Gascon is determined to carry on with the mission. Somebody needs to access that dangerous panel, but Gascon won't volunteer, citing privilege as an officer.

A wary WAC-47 begins asking about the colonel's war record and learns, much to Gascon's chagrin, that the tiny officer is not much more than a map reader. Gascon's bluster begins to falter. At WAC-47's pestering, Gascon admits he has never been in battle before. Switching focus back to the mission, WAC-47 demands that Gascon start treating the droids with a little more respect. Meanwhile, Artoo quietly opens the door himself.

Gascon breaks down the final stage of their mission: infiltrate the vault, neutralize the swarm mines -- little ball-bearing sized droids packed with explosive charges -- and secure the encryption module. It falls to Qutee to take care of the swarm mines. She launches her magna-coil, which hovers through the core, gathering the marble-like deterrents. She collects the swarm into her dome chamber, and D-Squad proceeds.

The encryption module hovers in the heart of the inner core, within a beam of energy inside an elevated cryo-chamber.

R2-D2 powers his upgraded booster rockets, but his flight is cut short when super tactical droid Aut-O arrives with blaster in hand. Backed by super battle droids, Aut-O demands these intruders surrender. R2-D2 quickly improvises by shutting down the gravity control in the chamber. The droids begin to float about. Artoo rockets away while Ceefor fires his laser-cutter. The blast sends Ceefor spinning, and his out-of-control beam takes out several battle droids in the process.

Qutee uses her magna-coil to launch the swarm mines at the enemy droids. The mines detonate, sending the super battle droids scattering.

R2-D2 tries to reach the encryption module, but he is grabbed by Aut-O. Gascon, seeing what is happening, leaps onto Aut-O, providing enough of a distraction to allow Artoo to recover the module. WAC-47 reactivates the gravity, sending every droid -- except R2-D2 -- crashing to the floor.

Artoo cuts his rocket and comes landing hard on Aut-O, knocking the super tactical droid out of the fight. Aut-O signals a ship-wide intruder alert. Gascon grabs the module from Artoo, and orders the droids to move out.

The astromechs won't leave Beezee behind, however. Gascon agrees. Qutee and Artoo carry Beezee's inert form, in the hope of repairing him aboard the shuttle. D-Squad rolls out to the hangar. Dimwitted battle droids rush towards "C" deck, bypassing D-Squad, not realizing the astromechs were the cause of all this trouble.

The droids rush back to their shuttle and blast off, hastily departing the dreadnought. Gascon praises the droids' performance as the ship launches into hyperspace. "Who knows," Gascon says. "You droids just might make decent soldiers, after all."