Room 424 [afternoon]

[momslilassassin]

Ben hadn't really had much of a chance to talk to his dad that week: lessons with his grandfather (who was still kicking his butt with a lightsaber without moving. It was annoying), a date with Tahiri (which he would definitely be doing again. Yes.), classes, clubs, stopping in on his weekly trips to bother Ender, Kaylee, and Aravis...for a not-so-social person, he had managed to fill up his schedule pretty well.

But he'd promised Tahiri that he would ask his dad about starting a dance troupe--mostly to see if he could get Luke to crack a smile--and so he was lounging on his bed with his comlink, pretty happy for the first time in a while.

Naturally, that couldn't last.

When he clicked his comm shut a few minutes later, he'd not only forgotten to ask about the dance troupe, he'd learned that Centerpoint Station had been fired again, Jacen had kidnapped Tenel Ka's daughter for use as a bargaining chip (because that had worked so well with the Jedi), and Jaina was on the trail of Alema, who Luke was still convinced had murdered Mara.

"Kriffing hell," Ben muttered to himself before settling down on the floor to build something loud and complicated.

Mmm. Repression.

[OOC: Door closed, but he's loud enough to be heard in the hall...]

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[endsthegame]

"It stopped when it ran out of matter," he said, "So as long as you weren't near the target, you were okay."

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"How often did you use it?" Ben asked.

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"A lot to start with," he said, "But less as the enemy started to adapt to it. We stopped using it for a while, until the last one."

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"They didn't think you'd do that, huh," Ben said quietly.

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"The enemy's gate is down," Ender recited. He looked up at Ben, intent. "That's the only thing you should remember."

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"Centerpoint Station blew itself up," Ben blurted.

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Ender simply tilted his head at him. He felt that was question enough.

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"It's not really a station," Ben said. "It's more like a really big moon. Or a smallish planet. It's also a weapon. Or was. It was used during Jaina's war...accidentally obliterated a good chunk of an ally's fleet. The reason we're at war at all was because Corellia was trying to rearm the damn thing."

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"But it blew itself up," Ender said, slowly.

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"It was rigged to blow," Ben said. "I helped do that. If it tried to target something, the program would put the coordinates in as Centerpoint."

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"Smart," he opined, neutrally. "How did you help?"

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"Snuck in with Jacen a year ago," Ben said, "back when we thought disabling the thing could stop the war before it started. That...didn't happen, but the program was still there."

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"Just giving me bits and pieces of the story isn't going to help," Ender pointed out. "Finish your stories." Because Ender was so good at that.

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"Because you're so good at that," Ben retorted. "I thought the story was over. We went to Centerpoint, I disabled the thing that I thought would let the thing fire at all while Jacen was off posturing with his dad's identical evil cousin, we went home."

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"And."

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"And it blew itself up a few days ago," Ben said. "With thousands of people living on it! The Corellians were planning on using it to wipe out Jacen and his entire fleet. Now everything's even more screwed up and I didn't know that was possible."

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"Too bad," Ender said, remaining completely calm. He watched for the expression on Ben's face. "So your solution is destroying your own walls with noise."

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"My solution is to make something productive because hitting a punching bag doesn't solve anything," Ben replied.

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"Might want to take that up with the neighbours," he said, letting go of the bit of the droid he'd been fiddling with. "I don't actually know what to tell you," he confessed, after a moment.

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Ben shrugged. "There's nothing really to say," he said. "Jacen's a stranger. He kidnapped the Queen Mother's toddler to ensure she stays loyal to the Alliance. The Queen Mother was his best friend from the time they were both training to be Jedi together."

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"He's still on the ship?"

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"For the moment," Ben said. "I can't imagine the Jedi not trying something now."