Another med clone had been waiting for the squad outside of the ship with a hovering gurney. So as not to hurt him further, Ahsoka and Obi-wan carefully took Anakin's arms off their shoulders and helped Flash lower Anakin onto the gurney. Anakin was then strapped in, and immediately pushed onboard the Twilight with Obi-wan and Ahsoka following. The rest of the clones boarded another ship.
Flash and the other med clone rushed Anakin to the tiny medical bay while Ahsoka sat down in the pilot's chair and flipped a few switches. Right now, her mission was to get her Master of this Force-forsaken planet and on to the Resolute as fast possible. Not even waiting for Obi-wan to sit down, she started the takeoff sequence and shot into the air at full speed. She zoomed through the dark sky with her only line of thought being that she had to get the Resolute as fast as possible. Ahsoka would not let any thoughts enter her brain except 'Go faster. Go faster. Go faster.' Anything else would distract her. Ahsoka would not let her Master die without her doing her very best at trying to save him.
After what seemed like years, Ahsoka finally made it out of Mustafar's volcanic atmosphere and into the empty space. Empty that is, except for the massive Republic ship floating in front of the Twilight.
"Commander Tano, are you ready to board?" Yularen's said over the hologram that appeared in front of Ahsoka. Not missing a beat, (and had not looked at the Captain at all, and had already been preparing to board) Ahsoka answered 'yes,' and then flew towards the docking bay of the Resolute. After landing, Ahsoka opened the ladder to the opening of the ship before shutting it down and then hopped out, ready to assist the med clones and Obi-wan with Anakin.
Moments later Flash and the other med clone (who Ahsoka still had not learned his name) were bringing Anakin down the ramp. They held a mask over his face that was attached to some kind of weird machine. To prevent him from falling off the gurney, Anakin was strapped to it, but not too tightly to try and prevent further damage. Didn't want the general dying because of a gurney squeezing him to death.
When off the ship Flash started yelling for a med team to come stat. luckily, already anticipating Anakin to be in bad shape, a medical team had been waiting for them in the dock. Before Ahsoka could even get close to her Master, the med clones and doctors surrounded him. There were so many medical personnel surrounding Anakin, that Ahsoka couldn't even see her Master's boots, which would normally hang off the edge of a gurney. Suddenly they clones took off through the hanger and Ahsoka had to run to catch up. Most of the clones left the gurney and ran off in other directions, leaving only Flash and four other clones.
Ahsoka caught up to the clones and ran beside them, Obi-wan was right behind her.
Once at the med bay, the clones told Obi-wan and Ahsoka they had to wait outside while they "assessed the damage."
Ahsoka sat on the bench leaning forward, eager to see her Master. The clones still wouldn't let them in and it was so nerve racking just sitting there, waiting to hear news on her Master. Just because they had found him alive, did not mean he would stay that way.
Obi-wan was silent, not saying anything. Just sitting rigid and upright. Ahsoka wished she could feel his emotions through the Force, but she couldn't. He was keeping himself locked inside himself, which went against what the Jedi taught. Suddenly, Ahsoka realized that this had affected Master Kenobi too. The bond between her Master and his Master was strong, stronger than most, and Obi-wan was probably agonizing over Anakin just as much as Ahsoka was. But, being a trained Jedi, he would not tell anyone and try to remain as neutral to any situation as possible.
Unsure of what to do, Ahsoka just continued sitting, impatiently tapping her foot while trying to figure out something that might keep her mind off her Master.
Suddenly, Ahsoka felt a wrenching pain. It was right in her heart and it made her want to collapse on her knees and cry. She clutched her chest and looked over at Obi-wan. He looked the way she felt, and the way she felt was what she could describe as being heartbroken. The two got up from the bench and ran for the medical bay. They flung open the door but a clone was waiting for them.
"What has happened? What is wrong with Anakin?" Obi-wan demanded. His helmet hid the clone's reaction to the very out of character yell from Obi-wan, but his voice was calm.
"Sir, you need to wait while the doc's do their work." He said.
"But what happened to my Master?" Ahsoka yelled. The feeling in her heart was horrible, and it could only make her fear for the worst.
"Please, just tell me." She practically begged for the soldier to tell her any news of her Master. Suddenly, as if a huge easer had wiped over her, the feeling was gone. It was replaced with a feeling of…content. A few seconds later, a med clone came up to the Jedi. Now she just felt confused.
"General Skywalker is okay, now, could you please go back to your seats?" He said kindly.
The two Jedi nodded before slowly going back to their bench. However, Ahsoka couldn't fight the shiver that ran down her back when she saw the blood on the med clone's gloved hands.
After what seemed like forever, the clones said it was okay for the two Jedi to enter the medical bay.
The pair walked inside the room and Ahsoka barely was able to suppress a gasp.
About from the waist up Anakin had thick bandages wrapped around him. Even his arms had thick bandages. All of this gave him the appearance of wearing a winter coat. Although with the oxygen mask on his face, and the wires connected to him, the effect was ruined. You could barely hear Anakin's raspy breathing over the slow-approaching beeps of the heart monitor.
A medical droid came in and fiddled with some of the wires before starting to leave the room, but Ahsoka ran up in front of it.
"What is Master Skywalker's condition?" Ahsoka asked urgently. Ahsoka sensed Obi-wan come up behind her.
"Skywalker is currently in a state near a coma, and is in critical condition. He was nearly lost earlier, but he was quickly revived. However, we are not able to do anything more for him until he is at a proper medical center." The droid said before walking off.
Ahsoka felt speechless. Her Master had actually, psychically, died. That feeling had been the connection between her and her Master breaking.
Ahsoka tried to suppress the sob building in her chest but in the end, a tear found its way traveling down her face. Obi-wan saw this, and instead of giving Ahsoka a lecture on attachments (which he so obviously had too), he pulled her into a comforting hug. Ahsoka cried into his chest, hating that she felt so vulnerable, but at the same time glad that Obi-wan was there.
Ahsoka pulled away eventually, went over to Anakin, and kneeled by his right bedside. She grabbed one of his hands with both of hers and lowered her head.
"Please get better Master." She whispered, "Please."
Ahsoka could just barely feel the tightening of his hand, and could've sworn she heard the heart monitor beeping just a little faster.
MWHAHAHA! My genius plan worked! So, you all know that last chapter I didn't threaten to cut off the story but I wanted too. Well, I wondered that with that threat in the air, if I could get more people to review and it worked! I got about double the amount of regular reviews!
Ahem, anyway this chapter was hard to write. I didn't want it to seem forced, but at the same time, I didn't want the entire chapter to be kind of… I don't sarcastic? I just think that my style of writing is sometimes a bit to light for this kind of subject matter, especially after a reviewer told me I was funny. So I kind of tried to mix in a tiny bit of my regular style with a bit more seriousness.
Did it work?
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