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Chapter 38 by Caesar25 Caesar25

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In the spider's web

Trench (pressing an other button swiftly while he can): Listen carefully, you fools! I have activated a countdown for two micro scaled quantum bombs, I assume you know what those little toys are!

Lana: Quantum bomb?

Drek (scratching his teeth together): A quantum bomb is a bomb with one of the biggest blast radius ever created. It could destroy anything by obliterating the connections of elementary particles at a subatomic level, essentially vanquishing any matter within a radius of 50,000 kilometers... The whole planet would be destroyed by just one... No sensible person would ever use one, no matter what!

Trench: Yes, but our researchers have managed to create a micro scaled version, it would destroy anything in a few dozen kilometers radius only! Now, we just happen to have one, right under this facility! The other, is hidden in the capital city of Atzerri! Only I know the deactivation code for the bombs. Kill me and you will doom both yourselves and the city's inhabitants to an untimely ****! I am sure even one with your limited intellectual can understand how precarious your situation would truly be, should I end up dead!

Lana: I can still get it out of you the hard way!

Trench: I have no doubts about that, but are you sure, you would get your codes in time?

Lana: ...

Trench (pressing a button on his wristband console): Thought so! Here is what I offer you. That computer is going to give you an option to shut down one of the two bombs before they explode. It will be unlocked in one minute, provided that you let me leave of course!

Drek: I'm not going to let you get away with this!

Trench: Think this through carefully boy! If I die, you will make both bombs explode. If I leave alive, you will be able to shut down at least one of them! The detonation is going to happen 15, sorry, now only 14 minutes from now. You should decide quickly about your choice!

Ranvi: Let him go...

Drek: What?! After what he has just done to you?! He has just...!

Ranvi: It's true, but... You can't undo it by killing hundreds of thousands of innocents... Let him go, so we can shut down the bomb in the city. Please...

Drek (deactivating his lightsaber): Argh...! Fine...! But I'll find you later, you monster!

Lana (releasing him from your **** grip): You better not cross paths with us again!

Trench (running away to his shuttle as soon as he is released): I will not, that is for certain! Time to abandon base!

Now that Ranvi's free and has the chance, she hugs Drek as strongly as she just can.

Ranvi (whispering to him with tears): I'm so sorry...!

Drek (whispering back to her): No, I'm the one to blame... Had I been here sooner...! Had I been stronger...!

Lana: I know it's not the time to interrupt but... The base is about to come down on our heads real soon, we should find General Kota, Luminara along with their captured men and get away as soon as possible! I believe there's no debate, we will have to deactivate the bomb under the city, right?

Ranvi and Drek: Agreed.

Lana: Look, there's a popup with one of the deactivation codes! Alright, let's spread out and find that two! 12 minutes now!

Drek rushes to a computer to slice it and find anything about their whereabouts.

Ranvi: 10 minutes now, hurry Drek!

Drek (after finding them): I think I have them! Look, there, we have visuals of them too. Luminara no longer tries to keep her true self a secret it appears. They are located in a well separated cell like place. It's on the lowest level of this base, right above the...

Lana: The bomb.

Drek: Yes. I'm opening communications with their location.

Lana: General Kota, Master Luminara, are you alright?

Luminara: Lana?! How did you...? You know, I will not even ask how you got to where you are now... Are you in control of the whole base?

Lana: No, but we have some limited access their system. We are going to get you out of there momentarily!

Kota: Lana, has Trench told you about bomb here and the one under the capital?

Lana: Yes, we are aware, we still have 9 minutes to get you out of here, we can shut down one of the bombs! Once we have all left the base, we can let this one detonate and survive it with minimal casualties!

Luminara: Lana... It is not going to work...

Lana: Why?

Kota: Our cell has been manually sealed for good, you can't open the door via any kind of controller. Though, the doors could be bypassed with enough laser and **** at our disposal but... The moment the integrity of this room is damaged, the bomb will explode prematurely.

Drek (typing quickly): Damn, he isn't kidding, the bomb's fuse is connected to the room, if the walls or the door are damaged, the microscopic waves of the tempering will be transferred to the bomb and we are all going to die in that instant!

Lana: You say we can't get them out of there?!

Drek: Only by shutting that bomb down, but that would mean...

Ranvi: Sacrificing countless innocent lives...

Luminara: I want you three to listen here carefully... If you have any chance of stopping the other bomb, go for it! You can not extinguish so many lives just to save a couple of them here!

Lana: We are not leaving you there!

Ranvi: 6 minutes... Lana, we are going to have to leave in a minute, if we want to survive, should you chose the other bomb to be deactivated...

Lana: They are coming with us, forget the other one!

Kota: Lana! You may not listen to Luminara, but look. It is an order! Forget about us! We have made a decision, if it is our lives in exchange for all those lives in that city, then so be it! This is the Jedi way, do not defy our request!

Lana: This is madness, I...! I...! I won't let you die like this! There are mostly criminals and other underworld people living on Atzerri anyway, you are more deserving to live than they combined!

Luminara: Lana, I know this is not an easy decision. But such decisions make you a strong and wise person as you grow older. You know what needs to be done, do not let all those deaths be on our shoulders for the remainder of our lives. We can detach from this life happily, if it means saving so many others. The **** wills it, do not cast it aside.

Kota: You know what to do.

Drek: Lana, it's time, 5 minutes until detonation... It's your call... Which one should I deactivate? This one in the base and save the others, or the city and save those hundreds of thousands of people?

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