A/N: Anything in parenthesis after foreign 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 Twenty-One: Meeting the Girlfriends...

Obi-Wan groaned as he pressed a hand to his throbbing head. He should have realized that something was wrong when Cody didn't call in to update him. Of course how it was that the separatists managed to block their communications and take an entire starship hostage was really beyond him. Taking in a few deep breaths, he stretched himself forth in the force, trying desperately to locate the strong force presences of the friends...or brothers. Another groan escaped him as he realized that they were not there... at all. That was really not good. At least he could pick up his most of his men, that would mean that the droids only knocked the unsuspecting men for the most part unconscious instead of killing them all off. Obi-Wan struggled to his feet, trying to adjust to the sudden surge of vertigo that hit him. Great... he must have a concussion from Dooku literally hitting him in the head with a steel pipe. Now what was he supposed to do about rescuing them!?

Cody appeared, staggering slightly as he walked down the hall, clutching his head as if in a great deal of pain. "General? General? Can you hear me!?" He was speaking into his commlink, unaware that Obi-Wan was right in front of him.

"I'm here Cody... I am afraid that it looks like Dooku has once again kidnapped our guests." Obi-Wan sighed, still annoyed about this new dilemma.

That was when a new voice that neither of the men recognized yelled out at them. "Wakarimashita, bozosu! Watashi no kareshi to kare no shin'yū o toraete iru no wa dotchi! ? (Okay you bozos! Which one of you are holding my boyfriend and his best friend prisoner!?)"

Stunned that someone else was onboard so soon after the Separatist forces left, they spun around to find an angry looking woman with long orange hair pulled back into a high ponytail, a shruiken gleaming in her right hand while a dagger glittered in her left hand. Obi-Wan opened and closed his mouth multiple times, trying to figure out what to say to her... especially considering that he didn't recognize what she had said in the first place. The Force urged him on, telling him to say the greeting-introduction that Kai had been teaching him in the first place. "Kon'nichiwa watashinonamaeha Obi-wandesu. Kyō wa genkidesu ka?"

Surprise flickered across her features, even as a blonde version of her, though dressed in purple and had no weapons visible on her person, popped out from behind her. "Watashi wa, korera no dansei ga watashitachi no bōifurendo o tsureteiku sekinin ga aru to wa omoimasen. (I do not think these men are responsible for taking our boyfriends, my friend.)"

Obi-Wan twitched slightly, sensing through the Force that the newcomer seemed to be calming down the other one somewhat. Orange hair growled as she spun around to face the blonde, both of her weapons disappearing into pockets that he couldn't see on her person. "Then explain to me why then I was able to track their Ryū here with my doragon?"

Obi-Wan felt his eyes widen upon hearing that. He knew what both of those things were... which meant that... "You are friends of Kai and Zane then?"

"You could say that. My name is Pixal, and this is Skylor." Pixal's force presence reminded the Jedi of Zane a bit too much.

Cody shook his head wryly at them. "Congratulations. There's a madman that keeps kidnapping them, and we keep rescuing them from him... and well... let's just say he just got the jump on us and now we don't know where the other two are at."

"Great." Surprisingly enough the ladies didn't speak in unison.

Pixal froze suddenly, her green eyes latching onto something that they couldn't see. "Perhaps I can be of more assistance in this endeavor than all of you."

"Not too sure about that Pix, I mean. The only way you'll be of any help is if when Zane helped rebuild your body after the Second Shadow War, he placed a program into you to like, track him down or something." Skylor rolled her eyes at her friend.

"Now that you mentioned it..."

"Seriously?! You couldn't have done that when they first went missing!?" Skylor whirled around on her, fury dancing in her eyes.

Pixal calmly shook her head. "Of course not. It only works within a specific radius. Which we are finally within."

"You could have still mentioned it earli..." Obi-Wan quickly clapped a hand over Cody's mouth, cutting him off effectively.

"Let's not antagonize her. We best get going now though if we want to save the guys."


Kai kicked his legs out, knocking Dooku down somewhat. Why the guy thought removing them from the cages was a good idea, he had no idea. It just made it a million times easier for the two of them to kick his butt. "Zane! Behind you!"

The simple warning as all he needed to twist and dodge, punching the battle-droid in the face, denting it. "We need to find the others." Zane left out how they had no idea if the others were still alive, on the same ship as them... or nowhere near them at the moment. Zane stiffened suddenly, panic flashing briefly in his blue eyes. "That can't be good..." He muttered to himself suddenly.

"Icicle... you're scaring me here... what's not good?" Kai frowned, suddenly very nervous about what could worry his brother.

"Pixal has activated the Black Ice Protocol." Zane said as by way of explanation.

Before Kai could ask what that meant as he dodged another fist thrown by Dooku, he had disarmed him awhile ago and the Count still hasn't fetched it back, a new very familiar voice cut into his thoughts. "Kai! Nya ̄ janakute watashide yokatta to omotte kudasai! (Kai! Consider yourself lucky that is it me instead of Nya!)"

Snapping his head back, he spotted his rather angry girlfriend storming into the room with several clones and Obi-Wan on her tail. "Zane...?" He didn't both voicing his question out loud.

Zane nodded in understanding, before quickly explaining how she was able to show up. "She must have been with Pixal. The Black Ice Protocol is a program I added to Pixal to allow her to find me within a certain radius in case I ever go missing."

Kai hummed in agreement, before knocking out the Count, causing him to fall backwards into a startled Obi-Wan. "...And that is how you end a battle folks!"

Review Responses:

MrMateusz: Easy? Ha! That was a great deal of planning on Dooku's part. As well a whole lotta knocking clones unconscious. Glad you're liking this so far! And I happen to be aiming with humor with this story, so really glad to hear you find it funny.

: The point of this story is how everyone in the Star Wars universe handles Kai and Zane. Obviously they have been working on a way to travel into space and find the two wayward ninjas since their girlfriends have just arrived.