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Ahsoka spent the day wandering around the perimiter in a fog. Would two hours past noon never come? She wandered the perimeter of the ward, tried to remember her training to only understand it on an intellectual level, but her mission was so emotionally charged that her throat was dry, her hands would shake, and she would spend what felt like hours staring at the chrono in the common room. Would the numbers change any more slowly?
Finally, the chrono reached the hour.
Ahsoka climbed onto the table in the dining area.
"I haven't been here very long, but I've been here long enough to know that this place is horrific. We've all endured the filthy environment, disgusting food, staff who beat us, boredom, and experimentation at the hands of Dr. Hadamar. Some of us legitemately do have mental illnesses, some of us there's nothing wrong at all, merely dumped here because we were different or misunderstood. We are sentient beings, and we have rights. Rights to be treated with dignity and respect. Many of us have been here for years. Some of us have very long lifespans and the criteria for when we're let loose is vague. We should be allowed ro be sent home if our symptoms decrease, and staff should make a concerted effort to give us tools to cope with our problems in the outside world.
"We're supposed to arrive here ill and leave well. We're supposed to leave here on our feet and with air in our lungs, not in an oblong box, feet first and with our arms folded on our chests! Do any of you here remember Tia? Tia who was here for a suicide attempt, but ended up killing herself as the only way out of Dr. Hadamar's experimentation? I might not have gotten to know Tia very well, but she was one of the gentlest, kindest, soft-hearted people I've ever met and she should still be alive! It is time we rise up and show Dr. Hadamar who's boss, and that we will not allow him to experiment on us, feed us mystery gunk, force us to live in filth, use us as lab rats for his experiments, and that we will not allow him to destroy us anymore!"
Everyone was oddly silent. Then the elderly Twi'lek gentleman spoke.
"Nayla, I'm so proud of you." he croaked.
Mena strode up to the table.
"Ahsoka! Just what do you think you're doing! Get off that table immediately! Inciting an insurrection could land you in the rancor cages." Mena hissed.
"Rancor cages? Where would they find space to put any rancors here?" asked Ahsoka.
"They aren't really rancor cages, but that's what everyone calls them. They're oblong barbed wire cages nailed into the floor. They can leave you in there for days. That's the real reason I went on the hunger strike. To protest the rancor cages." confessed Mena.
"I thought you went on a hunger strike because the food here is so crappy." countered Ahsoka.
"That's not a lie, but not the real reason. I don't tell the new arrivals about the rancor cages because I don't want to scare them or give them any ideas." explained Mena.
"All the more reason we should rise up and show them how we feel about this wretched dwelling and the people who run it!" snapped Ahsoka. Mena shrank back.
"Just what is going on here?" Hadamar asked as he approached the table on which Ahsoka was standing.
"My name is Ahsoka Tano. I was sent by the Jedi Order to perform an undercover investigation, and of all the horrors I've found here, the most horrific of them all is that the craziest person here is you!"
"If you're a Jedi, then where's your lightsaber? Why don't you move something with the Force?" demanded Hadamar.
Ahsoka didn't say anything, per the plan.
"Now you've really lost it. Maybe it's time I vivisect your brain and get to the root of all your insanity." Hadamar threatened.
Anakin emerged from the dispensary and Force-leaped up next to Ahsoka.
"Don't you dare injure my padawan any more than you already have!" Anakin's eyes glowed Sith yellow and he raised his fist into a Force choke, but Ahsoka gestured for him to halt.
"Remember how I kept on blithering 'my master will return?' Well, my master has returned." Ahsoka gestured to Anakin. "I was only pretending to be crazy and YOU fell for it."
"Guards! Seize them!" ordered Hadamar.
Ahsoka gave the signal, and R2D2, who was hiding in a box of chowder mix, ejected Ahsoka's lightsabers. She caught them with the Force and ignited them.
Security officers in plainclothes identified themselves by drawing blasters and opening fire on Anakin and Ahsoka. She deflected a volley of blaster bolts and backflipped off the table as Anakin deflected blaster fire.
"And you thought I didn't care about Ahsoka." Obi-Wan joined in and deflected blaster fire.
"Into the common room!" Aayla ordered and ushered the remaining inmates into the common room and closed the accordion door with the Force. She stripped off her uniform and ignited her lightsaber as undercover clones drew their blasters and returned fire.
"Stay in your rooms! All of you!" Padme began issuing lockdown orders to the inmates who were in their rooms.
"Send in reinforcements! There's insurrection in the south wing!" Hadamar spoke into his comlink and surrounded himself with guards to be his sentient sheilds.
By the time reinforcements arrived, clones in armor had appeared, and opened fire at the reinforcements.
"Make sure the inmates are safe!" Ahsoka called to Rex. He stood by the opening to the common room door.
"I'm scared." Elyssa said from the other side.
"The best time to be brave is when you're scared." Rex said through the door, but doubted she'd hear him.
"I'll relieve you." an undercover clone took Rex's place and he drew his blasters and joined in.
Hadamar's guards fired more rounds at Ahsoka as she drew near, when she, Anakin, Obi-Wan, Bly, Aayla, and several other clones, both armored and undercover, had Hadamar surrounded.
Hadamar's guards raised their hands in surrender.
"Silas Hadamar, put your hands up, you are under arrest." ordered Ahsoka.
Hadamar raised his hands in surrender, his eyes full of resentment.
"Put your hands behind your back." ordered Ahsoka.
Hadamar obeyed.
"Put your thumbs up." ordered Ahsoka.
Hadamar obeyed.
Ahsoka clipped her lightsabers to her hospital gown and took the pair of handcuffs from Bly.
"You are under arrest for charges of medical malpractice, unethical experimentation, and embezzlement." Ahsoka fastened the handcuffs around Hadamar's wrists.
"The elevator is beyond that door. Follow me." Ahsoka took Hadamar by the arm while Bly and another trooper aimed their blasters at Hadamar, and Anakin, Obi-Wan, and several other troopers followed Ahsoka to the elevator.
The main doors of the lobby opened wide, as Ahsoka lead Hadamar outside, where a law enforcement speeder and news crews were waiting.
"...You had a lot of nerve, treating us the way you did and you ought to be ashamed of yourself. It it were up to me, I would freeze you, electrocute you, bleed you, give you mind-numbing pills, just as you did to me, then have us all take turns probing around in your brain to find the cause of your cruelty, greed, and selfishness, then I would give you a nice long rest cure, but cruel and unusual punishment is against Republic law and revenge is not the Jedi way." Ahsoka gloated.
"Never once did I think I would be at the mercy of one of the ones I once controlled." lamented Hadamar.
"You have the right to remain silent." Ahsoka approached the law enforcement speeder, opened the door, shoved Hadamar in, fastened his seat belt, and shut the door. The speeder drove off down the driveway, and into the distance.
"Ahsoka!" Anakin rushed over and enveloped her in a bear hug, picked her up, and set her down. "I knew you could do it!"
"A-HEM!" interrupted Obi-Wan.
"What's with the big 'a-hem?" asked Ahsoka.
"Anakin claims he knew you could do it, when in actuality he was persuaded that he personally abandoned you and and seen to it that you'd never see the light of day again." said Obi-Wan.
"Anakin, did you know that a leech has thirty-two brains?" asked Ahsoka.
"No, but what does that have to do with anything?" asked Anakin.
"That's thirty two more brains than you!" Ahsoka laughed. "Where would you get such a notion? Even during my darkest hours here, never once did I think you'd abandoned me."
"That's what I was trying to tell you." said Obi-Wan. "You didn't abandon Ahsoka, and she turned out fine. I told you so."
"I understand you were worried sick about me, Anakin, but it wouldn't have hurt to have had a little confidence in me." said Ahsoka.
"I was admittedly worried sick about you as well, but I put on a brave face for Anakin, as I knew that I needed to stay strong and set a good example because being a nervous wreck over you would have done neither me nor Anakin any good." said Obi-Wan.
"But just think of all the fun you two could've had worrying over me! You could've worried your way to happiness." said Ahsoka.
Obi-Wan laughed. "I really did miss you, Ahsoka." and they hugged.
An orange Twi'lek in a tailored white blouse and a black headband that had a press credential clipped to it tapped on Ahsoka's shoulder.
"I'm sorry to interrupt but do you have a moment?" she asked.
"Hold that thought. The press wants to interview me." Ahsoka headed off to some news crews who were hounding her.
"I think right now would be a good time to instate that old medical droid as administrator." suggested Obi-Wan.
"Wait!" Ahsoka approached Anakin. "Could I borrow your comlink?"
Anakin handed over his comlink.
"Rex? Can you hear me? The press is interviewing me and would like to interview other inmates. Could you bring some of them down? The ones who are most stable. I trust your judgment." said Ahsoka.
"Affirmative. We'll be down in a bit." confirmed Rex.
Ahsoka returned the comlink to Anakin, and then ran off to the reporters to be interviewed.
Anakin located H8, who was waiting by a side door, removed the programming chip from his tunic, and slid the card into a programming slot in the the back of the droid's neck.
Red lights flashed in a spiral around H8's eye lights.
"You must be the maker of this new directive." H8 turned to Anakin, when two orderlies came up the path.
"May I have your attention please." said H8.
"What is it?" they grumbled.
"Please uninstall the rancor cages immediately." ordered H8.
"But we just got here!" one of them whined.
"Who died and put you in charge?" asked the other.
"Dr. Hadamar is not dead, merely taken into Republic custody. Please uninstall the rancor cages immediately." H8 ordered.
"What are we supposed to do about unruly inmates?" they whined.
"There are other, more humane methods of dealing with unruly inmates, now go uninstall those rancor cages immediately. I will give you a raise in salary." offered H8.
The two orderlies immediately took off.
"Sentients are very motivated by salary." observed H8. "I wonder what I should do next. There are many staff members I would like to fire, I would like to order an immediate shipment of proper food for the inmates, and order many repairs to the premises."
Professor Hoeneger came up the path.
"My good Professor Hoeneger, please immediately begin evaluations of the inmates. Those who are sane, safe, and have a home to be discharged to must be discharged immediately, and those who are of sound mind but without a home must be aided in finding housing or be assigned to a halfway house." ordered H8.
Hoeneger's eyes widened. "That will take all night!"
"I will pay you overtime. As soon as you clock in, contact the rest of the intake managment team, inform them of the task at hand, and that they too will paid overtime." requested H8.
"I will do so." Hoeneger entered.
"I'm getting good at this." observed H8.
"I'll leave you be." Anakin then went back to the main entrance, where he noticed the Asogian dancing in the sun on a patch of green, the weeds and grass springing to life beneath his feet.
"Who is THAT?" asked Anakin.
Ahsoka approached. "That's Bruno. He was in my ward."
"Is that really his name?" asked Anakin.
"It's what his friends call him." Ahsoka beckoned to him. "Bruno! I would like to introduce you to someone!"
The Asogian waddled over to the tarmac and waved sheepishly at Anakin.
"Bruno, this is Anakin." Ahsoka introduced. "I know you made me promise not to tell anyone, but after the chief nurse our ward whipped me, he snuck into my room after lights out and Force-healed me."
"Thank you. You have no idea how much I appreciate that. You took a big risk. I wasn't expecting that." Anakin addressed the Asogian. He then did a double take. "You're not a Jedi also?" Anakin examined the Asogian, seeing nothing the Jedi about him.
"He's an Asogian." Obi-Wan approached. "They're not Jedi but they have a connection to the Force." Obi-Wan examined the Asogian. "Don't the Asogians live for eons? How did you wind up here?"
The Asogian shrank back coyly.
Padme approached. "He's been here since shortly after the asylum was built, one hundred standard years ago. His ship had a hyperdrive engine coolant leak, and they had to abandon ship. His escape pod crash-landed here and was the only survivor. He was taken in by a trio of hikers, who were alarmed by his appearance and didn't know where else to take him. At first, it was so nice he didn't want to go home. The food was good, the staff were friendly, and there were games and activities and outdoor time, but the asylum declined steadily over the years and attempts to contact home were met with deadly force." Padme explained so the Asogian wouldn't have to. She turned to the Asogian. "I'm a member of the Galactic Senate, and we're working on passing a legislature so asylums won't do this in the future. Senator Grebleips is a friend of mine. We'll get you home to Brodo Asogi in no time."
The Asogian's heart started glowing, and his fingers started glowing. He reached out to Ahsoka, Anakin, Padme, and Obi-Wan and they joined fingers.
"I'll never forget you." said Ahsoka as they withdrew their hands.
"Never...forget." repeated the Asogian.
The orange Twi'lek reporter approached the Asogian.
"Could you tell us about how the asylum was when it first opened?" she began to take notes.
"Let's leave them be." Anakin and Ahsoka went to the other side of the entrance, when Ahsoka noticed Elyssa.
"Elyssa!" Ahsoka called, and Elyssa came over.
"Elyssa, this is my master, Anakin Skywalker. Anakin, this is Elyssa, my roommate. We didn't exactly get along, but I couldn't have asked for a better roommate. After Dr. Hadamar leeched me and I was bleeding to death, she manipulated Dr. Hadamar into giving me a blood transfusion. She even offered to donate blood to me but our blood types weren't compatable." recounted Ahsoka.
"You...offered to donate your own blood..." Anakin started crying.
"What are you crying about? This is a happy story! If you want to cry, I have many sad stories!" Elyssa snapped. "To begin with, I was enslaved."
"That makes two of us." Anakin sniffed.
"I would think you'd be glad I helped!" snapped Elyssa.
"I am! I just didn't know that you'd find someone here of all places who could've talked Dr. Hadamar into righting his own wrong and would be willing to share their own life blood. Thank you, Elyssa." Anakin composed himself and wiped the tears from his eyes. "I really shouldn't be giving water to the dead over this."
"What's giving water to the dead?" asked Elyssa.
"It's an expression from Tatooine. Crying is considered an unnecessary use of water." explained Anakin.
"I personally don't see how a few happy tears are a gratuitous use of one's bodily water on a world where there is a big ocean to the east of us." Ahsoka mediated.
Anakin extended a hand to Elyssa. "Thank you."
"Don't touch me." Elyssa hesitated, and then shook his hand. "Wait a minute...you must be Skyguy."
"Plus one for observation." said Anakin.
"Ahsoka would talk about you in her sleep." said Elyssa.
"I'm not surprised." said Anakin.
"I thought you were a boyfriend of something. Usually I'm good at guessing who people are talking about in their sleep but I was way off." said Elyssa.
"Do you have a moment?" A reporter asked Elyssa and pulled her aside began to interview her.
Rex then approached Ahsoka.
"Rex!" she called and waved.
"Ahsoka!" Rex picked her up and twirled her around.
"I really missed you." said Ahsoka.
"I knew you could do it. I had a lot of confidence in you." Rex then looked around to see if anyone was eavesdropping, then knelt down and lowered his voice. "Has anyone mistreated you here?"
"Of course! You know that! I was drowned and electrocuted and bled-"
"I meant has anyone here forced themself on you? Has anyone misconducted themselves around you?" asked Rex.
"No! Of course not! Of all the things I endured, that wasn't one of them." said Ahsoka.
"Consider yourself one of the lucky ones." said Rex.
"Rex, I have to introduce you to my roomate. She's getting interviewed over there." Ahsoka pointed. "Elyssa!" she called when she saw Elyssa turn away from the reporters.
"Rex, this is my roommate, Elyssa. Elyssa, this is Rex." Ahsoka introduced.
Elyssa's eyes widened as though she had seen a ghost.
"You're Rex? THE Rex? The one you were always talking about in your sleep?" asked Elyssa.
Ahsoka nodded.
"You're the only man who's ever been good to me." Elyssa ran into Rex's arms and hugged him.
"Earlier some of the staff were harrassing me and were about to get violent but Rex pulled me away and threatened to blow their brains out if they hurt me." Elyssa recounted.
"It was the least I clould do." said Rex.
"And Rex reasurred me when I was scared and treated me as an equal when escorting me and the other inmates down. No wonder you talked about him in your sleep so much." said Elyssa.
"Don't blush, Rex, but yes, I did dream about you a lot and I did talk about you in my sleep, much to Elyssa's chagrin." said Ahsoka.
"Now I'm going to be talking about you in my sleep too. It's too bad you have to fight in the Clone Wars, or I would have you as my personal bodyguard and never go anywhere without you." said Elyssa.
Ahsoka wondered if she should tell Rex about the dream she had where she visited Rex in the sickbay, and he lay there, aged decades, with his crushed leg studded with pins and encircled by steel rings, being mistreated while under the care of a certain Demagol in hot pink, but she decided against it. It was only a dream, after all.
"I would be honored to be your bodyguard, Elyssa, but my duty is to the Republic." said Rex.
"Maybe there's other good men like you out there." Elyssa half pouted, half shrugged.
"Nayla!" the elderly Twi'lek gentleman called. "Nayla!"
"I'll leave you two be." Ahsoka and the orange Twi'lek reporter rushed over to him.
"Granddad?" she gasped.
"You're going to take me home." he addressed Ahsoka.
"You know him?" asked Ahsoka.
"He's my great grandfather." said Nayla.
"During my stay here he kept on calling me Nayla." said Ahsoka.
"And even before that he insisted that someone named Nayla would take him home." another inmate chimed in.
"That was probably because the last time he saw me I was about your age." said Nayla.
"Are you still writing?" he asked.
"Of course I'm still writing! I'm a correspondant for the tribune. I could do a story about how this reunited us!" said Nayla.
"Are you still doing that water ballet thing?" he asked.
"No, I quit synchronized swimming years ago." replied Nayla.
"Are you going to take me home?" asked the old man.
"Of course I'll take you home. All these years I thought you were dead, but if I had known I never would have let you stay in this awful place. I still have a hospital bed left over from when my mother-in-law died, I have a spare room, and you'll have a nice view of the garden and fish pond." said Nayla.
The old man stood up straighter and was suddenly forty years younger. "I spent a lot of time here in this awful place, and I did not want to die here. I vowed to myself I would not die here. I willed myself that I could not die here. Sometimes I thought I would live forever, but not in a good way. But now that you're going to take me home, I can die now. My quest is fulfilled." the old man sagged into his walker.
"When one of Senator Moreno's aides talked me into doing a story on the insane asylum, I thought it would be about the tours and would be just a small section under tourism, but I never would've expected such evil to be uncovered, or to have been reunited with my great-grandfather." Nayla addressed Ahsoka.
"The Force brought you together." said Ahsoka.
"Let's get you somewhere comfortable for you to sit." Nayla helped the old man to a bench. "Once I clock out I'll get your discharge in order."
"I wasn't expecting that to happen." Ahsoka turned to find Anakin. "Turns out there was some of his old self left. He was suffering from dementia and was always asking everyone 'who are you' and though he wouldn't hurt a fly, it did get on some peoples' nerves. Mena would introduce herself and others as different names to keep things interesting."
"Who's Mena?" asked Anakin.
Ahsoka then noticed Mena sitting on a bench outside the asylum doors. "Mena!" she called.
Mena stood up and approached them. Including her horns, she was as tall as Anakin.
"Anakin, this is my ward-mate, Mena. Mena, this is my master, Anakin. She was like a sister to me while I was here." Ahsoka introdiced.
"Your padawan is quite a firecracker. There was never a dull moment when she was around." said Mena.
"I'll take that as a compliment." said Anakin.
"I knew there was something different about you. Usually I'm pretty good at figuring out peoples' lives before the asylum, but Ahsoka was a wild card. I had a feeling she might've been a child soldier, which wouldn't have been that far off, but I never would've guessed she was a Jedi." said Mena.
"Evidently nobody did and that was how it was supposed to be." said Ahsoka.
"You took good care of her." said Anakin.
"As best I could. Unfortunately I couldn't have prevented Dr. Hadamar from experementing on her, but we talked and walked and snuck out and watched the sunrise." said Mena.
"It was beautiful. I wish you could've been there with us." said Ahsoka.
"And we didn't get caught." added Mena.
"I had a lot of visions and nightmares of you but why couldn't I have had a vision of you two having fun together?" asked Anakin.
"The Force works in mysterious ways, as Yoda says." said Ahsoka.
"And we snuck through the secret passages and peeked through the peephole in the mural in the lobby to send Tia off." added Mena.
"Who's Tia?" asked Anakin.
Ahsoka sighed. "She was here for a suicide attempt but killed herself to get out of Dr. Hadamar's experiment. I wish we could have gotten to know her better. I wish you could've gotten to meet her." said Ahsoka.
"If you had been here the day Ahsoka pretended to be crazy so as to be sent here and told me you'd be a good companion to her, I would've slept A LOT easier." said Anakin.
"Do you have any plans for post-asylum life?" asked Ahsoka.
"If I'm discharged, I would get my marriage annulled, probably go to a halfway house where they have medical staff on hand to monitor my medications and have group therapy, but I can spend my own money and can come or go on my own free will, then I would like to go to a trade school, open a business or something, and live my life where I want to." answered Mena.
"I can't blame you." said Ahsoka.
"But first I would like to get my feeding tube out." said Mena.
"I thought you were protesting the rancor cages." said Ahsoka.
"I think that should be soon. I saw the acting administrator's first act as administrator was to order the rancor cages removed." said Anakin.
"Then you can eat your weight in braised bantha hearts." said Ahsoka.
Mena and Ahsoka both erupted into laughter.
"I'm not going to miss the asylum, but I am going to miss Mena a whole lot." said Ahsoka.
"The feeling is mutual. It was nice to meet you, Anakin." said Mena.
"It was nice to meet you too, Mena." Anakin and Mena shook hands.
Obi-Wan beckoned to Anakin and he left as Mena and Ahsoka kept on talking.
"I just don't get it. Why is it that I only had Force visions of horrible things happening to Ahsoka, when she did in fact make some friends and even had a few good times? Why didn't I have any Force-visions of Ahsoka being helped by other inmates?" asked Anakin.
"Have you ever considered that maybe the Force doesn't give the whole picture? That maybe you need to take that into account?" suggested Obi-Wan.
"I also don't get how even though Ahsoka was in a bad place, she was surrounded by good people." said Anakin.
"How do you feel now about leaving no one here alive had the worst come to pass?" asked Obi-Wan.
Anakin gulped, shrank back, and did not answer.
"Ahsoka!" Padme called, holding the box of assets that was labled A. T., only now the T stood for Tano once again.
"I got all your stuff here. You can change in the refresher in the lobby." Padme indicated. "There's a lot of people on Coruscant who would like to speak to you."
"Are you ready for that?" asked Anakin.
"Be prepared to tell the same stories over and over." said Obi-Wan.
"Oh, I'm prepared," said Ahsoka. She took he things and made her way up the driveway. "but first, I'm going to eat, and I'm going to eat until I turn into a pie shop!"
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Anakin, Ahsoka, and Obi-Wan were sitting at a bar. Ahsoka had changed back into her regular clothing, had a huge plate of hot, fresh food in front of her, and was making up for lost time.
"What did you order this round?" asked Anakin.
"Let's see, there's grilled liver, marrow bones, meatloaf, and braised bantha hearts in honor of Mena." said Ahsoka.
"It's too bad she couldn't be here with us." said Anakin.
"It is." agreed Ahsoka, taking a long strip of braised bantha heart in her fingers.
"It would be wonderful if she could've been here, but if she's been on a feeding tube for years, a large, solid meal would not be very healthy, and that tube burns something awful after it's removed." said Obi-Wan.
Over at a table nearby, Padme had changed from her nurse's uniform into a blue halter top with a high collar, high waist, lacing down the sides, and detatched sleeves. She was talking with holograms of Bail and Mon Mothma.
"You should have been there to see it." said Bail.
"The entire Senate let out a collective gasp when the holoprojections rezzed. Even the detractors of the asylum reform bill were appalled at the conditions of the asylum. I am all but assured that the bill will pass unaminously. Is Ahsoka nearby?" said Mon Mothma.
"She's nearby, but she's made it clear that she does not want an more questions until she's finished eating." said Padme.
"You might want to pace yourself." Obi-Wan suggested.
"Me? Pace myself? After I spent I-lost-count-how-many-days eating disgusting goops and slops and pastes? Never! Not now that my master has returned." said Ahsoka.
"What was that about 'my master has returned?'" asked Anakin.
"When things were going tough, I was pretending to be extra crazy, or both, I would remind myself out loud that 'my master will return.' Dr. Hadamar thought I was crazy, but for me it was a cry of hope for a brighter day." explained Ahsoka.
"I told you so." said Obi-Wan.
"I had honestly believed it was all my fault and that you would never see the light of day again." said Anakin.
"You do realize that my window faced west and that the sun came streaming in first thing every morning. I wasn't exactly in immediate danger of never seeing the light of day again." said Ahsoka.
"You weren't supposed to interpret that literally." said Anakin.
"How was I supposed to know that?" asked Ahsoka.
"It seems that when Dr. Hadamar experimented on you, he took out your brain and forgot to put it back in." said Anakin.
"Isn't it funny, Anakin, how whenever you insult Ahsoka's intelligence, it's because it's diminishing, whereas whenever Ahsoka insults your intelligence, it's because you never had any to begin with." observed Obi-Wan.
"Are you questioning my intelligence?" asked Anakin.
"I'm not questioning your intelligence," said Obi-Wan. "I'm denying its existence."
The only light source in Hadamar's cell was the tiny blue holoprojection of Darth Sidious.
"Trust me, this is only a temporary setback in your research, for once I get my way, I will see to it that you are...
ACQUITTED!"