Joanna

Joanna was starting to regret her deal with the Republic. She's been with the Republic for over two weeks and had been on at least five missions, and there wasn't a single word about her ride home. Not even a "hey, Joanna. Your ship's being assembled as we speak. It'll be ready soon. Bye." She was starting to think these people were taking her for granted.

To make matters worse, the missions she did go on were nothing more than either recon or escort missions with only a few battle droids to disassemble. She was a fighter, not a scout! But today, that was going to change.

Joanna stood in the conference room with Anakin Skywalker, Captain Rex, and clones Tal, Back-up, Fumbles, Sure, Lock, and Bob (he he, Bob. :P). Anakin walked up to the holo-table and began speaking.

"Okay, men. And um… Joanna." He said, gesturing to Joanna. She rolled her eyes. The holo-table showed images coordinating to his words. "Here's the plan. Senator Amadala is being held in the bridge of the command ship." He pointed to a Separatist Dreadnaught in the middle of the map. "This is a simple rescue mission. We go in, secure the senator, and get out. I will fly the ship to the cruiser and dock it in the hanger."

"Wait a minute." Joanna said. "The shield will be up when we get there, and isn't flying up to an enemy ship without an escort extremely dangerous?" Every clone and Anakin gave Joanna a funny look. "I'm just saying."

"Obviously you've never fought alongside General Skywalker." Rex said with a smile. "Don't worry, he knows what he's dong."

The holo-table showed five separatist ships, but the front one looked… different somehow.

"Padme is being held in the Separatist Dreadnaught, which is under the command of two of their new generals. We know little about them, but they have this symbol on the side of their ship."

Anakin pressed a button and a symbol appeared. A cat with pretzel-like skin, a cute face, and wearing a pair of DJ headphones appeared. It was at that moment that Joanna groaned.

"Oh no." She said.

"What?" Anakin asked. "You know this symbol?"

"Unfortunately, yes."

Ginger

Ginger swiveled in the captain's chair. She had used her magic to change it from a regular chair bolted to the floor to a spinning chair.

"Hey Kasi! Look what I did!" She called out to Kasi, who was looking at the approaching republic fleet. "Kasi. Kasi, look what I did. Kasi. Kasi."

"Yes, Ginger. That's very nice." She said without looking at her.

"You aren't even looking!" Ginger said.

"Ginger, don't you think you should worry about the five star ships coming right for us?"

"Relax." Ginger said, still swiveling. "They're not gonna kill us, we've got the senator onboard."

Kasi turned to Ginger. "Yeah… about that. Why are we doing this again?"

"It's simple. Count Dooku's got beef with the senator because they went to high school together and she picked the cool kid over him because he was a nerd. Now after all these years, he's got all this money and he's trying to show it off, which is why he wanted us to captured her."

Kasi groaned. "That… doesn't make sense."

"Of course it doesn't, it's not true." Padme said from the balcony.

Ginger and Kasi didn't like the idea of keeping a seemingly helpless woman in a cell, so they let her be on the bridge with no weapons and two droids guarding her. Plus it was part of Ginger's plan.

"Dooku is too old for us to have gone to school together, and you think we had a romantic past? Ew!"

"Hey, I'd ship it." Ginger said, kicking off from the floor and spinning again. Unfortunately, she spun too hard and fell out of her chair.

Kasi sighed. "Please forgive my friend, she's kind of an idiot."

"I prefer the term, 'creative activist.' Agh!" Ginger said on the floor, in a daze.

Just then, Count Dooku's image appeared on the holo-projector.

"Ms. Tyler. How goes the mission?" The image asked.

"Oh, you know. It's good. We got the senator." Ginger said, slowly getting back to the chair.

"Very good. Now I need you too—"

"Oh hold on, my head's still spinning. Agh!" Ginger interrupted, holding her head.

"Is everything all right?" Dooku asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh, um… yeah. I just fell out of my chair." Ginger said. "I turned it into a spinny chair and—"

"Never mind that." Dooku said. "Take the senator to my temple. Once I have her in custody, I can negotiate for control of Naboo."

"Wait, that's it?" Ginger asked. "Aren't you going to ask her out to the prom?"

"I… what?" Dooku asked, confused.

"Yeah. Don't you have a hella crush on her?"

"N-no, I don't."

Ginger smiled big. "Come on, you can tell me. We're all separatists here."

Dooku was silent for a minute. "Just get her to my temple. Since you were the one who set the traps in the ship and are the only one with a plan to repel the republic, I am placing you in charge."

"What?" Kasi and Ginger shouted at the same time.

Ginger stood on her chair and saluted. "I won't let you down, Supreme Overloard High master-"

"Just do my bidding." Dooku said. "I will expect a full report when the battle ends."

The image faded. Ginger smirked and rubbed her hands together.

"Well, you heard the man! I'm in charge!" Ginger said. "Kasi, you are mah bitch! Although it wouldn't be the first time you're someone's bitch am I…"

Kasi shot Ginger an angry look. Ginger's smile disappeared and she looked down.

"I'm sorry." She said.

"I know you are." Kasi said.

"It's that I'm in charge, I'm excited…"

"It's okay, Ginger. I forgive you."

"Good, good." Ginger jumped onto the holo-projector and pointed at the republic fleet. "NOW SHOOT THOSE MOFOS!"

Joanna

Anakin was probably the craziest driver Joanna ever met. She knew he was dodging the lasers and all, but as he passed between ships and was getting dangerously close to them, she had to hang on for dear life.

Soon they were reaching the command ship. Joanna hoped Ginger and Kasi were on the ship. Maybe if she got to them, Ginger could make a portal back to their world and they could escape all this political space bull shit. Also Joanna knew if she was going to do this, she would have to get to them first. The gods only know of what the jedi and clones would do to Ginger and Kasi if they found them. Knowing Ginger, however, she probably had a plan of how to at least delay them… and probably piss them off.

After what seemed like an eternity, they reached the outside of the hanger.

"Hang on!" Anakin shouted.

He fired the ship's blasters at the generator on the side of the ship. The lasers hit and the shields for the hanger disappeared. (Side note: who in Dante puts the generators for shields on the side of the ship? Seriously!)

The ship landed in the hanger just as the security doors closed. Anakin and the clones exited the ship after Joanna did. Anakin looked around for any signs for any battle droids.

"This doesn't feel right." He said.

"Yeah… where's all the resistance?" Rex added. "We should be fighting through an army of clankers."

"Um… maybe they're through that door?" Joanna asked sarcastically while pointing towards the only open door.

Pink and blue spray paint arrows including a pretzel cat pointing at the door with a speech bubble that says, "Right This Way", surrounded the door!

Anakin took out his lightsaber and prepared for an attack.

"I don't like this." He said, scowling.

"Knowing Ginger, you're probably not going to." Joanna said, walking through the door. The clones and Anakin followed.