Here's a funny chapter. I wouldn't say it's happy, but your jaw will drop at the end of this part of the story. Enjoy!

Ahsoka's Point of View

Mission of Doom

It was six months after the run-ins with The Reborn. I never truly forgot Captain Snake. They said he committed suicide after the loss of his squad. Served him right. But, he just had to come back.

In the meantime, I had a very important mission to complete, just a few months from the Trials. Although, being 18 isn't all it's cracked up to be. The mission was that I had to enter The Citadel for the second time, but with a deadly twist. I was to go alone. No support, no Master, no team, no nothing.

"Ahsoka! Quit your daydreaming and focus." My master said impatiently. He was briefing me on the plan. I looked up again and he continued,

"Remember, this information is vital to the Republic. They locked it up in the Citadel, and they will only hold it there for one rotation, or until they break the codes. According to our sources, the information should be in a bunker, here, just below the tower itself." He motioned to a point on the hologram.

I questioned, "But why in the Citadel? Wouldn't it be better suited for a hidden database, or a space satellite?"

"We don't know all the details, Ahsoka. Information regarding items of military importance located in Separatist space is always sketchy. But, if you cannot bring the information back, you must destroy it." This was our one chance to retrieve the information.

I boarded the shuttle. This was it. It was life or death, and only seconds separated the two. I was to jump out of hyperspace on the opposite side of the planet while Admiral Yularen took the fleet to distract all blockade ships. It was crazy, but that was practically my master's middle name. I jumped into hyperspace, and took a deep breath. No turning back.

As an extra precaution, my ship would be cloaked. But once I got within a 1,000 – click radius of the Prison, I would be spotted. I would have a long walk to make.

The trip was not long. Once hyperspace deactivated, I scanned the space around the planet. Admiral Yularen was right on time, and was distracting most of the ships. Although, there was a few cruisers patrolling the space near my landing zone, so I would have to rely on my cloaking device, and the Force.

The cruisers did not open fire, so if they did spot me, they made no attempt to stop me. It was a desperate gamble, but, then again, the whole mission was a gamble.

I chuckled mirthlessly, since the place where I was told to land was the exact spot where I was extracted with Masters Kenobi and Skywalker, along with the clones. The island located in a sea of boiling sulphur. A cable got me across smoothly. As I walked alone across the forbidding landscape, I passed several sad memories, including the place where Master Piell was killed, but not without passing the Nexus Route coordinates to me.

The long walk took hours, and was quite tiring. There was no sun for this planet, and so no cheer from a sun lit up periodically. Just the intense heat from the sulphur lakes and the desolate landscape. No living creatures anywhere. After the long trek, I saw it.

The prison loomed ahead like a fortress of death. I had planted a sizeable bomb at the opposite end of my possible entrance point, for a second diversion. This would spoil the element of surprise, but I had to get in at any cost. Besides, if the information was irretrievable, I could eliminate it, and keep all secrets safe. Though, the information was quite valuable to the Republic, as well. I would do my very best to arrive back on Coruscant with the data. My thoughts began to fade, and I could dimly make out the entrance point.

The entrance point was an air vent. Once I spotted it, I detonated the bomb. Moments later, alarms blared and 40 patrols of commando droids crossed to the site of the explosion. Meanwhile, I slipped past a few droid squads by dodging among rocks, finally coming upon the vent. It was small, but I was too. I was older, but my Master still called me "little one". Shows what he knows. But I climbed inside and wiggled my way through the vent. Upon reaching the area where the small vents met a larger vent, the razor-sharp security doors had shut. Cutting was hard work. Door after door was sliced through, down, down, down.

But, I eventually made it to the bottom level. Ray shields and criss-crossing laser beams were the precautions of the new droid commander of the fortress, Commander Bloshe (Pronounced Bl – oh – shh). He was cunning and resourceful, and did not possess the late Commander Sobeck's arrogance and stupidity. A new device that had been created I now had the chance to test.

It was called the M-12 EMP pulse emitter. It shot a wave of signal distortion in a short area to temporarily disrupt all power. It was made to recycle all systems in a small area for a few moments, but would only work a few times. I put it on the highest setting and activated it.

Well, it worked. The ray shield and lasers deactivated, and I rushed through. But then there was the worst part of the whole mission. There was only one guard. He was known as the Galak Mech. (Author's note: Some may recognize this mech. He is a formidable enemy in the PC game Jedi Outcast. I'm gonna change him around a bit, so no flak about this guy, please.)

It was a tan, armored beast of a droid, with a microburst shield. The shield could not be penetrated, blown up, deactivated, or absorbed. If you tried to touch the shield, it would short-circuit your nervous system or kill you on the spot, depending on your size. It was equipped with numerous instruments to maim and kill anything in its path. A network in itself, you could not jam its transmissions, so basically it was impossible to destroy. I dreaded him from the moment I received his information packet. Several droid squads had to be destroyed before I reached the entrance to the underground bunker.

Then I saw it.

He loomed there, guarding the ray shield that led to the chamber. This was the only entrance and exit, and no air vents existed here. My last gadget I had to try was the HDM (Holographic Disguise Matrix); a bounty hunter's dream tool. I backed up and activated the device. I would be disguised as a data droid, a high-tech droid that was an expert at breaking codes and flash-reading information. I slowly approached him. Once I was in view, he raised a blaster to destroy me. I stopped him hastily. "Halt. I am DD-G57. I am to assist in the retrieval of the data.

He lowered his weapon and asked, in a voice that chilled the spine, "Where are your orders?" I procured a small data pad containing forged orders that had been created only days before. He scanned them, then asked, "What is the passcode?"

I didn't know the passcode. I didn't even know there was one. I made a desperate bluff. Count Dooku's master's name was said to be Darth Sidious. "It is Sidious." I replied, firmly.

Incredibly, he let me through. The ray shield deactivated, and I entered.

I put away the HDM and destroyed the two commando droid chamber guards quietly. I quickly re-wired the access portal to open the door. Shortly after opening the door, I made a shocking discovery. The information wasn't in a computer, or on a data pad, or a microchip. It was contained in the mind of a man in the chamber, being mercilessly tortured. I dispatched the handful of torture droids there, and asked him,

"Sir, are you all right?" I asked. He didn't answer. He was in one of those suspended Jedi manacles that Master Piell and most jedi were held in. He suddenly seemed to recognize my voice and stopped panting. He looked up.

Though his face was pale and lacerated, I recognized him too. My eyes widened.

"Lux?"

"Ahsoka!" He shouted in glee.

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