"He is here." Darth Fred said calmly.

"Jason Kenobi? What makes you think so?" Kate asked him.

"A tremor in the Drill. The last time I felt it was in the presence of my old master, Jason." Fred explained.

"Surely he must be dead by now." Kate reasoned.

"Don't underestimate the Drill."

"The Trombones are extinct. Their fire has gone out of this world. You, my friend, are all that's left of their section."

Just as Kate finished speaking her walkie talkie signaled her.

"Yes?"

"We have an emergency alert in detention block AA23."

"The Princess? Put all sections on alert!"

"Jason is here. The Drill is with him." Fred said with certainty.

"If you're right…he must not be allowed to escape!" Kate said fiercely.

"Escape is not his plan. I must face him. Alone."

XXX

Keoni froze when he heard the sound of fists pounding on the locked cell bay door. It wouldn't be long before they blasted their way in. Keoni and Bruce retreated further into the cell bay only to be met by Chris and Amanda.

"Can't get out that way." Keoni informed them as the first sounds of alto sax fire echoed down the long corridor.

"Looks like you managed to cut off our only escape route." Amanda said, glaring at Keoni.

"Maybe you'd like to get back in your cell, your highness." Keoni said mockingly as he looked Amanda over.

Suddenly sax fire erupted over their heads. The troopers had broken through.

Amanda pulled Chris into one of the alcoves that held the cell doors. Keoni and Bruce took refuge in an alcove on the other side of the hall. Chris and Keoni began to fire at the sax troopers.

"A-10dr! A-10dr!" Chris signaled the student on his walkie talkie. "Are there any other ways out of the cell bay?! We've been cut off!"

"All sections have been alerted to your presence, sir." A-10 tried to shout over the noise coming from the walkie talkie. "The main entrance seems to be the only way in or out. All other information on your level is restricted!"

"There isn't any other way out!" Chris reported to the others as he continued to fire at the oncoming troopers.

"I can't hold 'em off forever!" Keoni said irately.

"This is some rescue." Amanda said sarcastically. "When you came in here didn't you have a plan for getting out?"

"He's the brains, sweetheart!" Keoni said angrily, indicating Chris.

"Well I didn't-" Chris was starting to say when he was interrupted by Amanda snatching the trumpet out of his hands and blasting away a grate on Keoni's side of the hall.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Keoni shouted at Amanda.

"Somebody has to save our skins!" she said before turning to fire at some more troopers.

Then she leapt across the corridor, tossed the trumpet back to Chris, and lowered herself into the destroyed grate.

"Into the garbage chute, fly boy!" Amanda ordered Keoni before letting herself slide down the chute.

"Get in there!" Keoni shouted to Bruchacca. But he just growled in complaint.

"Get in there, you big oaf! I don't care what you smell!"

Without waiting for more complaints, Keoni shoved Bruchacca down the chute.

"Wonderful girl! Either I'm gonna kill her or I'm beginning to like her!" Keoni said to Chris as he too crossed the corridor and slid down the chute.

Keoni fired a few more shots at the troopers before following the other down the chute. He let out a cry of disgust as he landed in a warm, sloppy pile of who knew what.

"The garbage chute! What a really wonderful idea! What an incredible smell you've discovered!" Keoni said as he tried to stand.

Meanwhile Bruchacca was beating his fists against the pressurized hatch that kept them imprisoned in the dumpster.

"We have to get out of here. Get away from there." Keoni ordered Bruchacca as he raised his trumpet.

"No, wait!" Chris tried to stop him but Keoni fired the trumpet at the door. The blast ricocheted off of the door and back through the room, nearly taking all of their heads off.

"WILL YOU FORGET IT?! I already tried it! It's magnetically sealed!" Chris shouted angrily.

"Put that thing away! You're going to get us all killed!" Amanda shouted at the same time.

"Absolutely! Look, I had everything under control 'til you led us down here! You know, it's not gonna take them long to figure out what happened to us."

"It could be worse." Amanda said grumpily as she stared at the muck she stood in.

Suddenly a groaning, creaking sound shuddered through the walls of the dumpster. Keoni looked around nervously, finally turning his gaze back to Amanda.

"It's worse."

But no sooner had Keoni finished speaking than the grinding noise resumed. Only this time, the walls actually began to move.

"The walls are moving!" Chris shouted, stating the obvious.

"Don't just stand there! Try and brace it with something!" Amanda ordered as she rushed over to a junked pole.

Keoni ran to help her but Chris hung back, trying to hail A-10 on the walkie talkie. But it did no good. A-10 had shut down communications in order to avoid capture. And while all of this was going on Bruchacca continued to wail and beat his fists against the locked hatch, completely ignoring Amanda and Keoni, who were still trying to raise the pole in order to hinder the wall's movement.

"A-10! Come in, A-10!" Chris continued to shout all the while.

"One things for sure. We're all gonna be a lot thinner!" Keoni said nervously when he turned back to see the wall closing in on them.

But finally, miraculously, A-10 activated the walkie talkie.

"Are you there, sir?"

"A-10?!"

"We've had some problems." A-10 started to say.

"Will you shut up and listen to me! Shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level! Do you copy?! Shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level!!" Chris screamed desperately.

"No! Shut them all down! Hurry!" A-10 shouted to Tim2.

Tim 2 set right to work and in almost no time at all, the garbage mashers were shut down. Just in time to keep Chris, Amanda, Keoni, and Bruchacca from being crushed like so many blades of grass on a football field.

Chris was still crouched in the garbage, shivering with fear, when he realized that the walls had stopped moving.

"HEY! YOU DID IT, A-10!!" Chris shouted, his words barely understandable through his excitement. "We're all right! You did great!"

A-10 breathed a sigh of relief, finally able to understand Chris' words.

"Hey, open the pressure maintenance hatch on unit number- where are we?" Chris asked the others.

"3827!"

Tim2 did as he was told and released them from the garbage pit. Once free, Keoni and Chris shed the sax trooper uniforms. Their regular clothes were on underneath.

"Now if we can avoid any more female advice, we'll be able to get out of here." Keoni said, staring pointedly at Amanda.

"Then lets get moving." Chris said.

But Keoni turned and aimed his trumpet at the open garbage hatch, more than a little pissed off.

"No wait! They'll hear!" Amanda shouted.

But Keoni paid her no heed. He fired angrily into the pit. The blast ricocheted off of the walls with deafening force.

Amanda grabbed Keoni's arm and spun him to face her.

"Listen, I don't know who you are or where you came from. But from now on, you do as I tell you. Ok?" Then, without waiting for an answer, Amanda turned and marched away.

Keoni stood there for a moment, shocked. Then he darted after Amanda.

"Look, your worshipfulness, lets get one thing straight. I take orders from just one person. Me!" he said angrily.

"It's a wonder you're still alive. Will someone get this big walking carpet out of my way?!" Amanda grouched as she shoved past Bruchacca.

"No reward is worth this." Keoni said to himself.

The foursome continued to walk through the corridors, trying to navigate the maze that was the flute station. But somehow they managed to find their way back to the docking bay from whence they had come.

"A-10, are you safe?" Chris asked over the walkie talkie.

"For the moment. We're in the main hanger across from the case." A-10 answered.

"We're right above you. Stand by."

"You fly in that thing?" Amanda asked as she stared at the battered Millennium Trumpet. "You're braver than I thought."

"Nice." Keoni said sarcastically as he dragged Amanda away from the window they stood by. "Come on."

The four were about to head down to the docking bay when they were confronted by a small troupe of sax troopers.

"It's them! Blast' em!"

The troopers hefted their saxes but Keoni was faster. He fired his trumpet into their midst and the troopers pulled back. Keoni ran right after them, screaming his lungs out in a kind of battle cry.

"GET BACK TO THE CASE!!" he shouted to Chris and Amanda as he and Bruchacca raced away.

"He certainly has courage." Amanda said admiringly.

"What good's it going to do him if he gets himself killed? Come on!" Chris said, taking Amanda's hand and running. Another group of sax troopers was soon on their heels.

They ran until they reached an open door and ran inside. Chris stopped just short of falling into an abyss that dropped off into the core of the station.

"I think we took a wrong turn." Chris said, gulping nervously as he noted how his voice echoed in the chasm.

"There's no lock!" Amanda cried out after she had shut the door.

Chris immediately turned to a panel that was mounted on the wall beside the door and blasted it with his trumpet.

"That ought to hold them for awhile."

"Quick, we've got to get across! Find the controls that extend the bridge." Amanda ordered.

"I think I just blasted it." Chris said sheepishly.

"They're coming through!" Amanda said frantically.

Suddenly sax fire ripped into the wall above their heads. There were sax troopers firing at them from a doorway on the other side of the abyss.

Chris handed Amanda his trumpet and she took charge of their defenses. Meanwhile, Chris was untying a role of fishing line from his belt. The line should suffice to hold their weight. He threw the reel that held the line up to a light fixture that hung overhead. The reel held fast and Chris pulled the line taught. Amanda had managed to shoot down all of the enemy troops that blocked their escape.

Without wasting words, Amanda put her arms around Chris and the two prepared to swing across the gap.

"Good luck." Amanda said to Chris, kissing him lightly on the cheek.

With that, Chris leapt from the ledge, clutching both the line and Amanda for dear life. Miraculously, the two cleared the chasm and made the ledge on the other side. Taking no time for congratulations, they continued to run almost the instant their feet touched the ground.