Mastermind

Prelude

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" A Durosian spoke in its native language. 

"Do you trust me, Borgg?" A young teenager countered their companion's question. 

The blue-green-skinned Durosian nodded unsurely. "Of course I do, kid, it's just... Is this safe?"  

Both Borgg Hardine and Erda Mehur were engineers working on the backwater planet of Raxus Prime - a planet once beautiful with lagoons and islands, now a toxic industrialised planet where all droids were sent to die - to find their way out of the toxic wasteland. The planet had many, many factories disposing of robot parts and droid life manufacturing something big, yet unknown. The air was putrid like a thousand dead Huts were dumped in the land mixed with machine acid poured into an elixir of waste. Hills upon hills of rubbish was piled up on top of each other while Rodians patrolled the land for worthy junk to loot as well as from other bandits and thieves who disturbed the Jawas and junk sentinels that were being powered by the Force. Scavenger camps were heavily guarded by Rodians that were trapped on the planet, a shield generator they were guarding to stop others from making their way through a junk chasm towards a junk temple. 

"Tell me, why are we doing this again?" Borgg asked as not to impede on Erda's deep thoughts. 

Erda was too focused on sneaking across a scavenger camp without being detected. It was a somewhat secure but unstable hill of junk that could fall apart on a single wrong step which would give away their location to the scavengers beneath them. One wrong move, and the entire hill would come down on top of the scavengers when out of nowhere, a group of junk sentinels launched an attack on the Rodians when something big thumped its way into view. A twenty-foot junk titan walked into the camp to help take over the camp.  

"Is that a...?" Borgg stammered, pointing at the Titan as it laid waste to the Rodian camp. 

The junk Titan then looked up directly at the two and picked up a large boulder of metal and wound its arm up. 

"A junk Titan. Get out of the way!" Erda ordered and physically pushed Borgg out of the trajectory of a boulder being hurled at the two. 

Borgg flew off the hill to grab onto a pipe sticking out of the side of the hill that led to a large fall to the camp below as said hill of scrap came loose like an iceberg. Erda slid down the hill with the scraps and parts as the surviving Rodians and the junk sentinels were buried under five feet of parts and rubbish and junk. Erda fell into the pile of junk and sprung out when the Titan approached Erda as he scrambled to get out of the pile when a giant fist slammed down onto Erda just as he dived back under the rubbish. 

"KID!!" Borgg cried. 

Borgg's grip began to loosen on the pipe that prevented him from falling to his death. With a Titan waiting down below made death seem inevitable. But he wasn't ready to die. He didn't want to die this way. The Titan then approached the exposed ship wing lying vertically and punched a thin part of the wing that cracked upon every punch the Titan landed to break the wing apart. Erda popped out of the rubbish that came down from the hill and watched as his friend hung on for dear life when a speeder flew over the camp as three Rodian gunmen rained mini-gun fire on the Titan, distracting it from Borgg as Erda fell into a moment of quick decision. He had no choice. Borgg lost his grip before the wing had a chance to kill Borgg instead of the Titan or the Rodians. As Erda watched his best friend fall, he broke a promise he made a long time ago and reached out to the Force and grabbed ahold of Borgg, instantly stopping his descent to his death and slowly planted Borgg on his feet before the two ran towards the Rodians and the Titan to escape the fighting. 

Erda and Borgg ran along a thin plank of metal that helped them avoid falling into a pool of acid underneath them. Sparks fell like rain from above as the two ran along into a tunnel that led towards a cliff which was their hideout, temporarily shielding them from scrapper radar as all they could do was wait until the heat blew over. They were discovered and they had to move quickly. Borgg was at a loss for words as to the power Erda wielded. All he could do was stutter as him using the Force was on his mind.