Mistaken Identity || Star Wars Fanfic

Chance for a New Life

Jaden stalked through the slums of the undercity, he wasn't quite sure where he was at the moment so he was hoping to find a terminal somewhere so he could get his bearings, most of his tech was destroyed in the fall so he couldn't do much with it apart from trying to salvage what he could.

"Jaden why do you still have the Holocron open should you not focus on escaping?" Satele asked as they both walked through the badly formed streets of rusted metal.

"I was hoping if I get attacked by a corridor ghoul or another swarm of hive rats they'd go for you and I'd escape." He said bluntly.

Satele sighed "I truly fear for the future if this is what the next generation of Jedi are like," she said with a huff.

Jaden laughed "Hey I never said I'd be a Jedi, from what I heard they do all sorts of weird stuff to you after they take you." He said to her giving her a look of disbelief.

"The Jedi do not do any 'Weird stuff' to people, we recruit them to become peacekeepers of the galaxy and to defend people against the Sith!" She explained.

"The Sith? You mean the Sith Empire?" Jaden asked with a small amount of confusion.

"They haven't been around for thousands of years, jeez how old are you," he said with a bit of a chuckle though he seemed to miss the thoughtful look that Satele had on her face.

"It seems it is much later than I imagined..." Satele said almost morosely.

Jaden however was brought out of their conversation as he heard shouting and screaming, with his enhanced body he managed to run to the nearest building and jump off the ground grabbing onto a pipe which he then swung off onto a higher one. Crouching on the pipe he looked down as he saw a green Twi'lek woman running down the section that Jaden was just in. Though she wasn't running for long as she was shit in the leg by a blaster bolt making her collapse to the ground as she screamed in pain grabbing her leg.

Jaden deactivated the Holocron making Satele disappear as she'd just give him away. He watched as a group of rough-looking men approached the Twi'lek, Jaden almost recoiled in disgust at the men who approached her, they were disfigured and pretty hard to look at, and they had black growths on their bodies and faces that pulsed with a red glow.

Jaden couldn't hear exactly what they said but they seemed to be laughing at her as she begged 'None of my business,' he thought to himself as he went to go and climb higher up the piping to leave.

"Please!"

Jaden paused as he heard her plea, it wasn't directed at him but it did manage to make him stop "Kriff..." he whispered to himself as he knew he wouldn't be able to leave, there were many times in his life where he wished someone would stop and help and they never did. Jaden got straight to work and out of his pouch on his belt he brought out the scraps, wires and old power cell from SD8, he didn't have much time but this wouldn't be too difficult.

"SD give me some covering fire," he said to his friend who beeped before climbing off his body and scaling down the building quietly. In less than a minute Jaden had constructed a makeshift bomb, while the circuits of the power cell were fused there was still fuel inside so he could still make use of it this way, however, he wouldn't have much time between throwing it and the bomb detonating.

Jaden jumped down quietly to a lower pipe that was behind the small gang, there were around seven of them though only three of them looked armed. At this moment he wished he'd equipped SD8 with better weapons as the blasters he'd equipped him with were only really suited to animals, though those were the only ones he could find at the time.

"Alright here we go," he said before throwing the bomb, as it clunked onto the metal ground a few of the members turned around to see the power cell rolling towards them. It ended up hitting one of their feet and he reached down to pick it up, however before he could the bomb went off and while it wasn't big it managed to force most of them off their feet. SD8 immediately started firing at them from above and Jaden jumped down from the pipe and rushed towards the helpless Twi'lek on the ground. A few of them were still up and Jaden knew he'd have to take them down quickly, every second counted in this situation.