Star Wars - Easy Credits by Paul Danner

Author:Paul Danner [Danner, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 1996-02-20T20:33:16+00:00

Without warning Sconn suddenly grabbed her arm and jerked forward. The weapon erupted, the blast hurtling harmlessly out the hatch, quickly followed by Variise. At the last second, the Mistryl caught hold of the bottom of the ramp.

Sconn got to his feet and turned to stare down at Variise. “I love irony, don’t you?”

She snarled up at the thief as he pulled out a small, silver device and fingered one of its buttons. Her eyes widened as she moved her stare from the device to the half-sphere between her and Sconn. “You wouldn’t … ”

“Of course not,” he said, then pressed the button. “Oops. My finger slipped … ”

The device beeped, and the half-sphere gave an answering tone. Sconn leaped back inside as the ensuing explosion shook the entire walker. After a moment, the thief cautiously peered out the hatch. Both the ramp and Variise were nowhere to be found.

The thief nodded with satisfaction. “Looks like my luck’s finally hanging.”

As soon as the words escaped his lips, the entire walker jerked forward again, sending Sconn tumbling to the floor of the troop deck.

* * *

“Sconn! We’ve got a problem, here!”

Kalieva gave a quick glance over her shoulder as she fought unsuccessfully with the walker’s controls. “Where is he?” she muttered under her breath.

Sconn stumbled into the command deck just as the AT-AT lurched forward again, picking up speed.

“Where have you been?” Kalieva demanded to know.

“I got caught up in what you might call an explosive argument with Variise. Things blew up and she went to pieces.” Sconn fell into the pilot’s seat as the walker shook wildly. “Is it me or are these things not supposed to be moving this fast?”

“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you … this thing’s out of control!”

“Define out of control … ”

“Whatever you did back there must have caused major damage in this thing’s drive motors. I can’t slow us down and I can’t steer.”

“Okay, that definitely qualifies as out of control.”

A sudden blast rocked the walker. Sconn shook his head. “Now what?”

Kalieva checked the sensor arrays. “The other walkers are opening fire. Luckily, at this speed they can’t catch us.”

“Oh, silly me. And I thought being out of control was a completely negative experience.”

The Princess shot him a dirty look. “Things can’t possibly get any worse than this.”

“Didn’t I tell you never to say that?”

“Why shouldn’t I?”

Sconn glanced out the viewport and gave the sigh of the long-suffering. “Because now they just did.” They had diverted from the parade course and were headed for one of the repulsorstands. Its occupants seemed to realize this wasn’t part of the show, and started exiting as quickly as they could.

The thief fumbled with the external comm. “Uhh, you people may want to move … ” More people started to flee, but some looked stunned.

Sconn tried again, this time at a higher volume. “Runaway walker! Everybody out of the way!”

The remaining citizens got themselves off the repulsorstand as fast as they could.

The thief exhaled in relief as the repulsorstand emptied out just as the walker plowed right through it, reducing it to scrap.

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