Here's the third chapter/oneshot thing! Thank you SO much for all the reviews I got on the last part! I hope y'all enjoy this one as much as the others :D
OK so this is going to be Anakin and Obiwan/Rako Hardeen's fight. It's gonna switch between both of their POV's like a lot so TRY to bear with me on this one
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN ANYTHING.
(Anakin Skywalker)
"Look! It's Cad Bane." Ahsoka pointed out as she sat in co-pilot's seat next to me.
"Are you sure?" I asked. I didn't want to chase the wrong person and let Obiwan's killer get even farther away from our grasp.
"Ugh. Who else wears a hat like that?" Ahsoka asked with a grimace.
"Good point." I agreed. For being a bounty hunger trying to fly under the radar, he always wore a very conspicuous hat.
We watched as the landing ramp was drawn into the ship and was sealed inside the metal shell of the ship. It flew away and I pushed on the controls, following closely behind and skimming the bottom of our ship on the roof of theirs. Rako Hardeen would not get away this time. Obiwan would be avenged.
(Obiwan Kenobi/Rako Hardeen)
A sudden jolt of the ship sent us all flying forward a few feet.
"Now what?" Moralo Eval asked impatiently from behind me.
I expected Cad Bane to be furious, but instead he smiled – a cruel, sinister smile – and just said one word: Jedi.
My heart sunk with that word. Anakin and Ahoska were in that ship. I knew it.
Their ship came down to slam against our roof again as our ship went underneath a large pipe sticking out off the ground.
(Anakin Skywalker)
"Take over!" I told Ahsoka. I barely saw her nod and stand up to switch seats with me as I dashed off towards the back of the ship.
The door to the ship hissed open as the wind whipped my hair. I took a deep breath and leaped, landing on the hull of the bounty hunters' ship.
I looked down at my waist to see a lightsaber clipped to my belt. Usually my own lightsaber would rest against my leg but this time…I stared down at Obiwan's battle-worn lightsaber. I grabbed it and clutched it in my mechanical hand, closing my eyes briefly before igniting the lightsaber and drawing power from its azure blade.
(Obiwan Kenobi/Rako Hardeen)
I watched as Anakin jumped onto the hull of our ship.
"I'll take care of him." I told Cad and Moralo.
Cad Bane's blue hand grabbed my arm. "No, it's my turn to kill a Jedi." He walked out and I silently prayed that Anakin wouldn't do anything stupid and get killed.
(Anakin Skywalker)
I whipped around as Cad Bane suddenly flew up from the side of the ship. Flames shot out from beneath his feet, allowing him to fly. He began to shoot at me from his spot above the ship. I quickly blocked them and deflected one to fly back at him and hit his foot, causing him to lose control and fall against the top of the ship, right above the bridge.
He scrambled backwards as I leaped up and landed a few yards away from him. He kept shooting at me as he kept crawling backwards.
He did a back flip off the top and landed on the hood of the ship, right in front of the bridge. I jumped off the roof and immediately began to deflect blaster shots again.
(Obiwan Kenobi/Rako Hardeen)
Anakin and Cad Bane's figures were suddenly before my eyes; Cad shooting, Anakin defending.
I jerked the control stick to the right and Anakin and Cad slid to the right, but not enough to fall off. I then made the ship rock to the left and right quickly. Anakin whipped around to glare at me, hatred evident in his eyes. I could tell that the Council obviously hadn't told him that I really wasn't Rako Hardeen. To Anakin, he was glaring at the man who shot his master...the man who took his brother.
I pressed a button and blaster bolts began to destroy whatever land masses or pipes were in front of us.
I yanked up hard on the controls, ramming into the ship Ahsoka was flying. Our own ship went flying to the right, tossing Anakin and Cad from the hull and Ahsoka went careening to the left.
The ship violently jerked into the rock, slamming my head forward. As soon as the sickening movements stopped, I rushed from the ship, gun in hand.
I loved Anakin, but he didn't know that I was really Obiwan. I didn't doubt that he would kill me without a second's notice.
Dust and smoke clouded everything, creating a veil of gray that I couldn't see through at all.
I walked around cautiously, looking for Anakin. I prayed that he was alright and would give me a second to explain myself.
Suddenly, a huge weight barreled into my chest, throwing me off the side of a small cliff and landing on the rock below. Two strong hands shoved me away and I scrambled to get up to stare into Anakin's blue eyes. We stood there, poised to attack or defend, allowing the dust to settle around us.
"You're going to pay for what you did." he growled at me.
What I did... What I did was make Anakin – my brother – andAhsoka think that I was dead. I had put Anakin through obvious emotional agony, and there's no doubt in my mind that he had had nightmares and sleepless nights since I 'died,' too. I still hadn't seen Ahsoka, though I doubt she took it very well either.
Maybe I should have told them that I was alright after I'd gotten back to the Jedi Temple. Maybe this wouldn't be happening...
(Anakin Skywalker)
"You shouldn't have gotten involved." He shot back at me.
Yeah, he'd like that. But too bad for him: I'd gotten involved. I grabbed his shoulders and slammed his back against the rock behind him and kneed him in the groin.
He fell to his knees as I ignited Obiwan's lightsaber. "This is for Obiwan." I whispered as I raised his lightsaber above my head, ready to land the killing blow.
Just as I was about to drive my lightsaber through his head, a rope wrapped itself around my body. I deactivated the lightsaber as my hands were trapped against my chest.
"You can thank me later, Hardeen." Cad Bane said from above us.
He then flew behind me, dragging me against the rocky ground.
"You've had your chance to kill him, now it's my turn!" Cad Bane shouted as he tightened the rope around me.
I used to momentum of being dragged to roll back and thrust my feet into Bane's chest, knocking him back, and allowing me to stand and rip the rope off of me.
I pulled Obiwan's lightsaber to my hand, igniting it, and deflecting more of Cad Bane's blaster shots. One of them shot directly back at him, making his gun fly out of his hand. I raised Obiwan's lightsaber to kill Cad Bane when Rako Hardeen's body crashed into my ribs.
I rolled off of him and lunged at him. He grabbed my hands as they came down from above my head, kicking me in the stomach and throwing me over his shoulder.
(Obiwan Kenobi/Rako Hardeen)
I climbed on top of him and began to punch him in the jaw. Each strike hurt me as much as it hurt him. Sure, in sparring Anakin and I had always mainly beaten the crap out of each other, but that was different. That was in a padded room with jokes usually flying between us as we used some form of control in each strike we inflicted upon the other. This was completely different. There were no jokes between us, no smirks, no lighthearted comments on our techniques. This was us – actually fighting – using no control, and me fighting for me life against my former Padawan.
After the fourth punch, Anakin grabbed my hand in an iron grip as he grabbed my elbow with his mechanical hand and twisted it till it popped. He threw me off to the side and got up, charging at me with a right hook.
I dodged slightly and wrapped my arms around him. One arm under his swinging hand, the other going on top of his shoulder, making him useless. He struggled as I brought my mouth by his ear.
"Anakin," I whispered, trying to make him understand. "Don't follow me." I gently put a sleeping suggestion on his mind, and he grew limp until he was unconscious. I rolled him onto the ground and stood up.
I didn't even notice Cad Bane until I realized that he was aiming a gun at Anakin's body. I was about to intervene when a scream sounded and Ahsoka leaped towards us to land over Anakin's body, quickly deflecting blaster shots with her green lightsaber and yellow shoto.
I could feel Ahsoka's emotions in the Force: rage, sorrow, and protectiveness. I immediately felt sorry for her. She had just lost me days before, and now she was standing over her unconscious Master's body, ready to kill anyone, or anything, who would harm him.
Luckily, Moralo Eval came up behind us. "The ship is still operational. I got it working; now let's get out of here." He informed us before walking back to the ship.
"You're lucky we're in a hurry, little lady." Cad Bane told Ahsoka as he put his gun away.
Ahsoka still stood her ground, glaring at us without saying a word.
"We'll have to dance another time." Bane told her as he began to walk off. I shuddered to think of what he meant, but I shrugged it off as I glanced back at her sorrowfully before walking away.
(Anakin Skywalker)
I faintly heard Ahsoka calling my name through the darkness of unconsciousness.
I groaned and coughed as Ahsoka helped me sit up. I felt like a herd of wild banthas had trampled me, and my head was reeling.
The bounty hunters' ship took off as Ahsoka put one of my arms around her shoulder and tried to help me stand up.
I cried out slightly and fell back onto the ground when a sudden pain shot through me.
"What is it?" Ahsoka asked me urgently. "What's wrong?"
I closed my eyes and let my feelings take over.
Hardeen's last words, the sleep suggestion, and the way that Obiwan's death still didn't feel right…
"That's…why I felt a connection…" I murmured. "Obiwan is still alive." I opened my eyes to stare at Ahsoka.
"I- I don't understand." Ahsoka stammered.
"I don't either." I told her honestly. "But we're going to get to the bottom of this, believe me."
Ahsoka helped me stand up and we limped back to our beat up ship. It had taken a bit of a beating, but it still worked. As Ahsoka and I flew back to the Jedi Temple, my thoughts took over reality.
If Obiwan was still alive, then who – or what – was in his grave at the Temple? And if he really was alive, why would he have pretended to die, and why wouldn't anyone tell me that he was alive?
"Penny for your thoughts…?" Ahsoka whispered next to me.
I turned to her, and noticed the obvious display of emotion in her deep blue eyes.
"How is Obiwan still alive?" I whispered, my voice slightly wavering. "He was so…lifeless when I moved him. He was dead, I could feel it. I don't understand."
"He was motionless." Ahsoka breathed, more to herself than me. She stared in front of her with a distant, haunted look.
"Are you OK?" I asked her quietly.
She whipped to the side and hugged me tightly. It hurt like crazy, but I didn't care as I returned the embrace. "I thought you had died out there." She whispered into my ear. "You weren't moving… I- I was so scared that you had…" She broke off, sobbing into my shoulder.
"It's ok, Snips." I told her quietly. "I'm OK. I promise you, Snips, I won't ever leave you." I swore to her.
It wasn't a promise I could keep, but I would try my hardest. Ahsoka needed me and I wasn't going to let her down.
I tightened my grip on her as I whispered to her again:
"I promise."
TADA! Ok so here's the third oneshot! I hope y'all enjoyed it and I think I might do another oneshot, but I still haven't fully decided whether I will or won't and what it'll be about (except for the obvious).
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