Chapter 17
Whenever a word is bold in the middle of a character talking, it means that the character is emphasising the word, this rule applies to all my stories from now on
There were so many ships. That was the only word to describe the outer space beside Zygerria. The planet was green, blue and a light brown from space, and Anakin frowned at the view that slavery continued. Padmè never wanted it. He flew to the surface on D'nar's ship, which had a repaired left engine and a repaired top, after the damages Anakin and Adenan did on it.
"Looks like a lot of ships!" Ahsoka commentated
"Yeah, whatever's going on here is attracting a lot of rich… scum" Obi-Wan said, with a dark undercurrent flowing through the word 'scum'
"Well, I guess you were right Master Skywalker!" Adenan exclaimed, breaking the dark nature between the conversation
"So, Anakin, me, Qui-Gon and Captain Rex go into Zygerria, I disguise as a slave, Anakin's the slaver who killed Bruno Denturi, old enemy of the queen while Master Jinn and Captain Rex look for the Kyros Governor Roshti?" Ahsoka asked, going through the plan.
"Correct Snips!" Anakin answered
"Ok! Let's go!" Rex exclaimed
Rex and Qui-Gon were wearing similar clothing, consisting of brown robes ornamented with gold in the wrists, ankles and neckpieces. Ahsoka was wearing revealing blue attire, covered by a black robe that covered most of her body, and most of her face. While Anakin, wearing the most ornaments, had a black-gold neckpiece, red shirt, golden robotic hand covering, golden glove for the other hand, brown pants and golden boots. To complement his appearance, Anakin wore a black eyepatch
The scenery was the exact opposite of Dragitor's. Zygerria was crowded, hot, dirty and full of noise. Even it's colours were inverted in the eyes of Ahsoka, Anakin and Qui-Gon. The sky was light bluish-white and the grass was green, where there was. Anakin saw two Kowaikan Monkey-lizards fighting on the ground when Ahsoka, bumped into a Zygerrian slaver.
"Hey! Watch where you're going!" The slaver exclaimed
"Forgive my slave. I request a audience with your queen" Anakin requested
"Yeah? Well forget that brigand!" The slaver insulted
"Well, then you would get punished for failing to present news about… Bruno Denturi" Anakin smoothly said
"Under the Queen's orders, this one should be presented to the queen" A droid said
So, The droid took Anakin and Ahsoka, or they thought to be Lars Quell and his slave to the Zygerrian palace. There he saw the queen, he name was Miraj Scintel she was Zygerrian, but it didn't look like it, she had human coloured skin.
"So, you are the one who claims to be acquainted with Bruno Denturi?" Queen Scintel asked
"Yes. And when I spoke with him, he failed to describe your beauty" Anakin said, drawing his own comment
"Really? Did Bruno speak of my intense hatred for him, or did that escape his mind as well" Scintel asked
"He needed not to speak, he will not speak, ever again" Anakin explained
"How?" The Queen asked
"He was killed, by my hand!" Anakin lied, it was a Jedi Padawan called Caleb Dume that killed Bruno Denturi, with a bit of help from his master, Depa Bilaba, or that's what Anakin heard "I have bought a slave from his palace, fresh stock" Anakin pulled Ahsoka's black robes off her, revealing the slave's clothes she was wearing
"Unhand me you brigand!" Ahsoka pretended to exclaim
"Hmm… very well. If you defeated Bruno Denturi in combat, then you must be a formidable warrior. Bruno did know how to choose the right slave" The Queen said, starting to examining Ahsoka from back to front.
"A beautiful female" The queen commented on Ahsoka as the Queen touched Ahsoka's back
"Don't you dare touch me!" Ahsoka exclaimed
"But this one will need further processing" The queen denied
Anakin flirted with the queen for a while, when Anakin told the queen something in the ear, Ahsoka rolled her eyes, for the reason of seeing love, unaware of what's going to happen for her. The Queen and Anakin held hands and were to walk outside when her current slave, a young twi'lek girl, tries to stab the queen to be free, she was about to stab when Anakin stopped her by holding her wrist for the sake of his plans. The Queen saw what happened and reprimanded the slave
"You dare assassinate your master? Well, you need further processing!" The Queen exclaimed
"NO! I will not go back there!" The slave girl exclaimed and jumped off the balcony, to her death
"Hmm… so I need a new slave, ok, I will take the tongruta, if you come with me to the slave auction." The Queen told Anakin, or she thought, Lars
Meanwhile, Qui-Gon and Rex went searching the slave pits until they saw the governor. Qui-Gon ordered Rex to guard the pit while he jumps in.
"Governor Roshti" Qui-Gon said
"Please! Don't hurt me!" Roshti exclaimed defensively
"No! I am Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn" Qui-Gon introduced himself, knowing that no one knew of his order except people in his own, the Jedi and Count Dooku
Qui-Gon Jinn tried to get Roshti out of the bunker by holding him and jumping up the cliff, but some slavers. Prime Minister Atai, who was speaking to the late D'nar before Obi-Wan came and was the same Zygerrian who bumped into Ahsoka, so he saw very little of Obi-Wan, Anakin and Ahsoka, but could recognise them, but Obi-Wan wasn't there. He saw the commotion
"What's a slaver doing escaping with a slave?" Atai asked and ordered his men to seize him.
Qui-Gon and Rex saw what was chasing them, so they got on a reptilian flying animal, but got caught. Qui-Gon was bought to a pit himself and tortured until his possessions could be identified. Qui-Gon was trained not to scream in agony, but he still made "Ooh!" sounds whenever he got tortured
"I found a weapon on him! It is a lightsaber." A zygerrian said
"So you are a Jedi!" Atai paused and then continued "It is the Queen's order to enslave anyone who tries to dissolve our slave industry, so we will keep you here, maybe you would make a good slave for our slave auction"
Atai left and muttered his plans away to his deluxe quarters to get ready for the slave auction, an event that happened since Queen Scintel's reign, it was an annual event that showed the industry's latest slaves.
Later, the slave auction happened, there were lots of people, unbeknownst to any of the leaders of Zygerria, Anakin and Ahsoka stored their lightsabers inside R2-D2, who was standing near the entrance to give the lightsabers to Anakin and Ahsoka. Anakin was standing on the left of the queen, Ahsoka was standing further left. The slave auction began
"Welcome! Welcome! Welcome to the latest slave auction! Where we have the best slaves in the galaxy! From Tamed Zabraks to Beautiful Twi'lek's. Our first slave for the auction is the governor of the neutral world of Kyros! Lets give a round of applause for Governor Roshti" A unidentified Zygerrian announcer announced
All the audience cheered, Anakin almost-silently groaned, he wanted to end this mission or he might end up force chocking the Slavers. Anakin's attention was then focused on the stage when the tongruta left
"Now, this is our special catch! How would you like a Jedi as a slave! We bring you Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn! And to honour this special moment one slaver called Lars Quell will whip him!" The announcer exclaimed
"Now, whip the Jedi, or die alongside it!" The Queen told Anakin and handed him a whip
"The Jedi are slaves of the Republic, so they will be faithful, and how good will it be to have a slave who can use the force!" The announcer exclaimed
This was the moment, Anakin and Qui-Gon had a small conversation and activated the Zygerrian Lightwhip and waited, the crowd was nuts. They cheered and jeered, shouting 'Whip the Jedi!'
Anakin lifted the whip and whipped, a Zygerrian guard. He choked the guard to death using the whip and gave the white lightsaber to Qui-Gon. R2 knew this was the moment, he gave Anakin's curved lightsaber to Anakin, and used a extra strong hit to rocket Ahsoka's lightsabers through the glass, which made a breaking sound and towards Ahsoka's hand, who activated the white lasers. The arena was filled with white and orange lasers, Anakin was forced to use his old form, Form V, which proved inferior, since both Qui-Gon and Anakin got held by the whips, which were still coming.
Meanwhile. The Queen ordered Ahsoka to stay away, she didn't listen and forgot she had a shock collar on her neck. So, the Queen pressed a button, and Ahsoka screamed in agony and got put in a cage
This was a bad day for the first three of Qui-Gon's order, since Qui-Gon got put in a processing chamber, Anakin was left unconscious on the palace guest bed and Ahsoka got put in a guest bed, going to be belonged by Atai himself
Authors Note: Finally! A big chapter! Or… a normal sized one, but anyway. Bad ending eh? Yeah. But it does happen in Star Wars Canon, speaking of it, Caleb Dume is the name of Kanan Jarrus before Order 66, and I made a Rebels reference about the killing of Bruno Denturi. So, I put the reference for fun. NEXT CHAPTER: DOOKU'S SECOND STEP TO REDEMPTION AND RESCUE ON KADAVO