In the garage

[childofrebellion]

Cassian's found an X-Wing that seems like it wouldn't take too much to get properly working. After realizing what to ask, he was able to borrow a proper tool kit from Bar and a ladder down in the garage.

That's why he's half in and half out of an X-Wing and wishing that Kay was here to hand him things and tell him what he's not seeing. He knows how to fix most ships but this one is being stubborn.

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[littledroidthatcould]

There's a slight crash from not too far away in the garage. The accompanying cursing might not be audible from where Cassian is, although it's in several languages and quite fluent. The accompanying conversation ("What do you mean it's not there, I left it last time I--" beep bi-oop whrr bip! "Yes, I know that-- look, can you just find it?" Beep boop and so on) probably isn't either.

However, the slight sound of an astromech winding his way through the garage looking for the requested tools and occasionally muttering to himself? That will definitely become audible, especially as he finds his way to where Cassian is.

Well, maybe this human's seen it.

Bip beep beep sounds inquiringly from off to Cassian's right.

[childofrebellion]

He misses the cursing as he's down in the engine but leans up and hears that familiar whirring. When he hears the beep, he's smiling, he never expected to see an actual R2 unit here,

"I'm trying to get this one flying. Is one of these yours?"

[littledroidthatcould]

Bip bip sounds the more-or-less negative; Anakin is just working on the Delta-7 he found because it's both similar to his 7B and different enough to provide a change of pace for entertainment value.

Beep bee-ip is enquiring, and whrrr-op eeoo an open sort of tone that sounds like it might be an offer.

Artoo can help more than one person--and Anakin likes ships. He'd probably give Cassian a hand, if asked.

[childofrebellion]

"I'd be glad of any help. I know I'm missing something in there but can't figure out what. I'm Captain Cassian Andor and I normally fly U-Wings but if I can get this flying, I know some people who can fly it,"

He shifts over so that Artoo can look at the engine interior.

[littledroidthatcould]

Artoo shifts back and forth a little bit. Beep bi-oop whrrr wheee ooobip, he explains, rolling his way over to one of the tools lying on the floor. Beep boop bip wheerrrrip eeeooo. He nudges it. Bee-oop?

[childofrebellion]

Cassian picks it up and hands it to Artoo, "Of course, they're all from Bar. Let me know if you need anymore hands."

[littledroidthatcould]

Beep bip, sounds like thanks, but eeeeooooo whrr sounds distinctly more...

Well. Something, anyway. Artoo gratefully takes the tool and starts to roll away. He does, however, pause before leaving speaking range, and his dome rotates to regard Cassian again. Mrrr-ooo-eep?

Anakin will probably set aside his project, after all, as his is just for idle play and not a purpose.

[childofrebellion]

"I could do with some help,"

Getting down takes a quick scramble and a curse, he's still healing then he follows Artoo.

[forceimbalance]

Bip says Artoo as he turns back around to continue rolling back over to Anakin.

Anakin, who is hard at work on the Delta-7. Actually, half the engine's on the floor and in pieces, frankly. He is, in fact, debating doing worse to it just so see what might happen if he started closer to from the ground up. The man himself is mostly invisible, but for his lower body, as the rest of him is under the ship.

Beeeeee-oop boop! calls Artoo.

"Good, bring it here, would you? And then I need you to go see if you can find a smaller socket wrench than this," and a hand appears with a wrench, waves it, "and a breaker bar while you're at it."

Biiiiip whrrrr, sighs Artoo as he rolls over towards Anakin. Sorry, Cassian, his human is like this.

[childofrebellion]

"I think I have both of those with my tools, I'll get them,"

The Delta-7 isn't one that Cassian's terribly familiar with, he never encountered Jedi during his time in the Clone Wars. He's curious to know what he can do but at the moment, best to share tools. His tool kit isn't that far away and he soon returns with it.

[forceimbalance]

Anakin blinks, beneath the ship, and starts to push out, but Cassian has already turned and headed back to get his tools by the time he manages to extract himself. "What--"

Beee-eeep. Bee-oop bop whrrr... Artoo begins to explain.

By the time Cassian gets back, Anakin is back underneath the ship. Artoo gives a little whistle to help alert Anakin to retrieve himself again. "Ah, Captain Andor, was it? Artoo was telling me." When he's free of the ship, he straightens. Six-one, and there on his shoulder pauldron is the wings and star of an Order dead in Cassian's world and time. "I appreciate it--I thought I'd left some tools here last time, but maybe someone else needed them."

[childofrebellion]

Cassian sets the tools down and stares a moment too long at the pauldron.

Then he meets Anakin's eyes with a shrug, hopefully the Jedi won't notice that slip, "Yes, Captain Cassian Andor. I didn't find these down here but asked Bar for them."

[forceimbalance]

Anakin is actually somewhat used to reactions to him like that, but all back at home. That it's happening here in Milliways is slightly unusual--he honestly doesn't usually get it here.

So he definitely notices, and assumes Cassian's from an Outer Rim planet or maybe even Separatist world, to have that particular reaction, but hey. Plenty of people never see a Jedi in their lives. He doesn't think much of this.

A quick glance at the tools confirms that. "Nevermind. Maybe Artoo can locate them later." A series of slightly grumpy and indignant noises from Artoo that has Anakin rolling his eyes slightly interrupts, but he mostly ignores them. "Anakin Skywalker. Artoo says he didn't recognize your ship, but you're having some trouble with it?"

As he talks, he's going to take those offered tools and dig through them until he finds what he wants.

[childofrebellion]

Technically Cassian did fight with the Separatists on an Outer Rim planet during the Clone Wars, he was six at the time, but still true. He's grateful that the Jedi didn't ask any questions, this might be another time issue, "Not my ship, that's not here, but one here, an X-Wing."

Mentioning the kind of ship he has wouldn't be smart as U-Wings weren't flown during the Clone Wars. And he's not sure how to explain the X-Wing interest, he'll have to see how the Jedi reacts.

[forceimbalance]

"Huh." Anakin pauses in his digging to look up at Cassian thoughtfully. A time issue. "Not one I know. Tell you what, if you'll give me a hand here, Artoo can go give your ship a scan. There's a chance we already have one of the parts out here, or something to approximate it."

Artoo beeps merrily. This is the best of times, the two of them, experimenting with ships.

[childofrebellion]

"Of course, I'd appreciate all the help I can get and will do what I can,"

It never hurts to learn more about older ships, sometimes that's all the Rebellion can get.

[forceimbalance]

Anakin gives him a smile.

"All right then. Why don't you start by finding me a stabilizing coil. Artoo?"

The astromech beeps and whrrs, briefly, before wheeling back around to go back and investigate the X-wing. Time to go have a chat with it, then.

In the mean time, Anakin has grabbed the two tools he wanted and gone back underneath the ship to start getting back to work. "I take it you're not a mechanic primarily?" Anakin says conversationally.

[childofrebellion]

"No, I know how to keep my ship running and I've reprogrammed a droid and worked on them, but I'm no hotshot and only a passable mechanic,"

Things tend to work better when Kay's there to help as he can see deeper into how the engines are meant to act.

[forceimbalance]

"Reprogrammed a droid? That's not small-time," Anakin calls back, rather impressed actually. He can respect someone with that kind of savvy. "Customizing something generic for specialized use?"

He also genuinely respects that the man knows his limits as a pilot and mechanic, to be honest. Better that than someone who thinks they're an ace and disappoints him!

[childofrebellion]

Cassian hands the coil over and laughs because while Kay is unique, none of it was on purpose,

"Something like that. I had the time to fiddle and it happened to work."

[forceimbalance]

Anakin chuckles as well. "No, hold onto that for a moment, I just need to get this--but those are some of the best times, just tinkering." His tone is rather wistful. "It's been years since I really had the time."

And he was just a child, which is why Threepio is a little, uh, strange sometimes. He sometimes wonders if he should offer to Padme to tune the protocol droid up, but somehow, it's just never come up.

[childofrebellion]

"I don't have a lot of time for it either,"

He mainly spends his time planning or fixing.

[forceimbalance]

"Ever tried actually building one?"

Anakin's been thinking about it, for this place, but there's just so many parts he'd want and he's not sure the Bar actually has them all.

Also, he's mildly sick of non-Artoo or Threepio droids some days, to be honest.

After another few seconds of work, he holds out a hand. "All right, I think I'm ready for that coil."

[childofrebellion]

"No, I never have. I never had the parts or the time for it,"

Also he has Kay, he doesn't need another droid. He hands the coil to Anakin and leans down to see what he's doing.

[forceimbalance]

Anakin's just tweaking the stablization on the Delta-7 in the interests of fine-tuning the steering to his rather exacting standards at some point. "It's a large undertaking," he admits, "but--"

Something cracks.

"Ah, shavit. Can you find me some microvalves? See if you can get different sizes. If I'm going to be messing with the flux anyway I want to see if I can get better control over these systems." As he says it, he's looking around for a much smaller wrench than the one he's been using, and when he sees it he lifts his hand. The wrench comes when called, of course. New experiences are good for people, right?

[childofrebellion]

Before Cassian turns to look for the valves, the wrench moves and he loses his footing on the slick floor.

He must have used the Force to move it, "Sorry, spot of grease there."

[forceimbalance]

"Sorry about that. I thought I had more clearance," Anakin says cheerfully, thinking to himself with some amusement that this is definitely not someone who has dealt with Jedi before. Well, it's good for people, to see not just that the Force is real but what it commands.

It's important.

"I think the valves are over that way," he adds, waving in that direction before disappearing back into his tinkering as he removes a piece that dissatisfies him. He is wondering, a little, if this man might possibly be from a Separatist world, to have so little experience with Jedi and an unfamiliar ship (possibly of a new type)--but he's not doing anything, and Anakin decides the rule of 'no outside business' might well apply here. He'll sense if the man's intentions are hostile. Until then, Anakin decides not to worry about it particularly.

[childofrebellion]

Cassian stands up to search for the valves and be firm with himself. With these different times, he can't let his surprise show too much. There are too many unknown variables but he doesn't want the Jedi to consider him an enemy. Yes, during the Clone Wars, he fought for the Separatists, as much as he could but that was defending his home.

They're working on ships and if he keeps the conversation away from talk of governments, he should be safe, "I found them, hopefully one will work."

[forceimbalance]

Honestly, Cassian isn't doing too badly, all things considered, and Anakin has decided he seems like a decent enough person.

"Excellent. Just hold onto those for a moment more..." his voice trails off as he focuses on a few annoying wires, and then after some work pushes himself back out from under the ship. "All right, let's see what you found. This might take me a minute."

Anakin takes the valves Cassian found and spends a few minutes brooding over them, immediately discarding one or two and regarding the others with a critical eye. Finally he picks one and goes back under the ship to install it. While he works, Artoo finally rolls back in, beeping rapidly. "Whoa, whoa, slow down, buddy, just give me a moment, okay?"

He sounds amused, though. See? Everything's good.

Artoo, meanwhile, grumbles a bit and then beeps with inspiration. He rolls over to Cassian to project an image of a fuel line component that might be lying around nearby. See? Just find one of those, to start.

[childofrebellion]

Artoo's intent and Cassian doesn't get much of what he's doing but he can go looking, "I know where I saw one of those." He turns and heads to a very battered shuttle of some sort and after going under and cursing as the part of course is in an odd spot, "There, got it."

[forceimbalance]

By the time he's back, Anakin has pushed himself out, finally being done with his tweaking, and is listening to Artoo babble with some interest on his face.

"I'm at a good stopping point. Let's go take a look at this ship of yours, shall we?" That boyish grin is one of a man presented with a new and irresistible puzzle. Anakin likes ships. "Artoo says there's a lot that could be done with it."

[childofrebellion]

"Yes and good, I thought it has some possibilities,"

He grins back at Anakin, there's something satisfying about fixing something that was broken and making it better.