Chapter 2; Stranded

On the far side of the ship Beast Boy worked his way into a cramped life pod as Cyborg chattered. "You're not permitted in there!"

Beast Boy answered with an irritated bleep.

"Secret mission?" Cyborg said, confused. "What plans? What are you talking about? I'm not getting in there! This is stupid! Why would someone trust you with plans instead of me? Remember last time you got a mission? Do you know I am still cleaning monster goo from my circuits?"

Beast Boy beeped out a few words.

"What! It was YOUR idea to blast that worm! I said to trap it or something but you just had to do it YOUR way! So there is NO WAY I am getting in there!" Cyborg complained.

At that moment a nearby explosion rattled Cyborg's circuits and changed his mind.

"Oh, I'm going to regret this!" he muttered as he followed Beast Boy into the life pod. As the safety door slid shut Beast Boy activated the life pod, and the tiny air craft shot free of the stricken Rebel ship.

Darth Slader waited as the young women was brought before him.

"Darth Slader. Only you could be so bold. When the Imperial Senate hears you've attacked a diplomatic-"

"Princess Terra. Don't act so surprised, Your Highness," Slader interrupted. "You weren't on any mercy mission this time. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you."

The princess refused to cooperate. "I do not know what you're talking about. I'm a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Tameran."

"You are a part of the Rebel Alliance, and a traitor. Take her away!"

As the princess was led off, Slader learned that a life pod had been jettisoned during the attack. "She must have hidden the plans in the escape pod. Send a detachment down to retrieve them. There'll be no one to stop us this time"

Meanwhile, the life pod in question landed none too gently on the planet below. The two droids emerged into a desert world of endless rolling dunes and burning sand.

"What desolate place this is," Cyborg muttered.

Beast Boy made for a low line of the rocky mountains in the distance, but his golden friend refused to follow and headed in the opposite direction. He wandered for miles across the lifeless desert until he began to overheat.

"That malfunctioning little Brat Boy. He tricked me into going this way, but he wont do any better." As Threepio continued to mutter, a distant gleam of metal caught his attention, "A transport! I'm saved! Over here! Help! Please help!" He started jumping up and down the best he could while waving his arms in the air. "C'mon! Over here! look!"

The little people in brown cloaks laughed.

"Look Melvin! its a robot thing!" Timmy laughed.

"I see it, lets catch it and make it clean our rooms before Waven comes!" Melvin smiled.

Cyborg stopped, "I don't like where this is going..."

Beast Boy meanwhile found his way along a rough path through the forbidding hills. From the shadows a pair of yellow eyes stared at him greedily.

Why do I get the sudden feeling I am about to get shot? He thought.

Without warning a short creature wrapped in a brown cloak leaped out from behind a rock and fired a magnetic blast that engulfed the small droid with an electronic groan Beast Boy toppled to the ground.

I KNEW IT! I saw this in a movie once. Star Wars I think.