Repairing Beyond Ambition - Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order fanfic *EDITING*

Chapter 22

Many hours had passed and Cal could sense that the sun had just began to rise. Altheeda had successfully fallen back to sleep and he carefully knelt by her side and put a hand on her shoulder, although his touch was feather-light, the waves of her hair were disturbed and shifted position. She stirred slowly, drawing in a deep breath through her nose.

"Theeda, we have to get going now." He coaxed.

She gave a long exhale, her eyes fluttering open and focusing at Cal as he looked down upon her. A sluggish smile crept on her face and she extended her arms, groaning as she stretched.

"Okay, let me grab my stuff." Her voice was croaky.

BD-1 wished her a good morning through his robotic manner of communicating.

"Good morning, mate." She replied, still sleepy.

BD-1 then proceeded to hop on Cal's back. They followed behind her but politely waited outside her cabin when she stepped inside to fetch her belongings. When she returned, she had her hair styled back into its half up-do, she wore the poncho they had found the previous day and sported her toolbox on her back. They proceeded to walk towards the door; only to be greeted by Cere and Greez in the lounge area.

"I didn't expect both of you to be up so early." Cal spoke.

"We wanted to see you off before you got going." Cere replied. "Got everything you need, Cal?"

BD-1 chirped in response and the Jedi simply nodded, patting his lightsaber that was tucked under his belt.

"You know what you forgot last time, Altheeda?"

"A blaster." She spoke sheepishly.

Cere walked over to the kitchen counter to pick up a blaster and give it to her.

"Consider it yours. Like I told you last time, I always keep my own on me so I don't need it."

"Are you sure?" She asked guiltily.

"Positive."

She kindly took the blaster from her,  she then slid the blaster in her pocket and glanced at Cere and Greez.

"Don't get into too much trouble you two." Greez said as he pointed to the duo individually. "Make this a smooth operation."

"We've got this." Cal smirked.

"Use your comlinks if you need anything from us." Cere reminded.

"Of course." Altheeda smiled as she followed Cal out of the Mantis, stopping to give Cere and Greez a brief wave goodbye before her exit.

As she caught up with her fellow redhead, she noticed various workers for Saw already bustling around. Snippets of conversation buzzed around her but she was not paying too much attention to them.

"Saw should be on the other side of this trench." Cal stated as they walked through two sets of doors, revealing the vast trench before them.

"Looks like a bit of a trek." She added as they jumped off the ledge to proceed onwards.

They approached a gap in their path, on the other side of the ledge they stood on was another ledge that had some sort of panel connected to a mechanism. Altheeda pondered on a way for herself to get across.

"That panel looks like it can give us a way across." Cal thought aloud.

"You think so?"

"Yeah, if BD-1 could use it I think it lowers this contraption here." He pointed. "I can run alongside it to cross the gap.