The three were at a stare-off. They'd sworn never to have to work as a trio again.

Yet here stood Obi-Wan, Anakin and Dooku chained together. Furthermore, the guards were force-users. They were lucky enough to have been able not to have force suppressant collars on.

They waited for what seemed like hours for a rescue, but they realised that yet again, it fell back down to the three of them.

Dooku and Anakin shared a glance at each other as they watched Obi-Wan turn to face the door as he got to his feet.

Obi-Wan beckoned the guard over, not caring as the man held up a rudimentary lightsaber to his neck. "See, I'm wondering whether you could do us a favour."

"Like I would do anything for you, Jedi scum," the guard hissed.

"Tut-tut," Obi-Wan stated, "you see, that man there is no Jedi, and I'm not feeling much like one at the moment."

The guard's eyebrows scrunched together, trying to work out what the man was saying.

"Drop your weapon," Obi-Wan commanded. He watched as the man's eyes started to glaze over, twitching in a visible sign of an internal struggle. Obi-Wan's hand flew up, raw power flooding off him, "are you dead in the brain, I ordered you to drop your weapon!"

Anakin's and Dooku's jaws snapped open simultaneously as the weapon dropped to the floor.

"That's it," Obi-Wan cooed, "if you wouldn't mind, would you be able to open this door for us, these bindings were incorrectly placed on me."

Dooku and Anakin almost felt like their eyes were out their sockets as the door slid open, and the force-user walked in to unclip the cuffs around the Jedi Master's hands and waist.

"Anything else?" The force-user asked an almost dreamy feeling flooding through his tone.

Obi-Wan patted the man's cheek softly as he cooed to him again, "no, you've done everything you were meant to. You deserve a break." In an instant, the calmness of Obi-Wan's voice faded into an almost growl as he ordered harshly to the force-user, "sleep!"

The man crumpled to the floor, Obi-Wan stepping over the body with no care in the galaxy as he grabbed the rudimentary lightsaber.

Anakin and Dooku had no break from their shock as Obi-Wan swung the lightsaber and broke all their bonds.

"What are you waiting for? An invitation?" Obi-Wan snapped to the shocked two, "we have only a small period before the guards have a shift switch."

Dooku and Anakin followed after Obi-Wan like obedient dogs and their master as the man quickly flew through the base.

Obi-Wan called on many more force-users to his assistance only a handful of times, but soon they were all heading back to the Jedi Temple - the Sith in too much shock to think about making a break for it.

As a group of Jedi's surrounded the ship and the adjacent Sith, Anakin blurted out, "when could a Jedi Mind Trick be used against a force-user?"

The Jedi felt the shared confusion of all of them; where had this come from?

"I'll think you'll find what Kenobi did was more towards mind control than a Jedi Mind Trick," Dooku butted in, "the man asked him whether that was all. Even then, they don't work on force-users in the same way as non-force-users. At least I didn't think so until Kenobi proved us wrong."

All the Jedi were silent as they led the Sith away, unable to process what both the Count and the young Jedi Knight were suggesting of the well-known Jedi Master.

'Wasn't mind-control the power of the Darkside?'

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