Hondo boards the Crucible, hungry for profits. His henchman, Gwarm, reports the ship is secure and abandoned. Hondo doesn't believe it -- he thinks the Jedi students are hiding aboard somewhere. He orders the pirates to smoke the children out of the ventilation shaft and secure the crystals.

Zatt and Ganodi make their way to the bridge. They are accosted by a goggled pirate who reaches for them through the closing bulkhead door. R2-D2 comes to the rescue by electro-zapping the Weequay thug.

The younglings start coughing as gas grenades fill the ventilation shafts with choking smoke. Huyang lifts the floor panel to emerge in a corridor, and he is immediately throttled by a burly pirate. The children are captured!

The pirates demand that the captive younglings hand over their crystals. While the children are scared, Petro is instead determined. He pulls out his lightsaber, opens its crystal chamber, and inserts his shard. He ignites his blade, looking to fight, but the gleaming blue shaft fades out. The pirate chuckles, snatching the lightsaber. The boy has planned this: his lightsaber explodes in the pirate's grip.

The younglings and Huyang dash away from the stunned pirates. Huyang instructs them to continue to the hold. He has been damaged in the explosion and cannot aid the children in battle. Petro, however, is rallying the younglings to fight.

At the cruiser's engineering station, Ahsoka begins redistributing power from the ship's core. She overrides the emergency power fail-safes. She calls Zatt at the bridge via comlink to find out if the other younglings have reached the hold. But Zatt has no information for her. He doesn't know where the other younglings are.

In the training room, the younglings set the training remotes to their highest power settings and program them for defense. Running about the corridors, Byph lures the pirates into the room, and the kids take cover. Katooni calls Zatt to seal the room from the bridge. The remotes swarm the Weequays, relentlessly zapping them as the kids run away.

Unfortunately, the children can't make it to the hold. Hondo and his pirates stand in the way. The younglings are surrounded by pirates. Huyang closes one of the bulkhead doors, using a built-in welder to seal the controls shut. Hondo demands the children hand over the crystals.

Suddenly, Ahsoka arrives. She Force-pushes most the pirates out of the way, and demands that Hondo stands down. With the scent of profit in his wrinkled nose, Hondo is not about to surrender. Ahsoka ignites her lightsabers, ready to defend the children. Hondo powers up his electro-staff, and engages Ahsoka in battle.

With this distraction as cover, Huyang leads the children to the hold. A pirate blasts Huyang's head off. The droid is incensed. He marches his decapitated body to do battle with the pirate, who keeps firing away. The droid's arms are blasted off, but Huyang keeps fighting, kicking the pirate into submission. Petro grabs Huyang's severed arms, while Gungi collects his head and they dash off to the hold.

Ahsoka continues to duel Hondo. She does not want to hurt the pirate, but she has to make sure the kids are safe. Petro calls her from the hold. She then orders Zatt to break away from the pirate ship, even though she is not secure.

The Crucible's engines flare to life and it pulls away from the saucer. The grappling hooks snap off and the docking tube bends. The pirates are sucked down the corridor. Ahsoka and Hondo tumble through the Crucible. Many pirates are blown into vacuum. Hondo lands in his own ship. An errant pirate knocks Ahsoka into the saucer. Unaware that Ahsoka is not aboard, the Crucible blasts off into hyperspace.

Ahsoka is now a captive of the pirates. Hondo has his henchmen knock her unconscious. Robbed of his profits from the crystal, he intends to find a way to turn Ahsoka into profit.