Chapter 24-Escape

Abi's pov:

Cells, as it seemed, were my new home. Consistently I'm imprisoned in one of these chambers of hell. Sometimes belonging to the Empire, but in today's case, Jabba Desilijic Tiure, also often referred to as the great 'Bloated One'.

It seemed to me that the infamous Hutt didn't give much care to his cells though, regardless of the fact that he was continuously using them. The slabs of concrete within them were un even and eroded, and the only slither of light came from the miniscule window that peeked out from the floor of this prison. And it wasn't as if the pathetic excuse of a window gave of enough light to make the barest amount of the jail visible, I'm lucky to even manage to see the outline of my own hand.

I suppose I shouldn't be complaining, Jedi are tolerant, and persevere, so I very well will fall in those footsteps.

Suddenly, I inadvertently toppled onto my back on the dodgy floor, nausea circling within my gut. I wrapped myself in the duvet, waves of nausea adding to my misery.

Suddenly, my brain felt like it would swell beyond the capacity of my skull and now my dehydration was too obvious to ignore.

Again, my stomach lurched and gurgled. I raised my heavy eyelids half way only for them to fall shut. I raised them again and swung my bare feet to the concrete again. It was cold and damp underfoot. One bleary look passed my azure eyes, and then I was leaning forward prepared to hurl.

My stomach contracted violently. My meals from the last week propelled into the air and splattered the eroded floor space and wall of the cell. I heaved again and once more the room was sprayed. I felt weak. I sank to my knees and retched until only clear liquid was coming up. I surveyed the mess with bleary eyes as my stomach gradually settled.

Where had that came from? I couldn't think of anything to cause such a nauseous action. Supposedly the dehydration, or deprivation of food. Perhaps simply the stress.

Abruptly, there came a faint hum. Perhaps not a hum, but a twitching echo. It was barely audible, but I could hear it. The sound came from the rusting bench, the sound something between the buzz of a Lock Pick droid, and the blow of an X-Wing engine.

With caution, with both reasons of aspiring to avoid walking on my last weeks lunch and not wishing to frighten and scare off whatever the noise belonged to.

The nausea now fully evacuated from my body, I crept towards the sounds source, and as I peaked around the oil slicked leg of the bench, I found myself staring square faced at a miniature droid. And, quite frankly, it was plain adorable.

For an eye, or what I suppose would be the eye, was a single large ebony sphere. And the body, well, figure of the droid was quite tiny and round, and on the surface was two short wings, one on the left, and one of the right. It was coloured in oranges and whites and light greys, and floated a few centimeters off the ground.

Lucky, he doesn't have to sit on this dreadful excuse of polished concrete.

Softly, I spoke to the very tiny droid, not aspiring to scare it, "hey, little guy".

It chirped in response, proving why hypothesis wrong, as I had believed it'd be shy, where as the droid, in fact, is quite courageous, or just not shy.

I chuckled, a slight grin on my rosy hued insolence, "what's your name fella?" I questioned, cautiously branching my hand out so it can crawl up my arm, and, with success, it did.

Raising it to eye view, I observed the rudder, and read the aurebesh letters upon it, printed in a white scale.

RX-8347.

RX-8347 spoke again, mustering in binary the words "what is your name?"

I humbly grinned, "call me Abi, Rex. Rex… hmm, can I call you that?"

The droid beeped in a chirpy tone. That's a yes.

"Great" I agreed, continuing to observe the structure of the droid.

"So why are you here Rex?" I strike a conversation, in simple curiosity. After all, why would a droid be in a prison cell in the one and only Jabba the Hutt's palace?

Rex chorused with beeps.

"Came here to investigate, eh? You some kind of spy or something?"

Rex beeped again, more negatively this time.

"Then what do you mean investigate?" I inquire further, mildly confused by what Rex was leading on.

Rex bleeped to myself an explanation, his hurried droid tone, high pitched from his littleness. It was just so adorable, I can't stress how cute this droid is.

"To investigate the planet?" I knitted my defined chestnut brows in thought, wasn't that task for explorer droids? "are you some kind of exploration droid?"

Rex chirped with affirmative.

I arched both my eyebrows, in, admittedly, startle, "you, an explorer droid? Then what are you doing trapped in this hell?"

Exploration droids are second-degree droids designed for investigating planets. They're often assigned to scout vessels, as I've heard. They're often equipped with repulsorlift units and advanced sensors., which is perhaps why Rex would've so easily sensed my presence. Exploration droids are one of the main subcategories of second-degree droids, same as astromech, environmental, engineering, and sand sophisticated repair droids.

Rex replied in a low tone of beeps, obviously negative.

"How in the blazes are you trapped? Your small, can't you fit through a gap?" as I speak, I observe the cell, and then I immediately realize, the only gap was the window. "Oh".

Again, Rex exhaled with a string of beeps, sounding, if it were even possible for a droid, smug.

"Yeah, yeah" I surrendered, settling Rex back to the ground, when a thought struck me. Nearly like a bolt of lightening.

"Hey Rex? I may have an idea on how to escape" I announced. Why had I been afraid? Everything would fall into place, it was how the Force worked. I suppose, their are perks with being engulfed in it's power.

I settled into a cross-legged position of the floor that was all but erosion, and together, Rex and I formulated a plan.

XXX

Well, I cut this chapter shorter then I had originally planned, but that only means next chapter is going to be more action-packed!

I hope it was good enough, and as I promised in the previous note I left, a major plot twist is impending XD

Review, comment, favourite, follow and all that, it is honestly going to make SUCH a difference!

~ BB