Twilight's Light
A Trap!
"Hera, you're telling me I told all the force sensitives to Mustafar?!" Fulcrum asked.
"That's the transmission we've got, Fulcrum." Hera said.
"I did nothing of the sort, Mustafar is too dangerous for teenagers, even Kanan has a risk there!"
"What?! The Imperials must have used your identity!" Hera said.
"The Starbirds have no effect there, but Diamond and Twilight have a huge risk, not to mention Ruby!" Fulcrum stated. "A gray's balance is delicate!"
"We can't go to Mustafar yet, we're on a fuel raid."
"Once the raid is done, cancel their 'mission', and get them back here!"
"This place is cold, no matter how I see this place." Ruby said.
"Tell me about it, Ruby." Kanan said through the comm.
"Left wing's clear, save the bucketheads." Emerald said.
"Don't care, I'm bored." Sapphire said as she jumped out of the vents and ignited her blue lightsaber.
"Always? Seriously?" Ruby sighed and also jumped down. "Come on, you can't have all of the fun."
"Guys, this is crazy." Emerald said through the comm. "I'll be waiting for you with Kanan."
"Sure thing." Ruby said and ignited her pink and white lightsaber.
"Kanan, Ruby and Sapphire decided that they need some fun." Emerald sighed through the comm.
"Same here, I kind of need a hand!" Kanan said deflecting blaster bolts from stormtroopers.
"You've got it." Emerald said as she made her way to Kanan. "Who's blasting music?!"
"I am." Aloysius said as he took his music player out, it's playing 'My Demons'.
"Seriously, now?" Tariss sighed.
"Is your side clear Starbirds?" Ruby asked through the comm.
"Pretty much." Tariss said,
"Kanan, more stormtroopers incoming." Emerald said as she gracefully deflected and dodged all of the bolts.
"That's bad." Kanan gritted his teeth.
"What do you do for fun exactly?" Emerald joked.
"You?" Kanan asked.
"Hitting these idiots." Emerald said, and used the force to knock most of the troopers back.
"You teens, are seriously complicated." Kanan sighed.
"Ruby, I know you're more affected and all, but this is absurd." Sapphire watched as Ruby sliced all of the walkers down.
"I've got to do something." Ruby laughed.
"Wait, don't you think this is a little… Off?" Ruby said as she clipped her lightsaber on her belt.
"Those troopers were missing more than before, I don't think that's even possible." Sapphire said, then both of them felt the sudden spike of cold nearby.
Ruby immediately fished out her comm and contacted the others.
"Guys, fall back! It's a trap, I repeat, this is a tra-" Before Ruby can finish her comm, something, or someone knocked her and Sapphire out of conscious.
"It's a trap?!" Tariss yelled.
"Looks like it, we'd better hurry back now!" Aloysius said as he jumped out of the vents, and found Kanan and Emerald.
"Where's Ruby and Sapphire?! We heard her transmission!" Emerald yelled.
"Can't you sense her?!" Kanan said.
"You suppose I'm going to meditate here?!" Emerald said.
"All we can do is look for them!" Tariss said.
"Where is Luna and Ezra?!" Kanan asked.
"So far nothing." Ezra said in the vents.
"It better be, I'm not going to stay in this place for any longer." Luna said as she made her way to the exit.
Then their comms started buzzing.
"Guys, it's a trap! I repeat, it's a tra-"
"Ruby?!" Luna yelled through the comm. "She's out, we have to help her!"
"We're miles away from the left wing!" Ezra said. "We have to regroup, then find her!"
"You're right." Luna sighed.
"Kanan, we're here! Where's Ruby and Sapphire?!" Luna yelled, her lightsaber ignited.
"They're down, now we have to find them!" Kanan said. "I'll go to the middle, you guys hold the line!"
"Promise us you'll come back!" Tariss said.
"I promise!" Kanan said and charged in the crossfire.
"Come on, where are you?!" Kanan said to himself as he ran through the halls of the Imperial base.
"Well, let's see, who do we have here?" A deep voice came from behind and all Kanan can remember was someone calling out his name faintly.
"Kanan!"
"Kanan's down too! We have to go now!" Aloysius said.
"We can't just abandon them!" Ezra said.
"That's why we have to go, no one can look for them if we're also dead!" Emerald said. "They're alive, but just unconscious."
"I guess you're right." Luna sighed.
"I'm sorry guys…" They thought and retreated back to their respective ships.
In hyperspace, the remaining members were recovering.
"I can't believe this, Ezra, I just can't!" Luna cried.
"Calm down, we'll get them back." Ezra comforted.
"What if we don't?" Abner asked. "We saw everything on the ship…"
"We will." Ezra said.
"Tariss, what was I thinking?! Leaving my sisters like that!" Emerald cried while on a transmission with Tariss and Aloysius.
"Emerald, listen, it's not your fault." Tariss said. "They wouldn't want to see you like this."
"I should have done something!" Emerald said.
"We'll get them back, they've been through alot, they can go through this." Aloysius said, and another transmission came in. "Hera?"
"We want you to return immediately, it's a trap!" Hera said noticing the lack of members. "They're gone, aren't they?"
"I-I… I couldn't stay with them!" Emerald cried. "Kanan tried to get them, but he never returned…!"
Even through the holograph, they could still feel the sadness radiating off of them.
"How are the Twilight's?" Hera asked.
"We don't know, they refuse to accept transmissions." Tariss said.
"We need you to return to base, then we can come up a rescue plan." Hera said.
The meeting between them took longer, because Emerald wouldn't want to get out of her ship, Luna was in total depression, and Hera was grieving, even when Zeb and Sabine tried convincing her that he wasn't dead yet.
Ezra locked himself in his room, Tariss and Aloysius was in their respective rooms bumming out. It took three hours for everyone to show their faces.
"So, what's the plan?" Emerald asked tiredly, her eyes looked bloodshot from sobbing, her mind raced itself to imagine the worst outcome possible.
But Ezra didn't have the heart to attend, so he stayed on the ship.
"Em, you look like you could collapse at any second." Luna joked poorly.
"We need a distraction." Hera sniffed.
"We can do that." Tariss and Aloysius said.
"And a search team." Hera said. "Emerald and Luna."
"Okay." They said, sniffing.
Sapphire opened her eyes slowly, she couldn't figure out what happened to her or Ruby, her mind was foggy.
Slowly, her mind cleared and she could think straight.
"Ruby!" She yelled, but she only saw Kanan unconscious. "Kanan!"
"Ugh…" Kanan started to stir.
"Kanan! Wake up!" Sapphire said as she slapped Kanan.
"Ow! I'm up!" Kanan said, rubbing his face. "Where are we?"
"I think it's a prison, Ruby's not here." Sapphire said as she looked around, she noticed her weapons were missing. "Lightsaber's out."
She held her head for some ideas, then her hand touched the diamond-shaped sapphire.
"Communicator." She said to herself, and reached through force opening the call.
"Emerald?" A voice came through the green girl's emerald.
"Sapphire?!" Emerald said as she opened the call. "Are you okay?!"
"I'm fine, Kanan's with me." Sapphire said. "Ruby's not here."
"Where is she?!" Emerald asked, everyone looked at her like she was crazy.
"I don't know, use the tracker to locate us, and by the way…"
"What is it?"
"Tell Hera that I may have slapped him." Sapphire laughed.
"Oh, you are so dead." Emerald said. "May the force be with you."
"You too, you too." Sapphire said as she ended the call.
"Em, you okay?" Tariss asked.
"I can pinpoint their location, guess those idiots really thought this was just an ornament." Emerald said as she took the emerald off her hair and activated it. "We can track them through this."
"Ah!" Ruby yelled as she woke up gasping, she found herself strapped to a metal table. "What the hell?!"
She was piecing everything together and the door slid open.
"Oh, so you have waken." The masked male said.
"What do you want from me?" Ruby asked.
"For you to join me, that's all." The man said.
"Why should I?" Ruby asked coldly.
"If you don't, your friend will die." The man said.
"What?! Where are they?!" Ruby asked, trying to break free but her aching body made it hard.
"They're fine, for now."
"I will never succumb to the dark side!"
"But you have tasted the power, the call, you should know how it feels like."
"And that is behind me!"
"No, not yet. You have not conquered your fear, the fear of your past, of loss. You are no jedi."
"I wasn't. I was never one. And I will never lower myself as a sith!"
"Would you believe me, that your so called 'friends', were lying to you?"
"Why should I believe that?"
"Because they lie." The man said. "You think they would be friends with someone like you?"
"They are my friends, family."
"You have once surrendered to the dark side, you know what it's like to be feared." The man said as he searched her mind. "I see…"
"See.. what?" Ruby said as she tried to block him out, but her efforts were wasted.
"This boy, he feared you when he knew about your past. You think that they would accept you?"
"I don't care what they think, I just want to protect them!"
"Even when they see you as a monster?"
"They… what…?" Ruby asked, tears coming down from her face.
"You saw how they reacted when they knew."
"That was when we met…!"
"And you saw how your sisters reacted when they found out. They fear you, everyone does."
"... No…"
The man walked out, planting seeds of doubt in the teen's heart and mind, she was left alone with her nightmares.
