Chapter 4: Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away...
Ahsoka Tano brought her Jedi Starfighter out of hyperspace and stared at the battle in front of her. Republic cruisers fired lasers at Separatist ships. Droids flew around the battlefield in the sky. Ahsoka looked around for the yellow Starfighter of her new master, Anakin Skywalker.
She found it speeding toward her, and heard her communicator inside the ship ring, indicating a holo-message, probably from her Master. She answered, and sure enough, Anakin flashed in as a mini hologram version of himself.
"So you finally made it to the party, eh Snips?" Anakin said.
"I like to be fashionably late," Ahsoka replied.
"Right," Anakin said sarcastically. "Anyhow, there's some droids flying around that need some taking care of. Are you gonna help me or not?"
"On it, Master," said Ahsoka. She followed Anakin's Starfighter toward the heat of the action.
"Master," Ahsoka said. "I thought we were going around the perimeters of the base, like Master Obi-Wan said."
"Master Obi-Wan was wrong," Anakin replied. "We're heading right into the core! Keep up, Ahsoka!"
Ahsoka tried to do just that, but Anakin was moving too fast. She was having a hard time keeping up.
"Skyguy, slow down," Ahsoka said, but Anakin wasn't listening. He was too caught up in the action. Ahsoka took out two droids that were flying towards them.
"Good job," Anakin said. "But can you top this?" He fired two missiles at a group of droids huddled together, and they instantly took the droids out.
"Show off," Ahsoka said.
"That's what you get for showing up late, Snips," Anakin replied jokingly.
Suddenly, another message came through Ahsoka's ship. It was clone Captain Rex.
"Padawan Tano, have you and General Skywalker reached the inside of the base yet?" Anakin answered for her."It's okay, Rex. We're working at it."
Ahsoka almost said something, but didn't. She and Anakin swerved their ships to the side, and they each took out two more droids.
As they swerved, a droid fired missiles at Ahsoka's ship. Ahsoka saw this and tried to shake the missiles.
"What are you doing, Ahsoka?" Anakin asked.
"They're coming after me, Master!" Ahsoka said. That's when Anakin saw the missiles heading toward his young Padawan.
"NO!" Anakin shouted, but it was too late. The missiles hit Ahsoka's ship without fail. The small beeping that was the alarm in the ship started going off. The inside of the ship began to fry, too, and Ahsoka was beginning to lose contact with both Anakin and Rex.
"Padawan Tano, are you there? Padawan Tano, please come in!" Rex shouted, before losing contact. Anakin was still there, though.
"Ahsoka? AHSOKA!" Anakin shouted, before the hologram faded away.
"Master! Wait! Don't go!" Ahsoka shouted, and banged her fist against the communicator, even though she knew it was hopeless. The smoke coming out from the fiery insides of the ship was starting to get in Ahsoka's eyes. She coughed, and thought she was going to die.
Just then, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a blue planet. Ahsoka tried to steer her slowly burning ship toward the planet, but soon enough, lost control and was only falling. Falling.
As she got closer to the planet, she was able to see that she was falling toward a huge lake surrounded by some strange looking trees. Ahsoka began to get strategic. She planned that she would jump out of her ship once she got closer to the lake. But then she thought that maybe she wouldn't make it before she ran out of oxygen. So she kicked off the door to the ship and hopped out.
Ahsoka felt the air hit her face hard. She looked behind her to see her ship burning up. She could tell her Master would not be proud. Unfortunately, Ahsoka had not calculated out the kinks of her plan, because when she looked back she was heading straight toward a giant rock, not the water.
"NO!" she shouted, but it was too late. Ahsoka's head hit the rock, and she felt a cracking sensation in her head, as the edges of her vision began to go black. The last thing Ahsoka felt was the water of the lake swallow her, before everything went black.
Mindy crawled out of her tent in the forest and stared at her surroundings for the millionth time in the 4 months she had been there. She wondered if she had done the right thing by leaving Josh all those months ago. Then she got distracted by the fact that she was getting hungry. And thirsty.
"Where's my water cup?" Mindy mumbled to herself. She saw it on the little picnic table on her campsite, grabbed it, and headed toward the lake.
Mindy tore through the trees and knelt by the lake to scoop some of the water into her cup. She drank so much of the water down that by the time she had finished, half of the cup was already empty.
Just to be safe, she swallowed the rest of the water and was about to refill the cup again, when she thought she heard something falling from the sky.
She looked up, gasped and stood up in shock and confusion. Falling down from the sky was a mysterious figure. A girl. Her skin was orange. Mindy just thought it was a major tanning accident. The girl also had some weird hairstyle, with white hair with blue stripes, and she wore a red strapless top and a skirt of the same color with purple tights underneath and red boots.
Who does that? Mindy thought.
But she didn't have time to wonder, as the girl was headed straight toward a huge rock in the lake.
"NO!" the girl shouted, before hitting her head against the rock. There was a loud cracking noise as she did. Mindy winced. She didn't like the sound of that! The girl then fell into the water.
"Oh my God!" Mindy said, even though she knew that the girl probably couldn't hear her. "Are you okay!?" Just when Mindy thought things couldn't get any more confusing, she heard something else falling from the sky.
This time it was a massive object, much larger than the mysteriously orange girl. It was red and white and burning. Mindy stood back, as the red and white object which she would come to know as a Jedi Starfighter crashed into the lake.
The ship created a huge splash as it landed. Mindy spat the water out of her mouth like a fountain. She was completely drenched.
"What the he-" She suddenly saw the mysterious orange girl starting to sink. If Mindy didn't hurry, the girl would drown while she was still unconscious.
"Hold on!" Mindy shouted, and gathered her breath and powered up her jetpack abilities. She had spent these months isolated in the forest mastering her new powers, even though she didn't entirely know what they were and what they were capable of yet.
Then she dove into the lake.
She turned on her night vision, since it was dark underwater, and began to search around. She found the girl seconds later, about to hit the bottom of the lake floor.
Mindy gasped and swam toward the girl. She grabbed her by the arms and began pulling her back to shore.
Once they were out of the water, Mindy breathed heavily, and lay the girl out on the shore to get a good look at her. She was a very pretty girl. She looked to be about 14 years old, with some strange white markings on her face. She had on a red uniform and combat boots. Mindy tried to pump whatever water was in the girl, out. She then performed CPR for 5 minutes.
The color was at least starting to come back to the girl's face. Mindy figured that waking up on the ground wouldn't be too comfortable for her new guest. So she retreated back into the forest thinking out loud, "I knew that extra sleeping bag would come in handy!"