Esinon walked through the streets of Iziz, gripping a holo-recorder. She shifted among the people, a young twi'lek boy stared up at her. Esinon smiled down at him before putting a finger to her lips, the young twi'lek nodded and let Esinon move on. She quickly placed the transmitter and disappeared back into the population. She shifted through the streets and people until she met back up with Lux.

"Is everything set up?" she whispered, he nodded,

"Ahsoka should be back in a few minutes," a few moments later Ahsoka appeared.

"There's a bigger droid transport, two platoons, and two tanks," Ahsoka said,

"Hope they're ready for a big attack," Esinon murmured,

"The rebels can handle it," Lux replied,

"I wasn't talking about the rebels." A few minutes later loud screaming and explosions filled the streets and Esinon, Ahsoka, and Lux waited in an alley until it was time. Steela signaled them and with a few presses of Ahsoka's gauntlet, large holograms of the rebel leader appeared through the streets of Iziz.

"People of Onderon," Steela began, "the time has come to take back our freedom. We all have been deceived. King Rash is a traitor who has sold Onderon to the Separatists for the crown. But Onderon is ours. We need your strength to reclaim our planet, and restore our sovereignty under our true king, King Dendup." Esinon could hear murmurs rippling through the street as Steela's hologram disappeared.

"Hopefully this works," Lux said, both Jedi ignored him for a moment as they sifted through the different force signatures in the streets.

"The people are a bit fearful," Ahsoka murmured,

"But they have resolve, they think this might work," Esinon replied,

"Really?" Lux exclaimed, Esinon glared at him,

"Keep it down, but yes," she replied, "You've given the people hope, but now we've really gotten King Rash and Dooku's attention. More droids will be coming."

"Esinon's right Lux, we can never let our guard down," Ahsoka added, the Senator quickly nodded and the three of them headed off.

Thunder cracked through the sky as rain pounded against the rebels' hideout as they started to move supplies in.

"Okay guys, put it in the back with the rest," Ahsoka said, Esinon crossed her arms, shifting her eyes along the street for droid activity. She was immediately ripped from her thoughts when a rebel yelled for Steela,

"Steela!" She shouted, sprinting down the stairs, "They're executing King Dendup tomorrow in Yohlan square tomorrow!" Steela glanced at the Jedi and then turned back to the rebel in shock,

"Where did you hear this?"

"Malgan Market. The merchants," the rebel replied, "The Separatists are saying that he's behind our attacks," Steela scoffed,

"More lies," She muttered, "They're making him an example to humiliate us," they all entered the hideout,

"Maybe, but their efforts could work against them," Ahsoka began,

"Executing him would only make him a martyr," Esinon finished,

"We can't let him die," Saw exclaimed, "We have to break him out now!"

"No, we should wait until he's in public, at the execution," Steela said,

"That's where they'd expect it," he argued,

"I know but this is our moment," she replied, trying to reason with her brother, "We'll save him for all of Iziz to see. We don't have much time,"

"They're counting on us showing up!" Saw snapped, he began marching towards the door.

"Where are you going?" she asked,

"Trust me," Saw said,

"Stop," Steela ordered, Saw didn't stop. Why wasn't he listening to Steela? Or Esinon?

'Come on Saw, you don't want to regret any of this.' He finally froze,

"Let me take care of this," Saw said a little more forcefully,

"This isn't about you,"

"We can't afford a reckless move right now," Lux said,

"Yeah?" Saw growled, "Go write a speech about it," Lux scowled at him,

"You have to weigh the risk," Ahsoka said,

'He's gonna do what he wants,' Esinon thought to herself,

"That's why I'm going alone," Saw replied, he disappeared around the corner into the rain. Esinon followed after him for a moment,

"Esinon, where are you going?" Ahsoka asked,

"After Saw, he's gonna get himself killed," she said,

"You can't," Ahsoka said, "We're here to advise, not to fight,"

"You know what Ahsoka, I don't care. Enough of these rebels have died because we've done barely anything. If we as Jedi can't act on any of the knowledge we have, this war will be over as we know it. I'm not gonna sit here and let more people die when I know that I could have saved them."

"That's what we were ordered to do," Ahsoka snapped, now both of them were standing in the rain, getting soaked.

"Well, you can try and stop me. Tell the council for all I care, even if I get in trouble I will know that I saved someone's life."

"Why do you always have to be so stubborn!" Ahsoka shouted, "I'm in charge!"

"No one ever said that! I'm the one who's been looking out for you this entire time! I'm the only one who has been focused! You've been too busy fighting over Lux with Steela!" Esinon instantly regretted saying that out-loud because she saw Ahsoka's face go bright red and Lux glanced between the three girls.

"I thought you were my friend," the togruta whispered,

"I am your friend," Esinon said, "But right now you're acting like my superior officer. I'm going whether you like it or not." And with that, Esinon sprinted away, trying to ignore Ahsoka's desperate cries of her name.

Esinon didn't use her speed at the moment because she could only focus on one thing at a time, and the thing she was focusing on was Saw's force signature. He had a significant headstart on her, she just needed to get to him before he got caught. He wasn't trained for this like she was. Esinon picked up the pace as she bobbed and weaved through the streets of Iziz towards the palace. She knew that's where they'd be holding King Dendup. She felt sick, she knew she shouldn't have been so mean to Ahsoka, or run off, but she knew somehow that Saw was going to get himself in trouble. Esinon had never been the best about… listening to the council, or adhering to the code but after being a slave- after sepsis, Kadavo? She couldn't just sit anymore, she had to act, too many people had died because she- and the Jedi had failed to act.

She finally skidded to a halt in front of the palace, she scanned the edge and found no security cameras; she quickly bounded up between the pillars to the roof. She peered down through the open-air roof into a greenhouse. Weird that they were keeping the King in here, this certainly wasn't a prison cell. She saw Saw below talking to the King,

"Saw," she hissed, "Saw Gerrera," he finally glanced up at her and did a double-take.

"Esinon?" he asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Making sure you don't do something too stupid, now come on, get the King and let's move! Before droids show up," King Dendup glanced from her to Saw,

"I suggest you listen to her," he said, Saw nodded, pulling a grappling gun from his belt. He fired it and it immediately reflected back at him and the roof became engulfed in a red shield, and searchlights flashed over the building into the greenhouse. Esinon instantly pressed herself against the wall so that no one would see her. Well this was just going perfectly. Loud sirens blared and Esinon scrunched her eyes shut for a moment as she tried to regain her bearings. She watched as droids came running around the corner and grabbed Saw restraining him. To her surprise, he didn't call out for her.

'He knows he can't, he knows that will blow my cover… he's trusting me to come and get him.'

Esinon had inspected the palace for almost an hour before she'd come up with a viable plan to get Saw out of there. She could already sense his pain, no doubt they were torturing him. What Esinon didn't know is Steela had sent a rebel to follow the both of them and had already reported back that Saw had been captured. And Steela had made the decision to leave her brother. Esinon snuck down a tower, making it through a small window. She landed, peering around the corner for droid guards. She needed to find an info port to figure out where they were holding Saw. She used her speed to begin searching the halls, avoiding droids, and guards, all while searching for Saw. She finally skidded to a halt when she heard a blast door whoosh, she instantly disappeared around a corner. She watched from the shadows as a pair of droids dragged a barely conscious Saw behind them and a bearded man in ornate clothing followed after them. She needed a way to follow them without being spotted… Her mind started pumping at a million miles a minute.

'I could use my speed somehow… phasing. Phasing! Phasing is vibrating at the frequency of air… people can't see air! So if I could vibrate myself that fast without sinking through the floor. Ok… just need to concentrate. Just gonna standstill, really fast.' She took a deep breath and concentrated beginning to vibrate herself, soon she'd become invisible to the naked eye and began to follow after the droids and the man. They snaked through hallways until they dragged Saw into a new room and the droids were ordered to leave.

She ducked around a corner and stumbled slightly as she fell out of her long-held phase, she panted for a moment, feeling exhausted. That was a lot harder than she expected it was going to be.

She stretched out through the force and could feel Saw's force signature, it wasn't in as much pain as it had been earlier, but he was definitely still hurting. So she assumed they'd stopped torturing him and that they had moved him to a holding cell, except she could feel the force signature of the man in ornate clothing in the room as well.

She could feel his force signature… swaying? Had Saw turned the tables?

"Focus Windcaster," she murmured to herself, she pulled her dagger from her boot and poked her head around the corner and found the hallway completely empty. She crept over to the door panel and used her speed to whip through combinations on the lock pad before it blinked green and whooshed open. She launched herself into the room, tackling the man away from Saw and pressing him up against the wall with her dagger to his throat,

"Es-"

"Don't say my name," Esinon commanded and Saw snapped his mouth shut.

"Did you get to King Dendup?" Saw said after a moment, the man tried to move in Esinon's split second of distraction, but she grabbed his tunic slamming against the wall again.

"If you value your life buddy, I wouldn't move," she snarled, she had no intention of killing this guy, but he didn't know that. "And no, that's not my concern right now," Esinon used her opposite hand to deliver a swift punch to the man's jaw and he slumped underneath her. She dropped him to the floor and sheathed her dagger, "Come on, we gotta move now," she grabbed onto his shoulder, "This might feel… um- fast?" Saw gave her a confused look,

"What's that supposed to-" she took off a superspeed with Saw and ran through the streets of Iziz until she found an abandoned section of the city that would be good for them to hunker down for the night. She finally slowed to a stop and Saw blinked his eyes a few times, looking pale.

"You ok?" Saw glanced at her, hand still gripping her shoulder tightly.

"That was fast," he murmured, "Ugh, I'm nauseous. How do you do that all the time? I might throw up,"

"Well I'm used to it," she said with a wince of sympathy when he dry heaved. "And sorry, I couldn't think of a better way to get us out quickly,"

"It's fine, thanks for coming to get me," he said, he looked around the street finally realizing that they hadn't gone back to the rebel's hideout. "Wait a second, why didn't we go back to the hideout?" Esinon began to slowly guide him inside, he was moving slowly and there were substantial bruises and cuts on his face and arms.

"In case the droids are able to track us down if they tracked us back to the hideout your rebellion would be over." She sat him down on an old couch, scanning the inside of the room. There was a sink, some old furniture, maybe if she looked hard enough she'd find some blankets. Nights on Onderon weren't exactly warm. "Stay there, don't go to sleep. I'm going for a look around."

"Why can't I sleep?" Saw grumbled, "I'm tired," she tapped her own forehead where a cut lay on Saw's.

"Head injuries are nasty," she replied, "If you go to sleep, you might not wake up again." Saw stared at her a little shocked, "I'll be back," after a few minutes of searching she managed to find some old blankets in a cupboard. Esinon had heard that when the Separatists came to Iziz, they forced all of the people on the outer edges of the city to move inward so they could keep track of everyone. It looked like whoever had lived here only took the bare essentials. She ripped off the corner of a blanket creating a make-shift washcloth and soaking it in water before starting to clean the cuts on Saw's face and arms. He was quiet for the most part- a first really- while she worked. "Follow my finger," she said eventually, he did, struggling slightly. "Looks like you've got a mild concussion, and there's some electrical damage plus the bruises and cuts. Nothing's infected or broken so with some rest you should be fine,"

"Where'd you learn all this stuff?" Saw asked, watching her shift silently around the room.

"Reg manuals, experience," she replied, motioning for him to lay down, and Saw did. He watched her again as she began to mess with her dagger,

"I just noticed this but you wear armor, Commander Tano doesn't, why?" he asked,

'Saw's more curious than I thought, probably some of the concussion though. And some people are different when they're alone with other people. Fives is the same way… he's a lot more gentle and kind with me when we're alone instead of being his usual brash self.'

"Well Ahsoka hasn't worn armor since before the war began. Something about togruta having higher body temp than humans do. I dunno, Rex and I once tried to have an intervention with her about it, but nothing ever came of it. I'm more attached to my armor I guess…" she tapered off, she didn't really share the reason why often.

"Why?" Saw asked, Esinon sighed,

"If I tell you, will you go to sleep?"

"I thought I couldn't go to sleep," he teased, Esinon rolled her eyes, "And yeah- sure,"

"The last time I took off my armor for a mission I died. I was severely injured and my heart stopped beating for six minutes. Some parts of war you bring back with you." she said, going to sit by the door, "I'll wake you in a few hours,"

"What about tomorrow?" he asked,

"We're going to King Dendup's execution, I know by now that the rebels and Ahsoka have come up with some sort of plan to get him out. We just have to be there to help them." she said, she let out a harsh breath. She knew she should com Ahsoka… but they needed some space. And Ahsoka needed to get her priorities.

The next morning…

Saw and Esinon slunk through the crowd towards the front of Yohlan square. She had already spotted a handful of rebels, she pulled her DC-17 out of her belt.

"Here, you're gonna need this," she murmured, passing it to Saw. "But I want that back, that one's my favorite,"

"Thanks, but aren't Jedi supposed to fight with lightsabers only?" he asked, Esinon sighed,

"Just- yes but I don't follow the rules sometimes," he shrugged, hiding the blaster within the folds of his cloaks. "Also Saw, I… I can't help you this time. I'm in enough trouble as it is,"

"You came back for me, I think I owe you more than you owe me," he replied, Esinon smiled up at him for a moment before focusing back up.

"Go find Steela, I'm sure she can give you an abbreviated version of the plan," Saw gave her a nod of thanks before disappearing. She scanned the execution stand, there were two magna's holding electro staffs next to an uncharged rey shield. There were at least twenty B-1s, along with two more magnas escorting King Dendup… and a tactical droid. That's where they were getting all of the new droids, Dooku had sent reinforcements. King Rash was walking in the front until he reached the guillotine.

"As your king," Rash began, "I present to you Ramsis Dendup not as a former King, but as a criminal sponsoring terrorist acts against the people of Onderon. But fear not good citizens, as your leader and protectorate, I will see that you are safe from such villainy. He has betrayed you, and today he will pay for those treasonous deeds… with his life." King Dendup was forced onto his knees as Rash smiled cruelly down at him. He then said something to Dendup that Esinon couldn't hear and cackled, he then took a bite out of a pear before dropping it into the uncharged rey shield. The Magnas readied their electro-staffs and drove them into the ports on the side of the guillotine. A smoking half of the pear slid down the stairs towards the watching crowd, Esinon grimaced. That certainly was a gruesome death. Rash motioned forward and the Magna grabbed Rash's shoulder and guided his head into the rey shield. "Ready weapons!" the magnas slammed their staffs into the ground and lifted their staffs into a ready position as Rash lifted his hand.

"Steela's certainly waiting till the last second,' Esinon thought nervously to herself. King Rash signaled and before the magnas could execute Dendup a cry went through the crowd.

"Now!" Steela shouted, she jumped up onto Lux's shoulder as he tossed her her rifle and took out the two magnas next to the guillotine. Someone tossed a pair of smoke grenades onto the platform and suddenly the platform was engulfed in smoke. Blaster fire sounded as Esinon watched blurry forms of rebels leap up onto the stage and take out multiple droids. A droid popper went off cascading light and electric sparkles around the droids. Esinon could vaguely tell what was happening, but from her vantage point and through all the smoke she couldn't tell who was winning. She assumed that the rebels were winning because the number of red flashes was diminishing. A few seconds later the rebels emerged from the smoke surrounding King Dendup in a defensive circle.

"This way! Come on! Let's go!" a rebel shouted as the crowd started to open a pathway. She was instantly shot through the chest by oncoming B2s. Seeing that that exit was blocked, Steela and the rebels took off in a different direction but were soon met with more droids. The rebels were surrounded from all sides,

"Surrender now or die," the tactical droid ordered after regaining its bearings.

"It's over," King Dendup said, "Do as they say," and with that, the rebels laid their weapons down. The B2s backed up the defenseless up the stairs back towards the guillotine, the crowd let out roars of abuse towards King Rash.

"Calm yourselves," King Rash said, rubbing the back of his head where a rebel had whacked him, "the threat is over, see for yourselves these traitors endure the same punishment." King Dendup was once again forced to his knees and his head placed through the shield. Esinon started to make a beeline for the front of the square when she spotted another cloaked figure doing the same, she squinted and realized she recognized those peaks at the top of the cloak. Guess Ahsoka couldn't resist helping these rebels either, "Ready weapons," King Rash said to the magna replacements,

"They're innocent, let them go!" Someone in the crowd shouted, King Rash raised his hand above his head.

"The snake will not strike again,"

"Stop!" a man called from behind King Rash, Esinon stared at him, it was the ornate man she'd knocked out last night, with the entire Onderon army. Saw actually got through to him? "The only snake I see sire, is you," Esinon instantly froze, as the army surrounded the remaining droids, the General aimed his staff at King Rash's face,

"Traitor," Rash spat,

"I was," the General said, he then turned his gaze to Saw and the rebels, "But not anymore," Lux helped up King Dendup as the General put King Rash in a chokehold.

"What are you doing?" Rash cried, the rebels started down the stairs, guarding King Dendup, they picked up their weapons and started to leave, part of the army following after them. A few seconds later the rest of the army followed as the crowd cleared a path for the rebels. As soon as all of the rebels and the army had disappeared the B2s lowered their blasters towards the General who was still holding King Rash. "What now General? As soon as you release me you'll be shot dead." Two destroyers rolled out at the command of the tactical droid, just as Esinon was about to leap into the fray Ahsoka beat her to it. Ahsoka leapt into the air igniting her lightsaber. The padawan's cloak's hood fell off of her montrals as she used the force to knock over every droid on the square in one fell swoop. "Jedi?"

"Follow me, General," Ahsoka said, the General shoved Rash to the ground and followed after the togruta Jedi. Esinon quickly made her way through the crowd to meet up with Ahsoka,

It was only a few minutes to walk before they reached the hideout, the General went in without them and before Esinon could even say anything Ahsoka had rammed into her with a tight hug.

"I don't want to fight anymore," she whispered, Esinon let out a shuddered sigh,

"I'm sorry I ran off," she mumbled, Ahsoka pulled away,

"But you were right, I haven't been exactly focused on this mission. And I'm sorry,"

"I haven't exactly been at my best either," Esinon replied,

"But I think Steela will want to talk to you, she was pretty surprised to find her brother at her side this morning," Ahsoka said, starting into the hideout,

"I can turn invisible now," Esinon said, Ahsoka glanced at her,

"What how?"

"Like a sort of phasing, I just phase myself and don't sink through the floor," she explained, Ahsoka raised a brow marking,

"Well, don't use it to prank me,"

"No promises," By the time the two Jedi had entered the hideout King Dendup had just finished whatever speech he had been giving,

"Then we'll just have to teach them another lesson!" Saw exclaimed, cheers went throughout the crowd and Esinon slipped off to the side when she saw Lux coming towards Ahsoka. She watched the rebels mill about when she saw Saw coming forward, he handed her her DC-17.

"Returned as promised," he said, she smirked,

"Thanks, glad it didn't get taken away by all those droids,"

"I did see you start for the stage, the council must love all of your disregards for the rules,"

"I've let my powers become stagnant too many times, I have to save as many lives as I can."

"You know, maybe some of those experiences haven't been so good -the ones that you couldn't save people- but they've formed you into the person you are today, and I think that person is pretty awesome." Saw replied,

Esinon and Ahsoka sat in front of Anakin and Obi-Wan, and surprisingly Obi-Wan didn't look upset with her. Did Ahsoka not tell them that she'd run off?

"The Separatists definitely know we're backing the rebels," Ahsoka said sheepishly,

"Then prepare yourself," Master Kenobi said, "The real fight is about to begin,"

"Will you be able to send some help?" Esinon asked,

"That's up to the council, Esinon," Anakin replied,

'Kriff the council,' Esinon thought bitterly,

HEY! I'M BACK!

I've missed you all! School is... hard. I've already got a lot of homework and it's only the third day. I guess I should have seen this coming taking AP classed but... still gonna complain about it.

Anyways, Esinon and Saw's friendship is fun :)

Next up on let's make this canon corner: *cough* if Korkie ever found out about Saw he would be threatened.

Also eagles eyes98 indeed, we'll know that Esinon would be doing the exact same if it was Korkie lol

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