Ok. So this past chapter might have been a bit boring, but it gets more interesting, really! Now we have some excitement! Fun!!! This was definitely a fun chapter to write. I hope it's just as fun to read. REVIEW PLEASE!!!!

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Chapter 4

Thud!

"Ha! I get the pile again!" Deo-Onna shouted. Dai-Aron shook her head.

"Your getting too good at this," She said. Deo-Onna smiled. "I guess I should teach you a few other speed games," Dai-Aron continued.

"That would be fun," Deo-Onna said with anticipation.

"Well the first is call..." Dai-Aron paused, looking up, alarmed.

"What is i...?" Deo-Onna started. Then her eyes widened. "I sense it too."

"We have to get off this ship, come on." The two got up from the table and headed for the door out of the ship. Deo-Onna paused a second.

"What about the crew?" she asked. Dai-Aron turned to her patawan, pain on her face.

"No time." She then faced the closed door. There was no switch to open it. This did not stop Dai-Aron. Pulling the Force to her, she opened the door. Luckily the ramp was still down. Dai-Aron called Deo-Onna and told her to go ahead. They ran toward the open door of the docking bay. It started to close. Dai-Aron reached out with the Force and held the door open until they could get there. Just as they were to cross through the threshold, there was a loud explosion. Master and padawan where thrown into the air. Dai-Aron grabbed her patawan in midair and turned her over, causing just Dai-Aron to hit the opposite wall. The last thing she saw where pieces of debris flying through the slow closing bay doors.

Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon sat at a round table in the Counsel Room.

"Master, is it customary for the Federation to make Ambassadors of the Supreme Chancellor wait so long?" Obi-Wan asked, taking a sip of the drink that the protocol droid had served them. Suddenly there was a loud explosion that sent vibrations through the room, making the table shake and knocking the glasses over, spilling their cotenants all over. Both Jedi stood up in alarm, as they felt the wave of pain flow through the Force. The protocol droid apologized for the mess and began to clean it up.

"What was that, Master?" Obi-Wan asked. Qui-Gon closed his eyes, trying to see it through the Force. His eyes instantly snapped open.

"They have blown up our ship!" he said, alarmed. Obi-Wan paled slightly.

"Dai, Deo-Onna!" he said fearfully.

"They are fine. We should worry about ourselves for now."

Obi-Wan realized that he was holding his breath and slowly exhaled. Then the two heard a sharp hissing sound. Obi-Wan's brow wrinkled slightly.

"What is that?" he asked.

There was only one word for it. Qui-Gon looked at his patawan.

"Gas," he responded.

Dai-Aron groaned as consciousness came back to her. Pain ran through her like wild fire, but she mustered the strength to get up. Slowly, she brought her legs under her and sat up on her knees. Deo-Onna lay infront of her, also unconscious. Dai-Aron put a hand on her patawan's shoulder and shook her gently.

"Deo-Onna," She said. The young girl groaned and slowly opened her eyes. Then she too sat up. "Anything broken?" Dai-Aron asked. Deo-Onna moved everything to make sure.

"No," she responded. "Every thing just hurts," Deo-Onna added. Dai-Aron laughed, and then winced a bit in pain.

"I know how that feels. Come on. We have to find Master Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan." The two girls got to their feet and looked around them.

"How will we find them?" Deo-Onna asked her master.

"Good question," Dai-Aron responded. Then she closed her eyes and reached into the Force. Soon she found Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. They where in a room and there was some sort of mist about them. I hope they'll be all right by the time we get to them. She thought to herself. Then she opened her eyes and pointed down the hall to their left.

"That way!" she said.

"That works," Deo-Onna said softly to herself as she followed behind her master. Dai-Aron led them through a series of twists and turns. Also up many stairs and lifts. Finally they reached a hall not too far from the room that Dai-Aron had seen their companions in. There was the sound of laser beam clashing with lightsaber. Dai-Aron paused, listening. Then she motioned her patawan against the wall and both put their backs to it. Slowly Dai-Aron moved closer to the corner. When she got to it, she carefully looked around it. Qui-Gon had his back to her and was trying to melt a hole through the control room doors, which glowed red from the heat. Obi-Wan was making mince meat of battle droids. Dai-Aron then heard something she was dreading to hear. She backed away from the corner as suddenly a strange looking droid rolled by. They could hear others approaching the place where Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon were.

"Destroyer droids," Dai-Aron whispered. "These people mean business." Deo-Onna looked at her Master desperately, as Dai-Aron looked around them. "Get that ventilation shaft open," Dai-Aron said at last. Deo-Onna got on it as Dai-Aron quietly went around the corner. She saw that the Destroyer droid had stopped not too far from Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan and had been joined by two others. Dai-Aron slowly walked up behind it. She readied her lightsaber and held it high for a strike, hoping against all hope that some how she could get through the blue tinged shield, but she was not so lucky. Though it did stop the firing long enough for Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon to escape. "This way!" Dai-Aron shouted to her comrades and they ran down the hall, Destroyer droids hot on their tail. They slipped down the hall way and into the ventilation shaft that Deo-Onna had waiting for them. Shutting off the entrance, they waited as the Destroyer droids rolled past. Once they where gone, the four looked at each other.

"What do we do now?" asked Deo-Onna. Looking down both directions of the shaft, Qui-Gon pointed left.

"We go that way," he said and began to lead the way, Obi-Wan behind him. They crawled through the shaft and soon found themselves in another opening. They where high above the ground and could see much from where they were.

It seemed that they had reached another hanger bay. There were many large Federation ships that looked to be loading droid troops onto them. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon, being the closest ones to the action, related all of what they saw to the girls behind them.

"An army?" Dai-Aron said, shocked. "This seems very unusual for the Trade Federation." She craned her neck slightly to see what exactly the two men where talking about.

"What do you mean, Master?" Deo-Onna asked, slightly distracted by Obi-Wan's back.

"Well the Trade Federation Neimoidians are enterprisers, not fighters," Qui-Gon answered for Dai-Aron.

"This looks like an invasion army," Obi-Wan stated.

"Shouldn't we warn the Naboo?" Dai-Aron asked. Qui-Gon nodded his head.

"But we should not do that here," he said.

"Why don't we hitch a ride with our friends down there?" Deo-Onna suggested.

"It's the least they can do after the way they have treated us," Obi-Wan agreed.

"Good idea," Qui-Gon said. "We will all take separate transports and meet on the surface."

"Sounds good to me," Dai-Aron said.

"Good, then we are all agreed," Qui-Gon said.

"You were right about one thing, Master," Obi-Wan said a small smile dancing on his face. His master looked at him. "The negotiations where short." Dai-Aron smiled and Deo-Onna giggled at the small joke. Qui-Gon ignored the statement and jumped down from the shaft. Obi-Wan soon followed, but just before he left, Dai-Aron grabbed his lightsaber carefully from his belt.

"What are you doing, Master?" Deo-Onna asked after Obi-Wan had jumped down. Dai-Aron smiled.

"Knowing him, he'll end up ruining it," she explained. "I just saved him a lot of work." Then she jumped down after her love and his Master. Deo-Onna followed closely.

I hope you are right, Master, she thought to herself.