Fallen (Anakin Skywalker x reader)

7. Conflicted

"The city's been walled off ma'am: you and Skywalker are going to have to jump, we'll catch up to you when we can." Fluke spoke through the coms directly into my helmet as I turned of the digital display and prepared my gear. I'm still not entirely sure what had happened before: the last thing I remember was a blinding pain between my eyes followed by nothing, just blackness, I couldn't even remember what led to my rage. It was the first time it had got that bad, usually I'd just break a few things and get an awful headache. But this time, this time I couldn't recall a moment of my rage, which meant I wasn't sure how to control it. Still, right now I was focussed on the mission before us.

So I took a deep breath: I closed my eyes, thinking of my sweet little brother, thinking of his smile. The smile that soothed my soul from the day I met him.

He was my world...and now it was time to bring him home.

"Understood Fluke: standby for coms black out," I replied before slamming my palm against the ramps release switch, locking my feet in position as gusts of strong wind began to swirl into the sealed room. Glancing to my right I saw Skywalker squinting across towards me, his hair blowing wildly round his head. He gave me a nod to show he was ready to which I looked back ahead.
"See you on the surface Skystalker..!" I called out before running the few steps there were along the ramp before springing myself off into the open air. For a moment I just fell through the clouds, wind rushing by at an impossible speed. Not even my scanners could fully keep up with the decent, but they did start to flash when the ground started to become visible below. My heart was pounding with adrenaline, hell I even laughed to myself before throwing my arms out and using a huge surge in the force to slow my fall. At my back there was a rumbling clap of thunder as rain began to pour down on my back just as I slowed to land behind the nearest townhouse.

Crouched on the floor I breathed the filtered air of my helmet in heavily, calming myself as I glanced up a saw those flashes of lightening. Poor Fluke and Blitz, though on the other hand it made great cover. As I pushed myself up from the ground I scanned around to check no one had seen, pressing my back to the nearest wall and checking for patrols. Luckily being outside the city centre there was no one to be seen here and now, though unluckily for me, I couldn't sense Cal.

"Shit shit shit...!" I heard a familiar voice exclaiming in a whisper that was rapidly nearing my location. That's when I heard the crash from the ally nearest to me. I gave a chuckle and immediately ran over around the corner  to seat a sight that certainly brightened my mood. There before be sticking out a garbage tank was Anakins legs, kicking around through the air like it would actually help. I burst out laughing and walked over, taking a mental snapshot of the sight for the next time he pissed me off. 

"Having troubles there Skystalker?" I taunted placing a hand on my hip as I faced his direction. From within the disposal unit a muffled groan could be heard coming from the man. A chilling breeze blew by scattering pieces of litter from the top as I stood there and continued to chuckle. If we'd had longer I'd likely have left him to struggle, but sadly this mission was time sensitive and I wasn't about to put my little brother at risk. No matter how amusing this was to watch.
"Alright quit kicking about blindly: I'll pull you out idiot." I sighed before stepping back, cracking my knuckles as I did so. I then rose my hand and with ease grasped him through the force, tugging him out and dropping him down to the ground a meter of so away from the unit. He landed with a satisfying thud and gave another annoyed groan while moving to push back up to his feet. Still smiling behind the cover of my Helene I watched as he muttered various profanities while brushing the litter from his shoulders and checking the various attachments upon his belt were still intact.

"Are you ready princess or do you need a minute to check your nails?" I asked mockingly as he persisted the preen over his attire instead of moving along already like we needed to. Casting my eyes over the display brought up across my visor I frowned as nearly all my read outs came back as inconclusive. They had to be jamming all signals within the city, that would make location go the hostages all the more difficult. Looking back to Skywalker my eyes caught his just in time to catch them roll as he began to make his way over.