INT. BUNKER 13/LEVEL 9/UNIT 9-75/BEDROOM - EVENING
Nashira lies atop her bed, turning about uneasily in her sleep. She moans and groans fitfully, her brow slick with sweat.
ZOOM IN
on Nashira as the darkness of the room closes in on her, forming an opaque blackness which surrounds her like dark light.
Suddenly, dozens of arms coalesce from that darkness and fall onto her, seizing her in vice-like grips. Her eyes fling open, wide with terror. From above, an amorphous shape bulges down from the Darkness above her, coming to hover right before her face. The shapeless bulge contorts, gaining definition, until it forms a skull-like face with blazing white eyes.
THE DARKNESS: Luuz, rekcufrehtom, luuz!
As Nashira releases a blood-curdling scream, the lipless mouth of the skull-like head transmogrifies into a proboscis, which then -- like a torrent of black liquid -- flows down into her mouth, choking off her shriek with a harsh gurgle. Air cut off from her lungs, Nashira begins to thrash violently against the limbs restraining her, but she cannot break free of their oppressive grasp.
It is then that Anakin, like an angel in the night, materializes out from thin air. Lunging forward, he seizes the nightmarish head of the Darkness and, grimacing, pulls it back with all the strength he can mustre. With a hideous sucking sound, he peels the entity away from Nashira and tosses it away from her.
THE DARKNESS: Luuz, rekcuf --
Before the Darkness can finish its mantra, Anakin holds up his arm, and an engaged lightsaber manifests within his hand. Swinging the azure blade, he lops the Darkness' head off and it drops away, dissipating into nothingness.
NASHIRA: (panicking) Nik!
Turning back to Nashira, Anakin goes to work hacking away the black limbs which pin the girl down to her bed. Once they have all been dealt with, Nik grabs her by the hand and hauls her up off the bed and to his side.
ANAKIN: How's about we get out of here?
NASHIRA: Where to?
ANAKIN: Anywhere.
Swinging his lightsaber, Anakin cuts right through the inky blackness surrounding them, revealing a blinding white light beyond. With Nashira at his side, he plunges into the rip, leaving the Darkness behind.
EXT. WHITE VOID (DREAMSCAPE)
Nik and 'Shira now find themselves standing within a perfectly white void. Looking down at the lightsaber in his hand, Anakin releases it, and is dissolves away as it never was.
NASHIRA: What the hell was that!?
ANAKIN: A bad dream.
NASHIRA: You mean --
ANAKIN: Yep. You're asleep, dreaming, and I'm in here with you.
NASHIRA: Does that mean you're --
ANAKIN: No, I'm real.
NASHIRA: How is that possible?
ANAKIN: Obi-Wan called it a rapport. A sort of mind-link Jedi can do with other people who are open to it.
NASHIRA: How did you know I was in trouble?
ANAKIN: (grins) Are you really asking me that? I knew you'd be an emotional mess without any friends to keep you company.
Nashira then seizes Anakin in a fierce hug, squeezing him tightly as her lips part in a massive grin.
NASHIRA: Oh, thank you, Anakin! Thank you! I needed you, and you came! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
ANAKIN: (eyes bulging) Take it easy, kid! You'll bruise me like a Rrakis grape!
'Shira releases the young man, but continues to beam at him.
ANAKIN: (looks about their surroundings) While a damn sight better than where we came from, this place is kind of bland and boring. You think we should go somewhere more lively?
NASHIRA: Where?
ANAKIN: How about your homeworld? I've never been to Orron III, and I wouldn't mind checking it out.
NASHIRA: Orron III? But it's just an agricultural world -- there's nothing much there.
ANAKIN: (gestures at the whiteness surrounding them) There's less than nothing here. (grins) C'mon, we'll make it fun.
NASHIRA: (smiles sheepishly) Oh, alright ...
Nashira then closes her eyes and concentrates. After a moment passes, the void surrounding them fades away, replaced with a vast landscape of grain situated under a clear, sunny sky.
ANAKIN: Race ya?
NASHIRA: Yeah!
At that, the two children take off into a run, laughing wildly as they race through the tall stalks of grain.
FADE TO
Nashira asleep peacefully in her bed in her room, a smile on her lips.