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

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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 nods politely as he's introduced.

Gears absently starts stroking the head of Softheart as he nods back. "Gears. As she's said." He looks to Murphy with a look of doing some mental math.

"Oh, right," Gears says, finally, waving to the other Minicon.

Gears then looks to Jetfire. "Sorry about that, but I don't think anyone'd expect a mech who was put in carbonite--which no bot was meant for--and then dragged off to face the judgement of a Hutt would be expected to come back."

"And back to you." Gears turns to Rollerball. "You might have good shielding, but that means squat if someone sees you with their bare optics. You stick out like a sore thumb. And what was this about the trail?"

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"I didn' expect it," says Jetfire quietly after Murphy waves back and then zones out again. "But I've got family." Then he chuckles quietly as the scolding of Rollerball recommences.

"He fixed the camera." Rollerball forgets to try and hide his flower and uses the hand to point toward Random with the thumb. "Nobody'll see anything through that again. And I don't think they'll have time to fix it, if the Silver Lining's on Endor."

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Random holds Kia closer as if to protect her from the stuff that happened at Bespin, and then looks at Gears as Rollerball points him out specifically.

Gears looks between the other Minicon and Random. "Oh."

Gears then turns and notices the Adventure Team. "You're here, too, huh? Did you have a plan for them?"

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"Yeah." Ransack absently backhands the Dune Runner who's trying to gank his cub in the face. "They've got to come to the village so we can figure out what's going on." A backward fist knocks his teammate on that teammate's skidplate and triggers another quiet outburst of mirth from the other Minicons present.

"Mrrrrr." Softheart looks at Dune Runner, then looks at his little red and blue parent to see if that is okay.

And Kia's patpatting HER parent with the hand of the arm not holding Murphy.

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Random stops and looks down at himself at her touch. Oh, right, he's still wearing the tarp Ransack gave him. He should probably give it back . . .

Gears gives his tooth cat son a reassuring rub. Nobody is gonna mess with him on Gears' watch.

"You mean other than a bunch of grumpy Imps fritzing out all over the place because of the thing they have in orbit?" Gears frowns up at it at the memory before turning back to the Adventure team. "We better get a move on, then."

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"You're the one holding up the show." Ransack makes a razzing sound, then turns toward the trail that Random had repaired, only to pause and laugh as he sees that Kia has vanished under the tarp. "Do you want to keep that?" He braces his feet against a thump in passing from Rollbar as that sturdy bot and the rest of the Adventure Team head for the trail.

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Two things, Random thinks, shivering a bit as he reflects on the reason why they're even on the moon of Endor in the first place.

Gears, meanwhile, shakes his head and gives Softheart one last, reassuring rub before standing and joining the other Minicions on their way to the trail.

Random is taken out of his thoughts by Ransack's question and looks down at himself again, smiling a small smile as he sees where Kia has landed up and gives her a reassuring squeeze. He looks back at Ransack. "You don't need it?"