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Adrift in the Outer Rim, a lone rebel struggles with a repair... |
| A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... "Come on you piece of junk, wake up!" "May... may... may..." "At last! That's something at least. Lemme try something... How's.... that?!" "May the for-or-or-ororororor..." "That's enough of that! You're fried pretty bad, huh? What's got into you, pal?" * * * "Come on, buddy, I need you. We're drifting out here and I need you to read the diagnostics." "I'm trrrrr... I am trrrrr... I am attempt-ting (ting!) to rrrrr... I am attempting to... begin... again. This is highly frrrrr... Oh fiddlesticks!" "Hey, that's better! Do you need me to try to tweak your rhotic circuit?" "No, thank you, Jeven. I think I can adjust it myself. It might take a few trrrrr... trrrrr... tr-raaaaaaaa... A few morrrrr.... A few... additional attempts." "What happened? How come you're so messed up?" "Therrrr... Fiddlesticks! I was attempting to rrrr... ...to fix the hype... the sta... the way we go frrr.... fiddlesticks! The go-fast system!" "The hyperdrive?" "Yes. That. The Emp... The enemy... had installed a... ah... pitfall... in the HD system. While attempting to fix it, I inad... I accidentally trrrr... fiddlesticks! I set it off. It overrrr... oh, forrrrr... bing, ting, bzzzzzzt! ... Pffff." "G-12? ... Gee? ... Poodoo! Here we go again." * * * "Wakey wakey, Sunshine." "Jeven?" "Yeah, buddy. How're you doin'?" "I... I'm not sure. What did you do?" "I'm not entirely sure. I found some Imp code in your linguistics processor and tried to flush it out. I didn't take anything important with it, did I?" "I don't know. I feel... odd. How long have I been offline?" "Altogether? About a day and a half." "A day and a half. Thirty-six hours?" "Yeah, about that." "Then we are in grave danger! The Empire has disabled the hyperdrive and set off a tracking beacon. I'm surprised that they are not here already. We must disable the tracking beacon, repair the hyperdrive and get away from here as quickly as possible." "Hey! There she is! Welcome back! I got the beacon, but not before it blasted our coordinates all over the Outer Rim. I've been working on the hyperdrive, but I'm stuck. Need your magic." "I see. I suppose I'll have to go back in. It was rather unpleasant last time I was in there." "I know, honey. I did a hard reset on it. Maybe that will have helped?" "I doubt it. But there's nothing for it. I'll have to go in again. I'll just have to be more careful this time. Forewarned is forearmed... boom, boom!" "Very funny, Four-Arms. Put 'em down. You've used that one before!" * * * "Gee... They're here!" "And we are leaving. Hyperdrive will be fully restored in three... two... one..." "Yeee... haaaaah!" |
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