Hey folks, Grubkiller here.
Here's part 7 of my Clone Wars story, 'Fallen Jedi'.
Hope that ya'll enjoy.
Be sure to leave your thoughts down in the review section. I love hearing from you people.
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Dining Hall.
In the grand dining hall where all of the guests got together for dinner, Lux sat at the table with all of the other politicians and their families just as dinner was about to be passed out.
He was kind of nervous, as he twirled his wine glass around, causing the liquid to swirl and slosh around before he took a sip.
"Senator," someone said, causing Lux to nearly choke on his drink. He turned to see that Governor Roshti, from one of Shili's colonies was sitting next to him. "Are you all right? You seem tense."
Lux cleared his throat.
"Just... I'm fine, your excellency," Lux lied, "Thank you."
Roshti nodded his head and went back to another conversation.
Truth be told, he didn't really want to be here. All he cared about right now was Ahsoka, and the thought of her spending time with him, as joyful as it sounded, made him somewhat nervous.
A few minutes later, as everyone started chatting with one another, he saw the doors to the main hall opening. But instead of the governor of Shili, like everyone was expecting, he saw Ahsoka walking through. She was wearing a purple dress. It looked to similar her old Jedi Outfit, except it was all purple and had short sleeves. There were diamond cutouts on the sides of her dark gray leggings. The front of her dress was zipped up in he front, enclosing the skintight material around her slender waist, and pronouncing her voluptuous curves. He also noticed that her back was exposed, another similarity with her old outfit. Although, the turtle neck collar, which was a tannish color, was shorter, revealing her orange neck. But she continued to wear her armlets, and not her gloves.
She was wearing it for this special occasion, and it went with her orange skin perfectly.
Their eyes met and Lux smiled. Ahsoka blushed, but didn't smile, and kept her chin down. He could tell that she wasn't in her element. She wasn't comfortable with these kinds of gatherings, especially with Lux around. She eventually found a seat across the table from Lux, but a seat or two across.
The vice-governor, Zubrym San, was present with his wife. "It's so nice of you to join us master Jedi. Are you enjoying your visit so far?"
Ahsoka still averted her eyes. "Just fine," she said.
Lux felt bad for her. In a way, he blamed himself for her discomfort. So he decided to help her out.
"Uhm, sir, will we be joined by Governor Flix?" He asked.
"We're supposed to be, but she appears to be running late," Vice-Governor San said, "and she hasn't answered her calls."
"Well, I'm sure that she'll turn up soon," Lux said, just as one of the servants started passing out dinner. He took a whiff of the cooking meat. "Mmmm, Is that the nuna cooking ma'am?" He asked.
"Yes senator. Imported from the planet Naboo, and hunted by our people for sport, to be served on this table," she said.
Lux smiled and looked at Ahsoka.
"Well I can't wait to see what it tastes like," Lux said while still looking at Ahsoka.
Ahsoka, still blushing, looked back up at him.
"Me neither," Ahsoka said, still staring at Lux, almost lovingly.
South Courtyard of the Shili government building, Dusk.
Later, after dinner and dessert, Ahsoka went for a walk outside, still wearing her purple, cotton dress.
It was a comfortable outfit, and it very effectively accentuated her body in all its womanly glory. A close observer could even make out the nipples on her well formed breasts... something that allured the wandering eyes of many strangers.
Especially Ahsoka's crush, who walked the mansion's grounds alongside her.
They walked out of the building to get some fresh air. They had left the dining hall after dinner was done and everyone started to mingle with each other. But since Lux could tell that Ahsoka wasn't the party type, he asked if she'd like to go for a walk, which she accepted.
It was nighttime and the stars were out. Much like earlier that day, there was not a cloud in sight. The two of them walked around the park-like set up of the government building's grounds. That's when Ahsoka looked up at the starry sky.
"It's beautiful out tonight," Ahsoka said.
She then felt two arms coiling around her waist from behind, and rest two hands on either side of her well-trimmed stomach. She then felt herself being drawn into Lux's embrace.
"Perhaps. But I can think of something, or rather someone, who's beauty can outshine the brightest star," Lux said as he gently rested his cheek against the upper part of one of his crush's head tails. He then placed both of his hands on her stomach, enjoying the feeling of the soft cotton that hugged her body, and doubly so for the incredible warmth that permeated the material. Her choice of wardrobe for tonight's event hugged her torso so well that Lux's eyes were rewarded with her beautiful and well defined curves. It also made her look like a normal teenage girl.
"Mmm. Don't go to far Luxie," Ahsoka cooed. "The guards might set their stun blasts on you," Ahsoka said as she brought one of her hands up to lightly scratch his cheek, the one that wasn't touching her Lekku.
"Let them try. I know that you'll be here to help me. You always are". He said. His statement made Ahsoka blush. "Besides..." Lux said as placed one hand on her shoulder. "... I'm an honored guest just as you. It would cause a diplomatic incident".
Ahsoka chuckled.
She looked over in her peripheral vision to look at Lux. She used the back of her hand to rub Lux's cheek.
"Then try to behave yourself," Ahsoka said as she leaned her head into Lux's shoulder.
Lux smiled. "I'm trying... but failing". He said as placed one hand on her shoulder and continued to hold her in his embrace.
Ahsoka smiled and used one of her hands to clasp with his free one, interlocking their fingers together. She was wearing her gloves, but as their hands clasped together, they could still feel each other's warmth.
They smiled at each other, their eyes sparkling as they looked at each other.
Ahsoka turned around in his loose embrace to face Lux, before moving into his warm embrace, lightly pushing her bust against his chest. He then placed his hands on her hips, his fingertips lightly brushing the top of her butt cheeks, which were outlined very nicely by her tight brown pants. They both smiled as they looked into each other's eyes lovingly. The two of them closed their eyes and inched closer until they were a centimeter apart. Their lips locked together for a small kiss. After about five seconds, their lips broke apart with a 'smoosh' sound.
Ahsoka was now uncontrollably blushing. Lux thought it was cute. He rested his forehead against hers.
"I love you Ahsoka," Lux said, as he hovered his lips in front of hers.
For a long time, Ahsoka couldn't fully commit herself to this experience. But Lux, the gentlemen that he was, was still willing to give her space and time. But that didn't mean that Ahsoka wasn't going to give any ground at all. In fact, it was quite the contrary. She felt herself being pulled in by this experience more and more. And every time she drawn closer, she didn't dare turn away from him.
Ahsoka shrugged and escaped from Lux's grasp. Then she placed her finger on his jawline.
"I know," she responded as she ran her finger along his chin.
Then she started walking towards a flight of stairs that led up to a different, and less crowded, place inside of the building. Lux looked around and saw people that were staring, and then grasped why she was moving away: It was too much of an intimate moment to be eavesdropped on.
So he followed as she guided up the stairs.
Even though she was wearing boots, every step she took was soft as feathers, While Lux clunked behind with his metal plated boots.
Creak, plop, creak, plop
Once they made it out of ear distance from everyone, Ahsoka continued to vocalize with her flawless voice. "Lux... sometimes I wish... " She said before she stopped herself for the billionth time.
"Yes, yes, yes?" Lux asked, egging her on, moving faster to keep up with her.
"Well...," her voice was starting to get sly. "What if there wasn't a war... And we were living together..." Her flirtatious attitude was sparking. "Where would that be-"
"Onderon..." Lux interrupted.
"Yeah, but what about a new setting where we can live alone, perhaps have-"
"Onderon..." Lux blurted out. "It's no contest."
She turned her head around to face Lux, and he could've sworn that he saw her wink. "Unless it means having me or not."
"And what if it's still a 'no contest'?" Lux asked.
Ahsoka giggled and turned her back to him again. "Come now, do you really think you can fool me anymore?"
"I'm not that predictable," Lux countered as he followed after her.
"Only to me".
Those words surprised Lux. They were the exact words that he said to her when they were having a similar conversation about predicability back during the Onderonian civil war. He decided to play along.
"Only to who?" He joked with her.
"To me, Lux, and you know how easily predictable you are." She said as she led him further down the hall.
"And where are you going with this, again?" Lux asked, as they they made it to the end of the hallway, before Ahsoka reached out to open the door.
She smiled as she pressed the buttons on the keypad.
"Up..." she answered.
He had a blank look on his face as he thought about her answer.
"Up? Up where?"
The door hissed open, and Ahsoka walked, with an extra swing in her step. She pressed a few buttons on the keypad and opened a door at the top of the stairs, which led to the roof. She then started climbing the stairs, all while Lux stood at the bottom, looking up with interest.
"Ningependa kuja, ndani ya." Lux spoke in Onderonian.
"What?" Ahsoka asked before she jokingly placed a hand on her Lekku. "You'll have to translate."
Lux looked down and cleared his throat, so that he could call down to her from the top of the ladder. "I'd like to come up here..." Lux said before he climbed up the stairs and onto the rooftop, with had a large garden area, before gazing out at the surrounding skyline.
Then he looked back and saw that Ahsoka was still behind him in the doorway. "Are you coming up?" He called over to her.
She wasn't looking at Lux.
"Yeah, er, yeah... I'll be there in just a second."
Lux followed her and saw her walk down the stairs, and take her knife out of her boot. She used it to pry open the control panel for the access hatch. Then she reached in and disconnected a wire that delivered power to the panel, making it impossible for anyone to use the door.
"Coming!"
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Earlier that Day. Governor's mansion, home to Togrutan head of state Aeon Flix.
In the early morning hours on Shili, Governor Flix's husband and sons had gone out on a hunting trip, while she stayed home to manage the Government.
After fulling dressing for the day, she walked outside with a cup of coffee and her data pad, which showed her itinerary. Her guards, who were armed with Republic weaponry, as this was a Republic planet, saluted her when she walked by. She returned it.
When she walked up to her speeder, her driver opened the door for her.
"Good morning madam Governor," he said.
"Good morning Kor'Zunn," she said as she stepped in. "Let's get a move on. I don't want to be late for conference today".
Just as the driver nodded and closed the door, a red stream of light jutted out of his chest. He screamed in pain, before the blade was withdrawn and he fell to the ground in a lifeless heap.
The governor screamed and scooted back to the empty seat next to her.
She then saw a figure with the physique of a woman and wearing all black slowly appear out of no where.
Governor Flix could hear her guards outside.
'Halt assassin!'
The un-cloaked assassin activated a dual red saber and assumed a fighting stance.
'Attack!'
The guards began to fire their DC-15 blasters at the assassin. Blue stun rounds began to shriek towards the figure, who began to expertly deflect every round that came her way.
The assassin then charged, swinging her blades ferociously. The guards moved to subdue her, but they were cut apart. One guard lost his head, others were cut in half, and others were simply stabbed to death.
But then she raised her hands and lifted a guard up into the air. He struggled for a few moments before his hands went up to his throat. He then stopped struggling and was dropped to the ground.
The assassin then turned towards the Governor's speeder. She tried to get into the front seat to start driving, but the door to her right was suddenly ripped away with an invisible force.
She shrieked when the assassin pulled her out with the same invisible force that ripped the door off.
The struggling governor was then forced to the ground and started choking.
The unknown assassin then came closer to her. She was wearing a mask and spoke in a distorted voice.
"Good morning governor. Sorry about the mess. I was hoping that you could help me with something," she said.
A small seeker droid, which had a red eye, an oval shaped body, and antennae, began to walk on her arm. It presented the terrified governor with it's robotic limbs, which crackled with electricity. The governor flinched in terror, her chest heaving with every strained breath.
"Where is Ahsoka Tano?"
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Lux watched as Ahsoka walked up the stairs, just as the door closed behind her. She then immediately snuck her head onto his shoulder,
They looked up to see if their were any stars, which looked like billions of twinkling lights.
They both lied down on the roof together, with Ahsoka's back pressed into Lux's front.
Shili didn't have the mighty skyscrapers of Coruscant. But the city was beautiful nonetheless, with a rural surrounding that showed the colorful grassy fields of the surface, where many people scratched out a living for themselves.
However, the one thing that was cut off from the opulent glow of Shili's cities, was the notorious grass fields, where traditional tribespeople stayed attached to their old ways of hunting and gathering.
Ahsoka, as Lux came to learn, was apart of that way of life, and was, for a brief time, molded by it with her predatory instincts.
"It's so beautiful from up here..." Lux said as he held his 'Soka's stomach with one hand, and used the other one to explore her body. "We should try to come up here more often. It has a nice view, and it's nice and quiet".
Ahsoka mumbled, and Lux felt her hips moving and wiggling, against his lap... It felt strange, but nice, as her warm, voluptuous rump acted as a cushion for his midsection.
Sighing in delight, Lux raised his free hand to rub her shoulders, earning little giggles from her.
'Oh, I'm so lucky! After all this time, I finally get to have her like this, all to myself...' Lux thought to himself as he stroked randomly all over her; around her arms and legs and stomach (but not daring to go any higher)... he even started to play with her Lekku slightly, watching them slide around her shoulders, sometimes dropping them so they could perk right back into place...
Although he couldn't hear or see her reactions, Ahsoka's eyes were closed, and she was lightly humming to herself. Her Lekku began to purr. She was in pure bliss right now.
"So..." she moaned, "What do you plan to do with me?"
Lux smiled. He loved how she straddled on the roof's edge. He remembered how she rode on the Ruping back on Onderon with him. He remembered how she had her arms wrapped around his torso to hold on tightly.
'Now, it's your turn... my little 'Soka'. He thought to himself as he pulled her more tightly into his embrace.
He pointed up to the stars above them.
"See up there?" He asked as he placed his chin on her shoulder, and guided her range of vision to where he wanted her to look, up into the heavens above them.
"Yeah..." She said hesitantly.
"Th-that, Love, is Onderon. That will be our home... We can eat up the rays of sunlight, hold hands..., perhaps have a pool set up-"
She reached down and squeezed the hand that was on her stomach. "Take it easy Luxie... I don't wish to be spoiled, you know. The Jedi taught me-"
"I know..." he interrupted, "But imagine what it would feel like."
Ahsoka tried to shake her head while in this position, but Lux prevented her from doing it. "I can imagine, I just don't want it".
"Are you saying that you don't want me?" Lux asked, making fun of Ahsoka.
"No," she said defensively, trying to explain herself, "I just don't want all those amenities... I'd rather find myself spoiled by only you, not by how much you can buy for me."
They both remained silent for a few moments, as they continued to look up at the starry sky above. Lux continued to hold her stomach, periodically running his hands up and down, enjoying the warmth that permeated her bodysuit.
"Can you tell me more about living on Onderon, and maybe about going into the jungles and exploring the landscape?"
Lux nodded.
"Okay... okay..." he said before he began to nuzzle his face into her montrals, whilst running his hands up and down her waist. "I... I would love to go out there on free days. I used to take afternoons on the Rupings with my parents, over the jungles and canyons... We'd go to the caves or waterfalls or...-" Lux shook his head as tears welled up in his eyes from all of the joyful memories. "Each day was always another adventure..."
"What do you mean? You have me...?" She asked, curious over Lux's words.
"Not you, 'Soka... I mean, my life seemed to no longer have meaning until you arrived... I was so cautious and confused that I couldn't make anything out... Until I saw you..., and heard you talk..."
Lux felt his chest tighten around his heart, then ignored it to lean over Ahsoka's shoulder to kiss her cheek.
'At least I have her to recreate those fond memories I had as a child,' Lux thought to himself.
He continued to cradle her cheek with his lips, nuzzling his nose against her warm, fiery skin... Ahsoka sighed before agreeing, "I-I'd like to have afternoons like that... Perhaps a race or a swim by one of those waterfalls, just we did on Shili..." She said as she raised her hand behind her and placed it on Lux's cheek, pulling his head closer, keeping his lips where they were. "Every day, an adventure..." She said, repeating what Lux said earlier.
As Ahsoka closed her eyes and sighed in response to the bliss that she was feeling, Lux was still stroking the sides of her waist, sending shivers up and down Ahsoka's spine, from her neck, to her rump, and throughout her body.
She quickly noticed Lux's traveling fingers brushing don her exposed back and decided to ignore it, wanting to see where they'd end up as they travelled lower. She shivered with contained excitement when Lux's curious hand sunk his fingers into the cut-out, barely brushing the top of her rump.
To Lux's surprise, she didn't recoil. Instead she leaned back into it.
Ahsoka let out a sigh, before she began to gently and slowly move her hips, and rub them against Lux's area.
Lux was surprised by this part of her: The way she didn't back away from him, or flat out reject his advances.
On the contrary, she was accepting them.
"Okay... okay..." she said with her eyes half-closed as he held her hips against his midsection, and continued kissing her cheek tenderly. She looked over her shoulder to look at him. "Can... can you spin me around so I can face you...?"
Lux grudged a little before seeing her lift her legs straight, as he picked her up by her waist. He spun her to the side, then again so that she could face him. Still on their sides, they were now facing each other... but her eyes were closed.
'Oh, how glad I am that the moon was out, and see the way it glowed against her face', Lux thought to himself. But when she opened her eyes again, he could see that they were even more illustrious and alluring in this light.
Then, without warning, Ahsoka grabbed Lux by his collar, and brought him in for one, wet kiss... A long, straightforward kiss...
Lux's eyes were wide open. But then, he closed his eyes and puckered his lips just in time to feel Ahsoka's lips wrapping around his own. He placed his hands on her waist and pulled her closer, causing her to push her breasts against his pecks, and her stomach against his.
As they continued kissing, Lux felt a certain kind of pain deep inside himself. One that his 'Soka couldn't sense... But at the same time, they both felt that pain could not exist between them... Not now, for as long as they held each other dearly.
North Security Gate, Capital Building.
Several Togrutan guards, armed with Republic-issued DC-15 rifles, stood guard at the gate on this quiet, yet busy night. They've been standing watch all day, buzzing VIPs in for the Governor's Ball.
No one was arriving at the building yet, although they were expecting the Governor. That's when they saw a speeder coming up to the gate, with one-way windows. They opened the gate, allowing the speeder, recognized to be the Governor's, to pass through.
The window was rolled down, and a Guard peaked inside.
"Good evening Governo-" he said before he saw that a droid and a masked figure were in the front seats, "What the-?"
That's when the guard was suddenly levitated into the air, dropping his rifle in order to grab his throat, which was being crushed by an invisible force. As the lead guard struggled in midair, the other guards stiffened up, preparing to respond. That's when the speeder doors flew open, and several commando droids jumped out, using their suppressed blasters to quietly take out the guards.
When it was all clear, a masked figure, wearing a cloak, stepped out of the speeder.
The figure looked at the building.
"Captain," the figure said to the lead droid in a distorted, robotic voice, "Leave some of your droids here and guard the gate. Then take the rest of the team and surround the building. Don't enter until you've heard from me".
"Roger, Roger," the droid said, before moving to carry out the mysterious figure's command.
The figure then walked up to the side of the building, watching as the droids eliminated several guards that got in their way, quietly. Upon reaching the side of the building, completely out of sight, the figure produced two curved lightsabers and plunged them into the wall, cutting a hole into the side of the building.
After releasing a trio of Seeker droids into the air to serve as surveillance, the figure stepped into the hole, and into the building to begin the mission.
The objective: Find and capture Ahsoka Tano.
Rule of engagement: everyone else is expendable.
Back outside, still laying down on their sides in the rooftop garden, Ahsoka and Lux were still kissing.
They broke their kiss, and they started to get lost in each others eyes... again. That's when they closed their eyes, and were about to close in for another kiss. But just as their lips barely brushed against each others, Ahsoka was able to hear something with her lekku. She pulled her head back and looked around.
"What's wrong?" Lux asked, his eyes half open.
"I-I thought I heard something," Ahsoka said.
"It's probably just the wind Ahsoka," Lux said, his eyes half closed, before placing his lips on her's again. After about two seconds, she withdrew from the kiss, their lips breaking apart with a wet smacking sound.
She propped herself up with one of her elbows, and gently pushed Lux back with a hand on his chest.
"N-no, it sounded like... like a robotic belch," Ahsoka tried to explain.
Lux, with his hands still on her waist, looked at Ahsoka with one eye brow arched over the other in a confused look.
"What?" He asked.
It didn't look like it, but Lux was just moderately frustrated.
"I'm serious. I really do hear somethi-... There!" Ahsoka exclaimed as she pointed to something hovering above them.
It was a small droid of some kind. The droid's body was a half-hemisphere dome with a red photoreceptor eye. Attached to that dome were five articulated, tentacle-like limbs that ended in pincers. It's domed head was topped with a small array of antennas.
Lux and Ahsoka watched as the droid was joined by two others of the same make. They were making the same robotic belching sounds as the first one.
"What are they?" Lux asked.
"I don't know," Ahsoka asked.
All of a sudden, the three droids (A/N: Seeker droids from SW Rebels) swooped down onto Lux and Ahsoka's position. They rolled out of the way just in time as the droids swooped don on them. They fired yellow blasts of energy that were meant to stun people. Ahsoka, putting her physical skills to the test, dodged and cartwheeled out of the way of their blasts.
Lux sought cover behind a tree. He pulled a small blaster from his hip. The same one he once threatened Ahsoka with over Mandalore when he was full of rage, and used on Onderon against the CIS. His time in the Onderon rebels made him a descent shot. He fired several blue laser bolts into the air and managed to hit one of the droids. The probe droid burst into flames and belched smoke and debris as it careened into the lawn.
'The groundskeepers aren't going to be happy with me when this is over", Lux thought to himself.
Ahsoka turned to face the other two droids that were chasing her. As they fired, she raised both of her hands and summoned the power of the force. The invisible energy emitting from her palms surrounded the droids and their outer shells collapsed inward from her power. The two crushed droids fell to the ground.
When the ordeal was done, Ahsoka and Lux dusted themselves off (so to speak).
"What was that all about? What are they doing here?" Lux asked, his eyes bugging out of their sockets.
Suddenly they both heard a muffled scream coming from the base of the building, followed by the faint sounds of blaster fire.
"Oh no!" Ahsoka exclaimed, knowing that they were about to find out. They both ran towards the door, with Ahsoka using the force to pull it open. Once they got back to the first floor, they found that someone had cut a hole into the front entrance.
"Oh no!" Ahsoka exclaimed again as she ran deeper into the building with Lux in tow.
As they moved through the great halls, they saw dead guards, scorch marks, and broken glass everywhere. Someone, or something, had come through here, and had torn through the guards like they were nothing.
They slowly moved upstairs and up to the dining hall where they ate earlier. They hid behind a wall to reconnoiter the situation. They were in the doorway, which had a small flight of stairs that led up to the dining hall, with a banister that enclosed its own perimeter. There were shattered plates everywhere, and the table cloth was hanging off of the table.
But that wasn't the most unusual thing.
An apparent assassin wearing an all black outfit was what was unusual. The figure was obviously female because of the petite form, the bubbly rump, and the noticeable (very noticeable) cleavage. The mysterious figure held the vice-governor with the force, while also choking him. She also had a red lightsaber held outward towards the vice-governor's wife, and several dozen guests. Several guards and servants lay dead at the assassin's feet. The table was obviously being cleared up when the assassin barged in.
"Tell me where the Jedi is," the figure said before she tightened her grip on the Vice-Governor's throat, "or this one stops breathing, just like your precious Governor Flix."
Her voice was distorted. Ahsoka deduced that she was most likely wearing a mask.
The new Togrutan governor's face began to lose color as his body was deprived of oxygen.
The guests all gasped in fear.
"Wait! Don't hurt him!" Someone begged.
"Let him go," someone else said.
"There is no Jedi. Please, for goodness sake, let my husband go. I'm begging you," the wife begged, as tears started to stream down her terrified face.
The figure gave it some thought.
"As you wish," the figure said before she tossed the new governor to the floor. Zubrym San grunted as he landed with a crunch on some broken dishes, which gave him several cuts. He crawled over to his wife. Some guests leaned in to help him. The wife sobbed and they held each other in a death grip as tears streamed down her cheeks.
The black clad figure continued to look down on them.
"I'll just have to start removing limbs until you loosen your tongues," the figure said as she raised her red blade over their heads.
The hostages screamed, some looking away from the coming blow, which never came.
The figure was frozen in place. She struggled to get free. Ahsoka had left the relative safety of the doorway and raised her hands, channeling as much energy as possible. She then used the power of the force to suspend the assassin in the air. She then threw the assassin over the banister and to the other side of the room. She hit the wall with a thud and landed on the floor. She struggled at first, but got back up to see what had happened.
The assassin looked up to see who it was.
It happened to be her target: Ahsoka Tano.
"Ahhh, Ahsoka Tano. You know, if you wanted to stay hidden, maybe you should've considered the Coruscant underworld where no one cares," the figure said in her distorted voice. Ahsoka had her knife out in a reverse grip and her fist balled in a fighting stance. Lux was beside her with his blaster raised. "And I see that your boyfriend found you. Did you know that I followed him right to you? Love is such a stupid thing. It can get people killed," the figure taunted.
Ahsoka shut her eyes and shook her head, realizing that her greatest fear just came true. But she dismissed what the assassin said, deciding to focus on the 'here and now'.
"Show yourself. Stop hiding behind a mask," Ahsoka demanded.
The figure gave a robotic chuckle.
"As you wish," the figure said as she pressed a button on her helmet, which retracted the face plate to reveal her olive colored face and her familiar blue eyes.
Ahsoka froze.
"B-Barriss?" Ahsoka asked almost shocked. She then bore the face of warrior, her teeth bared in rage. "What are you doing here?"
"My new master sent me here," Barriss said in her regular voice with a wicked smile across her face.
"New Master?" Ahsoka asked in confusion. She then looked at the shoulder pads on Barriss' uniform and found the hexagonal emblem of the Separatist Alliance. "Dooku!" Ahsoka exclaimed.
"That's right. You have something that he wants. Hm, and that handsome senator that has caused him trouble in the past will make a nice bonus," Barriss said while looking past Ahsoka at Lux, who tensed up slightly.
"Well Dooku's not getting anything today. In fact, I'm going to make sure that his new assassin doesn't go back to him at all," Ahsoka threatened.
The Fallen Jedi cackled. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! With a knife? Surely you can't be serious?" Barriss mocked.
Without a word, Ahsoka vaulted into the air at a surprised Barriss. When she landed, she placed her hand on the floor and used the force to emit a shockwave that sent Barriss flying backwards. She hit the wall, but recovered just in time to charge at Ahsoka. The two of them began their dance of death. Barriss used the force on Ahsoka's knife, forcing it to fly right out of her hands. She then swung her blade at the togrutan, who expertly dodged her swings by cartwheeling backwards.
The Fallen Jedi then brought her blade down on Ahsoka, who crisscrossed her arm over her face. Barriss' red blade made contact with Ahsoka's arm braces. The blade deactivated in Barriss' hands as she finished the swing.
She looked at it in shock. And then she looked at Ahsoka just in time to see her launch a force push from her palms, sending the mirilian assassin back, her high-heeled boots scraping against the wooden floor.
Barriss seethed in frustration as she, again, arose from her knees.
She looked at her blade, shocked when she discovered that it would not reactivate. She shook it around in a failed attempt to get it to work. Then she looked at Ahsoka, who was tapping her finger against one of her arm braces.
"Cortosis knife and braces. Your Lightsaber'll be useless for the time being," Ahsoka said as she smiled.
Barriss smiled. The circular part of her blade spun around, allowing her to point it in the other direction. She then extended her other blade on her dual ended sword.
Ahsoka looked on in shock.
"Impressive. But don't you mean 'one' of my lightsabers?" Barriss asked mockingly as she channeled a powerful force push that sent Ahsoka flying head first into a wall with a grunt, knocking her unconscious.
Lux looked back at his unconscious crush. He then looked back at Barriss with rage in his eyes before raising his blaster. He fired. Blue plasma bolts travelled towards Barriss, but she was quicker. She placed her crimson blade in front of the blue laser bolts. She expertly deflected the bolts away from her. The bolts were deflected back at Lux. Most of them hit the wall behind him, but one actually hit the blaster that he just used to fire those bolts in the first place. The blaster exploded in Lux's hand. He shouted in pain, dropped the demolished gun, and then held his injured hand. His hand was slightly burned and had started bleeding from the small metal fragments in it. It caused his hand to sting and burn something fierce, causing him to drop to one knee.
He breathed in and out through his teeth at the burning pain in his palm. Barriss walked over. Lux scooted back to the wall, not knowing that Ahsoka was still slumped against the wall next to him. Barriss stood over him and raised her blade over her head, ready to deliver the final blow. Lux closed his eyes, about to accept his fate, when suddenly...fate decided to take a different coarse.
"Don't move assassin!" A new voice came.
Lux and Barriss looked up the stairs. Several Togrutan guards were standing at the top of the staircase with their blaster rifles pointed at Barriss. They fired, but in one swift movement, Barriss deflected every bolts with her saber, which she held with one hand, and they flew wildly into the wall behind her. The guards continued to fire on Barriss, who began to select every round around from her. Half of the guards were felled by their own blaster fire. Barriss then used the force to pull all of their rifles out of their hands.
They all looked down at her with absolute terror in their eyes.
She smiled.
'They're afraid of me. Good'.
Barriss used the force again to pull all four of the remaining guards toward her as they screamed. As soon as they were all close enough, Barriss swung her blade through each of their necks, decapitating all of them. Their heads flew in several different directions, but their bodies hit the wall behind her.
The hostages looked on in shocked horror, as their guards were wiped out like they were nothing.
But while Barriss was distracted, Lux jumped up from the floor and dove forward at Barriss, tackling her to the ground. Barriss dropped her blade and it skidded across the ground to the middle of the room.
Just as this was happening, Ahsoka began to regain consciousness. She blinked. Her vision was fuzzy, but it began to clear up. She could see her crush tussling with her former best friend. Her head throbbed as she tried to get up. She then saw Barriss' blade discarded in the middle of the floor. She had to act fast. Ahsoka reached out with the force to summon the fallen blade.
Just as that happened, Barriss kneed Lux in the gut, knocking the wind out of him. He kneeled to the ground, trying to regain his breath. But then Barriss used the force to suspend him in the air. Lux's hands went up to his throat as he started to feel pressure on it. Barriss was slowly starting to choke him. The mirilian dark-sider walked up to her floating prey. She pressed her large breasts forward onto Lux's pecks before speaking.
"You and the local peasants put up a good fight, senator," Barriss said before she smashed her lips against Lux's. His eyes shot open in surprise, and after a few seconds, she broke the kiss, "But it was all hopelessly in vain".
"You think so Barriss?" Someone asked.
Barriss turned just in time to see Ahsoka activating her lightsaber. The red blade extended in front of the angry togrutan, making her orange face glow red.
"Put. Him. Down." Ahsoka ordered.
Barriss chuckled and used the force to make Lux, who was still gasping for air, float between her and Ahsoka as a meat shield. She also used the force to pull Ahsoka's discarded knife into her grasp.
"I'm afraid that is not going to happen," Barriss said as she pressed a button on her wrist comm.
A few moments later, a squad of commando droids crashed through the doors to the dining hall. The hostages gasped and screamed as the Commando droids broke in, and moved to corner their Jedi guest, Ahsoka. The feeling of triumph and pride that was in Ahsoka suddenly vanished, immediately turning into frustration and despair.
"You see Ahsoka, If you try to attack me, then I will just crush dear Lux's windpipe. Then I will just take your wonderfully crafted blade, Hm, and use it to slit. The hostage's. Throats," Barriss said, emphasizing the last four words. "You may defeat my droids. But by the time you do...everyone that has brought you under their wing, and another person you cared about, will have perished because of your failure".
Ahsoka looked around her. Then she looked at the terrified. Then up at Lux - sweet Lux - who's face started to turn purple as he continued to choke. Tears started to well up in her eyes. She closed her eyes in a vain attempt to keep the tears from flowing. She deactivated the blade and threw it to the ground. She dropped to her knees and placed her hands behind her head.
Barriss smiled. The dark sider dropped Lux to the ground. He sucked in the deepest breath that he could and started to violently cough when he exhaled. He collapsed onto his side and continued coughing.
"Captain. If you'd please," Barriss ordered, gesturing to her two prisoners.
"Roger roger," the droid captain said.
The droids moved in to secure the prisoners. Ahsoka and Lux were put in binders and were about to be escorted out of the building. Ahsoka looked back up at the hostages. They were all looking down in horror as they saw the Jedi, they'd sworn to assist, being taken away by force. Guilt was written all over the governor's face.
Ahsoka lowered her head in shame. She was feeling guilt of her own. She brought the Separatists to Shili. In her mind, it was all her fault. Tears continued to stream down her face. She turned back to the new governor. "I'm sorry, my lord. I'm the one that brought them here".
"It's not your fault child. We should've done more to keep you safe." Governor San said.
Ahsoka nodded and they shared a look of respect. But then Ahsoka began to sob when she realized that she'll never be able to find her family. She came here and endangered the planet for nothing.
Lux placed his bounded hands on her shoulders and guided her out of the room.
Barriss turned to her droid captain.
"Let them be. They can't do any harm".
The droid nodded.
"Yes mistress," Captain B-260, the droid that helped brake Barriss out of prison, said.
The droids let the hostages go.
The droids moved their new prisoners aboard their shuttle, leaving behind a damaged house, and a damaged family. It took off and headed for a Separatist Providence class warship in geosynchronous orbit above.
The CIS were very close to getting their ultimate prize: The location of the Nexus Route, who's co-ordinates were still in Ahsoka's head.
The new governor, his family, and the other hostages were soon secured by a reinforcement of togrutan guards, who had secured the building and began to check every nook and cranny for signs of the enemy.
"My lord, are you all right?" One of the guards asked Governor San.
"I'm fine," he said as he pulled himself up with a guard's help. "The Separatists are here. Contact the Republic immediately."
"Yes sir," one guard said.
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Distress call from the planet Shili.
'To any Republic forces within the Ehosiq Sector, this is an emergency. Separatist forces have made an incursion onto Shili. They have murdered our Governor and have taken hostages. The hostages are Senator Lux Bonteri of Onderon, and former Jedi Ahsoka Tano. Come quickly. There is very little time'.
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That's chapter 7 everyone.
Hope your enjoying the story. Part 8 will hopefully be up soon.
Until next time, this is Grubkiller, signing out.