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Luke waited for Ben to answer his commlink. Finally Ben's image appeared. "Yes Dad?" Ben asked. "Ben you can come back to our quarters, it's time for lunch." Luke told his son. "Well Ahsoka and I took Allana out for lunch so neither of us is going to be hungry."

"He took Allana outside of the Temple?" Tenel Ka demanded.

"You said nothing about staying inside." Ben shot back. "Besides, she said that she was hungry and Ahsoka knew of a place that we might be able to eat. I'm just surprised that this place is still here after what the Vong did to Coruscant." Ben said.

"Detailed building plans will always surprise you. Now get back to the Temple." Luke said. "And no detours." "Yes Dad." Ben said and deactivated his comm.

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Ben sighed as he put his commlink back in his pocket. "We need to get back to the Temple, pronto. And no detours." Ben told Ahsoka.

Ahsoka sighed and signaled to the waitress droid. "Can we have a carryout bag?" She asked the droid. "Of course sweetie." The droid said and headed off to get one.

"Is your father mad at us?" Ahsoka asked Ben as she grabbed his and Allana's plates. "I don't think so." Ben said. "But her mom might be."

The droid reappeared with the carryout bag and Ahsoka started to fill it.

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Lumiya watched as Ben Skywalker exited the diner with a little red headed girl and a teenage togruta female that was a few years older than him.

She wanted nothing more than to swoop down and hack the teenage togruta to pieces for ruining her hard work to seduce Jacen Solo to the Dark Side.

The teenage girl suddenly looked in her direction and Lumiya knew that the togruta wouldn't be an easy target.

However the little girl was another matter. She would be easy to kill, from a distance. And Ben Skywalker was the same way. Although he had changed a bit since she had last seen him.

"One day you will all die!" She whispered softly.

An idea suddenly occurred to her. One that brought a cruel smile to her face.

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Tenel Ka nervously paced the Skywalker apartment, waiting for Ben to return with Allana.

A warning through the Force, Allana was in trouble. Tenel Ka nearly bolted for the door before it occurred to her that she had no idea where Allana was or if she could get there in time.

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Ahsoka and Ben had been walking back to the Mag Lev station when she sensed danger. She could feel that Ben had sensed it too.

They subtly pulled Allana closer to them and stretched out with their Senses.

Screams suddenly filled the walkway and old Commando Droids appeared along with some rough looking men and women.

Ahsoka reached for one of her lightsabers and ignited it.

The droids opened fire, but both Ahsoka and Ben sent the bolts back at the droids. One of the droids advanced and Ahsoka cut it to pieces.

"Does this fall into the category as a detour?" Ahsoka asked Ben as she fell back to help protect Allana. "I believe it does." Ben answered with a smile.

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Lumiya watched the battle from a distance. It was quite interesting and enlightening to watch the two young Jedi fight off their attackers.

Throw a grenade and have it detonate in the air, as close to the Jedi as possible. Then throw some smoke bombs on my mark."" Lumiya said into her commlink. She moved closer to the action. "Mark!"

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Ben watched as something came flying at them.

"Run!" Ahsoka yelled.

But before he could move it exploded, throwing them all backwards.

Ben's ears rang from the noise as he struggled to stand. Then he was blinded by smoke.

He reached out and felt Ahsoka and Allana nearby. Ahsoka was calm but Allana was terrified.

A green light suddenly appeared in the smoke along with something Ben recognized as a lightwhip.

Ben swallowed. There was only one person that carried a lightwhip as far as he knew and that was the Sith wanna be Lumiya.

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Ahsoka watched as the figure came closer. "Well, if Grievous wasn't dead I would say that you were his girlfriend." Ahsoka shouted. "And why is that?" The figure replied. "Because you are missing about just as much of your body as he was missing." Ahsoka said.

The lightwhip came at her.

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Mara glanced at the chrono. She had no idea when to expect Ben but the Force told her something was wrong; terribly wrong.

She had half the mind to ask Jaina to go look for him but since both Jaina and Leia had left a few minutes ago that wasn't an option.

The comm station beeped urgently.

Mara turned and watched as Luke stood and walked towards it. "Yes?" he asked. "Master Skywalker, there's a disturbance in CoCo Town. They say that lightsabers are involved." A student reported. "They are asking that you and other Masters report to the sight."

Mara dropped her knife and headed over to Luke.

"We are on our way." Luke told the apprentice.

Luke punched in a code and Kyp Durron appeared. "There's a disturbance in CoCo Town, apparently lightsabers are being used. I want you to come with Mara and I to discover what is going on." Luke told his fellow Jedi Master.

"I'm on my way." Kyp said.

Mara followed Luke towards the door.

"I am coming with you." Tenel Ka stated.

Luke hesitated before nodding. It was her daughter that could be in trouble after all.

"Mara, call Ben and ask him where he is." Luke said as they walked out the door.

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Lumiya growled as the togruta yanked her lightwhip out of her hands with her two lightsabers. She quickly reached into her leg and retrieved a lightsaber and engaged the girl.

Lumiya wasn't sure how long their blades clashed together before she received the signal that one of her teams had been successful.

Suddenly she was missing her left arm and another lightsaber was in her right shoulder blade. She screamed in pain and fury. She yanked herself off the blade, at the same time roughly kicking the togruta in the stomach.

Lumiya raced away.

She might have lost to some girl but she had a consolation prize: the heir to the Hapes Cluster throne and Jacen's daughter.

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Luke, Mara, Kyp and Tenel Ka arrived at the scene of the fight to see emergency crews beginning to clean up.

Luke spotted Ben and Ahsoka talking, or arguing with some police and medical droids.

Ahsoka kept pointing to her right and say something. Ben would nod his head and point as well.

Luke approached the nearest organic law enforcement officer, a Kaytan female. "What happened?" he asked politely.

The law enforcement officer turned to him. "There was some old battle droids and some thugs for hire. They attacked two older Jedi that were out with a much younger Jedi student." She started. "The thugs then used a grenade and then smoke bombs. Then someone with with a lightwhip attacked the female and then they got into a lightsaber duel. The attacker lost an arm and then retreated. The younger student is missing." She finished.

Tenel Ka straightened.

'What did the attacker look like?" Mara asked.

"We are not sure at this point but the left arm that was cut off was cybernetic. And her girl says that her attacker was female and mostly machine." She replied.

"Lumiya," Luke and Mara said at the same time.

There was silence for several moments.

"You may take them back to the Temple now and have your healers look at them." She informed them.

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Ben stood as his parents and Tenel Ka approached.

"I am sorry Father." Ben said. "For what?" Luke asked. "They took Allana. It wouldn't have happened if we stayed in the Temple." Ben answered.

Luke sighed.

"You weren't to know Ben." He told his son.

"Who was that Master Luke?" Ahsoka asked. "She could barely call on the Force and so much of her was replaced by either cybernetic limbs or machines."

"I will tell you when we get back to the Temple." Luke answered.

Ahsoka nodded.

"She went that way." Ahsoka said pointing to her right. "There was an injured Twi'lek there with Allana, they ran away together." Ahsoka explained.

Tenel Ka paled.

"Alema Rar took Allana?" she whispered.

Ben watched as Tenel Ka turned and started to walk in the direction that Alema and Lumiya went. But his mother blocked her.

"We mostly likely aren't going to get Allana back by rushing off after her." Mara said. "The first few hours are the most important for abduction victims!" Tenel Ka cried.

"Listen: Lumiya most likely wants to draw Jacen to her using Allana as a lure. We can't go after her without knowing more." Luke said.

"I could beat you and probably take off your other arm in a duel." Ahsoka said suddenly.

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Just so you know my Beta for Dark Angel has moved. I have sent her the next chapter which will be posted once she approves of it.