The Unchronicled Adventures of Ahsoka Tano, Book Eight

Chapter Fifty: The Explosion/ Ahsoka's Lights Show

LUX BONTERI

Lux had thought that weren't his own bouncing around inside his head. For some reason, he could clearly hear a soft and calculating voice saying the words: It is time. Initiate phase two. And some infinitely wise part of his brain was telling him that this 'phase two' was something that wasn't going to be very pretty for the base on Morvolo.

There was a sense of wrongness about this entire attack. He couldn't put his finger on it, but something was amiss. Something that was a danger to him, to Ahsoka, to his sister... And he didn't like it one bit.

Suddenly another explosion rocked the entire base, throwing him towards the wall, followed by a few distant screeches as the entire base slid a few feet deeper into the valley. This one was far more powerful than anything they had experienced earlier.

In a heartbeat, he realized what it was. Someone – or several someones – had just fairly blown up the central reactor. If no one managed to activate the isolation sequence to stop the deadly rhydonium radiation from the core from moving through the ship, everyone would be dead within the day.

He knew what he had to do. That explosion had surely killed the engineers that were on duty, and everyone else was occupied with the base's defense. There was no one else who could finish the job.

Suddenly, right on cue, Janira ran down the hall towards him. "Lux!" she cried, skidding to a halt in front of him. "Saw's hurt! He keeps on babbling about an army turning to dust, and–"

"Janira, please. You have to calm down," he said. "I can't get to him. But I need you to keep this safe for me."

He handed her his lightsaber, the one that Obi-Wan had made for him. She looked shocked. "I... I can't take this!"

"You have to. Just hold onto it until I get back." He pulled her into a hug kissed his younger sister by three minutes and seven seconds quickly on the forehead. "Keep it safe."

"I will," she whispered, but he was already too far to reply.

If I come back, he said to himself, and then he ran. He ran faster than he had ever run before.

AHSOKA TANO

Ahsoka was covering a group of soldiers trying to get Saw back into the base. He had caught part of a lightsaber blow to his side, and a deflected laser blast to the shoulder that was bleeding too much. He needed to get to sickbay immediately, or he wouldn't survive.

But she was more preoccupied with fending off their attackers. If she locked lightsabers with any one of them, then she would be caught up in the fight and the others could corner her. She wasn't carrying a blaster she could use to keep them back, which left her with only one option.

Concentrating on the surrounding energy in the air and pulling it towards her, she focused on the electricity that she could feel building inside her. She put her hands together in front of her, and when she pulled them apart, white-gold strands of lightening followed her fingers.

She was using her own variation of what she had learned from a holocron was called the 'Electric Judgment', a rare power that few Jedi had the ability to control. But, contrarily to what others might have thought, she felt perfectly at peace and one with the Light Side of the Force when she was using her gift.

Using quick, two-fingered jabs, she took down ten of the warriors before they realized what was going on. But, fortunately, as her lightening spread in webs when it left her fingers unless she bid it to remain in a straight line, they had no way of deflecting it back at her or they would risk getting hit or hitting their comrades.

As this power came from turning emotions into electricity, she felt it when the soldiers who weren't supporting Saw turned around to watch in undisguised awe. She was glad for the approval, but now it was time to end the lights show.

She clenched her muscles and produced an enormous ball of lightening on each palm, shooting it outward at the group of Sith following them in webs larger than anything she had ever successfully thrown. Then she melded them together to create a cage.

The fifty or so Sith disciples were utterly trapped.

Setting the cage to close around them, so that they would all be electrocuted whether they tried to get out or not, she sprinted back towards the safety of the base. It was time to find out just what a delirious Saw was talking about.

*And so it begins... What will Saw's experience reveal to the others about their enemies? What is Lux going to do to attempt to save the entire base? Will Anakin be able to triumph over Darth Vader, his mirror image... or will the friends in high places that the Sith Lord spoke of, one of which being General Grievous, overwhelm him? And will Ahsoka finally be able to tell everyone about her pregnancy before it's too late? You'll find out in the next amazing chapter of The Unchronicled Adventures Of Ahsoka Tano!

HEYYYYYYY guys! How're you all doing??? I'm happy again today, because we're only a few short days away from the first episode (or episodes?) of SWR season 2! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!

Realize that you're not the Jedi you should be and may the Force be with you,

Sharron