Chapter 19: Escape

Connor awoke in what appeared to be cell. His hand immediately went to his lightsaber only to find it missing. 'They must have confiscated it', Connor thought. Connor looked around. At least his cell was not the more complex plasma door; it was simply metal bars that kept him locked inside. Connor also realized that R2-B4 was missing, he would have to escape before they had a chance to do anything to him.

Connor sat and meditate in his cell, slowly pondering what he could do to escape. After a few minutes, guards came down to check on the prisoners. Connor could see the guards were carrying a blaster pistol. Connor knew nothing about how to shoot the guns of this world, so he quickly bought [Novice Shooting] with his remaining skill point. When one got close enough Connor, he began to fake a heart attack. "Call an ambulance", Connor yelled. The guard slowly walked over, "Hey, what's going on? What's an ambulance?", the guard questioned. Once he was close enough to Connor's cells, Connor used force pull to cause the guard to hit his head against the metal of the cell, knocking him out. "But not for me", Connor proclaimed.

Connor then quickly ran over to the unconscious body in front of his cell, Connor began to search his body for the blaster pistol. "Hey, get back to your cell", the other guard began to yell at Connor. Conner grabbed the pistol and shot at the guard. The guard was close enough that the blast hit him square in the chest, killing him. Connor then continued to search the guard until he found the keycard. Connor's arm, however, were not long enough to reach the scanner. Connor let go of the keycard and caused it to float, slowly manipulating it over towards the scanner.

"Beep", the keycard reached the scanner and Conner's cell became unlocked. Connor could probably credit his easy escape to the fact that these people had never caught a Jedi. 'The next thing to do is find my lightsaber and R2', Connor thought to himself. He had no idea where though. The guard beside Connor started to awaken from his forced slumber; Connor quickly and decisively shot the guard.

Ding!

[User has received a new quest: Arrest/Kill Warlord Cesbren and destroy his base of operation]

Connor stared at the quest he had just received. He could only assume that the place he was in currently was the base of operations. Connor looked at the dead guards beside him. He then decided to place on the guard's uniform. Although Connor was only 14 and the guards looked to be about 18 or 19, the strict physical regimen that he had undergone in the jedi order caused him to look much older than his actual age. That coupled with the fact that Connor could use a Mind Trick on anyone who questioned it. Mind Trick relied not only of the power the force user possessed, but also on the complexity of the order being given. While Connor could not cause the man from before to change his entire objective, he could cause someone to forget that he looked too young to be working for a warlord.

Connor found a bag that one of the guards from earlier were carrying that he assumed was holding the food he handed out to the prisoners. Connor slung the bag on his shoulder placing it across his chest. The purpose for the bag was twofold. First, Conner needed something to cover up the hole made by the blaster mark he had made when he shot the guard. Second, Connor needed a place to store his other clothes.

Now that Connor looked the part of a thug, he exited the room while a bunch of prisoners hollered at him to set him free. Connor walked down a corridor, after opening the door at the end of the corridor it opened into a very large factory. Many things were being built in this factory. The place almost looked like a sweatshop. Many people were located at various tables. Some were constructing weaponry while other were conducting a chemical process to create street drugs. Connor saw many armed thugs standing next to these tables and he assumed that all these working people were slaves.

Connor walked while trying hide his face from anyone that might suspect him. Walking past the factory area, Connor walked up the stairs located on the other side from where he began. While walking up the stairs another man passed by another man. "Hey, I've never seen you here before". "I'm new", Connor explained, "I need to see warlord Cesbren, can you remind me where his office is?". The man was quickly suspicious but played it cool, "Why don't I just give Cesbren a call and confirm? Just protocol, really". Connor was quick thought as he waved his hand in front of the thug, "I do work here, and you will tell me where Cesbren's office is. The man quickly dropped the arm that was holding the walkie-talkie and proceeded to tell Connor where he needed to go.

Connor followed the man's directions until he came upon a plain door which he assumed was the warlord's office. Connor opened it to see the man himself holding Connor's lightsaber. Hal'Sted didn't even look up at Connor, "If it isn't absolutely urgent, leave. I'm busy". "Oh, well this can't wait", Connor said then pulled his lightsaber back to him. Cesbren looked up to see the Jedi just as the weapon left his hand. Connor had retrieved his lightsaber and he wasted no time in activating it. "Psshew", it had only been a few minutes, but Connor really missed that sound. Cesbren fumbled around in his desk until he pulled out a remote. As he pressed it, the two droids next to him came to life. The droids immediately pull out blaster rifles and fired at Connor. Connor proceeded to dodge on the deflected the other. Although Connor was able to deflect the blaster back at the droid, it only left a shallow scorch mark. The droids also seemed the realize that blasters would be ineffective against Connor, so they pulled out a different weapon, Vibroswords.