Mistaken Identity || Star Wars Fanfic

Ambush

(Over a Month Later)

"SD double-check those navigation systems we don't want to end up warping into a star while we escape," Jaden shouted as he lay on his back under the command console of the ship trying to bypass the encryption codes. It had been a long month and they were finally on their way to Jabiim, which wasn't good at all. Jaden had believed he had another good plan when he thought to take the saboteurs ship and fly it down to the planet, but unfortunately, that wasn't going to be.

Aurra Sing was a high-level assassin and Bounty Hunter so her ship reflected that, as soon as Jaden saw her ship she fell in love with it, a sleek black Baudo-class star yacht with a customised cloaking system that managed to scramble her signature on the radar but from what Jaden could tell it couldn't be used too long otherwise it would burn out the system. It uses the Hyperdrive engines in a way that Jaden had to admit was ingenious, before entering Hyperspace the Hyperdrive creates a warp bubble around the ship which would be directed by the Hyperdrive to propel it into Hyperspace. However this cloaking system manages to maintain that state without actually going into Hyperspace, Aurra could've piloted her ship right up to the senate building and no one would've noticed unless they looked out the window, it was perfect for someone like Jaden.

Though this is where the problem lay, her ship had to be towed in from where it was docked on the shell of the Defender because when a Clone Trooper tried to access it the panel shocked and killed him. Jaden wouldn't be surprised if there were all sorts booby traps around the ship and so for the past month he and SD8 and been sweeping through the entire system looking for and disabling all the traps onboard, it had taken a while as he was doing this in addition to his training. What Jaden was trying to do now was break through the encryption on the command console, if he did this then he wouldn't worry about the booby traps he'd have full command privileges and would be able to disable them with the press of a button, though this was unfortunately much harder than it sounded.

Like everything else on this ship, Aurra's system had a high level of encryption protecting it from people like Jaden, it was even more protected than the database he cracked into on Coruscant but unlike there he didn't have the benefit of having his slicer kit with him. He had to bypass the encryption by hand and from scratch which he wasn't even sure he could do and yet he was making progress, something that surprised him as he was working beyond his ability at the moment.

When he mentioned this to Satele she had said that there was a force ability that presented itself in the way of having an intuitive understanding of mechanical and electrical systems. Mecha-deru was seen as a dark side ability but Satele assured him that this wasn't due to its nature but due to the origins of the ability, she also seemed rather excited that Jaden had such natural talent in the force.

*Bzzzt*

"Kriff!" Jaden said as he shook his hand, he'd tripped a wire and caused it to send a rather considerable shock into his hand, luckily he'd improved greatly in his usage of tutaminis and was able to dissipate the shock before it harmed his body. He continued his task of rewiring the control panel hoping it would give him access to secondary functions, from there he could try and get into the main systems through engine control, the two systems were linked together as the engines powered the ship.

'Once I get this ship up and running I am out of here!' He thought to himself with a smirk on his face, though if he was being honest with himself he had enjoyed his time with Commander Delts and even to some extent Admiral Novak, once Jaden had shown a willingness to learn and become a competent commander both men had taken a liking to him, especially since he'd stopped the saboteur from causing even more damage.

"SD run the charge through the tertiary relays on my mark!" Jaden instructed.

"Beep Boop."

"Mark!" He shouted and SD8 sent a charge through the system while Jaden connected the rewired systems and the lights to the ship powered on signifying that it had worked and he'd managed to access the engine systems.