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CHAPTER FIFTEEN

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ARTEMIS landed lightly into the prisoner ship next to Din. She gazed around, her body tense, but when Din touched her hand slightly, she relaxed.

"Zero," Mayfeld said through the comlink. "Get us to the control room."

"Sub level three. Disabling onboard surveillance."

"All right, we're on the clock," Mayfeld told the others. "When we engage those droids, they're gonna be all over us."

"We know the drill," Din said, gesturing at himself and Artemis.

"Bio trackers activated," Zero's voice came. "I've got eyes."

"All right, let's go," Mayfeld said, leading the way.

As they passed the cells, Artemis made sure her face was always hidden from view. It wouldn't surprise her if there were prisoners here that she'd caught back during the war.

"I don't like this," Din said, when they emerged deeper into the ship.

"You always were paranoid," Xi'an replied.

"Is that true, Mando?" Mayfeld questioned tauntingly. "Were you always paranoid?"

An alien prisoner grunted, making him jump up. Artemis had to suppress a smile at this.

"Approaching control room," Zero said. "Make a left at the next juncture."

Artemis stayed close behind Din, once in a while touching his back to tell him she was still there.

Everything went rather well until a MSE-6 series repair droid appeared, making the group halt in their steps.

"What?" Burg questioned. "It's just a little mousey."

He grabbed his blaster and hid it behind his back before calling out to the repair droid.

"Come here, little mousey."

"Burg," Mayfeld warned him.

"Mousey, come here. Come here."

"Burg," Mayfeld said once again, more tensely.

When the repair droid rushed away, Burg shot it down. Artemis sighed.

"No!" Mayfeld exclaimed. "Burg, what are you doing?"

"What?" Burg said.

And then four humanoid New Republic security droids appeared and opened fire.