CHAPTER FIVE: Torture

"So do you think Morjan used Force Disappear to vanish in front of us?" Anakin asked. "Yes." Koon said without hesitation. "There is no other plausible explanation." "I can't believe Darth Maul has a son." Obi-Wan said, shaking his head. "I just can't believe it!" "Believe it, Master." Anakin said. "You're right, Anakin." Obi-Wan replied, sighing. "I am just taking in this whole episode as a gigantic shock." "We all are, Obi-Wan." Koon said. "Yes, well…we should continue to the task at hand and forget about Morjan." Obi-Wan said. "You mean finding fuel and buying a ship." Anakin said. "Exactly." Obi-Wan answered. "Wait a minute." Anakin said suddenly. "What is it, Padawan?" Koon asked. "Do you think Morjan is the apprentice of whoever killed Windu and Yoda?" "Hmm..." Koon said, rubbing his chin with his hand. "That's very possible. But it still wouldn't explain why Morjan was posing as a bartender at some infamous cantina…" "We'll figure that out when the time is right, Master Koon." Anakin said. "Yes, I suppose we will." Koon replied.

Koon, Anakin, and Obi-Wan returned to the center of Mos Espa. People immediately recognized them as the sadistic monsters who killed everyone in the giant crowd, and the people who destroyed the sacred statue of the two master Jedi. Police forces instantly came running towards the Jedi. The Jedi lit their lightsabers, not hoping for a fight. The police officers' eyes widened, and they backed off at the sight of their lightsabers. "We were just leaving Mos Espa." Anakin said to the crowd, his eyes narrowed. "You must be punished." A police officer said. "You have slaughtered many innocent lives today and destroyed a statue of the two greatest Jedi whoever lived." "And what exactly is that punishment?" Obi-Wan asked. "The punishment for these actions is always death, scum." The officer replied. "Droids!" Ten HK-Series combat droids came marching to where the Jedi were standing. "Injure these Jedi, and bring them to me." The officer said. "Do not kill them." Obi-Wan and Koon knew a single Jedi could destroy two average HK droids before dying. Together, the three of them would only be able to destroy six. Six out of ten. If they attacked them they'd be Bantha fodder. The HK droids aimed their heavy carbon blasters at the Jedi. "Come on, then." Anakin said, putting his lightsaber in a threatening position. "Do your worst." "No, Anakin!" Obi-Wan yelled. "We must cooperate." "Are you insane, Master?" Anakin yelled. "We'll be captured! Who knows? Maybe some of the police officers are Dark Jedi! Besides, we can easily defeat these droids!" "No, you can't!" Koon whispered. "HK droids are the strongest and deadliest combat droids in the galaxy. Don't even try!" "We surrender." Obi-Wan said loudly, snapping off his lightsaber. He dropped it in the sand. Koon did the same. At first, Anakin was reluctant but then followed suit. The HK droids understood. Two droids rushed over to the Jedi and grabbed the three lightsabers. The other droids opened fire.

It was amazing the Jedi were alive after the incident with the HK droids. They fired without hesitation and without mercy, like the Super Battle Droids attacking the Jedi Temple. It's a wonder their aim didn't allow them to hit any vital organs. Anakin's knee was broken. Obi-Wan's left arm was broken. Koon was not injured, because he was hit in his robot arm and just pretended he was hurt when only his robotic arm was damaged. The police had medical droids mend the broken bones the Jedi had. The three Jedi were standing in cylinders surrounded by Force fields that instantly killed any life form that touched it. "Any plans?" Koon asked. Both Anakin and Obi-Wan shook their heads. "We just need to get out of here." Obi-Wan said. "And we still need to find the fuel and the ship." Anakin said. "Talk about buying fuel and a ship is just a little premature, Anakin." Koon said. "We still need to get out of this prison." Just then, a door opened. The head police chief walked into the room, surrounded by three police officers and two HK droids. "It is unwise what you did." The chief said. "If you had fought against my battle droids, you would've been killed immediately and quickly. But you did not. Now you must go through a long, slow, and painful death with my torture machines and my torture droids." Anakin swore under his breath. "It wasn't us who did it." Koon suddenly said. Both Anakin and Obi-Wan were deeply surprised. Koon actually thought the police were going to believe that, even though it was the truth? The chief laughed so hard Anakin thought he was going to pass out. "You didn't do it!" He yelled. "You stupid orange freak! Dozens of people murdered without mercy, you three were the only ones remaining in the area, and you said you didn't do it!" He called me a stupid orange freak! Koon thought. "Being a stupid orange freak is better than being a stupid human freak, like you." Koon said, without blinking. However, Obi-Wan and Anakin blinked dozens of times. They couldn't even believe their ears. But that wasn't the end of it. Koon went on. "So let us out of this fucking prison and let us continue our fucking lives." There was silence. The chief's face seemed to be swelling up with fury. "You'll pay for that." The chief said. "Activate 5-second torture field in Cell 1. Power—low." Koon screamed in agony for five seconds. Then he stopped, breathing hard. "That should teach you not to talk back to me, or to do anything stupid." The chief said. "He's not a stupid orange freak." Obi-Wan said. Even Obi-Wan himself didn't believe what he was saying. But that wasn't all. Much to Anakin's surprise, Obi-Wan continued. "You're a stupid fat freak who reeks of shit and body odor." The chief smiled and said, "Activate 5-second torture field in Cell 2. Power—average." Now it was Obi-Wan's turn to scream. He screamed louder than Koon. He was in so much pain, he thought he was dead. "See what I mean?" The chief said, smiling evilly. "You!" He pointed to Anakin. "You've been good and kept your mouth shut." The chief said. "Keep it like that and I won't torture you like I did the others. But since you've been good and not a piece of shit like your stupid friends, I'll let you choose which method of death you three will go through." The chief pulled out a folded up piece of paper from his pocket, unfolded it, and handed it to one of the HK droids. The droid walked up to Anakin and stuck its metal hand inside his cell, and handed the paper to Anakin. The force field didn't affect the droid. Anakin looked at the paper. It read:

METHODS OF DYING

LETHAL INJECTION—HEART ATTACK

LETHAL INJECTION—THROAT CLOSURE

LETHAL INJECTION—EXTREME HEADACHE

HEAD CHOPPED OFF BY AXE, SWORD, OR LIGHTSABER

CHOPPED IN HALF BY AXE

CHOPPED IN HALF BY SWORD

CHOPPED IN HALF BY LIGHTSABER

SHOT DOWN WITH PISTOL

SHOT DOWN WITH RIFLE

SHOT DOWN WITH SHOTGUN

SHOT DOWN WITH PLASMA GUN

SHOT DOWN WITH CHAINGUN

SHOT DOWN WITH SITH HEAVY REPEATING BLASTER

RAN OVER BY JAWA SANDCRAWLER

EATEN BY RANCOR

EATEN BY TERRANTATEK

KILLED BY WRAID

KILLED BY INSANE TUSKEN RAIDERS

STRANGLED

KILLED BY LETHAL TORTURE

"So? Which one do you choose?" The chief asked. Anakin seriously considered answering for a second, but thought about it and then said, "None of them." "You mean you want to create your own method of death?" The chief said. "Not a problem. What sort of thing did you have in—" "I meant, we're not going to die." "You are sadly mistaken!" The chief said. "Activate 10-second torture field in Cell 3. Power—excruciating." Anakin was sure he was dead. It felt as if his heart was bursting over and over again, as if his head was being slit open again and again and again, as if a billion lightsabers were being plunged into his body…

"Was that painful enough?" The chief asked. Anakin didn't reply. He couldn't reply. He was in shock and was stunned, and very disoriented. "Right then." The chief said. "I'll leave you to it." The chief opened the door, and the droids and officers followed him. When the chief, the officers, and one droid had left the room, Koon immediately used the Force to shut the door and enchant it so no one could open it or break it down. Then he used his droid-affecting skills to tell the droid to set them free. Koon was terrible at Jedi Mind Tricks. But he was gifted in the rare art of Droid Persuasion, to persuade droids into doing almost anything. The droid walked over to some controls and disabled the force fields. "Leave." Koon said. The droid nodded and tried to leave the room, but the door was still enchanted. Koon disenchanted the door and the droid left. Then he enchanted it again. "Thank you so much!" Obi-Wan said. "Master Koon, we wouldn't have survived if you didn't know Droid Persuasion." "Thank you, Master Obi-Wan." Koon said. He smiled. "Is Anakin alright?" "He should be." Obi-Wan replied. "The torture the chief set on us were not fatal, just horribly painful." "I'm alright." Anakin said suddenly. "I'm glad you're okay." Koon said. "Damn the chief!" Anakin said, waving his fist in the air. "I thought I had died!" "Let's stop talking about torture and figure out a way to get out of here." Obi-Wan said. He made his way over to a computer. "This should do it…" Obi-Wan said, working at the computer. "Great! All force fields in the building have been disabled." Immediately, they heard loud violent screams and crashes of escaping prisoners. "Good think you enchanted the door, Master." Anakin said, nodding to Koon. "The police will be to preoccupied with the escaping prisoners to worry about us." Obi-Wan said. "Let's move. We don't have much time."

The three Jedi moved down a hallway. Obi-Wan was right, the halls were deserted. Police were frantically running around outside to recapture the prisoners. Koon opened a random door and found another prison room. There were four cells in the room. Three force fields were gone. One remained. This force field was red, unlike the others which were blue. Inside the cell the force field was holding was a young green Twi'Lek girl no older than 12 or 13. "Who are you?" The Twi'Lek asked. "You're not with the police, I can see that much." "We're Jedi, trying to escape from this prison and being charged with a crime we didn't commit." Anakin answered. The Twi'Lek girl rolled her eyes. "Yeah, sure." She said. "Anyway, do you know why all the force fields suddenly got disabled?" "That would be my doing." Obi-Wan said. "Figures." The girl replied. "But why didn't yours get disabled?" Koon asked the girl. "I got suited with a Red Forcefield." The girl replied. "Really high-tech police stuff, you know? They usually use the blue ones. But not for me." She sighed. "I got a red." "What's the difference between a blue forcefield and a red forcefield?" "Red ones are permanent." The girl said. "They can only be disabled by the chief, cause only he's got the codes to deactivate them." "What crime did you commit?" Anakin asked. The Twi'Lek sighed again. "I raided a mansion and killed three people." She said. The Jedi were wide-eyed with shock. A 13 year old raiding mansions and killing people? "It sounds like you got what you deserve." Koon said. "I was getting revenge." The Twi'Lek said. "Criminals live in the house I raided. You know, gangsters and stuff. They formed a special club and constructed assassin droids to assassinate innocent people for fun." "Monstrous!" Obi-Wan exclaimed. The Twi'Lek nodded. "The police only thought there were faulty assassin droids running around shooting people. They had no idea these gangsters were behind the killings. Many people who had lost loved ones to the droids told the police about the gangsters living in the mansion. The police didn't believe them, because gangsters don't really exist in Mos Espa nowadays. One day, my brother Hulas was targeted by the gangsters. Soon enough an assassin droid came after him and shot his head off with a Zabrak magnum. I witnessed the whole thing. I knew where the droids were coming from, so I used whatever skills I had to break into the mansion. I did it, and killed all the gangsters with my handy vibrosword." "You've got quite a story." Obi-Wan said. "Yeah." The Twi'Lek said. "Then I was caught and imprisoned by the police. Raiding homes is the #1 crime here on Mos Espa. I can see you're not from around here." "No, we're from Coruscant." Anakin replied. "On a very important mission to Korriban." "Korriban!" The girl exclaimed. "I know all about Korriban. I once went there with my friends. We had fun breaking into people's apartments and disrupting the Czerka Corporation work." "You've got quite a life." Koon said, mocking Obi-Wan's speech. "What's your name, kid?" "Nyalapolkimanuiklapokijunat." The Twi'Lek said. The Jedi stared. "Nya for short." She said. "Nya Kilopsy." "Is it common for Twi'Leks to have such long names?" Anakin asked. Nya shrugged. "Most likely, no. I'm just probably a little Twi'Lek girl who's so damn special." Nya looked at the floor. Her face suddenly brightened and she looked up. "Hey, can you guys get me out of here?" "Not unless we have the chief's codes." Anakin said. "Oh, come on, can't you use your Jedi powers or something?" Nya asked. Obi-Wan suddenly had a blank look on his face. "What's wrong, Master?" Anakin asked. "Tatooine doesn't believe in imprisoning people." Obi-Wan said. "This whole thing is a lie! There is no forcefield! It's just a trick! The police tell you there's a forcefield when you can really just walk right out and be fine!" "Are you sure about this, Obi-Wan?" Koon asked. "Yes!" Obi-Wan exclaimed. "I'm positive. Nya—walk out!" "No!" Nya yelled. "Are you insane? I'll be killed!" "Nya, trust me!" Obi-Wan yelled. "Fine." Nya said. "But if I die, your Jedi hearts will have to live with the guilt that you killed an innocent Twi'Lek girl." Nya stepped out of the forcefield. And she started to scream.