Ahsoka's POV
"Who are you?"
"Someone who's been looking for you." She removed her mask and I gasped at who it was. I saw the face of Sophie, my supposedly dead daugther. I felt tears swell up in my eyes.
"Sophie?"
"Hi, Mommy." I grabbed her arm and pulled her into a tight hug.
"I thought I lost you."
"I'm alive, Mommy." We broke from the hug and I looked at her.
"How did you survive that fall?"
"I don't remember. After I fell out the ship, I remember waking up in a cave. There were these two other Togrutas there. I told them what happened and they said they would help me get back home. They took me in and trained me to take care of myself. They told me about this base and said that some Jedi may come. They figured I was ready and sent me here. I didn't know if I would find anyone and I did." She hugged me again. "I found you, Mommy. I missed you."
"I missed you too, Sophie. All this time, I thought you were dead."
"I'm not. I'm back where I belong. With you." Rex stepped forward.
"Sophie." She looked to him and her little face lit up.
"Daddy!" She ran from me to his arms. I could see that Anakin was shocked. I never did tell him that Rex was Sophie's father. I never told him anything about how I got pregnant. I figured he didn't need to know anytime soon. "I missed you, Daddy."
"I missed you too." I was able to stand up, but was knocked back down by the base shaking. Anakin came over to me and helped me up.
"Alright. We need to get out of here before this base falls on us." I grabbed Ashla and followed everyone out. The base was collasping all around us. Rex carried Sophie while I pulled Ashla along. Debris and rocks fell all around. Before I could pick Ashla up and carry her, some hit her and she fell through the ground.
"Ashla!" I tried to go after her, but Anakin grabbed me before more debris fell on me.
"Ahsoka, don't!" Ashla was gone. I lost her again. The next thing I knew, Sophie just down the hole.
"Sophie! No!"
Sophie's POV
I don't know what the connection was with my mommy and Ashla, but she was important to her. I wasn't going to let her die. I jumped from Daddy's arms and down the hole. I could hear my mommy yelling after me.
"Sophie! No!" I kept falling and falling. It was so dark, I couldn't see the bottom. After a while, I saw water. I learned that this planet's core is surrounded by water. I hit the water. I went back up for air. I couldn't see Ashla anywhere. I figured she was underwater. I took a breath and went under. I saw pieces of the base that hit Ashla, then I saw her. She was sinking fast because her shirt was attached to a big piece of metal. I went up, took in a big breath and swam after her. I reached her and tried to free her shirt. I took out my other knife and cut it free. I pushed her up and swam with her. I was running out of air. I couldn't breath. I swam up until my arms got tired. I wasn't going to make it. I knew it.
Ashla's POV
I woke up in water. I didn't know what happened. I climbed on a piece of debris. I saw the hole I fell from. I climbed up and stood on the metal. I was able to reach it. I started to climb, but something told me to go back. I didn't know why, but I did. I went underwater and I saw Sophie sinking. I swam to her and grabbed her arm. I swam as fast as I could up to the top. I pushed her up onto a piece of debris. I grabbed onto it, but I couldn't pull myself up. My arms were weak. I almost let go when I felt Sophie pull me up. I coughed all the water out of my throat and sat on the debris.
"Are you okay, Ashla?"
"Yeah. Thanks for helping me."
"Thanks for saving me. We both almost died. How do we get out of here?"
"The hole we fell through is up here." I pointed to it above us.
"Help me up." I picked her up and grabbed onto the dirt. She stayed there for a minute.
"What is it?"
"It's blocked. We can't get out this way. We have to find another way." I helped her back down.
"There is no other way out. We're stuck."
Ahsoka's POV
Ashla and Sophie are both gone. I am a horrible person. First, I lose my daughter, then my little sister, I get them back and lose them again. We made it out the base before it completely collasped on us. I couldn't feel either one of them. They were gone. Rex came up to me.
"There was nothing we could do, Ahsoka. We lost her this time. I don't want to believe it, but it's true." I broke down crying into his chest. He held me close.
"I could've saved them."
"Ahsoka, don't blame yourself. There was nothing you could do. It's not your fault."
"I just wish they were still here."
Ashla's POV
"Mommy's sad. I can feel it."
"Me too. She thinks we're dead. We have to get out of here. You've lived here for a while. Don't you know a way out?"
"I'm three years old and I've never been under the earth. I don't know anything about underground barely."
"Wait here." I took a deep breath and went underwater to look around. I found an opening a few feet away. I came back up and sat back on the metal.
"Did you see anything?"
"Yeah. There's an opening over there underwater."
"How do you know it's not a dead end?"
"I don't, but we have to try." She sighed.
"Alright." Be both got in the water and swam to the opening. We took our breaths and went through. I pulled Sophie in front of me so I could keep an eye on her. We swam for only a few seconds before we reached a split. Sophie used the Force to see which way to go. She pointed to the right tunnel and headed that way. I trusted her because she was Ahsoka's daugther and was more experienced with the Force than I was even though she was younger. I started to get dizzy from lack of air. I almost stopped when Sophie pulled me along. Through the Force, she told me they were almost there. I held on for a little while longer. I saw Sophie swim up and her body stayed where it was. I swam up and could breathe again. "We made it to land."
"Good job, Sophie. You saved us both."
"I get that from my mommy."
"I know. Soka's great."
"What is it between you and Mommy?"
"She found me in the streets a while back. She took me to the temple where I belonged. We've been sisters ever since."
"Did she ever tell you about me?"
"Yeah. I saw a picture of you and her. I asked who it was and she told me what happened. She got upset just talking about it. Back then, she thought you were dead."
"Right now, she thinks we're both dead."
"We have to find them before they leave." He helped her out of the water, then pulled myself up. "Come on. I sense them this way."
I took her hand and led her the way I thought they were. I could feel Ahsoka's sadness, but it was lessening. That either meant she was accepting the fact that we're "dead" or they're leaving. I heard a ship start to take off. Sophie and I ran to where the noise was. We came out of the bushes and saw the ship leave.
"WAIT! WAIT!" Sophie and I both started yelling and waving our arms to get the ship's attention, but it was too late. The ship was gone and we were left alone. "What do we do now? We're stuck here."
"Maybe not." I looked at her.
"What do you mean?"
"On my way here, I saw a hangar that was separate from the base. There was a ship there. We can use it to get home."
"But we don't know how to fly a ship."
"We can get a droid to do it. It's our only chance of getting back."
"Alright. I'll trust you on this one." We headed back towards the base.
