Outside and Earlier…to the present…

"Hurry up, Sandra, you're too slow!" AP Girl laughed as she rushed as quickly as she dared, a veritable streak of white flowing behind her as she crashed through the droids. She twisted her feet and shot off in another direction, pavement kicking up and crackling through more droids as she moved.

"I'm moving as fast as I can, I'm not used to this yet! And don't call me that, I'm not her!" SF Girl called back as they passed each other, throwing her arms out to the sides, barely feeling the impacts as she broke thru the spindly necks. Droids gave electronic cries of distress as they were taken out. They both moved quickly in this manner, zipping down roads and circling thru the droids, taking out as many as they could. Sometimes AP Girl would grab a droid and throw it like a bowling ball so it would crash into more, and then SF Girl picked up the cue and did a similar action. Once, she took a droid's long rifled blaster and spun it thru the air, taking out several of the droids at the neck.

"Nice move!" The brunette praised, catching the rifle and giving it a spinning toss as well, continuing its path deeper into the now confused droids. She watched for a moment, before an idea struck her. "Hey, I wanna try something. You up for it?"

The more buxom woman paused and gazed to her friend, curious, even as blaster bolts slowly began to impact against the both of them, red spots forming briefly. "Sure, what do you have in mind?"

"We run in opposite directions, then come back at each other and give each other high fives! That should create a shockwave and send a bunch of them flying at once!" AP Girl grinned, rubbing her hands together, before a bolt impacted into her eye. "Ow! That smarts!" She cried, covering her eye temporarily and wincing.

"Right, let's do this then before it gets out of hand!" SF Girl turned away, watching a wave of droids marching towards them from all directions, feeling AP Girl doing the same behind her. With a burst of speed, they both took off, pavement cracking and peeling up behind them as they launched. They smashed thru the droids in a straight line, which quickly began to fill back in as they stopped roughly a mile away from each other, sliding across the road with a screech before they shot back the way they came. They cut a second line parallel to the partially filled path, each drawing an arm back and then clapping their hands together. A shockwave billowed out from the impact, sending droids flying back from the epicenter, shattering windows, and knocking down scores more in a wave.

"Hah! That actually worked! Sweet!" AP Girl jumped up and down in joy, while also waving a throbbing red hand.

"Yea! We rock!" Her friend grinned, trying hard not to try to cool her own hand down, determined not to lose face in front of her friend. Placing her hands on her shapely hips, she gazed out at the knocked over droids. "Looks like we might not need that guy's help after all."

That's when the droids began to pick themselves up, and more marched in from the connecting roads.

AP gave her friend a wry look. "You had to say something."

Before the taller woman could respond, the droids suddenly stopped marching, arms and heads dropping down as they all gave a high pitched grinding down, as if winding down.

"Hey, check it out! Tank came through after all!" The shorter woman grinned widely, and they gave each other high fives once again, with opposite hands this time. "Yea! Go good guys!"

A loud boom rumbled thru the city streets, quickly followed by several more. The two women glanced to each other. "I think he might be in trouble." SF girl pointed out, prompting her friend to roll her eyes.

"Ya think? Come on, we gotta fly!" AP Girl jumped up into the air, dust puffing behind her. SF Girl looked up, not sure how she was going to do the same. Still, she wasn't going to let April get clear, so she focused herself, and then willed herself to go to the sky…

...a larger puff of dust billowed behind her, and she gave a mixed whoop of surprise and joy. "Woo hoo! I'm right behind ya!"