[shmi pov]
Anakin come into our home like storm, "mommommommom, Dev he-he-"
"Calm down Ani, I'll listen." Pulling him into a hug. Ani for how childish he is, can be quite smart, probably Devs influence. That one has been a handful since we got on this planet, allways thinking, careful, almost cryptic sometimes. Talking to other parents lets me know that this isn't the case in most 12 year olds, but if I learned anything from this "force" he been teaching us is that I should trust myself. And I trust him wholeheartedly.
"Now what has gotten you so worked up Ani?" I say placing my hand on his head, something I picked up from Dev. Anakin pull out a cloth from his clothes.
"He got the controller." Anakin stammers a smile forming on his face. "He asked me to be a distraction on his signal a while ago, he gave me the signal today."
Dev what are you thinking? Pulling something like this your self is one thing, but pulling you brother into this?
"What did he tell you to do with it?" I ask gently.
"He said to make sure it, and anything connected to it will never work again." He says his smile only getting brighter. I can't reprimand that face.
"Can you do it?"
"Of course?" There's that confidence he's gaining, I wonder if that's also Dev?
"Then get to it he's counting on you."
Anakin run off to his little lab in the storage room. I quietly leave to Yaga's home. Yaga lived alone, his children having been married off, or worse.
"Shmi dear, for what do I owe the pleasure?"
"Hello Yaga, I would hate to ask this would you watch Ani, just for a short w-"
"Go, I'm already on my way."
"Tha-"
"Go, go, there's no need for thanks between family." I smile at that, know she would be upset at more thanks.
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Walking up to Watto's store I can tell something has changed, the entrance was blocked by his security droid. As I approached the droid seemed to bow for me, definitely different.
Walking in to the empty store front and seeing no one, I decided to use the force to find him. I follow the pull to Watto's office, the door open.
Dev stand over Watto's body, his glaze on the box ahead of him. Walking in "are you okay?" leaves my mouth before anything else registers.
He turns to me panicked. "I-I. He was gonna….. I didn't want my family getting hurt." He stammered while not making eye contact.
"Are you okay?" I ask one more time ignoring his stammering. Walking forward I see just what happened here. Pulling him into a hug, "it's okay, you protected us, that all that matters."
"But I ki-"
"Shhhhh, you did what you had to."
I mean it, years as a slave has made me witnesses to things no one should have to see. "If you didn't, it could have me or Anakin. Would you have wanted that?"
"NO" he replies finally looking me in my eyes.
"Good. Now help me clean this up, don't want the guards to see this, right?"
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[Devrin pov]
Having my mom calm me down was a surreal experience, especially cause I roped Anakin into my plan. But i can sense it, she's just glad I'm okay.
"Don't worry about that, using his holodeck I send out a off premises message," I say dragging Watto's body into the storage room, a temporary hold until night fall. "And me and Ani have been running the store for months now." He would just push all of his work on us, that being our very cover now that he's gone.
"Now that we have the store, we an income, and a base."
"For what?" Mom ask with a tilt of her head
"Protection, no one wants to hurt the only mechanic for miles, and Ani is the best one. As long as we lay low we should be fine."
"Are you sure?"
Hmmmm, how could I be 100% sure all it takes is one idiot to ruin everything.
No can't think like that, I've done everything I could, now we leave it to the force. Can't plan everything out, some thing are out of you control.
"As sure as I can be."
"Okay."
Huh? "What do you mean okay? Your not gonna ask questions?"
"What am I supposed to ask? You believe, so I'll chose to believe in you."
"…." How am I supposed to respond to that. Trust so deep, I can feel her doubt, her craving for answers, but all she say is that.
"I'll try my best."
"Of course you will, you're a Skywalker."
I smile at that.
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Mom leaves to go check up on Anakin, leaving me to the store. I turn my attention back to box.
Arasaka.
Power hungry tech conglomerate, home of Saburo Arasaka, an ancient ceo with control over a third of the market share in night city.
Having the games be broken at launch let me experience them, through walkthroughs and lets plays,before I watched edgerunners. Now that knowledge proves itself invaluable. Using Watto's holodeck for the last time, I look up everything I can find on night city.
On a plant called Caelid, R.O.B's pun not lost on me, there is a single city, "night city" the images and video show me that it isn't just a coincidence it's the same night city I know, I'm not sure if that a good thing.
Night city besides being corrupted all the way through, also has a group I happen to care about. I would rather not let them die cause of that fuck face Faraday.
Searching for a calendar from caelid, the year 2068. Seven years huh? I can make that work, no I have to if I want to stick it to that asshole Faraday.
There's that pull again, time to check that out.