In the prison we all huddled around each other as lunch time meal came in. A slot opened at the bottom of the door and spoiled sea-creatures laid seemingly helpless in the bowl containers as one by one they all slid in.

I, along with a couple of others, picked up the bowls to analyzed the dead creature. It was a squid and it appeared moldy and smelled like it just took a dump.

"I am not eating that." Weathergirl17248 took several steps back from the disgusting squid and gave a disturbed shiver. Almost universally everyone in the room rejected their food as well. I mentally facepalmed. The food we're getting was up and beyond disgusting prison food and we hadn't eaten anything for the past week except for water. (Which wasn't the cleanest either)

A few made the daring attempt to eat the food and that's how we got exhibit A: Purplewillowtrees laying down sick and exhibit B: AhsokaTano191 trying to keep her stomach contents down. Sympathetically, I watched them lay there.

Hondo had so graciously given us a last chance and we were all released of our chains and allowed to roam freely amongst the four-walled prison, but that wasn't because he was being nice. He just found another nasty way to punish us; because this food didn't start getting nasty until after we were released. We still had chains on though: lovely little handcuffs adorned all of our wrists and pinched at all of our skins. I didn't need to look to know there were red blotches appearing underneath the cuffs, the pain was enough.

Exasperated of this place, I stabbed my fork into the head of the squid and it unexpectedly let out a fierce screech of pain. I screamed on the top of my lungs and dropped the bowl to the ground to run behind NobelMeta. They all would have teased me for weeks if it weren't for them screaming and running away for themselves.

The squid hefted itself out of the bowl and crawled towards a dark corner of the room with the fork still jabbed into it's right temple. It hid within the shadows and made an odd underwater aquatic hissing noise.

"That's not right." Gamergirl052 became wide-eyed and later made a notable distance between herself and her own fish-food.

"You know," Emerald.H tilted her head and stared at the creature hiding the dark, "You're going to think I sound crazy, but that kind of reminds me of my cat Coral when I pet her." She chuckled, "The crawling away and hiding in the corner part, not the fork stabbed into it's cranium part."

All eyes laid on the girl in astonishment. Jedi-TARDIS-Chick101 exclaimed, "And you want her back?!"

Emerald shrugged, "It's a complicated."

Captainrexbest35 looked at me from behind Weathergirl17248 and said, "Aside from the disturbing creatures we are now living with...what's the plan?" She dropped her voice to a whisper, "Now that our spies are trusted, what happens next?"

I tapped my chin and whispered, "Well, that's kind of it. They'll be sending a transmission to one of the Jedi cruiser's and then we'll leave it to the Republic to plan out our rescue. They would of come earlier, I'm sure of it, but I have a feeling Hondo's keeping his location on the down low. Also, not to mention-"

"That's it?" Gamergirl raised a brow, "No daring escape?"

I replied in defense, "Gamer, we're civilian's. We don't do much, and we'll probably just get ourselves killed anyway." I crossed my arms and shook my head, "I thought about it, but no. I can't put you guys in danger. You're parents are going to kill me when I get back. Their children, taken into space by a band of space pirates doesn't sound much like a field-trip. Imagine what would happen if one of you died?"

"What if we don't care?" NobelMeta said, "Isn't that what soldiers do a lot? Block out the idea of death, so that they can fight."

"Miss Kale, I want to fight." Weathergirl17248 placed her hand on my shoulder, "We all want to."

I looked into their eyes and saw they were sincere. "You guys really wanna fight?"

"Yeah!" JediChick chirped, "I think we can be a reasonable army!"

With that said, I unfolded my arms and picked up a couple of squids still pretending to be dead and some forks; then ushered everyone into the far off corner, "We'll need a plan." I laid each squid down to represent locations and when the they tried to squirm away, I pinned them down with the fork, "AaylaKit has told me this is the armory, over here is the mess hall, and lastly Hondo's office."

"We'll overtake the guards by our numbers and we'll have to be extra quiet after that. Until we get to the armory, we won't have any weapons to defend ourselves. How many people here know how to shoot?"

"I started going to the shooting range after General Krell crashed the set," Gamergirl said, "Figured I'd be safer with some knowledge of a blaster."

"Same here." Captainrexbest chirped, "Question Corner' was way too dangerous to not be ready for a fight."

As everyone told me the different blasters and other various weapons they could learned defend themselves with after the series of accidents that happened on my set, I found this disturbing yet extremely covenant. Maybe we weren't just a bunch of civilians after all; we might actually have a chance to get out of here before the Republic comes.

"So how do we escape?" NobelMeta asked.

"We don't." I replied. "We're just here to cause as much trouble for these pirates as possible. We'll attempt an escape, but it should be expected from all of you to know that it is highly unlikely. When they capture us, we will all chained to the wall, or tortured. Which ever comes first. I think the latter is most likely considering we're trying Hondo's patience."

"Who cares what he thinks. I'm sick of being the obedient prisoner," JediChick puffed out her chest, "It's time for us to have a prison break!"

Gamergirl chuckled, "I just really want to get my tablet back; that was a Christmas present."

"That's reason enough." I said, "Now back to the plan..."

I pressed myself up against the wall, with the crowd of people surrounding me. Bringing my finger up against my lips, any sound of muttering amongst them silenced. Pleased, I gestured them to get against the walls before turning to the door and confidently wracking my knuckles against it. A long pause and then a slurred voice called out, "Whooo's theeere?"

I arched a brow, "Kale..."

"Kaale who?"

"Kale...it's just Kale." agitated, I propped my hands on my hips and pursed my lips, "Are you drunk?" Jedi-chick giggled beside me, but catching my scowl, she clamped her hand down on her mouth.

"That's not how you play." another male voice said, in a dark and annoyed slur, "Do it again. You, you, you..." he trailed off.

Taking in a breath, I exhaled out and said, "Knock, knock."

"Whooo's theere?"

"Open." I sang.

"Ooopen whoo?"

"Open the door for Kale." I cringed and face-palmed. This was never going to work, and Jedi-Chick and Emerald H. having a giggling fit didn't comfort me either. But even with all the odds against me, the door swung open. The man had his hands on either side of the frame and he swayed towards me and away from me with his eyes in bulging in concentration. Instantly, I gave him my right hook and he collapsed backwards like a jellybean. This made everyone take cue and rush out the door in a hurry.

Taking point, I ran out and saw the guard staring at us in utter shock. He stumbled backwards and was struggling to locate his blaster dangling off his belt. Ahsokatano191 lunged towards him and unlatched the blaster. She pointed it at him, but he didn't seem to comprehend that he was beaten; because he put up his fists and began to weave from left to right. His head dropped low, but his eyes stayed on her as he continued to weave two steps towards her and then one step back.

"Is he..." Purplewillowtrees tilted her head, "dancing?" As I watched him curiously, I found this shamefully true. The pirate hummed the tune of a waltz and swayed horribly to the music.

"How cute." Ahsokatano smirked, "Now, I'm gonna shoot him." she adjusted her aim on him when I clamped my hand on the top of the gun and pushed it out of pirate's harm. I chuckled, "Let him dance. We can use him for later as...entertainment."

In that instance, the pirate tripped over his left foot and face-planted the floor. He lifted his with a groan. "Eww, that's gotta hurt." NobleMeta snickered. He picked up the other blaster from the first guard I'd knocked out earlier.

"Noble, he didn't fall." Gamergirl052 laughed, "He just..." she put her hands over her mouth to restrain another laugh, but failed horribly, "He...he just high-fived the floor with his face." they all broke out laughing and I myself couldn't help but chuckle as well.

"Alright, come on, guys. We can't cause any trouble if they don't get moving." I motioned them to follow me down the hallway. It was about five minutes of endless sneaking around, stopping at the corners to check if the coast was, and then darted down to the next corner when I realized I didn't know where the weapons depo was. I stopped and scratched my bald scalp. I only had to glance back to see all eyes were on me. Great. We're probably going to run into a pirate any minute now and I don't know where I'm even going.

"Uh, Miss Kale." I looked back to find JediChick pointing to a solid, square map drilled into the wall. It had directions to every part of the ship. Laughing to myself, I came upon it and propped my hands on my hips, "That's convenient."

JediChick shrugged, "Big ships come with maps."

"Okay," I trailed my finger across the map's surface until I found the weapon's depot, "here it is." I tapped it twice and sighed. We were going the wrong way. We had to get to a lot more places then just the weapon's depot and I very well couldn't trust my sense of direction.

"We should get going." Purplewillowtrees urged, along with a few others.

Anxiously, my eyes flickered from the map to the blaster in Ahsokatano's hand. "Let me see that." She handed it to me and I flipped the weapon around to where it's butt faced the glass. Hopefully, this'll work. I smashed it into the glass four times until I could pick out the pieces and snatch the map from the wall. I gave Ahsokatano back her blaster and held the map in my hands victoriously, "Now we can leave."

Gamergirl grabbed me by the arm and whispered, "Am I the only one who's noticed this ship is abandoned?"

"I've noticed it too," I nodded, "but we don't have time to look around and find out why." and we left it at that. I knew everyone else found it strange, too, that there was no crew. The life of the ship seemed generally drained and I didn't know why.

After a few ten minutes of endless running, we came across the weapon's depot. Still no pirates? Nothing? It felt far too easy for comfort. Cautiously, we pressed our backs up against the walls and creeped up to the door. Guards had to be in there. I did the same thing I did with the cell and knocked on the door, praying we'd get lucky with another drunk guard. They were so much easier to deal with when they were dumb and swaying everywhere. Waiting for some answer, I got nothing. I ushered Ahsokatano and NobleMeta to come up to the front with me. Their weapons drawn, I counted down from three before pushing the button. The door opened and NobleMeta and Ahsokatano found themselves in front of AaylaKitofNiflheim, ShadowMaster77, and Sithlord8665's blasters. The five blinked in confusion, their blasters still drawn.

"What are you guys doing here?" I asked, genuinely surprised.

ShadowMaster sighed, obviously relieved as he let his blaster drop to his side, "We're here getting more ammo. We thought if we were ever to got out of here, now was the best time. Hondo's giving a celebration dinner in his honor."

AaylaKit rolled her eyes, "He's become even more obnoxious than usual. He's positive he'll beat Bane in the 'This is Madness' competition." she folded her arms and leaned against her hip, "I'm not voting for him."

"Which is why there's a dinner." Sithlord mumbled, fiddling with her ammo belt wrapped about her waist, "I don't suppose you guys noticed the empty ship?" Weathergirl17248 nodded. "Pretty hard to ignore."

"How did you guys get out?" ShadowMaster asked, "You had guards."

"Yeah, drunk guards." JengthGrek710 pointed out.

Sithlord looked up from her ammo belt and then at AaylaKit. They shared a smile and she looked back down chuckling, "That's Rar and Terd for you. They'll never lay off the bottle." AaylaKit propped her weapon on her shoulder, saying, "Forget that. Who wants a gun?" With that said and done, everyone crowded into the room. Gazing around at the rows and rows of weapons, grenades, grenade launchers, and missile launchers I couldn't help but feel like we had a chance this time.

Shadowmaster, Sithlord, and AaylaKit each took different groups to instruct, train, and give out weapons to. I was in ShadowMaster's section. As he passed out DC-15S blasters to everyone, he informed us where the safety switch was and which setting changed the gun from stun to kill. Monsterhuntergod-Ratholas Mk1 handed me down a blaster. I tested a few of the settings like ShadowMaster instructed, as did everyone else around me. The sound of a hundred blasters going from 'stun to kill' over and over again began to make my ears hurt. I had enough practice with a blaster beforehand due to over protective show producers. They couldn't have a host dying on them due to a dangerous, trigger happy guest on the show.

I wandered out of the group as quietly as possible and went behind the crates. Maybe there'd be something useful back here. I turned a corner and was surprised to see a cargo marked 'Don't touch' across its middle. It was open and as I observed the lid I saw no one ever bothered to close it in the first place. I pushed the lid completely off the box and peeked inside. Stacks upon stacks of fireworks. Pleased, I smiled. Running back to the training class, I grabbed Noblemeta and JediChick by the wrists and pulled them back to the cargo box. I pointed to the fireworks inside the crate and asked, "Do you two think you could figure out how to work these?"

NobleMeta picked up a red, decorated firework and eyed me suspiciously, "Is this part of the plan? Cause I like it."

"It is now." I answered.

I pulled them both close and told them the plan. It was only afterwards that I found out I wasn't the only one wandering away from their weapon's class. CaptainRexbest35 shouted from the other side of the room for everyone to come quickly. We came over to find her standing over a pile of weapons, but they weren't blasters. Gamergirl shrieked and ran towards pile. She plucked a bow from it and hugged the weapon close to her chest, "My Genesis, forty-pound pull, compound bow! I thought they'd taken you away from me forever!"

I eyed her in shock. "How did no one notice the girl with the compound bow walking into the 'Question Corner' studio?"

Monsterhunter picked up a long machete and swung it around himself. He ran his hands over the fur on the handle and smiled, "It's good to be back."

"You have a Blango Destructor?" I raised a brow.

He shrugged, "It's a replica." I eyed him further and he continued, "I have a good job, Miss Kale." Figuring that was the best answer I'd gotten yet, I looked over only to see Weathergirl and Dreamsareinfinity6 running towards me. They stopped just a feet away and they both pulled out two twin blasters from their belts, "Check out this out out!" Weathergirl tried to twirl them, but stopped before she dropped the gun.

"That was in the pile of weapons?" I asked.

Weathergirl shook her head, "No, but we found them. Isn't this great?"

"Hey, Weathergirl, guess who I am." Dreams pointed her gun to the wall and began in a deep voice, "The names Rex, but you can call me captain or sir." Weathergirl and I chuckled.

Ahsokatano slumped by me with a giant flamethrower in her arms. I rolled my eyes, "You can't use that. You can hardly walk."

She gave me a look and I could only sigh. She said, "This will be useful. I just know it." she dragged it away and at least Melody Sharp came to help her carry the weapon. This'll be an interesting fight.

"Miss Kale!" JengthGrek710 came up behind me, along with Abdella. They both held electrostaffs in their hands. "We found these hanging on the wall. Hondo's depot has everything!"

"Do you guys know how to use those?" I gestured to the staffs.

Abdella shrugged, "We'll find out soon."

I gave a nodded and walked away when the two started testing the staffs out by dueling it out. I came up to AaylaKit. "I had no idea my audience was so..."

"Capable? Yeah," she chuckled, "same here. So what was your guys plan when you guys broke out?"

I ran my hand over my bald scalp and sighed. Feeling my stitching under my fingers, I stopped and folded my arms. "Give Hondo as many gray hairs as possible. Gosh, it's stupid, but there was no way I could get this many people out of here. And forget taking over the ship."

"Why not?" ShadowMaster asked as he came up from behind me, "The guys and I sent out the signel to the Republic. That was two days ago. The least we could do is try."

I slumped my shoulders. I admit it, I should be more confident seeing everyone coming together to take down Hondo, but I couldn't help but look around me and see young teenagers. If one of them became permanently injured, or died, I'd never forgive myself. I'd forget 'Question Corner', I'd leave everything behind, and spend the rest of my days trying to forget this mistake.

"Miss Kale," AaylaKit began, "With all due respect they're ready. Hondo and the rest of his crew are in one place and we can trap them like mice. We're no pilots, so fighting is our only choice."

My eyes flickered between the two. "Alright. We'll try taking over the ship."

"On your orders, Sir." AaylaKit and ShadowMaster gave a teasing salute and I blushed.

"Do you guys know where a giant net is?" I smiled, sweetly.

ShadowMaster's arm fell to his side, "A net?" and he exchanged glances with AaylaKit.

"You said on my orders." I grinned, mischievously, "And that's my order. I need a net."