Star Wars - The Gray Jedi - Chapter 3 - Escape from Bracca 02.

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Third Person POV
Bracca.
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He stepped against the metallic floor of the open wagon as it sped along, the wind whipping against his hair.

"Cal!" Prauf called out.

"Are you okay?" Chaos looked up and approached as he saw Prauf kneeling.

"I am... but all this..." He didn't stop speaking, Cal understood his situation at the moment.

"I'm here, I've already said. We'll talk about this later," he spoke. "Now follow me. I don't want you to stray from me, got it? Another thing, we're leaving this planet," Cal said.

"What do you mean by that?" Prauf couldn't have been more surprised.

"You'll understand soon. Someone is coming, coming to get us," he said, referring to Cere who should have been in contact with the imperial radio to know that there was a hidden Jedi here after the disturbance in the force. Cal had to keep him and his friend alive until then to get out alive.

"We can't stay here either," he remarked. "Now let's go," he said, heading towards the closed wagons at the front as they were moving towards the first wagons.

It was at this moment that two Stormtroopers appeared, absentmindedly opening the door.

"Okay, let's just check the problem and get out." He commented feeling the sound in Cal's fall and they went to look, but were surprised to see two people at that moment, dressed as workers.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" One of them said, pointing his gun.

"This train is private for the supply of cargo and parts, you damn thieves!" Another spoke wanting to arrest the two, Cal raised his hand to acclaim Prauf, who was scared and placed his hand on his saber on his belt, preparing to use it, while the Stormtroopers approached.

"Attention all units, there is a Jedi fugitive. Attention all units, there is a fugitive on the cargo train!" the radio suddenly repeated these words and the two soldiers looked at each other at that moment.

"Well, it looks like we're going to have to act," Cal murmured as he grabbed his lightsaber for the first time after the change and pressed the button while his crystal lit it up, startling the stormtroopers who quickly shot, but Cal simply moved with his weapon, stopping all the lasers until the stormtroopers stopped shooting, stepping back, scared. Since they saw all their attacks repelled while Cal moved his saber in the air.

Cal, before advancing, looked at his dazed friend standing in the same place. "Prauf, like I said, stay close to me, okay? Don't leave for anything," he said before starting to advance against the two soldiers ahead.

The stormtroopers tried to shoot again, but with the swing of his saber, he began to stop all the shots and finally reached them, cutting them like paper, killing the two the next moment.

He looked at his friend, who again, was standing still and if he continued like this, he couldn't continue. "Prauf! What did I tell you? Stay close to me," Cal spoke with a bit of anger.

Prauf seemed to finally thaw at that moment and quickly ran to him. "Sorry, it's just that all this is very surreal." He began. "I can't believe any of what I'm seeing, you are..." He spoke without thinking, but was interrupted.

"Prauf!!" Cal tried to calm him down once again, calling his attention.

He finally stopped, "Sorry... Are you really fighting against the Empire for us?" he couldn't help but comment.

"We'll talk about this later. Now we have another matter," Cal spoke and began to walk, Prauf started following him afterwards.

They started entering the wagons and more stormtroopers started coming out of the doors due to the sound of the battle and before.

"What is this? It's the fugitive Jedi!" A stormtrooper pointed at Cal with his saber still on.

Cal advanced and quickly began to fight among the men, avoiding any shots that went for Prauf behind him. Meanwhile, Prauf watched the fight in a surreal way as he saw Cal spinning and dodging while moving his saber strangely with him behind.

Cal was using the style of Starkiller, although he was quite bad at the form due to not having much practice, but it was better than the one he used as a padawan.

He continued advancing through the train, the further they went, the more stormtroopers appeared trying to stop him.

"We're almost there!" Cal shouted while surrounded by fallen empire soldiers in the wagon and asked Prauf to follow him.

"Wait!" He quickly said, sensing something in the Force. While Cal had been fighting until now, the glow of the battle between the lasers and the lightsaber began to stand out along all the train lines, and an imperial fighter quickly followed them. Cal had asked them to stop when a TIE/LN Starfighter approached their wagon and hovered beside it while following the train.

"Damn, this is bad!" Cal exclaimed and quickly began to run to his friend.

"What's happening?" Prauf asked.

"Get down!" Cal replied before throwing the other to the ground as the wagon was destroyed with giant lasers by the imperial fighter, obliterating everything.

The sound of the lasers nearly burst their eardrums as everything exploded in the wagon, ripping open the entire hull with most of it destroyed and some parts swinging almost dismembering.

The fighter hovered, watching the destroyed wagon while it was open, looking for any sign of the Jedi. A part of the wagon was still intact, but began to burst apart; then, Cal appeared jumping and, before the wall flew out of the wagon, Cal caught it with the Force and hurled it at the imperial fighter, hitting the wing before the pilot could react, causing the fighter to start to get damaged and lose control of it as the train began to enter a tunnel inside a mountain, the fighter ended up hitting the side of the tunnel wall and exploded.

The tunnel flashed with the lights on the ceiling. Cal looked at his companion and helped him stand up. "Are you okay?" He asked.

"I am... but this is madness," he couldn't help but exclaim.

"Stop talking and let's go," Cal immediately said as they continued into the next wagon.

As soon as the train came out of the tunnel, Cal and Prauf continued walking until, as he moved from wagon to wagon, another imperial fighter passed by them, but it wasn't a common one with that square shape, instead it was one used by the Second Sister that was landing on one of the wagons at that moment ahead.

"I'm going to have to deal with her..." Cal said, but he knew he would have difficulty facing any of them in his current state.

He continued going and advancing against the horde of stormtroopers, dealing with them and protecting his friend, and slowly moving through the wagon until he finally arrived among the first, and there was the ship parked with a woman wearing fine, technological armor, looking at him with interest.

"Well, you finally showed up, but you won't escape anymore," Ala said while using the Force to close the door behind them. Cal was not afraid of this, while his friend looked truly scared.

Cal sighed, seeing that he had no choice and began to advance against her while walking calmly, igniting his saber as she did the same. Lighting up that open wagon with red and blue lights from opposite sides.

"You're strange, kid. I don't know who you are, but your powers," she said. After all, she knew the dark side, and this boy could use that kind of power, which was strange because he could use the light side as well. She then finally asked. "Who are you?"

"It doesn't matter," Cal replied, approaching without fear.

"Be that as it may," she said, then raised her lightsaber against Cal, who quickly moved it, stopping her and pushing her back with his force. She was a little surprised by this, but quickly used a more aggressive stance, launching at Cal, who also defended but did not have control of the fight, even having a bit of a disadvantage, but compensated with his still more powerful strength than the opponent.

Both began to exchange blows while Prauf, stood at a distance, only able to watch. Prauf was in a vulnerable situation with nowhere to run, behind him the door was closed, in front there was a ship in combat, and still an intense lightsaber battle unfolding.

The lightsabers moved at high speed, clashing against each other with unique sounds amid the movement of the train in that area; it seemed like Cal and the Second Sister were dancing in choreography with the sabers colliding and creating powerful light.

"You really are strange, how can you use the power of the dark side? Who is your master?" she commented, but Cal didn't respond, focusing on the fight.

Their weapons clashed on the right, left, advancing until she began to gain a bit of an advantage against him, making him retreat slightly.

"You are going to die here today," she murmured. And Cal, having no choice, had to resort to external factors. Then, he looked beneath her feet and used the Force with his free hand, bending the grates, causing her to lose a bit of balance as he used the lightsaber she had to defend quickly, creating an opening as he kicked, making her fall backwards.

"I think not," Cal calmly replied responding to her previous assertion.

She tried to use the Force on him, but he managed to block it. "Damn, I want to see you do that with your friend," she said, launching the Force at Prauf at the start of the wagon, making him scream as he flew and fell out of the train.

Cal quickly saw this, raised his hand holding him before he could fall, and the Second Sister, seeing an opportunity, got up with her saber and advanced against Cal, who saw this quickly and with the other free hand used it on some crates there, making them be launched with her advancing in the air, hitting her from the side, as she was just focused on killing Cal at that moment and hitting her, throwing her aside. He put Prauf back on the wagon and sighed.

Suddenly, he looked up as a ship began to approach, one of the large ones with the wing up as it came close to them. It began to open the hatch and there was a black woman looking at him.

"Come," she said as she raised her hand to Cal.

Cal saw this and nodded as he went up to Prauf. "Sorry, buddy, but hold on tight," he said.

"What are you doing.... AHHHH!!!" He didn't finish before flying with Cal throwing him to the ship along with the Force, making the man scream as he fell beside the woman.

He nodded to that and prepared to jump as well, he saw the Second Sister getting up and didn't have time to deal with her, so he began to run to the edge of the train and jumped onto the ship's platform with a great leap. He managed to land and, while Prauf was being assisted by the woman who looked at him in surprise, he saw the Second Sister running to her imperial fighter as the ship moved away from the train.

"Let's go, let's get inside," she quickly asked, but he shook his head. "No, she's coming after us with a fighter, leave the door open. I'll deal with her," he said as the imperial fighter began to take off.

The imperial fighter began to stabilize its body as it started to aim its lasers at his ship. "This is bad!" the woman exclaimed.

"I have no choice," Cal clenched his fists as they began to envelop in electricity, taking a deep breath he released a bolt of dark side lightning that quickly hit the ship next to them without the shields still raised, exploding it, causing it to lose balance and crash into the train, crushing the wagons.

"I did it..." He murmured and turned his attention to the woman looking at him in shock.

'More people I owe explanations to...' He murmured as the ship began to close the doors.