ANH 'verse. The Death Star. Waiting . . . waiting . . .

[astrotechmech]

Random turns the swivel chair back and forth, back and forth. 'Lock the door,' they said! 'Hope they don't have blasters,' they said! Well, the door is locked, and the Astrotroopers certainly have blasters! It is just going be only a matter of time before they discover that fact and try to blast the door open!

On top of that it turns out Princess Arcee is here. In the detention block. Awaiting termination. Jetfire and Hot Shot are seeing if they can prevent that. Nobody else from the ship was listed in the computer's databanks though.

Random stops moving the chair like an irritated organic does its tail, sighs, and rubs his face, grieving the loss of his crewmates.

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[astrotechmech]

Random puts his arms around her as he hugs back and rocks her back and forth, smiling and glad to be able to hug her again and to be back on the ship.

[random_xtras]

The little silver femme just clings for a few moments, hiding her face against him. But then she engages her vocalizer and says quietly, "I don't like this place. It feels wrong."

[astrotechmech]

Random rubs her back. "This place is an Imperial hive where bad things happen. If it felt right, I'd be concerned."

[random_xtras]

"But it feels like something's sleeping. Something that we don't ever want to wake up." She shivers, her slender arms tightening.

Down by their feet Murphy beeps something, and then vanishes into a ventilation duct.

[astrotechmech]

Random appears shocked at that. That was a bad feeling. A shiver runs down his spinal relays before he pulls her closer, continuing to rub her back out of not knowing what else to do.

Random starts slightly at the beep, looking down and then watching Murphy leave.

[random_xtras]

"...He said 'Unicron is an aft'," whispers Kia puzzledly.

[astrotechmech]

Random wonders what happened to the "no cussing around the Newspark rule," and also why he said 'Unicron' specifically.

[random_xtras]

She looks up, her wide optics confused and uncertain. "Isn't that the name of the...."

[astrotechmech]

"Being who's Primus's direct opposite?" he finishes. "Yeah."

[random_xtras]

She shivers and hides on him again. "Is that what I'm feeling? Is he here? Primus will protect us. Scavenger's here...."

[astrotechmech]

"I certainly hope not." Random's intakes start working hard as he tries to keep enough of a grip on himself to not panic. "Y-you're right.."