<strong>"This is crazy. Crazier than a naked woman charging three armed guys. There's no way you can make it alone!"</strong>- Zak tells you, trying to put some sense in your head. When you don't change your mind, he gives up and tells the zeltron to get herself ready. They plan on taking the entrance to the tunnels after you take the cargo elevator up.<br/>Speaking of which, you start putting some boxes on it, your wounded companion on there leaning against the side of one box. The other two helping you, not having access to the elevator shaft until you take off. It's then hell breaks loose. First it's the warning sound of heavy footsteps approaching from the hallway, then the first blaster bolt takes off. You spin around alarmed, but Zak pushes you backwards, and fall to the ground on the elevator. Maybe it's quick reactions, or maybe it's panic, who knows. He punches the up button on control panel and the platform starts to rise with you, Kelly and some of your makeshift covers.<br/><strong>"AS SOON AS YOU SEE THE LADDER, START CLIMBING!"</strong>- the zelosian yells to the zeltron while taking corner cover and starting to send otu short bursts of suppressive fire, bent on stalling the approaching stormtroopers. From the sheer number of incoming bolts, you judge there must be at least two squads. Lianna vanishes from sight as she climbs under the rising elevator platform, and a few seconds later a blaster bolt hits Zak in the shoulder. He screams in agony as he falls down, but has enough fight left in him to raise up his weapon one more time...<br/><br/>...and send a bolt in the elevator controls, preventing access from this level, just as he vanishes from sight, the elevator lifting you above the ceiling level of the corridor. There are more sounds of rapid shooting for a few seconds then it falls silent, only the continous mechanical noise of the rising platform. You realize that you never had the opportunity to help him from here, and if you went out to fight the security squad you couldn't have escaped either. Zak sacrificed himself, but hopefully Lianna had enough time to climb into the maintenance hatch.<br/><br/>You look up and see there's a good 50 meters until you arrive to the level above, with a wide blast door facing the opposite side of the elevator shaft. It probably opens into the hangar. You can only hope this gamble is worth it, as you help Kelly move into a defended location and take cover behind one of the crates. Despite the shock of what happened, and the trauma she's been through only a short time ago, she's grasping a blaster pistol firmly.<br/><strong>"I wanted to go to college you know. I wanted to be a journalist."</strong>- she speaks coherently the first time since she's up -<strong>"It's why I came to Coruscant. I had to find a job as a cab driver on the lower levels, but I hoped it was worth it."</strong><br/>Her emotions are written clearly on her face. The first guy in imperial uniform she'd see would end up dead today. She gives you a silent nod as the hangar door gets closer and closer.