Ed Wars the Clone Wars
Chapter 1 The Munificent
Three boys under the basking, rising light of the sun were exploring the junkyard, looking for items for their scam. They had gotten everything they needed for their scam to work. One of the boys, shorter out of the other three, was named Eddy. He wore a yellow shirt with a red stripe and a purple collar and blue jeans. He was also the leader of this group of mischievous boys.
"Come on you guys! The kids ain't getting any younger!" Eddy demanded becoming impatient.
The other boy was average height compared to Eddy. His real name was Eddward, but he preferred to be called Double D. He wore a red T-shirt and purple shorts. His vocabulary stretched miles long, though his words fell on death ears. He was always with his friends, no matter how much trouble they get in. He's the brains of this group all though he's the weakest.
"Let's see...This should make an energy source." Double D muttered to himself, trying to get an old engine out of a run-down car. "Ed, I need some help." As for the last boy, his name was Ed, and he was the strongest out of the group.
"Sure thing, Double D." Ed shouted, running to his friend and aiding him by picking up the engine with ease. He wore a red and white striped t-shirt under a green jacket with blue jeans. He rarely took showers. He always had a goofy grin plastered across his face no matter what. He was a bit naïve when it comes to simple things. However he had a big heart but a small mind.
"Where do you want this, Double D?" Ed asked.
"Over there. About fifteen cubic meters away from the TV."
"Gotcha!" Ed tossed the engine on to the TV breaking both in the process. Double D sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Quit fooling around guys! The kids aren't gonna pay us unless you hussle!" Eddy commanded, making Ed run off to search for more parts. Double D walked off to the junk pile to salvage what was left of the engine and TV.
15 minutes later...
"This will be the scam of all scams!" Eddy proclaimed as he paced wringing his hands. "Is it ready yet, Double D?"
"Almost, Eddy. It just needs a few more adjustments," Double D replied and continued his work.
"Will this get us jaw breakers, Eddy?" Ed asked with his signature grin on his face.
"You know it, Lumpy," Eddy replied, smiling a mischievous grin. "The kids will pay top dollar for this!"
"I must say, Eddy, this is one will save a lot of time." Double D sarcastically. Eddy snapped his head to Double D's direction.
"Just make sure it's ready!"
"Just one more bolt and...Eureka! I've done it!" Double D beamed with pride as turned to face his colleagues.
"Gentleman, and I use that term lightly, I give you the Lawn Clearing Bot 4000!" Double D shouted, pulling the tarp off to show a giant TV screen and robot appendages. It had a keyboard for commands alongside a few blinking lights on its right side. It also had video camera at the top of its center. On/Off button was the biggest one on the keyboard. It also had an old style push mower.
"The kids will pay top dollar for someone, or something, to do mowing. Soon we'll be rich!" Eddy shouted and laughed maniacally. "Now let's get this money-maker to the Cul-de-Sac. Ed! Get the machine!" Eddy demanded.
"Can do, Eddy!" Ed shouted, throwing it on to the wagon.
"Careful...This machine is very delicate. One false tap and boom," Double D warned them.
"Relax. This thing is in good hands." Eddy reassured, though that did not help his case. "Mush Ed!"
"Arf!" Ed barked as he pulled the wagon like a mushers sleigh. Double D followed close behind.
10 minutes later
When they reached the Cul-de-Sac, they saw a bunch of quarantine signs. Eddy dropped down to read on of the signs, followed by Ed and Double D.
To the other residents of the Cul-de-Sac: We have a sudden outbreak of the flu, the disease is contracted through three ways: touching, breathing in the air of a sick one, and kissing. So for your safety, do not go to this house unless you have a protective mask.
There was a sign for each yard, except Eddy's and Double D's house. Eddy was boiling angry by the fact that the Cul-de-Sac's residents has another disease, making them unable to give him money. Double D sighed and sat on the curb, seeing that his invention will not be used. Ed put his hand on his chin to figure out why they were frustrated. Completely unaware that he pushed the invention down the hill, Eddy and Double D turned to notice the machine sliding down the hill.
"ED!" They both shouted in unison.
"Uh-oh..." Ed muttered, seeing the machine going away. The boys followed after it until they saw it crash into a tree, breaking into several pieces while Eddy and Double D gave Ed a glare who was on the now. The boys walked to the remains of the robot and on close inspection he realizes that the majority of the parts could be salvageable.
"Well, gentlemen, good news are that the mower and everything else is salvageable, however the bad news is what do we, do since our lively Cul-de-Sac is now quarantined for influenza." Double D asked, explaining their situation while something caught Ed's attention in the sky that was flying above the shape of a curved hull and on seeing it Ed, thought that it was something from movies and he wanted to get closer to it.
"OH OH! ME ME!" Ed was jumping up and down holding his hand up.
"Ed?" Eddy asked dryly, glaring at Ed who took them up to watch what was in the sky. "LOOK! SEE WHAT I SEE?" He asked and his friends then noticed the strange shape that was moving towards the woods.
"That thing is a strange craft and it wasn't a plane." Double D said.
"IT'S a UFO guys." Ed said with excitement and Eddy then got something in his mind and he was immediately feeling ecstatic.
"If that is a UFO it means if we take a picture of it we will be swimming in money." Eddy said looking where it was going.
"Oh my this will be the discovery of the century, but we don't know if the ones inhabiting it are friendly or not." Double D said thinking of the possibilities of those new life forms and the possible dangers that there might be.
"Who cares we will go after it and take a picture and after that fame and fortune baby, after it Ed."
"North to Alaska!" Ed said with excitement running towards the place where it was going.
In the woods a small Sheathipede class transport shuttle was landing in a small opening in the woods(the place where the urban rangers came for camping) and out from it 3 skeletal B1 battle droids were coming out of the shuttle, one having a pad at him while the other two were equipped with E-5 blasters. Looking around the place, the 3 droids noticed the peaceful landscape by all they had expected far worst in their experience.
"Heh this place looks quite peaceful, I expected worst." One of the droids said with the blaster.
"Do you think this world is part of the Republic?" Asked the second one.
"According to the log this planet is in the Unknown Regions of the galaxy very far away from where we were." Said the droid with the table showing a map the point where they were showed that they were VERY deep in the unknown regions, by all in the middle of an arm that is part of the outer rim near the border of the galaxy. The world where they were, surely was one between several thousands of unknown planets in the region.
"This is what happens when we put random coordinates when fleeing from a battle."
"Our ship at least wasn't damaged at all, yeah. But we got separated from the fleet." Said another one while the Eds crawled to a bush to listen to them what they were saying. And by all accounts they were amazed to see functioning robots that could hold conversations despite their quite scary. However the big yellow one of the group was starting to get more and more excited.
"It is amazing; this is really the discovery of the century." Said Double D while Eddy was prepared to take a picture with his camera.
"Happy place guys, happy place." Ed said barely managing to conceal his excitement.
"Well we wouldn't stay here for too long; we will have to go back to the ship soon." Said one of them.
"The commander had said that we should explore around still, to see what we can find around here. Maybe it will help the Confederacy in the war against the Republic." Said the one with the tablet.
"Hopefully we wouldn't bump into something dangerous." Said another one before hearing something in a bush and immediately pointed his gun at it "Hey who is there?"
"Don't want to come out, very well." He said a pressed the trigger for a red bolt to come out and to go in the bush however out from it came a small grey furry thing with a fluffy tail, which immediately went into the tree scared.
"Oh, it was just a small creature." Said the other one turning to his colleague. "You should be more careful if you ask me."
"We are in a war for six months; don't tell me you wouldn't do this as well OM-01." He commented.
"Heh, maybe anyways I will see what is around. From what we saw from above there are traces of civilization here." Said OM-01 before, started literally marched upfront in the woods while the Eds were still behind the bush looking.
"Oh my, this now isn't something good at all." Double D said thinking about what they just said.
"What is it?" Eddy asked a bit ignoring what they had talked.
"Eddy, they are a civilization at war and we have to do something in this case we can't let our planet be dragged into a big scale galactic war." Double D said and now all three were made aware of this fact.
"What do we do guys? Do we fight them head on like in edition 3 of the Robots Farm?"
"No Ed, we need to be smart about this, if there is a whole ship in orbit we need to find a way to prevent it from communicating." Double D started before he thought for a moment about how they could do it. And somehow found the solution to this problem.
"Hmm, bingo I think I have an idea." He started with a mischievous smile getting his friends around him.
"We shall do next, we will capture that robot that is going around and you Double D will try to reprogram it so he will be on our side and to tell us what is their weakness so we could strike." Eddy said and in a way it was a good plan.
"That is a very logical plan now Eddy, but how are we going to do this?" Double D asked.
"I already got an idea, let's follow him." Eddy said and the three friends started to follow the droid who by most accounts was mostly enjoying the landscape.
"Ohh this is really a nice and peaceful world." He said hearing the chipping of birds from a tree. "At least nothing could be trouble here." He said, but he spoke too soon because he stepped on something that made him trip and drop his tablet, there were several small balls that made him go into the stream but managed to get himself out.
"Spoke too soon I guess." He commented.
"Say goodbye to your life." He heard something from behind him that caught him and then something like a blanket was placed on his head more precisely on his visors for him to not see anything.
"Hey what is going on!" He demanded.
"Hold him Ed." Double D said before starting to look behind him to find something like an on and off button but it wasn't there before he turned to look closer to the head and opened what appeared to be a small trap that lead to the circuits of the head and seemed to have found what he was looking for.
"You better not touch that you….." He didn't finished the sentence because the smarter member of the trio managed to shut it down.
"We did it." Eddy said with pride.
"Now, we get it to my house I believe we can try to reprogram it now?" Double D said taking the tablet from the ground.
"Onward." Ed said taking all of his friends up alongside the deactivated droid.
Back at Double D's house the 3 Eds were now working on reprogramming the droid, they in essence were using the computer on the lie detector that Double D had used on Johnny and Plank when people's stuff were taken away and was also using the tablet that the it had on him. As for the droid itself it was tied to the chair with rope so it wouldn't escape and try to run.
"So Double D what is the situation?" Eddy asked while the genius of the group was trying to use the tablet, it was hard to do it due to the unfamiliar language, which looked a bit like what they have in their English language which was interesting since they also spoke in their own language, how and why they wouldn't know.
"It is a bit difficult, due to the unfamiliar language." Double D said before turning to the computer screen.
"But I believe I have an idea." He said connecting the tablet to the computer and started to give some commands "Well if we do this and some small adjustments then" He managed to translate the language into what they know.
"Done, I had managed it." Double D said before taking the tablet and placed a cable into the head of the robot and immediately it showed what they needed in the form of files that showed programming, affiliation, and memory and so on. Which really made him baffled and he remembered something.
"Guys I believe that you should look into this." Double D said showing what was written.
"Wait you mean that." Eddy said realizing everything now.
"It seems so."
"So let me guess the Star Wars events are actually true and I guess that we are in the middle of Clone Wars."
"At the very beginning, none the less, do you remember what they said? They had been at war for 6 months. And it seems the Orion Arm and the part where we are is in the half that isn't explored by the civilizations that are at war now" Double D said.
"Even with that let's make sure none of them come here." Eddy said while Double D turned back to his work.
"Well in this case if we tape here and some things there to the part of programming and affiliation, and here he will be now on our side." Double D said finishing, making only another check he pressed enter and out of sudden the droid woke up.
"Urgh, wha-what happened?" He started before noticing the boys.
"Ahh, hey you don't need to be afraid, we are friends here we want to be your friends."
"Hallo my name is Ed." Ed started.
"And my name is Eddward, Doubld D for short."
"And I am Eddy, you can consider me your boss." Eddy said before the droid remembered his new programming.
"Oh yeah I know I am on your side, and on the side of Earth, what are your orders." He said before Double D took out the cable and untying him for him to stand up and only now did they realized how tall it was nearly 2 meters.
"First of all you probably know what you were before your new programming to be on our side, well can you tell us more exactly how did you came here."
"Well our frigate was engaged in a battle with the Confederacy of Independent Systems against the Galactic Republic, however we were outgunned and the commander of it called a retreat, however in a hurry we had placed random coordinates. And we arrived in this system in the unknown regions."
"And what were you ordered to do here on the surface?" Ed asked.
"We were ordered to scout and if possible to make contact with the local civilization or civilizations that live on this planet. And yeah I do remember what you did, you kind of literally droidnapped me." Said the robot remembering the event very well and wasn't very happy.
"Between us, you will eventually thank us for doing this to you. And we don't want out planet and the Cul-De-Sac to become a battlefield." Eddy came before him thinking how many things he could do with him after this.
"Ahh by the way how will be possible to prevent the Confederacy of Independent Systems and Republic from finding out the location of our world?"
"Only if you manage to deactivate the crew that is comprised of 200 droids in total not to mention another deactivated 85.000 for possible planetary invasion or ship takeover and the total is capacity is actually 150.000." He explained which made the Eds get nervous about this prospect.
"How can we deactivate a crew of 200 and prevent the other 85.000 from getting activated?" Eddy asked.
"Well you can try either one by one or you one has to get on the bridge of the ship to give the shutdown command despite we been able to operate without a central computer there is still one that could activate and deactivate us."
"Well we need to find a way to get to the bridge and do this." Eddy said.
"We can use the shuttle from the forest." Ed said.
"Use the shuttle that is guarded by other 2 who are armed." Double D said.
"Don't forget the pilot." The robot intervened.
"Well in this case we will have to capture them as well and do the same thing to them." Eddy said thinking about this before the droid felt his communicator bipping and had to answer.
"Wait; whatever you do don't mention us ok?"
"Roger, Roger." He said saluting before activating the link so that even they could hear.
"OM-1 where are you?" Asked one of the other droids.
"I have nothing to report sir everything is alright; there are mostly small animals that aren't making trouble."
"We already saw that birds are starting to come around here." Said the other.
"You should come back to report to commander of the ship. We had been contacted as to wheatear or not to contact our fleet."
"I will be on my way immediately." He said.
"Well we can't allow them to report back so they could call whole fleet." Eddy said.
"It would be like the invasion of the muck aliens but with metal. And I Ed will not allow this." Ed started in determination preparing an arsenal of water balloons, alongside bowling balls and other things.
"Well we have to find a way to get take control of the shuttle meaning neutralizing them." Double D said thinking on what course of actions they could take before Eddy came out with an idea.
"We can try to use some pranks against them and do the same thing." Eddy said before turning to the robot. "And you will help us rusty."
"And what am I suppose to do?"
"You will make them come to us, Double D prepare for a series of reprogramming to do." Eddy said before all got on their feet.
12 minutes later
The B1 battle droids that stayed near the ship were waiting for some time for their other comrade to come out, the problem was that it was somehow taking too long and they didn't knew why this is happening.
"He is out there for some time, wonder what happened?" Asked one of the robots.
"He is surely coming around don't worry." Said the other before the B1 pilot with his blue markings came out of the ship.
"You know if he doesn't come we can always leave, you just know how many planets have many dangers, this one is surely no different." He said before he saw their droid comrade coming from the woods.
"Hello there sorry for been late." He said.
"Boy took long enough."
"But like I said, this place is really peaceful even more I believe I saw something interesting deep in the woods." He said while the others looked at one another.
"What exactly?"
"You will all see if you follow me." Said the droid going in the direction, with the other 3 coming after him passing on the road he passed to get captured and been reprogrammed by the Eds and so the other 3 will be the same soon, hopefully in the mind of the droid.
"So what exactly have you come across?" Asked the pilot while Eddy made a sign to him, from between the trees and he acknowledged that he was close to the objective.
"Hey what is that?" Asked one of the armed droids seeing something on the grass, to find 3 small cans of motor oil, they approaching couldn't seem to look luckier.
"Oh boy this will help my joints." He said taking the can and started to place some on his legs before others came.
"If it isn't a present from someone I don't what it is." Said the pilot.
"Hey there is something more if you take several steps forward." Said the robot.
"I like presents." Said the other one and the three moved forward before a net came on the three of them taking them by surprise.
"Hey what is this?!" They said before they stepped and went into the stream and the 2 robots dropping their weapons.
"Now!" Double D said and Ed jumped on them to hold the three of them tight.
"Hey who is holding us?" Asked one of the robots.
"Let go of us." Asked the other one who had his weapon.
"What do you want?" Asked the pilot before Double D managed to deactivate them from their head.
"Alright bring them to the shore Ed." Eddy said and Ed complied.
"Who brought tartar sauce?" Ed asked placing them to the ground while Double D started to place the cables in them and started to tap so they will be on their side.
"Well at least till now this had worked." Eddy said.
"Yeah by been on even terms for now." Said the battle droid.
"Well as long as we get a way to not let that ship from the orbit call a whole star fleet." Double D said taping the commands.
"Wonder how that ship looks like?" Ed asked.
"It's a big ship, with a length of 825 meters and 243 meters in height." Said their new reprogrammed robot friend, making Ed get into a frenzy, which this time he can't even contain it he now wanted to see it.
"Well we do this, and that, and finished." Said Double D before reactivating the other 3.
"Ahh, hello sorry for the inconvenience but I do hope there aren't hard feelings there. And can I ask who you are listening now to?"
"We are all on the side of Earth under the command of Ed, Eddward Double D and Eddy." They said in unison.
"And yeah we have no hard feelings." The pilot said.
"Well this went well." Eddy said.
"Well the order of the day is going to that ship in orbit to prevent from bringing a whole CIS fleet in this system. And this will be done by deactivating the crew that resides there." Double D explained.
"Roger, Roger." They said saluting them for which Double D felt happy for the respect he was receiving.
"Let's go." Ed said taking his friends up in excitement going to the shuttle followed by the four droids.
"Ed what are you doing?" Double D asked not knowing that they had entered inside the shuttle before the droids arrived.
"Ed wants to see the ship." Ed said with full excitement.
"Ed you mono brow we aren't suppose to be seen by the others on that giant ship." Eddy shouted but they didn't know that the droids had started the shuttle already and closed the door.
"Eddy is right Ed, despite our curiosity we have to be careful about this especially that we haven't dealt with something like this before." Double D said.
"Ahh, sirs you probably should have said this earlier." Said one of the 3 robots in the passenger area.
"Why do you say this?"
"We already left the atmosphere." Said the pilot before the Eds turned to the view outside the shuttle, they were indeed in the orbit of their own planet this sight can't be anything but glorious and magnificent. The only thing that was however problematic was however the fact that they were moving towards a real spaceship this part was either greatest thing in their lives or worst because it was with intents and purposes a warship armed to the teeth only by looking at the arsenal it had despite looking quite nearly skeletal and they were about to enter.
"Ah hey pilot is there a possibility to turn around?" Double D asked stressed.
"Sorry but it can't be done now sir especially if we got clearance to get inside."
"Can't you turn around?" Eddy asked.
"I do that and we could be trapped in the tractor beam or been fired upon us."
"Trouble, bad, pain." Ed started now feeling that he really made a giant mistake this time before bumping into something, a metal crate.
"Look guys." Ed said pointing at the crate.
"Why do you have a crate here?" Double D asked.
"The crate was here all the time; some commanders of the confederacy sometimes want to take some war prizes."
"Greedy they are for sure but this could be our life saver." Said Double D pressing a button to open it, before feeling the shuttle touching down inside the hangar where droids both foot soldiers and droid star fighters were moving around and the door was starting to open and a OOM droid marked with some yellow markings accompanied by several others that came in.
"You had been down there for some time. What happened there?" Asked seeing the droids inside but not the Eds.
"Ahh we just surveyed around the place and there is nothing to report. Officially everything is fine."
"Yet something took you quite long."
"We had troubles with some small creatures running around but nothing else." They said.
"Heh, hope so." He said leaving them with his aids while four remained there and OM-1 opened the crate where the Eds were cramped.
"This situation is surely not something very comfortable."
"You tell us that again." Eddy commented.
"So what should we do in this case now, by all accounts if the commander goes on the bridge he would try to either enter hyperspace or call a fleet."
"Theoretically our world wouldn't be important for them especially that they can't use it too much, but even with that we must get to the bridge to shut down the crew and prevent them communicating to get others here." Double D said.
"Meaning that you should get us to the bridge in this crate but you should not open it under no circumstances." Eddy said.
"Roger Roger." Said the droid and they immediately placed the cap on the crate but he didn't close it before one went to bringing a hovering ramp to get the crate up.
"So, do you want to give you a signal when we get there?" Asked the droid.
"Knock on the crate when we reach the bridge." Eddy said.
"Roger Roger." He said taking the crate and walking out of the hangar towards the bridge. Walking on the metal halls of the ship the Eds were managing to take some peaks of the ship, by all accounts the ship was quite big and passing through it in the crate they could see that the crew is only comprised of droids but it wasn't only B1 droids but also super battle droids and destroyers. By all accounts it would have been suicidal to try to walk in this place since the crew might surely not have stayed to talk things out. But even with that Double D was excited to study the ship as well as everything that is around here including the robots while Ed was living his dream of been on a sci-fi adventure while Eddy was imagining how many things could be done with it, with all intents if they would take control of it alongside the crew they could as well use it for as much as they could. Taking an elevator and passing by several unarmed droids they reached the bridge that by all accounts was very spacious having the view of Earth in their sight, if there is something to know at this location one could consider that this is actually an observation deck and not a bridge especially if you take into account the fact that there were some giant windows that were giving a fine view of Earth and the Moon. Immediately after entering the same yellow marked OOM droid came to the droids that were transporting the crate, he surely was thinking why did they brought it on the bridge.
"Why did you bring this crate on the bridge?" Asked the OOM commander confused.
"We had been ordered to bring it here?" Said one of the robots.
"By who?"
"Ah, by the sergeant he considered this one should be in here and not somewhere else." Said OM-1.
"Is it something inside that has to stay here?"
"It was actually taking too much space and we had to put it somewhere." Said the other robot.
"Well I would prefer another place, by all accounts I am thinking that maybe I should contact Count Dooku to tell him about this world." The commander started.
"I wouldn't do this if I were you." Eddy from the crate trying to imitate the robot's voice and surprisingly it caught his attention.
"Why not?"
"We didn't say anything."
"Then who?" He asked and out of sudden.
"Earth is not your play toy." Ed shouted coming out from the crate to the surprise of the droids on the bridge.
"What the…" The commander started before Ed jumped on him to put him to the ground while Double D and Eddy came out.
"Quick Double D, get to the consol." Eddy said and the genius one went to the consuls while OM-1 went to him.
"Where is the consul I have to use to control them?"
"It's over there." He said pointing to the consul that was at the front and Double D went there with the captured tablet and plugged the cable in it while the crew on the deck remained at their posts startled.
"Don't stand there do something." The commander ordered trying to shake Ed off him.
"Ahh we don't want any trouble sir and we aren't on the side of your enemy we just don't want trouble on our own world. We don't want to harm anyone." Double D said.
"If that is true then why this one jumped on me?" He asked.
"So you wouldn't try to call the whole crew." Eddy said teasing him.
"They are on their way anyways." Said one of the droids at one of the consoles at the bridge.
"The announcement device was active, they are on their way. So you better surrender intruders." Said another one from another console.
"Ah quick question you do have laws against harming kids 12 years of age."
"What, you are just a bunch of kids?" Asked the commander before they heard a bang on the door, meaning that they had arrived and wanted to get inside.
"Double D, please hurry up." Eddy said while Double D was still taping mostly to translate everything.
"Almost there." Double D said placing several commands before everything was now translated into English and he can now understand it "Got it." He started to tap some commands on the console just when the doors were starting to open up for 2 super battle droids to come in.
"Halt right there." They demanded however the taller Ed had managed to finish and with one tap of a button and all the un reprogrammed droids were starting to drop down to the floor like flies.
"Well this was close now." Double D said before turning to their droids.
"So I believe that all the robots or droids are deactivated with that exception of the ones reprogrammed by us?" Eddy asked.
"Roger Roger, by all accounts we did it, the rest of the galaxy will not know about Earth."
"Well by all accounts it is a shame that this will not happen but since the other half of the galaxy is at war I believe it is better this way. It is either that or our planet is going to be a battleground."
"Yet we have to say that we gain control of a whole spaceship, this really should be something." Eddy said.
"Yeah, adventure guys, adventure." Ed said with excitement jumping around.
"If you ask me we can try to use this ship, somehow by all if we sell it to some big government official and bingo we are rich."
"It is kind of highly doubtful this prospect since we might be sent somewhere and be ask who knows how many questions regarding it." Double D explained.
"Well it is either that or we could try to use it for a time."
"For that we might need a crew which means we have to try to reprogram all the robots here. This will surely give me an opportunity to study this magnificent technologies and treasures of information this ship has to offer."
"You do know that this is a ship from Star Wars, a real one and from what was shown to us by the media we might know a lot already." Eddy said taking a seat in the captain's chair.
"Indeed and we do know what happens after this war." Double D said tracking everyone's attention, "This means that we should not tell about this for some time."
"Yeah, true. So it means we keep this a secret." Eddy said sinking in the captain's chair despite been made of metal it was quite comfortable.
"But even with that we have to agree to the fact that where we are situated, the Orion Arm and the rest of the galaxy." He started showing a map of the galaxy with now a dot placed to where they are. "Is unexplored meaning we could see how at least 2 neighboring stars. I really am interested in seeing how the flora and fauna are there." Double D said before one of the droids got a message.
"Ahh yeah sirs we might have a slight problem actually."
"What is it rusty 2?" Eddy asked.
"Yeah it was a long range message from the CIS fleet, the one that we had been during the battle and got separated during the previous fight. They are looking for the ship they might try to search for it if there is no response in the course of a rotation, surely sending another to find it." He explained.
"Well this is troubling now." Double D said.
"So in this case what do we do? I am not throwing myself into a war." Eddy commented.
"Wait a minute. Guys can you tell us what was the mission that you had to go through?"
"Well it was mostly a need to know basic, but the fleet that we had been attached had the mission of essentially distracting the Republic fleet keeping it busy for our ships to inflict as much damage to the supply lines in a sector at the outskirts of the galaxy."
"And by all accounts it did provoke a lot of damage." Double D said looking at the memory banks and the news on the frontlines in that part of space alongside with the new orders that was given now.
"And it seems the Republic is now getting desperate wanting to stop it."
"Desperate to stop it and surely would want to see this ship destroyed. Well I will not accept to sacrifice this one for nothing in a suicidal battle." Eddy said whit the droids looking at him with what seemed to be amazement.
"You know we never heard this before from several of our commanders." Said OM-1 to them tracking their attention.
"We never had a commander who wouldn't sacrifice us in a possible losing battle many of us were usually sent to attack the well entrenched enemy only to get destroyed and be recycled over and over again. It had been this way for me for at least 3 battles." Said the other one.
"Ed sad." Ed started looking with pity at them.
"Well what we can do in this case is simply try to reprogram your colleagues and then we can go at least to say that we are and at the first sign of battle turning bad retreat immediately." Double D said.
"That sounds like a solid plan but problem is how close should we be, to the battle?" Eddy asked.
"We should stay always behind the fleet and if we can to not engage at all but retreat as soon as possible." Double D explained.
"I like the plan." Said one of their droids OM-235.
"But before that let's get the equipment and start to reprogram the others."
"Pilot you come with us back to the Cul-De-Sac, you others watch over the ship." Eddy said.
"Roger Roger." They said in unison.
"By the way, you might need this." Said OM-01 giving them a circular device. "It is a communicator, you need to press on it when it beeps for you to answer and you also need to press on it when you want to contact back."
"Thanks, we will be back immediately." Double D said while he and his friends and the pilot went back to the hangar.