Star Wars - Episode I Adventures 008 - Trouble on Tatooine by Dave Wolverton

Author:Dave Wolverton
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Anakin waited several moments. As stealthily as he could, he wriggled back up the pipe until he reached the drain cover. Sweat poured off of him. Climbing the pipe quietly was hard work.

He pushed the cover gently. It came off. The Morseerian pirates had actually broken the bolts for him! Anakin felt tempted to leave a thank you note after he took their money.

He carefully lifted the heavy iron cover, then slid it across the floor.

In seconds he entered the storage room.

There was no light. He flipped on his glow rod and looked around. Old crates, most of them covered in dust, filled the room.

An old air cooler was built into a niche over the door, but it didn’t work. The room felt stiflingly hot.

Anakin looked on the floor. It, too, was covered dust. No one had cleaned it for decades.

It wasn’t hard to figure out where the pirates hid the treasure box. Anakin simply followed their footprints in the dust.

Anakin’s heart pounded. He gripped his beamdrill as if it were a blaster, afraid that the pirates would come back at any moment. He tried not to imagine what they’d do if they caught him.

He reached some boxes covered with a tarp. He gently lifted it. Beneath the tarp was a locked freight box.

The treasure!

He tried to lift the box. It was so heavy he doubted that even a hulking Whiphid could have budged it.

Anakin didn’t have a key for the lock.

But he did have a beamdrill.

He adjusted the drill settings so that it would give off a small, narrow beam of plasma. He flipped it on. The drill hissed like a snake, and emitted a steady blue tongue of flame.

He set the beam into the lock and began to cut through. The metal turned red and molten, dripping into a puddle on the floor. Anakin was an expert with a beamdrill. He had to cut apart bits of old spaceships all the time.

But this was the first time he’d ever cut into a freight box.

In seconds, he flipped open the lid.

Inside the box was a fortune in coins from a hundred worlds!

Here on Tatooine, people used hard currency. Anakin knew the worth of many of the pieces. He grabbed the most valuable coins and shoved them into the deep pockets of his Jawa robe.

They clinked softly, music to his ears.

Anakin quickly counted a good three thousand wupiupi worth of coins.

But he hadn’t counted on how keen the ears of the Morseerian pirates might be!

He heard a scuffling and managed to flip off the power to his glow rod just before the door whisked open. He dodged behind the dusty crates. The Morseerians flashed their beam lights over the room.

“Look,” a pirate said. “The grate’s off the floor. Someone is in here!”

Anakin stifled the urge to scream. The pirates had blasters. They wouldn’t hesitate to shoot!

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