Characters: Captain Rex, Aky Slinth, Do Bby, Battle Droids, C-3PO, R2-D2, Padme Amidala, Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Narration: Hostage! Captain Rex was discovered, and put in prison by Separatists Aky Slinth and Do Bby! Realizing a JedI mission to rescue Rex would be futile, they call on a friend for help. Now, Padme Amidala sets off to this distant planet, hoping to catch Slinth unawares!”
Aky Slinth walks to the sole prison cell in the outpost, says “Leave us” to the two Battle Droids guarding it, who immediately walks off, with Slinth entering the cell to find the sole prisoner there, Captain Rex. Slinth laughs at Rex, and says “Enjoying your cosy place?” and Rex merely grunts, “Not as much as I’d enjoy killing you!”. Slinth simply smirks and says “Temper, temper!” before grabbing an electro-staff and giving Rex a shock with it. Rex takes the pain, and, finally looking up at Slinth, says “That all you’ve got?”. Slinth goes mad at this, stabbing Rex many more times, but Rex isn’t bothered by the pain. Slinth throws down the electro-staff in anger, and makes to leave, but pausing slightly to say “You’ll get yours!” and he leaves.
Not far way from the outpost, a ship lands and the occupants make to get out and leave. Padme Amidala turns to C-3PO and says, “You know the drill 3-PO, once we get inside, you and R2 know what to do”. C-3PO says “Yes, my lady, but pardon me, what if it all goes wrong” and Padme coldly replies “Then me and Rex die, and you and R2 become spare parts” before she walks away. C-3PO sighs, turns to R2-D2 and says “Delightful” and R2 gives him an affirmative beep and they follow Padme.
Padme, R2-D2 and C-3PO arrive at the front doors of the outpost, where Do Bby and Slinth are waiting for them. Do Bby says “Welcome, Senator, how very nice to make your acquaintance here” and Padme replies “Thank you very much” before introducing them to her droids. Slinth, who has looked bored throughout the discussion, says “Follow me Senator, we have some, business to discuss”. C-3PO, R2-D2 and Padme follow the Separatists, but shortly later, C-3PO pauses and says “Pardon me, my lady, but this outpost’s climate really isn’t doing good for my circuits, may R2 and I head back to the ship?” and Padme replies “Of course, 3-PO” before she continues walking. Slinth looks suspiciously at the droids before following Padme.
C-3PO and R2-D2 wait until the three have disappeared from view, before doubling back and lurking in another corridor. R2 beeps angrily at C-3PO, who replies “I know what our mission is! But it might simply be less dangerous if we go back to our ship!”. R2 beeps angrily again at this, and C-3PO says “You’re right! Padme could be easily captured if she tries to do it alone, we must make this distraction count!”. C-3PO and R2-D2 then follow the hallway to where the prison cell is. They find the same Battle Droids guarding it earlier back there again, one of them asks “What are you doing here?” and 3-PO replies “Aky Slinth has ordered you to guard the entrance!”. The other Battle Droid laughs and says “No he didn’t! We got orders in person from him to guard this prisoner”. C-3PO looks desperately around, before turning to R2 and saying “R2, do something!”. R2 happily beeps and let’s loose a torrent of slippery oil, causing C-3PO to yell “No, R2, not that!!” as he slips, but resulting in C-3PO accidentally slide-tackling/knocking out both Battle Droids. R2-D2 beeps excitedly, before snatching the keys for the cell of one of the Battle Droids, and inserts it into the cell to free Rex. Rex comes out, grabs a Droid blaster, saying “Thanks, you two! But now we’ve got to leave!”. Rex pauses to grab a pair of handcuffs, saying “These might be useful!” as he, R2-D2 and C-3PO make for the direction of the ship.
Slinth hears an alarm go off, telling him the prisoner has been freed, realizing it was a set-up, Slinth turns angrily to confront Padme, but she has disappeared and he cannot find her. As he and Do Bby storm away, he orders three Battle Droids to follow him, and they leave the base.
Padme returns to the ship, but before she can get onboard, she hears several clicks behind her, and turns to see Slinth and three Battle Droids homing blasters in on her, with Do Bby watching behind Slinth. Slinth angrily says “You were providing a distraction, just so you could take our prisoner!” and Padme retorts boldly “You should have realized! I’m part of the Republic, Rex is part of the Republic, I was obviously going to rescue him!”. Slinth gets even more furious, and frustratingly says “Kill her!”. But as the Battle Droids raise their guns, they all fall. Slinth tries to say “What the-?” before his gun is shot out of his hand, and he turns to see Rex pointing a blaster at him. Rex says “Hands where I can see them!” and Do Bby and Slinth raise their hands and Rex handcuffs them. As they are marched onto the ship, Padme says to Rex “It’s good to see you safe, Captain Rex!” and Rex replies “It’s good to see you to, Senator” and they all board the ship and fly back to Coruscant.
As the ship lands at a landing bay on Coruscant, the ship opens to reveal Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka Tano waiting. Anakin says to Rex, “How are you?” and Rex simply responds “Alive”. Rex then adds “It’s thanks to your droids I got out, especially the gold one, taking out those Battle Droids like that, he is a hero! A Droid, hero!” and Padme replies “Better not tell him that!”. Ahsoka asks “So, how did the mission go?” and Padme replies “It went fine, fooled them easily, and got Rex okay”. Obi-Wan says “So, it went absolutely perfectly then?”, C-3PO hears this, and says abruptly “Apart from all the oil I got on me, R2, how dare you!” and all the others laugh as the story ends!
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