Accismus⋆౨ৎ˚⟡.• Anakin Skywalker⋆౨ৎ˚⟡.•

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With a combination of blocks and deflects, Sol made her way down the hall with the Force powering her step. When the blasts were diverted into the surrounding walls, the droid began to panic as the Jedi intruder drew closer. The Force quickened her pace and Sol arrived at the end of the hall within seconds, making the droid let out a robotic squeal. With two back and forth strikes, the droid was dismantled and the hum from Sol's lightsaber was all that could be heard.

'Is everything okay out here?' 

Sol's head shot up to the door that had opened in the time of striking down the guarding droid. In the doorway, was the surveillance droid that was incharge of the controls. At the sight of its fellow droids' separated parts, the droid went to rush back into the control room to alert the ship of the Jedi intruder. But before it could make it to the control panels, Sol rushed in after it and sliced off its beige, twig-like legs. With a squeal, the robot's torso fell to the floor and Sol finished the job with a clean swipe through its neck.

The door of the room slid shut once Sol was fully in its hold. It was dark, with multiple screens occupying the wall above the control panel. Lights beeped and levels shifted as the cruiser tried to escape from the Coruscant's system and the battlefield outside. A rotating chair was placed in front of the control panel, and Sol deactivated her lightsaber to take a seat.

'Okay... shields, shields, shields,' Sol repeated to herself as she searched the panel. Numerous buttons and dials littered the grey slab and Sol was getting dizzy at the number of lights that beamed up at her. She had to remind herself that Obi-wan and Anakin's job in their battleships was much harder than the dilemma she currently faced. They were counting on her to deactivate the shields around the cruiser and to drop the hanger door to let the two in. Then the three could search for the Chancellor and General Grievous together.

'Anakin, Obi-wan, I'm in position,' Sol said into her commlink while looking at the control panel.

'Great, we're still not ready,' Sol could see Anakin in his cockpit throwing up his hand in frustration. 'Obi-wan's covered in buzz droids. Hang on-' 

A scraping was heard, and the crinkle of static made Sol pull her wrist away from her ear in discomfort. A chill ran down her spine at the noise and as she looked down to the panel, she spotted a button that caught her interest. But it wasn't its bright green colour that made Sol grin, but it was the writing above it in Binary letters. She cursed herself for not considering the fact that the controls would be written in astromech. Instead of looking for the words 'shield generators' in Galactic Basic, she should have been looking for the language of the droids.

'Blast it. My controls are gone,' Obi-wan cried through Sol's commlink. 'I can't see a thing!'

With a slam of the green button, Sol looked at the screens to see a warning sign beaming red. She had deactivated the shield generators of the cruiser, and the first hurdle had been conquered. Her face beamed with her grin and she searched the panel to look for control to the hanger door. It wasn't long before she spotted the dial for the hanger that was labelled with Binary, and Sol spun the dial without worrying about the ferocity of the hanger door's drop.  

'Shields and hanger door are down!' she cried to her co-workers, and Sol shot out of the chair as the screens blared with evidence of her actions.

'Obi-wan is on fire and inbound,' Anakin said. 'Meet us there, and for Maker's sake, don't draw attention to yourself.'

As Sol exited the control room, she was greeted with the sight of three super battle droids with their weapons pointed at her face. Their six-foot figures blocked the sight of the hallway that she had left in disarray. As she stared at the red lights on their torsos on the broad-shouldered droids, Sol remembered that she had forgotten to cover her tracks before she entered the control room. Through the droids' legs, Sol could see the beige parts of the battle droids she had destroyed still strewn across the floor, alerting anyone passing that a Jedi was onboard.