Family by Heart - REWRITE(a Star Wars Rebels story)

Fulcrum

Athena kept her head down as she trudged along down yet another grey hallway.

Grey. Grey. It was all she ever saw.

The Sith Lord was yet to leave her presence. He kept her surrounded by the Death Troopers, armed with electrocuting weapons - long staffs with two prongs at the ends. They weren't deadly, but they were painful.

It had been hours since she was taken into Imperial custody. They kept moving her around. They kept taking her to different places. They even moved her from one Super Star Destroyer to a regular Star Destroyer.

Athena couldn't help but feel a storm of emotions.

She had saved her family. She got them out of harm's way - but at what cost? This was her family's worst fear. Their whole mission at one point was to keep her away from this exact situation. From being in the hands of the Empire. It was as if she'd failed her Master. She failed Ahsoka - the woman who put all of her hope into her.

This wasn't some game.

She was supposed to fight Abeloth one day, and now she was in the hands of the Empire? How was that supposed to work? If she wanted to defeat a monster, she needed to be on the good guy's side, right?

Chains clattered and clanged now. Around each of her upper arms there was a tight band of metal attached to chains each held by a Death Trooper. On each ankle, more chains. Around her waist - more chains.

She didn't dare escape. She could barely escape Second Brother with the help of Kanan. She had no chance.

It was all so dark. It was so cold.

Then, she felt a light.

The girl carefully picked up her head a little as she felt a ping in the Force.

She couldn't see anything but the black cape in front of her, but she could feel something just beyond them.

The Sith Lord stopped the group and began to speak to someone in front of him. "Agent Kallus, were there any rebel casualties from your encounter over Geonosis?"

A man with an Imperial accent responded. A voice Athena recognized belonging to a blonde guy with mutton chops.

"No, my Lord."

She poked her head slightly around the side of the dark figure in front of her. Her eyes widened as she caught eye of a glowing rock in the ISB agent's hand. The rock she had given Zeb.

No casualties. They were all safe.

"Does not matter, we got what the Emperor requested," Vader spoke.

"Friend..." Athena mumbled. She remembered that word was the reason she made that rock for Zeb. Then it clicked. The Force wanted her to make that rock for a 'friend' to end up with.

She then managed to make eye contact with the ISB agent. He was wide-eyed to see the girl. "The Goddess Inferna?"

"That is just a myth the pitiful people of Bakunyuu fabricated," the Sith Lord said. "You are dismissed, Agent Kallus."

Athena sniffled a couple of times before a stream of spit forcefully erupted from her mouth in a sneeze.

She let out a scream of agony as electricity crackled across her body - the prongs of the Death Troopers' weapons stabbing into her back. She fell to the ground in agony and her muscles twitched. Her heart palpated and she lost control of her body as it seized on the ground.

The ISB agent was frozen in fear as he watched the Troopers dressed in black attack the girl. As her body began to twitch from the remnants of electricity, she was met with the hash boots of the Death Troopers. They kicked her until she spat out blood.