Across The Galaxy
Part 3: A message
by Leaf Trebond


	Jaina  saw the Lightning Rod on the other side of the river. 
She stepped in the water. 
"This is freezing. Why couldn't he have landed on this side?" She was
up to her waist in the river, and not even half way across. She heard 
somethng on the bank. 
	"You think you can get away from me Solo?" Boba Fett asked
	She reached down for her lightsaber.  She knew that wasn't 
going to help, but she felt 
something else. It was Zekk's blaster. 'How did I get that.' she 
asked herself. 'Who cares.  I haven't used a blaster since I came to 
the Academy.  This thing better be water poof.' "I don't think. I 
know." She turned around and shot him in the shoulder.
	Fett was drawn back. Blood gushed from his shoulder. He 
looked up to see Jaina dive under the water. He shot ramdonly into 
the river.
	Jacen and Tenel Ka heard the shots as they ran to Boba Fett 
shooting at Jaina. They ran at Fett knocking him to the ground. Jacen 
and Tenel Ka ignited their lightsabers as Fett stood up. "Don't 
interfere."
	Jaina reappeared on the other side of the river. She ran to 
the Lightning Rod, and  into the cockpit. She looked around. Jaina 
never flew the ship before. She sat down in front of the controls. 
Slowly she started the ship. It was so old, but with the new modifications 
Zekk added to the ship made it odd to fly.

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	Boba saw the Jaina run to the Lightning Rod. He wasn't going 
to let her get away.  He turned and ran to his ship. 
	"He's running away from us?" Jacen asked surprised to see 
the Bounty Hunter turn and run like that.
	"He's not after us. He wants Jaina. By staying here to take 
care of us he would be letting his bounty get away." Tenel Ka answered.
		They stood watching the Lightning Rod take off. Jacen 
waved his lightsaber in the air. Trying to signal the ship back. 
"Zekk's not bringing the ship down."
	"Jacen, I didn't see Zekk get onto the Lighning Rod. Only 
Jaina."
	Jacen turned around and looked at Tenel Ka. Her normally 
serious face was replaced  with a look af terror. "Then why is she 
in the ship, and where is she going?"
	Tenel Ka looked around. "Where's Dengar's ship?"
	"What?"	
	"Remember. Dengar's ship was here before. Now it's gone." 
	"If that is what she is trying to get away from. Then she 
might not make it."
	"We better go find Master Skywalker."

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        	Han, Luke, and Anakin walked into the infirmary 
carrying Zekk. Lusa's leg was just 
wrapped by the medical droid.
	"He's hurt. Internal bleeding." Luke told the mediacal droid. 
The droid prepared a shot for Zekk to slow down the bleeding, so he 
could look for other injuries.
	"Jaina?" Zekk keep mummbling. "Where? Jacen."
	"He's mumbling about Jacen now, too. Great!" 
	"Jacen. Find Jacen. Love Jaina?"
	"Yes I love Jaina." 
	"Excuse me General Solo." Han moved out of the as the medical 
droid hooked Zekk up to the life suppoert systems. 
	"How's he doing?" Luke asked.
	"Not to good, sir. I don't think he's going to make it though 
the night."
	"Mater Skywalker, can you hear me?" Luke reached down for his 
comlink. "This is Luke."
	"Sir, A ship is has just landed with your sister."
	"Tell her that I'm in the infirmary."
	"Yes, sir. Um... Master Skywalker."	
	"Yes?"	
	"Leia is a little upset. I suggest that if General Solo is 
with you he better find some place else to be."
	"Thank you." He said turning off the comlink. "Um...Han, 
Leia is coming."
	"To late. I'm here." Leia walked though the greeting her brother 
then giving Han the 'your dead when you get home' look.
	Zekk grabbed Han's arm. "Jacen. Jacen, Jacen, Jaina?"
	"There he goes again." Han said rolling his eyes. "Kid, for the 
last time I don't know where Jaina is."
	"Jaina?"
	"Sir," The medical droid said. "His vtial signs are improving."
	Leia approached the bed where Zekk was. He looked at Leia then 
at Han. "Jaina? Jacen, Jacen. Jaina?"
	"He keeps saying that." Han said to his wife, who now had a 
sympathic look on her face.
	Zekk grabbed her arm. "Jaina. Jaina! love Jaina."
	"Yes I love Jaina." She said in her most sweetest voice.
	Luke walked over to the machines Zekk was hooked up to. 
"That's odd. His conditions improved the moment Leia walked into the 
room."
	"It's not surprising. Leia the nicest, most beautiful, and 
most forgiving person I know." 
Han said giving his lopsided smile.
	"Nice try, Solo, but your not getting away that easily."
	"Jaina and Jacen no fight." Zekk said still half unconscious.
	"No honey, I'm Leia. Leia Organa-Solo."
	"Solo. Jaina Solo." Zekk insceited.
	"He keeps doing that." Han said shaking his head.
	"He thinks your Jacen." Lusa said. "and your Jaina."	

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	Jaina sat at the controls of the Lightning Rod. "Where to now? 
I'm not leaving the system without Zekk. She pulled up a navigation 
chart of the Yavin system. "Let's see a choice between 3 planets and 
a handful of moons. Fiddanl, Yavin, and Stroiketcy are to unstable 
and I don't dare go back to Yavin 4. I guess it is one of the other 
moons." She looked back a the charts. "Yavin 8 and13 are the furthest 
away. Let's see." She pulled up information about the moons.
	
	Yavin 8:
	 Surface: Mountains moon with stretches of tundra
             Fauna: different varieties of rodentlike life, Melodies
	Flora: None known
	Atmosphere: Non-toxic
 	Technology: None	
	More information found on survey of planet.

	Yavin 13:
             Surface: Desert
	Fauna: Slith (reptilian) and Gerbs (mammallike)
	Atmosphere: Non-toxic
 	Technology: primitive
	More information found on survey of planet. 

"Great!" Jaina leanded back into her seat. "Why can't there be a 
paradise moon? Wait what's this." She leaned forward. There was 
another moon. "Yavin 15?" She pulled up information on the planet.

	Yavin 15:
             Surface: 95 % water tropical with volcanos islands. 
	Fauna: various types of creatures
	Atmosphere: Non-toxic
 	Technology: none
	More information found on survey of planet.
	
	"I want to see the survey." Jaina told the computer.

	Little information is know about Yavin 15. The team was 
lost on the moon, before completion of mission. Yavin 15 is 95% 
water with a chain of islands in the southern hemisphere. Most where 
formed thousands of years ago by volcanos, which are inactive or 
dormant. The last major eruption was over 300 years ago.
	Many forms of Flora and Fanua can be found. None of which 
were to be dangerous. 
	Major extiantion was over three hundred years ago.

	"Well, that wasn't much, but it can't be that bad." She typed 
in the coordinates for Yavin 15. "Well, I got 12 hours, before I get 
there." Jaina stood up and walked to the back of the ship to a small 
room. She walked in and collapsed on the bed. Her hand hit something. 
Jaina picked up. It was a small black box with a red light that was 
flashing. Suddenly a smaller version of Zekk appeared.

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	"What?" Han asked.
	"To him your Jacen."
	"and he thinks Leia is Jaina." Raynar added.
	"That must be why he got better when he saw Jaina." 
Luke concluded.
	"Wait a minute. What does that have to do with Leia or Jaina 
making him better?" Han asked.
	"Jaina is strong in the Force, and so is Zekk, apparently. 
They must have linked..."
	"Linked?" Han asked.
	"Anybody two people who are Force strong can link with each 
other. Especially if they are closely related like me and Leia, or 
they have strong feelings for each other."
	"I don't think I like that."	
	"Let me explain. Do you remember when Jaina and Jacen where 
little?" Han nodded. 	"Remember how whenever Jaina was sick Jacen 
was always around to make here better, or if Jacen was sick he would 
get better when Jaina was near him.  You know how Zekk and Jaina feel 
about each other. Even if they won't admit it to each other they can't 
deny it. It must be so strong that even if Jaina and Zekk aren't in 
the same room they can heal each other." Luke looked at Han. "Raynar 
would you go get me a cup a ice water." He looked back at Han, "and 
maybe a bucket of water, too."

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	Tenel Ka and Jacen walked though the woods. "I think we are 
almost back to the Academy."
	"This doesn't look like the path back."
	"I can barely see. There is to much foliage. Ouch."
	"Jacen, what happened?"
	"I walked into something." He pulled out his lightsaber and 
cut away the branches covering the object.
	"What is it?"
	"A door."
	"Yes, but a door to what?"
	He kicked the door open, "let's find out." They walked up 
some steps to a small room just above the trees. "This is an old 
rebel observation and commutation outpost. That means we must be near 
the shield generators"
	"How far is that from the Academy?"	
	"Not far. We could make it there before night fall."
	Tenel Ka walked over  to controls. "Jacen, does this place 
still work?"
	"I don't think so, why?" Jacen said as he walked over to 
where Tenel Ka was.
	"There is a message here."
	"Well, let's play it. I bet it's from the rebellion. Maybe it 
could even be mom."
	"Boba Fett, did you get her?" A female asked
	"No, I found her, but she is gone."
	"Jacen, I think we tapped into someone's message." Tenel Ka 
said.
	"Gone!"
	"Yes, but I have located her brother."
	"Her family is no good to me as of yet. We must take care of 
her first. What system are you in?"
	"Yavin. Dengar came here. I do believe another bounty hunter 
is here, too." 	
	"One I hired?"
	"No, his name is Zekk."
	"Zekk, that tradior to the second Imperium? I'm sending all 
the bounty hunters to Yavin to find both of them."
	"Is that all Gennavie?"
	"No. The prices have changed. 250,000 credits for Zekk, and 
500,000 credits for Jaina. Make sure they are alive. I want the 
pleasure of killing them myself, and possibly taking part of the 
Solo/Skywalker family with. No one will ever mess with a nightsister 
again."

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	Jaina sat up. Looking at the message Zekk left. It was unexpected 
but nice, very, very nice. She smiled to herself.
	"Jaina, if you are listening to this then something must have
happened for me not to be with you," he frowned, "I came to Yavin 4 
to warn you of a bounty that was placed on you by the nightsister 
Gennavie. You met her sister on Kashyyyk where she died. She blames 
you for the Garowyn's death."
	Jaina remembered that day. Garowyn tried to kill her, but 
slipped and fell to the lower levels of Kashyyyk.
	"Gennavie has sent bounty hunters after you, and most of 
them are coming to Yavin 4 now. I have entered coordinates into the 
ship for you to go to. When you arrive go to a place called the 
Dancing Slave Girl. There you will meet one of my friends. His name 
is Davin. He'll take care of you. I warned him that if he puts on 
finger on you I'll kill him."
	"Oh, and, Jaina, if you try to over write the coordinates 
you'll find that you can't. By the time you pass though all the 
security systems I add you'll be there. And if by some chance you 
get past the security don't go to Yavin 15. Every 300 hundred years 
the 
volcanos erupt and kill everything."
	The picture of Zekk slowly faded away. "Well it looks like 
I'm going to the Dancing Slave Girl to meet Davin. I'll take a look 
at the security systems that he added later now a nap."

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	Jacen made a copy of the message and made his way through the 
jungle with Tenel Ka until they were standing at the edge of the 
landing pad outside the Academy. "The Falcon's here, already?"  
Jacen said with great surprise.
	"A ship from the New Republic is here, too." They ran inside 
the Academy, found into Tonnie. "Jacen, Your mom sent me to find you. 
Everyone is in the infirmary."

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	Zekk had fallen asleep. Leia rested her head on Han's shoulder.
Luke was happy to see that they had made up. Lusa, Raynar, Anakin, 
and Lowbaaca decided that they were going to sleep there over the 
night. The medical droid updated Luke on Zekk's condition every 30 
minutes.
 	"MD, any updates?"
	"He has made a dramatic improvement. When he wakes up he will 
be almost himself again, but if he suffers from any stress during the 
next few days he would go through a relapses."
	"Stress like finding out I'm not Jacen or Leia isn't Jaina?"
Han asked.
	"Well it's possible, sir."
	Tonnie walked into the room. "Master Skywalker Jacen and Tenel 
Ka are here."
	"Where's Jaina?" Raynar asked.
	"She's gone." Tenal Ka said stepping into the room.
	"Gone!?!" Han cried.
	"She left on the Lightning Rod."
	"Why would she do that? We need her here." Leia said.
	Jacen pulled the tape out of his pocket. "Here's your answer."

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	When Jaina woke up she almost forgot she where she was. She sat 
up looking around the room. There were blood stains on the sheets. 
Her brown flight suit was torn and stained with blood.
	Almost falling over as she stood up she looked at herself in 
a small mirror. "I have to find something else to wear." she said to 
herself as she looked at the pieces of her clothes that barley hung 
on her body. Feeling a little dizzy Jaina began to shift through Zekk's 
clothes trying to find the smallest suit she could. Pulling off the 
remains of her cloths she spotted open wounds on her stomach.
	She tore a clean piece of cloth from her old suit she began to 
wrap the wounds. She pulled on Zekk's black suit, which was still to 
big for her she walked into the cockpit.