The memory Ahsoka barely seemed to acknowledge his words, she remained facing away from him for the moment. "Are you proud of me, master?" When she spoke, her voice had a bizarre sing song quality to it and she seemed to draw out each of the words.
Harry and Ahsoka's attention were now both firmly on the memory version of her. "What?" Anakin seemed taken aback "Uh, of course, Snips,"
"Snips?" Harry echoed, sounding a little bit amused.
"A nickname Master Skywalker gave to me shortly after we met. He said I was snippy," Ahsoka replied shortly, almost absently as she watched things play out in front of her.
Harry would have replied in amusement but the scene continued in front of them.
"Of course I'm proud of you," Anakin reiterated, looking around once more, "Now, let's get out of here."
"He's right, right about everything," Memory Ahsoka lifted her head slowly as she stood up and turned to face them.
Ahsoka gasped as she stared at her memory self. Her skin was filled with dark lines, giving her a sickly look but it was the eyes that were most distinguished. Ahsoka's normally deep and vivid blue eyes were completely yellow.
Harry's face didn't reflect surprise as he examined her memory self closely.
"You must join him," Memory Ahsoka said decisively. Then her expression and pose shifted to a combination of coy and explaining, "He only wants what's best for the universe."
"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Anakin asked in the most blunt and direct way possible. "Always with the criticism, Master," Memory Ahsoka rolled her eyes and head as irritation began to rise in her voice, "Never really believing in me, trusting me."
She turned and looked like she was going to begin pacing for a moment before she stopped and turned away, "Well, I don't need you anymore!" Her voice sounding like a petulant child.
"Ahsoka," Anakin replied uncertainly before his voice became more firm, "Ahsoka, listen to me. He has done something to you. Snap out of it,"
He gestured around, "This isn't you, Ahsoka."
"Isn't it? I feel more like myself than I ever have!" Memory Ahsoka's voice now sounded to both Harry and Ahsoka like it was bordering on insanity. As she threw her arms out to the side as if to embrace it.
Her next words took the 'bordering' out of that phrase and went for all out.
"He asked me to give you a message," She said solemnly before her voice turned amused.
"He said if you don't join him, he will kill me," She actually put her hand to her mouth to giggle afterward.
"I won't let him," Anakin said determination in his voice.
Memory Ahsoka turned to face them once more and she pointed at Anakin, "Then you will be forced to kill me!" She held her right hand at her waist and one of her lightsabers hanging at her belt snapped into her hand.
She ignited the lightsaber and a green blade emerged. Anakin's eyes widened, and then Memory Ahsoka leaped into the air, bringing her lightsaber down at Anakin.
"No!" Ahsoka cried reaching out in desperation as she watched her memory self move to strike down her former Master.
Anakin's reflexes were superb though and his blue lightsaber was in his hand and ignited in time to catch her blade on his.
Memory Ahsoka began a reckless and furious assault that had Anakin dodging backwards. He didn't seem to put any effort into counter attacking. Instead his movements were restricted to parrying and occasionally using his larger size and strength to push forward and force Memory Ahsoka back, but making no effort to return blows.
"I don't want to fight you, Ahsoka," Anakin stated during one parry exchange with the sabers.
Memory Ahsoka didn't respond immediately but when Anakin once more pushed her back using his strength, she performed a back handspring that kicked him backward and sent his lightsaber tumbling out of his hand. The lightsaber deadman switch killed the saber the instant it left his hand. The move also left him gasping for breath from the kick in the stomach and resulted in him on his hands and knees on the ground. Memory Ahsoka got a triumphant smirk on her face as she landed between Anakin and the blade knocked from his hand, "And now the student will kill the Master!"
Anakin didn't lift his head but he raised his hand and used the Force to pull the lightsaber to his hand.
Memory Ahsoka leaped forward urgently, once more bringing her lightsaber down in an arch, prompting another gasp from the real Ahsoka as she watched. Only Anakin's lightsaber got to his hand first and once more ignited to catch the down stroke on his blade.
He looked up in her eyes and a confident smirk crossed his face as he taunted, "You're getting ahead of yourself, aren't you, Snips? "Don't call me that!" Memory Ahsoka protested with a cry of frustration. Their lightsabers sparking as they locked together, "I hate it when you call me that!"
Anakin didn't reply though the confident smirk didn't leave his face as she spun around to try and slash him from the other side which he parried easily. When she came back to strike him again he twisted his blade and disarmed her, sending her lightsaber out of her hands and into the air.
Anakin's smirk got wider for just a moment but Memory Ahsoka took one step then leaped on Anakin's shoulder and then up in the air to snag her errant lightsaber before turning once more to face Anakin. This time she had her second lightsaber in her offhand and it's emerald glow joined the first as she ignited it.
"Two Jedi!" Memory Ahsoka grinned. And Harry and Ahsoka both noted Obi-Wan had stepped up to join Anakin, his own blue lightsaber already lit.
"Finally, a challenge!" The memory taunted before she leaped to attack them again. Her lightsaber whirling as the two Jedi were forced to remain on the defensive.
"Any suggestions?" Anakin demanded as he pushed Memory Ahsoka back with the Force, which she jammed her lightsabers into the ground to prevent her from going too far.
"Yes!" Obi-Wan said, "We cut her free!" He pulled an item out of one of his pouches and held it out, as a dagger formed in his hand.
"What is that?" Anakin demanded.
"It can kill the Son," Obi-Wan replied grimly.
Memory Ahsoka' eyes widened and her voice suddenly gained another timbre, sounding like a male overlapping her words, "Where did you get that? Give it to me!" Memory Ahsoka leaped toward the two Jedi, fury on her face.
Their fight was interrupted as two bodies came flying through the stain glass window of the temple. The flying bodies knocked all three Memory Jedi to the ground.
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