The Final Battle: Part 9
Ahsoka and Tanya ran through the hallways toward the hanger, still dragging Doctor Caust behind them. They sprinted faster and faster until they practically ran into Barriss, Master Li, and their clone squad. "Whoa," Tanya shouted, when she and Ahsoka almost ran into everyone. "That was close."
"Very," Barriss agreed. "Why exactly were you running anyways?"
"We didn't want a repeat of our last missions together, so we wanted to join you as soon as possible," Ahsoka explained.
"Actually padawan, that could be one of the reasons your past missions ended like that," Master Li pointed out. "When you run blindly into a situation, you cannot see clearly and as a result, you do not see things until they are right in front of you."
"Understood Master," Tanya apologized. "We will try to slow down in the future. Hopefully, that will make our future missions more successful."
"Don't count on it, Jedi." Ahsoka, Barriss, Tanya, and Master Li turned to see Doctor Caust, out of his handcuffs and smiling evilly.
"Stop!" Tanya shouted, but before anyone could do anything, Doctor Caust slid a small bomb, that Tanya recognized as a smoke bomb, out of his lab coat sleeve, activated it, and threw it to the floor. The hallway was immediately engulfed in a thick black smoke, impossible to see through. Everyone was coughing, shouting, and stumbling around the corridor, trying to find out where they are. "Where's the doctor?" Tanya yelled, trying to find him in the thick smoke.
"Everyone just calm down," Master Li exclaimed. "Young ones, clear your minds and stretch out with you feelings. Feel, don't think. Sense where he's gone." Ahsoka, Barriss, and Tanya immediately stopped and tried to sense where the doctor was.
"I don't sense him," Ahsoka said. "Not in this hall, at least."
"I cannot believe he got away, again," Tanya groaned.
"It is unfortunate, but we should focus on trying to get a rid of this smoke. Padawans, try clearing the smoke with the Force," Master Li instructed. Ahsoka, Barriss, Tanya, and Master Li were eventually able to clear the smoke from the corridor with the Force but this revealed that the door to the hanger was sealed shut.
"Ahsoka, do you think you can open the door?" Tanya asked.
"Yes, but it might take a while."
"Time which we might not have," Tanya commented. "The station has likely already called for reinforcements. I think we should get out of here and destroy station while we still have the chance. I have a quicker way to get through."
"And that would be?" Ahsoka asked. Tanya activated her lightsaber and plunged it into the metal door. She carefully, yet quickly, cut a circle into the metal, kicked the metal circle into the hanger, before climbing through the hole. "Coming?" Everyone glanced at each other before climbing through.
"I still don't know how you do that," Ahsoka stated.
"The best plans are the simplest ones. Now we'd better hurry. We still have a station to destroy."