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"Nice to meet you, Natalie," Gar smiled and walked further down the street, while Sol seemed fixed in his spot. 

"Siiiiigghhhhh, Sol. It's not time for this. She's just a kid, we need to go," Gar went back to his friend to shake him awake.

"I'm not a kid, I'm 16. I'm not much younger than you," Natalie said.

"Yes, you are a kid, 16 is too young. Sol, I can't believe it, I know you have a thing for cute girls, but she's just a kid. V6 give him a little jolt," Gar stepped back as V6 rolled up to his master and extended an electric welder. It jolted Sol, who jumped after feeling the electricity.

"That's interesting, what is that, a robot?" Natalie asked as she gently ran her hand over V6's domed head.

"We have a friend of ours, he's a dwarf, and he's piloting this thing for Comic Con," Sol looked at Gar and then at Natalie, and finally at V6.

"What's your friend's name?" Natalie pushed.

"Kenny, Kenny Baker. He's the only person we could get to fit inside this thing. It took a wild getting the electric engine down to a size that it could fit in there with Kenny. He's also got a few small pieces he can deploy. At any rate, we should be going. It was nice to meet you, Natalie," Gar motioned to Sol to keep moving. Gar followed him, but he kept looking back at Natalie. 

"Where are you going?" She asked as she followed the trio.

"To Comic Con of course," Smiling, Gar pointed vaguely ahead.

"Great, that's where I'm going too," Natalie replied. Gar rubbed his neck and looked at Natalie.

"What were you doing in the alley?" Gar asked.

"The alley?" Natalie responded.

"Yeah, the alley," Gar responded.

"I don't get it, what's the problem?" Sol asked, finally out of his stupor. 

"You remember Men in Black?" Gar asked.

"Yeah, so," Sol kept his words as few as possible. 

"Remember when Will Smith is training and everyone is shooting the alien pop-ups? Will was the only one who shot the little girl. When the agent asked him why, he told him it was too suspicious. A small white girl alone at night, obviously too smart, she was up to something. The aliens were afraid of her, but she didn't care about them.

Here we have a little girl, in an alley, who isn't bothered by a bunch of weirdos like us. It makes me wonder what's so dangerous about her that the force keeps warning me."

Natalie looked surprised, and now Sol looked at her with suspicion. He pulled out his blaster once more as V6 retreated behind its master. Gar unhooked his lightsaber and readied himself. 

"I'm flattered boys, but I'm not that kind of girl," She moved back slightly.

"I think you are that kind of girl, so make a move or leave us alone," Gar watched as Natalie feigned fear, but he could feel her through the force. She wasn't afraid. 

"What do you want?" Gar asked.

"I want to go with you to the Comic Con," Natalie replied.

"You aren't lying?" Gar looked puzzled. 

"No, I'm not," Natalie smiled while walking toward them.

"Why?" Gar placed his finger near the activation switch for his training saber.

"I..." She began to speak, but then looked down the street and ducked behind an old car. Gar looked toward the area Natalie had gone, and then he reached out with his feelings. He found a hostile and evil presence, murderous. 

"Sol, careful," Gar said to his friend who nodded.

"V6, keep the girl company but watch out she's tricky," Sol said to his droid. V6 turned and hid behind the car with Natalie.

It was around noon, but Gar felt he was surrounded by darkness. Cold naked aggression crept upon his skin the closer the figure drew closer to them. A nearly seven-foot giant of a man with a black hood and a ponytail sticking out covered in weapons approached. 

"Where's the girl?" The large man asked.

"Girl?" Gar asked.

"I saw her, she's here somewhere, I can smell her. Don't play games with me boy," the man didn't pay much attention to Sol or Gar. 

"She isn't here, try that way," Gar pointed toward the alley Natalie emerged from earlier. The man looked in that direction but looked back at Gar.

"Don't waste my time, she came from that direction. She's here somewhere. Whatever, ya lost your chance, now I'll kill ya. No one will notice if I do it here," Three shurikens flew toward Gar, who ignited his lightsaber and swatted them down. 

Sol lifted his blaster and shot toward the man who dodged each of his shots. Gar moved in and swung at the man's head, but his lightsaber was parried by a staff. The staff came back around and struck Gar in the stomach. He collapsed trying to find his breath. 

The man was about to finish Gar off when he was struck by a blaster bolt and faltered. Gar recovered enough to move away from the big man's reach. While he recovered, Sol kept him busy with impressive fire. Sol was missing a lot, but considering he had little practice, it was pretty good. 

Natalie watched in surprise as the two boys fought with their sci-fi weapons. She looked at V6 and wondered if there was a dwarf in there. 

The man rushed Sol and grabbed his blasters and threw them away. Sol head-butted him with his helmet and moved back while the stunned man recovered. 

Gar took one more breath, centered himself, and rushed back into the fray. He attacked the man with a fury of blows. The blade connected, at first he didn't observe a change. He saw the large man's legs tremble a little.

Happy that he was doing well against the opponent, Gar was surprised when the big man rushed at him like a bull. He grabbed the lightsaber and threw it away. He threw Gar at Sol, who barely dodged. 

The big man walked to one of Sol's discarded blasters and picked it up. He turned the blaster to Gar and fired. Gar dodged out of the way, but then the man fired at Sol and hit him a couple of times.

"Not bad, I think I'll keep it," the big man said. He headed toward the boys and pulled out a sword ready to run the boys through. Gar concentrated and reached his hand out with the Force. 

The lightsaber flew through the air toward Gar's outstretched hand as the man's sword swung down to behead Gar.