Lavality didn't understand what she had said, at least, not most of it, but when she said We are both free now it some-how brought relief to her, although she didn't know why.

She wondered if it was related to Asri's past; now she wondered about her own. All she knows is that she was created in a test tube, a clone of sorts, but she doesn't know anything else.

"Asri, how are you feeling?" She asked calmly.

On the wall a clock showed how much time they had before arrival in minutes:seconds - 15:45

Asri jumped slightly at Lavality’s voice, her voice making her suddenly realize she wasn’t alone. A quick glance around told her she was in some kind of hospital, which she figured considering the injury she had sustained during the mission. She tested her limbs and found her left arm was immobilized in a cast. Guess that injury was worse then I thought. She thought before finally addressing Lavality’s question. “Weak….and hungry….” She said simply. “How long was I out?”

"About a day, but I'm glad you are fine now." Lavality said and got up, "We will be arriving at Trandosha soon, can you walk?" She asked.

Elsewhere on ship; crews went about their business, some repaired broken electrical lines, others replaced energy cells attached to the primary firing grid. Some of the engineers were on the observation deep smoking, while others more buffed up in the gym.

On the bridge, Lavality's XO was resting his eyes, without him knowing it someone had poured shaving dream in his hands... and the two who did it waited to see what the result would be.

Meanwhile mechnanics went about checking the docked fighters, some even ran the flight computers through simulations to see if any problems would flare up.

“I don’t know….I don’t think I want to risk it right now.” Asri admitted. “Maybe after I get some food in me.” After a brief pause she asked. “What the ziss happened to me anyway?” She asked. “I know I got shot, but what I was feeling afterward just…didn’t make sense. I thought the nanos would have protected me from any side effects….” Then she recalled something else. “Oh! They didn’t toss my armor did they? In one of the pockets I had those bastards name tags: I was going to give them to you for you to do whatever you wanted with them.”

***

Meanwhile Rane was looking out a viewport, deep in thought as the two younglings dozed on a bed nearby. He worried about the fate of the children left behind on Naboo, especially sense Lavality, with all the people under her apparent command, admitted it was too risky to try anything.

He turned his thoughts to something more pleasant. This would be the first time he would be in the Kashyyyk system, let alone on Trandosha. He had heard rumors that many good things had occurred within a short time there, the main one being the allegiance between the Trandoshans and the Wookiees. Bet that got some people’s head spinning when that happened. He thought with a chuckle. Of course there was the chance it was just an elaborate cover up so they could continue their blood feud unhindered, but a large part of him doubted that.

I wonder how Trazu will react when he sees me. He thought with a smile. It had been years since they last saw each other and Trazu himself had under gone a lot of hardships since then from what he had heard. Rane couldn’t wait to hear the stories….

"Monik, one of my security officers on board the station, recovered them for you without anyone knowing. We used the body of an enemy Trandoshan to make it appear that they did it, so you have nothing to worry about in terms of any reprecautions from this." She said and glanced about, the doctor and nurse weren't there, she pulled her hands out of her pocket and placed the tags on the bed.

She then sighed to answer her other question. "If I understand correctly.. you were allergic to the armor you were wearing, and when you got shot, it seemed you developed an allergic reaction, but I don't know much more than that. I'm just glad we got you into medical in time." She smiled and got up and placed her hand on Asri's hand.

She glanced at the clock - it was almost time. "We'll be arriving at Trandosha shortly. I'm sure Lord Trazu will want to see you, his message to me was him worried sick about you, hell, I have to wonder if he was tearing the station apart just waiting for my reply." She chuckled and walked toward the door, "If you want, I can have my two assists help you off the ship when we dock. They've had their hands full with two rugrats but I hear those two are finally asleep."

With that said she left medical; it was just a few more minutes. Sadly after they arrived they'd be forced to eject the special hyper-drive that was attached to their ship, since the drive was a 'one use only' method of going from one side of the galaxy to another in record time.

When she got onto the bridge, someone shouted. "Admiral on deck!"

*SPLAT*

Everyone could hear the XO suddenly bolt his chair, slapping his hands full of shaving cream against his face. Everyone burst into laughing at this display, including Lavality who couldn't help herself. The XO glared at the view screen in front, "....."

After a minute or so Lavality managed to regain her composure. "Well...." she said, "at least my crew knows how to have fun when we aren't in danger," she said and signaled to her communications officer who nodded.

Ten minutes remained... ten long minutes.

She walked over to the captains chair and took a seat, she then clasped her hands in her lap and waited.

In another part of the ship, marines geared up with assault weapons and power armor, fighter pilots got into their cockpits and gave thumbs up. "Ma'am, all fighters are prepared, marines are ready as well."

She nodded. "Good"

Trazu… Asri thought as she watched Lavality leave, a smile on her face. Why am I not surprised you knew something happened to me? With her free hand she picked up one of the name tags and fingered it. Her mind became a swirl of thoughts and emotions, remembering what she recently did and the fact she nearly died doing it and what she just recalled about her brother.

I had fulfilled my promise… She thought. Why do I still fight? It’s not like I don’t have anything to do besides fight. There was Trazu, the love of her life, and his children to help take care off: those two things alone would fill her time nicely. Dresik…you would have wanted me to settle down after killing Besk, wouldn’t you? Have children as well…if I was able… With a sigh she put down the tag. There’s too much out there in the galaxy to enjoy…to risk throwing my life away before I can enjoy it.

But was she considering hanging up her K’Zur just because she realized that, even with the nanos, she wasn’t immortal?

The ship shuddered as it came out of hyper-space and arrived in system; the ship slowed down as two odd looking rings suddenly jetissoned from the front and and back of the ship.

As the rings before to float away, mini-thrusters located on the top of the ship engaged and pushed it downwards, then the main engines came to life and the ship made its way toward the planet.

"Ma'am, it seems Sha'tor Rissonik and the others are on the shipyard." Her communications officer said as she listened in on the comm. chatter. "Very well, prepare for landing, launch all fighters and have them take up escort positions."

"Launching all fighters, gunboats are also launching." The flight officer said, while normally he would be down below, today he was on the bridge.

Space around the frigate class command ship had now become quite busy with fighters of verying sizes and classes swarmed around it and took up escort positions. The sight of so many fighters made several of the trading ships in the area get rather nervous, as some of them made for the planet and others just got the hell out of the way.

As the ship neared the station; her con officer recalculated the reverse thrust it would need to stop the ship. He then engaged the reverse thrust drives, the ship began to slow as it came into range of the outside docking clamps. When it was in position the stations onboard AI came over the loud speaker.

~Welcome to station - Unknown, please enjoy your stay~

Lavality raised an eye-brow. "Unknown? Something tells me the computer needs an overhaul."

"Want me to see to it ma'am?" Her XO asked and she nodded. "Please do, this shipyard uses an older computer than what we have now, we should have the latest in storage, but I'll talk to whomever is still engage. I think it was Tiosk but I don't remember, we've been gone awhile."

Her crew wanted to comment, but decided not to. Instead they went ahead with their tasks. A hiss of air spread throughout the deck as the airlock doors connected with a docking tube. Lavality waited next to the air lock doors; even though she was there for a pressing reason, she decided to wait for Rane, and perhaps even Asri, to see if they wanted to come along.