I sat in the co-pilots seat of the sleek Naboo Royal Starship piloted by Senator Amidala. We were on our way to Mustafar, a planet I had visited once before near the beginning of my training. Anakin's and I had come to rescue a pair of babies that Cad Bane had kidnapped. For what, we didn't know.

As I reminisced about that mission, a tear rolled down my cheek. It was nearly impossible for me to fathom what Anakin, my master, best friend, brother had become. That he could slaughter his own kind, kill younglings without a second thought. It broke my heart, and I couldn't imagine what it was doing to Padme.

I looked over at the young, pregnant woman. She had been quiet the entire ride and showed no emotion, though i could feel the emotion exuding from her through the force. I sensed that she was heartbroken and concerned for Anakin, not to mention confused as to why he was doing what he was doing.

I couldn't understand it either. Sure the Jedi were hypocrites and had wrongfully accused me of doing something with little to no evidence, but they didn't deserve this. What they needed was guidance to get back on the right track, not to be ruthlessly slaughtered by their own soldiers.

My thoughts were disrupted when I felt the ship exit hyperspace. I looked out the front window of the starship to see the bright red, magma covered planet below. I looked over to Padme again as we made our descent onto the planet. We hadn't really come up with a plan yet, and we needed to come up with something quick.

"So..." I began, "what's the plan?"

The young woman finally looked at me.  "Well, I hadn't really thought of one. I was thinking of going in with one of Anakin's infamous no plan plans," she said smiling weakly.

I mustered a soft giggle, but immediately got serious again. "While normally I would be on board with that, this an extremely delicate situation. One wrong move could send Anakin over the edge. We have to choose our words and actions very carefully."

Padme thought for a second before responding. "I suppose you're right. Do you have an idea?"

"Kind of," I replied. "My thought is for you to go talk to him first, while I stay on the ship, masking my presence so he doesn't know I'm here. If you can't get him to see the light, then I'll come out and try to convince him what he's doing is wrong."

"That's actually a pretty good plan Ahsoka," Padme responded with a semi-smile. I knew under normal circumstances the young woman would be proud of me for the plan, but these weren't normal situations.

"But Padme, there's one more thing that I need to tell you about the plan."

Padme turned back to me. "And what's that Ahsoka?"

I took a deep breath. "If... if it doesn't seem like Anakin is coming back..." I trailed off as tears started to form in my eyes. I didn't have to finish, as she knew what I was thinking. I could see the tears start to build up in her eyes as well.

"Let's not think about that, okay?" Padme said trying to stay strong and confident. I wiped the tears from my eyes and nodded back at her.

While I was hoping, praying it wouldn't come to that, I wasn't really too sure. The Anakin I saw at the Temple... that wasn't Anakin. It was some evil, twisted version of my master, but it wasn't my master. His force signature felt different, like he was hurting.

We touched down on the landing dock of the only inhabited part of the planet. Padme looked at me and I nodded to her. "Good luck. I'll be waiting here." All she did was nod in response and get up. I followed her to the hangar and pressed the button to lower the ramp. As it descended, I hid in a corner and masked my force signature so Anakin, or whatever he called himself now, didn't know I was here.

Immediately once Padme exited the ship, I could see Anakin running towards her. Once they reached each other, they engaged in a tight embrace. They began conversing, but they were too far away so i couldn't tell what they were saying. I could tell it likely wasn't going well though. I saw Padme slowly start to back away from Anakin, and could sense her unease and sadness. Anakin on the other hand, seemed to remain relatively calm.

Suddenly, I saw Anakin look past Padme, right in my direction. I could feel his eyes right on mine. I don't know how, but he had figured out I was here. As soon as he did, I saw a scowl for on his face. He said something more to Padme, which I couldn't hear, and he began to force choke her. At this point, I knew it was probably time for me to step in. I revealed myself and walked down the ramp a bit.

"Let her go Anakin," I said weakly.

For a moment I saw Anakin's demeanor soften. He released his grip on Padme and she fell to the ground unconscious. "A-Ahsoka? What're you doing here?"

"I had visions of what you were going to do, what you have already done. I came back to stop you, but I was too late, so I came here with Padme, hoping it wasn't too late."

"Too late? TOO LATE?" Anakin said with a chuckle. "Where were you when I needed you Ahsoka? Huh? Where were you?" I looked at the ground, staying silent. "When you left, it destroyed me. The one person in my life outside of Padme that I loved unconditionally left me. How would that make you feel?"

"I-I-I made a choice. I c-couldn't stay!"

"You were selfish! You abandoned me when I needed you most! You failed me!" I couldn't make eye contact with Anakin as tears started rolling down my cheeks. "But... you have the chance to make it all better."

I looked up at Anakin eagerly to see what he was referring to, only to see his outstretched hand. "Join me. Together we can overthrow the chancellor, rule the galaxy how we want to. Rule with me as master and padawan."

I took a long look at his hand. If we ruled, maybe we could get rid of all the corruption, slavery, poverty. However, these thoughts were short lived. That wasn't the way it should be, yes there were problems with the galaxy, but the answer wasn't a dictatorship. I looked back up at Anakin without saying a word.

"So... you've made your decision?"

"Yes... Anakin I-I can't follow you down this path. You've allowed Palpatine to twist you're mine until now... now you've become the very thing you swore to destroy."

"Ahsoka, but don't you see? The Jedi are the ones in the wrong. Look what they did to you! They were so quick to frame you for something you didn't even do! They cast you aside like a piece of trash."

"That's true but that doesn't mean they deserved to die! Yes the Jedi are flawed and hypocritical and the code is a bit outdated, but that doesn't mean they deserved to die! They just needed guidance towards the right direction."

Anakin chuckled. "The Jedi couldn't be helped, they were too far gone. With my new powers I have brought peace, freedom, justice and security to my new Empire!"

"Your new Empire?" I asked baffled.

"Don't make me kill you." Anakin said bluntly. As he said this u took a step back. The man who had told me he would never let anyone hurt me, was now telling me that he was going to kill me? I could feel hot tears streaming down my face. This man i was talking to was no longer my master, my brother. The Anakin I knew was gone, replaced by this crazed, power hungry person.

"Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic, to democracy!"

"If you're not with me, then you're my enemy."

"Only a Sith deals in absolutes. You truly are gone Anakin," I said as a final tear fell down my face.

"Don't call me that anymore. Anakin Skywalker is gone, dead."

I gritted my teeth and looked at him. "Then i will avenge his death."

"Revenge is not the Jedi way little one."

I took a deep breath and looked him dead in the eye. "I am no Jedi," I said through gritted teach as I activated my dual sabers and charged at him. He quickly activated his own saber and blocked my attack with ease.

"Is that all you've got?" He scoffed. "I'm disappointed. I thought I had trained you better," he said taunting me. These words were like knives through my heart, I had always tried my best to live up to the billing of being the Chosen One's padawan, putting in extra work, and to hear him tell me this, it broke me.

I kept on the offensive as we made our way into the control room of the station. I kept pushing him back further and further until he was backed up against the control console. We had our sabers locked up, and i was pushing him down. I saw an opening and took one of my sabers and slashed down at him. He jumped out of the way, causing my attack to miss and destroy the console in front of me.

I turned around to face him, a smirk plastered on his face. Normally this would make me laugh or smile back, but not this time.

"Tsk tsk tsk. You're reckless little one," he said keeping the smirk plastered on his face. I gritted my teeth and growled as I charged at him again. He simply side stepped me and used the force to push me out of the window. I was caught so by surprise that I almost wasn't able to grab onto the piping. Luckily, I was able to, but I lost one of my lightsabers to the lava in the process.

When I had pulled myself back up, I saw Anakin descend down onto the same pipe. "Not bad not bad," he said cynically. "But not good enough."

He charged at me and swung. Now he was on the offensive. I did my best to block his attacks, even if it was just barely, but I knew it was only a matter of time before he landed a devastating blow, or I lost my balance and fell to my fiery death. Knowing this, I looked for a way out and spotted a platform below me. Just as Anakin was about to attack again, i made my move and jumped down onto the platform. Anakin scowled and followed after me.

"Not bad youngling, I'm pleasantly surprised with that little maneuver." I growled again. He knew how much I hated being called that, and despite knowing he was trying to get under my skin, I let him.

I swung clumsily at him, and he easily blocked and pushed me past him. He immediately charged after me, and I dodged just in time. He kept pushing as I kept blocking, each strike getting closer and closer to landing.

Just as I thought I was nearing my breaking point, a lava plume hit behind us on the platform we were on, and began to melt it. It began to tilt and finally fell down towards the flowing River of lava below us. I grabbed onto something, anything I could that would keep me from falling in, and Anakin did the same.

When it hit the lava river, both of us were fine, though it quickly began to sink. Thinking fast, I grabbed a broken cable I saw hanging from above and swung oof of our floating death trap. Anakin saw what I had done and copied my technique. As he swung past me, he took a swipe at me with his lightsaber, which I was narrowly able to block.

I scanned my surroundings for somewhere to land, but all I could find was a floating platform on the lava river. I took a deep breath and made the jump. I hit the platform with a loud thud, not my most graceful landing, but it could've been worse. I could've ended up in the lava. I turned around and looked to see that Anakin had again copied my strategy, though all he had to land on was a small droid that was floating by, which had a much smaller surface area than my platform.

Anakin guided his droid over to me and began attacking again as we floated back up the river. Now that he had to remain pretty much stationary, it was significantly easier for me to block his attacks.

"Anakin... I-I'm sorry I left you. I regret it, I have regretted it every day since, but you have to understand I couldn't come back!"

"All I understand is that you left me!"

"Anakin... please, no," I said through tears. "It's not too late to come back. You and I... we can reform the Jedi order, make it better."

"It's too late for that Ahsoka! Can't you see! The Jedi were plotting to take over from the start!"

"Anakin Chancellor Palpatine is evil!"

"From my point of view the Jedi are evil!"

"Well then you are lost," I said looking down.

As his droid neared my platform, he made a move to jump onto it. Now that we were much closer, he could attack me much easier. He began to push me back on the platform until I was right near the edge. I made the split second decision to jump back onto the bank of the lava river. Anakin stayed planted on the platform we had been sharing just a few seconds prior. I looked at him and he looked at me, neither of us making a move or saying anything for a moment.

"It's over Anakin, I have the high ground!"

"You overestimate your own power little one," he said with a smirk.

"Anakin please, just come back."

"It's too late for that Ahsoka," and that was the last thing he said before jumping at me. I could tel he was trying to get behind me and then attack, but I could let him. As soon as he was within range, I swung. I could feel my saber make contact with flesh, and a second later I saw his body tumble to the ground in front of me.

It took a second for my mind to register what I had just done, but when I did I fell to my knees and broke down. I had just mortally wounded my own master. No matter how gone he was and no matter what he had done, he didn't deserve this. He had always been there for me, and when he needed me most I wasn't there. I sat and sobbed into my hands as I thought about everything that had happened.

I finally mustered the courage to look up at him. What I saw broke me even more. His Sith yellow eyes were looking at me in pain as he tried to crawl back up the bank using his mechanical arm. His cries of agony were like fingers on a chalkboard.

"You were the Chosen One," i whispered. "It was said that you would destroy the Sith not join them... bring balance to the force not leave it in darkness..." I just say there, tears streaming down my face as I said this. I looked at him again and saw the pain and agony he was in, but I couldn't help him, not anymore. This wasn't Anakin.

"I hate you!" He seethed. This only served to make me cry harder. I slowly raised myself up to my feet and took a few shaky steps away from him, but I stopped and turned back to face him.

My lips quivered and I spoke, barely audibly. "You were my brother Anakin, I loved you..." Those were the last words I ever said to my master as I walked away from him, as I had done a few months prior. Tears poured down my face with every step I took, and his cries of pain rattled inside of my head.

When I made it back to the platform we had landed on, I collapsed into a heap. I just stayed there, motionless for what felt like hours, sobbing my eyes out and regretting everything I had done today and since leaving the Order.