"Who exactly are you?" I ask him.

"Osi Sobeck!" He answers like I was supposed to know.

"Hmm.... doesn't ring a bell," I tell him.

Something tells me the Phindian didn't like that. "I want your half of the information. Give it to me now or I'll start executing your men."

"This is war, Sobeck. We're all prepared to die to protect that intel," Master Piell says. Sobeck grabs a blaster from one of the droids before giggling as he pulls the trigger on one of our men.

"What about her?" He turns to me.

"What about her?" Master Piell asks.

Sobeck trails one of his long and disgusting fingers down my face, making my face curl up in disgust. "She looks young. Innocent. I'm guessing still a padawan. Are you willing to sacrifice a padawan? A child?"

"Why do you think I'm here?" I ask Sobeck.

"What?"

"You think I didn't know the risks of coming here? I know the risks and I'm willing to sacrifice anything, including my life, to keep you from getting that information." I snarl in his face.

"Then you will get the chance to do so," he says and points the blaster at me. I don't look away or flinch. I look him dead in the eyes.

"Sir, we have located the other group, and our droids are closing in on them." A droid distracts him from ending me. Sobeck pulls away and throws the blaster back to the droid. I let out a breath.

"Caran," Master Piell catches my attention, as we lock eyes his face is full of respect. He doesn't say anything, but his face is enough to know what I just did, what I said. What I was willing to do. It's something worthy of the respect of a Jedi master.

"Your Jedi resolve only delays the inevitable. Take them to interrogation. Torture them slowly. Especially the girl." He grins grimly. The entire way to interrogation is silent. I can feel it in the air and through the force that my master is mad. Mad at me. As we turn a corner we suddenly come to a halt. As I'm second last, I can't see what is going on.

"We'll take them from here," a droid says.

"Uh, I think we have a-" another one says.

"We'll handle it," the first one says. The second agrees and we follow along. First now, I can see the new droids escorting us. It's the reprogrammed droids that belong to us. As we get a little further, the sound of a happy droid comes from behind. I turn around and see R2 beeping and moving around.

"R2," I say relieved and move my arms to give him a little pat as he unlocks my cuffs.

"The commander is happy to see you as well, sir, but would like to return to the shuttle as soon as possible," one of the droids translates his beeps.

"Yes, I couldn't agree more," my master agrees and we go on our way.

"What about General Skywalker, sir?" Cody asks.

"Not to worry. He'll switch to plan "B""

We move through the halls before finally exiting the last door and walk out onto the landing platform where our shuttle is waiting for us.

"Hold it. Where are you going with these prisoners?" We get stopped by another droid.

"We're transferring them aboard the shuttle from Citadel to Point Tarron," our droid explains to them. I really hope this works.

But my hopes shatter as the droid speaks again. "Point Tarron? There's no outpost there."

"Uh, it's new," our droid tries. "We have orders. We're coming aboard."

          

Somehow that works and the droid lets us by, that is until. "The prisoners are escaping with reprogrammed battle droids. Let no one board that shuttle."

At this point we have no choice but to try to cut us the way in. But with droids at gun posts shooting huge lasers at us. It's hard. We all make a run towards some nearby containers. Then somehow, Anakin, Ahsoka and their team come along to join the fun.

"Sorry I'm late," Anakin says.

"So nice of you to join us."

"The ship is surrounded," Ahsoka tells us. As if we hadn't noticed, why do you think we're sitting here?

"We need to launch a full forward assault and take that vessel," Captain Tarkin says. I look at Ahsoka and send her a 'is he crazy?' look, and she only shakes her head while rolling her eyes and shrugging. Good to know.

"We may have a bigger problem, those turrets. If we don't take them out, they will use them to destroy the subtle and prevent our escape," my master explains.

"Which is precisely why we should get aboard that shuttle and use the weapon systems to decimate those droids," Tarkin argues.

"Do you have a death wish? We'll get blown up. I'll tell you this, today I've almost gotten burned to death, I've gotten fried and almost shot. All because I was saving your ass. I don't want to also get blown up!" I yell.

"Whatever we're gonna do, we better do it fast," Anakin points to the sky which reveals three droids on speeders. As they get close enough, they start to shoot. After they've gotten past us, they take a round and come back to shoot at us again. This time Master Piell gets one down, as Anakin manages to hijack one of the speeders. If this is not bad enough, I then see several Bx-droids entering the fighting, one of them is even on their way to man one of the turrets. I begin to scan the platform for anything that could give us a win, but before I can even register what is happening. The ship is blown up and Echo is dead. His helmet is still moving softly around on the ground.

"We have to go now!" My master says as we realize that nothing could be done on this platform anymore. We need to find a new way out. The place we take a break is close to the Citadel, but far enough in the tunnels to hopefully be safe. For now.

"We'll need to hold out until the Council sends a ship," Obi-Wan says.

"Not a problem. We've beat them once, we'll beat them again." Master Piell exclaims.

"This landscape is almost impossible to cross. How are we going to get to the rendezvous point?" Fives asks, I can hear in his voice that he is clearly moved by the loss of his dear brother.

"That is the trap of the Citadel. It was designed so it would be almost impossible for fugitives to get off the surface, even if they escaped the tower," my master explains as I kick a little rock around with my feet.

"How lucky we're not just any fugitives," Anakin says with a glint of hope before walking away.

"I hope you're right," Master Piell says darkly.

We all keep moving. If we're going to make it to the rendezvous point, we have to keep going with minimal pause and a whole lot of luck. The tunnel quickly goes underground and turns into more like a cave. The lava is bubbling, always serving as a reminder not to step wrong. I end up walking next to Fives for a while.

"Hey, Fives," I say, trying to catch his attention.

"Yes, Commander?"

"I just wanted to tell you sorry for your loss. I know how much he meant to you," I tell him wholeheartedly.

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