To Mos Eisley

Aayla is puzzled how to get her some new clothes, so that she could travel back to Coruscant. You come up with an idea.

Lana: Let's head back to Mos Eisley and buy some clothes there. This seems to be the only way.

Aayla: Wait, I can't just go there like this! I would be the laughingstock of the entire order if word went out of my situation! There must be an alternative!

Lana: If you know any, don't keep them from me!

Aayla (after some thinking): Blast it, I can't come up with anything better!

Lana: If you want, I could go into the city and buy you some, while you are staying out of sight.

Aayla: Would you do that for me? Yes,t hat would work!

HK69: Sorry to interrupt your grandiose plan, but in this season of Tatooine, the weather changes at night. This means, a great sandstorm is coming, as the night approaches. I would advise immediate departure to the city to find shelter!

Lana: That's right, I have totally forgotten it... We don't have time for such things as it is already late, it will take some time to get back to Mos Eisley too... I am sorry Aayla...

Aayla: Can't we just spend the night in a cave or something...?!

HK69: The temperature also drops below the tolerable level of you organics. At least in this section of the planet, but we won't have enough time to get out of this sector.

Aayla: I don't think I have too many options now, do I...? Still better than dying out here... I'll be right behind you and please... You do the talking, I'll wait for you somewhere I can hide once we are inside Mos Eisley. The less eyes catch me, the better.

Lana: I'll arrange everything, fear not!

You all hop on your respective speeders and head towards the settlement. As the naked Twi'lek was riding the speeder, the warm wind was touching all parts of her body. It was an unusual feeling for sure, but she didn't mind it. She was taking it better than either of you were expecting. At the city gates, she slows down and stops. She doesn't say a word, firmly grips the handles of the speeder and follows you once more, this time to the busy streets.

You are the one at the head of your little group, it doesn't take long to see the people in front of you are all staring in your direction. Or, more precisely, a bit behind you. At first, there was no sound, everybody stopped doing their business, just stared. After passing some streets though, you got to the market and that's where all hell broke loose. The street was crawling with people, everybody was trying to buy their stuff before the sandstorm hit the city, you could barely keep going. This delay had given the locals plenty of time to take careful observations at the embarrassed Aayla. All eyes were quickly fixed on her, followed by fingers pointed and comments made. This wouldn't have been such a big commotion, most of the locals have seen some slaves paraded nude before, but the fact that Aayla had her lightsaber attached to her only remaining cloth, her belt, had given the people a different attitude towards the situation. A naked **** is one thing, but a naked Jedi?! That's something new! She was trying to avoid eye contact, but that barely helped!

Aayla: There is no emotion...! There is peace...! There is harmony...!

Lana (while pressing the horn constantly): I am trying to cut a path for us, but the crowd is so thick, I can barely move forward!

Aayla is trying to chant the Jedi code to divert her attention, but all the comments, laughter barely helped! Not to mention the groping she got from most males she passed by! Worst of all, she could unintentionally read hear the thoughts of some of the people in the crowd, making her situation even more shameful to herself! This was one of the very few times she had hated being a Jedi! You felt sorry for her, but there was no way to help her at the moment... You are only glad you are not the one who has to suffer such public humiliation!

Finally you find a shop that's selling clothes. Even though Aayla said she would hide outside when you get to one, she rushed inside in hopes of receiving less humiliation indoors. She even left her speeder at the middle of the street! You park yours and hers properly to be out of the way and follow her inside to get some clothes for her. She was already trying to bargin with the shopkeeper, but she doesn't speak Duros, as the shopkeeper was a Duros male. HK as left to do the translation. Aayla grabs the first robe that could fit on her and throws it at the shopkeeper.

Duros: Duros language?

HK69: This organic is asking how are we going to pay for the cloth.

Lana: Republic credits.

HK69: Duros language.

Duros: Duros language!

HK69: Maybe you won't like his answer master, but he doesn't accept Republic credits in his shop. He is asking if you have any other valuables on you or if you are going to pay with something different instead.

Aayla: What does he mean he doesn't accept credits?!

Lana: Well, in the outer rim, some places don't accept the money of the core worlds... But I don't think we could offer anything else in return...

Aayla: I won't be making fun of myself again by going out without clothes...!

Lana: So, how will you buy it than...?

Aayla (punching her lightsaber's hilt onto the desk): Droid, tell him if he won't give me the cloth, I'll be jeding my way through him!

Lana: Whoa, whoa, take it easy Aayla...!

HK69: You know master, for the first time, I feel like I might just like your lowly friend a bit. But that is all the compliment she will ever get from me. Duros language!

Duros (calling in some other Duros from outside): Duros language!

HK69: He is up for the challenge, he and his fiends have dealt with a group of Gamorreans this week already.

Aayla: Alright, new plan! If the threatening won't work...

Lana: Aayla, don't do anything foolish...!

She reaches out and uses a **** mind trick on the shopkeeper. The other Duros don't understand what is going on.

Aayla: Droid! Translate what I say! You will give me the cloth for free!

HK69: As if he would give you that for free if you tell him to...! But fine...! Duros language!

Duros (handing Aayla the cloth): Duros language...

Aayla: You will send your friends back outside!

HK69: Duros language!

Duros: Duros language...

The Duros leave the shop and Aayla quickly gets clothed.

Lana: Well... That was barely the way an other Jedi master would have handled the situation...!

Aayla: It was an emergency, besides, nobody got hurt, like the with the solutions you find to most problems, right?

Lana: That's not true! I am diplomatic...! Mostly...!

Aayla: Yeeeaaaah, suuure, "diplomatic"...!

Lana: Tell me, how diplomatic is to be walking through a busy city naked...?

Aayla: Don't mock me, or you will be mind tricked to do jumping jack outside naked all day long!

Lana: Alright, I didn't mean any harm...!

You leave the shop and take your speeders towards your ship.

Aayla (on the way): Lana... Thanks for all the help you have given me...

Lana: What is this all of a sudden? I didn't do anything special!

Aayla: Without you, I would still be streaking naked through the desert and/or the entire city... Plus, I wouldn't have survived the Tusken encounter alone... You are a great friend to have!

Lana: I could say the same about you! Expect, the naked streaking stuff!

Aayla (becoming serious): We don't talk about that part again, understood?

Lana (mocking her): Roger that Master Secura!

You return to Coruscant and report to the council. You tell them the story, but leave Anakin and his actions (alongside some of yours), out of it. They find the fact of Shmi being kidnapped on the orders of a man, most concerning. Master Yoda and Windu meditates on it for days and they find out, that the man must have been no other, but Darth Sidious himself! He must have orchestrated the **** and torturing of poor Shmi to push Anakin towards the dark side! But luckily (they think), Anakin didn't give in to the lure of the dark side and never returned to see his mother!