Saga To Paint a Starfighter (becoming a Bounty Hunter by Kerdack L'Dar)

Hey, Ive posted this a while ago, but now its in the archives, so Ive decided to repost it here, heh...

Anyways, I have 7 chapters that Ill just copy and paste, but for now Ill just post the first 4, to build dramatic tension

Anyways, this is about Kerdack L'Dar, it takes place right after Episode II, Kerdack L'Dar is about the same age as Boba Fett, just to make it easy on the chronalogical junk...

And I will be posting one chapter per post, just to make it easy, yet again.

Welp, hope you enjoy!

Thanks to:
Scott, for adding wind-shield-wipers to starcraft.
Jyolia, for working at McDonalds.
Alex, my brother, for reminding me that elevators can talk.
Ken, my Youth Sponsor, for showing me the world of The Guide!
Steve, my other Youth Sponsor, for finishing what Ken started.
Douglas Adams, author of The Guide, for getting me stuck in this writing style?
George Lucas, creator of Star Wars, for starting this ?epic?.

To Paint a Starfighter

CHAPTER 1

Suddenly the dots turned to streaks, then all was a blur.

He had finally done it. Sure he was in a cramped one man starship. And he had never been on a space "joy-ride", but he had done it. Suddenly, he realized that his stomach was twisting an turning as the galaxy outside his canopy.

Ignore it, he told himself. But was it the outside that made him sick? Or the inside? After all, this was the moment he had been looking toward his whole life. Think, he said to himself, about your life Kerdack, suddenly his life rushed in his mind, all at once. Slow down Kerdack, one step at a time. He thought about Geonosis. He thought about how he got there, and his brain froze, Not that far back! Then he realized, he couldn?t remember that far, nor could he remember his parents, only his life as an orphan. An orphan, he thought, who smuggled himself into every arena match he could. The arena... nothing could satisfy me like that, his life had been terrible, stealing whatever he could eat, hiding in the dark alleys, as the acid rain of Geonosis poured around him. And then, IT happened, just two people right? Wrong. As soon as they were sentenced strange robed figures appeared all over the planet. Reports never made it though, it was to late. The match was that day, and all the crowds favorite creatures were featured. It was the best match of his life, but dang, he thought, the finale...

An army amassed, it was all over as far as I knew... But it wasn?t, was it? The "war" as it was called, lasted less than a day, and after that... well... life as he knew was far from normal...



After that he awoke, asleep??? I was asleep? I thought I was--bweep--THWUMP--UGH-- It happened. Ahhh!!! *Hey- get out of the space lane!!!* He never noticed the intercom so, loud... NOR THE CANOPY SO CLEAR!!! A frigate!? Why!? Luckily the Delta-7 was made for this kind of stuff.

He had arrived, apparently... and right in the way of a Star Cruiser. Blast! He swerved, but the cruiser, made no attempt to avoid the accident. --Screeeech--His finish, was ruined. The bottom of the fighter would need more repair. And just for fun, he thought, just for fun... the pilot of the other starship, jogged his joystick to the left --THWUMP--UGH--familiar-- His chest was really starting to hurt now. And his starfighter, was going to need a new paint-job.


After that he awoke, asleep??? I was asleep? I thought I was--bweep--he braced himself --bweep--this, he thought, is a new sound. He slowly, oh so slowly, peeled his eyes open, he sighed. The canopy really wasnt as clear as he thought, going to have to have a word with sombody about that--bweep--there it was again, that annoying, he happened to peer down at that second, "Are you okay, I said" appeared on the monitor of his dash pad. "Of course!" he thought out loud, my r2 unit!

"My, we?re rather cheerful today aren?t we?"

Almost

 

CHAPTER 2

Okay, I?m not going to do this the hard way, Kerdack thought as he peered to the ground. Going to take this nice, and, slow... Gain my composure, he waited another second, and then, nice, and slowly step out, of the cockpit.

That should be good, he had waited long enough, and then,--THWUMP?ugh? he jumped out. Oi, shouldn?t of done that?

"You should not have done that," his r2 replied, "it appears you have forgotten to take into effect the new gravitational pull of Ord Mantell."

Okay, I?m going to do this nice and slow, just push up? For he had fallen face first on the ground.

"So, your adventure begins, or so it appears." Going to have to fix that, going to have to it...


Ord Mantell, finally. Finally, but man, what a dump... Wasn?t like this on half the pages on the holonet, but the other half... To Kerdack, it actually wasn?t that bad, but to him, anything worse, or the same as Geonosis, was a dump. Well, he wasn?t here for pleasure, Gotta keep my priorities straight...

First things first, need to find a place to stay, even if it is just for this night.

--Zwoomp?No "bweep", he thought, strange... "Agh!!!" ah, no "ugh" either, this is kinda nice... --Zwoomp?Agh?thump?Well, this is new, he looked around, again, it happened. ?Zwoomp?Agh?thump?Hmmm... then he look around the bustling streets, then finally up, a blast of laser light streaked from a once darkened window. That, he thought, was the "Zwoomp". He traced the bolt to where it hit?agh?Ah, that is the "agh." He continued watching as the man who was the "Agher" fell to the ground with a?thump?Well, that?s not right...


"What do you mean your full!?" Kerdack was getting really annoyed, and his jet-black hair was getting really messed up. He ran his fingers hastily through his thick-oily hair once more. This was around the tenth time he?d been through this.

"I mean just what I said, twit, we?re full, now go bother someone else." Well, this was one of the nicer folks Kerdack had talked to.

It seemed that this was one of the holidays of Ord Mantell, and that many families had come to celebrate it with other families.


Ord Mantell, we haven?t really described this yet, nor its history, so we will now. Ord Mantell, notorious for being infested by bounty hunters, and casinos. This was a chain not easily broken, for the reason the bounty hunters liked Ord Mantell, was the casinos, and the reason for so many casinos, was because of so many bounty hunting customers. So this will stay that way for a long, long time. But before that, it was a Republic outpost. Why the original Republic outpost was discarded is still unclear, but in its place are now the cantinas and casinos that Ord Mantell is known for now. Ord Mantell is not the place you would expect to find bustling crowds for some "holiday season"; and it wasn?t.


"Dang it!" Kerdack was about to burst now, "Why the heck is it so busy!? Ord Mantell is a thriving metropolis of bounty hunters! Not vacationing tourists! Since when is there a bunch of blasted holidays!?"

"Well, uh sir," Ah, thats right, I?m talking to a blasted droid! "You see, it?s not a holiday, rather an occasion."

"Well, whats the blasted difference!?"

"Sir, please try to calm down." The service droid tried to explain. "A holiday is a?"

"I know what a ding-dong holiday is! Just tell me what the occasion is?Please!"

"As I have been trying to say, Boba Fett is here."

"Boba Fett?" Kerdack had never heard of him, probably some celebraty. "Who the nerf is he?"

"Why he his the famous bounty hunter who, dismantled, a whole factory of Stormtroopers." Again, by its choice of words, Kerdack was reminded who he was talking too.


Stormtroopers, again we shall explain to help the reader along. The Republic is not as sturdy a government as it onc

 

CHAPTER 3

Mandalorians were once a dominant race of humans. From the forgotten world of Mandalore, they became a race known for its supercommandoes. It all started when a man claimed Mandalore as his own. Though he crowned himself king in an unusual fashion? His crown, per say, was actually, a now infamous, helmet. This helmet had a "T" shaped visor, and was shaped, in all truthfulness, a lower-case "n." After time, and deaths, this helmet was passed from king to king, and became a symbol of power. The one king decided "Hey, let?s make an army with helmets like mine, that way they would be already terrifying!" So he did. And they were, terrifying that is. Years past, and this army became the whole planet of people, the whole race was, more or less, an army of supercommandoes. There were no more kings, rather commanders, and the commanders passed on, and new ones took his or her role as commander. Now over time a man named Jaster Mereel became leader. Another man named Montross decided he didn?t like this, and took less than half of the Mandalorians to form another group, the Death Watch. The Death Watch eventually were able to kill Jaster Mereel, so Jango Fett was to take his place. Again, there was a rivalry about this, and it split again, this tore the Mandalorians to much, and they were no more.

The Mandalorians were, in a way, resurrected though. The Mandalorian, Jango Fett, was hired for a job, a special job. This job was to stay on a watery planet while they probed him with needles. Now, being "probed with needles" may not be any fun, but he was paid a huge amount, and was able to leave the planet whenever he wanted. Now, why would someone want to "probe someone else with needles"? Well, there are many reasons, this certain one was to create clones of Jango Fett. These clones were turned into a second race of "Mandalorians" though these were "Mandalorian Clones". Known as Clone Troopers, they were extremely powerful. But that is not important to this story, what is, is that Jango Fett asked for one more thing, other than huge sacks of money, and free reign to leave the planet?an unaltered clone?Boba Fett.

 

CHAPTER 4

Around the corner, was something Kerdack didn?t expect to see, especially after his encounter with the crazed bum. Let me start again. Around the corner was one of the most peculiar sights Kerdack has, and probably will, seen. Unfortunately, though, he only got to see the climax of the sight.

"?Get away from me, blast it!" some guy in a hockey halloween costume yelled. "I?m not going to stand on your nerf-ridden parade float!" Well, maybe not so much as, hockey, more like...

"But please mister Bo?"

"No, I?m not going to do it! And get this crowd away from me or I?ll nuke it?Blast it all!" The guy was yelling at... a crowd? Kerdack was confused. I thought that the droid said...

It snapped, that was Boba Fett. And he was aguring with a crowd, because he... wasn?t going to parade through the town like the hero he was, or was not.

Kerdack decided he better take another look at his hockey friends get-up. Er... Kerdack, or so it turned out, had missed a lot of details. There it was, a Mandalorian suite of armor. Just a plain-old-simple jumpsuit... With chestplate, knee rocket launchers, jet-pack, utility-belt, shoulder-pads with an insignia on them, and lets not forget, the cup. And of course, the traditional "T" visored helmet.

"I don?t car how important this is to you! I came here to relax, not to start a rancor-eaten-holiday!" Seemed to Kerdack, that Fett is getting really... annoyed...

"But sir!" Not another droid... "This could be one of those holidays that many families will come to celebrate it with other family?" It was then shot, in mid-sentence.

"See that!?" Boba exclaimed, "And remember what I did to the Stormtroopers!? NOW LEAVE?ME?ALONE!!!" He then turned to the street Kerdack was on, and with a boost of his jet-pack, was gone.

"That was soooo cool!" Some kid in the crowd yelped.


After that charade, Kerdack decided he might try his luck at finding a place to stay again. And wouldn?t you know it? This time he got a room the first time.

"Well, sure we have room!" Then inn-keeper explained, "We?ve had at least one or two rooms left for the whole cycle. And when that Fett guy made that press statement, half of my customers left! And they paid for the whole time to! So I?m happy."

"Yes, well, thanks for the room."

"Yeah, no problem, here?s the datapad for the door, room number forty-two, upstairs, to the left."

"Oh, great... my lucky landing pad?My lucky landing pad!?!?" He had forgotten to check up on his ship. He never did get reservations.

"What was that sir?" the inn-keeper asked, but when he turned around, Kerdack was already gone.


His gray-red jumpsuit was soaked with sweat as he ran to the docking bay, why does this always seem to happen to me?

 

::runs screaming across the thread::

The hobbits! They're after me!

::a mob of hobbits run after him, armed with toenail clippers::

NO! YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME!!!

 

*coughs*up*hacks*

 

Padawan, I just wanted to warn you that I'm going to be in Peru from August 1 to August 12...

AND GET THIS STORY UP!!! ::super glues story to the cieling::

~Dot

 

*just got back from his own trip*
Okay, ttyl Dot.
BTW, here is the 5th chapter!

CHAPTER 5

The Delta-7, or Jedi Starfighter, is a single-man, wedge shaped starship. The Delta-7 is nicknamed the Jedi Starfighter because, well, the pilots are usually Jedi. This ship has been designed for speed and manuvereuablity, in contrast, the average Delta-7 has less shields and fire-power than most other ships. The reason for this is so that the Jedi pilots would rely on their skills, and Force-powers instead of shields. The lack of weaponry is because Jedi try at all ends not to kill, the only reason why it has weapons at all, is for those tight positions.

Kerdack L?Dar?s Delta-7 was bought over years of saving credits. It turned out that by the time he had the amount of money that he had set out to get, that was more than enough. For this reason he put in some special modifications... like, a hyperdrive (instead of needing to be tailored the whole way), a better r2 unit, and more powerful shields. He had the traditional red and white paint job, though because of his adventure with the star-frigate a new silver color was added. The hyperdrive was the latest, or was a month ago, and few ships could outrun him. His r2 had an auto-pilot capability, that he had already experienced, though hoped he didn?t have to again. His shields were not only more powerful/protective, but also were aqua-blue his least favorite color. He didn?t care about blue, it was the Aqua part, that got him, but that would need another book, so I shall move on. He also had wind-shield-wipers, this was one of those features you always have to get, because there was a salesman that wanted to do his job, and the fact that there was no wind in space, never seemed to cross his mind.

 

*UUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPP*

 

COME ON!!! SOMEONE READ THIS!!! ITS BEEN TWO WEEKS!!!

~The Angry Master