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.

Comments

[random_xtras]

"Hmmmmm." Rollbar taps on something in the uneven grass, his finger bringing forth a metallic ting. "I know who left the fuzzy. We're being watched."

Jetfire stops and looks that way, then turns his questioning gaze to Kia.

Kia perks, her expression brightening. "I can't feel Minicons. But that staple is a Minicon joke, isn't it?"

[astrotechmech]

Random also stops and looks where Rollbar is looking, moving so he can see said staple. "I . . . wouldn't be surprised. They could certainly trip each other up with it." Which is something they do.

[random_xtras]

"Yeah." Rollbar taps it, then beeps laughter and stands up to stomp it into the ground. "But they're not just for jokes. These are ladder steps."

"Put them into the wall so you can reach a console." Murphy rubs his head and looks around, then waves hopefully. Hi, guys, do you see me wavin'?

Jetfire's looking around too, his expression interested as he absently rubs his chin on the cub, who is gumming his thumb. "Why can't you feel 'em?"

"Primus can't feel their emotions," says Kia, offering her last flower to Random. "He can't even feel Rollbar."

"No. But we've figured out how to work together." The burly little sandy colour mech stoops to examine his handiwork, then laughs some more.

[astrotechmech]

Yeah, Minicons were always using tools for pranks. That makes sense.

Random is initially confused by Kia's comment until he remembers that Minicons are made from Unicron, and thus didn't have the connection to Primus like other bots had. Or something.

He looks at that latest flower and hesitates. If Minicons are around, he's not sure he wants to be holding all of the flowers. One less hand to do things with. Yeah, the Minicons probably wouldn't hurt them, but . . .