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Dee has actually been finding it hard to keep up with how quickly the Clone Wars move. Yes she understood it was a longtime war fought on many fronts like World War I and II but she count the fact that it was intergalactic and not intercountry.
Three days ago she was deployed with Obi wan to help free the Twi'Leks on Ryloth, then she got sent up to do an Air Strike with Ahsoka and Anakin.
Now she and Ahsoka were sitting in the back of a four seated ship approaching Felcuia.
"Thats Felucia dead ahead," Anakin told them pointing, where the kark is that Medical Station ?
"Yeah thats nice, wheres the Medical station ?" Dee asked, sarcasm etching her voice.
"I don't scan it on my scanners," Obi wan answered oh just so so helpful. "WAIT! theres something!" He added,
Dee Sorin looked further on, ah there he is, the big beast itself "Vulture Droids!" she exclaimed
"Hang on," Anakin commanded. Well shit here go all of their plans
Anakin Skywalker wasn't a bad pilot, he just made a lot of interesting decisions which often ended up in crashes, and in which Dee found herself saving his tail a few times Ryloth, when R2 got stolen, the list could go on.
"I guess we know what happened to the medical station," Ahsoka told her, clearly trying to lighten the mood, then a loud crash echoed and the ship began to shake, this wasn't lightening atleast Dee's mood.
"I'll guess this isn't good," Dee replied right back at her.
"They took out the plasma conduct," Obi wan answered helpfully, which wasn't very helpful in lifting Dee's own opinion.
"You guys thinking what I'm thinking ?" Anakin asked
"Certainly not!" Obi wan answered indignantly
"I'm thinking it but I don't like it," Dee answered back
"We're doing this the hard way, starting ejection sequence," Well this is kark Dee thought while putting her oxygen mask on, within approximately fifteen seconds at most she'd be having her head banged against a metal sphere.
"How come everytime you fly, we crash ?" Ahsoka asked from beside her
"It's not my fault, it's the ships fault," Anakin answered back, clearly irritated by the clear facts of Ahsoka's question.
"Ready to eject," Obi wan cut in throught the master - padawan argument which Dee was starting to find funny.
"Wait... NOW!" and with that they got flung out, luckily, air turbulance had little to no effect on Dee, this stupid metal ball however made her have her head banged with a possible concussion.
After what was probably 10 seconds they were on the ground and the second Dee's pod opened she flung herself onto the dirt,
"Well that sucked," She said, still hugging the dirt in a way, she missed this in the ten seconds of their miserable crash.
"You alright there master ?" Anakin asked, oh wait shit Dee forgot fully about Obi wan in her rush to feel the dirt again.
"I'm fine Anakin, Dee what are you doing ?" Obi wan asked,
"Reconnecting with nature," she answered dully, finally standing up and brushing the dirt off her stomach, top and legs.
"Where on Felucia are we ?" Ahsoka asked, fair question
"I'm not sure," Obi wan answered
"Great, thats so nice and helpful," Dee added, which earned her a nasty stinkeye, there was a loud boom somewhere in the distance
"I don't like the sound of that," Ahsoka told them, while Dee noticed a nice fucking Tyrannosaurus Rex infront of that
"And I don't like the look of that Tyrannosaurus Rex," which once again earned her a look "What ? never heard of a T-Rex ? or did the Order never teach you guys basic biology ?" Dee asked, the three slowly shook their heads "Forget I said anything," Dee murmered to herself
"We can't just wander around aimlessly, we need a plan," Obi wan cut in ah yes the obvious
"You always taught me to go on my instincts, and my instincts tell me to go there," Anakin said pointing behind Obi wan
"Well mine tell me to go there," Obi wan replied behind Anakin, Ahsoka bumped her shoulder with Dee's "They're so stupid it makes me cry" Ahsoka whispered to her, Dee giggled in reply which made the two masters look at her.
"Why don't we follow you know, the basic thinking patern and go where the smoke is ?" Dee asked crossing her arms after pointing forwards
"You know maybe me and Dee should lead these missions ourselves," Ahsoka added before the two started walking.
Dee was wondering if this is how George Meegan felt walking from the South of A'ca to Aslaka, because she certainly felt like that.
The walk, ignoring the most likelihood of having to complete thousands of miles, was actually rather pretty, there were plants that Dee never heard of before.
"Look theres a village," Ahsoka told them, Dee looked up and spotted it aswell
"Maybe they have a ship we can borrow," Anakin suggested as if he was suggesting stealing it- oh wait thats probably what he was suggesting.
"It looks like they're growing healing plants," Ahsoka told the, looking down
"Silum, I believe, one of the most valuable crops in the galaxy," Obi wan answered thoughtfully, rubbing his beard
"I dunno, this place looks kind of deserted," Dee replied right back
"I don't believe it is Dee, the crops are ready to be harvested, tools are lying about, somethings amiss," Obi wan answered to his Padawan now, like Dee knew was 'amiss' meant.
"Well theres one thing I learnt from where I grew up, you wanna know what a farmers up to ? look in their barn," Anakin told them
"Yeah you can't do that on the part of Eeth where I grew up," Dee answered back
"Why ?" Anakin asked
"Because the farmers from Eirea would fucking spear you with a pitch fork or run you over with a tractor 50-50 chance they'll be like the ones where you're from or like their from Eeth," Dee answered right back, remembering to when she herself had to run away from a gangle of farmers with So'Leah.
As they opened the barn, Dee looked at the ship in the barn, it wasn't arguably the best model like her sweet sweet starfighter which she's been modifying as her Christmas present.
"This is an odd ship for farmers, perhaps someones here to pick up the Silum," Obi wan told them, the more she looked at it, the more she remembered the holomovies she used to watch with her parents and grandparents about bounty hunters.
"Yeah I don't know, it looks a bit like the standard bounty hunter ship in holo films," Dee replied crossing her arms over her chest.
"I still don't get it, where is everyone ?" Ahsoka asked and with that they split up, Dee went with Obi wan while Ahsoka went with Anakin.
In Dee's opinion, this felt like trespassing, infact she made her opinion clear.
"Hey master, aren't we like- trespassing right now ?" Dee asked
"Not really, the Republic says it's illegal yet doesn't do much about it. Why ?" Obi wan answered and asked
"Oh on Eeth it's way more strict," she started looking underneath a desk "The basic fine is 10,000 credits- it's probably more though- and atleast a year in prison," she finished, Obi wan looked rather confused at her words. "Why are you so confused master ?" Dee asked as they began walking towards where Anakin and Ahsoka probably were.
"Oh it's nothing I just thought that- Eeth would be a bit like Tatoonie or Ord Mantell," Obi wan answered, a bit sheepishly
"Oh nah it's not, it's actually rather advanced, more advanced then Coruscant- education wise I think," she answered
"You're just saying that because you're born and raised in Eeth," Obi wan joked
"Nah my lower left arms Coruscanti," Dee answered smirking, she's grown rather fond and confident over her metalic left arm, she felt a lightsaber ignite in the Force "I'll take it thats our partners in crime," Dee added before running off and igniting her own lightsaber.
"4 on 1 ? you mean 4 on 2 ?" she heard Ahsoka ask as she and Obi wan rushed into the room
"We don't count you knee high," a robotic voice told her
"Do you count me ?" Obi wan asked "And me?" Dee added
"Sorry tiny but you're shorter then sn-" As Anakin was about to finish a female zabrak cut him off
"Ah Doe Soarin isn't it ?" She asked her, WHO the kark is this woman and why does she know Dee's name and WHY did she pronounce it like that.
"Er it's Dee Sorin, anyways, how do you know me ?" Dee asked, still feeling major confusion as she held her lightsaber up higher.
"Iridonia is rather close to Eeth isn't it ? it's sister colony if you many ? also your little incident on Naboo doesn't go unnoticed between by my type of crowd." The woman continued
"Okay, well thats nice, what are you doing here ?" Dee asked the zabrak, eyeing her suspiciously.
"Stop, don't harm them, don't you see these are Jedi, we are saved!" A little.. creature.. farmer possibly, told them, it was nice how he saw them as saviours.
"Oh I know about these Jedi, this one especially," Sugi continued, pointing the blaster closer to Dee's face
"Saved ?" Ahsoka asked
"Might I remind you Kasis, you already made a deal with us," The zabrak woman told Kasis
"But with these Jedi, it's extra help !" Kasis continued, Dee would've appreciated if this gun was lifted from her face.
"Excuse me, but help you with what ?" Ahsoka asked the farmer
"Pirates," He answered dully
Oh this makes so much sense.
"If we stay here, and give the pirates the fortune of our crop they will destroy our homes, with us in them," some of the other farmers began explained
Dee stayed a far bit from the negociations, politics were not her brave spot and she wasn't going to try brave them right now.
"I see your dilema," Obi wan told him
"Silum farming is a meager trade, without our herbs to sell, we will have no money for food, fuel and more equiptment,"
"And yet you can afford to pay mercenaries ?" Obi wan asked
SON, DAUGHTER AND FATHER, DEE FELT RIGHT NOW EXACTLY HOW SHE FELT FOUR YEARS AGO WHEN HER PARENTS WERE COMPLAINING TO THE POOR UNDERPAID MCDONALDS WORKER FOR ACCIDENTALLY MIXING UP THEIR ORDER.
"Master," she muttered under her breath pinching her nose while leaning against the wall.
"These bounty hunters drive a far more reasonable bargain then the pirates, you know what, it's time to ask the obvious.
"So why don't you guys just- fight them off... yourselves," the further she got into the question the more stupid she felt, she wanted to wham her head into a metal table as she finished the question as she realised the obvious
"Easy for you perhaps Doe-"
"It's Dee,"
"Sorry, Dee Sorin, but look at us we are farmers not warriors, even with the bounty hunters help, I had feared for the worst," Kasis explained to her wait 'worst' that's past tense ?
"But 'feared for the worst' is past tense, doesn't this mean that everything is fixed ?" Dee asked, wondering if she was looking like a know it all for pointing out the use of past tense.
"No-not yet, but since you Jedi are here, then everything soon will be fixed," OH oh
"What, do you want Jedi ?" The Zabrak woman, who Dee learnt was called Sugi, asked Obi wan
"We need a ship, ours is beyond repair right now,"
"The one in the barn, that'll do," Anakin told her
"Thats our ride, it doesn't go anywhere without us, and right now, we're busy,"
Hold up. Dee Sorin looked at the man beside Sugi, she swore it looked like the guy who broke into the Temple a few months back with the bald woman in a slickback. She zeroed her eyes on him, he was going to have a Jabberjay on his tail, except Dee wasn't going to report to a power hungry capitol and was just going to report to herself.
"Busy exploiting farmers ?" Obi wan asked
"Well I don't see you helping ?"
"Unforuntely, we couldn't help even it we wanted to," Obi wan answered
"WHAT ?!" Dee yelled out
"What ?" Ahsoka exclaimed
Outside the quadrant were expressing their opinions on this mission.
"Master, we have to help them, it's not like we have anything other to do," Dee groaned out
"We need to get back to Coruscan-"
"Oh my FORCE master, connect two negative braincells and make a positive one, if we help the farmers now, the bounty hunters could help us later, make an act today to get one in return tomorrow," Dee scolded back, standing confidently and as tall as she could
"Well my padawan, we need to report that the medical station was destroyed,"
"Well, we can't do that can we ? We. Need. A. Ship. And the only one around here belongs to BOUNTY. HUNTERS. so the only way to obtain one is by helping," She shot right back
"I don't like your tone padawan," was he trying to scold her ?
"Yeah ? Well I don't like yours," She answered before storming off, soon a little farmer ran up to her "Pirates, Pirates, Pirate!" She was exclaiming
"Pirates ? where ?" she asked, as the farmer pointed in the distance Obi wan won't help, Anakin and Ahsoka will probably follow, but I won't it's what makes me better, I actually care for people. Dee thought, and felt disgusted by herself, not by helping, but by thinking she's better, she ignited her lightsaber as her ears picked up on the sound of speeders approaching fast.
"Thats far enough," Sugi told them, she was standing beside Dee "I speak for the people of this village, state your name and business,"
"My name is my own business and business is taking whats ours,"
"There is nothing here that is yours, unless you are here to buy it,"
"Buy it ? Ha-ha ha, Kenobi, Skywalker, I can't believe you flew all this way to see me," the weird pirate
"Hondo," Obi wan and Anakin said in sync wait so this was the guy Dee dubbed as Jack Sparrow ? holy no.
"You know eachother ?" Sugi asked looking back, so did Dee, her lightsaber still humming with the wind.
"Of course we do, tell them how far back we go Kenobi," Hondo asked
"Too far," Obi wan replied
"Wait so let me get this straight, you're Hondo ?" Dee asked, faking incredilousness
"Of course I am Jedi," Hondo replied thats nice
"So I supposed you fight and kill children," Dee asked, slightly drooping her shoulder while making eye contact.
"No- no I draw the line at children, now, let's go fight eh ?" He asked
"I'm a child," Dee shot right back, Hondo's face dropped a bit, Dee wondered why, she also wondered why she felt anger off of Anakin and Obi wan, but anyways she smiled smugly Yeah bitch, take that
"You know, if you're interested in some sort of- I dunno 'friendship' with my master, I'd recommend stopping terrorizing farmers," Dee continued explaining, like how one would explain to a five year old why you cannot eat the washing machine pods.
"Oh please young girl, you have not been listening to this bounty hunting scum," Hondo answered right back
"stop, we're just here to protect them and whats theirs,"
"Oh come come here, how much are they paying you ? doesn't matter, whatever it is, I will double it, all you have to do to earn this, is to step aside." Hondo asked
"We. Don't. Break. Deals."
And with that, everyone lifted their blasters, Dee held her lightsaber up.
"Steady everyone," Obi wan offered
"What is your stake anyways Kenobi ?" Hondo asked
"Nothing, Jedi don't get paid, we do this of our own free will," Dee's answer was half true, all Jedi missions were funded by the Republic and they were not paid, however, as a part of the Military, the Jedi do sometimes get paid for their service, Dee Sorin had a total of three of these payments so far, Naboo, Ryloth and the whole Lurmen mess, the pay depended on how shit the mission went and how much the Senate felt pity and how much they wanted to put in, for example Ryloth gave her 750 credits while Naboo gave her a little over 2,000, which yes might seem like a lot in one single pay, but that pay might be the only pay you get for five months aside from the 50 credits So'Leah gives her every twoish weeks and thats a thing for being friends with her, she's probably one of the only Jedi who get a perk like that.
"All we want is a ride to the nearest Republic outpost, and I'm willing to pay you handsomly for it, twice what you could make selling this crop." Obi wan spoke over her, now those credits that Obi wan is speaking about is credits funded towards the mission, not Obi wans personal money.
"Well now, how would you pay me ?" Obi wan asked
"A funds transfer when we arrive,"
"Republic credits, we've been over this before Kenobi, my associates don't accept Republic credits,"
"I'm offering a deal that benefits us all Hondo, don't let your greed blind you to that fact,"
"You know I like you Kenobi, but uhm, no one leaves this planet until I get my Silum,"
"Then I hope you enjoy it here, because you'll be staying a long time parasite !" Sugi exclaimed
"You know, this crop has not been harvested, you better hurry old man, before things get messy," Hondo warned
"When the attack comes, it will come from two fronts, the forest to the South and the ridge to the North, whatever you do, you must defend both sides," Obi wan explained to the farmers
"But there are only four of them, how can four bounty hunters defend against so many ?" The farmer
"I'm not sure how, but with the help of four Jedi they stand a better chance," Dee spoke up
"Dee we've been over this," Obi wan warned
"You seem to lack the trust in our abilities young Sorin," Sugi told her, ugh
"It's not that I don't trust your abilities, I've just seen what majority of pirates can do," Dee answered simply
"Says the peacekeeper who fails to keep the peace,"
"The whole Separatists versus Republic isn't our fault, it's the fact that the people who support the Separatists are stupid and brainwashed and follow Count Dooku blindly into his whole weird, unrealistic fantasy," Dee snapped back
"If more worlds would stay up for themselves against the Separatists, this war would've been over long ago," Obi wan added
"Thats it, we'll just train the villagers to defend themselves !" Anakin exclaimed, thats not- a bad idea
"But we are just simple farmers, why are we paying bounty hunters to defend us ?" a farmer asked, that brought back so many memories to Dee
"I was a simple farmer like you guys like six months ago- thats a lie I used to play sports for my county- anyways that's besides the point, a rough six months ago I was the same as you, on a planet and no offence is meant in this, a bit of a nobody, now I'm a Jedi, everything is possible !" Dee exclaimed
Dee was helping another chunk of farmers learn how to use a spear, she said it was teaching the younger farmers, but really, she had her sights on the guy who she highly believed try to rob of a few youngling of the Temple a few months back.
"Okay so, fighting with a spear is similar to fighting with a lightsaber," she began unclipping her weapon, one of the younger boys scoffed at her, she raised an eyebrow
"A pitchfork, compared to a lightsaber ?" he jeered at her, she held her hand out and took his pitchfork "Sure," she answered, holding both her lightsaber and the pitchfork infront of her Please let this work so I don't embarass myself she thought to herself.
She began spinning the lightsaber and pitchfork, then she leaped up and flipped to the side the slashed with her lightsaber then with the pitchfork, she spun it a final time before handing it back while the farmers stared in awe.
"They're rather similar except the fact that the lightsaber made of plasma and a pitchfork is made of wood and iron," she replied "Now line up," she continued as they stared in confused, "Get into rows of 5 and stand with your weapons butt touching the ground,"
"Whats a weapons butt ?"
"The bottom of it, the not sharp part,"
This was going to be a long long day.
After about three miserable hours of Dee Sorins life, she was getting somewhere, the villagers could spin their pitchforks, spears and what else they had pretty decently, it was no lightsaber but they weren't doing so badly.
"Okay guys, good work, take a break for a moment, I need to check something out," she told them eyeing the who was wandering near Anakin.
She walked over as he threw a spear towards one of the villagers,
"The bounty hunter is right- every minute you waste teaching us to twirl these stupid poles, is time you could've spent beating those pirates yourself !" One of the villagers cried out,
"And what good would that do ? another band of brigands would eventually come along or do you intend to give away part of your crop every harvest season ?"Obi wan asked the man
"If you make us do this, then there won't be another harvest season," A farmer protested
"Alright everyone, get back in positions," Anakin told them, Dee walked back over towards the younger farmers she was training
"The other guy is right ! this is pointless,"
"Oh don't give up now!" Dee exclaimed at them, in which they all jumped in reply "Do you not think I don't want to give up every time I have to do training ?" She asked
"You're a Jedi," they fought back
"So what ? I got a laser sword and magic powers which both of them are useless without training, if you don't try something today then you might not make it tomorrow," she answered back at that "Now back into positions," she commanded, this time, they got back into positions.
Dee felt a weird presence in the Force, like she was being watched, she looked behind herself, she zeroed her sights on the ridges there the little karker is.
Not on Dee Sorin's eye he was getting away, she used the Force to shove herself up the cliff and began running, the pirate saw her and began running as well.
"OH NO YOU DON'T YOU COWARD," she yelled as she added more speed to run faster, the pirate was going to mount the speeder, with one long slash of her lightsaber she cut the speeder in half, the cowardly pirate began shooting at her.
She needed this guy as a hostage, as hostage leverage if you may, she kept itching closer until she managed to use the Force to rip the gun out of his hands and wham him with the side of her lightsaber.
Why not the hilt of her saber ? You may ask, well the reason for that is while designing her lightsaber, Dee put two sharp points at the back of her lightsaber that were used for stabbing incase for some reason her blade wasn't working, in a way, she took inspirated from the guns that were used in WWI that had a spear at the top, so once the ammo ran out you could still stab people with it.
Now another question, why not use the top ? well first, it's illegal within the Jedi to turn your saber off mid fight, Dee wasn't sure why but fine whatever, also the emitter was made so it looked like her blade was a crystal, so once again, pointy, and Dee needed this guy as hostage leverage.
"Nice job Dee," she heard behind her Ahsoka!
She turned around, holding her blade at the hostages neck "He's not dead," she told them
"Why ?" Sugi asked
"Hostage leverage." Dee answered simply.
The hostage was patted down and triple check with the Force, then tied up to a pole in the middle of the farm where there was nothing to help him, why ? Dee remembered this apparently being a scare tactic used by pirates on Eeth, therefor, she was trying to reverse the logic.
Dee Sorin ignited her lightsaber waiting for the pirates to jump at them, she didn't have much a role at the current moment, only until the pirates got too close for comfort.
That was when she saw it, a fucking tank.
"Well master and skyguy, looks like I've got something to deal with," she told them before jumping up and landing on the cliff, luckily this made Hondo turn the tank away from the village, unluckily, he turned it towards her, she had to act fast.
She ignited her lightsaber and ran straight at the tank, if she was right beside the tank, it couldn't shoot her, she slashed the side of it.
"Well well well, isn't it the Jedi ?" Hondo asked
"Well well well, isn't it the cowardly pirates who fights from up here instead of down there with his men ?" Dee asked right back before slashing the gunning point of the tank off "and for clarity, it is the Jedi," she added as she flung the piece of metal at the tank, which sent it flying backwards.
Clearly fucking Hondo had a second plan as the second he stepped out of that tank he charged her with an electric spear, like the ones Grievous'.. droid.. doctors ? whatever they were, had, to Dee, this was like a lightsaber fight, well it was, until Hondo's fuckass monkey began pulling her skirt down.
"What the kark ?" she mutted to herself as she parried the strike and with the Force grabbed Hondo's monkey thing and chucked it down "There goes Jack the Monkey," Dee told Hondo as she swung at him
"actually his name was Pikk Mukmuk," Hondo muttered back at her.
There were several strong strikes shared between the pirate and Jedi, it wasn't until Dee fell down and Hondo began to lean over her, pressing her lightsaber closer to her, unknowingly to Hondo, thats what Dee needed. Bringing her legs up to her chest, she kicked him up hard and square, sending him towards the ledge.
"Well Dee Sorin, let's negociate this as civils eh ?" Hondo asked
Dee Sorin looked back and saw the fake Jack the Monkey trying to throw a bomb at her "Okay then Hondo," she replied backflipping off the cliff as it exploaded.
"THIS EFFORT IT NO LONGER PROFITABLE!" Hondo yelled as he ran away, like the coward he was and forever will be.
"There are crops to harvest, fields to fill, huts to rebuild, now, get to work," Kasis told the villagers "How could I ever thank you for saving our village ?" he asked them
"We didn't save your village Kasis, your villagers did," Anakin told him
"For the first time in my memory, my people don't have to be afraid, we will never forget you,"
Sugi, quite thankfully let them fly her ship back to the nearest battle station, but Dee Sorin wasn't interested that much, Christmas was approaching soon, meaning she had to get into her own Christmas spirit and book a holiday.