Jai was tiring quickly. She's strong-this is harder than battling even Obi-Wan! she thought wildly. Then, as Jai let her guard down just a bit, Iguni took her chance. She kicked the lightsaber out of Jai's hand, and it flew back, where it hit the wall and fizzled out.
"So, now that you're defenseless against me, are you going to surrender or just let me kill you?" Iguni asked, swinging her lightsaber so close that Jai could feel the heat radiating off of it. As Iguni set up to kill her, Jai backflipped out of her reach, arcing high into the air. She landed next to her lightsaber, grabbing it and switching it on in one fluid motion. Iguni stared.
"You expect me to be amazed by that? Come on, my monkey lizard could do better! You're just a stupid little youngling!" With that, Iguni darted down one of the halls in the room. Jai raced after her. She could hear her malicious laughter echoing in front of her. The hall stopped in a room much like the one they were in before. Jai couldn't see Iguni anywhere, though. Jai felt a tremor in the Force and turned just in time to see Iguni kick her lightsaber out of her hand-again.
"You know, that's getting a bit old," Jai stalled as she tried to formulate a plan. The flip wouldn't work again, and she had no other way of reaching it. Iguni swung her light saber forward, and Jai jumped as high as he could, but her left leg didn't go high enough. Blazing hot pain went all the way up her leg, but below her knee she just felt coldness. She crashed to the floor, and saw her leg in her boot sitting next to her.
"Now you won't be able to do your pretty little flips and twirls anymore, huh?" Iguni sneered. She paced in front of Jai, like a tiger in front of her prey.
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Obi-Wan felt a shake in the Force. He looked at Anakin, who was fin, just fighting. Jai!
"Anakin, finish him off, then follow me! Try to do it quickly!" Obi-Wan sprinted down the hall that Jai'd gone, and came to a room with at least five halls. Laughing and a scream came from the far right one, and he took off for that one. He came into a room and Jai was on the floor, blood flowing out of her knee. The Iguni girl was standing over her, closing in for the kill. Obi-Wan whipped out his lightsaber, and suddenly he was being lifted into the air. Jolts of pain that felt like electricity ripped through his body. He managed to turn enough so that he could see Jefline using Force-lightening. Anakin crept into the room behind Jefline, made a shushing motion with his hand, and "took care of" Jefline. His body fell to the floor, and Obi-Wan landed slightly more gracefully next to him. Anakin and Obi-Wan approached Iguni, who laughed.
"You're going to kill me? Me, a girl only ten, the same age as your sister?" Obi-Wan was saved from answering by Iguni's continuation. "I overtook her," she jerked a thumb at Jai, who had passed out, "fair and square. I'm going to kill her, try and stop me!"
Obi-Wan moved before he could think. With a snarl, Iguni switched directions with her lightsaber, pointed it at herself, and ran herself through. Her last words were: "Like I'm going to...let myself be killed by scum!" The two men ignored her body and ran to Jai. Anakin picked her up easily: at seventeen he was already stronger than Obi-Wan. They ran down the hall back to their ship. The "Sith" were taken care of, now it was Jai's turn.
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Vague memories flitted through Jai's mind as she woke. Anakin had carried her back to the ship, and Obi-Wan had ran next to them, his worried face seemed like it was floating above her. They had boarded the ship and had found a small medical center on a nearby planet. Voices drifted around her, along with electronic noise. She opened her eyes and saw Obi-Wan hunched in a chair next to her bed.
"Hi, Obi," she said weakly. He raised his head and signaled to somebody, then scooted his chair closer.
"Hi, Jai. How're you feeling?"
"Like I got ran over by a hoard of rampaging wampas. You?" She remembered he had gotten Force-lightening used on him.
"A bit sore, but other than that I'm fine."
"Anakin?"
"He's getting sleep, we've been taking shifts. You've been out for two days, Iguni was much stronger than we'd thought." Jai looked at her legs. One was still there, pink and healthy. She wiggled those toes. The other wasn't, in its place was a bulky metal casing.
"Why is there a bulky metal casing on my leg? Aren't I getting a fake one?"
"Well, yes, but they're not done with it yet." Just then, a nurse came in carrying a bundle of wires and metal. She scootched a chair nearer to the floor of the bed and set about attaching it. Jai felt tingles of feeling coming up from her knee.
"Thought you said they weren't finished, Obi-Wan," she commented. He didn't say anything. After about an hour, the nurse stepped back.
"Why don't you try that out, and see how it works, okay?" Jai sat up, swung her legs over the side of the bed, and touched the floor. Obi-Wan helped her up. She walked around the room, the prosthetic leg making a slight whirring noise. After a while, that stopped.
"It fits, and it feels like my old leg. Doesn't look like it, though," Jai raised her new leg. "Look, Obi-Wan, I'm a cyborg!"
He stifled a laugh. "Jai, um...hate to break it to you, but...you're not a cyborg unless you have more than just a prosthetic leg..."
"She's taking it rather better than most patients do, the leg, I mean," the nurse told Obi-Wan as they were leaving. "She should be fine to leave tomorrow!"
Anakin came running up as soon as the nurse left. "Is she okay?"
"Yes, Padawan. She's asleep. We're leaving tomorrow, so be ready."
"Okay!"
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The next morning, they left. Jai was driving everyone insane on the ship, taking her boot off and insisting on showing them that she was, in fact, a cyborg. After Obi-Wan told them to just let her be, they stopped correcting her. When they arrived back at the Temple, the healer there insisted that she checked Jai's leg and Obi-Wan. The healer was sure something had gone unchecked on the "primitive little medical center", and she must check them. Jai was sitting on a bed in the med center when Obi-Wan came in.
"I don't see how the nurse at the other place would've missed something on Obi-Wan. All that's happened to him was Force-lightening," Jai commented as the healer shoved Obi-Wan onto a bed and ordered him to take his tunic off. The healer shot Jai a venomous look.
"Last time I checked, youngling, you weren't a medical practitioner. I am." With that, the healer finished checking Obi-Wan, practically threw him out, and then approached Jai.
"Hey, hey, if you're going to use the same gentleness on me you used on him, I'd rather not, if its all the same to you..."
"I was gentle!" The healer wrenched Jai's new leg up, inspected and snootily approved it, told her to walk around on it, to make sure the legs were the same length, and sniffed.
"I suppose the leg is fine. If you have any problems, come and see me." She also nearly threw Jai out. Jai could hear her muttering to herself as she cleaned up. When nobody was walking by, Jai stuck her nose in the air, adopted a snooty tone of voice, and went to see Ran and Thad.