„What?" Ahsoka couldn't believe her ears. If it wasn't for the pain from the Force-lightning she could have sworn she this whole „conversation" was just a terrible nightmare.

„You heard it right, little one." the girl replied.

„So, you stole Ala's body?" Ahsoka asked. She trembled, but not from her pain anymore. Her indignation started to build up her rage. To think that someone could commit something as sick as this...

„Oh no, I didn't steal it. She was just a slave, which means nothing she had, was in her possesion. Not even her body, or mind. I barely took over her a bit more directly than usual." she answered with a sick laugh.

„That night, she helped me escape from the prison, and we left my mother's empire together. We met with some of the pirate lords she had threatened, and made deals with them, so they'd support me, when the time comes." Ahsoka clenched her fist upon hearing these. She felt her anger, dissapointment, and indignation growing out of control. She felt how they charge her ijured body with energy. The temptation, to crush these two with this new-born power was sooo huge: „Do it! Make them pay ten times for all the suffering they caused." she heard a voice from deep within her mind. „Don't do it!" another, clearer voice shouted at her „It's the Dark Side, if you use it to avenge Ala, and your own pain, you won't be any better, than they are!" Ahsoka closed her eyes for a second, took a deep breath, and let her rage to go. „Even if they'll kill me, I won't use the same technics they do."she thought and slowly rose to one knee. She felt like she could have counted each cells of her body, as there wasn't a single one which didn't hurt.

„Then tell me: why did you let yourselves to be captured?"

„Because of you, of course. Ala's body was great for me to survive in, but she's a weakling, with no Force-sensitiveness at all. And this highly weakened my own powers. When I saw you on the Holonet News with your poster-boy Master, I thought I had found the perfect vessel. But you dissappointed me."

„I did?"

„Yes. Your will is too powerfull for me, to entirely suppress it."
"Wait do you mean, Ala still lives?"

„Of course she does. She has no idea about my presense, and she isn't awake while I'm in control. You could even talk to her once."

„When?…"

„When you first met." Hellrider interoupted. „We made a small miscalculation, when we ran into Kenobi's fleet in stead of your Master's. We had to made a quick decision. We let ourselves to be captured."

„We expected the clones would stun him. I can't control Ala all alone yet, and if I tried to release her on purpose, our bond could have been damaged permanently. I need his help for now. When he lost consciousness, I lost my grip over her mind as well. But I was there all along, manipulating her words, charging them with Force so they could have a greater effect on you. But I think we've vasted enough time on you. Make peace with the Force, Ahsoka Tano!" as she was speaking, she and Hellrider clenched their right and left respectively together, and shared another „kiss". Then they turned to the unarmed Padawan, and said one more sentence:

„We shall show you, our true power!" chill ran through Ahsoka's spine, because both of their voices came from both of their mouthes. They lifted their clenched hand, and pointed at her. Ahsoka knew what was coming, and readied herself. „I won't let them defeat me so easily. If I could held them up for a few more minutes, Skyguy and Obi-Wan can find us and stop them from escapeing." she hang on this hope, as she collected every drop of her strength to prepare a Force-barrier in front of herself. „Ala" and Hellrider just grinned, and didn't try to stop her. In the next moment unexpectedly, a crimson flamestorm erupted from Ala's fingertips, and at the same time the well-known blue-and-white thunderbolts shoot out of Hellrider's. Ahsoka had a microsecond to decide: she couldn't possibly protect herself from both attacks. She had to chose: the shocking lightning, or the searing fire. „I have a chanse to survive the Force-lightning, but if those flames set me on fire, I'm doomed." so she rose to stand on both of her feet, held her hands up in front of herself, and summoned as much of Force, as much she possibly could master. She'd never tried something like that before. In the next second she felt the attacks slam into the wall she quickly built. She had immedately realised, she'd run out of energy in seconds if she kept this up. She modified the barrier, so it wouldn't stop the flames and lightnings in their tracks, but deflect them on other ways instead, forcing them to avoid her. But it was far from working perfectly. From time to time, the tendrils of the lightning broke through and shocked her, draining her waning energy even more. Futhermore, albeit she protected herself from the flames, she couldn't stop the terrible heat they produced. She shut her eyes and mouth tightly, but they went dry within seconds. The hot air she had to breathe burnt her throat and lungs. Her skin felt like it would melt at any moment. Her clothes started to smoke. „Oh no, please don't let them be set on fire!" she prayed.

„She's doing quite well, isn't she?" Ahsoka could barely hear the terrible dual-voice over the roaming flames and thunderbolts. „Indeed. Let's give her a bit more!" and in the next second the power of the attack was nearly doubled. Ahsoka fall back on one knee, her neck went limp, and she couldn't held her head high up anylonger. Her eyes sprung open, she was wheezing heavily. The duo continuously increased the intesity of their attack, as the Padawan's energy decreased. The flames got closer and closer to her. More and more lightning strucked her with full power. „So this is it?" Ahsoka asked herself „Yes." she heard the accepting answer from somewhere very deep. „NO!" a much stronger voice shouted at her. „Whatever you do, never give up the hope. It's never over, until your life isn't over!"

„Well I'm very close to that point..." she replied, but stubbornly refused to let the barrier go. „I'd rather die in distress, than getting burned alive." she thought.

Her energy dropped again. She was barely able to remain conscious, but still kept up protecting herself.

„I'm sorry, Master… Anakin." she said loudly. As the name left her mouth, she couldn't stop her memories from overrun her mind. Master Plo finds her on Shiili, and takes her to the Jedi Temple... Lessons she participated on, where her exceptional skills were first noticed by her teachers… Grand Master Yoda tells her that, she's been assigned to be Anakin Skywalker's Padawan. Her first meeting with the legendary master-apprentice duo on Cristophsis. Skyguy accepts her as his Padwan… Their first mission to save Stinky… Master Skywalker agrees to open the Holocron for Bane, in order to save her. As the pictures ran through her mind, she suddenly reaized why she had felt so abrupt around her Master lately. The answer was so simple, she had to laugh, despite the situation she was in. Altough the discovery put another stone on her heart, it also gave her something she could hang on. It steeled her will to live, to defeat this pair of sickos. Slowly she stood up. She could see the stunned expression on Hellrider's and „Ala"s faces, despite the wall of fire and electricity that ramped between them. And in this moment something very strange had happened: the sound of the flames and lightnings died in Ahsoka's ears. The heat, the pain, the driness in her eyes and mouth all disappeared. For a moment Ahsoka thought she vanished as well. She felt perfectly calm. She felt everything and everybody through out the entire Galaxy…no! She WAS everything and everybody, everywhere and everytime. Ahsoka, the Padawan didn't know what had happened. But Ahsoka, who became one with the Force knew.

Ledér-Hellrider, the evil Force-sorcerer who was born by unholy practics, by combining the soul of two separete beings into one, couldn't believe it's shared eyes. The Togruta Jedi Padawan stood up, and rose her head proudly, despite she was near to be consumed by the hungry flames. In the next second her entire body glowed up, with luminous light. The evil entity for the first time in it's ruthless life, felt the twinge of fear. Fear, which turned into terror, as the Force-lightning and Force-inferno it created, started to coalesce into a sparkling orb in front of the Togruta girl's hands. In the next second she lauched the concenteated energyball, back to it source. Ledér-Hellrider saw the incoming bullet, but couldn't do anything to avoid it. The energy burst trought it's human-male body. The body, which contained the soul, which supported the other one, with the weak connection to it's stolen body. It screamed as it's partial death tore it's other side out off it's vessel. With that scream, the evil conjoined souls lost their identity, and returned to the Force.

Ahsoka saw the energy bullet she created by will of the Force burst throught Hellrider's head, leaving Ala's body unscarred. She aimed for him for a very good reason. They were stupid enough to tell her about their weakness: if the man died, the witch would lose control over Ala's mind and body, and die with him as well. And Ala could live on like nothing had happened. Ahsoka had known this all along while she was trying to protect herself, but couldnt utilize it. Not until she became one with the Force. But in the second of Hellrider and his „lover"s death, the Force abandoned her. She fell to her knees as the great energy stream left her. Through the cloud and fog of exhaustion on her mind, she watched in terror as the energy ball hit the fuel-tank at the other end of the hangar…

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