Roje banged his fists ineffectually on the locked durasteel door. 'Dad!' he yelled. 'Dad, are you in there?'
'There's probably a hundred dads in there,' Amoya pointed out sardonically. 'And they probably can't hear you.'
Luna frowned at her. Not because she wasn't right, but because that was perhaps not the best thing to say in that moment. She leaned close to the young woman. 'Don't be mean. He's clearly upset.'
Amoya looked up at her and was clearly about to make a comeback, but she closed her mouth, nodded and started banging on the door beside Roje.
'That's - okay,' Luna said, nonplussed. It still wouldn't help open the door to the cell block, but at least it was somewhat supportive? Net win?
'Out of the way,' Mara snarled, and instead of waiting, she reached out with her hands and plucked them away from the door. She took her lightsaber and drove it into the door lock. Overhead, a new siren added to the continuous wail of the alarm.
'I think that caught their attention,' Cora said, looking around worriedly. She must have sensed something, for the focused on the north end of the corridor and brought her rifle to her shoulder. Luna followed suit, just in time to see a squad of stormtroopers round the corner, and the two women let loose a volley of blaster fire. Luna couldn't see if any of their shots hit, thanks to the blooming smoke, but it certainly gave the guards pause for thought as none of them advanced any further down the way. Amoya and Roje added their blasters to the mix. In the small space, the sound of the blaster shots sounded deafeningly loud.
'How's it looking, Mara?' Luna asked her, looking over her shoulder.
'Getting there,' she replied through gritted teeth, working her blade down the side of the door lock. Then at once her lightsaber jolted down, no longer meeting stiff resistance, and she pulled the blade out, raised a hand and the door shot open. 'Everyone inside.'
Roje didn't need telling, for he rushed inside. Luna and Cora kept up their fire, covering the other two as they headed inside, before diving into the guard room, themselves. 'Cora, Mara, make a barricade,' Luna ordered, quickly getting to her feet. The two Jades made quick work of removingthe heavy work station and lockers and piled them in front of the door. 'Good work, that should hold them up for a little while.
'Looks like they haven't even figured out that we're inside, yet, since they're still shooting,' Amoya noted, which surprised Luna. She had quickly gained the impression that the young Nautolan was smart, but to have made such a quick judgement after having been shot at? Luna was impressed.
'It also blocks our escape,' Mara pointed out.
'We're good, trust me,' Luna said, checking her chrono. It was going to be close. She looked about her. Roje had already got the interior door to the cell block open and had gone inside - or perhaps it simply hadn't been locked. She had no idea of the First Order's prison lockdown protocols. Either way, there were no stormtroopers to be seen, and they had a straight shot at their goal.
The cell block was several stories tall; a large, empty space with row upon row of cell blocks on either side. Roje was running from cell to cell, yelling for his dad at each one, and the inmates responded in kind, yelling to be let out. 'See what you can do about unlocking all these doors,' she ordered the others.
'Problem,' Cora said, pointing a thumb behind her, at the door. 'We may have, entirely accidentally, destroyed the console that controls that sort of thing.'
'Ah.'
'Yeah.'
Luna jogged over to the nearest cell block, on her left, and inspected the door. It was solid durasteel, with a sliding window and a standard issue electronic lock. A not very durable looking lock at that. She opened the window and yelled into the cell, 'stand back!' before stepping back herself. A few shots was all it took to turn the lock into slag, and she was able to pull the door open. The inmate, a tall, starved looking Nautolan man, rushed out, wild eyed. He stopped a step over the threshold, perhaps not quite believing that he was out. 'Head to the centre,' she told him, then moved on to the next cell. 'Get started on these cells!' she called to the others, not bothering to check if they had. Blaster fire from further inside the cell block told her that Roje was following suit, and a moment later the sound of more blaster fire and the buzzing of Mara's lightsaber told her that the others had joined in.
