Clone Wars: Bounty Hunters Aboard

Chapter 6

     Bane stood over Plo Koon. He kicked him out of the way and made his way towards the other jedi. Ahsoka glared at him as he came up to them.  

" So Skywalker, how about you tell your troops to stand down. I'd hate to make thing messier than they already are." He derided. 

"Everyone stand down!" Anakin yelled to the remaining troops without taking his eyes of Bane. 

"That's better." He turned to the pirates. 

" Make sure they don't try anything." he ordered, then left them to Hondo's crew.

 The pirates came up to the jedi and placed force binders on them. Anakin saw that Ahsoka still staring at Master Plo on the ground. 

" He's not dead, he can't be." She whispered still on the verge of tears. When the pirates turned their backs, Ahsoka's emotions took over. She ran over to Plo Koon and checked his pulse.

 " Master Plo. Its okay, you're going to be fine." She tried to stop the bleeding from the wound on his chest. At that moment Bane came back.

 " You, what are you doing step, away from him." He took out a control stick and pressed a button. 

Ahsoka felt a wave of electricity course through her body. She withered in pain as the shock proceeded. 

" Stop, STOP IT!" Anakin roared.  

Bane gave Anakin a dirty look, but he let go of the button. 

" You win bounty hunter, we will comply to your demands, but please, he needs medical attention." Obi Wan said gesturing towards Plo Koon. 

" Very well. But only one of you can stay with him, I don't want you to get any ideas."

 " I'll stay with him." Ahsoka panted. Are you sure Snips, you have to be ready to let go if its to late.  Anakin said through their bond. Yes Master, he needs me. I'm not ready to lose him. Ahsoka pleaded. 

"Then its settled. Take him to the sick bay." Bane jeered. 

Ahsoka made her way to the sick bay with Master Plo. He was a few moments away from passing out again. She laid him on the medical table and gave him some pain killers before cleaning up his wound. She wrapped his chest with a bandage and hoped that it would stop the bleeding for the time being. She sat down in a chair next to him making sure that his heart rate didn't change drastically. 

" Please Master Plo, please pull through. I can't lose you." She said as a single tear fell from her eye.

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     " Do you think that Master Plo is going to be okay." Anakin asked his Master. 

" All we can do is hope." Obi Wan said back trying not to let his apprentice hear the anxious tone in his voice. 

The Clones stood on high alert even though they knew that they were the prisoners. On of the pirates whispered to the one of the ones guarding them. He nodded and lumbered towards the prisoners. He pointed his gun at them. 

" What do you want." Anakin snarled at him. " Bane wants to talk with him." The pirate said pointing at Rex. 

" Me? Why does he want to talk to me." Rex questioned.

 " Dunno, but you're going no matter what."  The pirate grabbed Rex's arm and pulled him along. Rex resisted and tried to get out of his grasp.  

Anakin got up and shoved the pirate to the ground. One of the guards standing near rushed over with an electric staff and shocked Anakin with it. 

The pirate got up and pointed his gun at Rex's chest. " Lets go." The pirate said impatiently. 

Anakin watched them until they were out of sight. He banged his fist on the ground. " We need to go help him. Who knows what Bane is going to do to him." 

" And how to you suppose we do that." Obi Wan raised his hands reminding Anakin that they couldn't do much with the force binders on. 

 Anakin studied the rotations between the pirates and their shifts patrolling them. " I have an idea."

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The pirate lead Rex down the hall of the submarine and into an empty room. He pushed Rex into it and locked the door behind him. A few seconds later Bane came in and pulled up a chair. 

" Captain Rex, one of the Republic's finest Clone Captains, the pleasure is all mine." 

" What do you want bounty hunter scum."

 "My employer wants information about some Republic bases, plans and strategies, and you are going to tell me." 

" And what makes you think that I would ever tell you that." Rex said.

 "You don't have a choice." Bane spat. 

He stood up and threw the chair at Rex. He threw him up against the wall holding him by his throat and punched his face multiple times. When he let go Rex slumped to the floor gasping for air. Bane took a syringe filled with a red liquid. He injected it into Rex's neck.

 " Once this serum takes over you will be impelled to tell me." 

Rex struggled to keep his vision straight. He stood up and tried to get a punch on Bane, but ended up getting thrown to the ground again. He tried to fight it, but it was no use. He slowly slipped into unconsciousness.