Instead of proceeding to retrieve her lightsaber, Ahsoka fought Ruusan melee style. The Sith Lord had trained for many years in Force combat and lightsaber combat, but never melee combat. He found himself outmatched by the crafty Togrutan. Ahsoka punched and kicked at his dazed form, attempting to knock him out in order to get him out of Taran's body. She also knew that this was the only safe way to defeat him, even though she was taking a toll on her boyfriend's body. Ruusan kept rising up from the onslaught thoguh, and tried his best to defend himself, but Ahsoka was too fast for him. Soon, he had bruises on parts of his face and some blood was coming from his mouth. There was a cut above his eyebrow as well.
"Come on, is that the best you got," he gloated. He should have shut up because Ahsoka blocked one of his punches and her fist collided with the bottom of his jaw, sending hhim three feet in the air and landing on some plasma cannon canisters. He landed hard on his back, but he dazingly got up. He gave Ahsoka the most evil face he could and ran back towards her, but she used the Force to levitate him up, and then sent him spiraling to the wall. He hit it front side up with a loud CLANG and slid down the wall. Ruusan knew he couldn't take so much punishment, especially from a girl. He got up slowly and painfully and started advancing towards Ahsoka. This time, he was going to use his bending.
He sent a fireball straight at her, but she dodged it and picked her lightsaber up. He sent another one and she slashed it in half, dissipitating it. Ruusan summoned up enough of his strength to send a wall of air at her. She barely got out of the way in time as the air hit the wall and gusted away, blowing back the others. He used the Force and sent a canister at her, but she used the Force to send it back to him. He unleashed another fireball and it hit the canister, detonating it and causing a huge explosion to send everybody back. He got up once again and advanced towards Ahsoka, this time his lightsaber in hand. Ahsoka got hers too and the pair were dueling again. The ycircled around the area they were fighting in and their lightsabers locked in place.
"Give up now and won't hurt you even more," she said.
"I plan on that not happening again," he growled. He began attack her with the force of a beserker and she soon found herself on the defensive again. He pressed her so hard she barely had anytime to think. He blocked one of her attacks and used the Force to lift her up and sent her flying into a wall, but her feet landed on the wall first and using Force she sent herself back towards him, drop kicking him in the process. He was thrown back from the force and let out a bloodcurtling scream. He began to bend a huge ball of fore into his hands and then, deciding it was big enough, launched it at Ahsoka. She blocked it with the Force, but the explosion from it combined with it's magnitude sent her flying to the wall, hitting her head and temporarily blacking out. The others rushed to engage Ruusan, but sent canisters around them and trapped them into a prisonlike state. They knew the that if they shot or slashed at the canisters, they and the ship would be history. They watched helplessly as Ruusan advanced towards Ahsoka.
Finally arriving next to her, he lifted her head. Her eyes slowly opened and watched his right fist was wreathed in flames.
"Say goodbye girl," he said. "He launched his fist towards her, but Ahsoka moved her head at the last second. The fist collided with the wall and Ahsoka used her fist to puunch his inner thigh in order to incapacitate him, but she aimed a bit too high. Her fist connected with his groin and he let out a painful and violated scream. She pushed him out of the way and levitated him once again. She then spun him around and around until he was spinning in the air like a top. Once she saw he was going fast enough she sent him spiraling to the wall again. He landed on it with a sickly THUD and slunk down the wall again, unconscious. Seeing that he wasn't getting up she levitated the canisters away from the others and she slowly walked to Taran's body.
His body began to glow and his eyes opened, shining with a bright light as a dark shadow seemed to come out of his body. His eyes closed back again and the shadow gathered itself in the air, forming an orb of dark energy. It then took on the shape of a shadow creature and launched itself at Ahsoka, but Obi-Wan intercepted it halfway with the holocron. The holocron acted like a vacuum cleaner and sucked the creature up, howling as it was sent back once again to it's prison. Obi-Wan carefully used a piece of cloth to put the holocron into a metal container and went to Taran.
He was breathing, but he looked like a starship had ran over him.
"Ahsoka, did you have to beat the kid up that bad?" said Rex.
"It was the only way," she said. Obi-Wan and Anakin lifted him up and took him down to the medical bay while Cody grabbed the container and him and Rex followed them. They placed him down on one of the beds, expecting the medical droid to come and assist, but remembered that the droid was destroyed and activated another one. The droid started to work on Taran's wounds and they all left, ready to deal with the holocron and repair the damage Ruusan had caused.
