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Great Temple of Massassi, Massassi Site, Yavin 4, Yavin System, Gordian Reach, Outer Rim Territories, the Galaxy.
1 BBY.

Within the one of the many repurposed rooms in the Temple that the Alliance had used to store crates and other goods, AP-5 was about to conduct inventory duty within the room, as part as his schedule for the day, when he heard distinct binary chatter between two astromech droids going on, one of them being very familiar to him.

Oh, joy. What's he up to?, throught the grumpy protocol droid as he went to investigate.

Rounding around the corner of some pallet racks holding all sorts of goods within pallets and crates stored on the racks, AP-5 soon saw the droid in question, C1-10P, interacting with an white, blue and silver R2 series astromech droid with a red sensor.
Judging by the binary chatter going on between the two of them, Chopper and the R2 unit seemed to be very acquainted with one another.

Soon, AP-5 went up to introduce himself, and the two droids, stopped their conversation and turned their domes to look at the approaching RA-7 protocol droid.
"Ah, there you are, Chopper. I wondered what you are doing in here. Glad to see you're not making a complete mess, like you did last week".

Then looking upon the R2 astromech, AP-5 asked, "So, who might you be?".
Some bleeps, bloops, whistles and more bleeps later, and AP-5 responded to the astromech's question (I am R2-D2. Who are you?).
"Well, I am AP-5. From Phoenix Squadron. I've self-appointed myself as inventory droid for the duration of our stay at Yavin 4. Without me, Phoenix Squadron's operations would not be going smoothly, hence their chances of failure will be increased by 59.28 percent".
Artoo asked AP-5 if he was an reprogrammed Imperial droid, and AP-5 replied, "No, I'm not reprogrammed, but I was an Imperial droid until Chopper freed me. And I may have no love lost for the Empire, but I do miss their way of cataloguing items and cargo. The Rebel Alliance sure could learn a lot from Imperial inventory procedure..."

Inclining his head over to his equally-grumpy friend, AP-5 asked, "So, Chopper, how did you two become acquainted?"
The astromech in question gave AP-5 a brief rundown on how he met Artoo, "Ah, so you met on a mission to Garel, to destroy ion disruptors, and met again at Havoc Outpost to deliver a courier droid?"
Chopper warbled an affirmative and R2-D2 provided a few details that Chopper left out, stating that he was also tasked with identifying the rebels of the Ghost to Senator Bail Organa.

But before they could get into even more detail, their voices were soon interrupted, at the sound of a really uptight droid.
"R2-D2, where are you? I know you're here somewhere Artoo! Humph, I ought to recommend to Captain Antilles that you get a restraining bolt! That'll teach you to wander off wherever you..."

Turing around, the three droids saw that it was a gold 3PO protocol droid, with yellow sensors and a silver right lower leg.
R2-D2 whistled and bleeped, and the protocol droid then looked at the other droids present.

"Oh, I am so sorry. I didn't realise that anyone other than Artoo was here".
AP-5 waved off the protocol droid's apology, "It's no problem at all. Your friend here was having a reunion with Chopper. So who might you be?"
The gold protocol droid was eager to introduce himself, it seemed, "I am C-3PO. Human-Cyborg Relations", before asking AP-5, "So who might you be?".


K-2SO was a bit lost.

Even though he had been to Yavin 4 a couple of times, Kay-Tu did not get many opportunities to wonder around the Temple, and was not allowed to have a map of the Temple itself in his databanks, because of fears that if he was captured by the Empire, they'd discover the location of the Rebel base on Yavin 4.
So thus, the reprogrammed Imperial droid was trying to find a certain storage room out of probably several within this Temple, with very little success, it seemed.

Then, suddenly Kay-Tu rounded the corner and softly collided with another droid, creating a clang.
But while he would have continued on his way without sparing a single thought in his databanks towards any droid, this time, Kay stopped and gave this other droid a more in-depth look, as it was a droid model he'd never seen before.

It was consisted of dull-silver plating, with wiring in between some of it's panels, was quite tall (but did not possess the bulky body that K-2SO and other KX-series security droids had, but had a body that gave him a lean appearance), had thin arms and legs, and had yellow sensors and purple/blue energy lines.
The strange droid spoke first, "Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't see you there. My apologies".
Dryly, the former Imperial droid said, "Apology accepted".
Tilting his head, the other droid said, "Your use of sarcasm, seems to imply otherwise, K-2SO".
Kay shrugged, before noticing that the other droid knew his name, then he asked, "Who and what are you, exactly? I don't certainly recall seeing a droid like you, and you seem to have really unique parts to be a protocol droid, so you must be a special droid of some kind to know my name".
Nodding his head, the other droid replied, "You're right, I'm not a protocol droid. I am PROXY, a PROXY-series holographic infiltration droid. Or if you'd like something shorter, a holodroid will do".
Now Kay was really intrigued. A holodroid? He certainly had never heard of such a droid type before.
And before he could ask what he could do, PROXY anticipated K-2SO's question and his arms and legs started extending (changing his original height of 5.5 feet, to 5.8 feet) before the energy lines started glowing more brighter than before, and soon enough, PROXY seemingly was replaced by what seemed to be Cassian himself, standing where PROXY was.

Noticing that K-2SO was looking closely at him, PROXY offered an explanation, speaking in a perfect imitation of Cassian's voice.
"Via the use of my advanced holographic emitters, built-in servos and my own library of personnel files on certain individuals, I can take on the appearance of anyone, and I also have the ability to present messages via using my holographic emitters to take on the appearance of the sender of the message, like Captain Cassian Jeron Andor, for example?"

Analysing PROXY, Kay was quite intrigued on his abilities, and said, "Well, if you have the file of Cassian in your databanks, to impersonate, I hope you have the ability to fight. Sometimes, the probability of getting shot at by Stormtroopers is quite high, in Cassian's case, no matter how much he'd say otherwise".

PROXY nodded, then the holographic projection of Cassian faded, as PROXY then reverted to his normal voice and nodded, "While I am able to handle a blaster, I also have the Mimetic Combat Processor, which can allow me to mimic various fighting styles of certain, individuals".

Further intrigued, K-2SO's musing and eventual questions, were brought to a halt when PROXY asked, "So, where are you going to, K-2SO?"
That question reminded K-2SO of what he had been doing before he met PROXY in the corridor, and explained his predicament.
PROXY understood and said, "I was also on my way to an storage room. And I believe the room you've been sent to, is the same one I'm going to. Follow me, I know the way".

And the holodroid turned, leading the way for the reprogrammed Imperial Droid to follow.

It took a while, but eventually, PROXY and K-2SO reached the room, which was also occupied by an RA-7 protocol droid, a 3PO protocol droid, a R2 astromech droid and a C1 astromech droid, curiously.

AP-5 looked over to the new arrivals, a grey KX-series security droid with white sensors and imperial markings, and a silver droid with yellow sensors and purple/blue energy lines.
"Well, hello there. Just who might you be?"

K-2SO and PROXY answered at the same time, stopped and shared a glance with one another, before PROXY allowed K-2SO to answer first.
"I'm K-2SO. I'm a reprogrammed Imperial droid".

AP-5 was intrigued, "A former Imperial droid? Well you, K-2SO, are in luck, for I am a former Imperial droid as well. I am AP-5. I did inventory duty on board Cargo Transport 241".
As he was about to offer more details, Chopper whipped his legs with his metal arms, and warbled in Binary. R2-D2 followed suit with some Binary of his own, and C-3PO said, "It seems, AP-5, that our astromech companions and me, could use some introductions".

AP-5 sighed, "Very well then", before indicating to a specific droid, "That's C-3PO. Over there, is R2-D2. And yours truly, C1-10P".

Chopper warbled in response that if anyone called him C1-10P, he'd make them regret it, and told them to call him Chopper.

PROXY and K-2SO exchanged some glances, then shrugged, before K-2SO got to the matter at hand, "Nice to meet you all. But I am in need of some items from this room. Some electrobinoculars of a specific type, which I was told, could be found here".

AP-5 nodded his head, and said, "If you'll follow me".

K-2SO followed AP-5 and after identifying the type of electrobinoculars that he needed, was pointed towards them.
After acquiring them and handing them over to K-2SO, AP-5 turned his attention onto PROXY, who stated that he was looking for some power converters on the behalf of his master. Telling AP-5 what sort of power converters, the protocol droid soon rummaged through the stores and found them, before handing them over to the holodroid.

As PROXY and K-2SO were about to leave with their acquired items, PROXY couldn't help but ask C1-10P out of curiosity, "Have you found a replacement for your mismatched ambulatory strut, Chopper?"
Chopper warbled a response that left PROXY a bit confused, "Wait, you stole one, then met AP-5 and after he got shot, used the strut to save him?"

After a pause, AP-5 then said, "Bring up some crates. And I'll tell you about it all".

As all the droids started bringing up some empty crates for C-3PO, PROXY, K-2SO and AP-5 to sit on, AP-5 added, "Oh, and this might take a while".


Man, writing a story from the perspective of droids is hard. And I mean, really hard.
But it was still, quite fun to write AP-5 and all his quirks into the story. And plus, writing Chopper and Artoo interacting with AP-5 and C-3PO was also quite fun as well (even if I had to cut back a few lines with AP-5 and C-3PO interacting, due to getting absolutely nowhere with them).

I also had planned for this story to just be one chapter, but things were not working out well on that front, and instead, this story will just be two chapters.
So, instead, next chapter will be the droids telling each other tales of some of their own adventures.

Anyways, don't forget to leave a review whenever you can, and see you next time!