A/N - Hi friends! This is a short memory of the day Cye and Jango were freed from slavery with some unexpected help. Enjoy!

40 BBY

"Ori'vod! Catch!"

Jango caught the blaster by the barrel and brought it down upon the slaver's head. With a quick flip he caught the handle and shot at his chains, and then freed Cye with another blast at her chain. "Come on Ika'vod, time to go." She nodded, picking the other blaster off of the slaver's corpse.

The last of the True Mandalorians ran through the smoke filled tunnels, the sounds of blasters and the screams of the unlucky echoing through the doomed spice mine. Jango took point, pushing the cowering slaves out of the way and blasting down anyone who refused to move. Cye covered their rear, shooting down anyone getting too close to them. She wasn't going to take any chances, whether it was frantic guards or panicked slaves, no one was going to keep them from their freedom.

"Where are we going?" she shouted as Jango turned a corner. "The exit is the other way!"

"We're not leaving that way. We're taking a ship."

"We're what?"

"Someone is attacking the mine. Slavers and pirates are expecting everyone to head to the loading ramp." Jango looked over his shoulder, a savage grin spread across his face. "They won't be expecting us to pilot our way out of this hellhole."

"Gar serim!"

Cye had forgotten the pleasure of her heart pounding, the burning in her lungs as they ran without chains through the maze of tunnels. The air around them was heavy with dust, the earth shaking violently above them loosening the rock and supports.

A woman in a guard uniform ran past them at a junction, barely missing Jango. "I'm almost at the transport hanger. We need to evacuate!" she screamed into a comm link on her wrist. "They're collapsing the mine!"

Her shout was punctuated with a beam breaking away from the ceiling and slamming down on her back, pinning her. Cye grabbed Jango's arm, pulling him down the tunnel towards the fallen guard. "Come on, we need to get past before the roof caves in!" She ran ahead, leaping over the woman as she struggled helplessly under the beam. She ran ahead to where the rough tunnel transitioned into rust colored steel flooring.

"Please! Please, help me!" the guard cried as Jango stepped over her. She grabbed his leg, trying to pull herself from under the beam. "If you help me, I'll give you your freedom I swear it!" Jango stood over the guard, chest heaving.

"Ori'vod, come on! We don't have much time!" Cye stopped at the metal floor as it opened up into a larger room. "Jan'ika! K'olar!"

"You fool," Jango snarled, "I am free." The guard's pleas were quickly silenced with a blaster bolt to the head. He bent down and pulled her wrist comm off before running to catch up with his sister. The room they entered held several terminals, flashing warnings of surface attacks and imminent collapse in sections of the mine. There were two other doors to the room with no windows. "Haar'chak! Which way do we go?"

"Hold on, I can find out." Cye sat down at one of the computers clearing alarm codes. "I'm going to see if I can pull up a map of the compound. Keep an eye out for trouble."

"On it."

The computer alarms were focused on the mining tunnels and she had to cancel them one at a time. Once she finished it was easy to pull back from just the tunnels to view the full map of the facility. "I see the hanger."

"How do we get there?"

"Working on it." Cye analyzed the list of exits from the tunnels. There were several on the hanger side of the schematics, but with the press of a few buttons she found the correct tunnel exit. "Found us. I'm mapping paths to the hanger now." A blaster shot hit the wall a half meter from Cye's head. "Looks like they found us too!" She rolled out of the chair as Jango returned fire. "Toss me the comm, I'll download the map."

"Trade me!" He swept his hand in a wide arc to throw the comm, still blasting with the other as he caught hers midair. Cye caught the device and plugged it into the data port. A couple shots hit another terminal, sending sparks flying and a slew of new alarms sounded. A moment later the earth rumbled behind her followed by shouting and the crash of rocks as the tunnel collapsed sending dust and debris into the room with the two Mandalorians. "I took out our rear exit. No one's going to be following us from the mine."

"Good," Cye replied as the data transfer completed. "I've got our path to freedom right here." She grinned, the stretch of her cheeks feeling foreign to her. It had been a long time since either of them had smiled.

"Oya! Good work, Cye." He held out his hand and she grabbed his arm. With a quick pull she was back on her feet. "Let's go."

"This way."

The chaos in the tunnels paled in comparison to the pandemonium in the halls of the slavers compound. Slaves attacking guards, droids running haywire. It was clear that the slavers were trying to keep everyone from making it to the hanger. They barricaded themselves behind canisters of spice.

"Cye, any other options?"

"No, not unless we want to fight our way back around and can manage to cut through a metal wall."

"Alright, you take the left, I'll cover you from-"

"They cannot stop us all!" a metallic voice shouted above the chaos. "Droids! With me, we will overwhelm them!" The droids that they thought were simply in the way now all stopped and turned towards the barricade. Then as one they ran, rolled, and climbed their way to the slavers blocking the door. A wave of chrome and bolts tore their way through the barrels covering the slavers in spice and kicking it up in the air so the hall was as dusty as the tunnels. Blaster fire took out some of them, but like the mysterious droid said, they couldn't stop them all. They couldn't stop the droids from trampling them either.

"Kandosii'la," Cye breathed. "Incredible."

"Let's go, before they leave with all the ships."

Jango took her hand and they ran after the droids. With the mass of angry metal plowing the way, Cye and Jango cleaned up any loose ends still alive in their wake. They killed anyone still breathing with cold efficiency, leaving no witnesses.

Mando'a Translations:

Gar serim - *Yes, you're right.* *That's it.*

K'olar! - Come here! Get over here at once!

Haar'chak! - Damn it!

Kandosii'la - stunning, amazing