Back to the Present

After a short run down the hall Ahsoka makes it to the first hanger. Upon entering she imminently hid behind a nearby crate before looking around. Fortunately the hanger was mostly empty except for the forklift droids caring cargo to the only ship in the hanger. A Trandoshan transport with a large cargo bay with its crew of lizard men standing under it.

"Ok, here we go," Ahsoka said to herself, I just have to walk over there, present them my credits, and request they smuggle me off world." Ahsoka took a moment to look down at herself.

"I just have to do it naked," She said nervously, shrinking down further behind the crate.

After a second, Ahsoka tapped her forehead with her fist to regain her composer. All things considered Ahsoka was incredibly lucky. The first hanger she had entered was mostly empty and the crew she needed to bribe were nonhumanoid, so they likely wouldn't be aroused by her naked form. Using whatever courage she still had Ahsoka snuck her way up towards the Trandoshan ship.

"Umm Hi," Ahsoka said after she got close enough to the Trandoshans. She gave a small wave while her arm remained glued to her breasts. The Trandoshans turned around from whatever they were talking about to look towards the Tagruta nudist. The group stared silently for a few seconds while Ahsoka awkwardly fidgeted. Then without waring the entire group started bursting out laughing. At first Ahsoka was confused, but then realized her mistake. Just because they weren't attracted to her didn't mean she didn't look ridiculous to them.

"Ha ha ha, and what are you sssuppose to be?"

"Mussst be one of those exotic dancersss. Sssorry whelp you've got the wrong hanger."

"Although her hide isss of excellent quality. Maybe we ssshould take her. Sssomeone would pay for such a high quality ssspecimen."

"Meat looksss to be tender, alssso."

Ahsoka held in her anger. She had dealt with Trandoshan's before, a gang of them had kidnapped her during the clone wars to be hunted for sport. The idea that these deviants might put her through the same experience, except naked, made Ahsoka sick to her stomach. But Ahsoka didn't want to jeopardize this chance so she just stood their smiling dumbly while her feet fidgeted on the cold floor. When she saw an opening between the Trandoshan's laughs and rude comments as quickly spoke up.

"I'd like to book passage on your vassal," She blurted out, "I have credits."

Ahsoka held out the creditpurse to the crew with both hands. The Trandoshans looked at the purse then started laughing again. Ahoska didn't understand why until she realized, in her haste, she had uncovered her body again. Giving the Trandoshans time to fully inspect the'meat' standing in front of her. Ahsoka recovered with her hands and tried very hard not to scream. Our naked heroine began to worry this might be a fruitless endeavor. Suddenly a mighty roar reverberated through the hanger. Suddenly the laughing Trandoshans went silent and moved to the side. behind them was a giant Trandoshan with grey scales and red warpaint. He was most likely the captain. He approached Ahsoka, making the Tagruta feel even smaller and more ****. He leaned down and spoke to Ahsoka in a low growl.

"So you seek passage on our ship," The Captain growled.

"Y-yes sir," She replied, "Preferably without the empire knowing about it. Here are the credits."

She held up the purse again. This time only using one hand so she could continue to hide her breasts. The Captain took the purse and began counting the contents. Ahsoka stood their nervously tapping her feet. She had convinced her Tagruta sister to give her all the credits she had on her, but she wasn't sure if that was enough to convince a pilot to smuggle her off their ship. If this Trandoshan told her this was not nearly enough she was doomed. The empire would be on her trail soon and there was no way she would be able to escape the tower. The Captain finally finished counting and looked back at Ahsoka.

"This is enough for passage," he growled.

"REALLY!" She yelled. Face lit up with genuine joy, "Oh thank you. Thank you. You don't know what this means to-"

"Unfortunately," He interrupted, "We can not take you."

Ahsoka's joy disintegrated. "What? Why not?"

"The Empire preforms a lot more inspections then the Republic. And for some reason, they seem to like inspecting Trandoshan ships frequently. If we take you, you will be found by the one's you are obviously running from."

Ahsoka's heart sank down to her feet. Once again she got so close only to end up so far from her goal. She would have to find another ship to take her offworld.

"Well thank you for your time," Ahsoka said halfheartedly as she bowed slightly to the captain.

Ahsoka took her credits back from the captain and started walking towards the door placing her hands behind her to cover her butt. At least she knew she had enough credits to book passage. Although she had a bad feeling the next crew she meet would do more then laugh when they saw her nudity. Ahsoka whimpered at the thought but didn't have any other choice. She needed to talk to another pilot.

"Hold on," the captain yelled out to her.

Ahsoka turned her head back to the captain.

"You are not a friend to the empire?" He continued.

"No," she replied.

"Then you are a friend to us. We Trandoshains help are friends. Let me give you gift that may make your search more. Comfortable."

Ahsoka's eyes widened as the captain went into his ship to get her 'gift'. She couldn't believe it. With everything going on Ahsoka had basically abandoned all hope. Was she actually about to get some clothes. Something to wear. To end her humiliation. As the captain exited the ship, Ahsoka felt an overwhelming sense of relief.