Chapter Three: Who says We're just Friends? Never heard of Brothers?
Anakin looked over the rescue plan that his men had cooked up behind his back. "Looks good. Rex? Get the men ready to go. The sooner we move out, the sooner we can get Ahsoka back."
"Sir yes Sir!" Rex saluted him, before hastily leaving the room.
Fives, Echo, Jesse, and Kix all sighed in relief, glad that their general accepted their crazy plan on how to get their commander back. "Do you want any of us to join you?"
"Yes. All of you get to be in the A team since this was your plan." Anakin waved his hand in a generic way to signal them to follow him.
"The A team?!" Shock flooded the group as they rushed off to follow him.
~Fifteen Minutes Later, with Zane and Ahsoka~
Ahsoka tensed, her montrals twitching as she heard the unmistakable sound of a scuffle outside of their cell door. "Clouse?"
"I hear the fight as well. I believe your friends have come to rescue you." Zane was quick to assure her, his voice not once giving away any emotion.
Ahsoka frowned, wondering how he could be soo... boring was the only word that popped into mind to describe him and his lack of emotions. Narrowing her eyes, she stared at the door, as if that would make it open sooner. Apparently it worked, since a second later, the door hissed open to reveal a small group of clone troopers that were rushing into the cell, lowering their blasters. One of them shot her chains, freeing her from the force-inhibitor. Another one handed her, her two lightsabers, which she gratefully clipped back on.
"Come on...we need to get 'Clouse' and this bird out of here." Ahsoka went to the bird cage, quickly undoing the latch.
Zane shook his head slightly, before glancing at Falcon. "If you are done being lazy my old feathered friend..." Falcon gave one loud screech, before diving at his wrists, breaking the chains holding him within seconds.
Ahsoka blinked, before raising her hand up part way. "Wait...that bird, whatever species it is, could do that the entire time?"
Zane shot her an amused look. "Falcon is a falcon... thus his name. Falcon. Not very creative but I am not one to argue with my father."
Ahsoka shook her head, before remembering their conversation from earlier. "We need to find your friend."
"Indeed, we do." Zane took off, briefly closing his eyes as he tapped into his dragon spirit, knowing it will be able to sniff out Kai's dragon spirit.
Ahsoka stilled when a strong surge in the force come from her mysterious companion, who didn't even bat an eye when she used air quotations around his name that he gave her. If he was this strong in the force...exactly how much stronger in the force was this friend of his?
Snapping his eyes open, he spoke softly, his voice still on the monotone side. "He is this way."
~Three Minutes Later, With Kai~
Kai yanked and pulled on his strange chains, wishing that they would just break. He didn't like being held prisoner, and vaguely wondered if that was part of the reason why he was the one that seemed to get caught the second most amount of times, Lloyd being the most frequently captured. Growling, he attempted to reach his dragon spirit, only to notice, once again, that it was muffled as if in a deep sleep. Before he could scream needlessly into the air, the door hissed open...and Zane came running into the cell with Falcon on his shoulder.
"Kai!"
"Zane! Get me out of here so I can blow something up!" Kai snapped angrily, knowing his brother wouldn't mind his temper.
A bunch of others, one of which was definitely not human!, slipped into the room from behind Zane. Kai narrowed his eyes dangerously at them, already working on figuring out if they were a threat or not.
"Relax... I believe they are not a threat." Zane murmured softly into his ear as he released the strange chains from around his wrists.
Kai flexed his fingers, relief flashing through him briefly, neatly masked with anger for those that might be probing his dragon spirit, still eyeing them. "Yeah...I rather figure that out myself." There was a dryness to his voice, signaling that he was in no mood to meet anyone knew for awhile.
"Of course." Zane took a step back, even as his mind flashed to another small detail. "This is Ahsoka and some friends of hers. Kai...we need to find our elemental blades. I fear that according to statistics in the wrong hands..."
"It'll lead to disastrous consequences?" Kai quipped at him, his eyebrow shooting upwards in a subtle way to let him know that he wasn't impressed.
"Ah...yes." Zane blinked, clearly used to being interrupted.
One of the men stepped forward, taking his helmet off so that they could see two fives tattooed on either side of his head. "Come on. We know were they keep the prisoners weapons. You can pick them up there..." Static filled the air suddenly, before a muffled voice barked something out.
Face hardening, he slipped the helmet back on. "We need to get out of here now. Come on!"
Ahsoka silently watched the two strangers, unease filling her upon realizing that Dooku really had a good start to build on if he wanted the one called Kai for his apprentice. Zane, as Kai had called her cell companion, appeared to be oblivious to the darkness that swirled just below the surface, his pure light seemingly even brighter as she watched them interact.
~Half An Hour Later, on the Twilight~
"Ahsoka! I am soo glad that you are alright! I mean...don't you ever do that again! We can't always drop everything to save you." Anakin failed miserably to pretend to be furious at her.
"Sorry Master." Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed alarm flashing across Kai's features as he moved to say something.
Zane immediately stopped him. "She meant that as in Sensei."
Ahsoka frowned, not sure she understood, before deciding that it could that when she had explained what she meant by calling him Master, she must have given the definition to some word that existed on their planet.
"Who are you two?" Anakin just realized the two strangers amongst them.
"Like I'm gonna give you my name." Kai snarked as he crossed his arms in a huff.
Zane shot him a look, before humbly bowing to the Jedi Knight. "My name is Zane. This is my brother, Kai. I am afraid that the owner of the other ship had taken us prisoner awhile ago and we are really graceful for the rescue, even though it was unintended."
Anakin relaxed at the polite, if not monotone response Zane gave him, before shooting Kai a wary look. Most likely, he could sense the darkness in him.
Fives turned to face Zane, looking confused. "About that. Ahsoka introduced you as Clouse, but your brother here calls you Zane..."
"Clouse?!" Kai whirled around to stare at Zane as if he had grown a second head, or as Zane viewed it an extra pair of arms. "Out of all the names out there you could have used...you used the name of the guy that tried to kill us...twice!"
Zane shrugged, shooting him a look. "I have it on good authority that you used our dear friend Dareth's name when our captor asked for your name."
Kai grumbled under his breath. "FSM! You are impossible." (A/N: FSM= First Spinjitzu Master)
Zane's eyes widened in horror, eyes flickering between Ahsoka and Kai. "Kai! Language! There is a minor present!" Ahsoka started in surprise. There was a lot of emotion in his voice over that. Which also meant, that the word that she didn't recognize must have been a swear word.
Anakin coughed into his hand, even as the other group of clones involved in her rescue suddenly held up what appeared to be two lightsaber hilts. "Sir? We found these amongst the weaponry onboard the ship."
"Hey! Those are ours!" Kai suddenly grabbed them, quickly handing one to Zane. Frowning, he began to mutter under his breath. A minute later there was a soft hum as a...red blade shot forth.
Zane pressed a button on his, summoning a white blade. "They appear to still be in working order." And he was back to being having no emotion in his voice.
Anakin curled his fingers tightly in a fist, fear dancing in his eyes. "Can I see your blade Kai?"
"Let me think about it..." Ahsoka didn't like how sarcastic that was. "No. I don't go handing my stuff away to random people."