Beyond - Legends Padawan Sanchari’s Rescue Mission [Guardians of Light RP Mission]

Message from Jedi Knight Tython to his Padawan Sanchari:

"There has been a child abduction reported of a Quermian boy named Soosha-Va. It is known that two Gamorrean guards abducted him. Apparently, Soosha-Va and his family have made an enemy with a Rodian business man in town named Vormm. Vormm has built a reputation for demanding absolute loyalty from other groups and Soosha-Va's parents apparently didn't follow suit.

It is believed Vormm has used those two Gamorrean guards to kidnap Soosha-Va and sell him into slavery to the highest bidder as an act of revenge. The evidence against Vormm has already been gathered. Your job will be to rescue Soosha-Va from the two Gamorreans using the Padawan resources you have available. The two Gamorreans will be lightly armed. They should be easy to disarm because they are slow. This will allow you to move in close to them and practice your use of Forms I, II, and III and beyond to disarm them and then call in the authorities. After the authorities arrest the Gamorreans, your job will be to calm down Soocha-Va by buying him a decent meal and then returning him to his family.

We suspect Vormm is merely a dumb criminal who has misled his associates into believing they can get a bounty for Soosha-Va. Vormm is currently under investigation. Do not interact with Vormm in anyway. It is believed he is dangerous and is in cahoots with a Hutt cartel. If while trying to rescue Soosha-Va you happen to encounter Vormm, try to the best of your ability to avoid engaging him in combat. Please commit the following image to memory and do not disclose any connection to Vormm to anyone under any circumstances.

We have received a message from Soosha-Va's parents. You will be sent the message after it is translated into Basic. Our data search found Soosha-Va is a known gamer on the holo-gaming circuit. He was seeking an endorsement deal at the time of his abduction but is considered too young for the professional holo-gaming circuit by most standards."

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*****

Sanchari paused on the glow-lamp lit street, leaning nonchalantly against a wall as she pretended to dig through the satchel at her side. In truth she was scanning the building behind her through the Force, getting a feel for the layout of the area and any beings nearby. The street wasn't crowded, but it wasn't empty either. She had confirmed, with some local contacts Master Tython had provided, that this was the building the kidnapped child was seen being taken into. The building from outside looked like a tech shop, spare droid parts and such. It was odd, though, there was a burly Gamorrean lounging outside the door. Spare parts shops don’t usually have (or need) toughs hanging around.

“Hey, you!” The Gamorrean grunted in barely understandable Basic. “What you doing here, Ryn?”

Sanchari looked up, feigning surprise as the guard looked her up and down. Sanchari was dressed like a typical member of her species: a bright colorful skirt, blouse, more jewelry than was really practical for her current mission, and splashes of color highlighting her short purple-black fur.

“Ah, hello!” The Ryn said brightly in accented Basic, “I be digging out the scanner that I be needing a part for, too much stuff be in my bag here. I have some spare parts that I be wanting to sell, too.”

“Shop is closed.” The Gamorrean grunted again.

“Oh, when will it be opening?”

“Not soon. You go, little thief.”

Sanchari put her hands on her hips and gave a great show of being offended. “How dare you! You be losing your store a good customer, I be never returning to THIS store.”

She turned and stomped away until she was out of the guard's sight. Then slipped into an alley and activated a droid beacon. A few minutes later, a silver and green BB unit rolled into the alley.

“BeeZee, did you get a good scan of the building?”

BZ warbled that there was some shielding further down that blocked some of the scans, and life signs had been difficult to pinpoint. Sanchari's distraction at the door, though, gave enough time to do a couple good scans of the levels near the surface and leave some hidden sensors continuing to monitor the building. BZ switched on its holoprojector and displayed a map of the building.

“I felt the minds of two beings right about here,” Sanchari murmured. BZ added two red dots where she indicated. “Their minds be slow and simple like the guard I talked to. They be standing outside a door, it looks like. I also felt someone upstairs, here. That one be more crafty, he may be the boss Master Tython told me to be staying away from.”

BZ whistled in excitement suddenly.

“Really? The Force be with us, BeeZee. If he be leaving, now be our chance!”

Sanchari and BZ made their way quickly and silently through the alleys to the back of the building they had been in front of earlier. She removed her disguise as she went, beneath it she wore a simple dark-colored tight sleeveless tunic and pants. It amused Sanchari that she considered the clothing she was stuffing into her satchel a costume. For the average female Ryn it was just everyday clothes, but Sanchari had never really worn them before. Not many bright colors in the slave camp of her childhood; her clothing as a slave on the Casino ship was bright and flashy, but usually consisted of miniscule bodysuits and leotards; and nowdays, she wore Jedi clothes all the time. She shrugged to herself at the oddity of life as she scrubbed the bright paint from her fur and tied a dark cloth over her white hair that only had a small bit of lavender color left.

"Go get the speeder we rented, BeeZee, when I be calling you, we will be needing to leave here very quickly." Sanchari instructed. BZ chirped and rolled away.

Sanchari checked that the training saber she had been issued was ready on her belt, secured the satchel of supplies, and climbed up the building to the open second-story window. She swung herself over the sill and into a dark room. Taking a deep breath to calm and center herself, Sanchari reached out with her mind, locating nearby presences in the Force. She silently began to work her way down the hall towards the stairs she had seen on BZ's map. The missing child was somewhere in the levels below, and she needed to find him soon...

*****

As Sanchari edged her way down the stairs, she reached out to the minds of the two Gamorreans guarding the door. She placed there an image, a suggestion that all was well, that the dark shape in the shadows of the stairwell was nothing, a trick of the light. It wouldn't last long, but it would give her a moment of surprise.

She paused at the foot of the stairs and assessed the situation. The guards were immediately next to the door, there was no way to get past them in the narrow hallway without taking them out. They were armed with large vibro-axes, but little in the way of armor. If she was fast, and used some of the skills she had been learning the past few months at the Temple of Light, she should be able to disable and get past them.

She took a deep breath, and launched into action. She rolled forward, igniting the blue training saber as she came up, slashing at the guard on the left. Had it been a full-strength saber, the cho mai strike would have cut the guard's hand off at the wrist. The training saber's lesser power left the guard with just a welt and a minor burn, but it made him drop the weapon with a surprised grunt.

As the axe fell from the guard's hand, Sanchari snagged it with her prehensile tail and tossed it at the second guard. With the second guard momentarily distracted by the weapon flying towards his face, Sanchari slashed at his upper arm. Zone 2, Cho sun. His weapon clattered to the floor just as his companion's axe bounced off his reflexively upraised arm and fell to the floor as well.

The first guard reached out in an attempt to grab the small Padawan, but she leapt upwards in a movement that was only a little bit Force-enhanced, twisted in the air and struck downwards towards the guard's upper back. Shiak, Zone 4. The saber's impact knocked the wind out of the guard's lungs. The strike unbalanced him enough that when Sanchari rebounded off the wall of the narrow hallway and landed on the guard's shoulders, he toppled forward. He landed on top of his companion, who was bent over, starting to try to retrieve one of the dropped weapons.

The guards landed in a heap, with Sanchari standing atop them. With a few well-aimed strikes, she knocked them both unconscious.

Sanchari pressed the button to open the door and stepped inside. Her training saber was the only light in the dark room.

"Soosha-Va?" The Padawan called out, she thought she heard a muffled sound in response. She reached out through the Force and felt a bundle of faint, exhausted emotion. Mostly it was fear, but a spike of hope was starting to grow. She traced it to a corner of the room, and found a door.

"I be Jedi Padawan Sanchari." She explained as she studied the closet door and found the latch to open it. "I be here to bring you home."

The Quermian youth blinked his small eyes in the sudden light of Sanchari's saber as she opened the door. He was sitting awkwardly on the floor in the small space and had a gag tied across his mouth. His movements were slow and sluggish. Sanchari removed the gag and helped the boy un-wedge himself from the small space he had been crammed into. He stumbled and nearly collapsed.

"Here, drink this. My Master said you would probably be needing something to eat immediately." Sanchari dug a liquid nutrient pack out of a pouch on her belt and snapped off the lid. "Drink quickly, we do not have much time to get out of here before the guards be waking up."

The Quermian fumbled at the pouch and nearly dropped it, so Sanchari held it for him as he sucked greedily at the built-in straw. Once the liquid had made it down the boy's (extremely) long neck, he started looking a little more steady.

A minute or two more and he was able to stand and they made their way out of the room, climbing over the unconscious Gamorreans. As they reached the stairs, Sanchari pressed a button on her comlink, signaling BZ.

By the time Sanchari and Soosha-Va got to the roof, BZ was there with the speeder car. The Padawan and rescued youth jumped into the speeder and raced away into the night.

*****

An hour later, Soosha-Va was slurping down his third bowl of nerf nuggets and noodles at a table beside an all-night Kupohan street vendor. Sanchari tucked away her comlink as she returned to sit at the table with the young Quermian.

"Your parents and local police be on their way to pick you up, Soosha-Va. Do you be feeling better?"

The youth nodded his small head.

"Thank you, Jedi." He said with a relieved smile. "I thought they were going to kill me, if they had left me in that closet much longer they probably would have."

"How did you be getting yourself kidnapped, anyway?" Sanchari asked. "My Master said something about holo-gaming?"

Soosha-Va looked abashed. "They contacted me in-game and said they wanted to sponsor me as a pro. I was so excited, but I didn't tell my parents because I knew they'd tell me I was too young."

The Quermian pushed around the last noodle in the bowl with a spindly finger as he spoke. "I went alone to the meeting place they gave me. Those Gamorreans were there. They grabbed me and tied me up and threw me in that closet. While I was in there, I heard a voice out in the room saying something about my parents, and me being a hostage."

"Hm. What did you be learning from this, Soosha-Va?" Sanchari asked, feeling much wiser than the boy, though she was only a few years his senior.

"Don't trust everyone you met on the Holonet. You never know who they actually are."

Sanchari smiled, and started to respond when a hovercar and two speeder-bikes whirred to a halt in the street nearby. Two Quermian adults exclaimed in worried and relieved tones as they climbed out of the hovercar and raced to Soosha-Va. Two beings dressed in law enforcement uniforms got off the speederbikes, one a tan-skinned human male and one a Sullustan female.

“You, Ryn girl,” The human said, pointing at Sanchari. “Are you with the kid?”

“Aye, I do be.” Sanchari said nodding respectfully to the officer as she stood up.

“Have you seen the Jedi we were supposed to be meeting here?” The Sullustan demanded.

“I be the Jedi.” Sanchari replied. Noting the officers’ incredulous looks, she continued with a grin: “Sorry I not be dressed like one, I be needing to be quick and quiet to rescue the boy. My formal robes be back on my transport.”

“What kind of scam are you pulling, girl?” The human officer glowered. “Trying to take the credit for someone else’s rescue?”

“That does look like a laser sword, Zed.” The female officer muttered, gesturing at the training saber hanging from Sanchari’s belt.

“How do we know it’s not stolen, or a clever prop?” The human officer replied with a scoffing snort. “You wouldn’t believe some of the scams I’ve heard of her kind pulling off.”

“Jedi?” The woman asked in confusion.

“Ryn! They’re all thieves and vagabonds. No way am I going to believe this one’s a Jedi. She’s probably in cahoots with the kidnappers, running some kind of scam for the reward money.” The officer pointed a finger in Sanchari’s face. “Show me some proof, ‘Jedi’, lift something with your mystical powers.”

“I... not be good at that particular skill in the Force, sir.” Sanchari replied, with more than a bit of confusion in her voice. “My talents be more... mentally focused and martial.”

“Hah,” The officer blurted. “Typical misdirection.”

“She did rescue my son, officer, does it really matter?” One of the Quermian adults spoke up from where they had been joyfully reuniting.

“Yes.” The officer growled. “How dare she pretend be a Jedi.”

“I could be proving it to you with a Force technique I be good at, sir. But it could be considered interfering with an officer in the line of duty.” Sanchari replied with a shrug.

“Zed, come on, what’s wrong with you?” The Sullustan woman asked.

“Nothing, Lena,” The officer said crisply, waving a hand at her dismissively as he continued to face the young Ryn. “Go ahead, little cheat, use your ‘powers’ on me.”

“You do be asking for this, sir,” Sanchari sighed, raising a fuzzy purple-black hand and gesturing towards the man. “You be very sleepy, sleep now.”

The officer blinked, yawned, and stumbled. Sanchari stepped forward and caught him, making sure the man didn’t hit his head as he fell into a heap onto the street, snoring.

“Sorry about that, Jedi, he’s had a long couple of sleepless days on this case.” The Sullustan woman said with a chuckle. “I guess he was expecting someone more... typical?”

“And less... Ryn?” Sanchari shrugged again. “He did need a good sleep, I be feeling that from him. Now that Soosha-Va be with his parents, and you have the coordinates of the building I found him in, you can be sending someone to retrieve the kidnappers.”

“Already done, Jedi.” The female officer replied with a small salute. “Thank you for your help.”

“You be welcome, Officer. Call on the Guardians of Light any time. We be happy to help.” Sanchari bowed to the officer, then turned to the Quirmians. “Be safe, Soosha-Va, and always be appreciating having parents who care about you and know you are safe.”

“Thank you, Jedi.” The Quirmians all murmured, bowing their long necks.

Sanchari bowed in return, then climbed into the speeder with her droid and whirred away back to their transport.

 

@TheRynJedi -- I really enjoyed reading this in the Guardians of Light thread! It was well written. Sanchari kept her poise with the obnoxious police officer and thankfully the other one was courteous and of course the rescued youngling and his parents were more than grateful! And Sanchari's demonstration was good-hearted.

 

You’re welcome Thank you for coming by to read it.

Sanchari is almost too perky. She’s so happy to be where she is now, but sometimes her attitude is a cover. She’s had a very tough childhood, and certainly has moments of depression remembering it. She will some day have to face the trauma, but right now she’s focused wholeheartedly on learning to be a Jedi. So that she will have the skills and resources to find and rescue her family.

Hmm, I’ll have to extract Sanchari’s introduction from the GoL RPG, it’s a fun little story that tells her background and how she got to the Jedi Temple on Saridona Prime.

 

Excellent completion of a tricky rescue, with quick thinking and compassion. The parents and one of the officers were duly grateful, although the other one was *rude*