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Chapter 11

Connected

All three teens were shaken awake later that night by Rezso and Aniken.

"Quick, Aaron, Kati, Ahsoka, get up now! We need to get off the ship!"

Aaron and Ahsoka got up, instantly awake. The days at the academy made them ready for now. Kati wasn't as fortunate.

"Mm mm, Whats happening?" Kati asked, half awake, and starting to sit up slowly.

As she was taking so long, Ahsoka shoved her with the force, accidental pushing her off the cot. On one hand, it did the job.

"Hey! What was that for?" Kati demanded, jumping up, and glaring at her.

On the other had, it made her very mad.

"Sorry, but we've got to move now." Rezso said, pushing them all toward the door. "All three of you get to the escape pods."

"Whats happening, Master?" Aaron asked, running behind Rezso when he moved in front of them.

"We have just come out of Hyper-drive, and straight into a battle zone. This ship wasn't prepared for such a fight, and thus we must evacuate immediately. You need to leave now, before we run out of escape pods. We have a few ships coming in that are going to take most of the troopers into one of the larger ships, but they can't take on young Jedi, so you three have to get to Corasaunt while I get on board one of the ships to help them." Aniken said, ushering them out the door as fast as he could.

Aaron was about to argue, but Rezso gave him a look that quite obviously said, "You have a sister that's completely defenceless and needs to get to safety."

Aaron got the hint, and started running down a hallway Kati didn't even know was there.

"Come on, Kati!" he called.

Giving one more glance at her master, Kati ran after him, down a hall, into a elevator, down more halls, and into a large room still filling up with people all trying to escape.

"Aaron, Ahsoka, your pod is this way." A man said, coming up to them. Grey uniform seemed to match the situation. "General Rezso and General Skywalker told me to get a pod ready for you. Its been programed and everything to take you three straight to Corasaunt."

"Thank you," Aaron said following the grey-uniformed, crew-cut hair-styled person through the crowds with much ease.

Suddenly, the ship rocked and just about everyone went flying to the side of the ship. And to make matters worse, the light went out for almost a whole minute, before emergency-red lights came on.

Something beeped on Aaron's wrist, and it took the three of them a moment to work out that the beep was from his com-link.

Quickly, he pressed the flashing button, and Rezso's voice came though as they got up.

"Aaron, Kati, You need to get out of here as fast as you can. The ship could explode at any moment."

"Master, what about you?" They both asked together.

"I- I don't know. Just get yourselves out as fast as you can. Rezso out."

There was silence as the truth sunk in.

"If the ship explodes, everyone dies." Kati though out loud. "If we leave, we won't die, but we'll have to live with the fact that we got away when everyone else didn't."

Aaron though this over, before holding out his hand. "We can save them, though, we might die."

"At least they can continue fighting." Carefully, she placed her hand in his. Instantly, she felt so much power run though her that she just had to let it out somehow.

"Focus on keeping the ship together." Ahsoka's voice was distant now, because of the blood rushing though her ears, all though her body.

Carefully, she reached out with the force and grabbed the ship, holding it together. She felt Aaron moving into the ship to hold everything together inside.

Kati was finding the power draining her strength. She felt Aaron finding it hard, too. And he was suffering more than her, because he was doing the whole inside of the ship.

Quickly, she moved in front of him and took his other hand. Almost instantly she felt new power rush through her.

Tilting her head back, she prayed for strength from what ever god happened to be listening.

At some point, Kati lost all feeling in every part of her body, except her hands. His strong, warm hands made sure that Kati was at least mostly conscious.

The same went for Aaron. Her cool, soft touch kept him breathing, living. But they were both fading fast. If they kept up like that, they would soon die.

At that moment, Aaron realised something. When Kati took his other hand, Aaron felt new power flow though him. What if...

He slid his hands down her arms and held her elbows. He was right, he felt stronger. He could also feel his toes, something he didn't know he had lost feeling in.

When they had all but blacked out, Kati felt hands pick her up. She also felt hands grabbing Aaron, as he was still at the same height. She knew she was being moved, but to where?

Aaron didn't know how long he was standing, holding Kati, and holding the ship together, but he knew when someone was suddenly trying to pull them apart.

But when he lost contact with Kati, the world just went blank. Not black, but blank, sort of like... a dream... a peaceful... dream...


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