Adventures with Kay and Sombra Part II

[childofrebellion]

From here

The U-wing bumps down and Cassian mutters in Festian as they stop, "Easy, easy, almost there."

Once they're set, he stands up with a nod and looks at Kay and Sombra while checking his holster and supplies, "How are we looking, Kay?"

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[rebel_droid]

Kay assists with loading the second pallet, finishing when the screech sounds and the firing starts.

"I agree, we are much bigger targets than a bird."

[messwiththebest]

Oh, now this is interesting . . . and this . . . and this . . .





After having picked up a few fun tidbits of her own (and added in some extra worms and viruses to make things really interesting in about six months), Sombra finishes extracting the data that Cassian wanted and --

Look, there is doing things the hard way, and then there is translocating back to the duct in which she slipped her device. Sombra is not that fond of adrenaline rushes.

Now, to wait and watch in the ductwork for a few more minutes . . .

[childofrebellion]

Once the cannon ends firing, lights come up on the outside of the base. Cassian draws his blaster and looks around for Sombra,

"We need to go before that alarm calls the TIEs back. Kay, go in and start plotting us a course out of here. We want to get into hyperdrive as soon as we can."

[rebel_droid]

Kay moves his pallet onto the ship, forgoing his usual diligent and organized loading in the name of getting them ready to take off immediately.

"Now would be a good time for our friend to return," he says back to Cassian.

[messwiththebest]

"You do know I can hear you?" Sombra asks, tapping her earpiece, where she left a sister one on-board the ship.

"I will be back shortly."

It's only as she's' slipping out of the ductwork that she realizes a tiny mouse droid is zooming down the corridor.

"¡Chin!"

One last thing to take care of.

[childofrebellion]

"Sombra? What's going on?"

He searches the base for any sign of her or droids going where they shouldn't be.

[rebel_droid]

"Then you know you should come back now," he replies.

Obviously he was trying to be polite before. Or, more likely, he knows not to order people around so an indirect suggestion is the workaround on that.

"You promised to try to not die," he reminds the both of them as he goes through his calculations to put them into hyperdrive once they take off.

[messwiththebest]

"I do not want any witnesses," Sombra says, sliding across the floor after the mouse, tossing her last translocator just ahead of it.

"Uno momentito."

She has just enough time to hack the little thing and make it a) disable its visual and audio monitoring systems and b) follow her back to the ship like a tame little . . . mouse.

"Coming!" she sings out over comms, making her very rapid -- and invisible -- way back to the ship.

[childofrebellion]

Cassian can't see her which he knows is how she works but isn't ideal now. The lights are too bright and he doesn't want to be just sitting when the patrol returns.

He looks outside to see if there's a way he can disable the cannon and fires two sharp blasts at it. Not enough to take it fully down, this blaster isn't strong enough or equipped to fire that far but it should make their escape a little easier, "Doing our best not to die, Kay."

[rebel_droid]

"Uno momentito?" Kay repeats, without any hint of a proper accent and clearly not comprehending.

He brings the engines online, waiting for them so they can take off.

To Cassian, Kay responds, "Your best is only acceptable if it includes not dying."

Clearly.

[messwiththebest]

Sombra comes in at a run, the mouse droid tucked under her arm.

She tosses her translocator near to the cannon and vanishes, reappearing with her holographic keyboard out and ready, fingers flying over it as purple sparks jump over the cannon.

"Hack complete," she says, sounding very satisfied.

And then she throws another translocator over toward Cassian, reappearing there and continuing her breakneck run toward the ship.

"That was bracing!"

[childofrebellion]

He flinches at her quick reappearances and when she's with him runs into the ship, "It means one moment, Kay but we're here."

Once they're all inside, he sits in the cockpit and does a quick check. "Lifting off. Sombra, what did you do to the cannon?"

[rebel_droid]

"Bracing? You really are a very strange human, Sombra," Kay notes, flipping switches, pushing buttons, and then easing the ship off the ground.

[messwiththebest]

"Hacked it," Sombra says smugly.

"For the next little while it does as I say. Though we should probably leave very quickly, I do not know how good they will be at bringing it back under their control."

Then she wrinkles her nose in Kay's direction.

"I am," she agrees with him. "And proud of it. It keeps me interesting!"

[childofrebellion]

As they take off, an alarm goes off somewhere and Cassian gets them moving faster as a TIE fighter appears,

"How long until we break atmo, Kay?"

[rebel_droid]

"You are interesting," Kay allows.

The alarm was concerning, and he checked their position relative to the fighter and calculated the time they had to get out of the atmosphere.

"Sixty seconds, at best." Longer, if they had to pull any evasive maneuvering.

[messwiththebest]

"You say the sweetest things, Kay."

Sombra leans forward, holographic keyboard poised right below the fingers of her left hand.

"Can you establish a radio -- or any kind of communications -- connection with our pursuers?"

[childofrebellion]

"Yes, they'll try to hail us in a few seconds," Just as Cassian says it, there's static and a voice, "Unidentified vessel, you are trespassing on Imperial space. Identify yourself."

Cassian puts on the his headphones and stalls for time, "The storm's messing with my comms. I didn't get that."

[rebel_droid]

"You wish to speak to them?" Kay asks Sombra, surprised. "Do you think they'd like to be your friends, too?"

[messwiththebest]

"I do not want to be their friend," Sombra says, smile and voice both gone sharp.

Her fingers fly over her holographic keyboard, purple streaks of light sparkling around her free hand.

"But I do want to give them a present."

She touches the comm board with said purple-glowing hand, and the entire cockpit electrical system lights up. Something travels over the wires, and the TIE fighters following them will shortly have a very memorable surprise.

EMP pulses are tricksy things! Especially when they are very, very localized.

"I think we will have less of a problem with pursuit now, no?"

[childofrebellion]

As the light pulses through the cockpit, Cassian keeps them moving and then hears the static change over the radio.

In a few seconds, they're clear of the atmosphere, "Let's get into hyperspace. What did you do?"

[rebel_droid]

"We are no longer being pursued," Kay announces.

A few moments after they break free of the atmosphere Kay engages the hyperdrive and they are on their way.

[messwiththebest]

"My job," Sombra says, only a little smugly.

"I told you I was the best."

[childofrebellion]

"You are. What were you able to get?"

He turns and gets out his datapad to trade information.

[rebel_droid]

Kay considers the no longer trailing TIE fighter and says, "I hope you never send me a present."