Buffy 'Elisa' Kenobi- 30
Obi-Wan Kenobi- 44
Willow Amidala Kenobi- 5
Obi-Wan Alexander 'Alex' Kenobi- 2
Anakin Skywalker- 28
Padme Skywalker - 33
Luke Skywalker- 5 ½
Leia Skywalker- 5 ½
Buffy Skywalker- 1 ½
Little Scoundrel Pt. 3
Buffy smiled as she closed her eyes. She could feel Obi-Wan, he was weak, and hurt, but she could feel him, loud and clear. She turned and looked back at Anakin, a small smile on her face. He could feel Obi-Wan as well; she could see it by the look on his face.
"What did you do?" Padme asked, looking between Anakin and Buffy.
"A little gadget Anakin has been working on," Buffy said, holding up a small rectangle shaped device. "It deactivated his monitor, and will deactivate any within a 40 feet radius. All I have to do is tune into the frequency of them. And each one is different, so it makes for slow goings."
"Oh," Padme said, nodding her head. "Couldn't you just..." She trailed off as she looked over to Anakin. "I mean, couldn't you just, make them not see you?"
"That only works when they're not actively looking for you," Anakin told her. It had been a long time since he had even thought about that. "And...it kind of..." He trailed off and a look of slight shame came over his face.
"It skirts the edge of the dark side," Buffy told her. "But it doesn't cross it, and we don't all think it's bad," Buffy said, giving Anakin a pointed look. "So, it's slow goings. We'll get to Obi-Wan," she said, taking a deep breath. "We'll have to leave it up to him to keep himself alive and well so we can rescue him." Padme smiled and nodded her head. All three of them had strong faith in Obi-Wan.
-o-o-o-o-o-o-
'Wake up,' a small voice whispered in his ear, 'wake up.' It was hard to struggle against the darkness that fought to keep him. 'We're with you, wake up.' The voices were now getting stronger, and he began to recognize them. Five little voices, calling out to him. 'Wake up. Now!' Obi-Wan's eyes flew open and he jerked his head up. He was still in the small room with the monitors, but he was alone. Had he really heard what he thought he had? Had his kids, and Anakin's, had they been communicating with him? They weren't possibly strong enough for that, at least, not alone.
Obi-Wan sat up and stretched the knots from his legs. His hands were still bound behind his back and when he pulled on them he could feel that he was also secured to the wall. Almost all the screens in front of him were full of fuzz, as though they were broken. He knew Elisa must be close, and he couldn't understand why he had been left alone. That didn't make any kind of sense, unless, it was some kind of a trap. Obi-Wan closed his eyes and reached out to the force, searching the area in his mind, looking for any kind of disturbance. He found one, almost right inside the door, there was a ray shield trap.
Obi-Wan was jolted back by a shocking feeling, there was something in the force, something very familiar, but he couldn't quite place it. He closed his eyes again and began to search it out again.
-o-o-o-o-o-o-
Buffy stopped in her tracks and looked around. Anakin and Padme stopped behind her and she turned and looked at them.
"Did you feel that?" She asked, looking around the small pipe.
"I did," Anakin said, nodding his head.
"So did I," Padme said, nodding too. "What is it?" she asked and Buffy closed her eyes for a moment.
"Oh God," Buffy said as her eyes popped open.
"It's water," Anakin said and Buffy nodded.
"He's flooding the pipes?" Padme asked, already knowing the answer. There were access hatches all along the top of the pipes, but they came up into the main building, and they didn't want to be there until they reached a certain point.
"He's forcing us up and out," Buffy said and Anakin nodded his agreement. By now they could all hear the water, and it was approaching very quickly. "Back or forward?" Buffy asked, looking from Anakin to Padme.
"Back," Anakin and Padme said at the same time. "If I estimate right, we're right under the main facility, which means lots of machines, lots of cover if need be," Anakin continued. Buffy nodded quickly and they all turned and ran to the last hatch they had passed. By the time they reached it, the sound of the water rushing at them was at a deafening roar.
"This is going to take a few seconds," Anakin said as he jabbed his lightsaber into the lock on the hatch.
"Why the hell didn't we think of this possibility?" Buffy cried out over the roar. There was water at her feet and she was beginning to worry a little.
"Can't think of everything!" Anakin called back, a huge smile on his face.
"You know, if I didn't know any better, I'd think you were enjoying this!" Buffy called out a second before the hatch popped open and Anakin climbed up into it. Buffy helped Padme up next. The water was fast approaching as Anakin and Padme reached down and grabbed Buffy's hands. They pulled her up, out and into the room with just enough time to shut the hatch before the water reached it.
"Well," Buffy said, looking at the two of them, then around the room. "This could be bad." As the other two looked around, they saw what Buffy was looking at. It would seem they'd come up in a storage part of the facility. There were hundreds of inactivated battle droids, everywhere.
"Only if they realize this is where we are," Anakin said and they all looked around as the droids heads popped up, one by one.
"You were saying?" Buffy asked as the three of them jumped up, preparing to fight.
"I have a very bad feeling about this," Padme said, looking around at all the droids.
"Ok, relax, this isn't so bad," Buffy said, watching as all the blasters in the droids hands came up, pointed at them.
"I don't know what room you're standing in, but I'm in the room where we're surrounded by armed droids," Anakin said, looking over his shoulder at Buffy. "How is that not so bad?"
"Well, we have these," Buffy said as her lightsaber flashed on. "And..." She trailed off then smirked as the first droid shot at them. The other two wore identical looks of shock as the blast bounced off of them.
"Well, droids shouldn't be the only ones to have shields," Buffy said, shrugging her shoulders. "Obi-Wan and I have been working on it for a while," she said as Anakin's lightsaber flashed on.
"Well then, let's say we get out of here and tell him it worked," Anakin said, smiling at Buffy and Padme's nod.
-o-o-o-o-o-
Yoda sat in front of the five small children. So strong in the force already. So willing to put themselves on the line for the ones they loved. They would make wonderful Jedi someday. All giving out their power, their strength so willingly. But, as he sat and watched, Yoda sensed something in one of them he had never felt before. Something that disturbed him a little, something of this boy's father was in him, and it would have to be watched, just in case.
-o-o-o-o-
Obi-Wan stood up and the cuffs holding him to the wall fell to the ground. It hadn't been hard to get them off; in fact, it had been almost too easy. He walked over to the wall of screens looking in the ones that were still working. He was looking for Elisa. He wondered briefly which of their 'in the works' toys she had brought with her. He hoped they all worked, they'd not really had a chance to test any of them. The jammer obviously worked, evident by the fuzzy screens. But what about the shield? He looked on the many screens till he found the one he was looking for.
'Well, that answers that question,' he thought as he watched his wife and his best friends run down a long hallway. They were being shot at by at least twenty droids, but none of the shots were hitting them; the shields worked too. Obi-Wan reached up a second before the screen went fuzzy. Elisa must still have the jammer on.
Obi-Wan stiffened and instinctually went for the lightsaber he no longer had on him. He cursed softly as the feeling of unease grew tenfold. As soon as the person stepped into the room Obi-Wan recognized it, but it was different than the last time he'd felt it, tainted. He took a deep breath and turned quickly as he took a step back.
"You?" he asked, looking over at the figure that stood just inside the door. "So, not dead then?" he asked, smirking to himself as he realized just how much of Elisa he had picked up.
"So it would seem," the figure said, taking a step farther into the room as his red lightsaber flashed on.
-o-o-o-o-o-
"Ok, this is just ridiculous," Buffy said, shaking her head. The droids behind them had given up shooting, as it didn't work, and were now just following them. They were never going to get anywhere like this. Buffy sighed and looked around her.
'We need a distraction,' she whispered in Anakin's head as she met his eyes.
'For what?' he asked, hoping she wasn't thinking what he was thinking.
'We'll get farther without these things following us, but since there's not much chance of all of us losing them-"
'We have to split up,' Anakin finished her thought and she nodded her head. 'So, what did you have in mind?' he asked.
'Can Padme hit that power cell from here?' she asked, looking over her shoulder at the power cell on the wall down the hall from them. 'It should maintain the power for this area; if you blow it up it wouldn't it start a small overload?'
'Definitely,' Anakin told her, answering both questions as he looked over his shoulder at Padme. He looked down at her blaster then at the power cell down the hall from them. She smiled and nodded her head. Though she couldn't hear them she was sure where this was going.
Buffy reached into her robes and pulled out the force shield. She handed it over to Anakin but he just looked down at it.
'Take it,' she told him, her voice leaving no room for arguing. 'I can block and defend myself, but it wouldn't be so easy for Padme.' She looked over his shoulder at Padme. After a moment he reached out and she placed it in his hands. As soon as she stepped out of range she would be fair game again. She sighed and looked up at him.
'There's something else going on here, something other than Obi-Wan being kidnapped,' she told him and he met her eyes.
'I can feel it too,' he told her and she nodded her head.
'You find out what it is,' she said, hating that they had to split up.
'We will,' he agreed. She smiled at him and he smiled back. Then he looked over his shoulder at Padme and nodded his head. She pulled her blaster out and aimed.
There was a shower of sparks and only a brief period of darkness, but when the emergency lights came up, Buffy was gone.
-o-o-o-o-o-o-
Buffy slipped out of her hiding spot when she was sure that Anakin and Padme, along with all the droids had gone. She opened the hatch in the ceiling and swung her legs down. She looked down at the floor; there was no trace of Anakin or Padme. She closed her eyes and reached out to Obi-Wan. At first all she could feel was a blankness that worried her a bit, but then something began to change and a picture began to come into focus. It was almost as though she was looking through the eyes of someone else; it must be Obi-Wan. All she could see, through Obi-Wan, was a dark figure standing in front of her, with a lightsaber on at his side, a red lightsaber.
"You had to have fallen ten stories, at the least. How could you possibly survive that?" Obi-Wan asked, hating that he had no weapon. Stalling him was all he could do for now. Elisa wasn't too far away; he could feel her getting closer.
Something blocking her communications somehow, but she could still see inside his mind as though it were her own.
"My master was a powerful man. He would not let me perish so easily."
The dark figure stepped into the light and Buffy was so shocked she pushed herself from Obi-Wan's mind. She lost her balance on the ceiling and tipped forward, barely catching herself to pull herself back up into the ceiling. This whole thing added a whole new pile of worries; Obi-Wan was alone, without a weapon, with...him.
-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-
"So, do we have any idea what we're looking for?" Padme asked, a little while later. They had finally lost the droids, thanks to Anakin's quick fingers and a very large, thick door.
"No," Anakin said, flashing a grin at her making her smile back. "But when do we ever?"
"Very true," she agreed, nodding her head. For the moment they were following Anakin's 'feeling.' He wasn't sure what it was, but it was bad, and it was coming from the main core of the building.
"Wait," Anakin said as he stopped running and looked around. "Did you hear that?"
"No," Padme said, looking around. When she finally heard what he had, it shocked her. The sounds of a child laughing, not something you would expect to hear in a place like this.
"A child? In a place like this?" she asked, looking up at him.
"That's what it sounds like to me," he said, nodding his head. They both looked up at the flash of red hair down the hall. Padme took the first steps towards it but Anakin reached out and grabbed her.
"Anakin," she said, looking back at him. "She may need help."
"And that's why she's laughing?" he asked, shaking his head, a thoughtful look on his face. "No, I feel deceit here. A trap."
"How could a child be a trap?" Padme asked and Anakin looked her in the eyes and she finally nodded. Ok, getting her to follow a child to where they wanted her would be a good trap. Padme watched as the little girl appeared again at the end of the hall. This time she stopped and looked down the hall at them.
She smiled and took a step towards them. Her long red hair was done up in two braids trailing down her chest. She looked like she couldn't be any older than Leia.
"Hi," she said, waving at them. She took another step towards them and Anakin pulled out his lightsaber.
"Anakin," Padme hissed under her breath.
"Hi there," Padme said, playing nice while Anakin guarded her from the big bad little girl.
"What's that?" the little girl asked, pointing at Anakin. Padme was now only a few feet away from the little girl.
"It's a big kid toy," Padme said and the little girl nodded her head, taking a step towards Padme. She had a smile on her face, but her eyes kept going over Padme's shoulders, looking at Anakin.
"My mommy has one of those," the little girl said and Padme was taken aback. While now there were more Jedi out there with children, none of them were this age. "Only it's not blue."
"Move and I'll take your head off," a female voice whispered behind Anakin. He cursed himself as he nodded his head slowly. He could now hear the buzz of her lightsaber, and see the very red glow from behind.
"I'm Padme," Padme said, reaching out a hand to the little girl. The little girl smiled and reached out her hand too. Padme grabbed it and pulled the little girl towards her, flipping around and pulling out her blaster as she did.
"Put down the lightsaber," she said, holding the blaster to the little girl's side. There was no way in any world she'd ever be able to shoot her, but so long as the women holding a lightsaber to Anakin didn't know that, she was fine.
"Ha!" the woman barked out, shaking her head. "You'd never."
"Well, you underestimate me then," Padme said, her voice cold and a little sharp. Padme pulled the gun closer to the little girl.
"I'm sorry, mom," the little girl whimpered and Padme smiled, you could always count on kids for info. She'd have to have a long conversation with the kids when they got home.
"Mom, huh?" she said, looking the woman in the eyes. "How interesting."
"Mara, be quite," the women snapped and the little girl whimpered and nodded her head. "You couldn't take the life of a child. She's just about the age of yours, isn't she?"
"Yes, she is. But I'm not going to stand here and let you take away my husband and the father of my children. Now, I'll say it one more time. Put. Down. Your. Lightsaber."
The woman stared hard at Padme for a very long moment. She was searching for something she couldn't find, so finally she turned off the lightsaber. Anakin was quick to act as he twisted around and opened his own lightsaber.
"So, who do we have here then?" he asked and she sneered at him.
"Juno Jade," she said, smirking. "At your service."
Padme put her blaster away but didn't put the little girl down. She sensed the little girl's intentions about a second before the girl tried to kick her. Having three children of her own had taught her a thing or two.
"Now," she said softly, looking down into the little girl's face. "That's not very nice."
"You were gonna shoot me!" she said, sounding as utterly outraged as a five year old could.
"I could never shoot you," Padme said, looking at Juno. "But I couldn't let your mom hurt my husband, could I?" The little girl looked perplexed by that question.
"Let's have a little chat, the two of us, shall we?" Anakin asked, sitting down in front of Juno with a smirk of his own on his face.
-o-o-o-o-o-o-
"How did we not know you were alive?" Obi-Wan asked, stalling; he could feel her, and she was so close.
"It was easy to stay under the radar. To stay out of your way, till the most opportune moment," he told him, smirking, as he took the seat in front of Obi-Wan, in front of the screens.
"Right, so what's your big plan?" Obi-Wan asked, smirking at him. "Take up where Palpy left off? I really don't think everyone will fall for that twice," he told him, wondering how he'd ever become so much of a smart ass.
'I think that was my doing.' He held back the smile at the sound of the voice in his head. She was very close, it almost felt like she was...right above him. He had to stop himself from looking up at the thought.
Buffy closed her eyes and found it was easier to look through his eyes this time than it had been last time. She could see now, and she stared for a moment at the man sitting in the chair in front of Obi-Wan. She knew just where she was in proportion to them. She stood up on the two strongest bars in the ceiling and smiled. Then she jumped up and pulled her legs together as she crashed through the ceiling. Her lightsaber was on before she even hit the ground.
"Ah, Mrs Kenobi," he said, his voice mocking. "How nice of you to...drop in."
"Well, I certainly wasn't going to leave Obi-Wan alone, now was I?" she said, grinning, and took a step towards him then Buffy blinked. He was gone; the chair he had been sitting in was now empty.
"A hologram?" Obi-Wan asked as Buffy just stared at the chair.
"I don't think so," she said, shaking her head. She turned slowly and blinked at him, as if she was afraid he too might disappear. After a moment she took a step towards him then launched herself on him. She pulled him close and took a deep breath of him. "Oh, thank the force you're ok," she said, pulling away from him. "I really hate this place you know, can we stop coming here?"
"I sure hope so," Obi-Wan said, nodding his head. She reached into her robes and pulled out something, handing it to him.
"I know it's not as good as yours, but, it'll have to do." He smiled at the spare lightsaber she'd just handed him.
"It'll do," he said and she nodded her head, smiling.
"So if not a hologram, then what?" Buffy asked after a moment. Obi-Wan looked over her shoulder at the chair and then back at her.
"I'm not sure," he said. Buffy sighed; she hated not knowing what the bad guys knew.
-o-o-o-o-
"Is he going to hurt my mom?" the little girl, Mara, asked looking up at Padme. She'd stopped struggling now and was watching Anakin talk to her mother.
"No," Padme said, shaking her head. She watched as Mara watched Anakin. This little girl was Leia's age, maybe a little younger. She seemed almost afraid of her mother as she watched Anakin talk with her. Every time Juno looked up and made eye contact with her daughter, a shiver ran through her.
"How long have you two been here?" Padme asked and Mara looked up at her. She was more sitting in her lap now then being held down.
"'Bout a year," she said, looking thoughtful. "Since Daddy died." She looked very sad at the mention of her father and Padme smiled sadly at her. "I miss him."
"I'm sorry," Padme said, running her hand over the little girls braids, she missed her own children very much.
"What will you do with my mom?" Mara asked and Padme sighed. She didn't want to have to explain that her mom was a dark Jedi; she couldn't be left out here, on her own. "Will she have to go away?" Padme, never one to lie, even to children, nodded her head and Mara sighed.
"What will happen to me?" she asked, looking up at Padme. Padme took a deep breath and met Mara's eyes.
"We could find a nice family for you, if you'd like that?" Mara thought about this for a few moments. Then looked back over at Anakin and Juno; her mother had a nasty look on her face, and Anakin looked more worried by the moment.
"Ok," she said, nodding her head finally.
-o-o-o-o-o-
"You're not going to get anything out of me," Juno said, looking over Anakin's shoulder at Padme and her daughter down the hall.
"What a shame," Anakin said, shaking his head. "Not even who you're working for?" She looked up at him and glared. "Come on now Juno, you're really going to take the fall for all of this?"
"All of what?" she asked, now looking a little puzzled. "I don't even know what you're doing here."
"No?" Anakin asked, looking her in the eyes. "You had no idea that a Bounty Hunter named Boba Fett kidnapped a Jedi named Obi-Wan Kenobi?"
"Kenobi?" she asked, her face going from anger to shock very quickly. "What would he have any interest in him for?"
"To lure us here," Anakin said, his tone very dull, as thought to say 'Duh.' Anakin waited a few minutes in silence. After five minutes of silence he shook his head. "Fine, if you have nothing to say to me we'll find out what you have to say to the Jedi council."
-o-o-o-o-o-o-
"So where's Anakin?" Obi-Wan asked as they walked down the hall, both on high alert for danger.
"I sent them to find out what else is going on here," Buffy said, stopping as a deep feeling of dread washed over her.
"Them?" Obi-Wan asked and Buffy nodded her head.
"Anakin and Padme," she explained, looking around the hall they were in.
"Ah, and the kids are..."
"With Master Yoda and Master Windu," she finished for him, though her voice sounded distracted and Obi-Wan blinked twice as the same feeling came over him.
"Do you feel it too?" she asked, but she didn't really need an answer; she saw as soon as he felt it too. His muscles tensed and his eyes went wide.
"I've never felt anything like this before," she said, moving her shoulders as though loosening them. "It's almost as th-"
"Elisa!" Obi-Wan called out as she disappeared right in front of him.
-o-o-o-
"-ough-" Buffy stopped as soon as she realized what had happened. She was now alone, standing in the middle of what looked like an observation room. There was a window to her far right. But before she started over there Buffy noticed that she no longer had her lightsaber.
"Damn," she thought, looking around the room for some kind of weapon, but there was nothing. Out of a building curiosity she walked over to the window and looked out. She seemed to be many floors up, as she was looking down on what looked to be a factory. It was a droid factory, and there were hundreds upon hundreds of readymade droids lining the walls.
"It never even occurred to me to look here again." Buffy said to the figure she was sure was watching her. "I was so sure you were dead," she said, turning slowly to look the man in the eyes. "I felt so guilty."
"And there was no need," he told her, a sneer on his face as he took a step towards her. "And so nice to hear you cared." His tone was dripping in sarcasm and Buffy shook her head.
"I didn't care that you were dead," she told him, antagonizing him, even though years of training had told her that was never a good idea. "I just hate taking a human life, even yours."
"Ah, I'm sorry to hear I mean so little to you," he told her as his lightsaber flashed on.
"You don't mean little to me," she told him, taking a deep breath. She had fought without a weapon before; she knew she could do it again. "You mean nothing to me. And when this is over I will take you to the council and let them judge you."
"You're so sure," he said, pulling his lightsaber up. "We shall see."
-o-o-o-o-o-o-
'Elisa!' Obi-Wan called out as he tried to calm his breathing. He'd never get through to her if he wasn't calm. 'Elisa, can you hear me, are you ok?' He was met with silence and he swore.
'Anakin?' He finally called out, hopeful that the three of them could find her faster than just him alone.
'Obi-Wan?' Anakin's voice was happy and worried at the same time. No doubt he could hear the worry in Obi-Wan's voice. 'She found you.' It was a statement that needed no answer.
'She's disappeared,' he told, Anakin taking deep breaths. 'He disappeared first then after a few minutes she was just gone too. I don know where she went and-"
'Wait,' Anakin interrupted him. 'Are you talking about Boba, does Boba have her?'
'No,' Obi-Wan said, shaking his head even though Anakin couldn't see him. 'No, Boba doesn't have her. I haven't seen him in a while, so watch your back.'
'Then who has her?' Anakin asked and Obi-Wan took a deep breath.
"It's Dooku, he has her. He's alive,' Obi-Wan told him and he could feel Anakin's shock.
'Oh.' Anakin's response was weak and Obi-Wan didn't blame him. 'Where are you?'
'I don't know,' Obi-Wan said, looking around. He wasn't even entirely sure what planet he was on, let alone where in the building he was.
'Find out,' Anakin told him and Obi-Wan began to look for a data screen. 'I'll tell you where we are then we'll find her. We will find her Obi-Wan.'
'Right,' Obi-Wan said, nodding his head. 'Of course we will.'
A/N- Ok, here it is. Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you all like it. Hope you all love my little surprise. Ok, now, how many of you knew who it was? I should have the next one out before Christmas; at least I'll try really, really hard. Have a good holiday to all!