Author's note: I am again so sorry for the delay. Here is the next chapter, finally.
Warning: First part is in present tense and later part is in my usually past tense style.
Disclaimer: I do not own Star Wars.
My heart is beating quickly. I don't have much time. The ceremony is coming to a close. I see my brother on one knee in front of Darth Vader. I see Vader giving him my old lightsaber. In my heart there are so many things I want to shout out. I want to tell my brother to stop and come back to the light side. I want to shout at Vader and tell him that what he is doing is not right but I can't. I know what I should do but I can't bring myself to kill my own family. I see Rex, my old friend but now I see him as an enemy. He betrayed me just like Anakin. I don't see him anymore as a person and not a clone. I see him only as a droid made of human flesh.
From where I am I can see everything. I want to run away and forget but I can't. In my heart there is rage and want for revenge now planted. I have resisted it so far but I cannot anymore. I silently use a Jedi mind trick to make the two clones that were guarding me to go and watch the ceremony with the rest of the 501st legion. I silently and discreetly make my way towards Vader and Nissim. I am now only but a few feet from the platform. I take the one-shot blaster and aim. I pull the trigger without even shaking. The sound rings through the hanger. I know my advantage of surprise will not last long.
I quickly force jump onto to the platform. I look at the unhurt Nissim. He is mad at me and surprised. I shake off his look quickly and force grab my lightsaber from him. I force push him safely off to the side. I ignite my green lightsaber. Vader is still recovering from the shot. I had shot him right in the chest and now his breathing is now unsteady. I feel his anger, surprise and humiliation. Once he saw my ignited lightsaber, he knew what I wanted. I wanted to fight him. He said nothing. He just ignited his own lightsaber. We engaged in our battle. We are now both fueling our power by our hate and rage. I know I should not and use the lightside of the force but I refuse. I must fight fire with fire. The 501st legion is helplessly watching. They know they cannot shoot at me for fear of hitting their "Lord Vader".
I let out my rage. Even Vader is surprised by my aggression. I am using the Ataru form not my usual Shien. Even though, I am not used to this form, I have practiced it. The jumps and acrobatics give me an advantage over Vader because of his droid body parts he is not as agile or quick. He can barely block my blows. All he can see is a blur. I feel him weakening. I let out all my anger for killing all my family; the Jedi, my parents and making my own brother go against him. In one stroke, I sliced off both of his hands right above the wrist. His lightsaber falls to the ground with a deafening clunk. Everyone is in utter shock including me. I look at my helpless former master. I could have killed him right then but I couldn't. Before me, I didn't see a sith. I saw a helpless man and killing him it wasn't the Jedi way. What have I done? He then spoke with his mechanical voice.
"Are you really going to kill me, Snips?"
"Not yet, Sky-Guy." I said in a cold voice.
I jumped behind Vader as a blaster shot nearly hit me. I was safe as long as I used Vader as a living shield. I took my lightsaber and put it close to Vader's neck.
"Rex, old buddy, will you please get me a ship? If you don't then I will have to kill your Lord Vader and I don't think you want to explain to the Emperor why his star pupil is dead."
I could feel through the force his surprise at me remembering him by his name and his hesitation to get the ship. As if to prompt him, I held the lightsaber even closer to Vader's neck though I highly doubted that Vader could feel it's pain or heat. Rex then quickly barked out orders to get a ship ready. The ship they were going to let me have was an old Imperial Shuttle.
"Ahsoka, I have a ship ready for you. Now if you just let Vader go, we will let you be on your way."
"Rex, you can't honestly think I'm that stupid. I am going to take Vader with me and I promise to put him in an escape pod as soon as it's safe enough for me."
I knew he couldn't argue with me seeing as I had the advantage. Though I knew it was a risk he was taking to let me go without a battle. I force pulled Vader's lightsaber to me and quickly walked Vader and myself to the shuttle still keeping my lightsaber to his neck. Surprisingly, he did not resist at all.
As I got on the ship, I saw Nissim running towards the ship. He tried to come onto the ship to stop me but I force pushed him back. I knew he could do nothing to me but I did not want to have any more complications.
"So you are against me!" he shouted at me. If he only knew what I had done for him.
"I am not against you. I am against what you are doing and becoming!"
With that I closed the ramp. I decided not to put Vader in one of the holding cells but rather in the front with me. We needed to talk. As soon as I punched in coordinates and the ship was in hyperspace, I was the first to speak.
"How could you?"
"How could I what?"
"How could you kill all the Jedi just for the death of two people?"
"The Jedi were plotting against the republic."
"Anakin, do you honestly believe that lie that was fed to you? What did younglings do to you? Do you really believe that five year olds had been plotting against the republic?"
"They were trained to follow the steps of the master, meaning in the future they would turn against the empire as well."
"Master, you have been brainwashed."
"No, I have simply seen the truth."
"Master, please look at what your anger has turned you into. You are no better than Grievous. Your anger has just turned you into a twisted and evil monster."
"But look at you. Your anger gave you enough power to defeat me. Think you could use all that power to help some one."
"Don't play with my mind, Vader. I didn't kill you, right?"
"But you want to, you could avenge all those I killed. Your parents, Aayla, Luminara,…. Plo Koon."
That struck a nerve with me. Quick as lighting, I took out my lightsaber and put it close to Vader's face. I wanted to kill him at that moment. I don't know what took me over. All the pain came back to me. The feel of rejection from my clan on Shili, the hurt of losing all the Jedi and my family, the pain of having my master turn to the dark side and the frustration I felt when Vader turned Nissim against me. I wanted to kill him with all my heart but I couldn't. It would be against everything I had been taught. I would be taking a step towards the dark side. It took all my will power to turn off my lightsaber but I did it.
"You are not strong enough to do it are you, Ahsoka?"
"It is not strength to kill a defenseless cyborg. Master, come back to who you were, The Chosen one. Come with me and escape."
"Escape what? Power, strength and the darkside. You are so wrong in what you believe. I know the right way to go. As for you, you have no way to go."
"At least even if I don't have any place to go, I am not going now a path of darkness."
"Its better than going nowhere. Think of it as this you can use your power that you gained to help others. You did when you fought me. You are becoming just like me"
I was about to reply but that moment I had arrived at my destination, Nal Hutta. I was there because I hoped that I could perhaps find some protection.
"Vader this is where I say good-bye to you."
"So you are going to kill me?"
"No, I promised Rex that I would put you in an escape pod once it was safe for me and I always stay true to my word."
Vader just kept silent as I led him to one of the escape pods. As soon as he was in, I said one last thing.
"I loved you, Master."
With that I sealed the door and released the escape pod into the open space. The pod was equipped with a distress signal that would especially signal imperial ships. I sighed as I took one last look at the floating escape pod.
Was I really becoming like Darth Vader?
Author's note: I hope that was okay and not too terrible. Please understand that when Ahsoka says, "I loved you, Master", it is not in the romantic way but in the brother/sister way.