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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[astrotechmech]

Random tries to ignore Jetfire's hovering, but he's struggling to do so when said hovering is exacerbating his feelings of being hunted. In a few short hours, they'll have been on the moon of Endor for a full day, and Random doesn't know what Hot Shot has been doing and if the bot's going to face Nemesis Prime has alerted the Imperials to the whole plan.

The realization might have hit him while adjusting his cloak on the way out the door.

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//Kia?// Arcee sends over the team's encrypted channel as she turns her head to look at the younger female.

//They know we're here.// Kia looks back calmly.

Arcee frowns as Jetfire stirs restlessly. //Should we turn back?//

//They don't know we have kremzeeks.// Kia muffles a soft chuckle.

[astrotechmech]

Okay, so they do know, but so does Kia.

That . . . is actually reassuring.

Random intakes deeply.

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Kia tugs at the little cammo poncho that the Minicons brought her this morning and which is cut down from equipment used by Autotroopers, then hooks a foot over and boots a Minicon out from under the hem of Random's cape. This done, she frowns at Jetfire, smiles at Arcee, and then nods to the big white bot on the other side of her, hoping that the former Autotrooper turned newbie will remember the plan.

Panda walks confidently out of the bushes, then stops, throws a bag on a string, and bellows, "KREMZEEK!" at the top of his not inconsiderable vox capacity.

To their credit, the two Autotroopers at the door don't actually crash into each other as they try to flee the raging energy sprites. But that might only be because they happened to be facing away from each other when the bag hit and opened.

[astrotechmech]

Random starts when he notices that one of the Endor Minicons landed up under his cloak cape thing.

And then he starts again when Panda shouts and throws the Kremzeeks at the Autotroopers. He's . . . still not sure what to think about the former Autotrooper. But the two real Autotroopers are leaving?

Random wonders how the Empire have prepared for them. More Autotroopers hidden somewhere or . . . ? Wait, is something big behind them?