ANH. Jabba The Hutt's Palace and the sarlacc pit, Tatooine. Rescue.

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Kia glances around without turning her head as she walks between Random and the disguised bot who is herding them into this big, stinky, sandy, shady place at gunpoint. The place is loud, smells disgusting, and Random didn't want her seeing what was going on in here, so she's trying not to see too much as she looks for friends, and she's pouting really hard to show that she doesn't want to be here and doesn't like this restraining bolt. She hopes she's a good actor, because she's really so excited that it's all she can do not to be jumping up and down right now, or running back the way they came to poke that brain in a jar that she saw walking past.

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Random dazedly looks at Kia when she pushes away from him and then is dumbfounded when she pulls a giant gun out of her subspace!

It takes him a long time to come up with words to say as he tries not to be sick at what landed up happening to Jabba. "Kia, what? How?"

He then jumps and reaches to take her back in his grip when he realizes what else is happening. He wants to take her away from this place now. 'Kay thanks.

Smokescreen's bashing away at the rest of the combatants and useing the Skyboom Shield to cover them from any gunshots coming their way. "Should we take that exit?"

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"I... I did what I was supposed to." Kia flinches from another explosion as Random pulls her close. "The sarlacc's woke up, though."

And here is a Murphy, flinging aside pieces of disguise as he turns at bay in front of the astrotechs with his sturdy little feet braced and his fists clenched.

"Guys! Grab on!" Jetfire aims a hand in their direction as he uses the other hand to make the big gun roar and add to the pandemonium that is reigning in what's left of the room.

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Random shudders at the pandemonium around and lifts Kia up into his arms. He looks up when Jetfire offers the hand and then continues on towards the opening in the side of the ship.

"We'd get in the way with you. Just make sure no one shoots at us once we're out of here," Random says.

"Here," Smokescreen says, thrusting the black Minicon into Kia's arms. "Take him with you." Then Smokescreen turns back and punches another person in the face.

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Murphy flails a bit in Kia's grasp, then looks beseechingly up at Random. "Boss, can't I link with one of you? I make extra armour!"

Kia's too busy clinging to him and Random, praying, and ducking to reply.

"You got it!" The shuttle bot backs slightly, providing cover for his weaker family members with his body and wings even as he checks to make sure where the rest of the members are.

Hot Shot is now outside. With a guard on top of him who thinks they can throttle him. The guard makes a brief flight as the young jedi kicks upward, then screams as a tentacle whips up from the massive pit a couple yards away and grabs him.

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Not sure if we even can link. Random shakes his head. "I just want out. Transforming now, Kia." He runs and tosses up her gently before transforming into his short-range space-capable shuttle mode and starts flying away from the sail barge.

Smokescreen is helping to cover their retreat and is about the follow the astrotechs when he hears the resumption of insane cackling. He looks up and sees that Cyclonus is back into the fight, transformed into vehicle mode and setting his sights on the young Jedi up top.

"Nope!" Smokescreen says defiantly as Liftor combines with him, transforming his crane arm into a long range cannon. He fires, managing to hit the bounty hunter right in the rotor joint since the bot has it exposed in his sweeping turn.

"Gah!" The copter screams as he's hit, and then he sees where he's headed. "No!"

And lands right into the Sarlacc pit. Oy.

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"Say hi ta Demolisher for me!" bellows Jetfire, then he scoops Arcee up as she reaches his side, gets kicked a couple times by way of thanks, and does a move similar to Random's before heading for the sweet blue sky.

Kia looks back at the yacht, then peers fearfully toward the pit of the beast as she realizes that the whole barge is tilting toward it. She holds Murphy close as he frets wordlessly about her safety and Random's.

Then she squeals as she spots a little sandy coloured dune crawler trundling in their wake. "Somebody help Rollbar!"

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Random's trying not to pay much attention to what's going on behind him. Other than to make sure someone's not shooting at them. He just wants to get himself and Kia to the rendezvous point safely.

So, he hesitates when he hears Kia's squeal.

"Don't worry Kia," Smokescreen, now in vehicle mode, calls up to her as he hovers towards the dune crawler. "I got him."

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Kia frowns as she watches the Minicon scramble up onto Smokescreen's alt mode, then looks ahead, letting go of Murphy so that she can hold on with both hands. "The meeting place is close, right?"

"Yup." Murphy's head turns as he scans for the ship.

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"Ship's right behind that formation," Random says, a bit absently, staring hard at the internal map he has of this part of the desert. "I had no idea we'd be brought all the way out here when we hid it."

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"Things fell into place." Kia catches a Comettor dropped from above and hugs the red Minicon as he hugs her.

"Thanks for the ride." Comettor snuggles, though his head turns to watch as Jetfire flies toward the ship under Arcee's direction.

"You're welcome. But I was right. It frightened Random pretty bad."

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Random startles when Comettor falls from above them and then worriedly scans up in that direction as he sees that Jetfire starts to flag again.

He remotely causes the ship to decloak. He is also quite glad that Jabba and crew never thought to double check their restraints after Arcee turned out to be a different person than they were expecting.

". . . I didn't know you could put people into subspace," Random says, to distract himself.

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"Really?" Comettor glances down. "Yeah. Minicons learnt that trick a long time ago."

Kia shakes her head as she sets the red Minicon down in front of Murphy, then sighs as she looks toward the ship. "I'm so tired."

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Of course they would. Random would be shaking his head right now but he's in vehicle mode.

"Me too, Kia," Random says, twitching a bit because they're almost to the point where he can transform and walk the rest of the way to the ship. "We're almost there."

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"I tooold you to sleep." One dirty little silver foot kicks lightly at the flank of the blue shuttle.

Comettor snerks softly. "Welcome to the world of having your she-folk nag you, Random." Then he winces as a thud comes from the direction of the ship.

"Airazor just separated, didn't she?" Kia puts her hand up in perfect Random face palm.

"Yup," says Murphy a trace of humour coming into his concern. "But don't worry. She and and the princess are there to nag him."

"Hey! You two better not start fighting!" scolds Kia as Comettor shows his appreciation of the remark with his fist.