Blaze: woohoo! Time for chapter 10
Darth: COFFEE
Blaze: no, you've had enough coffee
Darth: But…
Blaze: no buts
Darth: fine!
Blaze: (sighs) coffee withdrawals (shakes head) here's chapter 10 and I hope you like and sorry for the cliffhangers
Chapter 10
Siri narrowed her eyes as she scanned the fifty some Synths that were blocking the exit from the tunnels. She glanced at Obi-Wan. "What do we do know?" she asked quietly.
"What can we do?" Obi-Wan replied narrowing his gray-blue eyes.
Aayla moved to Obi-Wan and Siri's side. "That's the same Synth that spoke to me, his name is Ala'vas," she whispered softly. "I don't know why he was been keeping me hostage here but I fear it's for something bad."
"What do you want from us?" Jayden called out and Obi-Wan and Siri glared at him. He shrugged before mouthing 'what harm could it do?'
The Synth Ala'vas glared at the silver-eyed Jedi. "That is of no concern to you," he hissed coolly. "I am only here fulfilling my father's wishes. He sent me to warn you, the Senator we know you have been sent here to retrieve will die soon."
"And you're telling us this why?" Jayden asked and Siri noticed his voice was just as cool and calculating as the Synths. She glanced at the silver-eyed Jedi and he shrugged before turning his silver gaze back to Ala'vas.
"Because those were my orders," Ala'vas replied coolly.
"What have you done with the Senator?" Anakin demanded narrowing his electric blue gaze and Siri glanced at Obi-Wan who shrugged.
I've tried to break him of that habit but it hasn't worked so far, he said silently.
Oh, Siri replied though her blue eyes were still narrowed as she scanned the area, looking for an escape route.
"We can take them," Jayden said determinably raising his silver lightsaber but Siri noticed he was scanning the Synths with one eye; his other eyes was bloody and closed and she began to wonder what happened to him.
"Really? You think you can take all of us," Ala'vas asked coolly.
"I know I can," Jayden said before leaping forward and Siri watched, shocked as Jayden sliced through every blaster that was in his way before force pushing the Synths that were blocking the entrance. "Come on!"
Siri nodded before lowering her lightsaber and hurrying after Jayden, Obi-Wan and Aayla followed them but the blonde Jedi noticed instantly that Anakin wasn't following them. "Anakin, come on!" she called over her shoulder.
"I'm not leaving the Senator here to get killed," Anakin called back and Siri watched as the sixteen-year-old boy flipped over a group of Synths before hurrying down a hallway. Obi-Wan turned around and started to follow him but Jayden held him back with his silver lightsaber.
"Get out of here, I'll get Anakin," he said. Obi-Wan started to protest but Jayden held his gaze. "It will do the Republic no good if you get killed and I know Anakin would not want that. He told me about you, he told me about how you were like the father he never had so get out of here and I promise I'll watch out for Anakin."
"Come on, Obi-Wan, listen to Jayden, I sense no deceit in him," Siri said grabbing Obi-Wan's arm and tugging toward the entrance to the caverns. Obi-Wan swallowed but nodded before hurrying after Siri as the blonde Jedi led the way out of the tunnels. She glanced back once just in time to see Jayden disappear in the hallway Anakin had ducked down.
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Anakin narrowed his eyes as he made his way down the tunnels, using his lightsaber as a light source and stretching out with the Force but he couldn't sense the Force presence of a Senator. All he could sense was the Synths that mingled around but he couldn't sense anyone else.
Could those Synths have been lying? He wondered silently as he ducked down another hallway before making his way toward a large room that lay in front of him, unaware that he was being followed by, not one, but two beings.
He stretched out with the Force but there were so many Synths around that Anakin couldn't figure out if they posed a threat to him or not. He ducked down another hallway in the catacombs that crisscrossed beneath the surface of Alontia and he suddenly found himself in a hangar bay. A large, circular shaped ship rose up in front of him, it was green with a slender tail at one end and two tentacle like parts stretching out in front of it. A tall Synth stood next to the ship, examining it and Anakin narrowed his eyes.
"Welcome boy," the Synth in front of the ship said coolly before he turned around and gazed at Anakin.
"Where do you have the Kiriman Senator?" Anakin demanded raising his lightsaber and taking a few deep breaths as his mentor had taught him.
"Dear boy, we don't have the Kiriman Senator and I am slightly shocked that an actual Jedi would walk straight into my trap," the Synth said.
Trap? What? This is a tr…? But before Anakin could finish his thought, he felt a sharp needle sink into his neck and almost instantly he felt woozy. Sinking to the ground, he lied down before resting his head on the ground and slowly falling into a deep unconsciousness.
~*~
They must have injected him with a serum but what kind? Jayden wondered silently as he watched the Synth who had injected Anakin pick up the boy before jogging over to join the first Synth.
"Take him into the ship and put those Jedi proof stun cuffs on him, I have one more thing to do before we can leave," the lead Synth said coolly and the other Synth nodded before he hurried into the ship and Jayden ducked behind some crates as the lead Synth walked past him and into the hallway behind him.
"Set the charges, Lys, and make sure they go off as soon as you and I leave the surface of Alontia,"the lead Synth ordered.
"Yes Lord Al," the other voice said before the transmission was disconnected.
Aayla, Siri, Obi-Wan, get out of here! They're going to blow the tunnels, Jayden yelled silently as he ducked behind more crates and hurried toward the ship and he almost instantly felt the power of the Ysalamiri. Take my ship, I have it parked about five miles east of this Synth tunnel. To override the security code I have on it, just type in 05-64-24-52 and hurry.
What? Why? Obi-Wan called back silently.
The Synths have Anakin, I'm going after them but there are Ysalamiri in the ship and that means I won't be able to contact you through the Force until we get out of this ship, Jayden replied silently glancing over his shoulder as he made sure no one could see him.
Why are you doing this?
I promised you, didn't I? Go, I'm running out of time. Take care of yourself and if you get a scratch on my ship, you'd better not tell me about it, Jayden said silently in an attempt to lighten the mood before he closed his mind to Obi-Wan's thoughts and hurried into the ship, instantly feeling his ability to touch the force dissipate.
Slinking past the Synth who had placed Anakin on a nearby couch with the boy's hands bound behind him, Jayden slipped into the closet behind the couch before closing the door, only slightly however. He closed his eyes before slowly hiding his Force signature deeper within the Force and he sat down to watch as Al walked back into the ship.
~*~
"Where are we going, Obi-Wan?" Aayla asked as Obi-Wan hurried east of the Synth tunnels in the direction Jayden had told him to go.
"Both of our ships were either destroyed or damaged beyond repair and we need a ship to get off of this planet and go after Anakin," Obi-Wan replied swiftly.
"What do you mean go after Anakin?"
"The Synths have taken him, Jayden is following them and he told me to take his ship," Obi-Wan replied.
"You trust this man even though you hardly know him," Siri said sounding shocked.
"I can sense no deceit in him, as you had said before," Obi-Wan replied and suddenly the earth shook and Obi-Wan instantly felt a disturbance in the Force. "Looks as though Jayden was right in saying the Synths were going to blow the tunnels up."
"How can you be sure Anakin wasn't in the tunnels?"
"I can't, I am trusting Jayden to keep an eye on my Padawan," Obi-Wan replied calmly though on the inside, he was in turmoil. He wanted so much to know if his Padawan, the boy he looked to as the brother he never had, was all right. I have to trust Jayden, he thought as he, Siri and Aayla hurried east of the tunnels using the Force to enhance their speed.
It took them about ten minutes to reach the section of the planet that Jayden had been talking about. A large, arrowhead shaped ship rose up in front of them, two parts of the ship at the back were raised to look like flat, slanted rectangular shaped poles and the ship was silver, gleaming brightly in the light of the sun.
"I have never seen a ship such as this before," Siri commented.
"Neither have I," Obi-Wan admitted as he jogged over to stand in front of the entrance to the ship before walking over to the holographic data pad that lay next to the entrance to the ship.
He pressed the open button but a 'denied' flashed across the screen. "Blast it, what was that override code Jayden gave me?" he muttered under his breath as he raked his brain for the code and it came to him. He typed in, in order; 05-64-24-52 and the light turned green before the shield around the ship disappeared and the ramp to the ship lowered slightly.
"Come on," Obi-Wan called hurrying into the ship and gazing around it in awe. The ship was covered with soft, blue coverings and Obi-Wan noticed secret compartments were located above the couch that lay to the right of the entrance to the ship.
"Whoa, I did not see this coming," Aayla commented.
"Neither did I," Siri admitted before she glanced at Obi-Wan with a questioning look in her blue eyes. "Do you know how to fly a ship like this?"
"I sure hope I do or else we're not going anywhere," Obi-Wan replied as he hurried to the cockpit before sitting down in the pilot's seat. He noticed that the controls to the ship were similar to the controls of the ship he and Anakin had flown to Alontia. "I think I'll get the hang of it sooner or later."
Siri snorted. "Hopefully sooner than later," she muttered in a low voice.
A/n what do you think?
Blaze: I liked this chapter
Darth: so what's going to happen to Anakin and Jayden?
Blaze: you'll see
Darth: ah bleh
Blaze: fine, they're going to escape, okay? Are you happy now?
Tigerstar: you didn't tell them they are going to…
Blaze: NOOO! (Picks up Tigerstar, puts a muzzle on him, tosses him into a lake on Naboo and freezes the lake)
Darth: (raises an eyebrow)
Blaze: what? He was going to blow the next chapter
Darth: um, no offense, but you are already doing that
Blaze: I am?
Darth: duh
Blaze: oh okay, well the next chapter takes place three weeks from now
Darth: THREE WEEKS?!
Blaze: yeah, it takes that long to travel from Alontia to the Outer Rim, duh!
Darth: no need to be hurtful
Blaze: (laughs) please review and I'll post the next chapter as soon as I possibly can and the first part of the next chapter is only a few days into the future, the second half is three weeks later