Broken Beginnings (A Star Wars: Clone Wars fanfic)

Chapter 17: Rescue Mission

  Ok guys, here's the next chapter!  I hope you are not too angry with me for leaving the last chapter in a cliffhanger, but if you are then this should make up for it....  Hopefully.

Alexa POV

I instantly got up and sprinted back to the camp, the ground blurred below me as I felt a surge of adrenaline. The steady thump of my footsteps echoed in my ears and I felt a bead of sweat roll down my forehead as I raced at the speed of sound!

I continued running for what seemed like longer than it should have taken to get back to the camp, but I guess it was because I want, no, need to get back so fast. A distinct old dead tree came up on the path that meant that I should be able to see the huts around the next bend. Forcing my legs to push harder I kept my sprint, I had to be quick Rendal was depending on me. I rounded the bend in the path and came to an abrupt halt.

'Master!'  I called and he came to find me.

'Alexa what's going on?'  He asked concerned.

'It's Rendal, he.... He.....'  I stuttered, shaking my head profusely.  My mind was whirring at a million miles an hour and my body began to quiver.

'Calm down.'  Anakin gently placed his hands on my shoulders.  After a few seconds I was able to slow my breathing and answer his question.

'After I went back to the village I saw Dooku question a little boy, he said that the boy had stolen a communicator and tried to contact someone else where for help, the boy told him he didn't and Dooku was going to have him shot!  Then Rendal came out of nowhere and attacked Dooku!'

'What!?'

'Dooku has now captured him and he's being held there!'

At this Anakin looked to Master Kenobi, who stared at us shocked!

'Looks like we'll have to moves this along faster!'  Anakin mused.

'We must think of a plan and fast!'  Obi Wan agreed.

So everyone was called out to discuss a strategy and come up with some kind of a plan, but they couldn't seem to agree what would work best and despite the danger my new friend was in the group continued to argue amongst themselves!  It was night before they finally came to a decision and then they said that it would be to risky to attempt an attack in the dark with so many civilians that had been captured!

When my Master told me to go to bed tonight, my head was filled with concerns for my friend and even though it's not really my style to get upset about such things I had trouble getting to sleep.  Once I did though, I wished I had stayed awake.

Screams filled my head and I saw Rendal lying strapped to a metal table, surrounded by droids while Dooku was standing over him.

'Are there more Jedi?'  Dooku asked.

'I don't know.'  Rendal replied through gritted teeth and an interrogator droid came forward, hovering dangerously in the air, and stabbed him with its drug injector!

I winced as I heard his scream once the chemical found its way into the blood stream, no doubt they had already used a serum to lower his pain threshold and were now just seeing how well it had worked.

'Where is your Master?'

'I don't know.'

The interrogator droid now used its bone fragmenters and elicited more ear-piercing screams from the boys mouth as his arm was snapped like a twig with a deafening crack!  I watched as he writhed and struggled against the bonds, cutting his wrists and ankles in the process.