For Your Photoreceptors Only/Chapter 2

For Your Photoreceptors Only

Chapter 2

"It's good they let us outside once in a while," the Human male said. "Stuck in that damn cell all day every day can make a person go insane."

"It's a prison," the other bespectacled Human said. "That's the idea."

The two Humans strolled out into the small courtyard of the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center on Coruscant. The one wearing the spectacles was Dr. Noah, the mad scientist who was captured by MI5 roughly eight years ago. The other man was Klay, an arms dealer MI5 captured four years ago on Bakura.

The two men sat down at one of the tables and enjoyed the fresh air for a moment. Then Klay asked, "Is it time?"

"Patience," Noah responded, hands clasped on the tabletop, fingers intertwined.

Other prisoners were wandering about. Some exercising, some talking and some just laying in the warmth of the sun. Armed guards were posted at different points around the courtyard, watching. Klay's leg wouldn't stop moving, almost as if he had a nervous tick. He was anxious to get their escape plan underway. Whereas Noah, who originally thought up the plan, sat calmly, waiting patiently.

Two guards suddenly strolled up to the table. "Stand up," one of them said.

Noah and Klay both stood.

The guards turned them around and put stun cuffs on them. The guards marched Klay and Noah back into the building with their arms cuffed behind their backs. They were escorted past a few more guards and then a guard station. They then took a lift down a few flights and exited into a hallway. The guards stopped them in front of a door that slid open. They pushed Noah and Klay into the darkened room. The two guards followed them in and then clicked on the lights. Noah and Klay now found themselves in what looked like a maintenance closet.

The two guards took off their helmets, finally revealing their faces. They happened to be Clowe and Perkins. They then proceeded to unlock the stun cuffs.

"I was wondering when you guys were gonna show up," Klay said, rubbing his wrists where the cuffs were digging into his skin.

"Did you get the replica droid?" Noah asked immediately.

"Yeah," Clowe responded, pulling something out from behind a stack of crates. "You have no idea how difficult it was to get this thing here." Perkins helped pull the human-looking droid out and into the center of the room. It was a female Human replica droid dressed in a guard uniform.

"And the chip with my special modifications?" Noah asked.

Perkins reached into his guard uniform and produced a small disk-shaped device. "Right here, Doc."

Noah grabbed the device and kneeled down to work on the droid.

"All this time planning and we're almost out," Klay said with a smile.

"Keep it down," Perkins said, motioning with his hands. "Guards patrol these hallways." He took a quick glance back at the door.

Clowe said, "We saw the one named Moonreaper a few days ago on the streets of Coruscant. We could've taken her then."

"But I stopped him," Perkins said, glaring at Clowe. "That wasn't part of the plan. It could have alerted the rest of MI5 and ruined the whole thing."

"I tell ya one thing," Klay said, "the first thing I'm gonna do when I get outta here is buy a drink."

"You and me both," Noah responded, still working on the replica droid.

"How's it comin', Doc?" Perkins asked. "We can't stay in here all day."

"Don't worry," Noah responded. "It's completed." He stood up and pushed his spectacles up the bridge of his nose. Then the replica droid stood up and at attention, as if it were a soldier waiting for orders.

"Now what?" Perkins asked.

Noah said to the replica droid, "Commence with Phase One. Once the target is acquired, immediately proceed to Phase Two."

"Yes, sir," the droid responded and exited the maintenance closet.

"Alright," Noah said. "Time to put the cuffs back on and head to the rendezvous point."

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The replica droid strolled down a corridor and stopped at a blast door near a guard station. The male guard at the station recognized the uniform of the woman and flipped the switch to open the door. He was also checking out the shape of the female figure hidden underneath the uniform.

"How about we meet up after work today, sweetie," the guard commented from his comfy chair at the control panel.

The female replica droid completely ignored him and proceeded through the blast doors.

The next area was the corridor connecting to the women's wing of the prison facility. The guards the droid passed were also women. After navigating a series of halls and lifts, the replica droid stopped at one of the prison cells. This cell belonged to Urma Boont, a female Bothan who, like Noah and the others, had been wronged by MI5 eight years prior. She opened the cell door and saw Urma sitting there, waiting.

Urma Boont had knowledge of Noah's plan, so she knew exactly why the replica droid...or rather, the guard...was there. Without putting up a fight, the droid put cuffs on Urma and escorted her out of the cell.

The droid had acquired it's target. Phase One was complete. Proceeding to Phase Two.

The droid walked Urma through the facility and on to a landing platform where Clowe and Perkins had Noah and Klay cuffed and waiting. Together, the six of them headed toward a ship.

"Hang on," another guard came rushing over and said, stepping in front of them. "Where are you taking these prisoners?"

"It's a prisoner transfer," Perkins told him. "You should have gotten the memo earlier."

"No," the guard said. "I wasn't notified. I'll have to check it out before you can leave."

As the guard reached for his comlink, Noah said, "Fire."

That one word activated something in the replica droid's processing. The droid suddenly pulled it's blaster and shot the guard squarely in the chest.

The other guards on the platform heard the shot and came running over. What they saw was two other guards and three jumpsuit-wearing prisoners rushing up the ship's ramp. But the female replica droid stayed behind to give them covering fire.

As the shootout with the droid commenced, Noah and the others started up the ship.

The guards blaster bolts hit the replica droid, but the droid was still standing, firing back at them. By the time the guards finally incapacitated the droid, the ship was on it's way into the sky.

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"There," Noah said from underneath the control panel in the cockpit. "Now they can't track us."

"We finally made it!" Klay cheered.

Urma looked around at the four Human males with which she was now working. Noah, Klay, Clowe, Perkins. These were her new "teammates". All with a hankering for revenge against MI5. Once they got settled, the fun would begin.

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