May The Way Be With You

Escape

More spiders come from the sides of us, making me shudder. As Frog Lady dresses, bigger ones start coming out. As soon as she joins me, one the size of the Crest comes out, growling at us. "RUN! GET BACK TO THE SHIP!!! GO!!!" I yell, making sure the egg container is secure on my back, then holding the baby tightly.

We both start running, and I get on the comm bracelet. "Ice spiders! We're running to the ship, have your blaster ready!" I yell. The ice spiders chase after us, so I blast the ones that are too close. We make it into the archway before the biggest one can catch us, but it starts climbing above us. I keep firing and running, holding the baby tightly.

At one point, Frog Lady starts hopping on all fours, which seems to help since she's ahead of me. We come to a roomier part of the cave and Din whips around a corner. As soon as he sees the spiders, he fires at them, getting behind us. I suddenly hear a few explosions and run faster, not caring to know what they were.

We get cornered by spiders, so I keep Frog Lady between Din and I, blasting away. "Go! Run!" Din tells us as his flame thrower turns on. We run, Frog Lady on all fours again as he roasts spiders. He's not far behind us as the kid whimpers and yelps, clinging to me. We get out of the cave and can see the Crest. Frog Lady gets in first, and I hand her the baby. She gets him in safely, placing him on the ground.

I hear him whine, and see him running for the cockpit as I hand her the eggs. It would be adorable if we weren't fighting for our lives. Din tells me to get to the cockpit with Frog Lady and the kid. I nod and rush to the ladder. Frog Lady has her eggs as I climb up, and I see the kid in the left hand seat as Frog Lady gets in the right side one. I turn around to see Din not far behind, spiders filling the ship. I fire around Din to keep them back, and he eventually gets in the cockpit too.

We keep firing at the ones keeping the doors open, trying to close it. Suddenly, the kid whines in terror, and my heart drops as I see one on his head while three more surround him. Before I can fire, blaster bolts hit the spiders, killing them. I turn to see Frog Lady with a small blaster, panting in fear. Din backs me up and uses his flamethrower to get them back enough to close the doors.

I grab the baby and sit in the seat as Din gets in the cockpit. "I have limited visibility, it's gonna be a bumpy ride." He tells us, getting the Crest turned on.

"The cockpit isn't sealed, we'll suffocate!" I tell him.

"We just need to get out of here! Hang on!" He says, firing up the engines. We start to lift off the ground, and I feel hopeful. We suddenly crash back down. Spider legs crash through the transparasteel, and the big spider is back.

"Mando..." I whimper, eyes wide as the spider drags its mouth full of fangs across the windows. He holds his hand out for me, and I take it, both of us holding the others hand tightly. The kid holds on to my hand holding him to me, and I silently thank the Maker for at least allowing me a family before I permanently die.

Out of nowhere comes blaster fire, killing the large spider. Din gets up, and I give the baby to Frog Lady before following him out of the ship, which is mostly spider free. Din kills the last one, and the hull is covered in webs. We come out of the ship, and find the two New Republic dickheads are taking out the spiders. I remember what Din said, and stand in front of him, ready to murder these bastards if they try to arrest him.

One of them says there's a warrant for his arrest for freeing the Twi'lek guy. But he captured three of the top Most Wanted, and risked his life to try to protect the guy running the ship. Din asks them to help us, but they are dickheads. I hold out my hand and call out, "You want to help us!"

They both stop, and repeat my words. The Force tells me it's not right to take their free will away, but in this case, it's understandable. With the Force, I have the two dickheads help us, and we get the cockpit sealed and engines running in no time. It's the best we can do with the tools we have, so I send the dickheads on their way, the Force altering their memory so they don't remember helping us.