Prologue

So, this is my first ever fanfiction that I wrote. And God am I nervous. I had this idea in my head for weeks now and with the trailer of Clone Wars season 7 dropping I couldn't stop thinking. I was planning on waiting until that was finished but honestly, who is good at waiting anyway. So here goes nothing I guess. Just wanted to get it out there.
Please note that English isn't my first language so if you see any mistakes don't hesitate to point them out! I'm a perfectionist so :)

On to the story!

It has been five years since the Empire rose out of the ashes of the Republic. Five years since the Siege of Mandalore. Five years since the clones turned on their Jedi commanders. Ahsoka remembers it like it was yesterday.

She was fighting Maul in the throne room. They were evenly matched, there was no end in sight yet for their battle, when suddenly blaster fire engulfed them both. Familiar, blue bolts which she knew belonged to the Republic Army, her troopers. At first, Ahsoka was relieved, thinking Rex and the rest of the 332nd came to help her. With Maul being distracted by the blaster bolts, she managed to gain a few meters away from him, giving the troopers space to shoot him and giving herself a breather. Yet to her complete surprise the bolts followed her. They were shooting at her. She blocked the first few bolts before finding cover. She looked back to check if it really were the clones of the 332nd, hoping very hard they weren't. Yet to her disappointment it, they were.

Ahsoka remembers running. As fast as she could with as much cover as she could find. Blocking bolts here and there. She needed to get out of the building. She needed to know what was happening. Did they turn on her? What had she done to them? Maybe, just maybe it was only a few, but deep down she knew that wasn't true. When she got to the square where the rest of the clone troopers were, she was immediately shot at. Again. She knew she was doomed if she stayed here any longer. She needed a ship. Enhancing her speed with the Force, Ahsoka made for the shipyard close by. That was her only hope, she needed to get off world. She was formulating a plan in her head while making her escape there, only to be let down when she arrived. Most of the ships had been destroyed. How was she going to get off world now?

Then suddenly, on the other side of the yard was a very small ship. The only one flyable by one person that was still intact. Ahsoka made a break for it and noticed the hostile fire in her direction had lessened. When she shortly looked back, she saw that Maul had followed her and that the clones were shooting at him as well. This was her chance. She got to the ship and got in. She fired it up, which got the attention of the clones again. They began shooting at the ship, but after all these years flying with Anakin, she knew how to evade hostile fire as one of the best. Her former master and she got in a lot of trouble, okay.

Ahsoka made for orbit and prepared for the jump to hyperspace, only to notice she couldn't make it to Coruscant, for whatever unknown reason that the ship wouldn't tell her. Her next best bet for a planet would be Onderon. It was closest by and only a small detour compared to other planets. When the coordinates were set, she jumped to hyperspace.

Finally Ahsoka felt like she could breathe again. She'd escaped. She was safe, at least, so she thought. She went over everything that had happened in such a short period of time on Mandalore. It had to be figured out, and fast. She tried to contact the temple, but communications were cut off. Because of course they were. It could never be easy. Well, she would just have to contact them when she got to Onderon.

The trip to Onderon was uneventful. Ahsoka kept checking if she was being followed but found nothing on the scanners. After what felt like hours she dropped out of hyperspace and was cleared to land in one of the spaceports. She made for the inner city at once, needing to find some form of communication.

The first thing Ahsoka noticed when she made her way into the square were all the HoloNet projections. They were everywhere. It was a broadcast of a man hidden under a dark cloak, his face concealed. She stayed and watched. She recognized the voice as that of Chancellor Palpatine. With every word she heard, she felt more hopeless. He spoke of the rise of an Empire, the treasonous acts of the Jedi, and the fate that would befall every single one of them, if they were ever found.

Ahsoka knew that Anakin and Obi-Wan were on Coruscant not long ago. She immediately felt for her bond with Anakin, only to find… nothing. He wasn't there. The bond was silent. To say she felt panicked was an understatement. She shielded her mind immediately, hoping people wouldn't notice she was a Force user. She needed to get in contact with the Jedi, needed to know who was still there.

While making her way to the city she heard more and more things of what had transpired on Coruscant. The HoloNet displayed images of a burning Temple. Told stories of every Jedi currently there having been killed. The more she heard, the more she feared for the faith of her former master. The fact she couldn't find him in the Force how hard she tried didn't help. Finally, after a lot of searching she found a holopad. She typed the code to the Jedi frequency, only to receive a hologram before she could call anyone. It was master Kenobi. "This is master Obi-Wan Kenobi. I regret to report that both our Jedi order and the Republic have fallen, with the dark shadow of the empire rising to take their place. This message is a warning and a reminder for any surviving Jedi. Trust in the Force. Do not return to the Temple. That time has passed, and our future is uncertain. We will each be challenged. Our trust, our faith, our friendships. But we must persevere and in time a new hope will emerge. May the Force be with you, always." Then the message cut out.

Ahsoka had tears in her eyes. The order had fallen. Her friends, people she thought as family. They were all gone. Obi-Wan just confirmed that to her. Well, at least she knew he was still alive. Of Anakin she still had no clue. All she knew now was that she had to survive. She had to remain alive, to help when and where she was needed. It was all she could do. She had to disappear.

And here Ahsoka was, 5 years later. Still no idea of where to go and what to do. She had no idea who was alive and who got killed. The Jedi were gone. She'd heard of the Emperors enforcer and his inquisitors hunting down all that remained. 5 years ago, she knew that Obi-Wan had survived, but of that she wasn't even certain anymore. Every few months she moved from city to city, planet to planet gathering information and evading the new stormtroopers that the Empire was rapidly deploying all over the galaxy. She was currently on Kijimi, blending in with the local population. The fact that she was Togruta made that harder, but she'd managed so far. She was looking for information on the remaining Jedi and the locations of the brunt of the Empire's forces.

The information Ahsoka had gathered so far had not been much, but enough to keep tabs on the Empire and where they would be to evade them. Several contacts were on her list of trusted people. Over the last few years she got in contact with people who either didn't believe in the Jedi's betrayal or those who hated the Empire. They contacted her when new information came to light. And despite the fact that today was a horrible day, it got a little better when her comm went off. It was one of her contacts, a human boy whose real name she would probably never know, but it didn't matter. He'd proven his worth to her. He told her he was currently on Tatooine and had gotten news of a certain 'Ben Kenobi' living in the mountains off the settlement of Anchorhead.

This was Ahsoka's first real lead to a person she knew before the rise of the Empire. She didn't hesitate and immediately made her way to her ship that she'd kept after taking it from Mandalore five years ago. Repairs had been done of course, but thanks to various jobs – which were a little shady but all she could manage without giving her information, okay – she got the recourses to make it fully functional. When she got on board, she immediately made the preparations to leave. She would go to Tatooine and hopefully she would find Obi-Wan there. A strange feeling fell over her, something she hadn't had in 5 years. Hope.