Next chapter! Yayyyyyy lol.

I'm sure your dieing to know what happens. Eh? Eh?

Well here you go!

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Baris lifted her head to realize this was the only shred of hope left that they had to escape. It was an airvent opening. With only a small chance that it lead the way out. She blinked a few times, then turned her head slowly to Ashoka.

"I.. Can't move.." Baris whispered.

"We'll have.. to... try..." Ashoka squinted, trying to keep her vision from becoming blurry. Suddenly the silent air vent broke into more lazer shots and guns. The troopers had gotten into the vents! Ashoka yelled as one hit her elbow, and one hit Baris in the upper arm. Baris cried out in pain as well. Adrenaline pumped and they found new energy. They shivered and crawled through the snowy vents slowly and steadily, but they were getting closer. Gun shots fired all around them. Ashoka used the last shred of her energy to force the crate open. She and Baris leaned over the edge, Yes! It's a way out! Ashoka thought and jumped into the air. The bullets shot above them now as they fell.

It was a sickening thud when their bodies fell against the ground. The hot air felt like heaven to their frozen bodies, though. The clones were incoming. Ashoka was still shivering, and seemed to be losing consiousness. As was Baris. But they couldn't give up now.

They got to their feet, tired of running and fighting, and took off into the branches of the trees. The air seemed to thaw them, giving them more of an ability to move. They bounced from branch to branch, trying to go as fast as they could so they could get some distance between themselves and the clones. They did not speak as they went on.

Shots fired once again as the troopers made it out of the faciliy. They were chasing after the two padawans. Ashoka didn't dare turn around as she leaped branch after branch. Her emotions tried to play with her mind, but she forced them to leave her mind as she tirelessly ran. Panting, she looked at Baris, who had been running through the treetops, eyes wild and scared.

They ran side by side. Suddenly Baris cried out and triped, beginning to fall into the poisonous thorns.

"Baris!"

Ashoka reached down and grasped Baris' hand before she could be sent to her death. Baris looked up at Ashoka with pleading eyes. "Ashoka run!"

Ashoka looked behind her, and clones were forming around her. She forced Baris back onto the branch and they leapt on just as bullets were fired where they had just stood.

There was no time for thanks.

They ran for a long time. Very long, and Ashoka used the force instead of her energy now, because she was flat out of energy. It was tireing how long they had been running. But this was for their lives. When there was enough room, the clones activated their jetpacks and quickened their pace. Ashoka's heart raced, and she cried out in fear.

There! The ship! Not far away! Baris seemed to spot it too, because hope flickered in her eyes. Ashoka panted, hurrying as quickly as her legs could carry her. Finally this would end! They leaped out of the treetops and jumped into the ship, closing the hatch behind them. the ship began it's take off.

The clones below opened fire on the ship. Ashoka and Baris ran to the controls to get this thing into the air. The sun seemed to rise as the ship turned. Finally, it turned and shot through the air and into space.

Silence. Sweet, sweet, silence.

Ashoka and Baris collapsed on the floor in pure exaustion. They lay on the floor, and fell into the darkness of unconciousness.

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The first thing that Ashoka felt was pain. Pure, agonizing pain. It was all up her right arm and both her legs, and her shoulder and the side of her belly. When she opened her eyes, she saw blood smeared across the floor. Her own blood. She felt dizzy, and her head was in a head-rush.

What happened? Her mind seemed to groan.

She pressed her hand on her head to keep the room from spinning. Confusion was what was mostly making her heart race.

That was, until she saw Baris.

Baris was leaned up against the wall of the ship, eyes closed and blood around her. She was bruised heavily. Ashoka looked at her own self and found bruises all along her right side. She recalled the fall out of the airvent. That must have been the cause of these bruises.

Her feet were blistered from running for so long. She remembered every detail of the ordeal. She felt like laying down and falling back into sleep, but she knew she couldnt. She shouldn't. It could send her into shock, or something.

She dragged herself over to her friend, biting her lip to keep herself from crying out in pain. She sat beside her friend, catching her breath, and then gently shook Baris' shoulder.

"Baris..." She whispered. She knew Baris wasn't a heavy sleeper, but what about when she was unconcious? "Baris wake up..." Her hoarse whisper managed to say. Her heart raced as she felt Baris' pulse. She felt the pulse beating, and Baris opened her eyes to Ashoka's touch.

"Ashoka... What happened?" She whispered hoarsely, then winced at the pain she was enduring.

"Don't you remember?" Ashoka said to her.

After a moment, Baris finally replied. "Now I do..." She opened her mouth to speak more but found no words.

Ashoka groaned and tried to stand up to look out the front window of the ship. "We're in space... I have no idea where we are..." Ashoka said, managing to get herself into the seat.

"We should get into the medical ward." Baris said, not bothering to stand up just yet.

"I know.. but I want to make sure we are heading somewhere safe." Ashoka lifted her arms painfully, and tried to type across the control panel. She pressed a communicator link and leaned down. "Master Skywalker... Are you there? Can you hear me?"

Static.

She frowned, hope beginning to fade from her. She pulled up a map to find the nearest planet to land on. But when they popped up, she didn't recognize any of these planets. She randomly chose one to land on to rest and turned her chair to face Baris.

"I'm concerned."

"As am I." Baris said, urging Ashoka on.

"If it wasn't the worms that infected the clones, then why did-" She suddenly choked on her words, when the image of Rex's dead body popped into her head. What would Annikin say? Where was Annikin? Did his clones turn on him too?

Was Annikin dead?

Baris seemed to understand, and nodded to Ashoka. "I'm as confused as you are."

"Was it just the clones?" A new thought dawned upon Ashoka. "What if the entire galaxy turned this way.. What if were the only ones left... What if Annikin-"

"Ashoka, you're getting ahead of yourself." Baris cut her off. "We only have knowledge that our squadren turned this way. We can't assume the worst just yet."

"Then why isn't master Skywalker answering?" Ashoka said desperately, hugging her arms. She was in a lot of pain, and was still losing blood.

"I don't know Ashoka, all I know is that we need to get treated before we do anything else." Baris said softly, placing a hand against the wall to get herself to stand up.

Ashoka frowned, eyes desperate for answers. But that must wait. Because they needed to rest.

Rest...

It wasn't hard at all to type this chapter. I almost put R2D2 in but my brother told me that he was with Annikin. I am spelling Annikin right, right? I hope so. I hope i got the angle of their being in pain, and desperate for answers as well as i had hoped.

Thank you to those who are following this story, It means a lot to me. I appreciate it. Please review, they're one of my favorite parts of writing, besides the actual writing itself ;D

More coming soon. I may actually go ahead and work on the next chapter. If i'm lucky i can get it up within the hour or so.

~Stormy :D