Twisted inside chapter 19

She was laying on something hard crying out in pain as though her body had just been set on fire. Her skin pulled against the hard surface she was laying against every time she moved. The bright light the shun down on her face hurt her eyes so much so that she had to close them. Around her she could hear the sounds of droids moving and poking and prodding parts of her body. She cried out in pain as something sharp was jabbed into her arm. Breathing hurt, her lungs felt like they were on fire and her body was hot and in pain. Though her body was hot and in pain she felt cold. There was something or someone that radiated with darkness next to her.

After what felt like hours she felt something attaching to her limbs and suddenly she could move them. Then something smooth seemed to slip over her body but it pulled and yanked every part of her skin. Then something suddenly blocked the bright light that was keeping her from looking around. Her eyes opened unnaturally sensitive to the light watched as something black and strangely shaped in the form of a face descended down toward her.

Her eyes widened as…a mask seemingly locked into place on something directly below her lips and rotate back toward her head. Then a secondary piece from above locked in behind jamming needles painful into her head. A loud audible hiss echoed around her and suddenly oxygen was being forced into her lungs and what sounded like breathing echoed around her. She could feel herself being lifted upward but her arms and legs were bound in place once more. The twisted evil presence drew closer to her and a eerie twisted dark voice called out next to her "Lord Vader, can you hear me?"

"Yes, my Master" the words seem to flow from her mouth unwillingly but her voice sounded not like her own but deeper and more mechanical than her own. "Where is Padme? Is she safe, is she alright?" she found herself asking and a sudden feeling of worry for the senator washed over her.

"It seems in you anger…you killed her" the shadowy presence next to her spoke. Suddenly the concern turned in confusion then bright hot burning anger "I…I couldn't have. She is alive! I felt it!" she replied enraged by the news. The anger grew and grew as she yanked free from the restrains that bound her to the table and she let loose a cry of turmoil "Noooooo!"

Suddenly Ahsoka jolt out of her meditation, her heart racing and breathing quickly. She was confused, she didn't understand what she saw but she knew it wasn't good. Looking around for Bogan so she could get some answers to what she had just experienced. She saw Bogan sitting on the small bed looking at her.

"What…what was that?" Ahsoka asked pushing herself off of the ground and walking toward her darker half. "What you saw my dear was one possible future" the darker half replied turning as her vessel sat next to her. "I felt pain…sadness, turmoil then anger…" Ahsoka replied softly. "All natural feelings my dear" Bogan assured gently resting her ghostly hand on Ahsoka's leg. Turning her head to Ahsoka, Bogan's sulfuric yellow gaze eyed her "Tell me dear, what did you see?" she asked.

Ahsoka shivered at the vision "I…I was hurt…I couldn't breath so I was put in some kind of suit. There was someone next to me, watching me" she replied. "Go on dear" Bogan replied. Ahsoka cleared her throat "He…he called me Vader…Darth Vader and I asked him if Padme was alright" she said.

"What did he say?" Bogan asked. "He said that I, that Vader killed her" Ahsoka replied looking down at the ground in confusion before looking at Bogan. Bogan nodded in understanding "It seems that within the time we've spent together here in this cell has strengthened our bond to the point that you no longer need me to show you visions of the future" the misty darker half replied.

Shaking her head in confusion the young togurtan looked up "It felt real…the pain, I could barely breathe on my own" she said. "Who was the man in the vision, the man standing next to me?" Ahsoka asked. Bogan smiled but not in a wicked way, more of a secretive knowing way like she knew something that Ahsoka did not. "He is the man that is behind this war. He is the man hides in the shadows while pulling the strings of not only the Separatist but that of the Republic as well. Manipulative and cunning as he is powerful in the force but you my dear, in time with be able to stop this Sith Lord known as Darth Sidious" Bogan" replied.

Ahsoka looking at her darker half and was about to ask another question when the turbo lift door outside of her cell opened up. Turning her head quickly the padawan saw two temple guards and a Jedi exit the lift. Standing up Ahsoka made her way to the edge of her cell just as the turbo lift door closed sealing the room around her cell in darkness once more. "Hello?" Ahsoka called out peering into the darkness for the Jedi that had entered the room.

A few moments passed and finally Ahsoka could see someone stepping out of the shadows and into the light. "Look who came back for another visit" Bogan said with a smile as she watched the woman's hesitance to approach the cell. Ahsoka glared at Bogan before looking back at the female Jedi who stepped closer to the cell. For a Jedi she looked deathly afraid of her though Ahsoka could do nothing from within her cell.

"Where is Anakin, where's my master I need to let him know he's in danger" Ahsoka said urgently jumping to the point. "Knight Skywalker is currently off world on a assignment" Jedi healer Talis replied feeling a little more at ease that she was dealing with a less scary Ahsoka than the last time she had come down here.

"Where is he? He's in grave danger" Ahsoka said frantically "I have to warn him." Jedi healer Talis looked at a datapad she had under her arm and looked down at the information regard Ahsoka "Ahsoka how are you feeling?" the healer asked. Ahsoka eyes widened, the healer was blowing off her concern for her master and the danger that would befall him and instead was worrying about her. "Did you not hear me? My master is in great danger!" Ahsoka said.

"My job is helping you Padawan tano" the healer replied "so let's focus on you alright." Bogan's misty sulfuric eyes narrowed but she smile sinisterly from behind Ahsoka "She doesn't seem to care about the danger Skyguy is in" Bogan said softly behind Ahsoka. Ahsoka shook her head "No, I don't care about me. My master is in danger and I have to warn him" Ahsoka said "please I have to save him" her voice growing with desperation.

The healer looked up from her datapad to the togruta as the Force around them began to swirl thick with worry. She shivered as the darkside pressed in all around them "alright Ahsoka" she said softly "if you allow me to help you then I promise I will check on your master" she said. Ahsoka calmed down a little and the darkside calmed down a little and the healer let out a small sigh of relief.

"Ok…" Ahsoka said softly as she sat down at the edge of the cell and looked at the healer. Slowly Talis sat down in a attempt to make the young padawan more comfortable. "Now" the healer started "how are you feeling?" Ahsoka thought the question was odd and more so the answer obvious. She was stuck in a cell with no contact with the outside world worried about her master all while she was turning into the embodiment of the darkside.

Ahsoka was silent for several moments unsure what to say and what not too. She looked back at Bogan whose pale ghostly hands rested on her shoulders. She felt the darkside wrap around her but not enough that she was smothered by it. In a way, it felt more protective as it wrapped around her body shielding her from the lightside. It was strangely…comforting.

Bogan looked down at her, her sulfuric yellow eyes meeting a pair of crystal blue with a tinged yellow hue to them. "Well my dear, how do you feel? Be honest with yourself" Bogan replied. Ahsoka looked back at the healer who seemed puzzled at Ahsoka's actions. The healer wondered if there was some unseen thing that Ahsoka seemed to look at.

"I feel…trapped both physically and metaphorically" Ahsoka admitted. "Metaphorically?" the healer asked tilting her head to one side in question. Ahsoka nodded "I'm surrounded…I can feel it everywhere and yet…" Ahsoka said again looking behind her to Bogan. The healer looked behind Ahsoka toward where the young girl was looking but again she saw nothing.

The healer looked back at Ahsoka "yet what?" she asked. Ahsoka looked back down at the healer "yet it runs from me, close enough that I know it is there but to far away to grab a hold of it" Ahsoka replied "like its scared of me but stays close enough just out of my grasp to taunting me."

"I'm afraid I don't understand Padawan Tano please explain" the healer replied. Ahsoka opened her mouth to continue but a vivid image of her master on fire flashed to the front of her mind. Shaking her head "No, i-I need to get out so I can warn my master please he is in great danger" Ahsoka replied. "I'm sorry Padawan Tano but I can't. If you want to help him then you have to let me help you first" the healer replied. "He's in danger, please!" Ahsoka yelled, a growing urgency growing in her voice.

I can't, not until we find a way-" the healer was cut off and her eyes widened in shock lased with fear as Ahsoka slammed her mechanical hand against the wall. "NO! My master's life is in danger!" Ahsoka yelled in anger. Her eyes closed as more images of Anakin's burnt body flooded her mind and her other hand clenched into a fist. They weren't letting her out; they were keeping her from warning her master and saving him from the future.

She could suddenly hear the blood curling cry of her master screaming in agony. Her heart was pounding her mind overloading as she remembered the vision of Anakin burning on a fiery hot planet. Pain so much pain and torment, she couldn't let it happen to him. She had to save him, she had to keep him from getting hurt. However she could do nothing as she was trapped her in the cell, away from her master who was like the older brother she never had.

Hot tears began to run down her face and her head slowly lowered. She could see him, his body burnt and charred beyond recognition unable to pull himself from the fiery surface below because he was missing his limbs. He rolled over struggling to breathe and lay motionless on the ground. "Please…please…" she whispered softly as her turmoil washed over her at the thought of not saving him.

The healer watch as the young togurta padawan seemingly broke down in front of her. She was sympathetic to the girl's pain but there was nothing she could do, the council had given her strict instructions to never under any circumstances was she to open the cell door. Standing up slowly the healer looked down at Ahsoka "I'm sorry…but I cant" she said turning her back to the young girl she walked toward the turbo lift.

Something happened that made the healer stop. The air suddenly grew cold and a low growl came from behind her. Turning her head the healer looked back at the cell to Ahsoka who was glaring at her. The crystal blue eyes had morphed in sulfuric sickly yellow. Malice intent dripping from her voice the young padawan spoke in a dark low tone "you will be."