Cassian sighed as he slid himself into the pilot's seat. He knew that this next part was bound to get complicated. If Cassian could be sure of only one thing, it was that he despised the rule of law. Sure, he could see some benefits to it, but lawyers and legal speak had not worked to save his Home Universe. If it had then who knew where he might be now? It was unlikely that he would have ever felt the need to go on what he had accepted with a sense of unease, a suicide mission.

Cassian recognised that he was more of a do-it-yourself kind of guy, what benefit had it ever served anyone to wait around for others to do the things that you could? Maybe it was his old profession as a spy raising its' head again, but Cassian honestly wondered how much was likely to get done if he did not get off his arse and do something. If you wanted something done right, then you had to do it yourself indeed!

Shaking his head out again, Cassian put the grumbling thoughts of resting on your laurels to the back of his head and continued the pre-flight checks for the spaceship. When he was finally satisfied with what he was seeing, he pulled the lever that allowed the spaceship to 'disappear'. He did not think it counted as complete invisibility. It was simply camouflaging technology that was standard at home. Here though, here they did not have access to the same technology. He idly thought to himself that he could probably impress the people of this Universe, that or frighten them. The number of toys that he had to play with was quite frankly amazing. He had not known how much of a tech-head Dacia had been when they were first picked up.

It had taken him some time to learn more about the woman that he travelled with, given that he had not been sure that there were many (if any) Jedi Knights left, he had not given them a lot of thought. He preferred to think of the here and now rather than any larger matters that were not going to serve him, either immediately or ever. To say that Dacia had never surprised him would be a blatant lie. The very fact that the woman existed was a big surprise. He had sometimes heard campfire stories whisper about the Jedi Knights of old being aloof and unkind and uninterested. He had never chosen to speak of the whispers with the higher-ups in the Resistance because he was not interested in being on the receiving end of a reprimand.

Quietly, though, he thought he could believe them because he had long heard mutters of how unpalatable life could be under the Jedi order. He privately thought, that if the Jedi had chosen to open their eyes and make a few changes, then they might no longer be in this mess. It was possible that the Empire (when it was still burgeoning) had managed to get its hooks into people, who wanted things to change. Not that it was much better under the Empire when the only thing you had to look forward to was the death of your loved ones and yourself if you publically threw your lot in with the Resistance. Hope was a dangerous thing, simply because it could keep you awake at night hoping that things could change.

Attempting to dislodge the thoughts from his head, as his hand hovered over the switch that would allow him to launch into the hyperdrive that he still needed. His eyes darted over the small fuel gauge and grumbled to himself that he would still need to ensure that they could safely control the ship. It looked as if it was going to be a slightly slower trip, which was fine it was still only a few hours, the spaceship was fast enough for his taste, even without the risk of 'breaking your face' as you travel at extreme speed. Muttering to himself as he wondered where he was going to get some of the parts needed for the travel safely while still going extremely quickly. The easiest and quickest way was for him to be able to strip a spaceship from their home Universe for parts. Given that he was not likely to come across such a spaceship, that idea was firmly out of hand for now. He resigned himself to having to fabricate the parts that he needed.

Going over some of the equations he would need aloud with both BODHI and K-2SO helped, he liked having a list of what he would need. It either made him shake as he thought of some of the things he would need to do, or it made him feel relieved as he was able to visualise the length of the tasks he would need to complete. Enough time passed until he felt that he could safely leave the cockpit.

"BODHI keeps the spaceship flying, would you? There are a few things I want to discuss before we arrive at the Hague with Dacia and Jyn. Are they in the central computer nodule?" Cassian asked stressed.

"Yes, they are in there, I shall alert you if there are any problems with our route." BODHI dismissed Cassian.

Not wanting to spare the time to look over his shoulder, Cassian hurried from the room whistling lowly to himself. He was not sure what he should do next, but he knew that Dacia and Jyn would no doubt have some ideas for him. Which was why he was making his way along the gleaming silver corridors, right now he knew that he would have to take an uncomfortable conversation with Jyn and Dacia. It would not do him enough good, to simply ignore the topic until he was forced to sit up and pay attention.

It was with these thoughts in his mind that he felt his feet begin to speed up beneath him. It was more important than ever that he had this conversation, to him it did not matter how uncomfortable it made him, he needed to make sure that the women were on the same page. He remembered Dacia having once mentioned a phrase that she liked – singing from the same hymn sheet. He thought that in this case, it was particularly apt.

WHOOSH

"Dacia, I think that we have a problem on our hands. We are making good time to the Hague, but we do not have enough fuel to burn through to go into hyperdrive. For now, we should be okay, but I do not want to push it. Have you had any more luck in tracking down the origins of the fact that you have been able to connect with the Force?" Cassian asked worriedly.

"Right, that is fine, for now, I do not think we have to hurry, but I am starting to think that this world has been breached. If we allow it to slip, we could have an even bigger problem on our hands." Dacia started before sighing.

"We can deal with that, for now, we should be more focused on finishing our work. It would not be a good thing to be caught with our metaphorical pants down. Do you have any further ideas on how we can track them down?" Jyn worriedly interrupted.

"I have been thinking about that, and for now all we can work on is that we do not get found. Jyn think about starting an email to MI6 and explain to them that we may end up cutting and running. I do not need to point out that if I can trace that location even further, we may end up having to leave them hanging out to dry. For now, our top priority is our safety, like I said I am willing to throw everything away if I should detect even the slightest sign that not everything is as it should be, then we should not be afraid to cut and run." Dacia lectured sounding stressed.

Cassian grimly nodded, he could only guess what was playing on Dacia's mind, and he had no intention of getting in the middle of things. He was already far enough into the mix; he did not want to cause himself any additional headaches, not when he simply knew what part he was to play.

"Okay, I will take extra care not to overplay our hand, yeah? We do not want anyone getting in our way by asking us questions." Jyn nodded before turning away and going directly to work.

WHOOSH

Hours passed, while the trio worked in silence, not wanting to get distracted and forget what they were attempting to do. They were still trying to make sure that they had some security measures they could fall back upon should the situation arise. Cassian though did not feel as if they would need any of those security measures; he was confident that his friends at least would know when it was better to simply back off and leave them before they decided that it would be better for them to cut their losses simply.

Frowning, as he began to read through some more of the equations in front of him, this was not going to be an easy fix. Chewing at his bottom lip while he tried to work out how long they could reasonably be expected to get by without the requisite parts. He cursed the technology of this World, mostly because he knew that if it was caught up with what he was used to, then he could reasonably expect to get out of this in a good timeframe. As it was though, he would more likely wind up having to fabricate the machines needed to create the parts needed to create the fuel. It could take him some time to gather everything he needed, so, for now, he was passing the time by drawing up some of the equations that he would need to have access to when it came time to building.

Shaken from his thoughts when Dacia's quiet breathing hitched, he shot the woman a curious glance. He did not think that whatever it was that the woman was looking at could count as carnal, but then he was not a Jedi, he told himself and others that whatever floats your boat was just fine. For now, though, he became concerned when he heard Dacia begin to mutter angrily to herself, she must have found something, Cassian thought. Judging by the colour the woman's face was turning, Cassian felt comfortable hazarding a guess and saying that it was nothing good.

"Damn it, Cassian, how close are we to the Hague?" Dacia muttered crossly.

Dacia's voice had echoed around the small room, she might have been speaking quietly, but they had been that quiet and focused on what they were doing. That even whispering could sound like muffled gunshots, Dacia's face was turning red, and her ponytail was beginning to come loose. The woman had a habit of pulling at her hair that reared its head when she started to become inordinately stressed.

"We should not have that much longer to go, do you want me to speed up?" Cassian asked, wondering what else fate had in store for them that day. He was beginning to get incredibly fed up with feeling like he was being pulled around by forces outside of his control.

"For now, we will need to literally dump these Avengers at the Hague and hightail it back to the continental US. I have gotten some indication that whoever we suspect might have followed us through, maybe in Chicago, or at least somewhere in the vicinity. It is more important now that we continue to chase after those people, who knows we might need to be ready to beat back a potential invasion force. Either that or something has gotten lost and has shown up on our scanners as being extremely strange." Jyn looked concerned flicking through a few of the scanners in a hurry while she looked for any indication that could prove Dacia's words to her.

Dacia reflexively tucked some hair behind her right ear, and closed her eyes, looking worried about what she was about to do. The kinds of things that she could unleash on this Universe with poorly chosen words did not bear thinking about. Not for her at any rate, she was well aware that any point she had to choose her words and actions carefully. For now, though, she simply brushed aside the concerns and chose to focus on what she was trying to do.

Which for the moment she was choosing on focusing on the current problem, as long as she would have enough time to make a quick run to the Hague, dump the Prisoners on their laps and then run back to wherever the hell the new creeping threat followed them. She was well aware that normally it would not take as long a time to sort out the new threat, but she was working with old technology. She could not completely trust in her spaceship to run at optimal capacity. Sure, she trusted Cassian to be able to tune up the spaceship, but she was not particuraly anxious to find out whether or not he was still capable of miracles when he did not have ready access to everything he needed.

Attempting to dislodge some of the thoughts from her head, would normally require a great deal of effort. Or possibly alcohol, but she was more than a little disappointed to note that the alcohol from this Universe did not touch her in much the same way. She suspected that it was because she was effectively travelling away from home, her body might be working on repairing itself. She could guess that she had possibly taken some injuries after their mad dash and given the difficulty she had reaching the Force, implied that the little she could still access was working on healing her. It would not be the first time Dacia cursed her latent Jedi abilities. Either that or her clumsy nature.

Maybe if she had not been so heavily injured before, then she would have been able to reach the Force long before?

"We can put that out of our head for the moment, let us hope that they do not think we are the kind of maniacal beings unconstrained by politeness. We could not trust the Avengers enough to remain in our spaceship while we investigate the problem could we?" Dacia sharply asked as her fingers sped up slightly over the computer.

"Again, normally, I would say no, but you have just gotten yet more proof of where they are right? We are going to have to go in to settle them before something terrible happens, right?" Cassian cautiously asked.

"Yeah, I have pinned them down, it does not look as if they will be able to cause us a lot of trouble, at least, the hard part is done now. Or the part that I could only foresee as being something that could cause us a lot of person-hours. But I need to know if it would take us a terrifically long amount of time to get back to the continental United States. Are we very far over the Atlantic Ocean now? Is it too late for us to get back?" Dacia asked the pair, beginning to feel more nervous.

"We are about halfway to Ireland at the moment, K-2SO, you are better at sound polite than any of us. Email whoever your contact is at the Hague, and give him our condolences, we shall get there as soon as we can. Dacia, do you have any firm idea of where we can find this interloper? If you do, give Cassian the coordinates. I will check our current weapons stocks we should hopefully have enough for us to work through." Jyn told the other two.

WHOOSH

Jyn whirled from the room and made her way into the small weapons room; she disliked having to spend any amount of time in this room. She felt as if it could not quite explain why she hated this room so much, certainly she would never have any pull over her in a weapons room before. Jyn wondered from time to time if it may be some fibre of her being called to her from the room that she now knew her Papa had possibly spent so much time in similar rooms.

If Cassian knew what she thought he would no doubt snort at the woman, maybe for her being overly melancholic or taking a trip down memory lane, in other words feeling nostalgic for something she was never aware of before. While Jyn now knew what her Papa had worked at, she had not always known; she could no more profess an affinity for weapons rooms than the sky could turn yellow.

Though maybe those were Jyn's words, she had not known her friend to make such needlessly poetical flowery statements.

Shaking the thoughts from her head, Jyn started to hum to herself as she went through some of the crates and counted out the number of guns. She figured that it was not likely that Dacia should want any of the (rather a slim number) heavy weaponry. Dacia would likely want to operate this as a closed book mission, so her hands drifted towards the smaller handguns.

On a whim, she decided to check the stocks of scuba equipment; she could feel something deep in her bones, telling her that now these things could prove to be useful. It did not make a lot of sense to her; there was no reason telling her to go for the scuba equipment, nothing beyond a quiet little whispering in her ears telling her that she should be careful and listen to her gut for a change. Checking the mouth apparatus, she smirked to herself smugly and slipped the devices into a small bag that she had earlier grabbed.

Finally satisfied that she had managed to gather together enough gear, Jyn hummed quietly in satisfaction before preparing to the leave the room behind her. Jyn was well aware that she was probably running around like a blue bottle fly at this point, but she found herself struggling to care. Let someone mock her all they wanted, if they understood the reason for Jyn's rushing, then no doubt they would understand.

Jyn could never understand why someone would attempt to belittle someone for doing whatever they found necessary at that time if they did not completely understand the reasons behind rushing around. That was not to say that Jyn did not occasionally find benefit in simply taking it easy, she would easily profess that sometimes solutions could be plucked when your mind was relaxed enough to turn over the problem at hand and examine it at length. It was unfortunate that she so rarely got this opportunity when she needed to get something done, an urgency frequently lay behind her reason making.

Shaking her head to try and clear some of the more bothersome errant flies of movement from her head, she spared the room a last glance before leaving it behind her and making her way back to the central computer nodule. Jyn was well aware that hanging in the bag at her hips, were the things that might make her life easier. It was not up to her to needlessly delay, not when they could so quickly get back down to the work that needed doing. Not wanting to know what it could sound like if she should start to whistle to herself, Jyn sped her footsteps up. Why was a short walk that she must have completed several hundred times before stretching out before her? Was it because she knew that she held something very important to the continued health of their mission at her hips?

WHOOSH

"Okay, I have all the pieces here, do we each have our holsters, something tells me that it would not be a good idea to be away from our weapons. Not now, not when we cannot be sure of what is going on. Dacia have you received any further clues as to what we should be on our guard for?" Jyn briskly told the two.

"No, but I have a feeling deep in my bones that tells me we should be very careful as to how we choose to react, especially now given that we are so close to being able to wash our hands of this whole affair. What were you able to grab though Jyn? For now, that is more important than half-seen images and half-understood omens." Dacia waved away the woman's concern.

"Right, you are, I was able to grab some small hand blasters, along with some of the smaller handguns that we were forced to procure at the start of this mess. On a whim, I grabbed the scuba diving mouthpieces, because I have an instinct that tells me that now we are going to need those things. I fear though that I can not adequately explain even to myself what it is that tells me we may need those things." Jyn told the two in a perfunctory fashion.

"Shit on a stick. Is this one of your instincts again Jyn? You know what happened last time we decided that we could ignore what your instincts were needed. I may have once made fun of you for listening to your intuition, but in this instance, I think she may well be right. I was looking at some of the geography in downtown Chicago; it rests on the Chicago River which flows in Lake Michigan eventually. If there is someone you feared has followed us, even years later, and they show up there, we are going to need something to work with the river in mind." Cassian cautioned.

"Okay, keep them in your bag, for now, Jyn. Cassian are we any closer to landing?" Dacia asked stressed.

"Yeah, it won't take us that much longer to land, about half an hour or so I'm guessing. BODHI has the spaceship in cruise control now; he will only need me to come closer when we begin to approach civilisation again. For now, though, the spaceship is being suspended miles above the ground, with our invisibility flaps on, no one should be able to spot us. Unless that is we want them to know that we are here." Cassian told the two.

"That is something we can work with, but for now we need to make sure that we can land okay. Cassian, go back to the cockpit and get ready to land. I do not need to point out just how important it is that we should remain safely hidden, away from prying eyes, right?" Dacia reminded the man quietly.

Cassian nodded once before sweeping from the room, ready to do a lot of work. He was not sure what he would find but he was sure that he wanted to be ready for whatever it was, he did not want to miss a thing. Not while he still had something to say about it!

WHOOSH

For years afterwards, Dacia would struggle to remember the landing, simply because she was too filled with the worries of what she might find when they landed. She was faced with worries of whether or not she was ready for whatever would automatically face them as soon as they opened the doors. Dacia worried that even though they had faced fights with the remaining Avengers and associated figures within the past year, they might be nothing more than playground dust-ups compared to what she could face.

Dacia could remember some of the foes she had been forced to face when she was still a Jedi Knight; it was a universal concept that even glorified librarians and scholars could be pressed into service if push came to shove. And boy had it come knocking at her door. Dacia had never been and probably never would be the type to sight quietly on the sidelines while her family and friends faced danger, she had fought, her old friend Mace Windu had helped to train her. She would not choose to sit by idly; she would not stand even to be asked to do such a thing; such a thing was a great insult to someone of her calibre.

It was a very close thing that Mace had managed to convince her with the help of Yoda that it would be better if her existence and unique skillset were kept quiet. Goodness knows how it had saved her when Skywalker had decided to go dark side, how could the man, or whatever he had turned into hunt down something he had no idea even existed? Dacia had heard some of the rumours of the procedures that Skywalker had gone through, and she had felt saddened. She could remember having glimpsed Padawan Skywalker a few times when he had come through training and could remember thinking how cute the little boy was. She shuddered to even think of the thought processes that the young man must have leapt through to think that the Dark Side was the next logical step.

Putting those thoughts out of her head, Dacia looked towards Jyn and sucked in a deep breath before she stood up from her seat. The pair of them started to work in silence, wanting to be ready to leave this room behind. Smoothing out her shirt once again, Dacia tried to get herself into the right mindset for whatever would happen; she still was not sure how long she would have until she next got some more peace, for now, she would have to gather herself.

Jyn had busied herself over making sure she had all the guns and ammunition, tapping her tongue against the back of her upper teeth while her hands rifled through the small bag. Finally satisfied, when she realised that she did indeed having all of the parts that she would need, Jyn straightened up, wondering how likely it was that they would get out of this unharmed.

When Cassian joined the two girls, he nodded once at them; he felt he was ready for this part. Cassian looked over as Dacia idly stroked her hand over the silver tube that Cassian knew could easily become her deadly lightsaber. Goodness knows that his friend looked like she was keyed up and ready to march into battle, though Cassian privately hoped that it would not get that far. Though Cassian was not sure if he would ever get his hopes, he tried to remind himself that it was better that he was prepared for anything he may be about to walk into.

Speeding up their footsteps to catch up with Dacia, the three of them left the spaceship is silence. Looking over at Dacia, who was clutching a smaller version of her tablet, tapping at it frantically while she tried to work out exactly where they were supposed to be looking for. Cassian gulped as he realised that this could very quickly turn serious.

Dacia's eyes swiftly brightened as she found what she was looking for, it looked like she was finally on the right track. Using hand signals to direct her friends to where she wanted to go, Dacia briefly looked up from her tablet and surveyed the surrounding area. Shooting a glance a Jyn, she wanted the woman to keep an eye on the maps of the surrounding area.

It was important that they should know what they were about to walk into before it became too late.

Jyn briefly looked up while she tried to orient herself as they walked, she was scrolling through the maps of the surrounding area. Jyn thought that while it was important that they should know where exactly they were heading, it was important that she did not begin to lose her way. Keeping an eye on her surrounding area, Jyn glanced over Dacia's shoulders every so often while she tried to work out exactly where they were heading. Feeling her nerves begin to climb up when she realised that the scuba mouthpiece looked like it was about to come more relevant.

Flicking her fingers once again over the screen when she realised that she was closing in whatever location they were heading towards. Sliding the small tablet into the bag hanging at her waist, she slid a sidelong glance at her friends. Dacia was chewing on her bottom lip, with her eyes closed beginning to look supremely vindicated. Jyn watched as Dacia slid the small tablet into a bag hanging at her waist.

"Okay, so what are we looking at here?" Cassian hesitantly asked.

"I have that feeling crawling up my spine that this might be something more than we are ready for because I do not see how this is going to end well. It might be that we stumble upon something that we are not ready to face, but what I can tell you is that it could prove to be incredibly dangerous." Dacia muttered her eyes scanning the surrounding area.

"Crap, so you can not be sure whether or not we will be able to get through this mess, because it sounds like you might be hinting that you can not be sure whether or not we have faced this kind of threat before. Have I got that right?" Cassian lowly asked.

"You have got it in one, I can not be certain of the situation that we are about to walk into, and as such, I want to remind you two to be on the lookout, just in case anything should go south." Dacia sharply replied.

"This could get very messy, very quickly huh?" Jyn dully cut in.

"Yeah, it could, and if it does begin to go that way, I need you both to remember to cover for me, alright?" Dacia reminded the two with a hard edge to her voice.

Cassian and Jyn both nodded their heads slowly; they were not sure what kind of situation Dacia could be thinking of that might force them to cover for her. It was just in the nick of time because the air was suddenly rent with a loud noise.