Author's Note: Okay, I just want to apologize profusely for my shoddy writing in this story. I wrote it 3... 4 years ago? It is definitely not my best! However, we are almost to the end of this story, and then I can start posting the sequel which takes place in a different AU storyline, but more on that when it actually comes time to post it. For now enjoy the story as much as possible.
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Pieces of the puzzle
part 6
Siri, Ben, and Ahsoka darted down the hall.
"How much farther?" Ahsoka asked.
"Not very," Siri answered as positively as she could, in truth she had no idea.
They swung round a corner and Siri held up her hand, coming to an abrupt stop.
"This one" She said, and hit the control panel.
The door slid open and she rushed in. The padawans followed her into the scene of mayhem.
Anakin, Shaniel, and Si Tremba made their way through the winding halls.
"Do you think Ben and the others have found Obi yet?" Si Tremba asked worriedly.
"I hope so," Anakin answered. Shaniel didn't say anything. Anakin stopped.
"Someone's coming" he whispered. They all paused and listened. Voices drifted down the halls, and were growing louder with each echoing step.
Jenna followed Dooku down the halls.
"What do you plan to do with him if he survives?" She asked.
Dooku didn't slow down.
"If he survives and is in anyway fit for your use, he will be at your disposal" Dooku answered.
"Thank you, Count" Jenna said, feeling a blossom of warmth caused by the excitement of once more conducting her experiments from decades before erupt within her. "Now, I really should be observing what is happening down there." She retreated back the way they had come. Dooku continued, only to stop again as a familiar person emerged.
"Anakin Skywalker," He said crossing his arms "Fancy meeting you here."
Anakin lifted his azure blade into the ready stance of djem so.
"Funny," He coldly stated, "I was just about to say the same thing of you."
"Let me guess," Dooku said, shifting his weight slightly, "this is the part where you offer me the chance to surrender?"
"You're confusing me with Obi-Wan," Anakin snarled, "and you lost that right when you started experimenting on a member of the jedi council."
"He was a prisoner of war" Dooku said simply.
"That means interrogation," Anakin insisted, "not experimentation."
"My mistake."
"Enough talk," Anakin said, doing a test swing with his lightsaber. "Let's get this over with."
"As you wish," And Dooku leapt toward him, lightsaber in hand.
They met in a shower of sparks.
"Come on," Shaniel said, motioning Si Tremba back, "let's go around a different way."
"What about Master Skywalker?" Si Tremba asked.
"He'll be fine, besides, we have to find my master and Ben, and Ahsoka, before Zan Arbor does."
Siri was mad. She had burst into the cell surprising the scientists inside who hadn't heard her entrance over the screams. The screams. Siri knew they would haunt her for life.
Obi-Wan was strapped into some sort of machine, and he was screaming.
His back was arched in pain and his eyes were squeezed shut.
It occurred to Siri that she had never heard Obi-wan scream. He had always seemed too strong to be broken by anything, let alone bodily, or mental, pain.
She forced her mind back to the present, and her eyes away from that thing.
"Who are you?" One especially slow scientist demanded. "Wait, you're a jedi? You aren't supposed to be here!" Siri sighed and quickly lifted her blade.
"It's amazing," she commented, "how incredibly stupid you geniuses can be."
The scientists were visibly unnerved by the lightsaber.
"In a row, backs to the wall, and hands where I can see them," Siri recited, "and how do we turn off that machine?"
The scientists were more then welcome to answer, though it wasn't what she wanted to hear.
"You can't." Siri lifted her lightsaber higher.
"Wrong answer," She said dryly. "Now, anyone else know the correct answer?"
Jenna hurried back down the hall. She was near the cell now. She could hear the screams from there. Jenna frowned. Screams? But the cells were sound proof... the fact that should could hear them meant only one thing. the door was open, and the only reason the door would be open was if...
Her pace doubled. The jedi were here.
TBC