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Last time: Sasha busted the girls out of the cell.

Now: The fight for Stew-Jon's freedom begins.

Chapter 23- Fight for Freedom

The moment Jedi used the force to push away Blyth and his soliders, Taren grabbed Ava's hand and rushed out of city hall. Several guards tried to stop them, but Taren was able to get them outside in time. He then stood, holding the doors closed to prevent them from being followed by the officers.

"Get the bag!" Taren ordered the elderly woman.

Ava nodded and hustled down the steps as fast as her old body would let her. Once at the bottom, she rushed to her van and pulled open the door to the back seats. She reached into the van and produced a simple leather bag that was actually quite heavy. She nearly dropped it at first due to the surprising weight. It was part of the plan to have their weapons ready to go in the bag that Taren was supposed to grab once they were whisked away to the cells. Now they were grabbing so the Jedi had an advantage to their fight as the plan didn't even exist anymore.

'I never realized they were so heavy," she mumbled to herself as she managed to get a better grip on the bag.

Ava then shut the door closed and hurried back up the steps to Taren, who was still holding the door closed as several officers were trying to bust them down. The doors keep shifting and moving, but Taren was not going to let them budge just yet. Ava soon reached him at the top of the stairs. She held out the bag to him.

"Thanks," Taren said with a grunt as he grabbed the bag with his back still pressed to the door. "Now get out of here. Get to safety quick!"

"Are you sure you all will be alright?" Ava asked worriedly.

"Yes! Now go!" Taren shouted through gritted teeth.

The old woman nodded and took off back down the steps toward her van. She climbed in, started it up, and just as Taren ordered left for somewhere safe. Taren sighed once she was gone. He then moved off the doors and let them burst open suddenly. It caused a few officers who had still been pushing against the other side of the doors to stumble and fall out of city hall. Taren chuckled and re-entered the building. Once inside, he grabbed the door handles and pulled the doors closed. As they closed, Taren spotted a couple of them trying to get up in time to come at him, but they were too late. Taren grabbed a near by pipe and shoved it through the handles, preventing them from opening the doors at all.

Once those clowns were dealt with, Taren turned his attention to the action in the main lobby. Each Jedi was wrestling and fending off officers left and right. Thankfully, Taren had their ace in the hole. He shifted the bag around and opened it. He reached in and produced a single lightsaber. Now Taren only knew what Obi-wan and Sasha's looked like and he knew that Ahsoka used two that were similar looking, but he still wasn't sure on which was Cayden's and which was Anakin's. They told him if it's blue then it's Anakin's. So Taren found the emitter switch and flipped it on. This one was green, not blue. Taren thumbed off the switch and turned to Cayden.

"Cayden!" He called out.

The young male Padawan round house kicked a officer which resulted in him being knocked to the ground. He then turned his attention to Taren a moment later. Taren threw Cayden's saber overhanded in the padawan's direction. Cayden raised his hand up and caught his saber. He thumbed it to life and grinned from ear to ear as he stared at his green blade for moment before turning his attention back to the brawling.

Anakin's saber was the next one that Taren produced from the bag. He called out Anakin's name then threw it at him. Anakin was in the process of avoiding a set of vibroswords by running up a wall and back flipping over the officers as they swung at him. While in midair, Anakin caught his saber, turned it on, and slashed their swords in half when they turned and tried to stop him.

The next two sabers Taren pulled from the bag looked like a matching set. He assumed these were Ahsoka's. He called out her name and one by one, he tossed her sabers to her. She had just flipped an officer over her shoulder and onto the floor. Once he was down, Ahsoka raised her hands and caught both sabers in time to disarm another officer's blaster.

The last two sabers Taren pulled from the bag belonged to Obi-wan and Sasha. With Sasha probably now held up with dealing with Danison, he decided to toss both to Obi-wan.

"Obi-wan," Taren called out.

Obi-wan turned to the sound of his twin brother's voice and caught both his and Sasha's sabers. As soon as he caught them, he thumbed them both to life and blocked the blaster fire that was mere inches from him and would have ended up hitting him if he hadn't caught the sabers. With the bag empty, Taren tossed it aside, picked up a discarded blaster from the floor, and took cover so he could blast away the enemy.

Sasha, Satine, Padme, and Halla hustled as fast as they could down the cell bay. The cell they escaped from was maybe halfway, if not more than halfway, down the hall. But at the pace they were moving due to Halla, it felt like it was taking them longer to get to the lift. However, soon they reached the lift just as the doors opened. Sasha moved in front of the others to shield them from whatever may appear from the lift. Once the lift doors were open, it was revealed to be Danison and a squad of men. Sasha narrowed her eyes.

"Danison," Sasha said in a sour tone.

Danison and his men stepped off the lift, his men's blasters leveled at them.

"Maya," Danison said then corrected himself. 'I mean, Sasha Monroe."

"Oh so we are using our made up names. Then how does this sound for you? Traitor?" Sasha bit back.

"I have not betrayed anyone," Danison said sternly.

"You did the second you stopped doing the right thing," Sasha said evenly. "I moment you decided to treat people with greed, disgust, and hatred, you betrayed the ideals that came with wearing that uniform. I may not actually be a Criminal Justice major, but I do know what it means to be a good solider. And a good person."

An eerie silence fell over the cell bay as she laid that out for him. He glared at her.

"You also betrayed Maya," She added.

His eyebrow twitched.

"Maya was… is not real," Danison hissed. "How can I betray something that isn't real?"

"Maya Ken may not be real, but the person you met and the person, as much as I hate to say it, fell for is still very much real," Sasha corrected him. "I changed nothing about my personality or my way of thinking when I was pretending to be Maya. However, you still fell for Maya… or me… or whatever. And even though, I personally do not return the feelings, you betrayed your heart when you threw her away and put her in a cell to rot. If Maya was real, she would feel heartbroken and betrayed by your hand. In your heart, can you tell me with full honesty that you didn't regret doing what you did?"

Danison was quiet. His men eyed him to see what kind of response their young leader would give. He glared then slowly and almost manically started to laugh.

"What kind of bantha crap is that?" Danison laughed. "I don't care how much you mean to me. If you break the law, then you must face the law. So, you or Maya or whoever you are can feel betrayed all they want. In the end, you will lose, and we will win, and you will brand as the enemy to every person who inhabits Stew-Jon."

Sasha smirked. "You know. You really are a terrible liar."

Danison snarled at her. He truly had been lying and if the force hadn't told her that, his obvious tell did. This nut had fallen for Sasha's fake persona and even when faced with reality, he still had feelings for her. Even though the feeling was definitely not mutual, Sasha could tell that there was a potential for good in him.

"Enough of this. Take them down and have the pregnant one escorted to the Governor. He may want you Jedi, the Senator, and the Duchess to live so we can give you to Dooku," Danison threatened. "But what's one less Jedi to give him?"

"I'd like to see you try," Sasha said with a chuckle.

Danison signaled for his men to open fire on them. They did. Sasha brought up one hand and stopped the blaster bolts from hitting her and the others behind her as they dove for cover in the sunken in doorways of the cells. Once she was sure they were safely covered, Sasha dropped her hand and let the blasts fly past her as she leapt up to the ceiling above to avoid them. Sasha then swung from the pipes like a primate and then launched herself at the officers, taking two of them out with a spilt kick.

Padme then started to fire stun blasts at the officers from her spot in cover causing them drop to the ground unconscious. Satine shielded Halla with her body as she carefully glanced out of their spot in cover to watch the fighting happen.

Sasha then moved on to take out another set of guards with the baton she stole from the officer's, who 'freed' them, body. She was quick with the little baton stick as she smacked shins, jabbed ribs, hit faces, and tripped up feet. She was taking the men down faster than Padme was shooting them, and the Senator wasn't missing a shot!

The most impressive part of this whole thing was Sasha's body was still healing from her injuries earlier that day, but she was moving as if they had been a ploy this whole time. Once the last man was knocked out, Sasha stood and leveled the baton at Danison, who was now the final officer left. She chuckled, slightly out of breath.

"Looks like it's just you and me left, Danison," Sasha said.

"You may have taken out my men," Danison said as he moved into a ready position. He was actually going to take her in hand to hand combat. "But if I recall the last time we fought when I raided Ava's house, I won."

"I do remember," Sasha said then took a ready stance. "And I won't be making that mistake again."

They stared each other down in a tense silence.

"Padme, get Satine and Halla out of here," Sasha ordered. "I'll handle Danison on my own."

Padme nodded, helped Satine with Halla, and led them past the two glaring each other down in the cell bay. As they passed her, Sasha handed off the security cylinder to Padme so they could use it for the lift or any other access point they needed to get back to the others. The lift arrived, they boarded, and left. Once they were gone, Sasha turned her attention back to Danison.

"Now that they are safely gone," Sasha commented. "We don't need to hold back."

That made Danison smile. 'Who said I was going to anyway?"

He then launched himself at Sasha.

The fighting in the main lobby was starting to slow down, but wasn't over yet. There were several, if not about a dozen or so officers that put up a really good fight and were not backing down. However, that just made it more interesting to the Jedi. Suddenly, from the hallway that Danison and his squad disappeared down, appeared Padme, Satine, and Halla. Taren was the closest one to them and rushed over the moment they appeared. He grabbed them and carefully guided them into cover behind the tipped over receptionist desk.

"Thank the force you're alright," Taren said as he hugged his wife. "Are you okay? Is the baby?"

"Yes, we're fine," Halla said out of breath. "We just ran over here is all."

Taren nodded and looked to Padme and Satine.

"Are you two okay?" he asked them. They both nodded. 'Where's Sasha?"

'She stayed behind to deal with Danison," Satine said with a worried tone. "However, he is the one responsible for her injuries in the first place. Who knows what he will do this time now she knows it's him. I fear she may get hurt down there or worse."

"I would be more afraid if I were in Danison's shoes then hers," Taren said with a smirk. "Knowing that kid, Sasha will not let him win again. But I do understand the worry though."

Taren then peaked up over the desk and spotted Cayden nearby.

'Cayden," he called over.

The padawan disarmed and knocked out another officer before rushing over.

"What's up?" Cayden asked then noticed the others. 'Are you guys okay? Where is Sasha?"

"Dealing with Danison," Padme and Taren said in unison.

"Karabast," Cayden cursed. He scanned over the room then nodded. "I'll go help her."

The four of them nodded at him.

Cayden rushed from the table over to Obi-wan on the other side of the room.

"Cayden, what is it?" Obi-wan asked as he parried another blow. "Any word from Sasha and the others?"

"The Duchess, the Senator, and Halla are here and taking cover with Taren," Cayden said before disarming then force pushing a guy away. "However, Sasha is still downstairs dealing with Danison. I'm going after her."

Obi-wan looked at him with a nod and handed him Sasha's saber before clasping his shoulder.

"Go and get her, son," Obi-wan said with a determined tone.

Cayden smiled and nodded. He then sheathed the saber onto his belt and rushed down the corridor that led to the cell bay below.

Hang on, Sash. I'm coming.

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