espe that appeared. "Well you got me there Dean. I want you to ready the troopers and have the fighters ready to go at a moments notice. Lets hope the Hutts don't know we're here." Slade added as Adémar and Dean nodded.
Planet: TaTooine. Location: Mos Espe, spaceport docking bay 454
Cam wasn't sure how this happened, but she could swear to the Force if she ever got a hold of the person responsible there would be hell to pay. Or maybe this was the way of the Force getting even with her for half the stupid things she had done in the past. Which ever one it was she wasn't sure as she glared down at the view screen as the computer beeped again.
There is a currant difficult with the landing strut, please check before taking off.
Cam had heard the computer say the same thing over the last ten minutes as she had been trying to start up the per-flight sequence. Unfortunately she was still where she was when she started. Glaring down at the view screen Cam grumbled a few choice words in her native tongue, before leaving the cockpit and going back through the lounge area. Cam passed Ace, looking around she noticed that Anaya and Anakin were nowhere to be seen. Sensing this Ace spoke up as he followed her out of the room:
"Anaya put Anakin down for his nap. Is there anything I can do?"
"How familiar are you with ships?" Cam asked as she walked through the cargo bay with Ace at her heels.
Rubbing his headtails, Ace frowned. "Sadly not much, but I am willing to learn."
"Alright…then this will be your first lesson of 101 ships and flying. First off landing and taking off are the hardest thing to do when flying a ship. On top of that you have to make sure to take care of the ship's landing gears or you're dead." Cam said in a calm instructorish tone.
Stepping down the ramp Ace was soaking up the information like a sponge as Cam continued to tutor him on maintenance of a ship as they went. While in the shadows of the sandstone pillars, they were being watched. Stopping at the port side of the ship, Cam looked the landing strut over and pointed things out to Ace as they went around the ship. It wasn't until they got to the front of the ship that Cam sent Ace into the ship to look at the computer screen, that she pulled out her lightsaber from her side and held it loosely in her hand. As she pulled out the rock from the landing gear a hand grabbed her by the arm, if on instinct Cam grabbed the hand and flipped the weight over her shoulder.
A gruff 'huff' came from the person as she looked down at him, black Mandalorian armor covered the entire body as he laid on the ground. If it wasn't for the designs on his helmet Cam wouldn't have known who he was. As if on a cue a deep gruff voice spoke up from behind her.
"Yeah know cyar'ika, that isn't a nice thing to do too the lad."
Cam turned around and groaned, standing in all his glory was her husband in his armor smiling at her through his helmet as their son jumped to his feet and dusted himself off.
"I swear on all the is good in this galaxy I kill Ulric…" Cam swore as she closed her eyes.
"He couldn't help it cyar'ika, besides Cadeyrn was all aquiver when he heard you were here." Tiberias shrugged as he leaned against the ship's hail. "That and he didn't want to hear me bitch and complain at him."
"Oh…is that the reason, why Canderous is here too or is he just along for the ride?" Cam inquired as their son shrugged.
"Uncle Ulric was worried about you, besides working for the Hutts can get tiring." Canderous piped up, "Besides I need the break from this place, I haven't been home enough in the last year." he added as Ace appeared beside Tiberias's side with a blaster.
"Milady are you alright?" Ace asked as he kept his blaster pointed at Tiberias.
"Yes Ace, you can put that away they're no threat." Cam motioned as Tiberias looked over his shoulder at the Togruta.
"Gutsy little Gus isn't he?" Tiberias said humouredly as he nodded his head to Ace in a greeting fashion.
"I don't know if I should take that as a complement or not?" Ace said quizzed as he put the blaster back into the holster.
"Ace how did you get that?" Cam indicted toward the weapon at his side.
"You left it in the cargo bay on top of a shelf." Ace answered, "I may not know how to fly a ship, but I was taught how to use a blaster. Gardulla was going to make me a guard, but after my first attempt to escape, she reconsidered it." Ace added as Canderous looked over his shoulder.
Standing behind both men was Anaya and she didn't look very happy as she came closer to them. Her green eyes narrowed at the Mandalorian armor they were wearing as she stopped beside Ace keeping her distance from them she turned to Cam.
"Milady there is a light blinking inside the cockpit and the computer keeps saying a transmission is coming through." Anaya informed.
"Thank you Anaya, why don't you and Ace go inside. I'll be there shortly," Cam reassured as Canderous looked over at his Dad.
Once Ace and Anaya were inside the ship Cam turned on Tiberias with the most venomous look she could muster. "Are you forgetting to mention something that Ulric did?"
"Cadeyrn didn't just send us after you. He sent a Star Destoryer after you too." Tiberias shrugged unfazed by her look. "Surprise!"
"What kind of trouble are you into Nana?" Canderous asked curiously.
"Enough to last me awhile, are you going with your father or are you copping a ride with me?" Cam inquired.
"I'll go with Ada, we can bug Uncle Ulric when we get to the ship." Canderous bantered as he smiled from behind his helmet. "Besides all my stuff is already in his ship, it would be a waste of time going back to get it when we'll be going to the same destination."
"And what destination would that be?" Cam looked curiously at him.
"The Star Destoryer that is looming over the planet like a Hutt." Canderous smirked, "And I do to know Hutts loom over people." he added to his Dad as he shook his head and walked away.
"See you on the ship, Nana." Canderous bided as he rushed off to follow Dad out of the docking bay.
Translations: Mando'a into Basic
1. Cyar'ika - Sweetheart
Translations: Sindar into Basic
1. Nana - Mom
2. Ada - Dad
Thank you!