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AHSOKA TANO

I stretch my arms and legs as I step out of the carbonite. My skin is clammy, and my eyesight is blurry, but I can still see Anakin Skywalker emerge from his carbon-freezing block beside me, enveloped in a cloud of steam. I smile to myself as I work my arms to get the blood moving. He won’t be happy.

“Hey, Snips,” my master says with a yawn while flexing his taut muscles.

“Master,” I reply.

Anakin does a double take and then exclaims, “Ahsoka! What are you doing here?”

Master Obi-Wan Kenobi comes up from behind us and raises an eyebrow. “Unless I am suffering from carbon-sickness, I think I see Ahsoka.”

“It’s not your eye-sight that needs help, Obi-Wan,” Anakin retorts snarkily, “it’s Ahsoka’s hearing.” He turns to me. “I told you to stay!”

“I received orders! I spoke to Master Plo-Koon and he said I should come.”

“I never saw you talking with him!”

“You were already frozen, Master,” I smile.

Obi-Wan grins. “Anakin, I believe that your teaching method is to do as I say and not as I do, but your Padawan is much too like you to follow orders.”

He turns to address the Clone Troopers surrounding the ship, who are adjusting helmets and checking ammo. They are brave, and I hate it that they have no choice but to run right into death. R2-D2 is giving beeped instructions to the repurposed battle droids he is commanding. Anakin sighs and shakes his head as I fold my arms, ready to defend myself.

“Ahsoka, this is a very dangerous mission and you really shouldn’t be here,” he says, although he knows the argument is futile.

“Master, all of our missions are dangerous. And I can’t leave, so you’re stuck with me now.”

“Snips…” Anakin doesn’t know what to say, so he just claps me on the shoulder and smiles. “Just don’t do anything brash.”

“You know I will only if it’s to get YOU out of something brash.”

He laughs, and we join Obi-Wan and the clones. The Jedi master is laying out the plan for entering the Citadel to rescue a captured Jedi and his commanders so they won’t reveal information to the Separatists. It is a vital mission: whichever way it turns could affect the whole tide of the war. However, just as we start to leave the ship, I start to feel dizzy and my vision blurs. I stagger a little, and just before I fall I feel Anakin’s arms under mine.

“Ahsoka? What’s wrong? Answer me now! Ahsoka!”

I black out.

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I’m slumped against a cool, smooth wall, my head against my chest. Suddenly, I jerk wide awake and leap to my feet. The Citadel. The mission. Anakin. Where are they? Come to think of it, where am I? This certainly isn’t where we landed the ship. In fact, I’m standing on a small gilded balcony barely large enough to sit on, looking over a large, round room. There is no door behind me, only a wall.

Surely Anakin and Obi-Wan wouldn’t have put me in such a strange place — they would have left me with the ship and R2. I hear voices, and peek over the black iron of the railing. There is a small group of people below me, about seven of them and one large beast. They are human, besides the hairy creature. The little girl with a hurt leg and the large, muscular man catch my eye first; the rest seem average. Where am I? I must get back!

Right now, as Master Obi-Wan would say, I have the high ground. I look up, but there is no way out through the ceiling, and no other windows except below, near the floor. No doors either, except for one behind the group. I fiddle with the hilt of one of my green lightsabers.

What in the galaxy am I supposed to do? What type of joke is this? It can’t be a prison in the Citadel. I look down again and see the group start to move off. They don’t seem hostile.

“It’s now or never,” I huff to myself, and leap off of the railing, using the force to slow my fall. I land in a crouch on the tiled floor and silently follow the humans. They might lead me out of here or reveal information.

“I’m coming, Sky-Guy. Just make sure to leave some of the fun for me.”

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Stole some dialogue from Episode Sixteen, ha ha 😉 Well, Ahsoka is in now!