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Natunda, 17 Melona, 12731

Honeymoon?

by Aerena 'Relentless' Kolene

We return to Nightwick city and there is a wide variety of individuals in cryofreeze. Everyone is anxious about Kitari, but Kit Kat is able to defuse the situation. They accept him as non-hostile but remain watchful. Otherwise, ship repairs are progressing. In other news it appears that a batch of droids have gone rogue and stolen data and more earthquakes are occurring around the globe. There is more to the planet wide disasters being shared and talk about the virus in the network, but then Lady Zaye walks in and steals me away with threats to all to leave us alone for a full day.
 
A day and a half later, we check in with Hicks who has been on babysitting duty. He has taught the children to fieldstrip a comm unit and repair it to listen in on nearby conversations - or create a smoke bomb. The joy of being a step-parent! We took the time ourselves to rest and relax and become more comfortable with each other. During that time we took walks around the city to give us couple experiences to begin building our joined life. While wandering around and lighlty chatting about how this area of the city looks a bit like Corellia and what that means to me or how that bridge reminds her of a place in her past we begin to understand the other's frame of reference. We also discuss what happened while I was away with the team and she shares the progress on the ship's repairs. Small talk about life and our feelings that allows us to make connections and learn about each other and what we think of as important. Though not actively listening to others, we overhear several conversations about combat droids with red trim that have forced their way into maintenance refabrication buildings at the edge of Nightwick City. After the same topic has come up in multiple conversations, we decide it is time to join back with the group and find out what is going on.
 
Since the ship will have repairs completed tomorrow, we take this opportunity to walk out and about in the city to check out the night life. We discuss her past and her fears for the children and make plans for traveling around the universe to see and learn to enhance our lives and educate the children at the same time. She starts talking abour her past and her need to visit the lst place she was with her family - a moon of Dantooine. She is discussing what happened and why she needs to go there and suddenly six droids hustle by carrying cannisters. There is something very odd and weird about it and Zaye and I look at each other and together decide to give chase. We enter the building where we had left the refugees and those we had rescued.
 
The droids we are following head for a door marked maintenace. The canisters look like air scrubber replacements, but there is gas oozing out of a door so I don't know if this is more gas or something to solve the situation. The droids are five feet from door and I am twenty feet behind them so I shoot the door panel and it explodes which makes the droids drop the canisters and they scatter in six different directions. I run over to check the canisters which are banged up, but no damage and they did not explode. I scan them and find them very full with fresh air instead of gas which is good. I glance around to see if I can still see any of the droids and there are still two in sight, but they are thirty feet away from me now. I chose to enter the maintenace room and check status. There are two tanks on the wall and I scan them. All they have is a residue of a knock out gas and based upon the schematics I can see, these two cannisters would feed into the rooms on this corridor. I quickly switch the empties for the ones full of fresh air and set it on a quick purge. I then check the monitors in the room and I can see that the air has cleared and Zaye is in the hallway with Hicks and KitKat.
 
I tell her to hit them both with the trooper stim pack so we can find out what happened. She inquires as to the safety and I can give her no reassurances. She gracefully jabs them at the same time and they both sit straight up and start talking very fast. Seems that Danar might have been kidnapped by a pack of droids that left just before the pack of droids we were following entered the hallway. Zaye and I start running after the group and both Hicks and KitKat join us - well, it might be safer to say that they are leading us very quickly. Then So'Zen zooms up and says there are eight packs of six droids each carrying cannisters and he is heading for help and zooms off. So much for checking to see if we have a bigger emergency that he could have helped. We four continue to run.
 
Then Vanya is jogging up to us. KitKat asks Vanya to point out Danar. She does something and then we can see a smoke flare in the distance which she says is him. Zaye and I turn to head that way continuing to follow KitKat. I see their probable destination and see both a tunnel that we could jump down, but I also see a lift that we could shoot out the controls and drop down and then jump off. I share the plan with Zaye and she mentions the emergency break as an option instead of jumping off. Always wonderful to have a partner that can take my plans and improve them. We jump onto the lift, I shoot the controls, and we begin dropping. Zaye engages the emergency brake and the lift slows down just above the ground. It is a bouncy stop and we both have to hold onto the rails to stay on the lift, but we are able to get off safely and turn around to see the pack of droids with the bag heading towards us with Vanya, Hicks, and KitKat behind them. It appears that Vanya is doing some supposed force thing so Zaye and I shoot off their grabber arms so Danar is free. He pops up to Vanya and then KitKat tells us that our next mission is to go up the gangplank, enter the navigation room, and shut down the engines.
 
Zaye and I look at each other, shrug, and get ready to follow. They check Danar to be sure it is really him and then both Hicks and KitKat crash. We get them back to a medbay to help them recover naturally while we devise a solid plan to tackle the next project. In the meantime, Zaye assits the recovery by duct taping Hicks to a chair to provide him an opportunity to explain his teaching of the children AND prove he is past the effects of the stim.

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