A/N: Anything in parenthises after foriegn words is just the translation so that you guys don't have to do it yourselves. Thought I'd make it easy on you.

Chapter Eight: Kai's Fine Folks, Chillax He ain't gonna die...yet.

Anakin barged into the room, ignoring the protests coming from his men. Zane was mediating next to the med bay cot, where Kai was sleeping peacefully...if one ignored how he would occasionally whimper as if in pain. Anakin frowned, staring at the boy that was surrounded by darkness. Rex had told him about the gene that Zane referred to as Chikara….and how apparently Kai's body was trying to get rid of it despite the fact that he needed it to, well, stay alive. "Kix...status report." Anakin tensely barked out, glancing over at his medic that was watching the vitals of the mysterious teen closely.

Kix gave him a perplexed look, before going back to what he was doing. "I'm not entirely sure if I'm doing anything correctly, sir. Zane told me to just monitor him and let him sleep it off... by the sounds of things this isn't something they're equipped to deal with back at their home planet either. One second the kid's temperature is close to 305 degrees...and the next second it is closer to negative 123 degrees." Kix paused, so as to wring his hands together nervously. "Zane says that is normal when his body does this...but it scares me half to death and Zane insists that medication won't help keep the temperature stable."

Anakin frowned, even as Yoda calmly entered the room. "The patient, how is?"

Kix quickly repeated everything he had just told Anakin to the small Grand Master of the Jedi Order. Anakin tuned them out as he stared at Kai, wondering why it was that he wasn't dead yet with such extreme temperatures fluctuating inside of him. "Master... you came here because you had a mission for us...correct?"

"Hmmm. Arise problem from the Home Planet of the Torgutas. Go there with Kenobi you must. Meet you there, Kenobi will." Yoda hummed softly as he peered curiously over at Kai's almost still form.

"Anything we can help you with?" Zane spoke suddenly, his eyes snapping open as he stared intently at them, as if he hadn't been mediating just then.

"Gah!" Anakin fell backwards as he jumped in surprise.

Zane smoothly leapt to his feet, catching Anakin by the arm. "My apologies. I did not mean to scare you."

Yoda stifled a chuckle as he noted that Zane could move swiftly, and silently like an assassin. While the fact that he could scare Anakin, the Hero Without Fear so to speak, was rather funny, the way he moved was more troubling. Zane settled Anakin back down in the seat that he had been occupying a minute ago, his facial features blank. Anakin shook his head as he rubbed the back of his neck. "No no...You didn't scare me at all."

"Your raised heartrate says otherwise." Zane drily pointed out.

Anakin glared at him, though it was Yoda who spoke next. "Accept your help, we do. Leave immediately you must."

"Yes Master." Anakin bowed to Yoda, even as he was aware of the way Zane frowned at that term. What he would do to learn why they were so against the word master.

Yoda had barely left the medbay when a new voice piped up from next to him. "So...when do we leave?" Kai was sitting up in his bed, appearing to be perfectly fine.

Kix, who had never left the room in the first place, jumped in surprise, before hurrying over to check Kai's vitals. "How...? You should be still comatose!"

Kai rolled his eyes as he tilted his head to the side. "You do realize that Zane was mediating near me and we've discovered a while back that when this happens that having someone with Chikara mediate near me helps speed up the healing process."

"Great..." Anakin drawled out, wondering what other surprises these two had in store for him.

"Taimutsuinzu de nani ga okotta no ka o tsutaeru hitsuyō ga arimasu. (You need to tell them about what happened with the Time Twins.)" Zane spoke suddenly, looking intently at Kai as if he was concerned about something.

Kai shook his head, shifting his seat nervously. "Īe... Karera wa mattaku kankei arimasen. (No... it doesn't concern them at all.)"

Zane shook his head, his voice soft. "I have a strong feeling that it's about to concern them." Zane looked uneasy, as if whatever they were talking about was rather important.

Kai shook his head, looking genuinely upset, pained even as if what they were talking about personally hurt him. Anakin shook his head, clapping his hands together to get their attention. "We need to get going if we're going to debrief the rest of the troops and meet up with Obi-wan in time."

Nods rippled through the group, even as they stood up, as if going from a medbay to battle mode was something that happened every day. Anakin shoved that thought out of his head, noting that he technically didn't know anything about them...yet.

….

Obi-wan Kenobi, Jedi Master and General in the Republic Army, knew about his old Padawan's current guests, but he wasn't too sure about bringing them on this mission was such a good idea. Seeing the two of them occasionally speaking rapidly in a different language piqued his interest, though he wasn't sure how to approach them about it. Most likely it was their Native Tongue. The one called Zane walked over to him, a smile on his face. "Hello. What exactly is the status report of your mission so far? General Skywalker appears to be ikatteiru (angry) about something."

Obi-wan eyed the young man, before glancing behind him to see that the one called Kai was hovering over his shoulders. "We were too late. Slavers have illegally taken the entire population away to be sold into slavery."

The response was instant, Zane spun around, reaching for Kai even as he started to hyperventilate, his eyes dilating with fear. "Dorei shōnin? Īe... Īe... Modoremasen! Dekimasen! (Slavers? No...no... I can't go back! I just can't!)"

"Kai! Breath! Listen to my voice..." Zane curled his fingers around his brother's upperarms, his grip firm.

Ahsoka noticed what was going on and come over to see what was going on. "Is something wrong?"

Zane glanced at her briefly, before turning his attention back to Kai. "Kai used to be a dorei, a slave."

A/N: Ok... just so you know... I've been struggling with this chapter, so glad that I finally got it to where I want it to go... and end the way I wanted it to. After I realized that I can't write about the trip to the planet and make it interesting at all. Last week though was more of a... Sky and I started rereading this series that we both like...and we're now in the middle of the sequel series. (All of the others books takes place in the same universe. These two series are basically the most obvious since a minor character in the first series is a main character in the series we're reading right now.) Anyways, for us to be this far along in the books would mean that we sort of stayed far from our computers all week. Sorry about the delay.

Ella