Blaze: new chapter and I'm going to have a bit of fun on this one
Darth: considering what it's based on, I do think you will have fun
Severus: Blaze has an idea? Should we run?
Revan: nah, it might be fun
Severus: Blaze's idea of fun is … weird
Revan: good point
Blaze: here is the next chapter and I hope that you like it and find it funny
Disclaimer: I do not own The Great Escape, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, printers or rubber ducks
Chapter 11
The Great Escape: Stages 1 and 2
Somewhere Above Coruscant…
Blaze peered at the city-planet that rose up in front of her before she glanced at the gathered people behind her. She could see Dooky the Friendly Ghost, what the heck is he doing here?, arguing with Brom, Murtagh, Padmé and Anakin playing LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, Arya, Leia and Arwen fighting with swords and lightsabers, Ahsoka, Morzan, Harry, Annabeth and Eowyn were looking for Harry's wand again and Luke, Luna, Hermione, and Aragorn were having a pillow fight.
"WOOHOO!" Legolas shouted driving Mace's Mustang onto the bridge of the Executor incidentally running Yoda, Qui-Gon, Thalia and Nasuada over and crashing into the console.
"You just crashed my Mustang!" Mace screamed stalking onto the bridge and glaring furiously at Legolas.
"I didn't do it," he shouted.
"You're behind the wheel, you idiot!" exclaimed Frodo walking into the room with Sam, Grover, Zoe and Draco just behind him.
"DRACO, GET BACK HERE, YOU KRIFFING SLEEMO!" Leia screamed firing blaster bolts at the blonde wizard who had to leap back and forth to avoid the blaster bolts.
"It wasn't my fault," Draco screamed over his shoulder running away.
Leia dashed onto the bridge and everyone could see that her hair was dyed neon pink with purple stripes. "I'm going to kill you!" she snarled.
"Calm down, sweetheart," Han said coming to Leia's side.
"He dyed my hair neon pink and purple," Leia shouted. "I'm going to blast his kriffing brains out."
"It wasn't me. It was Sirius and Remus!" Draco shouted from where he was hiding behind one of the tech chairs next to the console.
"Don't go blaming me, Malfoy," Sirius snapped appearing out of nowhere with Remus, Orizzle, Percy and Poseidon just behind him.
"That sounds like something you would do, Black," Snape sneered from where he was standing beside Revan.
"Shut up, Snivellus," spat Sirius.
"STOP CALLING ME THAT!"
"Or what…OUCH!" Sirius cried out in pain when a blast of Force lightning hit him in the rear. "Who did that?"
Revan lowered his hand before pointing at Dooky.
Sirius glared at Dooky. "Accio Ice," he spat and, when Ice sailed into his hand, he began stabbing Dooky in every spot he could see.
"I'm a ghost. How the hell could I have done that?" Dooky protested before wincing as Sirius continued to stab him. "Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow! Stop it!"
"What are you doing here anyway?" demanded Vader. Anakin had stopped playing LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean and Luke had stopped his part in the pillow fight to help Vader dump the technicians on the bridge of the Executor into vats of honey and then tossing them at Chewbacca who immediately began ripping their arms out of their sockets.
"What are you doing here?" Dooky retorted.
"Anakin and Luke invited me over to help get rid of the technicians," said Vader with a shrug.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow! That's it, I'm getting the bloody hell out of here," Dooky screamed before he dissipated and returned to wherever it was that the dunderheads were currently located.
Blaze turned around. "All right," she said. "I have a very good idea."
"Uh oh," said Murtagh.
"I watched a TV show last night that I really liked and I decided to sign three teams up," Blaze said happily before she gazed at everyone. "Snape, you and Revan will be one team. Which color do you want to be?"
Snape and Revan talked about it quietly amongst themselves. "Blue," Revan stated finally.
"Why blue?" Vader asked.
Revan pointed a blast of Force lightning at Vader who immediately dodged out of the way. "'Cause Force lightning is amazing!" he said happily.
"Yeah it is," agreed Snape.
Blaze rolled her eyes. "All right, the next team will be Eragon and Hermione," she said.
"Why the bloody hell would I want to team up with that idiot?" Hermione exclaimed glaring at Eragon.
"What did I do?" Eragon whined.
"You are a whining little brat," exclaimed Hermione.
"I am not a whiny little brat, you mudblood!" Eragon screamed.
"Ha, this time I wasn't the one who called you that," Draco cried as Hermione whirled around on Eragon.
"Petrificus totalus," she shouted and, when Eragon was petrified, she added, "mobilicorpus," and immediately moved Eragon before dropping him into one of the crew pits that was suddenly filled with water and piranhas.
"OW!" Eragon shouted angrily.
"You two are paired up and that's that," Blaze said firmly.
"But I don't want to…" began Eragon.
"If you don't team up with Hermione when I will strap you to a kayak without your magic and send you to the biggest and fastest rapids that I can find with the stranger tossing rocks at you from above."
Eragon paled before he slowly nodded.
"So what color do you want to be?"
"Purple," Hermione declared.
"Don't I get a say in this?" Eragon whined.
"No you don't!"
"All right," Blaze said before the two of them could begin arguing again, "The last team will be Luke and Arya."
"But Ary is mine!" Eragon screamed.
"I'm person not a possession you idiot," Arya snapped slamming a printer on Eragon's head before interlocking her fingers with Luke's causing Luke to smirk and Eragon's, who was surprisingly still conscious, hair to burst into flames.
"Cool off you idiot!" Ahsoka exclaimed before she tossed Eragon into a pool of ice-cold water.
"What color do you two want to be?" Blaze asked.
"What color do you want to be?" Luke asked Arya.
"Let's go with Silver," Arya declared.
"All right."
"All right, so what are we going to do?" asked Revan.
"It's a game show called The Great Escape," said Blaze. "Three teams will be placed in a place and they must find four things, assembly the four piece key with those pieces and escape without getting caught by the guards. I have decided that the place you must escape from is going to be Coruscant itself. Each team will be placed in the dungeons beneath the Jedi Temple…"
"There are dungeons beneath the Jedi Temple?" echoed Luke.
Anakin also looked surprised. "Cool," he said.
"Yeah cool!" Luke exclaimed.
"You will find a map in the cell where you are placed and a key that'll let you out of the cell. Once you find the piece of the key in the Jedi Temple, and avoid the guards, you will go to Palpypie's apartment at 500 Republica where you will find the second piece of the key. The third piece of the key is located in the Library of Science and the fourth piece of the key is located in the Senate Building. You have to go to each of these places in the order I have said and you have to avoid the guards. If you are caught by the guards, which are myself, the stranger and Anakin, then you have to drop everything you have gotten except for the map and return to the detainment center, which is the part where you started the game i.e. the dungeons beneath the Jedi Temple. Once you have all four keys, you will need to make your way to the spaceport and highjack a spaceship before making your way to the Executor where you must find the host who will be Yoda."
"Sounds like fun," Luke said happily.
"What are the rules?" Hermione asked.
"The rules are simple," said Obi-Wan.
"Oh great, Obi's making the rules," Anakin groaned.
"Great," Luke groaned.
Obi-Wan glared at them. "The first rule is you cannot steal a piece of the key from another team. If you do then you will be disqualified," he said. "The second rule is if you hurt or run over Yoda when looking for him then not only will you be hit constantly with his gimer stick," Yoda grinned, "you will also be disqualified. The third rule is that no wands or lightsabers may be used during the game, which is why we are taking your lightsabers and wands away from you before the game begins"
"Doesn't sound too bad," Luke commented. "But we can't use lightsabers? That's crazy!"
"All right then let's begin," Blaze declared ignoring Luke and Luke glowered at her.
The Dungeons Beneath the Jedi Temple…
"Begin the game will when the bell rings," Yoda's voice declared sounding all over the place as the three teams were guided into a cell and chained to the wall. "Find a map you will and take you to the first stage it will. Keep your map with you if caught by the guards you can."
"And no, stranger, you can't send them back even if you don't like them," shouted Blaze.
Ah man.
"And you can't narrate while being a guard."
Fine. Leia? Padmé? Wanna take over?
All right, we will take over.
The stranger popped up at Blaze's side.
"Ready to begin are we?" Yoda's voice asked.
"We're ready," Anakin said as he finished chaining Luke and Arya to the stone wall in the cell he was in. The stranger finished chaining Snape and Revan to the wall while Blaze finished chaining Hermione and Eragon on the wall.
Then Blaze apparated away holding on to Anakin's arm and the stranger followed suit.
"Then begin the game will now."
DING!
STAGE ONE
The Blue Team…
"Great, how the heck are we going to get out of these?" Snape demanded pulling at the chains.
Revan frowned. "Can't you use wandless magic?" he asked. "I mean, Obi-Wan said we can't use our lightsabers and our wands but wandless magic and the Force weren't disband."
"Oh, right." Snape gestured to the cuff with a murmured "alohamorra," and the cuffs snapped open. He then touched Revan's cuffs and opened them with a murmured spell. Revan rubbed his wrists before gazing around.
"Okay, now where's the map?" he asked.
"I don't know. Come on, the key to get us out of this cell is with the map."
The two of them immediately began looking for the map and the key.
The Purple Team…
"GET ME OUT OF THESE BLASTED CUFFS!" Eragon screamed struggling valiantly against the cuffs.
"Oh stop that you idiot," Hermione, who was already freed from her cuffs, exclaimed before she murmured "alohamorra," and the cuffs opened. "Now help me find the blasted map and key."
"Why don't you just find it yourself?" Eragon sneered and was promptly slapped across the face.
"I am not doing all the work, you lazy git," she snapped back and the rest of them began searching for the map and key.
The Silver Team…
"Have you found the map yet?" Luke asked struggling to free himself from the cuffs while using the Force.
"I could use a little help," Arya retorted; she had just used a simple spell to free herself from her cuffs.
"I can't get free from these kriffing cuffs," Luke screamed struggling to get free from the cuffs.
Arya sighed before casting the spell to free Luke from his cuffs.
"Thanks."
"Your welcome."
The Purple Team…
"You idiot, why the heck did you toss the light at the wall?" Hermione screamed glaring angrily at Eragon and then at the lantern that was lying in pieces next to the wall.
"I didn't mean to," Eragon protested.
"Bloody hell," growled Hermione as she began feeling along the wall for the map and the key that came with the map. She frowned before face-palming. "I forgot we can use wandless magic."
She glanced at Eragon. "I did the first spell so you have to help me out somehow," she said curtly. "I can't see anything."
"Fine," Eragon growled before he murmured a spell and a ball of light appeared floating above his hand.
Hermione thanked Eragon before immediately began looking for the map and the key again.
The Blue Team…
"I think I found something, Severus," Revan called from where he was running his fingers along the wall of the cell.
Snape jogged over to Revan's side as he pulled out a piece of parchment with a map drawn on it and, within the folded map, was a key. "Good job," he said before he examined the piece of parchment. "Okay, it says here that we have to find the Room of a Thousand Fountains."
Revan grinned. "I remember where that is," he said before he jogged to the cell and peered out of it. He slipped his hand through the cell and slipped the key into the lock before turning it. The lock clicked and the door swung open.
"Yes! Let's go."
"Be cautious," Snape warned Revan as he glided out of the cell just behind Revan and the two of them began making their way past the other cells.
"BLUE TEAM HAS ESCAPED DETAINMENT!" Ahsoka's voice screamed over the intercom.
"SCREAM YOU DO NOT HAVE TO!" Yoda's voice screamed back.
"NOW WHO'S SCREAMING?"
Snape shook his head. "Dunderheads," he murmured before he and Revan came to a stop near the staircase that would lead to the first floor of the Jedi Temple.
The Silver Team…
"Oh blast it. They're ahead of us," Luke exclaimed peering beyond the bars at Snape and Revan as they disappeared onto the floor above their heads.
"Stop watching them and help me for crying out loud!" Arya shouted back and Luke immediately dashed over to help Arya. He and Arya tore apart the entire cell but still couldn't find the map and the key.
"It must be in the wall," Luke said before he began running his fingers across the wall until his fingers brushed against something and he grinned. "I have it." He pulled the map from the wall before unfolding it to reveal the key
Arya peered at it over Luke's shoulder. "Room of a Thousand Fountains? Where's that?"
"I think I know where it is or at least it's general location," said Luke before he frowned as he gazed through the window of the cell. "Hey, what are those blue ferrets doing dancing in the rain? That's awesome!"
"Focus!" Arya snapped before she took the key from Luke and unlocked the door before she and Luke hurried out of the cell.
"SILVER TEAM HAS ESCAPED DETAINMENT!" Ahsoka screamed over the intercom.
"STOP THAT YOU WILL!" Yoda shouted.
WHACK!
"OW!" Ahsoka shouted.
"Come on," said Luke quietly before he and Arya ran toward the steps leading to the floor above their heads.
The Blue Team…
"Okay," Revan murmured eyes fixed on the map while the master spy Snape scouted out in front of him. "It says here that we will be presented with a riddle when we enter the Room of a Thousand Fountains and we have to find the item that solves the riddle. Once we find the item, we will find the first piece as well as a clue as to the location of the second piece of the…"
"Stop!" Snape hissed before pushing Revan into a room and closing the door as the stranger rounded the corner and shined his flashlight down the corridor.
So I really can't send them back even though I heard something?
YES!
Okay, you don't need to yell.
The stranger walked down the corridor before rounding the corner but Snape and Revan waited for a minute before they stepped out of the room and continued on their way to the Room of a Thousand Fountains…
…Only to trip over a rubber duck in the middle of the corridor.
"Blasted rubber duck," Revan growled pushing himself to his feet and Force pushing the duck behind them before he and Snape ducked down a corridor and pressed themselves against a wall as Blaze walked down another corridor, examined the rubber duck, shook her head and continued walking.
"Let's go," said Snape and the two of them began moving rapidly toward the Room of a Thousand Fountains.
The Purple Team…
"Have you found the bloody map yet?" Hermione snapped glaring at Eragon.
"I can't find it. Someone stole it from us! They did!"
"Shut up and keep looking. Everyone else is getting ahead of us!"
"Fine!" Eragon continued to search until his fingers ran across the parchment that was in the stone wall. "I FOUND IT!"
"Don't scream, you idiot!" Hermione snapped before slapping Eragon upside the head and taking the key. She unlocked the door before stepping into the corridor and Eragon, examining the map, followed him.
"It says we have to find the Fountains Thosuand a of Room? What the…?"
"You're reading it backwards you idiot!" Hermione said irritably taking the map from Eragon.
"PURPLE TEAM HAS ESCAPED DETAINMENT!"
"STOP SCREAMING YOU WILL. Knew I did that a bad idea it was for Skywalker to give you that megaphone."
The Silver Team…
Luke tripped over the rubber duck and slammed face first into the floor. "Ow," he hissed.
"Be quiet or we'll be caught," Arya snapped before she grabbed Luke and drug Luke into a nearby room and closed the door as Anakin walked by.
Blaze popped up. "Anakin," she said smiling.
Anakin took a step back. "Awkward," he said. "Weren't you supposed to be patrolling the area near the Room of a Thousand Fountains?"
"Oh yeah. Byes!" Blaze apparated away.
"Teenagers," Anakin muttered shaking his head before he disappeared around the corridor.
"Let's go," Luke whispered before he and Arya dashed out of the room and down the corridor.
The Blue Team…
"Hurry up, get inside!" Snape hissed and Revan dashed into the Room of a Thousand Fountains. "Oh bloody hell. I see a guard coming. They might come into the room."
A light shone through the door.
"Blast it!" Revan dived into the nearest pool of water and Snape followed suit before holding his breath as he gazed up through the water as Blaze peered into the room and shrugged before walking away.
"Is she gone?" Snape said lifting his head out of the water to look at Revan who was shivering.
"Blast, I forgot how cold these waters were," he muttered teeth chattering as he climbed out of the pool. "And yes she's gone. Come on, another guard might be back at any time. Let's find that key."
Snape nodded and the two of them dashed to the other end of the room where three pieces of parchment with a strip of color along the top of it were placed and a riddle written on each parchment. Snape picked up the one with a blue strip along the top before reading it.
"At night they come without being fetched. By day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?" Snape read aloud.
Revan pursed his lips together eyes narrowed in thought. "At night they come without being fetched but are lost without being stolen by day. What could they be?" he murmured.
Snape thought long and hard about the answer and it came to him. "It's the stars," he said. "Quick, look for a star."
Revan, eyes going wide as he realized that Snape was right, quickly began looking around the room at least for a bit until they watched as Luke and Arya dashed into the room.
"Quick, pick up the riddle and read it," Arya called while Revan and Snape attempted to find a star.
The Silver Team…
Luke picked up the piece of parchment with a silver strip across its top before he began reading. "There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?" he read aloud.
Arya frowned. "I have no idea," she said.
"That's the idea. We need to figure out what the answer is and then find it somewhere in here," Luke said putting the piece of parchment down before frowning.
"I hear something," Arya hissed before she and Luke dashed toward the wall and crouched down in the shadows. Luke found himself hoping Snape and Revan would get caught but his hope was in vain for Snape and Revan, having heard the guard coming too, dived into one of the pools of water; the ripples had barely stopped when the stranger stepped into the room before gazing around with a frown shining his light all over the place. He shrugged before walking back out and the door closed behind him.
"Think, what could the answer be?" Arya whispered sharply.
Luke thought and thought and thought but the answer eluded him. "Oh blast it!" he growled watching as Snape and Revan swam out of the pool and began looking again for whatever it was they were looking for. "They probably already figured it out. Why did Revan get lucky and get someone who was good at this logic stuff?"
"Yes why did I get the dumbnut?" growled Arya.
"I'm not the dumbnut. Eragon is."
"Good point."
The Purple Team…
Hermione dashed into the room before dragging Eragon in by the ear. Eragon was nursing his nose from where he had hit it on the ground after tripping over that rubber duck. They had nearly been caught by the stranger but managed to dive into a random room, which incidentally was the same room the other teams had used to hide, to avoid being caught.
Gazing around, Hermione spotted Snape and Revan rushing back and forth around the room while Luke and Arya looked like they were arguing. "Come on," she hissed grabbing Eragon and rushing to the other end where the third parchment with a strip of purple across its top was placed.
She picked it up before reading aloud, "What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?" before she frowned and thought quickly about what it was.
"Hurry up," Eragon hissed.
"Shut up," Hermione hissed back glaring at Eragon.
"Why don't you make me!"
"I would if we weren't teammates!"
"Shut up!"
"You there, purple team," Anakin called stepping into the room and shining his light on Hermione and Eragon. Hermione immediately gazed around but the ripples in two of the pools told her that the other teams had already dived into the pools to hide and they were too busy arguing to have heard Anakin's arrival.
"Oh bloody hell," she growled glaring at Eragon as Anakin walked over to join them and proceeded to guide them back to the detainment center.
"PURPLE TEAM HAS BEEN CAPTURED!" Ahsoka shouted
"STOP SCREAMING ALREADY," Yoda shouted back.
The Blue Team…
Revan waited until the door closed behind Anakin and the Purple Team before he broke the surface of the pool he and Snape had been hiding beneath and glanced at Snape as he appeared behind him. "Those two were too busy arguing they didn't notice Anakin's arrival," he commented.
Snape nodded in agreement before they climbed out of the pool and immediately began looking for the star. Luke and Arya were seated beside the pool they had just swam out of probably thinking about the riddle they had been given.
"Look, I think I see something," Revan whispered to Snape before leading the way toward one of the stone walkways hidden behind the flora and fauna of the large greenhouse. In one of the bushes surrounded by flowers was a star and Revan knelt down in front of the bush before reaching into the bush and pulling on the star. The star shaped stone was connected to a piece of dark wood and a fourth of a circle of durasteel with markings on it.
"I found it," Revan said pulling out the piece of the key and the dark wood before he turned the dark wood over in his hands. "But what in the world is this?"
Snape shrugged. "Come on," he said "Let's get to the second stage: Palpypie's Apartment."
Revan grimaced before nodding and the two of them took off running toward the entrance to the Room of a Thousand Fountains.
"BLUE TEAM HAS COMPLETED STAGE ONE!" Ahsoka shouted as Snape peered out of the room before hurrying into the corridor with Revan just behind him.
"STOP…oh forget it," Yoda muttered.
The Silver Team…
"Damn, Snape and Revan are ahead of us. Hurry up and think," Luke snapped.
"I'm thinking, I'm thinking," snapped Arya before her brow furrowed as she continued to think. "I have it. It's a watermelon."
"A what?"
"A watermelon. It's a type of fruit..."
"I know what a watermelon is. Come on, let's look for it."
"Hold up, I hear someone coming." Luke and Arya quickly crouched behind a bush not wanting to dive into the pool again and watched as Hermione, who was glaring furiously at Eragon, and Eragon jog into the room.
"You're lucky I figured out what the answer to that riddle was while we were being escorted back to detainment. Now help me find a penny."
"What the heck is that?'
Hermione's glare could have melted rock.
Luke and Arya began searching for a watermelon while Hermione and Eragon searched for a penny. It took them a long time but Luke finally shouted at Arya that he found the watermelon and Arya jogged over to join him. The watermelon was buried in a bush and they had to fight to remove the watermelon.
With the watermelon came a piece of the key and a piece of dark wood.
"On to Palpypie's Apartment," Luke declared.
"Do you know where it is?"
"Uh…the general area."
"I guess that'll do. Let's go." Luke and Arya dashed out of the room.
"SILVER TEAM HAS COMPLETED STAGE ONE!"
Update for Viewers on the Executor
Blue Team, Snape and Revan, have left the Jedi Temple behind and are now on their way to 500 Republica where Stage Two will take place and Silver Team, Luke and Arya, is close behind while Purple Team, Hermione and Eragon, is still attempting to finish off Stage One.
The Purple Team…
"Where the bloody hell is the blasted penny?" Hermione growled glaring at Eragon as if it was his fault they couldn't find the penny.
"It wasn't my fault," Eragon protested.
"Just keep looking."
The two of them began looking again but they came up empty handed. When they heard the sound of guards outside, Hermione pushed Eragon into one of the fountains and dived in behind him and ducked beneath the water. She peered out as the stranger poked his head into the room before walking away again.
"I think the stranger's the last guard in the Jedi Temple since everyone else is going to the second stage. Ugh, we're behind because of you."
"It wasn't my fault."
"Just keep looking."
It took them another ten minutes before Eragon shouted that he found the penny, the key and the clue to the next area.
"Finally," Hermione muttered before examining the piece of dark wood and glancing at Eragon. "Let's go.''
Eragon nodded and the two of them ran out of the Room of a Thousand Fountains.
"PURPLE TEAM HAS COMPLETED STAGE ONE!"
INTERLUDE
The Executor…
"I outta slice you in half with Obi-Wan's lightsaber," Leia screamed glaring angrily at Draco.
"I swear I didn't do it," Draco shouted back.
"Be quiet you two will be. Trying to watch the game we are," Yoda snapped hitting Leia and Draco on the shin with a gimer stick.
"Ow!" They both exclaimed at the same time.
"And scream you do not have to, Ahsoka," Yoda added to Ahsoka.
"Sorry but my master gave me this megaphone," Ahsoka gestured to the megaphone in her hand, "and I decided to put it to use.'
"Yes but break my eardrums you did not have to."
"I said I was sorry."
"Apologize you did not!"
"Oh…uh…sorry?"
Obi-Wan rolled his eyes and sighed. "Ah Anakin is definitely rubbing off on you," he said with a shake of his head.
STAGE TWO
The Blue Team…
"Here's 500 Republica," Revan said pointing to the apartment complex in front of them. "Do you see any sign of the guards?"
"No I haven't seen anyone. I really don't want to get sent all the way back to the dungeons beneath the Jedi Temple," said Snape before he frowned and ducked down an alley pulling Revan with him as Blaze guided her speeder past the area shining her flashlight at places. Snape and Revan quickly crouched down beside a dumpster before peering around the corner just as Blaze's speeder passed by.
"All right, let's go," Snape murmured before they walked to the mouth of the alley and peered toward the apartment complex. "Do you know what floor Palpypie's Apartment is…?"
"Down!" Revan hissed before pressing himself flat on the ground and Snape immediately followed suit before they rolled to the stone wall and pressed themselves against it as Anakin's speeder flew past. Once the speeder was gone, the two of them ran to the entrance to the apartment complex and disappeared into the lobby. They crouched behind one of the form couches before watching as people walked back and forth across the lobby.
"There, the turbolift," said Revan pointed with his hand toward the lift.
"Bloody hell, it's clear. How do you suppose we're going to get to the floor without being seen from the outside?" Snape hissed.
Revan frowned. "Blast, I didn't think about that," he murmured before he hissed and pulled Snape down behind the couch before pulling the blanket that lay over the couch and pulled it over them as the stranger walked into the lobby and gazed around before he walked out again.
"Wait, over there," Snape whispered pointing toward another turbolift that wasn't clear. "What's that?"
Revan's eyes went wide. "That's the Chancellor's personal turbolift. It should take is directly to Palpypie's apartment if we can get in it."
Snape narrowed his eyes. "I have an idea," he said with a smirk.
The Silver Team…
Luke and Arya dashed across the walkway toward the apartment complex before slipping into the complex and immediately diving over the receptionists' desk in the lobby of the apartment building. They crouched down as Anakin stepped into the room gazed around and began making his way toward the door leading into the room beyond the receptionists' desk. Luke and Arya pressed themselves beneath the desk, which was very crowded and both of them didn't exactly smell great since they were both sweating.
Anakin walked past the desk before slipping into the room beyond it.
"Now, how are we going to get to Palpypie's apartment?" Luke whispered.
"I don't know. Look at where Snape and Revan are going."
Luke followed Arya's gaze to find Snape and Revan walking behind Palpypie in the shadows of the building as the idiotic dunderheaded idiot, er I mean stupid, uh I mean sleemo…
Get to the point.
Oh shut up.
Make me.
…
…
…
Will you two stop fighting? You have a job to do.
She started it.
I did not.
Did too.
Did not.
Did too.
Shut up will you!
Why are you so upset?
I haven't had chocolate all day!
Why not?
BECAUSE THE MORONIC IDIOT PALPYPIE STOLE MY CHOCOLATE.
Okay, there is no need to scream.
Oh thank you, stranger, for the chocolate.
Welcome.
Anyway, Luke glanced at Arya. "That doesn't help us sneak into the apartment," he whispered.
"We can always wait for when Palpypie leaves his apartment.
"That'll take some time but all right."
The Purple Team…
Hermione glared at Eragon. "That's a stupid idea," she snapped.
"What is? I mean, there are stairs leading to Palpypie's apartment. Why can't we take them?"
"'Cause it'll take too long."
"Well we can't wait here. If we stay here then we stand a bad chance at being caught by the guards."
Hermione sighed. "You do have a good point," she muttered before she and Eragon immediately began jogging toward the steps and up the steps toward the floor on which was Palpypie's apartment. "Now which floor is his apartment on?"
"I thought you knew!"
If looks could kill, Eragon would have been in pieces.
The Blue Team…
Palpypie, mumbling curses under his breath, glared furiously at the door of the turbolift. "I command you to open," he hissed not noticing Snape and Revan standing behind them. "Blast it, why the heck did I lock my kriffing keys to my kriffing speeder in my kriffing apartment?"
'He complains too much,' Revan mouthed to Snape who nodded in agreement before they slipped into the turbolift ahead of Palpypie as Snape cast a charm that distracted Palpypie long enough for them to slip past him. The door closed before Palpypie could step into the turbolift and it began its steady climb to the sixtieth floor where Palpypie's apartment was.
When the turbolift doors opened, Revan and Snape dashed into the room before covering their mouth. "Ugh, it smells worse than a hutt in here," Revan complained.
"Tell me about it," agreed Snape before he looked at the dark wood again. "I think this has something to do with it."
"Probably so," said Revan. "So…what? We look for something made out of dark wood."
"Might be the best thing. Look, there's an armoire over there."
Revan jogged to the armoire before opening it to reveal Jar-Jar.
"Thank yous, thank yous. Mesa finally free. Mesa finally free," Jar-Jar cried leaping out of the armoire only to be run over by a train.
"Not again," Jar-Jar complained only to be run over by a train again.
Snape shook his head. "Jar-Jar," he muttered before he peered over Revan's shoulder into the armoire obsidian eyes scanning the area until he spotted something at the back of the armoire. He stretched out a hand before trailing long, slender fingers across the wood until it ran over a crack. He frowned before digging his nails into the crack and pulling it free to reveal a hole. He then stretched out a hand into the hole before his hand searched through the hole until it ran across something that felt like the first piece of the key.
"I think I have it," he whispered.
"I hear someone coming," Revan hissed and Snape pulled the piece of the key and what was attached to it before they dived into Palpypie's bedroom and the door slide closed behind them. They heard someone step around the room and then the door to the turbolift slide closed and Snape heard Blaze speak.
"Silver Team, drop what you have in your hands and come with me."
"Dang it," Luke shouted angrily.
"SILVER TEAM HAS BEEN CAPTURED!"
Revan peered out of the room as Blaze guided Luke and Arya into the turbolift and the turbolift doors slide closed. He examined the area again with narrowed brown eyes before he glanced at Snape. "Coast is clear," he whispered.
Snape nodded before glancing at the piece of paper that was found with the piece of the key. "It looks like a piece of a book; a book on physics to be more precise."
"Then we just have to find a book on physics when we go to the Library of Science?" asked Revan.
"Probably," replied Snape.
"BLUE TEAM HAS COMPLETED STAGE TWO!"
"I said stop screaming you will!"
The Purple Team…
Hermione, out of breath, collapsed into Palpypie's apartment before gazing around as Snape and Revan dashed past them toward the turbolift. "Ah come on," she exclaimed glaring at their backs.
"Best keep up," Revan called over his shoulder as the two of them disappeared into the turbolift.
Eragon was breathless as he appeared behind Hermione. "Did we…did we get here..get here before anyone?" he gasped.
"It looks like before the Silver Team but Snape and Revan are still in front of us," Hermione said.
"G…Great," Eragon gasped.
The two of them began searching the room for the key. Actually, they, more or less, tore the entire apartment apart. "It has to be here," Hermione exclaimed.
"Maybe it's in something that has to do with this piece of dark wood," Eragon suggested.
Hermione's eyes lit up and she nodded eagerly before she ran toward the armoire and opened it up to reveal Saruman.
"So this is where that closet led?" Saruman gasped stepping out of the armoire only to be run over by a train.
"Ah come on, why does this keep happening to me?" he exclaimed.
Hermione rolled her eyes, pushed Saruman out of the way just as he was run over by a train again and began searching the armoire. She saw a piece of wood missing from the back of the armoire, the back of which had just appeared out of nowhere, and began looking for another part where she could remove the wood. When she found it, she removed it, tossed it at Eragon and stuck her hand into the hole before pulling out the second piece of the key and a piece of paper.
"I got it."
"Purple Team has completed stage two!"
"Finally, yell you did not."
"Someone's coming," Eragon hissed.
"Quick, to the stairs!" Hermione hissed back before the two of them dashed toward the staircase only to trip and they began rolling down the stairs to land with a thud on the floor beneath their feet.
"Ow!"
To Be Continued
Blaze: this part will continue in The Great Escape: Stages 3 and 4
Darth: that's cool
Blaze yup
Darth: what's gonna happen?
Luke: someone's gonna win
Anakin: who?
Luke: you'll just have to wait and see
Blaze: I know that this chapter wasn't that funny but I hope that you liked it either way. Please review and I will update as soon as I possibly can.