After what felt like the longest ride of Hiro's life, they managed to escape their pursuers. Hiro almost collapsed in relief when Gogo declared they were in the clear.

"Well, we made it out by the skin of our teeth. Where are we headed to now?" Tadashi asked her.

"We're on the Perlemian Trade Route right now," she said, leaning back in her seat.

Hiro's ears perked up at that. "The Perlemian Trade Route? Are we close to Coruscant then?"

Gogo let out an irritated huff and turned to glare at him. "No, we're not headed towards your high class hellhole. Those bastards behind us chased us effectively in the opposite direction."

Honey and Wasabi shared a panicked look and turned to her in unison.

"We're not heading to Coruscant? Where are we going? I thought we were trying to get to the Senate and the Jedi Council to get help for Joralla," Honey said. It was clear by her rigid posture that she didn't approve of their new route.

The pilot swiveled around to face her, a stormy look on her face. All the males in the compartment scooted away from them.

"Look, Princess, if you want to die that badly I can shove you out the door into open space, but I plan on staying alive. We're not going there because we can't make it through that armada of ships trying to blow us to pieces," Gogo snarled.

Honey bristled visibly at that, drawing to her full height to look down imperiously at her. "I am a senator, not a princess. And excuse me for wanting to send aid to my people as fast as possible. We can't all be as self serving as you," she said sharply.

Gogo sprung out of her seat and Tadashi grabbed her arm to hold her back.

"I may be self serving, but in case you didn't notice I've been dragging your sorry asses across the galaxy all day, so-"

"Okay. Let's calm down guys. We're all tired and stressed- let's not say anything else we might regret," Tadashi cut in, stepping between the two women. Honey glared over his shoulder at Gogo, and Gogo continued to do the same. Meanwhile, Hiro and Wasabi attempted to blend in with the walls.

Tadashi sighed. "Look- I know you want to get back to your people, Honey. And we are doing everything we can, but we can't go back to Coruscant right now. We'll have to find another way to get there, and I promise we're not giving up on your people. We just need a little time."

She deflated at that and took a step back. She knew he was right, and she was just high strung because of everything they had gone through in the past few days. But for goodness' sake, could anyone blame her? Well, anyone besides the stubborn woman piloting them that is.

Good looks aside, the woman was really starting to get on her nerves. But that was probably the stress talking again.

She held back a sigh. She really needed a nap. And a day without another life threatening crisis occurring.

Gogo stalked out of the cockpit dead set on kicking Fred out of the gunnery so she could have some time alone. She could have gone to an empty room, but she was too on edge to just sit around or take a nap. Manning the guns seemed better suited for her at the moment. Plus she could let Fred know that they were out of danger for the time being. She couldn't tell him on the intercom because sadly that was broken. Maybe she could get him or Tadashi to fix it later.

She reached the gunnery and slapped her hands onto the backrest of Fred's seat, scaring him half out of his skin. Which was not an exaggeration. His skin was halfway transformed to green scales before he realized what was going on.

"Kriff, Gogo! Give a guy a little more warning. I almost had a heart attack!" he said, hand pressed to his chest in fright. The scales receded back to peachy flesh.

She snorted and gave him her most unimpressed look. "You'll survive. Anyway, I came down here to relieve you from your post. We've shaken off the enemy for now, so you can go pilot and convince Hamada the elder to get some rest."

She practically pushed him out of the seat to claim it for herself, causing Fred to narrowly miss falling in a heap on the floor.

"Um, okay," he said, "But why are you down here then? Don't you want to get some rest too?"

She was too pissed off to be having this conversation. Even if it was a perfectly valid question.

"I'm fine. Just get Hamada to sleep before he collapses from exhaustion," she snapped, throwing in a glare for good measure.

He raised his hands in placation and stepped away. She clearly wasn't in the talking mood, so he would ask her about it later. In the meantime, he had a Jedi to find.

Gogo listened to Fred's footsteps fade away before she threw her head in her hands and groaned.

Stupid Jedi getting her into this mess with their stupid senators and their stupid sith enemies. For fuck's sake, she thought the sith were just a myth. A scary story to tell children to get them to behave.

And that senator. She made Gogo want to rip out her own hair. Firstly because she was so self-righteous. Where did she get off bad mouthing Gogo like that? She wasn't a fucking saint- and she wasn't living in the lap of luxury either. People in her position didn't get to indulge in steadfast morality.

The second reason she drove Gogo insane was that she was ridiculously beautiful. She was tall and lean, had long flowing hair, bright eyes, and carried herself with grace even during times of duress. Plus, she had the balls to stand up to Gogo, which was impressive enough on its own. In other words, she was exactly Gogo's type. Kriffing hell.

How did she always end up getting mixed up with attractive do-gooders? Hamada was bad enough, but at least he was male, and therefore off her sexual radar. Now this insanely gorgeous specimen showed up out of nowhere with him?

She was so fucking screwed.

Fred passed the Wasilsi on his way to the cockpit and gave them a friendly smile of encouragement, but they only returned it half heartedly. Oh well. They were having a rough week, so he couldn't blame them.

Hiro followed soon after, but he seemed a lot happier to see Fred.

"Oh, hey Fred. Gogo said she was going to go relieve you. Did she seem, um, okay when you left?" he asked nervously. He couldn't seem to stop moving his hands- they fiddled with his clothes, then his hair, and then tapped restlessly against his leg.

Fred tilted his head curiously at him. "She was a little cranky. Seemed fair enough after the day she's had. Why? Did something happen?"

Hiro made a squeaking sort of gurgle and flapped his arms around. "Uh, you know, I'm not really sure if I should- I think I'm going to go rest up before we land...wherever. So... I'm just going to go now..." he trailed off before darting around Fred and down the hallway.

Huh. Well, something had definitely happened. He'd worry about it later though. For now, he had a different problem to attend to.

"Hey, Smiles. Mind handing me the reigns while you get some shut eye?" he asked, sweeping into the cockpit and settling into the pilot's seat.

Tadashi startled a little at his voice, but turned to smile at him all the same.

"I wasn't expecting you to take over. Did Gogo send you up here after she kicked you out?" he asked, reaching a hand out to run it down Fred's arm.

He grinned at the Jedi and replied, "How did you know? Wait, I've got it- you were using your magical Jedi powers to read my mind, right?" They both chuckled at that- Fred knew of course that Tadashi's powers didn't work like that.

"Guilty as charged," Tadashi said. He sank a little further into his chair, eyes blinking slowly as he tried to stay awake.

Fred took the hand on his arm and wrapped it in one of his own. "Get some sleep, Smiles. I've got it covered here."

Tadashi pouted at that and looked like he was about to protest, so Fred hurried to clarify what he meant. "You can still stay here, but at least close your eyes for a bit. You're running on steam right now, buddy. It'll be better if you're in top shape when we land."

It was enough to placate Tadashi for the moment. The Jedi settled into a more comfortable position in his seat, keeping his hand interlocked with Fred's.

"Speaking of landing, where are we headed?" he asked before the other nodded off.

Tadashi took a minute to think about it before he answered, "Missarassa. The Force is calling to me. It wants me to go there. Maybe I'll be able to find some answers for how to solve this mess."

Fred squeezed his hand a little tighter. "Missarassa it is. I'll wake you when we get there," he said, leaning over to give him a quick peck on the lips.

Tadashi sighed in contentment and drifted off to sleep a few seconds later.

A/N: yet another update in record time. Don't get your hopes up for more lol. Do you know that I totally forgot I was going to add honeygogo until this chapter? Well, it's gonna happen. I swear gogo will get nicer lol