An Unlikely Team: Chapter 1

Chapter 1: The Virus
Ahsoka let out a soft exasperated sigh from side her master, Anakin Skywalker. Her arms crossed as her master interviewed a Kaminoen scientist. Her crystal blue eyes wandered about the room. Sweeping past the green consoles, her gaze came to rest on a security camera above the door's arch way.
"One more time now," Anakin's voice was heavy with exhaustion and frustration. His mechainical hand rubbed his temples, "Tell me what happened last night."
"We-we were doing our research…" The Kamineon's voice was racked with anxious fear. The anxiety emminating from him was enough fear choke a Gundark. "In the lab," he gestured with a shaking hand to the computers behind him.
"This is a lab?" Anakin asked masking his frustration with a patient voice.
"Yes, we work-we work here…" Sweat droplets formed on his light blue brow ridge.
Anakin could feel that he was skirting on a touchy subject and decided to delve deeper, "What do you work on?"
The Kaminoen blurted out, "Stuff! We do stuff here!" He began to shake nervously. This only raised Anakin's suspicions.
"What kind of 'stuff'?" Anakin shifted his wieght.
"Sciencey stuff," The Kaminoen paused briefly then replied with a sudden feeling of false bravado he shouted, "Stuff that does not concern you, Jedi!"
Anakin took a threatening step forward and the Kaminoen shed his sudden courage and dropped back to his groveling mass. Frustration reaching  its peak, Anakin hissed, "If you want the Jedi's help you're going to have to tell me more than just 'You did stuff'!"
"Master," Ahsoka finally chimed in, Anakin turned to face her, biting his lower lip. The padawan stood under the archway looking up at the security camera. Anakin smiled as he walked up beside her.
Good eye, Snips," Anakin nodded, then he turned back to the scientist. "No one ever mentioned security cameras."
"No! No!" The scientist shouted running in front of them. Then he added noticing the confusion and suspicion on their faces. "It…uh…doesn't work."
Ahsoka let out a sly snicker, "We'll be the judge of that." It was obvious to them that the Kamineon was lying, It didn't take Jedi skills to tell that.
"You want us to catch this guys for you, but you seem awful reluctant to share any information with us," Anakin pried. He met the long necked alien's black eyes.
"What's on those tapes that you don't want us to see?" Ahsoka voiced her master's thoughts.
"There's too many questions; why is this part of the faucility unlisted on any Republic rooster? What are you doing here? Why would a thief steal from here? What's so important about this room that you are stalling us at every turn?!" Anakin laid the pressure on, his foot impatiently tapping. Then with a low growl Anakin pressed, "What are you hiding?!"
The small white pupils of the Kamineon darted back and forth between the two of them. A sweatdrop fell from his temples and splattered onto the floor. When he caught a glare from Ahsoka he let out a gasp and finally spilled, "Okay! Okay!"
Ahsoka's glare softened and her lips curled into a smile. She looked up at her master victoriously. Then she turned back to the scientist, "Start talking."
"Alright," the Kaminoen sighed, feeling utterly defeated. He sat down on a stool leaning over looking at the tile floor. He was purposely avoiding the Jedi's eyes, "The thief stole the files to a very important project for the Republic."
Anakin and Ahsoka glanced at each other, and then looked at the scientist. "Elaborate," Anakin pursued.
The Kamineon took a sharp breath before continuing, "We were commissioned to create a computer virus, one that would be sent over a signal transponder. The virus would be programmed to zero in on any mechanical device's frequency that was imputed. From as specific as a type of droid or ship, or broadened to wide variety of machines, such as an army."
Anakin and Ahsoka exchanged glances with each other then they turned back to the man. "Huh???"
"Imagine a Virus that can infiltrate, shut down, and fry a battle droid's systems then spread to the next droid, then the next, and the next one after that." The scientist explained more plainly, looking up at the two, "A droid army, gone, fried, spare parts. It's a weapon that can short circuit the central processors of any machine it's programmed to effect." The scientist stood up, shining in his short apex of glory. He waved his hands, gesturing as he spoke, "Imagine taking out an droid army in an hour, frying a fleet in a day, shutting down any chance for a Separetist victory in a month!"
"It kinda sounds like a regular old droid popper to me," Ahsoka shrugged unimpressed.
"Only magnified to the extreme," Anakin added.
"No EMP grenade, however large, can take down an entire army in the same amount of time, let alone lock on to signature of anything as diverse as a fleet to as specific as a lightsaber," The Kamineon spat, pointing his long thin finger at Ahsoka.
"Wait, this thing can short out lighsabers?!" Now the scientist had grabbed Anakin's attention. After a curt nod from the scientist he pressed, "What else is this thing capable of?!"
"It can short out anything, from as small as an ear comm. To as large as…" his white pupils darted as he spoke, "Coruscant."
"What?!" Ahsoka shouted, eyes wide, "You created a weapon that could take out an entire planet?!" Her expression was filled with fear and surprise.
"Now you see why the Separetists would want it, and why it is so important to get it back," the scientists words echoed about the room. "Imagine if it was used on a planet like Coruscant; the result would be disasterous!! All of the power would shut off. The city would go dark for the first time in a thousand years!" Ahsoka and Anakin exchanged worried glances. "Hospital power would be lost, patients in critical condition would die. The traffic of ships that frequent Coruscant's invisible strrets would fall like hail to the ground, their drave core's fried! Killing the pilot's inside as they crash into the buildings below. None of the defensive systems would work, and all weapons would be offline. Prisoner would escape their calls to reek havoc on the powerless planet."
The scientist let his words sink in as he slowly sat back down.
Anakin and Ahsoka exchanged glances, then the young padawan sighed, "The Jedi Council is going to love this."