Anakin's POV
"I see her." I yelled across the hall to Obi-Wan, who was deflecting blaster fire from droids with Cody and Fives. I was opposite him and was also defending with Rex and a few rookies. I could barely see Ahsoka across the battle area. She had her lightsabers ignited and was holding it to the kidnapper's throat. Kayril; that sleemo. He'll die at my hands.
I sliced through another droid before charging at the doctor. Obi-Wan and the squadron were covering me from behind. I held my saber behind me, bent on decapitating Kayril. I suddenly came to a halt. Kayril got the upper hand on my apprentice and was holding her at gunpoint.
"I'll blow her brains out if you get any closer!" He screamed across the base. I heard the gunfire stop behind me, Obi-Wan soon caught up to me. He too had his saber drawn.
"Drop them!" Kayril said, motioning his gun towards our lightsabers. He quickly pulled Ahsoka closer to him, flinching the gun on her temple as he did. Ahsoka winced and started crying.
I reluctantly agreed after seeing my padawan scared. We both deactivated them and stood taller. Kayril thought he was off the hook.
"You won't escape, doctor. We have you surrounded." Obi-Wan stated, as he motioned for the squad to take aim. Loud clicking sounds were comforted me from behind to me, and to Ahsoka. She stopped sobbing immediately.
Kayril started chuckling and dropped a silver sphere onto the floor of the cell in a split second. Soon the whole hallway filled with smoke. I stepped back stunned by the smoke. I quickly recovered and charged into the cell, only for it to be empty. Ahsoka and Kayril were gone.
Damn, we were so close. Now they could be anywhere, on the base that is. The base was surrounded by gunships; no person could leave in a ship. That relieved me, but we still needed to find them.
Obi-Wan curiously stepped forward and started caressing the back wall of the cell. At first I thought he was analyzing the Separtist symbol, thinking it had a secret code or something I was wrong.
With a quick tap of his fingers in the right place, Obi-Wan made the wall disappear into the floor, seemingly disintegrating on impact. I caught up to him and glared into the now exposed cave way. There were no lights or anything, only darkness.
"Cody, Rex, keep your men here. Anakin and I will follow this tunnel. You contact us if anything goes awry." Obi-Wan decided. I agreed in my head. This path could lead to Ahsoka-or death. Obi-Wan and I continued into the tunnel, descending into the darkness.
About halfway, when the light from the hallway now gone from behind us, my master and I ignited our sabers once more. The cave continued to get darker and tighter. We found ourselves turning sideways to fit through. Closter phobia was not my forte. Beads of sweat fell off my head onto the cold floor.
"Anakin I think we've found her." Obi-Wan whispered into my ear, stopping in his tracks. I did not know why he was whispering, but I soon knew. Ahsoka was bound head to toe in black band out the near exit of the tunnel. Kayril was seated at a desk with a large holo-projector in front of him.
I managed to make I contact with Ahsoka, who was slumped on the ground behind Kayril. She had long glazed streaks running down her cheeks, like back on Nilban. She nodded and motioned using her head to her lightsabers, which were on a far counter in the corner of the room.
I stretched my hand in front of me levitated the two sabers towards my padawan. She shuffled herself toward, limiting the trip to her.
The pressure must have got to me because I let go of the weapons too abruptly. The fact that any moment Kayril could turn and shoot Ahsoka and the child rang in the back of my mind. Luckily, the sabers landed in Ahsoka's lap, soundlessly.
I exhaled deeply; Obi-Wan padded me on my shoulder after doing this. Ahsoka immediately tried to tilt one into her tied hands, but she was interrupted. She stopped wiggling when the tall figure of Dooku appeared before Kayril's holo-projector. He had a large grimace on his face.
"Kayril, what is the padawan still doing alive? I want them dead now." Dooku demanded. Kayril turned 90 degrees on his chair now staring at Ahsoka. He immediately frowned and furrowed his brow.
"My sincerest apologies, Count. We ran into some difficulties with the jedi." Kayril excused himself. Dooku still seemed grim at his answer.
"Get rid of the girl. I'll be up to deal with the jedi." Dooku demanded, disappearing from the projector. "I'll be up to deal with the jedi." Dooku must be here in the building; somewhere.
Kayril got up from his seat, sliding the grey pistol from his desk into his hands. He turned to face Ahsoka, snickering as he did.
"Well, Miss Tano. It all ends here." Kayril said, pointing his gun at her stomach. He straddled his thick finger on the trigger. I gulped loudly. If Ahsoka had managed to get free, then exposing me would be frivolous and deadly.
However, as if on cue Ahsoka swept a leg under Kayril, knocking him down instantly. He groaned in pain as she stomped a foot right onto his diaphragm, gripping two lightsabers in her hands.
It was now time for Obi-Wan to show ourselves. We plunged out of the cave's darkness to my padawan. All seemed well as we were metres from Ahsoka, until Kayril jolted a foot right into her stomach. She fell instantly. No.
The room filled with screams of pain, and my screams of rage. Obi-Wan rushed to Ahsoka's side, leaning her into his arms. I however ripped Kayril off of the floor. I without another word plunged my saber through his chest, ending him there.
His limp frame falling from my grip to the cold floor. That traitor was dead.
I got to Ahsoka's side, her body still quivering from the pain. I tried to pin her down with my blood drenched hands from Kayril. However, her body still shook.
"We need to leave Anakin, she could go into labor any minute now considering what happened." Obi-Wan decided. I agreed, but the child was still in my mind- it wasn't due for another six weeks.
Obi-Wan gently lifted Ahsoka off of the floor, heading back to the cave. I lead through the hot tunnel, feeling queasy at some points, but we prevailed minutes later on the other side.
The clones greeted us with shocked faces, but said nothing about the shivering Ahsoka. We exited the base quietly, the clones watching for any droids. Fortunately, we made it safely to our shuttle.
We hopped silently onto the floating shuttle, where Obi-Wan headed to the cot to lay Ahsoka down. He ordered F-8HI to watch her closely until we got back to the temple. Once the clones were packed into their gunships, I waved for the lead gunship to move out. We started moving slowly, but kept up speed.
After starting our journey back to the temple, I decided to sit with Ahsoka. Obi-Wan was in the co-pilot's seat, so the room was empty except for F-8 and Snips. I sat on the edge of my padawan's bed, massaging her leg as she slept. Luckily, she had not gone into labour yet.
Minutes in to our decent back to the temple, a clone accompanied us in the room. I stared up at him curiously, for I did not know his name. Instead of introducing himself, he emitted a red lightsaber from his back and plunged it into the nearby F-8. The droid fell instantly in a clang. The high-jacker removed his helmet, revealing his long, slim face.
Dooku.