up in flames

Jar Jar tried a few resets talking to the pilots, seeing if any of the instrumentation in the cockpit could shed any light as to what was going on, but no information could be acquired that way. The Gungan tried using the ships' computer to try and track down any traces, that did not work, he tried using the onboard scanners, and still no luck. Eventually, Binks resorted to ripping apart the interior of the ship till he found it, his frantic destruction of the ship got him stunned by the security officer a couple of times, but it worked with finding one of the explosive devices. Once he found it though, there was the problem of how to disarm the blasted thing. Through trial and error, he found out that if he removed one lead then immersed the device in a mixture of acid and various fluids, the device was less explosive and more flammable. Armed with this knowledge, Jar Jar was able to find the device, hidden at the bottom of a refuse container, and with faking feeling sick was able to remove the needed lead without looking suspicious. The real problem was that to get the needed mixture of fluids into the container without looking guilty of anything, he would need to drink things and get sick for real, this was not going to be fun.

Jar Jar was parked next to the refuse container nursing a technicolour yawn when the security officer came back to the passenger area and informed them that they were on final approach. Binks was unable to verbally acknowledge that but stuck a hand up in the thumbs-up gesture as he purged his stomach of the nasty mixture that would decrease the potency of the bomb. The sound and smell off the refuse container ensured that instead of a stately departure from the craft, it was a rushed hurry of the group off the ship. The group rushing into the fog of the landing pad drew concern from the landed fighter pilots, the chief of security, one eye covered with a stylish patch asked if anything was wrong. Just as people were about to speak, flame and smoke billowed from the ships open ramp, the security personnel rushing the VIP's away from the blaze. A few moments after the fire the port then the starboard engines exploded in a one-two punch that was fairly obvious that those explosions were on purpose, as this time the first explosive device had gone up in flames instead of exploding.

The debris from the ship was not immediately fatal to the group this time, though injuries and burns affected almost everyone on the platform, the pilots that had retained their helmets on their heads were able to shed those and prevent injury. The sirens of emergency services were wailing just moments later, the echos of the explosions finishing echoing among the giant buildings of the capital planet. Binks groaned on the ground, the combination of the mix he had ingested, and the blast wave had ruined his sense of balance, so he rested his pounding head on the cool metal deck of the landing pad. The movements of the medi-techs as they placed Binks onto a cot and moved him to medical services, the trip a blur to the Gungan as the blast had given him a bit of a concussion.