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Last one was short. Sorry.



"No no! Put me down! No! No!" Joad screamed. She kicked her feet, struggling against the thing that held her. "Chewie!" bellowed Han, "get her out of here!" Chewie roared back an affirmative and continued to struggle with Joad. Joad kicked, but was dragged off to the room where Jacen and Jania waited. It was a safe room, and as soon as Chewie shut the door, it locked fast. Joad frowned at the door, then looked at Jacen and Jania in question. "Dad's really paranoid sometimes," Jacen said, shrugging. "Something about bounty hunters." Jania nodded. "It's ok in here. There's some cool stuff; some of its Force stuff, so I don't think you can use them. But there's some other stuff....." she trailed off, watching Joad pace by the door. Sometimes Joad would lean against the door, straining to hear. "You know, you're a very strange girl." Joad stopped and glared at them. "If HE found me," she waved her arm toward the door, "then my daddy should come soon."

Bossk was now next to the door, crouching beneath the window. In his scaled hand he held a miniature C-22 fragmentation grenade. Carefully setting the controls, he placed it down at the foot of the door, rolling away. There was another one on the other side of the door. He needed enough blast to through the door but he didn't want to kill anyone, just yet.

Leia peered out the window at the same moment Bossk pulled the second grenade from his belt. "Where did that lizard run off to?" she asked, glancing down at her power pack in her blaster and her other packs at her belt. She had learned long ago that it was good to have extra power with you in times like this. "Probably cooking up something bad for us. Step away from the window, he might try to blow the door down." Han took his own advise and moved farther back, pulling Leia gently with him. Chewie growled and sniffed. No sooner had they retreated a few meter into the front hall was the door blown away. They were thrown backwards, though not nearly as hard as they would have been if they were closer. Leia shrieked Han cried out and Chewie roared. Then, as the dust and noise settled and the ringing in their ears began to quiet, they took cover behind a knocked over couch.

A translation droid flew across the room, slamming into the wall, a fountain of sparks erupting from it. Janda was in a rage, smacking anything she could reach or was stupid enough to get into her reach with her massive slug-like tail thing. A timid servant entered the room, but scampered out again when he saw Janda approach him.

"Where is that Bossk!" The hermaphrodite screamed. "I want to know where he is NOW!" The servant poked his head through the door and squeaked about how he had been trying to tell her that. "Well, get in here and speak up!"

The servant scurried in and told Janda that Bossk had sent in a transmission. The transmission had said that Bossk was getting the Fett girl right as he spoke and there was no sign of Fett yet. He was on Naboo and he gave the exact coordinates. Janda thumped her tail on the ground with a mighty squilch.

"Send some back up! Some space support! I don't want Fett meddling with my plans!"



~~~ Ok, I've been delayed, but it's with all my stories, not just this one! Yeah, I'm directing a play. Ugh, rowdy kid headaches.