Written by Steeler, Meister P, Amber and Fjap.

She said: " Now I searched in the whole ship for Apo and Tobi. They aren’t there. I got the new one of our shuttles is gone too so I guess they ran away. Weak behaviour. "

The Commodore answered: " Well nothing we can do against it already, but for you it’s also time to sleep now Amber. We will deal with the Apo - Toby - thing later. Now we have to sort out those access keycode problem. Wish us luck Amber. "

Amber nodded: " Good luck Rookie. May the dark side of the force be with you. "

At the same time somewhere in Matjua, Fjap climbed in his TI again together with the rebel called DuKaal. It was very crowded in the small imperial fighter now. Fjap wished the rebel to hell, he could also search the reason for Steels changing by himself: " Don’t make yourself so fat. I need some space to fly that craft! "

DuKaal answered: " I’m trying. Hell these TI’s aren’t comfortable enough for two persons. "

Fjap started the engines: " What we search and where we search? "

The rebel answered: " I have no idea. Steel asked me for this favour and I said yes. She only said find out what happened in Matjua and well here I am. "

Fjap shook his head about that rebel: " Then lets better begin. I’m curious and besides this maybe we can help Phoenix too this way. I don’t want to find the reason for the change and have nobody I can tell about my heroic action. " Then the little TI started again but this time without the force lead.

Tobi flown around with this shuttle a while but until now he didn’t found a sigh of the rebel alliance. Apo slept a bit but now he returned into the cockpit with a self-made coffee: " Any signs of rebs? "

Tobi answered: " Nope, no sign. Thank you for the coffee. Normally the rebs always show up when we don’t need them but now when we are search for them they are simply not available. "

Apo sighed: " It’s always the same. Always when you need something you will not find it. I guess it’s a natural law. "

Tobi smiled: " I hope not. Anyways it’s too early to give up. There is something on my sensors, let’s look what it is. "

Apo: " With our luck it’s an ISD. "

Back on board of the El Pollo Diablo. Rookie walked through the empty corridors. It was so quiet, so cold and these damned oxygen patron didn’t fit comfortable. Only a handful of people were already around, Desmo, Akkon, himself and Meister P who meditated again. Rookie arrived at the bridge. Desmo checked all controls, he looked strange with the oxygen patron and Akkon already started to work at his virus.

Rookie said: " Gents, we only have 2 hours to get our access key codes back or we will lose the first crewmembers. The medidroids try to take care for them as best as they can but the coldness affects them too. Steels plan is perfect nobody will ever find out what happened here when we haven’t success. I don’t want to give her this victory easily. " Rookie already knew how lame his statement was but he had no idea what he should tell instead.

Akkon looked up: " Then come over Junior and help me with that damned virus. Together we are faster. " Rookie tried to look angry but he already knew that since his father called him that way, his pilots only say Junior to him beside his back and yes he accepted it. Besides this he had more important problems to solve now. He sat next to Akkon and started to work with him.

In the meantime in the Abalone sector, rebel alliance territory, Captain Savage stood next to a window in his new office. His friends of the Dark Brotherhood changed the minds of his superiors and now he commanded a whole task force. With everything Phoenix tried to him they failed.

He heard the steps of somebody: " Lieutenant Commander Colin Dankan reporting in like you ordered, Sir. "

Savage turned around: " Take a seat Colin. It’s time to strike those damned imperials back. Not far away from here they have a settlement. Donnn. A nice place and even a nicer grave for imperials. "

Colin (better known as Mavaric) said: " But this is non armoured sector, we have contracts with the imps about this space. "

Savage nodded: " True. But we can’t allow these dirty imps to settle so close to our frontiers. " Colin didn’t look convinced. Savage continued: " Well, I ‘m not stupid enough to risk a direct confrontation now. We will let the imps make the first step. "

Mav responded: " How do we want to reach this? "

Savage showed a cruel smile: " Easy, my Stingers and the Red Wolves will take R 41 ‘s and Y Wings and attack as pirates this system. Make sure to destroy every settlement on Donnn Three, I mean every. The losses should raise into millions of people. This should force the imperials to go into the non armoured zone and this finally will be the reason for a war. See we can wash our hands in innocence and the imps will look like war criminals. " Colin was impressed, yes Savage was a good leader. Finally they could pay the imps back all their cruelty.

He said: " I’m in, Sir. Count on me. "

Savage smiled proud, these Mav guy was worth every effort to change him back: " I know Colin, but make sure only to take loyal rebel pilots with you. Some of them could not agree with us, so chose wise. "

" Will do, Sir. "

Fjap and DuKaal arrived at Matjua Two, a desert world.

" Do you think we could find the solution here? This is only a stone full of sand and I hate sand, " said DuKaal. Fjap didn’t answer and took his portable sensorpack and his transmitter with him. Then he walked away in the south directory, DuKaal shouted: " Hey, what you are doing? Why this direction? Hey imp! "

Fjap turned around: " You have the choice come with me or stay where you are. " Then he continued his way. The rebel pilot shook his head then he followed the Phoenixian. They walked a while.

DuKaal broke the silence: " Say Fjap how long we want not to speak with each other? We have to work together I think or we will never find the solution for our problem. "

Fjap’s answer was harsh: " Listen boy, I don’t like rebels. I never did and I never will like them. Easy as that. I see no reason for speaking with you and most interesting about what we two should speak? There is nothing we have in common. "

DuKaal’s answer: " Well, impy listen. We share something, our friendship to Steel and right now we try to help her, got me? Another thing I have more reasons to hate imperials then you for hating rebels be sure of that, but this is another story, maybe I will tell you later. If you want to be quiet then stay quiet. " DuKaal got faster and Fjap had to follow now.

Slowly the Phoenixian got a bad conscience: " Ok, ok, you have won rebel. Now tell me how you get the friendship of Steel. "

DuKaal smiled: " We met in the Heir sector in a bar. I was in trouble with a few smugglers. She rescued me. I didn’t knew she is a Sith and I tried to convince her to join the rebel alliance. "

Fjap couldn’t help himself he had to laugh but the rebel wasn’t mad at him: " Exactly. It’s a thing to laugh about. Well she told me she would search for Savage. "

Fjap interrupted: " You know him? "

" Oh yes, he was my classmate in the academy but he changed. He was a nice guy but power can change a human and I think this happened to Savage. He wasn’t able to manage the power of command and now he is an asshole, sorry for this word. I don’t know another for him. Well, I didn’t know his location at this time. He lost his fortress a few days before. So we all thought he got killed in action. Well it would make life in the rebel alliance a lot easier, but sadly he came back. Most scary was he got command about a task force afterwards. I mean a whole taskforce, over 10 rebel capital ships, uncountable fighters and troopers. I wouldn’t be surprised if he would cause a war soon. "

Fjap looked sad: " Is there no way to stop him? "

DuKaal answered: " Not as long as he has the backup of the superiors. Well, he is a good commander after all the losses in his troops are one of the most lowest ones in the alliance. His men are loyal to death. It would cause a revolution if they would not allow him to continue. So they think Savage is the smaller bad thing, but that’s not true. "

Fjap nodded: " I think you are right. Savage is a dangerous man. Maybe when you help us we can eliminate him. "

DuKaal looked serious: " I kinda would betray the thing I’m fighting for. "

" This you already do. Hey, you stand in a desert together with me. "

The rebel smiled: " True too. Ok, first we search the solution for the Steel problem and then we take care of Savage. "

In the meantime Tobi and Apo met a Mon Calamari Cruiser. " Unknown shuttle identify yourself immediately! "

Tobi lowered the speed of the shuttle: " This is shuttle Tau, we requesting landing permission and political asylum. "

For a second there was silence: " This is the Mon Calamari Cruiser Crazy Horse. You have landing permission on hangar seven. Welcome in the rebel alliance. "

" Thank you and we are glad to be welcome. " responded Tobi. Apo said quiet: " There we go. Heck I hate this idea. "

" It’s too late already. " answered Tobi: " Now we must make sure that they don’t find out our real aims. " A few seconds later both Phoenixians stood in the hangar of the Crazy Horse escorted by a few rebel soldiers. They brought them into an office where an intelligence officer waited. He started the interview. Apo explained he was a normal deck cleaner on board of the El Pollo Diablo. Tobi said he was an engineer and had stolen the access keycodes from the Diablo as prove that they mean their asylum serious.

Amazingly the plan worked, the intel guy was convinced: " What do you want to do in the rebel alliance? "

Tobi answered for both: " We want to become fighter pilots if possible. "

" Of course it is. You will get taught in the squadron Red Wolves in Abalone. Take your shuttle and report in there. "

Meister P sat in his bunk waiting for the success of Rookie and Akkon but until now there wasn’t a good new. P concentrated his power on the meditation. Again he was at the dark place, again the voice spoke to him. It was very scary but Meister waited. Suddenly he heard a silent voice in the background asking why. He heard it again and started to concentrate his power at this voice. It needed a while until he found out that this was Steeler too but with her normal voice without force influence. Meister felt a new hope growing. Again he waited but the voice didn’t come back. But there was something else, he saw a dark temple. Then he was inside the temple, there were 13 Sith as he assumed. They stood around a table.

One of them spoke with the dark force voice: " Today we will welcome our new member. Steeler finally returned to the path of the dark side. It’s time for the ritual of the blood. " Meister noticed he was on a place he shouldn’t be, first time he saw a ritual of the Dark Side. Every member of the Sith cut in their right arm and Meister saw three drops of blood fell into a bowl. Steeler was the last but as her blood came in contact with the others there was an flame, then a fire and suddenly an explosion. As the steam went away, only 7 Sith were still there.

Steeler said with dull and deep voice: " They weren’t ready, it’s better they got one with the force. "

Meister felt a touch at his hand, he looked around but he didn’t see somebody. " P, I’m there. Do you always look to an equal size? " Meister looked down and faced Yoda. Yoda continued: " The ritual you have seen is unexpected. Steeler get the force power of these 6 guys too, now she is unbeatable. That’s a dangerous situation. "

Meister: " Yoda, what was the prophecy? Yoda, please help me. "

" I can’t tell you now, it’s too early for that. Only one thing you two are the hope of the galaxy and of the force. But only together you will be able to have success. "

P: " But I have already lost the Sith. "

The old Jedi master: " Do never underestimate the power of friendship. "

" But Yoda... "

" Meister P, Steeler returned to the dark side because she thinks she was betrayed by her friends. Prove the opposite and you can still get her back. A part of the old Steeler is still alive but not for long anymore. The dark side is when it’s alone without a frontier like a fire destroying everything. "

Meister P looked at Yoda: " So there is still hope? "

" Yes there is, also for your friends. Use the force as you did with Rookie in Tralus some weeks before. "

" But Yoda, there are so many! "

The Jedi master: " Don’t you have the faith in the force? How you can know it when you never made it. " With these words Yodas vision went away and Meister woke up. A new hope grew in his soul, he walked over to the hangar contacting Rookie: " I will use the force to give you more time. I will slow down all life signs to the absolute minimum.

" Rookie sounded surprised: " From the whole crew? These are around 1000 people! "

" Trust me and please don’t let me down now. "

An hour later Tobi and Apo arrived at Abalone. Apo: " It will be a great fun when they found out that the keycodes aren’t working, hee hee. "

Tobi: " Let’s hope that we are away from here then. " Apo nodded.

Tobi continued with his tips: " Also act like a newbie pilot, you know you were a deck cleaner before. "

Apo smiled: " Thank you for my great role, a deck cleaner. Ah well you were only an engineer, so be careful too. " Both walked into the office of the training commander who assigned them to Red Wolf 7 and Red Wolf 8. As they left the office they faced Mavaric.

Mav said: " Are you two the new Red Wolf pilots? "

Apo who reacted faster: " Yes, Sir! "

Mav nodded: " Take the YW ‘s and prepare for an trainingsflight together with the Stingers. " Then he turned around and went away.

Tobi looked at Apo: " What to hell? "

Apo was confused too: " Don’t ask me, but... but... but this was Mav right?! "

" Indeed that was Mav. What he is doing here? An infiltrator tour too? " asked Tobi.

" I dunno but we should be carefull here, Tobi. I have a bad feeling. "

" Me too. This could become interesting. Let’s go to this training flight. " With these words both walked to their YW’s and started to an unknown target.

Meister was in the hangar now. He was able to find a not-working medidroid who helped him to seek through the medical files of the crew. 15 minutes later they had what they wanted, P took out the diary and put it into the fingers of the droid. The other medidroids were already moving the shivering crewmen around.

"ENTRY STARTED- WOW XXIII day five

I have to make this quick. Desperate times need desperate measures.... In the moment we are trying to save the lives of the Diablo crew by slowing down their lifesigns with the force...UNIT 5234 these people have to go there.... I don’t know if this would work but we have no time for tests... x432 find this man and get his bed there... We will use all crewmen with higher midichlorean concentrations as nodes, yes it sounds strange, but they will keep up the power of the force until it reaches the last phoenixian in this hangar. End of Entry."

SIR! YOUR ORDER HAS BEEN FULFILLED!

Thanks Unit delta27. Ok you heard it we are ready now. I don’t know how long this will take, but this droid will tell you how the things are going on.

Medic22-1 you will report what is happening from now till I cancel this order, understood?

YES SIR!

ALL CREWMEN ARE ON THEIR POSITIONS NOW. UPPER LIMBS HAVE BEEN FIXED TOGETHER PROPERLY. PEOPLE WITH HIGHER MDC-LEVELS ARE ON THEIR POSITIONS. USER P REACHED THE POSITION. LIFE MONITORING IS ACTIVE. SLEEP-SEQUENCE INITIATED. LIFE SIGNS DROPPING AS PLANNED.
90%
ENERGY FLOW IS STABLE
80%
70%
60%
MINIMAL INTERFERENCES IN ENERGY FLOW
50%
40%
30%
ENERGY FLOW IS INCREASING INPROPERLY
20%
ENERGY CASCADE DETECTED IN LIFE MONITORING SYSTEMS
15%
wawaawawawwaaaaaaarrrrning this droids systems are malfunctioninining
pleeeeeeesssss rmoveeeeeeeeeee UUUUUUUUUUUUNIIT from high e-e-e-e-e-ee--energ..........*crack*
......"

Commodore Rookie heard over the ship com system that Meister’s plan worked good shortly before the droid exploded. Even when it was ice cold the virus creators sweated. Rookie wished he mustn’t wear this oxygen patron, it was so uncomfortable. He thanked his father who forced him to join the navy and not the army. Suddenly he heard a strange voice he looked up and saw that Desmo throw away his oxygen patron and now he was in the need of breathable air. " Akkon help me! You stupid Wookie you, are you nuts? Do you want to die? " Rookie shouted. Akkon grabbed the next oxygen patron and came over. Rookie himself tried to hold the Wookie down. Desmo was weak already and so it worked but he really didn’t wanted to wear such a patron again and so he started to defend himself like a tiger. " Desmo, stop that. You have to wear that thingy or will you leave us? Please, Desmo. " With these words Rookie tried to convince the Wookie. Somehow these words distracted Desmo and Akkon had finally some success.

Rookie: " Don’t do this again. I hate these patrons too but right now it’s the only possibility. Don’t leave us here. "

Desmo nodded: " Ok, but these thing makes me crazy. I could never be a stormtrooper. "

" Me neither. " said Rookie and returned to his work.

On board of the dreadnought New Order again, Sunghi watched the situation of the Diablo and he wasn’t pleased. Akkon and Rookie were close to the solution and he didn’t wanted to let them survive. So he used the force and watched for the main energy lead. It won’t take too long until he found it, now he needed something to destroy or pull it off. But the Phoenix crew was too neat, no tool around so he had to search for another way. He found the fuse box and used his force to burn down the securing system. An evil smile showed at Sunghi’s face. No energy, no computers and definitely no virus for the keycodes. He thought the Phoenix crew was defeated now but also he had to hope Steeler wouldn’t find out what happened. Sunghi really didn’t understood for what she was waiting, Phoenix was an easy target now. So why not finish them now?

As the energy went out and all became dark, Rookie was shortly for giving up. Sitting at the cold dark bridge wasn’t a very nice thing. His despair was really big now, without energy they couldn’t continue and the Diablo would be lost. Somehow he was able to get in a short contact with Meister. P himself needed the whole power to hold the crew alive he couldn’t help. Also he only could manage it for one more hour then he would be too weak even with the help of some crewmembers, who worked as focuses. He sent a small message to the dark side in the hope Steel would hear it and help.

In the meantime on Matjua Two Fjap and DuKaal still searched for a sign for Steels changing behaviour. " Here is nothing, simply nothing. " said Fjap.

DuKaal answered: " Don’t give up. Only a small thing may be enough to solve this puzzle. I have something on the scanner, 3 clics away. Let’s look. " Fjap complained a bit but then he followed DuKaal. Heck Fjap hated the sand walking now, normally he expected from the rebel that he would give up but amazingly DuKaal seems on a run. The rebel walked fast over the dunes and Fjap had to run to got him back. In the depression behind the dune there was nothing. " See, I told you. Here is nothing. Why you don’t believe me? " said Fjap.

DuKaal looked around: " Well this is a bomb crater, easy as that. Very young the desert wasn’t able to close it till now. Maybe we find a sign here. Who should bombard a desert dune? "

Fjap sighed: " As you said this is a desert and now we have noon, for me it’s already too hot. I wait till tonight and then we can search for a trace or something else. " DuKaal had to agree because it was really hot there.

At the same time at the Dreadnought New Order again, Steeler thought about her plans as she suddenly heard Meister P’s voice: " We are dying now, well you have won. " The Sith wondered, the Phoenixians already found the way out, what runs wrong there? Rookie and Akkon would be able to create a virus and then they would be able to solve the situation. She concentrated herself at the Diablo but all was dark. Steeler wondered where she was, it needed a while until she found out that this was the Diablo but why it was so dark. An energy loss shouldn’t happen in her plan. She looked around for the problem and found the fuse box with the destroyed securing. Steeler couldn’t help by hand she needed a human who helped her. Rookie was already on a search with a flashlight. Same counted for Akkon but he was at the other end of the ship. So Steeler grabbed Rookie and pushed him through the corridors. Rookie felt only hard pushes and had to concentrate that he didn’t fall on the floor. But then it happened he fell over his own feet and landed hardly on the ground. By his fall he lost the flashlight. Something grabbed his arm and dragged him behind it. Rookie was scared to hell, it was so dark and something may capture him. He couldn’t see anything even when he tried it with his whole eyes strength. Suddenly he saw a lightsaber coming close to him, Rookie screamed and tried to run away. But again something grabbed him. The lightsaber went to a wall and started writing: " Don’t run! "

The Commodore took his whole braveness together: " Who you are? "

The answer was: " Names are steam. Now change the securings then you have your energy back. "

" I can’t it’s too dark here. " Something collided with his right feet, it was the flashlight. Rookie took it and got pushed to the fuse box: " Ok, ok, I’m doing it. Whoever you are stop that. I have enough bruises. "

Again the lightsaber wrote: " Fast, there isn’t much time left! " Rookie nodded but laughed to himself as he noticed that the other maybe couldn’t see it. Changing the securings wasn’t hard work, maybe a minute then it was done. But now Rookie had to go to the control room to put each system at online status again and he had no idea where he was. Again he got grabbed and dragged by something: " Not so fast, I can’t so fast! Slower, damnit. "

Suddenly he was in the control room again there was a " Fast! " written to the next wall. The Commodore putted all systems at online and then there was the energy back. The lights went on rookie turned around to see who helped him. He could swear he saw Steeler for a moment but he hadn’t time to think any longer about it. The Sith returned with her concentration to the New Order. Somebody wanted to jump into her plan, who was it? Even when she didn’t wanted to see Phoenix alive nobody had the right to touch her plans. She swore to find the traitor and kill him too but not right now.

Rookie ran through the corridors of the Diablo. He was frightened he would be too late, he nearly collided with Akkon who came from the opposite direction. Both stormed the bridge Desmo jumped out of their way: " Hurry, we haven’t much time left. "

Rookie nodded: " Well, let’s hope we haven’t lost too much from our virus creation. "

Akkon shook his head: " I only saved a minute before we lost the energy. "

" Thanks god. " answered Desmo: " How long do you think you still need? Meister can’t take this too long. 1000 people, that’s amazing. " Rookie didn’t look up: " Jedis are amazing, same as Siths. Meister can hold it still a bit... I hope. " Akkon completed the last sequence of the virus in this moment: " Done, now we have to find a way to install it into our computer systems. " " Rookie smiled: " That’s an easy task against the work before. We use my personal computer and connect to the ship network then we bring the virus in. Let’s go. "

Meister P had already problems, he got weaker and weaker with every passing minute. Yoda showed up again: " Don’t give up Meister, never give up or all will be lost. "

" What do you mean with that? " asked the Jedi.

" You will know when it’s time for it. Your friends on the bridge give their best, do the same, and don’t give up. Don’t let them alone, they need you and you need them. "

" The prophecy please, Yoda tell me the prophecy. "

The Jedi master: " Impatience is the path to the dark side Meister, think over this. It’s not the time to show you the whole truth. Not yet. Many bad things will happen in the next future, be warned. Do never follow the dark side or all is over. "

Meister asked: " What bad things? When? When you already make a general warning then please tell me some more details. "

Yoda shook his head: " Impatience is a sign of the youth. Be defensive, always defensive and remember the balance of the force. Do not attack, ever. Shawn completed your education too fast, you needed more train. Unfortunately you didn’t get the time to complete your training. You had to follow the path of freedom right? Hunting for adventures instead of studying the force. Races with hoverbikes instead of saber training. "

" I know I wasn’t the best padawan but I was able to ally with a Sith. No Jedi did this before. "

Yodas answer: " You lost the Sith again remember. The dark forces prepare their conquest into our galaxy now and they have a good chance to win. "

" Was it my fault? "

Yoda: " I will not say this but you weren’t able to feel that she was still alive and went to a personal vendetta. She is a typical Sith always was and ever will be. You have to calm her down and she will make you more aggressive when you are together and this was the path. But this possibility is lost, easy as that. "

Meister answered quietly: " I’m sorry, so sorry but now we have to search for another way. "

Yoda looked in the eyes of P: " Fact is the dark fleet can only be beaten by allied forces, Jedi and Sith, rebels and imperials. You two are the leaders, the hope, got me. You have to get the Sith back, it’s your destiny and you have only one joker called friendship. Normally Sith haven’t friends, there you can see she wasn’t like the rest this is your advange. Use it! "

" I will not fail you master Yoda. "

" Don’t do it for me, do it for you and for the creatures in that galaxy. I had my life and it was a good one. " Meister nodded then Yoda left the vision. P felt a bit better now but he could only hope that Rookie and Akkon would have succsess soon.

Somewhere between Donnn and Abalone, Tobi and Apo were on their first training flight with the Red Wolves. Apo already wondered why the YWs were fully armed with bombs but Tobi only said: " Remember that are rebels, they act strange. " and Apo did believe him.

The Stingers made the fighter cover and suddenly all heard Mav’s voice: " This is Lieutenant Commander Colin Dankan. We will attack an imperial settlement in the non armoured zone. Listen cadets of the Red Wolves this is your chance to prove your loyalty. Show your worth to us and you will be rewarded. This is a secret mission everybody who will speak about will be executed immediately without a hearing in front of a military court. I expect from everybody to fulfil the order if not I will execute you here immediately too. Clear all? " Apo was shocked, the Mavaric he knew would never order such an attack.

Suddenly he heard Tobi over ship to ship com: " Damn, now we are in trouble Apo. We have to act like rebels even when it means to shoot our own people. "

" I can’t Tobi, I simply can’t. "

" You have to or will you get shot by Mav? "

In this moment Mav asked: " Red Wolf 7 and 8 is my order clear? "

Tobi answered switched to overall ship to ship com: " Order clear and understood. Let’s give those imps hell! "

Also Apo switched his com system: " Ok Sir, but remember I was only a deck cleaner before. I’m not sure if I can handle this order correctly. "

Mav smiled: " You will, you will. The imperials have no defence systems. That’s their dead. Let’s go. "

Maybe 5 minutes later, Akkon was able to bring the virus into the ship computer systems. Now they waited and waited and suddenly the frigate left the hyperspace and came to a fully stoop. " Yay, the frigate is stopped. " said Rookie: " Now lets hope the rest works too. "

Suddenly the frigate went to red alert then the computer voice said: " Malfunction, malfunction... oh Danny boy... "

Desmo said: " Heck I hate this song. Is the oxygen rate and the heating increasing? "

" Not until now... " Answered Akkon. The computer started the Oh - Danny - Boy - song again.

Then the energy went off again, " Here we go again... " stated Rookie: " Now we have to wait if the living systems went into a reboot... please come online again. " The Commodore started to pray and exact in this moment, the energy came back.

The computer said: " Good morning Junior. " Rookie got pale but Akkon and Desmo started to laugh.

" Well our computer has humour. " smiled Akkon: " It works for the oxygen systems, check it please Desmo. "

The Wookie: " Yep, we have full working oxygen systems but the heating is still out of function, strange. Stop... it works too but on a lower level... it will need days until we have normal temperature here but well congrats, we managed it. We have access. "

Rookie shook his head: " We have the systems new started but now we have a virus inside. We have to reconfigure the whole system from the ground. It will take weeks I think. We need a repair station to be faster but we haven’t the time to fly to one. BTW where we are? "

Desmo checked again the consoles: " The computer says Ladron, Outer Rim again. Neutral space this time. But I’m not sure if we can thrust this computer... " In this moment the computer starts again with Oh Danny Boy. " ARGH!" was Desmo’s comment.

Rookie walked into the hangar to look for Meister P. The Jedi sat in the middle of the hangar and seems to meditate. As the Commodore came closer he could see the sweet running over P’s face. Carefully Rookie touched P’s shoulder: " We had succsess, you can stop it now. "

" Good. " said P with his dark dull force voice and opened his eyes. Rookie jumped back looking surprised. P had white eyes now with a metallic glitter inside. The Commodore saw this before by Steel with her dark black eyes but never he expected it from P. The Jedi smiled: " That’s normal Rookie. It will go away when I take a break. "

" I hope so, it’s scaring. " Then Rookie looked around in the hangar: " Time to stand up, Phoenixians! We have to clean up our ship. "

At the same time the Red Wolves and the Stingers arrived at Donnn Three and started the attack. Tobi and Apo played their new role perfectly. The colony sent an emergency signal to all ships also in the neighbour sector Ladron where the El Pollo was. Rookie stood at the comlink console as the message came in: " This is colony Donnn Three, please help. We are under attack by unknown forces, please assist us. We have no weapons and no soldiers.... Please help. This is.... " Only static.

Rookie looked up: " Donnn? That’s non-armoured zone, right. "

Amber who stood next to him nodded: " Yes, it is. We have contracts with the alliance about this sector... I’m not sure but Ladron could be non-armoured zone too. Then we are in big trouble. "

" Agreed. " said Rookie.

Amber: " We could be the reason for starting a war, right? Damn... anyway we should look what happened there. "

The Commodore turned around to Amber: " You are right. This is an imperial colony, we should check out what’s going on in Donnn. Amber you and The Duke you check what happened. Take a shuttle please, we don’t want to risk a war. Until now they haven’t noticed us and this should stay like it is. " Amber nodded and went into the hangar to grab The Duke and a shuttle.

Desmo walked next to Rookie: " That’s a dangerous mission for Amber and her pilot. Do you think it was a good idea? "

Rookie turned around: " This could cause a war. I don’t think the empire is prepared for a war in this sector. We must find out who the aggressor is. "

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Authors: NCp Steeler, LtC Amber, SCP Meister_P, SCP Fjap

Editor: LtC Amber

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