Shadow Kat

She waited furiously while the others discussed my fate.
"He's too much of a risk.  We need the plate, not him."
"Don't you guys care about him at all? He was your friend!"
"After all this work, we can't fail now.  Not even his safety can get in our way."
"Let me go, I can get him, and the plate out safely."
"No.  You can only go if your first priority is the plate."
She nodded, hesitantly.  The saying was certainly true, no honor among thieves.  When they finally let her go, she snuck carefully along the path to the house. She was once more thankful for her ability to hide from unwanted attention, for it had saved her life in many similar circumstances.  Now, it was probably the only reason the gang had let her be the one to attempt saving the plate.  She crept up to a window, and peered inside.  No one was in that room.  It appeared to be a large closet of some kind, so she carefully, silently, pryed the window open.  When she got inside, she crept into the hallway, which led into a large room, filled with people.

At one end of the room, there was a large throne, empty.  In front of the throne, she saw me, sitting helpless at the feet of Darth Sidious.  She stayed in the shadows, and crept around the room, trying to see who all was their.  To one side of Darth Sidious stood Josh, who was in the guise of a guard. She stopped. suddenly realizing that because Josh was on her side, he could see here plan as day as his eyes traced her across the room. Thankfully, the Darth sidius was in deep conversation with the other guard on his left, and saw nothing. she slowly crept up to the throne, heart beating wildy. She had only one mission: get the plate. but as she approached the throne she could not resist touching my shoulder to let me know that she was in the room with me. I gasped. Josh wispered, " get him out first" and the Darth Sidius turned and looked right where Kat was standing, and winked.

It caught her by surprise, and she took a step backwards.  He went back to what he was doing, and she started to think.  It was then, that she realized that the plate was actually a bomb.  She immediately ran back to the gang, forsaking any pretense of stealth.  No one payed any attention to her, as she ran to the front door, and out again.  She hurried to the gang, and told them of her new found knowledge.  They quickly understood, and ran to the path, and waited.  Soon, the emperors entourage started streaming out of the house, with me in tow, being "dragged" by Josh.  Apparently, they had realized that none of them actually knew had to diffuse the bomb, so instead of trying their luck, they simply ran.  They got to the barbed wire fence that surrounded the house, and stopped.  There was no explosion.  In the confusion, Josh had smuggled me over to Kat and the gang, and we had started to leave.  When there was no explosion, however, the gang started to attack the Emperor, and his minions.  They quickly overpowered the Emperor, and went into the house to search for the gold plate, that obviously was not a bomb.  When they found it, they came running out of the house with their prize, but I nor Kat cared as we held each other, we knew that the other was safe, and that was more valuable then gold.