ANH 'verse. Alderaanian space. Something's missing....

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"You got the coordinates wrong!" says Jetfire to his tiny navigator, only to cringe before the torrent of angry beeping that the little gold and white femme gives him. "Airazor, the kid can understand you! Okay fine! Then where is it?"

"Where indeed?" Scavenger is frowning through the viewscreen, his optics tracking the swarm of asteroids that have taken the place of the planet Alderaan, and then flicking to Kia as she stirs and hugs herself uncertainly.

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"Wait a minute, are you tryin' to tell me someone blew the slaggin' planet up?" Jetfire leans over Murphy and looks at his monitors, then stares toward the screen. "...We better get outta here. Fast."

"Too late," says Scavenger as the Falcon bucks slightly under the sudden tow of a tractor beam.

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He startles when the Falcon bucks. "Whose tractor beam is that?"

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"Who cares," says Jetfire, turning and yanking up a panel from the floor. "You 'n the kid, get in here. Murphy, get the others stowed."

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He was about to argue that yes, it does matter because one way they're doomed and the other there's just a mere fraction of hope when Jetfire lifted floor panel.

. . .

Okay, so maybe there's a third option.

"Come on, Kia," he says, moving the two of them over to the opening before moving to sit down beside it to get down into it, so he can help Kia down.

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She follows closely, still shaking as her small hands reach out for him. Around them is a bustle as the black Minicon herds Scavenger and Hot Shot off the bridge and away.

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Once he is in the hole he reaches up and transfers her down next to him before he reaches up to replace the panel . . .