Chapter 6

The Base and the Brother

Ahsoka POV

"Can you believe, Anakin?" I said to Lux. I was furious because he just told me about his plan to see how well me and Lux could handle arguments.

But apparently, Lux just wanted to laugh about it.

"What's so funny, ?" I asked, a little annoyed by my fiancé's reaction.

"Since when did you start calling your master 'Anakin'"? he asked, sitting down on my couch.

"Since he told me to, now. What are we gonna do about it?" I inquired.

"I don't really see any fault in his actions. It was pretty clever of him to see how well we work together, especially on personal matters."

"I can't believe you're taking his side in this! He could've broken us up for Christ' sake!" I yelled, wondering why he was taking this so lightly.

"Yeah but he didn't," Lux said calmly.

I felt my blood starting to boil. "You're going to regret taking his side," I said.

"Oh, and what are you gonna do about it?" he said, a cheeky grin plastered on his face.

Suddenly, an idea popped into my head. I walked over to the couch and sat down next to Lux, who still had that smirk on his face.

"This," I said and I wrapped my arms around his neck and planted my lips on his.

Lux smiled against my lips and wrapped his arms around my waist. He then pulled me on top of him and our kiss deepened.

But at that moment, a clone walked in and just stood there, watching as Lux and I untangled ourselves from each other.

"What is it, trooper?" I asked, trying to sound nonchalant about the kiss and all.

The trooper cleared his throat and said, "General Skywalker says that we just arrived at Felucia and that you need to gather your things and meet him in the hangar." The trooper still stared at us as if we had just grown another arm.

"Thanks. You are dismissed, trooper," I concluded, watching him leave the room, my lekku turning a dark shade of blue.

"Well, that was embarrassing," Lux said to me. It was more than embarrassing. Me and Lux had never been caught kissing before, that is if you don't count the time Pre Vizla walked in while we were smooching. It was humiliating. But suddenly another worry popped into my head.

"Lux! What if they report us to the Council for this? What if I get expelled for this?"

I started to tear up at the thought of it.

"Ahsoka," Lux said in a soothing voice. He wrapped his arms around me. "Now what business would a clone have in reporting you to the Council, huh?"

"Well… I guess not that much," I admitted, now feeling a little less worried.

"Then let's go ahead, grab our luggage, and head to the hangar."

I smiled at him and said, "Okay."

Lux POV

When that clone walked in on me and Ahsoka kissing, I wanted to throttle him so badly, but I held in my anger. Besides, there'd be more time for smooching on Felucia.

Ahsoka and I grabbed our bags and headed down to the hangar and met up with Skywalker. He hadn't packed much but I guess that was because of him playing the part of the Jedi 'prisoner'.

We got aboard our stolen separatist ship and took off, reviewing the game plan on the way.

"Okay so, the plan is enter the base using Lux's separatist status, turn me in as a prisoner of war so I'll be able to transmit a signal from the prisoner cells to help you find the hostages, contact the clones and let them cause a distraction, then find me and the hostages, and finally meet the rest of the clones at the rendezvous point to be picked up," Anakin concluded, after earlier talking to us about Ahsoka and I's relationship. That conversation was permanently etched into my brain.

'Okay lets set some stuff straight. Only tell people you trust about you guy's engagement. Make sure if you guys are gonna act mushy, it's in private. And finally, no getting pregnant before marriage'.

But we always had a smart aleck answer for each of those rules.

Ah don't worry about that. We don't know that many people anyway.

Well even if we do act mushy in private, someone always interrupts us.

Is it even possible for a Togruta to get pregnant with a Human child?

Either way, we were all glad when both conversations were over.

But of course, that threw us into an uncomfortable silence. I was almost glad when we landed at the base.

If you guys have ever seen the Citadel, this base looks almost exactly like it except bigger.

Wow. The droids seriously don't want anyone escaping. And even if they did, the escapees would probably get lost in the forests or eaten by some giant plant.

"Starship-797AZ, Identify yourself," sounded a droids voice over the channel, interrupting my thoughts.

"Captain Lux Bonteri, requesting permission to land. Transmitting codes now." Ahsoka looked over at me with surprise. I forgot to tell her I had been a captain in the droid army before I found out about Dooku murdering my mom.

It took a few seconds, but the droid answered back. "Name your cargo, Captain."

"Two passengers and some luggage."

"What of the passengers?"

"One is my betrothed and the other… a Jedi prisoner."

As soon as I said that there was a few seconds of silence.

"When you land, bring the Jedi out immediately."

I took the order as an invitation to land so I located an empty platform and parked.

Before we went out though, we had to make it look like Anakin had been through a fight, so I had Ahsoka put some makeup on him and we ripped his clothes a little. When we were satisfied we exited the ship, only to find two squadrons of droids outside along with a male human armed with a pistol.

Like that would help against a Jedi and his padawan.

"Captain Bonteri, good to see you alive! Now," the human said, suddenly pointing the gun at my head," What are you doing still alive? I thought Count Dooku ordered your death months ago!"

"Hmm… doesn't show up in my records, so how would you know that happened?" I questioned, wondering how I was gonna get out of this one.

"I'm friends with one of the senators that was at that peace conference on Mandalore."

"Oh… well… you probably didn't hear the entire story. You see after Dooku ordered my death I managed to defeat the droids that were gonna kill me and Dooku contacted me again and offered me another chance to be in the droid army so I accepted," I lied.

I know, not my best lie but I was under pressure! I mean give me a break people…

"And you're not lying," said the man, slowly lowering the gun.

"Nope! One hundred percent truth. Now, could you please haul this Jedi off to the prison cells and let my fiancé and I pass." I thought for sure they were fixing to open fire, but then the man just smiled at us instead and pointed at a few droids who dragged off Skywalker, who gave me and Ahsoka a stare that said 'If you have any trouble, just punch this guy in the face and leave me behind. Then, when the other droids left, the man started to laugh.

"I knew you weren't lying, Lux! I mean after all I am the only bloodline family you have left!" said the man, still laughing as if he were playing a prank.

At first, I didn't understand what the man was saying, but then I started to see the wavy brown hair, the way his nose was turned just a little to left, and those hazel-blue eyes…

"Tyler!" I suddenly remembered, ran to him and gave him a hug.

"Whoa, little bro! You're stronger than I remember! How you doing?" asked the only family I had left in the world. Well, besides Ahsoka.

"I'm fine now. It's good to see you again! I mean, where have you been all this time?"I asked.

"Same as you. Fighting those Republic scum who think they own everything in the galaxy!" Tyler said, with a wicked grin spreading across his face.

"Um… yeah. Scum. Anyway, I want you to meet my fiancé, Ahsoka." While I said this moved over to her and slung an arm around her and kissed her on top of her montrals.

"Ahsoka? As in Ahsoka Tano, Skywalker's padawan?" My brother inquired, sounding suspicious.

"Um… well aren't there a lot of Togrutas in the galaxy named Ahsoka?" I asked, trying to sound truthful.

Tyler gave me a confused, then glad look. "Oh good, because if you were engaged to a Jedi then I'd have to report, you." He then tilted his head back and laughed.

"But since you're not, let me show you guys to your room. Oh, and Lux are you going to stay for the annual ball?" Tyler inquired.

I started to say no, when Ahsoka said," We'd be delighted to stay. After all, it would be a great way for you and Lux to catch up."

I looked at Ahsoka, surprise on my face, and then back to Tyler, who had a huge smile on his face.

"Great then! Let's go find you guys a room."