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Turning in her chair, Padme glared at him, and Harry backed away quickly. "I'm not saying you can't handle yourself, I'm just saying that you were attacked on the way to Kashyyyk while you were under the Wookies' protection. The protection of their government, not just the group of Wookies assigned to protect you as part of the trade deals between your people. You putting yourself on the firing line under those circumstances would be a blow to their pride as much as anything else."
Chewbacca nodded firmly, the voice coming over the translator somehow adding more weight to his words as he looked at the young queen seriously. "The battle is over; this is simply the mop up operation. You performed well, but you have no need to prove your courage to us, Queen Amidala."
The use of her title brought Padme up short, since Chewie and the Wookies rarely used it, even in public. Then she smirked at the two men. "How about a trade? I have no desire to stay in a formal embassy while I am on Kashyyyk. The planet sounds so fascinating I would actually like to look around. I realize that Wookies don't normally allow offworlders to explore their planet, but perhaps I could at the very least explore your capital city? And stay with your family, Chewbacca, rather than at the Republic embassy?"
Chewbacca laughed, and Malla, stepping up behind him, nodded her head firmly. "We would be greatly honored to house you and the Jedi in our tree." The word actually translated to some odd mix of tree and home in Harry's mind, but the translation box simply used the word tree for some reason.
With that out of the way, Harry and the other padawans made their way with Master Fay to the hangar bay, boarding the small shuttle. Chewbacca took the controls with Aayla as his copilot, while Harry pulled out a datapad and began to make some notes on it.
Master Fay looked at him, and he smiled in reply. "Just making a list. Fighting with the Lucrehulk like we did told me a lot about what we need to do to make it as effective as we can. So I'm just making a list of what we will have to work on in the future, both with the Force and with simple electronics."
At that Mak leaned over his shoulder and began to give his own input on that, while Fay closed her eyes and meditated, preparing herself for the coming action. It turned out, however, that the boarding action was quite anti-climactic for the Wookies and the padawans.
Lily slipped through the hulls of the shuttle and the yacht and found a room which was currently empty. After that she returned, and after helping Harry memorize it, Harry popped them all aboard in small groups. The Wookies assigned to Padme's protection detail had been among those who had fought with Harry in the attack on the pirates and knew to keep his power a secret, after all, so seeing it once again didn't matter. Once aboard, stunners, the element of surprise, and Force Shields simply overwhelmed the attackers despite numerous attempts to encircle, get around, or otherwise surprise the invaders.
It still took a while, but eventually they had subdued the entire crew without taking any injuries of their own. After that they loaded up the prisoners, taking them back over to the Lucrehulk. There they found that Padme and the others they had left behind had already begun to make makeshift cages. The sight of the Trandoshans being placed in those cages seemed to be the height of comedy for the Wookies, who couldn't stop laughing and slapping one another on the shoulders as every group was tossed into the cages.
Harry took note of that, sending to Aayla, "I hadn't realized how much real, honest hatred still exists between the Trandoshans and the Wookies. I thought it was a sort of personal thing between one clan on one side and the other, not that both races truly hated one another like this. But given what you told me earlier, I shouldn't be surprised."
The rest of the trip to Kashyyyk was peaceful. Coming out of hyperspace into the Kashyyyk system, they were immediately hailed by a squadron of system patrol boats, and a quick exchange occurred between Lisher and the leader of the squadron. The two Lucrehulks were then escorted through the system to high orbit above the Wookies capital city of Rwoookrrorro, and the prisoners were quickly transferred to real holding cells, still unconscious for the most part from the Force stunners.
Master Fay went with them, promising to meet up with the others later. But she wanted to be part of the interrogation process from the get go. The Wookies were, in the main, gentle people, but they also had a truly vicious streak when it came to slavers and people who tried to prey upon them. She had no desire to see actual torture done on these prisoners.
This left the youngsters to head down to Rwoookrrorro on their own for a time, minded only by Lily, who was, of course, not visible to the regular Wookies on the streets. At the same time, Padme was being helped into her formal robes by Eirtae and Sabe. Because of this, she missed the first sight of the city as they were flown down into the atmosphere, a view that nearly mesmerized Harry and the other padawans.
Descending through the trees, an observer could first be excused for not spotting the city. At the topmost reaches of the trees it was practically undetectable, only a few lights here and there along with lookout posts were visible. Then as they began to fly through the massive tree branches of the wroshyr trees, they gradually saw other signs of habitation, until finally they noticed actual buildings, ropes, and then roads carved out of the trees themselves, connecting one tree to another in an interweaving web to create an actual cityscape. Soon after that they were settling down onto the landing pad, which was so wide it could have taken several large freighters at once, built out of one giant wroshyr branch sticking out of the city's edge.
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