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As Angel continued bashing the droid's shield generator, she said, " What do you suppose he's after? The way to find the true Sith... or you? " A moment later, she broke the generator, allowing her to slash the droid in half. " Took a little longer than what I thought, but if this was a trap, it wasn't a very good one, unless... " She looked around to see if the droids were a diversion for the actual trap, but saw nothing. " Nevermind. I don't see anything around, so I guess we're in the clear. "

Cale walked the streets of Southport city, one of many urbanized areas on the face of Ord Mantell. The roads were thick with activity: Speeders and dray animals passing through, crowds of beings going this way and that, Vendors and holo adds hawking their wares, Droids going about their programmed duties; all in all it was a busy scene.
The outlaw leaned against a street sign and checked his datapad for messages and news.
"Lets see: Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Bill, Spam, Spam rrrg. how do I get on these lists?" he sighed in annoyance and kept scrolling."Huh...a mesage from my Black Market contact..." he read the message, an add about new goods they had 'aquired' somehow, some of it catching Cale's intrest. "Nifty, they got those Missle pods I kept asking about. gonna need to pick those up. Probably should see if they have some replacement parts for the holoprojectors while Im at it..."
"Cale Darksun!"
The outlaw blinked and looked up. standing some fifty paces away from him was a pale haired Human dressed in a rather simplistic cloak and tunic design. In his hand was a metallic handle of some sort. If the garb didn't give the guy away, the saber handle did. it was a jedi.
The man continued his speech as he gripped his saber in a ready position, not yet turning it on. "I have come to bring you in for crimes against the Republic! Drop your weapons and no harm will come to you!"
Cale was somewhat confused by the situation.
"Who, Me?"
"Yes you!"
Cale shut off his Datapad and slid it in his pocket. "Cheep Spice! what is everyone's deal?! Ok pal, what are you bringing me in for?"
The man smiled confidently. "You are charged with a rather large amount of crimes in Repblic space. Flight to avoid prosecution, resisting arrest, assault, theft, identity theft, forgery, illicit use of blast arms-"
Cale cut him off."I get it, I get it. shut up already."
"But the one that tops the charts is Conspiracy."
"....huh?!"
The man nodded. "Thats right. Ive discovered that you used to work for Darth Imperius, the very man seeking to destroy the Republic. In fact, he asked you to pull an assasination."
The Outlaw scratched his head. "1. How the hell did you figure that out. 2. why did it take you over half a cycle to figure it out?"
The Jedi ignited his saber and the on lookers went running. "No more talking out of you. give up now and I won't have to use force."
"You mean THE Force."
"No, I meant force! Like I won't have to use my superior combat skills to subdue you."
"Oh, I thought you meant the Force as in that whole energy field thing you guys use all the time because you can't fight fair, ya little cheater."
"What did you say?!" the jedi snarled.
"You guys don't fight fair. you read and control minds, blast people with lightning bolts, and use that Foce thing to make yourselves faster and stronger. Its like playing sabacc it a skifter. you and your whole order are a bunch of cheaters."
The jedi tried to calm himself by muttering the code.
"And whats the deal with your invasion of my privacy? I quit working for that guy almost a cycle ago. and that last job? I never took it! If you would have gotten your facts straight you'd have seen I was hunting down a crazy Robo dark jedi guy and followed him to Coruscant. You stupid Git."
More insescant chanting came forth from the Jedi.
Cale set his jaw in a smile. "Whats the matter Nerf herder? can't take someone badmouthing you? are ya gonna cry ya little huttling?"
The Jedi was gritting his teeth as he muttered the code over and over.
"Skywalker sucks Deathstar."
The jedi gripped his lightsaber in a combat stance and charged Cale.
Cale had his gun out the second the Jedi moved and he fired. The jedi deflected the bolt and kept coming. Cale fired again and again, but each bolt was deflected as the jedi kept coming. As the angry force warrior came upon him, Cale smiled. "Gotcha." He took a step back as the jedi over reached himself, flipped a switch on his blaster and fired. a blue stun ring shot out and slammed into the jedi as he tried to deflect it, knocking him into unconciousness.
"Nice try, Kid. but you're out of your league." Cale twirled his blaster and holstered it. "But what to do about you?"...

Hours later Cale hefted a largish crate onto a tramp frieghter. The Captain of the freighter, a bith watched as the outlaw loaded it on.
"So buddy, drop this off on Yavin 4 right?" The Bith asked.
"Yep. Tell them its defective." Cale said as he came back down the ramp. "Needs more work."
The ship lifted off and Cale walked away, chuckling and tossing a deactivated lightsaber into the air.

A short while later, Cale stood haggling with a weapons merchant over the Lightsaber.
"100,000!" Cale said.
"50,000!"went the merchant''s counter offer.
"100!"
"50!"
"100!"
"50!"
"100!"
"50!"
"50!"
"100!"
"50!"
"100!"
"Not For Sale."
Both the outlaw and the merchant looked over at a taller man with dark hair and weathered features who dressed in robes Cale was familiar with.
"what the hell? another one?" Cale groaned.
The merchant disapeared altogether as the Jedi rested a hand on his belt. "I believe that went to my apprentice Mr. Darksun. Now I would like it, and the wereabouts of my student."
"Oh, him? I sent him to Yavin in a packing crate. He''ll be there in a few days. as for this? Im keeping it as payment for the annoyence the little barve gave me."
The Jedi sighed and shook his head. "He is an arrogant one. always looking for trouble. While I do thank you for teaching him a lesson In humility, I do request that you surrender his weapon back to me and give yourself up."
Cale Stepped back and shook his head. "Hell no! I''ll be damned if Im going to be brought in on sith spit charges like those!"
"Please?" The man asked.
"what? no!"
"I''ll ask you again to give up." The man said. "I really don''t want to start a scene."
"Up yours, space ball!"
The Man sighed. "Very well. have it your way. But remember, I gave you an option."

The Jedi squared off and swept his cloak back, revealing his lightsaber. he placed a hand on it and narrowed his eyes.
Cale recognized a quickdraw stance when he saw one. the man was challenging him to a duel. the gloves were off.
The outlaw squared off as well and held his hand near his pistol.
It was quiet. Onlookers watched from cover as the outlaw and the jedi stared each other down.
Cale bit down his nervousness. this guy was different from the last jedi he had fought. This guy knew what he was doing. This was the test he had been waiting for, the test of his skill. And Cale wasn''t sure he was ready. But it was now or never. he steeled himself and stared deeply into the man''s grey eyes.
It seemed they stood that way for eternity.
Then the scene exploded into action.
A burst of movement
The squeal of a blaster, the ignition snap of a lightsaber and a flash of light.

" I suppose he'll be more of a threat than anything we'll find here. " Angel said. She looked at the carcasses. " Judging from the rotting, I'd say they've been here a while. I wonder if they were looking for something like we are... "

Drako walked on. He felt his old master go through the droids he placed.

" Hrmm.....HK Prime. Your brothers are doing well. Now.....I want you to lead them to...."

Drako looked around the area for what he was here for. He saw a fork in the path. Drako reached out to the force.

" Ahhh.....Thats it. Lead them down the left path. There they will find the gaurdian of the door. From there That fool will lead me strait to what will help me to get to my true power. Heh heh heh...... You will SUFFER Imperius........."

" Statment:Those were not my Brothers. "

" What!?!?!"

" Statment: Those were out dated modles. How dare you insult us like that. "

" Hrmm.....play with this then. Dirty your selfs up and act like the old droids still here."

" Dissaproving statment: Fine.....Though your pay for us will go up considerably. "

Drako jumped up and was gone.

"This Valley looks the same as the last though...what could be here other than sand and dirt?"

"I feel Drako..yes....it's definately Drako...."

Imperius glanced around and suddenly noticed something.

"Can you call the Sundred Rose?