A/N: my attempt at a sequel to my first story… I cannot guarantee regular updates but I will finish it. Part will span Rebels part will not.
Ahsoka groaned her body protested yet again with yet another mission. Her comlink went off and she all but bit off the person on the other lines head before she calmed herself down.
"Ahsoka." She answered and the captain told her she had an incoming transmission from Lux to which she cringed and went to the bridge to answer. When she let his hologram fill the holo-table her was angry, only one eye glaring at her, which didn't actually make it better.
"Are you out of your fucking mind Ahsoka!" he snapped and she sighed
"I'm not a child am 30 standard years old!" she countered and he sighed pinching the bridge of his nose with his fingers.
"Then act like it!" he scolded and went on to berate her about not taking stupid risks if she didn't have to.
"Enough!" she snapped making him blink at her in surprise. "I did what I had to do! I had to rescue that youngling Lux!" she screamed and he let her go on. "I have to find the younglings put them in protection… as it is Master Plo and Shaak Ti, are training several!"
"This isn't the Jedi Order Ahsoka… there are no younglings or Padawans anymore…" he reminded her sadly and she growled to which he put his hands up in defense.
"Yes but the order of the Old Republic was better than that of the Clone Wars… I want the Old Jedi Order back… the one even I did not know… it was better more… opened… more free…"
"I know you do Ahsoka but at the cost of your life?" he asked or rather pled with her.
"I won't die Lux… I need to do this… if we want the Empire to fall we need to have Jedi on our sides because we will need the Jedi order… as it used to be before the Clone Wars" She stressed "Peacekeepers… not soldiers. Separate from the politics not beside them." she gave a look meant for him and he sighed.
"How many others do you sense?" he asked her and she giggled
"In total… I have found 4 more in need of aid." She looked around her "The Rebel cell, led by Hera, have Kanan and he found himself a young teen named Ezra who to my knowledge just finished his saber."
"We have a Rebel cell with two Jedi… Luke and Obi-wan on Tatooine and Leia with Organa," Lux started and the Togruta cut him off.
"Leia isn't force sensitive… not enough… she's one hell of a shot though." Ahsoka conceded. Lux nodded it was strange two extremely powerful people in the force and one of their children isn't to be a Jedi.
"Ahsoka… just be careful alright… I know you love being a pain the ass for the Empire you really do specialize in it…" he laughed "But we need you alive if we have any hope of taking over the Empire…"
"There's also The Inquisitor to deal with…" Ahsoka said and Lux nodded
"Be careful Ahsoka… we are going to need you in order to take them down. Did you at least think about my offer…?" he asked carefully and her hand clenched at her side.
"Killing Vader… Lux I know you say there's no Jedi order anymore… But I won't avenge the man who murdered Anakin in the end…" she whispered sadly.
"Ahsoka you know-" she cut him off with pained eyes and a shaky voice
"They are not the same person… that monster is not the man I fell in love with, he is not my mate, he is not the father of my children!" he growled her voice dangerous but shaking all the same.
"I'm sorry Ahsoka I know it's touchy…" he said and she said she needed to go. The transmission ended and the captain looked at her sadly.
"Master Ahsoka, I'm sure things will get better soon." He told her and she nodded going to her quarters and showing the sweat and grim away from her face. She looked herself over in the mirror her Montrals and Lekku much taller and longer then all those years ago. Her face markings had shifted but her face still looked young, though albeit not as round. Her eyes the same blue color Anakin used to love. Her body taller, more defined, chest more developed, body more toned. Some of her body markings showed up on her skin, mixed with the scars of various battles, her skin no longer perfect as it had once been, marred by war and pain.
She sighed getting dressed in something loose as she ate before going to sleep. Her dreams were always mixed, filled with fond memories and painful ones, mixing back and forth constantly. She dreamt of the time Bane had captured her and Anakin had to unlock the Holocron to save her.
"You have nowhere left to run, Bounty hunter." Anakin said his light saber ready to attack.
"You let me worry about that Jedi," he paused pushing a button so it lit up. "If I activate this button the outside airlock will open and she will be sucked into oblivion. Do you think you can kill me and save her before she's suck out into space… it's a horrible way to die." Anakin watched Ahsoka's eyes sadden, he could feel how scared she was and wanted to do nothing more than make it all okay again.
"What do you want…" he asked deactivating his light saber.
"This Holocron carries information I've been paid to collect. I can't unlock it, but you can." Bane said and Anakin hesitated looking at Ahsoka hating how helpless he felt. "Hurry it up Jedi, or she dies!" Bane threatened. He sighed in defeat
"No Master, don't do it!" Ahsoka yelled desperately.
"Oh shut up!" Bane said and shocked her again. Anakin glared and watched Ahsoka bite her lip hard to keep from yelling out again.
"I can't let you die Ahsoka…" Anakin said
"Master no!" Ahsoka begged and Bane glared at her as a warning. Anakin watched her and put his light saber down.
"We'll deal with the Holocron later." He said directing it at Ahsoka.
"How touching, I knew the bond was strong, but not like this." Bane smirked
The dream changed to Geonosis… the pain in her voice when she said she wasn't making it out. And then the kiss, the kiss that started it all.
"You're alive." He said and she smiled softly and cupped his face in her hand and only nodded.
"Did we blow it up?" She asked and from the way her voice was Anakin knew she was hurt. He nodded and looked at her beneath him and blushed lightly. Ahsoka did as well and at that moment didn't care she was just happy to see him. Anakin looked at her as she gave a weak smile towards him. He didn't think about what he was doing but he did. He grabbed each side of her face with his hands and kissed her. Very softly, very lovingly, as if she were to break or vanish if he wasn't careful. Ahsoka responded to the action lightly and he pulled back a few moments later.
"Ahsoka, we have to get you out of here…" he said almost awkwardly and moved off of her. She blushed and nodded almost wishing they didn't have to move. He used the force to un-trap her leg and saw a pretty big gash in it, Ahsoka winced and he helped her to stand but he knew there was no way she could climb out. Anakin picked her up in his arms and she rested her own on his stomach. He wanted to hold her; he wanted to be close to her. Perhaps it was a need more than a want.
The scene before her shifted yet again and she whimpered in her sleep.
She stopped dead in her tracks right outside of the temple and fell to her knees. They were dying, being killed murdered really. Aayla was gone, Mundi was gone, and who knew how many countless others were gone that Ahsoka could no longer feel in the force. She screamed in pain not feeling the people she had known her whole life there anymore. Her heart was breaking with every loss she felt. She felt Shaak Ti in pain, she felt Plo Koon in pain she then felt them run, like they were getting away. She could fight, she had to fight, this was madness and Anakin was at the center of it all. Ahsoka went to run into the temple both light sabers ready when clones came at her. She glared tears running down her face and looked at Rex, the betrayal evident in her eyes. Rex said he would take care of her himself and the others ran back into the temple. He went to her and she didn't move
"Why Rex… why?" she sobbed falling back to her knees, it was just too much for her.
"Ahsoka…" he knelt in front of her and took off his helmet. "I cannot kill you, not after everything, you paid your respects for every single one of my fallen brothers, we know this, orders are orders…" he looked at her as she looked scared "But I have other ones, from someone much more important… Skywalker told me that if one of these battles ever went to hell that I would get you out of here." Rex helped her up but Ahsoka was cautious. "I will not kill an innocent woman, nevertheless one that is carrying a child." Rex told her and she nodded. "A few others have been a part of this, as soon as we found out about you being pregnant." Rex said and guided her to a ship. "Get out of here, the coordinates are already programed!" He said and Ahsoka looked at him
"Where's Anakin…" she asked and he looked into the Temple.
"You can't go in there, it's a death trap, he's going to Mustafar…" Rex said and she nodded thanking him before kissing his cheek and running into the ship, seeing Artoo ready and waiting.
She shot up with a scream and a cold sweat breaking across her skin she kicked the blankets off as if they were burning her and panted heavily her chest rising and falling rapidly as she felt that pain again, as though she could not breathe, like the force was chocking her yet there was no one to do such a thing.
She got up and went to the bridge only a few rebels were there and they nodded towards her as she stood there in an oversized t-shirt and shorts looking out into the dark sky. She put on her cloak and disguised her voice with the transmission, just in case, as she contacted Hera to check in on her and the Jedi with her.
"Lux said you wanted to make a new Jedi order like the old one… well older…" Hera said and Ahsoka nodded
"Yes, in that Jedi Order attachments weren't forbidden, look at you and Kanan you've been fine, he hasn't fallen… and he's taking on a Padawan." She went on and Hera laughed
"Ezra is an interesting one that's for sure… he reminds me of the stories you told me of your Padawan days." She laughed again and used the code name to address her.
"Soon we will meet in person… the time is almost near I can feel it… I just have a few more younglings to find and place…" she said and Hera looked at her
"You're not taking a Padawan?" Hera asked and Ahsoka groaned
"I'd get both of us killed… the problem is knowing which Jedi are still alive… after what happened with Luminara… it's harder to tell what's real and what's a trick."
"I don't think you could put any more younglings with Master Ti or Master Koon without the Empire noticing."
"I know… Obi-wan and Yoda are also out of the question… if I could even find Yoda…" she groaned
"You told me of a few others that escaped how about them?" Hera asked and Ahsoka nodded
"Maybe… I'll contact you when I know more." She said and ended the transmission.
Ahsoka left the ship in her fighter with R2-KT at her side she went to several planets making the Empire's life hard and then finding one of the force sensitive children she had been searching for.
Ahsoka ran with the child taking the young boy, parents long since died, to the compound set up by Shaak Ti and Plo Koon. The pair had a total of 10 younglings and now with Sha Koon, Plo Koon's niece, there Ahsoka felt it was safe to give them another force sensitive child. Word was they would search for more Jedi and some of their charges were now old enough to have charges of their own.
"I have two more that I know of… I had three but I can no longer sense him… I have to fear the worst." She said softly and stayed the night observing the practice. Ironically enough the compound was in an old Republic outpost long since abandoned, it served as a good temple Ahsoka thought every time she walked into it.
"You'll find the other two I'm sure of that." Shaak Ti comforted her as they watched the lessons Sha Koon was teaching.
"Have you found any other masters…" Ahsoka asked and was met with a sad reply.
All too soon she needed to leave, she got a transmission from a droid… Hera's droid Chopper to be precise saying that he needed her help.
"I'm on my way." She replied and started with the rebels she commanded Phoenix cell, as she so lovingly named it, after the Ghost cell, named for their ship.
A/N: Don't berate me I know Plo Koon actually died during Order 66, Sha Koon did not (she died later I believe and same with Shaak Ti) but my story I shall do what I want!