Episode 4: The Hummingbird

I wake up, seeing the sun shining through the window. I sit up, slowly remembering everything that happened. I pull the device Thalia had given me out from my pocket. I get up, and walk over to the droid.

"Alright.." I say. "Let's hope this works.." I pull out a device that was already in a slot, which was the power source, one that kept failing. I look at the new device. "Please work.." I say. I close my eyes, and slide the device into the slot. I open my eyes seeing the device, had started glowing blue and gold. Drillbit also starts to turn that color. Drillbit's eyes begin to glow gold, he turns his head, looking over at me.

I smile, hoping that he'll stays active a lot longer than he has.

"Hello, sir." Drillbit says.

"Hi, Drillbit. Please call me Brady." I say.

Drillbit, gets up.

"Drillbit, please stay here for a little longer." I say.

"Okay, Brady." He replies.

I grab my bag, and a suitcase. I walk into the bathroom, to clean up. After a while i return to my room in a fresh pair of clothes. A black and blue jacket over a t-shirt, and black pants. I begin packing my bags, with clothes, my computer, workstation, picture frames, and a bunch of other things. I look at my mother's helmet on my desk.

"I hope one day, I'll make you proud, mom.." I say.

"You okay, sir?" Drillbit asks, walking over.

"Yeah, I'm good." I reply. "Can you carry this for me, buddy?" I pick up the helmet, handing it to him.

"Sure, but may I ask, where are we going with all of this stuff? It's like we're moving." He asks.

"That's because we are, at least you and I. I'll fill you in later, but I can't take my father anymore, I need to be somewhere where I'm not worrying about the next time a scar will get added to my collection." I say.

Drillbit nods. "Okay, sir." He says. He takes the helmet, holding onto it tightly.

I sigh, "Head to the landspeeder, its out front, can you take these there, too?" I ask, pointing to the bags.

"Yes, sir." He grabs the bags, heading to the landspeeder.

I open my door, heading downstairs to see Thalia.

She looks at me, smiling.

She would be with my father in the kitchen.

"So, you're leaving again?" He asks.

"I'm going on a mission, a personal mission." I say, lying.

"What is this mission?" He asks.

"I'm not sure yet." I say. "Can I show you something, Thalia?" I ask.

She nods. "Yeah." She replies.

I lead her outside, followed by my father. She smiles as soon as she sees Drillbit. "Looks a lot different than he did when John and I first saw him, but he looks good." She says.

"You figured it out, what was the problem?" My father asks.

"Thalia, figured out he might need a stronger power source to activate, I just hope he will hold up as long as I need him."

"Anyways, you better get going." Thalia says.

"You know, you could come with.." I wink.

"I don't think my parents would approve Brady." She says.

"Mine already doesn't." I say. "Plus it'd be a lot more fun having someone else that I know."

"Do you want me to come with?" She asks.

I nod. "But it's your choice." I say.

"Okay, then, I'll come with you." She winks.

"What do we do with John? Bring him with?" I ask.

She nods. "He's apart of our group, so he should come."

I nod. "Okay."

We soon go pick up John, and get them their things.

"Brady, tell your friend to get his greasy hands off of my metal parts!" Drillbit exclaims.

After a couple hours, we land near the colosseum again. Chrzio Cassmar, and his friends stand by Thailand's ship, the one we left behind because it was out of gas.

"I see you brought some friends." Chrzio says.

I nod. "Is that okay?" I ask.

He nods. "Sure."

"Is that a droid?" Lloyd asks.

"Custom." Thalia says.

We all get out of the speeder, grabbing our bags.

"Follow us, we'll take you to our ship." Chrzio says.

We follow them, soon coming up to a massive ship, the ship would have sweet paint job white stripes, a teal primary color, and silver.

"Welcome to the Hummingbird. My ship, and don't get any ideas." Lloyd says.

"What ideas?" I ask.

"You know what ideas." John says.

We head onto the ship, multiple rooms all over the ship. We walk into a large area of the ship, furniture in every room.

"This is the living room sector, there are several halls leading to living quarters, you three and your droid can grab some down that hall." He points down the east hall. "Eight rooms are down that hall, no one's claimed them yet, and you can grab them."

We nod, heading down the east hall.

John walks into the very first room on the right, "This one is mine!" He walks in crashing onto the bed in it. "It's comfortable, too!!"

I walk into the room at the very end of the hallway, "I thought there was eight? They didn't say nine.."

Thalia shrugs. "Calling dibs?"

"Why not?" I open the door, a dusty, room full of furniture inside it.

"Dusty.." She says.

"Great, time to clean.." I sigh.

"Hey, you'll at least have me next to your room." She points to room number seven on the left.

I walk into my new room, finding everything wrapped up. I pull a tarp off of what looked like a bed.

"Dustier than I remember."

I look back, seeing Chrzio.

"Sorry if I'm disturbing you." He says.

"It's okay, why did he say there were eight over here? But, this one makes nine." I ask.

"This room used to be occupied by his best friend, that friend was murdered by the empire. Which is why we're honoring what we do after his friend. You can honor it however you want or don't honor it." He says. "If you want the room, go for it. I'm pretty sure it's the biggest bedroom on the ship."

"Thanks." I say. "When are you going to teach me the force and that stuff?"

"Soon, don't worry." He says, turning around and walking off.

Thalia walks into the room.

"You weren't kidding when you said it was dusty." She says.

John walks in after her.

"Whoa!! Can we trade rooms?" He asks.

"No John, and this is going to be a pain to clean up."

"Want us to help?" Thalia asks.

"Nope, I'm not cleaning!" John runs out of the room in a hurry.

"Where's he going?" She asks.

"Probably going to go watch some Hentai." I say.

We both chuckle.

"If you're willing to help, then sure." I say.

Drillbit walks into the room, "Sir, tell this filthy rust bucket to get away from me!" Another droid following him.

"Drillbit, the droid just wants to be friends with you.." Thalia says, pausing from cleaning for a second.

"No it does not, you should've heard the type of things it was saying to me!" Drillbit exclaims.

The new droid would be a gold and green astromech. Also known as R8-D9.

I set a couple of my artifacts I had brought with on a shelf. I grab my mothers helmet and set it on the desk. I grab my computer and the tower for it and set it up. I set up all of my stuff I had for Drillbit on a table near the shelf.

Thalia and I finish cleaning up the room and putting all of my stuff in their spots.

"Nice to be done finally." Thalia chuckles.

I smile. "Thank you for helping me, Thalia." I say.

"You're welcome." She says.

"That's two I owe you now." I say, smirking.

"Hey, don't worry about it. Promise." She says.

We walk out of the room into the living room.

"Follow me." Chrzio says.

We follow him into multiple rooms, getting to know the ship.

"This is the blacksmith area, Lloyd's favorite place on the ship where he can disappear and make as many hammers as he wants." He says.

We go to another room, a humongous room actually. Multiple different ships would be in the room, as well as an X-Wing.

I run over to the X-Wing, happy to actually see one in person.

"This is the Hangar, where we store the other ships we may need." Chrzio says.

"I haven't been able to fix that X-Wing, the damn thing doesn't want to get fixed." Lloyd says.

"Maybe you haven't had the right eyes on it." so say, smirking.

"And you think you can fix it?" He asks.

"If I do can I have the ship?" I ask.

"Sure." Chrzio says.

"Yes!" I say pumped.

"I've never seen Brady this excited." John says.

"He got to watch and take care of a bunch of ships in the hangar on Mandalore. Of course he'll be happy to see a new ship he hasn't seen before. The X-Wing is one he's read about but never seen in person. He told me he'd love to have one someday. His father overheard him and crushed that dream of his." Thalia says.

"Sounds like his father is an asshole." Fetok says.

An alarm goes off, a very loud one at that.

John, Thalia and I all cover our ears.

"What is that!?" I yell.

"An alarm." Lloyd says, sarcastically.

I glare at him, "No duh, why is it going off!?"

"Means we got our next mission ready, get to the cockpit and strap yourselves in." He says, heading up to the cockpit.

We all follow him, soon getting into the cockpit.

Lloyd soon gets us into the air and into hyperspace.

"Where are we going?" I ask.

"To the planet called Cruth. It's a mostly abandoned place, and it has a jedi temple on it." Chrzio says.