Chapter Two: What are you!?

Count Dooku wanted to pinch the bridge of his nose out of frustration. Everything was going great...until they pulled out of hyperspace. Apparently they misjudged and were in the middle of republic space. The battle was short lived... which was fine for all he cared except for the fact that somehow his grandpadawan's grandpadawan was flying one of the fighter ships. Not just any fighter either, it was the one that the idiotic droids had captured.

Glaring at the young torguta teen, he turned to face the Droid that was hovering nearby. "Put her in the same cell as my potential apprentice's friend."

"Right...did you ever ask him for his name?"

"No... I'll do that later. Right now I need to find a way to convince my apprentice to give me a real name and not a made up word for his name." Count Dooku left, leaving the droid alone to escort the prisoner.

"Right." The droid nudged the handcuffed, disarmed, Padawan in the shoulder.

"I'm moving...what was that about a new apprentice?" Ahsoka Tano glanced sideways at the battle droid, who seemed nice for a droid.

"Sorry miss. I'm not allowed to give away information to prisoners."

Ahsoka rolled her eyes at that, before turning her eyes down to the floor beneath her...

….

Zane blinked open his eyes when the door was opened again and... a droid shoved some thing into the cell with him. She, her dress indicated that she was female, twisted around to glare at the droid, before snapping her head around to stare at him even as the door snapped shut again. Zane took the oppurtinity to look her over, trying to figure out what she was. She had orange skin, and what looked like three blue and white striped tentacles hanging from her head in place of hair. Her outfit was a bit revealing, and a dark orange, though he found the empty holsters interesting.

"Hello. Are you being held against your will as well?" Zane calmly asked as he tilted his head in interest.

The girl, she was rather small, clearly still a child, shook her head as she eyed him curiously. "Yes. My name's Ahsoka. What's yours?"

Zane frowned, puzzled on why she would use a clearly made up word for her name. Oh well, two could play at this game. And unlike Kai, he wasn't comfortable throwing his friends under the bus. "My name is Clouse."

Ahsoka rolled her eyes skyward, before leaning against the wall, eyeing him curiously. "Dooku said something about your friend being his apprentice..."

Zane frowned at that, shaking his head. "I do not know what it is that he was talking about. He mentioned something about planning to turn him to something called the Dark side...but I do not believe he will succeed." Glancing down at his lap, he knitted his eye brows together. "Do you know what he was talking about with this Force thing?"

Ahsoka froze, before speaking softly. "Uh...Clouse, what is the name of your home planet?"

Zane frowned at that, not quite understanding what she meant by that, before slowly inching his left brow upwards. "Ninjago. to be more precise, I am originally from Birchwood Forest, Wild Plains, Ninjago. My friend is originally from Ignacia Village, Rice Plains, Ninjago. Why do you ask such a strange question?"

Ahsoka took a deep breath, realizing that she was dealing with someone from a primitive planet, and his friend. "I ask such a question because there are over a hundred different planets that are inhabited. I was born on the planet Shili."

Zane frowned, rolling this information around in his head. "I see... I am afraid that I only know of Ninjago. My deepest apologies for my inadequacy in this department." Zane bowed his head in apology towards her.

Ahsoka bit back a laugh, suddenly wondering if his mysterious friend was anything like he was. If he was then there was no way that Dooku could succeed in turning him! "What's your friend like?"

A hum escaped him as he rolled his eyes to the ceiling. "When you first meet him...he is short-tempered, and highly sarcastic at times. He also believes he is a one man show and doesn't need anyone." Ahsoka frowned, not liking the sound of that. As if reading her mind, he smiled warmly at her. "Once you get to really know him, you learn that there is a lot more going on with him than what he lets on. Once he gets close to you, he opens up and will sometimes admit to needing help. He's my best friend and I wouldn't change him for the all the elementals in the world."

Ahsoka frowned, confused by the way he worded that, before deciding that it was probably nothing. "So Clouse... how long do you think my master will be to rescue us?"

Zane worriedly narrowed his eyes. "Master?"

Ahsoka quickly realized that she needed to explain a few things to him first. "I don't mean that as in I'm a slave...I meant that as in I am a Padawan… Jedi in training. We are assigned...mentors...that we call Masters, to train us."

"Oh...I understand that." Zane nodded, relaxing slightly.

"I wonder what he is up to right now?" Ahsoka mused softly to herself.

~Meanwhile on the Twilight~

Anakin Skywalker paced furiously around the ship's hangar, waiting for word. Rex tapped his finger against his armored leg nervously, watching his general relentlessly get out some tension. Fives hurried over, quickly saluting his superiors. "Sir, we found her. Apparently Dooku's ship took her prisoner..."

"Did he ask for a ransom of some sort for her yet?" Anakin snapped, anxious to hear that his Padawan was ok.

"No sir. We are planning a rescue mission as we speak." Fives nervously took a step back, glancing over at Rex for support.

Rex merely frowned, before asking a very important question. "Who is we?"

Fives turned red, before he quickly threw his brethren under the bus so to speak. "Echo...Kix...Jesse... ya know no one too important..."

Rex arched his eyebrow upwards, glancing over at Anakin. "Say, General did you notice that he mentioned my second in command there...or was that just me?"

Anakin chuckled, before walking over to the closest ship. "Yeah...I heard. Tell them to meet me up here in ten so that they can debrief me for once."

"Sir yes Sir!" Fives hastily saluted the retreating Jedi Knight, before running off to fetch the others...