"Jo! I'm reading you! I'm stuck in prison 65GHI orbiting Vatuan, I was on a rescue mission to get my dad and Acxa, but the doors shut behind me, and I have no way of getting out! Please get here as fast as you can! I need help! Repeat, I need help!"
Jo nearly leapt out of her seat, but grabbed the artillery set and a printed map of 65GHI. She then climbed out of her window, and ran down the fire escape like a madwoman. She latched onto a speeder that was taking two drunkards to the prison, and knocked out the driver. She took the wheel, ignoring the racist cries of the drunks. When she reached the loading bay for the nearest cruiser, she snuck into one of the smaller entrances, nobody noticed her except for one lone guard, who she knocked out and stole the armour of.
When the ship reached the station, it was immediately boarded by millions of people, prisoner and guard alike. They all looked flustered, for some unknown reason.
Ignoring the tsunami of escapees, Jo ran through the crowd and rushed towards the centre of the station. Eventually she saw a thick metal door that looked like it could withstand the weight of a thousand yalmors. She spoke into her transponder.
"Mira! I'm at a door that has JHGU56B stamped on it, is this the one I'm looking for?"
"Yes, there's a control panel to your right, it closes and opens the door."
Jo ran to the panel. There were so many buttons and switches on it. Jo couldn't work with buttons or switches, that wasn't her strength at all. The whole keypad looked like a really confusing quirkle table where no one played by the rules.
"Mira, which button should I press?"
"On the keypad with the dates, type this in. Varga, varga, quintant, phoeb, tick, deca-phoeb, varga, dobosh."
Jo did so, and the doors to the cell slowly creaked open. Mira was standing inside, looking tired and unkempt. Jo probably looked the same, only more so.
Behind Mira, Keith and Acxa sat tied up in chairs. Mira had obviously been trying to undo the handcuffs, but had had no luck. The paladin and his wife were still firmly tied in the chairs, but the duct tape used to keep them quiet had been ripped off, leaving a red streak around their mouths. Courtesy of Mira Kogane.
"Hey, Jo." Acxa said.
After Jo had broken the handcuffs with her strong arms, they had escaped the station in a confiscated olkari pod. When they were just leaving the atmosphere of the moon, Mira mentioned that they should go to Jaqo, as Shay, Hunk and Alex were seen there two days ago.
Acxa leant back in her seat, "How do we know they're still there? They could have moved. A lot can happen in two days, you know." She fumbled with a hairpin that was lying around the pod. "They wouldn't be stupid enough to stay there once they'd been spotted." She noted.
Keith agreed, "They're probably still in the Kobi system though. The place is huge, even by solar system scale, and completely drenched in galra installations." His hand was gripped on his blade, as it always was. "It would take at least a month to get out." He explained.
Jo interrupted, "So, let's say that they tried to leave the day after they were caught on camera. Yesterday. From the moon Jaqo to the edge of the system, it's about three light years." She put on her 'I'm-doing-maths' face that Mira found downright hilarious. "If that takes a month, then they're around the rings of planet Gai'sqe right now." She sighed. "I guess that's where we're headed, huh?" She looked at Acxa. Acxa shrugged, then turned to Mira. "Lead the way, Ma'am." She said.
The journey through the Kobi system was by no means easy.
It could be described using certain onomatopoeia, such as BANG! CRASH! KABOOM!
But I find it much too lazy to use those words as descriptions.
The BANG was a loose wire causing a fire in the dashboard, blowing the navigation system, so Jo had to play mechanic and fix it while Mira was still piloting the pod. The CRASH was the sonar failing to notice an asteroid. Jo had to fix that system too. At this point, she gave the entire system a check to make sure she didn't have to work on the ship any more than she had to.
The KABOOM was Mira accidentally setting off two dropper bombs and launching them into random space. Many eyerolls and facepalms followed.
At this point, the very damaged passengers voted on Acxa flying the ship, as Mira didn't seem to know the difference between the dropper bombs button and the booster thruster switch when, really, they could not have been more different.