Taran opened his eyes slowly. He was in so much pain he could barely concentrate. Everything around him looked blurry and unfocused. He could however make out the shapes of five familiar people near him, and a green and blue droid, the blue one he had never seen before. He tried to get up a little, but immediately went back down, clutching his right chest, where there was a bandage that went over the wound, over his shoulder, across his belly, and back. He grit his teeth from the pain, but he let out a retort from the initial pain. This noise however caught Ahsoka's attention.
"He's waking up," she said. They all huddled around him.
"Hey Gears, you alright," said Anakin. Taran nodded his head slowly.
"Kid, what you did was one of the most heroic and boldest things this trooper has ever seen," said Rex, a faint smile on hsi face.
"Padawan, you almost got yourself killed! What were you thinking," said Obi-Wan.
"Trying to stop Grievous from taking the sphere," said Taran.
"Be that as it may you still endangered your life," said Obi-Wan. If I hadn't caught you would have been dead."
"I had to do something, letting the key go without a fight is shameful unless there's no alternative," said Taran. Obi-Wan gave him a surprised look and nodded his head as if understanding his mean.
"Well, now we have to find the third key," said Cody.
"Too late Cody, they've already found it," said Taran as he lay his head back and closed his eyes, a pained expression on his face. Everyone in the room looked either worried, flabbergasted, or frustrated.
"How do you know this," said Obi-Wan.
"I had another dream." said Taran, his eyes still closed.
"This is bad, now the Separatists will awaken the army, and no one will be able to stop them," said Anakin.
"We do have some time," said Taran as he got up onto his elbows, though doing it caused him a lot of pain.
"What do you mean?" said Ahsoka.
"Dooku said that the Lost Army is on Rhen Var," said Taran. Obi-Wan and Anakin looked at each other with surprised faces. "We were just on Rhen Var a year ago," said Anakin.
"Master Anakin, if I may ask, what were you doing on Rhen Var?" Taran asked. (You have to have played Star Wars: The Clone Wars to get this or a die-hard Star Wars fan)
"It was when we were finding a way to learn how to destroy the Dark Reaper. I visited Qel-Droma's tomb and his Force-ghost told me how to beat it," said Anakin.
"It's possible that Qel-Droma hid the Lost Army near him, so odds are the Lost Army's resting place in in his tomb," said Taran.
"Then Rhen Var it is?" said Rex.
"It appears so Rex my boy," said Anakin.
"I need to go too," said Taran.
"Padawan, your in no condition to fight again with that wound," said Obi-Wan.
"Do you have any water, Master?" said Taran.
"Right behind you kid," said Rex. Taran took off his bandages. There was a black and red slash on his chest. He began to bend the water towards his chest and created an orb of water around the wound. The water began to glow white and blue, then it stopped. When Taran bended the water back to the basin everyone noticed that the wound was gone, except for a faint hint of a scar on it.
"How did you do that?" asked Anakin in shock.
"Water benders have healing powers," said Taran.
"Be it as it may you still can't fight. You almost died," said Taran. Taran heaved a sigh and looked down.
"Padawan, please promise me you won't try to stop Grievous," said Obi-Wan.
"I promise," said Taran. "Oh yeah, one thing. Who's that," said Taran pointing to the little blue astromech droid.
"That's R2-D2, but just R2 for short. This little guy saved my neck scores of times," said Anakin. Him and the other three men left, leaving Taran and Ashoka alone.
"How are you feeling?" she asked.
"A little better," he said. The two looked at each other. Taran noticed that Ashoka was on the verge of tears.
"Ashoka, what's the matter?" he said to her. He saw a tear go down her faec and before he knew it, she was hugging him and crying on his shoulder.
"I thought that you were dead," she whispered in his ear.
"It's fine, I'm alright," he whispered back. "I only went after Grievous to protect you. He would have killed you if I hadn't done something." Ahsoka got off his shoulder and looked at him.
"Why do you have to be son heroic?" she said, a smile starting to form on her face.
"Don't know, genetics," he said. That got the smile on her face. Just as she was about to leave she kissed him on the cheek and left. If Ahsoka had seen the heart meter, it was a doing a 160.
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"So whats are plan of attack sir," said Rex.
"We need to deploy the men in front of the cavern to the tomb, this will hopefully keep them out. If some of there forces make it past, then we'll have more troops in there along with us and we'll wipe them out," said Anakin.
"Nice sir. When do we move to attack?"
"In a few hours Rex. Admiral, hyperspace to Rhen Var and put the troops on alert," said Obi-Wan.
"Yes General," said Wulffe.
