I made my way back through the city and to my ship without trouble. I had R5 unlock the ship's ramp, and we were off. I put Podra into the ship's brig and shot him with a stun ray, ensuring he'd be knocked out for the whole trip.

Making a quick landing back on Corellia, I registered my ship and walked Podra back through the town to the cantina.

On the way there, I noticed something. It seemed that every so often, I would see the same two hooded figures observing me from various spots. Eventually, I began looking behind me, somewhat nervously. If someone was following me, it couldn't be good.

Podra began to notice.

"Scared of something, Mandalorian?" he sneered.

I whacked him on the back of the head with my fist. "Shut it, or I'll be delivering you with a missing arm."

Finally, we got to the cantina, where Torluuk greeted me when I walked in.

"Ah, well done, Krypto!" he clapped, and two burly Niktos walked in, and grabbed Podra's arms, and walked him into the back room.

"And here is your payment." Torluuk deposited the credit amount of six million into my hand, and then added the double amount.

"Want another job?" Torluuk suggested. "I have many more that are right up your alley!"

"Not today, Torluuk." I answered, my mind darting to the hooded figures who had been following me. "I have business to attend to."

"Oh. Mandalorian business. I understand."

With that, I turned and left the cantina.

Immediately, I looked to my left, and saw the two figures, blocking the normal path I took back to my ship.

"Damnit." I muttered, and started walking in the opposite direction.

I followed a different path, which I realized was taking me into the more shady part of town. "Shoulda thought this through, Krypto..." I antagonized myself.

Eventually, I rounded a corner, and the hooded figures were at the end of the street ahead, blocking my path.

"Shit."

I turned around, and there were two more further back, also blocking my exit.

"Frack."

I frantically looked around for an escape, then spotted one- a branch-off street. I darted towards it, and ran down the narrow hallway.

Only it wasn't a street, it was an alleyway, with a dead end on the other side.

"Damnit!" I shouted, and when I turned around, the figures were standing in the alley entrance.

Quickly, I drew my blaster pistol and fired a shot at the figure on the left. The figure keeled over for a minute, but then, to my surprise, they got back up.

"What the hell?" I said, more to myself than to the figures.

Then, they threw off their cloaks, and revealed themselves-

They were Mandalorians.

I then realized they weren't just any Mandalorians, they were the Mandalorians I'd seen on the wanted poster, a male and a female.

"Greetings, fellow kin." Said the one who I'd shot, the man. "I am Ryke Gunther, and this is Chyla Titi."

I holstered my pistol. "What do you want? I can't get wrapped up in another Mandalorian conflict."

"We're friends of Bo Katan." the Chyla said, which stopped me. "We have a mission, and we need your help."

"'Need' is stretching it pretty far." I groaned. "What is it."

"We have received intel on the location of a Mandalorian artifact." The Chyla explained. "Taken by the Empire during their war against us."

"I'm not going on a wild Mynock chase for some lost artifact." I said bluntly. "Not interested."

"Not just any artifact." Ryke said, forcefully stopping me. "It's the Darksaber."

That caught my attention.

"We know that you were the last Mandalorian to wield the Darksaber." Chyla said. "It was entrusted to you by Bo Katan herself, just before she died."

"You're bound by the code to help us find it." Ryke finished.

After a while, I sighed.

"Guess I have no choice." I said angrily.

Ryke dropped me. "We're taking your ship."

Suddenly, two more Mandalorians ran into the alley.

"We have to hurry," said one. "They've deployed troops to stop us."

Chyla grabbed two Mandalorian blaster pistols from her hips. "Come on, we have to move."

As I followed with her and the other Mandalorians, I used my comlink to contact R5.

"R-five, lock down the ship! There are Imps coming for you!" I said, and a whistle from the comlink meant R5 got my message.

We turned a corner, and there was suddenly a battalion of Stormtroopers blocking our way, along with an assembled E-WEB cannon, plugged into a battery and mounted on a tripod.

The Stormtrooper commander in the front held out his hand. "Stop right there, Mando scum!" He shouted.

Without stopping, Chyla fired one of her pistols at the E-WEB battery, causing it to explode, killing the entire squad.

We kept running, and came up on the landing pad where my ship had landed. No more Stormtroopers blocked our path, so I contacted R5 and told him to open the ship. As the docking ramp lowered, there was a sudden sound from behind, like metal clanking.

Shink.

Chock.

Shink.

Chock.

"Oh no..." I muttered, and all five of us turned around to see...

...an AT-ST walker, tromping right towards us.

"Two-legger, inbound!" Yelled Ryke. "We gotta move!"

As we moved to the ramp, the AT-ST fired two shots, taking out the two Mandalorians accompanying us.

"No!" Chyla shouted- holding out her hand as their charred corpses fell to pieces on the ground.

"R-five, I want you on our dorsal cannon!" I yelled into the ship.

There was a click and a whirring from the top of the ship, and the quad laser cannon on the top of the ship swivelled around, and opened fire on the walker, causing the cockpit pod to explode into fiery metal shards.

"Let's go!" Ryke shouted. "They'll be coming back, and there'll be more of them!"

The three of us loaded onto the ship, and I hopped into the cockpit chair, and fired up the engines.

"R-five, get that bay door closed!" I yelled, and began to take off, retracting the landing gear. With one small burst of speed, we took off into the atmosphere, away from the planet, and jumped into hyperspace.