Spiraling out of control chapter 10

"I've searched everywhere and I can't find her, her fighter was grounded and I've had the droid police search for her for weeks" Shaak said frustrated. Shaak looked up at Obi-wan "Are you sure Anakin is dead Master Kanobi? Ahsoka sounded so sure when she said he was still alive" Shaak continued.

"I couldn't find him in the Night Sister's home and we searched for days, there was no trace of his body all I found was his lightsaber" Obi-wan replied. "I will go talk with Master Yoda, he has a much stronger connection with the force than any of us, he may be able to sense something that we missed" Obi-wan said turning to leave. Shaak ti nodded and watched the other Jedi master leave.

Anakin forced his tired mind to stay focused as he dropped out of hyperspace above Corusant, now he just had to make it to the temple with out crashing into any building or wrecking the ship. Anakin pulled back on the throttle to slow the ship as he entered Corusant's atmosphere and he took the ship back to manual.

He looked around as the massive structures of the buildings came into view but Anakin was beginning to see double. Anakin shook his head and blinked his eyes "Focus" he ordered himself. Anakin dropped lower, he was could see the temple but his vision became blurrier "Come on almost there" he said.

Anakin reached over to drop the landing gear and as he reached up to slow the ship even further everything went black and Anakin passed out. His unconscious body pushed forward on the stick which forced the ship into a steep dive. The ship began to pick up speed as it neared the ground, closer and closer he came to grazing the buildings around the ship.

Sensors were going off like crazy inside of the space craft as it continued to plummet toward the ground. 1500 meters…1000 meters…500 meters down and down the ship fell then suddenly the automatic pilot kicked back in sensing that the ship was not slowing. Under belly thrusters ignited and the ship began to pull up but it wasn't fast enough. The nose of the ship smashed into the ground causing the ship to flip and smash sideways into another building.

When the ship finally came to rest well it was no longer recognizable as a ship, it looked like a heap of metal and wires, pieces of wreckage spanned for several miles. Fire ships were swarming around the wreckage trying to put out the fire before the fuel cells caught fire. People on the streets were screaming and ran as they watched the ship crash unbeknown to them of the pilot still inside the wreckage.

Ahsoka was sitting impertinently in Dooku's estate, she figured if she waited long enough that Anakin would be brought here. But she had been there for almost a week and nothing, no shuttle landed outside of the estate, no Cad Bane and no Anakin. Ahsoka looked at the hilt of Dooku's saber which now sat in front of her on the desk.

Ahsoka reached out and took the hilt in her hand; the hilt felt strange having the curve to it. She activated the hilt and the crimson blade came out with a snap hiss. Ahsoka stood up and twirled the blade a couple times testing its balance. Ahsoka did notice that with the curved hilt gave the user of the weapon a slightly different angle of attack.

As she continued to twirl the blade she reached down with her pinky and pressed the trigger like switch on it, the bladed shorted to the length of a shoto blade. This could certainly surprise an enemy who had not encountered a saber like this how it could change its length so quickly.

She extinguished the crimson blade and clipped the hilt on to her belt, it would serve as a replacement for the main saber she lost until she was able to construct another lightsaber. Knowing that her master was still alive meant that she would have to give him his lightsaber back that was of course when she found him.

She had waited long enough here and needed to continue her search, maybe she could contact Cad Bane if Dooku had hired him. Yes that was it, she quickly walked back over to the desk and pulled up the holocal logs. She scrolled down through them and found Cad's frequency; she hit the button to open up the frequency.

Anakin woke up to the sound of beeping he opened his eyes and looked around. The cockpit had been crushed or what was left of it anyway, wires where sticking out of the walls and panels were sparking. When Anakin could get his eyes to focus he looked down at a red flashing light, Anakin lifted his hand to hit the button but a sharp pain in his side forced him to fall back in the chair.

Anakin had to use the force to activate the button which opened up a holochannel. The projection lens was cracked so Anakin found himself looking at a fuzzy blue image. The fuzzy image looked like his padawan Ahsoka. His first thoughts were of relief "…Hey Snips" he said then began coughing.

Ahsoka's eyes widened as she looked at the blue projection of her master "Master…I knew you were alive I just knew it! Where are you!?" Ahsoka asked franticly. Her hands ran over the controls on the panels in front of her trying to find a way to locate the ship. As the panel began to trace the call Ahsoka looked up at the battered face of her master a solemn look came over her face.

"I thought you were dead…" Ahsoka said softly "So did I for a while" Anakin replied in a weak voice. "Where are you?" Ahsoka asked again. Anakin was about to replied when the holographic image of Ahsoka began to flicker in and out until it died completely. "Master!? Are you there!? Can you hear me!?" Ahsoka said but the realized that the connection had been lost.

Ahsoka looked down and at the panel hoping it would have a location, Corusant. Anakin was back on Corusant though she didn't know exactly where, she stood up and ran out of the building back to the ship she had taken and blasted off from the planet. "Hold on Anakin, I'm coming" she said.