Andrew Kai climbed aboard on a gunship and Moss Plot' ki followed. They entered the cockpit and fired the engines. "So far, so good," said Andrew, looking at all the monitors that showed him everything was running smoothly.
Commander Calvin's voice appeared on the radio. "Sir, everyone is ready. We are just waiting on you."
Andrew picked up the speaker and said, "I am all set. Just letting the engines warm up." He turned to Moss, "Check if everyone is ready in the back." Moss left the cockpit. A second later he came back and assured his master that everyone was ready. Andrew picked up the speaker and said, "Ok, we are all set now."
Moss tinkered with the controls a little and their ship lifted off the ground. The roof to the hangar opened and all four gunships left the hangar. They popped out the top of the Republic attack cruiser, and headed toward the blue dot, that steadily grew larger. Moss looked back and saw the attack cruiser disappear into hyperspace.
The ride to the planet went smoothly. No one spoke over the radio, for fear their transmitions might be picked up by the CIS. When they were close enough to see their target repairing station, a monotonous voice called out onto the radio. "What is your reasoning for coming here, and where is your star cruiser you traveled with?"
Moss and Andrew looked at each other in sheer horror. They realized that they would be discovered by there voices. There was silence; apparently the other three gunships have had the same contemplation. Then the droid's voice called out again with the same question.
Andrew picked up the speaker and said with his best impression of a droid's voice, "We have come here from a battle, our star cruiser has been destroyed, and we are all that's left."
There was silence. Everyone in the cockpit of all the gunships held their breath, wondering if Andrew's voice was good enough to fool the droid. Then there was a confirmation. Andrew exhaled, and smiled. "Take your pick of repairing stations," said the monotonous voice. The gunships that were just drifting during the conversation then all of them sped up towards the one they had picked out during the planning.
Meanwhile on the planet below, Orn Tenel was showing his guest part of the factory. A tan battle droid walked up to them. "What is it? Why are you here?" said Orn Tenel angrily.
"Sir, four droid gunships are landing on a repairing station," said the droid.
"So?" asked Orn Tenel. He knew that his guest was getting impatient, or at least he was.
"They say they are all that is left from a battle. But our sources say that there was no battle that took place near here. And even if there was, it would be too long of a journey for them."
"What are you talking about? There droids! They don't tire from space travel. Get back to work and stop wasting my time," shouted Orn Tenel. The droid wasn't about to argue so it went back to its post and Orn Tenel kept going with the tour.
All four of the ships landed with out any trouble. Andrew Kai and Moss Plot' ki stepped out onto the repairing station. They were greeted by two battle droids. "What a minute, I thought you said you had droids?" said one of the battle droids.
"We do," said Andrew. "We just need to see the droids that run the controls, first."
The droid thought about this for a minute then said, "Come with me." The two droids led the two Jedi down a hall then into a large room with more droids working at controls. "Thank you", said Andrew. The two droids left and the two Jedi walked up behind some droids and opened their backs.
The droids snapped around, "What are you doing?"
"Maintenance," said Moss. "Don't worry about it; it was authorized by Orn Tenel." The droid turned around and let the Jedi tamper with its wiring. They did it with about half the droids in the room. They didn't need many droids, so they ignited their lightsabers and chopped the rest up. They had no problem because they were weaponless.
They went over to a window that looked out onto the gunships. Andrew flashed a light, that signaled all was ready, and then the entry ramps were lowered and the clones walked out, three at a time. The Jedi ran out into the room were the gunships were. The droids were firing at the clones, crying out warning to other droids. Moss Plot' ki ignited his orange lightsaber and started to cut through the battle droids. Andrew Kai ignited his green lightsaber and joined the clones. The whole battle only took five minutes. The there were only seven clones that died.
Clone Commander Calvin stepped out and talked to the Jedi, "That was easier than I expected. I lost a lot less clones than I thought I would have."
"Yes, well we programmed the droids to not let out any distress signals to the other repairing stations. So we don't have to worry about them," said Andrew.
"Search the place until we are sure there are no more droids," commanded Moss. Clone Commander Calvin nodded and walked off. "I take it we will go down to the planet for our primary mission tonight, Master?"
"No, I want to stay here as long as we can. I want to monitor the droid activity on the planet and the other repairing stations. We cannot beat the enemy unless we know the enemy," said Andrew. Moss nodded and helped search for other droids, while Andrew sat at the edge of the repairing station looking through the glass, down at Bestine IV.