Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order: The Novel

Chapter 2: Escape

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It wasn't even 10 seconds once Cal woke up. He turned to his right. Prauf wasn't there. Cal got up. He decided to head to the door to his right. He squeezed through a small crowd.

"Prauf?" he called out ashe neared the door to the next train car.

No answer. He used his scrapper card to open the door. The next car had a few boxes and for some reason, there were fewer people in there. He then saw the Abednedo scrapper just leaving into the next car.

"Prauf, wait up." Cal called out.

Prafu didn't respond. Cal hurried a bit. Suddenly he began to see what one would say was like a blue-tinted mist. It devoured the other scrappers, and they were gone. Cal started to feel very confused. Usually, only Force-sensitive people can see it. He hurried into the car. This time, nobody was there. He then saw Prauf just behind the door leading to the next car. He then disappeared as he opened them. Cal then suddenly realized that the lights were getting dimmer. He then used his card to open the door, it didn't open, same result. He turned to see a familiar hallway.

"What the...?" he said to himself.

The doors were octagon-shaped, vertical lights were in the middle of each section of each door. Cal also saw a gold-and-silver themed R2 unit droid. Cal almost recognized the droid. He tilted his head in confusion as he walked. The R2 droid began to move faster. There seemed to be a turn up ahead. The door closed. Suddenly, the path extended very far. Some of the lights turned blood red as alarms went off. Cal continued to make his way forward. Suddenly, the doors closed. Cal hesitated to put his hand on the door. It opened, and a Lasat appeared as the door opened. He was more than a head taller than Cal, his skin was purple, his gray hair was braided at the back of his head, his ears were pointy like daggers, he had blue robes, and had white armor with a red symbol that Cal was all too familiar with. The human scrapper fell to his bottom. He crawled backwards. But he felt the Force suddenly grab him and lifted him in the air. He found his body facing upwards towards the ceiling.

"Apprentice." said the Lasat Jedi said, his voice very and deeply serious, "Mark well and listen:"

"Master?!" said Cal, his eyes widened and shocked.

"Trust in only the Force."

The Lasat Jedi closed his black-gloved fist. Cal was forced down.

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Cal suddenly jumped at a loud sound. He didn't understand what his dream was about. But those words, "Trust in only the Force". He remembered those words. Those were the last words his master said. Cal looked all around himself and noticed the same look on everyone's face.

"The train has stopped." he said, finally realizing.

"Yeah," replied Prauf, who was next him the whole time, "something's going on."

The doors suddenly opened up. Two Stormtroopers suddenly came out. Cal got up, his face away from them.

"Everybody up." said one, "Identification ready."

"Move out and line up." said another one as he walked across the room.

Cal pulled up his hood again. He knew that something was up.

"It's probably just another contraband inspection." Prauf said, trying to keep Cal calm.

Cal, Prauf, and the other scrappers were heading out of the train. Cal suddenly looked up to see a Stormtrooper, although he hardly looked anything like a Stormtrooper. His armor was mainly black, the visor glowed red, his left shoulder had the Empire logo on his left shoulder, and his right shoulder pad was bigger and red (leading Cal to believe that they're commanders), and they both carried big rifle blasters. He suddenly heard loud noises and looked up, seeing two ships. One was bigger and had enormous wings. The other one was smaller, and had more resemblance to a TIE fighter. A dark figure climbed out of the smaller one while a bigger figure walked out of the bigger ship. The smaller figure was human, she had a similar outfit, she had a cape and little armor around her body. The bigger figure was a Dowutin and had big shoulder pads and wore a similar outfit. And her right foot seemed to have been replaced by a red machinate one. She was about half a head taller than his master. They both had black lightsabers that appeared to have a half of a ring on their side.