Ahsoka rushed upstairs, her green lightsaber out and unsheathed. She slammed open the twin's bedroom door and saw Leia sitting upright on her bed, a look of complete fear on her face as she clutched Lolly. Luke was no where to be seen.
"Leia, what's-?" Ahsoka asked.
"Well, I wasn't expecting you." A voice cut her off from behind. Ahsoka swung around, lightsaber out infront of her. Cad Bane stood there, two blasters in his hands and his wide brimmed hat tilted so it hid half of his face.
"YOU!" Ahsoka cried. Bane started shooting at her. She deflected them, making sure to protect not only herself, but Leia too. Bane then started to gradually move toward the hall. And once he was completly out of the room, he fled down the hall. Ahsoka quickly followed, yelling, "WHERE'S LUKE?" as more lightning entered the sky.
Of course, once she entered the dark hallway, Bane jumped out from the bathroom at the end and threw a ticking bomb at her. Ahsoka Force-pushed it out the nearest window right before it exploded. While she was doing that, Bane ran around her back into the twin's bedroom.
Ahsoka followed him as a large thunder clap rang in her ears. When she entered the room, Bane was holding Leia by her collar on her nightgown as she dangled out the window. She could tell Leia was crying, even though rain was falling all over her face.
"Let her down sleemo!" Ahsoka said to him as she held her lightsaber infront of her, pointed at him.
"Move one more muscle, and I'll let go." Bane warned, "Sure, she won't die. But a broken neck, probably." He smiled as a large bolt of lightning illuminated the room for a split second.
Ahsoka stood there, glaring at the bounty hunter. She then glanced at Leia, who had her small hands around Bane's wrist. Her expression showed she was terrified.
"Very good, child." Bane sneered, "Now, put away that lightsaber of yours." Ahsoka hesitated. He let his fingers loose just a little, just enough so Leia would scream in fear as she descened a few inches.
"Alright!" She yelled, sheathing her weapon.
Bane grinned. "So naive." He said, "You know, I wonder why Skywalker would trust you with something as precious as his own kid. Because now, you can't harm me when I do this." He let go, and Leia dropped out the window, screaming as she went.
Robonino caught her. He hated children already, now he had a screaming one in his arms. The girl was thrashing and yelling and crying all at the same time.
"Ugh." He said running toward the ship as the girl was trying to kick him. As he tossed her in the back next to the boy, he saw the Torgruta girl jump gracefully out the children's bedroom window while she held her lightsaber.
Lightsaber! Bane said there were no Jedi here! Robonino rushed in the chockpit and put in the coordinates. Bane was soon out of the house too, trying to blast the Jedi as she ran toward his ship. Before he could even get the ship's guns ready, she pounced on the window infront of him. A look of anger was on her face as she held her weapon to cut through the glass.
Bane shot a cable out of his wrist and it caught around her ankle. He pulled her off the ship and into the mud.
"Get us out of here!" Cad Bane ordered entering the ship.
"Okay! Okay!" Robonino said, starting the engine. The Torgruta got up just in time to see them fly away from here dirty face.
"The children are here, right?" Bane asked, sitting in the co-pilot's chair.
The other bounty hunter glanced over at him, "Of course. Now when do we get the money?"
"Patience, my fishy friend." Bane said, shaking the rain off his hat, "You'll get your share, after we make our first stop."
Gone. They were gone. Both of them. She had failed. Ahsoka felt the urge to scream and cry at the same time.
But, she was a Jedi. They don't just lay around feeling sorry for themselves. They get going, and never give up that easy.
Ahsoka wiped the mud off her face as she ran to the house's front door. "R7! Get over here!" She yelled into the house. Her droid was already there, whistling as he came beside her. "We need to leave, NOW."
As they both went as fast as they could to Ahsoka's ship, she stepped on something in the mud. She bent down and picked it up. It was covered in mud and water, but she could still make it out. It was Lolly, Leia's doll. A lump entered Ahsoka's throat. R7 beeped to her from the ship and she took the doll with her.
When she sat down behind the steering wheel, she quickly punched in the coordinates. R7 asked her where in the universe they were going.
"Don't worry, buddy." She reasurred him, "I've been here before." She flew the ship out of the stormy skies. "Tatooine, here we come."
Luke had been sobbing with his sister in the small storage room they were in ever since the ship had left the ground. They were both so afraid and cold, neither of them knew what to do. Luke had decided to go to the door and try to open it, but it was sealed tight.
But, he could the bad men talking to each other. He reconized the taller one with the hat's voice. He said something about 'Tatooine'. Tatooine? Where had Luke heard that before?
Leia sniffed quietly. Luke turned to her. She was sitting infront of a large box, wiping her nose on one of her muddy sleeves. Luke felt bad for his sister. That was her favorite nightgown, and now it was ruined. Her hair was soaking wet and was dripping all over her and to top it all off, Lolly wasn't there for her.
She had gotten Lolly for her first birthday from Gramma. She had been so happy when she opened her present to find that green Twi-lek doll with a purple dress. Luke had gotten a Wookie general doll which he named Bubba, but he had dropped it in the lake not two months after he had gotten it.
If something like that happened to Lolly, Leia would freak out. One time, one of Lolly's button eyes had fallen off. Leia cried and cried until Mommy had sewed it back together. And another time, she had scraped her knee, and Mommy had given her Lolly as she cleaned the cut and put a bandage on it. Then, she had given Leia a glass of blue milk and a hug.
Blue milk! That's where Luke had heard Tatooine before! Daddy had come back from there when he visited Uncle Owen and had brought back Bantha milk, which is blue milk!
Luke rushed over to his sister and sat beside her. "Don't worry, Lay-ya." He whispered, "Daddy knows what planet the bad men are stopping at, so he can come and get us! And Soka will come to! And Mommy!"
Leia looked at her twin with red and puffy eyes, "But, Luke. The bad man with the hat was shooting at Soka. What if she's hurt?"
Luke hadn't thought about that. Ahsoka, hurt? What if that was true? Would she still come for them?
They had finally arrived on Tatooine. Ahsoka and R7 had landed in the Mos Eisley spaceport and were now walking around, looking for any sign of Robonino or Cad Bane. She hadn't ever really enjoyed this planet. It was too hot and sand got everywhere. But, she remembered her first mission here with Anakin, and then thought of Luke and Leia, and how they were now kidnapped.
Ahsoka noticed when she walked by the Cantina that there was a small, bald man sitting outside of it. He was doing a bad job of not making eye-contact with her, because he kept glancing up to see if she was still there.
She walked up to him, R7 rolling beside her. "Excuse me." She said to him.
"Whad'ya want missy?" The man said not looking at her, but focusing on his drink.
"I'm looking for two bounty hunters. They took something of mine." Ahsoka said, trying to look in his eyes.
The man coughed, and then said, "Haven't seen any bounty hunter, sorry." He glanced toward her then quickly looked away.
Ahsoka sighed as she shifted so the man could see her lightsaber strapped to her waist, "Are you sure about that?" She asked.
"Uh..." The man paled and didn't take his eyes off her weapon. Then he shook his head slightly and looked away, "Yeah, I'm positive."
She took in a sharp breath. Why must I do everything myself? She waved her fingers infront of his face. "You will take me where the bounty hunters went."
The man blinked. "I will take you where the bounty hunters went." He got up and led Ahsoka to his smallish ship.
Ahsoka grinned slightly and followed him. "See, R7?" She said to her astro droid, "We'll get the twins back in no time."
A/N: Wanna know how I came up with Lolly's name? Well, when I wrote the very first chapter, I thought to myself, 'What's the perfect name for a two-year old's doll? Since it's Leia's doll, I combined Leia+Doll and came up with Loll. Loll dosen't sound the best. My brain went 'Duh! Just name it Lolly then! It kinda sounds like lollipop!'
Why a Twi-lek? You may ask. Because I love Aayla Secura, but I didn't want to copy her completly, so I made Lolly green with a purple dress (Purple's my favorite color!)
By the way, thanks for all the awesome comments. You guys rock!