Star Wars: Join the Resistance: Book 1 by Ben Acker & Ben Blacker

Author:Ben Acker & Ben Blacker [Acker, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2017-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

“Who was that?” Mattis whispered.

“That was Jo,” Dec said.

“No way,” Mattis said.

Dec turned to the group. “One of you must’ve seen. That was Jo.”

They all looked at each other. Finally, AG nodded. “It was,” he said. “I saw him, too.” But whether it was because he saw Jo or because he would always back up his brother, nobody could discern.

It was proof enough for Klimo, who waved and started to say something, probably “Hello, Jo.” Quick as lightspeed, Dec’s hand shot up and gripped Klimo’s snout tight.

Dec held a finger to his own lips and asked with his eyes if Klimo understood to be silent. The Rodian nodded as best he could, and Dec slowly unwrapped his fingers from Klimo’s weird mouth situation.

“Why would Jo sneak around?” Sari asked.

“He sure ain’t out for Hubbard pies,” Dec said. “Mess is all the way down there. That’s a communications center in there. Intragalactic. Highly restricted.”

“Jo doesn’t have clearance.” Sari looked worried.

“We gotta go in after him,” Dec said.

“Why?” asked Mattis. “There’s no way Jo, if it even was Jo, is up to anything he isn’t supposed to be.”

Dec and AG shared a look that said, Poor Mattis.

“What? What am I missing?”

“Always suspect the person you least suspect.”

“Of what? And why?”

There was every chance Dec was making it all up as he was going along, but he gave no indication. He said, “Of everything. There’s always a reason they’re trying to throw you off their scent. Number two lesson after ‘If you’re in trouble, throw the nearest large object at the problem’ is never, ever completely trust someone you can completely trust.”

“Wait, does that mean that because you can trust me…you can’t trust me?”

Dec and AG shared that poor Mattis look again.

“I can get us in,” Sari said, and started off for the communications center door, staring down the swipe-pad door lock and cracking her considerable knuckles. The others followed.

“I have a good feeling about this!” Klimo nervously whisper-yelled in Mattis’s ear.

Mattis shushed Klimo, and then Dec and AG shushed Mattis. Sari shushed them all.

She entered a code that slid the door lock’s exterior to the side and into the programming interface.

“Are you bypassing the—” AG-90 started to ask.

“Rerouting it.”

“Wow! You think you can crack the—”

“I know I can.”

“You could enter a—” AG started again.

“Yeah.” Sari cut him off. “If I had all night and a Murr rabbit’s foot.”

“Sure,” AG conceded, “but have you thought of a digital scrape that jump-jacks the main connect?”

Sari’s eyes narrowed. “Maybe that would have worked, too,” she said coolly as the door unlocked. “Didn’t need it, though.”

The door slid open to reveal a long corridor lined with rooms, all dark except the last one, which emitted a faint light. Whether it was Jo or not, someone was in there, off hours, using the intragalactic communications center.

“Sneak-race you, bro!” AG whisper-yelled as he quickly tiptoed in.

Dec frowned and said as loud as he could whisper, “AG, get back here. Sari, get that door shut again. And, greenie? No matter what you do, don’t yell—”

“Lorica!” Klimo cried.

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