Note: Sorry this took so long. Unexpected visit from relitves. Joy eh? Ok well this and what follows is not my best work. I don't know what happened. I think talking to my relitives broke my mind. lol, anyway i hope you like it.

Ch. 13 Nothing Left to Have

"What happened?"

Mace questioned the aide.

"I-I don't know sir...she must of stepped off the transmission platform."

The aide replied wide-eyed.

"In trouble they are....go we must."

Yoda said looking at Mace.

"Time is too little."

Mace finally realized what he was asking.

"Oh yes...uh..Master Gallia, come with me?"

Adi wasn't expectin that but nodded,

"Yes of course."

"Go as well I will."

Yoda put in.

"Master Yoda, it could be dangerous."

Ki-Adi-Mundi said.

"Danger is a way of life for a Jedi...My size nor my age make me no different."

Yoda replied firmly ending the discussion there.

~~~~~~~NPV~~~~

He wondered if she was going to kill him when she found out. He had lyed to her just like everyone else in her life had. Course, he had no choice right? Right. He sighed entering the mission breifing room.

~~~~~~NPV~~~~~~~~

Jesi shook her head trying to get the dazed feeling away as she looked up at her attacker from her place on the floor against the wall. Seeing it was Wess she inwardly grimaced. When he pulled her up to her feet she really did want to grimace seeing the tall Jedi Master behind him.

"That's a naughty thing to do Jesiana."

Wess said throwing her back to the wall and to the floor smacking her across the face.

"But this will be rather fun....don't you agree Master Jedi?"

~~~NPV~~~~

He was so close. Qui-Gon could feel the intruder wiggle in his mental grasp. It slipped through him again but finally he grabbed it firmly and let the Force that he had collected wash through his mind. The intruder sank away to the very darkest area of his mind and Qui-Gon looked through *his* eyes again.

"...Don't you agree Master Jedi?"

Qui-Gon looked at the man and who was below him glaring at him. Stafferi.

"No, actually...I don't."

With the help of the Force Qui-Gon threw the man across the room making a loud clomotion.

"Billy!"

Jesi yelled as loud as she could standing and about to run past him.

"Wait!"

Qui-Gon grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back to the wall, a little harder then intended and he stepped back away from her because of it.

"Look, I don't know how to explain this but all those things I did wasn't really me."

He said. Jesi just glared at him waiting.

"I have to get my apprentice out of here....I need your help."

"And how do I know that you aren't just trying to trick me into trusting you?"

Jesi questioned. Qui-Gon frowned. She had every right to question him but he didn't know how to answer the question.

"I don't know how you would know, you just have to. It wasn't me doing those things I swear. It was like there was another person in my head telling my body what to do and how to do it."

"....Like a voice?"

Jesi asked, her eyes softening a little.

"Yes! Exactly like a voice, in fact it was."

Jesi thought on it. Suddenly a man burst through the door blaster aimed.

"Hold your fire!"

Jesi said loudly but seemingly just above a whisper and stepped infront of Qui-Gon. Billy frowned looking at her.

"Jesi, what are you doing?"

"He's been Castoed."

Both Billy and Qui-Gon looked at her in quesiton. What did Castoed mean?

"Look."

She turned the Jedi around and pulled away his hair to reveal the back of his neck. Sure enought there was like a scar there just below his hair line. Qui-Gon was still confused. For one she was in such a rush. For number two, he couldn't see whatever she was talking about.

Jesi allowed him to turn to face them again.

"Do you know what Castoed means?"

She asked.

"No."

Qui-Gon shook his head. Two more people came in, a man and a woman. The man seemed to be guiding or supporting the woman.

"They put a type of micro-chip inside you. Right under your skull. It's a controll chip. It sends waves throughout your mind allowing whoever's at the main computer to controll your every move inside your own mind. I don't see how you came out of it unless it melfunctioned. Or your lying."

She pulled out a blaster aimming at his forehead.

"No! No, I'm not lying. If I were wouldn't I of killed you by now for realizing it?"

Qui-Gon said still calm but who wasn't a little alertted when they have the tip of a blaster pointed at their head.

She smiled slightly.

"You're right...you would've."

She lowered the blaster. Much to Qui-Gon relief.

"Now that you're back with us.."

Jesi looked at the holo transmission platform.

"Wess did a number on that but your Council knows where we are and will have a transport to pick us, us being Billy, Lynn, Pierce, you, your apprentice, myself, and my son,"

She motioned to each person who was in the room.

"In about 4 hours at the cliff embarkment next to the river. That should be enough time to get the codes, start the 78R process, free Obi-Wan and Kyle."

The others around her nodded.

"Alright, we're going to have to move fast.Billy Pierce and Lynn, I want you three to get the codes and put 78R in gear.You'll have to find Ques, Vinkins, and Coith to get it moving fast enough to get far enough away.Qui-Gon and I will get Obi-Wan and Kyle. Kyle is near across camp, it'll take nearly an hour just to get there without being caught by the cameras, however long to get him, and then an hour back.I don't know how long it will be to find and free Obi-Wan."

"It should be easy.Our bond lets me know where he is."

Qui-Gon put in when she looked at him.

"Alright.We'll meet in the land transport hanger at dawn."

Jesi finished. Again the group around her nodded exchanged a few encouraging words with the other group then split up. So far no one had reported what had happened.When Qui-Gon and Jesi left the room Jesi grabbed Wess's com and jammed the doors.

"That should keep him detained for a while."

Qui-Gon nodded. Taking the stairs up Jesi explained what was going to happen.

" The 78R process is a plan to free the slave prisons.We have sources inside the prison, guards, supervisors, and slaves themselves, that know about it and take part. Once we give them the signal and instructions the supervisors pass it on to the guards, they 'accidently' leave a *few* cell blocks open and leave a few keycards in certain areas. The leaders in the slave prisons then take it from there."

"So it's like a riot of types?"

Qui-Gon questioned in the same whisper.

"Yes.The slaves outnumber the guards 5 to 2, easy take over.Not to mention our own workers inside."

"Who are you exactly? Your group."

Qui-Gon kept his Force senses alert for anyone in the passage of stairs.

"We're apart of a spy team from Kishir. Something like a sting operation. We've been taught to lie, cheat, steal, and kill our way to victory.That's all we are."

She replied.

Qui-Gon frowned slightly at the tone in her voice. It was like she was proud of what she did. Maybe she was. Maybe she had every right to have pride. He himself had seen what these people did, perhaps they deserved what she and her team gave them. His head hurt more than anything.

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His head hurt more than anything. It screamed so loud sometimes that Obi-Wan's dark vision turned red then blue then back to shadows again. He was sitting with his back to a wall in a corner. He hadn't heard or seen anything since his 'Master' left the room earlier that night. Slowly he was beginning to regain his feeling of the Force. It whispered to him often but he couldn't hear it yet. He tried to concentrate on it but couldn't. Why should he? He was never going to actually be a Jedi. He would never live to get out of here. Worst of all the man he thought as a father brought it all on. The sick feeling came back for the millionth time and Obi-Wan just wanted it all to stop. All to end.

Suddenly there was a fimilar tremor in the Force.A signature.

'Oh-no.Now what?'

The door opened and even though his master stepped over three bodies and Obi-Wan could hear something going on near the door all he could think of was the last time he came through that door. Pain, suffering, and a truth that hurt more than the lie.

"What do you want? Just leave me alone."

He said.

Qui-Gon stopped in his tracks looking at the beaten teenager.

"Padawan,"

"Don't call me that, I'm not *your* padawan and your not *my* master...we never have been."

Qui-Gon blinked.

"No, Obi-Wan you don't understand."

There were a few blaster shots outside the room but neither cared.

"Understand what?! That *everything* in my life was a lie?! That you never really cared about me at all, ever!"

"Obi-Wan no that's not-"

Qui-Gon stepped foward but Obi-Wan just backed more into the corner.

"Stay away from me you lair.Stay away."

Qui-Gon coughed softly with the pressure in his throat and the way his head was spinning.

"Obi-Wan..."

"Guys, we have to go!"

Jesi said rushing in towards Obi-Wan.

"You alright?"

She checked him over quick.

"Jesiana, what are you doing with him? He can't be trusted."

Obi-Wan asked truly confused.Jesi's eyes widened slightly.

"Oh. No, no kid. *They* had controll of his mind..they made him do everything. It wasn't really him."

She said.Obi-Wan's eyes tightened on Qui-Gon who still stood dumbfounded.

"Come.We'll explain."

She pulled him to his feet. He hesitated before following.

"Obi-Wan." Jesi turned to face him again.

"I promise you can trust him.Trust me."

He looked at the two a moment.

'Trust is only there to be broken.'

Echoed in his mind. She tugged gently on his arm. Finally he followed and the three quickly exited the room and fled to the safety of the never used stair well.

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Mace drummed his fingers arm of his chair. They'd been in flight nearly over an hour now and he had no idea what to expect on Kishir II. He'd heard many things about the planet and it's war but he didn't know how to picture it.With a sigh he glanced at Adi Dui who seemed to be doing the same thing he was.Yoda had disappeared into a back chamber since the flight began and hadn't been seen since.Mace wondered if the stories about this Jesiana Stafferi were all true. He heard that she was actually a Jedi.Only by blood of course for she was never trained but her father was and he was a rogue.Only lived at the Temple for his apprentice years never seen since he was Knighted.Jesiana herself refused to go to the temple at the early age of 4 or 5. Probably convinced by her mother but apparently her mother died when she was something around 16 or soand was brought to the temple as a term guest by Yoda himself.

Mace's thoughts were interupted when Adi began talking to him about Qui-Gon.

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"A Casto?"

Obi-Wan questioned after hearing the whole story from Qui-Gon then the addition of information from Jesiana. Jesi nodded.

"So it wasn't..it wasn't true? You didn't really say those things?"

"No Obi-Wan, I would never betray you."

Qui-Gon said trying to convince his padawan.Obi-Wan's eyes drifted away from the two. Suddenly the 16 year-old flung his arms around the older Jedi. Slightly taken back Qui-Gon had to think for a moment then returned the hug. Jesi smiled a little and stepped away looking around the staircase making sure no one was coming either way so they could start moving.

"Things will be alright.We'll get out of here."

She over heard Qui-Gon saying.

"I know."

Obi-Wan replied. She glanced at the two. This had taken much longer than she had thought. Nearly an hour to free the young Jedi and convince him to trust again. When she thought about it they'd probably just make it to the hanger in time to get to the embarkment before the raids began from above. The raids, she wondered who would lead them with Thomas gone.

"We need to be going."

Jesi said softly. The two looked at her both nodding in understanding. She tilted her head quickly with a smile then turned leading them down toward the ground level.

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Ques nodded slightly to Vinkins and both slipped the keycards between the doorway and the door itself on opposite ends of the cafetria.They'd find it soon..and soon the riots would begin.They just prayed that it would be enough time to get the people far enough away from the camps before the raids began.Silently they walked away from their places.

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Force, they had an hour and a half to get Kyle and back to the hanger. The trip cross camp was more complicated than Jesi had thought. She had to 'take care of' quite a few people now and it was leaving a trail. It would be a mess to get back. She glanced at the two Jedi crouched as she was behind her hidden only by a corner. She was about to start over to the cell/room c37 but she froze when she saw Colings exit the room. At his side a young boy of 7. Her heart sank seeing the group. Now what were they going to do? He had her son again. Kyle was the key to her every move and Colings knew it.

Tbc...