fandomhigh | Ethics [Thursday, October 22, 1st period]

"Welcome to your midterm," Anakin said, pacing across the flight deck of a ship (Force, but he loved the Danger Room). 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. 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 defeat the Sith Lord if he gets in the way of your mission, get to the docking bay, steal a different ship and get the hell off of this one as quickly as possible."

He smiled humorlessly. "Because this one is going to crash into the surface of Coruscant in roughly thirty minutes. So don't be too surprised at sudden gravitational shifts."

He waved his hand towards the control panel. The students would now find themselves in brown robes and holding unlit lightsaber hilts. 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 rattled off the partners:

Angela Martin/Karla
Bobby Drake/Emma Frost
Elena/Morgana
Elle Bishop/Parker
Ellie Bartowski.Yuffie Kisaragi
Francine Peters/Katin Choovanski
Hayley Fitzpatrick/Liir Thropp
Jonas/Rose Hathaway
Kyle Reese/Princess Azula
Leonard McCoy/Tara Maclay
Maron Kusakabe/Raven

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"We'll protect you," Maron said, moving with Raven but more focused on the restraints. "This is seriously not cool to do to someone."

Very Jedi-like. Really.

"Oh, but I make very effective bait," Palpatine replied with a slightly forced chuckle. "If they keep me, they win the war. Checkmate."

"Then they have already failed," Raven said. "As soon as we have you freed from this chair I will bring us all to the surface of the planet below." She hoped Maron could figure out how to remove the restraints. She and tech didn't really get along well.

"Checkmate? Nooo. Checkmate's only when it's a decisive one. This? Really not. And--I'm working on it," Maron protested mildly, fussing with the restraints. "Come on... come on... ah ha! Got 'em!"

Through a weird combination of skills picked up from stealing and, well, God given luck.

"And what, exactly, do you think you're doing?" a silky voice asked. In stalked a man with a billowing cloak, arrogance painted all over his aristocratic features.

Raven spun around, putting herself between the man and Maron and the Chancellor. "We are freeing your prisoner," she said evenly. "You did not think that your plan would succeed, did you?" Her plan? As soon as Maron finished freeing the Chancellor she would summon her Soul-Self to teleport them all to safety. Easy, right?

Eeeeep.

That was a dismayed squeaking noise coming from Maron as she worked with one eye on the intruder (nevermind that they were the intruders, really) and one on the restraints.

"Come on," she murmured, "just a little more..."

Dooku reached out his hand to shove Maron telekinetically away from the chancellor. "I really don't think so," he said smoothly, igniting his lightsaber.

Well, this wasn't good. Raven summoned her Soul-Self and sent it toward Dooku. Dividing his attention was good, right?

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