Disclaimer: I am not Rick Riordan or George Lucas.

Enter Ben Skywalker, in the Jedi Temple Situation Room. Ben storms around and curses as Jacen Solo and Danni Quee look on.

Jacen. It's okay. We're here to help.

Danni. Just tell us what happened.

Ben. [sighs] Okay, guys. This is serious. Fiver's gone. If we don't get him back, this whole place is going to explode.

Danni. Explode? Er, okay. Just calm down and tell us who Fiver is.

Ben. Fine. Come here.

Ben leads Jacen and Danni to the site where the Millennium Falcon is being built.

See?

Ben draws Jacen's and Danni's attention to the Falcon's hyperdrive.

There's your problem.

Jacen. [frowns] Er, what are we looking at?

Ben. Okay. [sighs] You want the full explanation or the short explanation?

Jacen/Danni. Short.

Ben. The alluvial damper goes here. It's a subsystem to regulate the flow of ion particles to help keep the hyperdrive from overheating. The dozen transparisteel tubes on the outside - those are filled with powerful, dangerous stuff. That glowing red one is hypermatter from my parent's forges. This murky stuff here - that's water from the Font of Power. The stuff are the fuel cells which are going to power the ship's power core, but the mix ratio has to be controlled, and the timer is already operational. That means without the alluvial damper, this stuff is all going to vent into the chamber at the same time, in sixty-five minutes. At that point, we'll get a very nasty reaction.

Jacen and Danni stare at Ben for a moment, not understanding.

Danni. Er, could you make the short explanation shorter?

Ben. Fine. In one hour, the fluids will mix, and this room goes thermal - one klick of forest turns into a smoking crater.

Danni. Oh. Can't you just turn it off?

Ben. Bloah, I didn't think of that? Let me just hit this switch and . . . No, Danni. I can't turn it off. This is a tricky piece of machinery. Everything has to be assembled in a certain order in a certain amount of time. Once the fuel cells are rigged like this, you can't just leave all those tubes sitting there. The power core has to be put into motion. The countdown clock started automatically, and I've got to install the alluvial damper before the fuel goes critical, which would be fine except . . . well, I lost the alluvial damper.

Jacen. You lost it. Don't you have an extra? Can't you pull one out of your tool belt?"

Ben shakes his head.

Ben. The alluvial damper took me a week to make. And yes, I made a spare. I always do. But that's lost too. They were both in Fiver's storage compartment.

Danni. Who is Fiver?

Ben. [rolls his eyes] Fiver is an astromech droid, R7 unit. I saved him from one of the supply closets and got him in working order. He's just like the droids my parent has in her workshop. Astral helper, carries all my important droid parts.

Danni. So what happened to him?

Ben. I — I got careless. I gave him an oil bath, and . . . he ran away.

Jacen. Let me get this straight. Your droid ran away . . . because you gave him an oil bath.

Ben. I know. I'm an idiot. A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot. I didn't use the right kind of lubricant. I was distracted. I thought maybe just once he wouldn't notice. Then I turned around for a while to install the fuel cells, and when I looked for Fiver - he was gone. Little trail of oil and bolts leading outside. He could be anywhere by now, and he's got both alluvial dampers.

Danni. So . . . we have exactly one hour to find your runaway droid, get back your alluvial damper, and install it in this engine, or the Millennium Falcon explodes, destroying Jedi Temple Situation Room and most of the forest.

Ben. Basically.

Jacen. We should alert the other Jedi. We might have to evacuate them.

Ben. No. Look, the explosion won't destroy the whole praxeum. Just the forest. I'm pretty sure - like sixty-five percent sure.

Danni. Well, that's a relief.

Ben. Besides, we don't have time, and I — I can't tell the others. If they find out how badly I've messed up . . .

Jacen and Danni exchange looks.

Jacen. Fine. But we'd better hurry.

Jacen, Ben, and Danni exit the Jedi Temple Situation Room.

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