Double Fun-ness Mates! Both short, but there are two!

Chapter 6: Jailbreak!

"What the-?"

"Rubber-soled shoes. Isn't it nice that my uncle is cheap enough to by the cheapest non-skid soles on the market?"

Maul looked at her in amazement.

"What? You didn't know that rubber is a good insulator and therefore electricity can't go through rubber?"

"No, I just didn't know that you could still buy rubber-soled shoes. They stopped selling those in most of the big stores years ago."

"Says something about the age of these boots doesn't it?"

Maul looked over at her with a half-grin on his face,"You may have a point there."

"Can you bend the bars enough that I can get through? I mean I am the smaller of the two of us and therefore the more logical one to leave by that way."

"Possibly. Let's see how far I can bend them." Maul took off his shoes, put his hands in them, took off his socks so he would have better traction, and pushed against two of the bars of the cell.

It didn't work.

"Here, try pulling the bars opposite each other." Cyber demonstrated while not touching the bars. Maul did it and was able to push the bars apart until they were just wide enough to allow Cyber through. Cyber slipped through the bars and Maul let go.

"I'll be right back. Stay here and wait for me."

"Like I'd go somewhere else."

Cyber hurried off, leaving Maul behind her, pacing. She peered through a doorway, obviously into the gaurds' break room. There were about 10 of the frogmen in the room, and all of them were playing sabacc and talking in their strange language.

Luckily, they were so engrossed in their game and idle chit-chat that they didn't notice her. Also luckily, someone had been genius enough to install the controls to the prison cell in the break room and clearly label them as the controls in basic. Not so luckily, both the lightsabers and the controls were on the other side of the breakroom and there happened to be no way around the frogmen. She did the only thing any sane person could do in that situation. She darted across the room killing a guard as she went. After a momentary pause, she struck again knocking another guard halfway across the room. By this time, the guards had realized what was going on and had grabbed their poles. She also grabbed the pole from the dead guard. Using it as a staff, she quickly disarmed and knocked out the remaining guards, though not before one of them set off the alarm, calling for more reinforcements.

Chapter 7

Quickly, Cyber went to the controls, opening up the cell for Maul. Soon, Maul joined her.

"We're going to have company."

"I heard. Shall we split up or stay together?"

"Split up. It increases our chances of finding the control deck."

"Gotcha. Let's go."

They left, each going a different way. Cyber took the ventilation shaft, as Maul was too big to fit. After crawling for what seemed like hours, dodging the spare maintenance droid, and rubbing her hands almost raw, she found a vent looking into a room. In this room there was a holo-screen. On the holo screen was a live video feed from the entry room of Art Mer, obviously the way that the frog men knew who they were. The screen showed two men dressed as Jedi entering the room. The taller of the two was obviously older, had long, graying hair, and a close trimmed beard and moustache. The younger of the two looked to be about 13, had the padawan braid and light brownish-red hair.

"I could have sworn that I felt the tremors from here, Master," the younger one said.

"Well, let's see what we can find, but if this is another one of your wild goose chases, you get to clean the dishes this week."

"Yes, master."

Cyber went on, now worried that the Jedi might be able to track them and discover Maul and her presence on the ship. Their master's plans weren't ready to be revealed to the Jedi yet.

Eventually, she found the control room. Remarkably enough, the room was empty and the lightsabers were in full view of anyone who walked in.

After prying open the ventilation screen as quietly as she could, she dropped down to the floor and grabbed the lightsabers.

Then, pulling herself back up into the shaft as quickly as possible, she raced to find Maul, praying that she would find him in time.