The Rising

Illusions

Kix shifted uncomfortably as his broken ribs.

He glanced over at a very pissed Obi-Wan Kenobi who was instructing Etain and Darman what the overall plan was. 

"How're the ribs?" Fi asked curiously. 

"Ticklish" Kix joked as Fi lifted his shirt to reveal nasty black and blue bruise that covered most of his torso. 

"Jez.....did you even try to fight back?" Fi asked. 

Kix didn't answer he simply stared ahead of him, Fi looked to Darman who was looking at them curiously before Fi shook his head. 

"Kix you need to respond man" Fi tried. 

Kix just stayed quiet before he overheard something that truly terrified him. 

"We think she is being held on Nal Hutta" 

Kix stood straight up.

"I'm going" he announced looking at Obi-wan with a steely gaze. 

Fi, Darman, and Etain all shared looks before Obi-wan narrowed his eyes at Kix. 

"No" Obi-wan answered anger crashing in his eyes before he turned back to the panel he had been working on. 

Kix didn't move

In fact, nobody did. 

That was until Obi-wan spoke to Fi. "Fi, take him to the med bay and sedate him....or throw him in the brig....your choice"

Fi gulped nervously before he decided the former would probably be safer for everyone and began to drag a now lifeless Kix. 

He offered no fight as he was dragged down hall after hall. 

Fi was getting more and more worried as he dragged him by his upper arm, but it was not until he got to the med bay that he really became worried. 

"Ok, just sit on.....the bed......" Fi tailed off as Kix obediently did as he was told. but that wasn't what caught his attention. 

That honor belonged to the strange black and green veins peeking over his uniform collar.

"Kix takes off your shirt," Fi said pulling out a scanner from one of the tables and turning to find Kix struggling to take off the shirt.

Once Fi helped him with the shirt he was shocked to see black and green veins crisscrossing all over his body including his bruised torso.

"Oh no," Fi breathed before turning his comms on "Darman get the ship med bot ready, looks as though we will be bringing Kix with us". 

"What! Why?" Darman's voice asked ringing through the comms completely confused. 

"Because I can't leave a patient, and I know what they are doing to Lil" Fi responded before pulling Kix off the med bay and into the corridor. 

Many clones gave them wide births as Fi dragged a half responsive  Kix

it didn't take long for them to get to the hanger where Darman and Etain were 'saying' their goodbyes. 

Fi merely rolled his eyes at the couple before muttering "get a room" as he passed. Darman ignored him and gently rested his hand on her slight baby bump. 

Kix just stared ahead of them unblinking before they all heard a voice that made them, except Kix, Jump out of their skins. 

"WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING HERE!" Obi-Wan's livid voice rang through the hanger making everyone duck. all except the four next to the ship. 

Etain smiled nervously as Darman pushed her behind him, his overprotectiveness kicking in as the pissed of Jedi stormed past them and straight to Kix. 

"You worthless little......you defy my orders thinking that will put you back into my good graces after you lost my eldest daughter to a madman?" 

"uh sir" Fi tried to say opening his mouth but was cut off by Obi-wan. 

"No....he does not deserve to breath let alone....... what's that stuff on his face?" 

No, later that he turned to ask Fi who was trying to pull him into the ship that Kix's eyes rolled to the back of his head then crumpled to the ground unconscious. 

"Shit" Fi grunted barely grabbing Kix with the help of Obi-wan. 

Darman rushed forward to help as Fi began to explain, "His body and Lil's must be connected, and her body is currently being pumped full of some kind of sedative, I've never seen something like this before".

"Connected? as in...." Obi-wan asked as he let go of Kix unexpectedly, Darman and Fi huffed slightly at the new weight they had to bear before dragging him the rest of the way to the med bay on the ship.

"They are force bound, and given how.....suggestable he is......" Fi was nervous to finish the sentence. 

"What...what does it mean?" Obi-wan asked his mind racing so far that he could not think clearly. 

"They might be messing with her mind.." Fi answered, flinching slightly afraid of what the general might do next. 

Darman glanced at the growing black and green veins, "They are the same as when Etain and Barris were poisoned". 

"similar yes, but not the same, whatever mad man was working on that lab probably made the same compound they are using on Lil" Fi answered getting to work on Kix. 

Darman looked back to where Obi-wan was but only managed to catch sight of his Jedi robes disappearing out of the doorway. 

Concerned for the general well-being, Darman rushed out of the med bay and caught sight of Obi-wan starting up the ship. 

"We are going now then?" Darman asked trying to break the tension. 

"Going where?" came a familiar, but panicked, voice from behind him in the mess station. 

Darman's eyes widened recognizing the voice and slowly turned around. 

There standing in front of him was Etain who was holding his bag, her eyes just as wide as his. 

Darman was about to yell, beg, plead....anything to get the general to land the ship and let her off to the safety of the generals' flagship. 

Then he felt something that made his heart freeze in his chest. 

They just entered into hyperspace. 

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