REXOKA - Green Light - 02 - Feel Like Dancing
Title: 02 - Feel Like Dancing
Series: Green Light
Character(s): Ahsoka Tano
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Words: 525
Fandom: Star Wars: Clone Wars
Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars, or anything in that universe. I'm not making money.
Summary: So it wasn't as quiet as she thought
Author's Notes: Short for AHSOKA MONDAY for capslock_cw
(Fan Fiction List)
It felt like dancing, sometimes.
Her lightsaber twirled in her hands, deflecting blaster fire away from her and her squad. Her heart pounded in her ears and rattled her rib cage. Her breath quickened. The air tasted like fire and oxide. The Force sung in her body and took control of her limbs, directing her not as the Jedi she was but the predator she oft tried to embody.
Ahsoka spun on her heel, her saber slicing cleanly through a Super Battle Droid, and then thrust her palms out. The battle droid flew away like crumpled pieces of flimsi in a light breeze. The ripples that extended from her hands shattered the blissful silence of her mind. Enormous towers of metal and duracrete roared and broke away from the buildings that surrounded them. They hurtled through the air and slammed into the droids, raining down the remains of wall-sized transparisteel windows to the ground below.
The world quaked beneath her feet. She turned away from the scene and sprinted back to her boys, their helmets peeking out from behind cover.
A deafening screech shook the very world as the bridge they fought on gave way. Blaster fire erupted around her.
Too far, she realized. I’m too far!
The floor crumbled under her boots as she ran. Her muscles screamed. Her bones ached. A cloud of dust and smoke and debris overtook her. She couldn’t see. She couldn’t see.
Her fingers hooked against the ground that suddenly curved sharply upwards. Small shards of rock flashed past her face.
“General!”
Ahsoka squeezed her eyes shut and summoned up the last bit of energy to jump.
Her lekku twitched as she shot past the dust cover and into open air. When she opened her eyes, she was grasping the gloved forearm of one very perturbed captain. Not that she could see his expression, but he radiated a disturbed feeling she couldn’t quite place.
Captain Rex’s other hand clung to a hook embedded into what remained of the bridge. She risked a glance down and saw total empty air beneath her feet. She glanced back up at the T-visor that seemed to scowl down at her.
Ahsoka smiled. “Nice catch, Captain.”
“It’s all in the wrists, ma’am,” he grit out.
She stared at him, sensing there was something else he wanted to say. But he seemed to push that aside, and shook his helmeted head instead.
“Right,” he stated curtly. “On three. One. Two.”
He swung her to the side, and with a small bit of help from the Force, Ahsoka managed to fling herself from his grip and run up the wall. She clung to the edge of the precipice and hauled herself up.
“Are you all right ma’am?” The lieutenant quickly rushed to her side with a medikit out.
Captain Rex climbed onto even ground some distance to her left.
“Never better,” she quipped, and repressed the urge to look at him. An uncomfortable weight settled at the pit of her stomach, but now was not the time to examine such things. “It’ll take them a while to find a way around that disaster. Let’s keep moving.”
Series: Green Light
Character(s): Ahsoka Tano
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Words: 525
Fandom: Star Wars: Clone Wars
Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars, or anything in that universe. I'm not making money.
Summary: So it wasn't as quiet as she thought
Author's Notes: Short for AHSOKA MONDAY for capslock_cw
(Fan Fiction List)
It felt like dancing, sometimes.
Her lightsaber twirled in her hands, deflecting blaster fire away from her and her squad. Her heart pounded in her ears and rattled her rib cage. Her breath quickened. The air tasted like fire and oxide. The Force sung in her body and took control of her limbs, directing her not as the Jedi she was but the predator she oft tried to embody.
Ahsoka spun on her heel, her saber slicing cleanly through a Super Battle Droid, and then thrust her palms out. The battle droid flew away like crumpled pieces of flimsi in a light breeze. The ripples that extended from her hands shattered the blissful silence of her mind. Enormous towers of metal and duracrete roared and broke away from the buildings that surrounded them. They hurtled through the air and slammed into the droids, raining down the remains of wall-sized transparisteel windows to the ground below.
The world quaked beneath her feet. She turned away from the scene and sprinted back to her boys, their helmets peeking out from behind cover.
A deafening screech shook the very world as the bridge they fought on gave way. Blaster fire erupted around her.
Too far, she realized. I’m too far!
The floor crumbled under her boots as she ran. Her muscles screamed. Her bones ached. A cloud of dust and smoke and debris overtook her. She couldn’t see. She couldn’t see.
Her fingers hooked against the ground that suddenly curved sharply upwards. Small shards of rock flashed past her face.
“General!”
Ahsoka squeezed her eyes shut and summoned up the last bit of energy to jump.
Her lekku twitched as she shot past the dust cover and into open air. When she opened her eyes, she was grasping the gloved forearm of one very perturbed captain. Not that she could see his expression, but he radiated a disturbed feeling she couldn’t quite place.
Captain Rex’s other hand clung to a hook embedded into what remained of the bridge. She risked a glance down and saw total empty air beneath her feet. She glanced back up at the T-visor that seemed to scowl down at her.
Ahsoka smiled. “Nice catch, Captain.”
“It’s all in the wrists, ma’am,” he grit out.
She stared at him, sensing there was something else he wanted to say. But he seemed to push that aside, and shook his helmeted head instead.
“Right,” he stated curtly. “On three. One. Two.”
He swung her to the side, and with a small bit of help from the Force, Ahsoka managed to fling herself from his grip and run up the wall. She clung to the edge of the precipice and hauled herself up.
“Are you all right ma’am?” The lieutenant quickly rushed to her side with a medikit out.
Captain Rex climbed onto even ground some distance to her left.
“Never better,” she quipped, and repressed the urge to look at him. An uncomfortable weight settled at the pit of her stomach, but now was not the time to examine such things. “It’ll take them a while to find a way around that disaster. Let’s keep moving.”