Wyldstyle got up from her seat and approached the window, looking over Emmet's shoulder to see them rapidly orbiting around Mars, and quickly moving closer and closer to the Red Brick Planet.
"Well, this isn't going to make it in one piece," said Wyldstyle, looking around the escape pod they were currently in, adding, "These things were supposed to float around in space for long periods of time, and wait to be rescued by other ships."
"So, what exactly are the chances of us surviving a crash landing in this thing?" asked Zeon, turning to look at the others.
"The same changes of finding the one 1x1 piece in a mountain of 2x2's, 2x4's and 1x1 studs," said Perri.
Emmet never liked those odds.
"How long before we hit?" asked Laval slowly.
"About…ten minutes," said Perri, tapping a few keys on the on board the escape pod, and making a simulation of their flight path.
Wyldstyle sighed softly, slowly taking a seat in the escape pod; a heavy sigh escaping her.
"This can't be it; it just can't be," said Laval, pacing back and forth across the small space of the escape pod; his tone showing aggravation, not directed at the others, but to himself.
"What is there that we can do?" asked Perri, taking a seat next to Wyldstyle while Emmet took the other side, putting his arm around his girlfriend's shoulders, comforting her.
"We can't give up just yet!" retorted Laval.
A sudden sound from outside the escape pod caused all inside it to stop arguing among themselves, and to rush to the nearest window to see what was going on.
Outside, past the shrapnel and remains left behind from the space ship they had just been in, and just escaped, they could see the Conquistador, the sister flagship of the Malevolence, trying to fly off around Mars, thinking that there wasn't any survivors from the space ship.
But what was most surprising about what was going on what was going on around the Conquistador; explosions suddenly going off every side of the large ship, small bits of ship getting thrown off as smaller, tiny ships flew rapidly around the larger ship.
"What's going on?" wondered Emmet aloud, though he muttered it under his breath, not speaking to anyone in particular.
Just as he said this, one ship broke off from the attacking of the Conquistador, and started to flight towards the escape pod.
"Look! Someone's heading towards us!" said Laval, pointing at the rapidly approaching ship.
"Let's hope they're friendly towards us," said Wyldstyle, speaking loud enough to let the others hear her.
By the time she finished this sentence, the space ship had reached them.
The space ship was a unique design; no-one could mistake it for another ship, the design and colours were of its own.
While most of the ship was white paint, it had a few sand green and grey accents, with a bit of dark, and faded, red markings. There was also faded yellow markings across the top. There was a circular cockpit at the front of the ship, between two of the front vents, and a second regular cockpit just behind them.
A turret sat atop the ship, with what appeared to be escape pods on either side of the ship, level with the turret.
Black engines, stationed at the back of the ship, powered it forward, dark yellow burning out of them.
"What is that ship?" asked Emmet, in awe of the design of the ship as flood lights suddenly turned on, lighting up the floating escape pod. Two dark grey claws came down from the bottom of the ship, lightly grabbing onto the sides of the escape pod.
All of those inside the escape pod were thrown around the escape pod while it was being changed direction; Emmet ending up having his face pressed against one of the windows, with Laval and Perri piled on top of him, pressing him down against the glass.
The escape pod was finally attached to the bottom of the space ship, and the hatch opened up. Laval was the first to get to his feet, drawing his Fire Valious, growling defensively as the hatch was slowly pulled open.
What came out from the other side was…unexpected, to say the least.
Out from the ship, and into the escape pod, came a small Astromech Droid. The main part of its body and its short, stubby side legs were a dark grey. With a few buttons and a single arm visible in the main part of it, it looked rather…basic, and limited.
The dome head of the Astromech was a rusted red with a yellow line along the bottom. Two dark grey arms were on either side of the dome, with a few grumble-like beeps and some snaps of the claws from the sides of the dome.
"What is that…thing?" asked Laval, keeping the Valious raised to be on the safe side, yet when he thought about this a second time, he didn't real need to keep the sword raised.
"That's an…Astromech Droid," said Perri, getting up to her feet and approaching the small Astromech Droid, pausing when the grumbly beeps and blops grew louder, the arms on the side of the dome going forward and snapping warningly.
"Hey, easy there…We're not going to hurt you," said Perri, her voice going strangely softer as she approached the Astromech, before she looked around and spotted something that she could use to try and gain the Astromech's trust.
Grabbing an oil canister from one of the cupboards, Perrir had spotted that the Astromech was having problems turning on the rusty-looking joints of the legs and torso. Cautiously approaching the mech again, who grumbled again and sparked an electronic arc warningly, Perri said calming words as she drew nearer to the Astromech.
As she knelt down to the Astromech's level, she lifted the oil canister in front of the Astromech, before she began oiling the right joint between the leg and the main body. The Astromech kept one of the cameras in the dome on Perri, while keeping the other on the rest of the group behind Perri.
"There; that any better?" asked Perri, pulling back.
The Astromech turned its head slightly, looking at the joint; he rocked back and forth slightly, finding that side to be much smoother than it had been before. It let out a grumble-like beep, but it was more of a chuckle than a grumble this time.
"That good?" asked Perri with a smile, getting another slightly happy chuckle-like beep from the Astromech.
As she did the same to the other side, the hatch was opened up again and another figure walked in.
This one was humanoid, though her appearance was…up front.
She wore a smooth helmet with a visor that looked like a curved T-shaped, though the colours were what was most unique about her, along with her armour. The main colours were light pink, with dark pink accents. Her torso armour was dark pink, with faded blue and yellow Pauldrons on each shoulder. Dark pink knee pads covered her knees, with dark tan trousers.
"Chopper, what are you doing in here? You know what's going to happen if Kanan finds you…oh," said the new figure, surprise in her voice as she looked at the figures in the escape pod.
"Well, what do we have here?" asked the figure, a bit of sass to her tone as she put her hands on her hips.
"Uh…we're a rag-tag team of Master Builders…and a Chimaian, trying to stop a sequence of events from taking place, and save the worlds basically," said Wyldstyle, taking a step forward to become level with Perri, facing the Astromech and female figure.
"Hmm, where have I heard something like that before…" said the female figure, lifting a hand against the chin point of her helmet, a bit of humour as she spoke.
"Well, I think some introductions are needed. This grumpy Astro here is C1-10P, though he prefers it if you call him Chopper. And I'm Sabine," said the figure, taking off her helmet and holding it to her side; revealing a flesh-coloured face, with hair highlighted with orange and dark blue shades. A happy smile to her face as she spoke.
"Well…I'm Wyldstyle, the construction worker is Emmet, the Lion is Laval, the Chimaian, and those two with the blue hair-yeah, those two-are Perri and Zeon; Perri, the girl, and Zeon, the guy," said Wyldstyle, introducing everyone to Sabine.
"Are you traveling somewhere? Because you're not going to get anywhere in an escape pod," said Sabine with a slight smile, her other hand returning to rest on her hip.
"Yeah…our space ship was destroyed," said Emmet, scratching the back of his head.
"By the Conquistador, I'm guessing?"
"…Yeah."
Sabine chuckled gently, before she said, "Well, if you need to get somewhere, I'm sure the others won't mind if you guys tag along for a trip," as she turned and headed back into the ship she had just come from.
The figures in the pod looked at each other, wondering if they could trust them.
"Well, they seem nice," said Perri, before she felt something nudge against her hand; she looked and found it to be Chopper, letting out a few grumbles and chirps, before he turned on the spot and moved back into the main ship.
Perri glanced behind her, and shrugged at the others, saying, "I don't know about you guys, but I'm going with them." And with that, she walked out of the escape pod and into the space ship.
Zeon looked at the others, before he said, "I'm…going with her," as he pointed towards Perri as she went out, before quickly following after her.
Laval looked between Emmet and Wyldstyle, saying, "I'm with whatever you guys choose; I'm with you no matter what."
Emmet and Wyldstyle looked over at Laval, Emmet sharing a soft smile with the Lion, before he said, "That's good to know Laval."
"Well, I guess we can't do anything without them," said Wyldstyle, before she, Emmet and Laval headed out of the escape pod, and into the ship that had picked them up.
"What's this 'ship' called, anyway?" asked Laval as he entered the ship.
"You're on the Ghost," said a new voice at the other end of the corridor, causing them all to turn around in shock.
Blaze Darkrunner - Good, because there's more to come! Lol
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