Mistaken Identity || Star Wars Fanfic

One Last Job

Jaden hated Coruscant, while it was true he was born here and he'd also never been anywhere else he still hated this place. He'd never felt at home here, it's like he couldn't breathe sometimes, everything felt so artificial so fake. For fifteen years he'd been on his living on this planet, and for as long as he could remember he'd been trying to get out.

He didn't care where he went but he did have a preference, he'd seen it in pictures a few times but he wanted to go to a place full of plants and greenery and silence. He'd make it there eventually, luckily he was quite a tech wiz, he did find the irony in being so good with technology and yet wanting to leave it all behind. But it was mostly out of necessity that he got that good, how else would a kid survive on level 1313 arguably the worst level on Coruscant.

"Make sure you acquire every bit of data the Raptors have on Senator Beltriss otherwise you won't get paid." A voice said through Jaden's commlink.

"Come on you guys know I'm one of the best I'll be in and out before they even know I'm there, isn't that why you contacted me." Jaden said with no small amount of arrogance dripping from his voice.

"No one else within our price range would accept the job, do you job Star Prince!" The man shouted before cutting off the communication between them, Jaden cringed when he used his Bounty Hunter name. Even though it was only a few years ago he'd thought it was such an amazing name at the time... until someone actually used it for the first time.

Jaden was currently crawling through a ventilation shaft that could barely fit his body in, on his back was a blue and black droid that he'd built himself "How far away are we SD8," Jaden asked as he kept pulling himself through the shaft.

"Beep beep boop,"

"That far? I've been crawling for hours!" Jaden said with annoyance in his voice.

"Beep beep beeeeeep,"

"I'm not slow... stupid droid." he said whispering the last part but SD8 being on his back heard him and sent a small electric shock through his back making him jump "Okay okay I get it," he said with a sigh as he kept on going "Just tell me where to stop," he said getting an affirmative beep from SD8. Jaden dragged himself through the shaft for another half an hour before he got the signal from his companion. SD8 climbed off him and he turned around reaching down to his belt and grabbing his makeshift fusion cutter, all of his equipment was made by himself as that's how you cut costs the most.

Putting his goggles that were on his head onto his eyes he turned the fusion cutter on though it winked out a few times causing him to slap it "Okay time to work," he said before cutting the metal above him. Jaden could feel the heat coming from the torch as it sliced through the metal of the vent. Carving a quick circle Jaden pushed it up and stuck his head through, a smirk formed on his face as he squeezed out of the small hole "Good job SD, right where we planned" he whispered as he got out of the hole with SD8 climbing onto Jaden's back with his small compact body.

Right now he was in someone's private quarters, it was lavishly decorated with exotic goods and high-tech furniture. Jaden walked over to the owner's personal computer before he started typing on the console he pulled a wire from his wrist computer and plugged it into the port, he started running a descrambler on the encrypted data. As his code was bypassing the security network Jaden looked around the room for anything of value "SD scan for anything for value," he said as SD8 jumped off his back and onto the floor a large-scale scanning beam being emitted from its lenses. Jaden then turned the chair next to the panel around and collapsed into it spinning himself around.

"Boop beep beep"

Jaden turned around to look at SD8 whose sensors had locked onto something behind an old-style painting. Getting up from his chair Jaden crossed the room and walked up to SD8 "Been a while since I've seen something on paper," he said to himself as he picked the painting up with both hands and threw it behind him.