The Trigon Unleashed

While in a garage, C-3PO is in the process of stacking a container when a large, imposing shadow suddenly frightens him. It is revealed that the shadow is actually R2-D2, who is burdened with a collection of tools. C-3PO attempts to conceal his fear. Meanwhile, outside, Kea Moll asks Thall Joben if she is allowed to accompany him. Thall refuses, explaining that the Fromm Gang will relentlessly pursue them until they reclaim their Trigon One weapon. C-3PO seconds Thall's sentiment, asserting that the fewer individuals aware of the weapon's location, the greater the safety. Thall concurs, suggesting that Kea and C-3PO would be safer should the Fromms overtake them.

Before Thall and R2-D2 depart to obliterate the Trigon One, he tasks C-3PO with safeguarding Kea. C-3PO bids them a secure journey. Thall assures them of their swift return. As Kea rests, C-3PO inadvertently plunges through a hole in the roof's tarpaulin, landing within the garage and startling Kea. C-3PO offers an apology, clarifying that he was attempting to connect the antennae to an antiquated subspace receiver as a distraction.

While manipulating the controls, C-3PO accidentally intercepts a transmission. In an effort to tune into a HoloNet signal to locate a humorous show, Threepio inadvertently intercepts a message from Tig Fromm to his father Sise Fromm, wherein Tig vows to recover the Trigon One. Sise Fromm cautions his son to retrieve it or face replacement. Sise expresses regret over funding his son's superweapon. Tig is confident that the Trigon One will establish them as the quadrant's most dominant gang. Sise counters, arguing that without it, they are the quadrant's most desperate. C-3PO and Kea also discover that Vlix Oncard has been sent to apprehend Thall and his droid, having surrounded their speeder shop.

Ignoring Kea's warnings, C-3PO ventures out to alert Thall to the impending trap. C-3PO barely dodges a blaster shot. Kea deduces that C-3PO is the droid Tig mentioned. Under siege, Kea urges C-3PO to devise a strategy. C-3PO feels helpless without R2-D2, but Kea presses him to formulate a plan. C-3PO suggests surrendering. Vlix and his Annoo-dat Blue accomplices demand their surrender.

At that moment, Thall reappears in his landspeeder with R2-D2, rescuing Kea and C-3PO. Vlix and his associates give chase to Thall's landspeeder through the streets of Ingo. The group narrowly escapes a closing gate. Vlix and his associates avoid crashing into the gate and catch up with Thall and his friends. R2-D2 points out that the gangsters are missing them intentionally. The group realize that the gangsters were trying to steer them into a dead end but Thall manages to fly the speeder through a closing gate.

They find themselves in a garage but are trapped by Vlix and his henchmen. Vlix tells the fugitives that they have something that belongs to Mr Fromm. Thall says that he will never get it back but Vlix is unmoved. The four bound captives are brought before Tig Fromm, who talks about eliminating rival gangs. He toys with an experimental laser weapon that vaporizes objects. C-3PO and R2-D2 narrowly avoid its rays.

Tig boasts about eliminating the other gangs with the Trigon One and demands to know where the weapon is. Thall is defiant, claiming that it is in a safe place. Under Tig's orders, Vlix shows a video of Kea's mother Demma Moll and Jord Dusat in captivity in order to exert pressure on Thall and Kea. Jord and Demma urge Thall and Kea to resist the Fromm gang. Tig demands where is the superweapon. Kea attempts to escape and fails but destroys Tig's laser weapon. Thall insists on talking to Sise, much to Tig's dismay.

Subsequently, while en route in a yellow Lambda-class shuttle, Tig endeavors to persuade his father of the merit in interrogating the prisoners. Sise laments having a son who is a failure. Tig feels dejected about his inability to satisfy his father. Concurrently, C-3PO and R2-D2 are confined within a zero-gravity compartment. R2-D2 manages to utilize his magnetic legs to secure himself to the ceiling. C-3PO complains about his plight about R2-D2 not having a plan.

Within their cell, Kea informs Thall of the possibility of utilizing the shaft in their cell to seize control of the ship. Thall expresses concern that such an action would result in the deaths of Jord and Demma. Kea points out that they lack the means to combat the Fromm Gang, save for the Trigon One. Thall conceives a plan to employ the Trigon against the gangsters. Kea initially dismisses Thall as "space-sick," but he persuades her to trust him.

The shuttle nears a desolate planet, touching down at the hangar of Sise Fromm's stronghold located on Annoo. The prisoners are escorted from the shuttle. C-3PO finds himself unable to lower his arms due to the effects of zero gravity on his circuits. Thall instructs C-3PO to remain vigilant. While being led through the stronghold, C-3PO informs R2-D2 that they are spies and must gather as much information as possible. However, their captors lead them into a torture chamber for droids. C-3PO assures R2-D2 and their captors that they are "perfect model prisoners."

Later, the droids, Thall, and Kea are presented before Sise, who is willing to entertain Thall's proposition. Thall demands the release of Kea's mother and Jord before any negotiations commence. Sise rejects Thall's demand, asserting that he is not as foolish as his son. At that moment, C-3PO lowers his arms, surprising the guards and Tig and Sise, who are splattered with broth. Thall informs the Fromms that the Trigon One is situated in the Jarl forest on Ingo near the bantha-shaped rock formation. Kea feigns shock. Tig volunteers to retrieve the weapon since he built the weapon. Sise allows Tig to go and retrieve the Trigon One but sends Vlix to accompany him.

Kea demands the release of her mother. However, Sise keeps her, Thall, and the droids as hostages until he can figure out their game. C-3PO and R2-D2 are hung outside down while Thall and Kea are imprisoned with Jord, who warns them that they shouldn't have come. R2-D2 convinces C-3PO to tell the guard that the astromech droid is storing jewels inside his compartment. When the guard comes to check R2-D2, the astromech droid sprays him with oil. R2-D2 then uses his gadgets to free the prisoners. In return, Thall frees R2-D2 and C-3PO.

Thall then asks C-3PO how long it will take Tig to get the Trigon back to Annoo via lightspeed. C-3PO says that it will take Tig 49 minutes to get back to Annoo. Thall decides to free Kea's mother Demma before the Trigon One crashes into Sise's base.

Meanwhile Tig, who has recovered the Trigon, boasts about using the superweapon to take out planets. Sise believes that his son is worthy and tells him that he is proud of him. Demonstrating the weapon's power, he destroys a nearby asteroid, pleasing his father.

Back at Sise's fortress, R2-D2 hooks up to a computer and uses his holoprojector to project the schematics of the base. Having located Demma's interrogation cell, Jord says that they can get there through a service tube. Thall and Kea tell Jord to commandeer the fastest ship while they rescue Demma. Jord and C-3PO enter the hangar where Jord proposes stealing a Strato Driver. R2-D2 and C-3PO use a bag pulley system to throw a crew and guard member into a drain. Elsewhere, Thall and Kea search the prison for Kea's mother.

In space, Tig prepares the Trigon One for descent into Annoo's atmosphere. However, he finds that the guidance systems and docking sequence are not responding. Tig tells Sise that the weapon is on a collision course with Sise's fortress. Meanwhile, Jord learns from C-3PO that R2-D2 and Thall sabotaged the Trigon by setting it on a collision course with Sise's stronghold. Jord sends C-3PO and R2-D2 to find Thall in a cargo sled.

While Tig struggles to regain control of the ship, the droids struggle to control their cargo sled. C-3PO complains about R2-D2's driving skills. The two dodge corridors and crash into a table where two guards are playing. Meanwhile, Thall and Kea are cornered by a pair of Fiddler 10 droids. R2-D2 and C-3PO's cargo sled crashes into the Fiddler-10 guards. Kea reunites with Demma. Before leaving, they issue an evacuation alarm.

In space, Tig evacuates onto Vlix's ship. Sise reluctantly evacuates but is furious about the impending loss of his stronghold. Back at Sise's stronghold, his droids and guards flee the bas in panic. Thall, Kea, Demma, R2-D2 and C-3PO join Jord aboard the Strato Driver. Inside the ship, Jord tells his friends that he has hotwired the booster drive but still needs a servo to join it together. R2-D2 beeps in binary, leading C-3PO to say that Artoo has another plan.

As the Fromm henchmen and droids flee the base in every available vehicle, the Trigon One descends towards the base. The droids and their human friends escape aboard the Strato Driver before the Trigon ploughs into Sise's stronghold, destroying it in an explosion. Vlix and Tig watch the destruction with horror, with the former telling the latter that he messes up things in a big way. Sise vows revenge on his son, much to Tig's despair.

In space, Kea thanks Thall for destroying the Fromm gang's weapons satellite, stronghold, and the Fromm Gang. Jord reminds her that it was a group effort. Thall explains that he and R2-D2 fixed the Trigon so that it would it home in on Sise's communication signal. Demma surmises "that they would let evil destroy itself." Thall thanks R2-D2 for coming up with this idea. C-3PO grumbles about Artoo using his servomechanism to guide the spacecraft. Jord reassures C-3PO that he is indispensable. Thall reassures that C-3PO sees through Artoo's plans while Kea reassures that the two droids are a terrific team. C-3PO agrees with Kea.