May The Way Be With You

Return to Tatooine

Din, the kid and I are walking through dark streets, and I do not like the sounds of the creatures in the darkness. I hold on to Din's arm, keeping an eye out. There's a ton of graffiti on the buildings we pass, and whatever those creatures are, they have glowing red eyes.

The kid whimpers, so I hold out my hand to him. He holds on to my finger, and I can feel he's comforted by it. We walk up to a building, where a man stands. Probably a bouncer. Din tells the man he's here to see a Gor Koresh. The man looks at me and the kid, and the kid coos. I pray to the Maker we aren't turned away. Took us weeks to gather this intel.

"Enjoy the fights." The man says, he's voice deep. He stands aside and we walk in. We walk down a small corridor, and come to a large fighting ring. There are a ton of spectators, and I notice a ring of flags above the fighting ring. The Force tells me to let go of Din's arm, so we don't appear weak and afraid. I gulp and do so.

Din discreetly takes my hand in his, and I squeeze it in thanks. We walk through the crowd while two fighters go at it in the ring. Two gamorreans, if I recall correctly, are battling with electrified axes while the crowd cheers. Din sits next to a one eyed creature I vaguely remember is an Abyssin, so I sit next to him, cheaking in on the baby.

"This is no place for a child or such a soft looking woman." The Abyssin tells Din. Must be the Gor guy we are looking for.

"Wherever I go, they go." Din states simply. Gor states he heard as much, and I can feel different males staring at me. I keep my guard up as Din tells his acquaintance our mission from The Armorer. Gor says it's uncouth to talk business immediately, and to enjoy the entertainment.

Apparently his fighter isn't doing too well, and I hear the kid exclaim as one of them falls to the floor. I pet his head, and tell him through the Force that we cannot interfere, for it's a game like when Cara and Din arm wrestled. Din is asked if he gambles, and he states not when it can be avoided. I give him a look, wondering why he told me to go gambling on Canto Bight if he's not a fan of it.

Gor tells him he'll bet the information on the location of other Mandalorians against Din's armor. I can feel Din's annoyance as I glare at Gor. Din tells him he's willing to pay for the information, refusing to leave his fate to chance. "Nor am I." Gor says, pulling out a blaster. He shoots one of the fighters in the ring, then we are surrounded by what I assume is Gor's guards, blasters pointed at our heads.

The other spectators scream and run off, leaving just the guards, the remaining fighter and Gor with us. He thanks Din for coming here, apparently normally seeking out hidden Mandalorian hives. He's been collecting beskar. "Give it and the girl to me now, or I peel it off your corpse and take the girl anyway." He grins. I snarl at him.

"Tell me where the Mandalorians are, and we'll leave without killing you." Din says back, surprisingly calm for someone who was just told to hand over his wife.

"I thought you said you weren't a gambler." Gor smirks. Din's arm guard suddenly lights up with several blueish white lights. The baby nopes out, closing his pram.

"I'm not." Din states. Suddenly the lights fly around us, making whistling sounds as they hit the body guards. I take the opportunity to kick the baby's pram out of harm's way, then roll myself out of the way. A guard comes after me, and I pull out my lightsaber, turning it on. The guard stops with a look of terror, pissing himself before running away. Huh, that was easy.

I see Din is held from behind by another guard, and another punches him in the helmet. It only breaks the first guard's hand, and sends Din's head back into the other, making him let go. As another comes up, I face him, and run at him. I swing my saber, decapitating the guard. As Din fights one of the last two guards, I pull out the new blaster I bought on the last space station we stopped at, killing the other guard quickly. Din takes care of the last one, and I see the slimy Abyssin running away.