I stand up from my chair and smile towards the crowd, while wearing a pair of black khaki's with a purple top and on my head is a black hat with black lace barely covering my forehead. I gratefully announce, "Hi, you're watching, 'Question Corner', and today we have with us who've you've all been waiting for…" I turn around to see our guest begin to step on stage, "Slick!" Slick fully steps onto the stage and is sadly still dressed in the traditional orange prison clothes, and I so badly want to face palm.

I sit down in my black chair and admire the orange and black decorations everywhere to celebrate this upcoming Halloween. Slick's chair was orange to match mine, and even as he came in his wake, little black and orange papers sprinkled from the ceiling.

He shakes my hand and I take notice of the chains still wrapped around his wrist and mentally groan. This isn't exactly sending a child friendly image to the viewers, but I continue to play the most humble host and pretend to not notice. I gesture to the chair with smile and he smiles back as he sits, but his hands are forced to remain on his lap due to restrictions of the cuffs.

"Now, Slick, as you know, Halloween is coming up sooo…" I turn over and grab a pair of werewolf ears and pass it over to Slick, "You have to wear these…" He grabs it and contemplates it for a moment. He looks back at the exit to the stage and there's a second where I think he'll run, but soon caving in, he puts on the ears in defeat. All girls giggling as I also stand and pin a BOO sticker on his prison clothing. It surprisingly matched.

"Okay, Slick, now that we have you dressed for Halloween, I want to say thank you so much for coming here. This means a lot to us. Right, everybody?" I raise my hand that's gripping the stack of cards and there's a mix of love and hate through the crowd, with the occasional salt of sympathy. I then look down at the cards in my hand and hold back a frown, "I apologize when I say that almost all your questions do inquire about your last incident with the Republic.."

"Don't be…" He replies quickly, "I have nothing to hide."

"Well, I don't like to start my guests with the hard questions, so we'll start out slow and easy." I lightly smile to him, but I don't await an answer when I look at my cards and read aloud, "captainrexbest35 asks, 'What would you do if you were attacked by a thousand fluffy pandas?" The crowd laughs at the randomness and Slick finds himself chuckling as well.

"Ah…" His jaw drops when he realizes I am serious and I can't help but snicker, "That is as slow and easy as they get, huh?" the crowd laughs harder and I with them. He then answers, "I suppose I would…maybe if I…" he leans in towards me and whispers, "Do all questions have to be answered?"

I shrug but still nod, "Get creative." I say, patting his knee.

"Okay…pandas…" he leans back and his shoulders bounce like he's boxers in a rink, "attacking me…"

"And their fluffy." I add.

His head shakes as he echoes, "And their fluffy…"

There's silence amongst everyone. I almost want to tell him just to say, 'I'd run', but it was ultimately up to him.

"I'd…well, I'd fight back." He replies, "If you have one of those DC-15 blaster pistols and-"

"Slick!" I exclaim.

"To stun. I was going to say, 'set it to stun'. I'm hated enough, let alone getting shunned for killing a thousand pandas. I hear civilians find them cute?"

"Yeah…" I bob my head, "Except for the ones who have seen them get mad," my eyes glaze over, "I'll never touch another panda teddy bear ever again."

He asks, "What's the next question?"

I look down at the card and can't help but let out a giggle, "captainrexbest35 says, 'ooh! If you were to be attacked by 23000000000000 kittens what would you do?"

"Run away screaming." He answers bluntly and everyone chuckles.

I say back, "Well, you can't possible fight kittens. They give you that look and you're like in a trance. Don't worry, I'd run with you, Slick."

"Thank you." He smiles.

"No problem."

The crowd chuckles and I look back at my cards smiling, "This next question is from spikala. She says, 'Who made contact first? You or Ventress? How did you make contact, how long for it going on for, and what were you planning to do if your plans worked out and you crippled the 501st and 212th on Christophis?"

"It happened at our last mission on Ryloth, I'm not going into the details about it, but it was in fact her who made the contact first. As for how long we talked, that was about a two weeks. We were leaving Ryloth when she made first contact, and then again on Christophis."

"Interesting," I begin, "And what about your plans for the 501st and 212th?"

"I wanted out of the war, so I thought if I did what she wanted she'd get me out of their and I could begin to live my old life. If I could bring anything down, it would be the jedI. 501st and the 212th was business."

I nod and flip to the next card, "Now for the next question…Shadowclanwarrior asks, 'Slick, what makes you think the Separatists would do anything for your brothers?'"

He groans and stares at the ground, "I didn't think they'd help us, but I know if I took the offer and I could open a window. Not with the Separatists, but with whatever my brothers wanted to be. I never got a choice and my brothers have never got a choice. I felt like if the jedI were so grand and valued everyone's life…then why not my brothers? I knew being a traitor and destroying the weapons depot meant that they'd put me in jail, but why haven't they looked at what I've done and not once thought…maybe not all of them like fighting, what if we gave them a choice? Any civilian can quit their job, or can retire if they wish, but we would be court-martialed."

Feeling he had a point, I had nothing else to say but nod as I went on to read the next card, "Again, Shadowclanwarrior asks, 'Also, do you regret joining the Separatists?"

There is a sense of keenness in the crowd, and looking at the crowd, I see everyone is wide-eyed and a couple of them biting their lower lip.

His eyes cast up at me and he replies, "Yes, I do actually. I was striking a blow for all my brothers in a wrong way. I do see that now. I wanted to show them, if succeeded, that we could leave the war. But now," he lifts his hands and gestures to the cuffs, "with me in jail, I think they only push the idea of a life outside of war to the back of their minds. So do I have regret? Yes, everyday of my life. If I could apologize to all of my brothers I would."

"Do you have an end to your prison sentence?" I ask prior to my own curiosity.

"No," he replies glumly, "It's for life."

I bit my lower lip, realizing I have nothing to say but sorry as I pat his knee again. I turned the card and read, "dogmatup23 asks, 'Will you ever get revenge of Red and Cody?' You're reply?"

"My reply is if I could punch either of them I would…" he growls, "I wanted freedom and they did get in the way of that." Everyone of the Cody and Rex fan girls begin to glare at Slick, but he appears not to notice.

"Alright, this next question is from, snip1212. She says, 'Why did you tell Anakin and Obiwan why you betrayed the Republic? Is it because you wanted them to know or is it because you couldn't keep your big mouth shut?" There's a moment of awkwardness between us, so I say, "Their words, not mine."

He answers easily, "When a clone goes to jail, there is no trail, we get no chance to speak. Blast, you couldn't ever imagine how shocked I was when I found out I was allowed on, 'Question Corner' to speak my side. That's a huge opportunity for a clone and I thank you for that,"

"There's no thanks needed," I interrupted, "We were pleased to have you here. But please, I'm sorry, do continue."

"Well…" He sighs, falling back in the orange chair, "I told them because I thought I'd be put into a cell and glared at for the rest of my life, being called a traitor without getting the chance to tell them why I did what I did. I haven't seen Skywalker or Kenobi since then, so I'm glad I said what I said."

I frequently nod as I turn to the next question, "AaylaKitofNiflheim wants to know, 'Was there an awful lot of angst involving in your decision?' She is our last question of the night."

"One hundred percent yes. I felt pains in my chest every time I communicated with Ventress, every night when I went to sleep. There is almost an odd relief when I got caught, frightening of course, but still relief. I was so angry inside that when I was faced in front of the generals, I knew I had nothing to lose. I could let out and tell them everything even though I knew they weren't going to listen."

I crossed my legs and placed the whole deck of cards off to the side, "Then I am glad you could at least tell them how you felt. Maybe one day, Slick, there will be a change for your brothers."

"I hope so." He says, but then he stops and he looks at me and then the crowd and then back at me again and whispers, "Wat ever happened to that 2-2-7 droid that told all the jokes, Ma'am?"

Practically falling off my seat for my silly forgetfulness, I stand and laugh, "You're right, you're right." I raise my arm in the air and yell, "Who's ready to meet, the funniest, the sweetest, the most unique droid you'll ever meet…2-2-7!" A horde of people begin to cheer so loud I feel the need to close my ears, but I resist and turn back to my chair as the red curtain off to the corner rises.

A droid in front of a microphone is there and he's wearing a very loose mummy wrappings around his head and body. He waves to everyone like a pop star on stage and begins to tap the mic to be sure it's at it's full potential to relay his jokes to the audience.

"Alright, thank you for coming! Thank you, thank you! To start it all off:

A frog walks into a bank and croaks, "I'd like a loan, please!" The teller says, "You will have to see our loan officer, Patty Black."The frog hops over to Miss Black's office, and says, "I'd like a loan, please." She replies, "Do you have any collateral, Mr. Frog?"He pulls out a little statue of a white elephant. She tells him, "I will have to talk to the bank manager. She goes to the bank manager and tells him, "There's a frog out there who wants to get a loan, and the only collateral he has is this. I don't even know what it is!"The bank manager replies, "It's a knick knack, Patty Black, give the frog a loan!"

There was a mild laughing amongst the crowd and he began another one.

"There was this woman who asked her friend, "Why do they need your birth certificate when they hire you?"But her friend misunderstood and thought she said, "Your birth certificate just expired." The laughing grows louder and he begins to list off the jokes by the thousands.

"What do you call a sleepwalking nun?A "Roamin" kind of teeth cost a dollar?Buck did the elephant cross the road?The chicken was on vacation.

Do you want to hear a construction joke?

Sorry, they are still working on it."

The crowd laughed more, so 2-2-7 gave me a knowing look as he rapidly said more jokes.

"This man named Craig says, "I don't think my teacher likes me."And is friend Jim asks, "Why do you say that?"And Craig replies, "During fire drills he tells me to stay seated."

The crowd is laughing harder now and so 2-2-7 says a couple more,

"There was a teacher that walked up to his student and says, "I was very pleased to give you an 85 on the test."And the student replies, "Why don't you give me 100 and really enjoy yourself?"

And then he said another jokes,

"Bob and Rob turned in their quizzes at the same time. When they got their quizzes back, they both got 14 out of 15 answers right. Their teacher talked to them afterwards and says, "You both missed number 15, but Bob is going to pass the quiz, Rob will have to stay behind."

Rob asks "But if we both missed the same question, why are you passing him?"and the teacher replies, "Because he answered the question "I don't know" and you answered it "Neither do I."

Everyone continued to laugh on, so he said one last one,

"Luke's wife bought a new line of expensive cosmetics guaranteed to make her look years younger. After a lengthy sitting before the mirror applying the "miracle" products she asked, "Darling, honestly what age would you say I am?" Looking over her carefully, Luke replied, "Judging from your skin, twenty; your hair, eighteen; and your figure, twenty-five.""Oh, you flatterer!""Hey, wait a minute!" Luke interrupted. "I haven't added them up yet!"

When all the jokes were finished there was a hollering of laughter and I could only smile. 2-2-7 wanted to put in as many jokes as he could, and if he could reach ten by twenty two minutes I'd owe him five credits. Smiling on the outside, I was mentally frowning of the inside. 2-2-7 turns my way and there's a knowing look in his light bulb like eyes. The curtain closes and again Slick and I get off our chairs and shake hands before he walks off stage. The two clone guards escorting him out with glares under their visors.

I then turn to the camera and say, "And as for the update this week, we have convinced Lux Bonteri to take an hour break from being a Rebel, please no M-rated questions. In other news, Star Wars the clone wars Season 4 out today." All in the audience cheer.

"Before ending the show, we'd like to thank, AaylaKitofNiflheim, dogmatup23, spikala, Shadowclanwarrior, snip1212, captainrexbest35, rex133668, monsterhuntergod-Ratholas Mk1, Gamergirl052, Nat13cat, AaylaKit, Avalonyx, AL0LT0, just another fanfic author, Angel's anthem, Anakin Ahsoka, Azalea. Rose, Tessika 14, Queen, Thearistacats, Skywalker02, Onryo, KitFisto'sGirl, Alex Tsukino, lady gaga, lefty blondy, Ahsoka33, TCTrent45. Thank you guys for everything."

And Remember, this is 'Question Corner' getting you the answers you've been waiting for."