Chapter Thirteen

Droids?

Ezra's POV.

Sabine slows the speeder bike we've been riding for almost a day to a stop before we both hop off and stretch our legs.

"Ahh. Forgot how uncomfortable those things can be." I say stretching out my back.

"Could be worse. We could have to walk." Sabine says opening up her holo map.

"Alright how far do we have to go?" I ask stepping beside her looking at the map.

"We are here." Sabine says pointing to a small clearing in the forest on the map. "And the reports we have say that the base's entrance is here." Sabine says pointing to a cluster of large plants about a kilometer away. I nod and walk around a bit before relieving myself in the trees.

"So what do you think we'll find?" I ask walking back to the speeder.

"Junk, maybe some scavengable weapons or gear." Sabine says pulling out a ration bar and breaking it in half. Wordlessly she hands it to me and grabs the jar from her pack. "What do you think this stuff will be?" Sabine asks opening it and taking a sniff. "Smells sweet."

"I don't know just hope they make these bars taste better." I say before taking a bite.

"Wow this stuff if really good." I exclaim after swallowing.

"Yeah whatever this stuff is it's good." Sabine says agreeing with me. After eating we pack up and travel the last kilometer to the base. Arriving at the entrance we spot a few sentry droids but none of them are powered up.

"Here we are." Sabine says parking the bike. We hop off and start walking into the base weapons drawn.

"Do we know what the base's plans look like?" I ask looking around.

"Nope that's why we're scouting." Sabine says looking around.

"Alright let's start on the left and go from room to room." I say looking around the uniform and clearly made by a droid base. It's a large square with high walls and several large buildings inside of the compound. Lined and branching off of the walls is a lot of rooms. Sabine and I start of the left and go for the first door. I hit the open button and nothing happens.

"Well." I say glancing at the rest of the base. "Should have expected that."

"I guess we should try and power up the door or you could make a hole for us." Sabine says looking at the door.

"Any chance they're going to use this base?" I ask as I ignite my lightsabre.

"Nope salvage only." Sabine says clearly grinning underneath her helmet.

"Well I really hope you're right then." I say stabbing my blade through the door. Moving quickly I cut a circle and then slam a foot into the inch thick metal causing it to fall inwards. Sabine goes in blasters first incase of any active droids. After both of us move in we find a rows of deactivated droids. Sabine sweeps the room as I watch from the entrance. "Empty. Just old droids." Sabine says returning to the entrance.

"Well they could be useful if we clean them up and upgrade the coding so they aren't stupid." I say dusting off the head of one.

"Really?" Sabine asks skeptically.

"Yeah the programming for these things were horrible. I heard a few rumours about the Hutts converting them into disposable troops." I say heading back out the entrance. We clear the outer sections of the base and find a dozen more rooms of battle droids and four rooms of super battle droids. After that we clear the largest building in the compound and find six battle droid tanks and ammunition for days. The next building has nothing in it but a dead tactical droid and data terminals. After that we find the armoury. There are lines of old blaster rifles, thermal detonators, and a line of sniper rifles. Sabine grabs one sniper rifle and inspects it before switching the safety off and firing across the compound at one of the sentry droids knocking its head clean off.

"Still good." She remarks setting it back before heading back to the speeder. I continue to look over what's there before finding an old astromech hidden in the back.

"What do we have here?" I ask looking at it. I find an old Republic symbol on the side of it and look it over for a power switch. I flick it on and after a few seconds it turns on and rolls forward a bit before looking around.

"Hey there little guy." I say gaining its attention. A zapper arm flings out and is immediately aimed at me.

"Who are you?" It asks in binary.

"I'm Ezra a Jedi Padawan." I say igniting my blade.

"You're with the Republic?" It asks curiously lowering the arm.

"Uhh. Long story short the Republic won the war with the Separatists and became the Empire. The Empire is not any better then the Separatists so I'm fighting back against them. The Empire also killed off almost all of the Jedi." I say glossing over a lot of information. He looks around at the base before retracting his arm back into his body.

"My owner was a Jedi by the name of Aayla Secura. I'm loyal to the Jedi not to the Republic or this Empire." He says rolling up next to me.

"Cool." I say motioning for him to follow me. We walk out and see Sabine setting up the beacon and I introduce my new friend.

"Sabine I would like you to meet… Uhh one second." I say looking for the droids ID number.

"Aalya always called me Fenn. It's Ryl for Hardworking." Fenn says looking at Sabine.

"I found uhh Fenn in the back of the Armoury and turned him on. Apparently he's loyal to the Jedi." I say happily.

"And you want to take him with us?" Sabine asks looking at me.

"Come on. It'll be better then having Chopper come with us and eventually we will need our own droid if we're supposed to be our own infiltrator team." I say trying to convince her it's a good idea.

"Alright but if command says no he goes to the scrap pile." Sabine says pointedly.

"Scrap pile?" Fenn asks backing up a little. "Well if need be we can always wipe his memory." I shrugging. "Sorry Fenn we are still technically under the command of Commander Sato."

"I understand. You must listen to your master." Fenn says beeping happily. "Sato isn't my Jedi master that would be Kanan." I say before looking at Sabine. "The beacon set up?"

"Yup they know that this place is ready for salvage and that there inactive droids here. I also downloaded all of the information off of the terminals in the command room." Sabine says heading for the speeder.

"C'mon Fenn we have more to do." I say smiling.

"Okay." He says rolling after us.

"So did you find anything else of interest?" I ask following Sabine back to our speeder.

"Nope. C'mon it'll be a few hours to the next base. This one is a former Republic base." Sabine says hopping on the speeder.

"I should have the access codes for any Republic base in this system." Fenn says attaching itself to the Speeders cargo hauler.

"Cool." I say getting on behind Sabine. Without a word we take off to the next base. Four hours later we arrived at the edge of the Republic base to find a group of pirates using it as a base. Sabine and I are watching the base being torn apart by the pirates who have clearly just arrived. The base itself is a simple one consisting of four small LAAT landing pads and four medium sized buildings on each side.

"What should we do?" I ask looking at Sabine who is scouting out their strength and numbers.

"They appear to be relatively weak and there's only about twenty of them." Sabine says before ducking back down and turning to me.

"Well we could either move on and declare it a no go or take them out." I say weighing both options.

"I vote we take them out. These pirates could set up a base and that could draw the attention of the Empire." Sabine says patting her pack of explosives she brought just incase.

"I agree." I say nodding.

"Alright we should opposite sides of the base that way we divide their numbers. You remember those take downs I taught you?" Sabine asks laying our plan out fully.

"Of course." I say nodding.

"We take out as many as we can before going loud." With that we split up and head for opposite sides of the camp. Within a minute I start by taking down a guard. I approach from behind hidden by a small wall from the rest of the camp. "Stupid planet." The Weequay mutters looking off into the jungle. I sneak up behind him and quickly wrap my hands around his head before jerking it to the side and snapping his neck silently. I leave him where he falls and move onto a pair of Weequays inside of one of the buildings on the edge of the base. I slide into the room avoiding being spotted by the rest of them and ignite my lightsabre beheading them both quickly as they pick over a row of Republic blasters. I move to leave the room and see a human walk in. Without thinking I jump at him punching him the face before spinning and delivering a kick shattering his knee and knocking him to the ground. Without a sound escaping the man I quickly snap his neck and move on. While moving I spot Sabine taking down two Weequays while I snap another human's neck. Slowly but surely we make it to their ship where most of them are situated.

"Hey have any of you idiots seen Ryan?" One of the human's left a female asks. There are roughly twelve of them left from my count. Three of them split off and go back to their ship that appears to be older Republic Frigate. With the nine left I find Sabine who is brandishing her blaster pistols. I nod at her grabbing my own hybrid and checking to make sure it's set off of stun. I stand up and fire killing one before Sabine stands up firing. "What the?" One of them shouts out and is quickly gunned down. I shoot another before Sabine kills three of them spurring the rest into firing back. I duck back into cover as Sabine fires killing another one. I pop back out as Sabine ducks down with practiced ease and fire at the last one before we both run for the ship. As the cargo bay doors open we fire. Without a second passing two of the three fall down dead. I ignite my blade and cut the last one down as we enter the ship. Moving silently we clear the ship and find no one else. "Alright let's clear the rest of the camp." Sabine says shutting down the ship. I nod and we start on the north side of the camp. We find on the northern side is the barracks and a mess hall. The west side is all empty buildings with a few helmets left behind. I find one with blue markings and grab it for myself before continuing on. The south side contains the bases armoury and munitions depot. The armoury has a few dozen Republic blasters, and a large supply of thermal detonators. The munitions depot is about half full of proton bombs. On the east side we find the command center and med bay. In the command center there nothing but a few powered down terminals. But in the med bay we find a large cache of medical supplies and bacta. I grab a beacon while Sabine takes Fenn attempting to access the bases computers. I set the beacon in the center of the base before finding Sabine again in order to Comm Kanan and Hera. I walk in the comm center to find Fenn powered up a console and Sabine is downloading the info quickly barely skimming over it.

"Got it up and running?" I ask walking up behind her.

She nods. "Fenn managed to sync up his power supply to the database. Should give us some in site on how to fight on this planet. Maybe a few more bases to salvage as well."

I nod and wait for them to finish. After they finish Sabine deposits the datadisk in our bag on the speeder and I open a comm line to Kanan.

"Hey Kanan can you hear me?" I ask testing out the connection.

"Yeah. There's a bit of static but I can hear you. What's up?" Kanan says coming over with a bit of static.

"The second base had a group of pirates at it. We took them down but they were using an old Republic frigate as a pirate vessel upgraded and everything." I say getting Kanan to pause for a moment.

"Are we compromised at all?" Hera asks quickly.

"No they didn't know we were here till the last twelve of them. I think they just found this place by chance and were setting up base." Sabine says joining in on the conversation.

"You should send someone to grab the ship and supplies here. There's a good amount." I say giving my opinion.

"Alright I'll tell Ahsoka about this and get a team out there. Good job and stay safe." Hera says seriously.

"Hey I'm always careful." I say smirking a little.

"No you're not." Sabine and Kanan say at the same time. I roll my eyes.

"See you guys in a few days." Sabine says before cutting the comm line.

"Alright let's go." I say getting on the speeder.

"Nope. I'm driving." Sabine says pushing me back in the seat.

"Hey!" I say watching her get on in front of me. I stare at her ass for a moment before shrugging.

"Alright either way I win." She looks back at me for a moment.

"Bad idea." Fenn says from the back. I smirk and she clearly rolls her eyes before we move forward.

"Hey I'm allowed to look." I say getting on behind her.

"Just keep it up and I'll hold out on you." She says in a sing song voice.

"You could." I say knowing she wouldn't unless I really screwed up. She grumbles something I don't hear but don't get to ask as she takes off. We travel for a few more hours before it starts to get dark and we start to look for a good spot to camp.

"Here looks good." Sabine says pulling up on a clearing.

"Looks fine to me." I say looking around. Sabine just hops off I and follow suite heading for Fenn.

"Here you go." I say shutting off the gav lock.

"Thanks." He beeps out and rolls into the campsite. "Where are we on the planet?" He asks looking at Sabine.

"I'll show you." She says opening her holo map. "We're here." She says showing a spot near the equator. We are about a quarter of the way through our trip and about an eighth of the way around the world itself.

"There was a column of Republic tanks that were abandoned in the last days of the war." Fenn says pointing to a spot on the map not far from us. "They may still be salvageable."

"Cool. We'll check it out tomorrow." I say looking at Sabine who nods.

"Let's set up camp and get some sleep." Sabine says walking back to the speeder. We quickly unpack our bag of food and bed rolls. I set up our lantern light in the middle of the camp just beside our speeder bike and sit down on my bed roll right next Sabine.

"Ration bar?" I ask holding one out to her. She nods and takes half.

"So what do you think we'll find at the next site?" Sabine asks looking at the map.

"We're about halfway there already." I say looking at the location of a Separatist base. "I doubt we'll have as much luck there as we did at the previous two bases. According to Rex and the others this place was a hellhole that swallowed both sides whole." Sabine just nods as the last of the daylight goes out.

"Fenn keep a watch for any local wildlife coming for us." Sabine says taking her helmet off to sleep.

"Jate ca cayr'ika." I say getting Sabine to smile at me. "Gar bralir te jateshya be kartayl." (You get the better of knowledge.)*Literal translation.* "Jate ca cay'rika." With that we fall into an easy sleep. The next morning we wake up early to the sunrise. I stretch myself out next Sabine occasionally glancing at her toned body. After we stretch out we sit down to have breakfast.

"It's different." I say realizing that we can just relax.

"What is?" Sabine asks looking at me curiously.

"We're relaxing. It hasn't happened in a while for either of us. We've been training non stop for a while and it has taken a bit of a toll." I explain feeling my muscle relaxed instead of sore and tense.

"It is a nice to not feel sore in the morning." Sabine says finishing off her ration bar. I sallow the last bite of my own and start to pack up.

"Spy anything last night bud?" I ask looking at Fenn.

"Nope." He says looking around.

"Good." I say finishing the packing and getting ready to go.

"Alright let's go." Sabine says getting on the bike. I hop on behind her and watch as the scenery passes by quickly. Half an hour later we pull to a stop at the front of an old battle ground. One that the Republic had obviously been losing. There were five Republic walkers in a circle with a dozen destroyed droid battle tanks surrounding them. I get off the bike and look around at the peaceful battle scene.

"Wow." I say quietly looking at the hulking wreckage of a Republic walker missing one leg and a large chunk of armour on the front section. I step forward only to step on something solid. I crouch down and wipe it off with my hand to reveal the white helmet of a clone trooper.

"Suum ca'nara verd be ruug'la." (Rest in peace warrior of old.) Sabine says placing a hand on my shoulder. "Come on let's set up a salvage beacon. I doubt there's anything here other then scarp." We quickly set up the beacon and go back to the speeder bike to find Fenn gone.

"Fenn?" I call out looking around. Looking around I him next to one of the Republic battle tanks hooking into one of the ports.

"Fenn?" I ask walking up next to him.

Sabine walks up next to me. "Good you found him we can go now."

"Fenn what are you looking for?" I ask watching him work. He turns his head to us and beeps sadly.

"I was looking for records of Alya but I found nothing." Fenn says shaking his head before unhooking from the port.

"She's gone bud only three of the Jedi remain that I know of." I say patting his head. Fenn merrily rolls back to the speeder bike.

"He's looking for a dead woman?" Sabine asks curiously.

"Of course. She was his master. I would never stop looking for Kanan and Chopper would never stop looking for Hera." I say before walking back to the speeder. I hook Fenn into grav lock as Sabine gets on the bike. I get on wrapping my arms around her as we accelerate off into the jungle. Eight hours later we arrive at the droid base and find it dug into the side of a large canyon that has about a foot of water in it. The walkway to the base itself is rusted and covered in plants.

"I have no faith that this bridge will hold us." Sabine says kicking. The kick sends vibration through the rusted structure causing a piece to fall off.

"I agree but would you rather walk through the water and mud and whatever death causing things that are in there?" I ask looking at the fetid stagnant water.

Sabine shakes her head. "No."

I simply take a step forward onto the shaky thing and surprisingly it holds. I take another step avoiding the most rusted sections and occasionally making use of the vines and roots to make my way along. I reach the door and see Sabine following my steps accurately. I smirk as she lands beside me and towards the large durasteel door that appears to be permanently shut.

"So lightsabre?" I ask looking Sabine who's looking at her explosives and then the door again.

"Go ahead." She says nodding. I ignite my blade and stab into the metal. Slowly I make a circle and then gather a small force push. I hit the metal plate and it goes flying back landing on a B1 battle droid. I can see the typical droids feet sticking out the bottom of the slab of metal. I glance around looking at the entrance to find a dozen heavy defense turrets pointed at the door but clearly deactivated.

"Heavy defenses but inactive." I state walking forwards promoting Sabine to draw her blasters just incase. We walk forwards along the long hallway passing several darkened hallways.

"How big do you think this place is?" Sabine asks after almost two minutes of continuous walking finding defensive choke points.

"Apparently it's massive and completely underground." I say using my lightsabre to light the way and watching the small holomap we had made.

"What were they even doing down here?" Sabine asks as we pass a pair of deactivated B2 super battle droids guarding a door.

"This must be a command post or something really important." I say as we pass the five minute mark. After almost another minute we reach a lift. It's still powered down but has two magnaguard droids guarding it.

"So should we see what's behind the super important lift or map out this level first and work our way down?" I say looking at the powerful droids.

"We should work floor by floor also get Fenn in here to see if he can't find a way to get the power back on. This place is massive so it must have a dedicated reactor." Sabine says getting me to nod and we quickly walk back to the entrance.

"Hey Fenn can you meet us at the entrance?" I ask into my comm walking quickly.

"Yes." He answeres shortly before the comm line shuts off. "He's going to meet us there." I say and Sabine nods in acknowledgement. We make it to the entrance and see Fenn waiting for us.

"Hey let's see if we can't find the command center for this place." I say getting him to roll along.

"Alright let's search this place one hallway at a time." Sabine says in an unexcited tone.

"At least this should be a good place to get resources." I say starting down the hallway. We walk for about ten seconds before finding the first door.

"Hey Fenn can you get this open or do we have to cut a hole in every door?" I ask looking at the astromech. Fenn simply hooks into the door slot getting to work after almost a minute the door slides open.

"I reactivated minimal power to the base. Also this appears to be a rather large one if not the largest on the planet." Fenn says unhooking from the connection point.

"Good job buddy." I say stepping into the room and see hundreds of B2 super battle droids stored there.

"Storage room." I say as we clear it quickly. The room itself is a dozen rows deep, thirty droids long and stacked three droids high.

"Just over a thousand droids." Fenn says quietly almost fearful of activating them.

"That's a lot of droids." I say leaving the room. We continue down the hallway and find that there are roughly twelve rooms on either side of the hallway making it almost twenty five thousand droids ready for deployment in this single hallway. We clear every hallway finding each one to be the same as the first. We clear twenty one hallways making the number of droids to be around half a million droids. We pause in front of the door guarded by two magna guard and Fenn opens the door. We walk in to see a dozen tactical droids and several comm links along with a thick coat of dust.

"Fenn grab all the data you can and place it on here." Sabine says handing the astromech a data spike.

"Got it." Fenn says going to the first terminal. "This will take a while you should go and clear the rest of the facility." Fenn says looking back at us. We nod and start to clear more hallways as the power starts up. "I've turned on minimal power. No droids but the doors and lights will work now." Fenn says over the comm link.

"Good job Fenn." I say opening the first door. We find twelve more hallways of droids before finding one dedicated to magnaguards just before the elevator. Making it 825,000 B1 and B2 battle droids and just under twenty five thousand magnaguards.

"What were they protecting here?" I ask voicing my question to Sabine.

"I have no clue but it must have been important for this many droids to be able to deploy from a single location." Sabine says hitting the elevator button. I hear a clanking sound before the elevator doors open revealing two B1 battle droids that fall over in front of us prompting us to both pull out our weapons. I look at Sabine who is tense and chuckle a little.

"Hey I'm not the only one who was tense." Sabine says glaring at me. I raise my hands in surrender before we pull the deactivated the droids out of the elevator and walk in.

"Come on let's head down a level." I say hitting button. We go down a level and look through the open doors to see a catwalk. We walk out slowly and see a massive underground factory.

"Holy shit." I say looking across the expanse to see the ready to go droid factory. I walk along the catwalk followed by Sabine.

"Well this would be helpful." Sabine says looking at the weapons production place.

"Yeah no kidding." I say pointing to a massive assembly line that has a half finished battle tank.

"This is going to be a good beacon." Sabine says happily.

"Yeah let's clear the rest of this facility." I say heading down the catwalk. We clear the catwalk and continue down to the production floor to find five separate production line. One for B1 battle droids, one for B2 super battle droids, one for blasters and thermal detonators, one for battle tanks and one for proton bombs.

"This could supply the whole rebellion with weapons and munitions." I say as we head back to the elevator. We go down to the final level and find a long tunnel under ground. "How far do you think this goes?" I ask looking into the dark abyss.

"Far enough that my scanner can't find the end and it branches off as well." Sabine says clearly using the tech in her helmet to find what info that she could.

"C'mon let's get out of here and set up the beacon. With this we could hold the planet for weeks against a full invasion force." I say happily. Sabine simply nods follows me back to the elevator. We hit the lift button and reach the top floor. We walk to the command room and enter only to not see Fenn working at a console.

"Where's Fenn?" I ask quietly while slipping into a guarded position. Sabine simply shakes her head and step forward. My foot lands in something slippery and I slide forward before catching myself. After steadying myself I kneel down and stick a finger in the goo.

"It's from outside." I say quietly looking around. The trail comes from the entrance of the room and splits into four separate paths. I look at Sabine and hold up four fingers before heading for the door. I feel out in the force for any living things in the base. I feel nothing from inside the base itself but there are four bright lifeforms just outside of the base.

"They're outside the base already. They have some sort of force ability." I say getting Sabine to grab a couple of grenades.

"Let's move." She says clearly smirking. I nod and we head for the entrance keeping an eye out for any sort of trap along the way. I reach out a couple of times along the way and find that they haven't moved yet.

"They are going to try to ambush us." I say getting Sabine to tense even further as we approach the entrance. I walk out first looking into the bright sky allowing my eyes to adjust before I spot Fenn sitting in a group of trees in front of us.

"Fenn!" I say quietly surprised that he was still here. I see he's shut off and look around. I see nothing and instead feel out in the force. The four beings are just watching us. I move forward while Sabine keeps her blasters at the ready. I find Fenn's on switch getting him to start up with a shock and whip a taser arm out.

"It's me Fenn!" I say getting him to stop from tasering me and looking around.

"How did I get outside?" Fenn asks before putting his arm away.

"I don't know. Was really hoping you would tell me." I say looking around starting to get nervous.

"Let's get out of here while we can." Sabine states getting me to nod and we start to head for our speeder bike. We get to the location only to find it gone. "Where is it?" Sabine asks searching the area.

"Someone or something took it." I say before tapping my comm.

"Hey home base can you read me?" I ask but hear nothing but static.

"No relays out this far." Sabine says answering my unspoken question.

"Well this is shabla." (Screwed up-Impolite version.) I say getting Sabine to look at me with her helmet cocked to the side.

"It is." I say before she considers it and nods pulling out her holomap.

"We're here but the closest relay is about four days walking away." Sabine says pointing out the locations.

"And we have almost no food or water." I say glaring at the relay.

"Well we should start walking. The less time spent standing here the better." She says closing it and heading for the closest relay. We walk silently watching the jungle move around us. Without stopping we walk for five hours before the sun starts to set.

"We should set up camp off the ground." I say tiredly after having walked through the never ending water and plant life. Our feet were soaked about ten minutes into the journey now. "Fenn you good here on the ground?" He nods simply going into low power mode to conserve energy.

"Get our feet dry for the night." Sabine says nodding. We find a massive tree and climb up to a branch with a nice crook in it.

"Here." I say handing half a ration to Sabine after having taken it out of my suit.

"How many do you have left?" She asks accepting it.

"Four and a water filter." I say as she takes off her helmet.

"Someone's prepared." She says smiling and taking a bite.

"You learn a few things about being prepared when you live on the streets." I say taking off my boots and brace. I start to massage my leg after feeling an ache start to set in. Valerie had taught me to do this whenever I felt an ache start to set in.

"What are you doing?" Sabine asks watching me while eating.

"Massaging my leg. Helps when an ache starts to set in." I say not looking up.

"So where did you get a Trandoshan blade from?" Sabine asks looking at the brace.

"Got it from a friend with the promise of a free favor." I say smiling as I think about the rough but nice bounty hunter.

"You met a Trandoshan and got a blade along with a favour from him. Impressive." Sabine says clearly surprised.

"Eh. I saved his life and got back to his ship alive in exchange for a lock box with credits in it. We had some trouble getting the job done but it was worth it." I say recalling the five hundred credit pay off. "Ate for a month on the reward." Sabine nods and finishes her bar. I stop massaging my leg as Sabine takes off her boots and sets them to air out.

"We should get some sleep." Sabine says curling up next to me.

"Jate ca Sabine." I say tiredly.

"Jate ca Ezra." Sabine says happily. We easily fall asleep. I jerk awake my mind scrabbling for the reason why only to find my danger sense going off.

"Sabine wake up." I whisper quietly while putting on my brace and drawing my lightsabre but not igniting it. She stirs but stays silent eyes asking a tired question.

"I sense something surrounding us." I whisper getting her to grab her boots and slip them on along with her helmet. She draws her blasters and starts to scan around.

"I can't see anything." She says looking around curiously. I close my eyes looking in the force. I find them and jerk my head upwards.

"Above us!" I shout seeing several vines shoot down at us. I ignite my lightsabre and slice through them before jumping down with Sabine. We jump away from several more only for a dozen creatures to jump down and land in front of us. The creature look like living tree stumps with glowing blue algae hanging off of them. They are each brandishing a sword made of some sort of bone.

"Ezra?" Sabine asks having taken up a position behind me. I feel out in the force trying to figure them out.

"They're connected to the planet deeply." I whisper before realizing it. "They're native Felucians!" The lead on who is slightly larger and covered in glowing red algae.

"Osa fev gasl?" I can feel the meaning pulse through the force. He's asking why we are here!

"We are traveling through here to get back to our home." I say concentrating on sending the meaning through the force back to them. Sabine tenses behind me.

"Ezra?" She asks cautiously.

"I felt it's meaning through the force." I say firmly. The group clearly rings out with shock at my response.

"Gala!" The lead one shouts in surprise. The rest murmur out the same word and the leader step forward and points his weapon at me.

"Gala falak! Fed gor fo gala falak!" He says before swinging his weapon down and more vines shoot out at us.

"Look out!" I shout dodge one and slicing another one before Sabine opens fire killing one of them. The rest charge us. I swing my blade one handed expecting my blade to cut through only for it bounce off. I jump back nearly avoiding getting stabbed. I swing at the creature knocking it's blade aside before twirling and landing a force ebuubed kick on it's chest. It flies back and I duck under another blade I see Sabine out of the corner of my eye ducking under a sword blade and putting her blaster up against its wielder's head before firing. I knock another blade aside before cutting one's wrist off and punching it in the head. It stumbles back before the larger red one sends a force push at Sabine. I send one back countering it but losing focus on my opponent allows him to slice my arm open stunning me for a moment. I jump back avoiding another strike before blocking a different blade. I send a force blast at the red one again before dodge another strike and whirling around one. I get inside it's defenses and elbow it before deactivating my blade and sending a bolt through it's head. Before I can do anything else a large rock hits me in the back knocking the breath out of me.

"Ezra!" I hear Sabine exclaim before she cries out in pain. I try to take a breath and cough trying to fill my lungs with air. I see the large red creature stand above me before swing the hilt of blade into my head knocking me out.