Death Watch: Part 10
"Well, we don't have a lot of time so we'd better get started," Tanya stated, pulling some backpacks out of a crate. "Here," she said, tossing the packs to Ahsoka and Barriss. "We can use these to carry the explosives. We'd better start filling."
It took them three minutes to completely fill the packs with all the detonators, charges, fuel cells, and explosives they could fit, but Tanya worried that it wasn't enough to destroy the factory and Mandalorian iron transports. After the packs were filled to the brim with the explosives, Ahsoka, Barriss, and Tanya made their way back to the center of the factory. Being more careful than ever to not be seen, Ahsoka, Barriss, and Tanya threw the explosives onto the molten mandalorian iron vats, pouring machinery, cooling chambers, and assembly machinery.
"Well, we finished the ground floor, so it's time to rig the catwalk," Ahsoka suggested. Tanya frowned. By then they had used a considerable amount of their available explosives and they still had to rig the mandalorian iron transports.
"Then, we'd better hurry and only use the minimum amount of explosives needed," Tanya instructed. They climbed the stairway leading to the catwalk but unknown to any of them, the top of Tanya's pack was undone and one of the detonators fell out of her pack and dropped down the stairs, making a huge metallic CLANG! on every stair it hit.
"HEY, YOU!" a mandalorian warrior shouted, running toward them with several warriors right behind him.
"RUN!" Barriss yelled, sprinting up the stairs.
Ahsoka took off after her but Tanya yelled, "Wait!" and ran back down the stairs, picking up the fallen bomb before running back up to join Ahsoka and Barriss. Ahsoka, Barriss, and Tanya threw more detonators on the catwalk, as well as the lifts, machinery, and every bit of the roof they could reach. Ahsoka, Barriss, and Tanya were halfway across the catwalk when more warriors blocked off the other side and the ones who had followed them up blocked they way they had come up. In other words, they were trapped.
"Are the charges set?" Tanya asked.
"Yeah," Ahsoka answered.
"Then activate them," Tanya told her.
"Explode the building with all of us inside along with the remainder of our explosives! Are you insane?" Ahsoka exclaimed.
Tanya frowned like she was thinking, then held up her hand, making a small space between her thumb and her index finger.
"A little," Ahsoka interpreted, disbelieving.
"Trust me," Tanya pleaded.
Ahsoka looked at Tanya's desperate face and brought out the activator on her wrist. I hope we live to regret this, Ahsoka thought. She closed her eyes and activated the explosives.