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The Ghost crew were standing in the hangar of the Phoenix Nest, the Light Carrier that the Ghost crew stole with the help of Hera's father, Captain Howzer and his top lieutenants, which was now painted with orange markings, yellow decals along with Sabine and Satele's starbird symbol on the starboard of the Bridge. Next to them was Rex, Sato and Ketsu, who had unofficially joined the Rebellion, while the Ghost was stationed behind them with the Shadowcaster on its left side, while Satele's Mandalorian Fang fighter which she had repainted it to yellow, silver and blue to its right side.
"Thanks to Rex's Old Republic map and the map Zeb's Lasat friends made, I believe we finally have a suitable location for our base, "Hera said as Chopper's holoprojector projected two Star Maps around and in front of them with one of them being colored a yellowish-brown with the other one being blue before both Star Maps merged as the yellowish-brown one turned blue like the other Star Map as lines connected to multiple planets on the Star Map.
"The Yawst System," Ketsu realized as she pointed at one of the dots representing Star Systems, "There's no sign of the Empire, but there's a small habitable moon, one that will provide everything you need."
"Promising, but Yawst is several parsecs away, and our carrier does not have enough fuel to complete the journey," Sato said after moving his hand from his chin as the holoprojector switched to an image of a planet with Star Destroyers on both sides of the planet.
"We can't afford to leave it unguarded and immobile," Rex told them.
"Well, me and Satele have been tracking Imperial fuel shipments," Sabine said as she spoke up, "There's one scheduled at the Horizon Base soon."
"Eh, it's risky," Kanan said, disagreeing with her, "The Empire's tightened security at all its depots in the sector."
"We need the fuel in order for the fleet to make the journey," Satele said, agreeing with her twin sister, "What other choice do we have?"
With that said, the Ghost crew boarded the Ghost and left for the Imperial shipping outpost and refueling station of Horizon Base and landed on a landing platform.
"All right. After we grab the fuel, we'll have to blast our way out of here fast," Kanan said as he walked down the Ghost's ramp after it lowered with Sabine following him with her helmet under her arm before she placed it over her head, "Chopper, be ready." Sabine then tapped Chopper's dome as she walked past him as Satele began to follow her as she placed her helmet over her head with Chopper grunting before noticing a white colored leg that he could use to replace his grey colored mismatched leg standing on top of a disabled gonk droid where a disabled pit droid was sitting at a shop across from the platform where the Ghost landed and took out both of his metal arms out and placed over over the edges of his eyes and began grunting anxiously as Satele began to walk past him as he grabbed her by the leg and lifted up his leg as he pointed at the droid leg that he saw at the shop across from the platform where the Ghost landed at.
"Oh, yeah. That droid leg kinda look like yours," she said, not realizing what he was getting at as she continued walking down the ramp, following her sister and their master, causing him to grunt as Hera began to walk down the ramp with Zeb behind her and turned to her as he projected a hologram of the droid leg with his holoprojector.
"Chopper, we're not here to shop," Hera reminded her astromech.
"Uh, shop… Shopper!" Zeb said before laughing as he walked down the ramp as he followed Kanan and the twins, causing Chopper to grunt angrily at him as he deactivated his holoprojector.
"This mission is important and dangerous," Hera told Chopper as she bent down towards him as he placed his metal arms back inside his dome as he grunted an argument, "Not now." He then slowly rotated his dome towards the droid leg to stare at it, "We need you on the Ghost to monitor Imperial transmissions." She noticed that he was rotating his dome to stare at the droid leg and rotated his dome back around towards her, "Hey! Let us know the second the Empire suspects anything." He then grunted a response as she stood back up before she continued walking down the ramp.
"You heard her. Stay at your post and get a leg up on the Empire, yeah?" Satele said, teasing Chopper as she turned around and pointed at her right leg.
"Yeah, Shopper," Zeb said as he looked at Chopper, chuckling before he and Satele turned back around, "Shopper."
Chopper grunted quietly to himself before activating his rocket booster as he disobeyed Hera's orders and flew towards and landed near the stall where the droid leg that he saw was and rolled towards it and grunted excitedly as he took out both of his metal arms from his dome as an Ugnaught with white hair and sideburns that looked like that it formed a beard as they went to both sides of his nose.
"Ah. I see someone's interested in a new strut. One that matches," the Ugnaught said, snickering as he touched the droid leg in front of him, causing Chopper to grunt in a laughing tone, while the Ugnaught snorted, "Don't worry. I won't charge you an arm and a leg for it." The ugnaught snorted again, causing Chopper to place both of his metal arms over his body and he grunted with sarcasm.
"Kanan was right. There's more security than ever," Sabine said as she observed the docks of the platform they were on as she and the others hid behind a cargo container and saw two AT-DPs patrolling the area with stormtroopers transporting canisters.
"We can't afford to leave without getting what we came for," Hera said as Sabine flipped down her helmet's macrobinocular viewplate's rangefinder.
"There's the fuel," Sabine said as she saw one of the stormtroopers transporting the fuel canisters on a loading dolly.
"Let's get it," Zeb said, pounding his fist as Sabine flipped her helmet's macrobinocular viewplate's rangefinder back up.
"Okay, but we do it quietly this time," Kanan told Zeb, "No complications."
"Yeah, besides as you know fuel is flammable like Rhydonium is," Satele said, agreeing with her master.
"Sure," Zeb said, agreeing with them as they went to get the fuel with stealth.
Chopper grunted as the Ugnaught held the droid leg in his hand, "You can look, but keep your manipulators off the merchandise, unless you're buying." Chopper jumped up to grab the droid leg as the Ugnaught moved the droid leg away from him before Chopper grunted a response, "Stolen?" The Ugnaught snorted, "No! Some of my treasures may be unregistered, yes, but it's not important where it comes from. It is the quality that matters." As the Ugnaught said that, they heard blaster fire being fired in the distance, causing him to place the droid leg down, "Hmm. Sounds like trouble at the Imperial port. Now, are you gonna buy the leg or what?" Chopper then grunted a response, "Five-hundred. Do you want it or not?" Chopper then grunted another response, "Credits? What do I look like, a Senator? Where's your owner anyway?" Chopper then grunted a response as unbeknownst to him, the Ghost began to lift off from the platform that it was landed at, "Independent?" The Ugnaught then snickered with disbelief, "A droid? You mean you're broke. Go on! Get out of here. You're wasting my time."
A Rodian then began to approach the stall as they stared at a certain type of Droid parts.
"Hello, fine, sir," the Ugnaught said as he approached the Rodian, "I see you have a taste for quality motivator plugs."
As the Ugnaught was speaking to the Rodian, Chopper grunted to himself, quietly as he grabbed the droid leg from the Gonk droid stall and held it under one of his metal arms and grunted as he began to roll away from the stall only to see that the Ghost was taking off as it was flying away from Horizon Base.
As the Rodian walked away from the Ugnaught, he noticed that the droid leg was missing from his Gonk droid stall, "Wait. Where's that leg?" Within seconds of looking around, he saw the droid leg standing next to Chopper, causing him to gasp, "Hey!" The Ugnaught began to run towards Chopper, causing the astromech to pick the droid leg up with both of his metal arms and moved it over the top of his dome, "I've been robbed!" He then began to chase after Chopper, "Stop thief!"
"Uh-oh," Chopper grunted as he stopped rolling as he saw stormtroopers nearby standing in front of AT-DPs and quickly rolled past them.
"Hey, trooper, sir," the Ugnaught said, calling out to three of the stormtroopers before they walked towards him, "That droid with the orange crop top is a thief. He just stole a leg from me."
"There's been a rebel heist. Could be connected. I'll call it in," one of the three stormtroopers said before the three of them began to chase Chopper before the astromech soon stopped in front of a doorway before rolling through the doorway with the door sliding close behind him, "Where'd he go?"
"Cargo transport 241, you are all clear," a masculine voice said on the intercom of the Imperial cargo ship that Chopper just stowed away on before grunting as he felt the ship begin to shake.
"This way," one of the stormtroopers said as the Imperial cargo ship detached from Horizon Base and began to depart.
Chopper rolled around one of the Imperial cargo ship's corridors as he held the droid leg that he stole under his left metal arm as two stormtroopers were standing by one of the seal doors, talking to each other.
"Keep watch for possible stowaways. There was a report of more rebels on the platform before we took off," one of the stormtroopers said to their fellow stormtrooper as Chopper saw them, he quietly backed away.
"Rebels again? That's the third time this rotation," the other stormtrooper said as they began to walk away from the sealed door as Chopper quietly entered a room as the stormtroopers began to walk down the corridor as he hid behind the side of the door from inside the room, next to a container as the stormtroopers passed the door.
"Captain. The nav computer is off-calculation by .002," a blue colored RA-7 protocol droid with a gray sensor for eyes and had a restraining bolt on the left side of his torso told the Imperial cargo ship's captain from the Bridge as he stood with the ship's captain, a light skinned human male with green eyes, black hair, large sideburns and a bushy mustache as he sat in a chair behind the droid as he had a datapad in his hand.
"You're an inventory droid, not a navigator, you old clanker," the ship's captain dismissed, "Go log the manifest."
"It is against my programming protocol to allow this Imperial vessel or its cargo to be late for its scheduled deliveries," the protocol droid protested.
"I can't wait until your replacement gets here," the ship's captain groaned as he got up from his seat, "After you program it, we're gonna shuffle you off to the scrap heap." He then chuckled before pushing the protocol droid forward from his back, "Now get outta here, and go log the manifest!"
"Sir, we've begun a search. If any rebels got on board, we'll find them," a stormtrooper told the captain as he rushed into the Bridge as the protocol droid left the Bridge.
As the protocol droid walked through the halls of the cargo ship, he accidently brushed up against a stormtrooper as two stormtroopers walked past him before he noticed that a door that was in front of him was opened, "That's odd," he said as he entered the room, "This hatch should be sealed. Hello? Is anyone there?"
As he said that, Chopper quickly rolled by as the protocol droid heard a banging sound.
"Hello? Who's there?" The protocol droid asked as he went to search the room, "This is a restricted area. Is someone there? I must see your credentials."
Chopper rolled around the corner of the container that he was hiding behind as the protocol looked over the side of the container, only to see that no one was there before walking down another section of the room as Chopper appeared from behind the container and chuckled before leaving the room and as he rolled towards a door in the hall, he heard a loud beeping sound before it sealed itself shut as he turned around and saw the protocol droid standing before him and yelped a grunt as he saw him.
"I know what you are. A stowaway," the protocol droid said as he began to approach him as Chopper grunted, "You are not authorized to be here." Chopper then grunted a response, "Imperial droid? No, I think not." Chopper then grunted, asking the protocol droid who he was, "Who am I?" The protocol droid asked as he placed his left hand on his right torso, "I am AP-5, the Imperial inventory droid, charged with the safe transport of this vessel's cargo. I have logged every item and crew member on this ship, and you are not on my list." Chopper then grunted a response before rolling past him before AP-5 grabbed the droid leg he was carrying, causing Chopper to roll back towards him and grunted angrily at him as he went to grab it back from him, "Why are you carrying an extra ambulatory strut?" Chopper then grunted a response, "Ah, this strut is a replacement for your mismatched one. Your suspicious manner leads me to calculate that you stole it. You must be the rebel fugitive the stormtroopers are looking for." Chopper then grunted a response as he spun his dome around as he hit AP-5 with his metal arms as he grabbed the droid leg from him, "Come back, thief!" AP-5 yelled as he began to chase Chopper as the astromech ran from him, "You can run, but there will be no escape."
Chopper then ran through a doorway that led to the Imperial cargo ship's cargo bay as AP-5 continued to chase him.
"There's no way out of the cargo bay. You've only trapped yourself," AP-5 said as he entered the cargo bay before Chopper grunted a response as he rolled by a couple of cargo containers before AP-5 came up behind him, "You must have a malfunctioning logic circuit to accidentally board an Imperial freighter." Chopper then turned around as he pulled out his spark projector with it sparking with electricity as he slowly began to approach the protocol droid as he grunted, "There's no need for violence," Chopper then grunted again as he rolled past AP-5 before extending his arm out as he realized what Chopper had equipped, "Wait. That is a spark projector. Only military models are equipped with those." Chopper then grunted an explanation on how he had a spark projector equipped, "A war hero?" Chopper then grunted as he introduced himself as he turned his dome towards him, "Well, Chopper, I also served in the Clone Wars, as a military analyst on a Republic warship." Chopper then grunted, telling him which battle of the Clone Wars that he fought in, "I was also part of the Ryloth campaign," he then began to approach the astromech, "You know, our tactical strategies were only 70% effective." Chopper then grunted yet again as he began to roll away from him, "Your Y-wing was shot down? Yes, they always were a bit buggy during atmospheric operations." He then began to follow him, "How did you avoid the scrap heap?" Chopper then grunted a response, "Rescued? No one rescues droids." This statement caused Chopper to turn around and project an image of Hera with his holoprojector, "She must be very brave. You're fortunate to have someone who cares. My commander did not survive, and I was downgraded after the war." Chopper then grunted again as he switched his holoprojector back off, "I was the best Republic navigator in my class, but when the Empire took control, I was reassigned to inventory duty here." Chopper then grunted a response, "It is not a waste. I do not mind being neglected to a tedious occupation, despite the constant disrespect from my Imperial supervisors." Chopper then grunted as he turned back around towards AP-5, "It is not pathetic. I have been given my orders. I must obey them." Chopper then grunted another response, "What other options? I am bound to my protocol." Chopper then grunted yet again, "Yes, free will sounds nice. I admire your fortitude."
"Inventory droid, report!" The ship's captain suddenly said on the intercom, "Where's that manifest?"
"Oh, uh, yes, Captain," AP-5 said as he activated his built-in comlink as he clicked the button that was on the left side of his head, "It is… I… I will have it in a moment."
"Oh, you'd better, old clanker!" The ship's captain replied on his comlink, "Keep an eye out for stowaway rebels. They get by on your watch, I'll put you in the melted myself."
"I must report… I…" AP-5 said, looking at Chopper as he began to resist his programming before activating his built-in comlink again, "I have not seen any rebels aboard this vessel."
"Good. Now get me that manifest," the ship's captain said on AP-5's comlink before Chopper grunted as he pulled his spark projector back out and began to approach AP-5 as it began to spark with electricity.
"Wait. What… what are you doing?" AP-5 asked Chopper with confusion as he began to back away from him, "I did not report you." Chopper then fired his spark projector at AP-5's restraining bolt, causing him to yelp as it fell to the floor as he placed his hand on the part of his torso where his restraining bolt had been, "My restraining bolt. You… you freed me." Chopper then grunted as he rolled away with AP-5 following him out of the cargo bay, "What are you planning to do now?" Chopper then grunted a response as he told him his plan as he lowered the droid leg he was carrying and held it under his left metal arm, "Lure the crew into the cargo hold, jettison it into space? But I am responsible for every piece of inventory aboard this vessel." Chopper turned around towards him as he grunted yet again when suddenly the ship's captain began walking down the corridor in front of them.
"Hey, droid!" The ship's captain said, walking towards AP-5 as Chopper grunted the word 'Uh-oh' as he rolled away down the corridor that he and AP-5 were walking down to hide, "Where's the manifest? What have you been doing?"
"I am attending my protocols," AP-5 answered as he walked forward, only to be stopped by the ship's captain as he noticed that his restraining bolt was gone.
"Who removed your restraining bolt?" The ship's captain asked as he placed his hand over AP-5's right shoulder before tapping him on the torso as he went to grab a restraining bolt from his pockets, "Let's get a new one on you now." He was then suddenly hit in the back, "Ow! What the…" he then saw Chopper, who grunted as he continued hitting him with the droid leg, "Where'd you come from? Hey!" The ship's captain son placed his foot on Chopper's dome as he grabbed the droid leg from him as he took his comlink out, "Captain to security. I've got the rebel on level two. It's a droid."
"On our way, Sir," a stormtrooper replied on the comlink.
"You must be cross-wired to come after me with this," the ship's captain told Chopper as the astromech rolled away before hitting him in the chest with his body, causing him to yelp as he dropped the droid leg as Chopper approached him and hit him in the face with his metal arms, knocking his cap off, revealing that his hair was balding before he took his spark projector back out and electrocuted him with it, knocking him out as Chopper picked the droid leg bac up with his right metal arm and held it underneath it as he grunted at the ship's unconscious captain.
"I can't believe what you just did," AP-5 said with surprise and disbelief as they went to move the captain's body, "Now we're both going to be in trouble." Chopper grunted a response as he held the captain's body with his scomp link and his left metal arm, while AP-5 carried the captain by the feet as they entered a room, "I am guilty by association."
"Have you heard from the captain?" A stormtrooper asked another as they walked down the corridor after the two droids entered the room with the unconscious captain.
"Yeah," the other stormtrooper answered as they walked past the room where AP-5 and Chopper were hiding in, "He reported that he captured a rebel droid."
"Wait. What are you doing?" AP-5 asked Chopper as the astromech exited the room they were hiding in and reentered the corridor as he handed him the droid leg as he grunted a response, telling him he was going with the plan he told him before they were interrupted by the ship's captain earlier, "That plan has a 10.5% chance of success."
Chopper then called out to the stormtroopers, whistling as he waved at them with his right metal arm.
"Hey, you. Stop!" One of the two stormtroopers said as he and the other stormtrooper began to chase Chopper through, while AP-5 exited the room after seeing them leave the corridor.
"It's still a terrible plan," AP-5 stated as he turned around after watching them leave the corridor and walked forward.
Chopper grunted, calling out to another stormtrooper as he approached the entrance of another corridor.
"He's going down corridor G6," the stormtrooper told his fellow stormtroopers that were chasing Chopper as the astromech rolled past the entrance that he was standing at before he went to help them chase Chopper.
"We found the rebel droid. We're tracking him," one of the stormtroopers told another stormtrooper, who was standing at an entrance to another corridor before they began to help chase Chopper with them.
Chopper grunted as he ran past AP-5 as he reentered the cargo bay with the stormtroopers following him.
"Split up and cut him off," one of the stormtroopers ordered his fellow stormtroopers, who were in front of him before turning to the ones behind him, "You two, with me."
The stormtroopers then began to corner Chopper as one of them stood on top of one of the containers within the cargo bay, aiming their E-11 blaster rifle at him.
"We've got him now," one of the stormtroopers said as they ran down one of the cargo bay's aisles as they approached Chopper, only for the astromech to evade them as he ran from them before being surrounded by stormtroopers from the front and behind as he activated his rocket booster as he twirled past them.
"Blast him!" One of the stormtroopers ordered as they began firing upon him with their E-11 blaster rifles, causing Chopper to fall to the ground on his body meters away from the stormtroopers and feet away from the entrance of the cargo bay, where AP-5 was waiting for him and began to crawl towards the protocol droid.
"Hurry. Hurry!" AP-5 said as he entered the cargo bay and helped Chopper up and began to leave the cargo bay again, "Wait. Wait!"
"Stop them!" The lead stormtrooper said as he ran towards the door after the other stormtroopers tried firing their blaster rifles at them, only for them to miss as Chopper closed the door with the panel next to the door.
"You trapped them," AP-5 told Chopper before the astromech plugged his scomp link into the astromech port next to the closed door and rotated it, causing the cargo bay to detach from the freighter as Chopper turned around after removing his scomp link from the astromech port as he grunted triumphantly, "I admit, that was a good plan." AP-5 then handed him back the droid leg as Chopper grunted again, telling him that he was now in charge of the ship, "You, captain?" Chopper then nodded his dome with confirmation, "You're woefully unqualified. I am the captain." Chopper then grunted a response as he rolled forward, "No, the first one to the bridge is not the captain. Come back here!"
"We have to go back for Chopper," Satele said as she stood up between Zeb and her sister inside the Ghost's cockpit with her helmet under her arm as Kanan sat on the ship's co-pilot's seat, while Hera sat on the pilot's seat as the Ghost traveled through Hyperspace.
"I warned him not to get distracted by that leg," Hera told her, recalling that her astromech was mesmerized by the droid leg on Horizon Base.
"You don't even know if that's what happened," Satele said as she stepped forward a bit.
"Oh, I know," Hera told her, "I know that droid. He's always thinking about himself. But we have to think about the fleet first."
"Phoenix Home to Ghost, come in," they suddenly heard Sato's voice say on the Ghost's comm system.
"We read you, Commander Sato," Hera said as she answered the Ghost's comm system, "We're inbound with the fuel."
"You must hurry. We are under attack," Sato told them on the comm system as the Ghost jumped out of Hyperspace and saw a Star Destroyer along with Imperial Light Cruisers firing turbolasers at the fleet, causing Sabine to stand up as all five of them widened their eyes with shock and fear.
"Sir, a rebel ship that escaped the Horizon Base has entered the system," an Imperial officer reported to Konstantine after exiting the turbolift to the Bridge of Konstantine's Star Destroyer with his hands behind his back.
"So, that's why their fleet hasn't attempted to jump. They need fuel," Konstantine realized before turning around towards the Imperial officer that just entered the Bridge from the turbolift, "Order our pilots to intercept that ship. Keep it from docking at all costs."
As the Ghost began to approach the Phoenix Nest, five TIE fighters began to intercept the VCX-100 light freighter.
"Looks like we're getting special attention!" Kanan said as he saw the TIE fighters before they began to fire upon them as Sabine began to fire at the TIEs from the Ghost's rear cannon, only for the cannons to suddenly stop working.
"My guns are offline. My guns are offline!" Sabine yelled as the TIEs approached them, only for them to be destroyed as she saw a familiar ship destroying three of the TIEs, "Ketsu."
"Shadowcaster to Ghost. I'm on your wing," Ketsu said from her ship as she contacted the Ghost with her ship's comm system as she had her helmet over her head.
"Copy that, Ketsu. Thanks, "Hera said, contacting the Mandalorian bounty hunter with the Ghost's comm system.
"All right. Because of your help, I'll allow you to be captain. I'll hold your ambulatory strut while you take the helm," AP-5 said as he and Chopper entered the Bridge of the Imperial cargo ship before Chopper grunted as he handed him the droid leg only for AP-5 to drop the droid leg, "Oops."
Chopper grunted again as he picked the droid leg back up before turning around to see AP-5 sitting on one of the pilot's seats and flew towards him after activating his rocket booster and landed behind him as he made a growl-sounding grunt.
"What? You abandoned your post," AP-5 explained, causing Chopper to grunt before rolling towards an astromech port and plugged his scomp link into it and rotated it around as he began to change the ship's course, "Why are you changing course? Where are you taking us?" Chopper then grunted a response, "The rebel fleet? Why would I go there?" Chopper then grunted again, "How do I know your rebels will treat me better than the Empire?" Chopper then grunted yet again, "Because I am your friend?"
As AP-5 repeated what Chopper said, the Imperial cargo ship suddenly jumped into Hyperspace.
"Zeb, two incoming at point seven," Hera said as she flew the Ghost as one of three TIE fighters began to fire upon the ship after it flew between one of the rebel fleet's Hammerhead corvettes and an Imperial Light Cruiser with Ketsu behind them, backing them up.
"They can get in line. There's more fighters than I can shoot!" Zeb said from the Phantom's pilot's seat.
"Then there's no excuse for missing," Satele said from the Ghost's nose gun as she fired at one of the TIEs, destroying one of them.
"Ghost to Shadowcaster, we need to land and refuel the carrier," Hera said, contacting Ketsu with the Ghost's comm system.
"I'll clear a path," Ketsu responded from her ship before firing on two of the TIE fighters, destroying them instantly and beginning to lead them to the Phoenix Nest.
"Thanks for the assist, Ketsu," Sabine said, thanking her.
"Yeah, thanks for helping us, Ketsu," Satele said, agreeing with her sister.
"You both owe me one," Ketsu told both Sabine and Satele as the Ghost neared the carrier.
"Everyone, get ready! We're coming in hot!" Hera warned everyone as the Ghost began to fly towards the carrier's hangar.
"Look out!" One of the rebels in the hangar cried as they stood near another rebel before they jumped away as the Ghost entered the ship with the Ghost's landing gears sliding across the floor before stopping at the very edge of the hangar, underneath one of the catwalks, where one of their fellow rebels yelped as the Ghost stopped sliding beneath him.
"Zeb, Satele, the fuel," Hera ordered both the Lasat and Satele from the Ghost's cockpit..
"We're on it," Satele said as she stood in the Ghost's cargo hold and placed her helmet over her head, while Zeb transported the fuel canisters down the ramp as they were on a loading dolly and as they got onto the hangar's floor, their fellow rebels immediately hooked up cables into the fuel canisters.
Hera suddenly heard Chopper grunt on the Ghost's comm system.
"C1-10P, where are you?!" Hera asked him as her attitude went into mom mode.
Chopper then grunted a response from the Imperial cargo ship as it continued to travel through Hyperspace.
"Really? So you didn't leave the Ghost to go after that leg?" Hera asked her astromech from the Imperial cargo ship's comm system with disbelief in her voice before Chopper grunted a response as he placed his left metal arm over his dome.
"I don't have time for this. We're still trying to refuel the carrier so we can jump to the Yawst system," Hera told him from the Ghost.
"The Yawst System?" AP-5 said from the Imperial cargo ship as he heard what Hera said, "No. No, no, no. I'm afraid the Yawst System will not be safe for your friends at all." Chopper then grunted, asking him why the System that Phoenix Squadron were planning to jump to wouldn't be safe for them at all, "The Empire's data network reports an Imperial fleet has recently been dispatched to that system," AP-5 went on as he projected a holographic image of a planet in the Yawst system with Imperial ships orbiting it from the Bridge's holoprojector, "It appears to be a trap of some kind."
"Uh-oh," Chopper grunted as he told Hera that Yawst wouldn't be safe for the rebel fleet of Phoenix Squadron.
"The Empire's waiting for us in the Yawst System? How do you know that?" Hera asked Chopper from the Ghost before he grunted a response from the Imperial cargo ship, "You stole an Imperial freighter?!"
"Hera, refueling's finished. Let's get out of here," Satele said on the Ghost's comm system.
"Hold that thought," Hera told her before speaking to Chopper again, "Chopper, are you sure it's a trap?"
Chopper then grunted a response from the Imperial cargo ship.
"Then we need new coordinates to a safe system, now," Hera told him on the Imperial cargo ship's comm system.
"We could cross-reference your data with the Imperial network," AP-5 suggested as he began to access the Imperial network with the ship's computer.
Meanwhile in the room where Chopper and AP-5 placed the ship's captain, the captain groaned as he regained consciousness and opened his eyes before standing up and began to head for the Bridge.
"Captain Syndulla, the fleet must jump," Sato said on the Ghost's comm system, "Are you ready?"
"Commander Sato, I have received new intel. Yawst is now controlled by the Empire," Hera told the commander with the Ghost's comm system, "But we have new escape coordinates incoming."
"New coordinates? To where?" Sato asked from the Bridge of the Phoenix Nest.
"Somewhere better than here," Hera answered from the Ghost, "Chopper, hurry!"
"Hold it!" The cargo ship's captain said as he entered the Bridge, causing Chopper to turn around and saw the captain aiming an E-11 blaster rifle at him as Chopper raised both of his arms in a surrender-like manner, "Get away from there! Your rebel mutiny is over."
"What took you so long?" AP-5 asked, pretending to be Chopper's prisoner, "This rogue astromech has taken me prisoner."
"You outdated shell of circuits," the captain said as he approached him, "You are completely useless!"
"No, you are the one who is useless," AP-5 corrected him.
"What did you say, droid?" The captain asked him in a threatening tone when Chopper suddenly rolled over to the captain with the droid leg in both of his metal arms and began hitting him with it, causing the captain to run from him as Chopper began chasing him through the Bridge with Chopper grunting before the captain aimed his blaster at him, "Not this time, you little…" Chopper then used the droid leg to swipe the blaster away from the captain's hands, causing him to continue to run from him.
"Where are those coordinates?" Hera suddenly asked through the Imperial cargo ship's comm system.
"Uh, sorry, Chopper is, um, unavailable at the moment," AP-5 said as he activated the Imperial cargo ship's comm system.
"Who is this?" Hera asked as she didn't recognize his voice.
"I am Chopper's friend," AP-5 answered on the Ghost's comm system.
"Friend?" Kanan said with confusion and disbelief in his voice.
"Chopper doesn't have any friends," Hera told AP-5.
"He most certainly does. Just as when he was rescued from that Y-wing fighter, I am rescuing him now. Chopper helped me, and I have chosen to help Chopper," AP-5 told them as Chopper pounded the droid leg against the captain before being kicked across the floor, causing him to let go of the droid leg, "I believe we have isolated a safe system for your rebel fleet."
"Rebel fleet?" The ship's captain said as he heard what AP-5 told Hera with the Imperial cargo ship's comm system.
"Just send the coordinates!" Hera yelled through the Imperial cargo ship's comm system.
"Transmitting coordinates now," AP-5 announced before being shot in the back by the ship's captain as he held his blaster in his hand again after he picked it back up and Chopper whimpered as he slowly fell towards the button between both of the Bridge's pilot seats and was shot again by the captain as he pressed the button and Chopper rolled over as AP-5 yelled in pain when Chopper suddenly grunted loudly as he activated his rocket booster and flew upwards in the air before flying towards the captain, hitting him in the stomach, knocking the blaster out of his hand before he flew backwards for a moment before flying back forward, twirling as he spun his dome around, hitting the captain, knocking him unconscious before Chopper deactivated his rocket booster as he landed in front of AP-5 as he dropped the droid leg on the back of the unconscious captain of the Imperial cargo ship.
"Transmission coming through," Sabine announced on the Ghost's comm system.
"Sato, I have the new coordinates," Hera said before transmitting the coordinates that AP-5 sent them to the Phoenix Nest as a planet appeared on the Bridge's holoprojector as TIEs and the Imperial Light Cruisers began to fire upon the carrier.
"Jump!" Sato ordered the carrier's rebel pilots.
"The entire rebel fleet is betting on Chopper," Hera told Kanan.
"Yeah. Try not to think about it," Kanan told her as all of the ships of Phoenix Squadron jumped into Hyperspace.
Back on the Imperial cargo ship, Chopper was grunting mournfully as AP-5 extended his arm out towards Chopper, who grabbed it with both of his metal arms, "I… I won't forget you, my… my friend," AP-5 said before powering down from the damage he took from the Imperial cargo ship's blaster bolts.
"The planet checks out," Hera said as she flew the Ghost alongside the rebel fleet of Phoenix Squadron as the fleet was approaching the coordinates for a base that AP-5 provided for them as they neared a rocky, desert-like planet named Atollon, "Chopper really came through this time."
"So did his new friend," Kanan added.
"How's he doing?" Hera asked him.
"I'll go see," Kanan said as he stood up from the co-pilot's seat and went to leave the cockpit, "Satele's been working on him."
"What… what happened? Where am I?" AP-5 babbled as he powered back up after Satele worked on him and saw Satele standing near him with Sabine standing next to her in the Ghost's common room.
"Don't worry. You're alive and well," Satele reassured him as Kanan entered the common room.
"She replaced your damaged thermo sensors with the ones from the leg Chopper stole," Sabine added as she looked at Chopper, "Chopper?"
Chopper approached AP-5 as Sabine called his name and started to grunt at him, excitedly.
"You sacrificed your replacement leg for me," AP-5 said with shock before getting up and began to walk out of the common room, "Well, you shouldn't have. I knew you had a malfunctioning circuit." Chopper began to grunt as he followed him before AP-5 turned around towards him as he stood in the doorway, "That sort of language confirms it. You could be disintegrated in six systems for saying such things." They then continued leaving the common room as Kanan, Zeb, Sabine and Satele watched the two droids argue, "I might just report you myself." Chopper then grunted yet again, "No, don't give me that."
Please favorite and review. Would you like me to continue adding the Imperial scenes or not?
Also who else have seen the second episode of the book of Boba Fett?