Chapter Four

The bio inside the vent was mushy and reeked like a dead body. Every time he came to an open vent he checked to see who was inside. He always was finding others, not Anakin. Then he found him.

He used his light saber to cut the opening farther and jumped down, landing about 10 meter's away from Anakin. He was injured no doubt. And Anakin was asleep, more like knocked out cold. Anakin was bound onto a chair with a mess of bloarsh jelly.

"Anakin." Jacen whispered in Anakin's ear. "Come on, wake up."

Anakin's head whipped back for a minute, then whipped forward as if he was getting whiplash. Anakin's eye's darted around looking around the room. He finally looked weakly at Jacen. "Jacen?" Anakin rasped. "Why... Why are you here? Y-you didn't get caught to did you?"

"No time..." Jacen whispered. "Come on..." Jacen took out his light saber and cut off the Blorash Jelly. "Lets get you out of here, can you walk?"

Anakin looked at Jacen. And Jacen could see small cuts on his face, his brown hair slightly caught with blood on the front tips.

"Why did I even ask?" Jacen commented to himself. "Don't worry, you'll get out of here you'll―"

Anakin cut him off though. "Jacen just go, I don't need to live, your turn to play hero."

Jacen grabbed Anakin's shoulder, but seeing how his younger brother filched as he touched he knew that it pained him. "Sorry..." Jacen muttered. "Its just, Sometime's I wish I was you."

"Why? So you could feel how much this all hurts."

It seemed that Anakin had noticed that Jacen's wounds from the Embrace of Pain, which he had done with the force. "No Anakin." Jacen said, placing his hand on his brother's shoulder again. A small blue-white energy field wrapped around Jacen's hand and began to heal the cuts with the force. "Because, you were always so sure, so sure that you were doing the right thing. You never had any fear! I sometime have wanted to be like that."

Anakin looked at Jacen. "No you don't." Anakin Replied. "It's a burden."

They were both quiet, there was no sound as Jacen healed Anakin's wounds. And than when the blue field of force energy disappeared around Jacen's hand's, Jacen stood up on his feet, and helped Anakin get up. "Come on, I've got your saber." Jacen said, handing Anakin the Sliver and black colored, metal hilt.

They walked slowly to the door. Jacen didn't know how well he had healed Anakin's wounds. And Anakin also had became a victim of internal bleeding during the mission. Jacen had no doubt the wound that had caused it was still there. Anakin gripped his chest the farther they went. The deadly chest wound causing his bleed was still there. Being he was still bleeding. How log had the wound been there? If it was there too long, that may mean that Anakin was running out of blood. And the red blotch on his shirt only supported that theory.

Jacen quick came to his brother's aid and helped him towards the door. He wouldn't be able to get his brother up into the vent without hurting him more. He would have to find a ship fast...

They exited the room. Going the opposite way Jacen and came from using the vent. They met no Vong along the way. The force was with them.

They came to something of a ship grave yard. But it didn't have Yuuzhan Vong ships in it, instead damaged human ships. Searching for a ship, Jacen found a nice small YT-2000. He only hoped it would still be able to fly, and have something he could put Anakin in that would help him heal.

He took the landing ramp down using the force to push down the button from the inside of the ship. Slowly the ship opened up. And again Jacen helped his little brother on board. Jacen found a med room in the ship and helped Anakin into the bed there. Jacen then went to check the cockpit.

The controls weren't that different from the Falcon. The YT-13000 ship that Han Solo, Jacen's and Anakin's father, owned. Good, Jacen could fly this thing. If only barely.

He looked out the view port, seeing a Yuuzhan Vong heading for the ship's landing ramp. Jacen took out his light saber, and went into the main hold.

A moment later a shocked Yuuzhan Vong was bringing out a sword of some sort, with a black snake head on its tip. Jacen moved fast he turned on his light saber, and with the force closed down the landing ramp.

The Vong charged and made a downwards slash towards the top of Jacen's head.

Jacen Parried and lifted his saber high into the air to do so. Realizing he would be open to a kick to the center, Jacen released the two blades and side stepped to avoid being hit by a falling blade.

He ducked and made an upper cut sort of slash, being parried he tripped the vong, and jabbed his saber into the chest of the Vong, killing it. He checked to make sure there weren't any Villips. Finding none he moved the body into a corner of the ships hold.

Jacen left the hold and went into the cockpit. He turned the ship on.

The Lunch code was written on a piece of paper on the cockpit. Whoever had this ship wasn't very smart; with the codes just sitting there it wouldn't take much to steal it.

The ship lifted into the space sky.

At first it was a easy job to pilot it. But soon that changed. He ran into a Vong ship. It was a destroyer long, and was launching Coral Skipper's. He scanned only 4 of them. The only thing was, he couldn't destroy any of them. No one was in the guns. And Anakin was in no condition to man a laser Turret.

Jacen speeded up the ship. A skip fired a blast of magma at him, but Jacen shot the control's to the right and narrowly dodged the sizzling ball of heat. He pasted the Destroy like ship and continued, he was still being followed...

He jerked the controls to the left and dodged an other ball of magma coming from a coral skipper.

He could jump by now... He pushed let the Navi Computer punch in the numbers for Dac. Then pushed the hyper drive lever forward.

Nothing.

He pulled it back and tried again.

Nothing.

The ship lurched forward. He had been hit by a magma blast and the shield was falling fast. An other hit and the shield fell. Jacen Muttered and curse, and flipped to the right, dodging one magma ball unexpectedly.

He pulled the lever back again and pushed it.

The blackness of space turned to a light blue, and the white dot's of stars turned into white lines, the vortex of Hyper space around them. They had escaped the Yuuzhan Vong. They weren't dead. And they were home free from here as long as they didn't hit a Dovin Basal, but chances of that happening were small. So they were pretty much home free.

Jacen stood up and went to the Med room, and found Anakin awake lying there, looking at the lightly colored yellow ceiling. "Close huh?" Anakin said.

"Little too close." Jacen Replied. "But we're pretty much home free now."

"Yeah..." Anakin whispered.

"Go into a healing trace. You need to heal."

"I guess I should..." Anakin whispered, and closed his eye's. "And Jacen?"

"Yes?"

"Thanks for saving me."

"I wasn't going to let you die, not when I had the chance to save you." Jacen stood up ready to let his little brother sleep. But turned around when he was at the door. "But how did you survive the blast?"

"I don't know, and I'm not sure I care..."

Jacen could hear a slight soaring sound; Anakin was taking some well earned rest.