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I was out for 4 days.
When I finally woke up again, I noticed I was laying in a dark room. I sat up and heard chains slither across the floor as I moved my hands. I lifted one hand to see that there was a metal clamp on it, the clamp was connected to a chain. I grumbled something even I couldn't understand.
I tried to wrench the clamps off my wrists but sadly failed. After a while, I looked out the windowed door and noticed a few stormtroopers patrolling outside of my cell. I sat back down as I was standing at that time.
Just as I was about to give up I searched my belt, and felt the lightsaber. They had left it, which I was glad of. I took it out and turned it down to be slightly silent when I turned it on. Once it was on I cut through the chains and quickly hid my saber.
The troopers didn’t come to check if I was alright until that night, and by then, I had figured out how to make it look like the chain was never cut.
“Seems like he’s still out.” one mumbled.
The other smacked him in the head, I could hear the sound of leather against metal.
“Be quiet, FN-450!” The second one snapped.
FN-450 yelped and turned on the cell light. I stayed perfectly still as they quickly cleaned the neck wound the dart had created. As soon as they finished they quickly exited and locked the door again.
I got up and got to work on the other chain on my side. By the time I finished that chain, I had little less than 6 minutes left before they came and checked again.
I laid back down after I finished fixing the chain to my wrist, and just in time… I suddenly felt something hit my temple and everything went black again…
By the time I woke up I was strapped upside-down to a metal platform that was raised and at an angle.
“So you finally woke up.” I heard the familiar voice of Captain Thrush and I tried to look up from my position to see where he was.
Thrust stepped out of the corner he was leaning in. “I’m surprised you were caught so easily, Jedi scum.” He remarked. “I still question why you have a sith saber though, why exactly is that?”
“I refuse to tell you!” I growled at Thrust and strained against the cold metal clamps, I was getting dizzy from the fact that I was hanging upside down.
Thrush chuckled. “I doubt there is anything you can do against me at the moment.”
“Oh I don’t think you could understand what I’m about to do.”
“I think I can, to be honest.”
“Oh really? Tell me what I’m thinking of right now!”
There was silence…
“HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?” Thrush yelled at me.
I chuckled softly and the clamps sprung open, with a red-ish green aura around them. As this happened I leapt down and activated my saber.
“WHY!? WHY DIDN'T THEY SEARCH YOU!?” Thrush screeched in surprise.
I simply chuckled again and sliced open the door…
As I ran down the halls, alarms blared, and I laughed a bit, using the force and my saber to push my way through the now crowded hallways to the escape shuttles.
I entered the escape shuttle and took off…

My luck really fails me doesn’t it? The minute I looked out the window I noticed that we were also surrounded by stormtroopers. There was no way out of this predicament, not even if I tried!
Lucas seemed not to notice the stormtroopers as we exited the ship silently. I nudged him and pointed at the stormtroopers. Lucas stopped, inspected them, and instantly took out a remote and turned the camo on for the ship.
Lucas’s camo is really an amazing thing, he rewired the ship to make it as simple as pushing a button to make it disappear. I honestly appreciate that and will sometimes just sit and look in amazement at what Lucas can do with just a few wires. Anyways, I’m getting off point.
After Lucas turned on the ship’s camo, I used the Force to fling some stormtroopers out of the way and ran past. The remaining stormtroopers yelled and started aiming, but I kept on zipping away. They soon got discouraged and turned away, looking for a new target.
While they were searching for a new target, I slipped into one of the cargo stores and hid behind a rack of turrets. I sighed with relief and looked around to see if anybody was around before slowly coming out. I was lucky this time, maybe not so lucky next time.
I tested my lightsaber to see if the crystal that powered it was still intact, thankfully it was and I turned the lightsaber on to see if I could find anything in the dark warehouse.
“GHOST!?” I heard somebody yell outside, I recognized the voice as Lucas, and slowly stepped outside to find the stormtroopers were gone.
“Where did they go?” I asked Lucas in confusion, it seemed something was wrong with my mind today. I couldn’t think of a logical answer to why the Stormtroopers would suddenly leave when they were surrounding a wanted Jedi.
“I don’t know, they just suddenly dispersed.” Lucas replied, he was holding Max.
“Well that's odd, why would they leave?” I tried to think of something that might have happened while I was in the warehouse. “Perhaps they got a dismissal order and are out doing whatever stormtroopers do in their free time.”
I took Max from Lucas’s arms and went into an open store, I sadly only had enough credits to buy enough food for one day, so I’d have to work to get more credits. I approached the storekeeper and asked if there was any way for me to get a job in the area, the keeper then instantly took me to the manager.
“Well, there is a store just across the street that needs workers.” The store manager said before yawning.
Well that's no help! There's a store across the street. WHICH STREET? I almost yelled at the manager but kept myself quiet.
Max and I finally left the store in pure anger and I kicked a large stone into the lower levels. I heard a satisfying clang as it hit a stormtrooper on the head. I walked away quickly before the stormtrooper could look up to see what had happened, and see me looking over the edge of the rails.
I could hear the Stormtrooper yelling angrily at the people that were now looking over the rail to see what the stone had hit. I then heard a blaster fire and a loud scream sound behind me and I chuckled a bit.
Max ran ahead of me and around a corner, and as I sped up to catch up, I suddenly felt a prick in my neck and everything went black….

As we left Naboo I sighed and looked out a cockpit window. I was sitting at a table that had been shipped in from one of the Naboo stores. I soon got up and turned on my lightsaber after letting some training droids loose, and began practicing deflecting the bullets, one shot me in the leg and I gasped a bit as pain seared through me. I quickly sliced the droid in half and bandaged up my leg.
FN-230 — no, Max— had silently walked in just in time to see the droid shoot my leg. He shrieked a bit and ran towards me as I bent down in pain.
“A-are you OKAY!?” he asked nervously.
“I’m fine.” I grumbled and straightened my posture. “Just a mistake.”
I looked over at Max before walking to the control cockpit. “Lucas, where are we going this time?” I asked him.
“Most likely to Coruscant or Nal Hutta.” Lucas simply answered. He was like this half the time, not knowing where he was going but always having a plan. “If we go to Coruscant I plan to get more supplies and food. Maybe sell some of the unneeded cargo…”
“Alright then, that’ll work out.” I answered and walked back out.
Max was waiting for me in the training hall and hugged my arm when I got out of the control cockpit. I grinned at him and let him climb up onto my shoulder as I walked down the hallways. When we entered the small kitchen I made him some soup so he wouldn’t be hungry and complain when we finally landed. The poor child ate like a Wookie without food for a month. I really felt bad for him.
R6D8 rolled into the kitchen just as Max finished his soup and beeped loudly at me. I looked down at him and nodded, telling him to lead the way. R6D8 rolled out of the kitchen and I followed, all the way to the gunner deck, where when I looked through the aiming window, I saw a special forces TIE fighter behind us. I grabbed a comms unit and yelled into it. “LUCAS, WE HAVE COMPANY!”
The ship whirled around and faced the TIE fighter as I got into the front gunner seat. The TIE fighter started firing at us and I gave him a volley of bullets to think about, and While the TIE fighter’s wing panels got battered, its path was suddenly obscured by a giant asteroid as we went into the asteroid belt of the system we were in.
“It’s gone!” I informed Lucas through the comms before looking down at R6D8. “Thanks for warning us, bud.” I said to him and patted him on the head.
R6D8 beeped happily and rolled out of the gunner bay. I sighed and looked at the TIE fighter pieces now floating in space, but I chuckled a bit at the thought of another Storm Trooper being sent out into dangerous territory to retrieve his co-worker. After a while I eventually came up from the gunner bay and went to the training hall to clean up the droid pieces.
“We’ve arrived.” Lucas said through comms. I looked out the window to see we were at the landing bay of Coruscant.

I was running, I couldn’t really get away but I could run, I hid my lightsaber in my cloak and put up my hood. This was a deadly place with the First Order running around. You couldn’t hide peacefully as a Jedi, with Storm troopers watching your every move. I’ve tried everything and nothing worked, not even using the force to hide. It never really works, because the dark side controls everything on this planet.
I heard the clank of stormtrooper armor and ran harder, eventually turning a corner while the stormtroopers could still not find me. I pulled off my cloak to reveal my pitch black hair and red eyes, well, one red eye, I was blind in one eye as well. I peeked around the corner and saw the stormtroopers coming, and I turned back to the alley and tiptoed further in.
“Where did he go?”
“How am I supposed to know!?”
I heard a hard clunk, and a blaster dropping...
“OWW!”
“Dumby, get back to searching.”
The yelling faded as the two stormtroopers walked away, I couldn’t believe my luck, they didn’t notice me! I ran out silently, picked up the fallen blaster, and climbed up a pipe to get a better view, to see where the stormtroopers were at. They had already gone a long way before the second one, who was slightly shorter than the first one, noticed his blaster was missing. The stormtrooper stopped and frantically searched the ground around him. The first one stopped and glared at the second one.
“FN-230, why are you crawling on the ground?” The first one growled. “Get up and come on already.”
“B-but! Captain Thrush! I can’t find my blaster!” FN-230 yelped.
I was surprised I could hear them from here, then I realized I had automatically moved closer to be able to eavesdrop. They bickered for a while before I suddenly dropped the blaster on Captain Thrush’s head and disappeared across the roof.
Captain Thrush yelped and started yelling at poor FN-230. I felt bad that I actually did that, because that would get the child in deeper trouble than he actually needed to be in. Oh well. I guess it’s too late to turn back now. I thought to myself.
I went deeper into the city and soon found my droid, R6D8. I went over to the astromech droid and patted it on what would be considered its head. R6D8 let out a quiet beep and I bent down to hug it. But then I heard yelling, and got up. I drew my lightsaber and turned it on, it glowed a dark red, having been originally a sith’s saber. I then slowly turned around to face Captain Thrush and FN-230.
“So, you finally found me.” I said threateningly, and my hand shot out, and suddenly Captain Thrush was lifted off the ground with intense violence.
Thrush yelped and clawed at his throat as I squeezed my fist and Force’s grip tightened around his neck, slowly choking him. Thrush whimpered and eventually went unconscious. I suddenly dropped my hand and the stormtrooper captain fell,his helmet being knocked off as he hit the packed gravel road. His skin was pale and his hair blonde. I felt bad for you poor guy, he was an actual human that didn’t deserve this kind of treatment. I looked at FN-230 and gestured for him to also take his helmet off.
FN-230 tentatively took his helmet off and blinked as he finally breathed a sigh of relief for the first time in years. I instantly noticed the features of his face were a lot like mine but I shrugged it off.
“Where do you come from, child?” I asked FN-230, hoping to get some information out of him.
“I-I don’t remember…. Please don’t do what you did to Captain Thrush to me!” He stuttered and pleaded.
“Of course I won’t! I wouldn’t harm such a young one,” I exclaimed and patted him on the head lightly, after turning off and resheathing my lightsaber.
“Are you a… Jedi?” FN-230 asked. “Or a sith? I can’t tell, you act like a Jedi but have Sith abilities.”
I chuckled at that, not wanting to reveal it too soon I simply said, “You’ll find out soon enough, if, you wish to know more quickly, then come with me.”
FN-230 quickly nodded and we instantly had formed a brother-like bond. I smiled softly and hugged him.
“You need an actual name…” I whispered. “Maybe…. Max?”
A lot of children in my old village went by Max, in honor of my father, Maxion, who died in battle from the First Order. He was the cause that inspired me to become a Jedi.
FN-230 whimpered softly but nodded in agreement. I stroked his soft hair and led him to R6D8, who scanned him before rolling up to him and basically nuzzling him. FN-230 gasped a bit and started petting R6D8.
Well, at least he’s already made a friend! I chuckled and then led both of them to my ship, where my friend, Lucas, was waiting for me.
Lucas was a Mandolorian, and he had a tendency to stick out quite a bit. But that didn’t matter to him. His golden brown helmet gleamed in the sunlight and he seemed to be glaring at FN-230.
“Brought another one with you, I see.” He said to me when we finally got there. “It’s really not a good idea to keep bringing so-called ‘converted’ Stormtroopers with us. What if he kills us in our sleep?”
“Lucas, he isn’t going to kill us in our sleep, I swear!” I exclaimed. “He’s just a child, he can’t even keep track of his own blaster!”
After that Lucas was silent and we boarded the ship, another long journey ahead of us.