Under the Current

[Marcus Wright]

The kid wearing dirty goggles he wore just after judgement day but he didn’t regret one moment not taking off his Human Resistance jacket, with the red stripe on it. Star didn’t say much but she silently looked down at her patch her and Kyle had earned a place in The Human resistance cell lead under John Connor.

In Tier one, It took a little direction for Kyle and Star to find a place that offered to help a young teen armed and the same for Star, who was mute who pointed at various objects to try to get what she was looking for.

Finally after a long time digging, a dirty but readable map was found on the ground of Courscant out of pure luck and Star pointed at it.

Kyle looked at the map and nodded, looking up at Star who was searching for a place in particular which was circled.

Star, you wanna go here? The young female smiled and nodded, trying to sign off that there was some sort of “group”.

The younger man sighed and looked over at the younger mute woman and sighed “How do you know it’s not dangerous?

Star raised a eyebrow and signed back in a little more annoyed fashion “You know things are extremely dangerous everywhere we go.”

Kyle shrugged and nodded, “That was true”

Star nodded, moving her finger toward what looked like elevators down into the lower Tiers of Courscant and get away from the strange white plastic like soldiers staring at them, awkwardly.

[Marcus Wright]

They eyed the bigger male with a sense of distrust, while staring at the female.

“Why are you staring at us?”

The white stormtrooper turned toward the shorter two “What are a couple of kids doing out here on the street?”

Kyle raised an eyebrow and calmly nodded “We are lost.”

“...”

Star turned toward the stormtrooper and raised a eyebrow and signed out the symbol for “Yes, we are lost.”

The stormtrooper figured it couldn’t be too bad to help out a pair of kids who were lost.

“Sure, where are you trying to get to?”

After discussion with each other, Kyle and Star took the brief eyeing of the man in white.

The stormtrooper pointed to a far distance out into the city as the two were gone before he said anything else.

Kyle eyed Star and frowned “Glad we got away from him… I don’t trust these guys.”

Star signed “Me neither.”

They took a brief walk to stare, impressed at everything they had missed during Judgement Day back home.

“Damn, it’s beautiful!” Kyle’s eyes lit up as Star joined him.

Until their stomachs rumbled.

Star pointed to her stomach and cuped it in a C position, moving it down lightly.

Kyle sighed “Well we can see about food in a bit, Star, let’s keep moving.”

Star did it again, more annoyed than usual “I’m STILL hungry, Kyle.”

Kyle stopped and did a double take “Fine, we’ll get some food. It might been whatever scrappy stuff we can find, star. That ok?”

Star moved her hand near her mouth and pushed it out, signing the symbols for “Thank you, that is fine.”

Kyle nodded and said “Let’s go then.”

Later in the day, that’s when Kyle and Star found themselves in some sort of alley digging through the local garbage looking for food, just like old times.

[Marcus Wright]

Kyle and Star got up, eating what they had in their mouths from a few days ago and shrugged. This was a normal day for them as they browsed the alleyways of Courscant, using it as shortcuts to find the nearest elevator to a lower tier.

[Marcus Wright]

As they finally reached the elevators, Star looked up and over at Kyle, signing out the symbol for "What Tier are we going?"

Kyle nodded and signed back "Tier 5, Star."

Star understood what Kyle was saying and gave him a smile as if to say "Let's go, Kyle."

They slipped both into the elevator and the doors closed, as the trip down was relatively uneventful.

[Marcus Wright]

The glass elevator smelled like someone's rotten socks, which forced Star to hold her nose in disgust, however nobody should be that picky if they were going down to Tier 5. Kyle shrugged as their weapons were on their backs as they observed the scenery from each tier going down, which got worse and less advanced as they went down.

Until the door made a simple "DING!" nose and opened at Tier 5.

Something like this was more like "Home" for Kyle and Star and what they were used to. Buildings were old and crumbling and had old windows on them.

Kyle eyed Star and told her to watch her steps here, they never knew where things were going to go from here.

[Marcus Wright]

It was odd, at least there wasn't any traces of Stormtroopers watching their every move but like human scavengers out for themselves, Kyle and Star eyed the ruined city in front of them and took each step carefully.

A sign read, ruined mostly with black ash on it that said "Welcome to Tier 5."

There were certainly lots of noises from where they stood.