The Wampa had come out of hyperspeed at Dantooine to take on some supplis before going to Yavin IV, Zen was now sat at the front with the smugglers after along 3 day journey. Suddenly a console started beeping, "Whats wrong" the scruffier of the smugglers said to the other.
"SITH SPIT!, brace for impact", suddenly the shuttle was hit by something, The wampa had come out of hyperspace directly in the path of a passing meteor which had colided with them.
The three of them where thrown arround the cockpit like ragdolls, lights where flashing and console where beepings madly, "We've lost pretty much everything, prepare for a rough landing, next stop some where on Dantooine".
The ship started moving thowards the planet at tremendous speeds, The shuttles wings tore of as it fell agaisnt the atmosphere of Dantooine, the ship picked up speed, fast and faster it tumbeled toward the planet they could do nothing.
Zen dragged himself into the pilots seat, repulsor lifts and weapons (which they didnt need) where the only things working, "Im going to use the repulsor lifts! it wont stop us falling but it will smoothen the fall!".
The shuttle continued to fall untill they could see the ground clearly, they could mak out individual tress and plants, suddenly a hill came into view, they where about to hit it. "Im activating the rpulsor lifts now, they should get us enough hight to hit the top of the hill without taking much more damage. Seconds later the ship had hit the hill top and slowly slid down it untill they reached the bottom.
"Is every one okay?" one of the smugglers yelled.
"im fine" Zen shouted leaning over the pilots console but the other smuggler did not respond.
"Cordaris?" the first smuggler yelled, "Cordaris?"
His partner lay still, slumped against the back of the co-pilots seat, he had fallen, fallen in such an awcward way that he had snapped his neck and perished on impact. "NO!" the smuggler yelled. "NO!, you cant be gone, we are partners, friends, brothers, NO!". The clearly injured smuggler leaned over his brothers corpse.
Zen stood from his seat and a sharp pain suddenly fell through his side, he had broken a rib.
"We need to get out of here" Zen said in tremendous pain.
"NO!, i wont leave him here"
Zen picked up the corpes's legs, "We wont lets get him out of here".
The normal hatch was destroyed. they had to use the docking hatch to leave the ruined ship.
"Everythings was on that thing, ive lost my brother and 35,000 credits!".
"I would give you what i have but all i have is 200 credits, you have a bank account ?"
"Of course"
"How much is in there?"
"500,000 credits"
"WOW! thats more than enough, why dont you settle down, you can get a small place on this planet for 25,000 credits, you could give your brother a nice funeral service and get a new ship, hhe would not want to see you like this, he would not want to see you give up".
"How would you know!" the smuggler snapped.
"He was your brother, i dont htink he wanted you to be miserable".
The smuggler took the duster he had been waering off and placed it over his brothers corpse, "your right, in the end he was my brtoher and my best friend, ill send him off well".
"First things first we need to get to a town".....