Chapter 3, Part 7

*the scene opens in the cramped cockpit of the Danube, with Sparc at the controls and the others merely sitting. Saganami is eating a bag of chips, and Gonick sips from a mug of coffee occasionally. Emma breaks the silence.*

Emma: How did she miss a spaceship, anyway?

Gonick, shrugging: It has a cloaking device.

Emma: Yeah, but that doesn't mask sound very well, now does it?

Gonick: No, not really. Maybe she was too busy dueling?

Emma, with a slight harrumph: Whatever. I was wondering more about the way she seemed to be pushed backward when you arrived.

Gonick: Oh, I did that.

*Emma regards him with a mix of surprise and disbelief, Sparc looks up from the console, and Saganami almost drops his bag of chips. Gonick takes a sip of coffee before elaborating*

Gonick: It was a bit of a hike to the runabout, so I asked my holocron how I could save your butts with a minimum of damage. Aislin suggested a Force Push, and outlined the basics. I only had time to practice once before using it on that Gilgamesh woman. She should be glad that Aislin also told me how to turn down the intensity of these things.

Emma: Oh?

Gonick: Yeah. Let's just say that boulders aren't meant to fly and leave it at that, hmm?

Emma: Oooookay, then. Sparc? Where are we headed next?

Sparc: Back to HQ. I figure we should brief Marcus, and I need to do a bit of research. We could also use supplies.

Saganami: Let's face it. You just want to show off your new lightsaber.

Sparc, impishly: Well, who could blame me?

Gonick: Control. We must learn control!

Sparc: ?

Gonick: Er, that is to say, we could use some Force-power-learning time. We could do that at HQ.

Saganami: I'll agree with the sentiment, it not the presentation.

Emma: Yeah. Learning is good!

Sparc: Because knowledge is power!

*cut to: open space*

Gonick: Heh. The more you learn...

*a very obvious and colorful comet streaks through space as the scene ends*