Star Wars: Revelations/ Chapter 5: Interrogation

“Whatever the Hell you did with Ponds, bring him back to the way he was. Now!” Clone Commodore Wolffe slammed the butt of his fist onto a steel table. Facing him was Aurra Sing,

sitting there, cuffed to the table with a recognizable smirk that lay on her face. Wolffe noticed that smirk and slammed his fist even harder.

“What? Am I about to short circuit your cybernetic eye?” Aurra’s smirk transformed into a full on grin.

“I’m not gonna ask you again, what is wrong with Ponds and how do we change him back?” Wolffe leaned in closer to Sing’s face, corrupted with her wretched breath.

Aurra leaned in, herself, “Well, for starters, hon, you need to learn some respect for a lady. Secondly, I can’t.” The former bounty hunter rested her back and shoulders onto her seat, chuckling at her own message.

Wolffe did not hesitate to stick his DC-17 pistol directly into Sing’s face. Princess Leia heard Wolffe’s gun cock from the room next to Aurra’s cell. Leia grabbed her chest exactly where her heart beat inside. She knew that the sound of the pistol cocking was not loud, however she alone heard it as if it was a cannon firing. Leia barged through the door, “Wolffe, enough!”

Aurra’s head turned slowly to face Leia, Wolffe’s didn’t. He talked through his teeth, “What do you mean you can’t? Explain to me before I put a blast mark on your forehead.”

“Oh, honey. I mean what I mean. When Ponds was doing justice against the Rebellion, I might’ve snuck a lil’ somethin’ inside his mind.”

Forcing Wolffe to aim his gun until the end of the barrel to make contact with the mouth of Aurra. Wolffe then examined Aurra who opened her mouth to let the barrel go inside and gave a quick wink. “Shoot me, hon. It’ll be your undoing!”

Leia walked over to the commodore. “Wolffe, please don’t.”

An outer energy reading was detected as a green light flashed on one of the New Republic trooper’s consoles. Reporting it to the person-in-charge, the soldier recognized the vessel as a ship belonging to the Yuuzhan Vong. It’s genetic, organic build made the computers react to it, artificially sensing danger. The commanding officer rushed through chairs and desks to reach his destination of Aurra’s cell. “Ma’am, we have a problem.”

“It can’t wait, Sergeant,” Wolffe butted in, still fixated on the bounty hunter that sat before him.

“What is it?” Leia asked before quickly being grabbed on the arm and escorted out of the cell block. “Sergeant, what’s the meaning of this?”

“Hey!” Wolffe exclaimed before being mentally dragged in by Sing.

“Don’t leave me. I’m getting quite lonely,” Aurra yelled out, trying to verbally seduce the clone. Wolffe returned into the cell. “That’s better! Oh shoot I forgot to tell you something - I just - oh yes now I remember! How’s Plo Koon?”

Wolffe refused to turn around, instead he locked a plasma door that led to the outside of the cell. Then he indeed turned around.

Leia walked quickly, exiting the grip of the sergeant. “If it’s another attack why send only one ship?”

She escaped each attempt that the sergeant had given to bring her to safety. Stopping in her tracks, her heart beat again as if she was getting chased by a predator. She heard the sound of a low voice, but not telling her anything. She just heard a familiar, low sound within her soul. “Don’t open fire!” Leia suddenly shouted. Speeding out of her tracks, Leia approached the ship that had just landed on a secure landing pad. Passing right through security, the princess extended her arms to fellow troops of the New Republic, Patrick Rahr and Commander Ponds.

“I’ll be double dipped!” Rahr mimicked the princess as he extended his arms and the two soon embraced. Cougar also stepped off from the ship. He fully absorbed the jungle planet of Yavin 4 with the sun’s rays booming down on him, hoping that meant some sort of hope.

“Ponds!” Leia repeated her act of kindness to Ponds.

“It’s great to see you too, princess,” Ponds exclaimed, smiling as if he was back on Ryloth with former master Windu. Leia’s facial expression took a drastic change as her eyes widened and heart commenced to pump loudly once more. “Princess?”

The crackling of a nearby gunshot went off which coerced both Ponds and Leia to sprint to where they thought it occurred. Rahr conformed to their actions. Once they all got inside, another gun blast detonated. Pinpointing the approximate location, Leia, leading the charge, halted in front of a holding cell to find Sing’s corpse and Wolffe along with a discharged weapon on the table.