"Ahsoka! You're just the person I wanted to talk to!" Anakin said. He was exactly how Ahsoka remembered him. His hologram showed him holding a hand held comminucator. He wasn't in his ship. So, where was he?
"Yeah...hi master." Ahsoka said. She was now getting really nervous.
"Padme just contacted me a few seconds ago, saying you were acting weird. So, I decided to check up on you. It's been awile-" Then he paused, examining her, "Are-are you in a ship?"
She had a feeling their first conversation in two years was not going to end well. "Yes..." She refused to meet his eyes.
"May I ask why?" He said. His face showed concern and confusion. Then it went to worry. "Are the twins okay?"
Ahsoka put her hands to her side. One of them brushed acrossed Lolly. She gulped down, knowing her master must of saw the beaten up doll. "Ahsoka, tell me what happened now." He told her.
She glanced up, looking in his eyes, which were wide and staring at her. She bit her lip. "Luke and Leia have been kidnapped." She said quickly.
"WHAT?"
"Anakin, I'm so sorry! They came in the night, two bounty hunters. I failed in trying to stop them. They took the twins and-" She began frantically saying.
"Bounty hunters? Who were they?"
"Cad Bane and Robonino. I found Robonino on Tatooine and he told me Bane was heading to Mustafar with the kids."
"Wait, Cad Bane?" He asked. Ahsoka nodded. Anakin gave a sigh. "I should've known."
"Known what?"
"That he'd strike at the kids first. A while ago Bane made a threat against my family. Then Obi-Wan found out he was giving information to Sidious."
"Oh...that's why you were in the outer rim..." Ahsoka said, nodding slightly.
"Yeah. Wait, where are you then?" He asked.
"Oh, I'm by Tatooine, and I'm about to go to Mustafar." She told him.
His eyebrows went up as his jaw went down. "No way! Listen, what if something more than Bane is there? What if there's commando droids or Sith?"
Ahsoka sighed deeply, "And what if while you're telling me this, whoever's there is hurting your kids?" She knew that was a little harsh, but still, he worried to much. "I'm probably much closer than you are! And I can get there early and-"
"No. Wait until I meet up with you. I'll take the ship while Obi-Wan informs the Council of our findings, which are none. Well, until now." He then started walking, Ahsoka guess towards the ship, "Promise me you won't go anywhere until I arrive."
"But-"
"Ahsoka." His tone was stern.
She sighed again, "I promise." She didn't like this agreement one bit.
"Okay, I'll be there as soon as I can." Anakin then paused for a moment, "Have you told Padme yet?"
"I figured not to worry her." She explained.
Anakin gave a half-smile. "I'm at the ship. Don't go anywhere, capishe?"
"Capishe." Then his hologram flickered away. She was still for a few seconds, the quickly started to punch in the coordinates.
R7 gave a confused beeped and whirred twice. Ahsoka glanced at him. "You really think I'm going to sit here and let Bane torture Luke and Leia for another second? No way, buddy, I'm heading to Mustafar, with or without Anakin."
The ship tilted up, and then before Ahsoka could change her mind and think it through, it vanished away to hyperspace.
The large pole was cold against little Leia's back. Her damp pink nightgown offered little protection against the freezing chains that binded her and her brother to the metal pole. She couldn't even see Luke's face, who was on the other side of the chains, but she knew it was full of fear, like hers.
The nanny droids were little help. They offered milk and water and tiny scraps of food to the twins. Luke ate a piece of cracker that one of them held out for him. Leia, however, refused them all. She didn't trust them one bit after they arrived and what happened to her tender cheek.
The room they were prisoned in was dark, reddish light came from one barred window with a view of a river of lava. The large door was about ten feet from where Leia was, and the pole she and Luke were tied up on was in the exact center of the circle-like chamber. A vent was attached to the top of the wall where Luke faced. She was positive hissing noices came from inside of it.
"Lay-ya?" Luke whispered in a hoarse voice. She struggled to face him, only to catch his eye out of the corner of hers. "Daddy and Soka will come. I know."
Leia smiled at him, her lips cracking in the process. "Yeah, I know, Luke. But what if the bad and fat man hurts them?"
Luke blinked, unaware of this. He then gave his sandy-haired head a good shake before saying, "No. Daddy won't let him."
Leia tried to believe that. She really did. But after all that's happened so far, and that horrible feeling she gets around him, she had a hard time to. She knew Daddy was strong and powerful, so was Mommy. But against this strange dude? She wasn't so sure. He had just as much darkness in him as his did of power.
And what of the tall blue man with the hat? Where did he go? After chaining them to the pole, he disappeared in the shadows. Leia thought he might have left the room, but the door hasn't opened since they came in. So...where was he?
Ahsoka came out of hyperspeed, her ship facing a red and black planet. She remembered coming here with Anakin to rescue Force-sensitive children that had been kiddnapped by Bane. So this was almost deja vu for her, except these where her master's twins.
R7 beeped and whistled at her. She looked down at him. "No, I'm not going to wait for Anakin. The more time I waste just sitting here, the more time Cad Bane has to hurt Luke and Leia!"
The astromech droid whistled at her. She rolled her eyes, "Look, if I go down there now, maybe I'll be able to stop him, okay?"
He said nothing, just turned away, rolling to the back of the ship. He knew if he couldn't convince her to stay where she was, no one would. The ship started going again, straight towards Mustafar.
A/N: *Sigh* wow, sorry to keep you waiting for this chapter! I'll probably get the next one published faster because it's going to be awesomer. Thanks so much for reading and if you can, please review! Thanks!