Death Watch

by Miss Singing in the Rain

Ahsoka, Barriss, and Tanya are reunited. Their mission: Investigate and find Death Watch's base. But, when they find not only Death Watch, but an entire Seperatist conspiracy, they realize that it's not just their lives on their lives on the line.

11. Death Watch: Part 11

Death Watch: Part 11

BOOM!

Ahsoka, Barriss, and Tanya covered their heads to shield themselves from the explosions, while holding onto the catwalk rail to keep themselves from falling over the edge. "Run!" a mandalorian warrior yelled. He and the rest of the warriors sprinted down the stairs, trying to reach an exit while dodging the explosions. Ahsoka, Barriss, and Tanya tried to follow them, but the catwalk shook with every step they took.

"We're never going to make it to the other side," Barriss said.

"Well, we aren't getting out any other way," Tanya replied. She started inching her way toward the stairs, being careful to keep the catwalk stable. Ahsoka and Barriss followed her and they had almost made it to the staircase, when Barriss stepped on a weak link on the catwalk that Ahsoka and Tanya were on, as well. The catwalk, suddenly, gave way and the girls started to slide down it, and toward a vat of molten mandalorian iron. They screamed as they tried to stop themselves from falling to their deaths. At the last moment, Ahsoka and Barriss were able to grab onto the rails of the catwalk. Tanya was just barely able to grab onto it, but still had more than half her body hanging off of the catwalk, a few feet away from falling to a fiery, painful death.

"What do we do, now?" Ahsoka asked.

"If we move any more, the whole catwalk might collapse," Barriss pointed out.

"I'm thinking," Tanya told them. She peered all around the warehouse, through the thick, black smoke and stopped at the roof. "Get ready," she instructed.

"For what?" Ahsoka and Barriss asked together.

"Watch," Tanya replied and flipped herself back on top of the catwalk, before leaping off and grabbing hold of a chain lift that was hanging from the roof. The chain dropped from her weight and she swung to another chain lift, then another, until she reached the opposite catwalk. She kicked the window open and swung herself outside, onto a fire escape. "Well, are you coming or not?" she inquired.

Ahsoka looked at Barriss, who shrugged and said, "Better than falling in that vat." Ahsoka and Barriss carefully stood up and leaped off of the catwalk, just as it collapsed. They grabbed the chains and swung to safety, joining Tanya on the walkway.

"Well, that was close," Ahsoka commented.

"Very," Barriss agreed.

"Well," Tanya said, raising her backpack higher on her shoulders. "We'd better go. We still have a job to do."