Chapter 1: Get out and get in
Numai taps a tune on the cell wall trying to take her mind off things. This was the end of the line. A maximum security featureless cell.
The first time she was in an Imperial prison it was a mining camp with her parents when she was child. Her mother was previously a blast technician and taught Numai a lot about explosives. Enough that Numai was able to escape later in life. However her parents were too weak to escape with her.
The second time was after she was caught trying to blow a hole in the prison where her parents were still held. That time she was sent to a manufacturing facility trying to keep her away from high explosives. However she was still around chemicals that could form high explosives and Numai's skills in explosive making were far beyond what the empire thought. She then spent multiple years attacking Imperial installations and convoys before being caught again and ending up here.
She's forgot how long she'd been in here but she did know her execution date can't be far off at this point to the point that she's expecting the next time the door opens to be the death of her. What she really didn't expect was the door to open and a dead stormtrooper to fall in and for the other guard trooper the say, "if you want to get out of here put the armor on and follow me"
"Soooo, who are you?" Numai asked through the helmet com.
"Turn off the external speaker if you want to talk to me," the person snapped.
Numai Starts fiddling with her helmet switches and buttons till she figures out the right button. "Ok, I got it so now will you tell me who you are‽"
"I'm Andronotham Duur'Kad, I'm...well I'm sort of with the rebellion and well...thing are happening here and…" Andronotham sounded remarkably calm for a person escaping a Imperial facility.
"Well that was very vague," Numai said.
"Look I don't even know everything that going on getting you was really all I was told but in planning I found out some things that…well let's just say they're confusing and could be very very bad. That make sense?" Andronotham asked.
"It made enough for now," Numai said.
"Good because we've made it to our getaway vehicle." Numai realized that they were in the main vehicle bay for the facility and there was one armored transport with an annoyed looking officer standing in front of it.
"Units 856248 and 975642, what took you so long‽" the officer barked.
"Sorry sir it was a last minute change for us as well," Andronotham replied with his exterior speaker now on.
"Just get in." The pair entered the transport with the officer taking up positions on the right side of the craft opposite 2 other troopers while the officer took the controls and started going through the procedure of starting the craft and getting clearance to leave, also in the craft was a fairly standard looking astromech droid.
Andronotham deactivated his external speaker and returned to speaking discreetly with Numai. "The astromech is mine so don't shoot it, when I tell you too I need you to shoot the trooper opposite you. I'll take out the one opposite me and the officer. I don't know how good a shot you are and can't risk you shooting the console on accident."
"Sounds fair," Numai said. "I'm guessing we have a bit of a ride before that."
"Yep."
Main Character images (even a only half decent character creator made picture convey way more than I feel I can describe):
Due to ff .net's lack of links the images can be found at my tumblr Mandalore-the-Gamer and searching the tag "the dance of the shadows of devils and angels"