Bab 2: Nar Shaddaa
The ramp of the interceptor opened revealing the port they landed in. A skinny, greedy looking Rodian scampered up to the ship with some droids and started refilling.
Not caring to pay the fees, Cleo walked up to him and waved her arm in front of his face, "We do not need to pay for the port or the fuel," to which he quickly repeated with a unfocused and dazed expression. While Cleo could have easily intimidated or killed the man, she decided for a more humane approach, just in case killing this man had complications later on.
After that encounter, Cleo used her comm device on her wristband to close the ramp to ensure that no one can steal from their ship.
The duo hailed a taxi and set their destination as the commercial district, hoping for more information and maybe find something to buy, what girls don't like shopping?
Some time later, they reached their destination, and found a cantina that seemed like a good spot. They entered, and found a seat off to the side, which was still within earshot for them because of their force enhanced senses.
They found information, but it wasn't what they were expecting. After listening, they found that there was a war going on between the Confederacy of Independent Systems, also known as CIS and the Galactic Republic, or GAR. Even after eating a full meal and having drinks, the girls didn't hear a single word talking about the Empire, worrying them greatly. While Nar Shaddaa is not governed by the Republic or Empire, there should still be some talk about it.
Beta decided to speak up, "Master, don't you think it's unusual that there is no mention of the empire?"
"I find it distressing, we should find the date, I have a feeling that there is something amiss. Even the force is out of balance, the dark side feels like it has less volume than before, which means that there are less Sith, which shouldn't be possible for how short our trip was."
They paid via mind trick to the waiter, and left the cantina. The found an electronics store, and purchased a holocaster, which had something called the holonet on it, to which they were able to access information of the Galactic Republic on.
After searching the holonet, they found that it the Sith Emprie was destroyed a millennia ago, and it was nearly four millennia since they departed Korriban.
In a state of shock, they made their way back to the cantina, and sat down in a booth, while processing their findings.
"What do we do now master?" Beta asked.
"The holonet says that the sith were eradicated a millennia ago. But that doesn't seem right. Although they are faint, I can feel that there are others out there somewhere."
"So are we going to reorganize the order?"
"No, not at the moment, we need to get our bearings, and find out what's different since we have been gone. I don't even know how we ended up in a different time period for force's sake."
While they were discussing, a waiter came over with a large, obviously fake smile, "Hello customers, what can I get for you?"
"Nothing for us right now, thanks" Cleo responded for them.
After hearing Cleo's sultry voice, the waiter's eyes had a cold glint in them for a second, before he took up a smiling expression, "It's fine miss, take your time." He turned and walked away with a greedy smile, before silently signaling multiple people in the cantina, which didn't go unnoticed by the girls, who just chose to ignore it.
After ironing out the details the duo decided to spend a day looking around the commercial district before going back to the ship and taking hyperspace lanes to Mandalore, and then to Korriban to check the remains of the Sith Academy and Temple to see if there was anything left behind.
They chose Mandalore as a stop because both girls liked the people before, and it also helped that currently it was an independent system, so there would be no republic forces nearby.
Since they decided on the plans, they left the cantina and strolled through the commercial district, looking through shops for anything that caught their eye. They saw many new things, but what surprised them was that the technological difference between their time and now was not much, and many things were similar even though four millennia has passed.
There were new blaster models, new droids, even some clothings were different, but there was nothing that really stood out at being much different from their time.
Even though not much caught their eye, the ended up buying a MSE-6 droid, also known as the mouse droid, so they didn't have to worry about cleaning their ship as often. Of course, they got some new clothing and underwear as well because they liked the styles.
Happy with their purchases, they decided to roam around for a couple more hours, but not long after, they noticed that there was a group trailing them, it was 7 men from different races, and from the looks of it, they were thugs.
Deciding to just go with it, they walked back to their ship, planning on spending the night in their rooms before looking around once more tomorrow, and then leaving.
Once they reached their port, they were almost immediately surrounded.
All of the men wore perverted smiles on their faces while staring at the girls.
"Girls, it looks like its your bad day, we are gonna turn you into slaves and sell you, but before that, we are going to have our fun first." The man speaking licked his lips.
All the men surrounding them laughed, and while they had their blasters aimed on them, they slowly began walking towards them, thinking that the girls not speaking meant that they gave up, when in reality, they were communicating telepathically through the force.
'Master, can I kill them?'
'Yes, but let me get some too, I need some exercise after being in the ship for four millennia' Cleo joked.
Beta couldn't help but snicker at the terrible joke, as she reached underneath her robes, gripping the hilt of her saber. Cleo did the same, and at the same time, they ignited them and rushed their attackers.
As soon as the men saw the blades, they screamed, "AHH! Jedi! Shit we fucked up run!"
Collectively, 5 of the men bolted for the doors of the port, while two fired on the girls.
Reflecting the shots back on the men, the two dropped dead, while the other five were almost to the doors, but unfortunately for them, it was not their lucky day. Cleo grabbed all five through the force and pulled them towards her and her apprentice. While they were still in midair, Beta made two fast slashes, and cut down three, with one slash going through two men.
Cleo took the other two, and slashed once with her two blades, making contact with both at the same time, bisecting the poor thugs.
"Hmph! We are not jedi! Ugh this is gonna be so annoying with misunderstandings now!" Beta complained.
Beta lowered her hood and walked to Cleo, "Maasssteeer! They weren't even a challenge, it was so boring, can we fight someone stronger next time?" She complained with sad puppy eyes.
Cleo flicked her forehead, "Silly girl, what did you expect, after everything we've seen, the galaxy has been at peace for nearly a millennia, people are probably weak at combat now, not to mention the jedi, you could probably kill a master now."
That immediately caught Beta's attention, and she looked at her master with starry eyes, "I want to fight a jedi master next! I wonder how good they are, you never let me fight a master before!"
Cleo just sighed, the girl was 15 what did you expect? She is just a bundle of energy and it was difficult to keep her on track.
"Let's just dispose of these bodies somewhere and get back to the ship, I'm sure Fox is waiting for us."
"Ah! Poor Foxy, at least he has a friend now! We should name the new one Mouse and then we would have all animal droid names in the ship!"
After tossing the bodies into a nearby alleyway, the girls made it back to the ship, entering inside and going to the bridge.
Cleo called Fox, and it drove over making beeps in response.
"I have a job for you," she handed the holocaster to the droid, "I want to integrate this into the ship, can you do that for me?"
She got confirmation sounding beeps in response, and the droid sped away, but before he got far, Beta jumped in front, "Wait Fox, meet a new friend, this is Mouse, he will clean our ship for us!" She shoved the MSE-6 droid in front of Fox. To which the astromech reached out with a mechanical arm and tapped the head of the MSE-6, and then went back to work.
"Ah! Such a workaholic. You're no fun Fox!"
She put Mouse down and let him go do his thing, which was cleaning.
It was a mentally strenuous day for the girls, so they locked up the ship before going to their personal rooms and going to sleep for the night.
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