-They are ing after us, what now princess?

  Shouted Rark, while driving the flying vehicle, he was trying to get away from the enemies, but this hovercar wasly the model on the gactic market.

  -Are you seriously asking ME? I would help you, but you fot to sehe details about my kidnapping beforehand. It must have been lost, because of the bad post service? Right?

  -Damn, she has a sharp tongue. Are you sure she ain't your fotten sister Mady?

  -...

  -You are awfully quiet Mady... If I didn't know better, I would have thought that the two of you sed bodies. Haha! you imagine yourself as a princess? That would be something...

  Mady rolled her eyes listening to the ents, then added her own bit.

  -That I 't... but I quite easily visualize you as a slimy hutt, especially seeing how you dutifully lick Jabba's tail at every possible opportunity.

  -...Fuck off, you are er, the only difference being that I am not as disillusioned as you, and accept how things really work.

  -Yeah, yeah... and I still have a spine, while you don't.

  -Hah! Yeeeaaah... because pirates are so famous for having a spine... oh wait, they are not...

  Padme was looking at the two people arguing about ridiculous stuff, while ser beams were stantly shot at them. The hovercar didn't have a shield, as she already asked them to activate it but they told her such a thing wasn't built for civilian hovercrafts.

  I swear I will push forward a new regution about safety standards in hovercars through the meeting of the senate... if I get to see it that is...

  Padme thought to herself as another ser beam flew disturbingly close to her side of the car.

  -This 't go on any lohey will eventually hit us, do smethi-!

  She shouted with annoyance, and that was the exaent when a red psma beam hit the back of the car. The entire craft shook violently, as the engines began to fail.

  -You just had to jinx it!

  Shouted Rark over the failing scream of the overheating ehey were losing altitude, and doing that quickly.

  -FUUUCK! We are in for a rough nding!

  Cursed Rark while trying to gain some measure of trol.

  -Look out for that building!

  Shouted Mady, but her words were dimmed by the st sharp scream of the engine.

  -WHAT?!

  Asked Rark while heading directly towards a building equipped with a huge neon lighted sign proudly dispying the name of the pce: SODOME PUB

  -BUILDING AHEAD!

  Screamed Mady, pletely fetting about the gun that was still poi her.

  -DO YOU SERIOUSLY THINK I 'T SEE IT?!

  Rark barked back sarcastically, he was clearly at his wits end.

  -THEN TURN!

  -I 'T TROL IT ANY LONGER, BUCKLE UP!

  The car began to shake even more, while the building was getting ever closer. All of us were grabbing onto whatever we could find support from. As the noise of the engine screamed over our head.

  A few minutes earlier. In front of Sodome pub.

  Master Luminara and Master Obi'Wan were walking through the neon lighted street just below the surface level of Corust. This ce were Jedi were already a rare sight to see, especially in this type of pce. Their regur patrols usually don't go much deeper then this level. Well luckily, it was not an official patrol.

  It might sound wasteful to actually allocate jedi in this time of war to patrol the streets of Corust. However seeing jedi walking around so casually creates aremely positive public opinion, and it was absolutely necessary for the republic to always have a mostly favorable public opinion at least on Corust. Which was knowingly the very heart of the republibsp;

  Luminara was calmly sharihought with Obi'Wan as they walked through the neon lighted street.

  -Are you sure, that this person you know will be able to help us find a trace to the culprit that kidhe senator? I mean, we should only wait until Master Windu pulls out some information from that girl? Right?

  Kenobi turowards the dark clothed woman walking beside him, and said.

  -I am not sure if that girl will actually tell us anything useful, and we 't force a child to tell her secrets. To answer your other question no, I am not sure, but it is worth a try. He owes me a favor from ret events, unfortunately his taste is quite, explicit.

  Luminara looked up at the pink sign for the pub which they were currently standing in front of.

  -Sodome? Isn't that one of the cities that were actally hit by an overheated reactor core ejected into space before it could melt down? Whiet was that? How strange... I 't seem to remember?

  -It is, most definitely. It happened about a decade ago, before the war. I heard that the military was mobilized and they had to catch the surviving locals that saw what happeo clear up the entire act. As an apology, the Senate gave the survivors republic citizenship, free schorship as they were in quite a primitive cultural state, also free housing, but I wouldn't think that one of them would have actually opened a pub here naming it like that. What an ominous pce to be...

  Answered Obi'Wan with a sly smile.

  -This has already proved to be quite a historic journey.

  Answered Luminara with an amused shake of her head.

  -Let us see, if it proves to be a fruitful ooo. We should head inside.

  Said Obi'Wan. Thewo jedi headed towards the door of the pub, when they reached it they stopped with a surprised expression.

  Just above the door a short sentence appeared in colorful characters. "Even God ot see behind these doors!" Was the short yet catchy slogan of the pub.

  The two masters exged a disappointed gh one ahen walked ihe building.

  Behind the doors, was a narrow short corridhted with dim red mps. At the end of the corridor, they entered into the main hall of the pub. There were quite a few twi'lek dancers in loose clothing showing off their pole dang skills and more skin then you could possibly imagine while sidered being "clothed". Many questionable figures were shouting around them throwing mo the small ptforms the dancers were using. The whole pce was only dimly lit, except for the dang ptforms.

  Many people were walking around, drinking smoking talking, while loud music was booming in the background. It was the perfect example of a strip club.

  In a particurly noisy er of the pub, a weequay man wearing a red coat was sitting in the mids of two twi'lek women, and a few more armed weequay men. When the one wearing the red coat saw them ing closer he began ughing loudly at the sight of the two new guests.

  -HAHA! Deep down, I always khat behind those jedi robes, you were also just a man Kenobi, but even I was surprised when you specifically told me to meet in this pce. I approve of your taste he less, this pce is quite to my liking, oh but where are my manners!? Who is this shy dy yht with you? With such a beautiful face, you shouldn't hide behind so many yers of clothing. Wouldn't you mind showing some skin to the boys, hehe?

  Luminara only reacted by taking out her lightsaber, however she didn't ig yet. She iurowards Obi'Wan, clearly looking for an expnation.

  Obi'Wan sighed silently, as he stated.

  -I did not invite you here. If my memories did not fail me, it was the other way around.

  -Oho... Look at that, what friends I have... One calls me a lier, quite shamelessly and in front of all my friends... theher threateh a on. Young dy... what would yrandmaster say in this situation? "It's not the Jedi way."

  Luminara's eyes narrowed on Hondo's figure dangerously as he tio tease her.

  Luckily Hondo seemed to sehe danger, and immediately stopped fooling around. He loudly spped his palms over his own thighs while saying.

  -Bah, whatever, I am in a good mood today, so I will five you, take a seat dear friends a us verse.

  In that exaent, an incredibly loud crash shook the entire building, a part of the roof caved in oher side of the hall and a hover car crashed through the rubble knog over a series of tables only stopping after it smmed into the massive bar in the middle of the pub. The entire pce was quickly filled with smoke and dust and the screams of the injured or terrified people running around.

  Somewhere in the background we heard a loud voice screaming towards the sky.

  -NNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! IT IS HAPPENING ONCE AGAIN! THE WRATH OF THE HEAVENS, I REGRET MY SINS!

  We were also shocked by the ued situation, but it was far from over yet. We couldn't even e to our senses properly when we saw shadows jumping through the dust, ing into the pub through the newly created opening. Then one of the shadows fell on top of a nearby table, which had crashed down to the floor uhe heavy weight nding on top of it.

  It was a cloaked figure, only when it's head turned around looking into our dire, did we see the red robotic eyes and the eery metal ptes that were c its meic body. All of us reized what we were fag, it was a ando droid, in the middle of Corust.

  As the initial shock subsided, both jedi and a few weequay men including Hondo jumped to their feet or just behind some sort of cover they immediately created from the rubble or turned over tables.

  Seeing this, some of the droids ged tactics, from search, to engaging protocols and a fierce all out pub fight had begun, seeing the enfolding battle and the two ignited lightsabers quite a few of the initially running or hiding people decided to join in the fight. Especially when they saw the droids attag anybody in sight without much thought.

  The people of Corust were usually hard to find on ground in anything, but one of the rare exceptions was their dislike towards the separatists, especially now two years into a gactic civil war. No doubt the raising prices for beer ah sticks were a powerful motivating factor too, and that half of them were extremely intoxicated. Or maybe, they just had a certain urge to defend this castle of sin which was theirs, in a sense.

  Obi'Wan was fog on the ongoing chaotic battle as half drunk people were shooting at literally anything that moved in a pce that was covered by thick smoke. It was the third time he had to block a ser beam that was shot in his dire by a totally wasted fool that he had to knock out by a well timed force push.

  -By the force, I hought that I would miss the battlefield over some stupid barfight.

  Luminara was on the same page as she also had to watch out for "ued" shots.

  -Yes, I see what you mean, on a battlefield, you don't have to watch out for the es they would never shoot you in the back.

  Hondo ughed at that, as he bsted off the face pte of a ando droid that had just jumped into the pub.

  -Haha! It's just another normal day for me!

  Suddenly we all became aware of a growing rumbling sound ing from the middle of the pub. Obi'Wan and Luminara's eyes widened simultaneously as they turoward the source of the noise.

  -What is that?

  Kenobi, began, and Luminara immediately added.

  -I don't know what's that, but it seems that there is more an more smoke around here...

  -Now that you mention it...

  The rumble tio grow, prompting Luminara to raise her hand and el the force to create a tinuous breeze that began direg the dust, and smoke outside much faster through the opening in the roof. Soon we were able to see what was happening.

  Oher side of the pub, ther was an intetle going on, most of the droids were focused there, the rumbling sound was created by a fme thrower that itting out a tinuous fme, it was used to force away the droids that were surrounding them. Thanks to that a rge k of the building was already on fire. The man using the fmethroearing a mandalorian armor while a rge alien in a strange armor was exging blows with three droids charging at it by using vibro swords. The alien oher hand was using a strange energy on on each hand. The kind we never saw before. Then we saomen, orying to free the other one from the backseat of the crashed vehicle.

  The ohat was stu the deformed car, was cursing heavily.

  After releasing another series of curses the woman w together mao unstue of her arms and with that she sent a telepathic wave towards the car's door blowing it off together with the ruble and finally freeing herself, however she was clearly very injured and immediately colpsed beside the burning car.

  She began to cough heavily while spitting a mouthful of blood on the ground. The other female, climbed out of the car in a panic, seeing how her friend colpsed and was trying to pull her into some cover, only to realize there was not much to hide behind. As the battle was going on in every dire.

  Finally that woman looked towards our dire, seeing the lightsabers and her eyes widened, just as ours did when we finally realized who this woman was.

  Luminara and Obi'Wan basically simultaneously shouted in disbelief.

  -Senator Amida?!

  She was covered in dust and grime, not surprising after the crash, her hair was a mess and it even seemed somewhat burnt, her robes were ripped at multiple pces... However the most surprising thing was that she was holding a bster gun and an rge sniper rifle was thrown over her shoulders.

  her Luminara nor Obi'Wan could uand what was going on... but it seemed that they had found their target, no thanks to Hondo of course...

  Now they only have to figure out how to get her out of here... preferably alive.

  Just before Obi'Wan could charge forward to joitle oher side of the tavern the force fred in his mind warning him from danger, and that stopped him in his tracks just in time. As a dark shadow jumped down from the roof with two ignited red lightsabers not far in front of him.

  A yer of new perspiration appeared over his skin, as he realized, that if he didn't stop immediately when sensing the force warning, then that person would have no doubt killed him with that surprise attack.

  As the shadow stood up from the floor, Kenobi immediately realized who this was.

  -Assajj Ventress... It seems that we meet unusually often nowadays, are you stalking me perhaps?

  The woman answered with an air of ominousness, and fidenbsp;

  -Yes, you say that, but I only want your head. I warned you not to y path st time, now you will pay the price for your stupidity.

  -Someone is unusually fident today, did you have your beaty sleep this time?

  -You keep your taunts to yourself...

  -Where is the fun in that?

  -Fun? You wouldn't reize fun even if I beat you with it...

  -Now that's is actually a good remark, I will use it ime when Anakin says something of the sort...

  -You won't have the ce to do so, because your life ends here, by my hand! WRAAGH!

  With that Ventress charged forward and began a lightsaber duel with Obi'Wan, making the already chaotic battle even more ridiculous.

  Between the quick twirls, attacks, parries and evades Obi'Wan was able to shout out for Luminara.

  -Lumina- ugh bst it!

  He cursed as a kick mao hit his left leg from Ventress.

  -Go ahe senator!

  He mao finish his words after a few more parries.

  -I uand!

  Shouted back Luminara who charged through the whole battle evading every bster shot, or braking of ruble with agile cat like movements heading towards the other side.

  Ventress was distracted seeing as the other jedi was about to joiargets side, she was about to intervene, but a blue saber suddenly came crashing down on her guard.

  -Didn't your master teach you to not get distracted in the middle of a fight? Or was it yeneral inpetehat led you astray?

  She jumped forward hearing the annoying remark twirling through mid air to gain momentum and finally bringing down both of her bdes onto Kenobi. Unfortunately he deflected it, now they ended up in a saberlock. She now had the time to give her answer.

  -You should be carefull Obi'Wan, arrogance leads to the dark side...

  -I bet you speak from personal experienbsp;

  -...

  There was a sudden warning in the force, and both of them jumped back as a burning piece of ruble fell down in the exact spot where they were standing a few moments ago.

  This pce is going to fall apart soon... Obi'Wan realized, as he looked around the pletely destroyed pub. He also realized, that Hondo and his team had escaped while he was occupied with that woman.

  The drunkards now were also getting out of the pce, as their surviving instincts seemed to ki slowly.

  There was the sound of an ignited bde appearing behind him, and he immediately jumped forward while twirling around to block the red bdes hammering on his saber.

  -You should learn your own lessons before trying to teach them to others, Master Obi'Wan.

  -... Are you worried about my wellbeing, how cute of you. Unfortunately I am forbidden to take a woman by my side, I hope you accept my polite refusal.

  -... Wha-?

  It took only a moment of fusion, and Obi'Wan mao push back the red bdes and gain back the trol and momentum itle.

  Ventress realizing that she had fallen into a trap, turned surprisingly silent, as her expression torted with anger.

  -Ah, how foolish of me, being fooled by the lies of the jedi once more... It is what you are the best at after all.

  -I did not lie though.

  -You will die here Obi'Wan.

  With that she attacked once more.

  Oher side of the pub, the battle was getting out of trol. The fuel from the fmethrower was emptied for a few minutes now. Rark was already shot by sers at least ten times, his armor was literally falling apart.

  He shot out a wire hook from his left hand managing to trip one of the droids, and sending a killing shot into its chest pte from his bster gun.

  Right at that moment, a droid charged at him from a blindspot, bringing down a vibro sword. He only mao react thanks to the warning shout of the senator who was also actively shooting at the agile droids.

  Even so, it was too te to evade the attack, and therefore he could only lift his left arm and block the bde with the beskar ptes attached to it. He grunted in pain, as the impact occurred. The bde was blocked naturally, but the brunt of the heavy crushing attack made his bones rattle. Even when he deflected in an ahat made the sword slide down the sides of the ptes.

  With that the droid lost some of its band staggered to the side, using that opportunity Rark grabbed onto the body of the droid, and drew out his vibro knife, from its holster with his right arm and made a swift cut at the retively thin part of the droid's neck. The neck of the droid parted easily and the body fell to the floor loosing it all lifelessly.

  -What a mess. Is everyone alright?

  He shouted throwing the metal head of the droid to the ground, and turning over to look at them.

  Mady was yio the crashed car, based on her expression she was in pain aremely pissed off, but probably nothing serious.

  Zyl has cut down two of the three droids, that were stupid enough the fight in close bat, now they have all retreated and were stantly sending ser beams in his dire, not daring to e any closer. Otherwise he was fine...

  And the princess... well... she was o her, colpsed on the ground? I ran to the side of Mady to ask what was going on.

  -What happeo her?! I shouted at her.

  That caused her to flinch visibly.

  -I am injured, not deaf you bastard! Stop shouting!

  -Then answer me...

  -She got shot in her arm and was knocked out from the paily. I was about to take back my rifle since she is not in a critical state.

  -We o get out of here, or the whole thing will fall on our heads.

  Stated Rark.

  -Well... we 't just walk through to the door... it's basically a battlefield now.

  There was a shadoearing behind Rark, and a female voice spoke out to us.

  -I might have a solution for that.

  Both of us turowards the dark clothed person who had just arrived to our side.

  The initially friendly atmosphere immediately turned into an awkward one, when Mady and the newly arrived person's eyes met.

  -Ugh-hu... hi...

  Mady said clearly unfortable with the new presenbsp;

  Luminara blinked and asked.

  -Did we meet somewhere?

  Mady realized, that the woman couldn't know her face, as she was using her invisibility gear, and tried to calm herself but it didn't really work in her current dition...

  -No-no... we did not.

  Luminara narrowed her eyes as she focused on the clearly unfortable woman, she was lying to her, that was obvious, but there was no time to figure out why, not now. She wasn't pnning to die here, uhe ruble. She could almost see the head title of the news: "Jedi Master Luminara dies on a wild night out, while expl the redlight distri Corust."

  She could not allow that to happen.

  -Follow me, I will make us a. Ask your other friend to e too we must carry the senator to safety.