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Player Name: Ryah
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Character Name: Anakin Skywalker
Character Fandom: Star Wars

Notes: Both threads take place in the Battle Dome, two separate simulations. In the first, other characters are welcome to be fellow pilots on a mission with Anakin or rival combatants.

Anakin didn’t know if he was irritated by the fact he could just barely tell this was a simulation (and his belief he could tell this was fake might all be just from knowing beforehand this was a simulation) or if he was actually just impressed with the whole thing.

Either way, this felt like flying so he would try to accept it as real flying.

After taking the yellow starfighter through a few maneuvers to gauge the ship’s agility, he leveled out so the simulation’s obstacles were before him and on the same orientation as his view field.

He clicked the comm to raise his companion.

“Ready when you are.”

Though not as exhilarating as barrel rolls or dodging blaster fire, Anakin still found the mess of engine parts before him just as compelling. Like pieces of a puzzle, he could lose himself in these components, taking them apart, putting them back together, finding the broken parts and fixing them. Almost a kind of performance art for him and certainly a means to calm and organize his mind.

The gutted yellow starship was only meters away, reminding him the end goal of this simulation was to put this all back together again in working order.

He was so focused on his work, he didn’t notice someone approaching from behind until they were almost on top of him.

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She was used to his antics by now. Granted Ahsoka may not always know what crazy plan he might come up with but she's learned to expect it at this point. It would be odd if he suddenly acting like another Jedi would in some of these situations.

Unlike her Master, she didn't have his affinity for technology and did rely on her targeting computer from time-to-time on top of the Force.

Anakin wasn't the only one wary when they drew closer to their target. There was nothing on her screen to indicate there was a Separatist ship in the vicinity and she took a moment to physically glance over her shoulder. No large looming ships in sight either.

"To be honest, Master, that's when I stopped counting." Ahsoka allowed herself to fly a bit further and took out some of the droids that were closing in from the far side of the shuttle.

"Can we skip to the part when I start asking about what kind of Padawan you were to Master Obi-Wan?"

“I don’t see how that is relevant, Snips.” Still no sign of the flagship – even more troubling.

He broke off to trail another droid.

“I’m not Master Obi-Wan, and you are definitely not me.”

"If I haven't gotten it by now, what makes you think I ever will?" It's called selective attitude, Anakin. Ahsoka can be the expected Padawan when she wants to be.

She doubled back to cover the shuttle once her droids were taken out.

Thank the Force he wasn't Obi-Wan. No offense, Ahsoka respected him and even got along with him but she didn't exactly want him as a Master. "You can't tell me that you demonstrated the proper Padawan attitude all of the time."

For that, Anakin gives her a deep laugh. "Do you honestly think I'm going to answer that?"

The last of the vulture droids blossomed in a fiery ball of gas.

He checked the shuttle information his astromech unit had gathered. Before responding to Ahsoka, he commed the shuttle. “This is General Sykwalker, shuttle Arrcus. What’s the story on these droids harassing you? Where’s their flagship? Droids don’t just come out of nowhere.”

He flipped a switch so the return feed would be sent to Ahsoka’s ship.

“General Skywalker, thank the stars… and they did, we broke atmo from our relief run to the settlement planetside and then they were on us. Like they were waiting for us to return.”

As he listened to the pilot explain what happened, the flagship, a big ol' providence-class destroyer, popped into existence right in the middle of their exit vector. It must have jumped in from outside the system.

“Oh,” he remarked, but didn’t sound too concerned. It was hard to feel too much fear when he knew this all wasn’t real. But that didn’t mean he didn’t find this fun. “That will make things interesting.”

"I'd hold it against you if you did." Her laughter echoed with his.

While Anakin made contact with the shuttle, Ahsoka merely listened in and kept most of her attention on their surroundings. She mentally groaned when his question about the flagship seemed to bring it down on their heads. It seemed even in a simulation, they had some pretty bad luck.

"You just had to ask," Ahsoka said.

"You know me," he shot back. "Curiosity killed the mynock."

He shot out in front of the shuttle.

"Lesson switch, Snips. How to take on a destroyer, two starfighters and one shuttle. What would be your plan?"

"A more accurate saying would be 'curiosity got Skywalker in trouble'. Everyone in the galaxy would use it." The teasing tone siphoned off towards the end, already thinking on the new lesson plan.

Fighting it head-on would be suicide - for all of them. No backup troops, no fleet of their own. She'd seen too many battles lost even when they had the 501st next to them. "Lay down cover fire and get the shuttle out of here." That ship was most likely holding more Vulture droids and the odds were not in their favor. Their priority should be to protect the shuttle.

If this had been a real battle, Anakin would have bit back the objection. But seeing as nothing but their own personal edification mattered here, he was free to shoot back, "It is not my fault trouble seeks me out. I just handle it as it comes."

He nudged his joystick while reducing his speed by a percentage to bring him back behind and to the side of Ahsoka's fighter.

"Good plan. Take the lead, Snips, and get us out of here."