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Chapter 2 The Trap

Admiral Yularan was looking down at the scanners.

"General Skywalker, we are intercepting a distress signal from a small ship near our position."

He said to Anakin who was standing on the bridge of the Resolute somewhere in the Outer rim. Anakin's young padawan, Ahsoka, stood nearby with a board expression on her face it'd only been two weeks ago they'd been battling for life and death, but since then things had been... quiet. She was mostly tuning her master and the admiral out looking into the distant stars that stretched out before them. She was wondering how far beyond the outer rim anyone had dared explored before.

"Well its only a small ship me and Ahsoka can take the Twilight, we probably won't see much but it's better than seeing her mope around the bridge all the time."

Ahsoka had been half listing to that

"I have not been-" Anakin cut her off

"uh huh, 'right', come on." he said before she started arguing with him. Oh well she glad to have something to do. She followed her master to the tiny spice freighter and artoo put the coordinates in.

Zach grinned all he had to do now was get back to Bane's cruiser and wait for the Jedi to fall into his trap. He felt pride swell in him he had come up with this plan and now Bane and him were going to put it into action and take Skywalker down he docked his ship with the cruiser and jumped out running to the bridge now it was a matter a waiting. He felt like something was pulling him at the back of his mind a tiny conscience a tiny memory, but he chose to ignore the feeling..and walked up to Bane who was ordering the Magnagaurds to hide so they would surprise the Jedi when they pulled the ship in with their tractor beam.

"Jedi fools won't know what hit them" Bane smiled, but Zach caught something

"'Jedi fools'? I thought we were hunting one Jedi." Zach said, Bane stiffened

"Oh, Skywalker just 'might' have brought his youngling along, or Kenobi." Zach froze. Bane went on about 'Oh he better not have brought Kenobi along' but he couldn't pay attention something was bothering him, finally he came up with a good way to say it.

"What?!" he yelled at Bane "Why didn't you tell me we might be going up against more than one Jedi?!" He said angrily, but Bane didn't care about Zach's feelings, all he cared about was two things himself and his credits.

"will you relax! we probably won't have to deal with Kenobi, and his youngling isn't what I'd call a threat" Zach was still upset with Bane for not trusting him though, it didn't matter if Zach trusted him or not though, Bane thought, besides the scanners had just picked up a small ship coming out of hyperspace, the Jedi had arrived.

Anakin was staring at the scanners on the Twilight

"I don't see the ship that sent that distress signal anywh-" Ahsoka gave a gasp of horror and cut him off

"Master..I think you should stop looking at the scanners" her rising panic was easy to feeling in her Anakin looked up alarmed, nothing scared Ahsoka, a huge Separatist cruiser loomed over the tiny spice fighter like a shadow of evil.

"Blast it! Artoo get us out of here!" Anakin cursed. Suddenly the ship jolted backward pulling them toward the Separatist ship "No! No! No! come on!" Anakin punched controls trying to get to hyperspace-or get out of the tractor beam at the very least, Ahsoka couldn't tell which he was trying to do. He sighed and sat back Ahsoka spoke quietly unsure of what to do

"Master..? are we going to contact the Admiral or Rex?...Can we?" She asked in a small voice. Anakin glanced at her

"There will be communications on that ship we can call for help there." She nodded silently not meeting his gaze "Don't worry it's just a bunch of tinnies" She smiled a little, then suddenly gave a cocky grin the Obi-wan would swear was a mirror image of Anakin as a padawan if he were with them, She unclipped her lightsaber from her belt

"Well Skyguy, looks like we're gonna turn some droids into scrap metal huh?" Anakin couldn't help but smile 'sometimes I don't think you realize how alike you two have become' well looks like his old master had been right again. Ahsoka was in no way an easy padawan he would admit that, but at the same time he wouldn't want any other padawan who would no doubt be well behaved, neat, who would always do what he said, He had grown fond of Ahsoka and her quirky curious attitude, even if she could get on his nerves sometimes. As he realized this he surprised himself. He unclipped his own lightsaber and they braced themselves.

Zach readied himself hiding behind a corner. The Jedi hadn't seen this bounty hunter yet so he had the element of surprise with them and he wasn't going to waste it showing up with Bane as the ship landed in the hanger. No backing out, No going back, no second thoughts, this was what he was meant to do-that's what he told himself at least. Now he was going to face a Jedi and he was going to have to take them down. He knew he had waited for this, but he could be patient for a little longer. but even as he got into position he felt a tiny memory, a faint heartbeat, a flickering flame of goodness telling him not to do this, but he smothered it inside himself and waited for the sound of a ship landing.

Bane watched the ship land and waited. Then the ramp slowly opened slightly and before he knew it two lightsabers were ignited and two Jedi leapt from the ship as though they expected it to explode Bane watched curiously to see if it would, it didn't, too bad.

"Cad Bane" Skywalker glared at him "What do you want?" he said

Bane didn't need to be a Jedi to sense the hatred that Anakin felt for the bounty hunter, Bane enjoyed it though, knowing Skywalker was remembering Bane threatening to kill the little scrap of a padawan that stood next to him her eyes also narrowed in dislike. Bane activated a signal on his wrist com and seven magnagaruds stepped next to him, he enjoyed the look of shock that crossed Ahsoka's young face as she took an uncertain step back.
"I thought you might be a little bit happier to see me Jedi" Bane said

"Sorry to disappoint you" Anakin spat.

Then all h*ll broke loose. Four of the Magnagaurds went after Ahsoka and the rest Attacked Anakin. Ahsoka's magnagaurds pushed her back away from her master. She blocked one of them that had swung it's deadly electrostaff dangerously close to her head and leapt back to stop another from getting around behind her, She brought her lightsaber down and sliced one in half wondering how many her master had taken out-when she realized she couldn't see her master, and that she wasn't in the hanger anymore. Then without warning a blast door slammed shut cutting her off from her magnagaurd antagonists-and her master. She turned and carefully walked down the hall hyper alert, also remembering the last time she and Anakin had faced Bane, and how she had ended up in an airlock.

Zach heard the steady hum of a single lightsaber and the din of the fight had been muffled by the blast door, this was his chance. He slowly drew a vibroblade hidden in his boot as he heard uncertain footsteps come closer, closer, he tensed and held his breath his heart beating hollowly in his chest blood roaring in his ears. He could almost feel the blade in his hand strike the unsuspecting Jedi. Zach felt himself becoming bloodthirsty and animal-like predatory Toguratan instincts taking over, he was a hunter and this was his newest prey, starting now.

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