"Padawan Offee, please report to the bridge for briefing," Obi-wan's voice sputtered from her communicator. "We are nearing Geonosis."

"I will be there momentarily," Barris replied curtly and uncurled her body from the bed. Her bones snapped audibly as she stretched. She reached her elegant fingers to the ceiling and then bent over and placed her palms flat on the floor. She twisted her spine around both directions and cracked her knuckles. She felt conceivably looser and much better equipped for the short force run she was going to take. It was time for her to face her fears and rescue her master. She jogged in place for a moment and then entered the hall. She let her feet pound onto the sound dampened metal plastic compound at she proceeded to where her superiors waited. She had run on GAR cruisers so often she needn't look where she was going, and she ran between the lanes where clones walked so she need not worry about careening crazily into them and toppling over and a pile of twisted limbs.

Hopefully Cody will be in the briefing meeting… This time she let her thoughts surface and then gently pushed them away again. She was not going to deny it any longer. She was infatuated with the commander and nothing was going to change it. After brooding over her stance as a Jedi she realized she wasn't traveling any father into the dark side by loving Cody. If anything he was anchoring her in the light. He was a stunning silhouette against the brightness that gripped her hand and pulled her up into radiance. He was beauty and all that was wonderful in her life. She needed him and she admitted it to her heart finally. It was a necessary step because she might not come back from this mission. At least she had loved someone.

Cody knew the briefing was in a few minutes and it would be necessary for him to get up now if he was going to make it on time. All his training was screaming at him and mando'a to get his lazy shebs out of bed. But he hadn't slept all that much last night, actually almost none at all. He had laid awake staring at the dura-plastic gray bunk above him and thinking. Thinking wasn't usually recommended for clone brothers late at night because strange thoughts stirred things that no loyal soldier should even consider, let alone mull over and dissect in great detail. Cody's mind had pondered the usual philosophies of this war and the lost lives of so many brothers under his command, not under his command too. The battle of Teth was an example of these horrors. All of Rex's men excluding five brothers and the captain himself had perished at the monastery. All of them. He couldn't even being to contemplate the torture Rex must had experienced following that battle. Yet he still laughed and joked and put up with Skywalker's antics. He still followed orders and that, Cody thought, was the ultimate show of a soldier's commitment and loyalty to the republic. He could ignore Anakin and his crazy plans that always seemed to work, but with extreme loss of life. He could have gone AWOL or staged an MIA. But he didn't. He stayed and fought a war that wasn't theirs. But really, what else could a clone do? If you left and someone saw your face, you were branded as a traitor and a deserter without a second thought. So you couldn't leave, there was no life Outside.

Last night his thoughts had turned in a lighter direction. Barris was the one bright point in his life of dull white and bright red, the one thing that was all his and his alone. He loved her, and she loved him back. This was the first time he had ever experienced this. There was a love between his brothers, something that connected them all in an unbreakable web. That was love too, but it was different. That love allowed you to shove them playfully and punch them in the jaw if they got on your nerves and play a good round of poker with them once and a while. His love for Barris was much gentler. She was soft and fragile and innocent. He wanted to protect her. He found himself restating things he had thought about before. But new fantasies had been coursing through his mind. New and different things. These images betrayed his earlier statement that they would wait. He found himself wanting to get up and go back to Barris's room and take everything back. He wanted to ravish her.

Barris's had to be at the briefing meeting right? That got him standing up and zipping up his flight suit. He snapped his armor into place with the ease and speed of long practice. In fewer than thirty second he had his bucket under one arm and was proceeding calmly toward the location of the meeting. He would be right on time and then he would get to see her again. Barris.

She actually arrived early to the meeting, the only one there the admiral and they exchanged nods but nothing else. Obi-wan and Anakin were walking around the corner as she waited. The second looked disheveled and was trying to hold back a yawn. Obi-wan looked as neat trimmed as always. Obi-wan had gotten a haircut it seemed. Anakin obviously hadn't, the man's hair was much longer than she had ever seen it. Maybe the senator form Naboo liked it that way.

"Good morning Masters," she said and nodded politely. They both nodded back but only Obi-wan responded with and actual hello. Cody arrived behind the generals. Her eyes were riveted as she tried to stare without being obvious. Their eyes met for a moment and Barris was sucked into their vortex. She then let her gaze flick away, lowering her head and pretending to be busy with the holoprojector table in front of her. A small smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

Cody was relieved when Barris smiled after they gazed at each other. She wasn't furious with him. Rex and Ahsoka stumbled in after, both looking dazed and a little disoriented. Rex's armor was on a little crooked and Ahsoka's dress was a little mussed. Her belt seemed to be on upside down. It was only noticeable to a man used to picking out details. When everyone had the same face, you got used to it.

"We will now commence the meeting, since we have all arrived." Obi-wan threw a pointed glance at the pair but they didn't seem to notice. Rex had jammed his bucket on his head to hide. Ahsoka had no means to hide her kiss swollen lips.

"We believe Luminara to be held in this secret separatist base recently discovered here," Anakin zooms in the planet's hologram and points to the glowing red shape which they all take to be the base. "It would be in the republics favor to capture the base, as well as rescue Luminara. So we will launch a full scale attack here with you, Master, at the head. You will have most of my troops as well. I will launch the air raid along with a small portion of both the 501st and the 7th Sky Corps. They have heavy air-to-ground artillery, so I will only accept volunteers for this mission. I will not have more men needlessly massacred," Barris turned to Anakin with surprise. He was going to throw himself into an almost unwinnable air battle with minimal troops? He was going on a suicide mission? There was grim determination in his eyes. Barris saw that Obi-wan wanted to protest this but kept his mouth in a firm line. His face said we-are-going-to-have-a-conversation-about-this-in-private. "Though Obi-wan you are merely a distraction. Barris, Ahsoka, and Cody, you will be infiltrating the base with an elite group of troopers. You will find Luminara and then destroy the reactors. Hopefully in that order," It's a weak joke. No one laughs. This is a little too close to the last mission like this Barris and Ahsoka had on Geonosis. They had been buried under three tons of rubble trying to destroy the reactor core. They had of course, but not very cleanly.

"Where am I sir?" that was Rex, asking through his helmet.

"You are going with Obi-wan," Anakin said. Now he was protecting Rex?

"But-"

"You are not a pilot Rex, and you would die up in the air. I can't have that," Rex stared back at Anakin for a few moments, as if judging his strength on his position. Finally Rex stood.

"I will go inform the troops," Rex says and he is gone. Cody stands to follow his brother. He gives Barris one final smile and then he is gone too. Ahsoka and Obi-wan are both looking at Anakin and Barris knows when she is not wanted. She stands and leaves. They barely notice. She doesn't leave ear shot though. She leans against the wall and just happens to overhear.

"Master, you can't do this!" Ahsoka says. There is desperation in her voice.

"If you are to live Ahsoka, I must. Now go, Obi-wan want's to speak to me alone."

"Master…"

"Please Ahsoka," his voice cracks. Barris presses against the wall as Ahsoka's footsteps echo by.

"Anakin I can't let you do this. You are going to die," he hisses. Barris peaks her head around the corner, interested now. All her perceptions were being proven wrong in the last minutes. Anakin was sitting on one of the chairs, slouched forward, head resting on his knee, arm hanging down. It was a pitiful sight really.

"And if I do?" he said softly. Obi-wan sat beside him and put an arm around his padawan's shoulders.

"You will join the force like all Jedi," and then almost silently, "I don't know how I'd survive it." Anakin turns to his master, pain his blue eyes.

"I'm sorry Master. I'm sorry for all the times I've jeopardized missions, and your safety, and the men's safety, and Ahsoka's safety. All the times I've messed up," this is the first time Barris has ever heard Anakin seem, well, sad. And almost… weak? "Now I think I've made a mistake no one can fix."

That's when Barris leaves. She doesn't want to hear any more, because indirectly, Ahsoka will be hearing it.

The gun ship was crowded with soldiers as they approach the surface. They are going to feign being shot down and crash behind the base. Then they would climb through the waste water tunnels and into the facilities. It was going to be an extremely rough landing, and Cody was a little worried about Barris. He knew he shouldn't be, she was a Jedi and all, but still. She was so soft under his hands…He suddenly felt the need to slap himself out of it. It was going to affect him on the mission if he didn't clear his head. So he put his soldier face on under his helmet and turns his HDU from Barris face to straight ahead where Ahsoka stands under a Jedi cloak. It makes her look much more mature and menacing. Adding shadow and years to her ginger face. It had the same haunting effect on Barris. The gravity of the situation increased as explosions began rocking the ship. A red light turned on in the hold and slats covered the hole which revealed the beige dust that covered this entire forsaken planet.

Barris's heart pounded faster in her chest as the pilot announced they would commence the crash landing. A small smoke canister was activated on the wings, followed by two in the engines. A high pitched whining sound could be heard even inside the closed compartment. A real explosion thundered in the nearby atmosphere and the gun ship faltered for a moment before continuing its fake careen towards the distant sand. Luminara was in that fortress. What torture was she enduring due to the impending Republic attack? Where were they holding her? There were so many unanswered questions. Her life had become one big puzzle with thousands of missing pieces. She didn't have much time to few sorry for herself. There was a jolt worthy of losing a few teeth. There were a few muffled shouts as troopers toppled over in a chaotic mass of white limbs. Only through the force were Barris and Ahsoka able to remain upright. Cody was actually thrown into her, and she supported him for a few moments before the ship grinded to a halt in the ground. Then she righted him and they helped pull troopers to their feet. With military organization they grabbed the insulated packs loaded with charges. Each person got one, including the Ahsoka and Barris. This way there would be no repeat of the disaster the last time they had blown something up on Geonosis. The pilots appeared in the hall way as their chairs descended from the cock pits. They grabbed the clone dummies from the storage crates and loaded them into the seats, sending them back to cockpits. Presumed dead, the easiest way to live.

"Okay men, it's time to go. Let's do this!" Ahsoka shouted and pumped her fist into the air. Her energy was catching and she had all the troopers shouting with her. In her excitement her hood had fallen back and revealed eyes glowing with anticipation. Her face glowed with the adrenalin of the upcoming fight. She was like a warrior goddess. Barris was a little jealous of her ability to rev up an entire team with barely a sentence, but Barris didn't really mind. Grudges and jealousy were not the Jedi way. Love wasn't either, and that didn't stop you an annoying voice whispers somewhere inside her head. Shut up, she replies and adorns her own pack. With the force she flings the door open. Just as planed not one hundred and fifty meters away is as bluff where the access sewage hatch was. The troopers in their camo gear unload and begin their sprint across the ground. Stirring up minimal dust so the vulture droids patrolling the sky will not notice the disturbance. Barris waits until the last man is left until she takes a step to follow. Then with a stroke of what she believes to be genius she takes out two charges from her pack and sets them on engines of the ship. She cinq's them to her communicator and begins her sprint. She ducks and rolls into the crowd of soldiers and presses the activation button. The gun ship explodes behind them.

"Wow Barris," Ahsoka says with a huge explosion euphoria induced grin. "I would not expect you to think of blowing something up to cover our tail." Barris just shrugs and allows herself a small smile.

"I'm feeling a little… aggravated today," and to her surprise it brings chuckles to the troopers. She smiles in return to the unexpected encouragement. So they do approve of her. Not once they see how they're going in. She turns to the ancient looking grate and activates her lightsaber, cutting through the corroded and lichen stained metal like it was air. It falls with an ominous thump into the dust, setting up a small cloud that caused Barris to cough. Then the stench wafted from inside metal tube and she gagged. Ahsoka turned green and Barris turned red as a little bit of maroon slime dripped from the gaping maw. One audacious trooper spoke up,

"We are going in there?"

"Yep!" Ahsoka said with a forced grin and jumped right in. The tunnel was perfect height for her, but the rest of them would have to stoop. "It's not as bad in here!" her voice bounced off the riveted walls and came back a hundred times. Barris sucked in a breath, pinched her nose, and chanted that it was for her master to herself and entered the cavern. She met up with Ahsoka, the trail a head of them lit by the troopers head lamps as they followed their commanders. Ahsoka's boots were in a patch of royal purple sludge with chunks of lovely green… something. Quietly so no one else could hear it she mumbled next to Ahsoka's ear.

"This is your idea of better?"

"It smells better than the red stuff," she says with a big grin. Then she proceeds to splash ahead. Cody comes up beside me, his head lamps lighting the path to the base.

"We have a long walk ahead of us Commander, we best be going."

The journey through the tunnels of muck was arduous and disgusting. All the strange experiments done here must have led to the rainbow sludge painting everything. Barris had decided not to imagine the monsters they had been creating. Now she was under her grate, her exit into the detention block. The troops would all be going with Ahsoka to the reactor room. That is where the forces would be. Barris really wanted to bring Cody with her, but they were on a mission.

"I'll contact you if I find Luminara," Barris said to Ahsoka. She smiled and gripped her friend's hands.

"When, Barris, when. And I'll contact you when the charges are set," Ahsoka says so surely.

"We'll escape together," Barris replies. Then she turns to Cody. There is so much she wishes to say to the yellow and white helmet. Just see his eyes one last time before she goes. But all they can share is,

"Good bye Commander Cody,"

"Good luck Commander Offee," and she presses her hands to the grate and shoves it to the side, jumping lightly through the opening. Gently she covers it, and the last thing she sees is the black T of Cody's visor, staring at her like the pupil of a dragon. Then even that is gone and she is alone in enemy territory. Barris stands and takes in her surroundings. She seems to be in a lab. Beakers of filled with oozing liquid and tubes with glowing energy. Droid parts littered the counters and she was surrounded by chemical stains where failed experiments had been tossed down the drain. Careful not to touch what was surely poison she danced out of the tiled pit and into the glass windowed room. The lights were off, hiding her from the droid guard that marched by. The scientist who had occupied this lab had probably fled to the bunker when the attack had started. After their metallic feet had faded into the distance Barris exited the lab. If the building schematics had been correct the detention block should be down the hall to the left.

On force quieted feet she danced down the hall, not touching the ground enough to set of motion sensors that could be in the floor. Her green face peaked around the edge of the next corner and took in the two battle droids that were guarding the door where in obvious letters Detention Block A was written. She could sense her master, she was near. She found it a little pathetic that they only had two battle droids guarding the doors. She searched the dark corner beside the wall and found a loose bolt. Weighing the metal object in her hand she let it slide between her fingers. She caught it with the force and concentrated, levitating the small object and moving it toward the droids. Then with a flick of her wrist she flung the bolt into the first droids head.

"Ow!" it said in its robotic voice that somehow remained nasally. It turned to its companion. "Hey! Why did you do that?"

"What?" said the second yellow robot scratching its metal head.

"Hit me!" said the first one.

"I didn't hit you!" the second one replied.

"If you didn't hit me then who-" it said as it turned back to the hall way. The droid had time to shout "Jedi!" before it and its companion were beheaded. In the process the alarm button remained untouched. She dragged the aluminum bodies after her, so no one passing by would think something was amiss. Barris entered the dark detention zone, and the door slid shut behind her. Running now without stopping she flew blindly passed cells. Her Master was close, and she let the force guide her to Luminara. She was careful to memorize her way through the corridors. Barris would need to get out once she found her master. All the halls looked the same, dark gray floor, lighter gray walls punctuated by iron gray doors with white numbers that glowed eerily in the twilight. During attacks the Separatists conserved energy by shutting down all unnecessary functions.

Barris was so close now. Her heart thrummed in her chest just as alarms blared to life. Something must have happened. She quickened her feet and paid the surrounding area no mind as cell A52 came into view. She halted, her boots skidding on the slippery floor. A control panel blinked to the left of the door. Barris didn't have the code, but she didn't need it. With a swish her azure lightsaber came into being. She plunged it into the operating unit and it sparked for a moment. There was a sickening thump and Barris winced. The door slid open and she saw her master crumpled on the floor. A cry almost escaped her lips, but she snapped her teeth together and bit it off. She was alive, that was all that mattered. Her condition could be dealt with later.

Barris hopped down the steps leading into the torture facility and slung Luminara's arm over one shoulder.

"Barris…" she mumbled.

"It's all right master. We are getting you out of here," she said with false cheer. She had expected her to be in bad shape, but not this.

"Thank you, Barris," she mumbled again.

"Don't thank me yet Master," Barris said as she practically dragged Luminara up the few steps. The door opened, but didn't reveal a blank hall way.

"Blast the Jedi!" one of those idiot Battle droids said and pointed. The circle of Super battle droids obliged the command. Barris just had enough time to throw her and her master out of the door way. Red laser fire ripped the torture equipment to shreds and blackened the back wall. Barris slouched her master up against the wall, who had lost consciousness during the fall. With an activated lightsaber she threw herself into the fray, taking out the command droid first and proceeding through the rest easily. It was just a little too easy. Down both corridors rolled Destroyer droids. They came to a halt at the edge of the wreckage and began to fire. Immediately Barris went into over drive, throwing herself back into the cell to keep from gaining a few extra holes in her torso. The fire ricocheted off the deflector shields but the pair did not damage its twin. They would not be able to proceed over the pile of scrap parts, so then what? They would just sit there and shoot until the base exploded? Barris might be able to get around the back of one, but there was so little room to maneuver in the hall it would be suicidal.

She realized there was no other choice. With a deep breath she rolled into the hall, jumped off the wall and did a neat flip over the back of the Destroyer. In the process her left arm got hit, but she barely felt the pain as adrenal surged through her veins. She stuck her lightsaber into its back and shoved it with the force into its twin. The molten scrap heap that resulted blocked the way Barris had come, but she recognized this base design and knew the corridors were like a set of squares. She could make it back to the entrance. She picked her way through the debris and back into the cell. Her master was still deaf to the world, so she hefted her up and pulled one arm around her shoulder. Good thing she was tall and strong for all those years of training, or she would have never been able to lift her. With a grunt Barris began the walk. It went by ten times slower than the run had. Adrenalin slowed time down around her and the pain in her upper arm began to make its self-known. All the while she tried not to jostle her master in her severely injured state. Finally, the door came into view the two droids she had deactivated pushed haphazardly the side. A second alarm started blaring and Barris's com crackled to life.

"B-Barris-ssss," the voice was disjointed and broken. They were trying to jam their signal. "Gen-gen-rators,… Tra…p!" And the line went totally dead. "Ahsoka!" Barris shouted into the com. "Ahsoka!" Another, much clearer, voice came over the com. "Commander Offee, this is Snake Eyes, we have a problem."

"What is it?" she asked with heavy breath, Pulling Luminara over her shoulders once again and going as fast as she could toward the reactor rooms. They were also on the bottom floor, thank goodness. She could never make it up the stairs with her master slung over her back.

"Both Commander Tano and Commander Cody have been trapped inside the reactor room. All our efforts have failed in trying to open the door, and Tano's lightsaber has not made an attempt to cut threw. We believe they are under siege," all her worst fears realized. Her best friend and her love, trapped and about to be executed. Maybe they would hold a hostage negotiation for Ahsoka, but they would just kill Cody. She could not let that happen.

"Blast," she swore under her breath.

"That's not all Commander. The door is hot and smoke is seeping out the vents. The reactor is on fire," her world just caught flame. Everything was going wrong. She could smell it now, melted plastic, molten metal, and fear. The thrum in the atmosphere filled her ears and he mouth like suffocating cotton. A group of droids came around the corner. She didn't even give them time to shout Jedi. With a wave of her hand they flew back in a force blast, their own blaster bolts turning them to scrap.

The next hall was where the double doors to the reactor room were. The clones stood there, looking dispirited. The one she took to be Snake eyes with yellow eyes painted on his helmet turned to her. She didn't even give him time to say anything. She handed Luminara to him and activated her lightsaber, running it through the door and creating a circle. She shoved it forward with her foot and it toppled into the room. Smoke immediately began pouring out of the room and poisoning her lungs. The heat was awful, she felt it cooking her skin and drying her eyes. She pulled fabric over mouth and turned to the group.

"Wait here,"

"Yes commander, good luck," Barris nodded and plunged into the cavernous space.

In here the alarms seemed distant. Flames roared and cackled, laughing at the feeble creatures trying to defy them. Too bad the reactors were fire proof then their job would be so much easier. The once cold iron room glowed in hellish shades of red and orange. A metal support came careening down from the ceiling, screeching and creating more sparks were it scratched the wall. Barris dodged the massive amount of falling slag and scanned the smoke poisoned room for Ahsoka and Cody. It was the ghoulish shadows of battle droids that revealed them to be on the other side of the reactors. Barris hoped the mesh walkways would hold and not liquefy under her feet. She didn't really want to fall to her death. She'd rather burn. Around the other side Ahsoka was surrounded by destroyer droids. There was a large platform and access units over here. It was obviously the main entrance, had been, more precisely. The fire wasn't as ravenous over hear, but it licked down from the ceiling. She caught the sight of a soot stained set of armor trapped under a girder. He couldn't be… dead? He wasn't in danger right now if he was just unconscious. If he was… well he was beyond her help.

Jedi duties first, she needed to help Ahsoka. As she watched the young padawan suffered a lower leg wound, throwing her to her knees and causing her lightsaber to skitter across the floor. Barris Jumped from her perch above and landed on one of the Destroyers, turning its circuits to molten metal. She flipped off the back and shoved it forward with the force. Both smashed into the opposite wall promptly catching on fire. Two down, eight to go. Ahsoka had gained her lightsaber back in the commotion but was still unable to stand. At least she could defend herself. With the circle broken it was easier to dispose of the remaining Destroyers. The sparking jittering remains collapsed among the smithereens that were once other droids. Barris goes to Ahsoka to help her stand. The girl is practically in tear, and Barris has never seen Ahsoka cry.

"I'm so sorry," she blubbers as Barris tosses her a pole she can use as a crutch. "I was fighting the droids, trying to keep him alive while he set the charges, and I didn't notice the ceiling begin to cave in. He shoved me out of the way and he was trapped and I couldn't even check on him because all those destroyers showed up-"

"Ahsoka, set the charges rest of the charges and get out of here! I'll get Cody to safety! He is alive, I would know if he was dead!" she shouted over the roar. Barris realized that it was true. He had to be alive or she would be dead too because there would be no heart in her chest to beat.

The girls smoke and ash stained face nodded. Then she disappeared into the smoke. Barris sprinted back to Cody. She wanted to fall apart when she saw him. His back armor was cracked, and probably most of his ribs. His left arm was at an awful angle. With a deep breath she managed to clear her mind. Gently the mass of steel lifted off Cody. She tossed it behind him. Drained, she hoped she could heal him. He was going to need it if he was going to live. Quickly, she removed his chest plate. The body suit underneath was burned and torn and revealed massive bruising. Barris bit her lip and peeled it back gently. Cody moaned but did not awaken. She closed her eyes and began the process. If anyone had been watching they would have seen her hands glow a soft blue as they moved over Cody's body. She moved ribs back into their correct places and fixed shattered bones. The brain trauma he had sustained was fixed in mere seconds. Then, she ran out. Barris practically collapsed with exhaustion and came back to this world. It would have to do.

Then she found he was too heavy for her to lift. Not deterred, she wrapped her arms under his torso and dragged him toward his brothers. She would not give up. They would not take Cody. There was no force to aid her now, she was too exhausted. Only pure will kept Cody moving through the mesh walkways and over the near molten ground and through a wall of fire that singed Barris's clothes and turned Cody's armor near black. With one last desperate pull she dragged him in front of the hole. White gloved hands of his Ghost Squadron dragged him through. Barris stumbled after, probably a terrible sight in shades of black, gray, and burnt.

"Alive," she choked out, smoke in her exhale. She saw Ahsoka slumped against the wall next to Luminara, semi-conscious. Her eyes closed when she heard the news and a small smile fainted on her lips. In her hands she clutched the detonator. Barris took that from her limp fingers.

"We need to go. NOW," that was Snake Eyes again.

"I agree. Let's go troops," and almost instantaneously they were off. One man to Luminara, one man to Ahsoka, and two to Cody. That left two with the ability to take down the droids they met in one of the hall ways. They did so quite efficiently. It went smooth until Barris's leg gave out when she was hit in the back by a semi-molten ceiling tile. They couldn't spare any men to carry her. They were a floor away from the exit.

"Go!" she said. "I'll heal myself and follow you. Com me when you're out of range,"

"But-"

"That is an order!" she shouted. Snake eyes nodded, and with one look over his shoulder, they turned the corner and were out of sight. Barris managed to roll over and cut through the material pinning her to the ground. The ceiling tile split in half and using her arms she pulled herself against the wall into a sitting position. She looked to the ceiling, tears entering her eyes. Escape was only a floor away. She was so close! Yet she could not stand, let alone walk. She stared at the detonator in her hands. They would win this battle. There was no decision to make.

As she waited for the all clear call she thought about Cody. He would live. The one thing she regretted was never seeing his eyes again. There beautiful ever shifting vortex that would suck her in and never let her go. She regretted never having sex, but he had been right. She had touched every inch of his skin though. And she loved him. She had learned love.

"We are clear Commander," it was snake eyes. Barris heard Ahsoka in the distance, between her coughs.

"Barris? Where are you? What is going on?"

"Tell Cody I love him," and Barris pressed the detonation button. There was a rumble deep in the Base. It grew louder and louder until it was thunder. She heard a crash two floors down, one floor down.

Fire.

Pain.

Red.

Pain.

Black.

Nothing.

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