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It took them at least half an hour to reach what seemed like the end of the tunnel. A bright red exit sign glowed from its place above them on another trap door. "Where do you think this one leads?" Anakin asked quietly.
"The basement most likely," Obi-Wan answered. Obi-Wan shut his eyes and probed the outside of the trap with the Force. The space above them was empty. "All clear."
Anakin nodded and beckoned Obi-Wan over to the wall where he had called the rope latter down from its place on a hook several meters above them,. "Shall we?"
"After you."
Anakin climbed up the rope latter with Obi-Wan close behind his and pushed the trap door open. It wasn't even locked! Anakin shook his head in disbelief.
"I have a bad feeling about this,' Anakin heard Obi-Wan say behind him as they rolled out of the trap door and onto the floor of what looked like a large storage room.
"Ah stop being paranoid." Anakin muttered. "Do you have the map of this place.
Obi-Wan didn't offer any replies this time, only took out a holochip and several seconds later a holographic 3D map of the laboratory appeared. "We only know what the left wing looks like," Obi-Wan explained implying the reason for why the right side of the map was blank. "We have ended up in the main storage which I presume this to be. So luckily we know where to go from here."
The Jedi slipped silently down the corridors of the base successfully avoiding several droid patrols and got into the main control room. Anakin knocked out the one man in the room with a solid him of his lightsaber hilt to the man's head. He sank into the chair at the main computer terminal and started scanning all systems, breaking through codes, and shutting down firewalls with Obi-Wan looking over his shoulder the whole time pretending that he knew exactly what Anakin was doing when in fact his former padawan had lost him at the first firewall. Instead Obi-Wan consented silently to be the lookout and stretched his senses out through the Force.
After ten minutes he could feel a patrol coming their way. Maybe they would pass and maybe not. "Anakin, there's a patrol coming our way are you almost done?"
"Yea I think I found the files I just have to break through their core code. It's giving me a headache." After a few moments of silence Anakin nodded. "Ok I have them." He plugged the datachip into the computers main terminal and started downloading the files all the while monitoring firewalls to make sure they didn't go up.
The patrol was outside the door by the time the files were half loaded onto the chip and Obi-Wan tensed, holding his 'saber in a tight grasp, ready to activate it at any moment. But the patrol went by.
Obi-Wan heard Anakin curse softly under his breath. "What is it?"
"Some of the firewalls are coming back up or their back ups anyway. If they detect me before I can disconnect they'll set off an ala-"
A harsh ringing sound ripped through the air and red lights started to flash at the corners of the control room. "Sith!" Anakin spat jerking out the holochip as it beeped a complete download a few moments too late. "Let's get out of here!"