Ooofff.... I am a lazy idiot…

Finished Chapter X since last week but didn't upload it…

Thanks to all who are reading 'Agony'!

Disclaimer: Star Wars belongs to George Lucas

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Ahsoka didn't know how she got in the building so fast. Her brain simply didn't work for 30 seconds. She only relied on her reflexes.

They were lucky – the mainentrance was open. Just after they ran in, the three searched for a hiding place and spotted some big crates. Ahsoka hid behind one on the left side, while Cody and Rex hid behind one on the right side.

Rex heard Cody panting. "Are we getting old, Cody?" Said clone only glared at him. "Very funny, Rex. You know that I am a batch one clone. One of the oldest right after the NULL's and ARC's." Rex grinned. "Now I wonder how you passed the ARC-Commander training. Did you sleep with Alpha or blew him one??" Rex had to grit his teeth to avoid a loud outcry. Instead he let out a suppressed moan and writhed in pain as Cody hit him. Cody had a really hard punch – with or without his armor and it hurt badly. "Asshole. Now it's not the time for a quarreling." Cody hissed and scanned the surroundings.

Ahsoka, who heard their little bickering, rolled her eyes and searched for a force vibrancy. But she felt nothing and that scared her. 'What if… No Ashoka. Keep cool. Maybe Ventress used force-blockers on him.' She contacted the two clones via comlink. "Sorry that I have to interrupt you. We have a problem. I can't feel General Kenobi's force presence." Before anyone of them could reply she continued. "I think that they use force-blockers." Rex snorted. "Great. That means we have to investigate every fuckin' room?! You are kidding me!"

Cody interrupted before Ahsoka could reply "We have to split up. Activate your tracking transmitters. Rex, you take the upper floors. Commander Ahsoka, you will take the middle levels and I will go to the lowest level. If anyone finds him, contact each other immediately. And if anyone gets into trouble, take the droids down as fast as you can."

Rex and Ahsoka nodded and they parted ways.

Rex hated it. He hated such rescue missions. He hated it since his first trainings-mission on Kamino. Every corridor and room could be a possible trap if he made one wrong move. But he was lucky and most of the rooms weren't locked. Rex noticed that these rooms were offices with busy humans. The captain ignored those rooms in good conscience; he didn't believe that Kenobi would be there with those paper-shufflers and drink Caf with them.

He looked around a corner and saw two droids on patrol. 'Damn! Where to hide?' Then he saw a room that looked like a lumber-room. As the droids passed him, he approached them from behind and ripped their heads of before they could alarm anyone. He jumped as warm machine oil got into his jumpsuit. It was disgusting. Then he dragged them to the lumber-room. 'I hope that nobody of these Caf-Junkies will go into that room, before I have completed this mission.' He thought and then he continued searching.

Just as he turned around a corner he bumped into something or better someone. "You idiot!" A woman with brown hair cursed as she fell down. 'No droid. Better play innocent.' "I am sorry Ma'am. I got lost." She eyed him and noticed his oil stained jumpsuit. "Are you one of those new engineers?" 'Phew.' "Yes. I lost my partner, Cody, in one of the corridors." He didn't like her glances and that made him nervous. 'She looks, as if she is going to devour me on the spot.' She smiled and winked at him. "Maybe I can help you finding this Cody." "No, thanks, Ma'am. I will find him alone." Rex responded a little bit too fast. The woman noticed that and grabbed his arm. "Oh come on, why are you so abrasive?"

He hated such silly situations. He was already stressed out and now he had to deal with a horny secretary or whatever her position here was.

"You have a really nice body, Mr. Engineer. There is a really nice lumber-room over there. Are you interested?" She cooed. Rex cursed inwardly. Only one idea came into his mind right now. "Ma'am, I am sorry but I am into men. Cody is my lover." The woman backed off as if he just burnt her. "What? You cannot be serious!" She screeched. 'Please, can I murder her??!!' "No, it's the truth. Sorry ma'am. Please allow me to continue my search. I still have some work to do. I wish you a nice day." With that he walked away and left a really, really shocked woman behind.

*Cody really, really owned him one.*

Ahsoka's levels were worse than Rex's. She had no offices that she could ignore. The sector she was currently searching was the prison level and was overcrowded with droids. For the first time in her life she was grateful that she had a petite figure and could hide nearly everywhere. 'I hope that I am lucky and Master Kenobi is in one of those cells. That would spare us time and trouble." She kneeled on the top of a closet while she counted the prison cells. Cat-like, she moved to the first cell and pressed her head against the door to hear if someone was in there while her eyes observed the floor. 'No one in there. Okay, next one.'

Just as she was about to open the fifth cell, two droids and a scientist came out. She jumped onto the door case and was relieved that they didn't notice her. "Well, I think that I miscalculated the new dosage… I fear that I have to recalculate it… what a pity. This guinea pig was a though one. You! Droids! Clean this mess up and bring the test object of cell 15 to my laboratory." The two droids nodded and vanished in the cell again.

Ahsoka feared the worst and didn't dare to look at the person the droids carried out. She felt relieved as she saw that the person was a Twi'Lek. Then she was ashamed of herself for her relief. The dead Twi'Lek had a right to live, too. She brushed those thoughts away and continued examining the other cells.

The corridors of the lowest level were creepy. The walls had this glowing white color and it smelled sterile. It seemed that this floor contained the laboratories. Cody felt very queasy and his hackles raised every time when he heard someone moan or scream. He had to find Obi-Wan as soon as possible. 'Where are you?' He thought as he peeked in one of the rooms. In there, three scientists stood around an OP-table and experimented with a test subject that looked like a Wookie. '…' It roared and writhed in pain and Cody's heart began to pound. 'Was Obi-Wan tortured in this way, too?' He didn't like that idea. It made him feel sick and he nearly vomited as one of the scientists got out of his view and granted him a closer look to the Wookie. He was a soldier and had seen many fallen and defaced brothers but this poor Wookie… 'Keep cool, Cody, keep cool.'

A turbo-lift on his right side opened and a man with black hair, glasses and a lab coat stepped out. He was accompanied by a woman, who also wore a lab coat. Cody hid behind a white counter and watched those two. "I am very pleased. All experiments were successful. Only one experiment is left. I never thought that Jedi are so wonderful test subjects." The man said. Cody's eyes widened 'Jedi?! That must be Obi-Wan! And he was alive?!" The woman replied "Really? Maybe I should ask Ventress to give me one, too. I have really nice ideas, too." The man grinned evilly, stopped and looked around. "Sure. I know you very good. And where the hell is my new assistant?! He should meet me here. I hate delays." The woman, however, didn't stop. "I am sorry. Have an experiment, too. Otherwise I would wait here with you. See you later, Blu." She waved him goodbye and vanished in the next corridor. The man snorted. "Maybe I should have a look in the locker room. Maybe my new assistant is there."

Cody followed him silently. He knew that this man would take him to Obi-Wan. Just as he entered the locker room, a young man bumped into him from behind. "I am sorry, Sir. I got lost. Is this the locker room? I am Dr. Blu's new assistant and- Ugh" He never finished his sentence. Cody knocked him out and locked him into one of the lockers. Behind the third locker row, he heard a frustrated scientist cursing. 'Fortunately he hadn't heard that. I have to hurry.' Cody took one of the white lab coats hanging in a locker and put on glasses, which were in there, too. 'I hope that he wouldn't get suspicious of me.' Then he walked around to the doctor. "E-Excuse m-me, are you Dr. Blu? I am your new assistant." The man turned around and glanced at him. "You are late, assistant. I hope that you have a good excuse! We are already late!" Cody hung his head and stuttered. "I… I am sorry, g-got lost…" The doctor shook his head and growled "Oh dear, I hope that you aren't a fail like my last assistant. But when I see you, I doubt that you are a help. And STOP stuttering!" "Y-Yes!" The doctor shook his head, moaned and mumbled something about incompetent personal as he left the locker room, followed by Cody. 'I'm coming, Obi-Wan. Hold on!'

The clone looked always away, when a droid or another person passed him in order to avoid that someone would uncover him. After a long march along many corridors, they finally reached the scientists lab. Cody felt his adrenalin rushing through his body as they entered it.

He saw *his* Obi-Wan chained in a bacta-tank that looked like a globe. He just stared at him and couldn't take his eyes off of him. The doctor noticed that and said. "Impressive, isn't it? Oh and by the way, don't get too attached to our test subject. Assistant, bring me the records over there." But Cody didn't obey. Instead he knocked him out. Then he ran to the bacta-tank and whispered "I am here, Obi-Wan. I will free you. You are safe now." No sooner said than done. The glass shattered into pieces as he crushed it. Cody unshackled Obi-Wan and gave him a gentle kiss; Kenobi didn't respond as he was unconscious. He wrapped the Jedi into a blanket he found in the lab and laid him on a stretcher. Then he activated his comlink. "Rex, Commander Tano? Can you hear me? This is Cody speaking. I found Obi-Wan. He is an a critical condition, but he lives and can be transported." Via comlink, Rex responded. "Finally. Where should we meet? Do we have an escape-plan?"

Silence.

Ahsoka nearly screamed. "You didn't have an escape-plan?!"

Cody replied "It's ok. I think I have a plan that works. Go to the lowest level and head to lab-room E973. We will await you there."

"Acknowledged." Both said in unison.

Cody looked at Obi-Wan and caressed his worn out face. Kenobi had many fresh Op-scars. Hopefully those would vanish. "I am so happy, that you are alive. I will never *ever* leave your side again. I promise it." He whispered.

Suddenly, Obi-Wan opened his eyes and he looked at Cody. His eyes widened and he tried to reach out his hand in order to touch Cody's face. Cody took his hand and kissed it. "Y-You… are… here…" Obi-Wan croaked. "Yes, love. I am here. You are safe now. Please rest." Cody whispered while he kissed him carefully. But Obi-Wan was already unconscious again.

Soon, Rex and Ahsoka arrived through one of the vents. "Master Kenobi! What did they do to you!" Ahsoka cried as she hugged him. "So, Cody, I hope that this plan of yours will work." Rex growled. Cody lifted an eyebrow. Why was Rex so grumpy? "Sure, I will bring you tow lab coats. Don't worry, they won't get suspicious." Rex snorted as he thought of his little disaster with that secretary. "So we are playing doctor? I hope that you are right." Ahsoka stated. But Cody already left the lab.

"He is very calm. I thought that he would be hysterical. Or maybe he is in shock?" Ahsoka said. Rex didn't reply. He examined the lab and searched for useful objects. "Hmm, anesthetics. Maybe we could use that." He took a few of them into his waistbelt and continued searching. Ahsoka rolled her eyes. She sat on Obi-Wan's stretcher and hold his hand.

Both of them ran for cover as the door opened and Rex aimed his DC's at the intruder. Fortunately it was Cody, who had two coats in one hand.

"Okay, Dr. Rex. Let's go." Ahsoka snickered.