Star Wars:

Ch. 1

Wild Space, aboard the Twilight; two and a half years after Battle of Geonosis

Ahsoka Tano was waiting for a slaver ship to exit hyperspace in the area; the Jedi had received word from Republic spies that Dooku had planned on buying slaves to assist in the construction of cruisers and tanks to help the Separatist war effort, so the Council sent Ahsoka to deal with the threat by acting like a potential slave buyer. This was her first true solo mission, and her job was to wait as long as she could until the Separatist fleet arrived so she could call in the fleet to destroy them and capture the slaver's ship. Ahsoka was not enthusiastic about the mission; she had a feeling in the back of her head that something was going to go terribly wrong, and every time she tried to explain her worries to Anakin, he just brushed her off, telling her everything would be alright and that she would do fine. Ahsoka, after finally giving up on explaining to her master, decided to just get in the Twilight and wait for the cruiser to show up. Finally, after waiting for over two hours, the ship exited hyperspace; it looked like an old prison barge, from what Ahsoka could tell, around sixty or seventy years old; it looked like a steel crate with three sections on it; a smaller section in the front, which held the bridge, communications array, life support systems, and shield generator. The middle section, which was three times as large as the first, was most likely where all the slaves were kept, and then there was the third section, which was the second which held three hyperspace engines, and nine sub-light engines, three around each hyperspace engine. Another distinguishing part of the cruiser was the fact that it looked like the hangers were attached to the outside of the ship, rather than inside the ship itself. Ahsoka then sent a hailing transmission to the ship, in which one of the crewmembers of the cruiser answered.

"This is trafficking vessel, Golden Chain. Unidentified G9 Rigger Frigate; state your purpose, you do not need to be here!" The communication officer ordered, but Ahsoka just activated the communicator on the Twilight.

"Golden Chain, we are here to purchase some of your…goods. This is the Twilight;we spoke last week about setting up a meeting today." Ahsoka explained, and the officer's voice suddenly got friendlier.

"Oh, yes. Excuse me Twilight, we are just making an important sale today, and we don't need any surprises. Please pilot your craft to hanger bay three; one of our sales representatives will be there to show you our merchandise. Hope you find what you're looking for, and more." The officer said, and Ahsoka turned off the comm and began directing the Twilight to the mentioned hanger bay.

'Those hangers must be meant to be detached to the ship, in case of either of slave escape attempt, or a sale turns sour.' Ahsoka thought, and her stomach started to churn, worried that her feeling may be more than just a feeling.

Slaver's ship, Golden Chain

When the Twilight entered the hanger, Ahsoka lowered the landing gear, then the ramp, and got out of his chair, and walked outside the Twilight, wearing a cloak over her to hide her lightsaber and Jedi robes, She was greeted by a man wearing durasteel battle armor, had a DH-17 blaster carbine clipped to his waist, and what looked like a whip.

"Welcome customer. If you'll come with me please." The slave trader offered, and he walked out of the hanger with Ahsoka right behind him. After walking through a series of complicated hallways, the two finally came across the first level of slaves, all of them held in cages, and every live slave had a collar around their neck with a chain attached to a nearby wall. "As you can see madam, we have all different types of species from all over the galaxy, to perform tasks such as hard labor, entertainment, and more…pleasurable tasks." The man said with perverted tone, and Ahsoka just rolled her eyes.

"What are price ranges?" Ahsoka asked.

"Depends on the merchandise; the cheapest is a female twi'lek child, which is five thousand credits, and the most expensive is a full grown Wookiee male, which is over five hundred thousand credits." The man said, and Ahsoka started to get angry.

"What do most child buyers do with their…new product?" Ahsoka asked, trying to sound convincing, though her anger was getting the best of her.

"We don't care, as long as they pay the proper price. Though I will admit, there was this one buyer that I was disturbed to meet; he bought ten children from us, and after he paid us, one of my collogues asked what he planned on doing with the children, and the customer said he enjoyed hunting children, and then torturing them after he caught them. Man, if you heard the things he did to those kids…I couldn't sleep for a week!" The man said, and now Ahsoka was getting disturbed. "But hey, like my boss says; we shouldn't care about the purpose of the purchase, only as long as they pay full price." The man said, and he turned to a cage where a young Togruta was lying, asleep. The man then pressed a button on his whip, and it started humming. The man raised his whip, and slammed it down, making the fiber chord hit the Togruta, splitting the skin on her back wide open, making her bleed profusely and from the way the muscles on the Togruta contracted, Ahsoka could tell the whip gave off a large electric shock when it touched flesh. The Togruta, which was probably around ten years old, began to cry, and this made the man mad; he pressed a button on his wrist gauntlet, and the Togruta began crying in pain as electricity flowed through her small body. "Hey you snot! Who gave you permission to sleep!" The man asked, and the Togruta began crying again.

"Those collars shock the slaves?" Ahsoka asked, and the man nodded.

"Yes. They're multi-purpose collars, actually; they can hold Wookiee's, shock whoever wears them, and even have Force-restraint systems, should we ever capture Jedi." The man explained, and Ahsoka's worries about something bad about to happen grew.

"Do you capture Jedi often?" Ahsoka asked, and the man began laugh.

"No! They're so deceiving, it's almost impossible to tell who is and who isn't a Jedi, which is why we're so cautious. But I assure you, if a Jedi ever does try to infiltrate this ship, we have everything necessary to stop them; Jedi can catch a hefty sum on the slave markets if you sell them to the right people; I once heard that a Jedi was sold to a Hutt for over three million cash credits! Now that's a deal!"

'Great…this is just getting worse and worse…I almost want to make a break for the Twilight and get the hell off this blasted cruiser, but that would blow my and Skyguy's cover, not to mention that it wouldn't be fair to these slaves.' Ahsoka thought to herself as they continued to walk through the rows of cages.

"What else do you have?" Ahsoka asked, hoping that the Separatists would hurry and get to this location so she could end the mission. As the two continued through the ship, they came across more slaves, and every time the man treated one badly, Ahsoka grew angrier and angrier; almost reaching her breaking point, but she did her best to remain calm and not to blow her cover. After they went through the entire ship, Ahsoka was beginning to wonder if the Separatists were going to arrive, when suddenly, she had a massive headache; she was sensing a disturbance in the Force, something was about to happen, something bad. Ahsoka closed her eyes as her headache grew worse, and that caused her not to see a supply crate in front of her, and she tripped over it. When Ahsoka hit the ground, her lightsaber was unclipped from her belt and rolled across the floor and stopped at the slavers feet; it didn't take him long to realize what was going on.

"JEDI!" The slaver yelled, and suddenly, guards appeared out of nowhere, aiming their blasters at the two, and stun turrets popped from the ceiling and aimed at Ahsoka as well. Ahsoka didn't even have time to get her lightsaber; she had to run right away to avoid getting killed. Without her lightsaber, Ahsoka had to be extra evasive and take down soldiers with her bare hands, which wasn't easy for her, since most of the guards were three times her size, heavily armed and armored, and better hand to hand fighters than her. She tried to take one guard down by kicking him in the head, but the guard caught her foot and slammed her body into the durasteel wall. He was about to do it again, but Ahsoka used the Force to push him into the wall, head first, knocking him unconscious. Ahsoka then got to her feet, and started running again, when a voice was heard over the intercom.

"The Jedi is heading towards the hanger bays; detach hanger bays one through five! Do not let that Jedi escape!" The voice ordered, and more guards appeared in front of Ahsoka, and began firing their weapons at her. Ahsoka began jumping around, avoiding the majority of the blaster fire, though she did get a couple of grazing shots. Suddenly, however, more stun turrets appeared, and began shooting at Ahsoka, who was still dazed from being slammed into the wall. Two of the disks hit her, causing her to feel even more dazed. Ahsoka continued to run down the hallway, getting closer and closer to the Twilight, but it was getting harder for her to run; her sight was getting fuzzy, her legs were going numb, and her coordination was failing her. Though she remembered the way to the hangers, she was slowing down by the second, and it wasn't long until it was almost impossible for Ahsoka to see where she was going. To make matters worse, more guards appeared, and they began catching up to Ahsoka. Ahsoka continued to run, determined to not let herself get captured, but it was getting hard for her every second that passed. When Ahsoka got to the hallway that led her to hanger were Twilight was stationed, she started to hear a mechanical whirring, and a ray shield appeared between Ahsoka and her ship.

"NO!" Ahsoka yelled, and the hanger slowly began to drift away from the slaver's ship, but Ahsoka was still in the cruiser, and more stun turret bolts hit her, and Ahsoka was on her knees, struggling to remain conscious. However, more guards surround Ahsoka, and one of them hit her head with the butt of his gun, knocking her unconscious.

"I think we'll get a pretty price for this little number." The slave trader said, as he examined Ahsoka. "Get that wound cleaned up, and put her in more…appropriate, clothing for a slave like her." The slave trader ordered, and the guards carried Ahsoka into another room to get her ready for a slave trade that would be held on Hutta in two months. "Now let's get this thing in hyperspace, no doubt that Jedi will send his fleet if we stay here any longer." The slaver trader ordered, and it was only two seconds later when the Golden Chain entered hyperspace, with Ahsoka on board, unaware on how her life will be changed forever.

A/N: Well, Ahsoka's having a bad day. I hope this chapter doesn't seem too rushed, and I hope you readers like it. And don't worry, although things are going to happen to Ahsoka between now and the next chapter, it's not all going to be bad. Good things will happen as the story progresses