Ethics [Tuesday, October 7, 2nd period]

[sith_happened]

Today the class was meeting in the Danger Room.

"Welcome to your midterm," Anakin said, pacing across the flight deck of a ship. Behind him, thousands of pricks of lights showed that a space battle had been paused for him to talk. "Today, you will get to be Jedi."

His eyes twinkled at Tahiri before going flat. "Or try, anyway. Your mission," he said, striding over to a three-dimensional schematic of the ship, "is to rescue the Chancellor of the Republic, who has been kidnapped by a General Grievous, the leader of a Separatist movement. There's also another fearsome warrior aboard, a Lord of the Sith named Count Dooku. He is not to be underestimated. He took my arm off when I was 20."

He shrugged it off.

"Regardless. You will be paired up and rescue the Chancellor. Alive, please. Your mission is to fight past the droids and the Sith Lord, get back on a different ship and the hell off of this one as quickly as possible."

He waved his hand towards the control panel. The students would now find themselves in brown robes and holding unlit lightsaber hilts (well, except for Jan. Anakin hadn't figured out how that could work). They would work like the real things, but only in the Danger Room.

Their reflexes, regrettably, were what they had come in with.

"Try not to die," Anakin said, "and for the love of the Force, don't do stupid things with your lightsabers like try to skewer your classmates or write your name in the floor." He then listed off the pairings:

Agnes Nitt & Blysse Norwood (Blind Seer has the option of wearing a robe if it would amuse him)
Andrew Wiggin & Toby Moraitis
Bumblee & Dick Grayson
Ella of Frell & Harvey Dent
Jan & Jess Mariano
Lee Adama & Liz Sherman
Meg Powers & Michael Guerin
Molly Carpenter & Myn Donos
Peyton Sawyer & Penelope Wilhern
Worf & Yukira Dojima

"Tahiri, come see me first, please."

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Fight past the battle droids!

[sith_happened]

The simulation roars back into life as you find yourself in midleap above a starfighter that has clearly seen better days.

And here come the battle droids. They're pretty stupid, but they make up for it by bringing a lot of them along.

And they're all aiming their weapons at you. This could be bad.

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay, battle robots. Michael wondered idly if he could use his powers, then focused on the nearest droid and tried to melt it. Just to check.

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[sith_happened]

It melted into a pile of metal on the floor with a sad little "Roger, Roger."

Good riddance.

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[meg-powers.livejournal.com]

Meg couldn't help but stare. "How'd you do that?"

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

"With my mind", he said, deadpan. "I could try doing them all, but it'd be tiring."

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

Peyton fired up her light saber and made sure Penelope was behind her, before starting in.

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[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

Penelope was right behind Peyton, her lightsaber in her hand but it wasn't fired up. Her eyes were wide as she was on the look out for anything that looked like it could hurt them.

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[sith_happened]

She wouldn't have to look too hard. A dozen heavily armed battle droids had detected their presence and were aiming blasters at them.

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

Peyton headed in with the lightsaber, slashing left and right, trying to do as much damage as possible and protect Penelope behind her. She figured either they'd make it through or she'd get killed and either way she'd be done with this section.

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[weetuskenraider]

It wasn't quite her lightsaber, but it was close enough, and Tahiri ignited it with the familiar snap-hiss, ready to deflect . . . definitely not all of those blaster bolts. And mid-leap wasn't exactly the best position for hiding behind things.

Well, Sithspit.

She reached out in the Force to yank (hopefully) a few of the nearer droids' weapons free. And tried very hard not to remind herself that they were droids.

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[sith_happened]

Droids--and parts of droids--went flying as their weapons soared through the air.

Beside her, Anakin landed lightly, lightsaber lit and ready.

"Here's where the fun begins," he said with a grin.

It wasn't hard to see that he lived for this stuff.

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[weetuskenraider]

There were droids with blasters aiming at them, and you'd think Tahiri wouldn't have time for banter. But come on, now.

"Thought we weren't supposed to think of this stuff as fun," she yelled over the clatter of flying droid parts.

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[sith_happened]

"If you're thinking 'yay, killing everything,' then yes, we need to have a chat," Anakin said, flinging out his lightsaber to ricochet a few blaster shots back towards the droids, "but pride in a job that we do better than anyone? There's no dark side in that."

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

"We don't wish to fight you!" Agnes announced, from her strategic position behind Blysse and Blind Seer. "Let us through so we can talk to your leader!"

Good one. Next, demand a cookie.

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[sith_happened]

A couple of droids looked at each other. "They do not wish to fight us," one said to the other.

There was droid snickering.

Then a lot of blaster fire.

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Am not thinking they is liking diplomacy much!" Firekeeper shouted back to Agnes, trying to deflect some of the blaster bolts. Blind Seer, meanwhile, was trying to figure out how to fight these creatures. They had no flesh, which could be a problem when your primary weapon was fangs.

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[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

"I'm not, either!" Agnes agreed. She tried to hide behind her lightsaber -- which didn't exactly work very well, to say the least -- and hoped that she wouldn't accidentally hit Blysse with it.

But she'd heard what the robots sounded like. Hopefully, they weren't too bright.

"Fall back!" called a robotic voice, cutting across the battle. "This way! Fall back! Everbody over here!" The way it echoed, it sounded like it was coming from a side corridor, one that looked like it probably wasn't the way Agnes, Blysse, and Blind Seer needed to go.

Agnes coughed and rubbed her neck. Getting that metallic sound just right hurt her throat.

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

"This isn't good," Harvey mumbled to Ella. He fired up his lightsaber and held it up in a defensive position.

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[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

"I can't disagree," Ella said, circling to stand beside Harvey so the arcs of their light sabers would cover as much territory as possible. "I wonder if we could ask them nicely to let us pass?"

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[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

Harvey smirked slightly. "You could go ahead and try."

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[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

Ella smirked right back at him. "I think I shall," she said, then raised her voice to address the drones. "Excuse me? Sirs? Would you let us through?"

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[firebringerborn.livejournal.com]

It could be bad, Jan realised instantly, but he did what any self-respecting unicorn warrior would do: pinned his ears and charged straight at them as he landed, ready to lash out with hooves or horn, or simply to bowl them over and trample them underfoot.

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[noboynextdoor.livejournal.com]

Jess followed as quickly behind as he could in the robes, wondering if Jan had gone crazy. "Hey, be careful!" he said.

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[sith_happened]

Half of the droids began shooting blaster bolts at them.

The other half ran away. Smart droids...

Re: Fight past the battle droids!

[firebringerborn.livejournal.com]

"We must get past them!" Jan dodged and ducked and spun, making as much of a moving target of himself as he could, lashing out at the closest droid with his front hooves. He was all for bolting through them and leaving them behind, but his human companion wouldn't be able to run so fast.

A very weird idea presented itself for his consideration. "If you held fast to my robes, do you think you could hold yourself on my back and still wield your weapon?" he called. Maybe the clothes would be useful after all.