Renegades Cutscenes (Fan Fiction)

## Introduction

**Author:** VaderGamer

**Characters:** Balor Noutica, Candrai Enn'ado

**Setting:** Coruscant, Naboo

Lt. Balor Noutica sat at his desk expectantly as the younger agent walked in.

“Sir, I have the reports you asked for.”

Noutica gestured for the documents and began to scan their contents greedily. His latest investigation had become something of an obsession, which had plagued him for the past month. It began on Tatooine when he had captured a wookiee insurgent named Arbacca; unfortunately, he was rescued by several of his allies before he could be interrogated. The sector branch had traced his escape to Fobera, a small agricultural world that was also home to a splinter cell of Clone War-era Separatists. Balor had personally ordered the strike force that had obliterated the holdout. Once again, however, the wookiee and his allies had escaped.

“They were spotted on Raxus Prime,” Noutica said aloud, reading the report.

“Yes sir, a TIE squadron intercepted them trying to leave system.”

“But they still escaped.” The man seemed to take the comment at a personal blow, but otherwise remained silent. “Where to?”

“We’re still looking into that.”

According to the report, there had been a second vessel present during the skirmish at Raxus Prime. Initial investigations had failed to reveal further detail, but Noutica had looked into the mystery himself. And something was amiss.

“I found something else, sir,” the man waited for his superior officer’s full attention. “An officer overseeing the cleanup on Fobera told me that an ISB agent arrived shortly after you left. He surveyed the site and was asking questions.”

“What kind of questions?”

“The sort that would insinuate that he pursued the insurgents… to Raxus Prime.”

Noutica smiled. His attendant was learning quickly the intuitive analytics that agents of Imperial Intelligence were prided on. The ISB and Imperial Intelligence were rivals on the best of days, and to suggest their involvement was a matter of satisfaction for Noutica. Yet, that one of their agents was one step ahead, also made his blood boil. The ISB was larger and more affluent, something that was often made known. An opportunity to show them up was an unavoidable temptation. “Good, I want to know more. Find out who that agent is, what he knows, and where he went."

The man affirmed the order and left without a moment’s hesitation. Soon, Noutica thought, he would be back on top.

### Renegades Cutscene #2

**Training Grounds, woodlands, Naboo…**

“Very good!” Candrai Enn’ado called out to the Gungans that were engaged in fierce one-on-one sparring matches. He encircled the small group of no more than a dozen armed warriors, each wearing simple armor of native design and wielding wooden pole-arms. The weapons cracked against one another in an irregular rhythm, occasionally joined by the slap of wood-on-flesh. Calling them off from their respective dueling matches, the Jedi Master continued, “Fight aggressively, but do not be ruled by your emotions. Learn to overcome your passions, replacing it with serenity and control.”

Candrai watched the warriors resume their drills, advising and correcting when necessary. A few minutes later one of his protégés, a gifted warrior who had been on an errand, arrived with a concerned look on his face. “I think wesa have a problem.”

Upon his request, the warrior led Candrai to a site at the fringe of the forest—not more than ten minutes from the training grounds. What he saw made his heart sink. Sprawled awkwardly across a ruin stone, lay the broken body of a Gungan scout. The kill was fresh, the wounds distinct. The scout must have fallen from the knoll above, but not before being slain - at the blade of a lightsaber.

Candrai sat up, drawing the Force to himself as he searched the surrounding terrain for any recollection of the villain responsible. No doubt the fiend was long gone, but why did they attack? Was it premature, or intentional? The longer he thought about it the more he began to believe that this was no mere accidental encounter: it was a warning. His dark nemeses had returned.

The Jedi Master told his protégé to return to the grounds and gather the others. “It is time that I teach you how to combat a very different kind of adversary. Come, we must hurry…”