Thrawn

Let's take some guesses, shall we? This can't be a good chapter if Thrawn's the name, right? Right?? Eh, just read on.

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     Remember where the story left off last time? Yeah, well instead of being decapitated or whatever the worst case scenario is for punishment, I was forced to sit through seven seasons of colorful talking ponies with Annabelle. Actually, I would have liked to been decapitated instead of listening to that damned theme song that is never going to get out of my head. Thank the Force we finished the show last night.
     Today started out no different than any other day. The inquisitors fought in the dining room while I ate breakfast outside so I didn't have to listen to them.
"Kallus!" Brex threw open the door and stood over me. "Guess what? We need more food so I put all our names in a hat and your name was pulled out."
I sighed. "Shopping? Really?"
  "It's actually an extension of your punishment."
"Seriously?"
   "Seriously."
   "You're not going to boot me back to Empire? Decapitate me? Electrocute and torture me? Make me rewatch My Little Pony?"
   "Well I thought it would be nice if I whipped your butt in a game of ping pong but then I remembered that 1. You're not Joe and 2. You already suck at ping pong."
I rolled my eyes. "Thank you for the obvious, Brex."
   "Glad I could be of assistance!" He cheered. Then he shoved a funny looking rectangle in my hands. The rectangle split into thin little pieces. "This is a notepad. And this is a pen. You open and close the pen like this-" he tapped his thumb on the top of the oddly shaped datapad pen. "-and then you open the notebook like this and then draw a straight line across the item names as you get them so you can keep track of what you already got!"
I nodded. "Okay. One thing; I don't even know where this place is."
"Joe said he'll set the coordinates on one of the land speeders. All you have to do is get from Point A to Point B. Simple!"
    Simple. Yeah right... It took me forever to get over there (partly because I somehow got lost). When I reached the town, it looked like Coruscant and Lothol cities had a baby on top of a Takodana and Geonosian landscape.
    I opened the notepad to study the list before going into the titanic store called Creditco. Oh great. The list is in English. I flip through the long list (it's about six pages double sided), hoping to find something in Aurebesh. Oh yay! Found a footnote! It said "To see Aurebesh version of this list, hold notepad upside down and read it backwards."
   The back half of the notebook has the Aurebesh version of the list upside down. "Why do you inquisitor's have to make everything harder?" I muttered. I flipped the notepad around until I had the list right side up and readable.
  With the list now readable, I went over the list so I would remember some of the items. The list included a lot of items. I hope I have the credits for this...
  Oh yeah. The credits issue. Great. I came all this way only to realize I didn't have any credits to pay for all the food. With a groan, I contacted Joe. "Who's this?" Joe sang into my com.
  "Yeah, um, Joe. It's me. Kallus. How am I supposed to pay for all the food if I don't have any credits on me?"
  "In the glove compartment of the ship, there's a special card. Take it in and use it to pay." I did as I was told and retrieved the card. Then I went into the store.
The items are quite easy to find. I have no problem crossing item after item off the list. Maybe things would turn out in my favor today and I could return home early.
I jinxed myself. There's Grand Admiral Thrawn with Lieutenant Slavin. Slavin is pushing the shopping cart while Thrawn is sitting in it. Wait what?
I can't help but stare. Finally, Thrawn becomes aware than someone is staring and turns his head in my direction. Oh rancor! I turn away so I don't have to see his merciless red eyes.
To my dismay, he has Slavin push the cart over to me. Mayday! Mayday! "Agent Kallus," he said in his cold, boring tone.
A shiver goes up my spine. I force myself to turn around and face him. "Grand Admiral. What a surprise. I did not expect to meet you here."
"Indeed..." If you didn't already know, Thrawn creeps me out. His freakishly long blue fingers flip through a book. He pulled something out and I'm mentally begging it's not my files claiming I betrayed the Empire. "I needed to use these coupons."
I blinked. I think I need to clean my ears... "Excuse me, sir?"
"Clean your ears, Agent. I said I needed to use these coupons."
"Since when did you go shopping here?"
"Since today. Governor Pryce said she had enough of my lazy ass around the Lothol base so she told me to go shopping. Of course, I told her that she had to do the shopping since I'm a higher rank then her but she threatened to tell the cooks to never make any food for me if I didn't go shopping. And that's why Slavin and I are here."
"More like, I'm doing all the work and you're sitting in the cart, sir," Slavin grumbled.
Thrawn hissed. "Well would you rather be stranded in a desert or push me?" Slavin mumbled and continued pushing the Grand Admiral around.
   "You could spare to loose a few pounds, sir," Slavin said.
   Thrawn spun around and wrapped his fingers around Slavin's neck. "Are you saying I'm fat?!"
   "Yes, yes he is," I said. Slavin freaked out as Thrawn yelled at him for saying that. Meanwhile I broke the fourth wall and had Derp Eyes give me freshly cooked popcorn out of nowhere.
    Thrawn and Slavin were kicked out of the store by the manager (bummer! I was only halfway through my popcorn!) and everything went back to normal. I finished my shopping and went back to the inquisitor's house.
    No one was outside, which was rare unless it was dinner time. I checked inside the house. They were all sitting in front of the holotv. I unloaded the groceries and put them away before joining them.
     A newslady was talking. "Eyewitnesses report that Grand Admiral Thrawn, Lieutenant Slavin and ISB Agent Kallus were all seen at Yailek's Creditco. Investigations suspect that the Empire is planning on targeting Yailek next in its quest to conquer the Galaxy."
The inquisitor's looked worried but I burst into laughter. "Hah! The Empire isn't targeting this place! Thrawn and Slavin were just shopping to use coupons!" The inquisitor's looked at me like I had gone insane. And I probably had.
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SLAP!
Thrawn stumbled backwards. "Ow!" He whined. "What the heck was that for?!"
"You saw our missing ISB agent and it NEVER OCCURRED TO YOU TO BRING HIM BACK?!?" Pryce roared.
Thrawn shrugged. "I thought he was shopping for the Empire as well."
"You retard!" Pryce yelled. "It's always the same story! The woman has to do everything!" She stormed off to her room.
As soon as she was inside she pulled up a holo map of Yailek. Pryce began evilly laughing. "I've got you now, Agent Kallus," she sneered.
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Truth be told, I did not see Thrawn riding in a shopping cart coming. But SOMEBODY NEEDS TO DRAW IT (maybe I will)!! And what could Pryce be thinking..?

Also, I probably got Slavin's rank wrong so someone correct me if that's true.

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