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Chapter 11.

Anakin—

"Master, come in."

"Anakin, please."

"Master, come home…please, answer!"

I moaned and opened my eyes, struggling to sit up. I saw yellow dots fill my vision and closed my eyes again, trying to calm myself down. When I reopened my eyes, a droid was standing above of me, holding my comlink in its metallic hand.

"Cadena?" I whispered painfully.

The droid clamped its hand around the comlink and it was smashed to pieces.

"Too bad, Jedi." The droid chortled and walked out of the room. I blinked a couple of times and looked around myself.

Where was I?
I blinked a couple more times. I was in some sort of crate, surrounded by other boxes in a large room, and with a pang I realized that my plan really was a failure.

I had found the machine, but as soon as I made a move to get it, a bomb went off in my face…unfortunately; I had forgotten that there might really have been traps around me.

Whoops.

'Next time, listen to Cadena.' I thought, rubbing my eyes.

Everywhere hurt. My head was pounding and when I looked down; my tunic was already stiff with blood. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, trying hard not to focus on the wound.

"Master?"

My eyes snapped open and I felt my heart thud even louder, if that was possible.

"Master?" The voice called again and my eyes scanned the room until they landed on the crate.

Inside, a Togaruta girl was sitting, cross-legged in the box, looking at me with wide eyes.

"Ahsoka!" I shouted and inched forward.

"Anakin, it's really you!" Ahsoka shouted and I felt as though my heart would split open. "Ahsoka, what are you doing here?" I gasped. Ahsoka bit her lip. "The Separatist want Jedi, and they found me. They tracked me down and took me here…I think they want to take away the Force-sensitive part of me…" Ahsoka says in a small, scared voice.

"You're right." I said sadly. Ahsoka nodded. "They didn't do it yet, but they will soon…I could feel it." She whispered. I felt a lump lodge in my throat and asked, "Where were you all this time?" Ahsoka smiled sadly. "You know senator Bonteri?" She asks.

I nodded slowly. Ahsoka leaned back and said, "He found me and brought me to his home planet. I live with him now." I closed my eyes, trying to process the information. "All this time, Lux Bonteri had you with him?" I asked, trying to control the emotions in my voice.

"Yeah." Ahsoka replied shortly. "He gave me a new home." I swallowed and whispered, "Why couldn't you have at least seen me? Or visited?" Ahsoka bit her lip and I felt my voice become louder. "Do you have any idea how much I missed you? I wanted to see you so badly, and sometimes, it hurt so bad, I couldn't even do anything! I waited for that ONE call from you to say that you were alright!"

Ahsoka swallowed and said, "I couldn't do that! Anakin, I knew that as soon as I called you, or as soon as I visited, you would somehow persuade me to rejoin the Temple, but I can't…you KNOW that I can't." I closed my eyes and said tightly, "Master Yoda gave me a new Padawan."

When I reopened my eyes, Ahsoka was looking at me with a confused and surprised expression on her face. "Wait…who?" She asks quietly. "Her name is Cadena." I said shortly. "I didn't want anything to do with her, and you know why? It's because I wanted YOU with me, not her!"

"That's selfish, Anakin." Ahsoka replied and I shook my head. "Ahsoka, why couldn't you come back?" I asked in a choked voice. "Why?" Ahsoka sighed and she whispered, "It would be too hard, too painful."

I laid my head down and murmured, "Of course." Ahsoka took in a sharp breath and then she says, "Listen, Skyguy, I wanted to see you as much as you wanted it!" I still didn't look up. "If anything, I waited for you to come to me, but I knew that you wouldn't…after all, you're still with the Temple, right?" She laughed bitterly.

"I'm sorry, Anakin. I miss you all the time; too…I almost began crying the second you came in…" Ahsoka says in a quieter tone. I looked up and found tears in her eyes. "I missed you." She whispered. I sat up and said, "I missed you, too."

Then, a thought came to me. "Ahsoka…did you by any chance bring in a child to Shili?" I asked. Ahsoka's eyes widened and she nodded. I hesitated and said, "She looks just like you, only she has brown and green eyes…and I was wondering if she was…" Ahsoka smirked and began giggling. I looked up, surprised.

"What's so funny?" I asked, frowning. Ahsoka covered her mouth with a hand and laughed even harder. "You think that she's my kid?" She asked, smiling. I felt my face turn red and muttered, "Yes." Ahsoka giggled even more and slapped the ground. "You're kidding, Skyguy!" She says breathlessly. "Seriously, I can't believe that you thought that SHE, oh my gosh!" She continued to laugh.

I rolled my eyes and asked, "Is she your child or not?" Ahsoka shook her head. "Nah, she's not mine. She's my little sister's kid." She replied. I raised an eyebrow. "I thought that you didn't have a younger sister." I say. Ahsoka shrugged. "My father remarried and they had a child while I was gone. She had a kid and well, she died." Ahsoka said sadly. "I brought her to a village, and right away I knew that she was Force-sensitive. I knew that I should have brought her to the Temple, but…" Her voice drifted off.

"You didn't want to come back." I finished for her. Ahsoka nodded. "I planned on having someone else come for her." Ahsoka said slowly. "Cadena and I brought her home." I whispered. Ahsoka smiled. "What a coincidence, huh?" She asks softly. I nodded.

"Anything else happened?" Ahsoka asked. "What's Cadena like?" I scuffed the toe of my boot against the ground. "She's alright." I murmured. Ahsoka raised an eye marking. "I heard her voice through the comlink. She sounded really worried about you." She offers softly.

I shrugged. "She's a human." I started. "She's pretty snippy, just like you." Ahsoka laughed and she says, "It's easy to be snippy around you." I chuckled and said, "She called me Skyguy the first day I met her." Ahsoka grinned. "Well, that IS a catchy nickname." She says cheerfully.

I nodded. "She's also pretty smart, and can be kind when she wants to…other times, she can be stubborn and impatient…a lot like you, actually." I added. Ahsoka's face grew forlorn and sad and she murmured, "I would like to meet her."

I gave her a smile. "That would be interesting to see." I managed to reply. Ahsoka nodded and she extended her hand through one of the holes in the cage until her fingers barely touched mine when I reached my arm out. "It's nice to see you again, Anakin." Ahsoka whispered and I nodded.

Just as I was beginning to feel hopeful and happier, the doors opened and we quickly put our arms back in the cages as droids walked in. A commander droid looked over at me and motioned one of its companions to open the latch.

I exchanged questioning looks with Ahsoka as I crawled out. I bit my lip, trying my best not to howl in pain. Blast, everything hurt so much…I winced and stood up. "What do you want?" I growled. "You are to come with us, Jedi." The droid says placidly. "Cooperate with us and we will spare your life." I raised an eyebrow. "Oh yeah, because Separatist droids are SO honest about their word." I muttered under my breath.

"We need you to activate our device." The droid went on and I narrowed my eyes at it. "Why do I need to?" I asked, wishing that I had my light saber in hand right now. However, it had been taken away from me.

Of course.

'Your light saber is your life, Anakin.' Obi-wan's voice floated in my head and I scowled.

"Your kind is the only kind that can activate the device." The droid replied. I rolled my eyes. "Let's get this over with, shall we?" I snarled and picked the droid up using the Force and slammed it into a wall. I barely had enough time to turn around when I heard a gunshot and I fell to the ground, moaning as blood slowly gathered around my leg.

"Get up, Jedi." A droid commands and nudges me with its foot. I grunted and leaned against the wall to support myself.

It wasn't anything too serious, just…I closed my eyes. As long as I don't think about it, I won't feel the pain…hopefully.

"We will kill you and the Togaruta on the spot." The droid says and I turned my head slowly over to Ahsoka. Her eyes widened and I swallowed. "What do you want me to do?" I asked shakily. I heard Ahsoka gasp but I ignored her.

'Why does this decision come every blasted time?' I thought indignantly to myself. 'Can I just have one mission without having to make a sacrifice? Please?'

But that couldn't happen, right?

"Come with us." The droid says and they pushed me ahead of them, out of the room. I closed my eyes and let out a breath.

They lead me into a lighted room and in its center stood a round, metallic object that I assumed was the device that would destroy all of the Force-sensitive parts of the Jedi.

My hands tightened into fists but I kept my voice steady. "What do you want me to do?" I asked again. "You must use the Force to activate this machine." The droid replied and I shook my head. "No." I said firmly. "You must do it." The droid commanded. "We will torture you if you do not do it."

Oh, so now it's torturing? Which one was it, the killing or torturing to get me to do this damned thing? No matter, both options weren't looking too good for me.

I stood upright and looked at the droid in the um, eye. "I'm not going to do it." I said slowly. "So be it!" The droid says and two droids walked over to me and hooked me up to an electrifying, torture machine that I was a little too familiar with from my past missions.

I bit my lip and closed my eyes, preparing for the worst.

As soon as the droid flicked the lever, I was surrounded by blue plasma bolts and I cringed and jerked around, screaming every second the pain went on.

At last, the droid stopped and says, "Will you do it for us now?" I gasped, trying to regain my breath and growled, "No."

The droid flicked on the switch again.

•◊•

"No, no, no, you must be awake for this part, Skywalker."

I groaned and tried to open my eyes, but tiredness and fatigue kept them closed.

"Wake up!" The voice shouted and a metallic hand slapped me across the face. I opened my eyes and almost jumped out of my skin when Grievous' face greeted me, looking satisfied and haughty in his position.

"How nice of you to join us." Grievous says, chortling. "We were wondering if you had expired or not." I narrowed my eyes at him. "You'll never get me to do what you want." I snarled. "Ever."

Grievous shook his head. "You will regret that, Skywalker." He says with a sly smile creeping up on his face. Before I could ask what he meant, the droids unshackled me from the torture device and pushed me out of the room.

Magna droids guarded me as I walked down the corridor. "In here, Jedi." The droid says in a dull voice and shoved me into a prison cell, different from the crate I was stuck in back with Ahsoka.

The droids exited the room and left me in the cell by myself and I leaned my head against the cool wall. At least I had some time.

I looked around myself, taking note of what wounds I had. My leg hurt like hell, but I could deal with that later. I was feeling sore and shaken up from being in the torture chamber, and no doubt I had scratches and bruises along my back from the bomb.

'It's nothing too serious.' I thought reassuringly to myself. 'You've faced worse.'

I sighed and concentrate on getting some rest. I had the feeling that I would be needing it soon.

"Cadena, stop pacing!" Obi-wan says sharply as Cadena circles around her quarters again.

"I can't…" Cadena whispered. "I can't stop thinking about it…"

Obi-wan smiled sadly. "Anakin has been in situations like these before. He'll be fine, as long as he keeps his head." Cadena threw her hands up in exasperation and worry. "We shouldn't have let him go by himself!" She shouted. "We should have gone! Why did you hold me back? Anakin NEEDED me!"

Obi-wan stood up and placed a hand on Cadena's shoulder. "Careful, young one. You're letting your emotions cloud your judgment. Such emotions can be dangerous to a Jedi." Cadena shrugged Obi-wan away and glared at him, her eyes flashing.

"How can you even say that?" She asks angrily. "You know him better than I do! If anything, you should be worrying even more! He was your Padawan! Aren't you at least even a bit worried or concerned?!" Obi-wan watched sadly as Cadena stomped around the room.

"Cadena, the best we can do right now is calm down and think things through instead of rampaging like some wild animal." Obi-wan says softly. "We can't just wait around here!" Cadena growled. "We have to rescue him, right NOW!" Obi-wan nodded. "We will be organizing a rescue team, but Cadena, you must not come." He says.

Cadena clenched her hands into fists. "Why not?" She asks. Obi-wan sighed. "Cadena, we cannot endanger any more Jedi." He says slowly. Cadena shook her head. "I have to! Anakin is my master!" She protested. Obi-wan shook his head but Cadena stopped him.

"NO! I AM going on that rescue mission, and you can't stop me!" She yelled and ran out of the room.

I gasped, opening my eyes.

That was too real to be a dream…another vision. I groaned and slapped my forehead with a hand. "At least they're coming for me." I said aloud to myself but I couldn't help but to feel uneasy for what was about to come.

Cadena was worried.

Blast.

•◊•

"You will do what we had ordered you to do." A droid says nonchalantly to me in my cell. I shook my head wearily.

This was going on for too long.

"Skywalker, I am becoming impatient with your answers!" Grievous yelled and faster than my eyes could follow; he had me against the wall, his hand closed around my neck.

I gasped and tried to kick him off of me but I couldn't. Grievous kicked me in the stomach and I closed my eyes, trying hard not to cry out again.

Darkness was closing in quickly and I was doing everything I could to keep fighting Grievous off.

Then, Grievous let go of me, laughing. "Let's see how long we can keep you alive with that kind of attitude, yes?" He says, wickedness glinting in his eyes.

I collapsed to my knees, sputtering and gasping for my circulation system to go back to normal.

"Now." Grievous snarled. "Do what we have said, or we will force you to."

I shook my head weakly. "You won't get it from me." I said, still on the ground.

Grievous put his face up to mine and snarled, "We will break you."

I smiled; trying to cling onto a little bit of bravado in me that still remained. "Good luck with that." I replied.

I closed my eyes and vaguely heard a loud THUNKing noise and a shout of pain, which I realized had come from my own mouth.

I struggled to stay awake, but I was tired.

I'll get out of here…as soon as I…sleep…

A/N: Haha, I bet you never saw it coming that Ahsoka was gonna come, right? :) :)

Ahsoka: Hi everybody! *waves*

Me: Ahsoka, since you have just made an appearance in the story, can you please do the review notice?

Ahsoka: Sure. Besides, I wanna show that I can be more mature than Skyguy over here. ;)

Anakin: I HEARD THAT!

Ahsoka: You were asking for it. *shrug*

Anakin: Just because I told you that you shouldn't be hanging out with Lux doesn't mean that I'm whiny!

Ahsoka: Yes it does!

Anakin: Be quiet, Snips.

Ahsoka: *shakes head* Please review, and give feedback. Hater messages are not allowed!

Me: Please doods, please review, 'cause sometimes I don't really know if you guys are reading the story or not so please...? *Bambi eyes*

Ahsoka: PLUS I TOLD YOU GUYS TO, SO YOU GUYS BETTER REVIEW! NOW!

Anakin: *rubs ears* You two are so annoying...-_-

Me: WHY YOU GOTTA BE SO MEAN?! *dancing around the room along to Taylor Swift*

Anakin: *sighs and shuts off my iPod*

Me: NOOOOO! ANAKIN, YOU SON OF A SITH! *runs around chasing him*

Ahsoka: *giggling and taking a video of my crazy chase* See ya guys later!