They entered the Shanty town sprinting.

The first person they ran into was Em who grabbed them all in a furious hug and berated them despite their offerings.

"I don't care how much food you brought!" She scolded. "I was worried sick!"

Starkiller stopped and faced Em. Em was a short woman with long blond hair, gray eyes and glasses. She wore a pale white dress belted in the center over brown boots. Her sleeves hung down to her wrists loose, and other than a leather string which she used to hold her hair back she did not wear any other decoration.

She took in the dirty disheveled appearance of the boys and then the man who stood slightly behind them.

Em paled when she saw him. "Who are you?" She demanded.

"You're a Force Sensitive." Was his reply.

"So are you." She replied.

"...what's going on?" Joran came in through the walkway. Joran was Em's opposite, tall and dark haired, none of her calm bearing, suspicion colored his features. He wore a tan shirt belted over brown pantss and almost identical boots with a small dagger slid into the side of his right boot.

Everything was tense and quiet for a moment. "Em!" BJ whispered, "He can take us off world!"

Then their exchange hit him as he realized what they had said to each other. He was floored to hear that Em was a Force user, he'd never sensed it, and she'd never given a hint that she knew that they were. But then again he certainly wasn't trained in the Force either.
Em looked at Joran. He hesitated.

"How did there come to be so many Force sensitives here?" Starkiller asked sitting down making no move to draw his lightsabers. He held his hands up in front of him at all times to make it known that he was no threat. While he sensed that Em was a Force sensitive, Joran definitely was not. The man felt of suspicion and wariness. Starkiller put those aside...living here that was probably the norm from anyone.

Joran sighed and sat down as well. "I suspect that many of the outer rim planets hold Force users hiding out from the Empire. How did you come to look for them?" Everyone tensed at the question.

Starkiller looked down. "I talked with Yoda once. He said to follow my vision across the Universe if I had to. I did that, but I had a vision of something else. Do you know who Luke Skywalker is?"

"No," Em said bitterly looking at her husband. "I've heard of Anakin Skywalker, but not Luke. Are they related?"

Starkiller shrugged. "I'm not sure. I'm heading out of the Empire with a few who want to go. That's a name I keep hearing whispered, a new hope."

BJ stood up then. "We're in."

"BJ," Em said, "We should think about this."

"No," said BJ, "I've been waiting for this opportunity for a long time. I want to take my family out and that means all of us." He looked at Em. "You guys too."

"Well of course we're going," said Joran. "Allana is a Force sensitive too." AJ looked up. 

"What?"

Em smiled. "Here we were all hiding from each other..."

"How?" BJ asked her. "How did you not know?"

"I don't know," Em shrugged her shoulders, "I was never very strong in the Force to begin with but...I think I've always known. Now that I think about it, I just always wanted to believe otherwise, so I never even thought to bring it up. It just wasn't important."

"NOT IMPORTANT?" Joran snapped. "That could have been the most important thing we could have learned about them. We could be attracting the Imperials here as we speak."

BJ shot a sideways glance at Caohdan and was just about to speak up when he suddenly decided against it. What do I really know about any of them? he asked himself. We didn't even know Em and Allana were Force sensitives until now.
"When can we leave?" Connor said from the corner. AJ was next to him with Caohdan in front of him simply waiting. They were all looking to BJ waiting for him to make the decision.

Starkiller noticed this was surprised. He sneaked a glance over at BJ and noticed even Allana was watching for his thoughts. This kid was clearly a leader in the making, he thought.
"Now if you're ready." Starkiller responded. "Let's go."

BJ nodded.

Em looked over at Joran. He nodded to her. She turned back to Starkiller. "Let's pack a few clothes first and walk into the docks. We can't just leave from here, everyone would see us, and they'd tear apart the Shanties looking for us. I cannot be the cause of that."

Starkiller smiled at her. "Spoken like a true Jedi."

Em hesitated. "Are there Jedi still out there?" It was a serious question and Starkiller didn't necessarily have a good answer for her.

"Not as many as you'd like." He admitted. "A few are still helping the rebellion." He hoped he didn't ask her about anyone in particular. He'd killed two Jedi, or rather his template had killed two, and blinded a third. He turned away hoping his feelings didn't show through.

In the next hour they were at the docks. The kids were all dancing with excitement even though BJ tried to keep them calm warning them not to even think about using any ability until they were safely off world.

Starkiller was amazed in the fact that they listened at all.

Di'Bashi was at the docks with a huge guard surrounding a ship. Starkiller had hoped to avoid the Governor of Kelusia and slip away unnoticed. He hadn't planned on doing any fighting when he got here but it looked as though he was going to get some attention whether he wanted it or not. He doubted that Juno was very happy with him at the moment. Keeping the Rogue Shadow from being seen was her job. It was still the best ship to slip away undetected. She managed to keep it in top condition despite their being on the run.

Sighing he walked right up to the guards and said. "Is there a problem with the ship?"

The guard turned. "A stolen vessel apparently. What business is it of yours? Move along."

Starkiller nodded and moved back towards Joran and Em. "Their thoughts are abuzz with the possibility of Force users. Not sure what's tipping them off but it's about to get really bad here. I need you to take the kids out of here."

He spoke into a commlink on his wrist. "Juno, I'm handing my commlink over to a man named Joran. He's going to take everyone to a safe location to be picked up. Take off, and wait for my signal, I'm going to provide a distraction."

The link buzzed. "Galen...be careful, no big heroics."

"Don't worry."

He handed the link over to Joran. "Are you sure you want us to run?" Joran said quietly.
Starkiller nodded. "Trust me, I've had much worse. Get them out of here. I can take care of this alone."

Joran nodded in return, and the group moved off, but not before being noticed.

"Where are you going," an all-white clad storm trooper said grabbing BJ by the arm. BJ started to pull away when the storm trooper screamed as his arm sliced off. It was a clean slice done neatly, like a giant knife through butter.

Caohdan was there next to AJ, his face screwed up in shock over what he had just done. His jaw hanging open for the moment no one moved.

BJ was the first to recover.

"Run!" He yelled grabbing Caohdan by the arm. Caohdan was jerked off his feet still staring at what he'd just done to the storm trooper, the blood pooling from the arm on the ground. The Stormtrooper screaming as the other men in his unit stared around stupidly for a moment trying to figure out what just happened and where exactly the threat was coming from.

"Force sensitives!" Screamed Di'Bashi. The white haired, balding governor pointed a black glove in their direction. Only Starkiller remained between them and the running boys. The rest of the crowd had scattered at the sight of spurting blood.

They sprinted along the streets towards the Shanty town which was the fastest way towards the trees. There was an explosion behind them. BJ skidded to a stop with Caohdan the others running into him. He took a quick glance and noticed with some surprise that 

Starkiller was still standing at the center waving his lightsabers in a blue blur. He'd thrown the entire guard and Di'Bashi backwards off their feet. No one was pursuing them, they had a much bigger target on the docks now. Clone trooper bodies were piling up and BJ wondered if they would see Starkiller again after this.

They kept running.