Star Wars: The Missing Knight
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Star Wars characters however I did create Master Raadi, Master Crune, Ron Durd and Amaandi Pinaza.
Plot: A mission has gone wrong and Obi-Wan has been taken prisoner by a vengeful enemy. Anakin is on a mission to find his Master as soon as possible while Obi-Wan's captor is out for revenge.
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Chapter 4
Anakin sat bolt upright in the pilots seat of the republic cruiser, turning to his friend in alarm. He met Ron's gaze confirming that he too felt Obi Wan's sudden force presence. Before they could say or do anything, master Raadi ran into the room.
"I felt it also. His in trouble. Anakin! How far from the planet surface are we?" she asked, quickly assembling the emergency med pack for landing.
"We're entering the atmosphere right now Master. I would say we will reach that clearing in a couple of minutes," he responded immediately, already beginning landing procedures.
They swooped down in one of Anakin's best landings, grabbed the med pack and checked their Lightsabres, before sprinting down the landing ramp and head long into the forest.
Don't worry Obi Wan, We're coming for you!
Obi Wan was hiding in the main hangar, forced to stop running by his leg. Ironically, despite all of the antiseptic that Pinaza had so graciously poured onto it, the blasted thing got infected. Not to mention, in his weakened state Obi Wan was unable to use the force to help the healing process much, all he had been able to do was bring his pain level from a 'cut-the-blasted-thing-off-it-will-hurt-less' level to a 'Whoever-is-repeatedly-stamping-on-my-leg-will-you-stop-it!' level.
Neither were suitable for running unfortunately, meaning for the time being he had to remain hidden and hope to everything from the force to the blessed fish god of Abertracsm that none of the guards found him.
But then suddenly, he thought he could feel a force presence coming nearby. Somebody had come to save him, I wonder how they will take it when I say I'm not leaving Anakin's body here…fingers crossed it's not Master Windu--- nope that wouldn't bode well… Okay, come on Obi Wan, your going to have to keep going.
But before he got up again, he heard and felt something that made him sit back down again. Don't worry Obi Wan, We're coming for you! But it couldn't be Anakin, he had seen his body, held it. But why could he feel the strong force signature coming closer, radiating hope and determination.
He forgot all about healing his leg and with force he minutes previous, had no knowledge of, sent a message through his bound with Anakin, and found that it and he were very much alive.
It had been a trick, somehow, it had been a phantasm when he saw Anakin's body, he hadn't gotten him killed.
However the pleasure was short lived, because just then, a group of guards had walked past Obi Wan's hiding spot and one of them saw a small shadow and decided to investigate. All of a sudden the hangar rang with a shrill "I'VE FOUND HIM, HIS RIGHT HERE!"
"Master Yoda, did you feel that?! It's Obi Wan, his alive" announced Master Windu, running back into the meditation room he had left a couple minutes prior.
"Told you so I did, listen to me, you did not," sighed Yoda, attempting to concentrate on the vision he was having. However it would seem that Master Windu was not going to make that possible tonight.
"I should be there- I could of helped-, he must be weak- They won't be able to get of there fast enough- Anakin and Ron are too young to be sent to such a dangerous--- OW! That's the second time you have done that today!"
"A council member you are Mace. Compose yourself you must! Fine Obi Wan will be, sit and meditate you will. Calm you must have, if wise decision you want to make."
And for the second time that day, Mace Windu sat indignantly on one of the seats, feeling thoroughly like a Padawan being told off for allowing his emotions to get the better of him.
As Anakin sprinted through the thick forest, he felt that something bad had happened inside the Warehouse that was looming closer and closer. Ron and Master Raadi were on his heels. The forest came to an abrupt end, and there was around 100 metres of open space that had to be covered before they reached the warehouse.
He crouched down in the bushes and turned to Master Raadi who appeared to be assessing the structure. Then he felt a sudden rush in the force.
"I have destroyed the circuits in the security cameras all over the building, they won't be able to see our approach but it means they will know that we are here, we are going to have to be careful."
Anakin and Ron nodded. All three Jedi sprinted towards the building, Lightsabres at the ready. Anakin reached it first and cut a hole large enough for the three of them to climb through, and then they all set down the corridors.
They didn't meat any guards at all…for around two corridors, until they ran into a group of two humans and a Phlog. The three seemed stunned at the Jedi's sudden appearance, and hesitated a second to long before reaching for their blasters, that were already flying through the air into the hands of Ron and Anakin.
The smallest of the three, an young human man with cropped black hair, looked like he was about to scream before Ron ignited his lightsabre so that the tip of the blade was only centimetres from his throat. "Don't. Even. Think. About. It."
Master Raadi opened the door to a small room and Ron gestured for the party to go inside. Once they were all in, the door closed and Anakin growled angrily, trying to keep his anger in check, "Your holding a Jedi here, We're is he?!"
The three looked at him, then the lightsabre then back to him, and the short one answered, "He was just re-captured in the main hangar. He should be in the main cells now."
The other human, a tall and bulky man with piercing blue eyes and a blonde plait that fell down his back sneered, "I doubt he will be in a very good state when you get to him."
This time it was Master Raadi's lightsabre that ignited, tip also at his throat, turning the smirk into a scowl. "Why do you say that?"
The smirk reappeared once more and the man sniggered, "Miss Pinaza isn't very happy with our guest. Has been giving her the reaction she wanted, after seeing his apprentice dead, thinking he saw his apprentice dead that is, that halutination drug was right entertaining it was. The git actually cried, hah, and here I was thinking you JedI was supposed to be the strong ones in the galaxy."
It took all of Anakin control, to not shoot the sneering man with his own blaster. He was actually shaking with rage, and only a hand on his shoulder made him snap out of it.
"Anakin, you have to let go of it, your giving him what he wants," said Master Raadi, shaking his shoulder a little and giving him a reassuring smile.
He focused all of his anger and tried to release all of it to the force, and succeeded accept for a small amount of anger that was settled at the bottom of his stomach and stubbornly refusing to lead.
"That's good Anakin, now all you have to do is control that small amount you have left. Don't worry we all have it but you just have to not allow it to grow alright?" praised Master Raadi, allowing a small smile before turning back to the grim situation.
"Yes Master, but we have to leave now! We gotta save Obi Wan!" burst out remembering the grave situation Obi Wan was in.
Master Raadi nodded, and they set to work. First taking the cuffs from the guards and placing them on their owners, ten thy went out of the room and fused the seal and door so that it wouldn't function properly.
"That should hold them for a while, now come on we have to find Obi Wan," announced Master Raadi, Anakin and Ron in her wake.
Okay- Alright- this is bad. Just hold on as long as you can, your already hurt- it can't get worse than- OOOWWWW!!! I stand corrected!
Obi Wan was once again on the floor, bound wrists screaming at him from behind his back, demanding that he stops falling on top of them. A guard reached down and pulled him to his feet once again, only for a punch to the face to send him crashing back down.
Amaandi Pinaza walked up to him, smiling insanely. She dug a sharp heel into the Jedi Knights side, forcing him to roll over on his back. Once she saw the state her prisoner was in her smile widened. The right side of his face was swollen and his nose and lips were bleeding.
"Don't worry Obi Wan, the end is coming near. I have to say this has bee most entertaining, I'm going to miss my favourite needle cushion, but justice needs to be served."
She stomped down hard on his midsection, and then his wounded leg, resulting in a cry of pain. She knelt down to the doubled over figure on the ground, and said gleefully, "And it will be."
The room fell silent and Obi Wan was dragged to his feet again, ready for the pain to come again, possibly being the last thing he ever felt.
But then from the back of the crowd, came the very familiar voice of Anakin Skywalker. "Yes it will be!" Then he heard the sound of three Lightsabres being ignites, one after the other and he couldn't help but grin, he was saved.
All of the guards turned around, most of them being Phlogs, and a small amount of Humans, all eyeing the Lightsabres, and beginning to wonder if their wage was big enough to die for. As Anakin and Ron Durg raised the commandeered blasters, around twenty of the thirty present decided that it was not.
Amaandi Pinaza looked around in horror as her guards dropped their weapons to the floor, screaming, "What are you doing you cowards, pick them up---fight, kill them!"
The Guard standing next to her, the leader, dropped his weapon to the floor and turned to the woman, speaking for his team, "Miss Pinaza, we are not going to go up against three armed Jedi for five credits and hour, consider this our resignation."
Pinaza watched flabbergasted as he and the rest of the guards, the remaining of the thirty having surrendered after their leader, walked over to the corner indicated to by the older Jedi.
She looked at the guards, then the Jedi a good three metres away, then at the figure of Obi Wan Kenobi, who had dropped to his knees his legs unable to support him…and then to the gun that the leader of the guards had dropped at her feet.
Then it all clicked…she stooped down quickly and grabbed the blaster, took aim at Obi Wan- but before she could pull the trigger the blaster was flying through the air and landed in the hand of the blonde boy, who's eyes were fixed on the Jedi at her feet for the whole event.
Said boy, ran to Obi Wan who had began to try and stand up, but was failing miserably, while his friend ran over to Pinaza and caught her arm as she tried to run for it out of the door.
Anakin skidded to a halt in front of Obi Wan, and dropped to his knees beside his hurt master. Using the Force, he unlocked the cuffs and threw them to Ron, who placed them on Amaandi Pinaza.
Obi Wan looked terrible, his face was bruised and bleeding and the blaster wound on his leg had begun to bleed and was almost certainly infected and Obi Wan actually leant into Anakin instead of push him away and say that he wasn't as bad as he looked.
"Master, I know this is a stupid question but one the whole, are you okay?"
Obi Wan grinned, and looked up at his young Padawan's worried face and answered, "I may not look it but I am ecstatic." Then he shrugged and answered, "Health wise, I have been much better."
Anakin grinned and pulled one of Obi Wan's arms around his shoulders and helped him stand up.
"I thought you were dead," whispered Obi Wan mostly to himself, but Anakin heard.
"I know. The guard that told us said you were, um…pretty upset," replied Anakin, feeling extremely uncomfortable with the conversation.
Obi Wan looked at him somewhat shocked and said, "Of course was upset. I wouldn't be able to live with out you…for he next five years a least. Who would use all the hot water in our apartment?"
Anakin grinned, and added, "Not to mention that after a week of being left alone by yourself, force forbid you might start lecturing yourself."
Obi Wan rolled his eyes, more grateful than he ever had been, to be able to just have another light argument with Anakin.
Anakin smiled reassuringly and said, "Don't worry Master, I'm not going to leave any time soon, and that Pinaza woman aint getting out either, we'll make sure of that."
"Alright Anakin, now lets get to the ship and call for some planet security or something."
Anakin suddenly remembered something, and replied awkwardly, "Well- about that Master. You up for a treasure hunt, cos I sort o can't remember where the ship is."
The End