ANH. Imperial Shuttle near Imperial Blockade. Out of the frying pan . . .

[astrotechmech]

Random paces up and down the small "corridor" behind the pilots' chairs. It isn't enough that they're using probably very-much-illegally-bought Imperial codes to sneak past the Imperial blockade led by Nemesis Prime's imposing vessel and onto the forested moon holding the shield generator for Unicron's two bodies using Random's ship-clearing formula. But they're also doing it in a ship that he's fixed before while in Imperial service. Not the one he used to get his formula written, but it was still unnerving to be in a ship whose weak points you're all too familiar with.

Especially if you know where the Imperials need to hit in order to instantly blow it up.

All he needs to complete this nightmare is for his old Imperial CO to pop out of one of the shuttle's compartments.

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[random_xtras]

Kia walks over a little sand crawler that trundles in front of her, then hops down again and offers Random her second flower.

"And Rollbar was making the troopers feel like they were eating the best tasting ration bars ever, so they couldn't hear us at all." Her voice holds sympathy as she glances to one side, where a third flower is peeking in a friendly way from a berry bush.

[astrotechmech]

"Oh." Now Kia's words to Rollbar make more sense. That would have been a very rude wake up call for the Autotroopers. No wonder they sounded so angry when they were chasing Arcee.

He sees that she has noticed the third flower and wonders if she's going to pick that one too.

[random_xtras]

"Mmmhmmm," says Kia absently, her eyes going to flower number three as she leans toward it and offers Random flower number two.

"Murphy, that's disgustin'," says Jetfire, also sounding absent. "Don't eat bugs."

[I wasn't!]

[astrotechmech]

Yep. Random knew it. . . . And she heard that, too.

He takes the second flower and wonders how many more they'll be picking up before the end of this adventure. He is glad the flowers are nice and not trying to eat him.

And he doesn't wanna know what's going on with Jetfire and Murphy.