I'm so sorry to everyone! I know I haven't updated this in forever, and I apologize for that. I kind of got writers block for EVERYTHING for a semester and it was super depressing. Classes are a lot harder to stay awake in when I'm not writing fiction of some sort. I'm going to start working on this more and hopefully *Fingers crossed* I will start updating this on a biweekly or Monthly bases. I hope you all enjoy this though.

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"Work damnit!" Ahsoka yelled at the console, giving it a sharp kick as well. The console responded by powering down completely. She sighed exasperatedly but didn't have time to worry about it. The sound of footsteps hit Ahsoka's ears. Her sabers were in her hands in a moment, and she was at the door of the pod, waiting for an enemy to show themselves. One of the docking bay doors opened and a motley of different aliens poured through the door and took multiple positions around the pod.

"Drop you weapons and come out slowly!" One of them yelled.

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"Come out slowly!"

There was no way Ahsoka could make it out of this, Bane assured himself. All he had to do was keep quiet and hidden and these smugglers would do the rest.

Bane watched as the smugglers closed in on the pod, all of their blasters trained on the youngling. He hadn't heard the distinct sound of lightsabers igniting yet, so he assumed she was trying to hide what she was.

"I said out!" the smuggler yelled again. The youngling complied and walked calmly out of the pod with her hands behind her head. Two smugglers quickly and roughly handcuffed her and marched her out of the bay.

"You three!" It looked like the leader of the group, "Search the pod for anything useful, then check around to see if anyone is lurking," Uh oh. "If anyone else was on that ship, I want to know about them,"

Bane slunk back farther into the shadows and started searching for a way out. There, about twenty feet to his right was a tiny vent, maybe big enough for him to squeeze his shoulders through. Maybe. 'Better than gettin' caught.' The vent grate was damaged and popped off easily. "Hey, look what I found," Bane glanced back at the smugglers. One was showing off one of Ahsoka's lightsabers. "Looks like she's a Jedi,"

"I heard the Separatists will pay good money for one,"

"I'll let the boss know. You two check around,"

Bane shimmied feet first into the vent, putting the grate back in place. He went back far enough to be hidden and still get out. A light shone back towards him, and Bane stopped breathing momentarily.

"Nothing over here!"

"Here either,"

"Alright, let's head back to base then. Hey, we may even get a bonus for this lightsaber," The three laughed as they left the bay, and Bane waited before leaving his spot. They only found one saber. That probably meant the other was still in the escape pod. He shimmied out of the vent and crept back towards the pod.

Most of his stashes were gone: food, water, weapons and med kits. The only thing not touched was his stash of Spice, hidden in and around the control systems. There was an extra prize there as well, Ahsoka's other lightsaber. Bane weighed it in his hand for a moment. The design mimicked her attitude, simple, focused, sturdy and young. Bane had to admit it was odd that he attributed an age to a weapon, but something about is was. He clipped the hilt onto his belt before creeping out of the pod and started his search for the smuggler's hideout.

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Ahsoka was getting real sick of being in jail cells. The smugglers shoved her into one cell and locked it behind her. The station as a whole was rusting a decrepit, like the inhabitants of this planet had left this place decades ago to return to the sea. 'Wonder where I'd be if I'd followed Bane?' she wondered. 'Probably not in a cell,' It'd probably been his plan though that she would stay behind, she realized. If nobody had been in the pod, they would have been searching extra hard for them, but with Ahsoka in a cell, Bane could roam freely with no one actively trying to find him. She had to give him that, he was smart.

The cell around her was sparsely furnished. A bed, a sink, and a toilet were all she had around her. The bed looked comfortable enough, especially since she'd spent the last two nights sleeping standing up since Bane had cuffed her to the wall, but she had to work on a way out of here. She hopped over her cuffed hands to bring them in front, closed her eyes, and focused, feeling for any weak points in the walls or the bars. Unfortunately, the cells were much more structurally sound than the rest of the station. "Crap,"

"You, out!" Someone ordered from behind her. Ashoka turned to see two smugglers there. "The Boss wants to see you,"

Ahsoka complied begrudgingly. she didn't have a way out yet and it was pointless to get shot now. They marched her through the corridors and she started making a mental map. She would glance down cross hallways to see where the hanger was or some other landmark. As she scanned, she thought she a flash of blue in the darkness. It would have been easy to brush it off as nothing, but she could feel something dark lurking back there. It had to be Bane. She didn't have much time to worry about him since she was now in the center of the hideout and a massive selkath was making her way across the room.

"So this is the Jedi?"

Ahsoka cursed in her head.

"This was the survivor we found. She tried to hide this in the pod. my team found it while they were searching for supplies," One of the smugglers answered. He passed one of Ahsoka's lightsabers to the selkath. 'Then they didn't find the other,' Ahsoka sighed in her head. "They suggested we try and sell her to the Separatists,"

"And have them kill us all?" The selkath scoffed. "Better off selling this thing," she tossed the hilt back and forth between her hands "And then we can sell her off to some slaver. One of the hutts might want her, she's young enough,"

A chill ran down Ahsoka's spine. She needed to get out of here now.