Hey folks, Grubkiller here. This story is an AU of the star wars universe, in which order 66 never happens and it has elements from the EU (Sith empire, yuuzhan vong). It's also loosely tied in with other stories that i'm writing (a star wars halo crossover named:"They Shall Not Pass", and a Clone Wars fanfic named: Make War, Not Love. Go check it out if you're interested). I also make references to video game media (Gears of War, Resistance, Killzone, CoD).
Summary: Everyone thought that the Republic was destroyed by the Sith Empire during the 2nd great sith war. They were wrong, they only forced it into exile. Ahsoka Tano, who is struggling to juggle her marriage and her military job in the middle of a war, is sent on a mission that is critical to the survival of the Republic, and to the liberation of the Galaxy. But it might also, indirectly, threaten to bring the exiled Republic and the Jedi order to it's final destruction.
I will also be putting Luxsoka romance in this story (future lemons) as well as some Ezra/Sabine, Hera/Kanan, and whatever else presents itself in the future.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything from any media that I reference, so please don't sue me. If you do sue me, well you need to get a life.
This chapter will focus on the timeline and prologue ( slight Halo/mass effect tie in).
22 BBY: The Clone Wars begins. The Confederacy of Independent Systems, led by Count Dooku (aka, Darth Tyrannus), secedes from the Republic, which they perceive as corrupt. The Republic deploys the Clone army to fight the Separatists droid armies.
19 BBY: for three years, the Clone army, led by the force yielding Jedi (the guardians of peace in the galaxy) slowly push the CIS into the outer rim. The CIS in a stunning move invade Coruscant, the Republic capital, and capture the Supreme Chancellor. Two Jedi knights, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-wan Kenobi, sneak onto the CIS flagship and rescue the Supreme Chancellor, and killing Count Dooku. General Grievous, the architect of the Coruscant invasion, flees to the planet Utapau. General Grievous is tracked down by Obi-wan, where the two of them duel until Grievous is thrown off a cliff after being stabbed by Obi-wan. Grievous is presumed dead. Palpatine is revealed to be Sith Lord and seduces Anakin Skywalker to the dark side (to save his pregnant wife, Padme Amidala). The Jedi Council finds out and try to stop Palpatine right before he can kick off Order 66, a secret order that would force the Clone army to kill their Jedi generals and serve the Chancellor without question. Skywalker saves Palpatine and flees. They are forced into exile after escaping from the Jedi. The Council, wanting to preserve the memory of Anakin as the chosen one who helped expose Palpatine (which he actually did at first), cover up his fall to the dark side. They split Padme's twins apart. The Son, Luke, went to Tatooine with his Aunt and Uncle. Padme, who had the daughter Leia, was killed by Sidious's secret agents along with her Clone escort, and Baby Leia was given to Anakin, now Darth Vader (who doesn't realize that his new master had Padme killed), as a future apprentice.
19 BBY continued: Obi-Wan is ordered to go check on the boy from time to time as ordered by the Council. Sidious and Vader go into exile on a secret Sith outpost in the Byss system, deep in the core, where they plot their next move, sewing the seeds of revolution in the galaxy and searching for the long lost Sith Empire, which was thought to have been destroyed by the Republic and Jedi long ago.
Tomas Dalyell comes to power as the new Chancellor of the Republic. He orders the Republic Navy to use its newest weapon, the Hammer of Dawn weapons platform, to crush the CIS. The majority of the CIS surrendered, and were slowly integrated back into the Republic by Dalyell.
He also has to deal with a senate that was loyal to Palpatine
He then has the senate implement the Republic's budget to invest in secret bunkers and facilities for the Military and Government. But in reality, Dalyell uses the budget to secretly buy up a planet, hidden in the outer rim by a massive space storm, in order to create a massive and hidden Republic stronghold in case of emergencies. The planet is called, Azura. It was previously owned by Dalyell's home world, Sera. He uses the allocation of funds to secretly pay the Serans, and have them continue development of the planet until further notice. Dalyell also has the senate reorganize the Republic military, and base it off of the Armed Forces of the Coalition of Ordered Governments from Sera, which is heavily militarized.
One month after the Clone Wars officially ends, a terrible new enemy, calling itself the Yuuzhan Vong, invades the Known Galaxy. They didn't have a reason. They only killed and transformed anyone that fell into their hands. The Republic would eventually be driven back. During the war, the Republic implemented 'scorched earth policies to slow the Vong advance. Trillions of lives are lost, and many trillions more feel abandoned by the Republic, which they start to see as warmongering and tyrannical. This is a situation that the exiled Dark Lord of the Sith, Palpatine, takes advantage of. They slowly begin to secretly rally the citizens of the galaxy to their side.
18 BBY: Emperor Palpatine rallies the exiled Sith Empire in the Unknown regions. They were the ones who caused the Vong to invade the galaxy by releasing a new virus to destroy the Vong. They are led by the Knights of Ren, a sith cult that agrees to follow the newest lords of the Sith against the Republic. They come to the 'aid' of the Republic, by using a battle station on the planet Malachor to wipe out the Vong. This leads to the Galaxy to levitate toward the Empire and away from the Republic. The war soon begins with the Empire "liberating" the worlds on the outer fringes. They rally the disgruntled citizens of the galaxy until they are strong enough to wage war against the Republic, which they drive out of the core after conquering Coruscant. They then proceeded to smash the last pockets of Republic resistance in the outer rim. Palpatine heads to the Senate Building to proclaim himself as Supreme leader of the Empire, and Emperor of the galaxy.
17 BBY: Chancellor Dalyell and the remnants of the Republic Government rally at the temporary capital of Denon. They decide to abandon all hope of defeating the Sith. But they don't choose to surrender. Instead they decide to secretly gather the last remnants of the Republic Army and Navy and head for the planet Azura, a planet located in a secret star system that is engulfed in a constant space storm. They take the senators, military officers, Kamino cloners, remaining Jedi, and several million civilian refugees that were still loyal to the Republic, and they all covertly move to Azura, where they would defend what remained of the Republic and start plotting the defeat of the Empire.
The Empire controls the entire galaxy. Any planet that was Loyal to the Republic when it was "destroyed", is allowed to keep their autonomy, if they pay taxes to the Empire on every Empire day anniversary, give the Empire military access, and give a tribute of wealth to the Emperor on his birthday. The Chiss Ascendency and Hutt Space are allied with the Empire. The Empire violently cracks down on dissenters, the Imperial Security Bureau spies on civilians and military personnel for signs of dissent, while Darth Vader and his sith inquisitors hunt down the remaining Jedi and violently crush insurgencies.
The Empire expands into the Milky way galaxy, where they make several allies and find new resources and wealth. They also plague on anyone who is perceived as a threat to the Empire by taking land and forcing people in the regions to pay tribute to the Empire.
13 BBY: Signs of potential rebellion begin to show across the galaxy, as small rebel cells rise up to harass imperial operation near the sectors in which they originate. The Empire initially believes that these cells are nothing to be worried about and will be easily defeated. But what they don't know is that these cells are being fed intel and supplies by The Republic, which they thought had been destroyed long ago. The Republic Spec Ops brigade goes on secret missions behind Imperial lines looking for "High Value Targets". They relay the intel back to Azura, where Project Fulcrum (the GAR's new intel organization which is led by Anakin Skywalker's former jedi apprentice Ahsoka Tano) sends the intel to rebel cells across the galaxy. The seeds of Rebellion are being planted across the galaxy by the Sith Empire's oldest and most hated enemy.
11 BBY:(N/A:this is apart of my other story, They Shall Not Pass, a Star Wars/Halo/Crossover[with some ME]) The Batarian Hegemony, an Imperial ally from the Milky Way galaxy, gets into a territorial dispute with the Unified Earth Government and it's colonies. The Batarians demand land from the UEG, who adamantly refuse. The Empire steps in, demanding that the UEG give concessions to the Empire and its allies, which of coarse they don't.
The Batarians launch terrorist attacks against the UEG's frontier worlds. The UEG retaliates by repelling the terrorist groups and mobilizing along their mutual border. The Empire, not wanting to be politically embarrassed, threatens war with the UEG, not just to conquer another developed, resource rich, and technologically competitive space faring race, but also to re-establish the fear that the Empire uses to rule effectively and maintain the status quo.
Every galactic power watches this new war between the Empire and the UEG. In the first few months, the Empire underestimates the Power and resolve of the UNSC (the UEG's military arm) and is thrown out of UEG space with a bloody nose and a deep humiliation. The UEG, with high morale after beating back the Empire, goes to war with the Empire's ally, the Batarian Hegemony and sends the UNSC Defense Force to invade its territory. After conquering most of Batarian space, a revenge seeking Sith Empire reorganizes its forces to drive back the UNSC. The UNSC is pushed back inside of its border with the Batarians, and both belligerent sides are bogged down in a stalemate for months. The UNSC's one major advantage is secrecy. The Empire don't know the true strength of the UNSC or the location of its core worlds.
8 BBY: When it seemed like the Empire would triumph over the UEG, all Galactic powers that opposed the Sith Empire, and are watching on the sidelines, join the UEG in it's struggles against the Empire, wanting to rid the galaxy of the threat that has plagued it in recent years. The Republic, still watching on the sidelines, waits for an opportunity to act. In the meantime, the newly formed Rebel Alliance, which is made up of any planet in the outer rim that was loyal to the Republic (an is secretly supplied and funded by the exiled Republic), declares open war against the Empire. The Galaxy is now in the middle of a total war.
The Republic may be on the sidelines, but they will soon be forced into the war. Question is, will they be ready for it?
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On the Imperial planet Scarif, Ahsoka Tano leads a rebel strike team to seize control of the Death star plans. An Alliance Naval group is in orbit, providing support for the troops on the ground while holding off the Imperial Navy. The team was able to find the plans for the space station and beam them to the Rebel Flagship above. Unbeknownced to anyone, Ahsoka was able to get a second copy of the plans to bring back to the Republic, which is still believed by everyone to be destroyed. The plan seemed to be going in the Rebels favor when an Imperial fleet led by Darth Vader, launches a counter attack against the Rebel invaders. The Future of the galaxy may hang on what happens next.
Scariff, home to the Imperial Citadel complex, which houses information on all classified Imperial projects.
There was debris from the battle everywhere. The skeletal remains of two Imperial Star Destroyers and their escorts floated above the planet, as well as the remains of many Rebel frigates and light cruisers. Dozens of Fighters from both sides were caught in a deadly dogfight above the planet Scarif.
Aboard the Rebel Flagship, Profundity, the commander of the fleet, Admiral Raddus was sitting in his hover chair. The Mon Calamari Officer looked through the observation glass on the floor (which was ray-shielded) down at the planet below, which was now the site of what was so far the largest battle between Alliance and Imperial forces.
A young crew member ran up to him and through up a brisk salute. "Admiral Raddus sir, the Plans have been successfully transmitted to our location," said the young ensign.
"Good, get me Commander Tano on the horn," the Admiral ordered. The ensign nodded and ran to the comm station to contact the leader of the strike force. The strike force was able to land on the planet when the fleet punched a hole into the planetary shields, which kept objects from passing through, earlier. A few seconds later, a holographic display of Ahsoka Tano deflecting laser bolts appeared in front of him.
"Rouge Leader, we've received the transmission from the surface. We're ready to send you an extraction force on the double," said Raddus. "Thanks Admiral, just send us those transports and make the jump. Those plans are critical to the fight against the Empire," Ahsoka advised.
Raddus nodded at the Holographic Togrutan who was still fighting off the Empire with what remained of the strike force.
The hologram flickered out, as Raddus turned to give his next set of orders. "All craft, prepare to make the jump to hyperspace," Said the Admiral as he contacted the Ghost.
"General Syndulla, we are about to make the jump to hyperspace. Take your U-wings and pick up the strike force".
"Roger that Admiral, we're on our way," said the green Twi'lek as she took her squadron and headed for the planet below.
The Alliance ships then turned around and made the jump to hyperspace. The blue tunnel was just starting to form around them, when all of a sudden, they were forced to stop when their path was blocked by a Trio of Imperial Star-Destroyers, their frigate escorts, and a multitude of imperial troop transports, that just dropped out of hyperspace in front of the dumbstruck rebels. "All ships, full stop!" Ordered Raddus as the Alliance fleet came to a complete halt. Some ships were lucky to escape but most ships that didn't stop crashed in the massive Imperial Dreadnoughts in front of them.
"All ships, fire fire fire, fire at will!" Some ships didn't even have to be told as they cut loose with everything they had. But of coarse the Imperial ships weren't going to sit their and take it. Hundreds of Green lasers fired from the Imperial warships and they flew into the Smaller and weaker Rebel ships. Some ships were speared on the first shot, but larger ships like the Profundity took more damage but only temporarily.
Raddus then realized that their was no winning this fight. He turned on his communicator and opened a Ship-wide broadcast. "All hands abandon ship. I repeat, All hand Abandon ship!" Raddus and the rest of the crew then began to run for the escape pods, while smaller rebel ships stood by to pick up as many survivors as possible, before they would be forced to escape.
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Meanwhile, on the Imperial Star-Destroyer Devastator, Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, Governor of the Outer Rim and head of the Imperial Military, was standing on the bridge overlooking the battle. He watched as his Warships unleashed the wrath of the Empire onto the pitiful fleet of criminals that were occupying his viewport.
A young Lieutenant ran up to him and saluted the Grand Moff. "Sir, the Rebel Flagship is disabled. Shall we concentrate on the Rebel ground forces?"
"No. Lord Vader will deal with the ground forces. In the meantime, mop up what remains of the rebel fleet and send Starkiller over with a boarding party. I want those plans back no matter the cost," Tarkin ordered. "Yes Sir," With that, the young officer ran off to do as ordered.
We must not allow those plans to escape, Tarkin thought to himself.
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Back on the Profundity, a rebel soldier was pushing buttons on a terminal and downloading information. The information that he was downloading was the Death Star plans that were stolen from the surface.
"Hurry soldier, we must get to the escape pods," An officer said matter of factly. The young soldier waited for the Plans to finish downloading before he put them all on a small data disk. He then ran down the hallway to meet up with the rest of his squad who were waiting outside the bridge. "Come on trooper, we don't have time to lose," said the rebel sergeant.
They all ran for the nearest escape pods when the door leading to them slammed shut. "Get that door open, will ya?" One soldier complained. "It's jammed, we'll have to pry it the rest of the way open," the sergeant suggested.
Then all of a sudden, the lights in the hallway shut off behind them. They all turned around to see a pitch black hallway. They all trained their weapons down the hall.
Nothing.
Or at least that is what everyone thought when a red light materialized out of the black, to show a cloaked figure wearing a gold plated helmet. The figure then approached them at a speed walk pace.
"Weapons free!" the sergeant ordered. With that, the dark hallway was illuminated with red blaster bolts from the rebel troopers and the cloaked figure's red blade.
The figure expertly blocked the bolts that came his way. Two rebel soldiers fell from their own laser bolts. One rebel soldier was levitated with the force to be used as a meat shield for the cloaked figure. The rebel soldier being used as a puppet was absorbing multiple shots to his back and was then thrown at the rest of the squad.
The remaining troopers were knocked down and then cut apart by the red blade yielding figure while they were on the floor.
The rebel sergeant produced a stun baton from his belt. It was suited for this type of situation.
The veteran Alliance soldiers yelled out a battle cry and charged the figure. The sergeant swung his baton at the figure and connected with its red blade.
They both swung at each other for a few seconds when the red bladed figure drew his hand out and all of a sudden the sergeant felt himself being levitated. He had no control over his body. The veteran soldier was at the bladed figure's mercy. The figure then shot lightning out of his gloved finger tips and electrocuted the rebel sergeant who screamed as he was being cooked alive.
The figure then tossed the burning corpse aside and continued down the hall. He moved towards the last remaining soldier, the one with the Death Star plans, who was still trying to pry open the door.
Once the figure was close enough, he slashed his blade to the side, cutting the remaining soldier in half along with the door that he was trying to pry open. The remains of the soldier dropped a chip which peaked the figure's interest. He picked it up and examined it.
Just then, a Stormtrooper with blue accents on his armor ran up to the figure and began to speak. "Grand Inquisitor, we've secured the ship. Governor Tarkin wants a report on the mission".
"Commander, tell our beloved governor that I have what we are looking for," Starkiller said smiling behind his gold plated helmet.
Unbeknownst to anyone, the future of the galaxy rested on the second copy of the death star plans that Cassian Andor sent over to his fellow Fulcrum agent before he and the rest of Rogue One died, Ahsoka Tano, who was going to send it to a Republic that no one knew still existed.
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Scarif: a planet that was a tropical paradise covered in oceans with small island chains/clusters, which were themselves covered in jungles, with white sandy beaches. On any normal day, this planet would have been a beautiful vacation spot. Of coarse, the key words were "any normal day". This was anything but a normal day.
On one of the larger islands in the region was the citadel tower which held all of the information of secret Imperial projects, including the Death Star. The tower was damaged and smoking from the battle outside.
In the jungles and beaches, debris from both sides of the battle were strewn across the field. The skeletal remains of Imperial walkers, fighters from both sides, and not to mention the bodies and burned out (or burning) buildings.
In the center of it all was a former Jedi named Ahsoka Tano, a beautiful orange skinned Togrutan female with an attractive hourglass figure, who was wearing a black top and skirt, with brown leather pants, gray boots and gauntlets that had artwork painted on them. Her outfit hugged her body in all the right places and she had a diamond cut out over her well formed breasts, showing off her body in all of its womanly glory.
She also wore a maroon wedding headdress with a silver diamond shaped gem in the center, over her akul tooth headdress, signifying her marriage to a lucky gentleman. To the exiled Republic Resistance Military and to Alliance Intelligence, she was still listed as Ahsoka Tano. But to her closest friends, she was Ahsoka Tano Bonteri.
Ahsoka was on a secret mission vital to the future of the galaxy. Unbeknownst to anyone, she was carrying a copy of the Death star plans, which she needed to get back to Azura, the final stronghold of the Republic in exile.
She was yielding two white colored lightsabers in her hands, which she was using to deflect blaster bolts from Imperial stormtroopers.
To her left was Ezra Bridger, a young jedi padawan and rebel officer who had an orange jacket and pants, dark buzz cut hair, and a green saber.
His master, Kanan Jarrus, was standing to Ahsoka's right. He had a blue blade and his hair was pulled back in a warrior's wolf tail.
They were surrounded by Rebel Commandoes, led by a former Clone Trooper, Captain Rex. The gray bearded and bald trooper was actually once a part of the 501st Legion that Ahsoka was (secretly is) apart of. After the remnants of the 501st was recalled to Denon right before the Empire's total take over, Rex went MIA after saving an injured General Kota, an incapacitated Ahsoka, and his fellow troopers by holding off an Imperial armored platoon with several Clone volunteers, to get Ahsoka and the others to safety. He turned up years later on Seelos with several other exiled Clone veterans (including some of the troopers that stayed with him) and they were all recruited into the Alliance by the suggestion of Ashoka, who reunited with her old friend from the Clone Wars. He wore camouflaged rebel fatigues with some parts of his Clone armor. He had the same Jaig eyes from his old helmet carved into his new rebel commando helmet, which had goggles that allowed him to zoom in on distant objects, much like his old helmet. He carried his signature DC-17 dual blasters, which he used to fight off the stormtroopers.
"Ahsoka, it's Hera. The fleet has taken heavy casualties. Enemy reinforcements are heading your way". The voice coming out of Ahsoka's communicator was that of Hera Syndulla, who was leading the rescue effort of Ahsoka and the rest of the strike group.
"Copy that Hera. Just get down here with those U-wings. We can't hold them off much longer," Ahsoka spoke into her wrist comm.
"On our way, just sit tight," Hera ordered.
"So, when's the evac gonna be here," Rex asked firing a few rounds from one of his sidearm at a nearby stormtrooper, the blue laser bolts piercing the troopers helmet and chest plate.
"She'll be here. So just keep fighting," Ahsoka ordered, expertly deflecting laser bolts towards the imperial scout troopers.
"Hopefully before those can do any damage," Kanan said pointing at several large box-like objects falling out of the sky. These boxes were the size of medium sized buildings. They landed on the far side of the island. A hatch opened on each box, revealing a massive AT-AT. An AT-AT was an "All terrain-Armored Transport". They were heavily armored and impervious to small arms fire. They stomped toward them on four massive armored legs. It's head was armed with heavy cannons and anti-personnel blasters.
"Uh, Ahsoka? What do we do," Ezra asked worried.
"Everyone fall back and take cover in the foliage, now!" Ashore shouted to the rest of the strike group.
"You heard her lads, let's go," Rex shouted, relaying the orders that Ahsoka just gave.
Every rebel soldier turned around and fled in the opposite direction. They splashed their way through the shallow water to the next island, which had a thick forest to take cover in. The AT-AT's stomped towards their prey. They sighted up with their cannons and fired at the fleeing rebels. Massive red spears flew towards the alliance team. Each energy spear caused a large explosion and killed several rebel troopers.
The team took cover in the thick forests on the small island to make a stand against the walkers. No one could get close enough to hit the walker in the neck, it's only weak spot, so they had to settle for just slowing them down.
Imperial stormtroopers charged at the thick jungled island, and into a hail of Rebel blaster fire. Several stormtroopers were scorched by blaster fire and fell to the ground dead.
Ahsoka continued to deflect fire with her blades when an Imperial scout trooper ran up to her. When the hapless trooper got to close to her, she lashed out with her white blades and decapitated the trooper.
Around her, she could see Ezra and Kanan deflecting blaster shots in order to cover the rebel troopers. The rebels set up everything they had to defend their positions. They set up two tripod turrets to catch the advancing imperials in a cross fire.
Rex was shouting orders into his com-link, at an Alliance Anti-Tank team, who were setting up their rockets twenty feet from Rex and Ahsoka's position, to slow down the imperial behemoths which still blasted the jungle foliage away bit by bit, taking away their cover if not simply killing them.
"All right you rocket jockeys, load up those tubes on the double," Rex shouted. The four rocketeers loaded their launchers and pointed at the nearest behemoth.
"Fire," Rex ordered, pointing a gloved hand in the direction of the lead walker.
The rebel A.T. team fired their launchers, and four rockets were sent down range at the lead AT-AT. One rocket, almost laughably, deflected harmlessly off the walker's armored forehead, where it then spun out of control and exploded in the air, doing no harm to anyone. The second and third rockets hit the front legs near the knee joints, the walker's other weak spot. The final rocket hit one of the blaster cannons on the side of the walker's head. It exploded and forced the walker's head to look to the side for a brief moment. But it looked back at where the rockets came from and blasted that spot to hell, killing the four rebel soldiers.
"Ah shit. This is it," One rebel exclaimed. He wasn't wrong of coarse.
This might be it. Oh Lux, I'm sorry we couldn't have our honeymoon, or be with each other right now, Ahsoka thought to herself, thinking of the exiled senator that recently became her husband, and who she could hardly find time for with her military and intelligence jobs.
Everyone raised their weapons in a defiant gesture towards the walker ready to accept their fate. Fate decided to take a different coarse, as the walker's center suddenly exploded, and it collapsed inward to the ground.
Everyone looked around to see what caused the explosion when they saw a flight of X-wings and U-wings led by the Ghost. The cavalry has arrived.
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"Sabine, Zeb, keep those fighters off of our back," Hera ordered as the other to crew members used their turrets to fight off the agile Tie Strikers that trailed them.
"Red Leader? I want you and your X-wings to take out those walkers". "Copy that Phoenix Lead," said Garven Dreis, just as Wedge Antilles and Derek "Hobbie" Klivian fired their torpedoes at the nearest walker, which went up like a fireworks display. Several other X-Wings viciously fought with the Tie Strikers, desperately trying to keep them off the U-Wings and the strike force.
"U-Wings? circle around and get ready for pick up," Hera ordered.
The U-Wings circled over head, firing at any stormtrooper that they came across. However several Tie strikers swooped by and took out almost half of the U-Wings.
Come on boys, we can do this, Hera thought.
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Back on the ground, everyone watched as the remaining U-Wings landed on the ground to pick up the rest of the strike force.
"All right you grunts, WE ARE LEAVING. Get on a U-Wing," Rex shouted.
"Don't have to tell me twice," Kanan said as everyone split up to enter the three remaining U-Wings. Karan and Ezra entered one U-Wing, while Rex and Ahsoka entered another. The remaining commandoes split up evenly into the three transports.
The three ships took off seemingly in the clear.
Ahsoka's com-link went off and she answered it. It was Kanan who spoke. "We made it. It looks like we're all clear". Ahsoka was about to answer when Kanan came in over the comm again, this time more panicky.
"Wait a minute, somethings wrong. Our ship isn't moving. Ah, Force we're going down". Ahsoka was able to hear another voice, probably the pilot, yell out "brace for impact".
Ahsoka looked out the viewport of her ship, which was the 2nd U-Wing in the line of three. She saw the U-Wing going down and crash into the sandy beach. She then saw a figure wearing black armor and a black cape.
Vader, Ahsoka realized to herself.
He had a red lightsaber in one hand, while he outstretched the other in the direction of the fallen U-Wing.
Wait, the ship was pulled down.
The crash survivors consisted of Kanan, Ezra, and three rebel troopers. They all stepped out of the crash site to confront Vader.
The Jedi attacked first, sabers swinging. The Dark Lord parried the blows with his own blade. His counters were so forceful that they knocked Kanan back and sent Ezra flying a few feet away. "Pilot, get us down there right now," Ahsoka ordered as the rebel troopers on the ground fired on Vader, but to no Avail. He picked them up with the force and snapped their necks.
"But ma'am, that's suicide," the pilot stated as Vader walked over to an unconscious Ezra, about to finish him off. But Kanan jumped in and swiped at Vader's shoulders, evidently pissing him off. The Dark Lord clocked Kanan in the face with an armored elbow and swiped across his face with his Blade. Karan held his face in his hands, and it looked like he was shouting in pain.
"Fine, I'll go," Ahsoka said, frustrated.
Ahsoka then opened the hatch and jumped out to attack Vader.
A stunned Rex looked out the hatch to see Ahsoka falling over a hundred feet to the ground. He then turned to the pilot. "You either take us down, or I put you down," Rex threatened the pilot, pointing one of his sidearms at the insubordinate pilot's head. The other troopers on board didn't seem to object, which told Rex one of two things: that either the pilot had a bad reputation, or the troopers loyalty to their leaders was unwavering.
"All right, all right fine," the Pilot reluctantly complied. The two remaining U-Wings then turned around to assist the survivors on the ground, and Rex opened the side hatch to man the door gun.
Back on the ground, Ahsoka had landed between Vader and Kanan, who was still holding his face.
He's blind, Ahsoka realized.
"You aren't hurting anyone else today," Ahsoka said to Vader in a challenging tone. "Ah, so the rumors are true. The apprentice lives to see the master," Vader mused.
"You are not my master. My master never would be capable of such terror," Ahsoka pointed out.
"You are correct. Anakin Skywalker was weak and did not have the will to do what must be done. Which is why I destroyed him," Vader said.
Ahsoka looked at Vader with a look of rage and disgust. "Then I will avenge him," Ahsoka declared, igniting her white blades and taking a fighting stance.
"Revenge is not the Jedi way," Vader mocked.
"I'm no Jedi," Ahsoka said. Vader seemed to be somewhat shocked at Ahsoka's words. For a few more seconds nothing happened, and then suddenly Ahsoka force sprinted towards Vader with both blades swinging. Vader parried her blows and dished out a few of his own. The two former Jedi hammered away at each other in a deadly, yet somehow elegant, dance.
Ezra awoke to see Ahsoka and Vader in a duel to the death. "I really need to get better sword training". He then noticed Kanan on his knees with his face in his hands.
"Kanan, are you OK". Kanan looked at Ezra, who then realized that a scar had been burned across his now pale eyes. "Never mind, we got to get a shuttle," Ezra said speaking into his comlink.
"Hera, we need a pick up on the double. Kanan's hurt".
For a few seconds, there was silence, and then Hera spoke.
"We're on our way". A few seconds later the Ghost appeared out of nowhere. Ezra then realized that the battle was still raging in the sky.
The ghost landed and Ezra started helping Kanan up the ramp. Hera ran out. She ran up to Kanan and placed her forehead on his. "Let's get you out of here love," Hera whispered into Kanan's ear.
Ahsoka and Vader were still fighting, when Vader used the force to through Ahsoka into a nearby tree, knocking her out. He then turned around to use the force to crush the Ghost.
The Ghost's hull slowly started to dent, but Vader was interrupted when two U-Wing gunships began circling his position, their side-mounted door guns chattering.
"Keep her steady pilot," Rex said while firing the gun. A few of the commandoes on board pointed their rifles out the door in order to assist their captain. Vader was now being attacked from two directions. He wasn't able to deflect all of the rounds, but his armor was able to absorb what he couldn't deflect.
Ahsoka awoke from being thrown into a tree. She saw Vader trying to fight off the gunships that were attacking him. She saw him lift his hands, and he used the force to hold both U-ings in place, while they still fired at him, more desperately now.
Ahsoka didn't have time to think, so she took advantage of Vader's distraction and sprinted towards him. Vader turned around to confront her, but it was to late. Ahsoka leaped into the air over Vader's head, and slashed across his helmet. The distraction forced Vader to let go of both gunships.
Vader fell backwards from the force of the attack, and his helmet was knocked off at the same time.
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Meanwhile back in orbit, the Imperial fleet has just destroyed the majority of the rebel fleet, only a few corvettes remained and they were to far and few to be a threat. and the Death Star was now above the planet. Their has been no word from Vader and the Imperial reinforcements who's mission was to secure the Citadel complex and the secrets it held.
"My lord, we have received no word from Lord Vader or any of our forces on the ground. We have to assume that all of our secrets on Scarif are still compromised," Tarkin said to the holgraphic version of Emperor Palpatine in front of him.
"Then make sure the rebels cannot steal our plans again," the Emperor ordered.
Tarkin bowed to the hologram in front of him. "It will be done my lord".
The hologram flickered out and Tarkin turned to the Death Star's commander. "You may fire when ready".
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Ezra called Ahsoka over, urging her to get into the Ghost. She was about to when she heard Vader's voice begin to distort and change. She walked away to ignore it until she heard him speak. Only it wasn't in Vader's robotic voice. It was the voice of her old master.
"Ahsoka," Vader said in the voice of her old master. She turned around in shock and horror.
"Anakin," she said to him. He looked at her and listened. She could see his now yellow eyes (including his right one which had the scar from a duel with Asajj Ventress), and his hair that was still long. His mouth was still covered by the mouth piece of his helmet (N/A:In this AU, Anakin loses his legs to Obi-Wan, but he isn't utterly mutilated).
"I won't leave you. Not this time," Ahsoka said.
Anakin stared at Ahsoka for a few seconds. His eyebrows squinted down with rage and he put his helmet back on. His right eye was exposed because of the hole that formed when Ahsoka swiped at his helmet with one of her blades a minute ago. He spoke to her still using his non-robotic voice.
"Then you will die," Anakin said, igniting his red blade. Ahsoka ignited her blades and took up a fighting stance. Ezra noticed this and ran after her, yelling her name. She turned around and used the force to push him into Kanan's arms, who pulled Ezra onto the Ghost, which took off right after. It flew off with the remaining rebel ships.
Ahsoka and Anakin then charged at each other to finish what they have started.
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"Commence primary ignition," said a weapons operator on the Death Star. With that, engineers all over the death star pulled levers and pressed buttons to activate the weapon.
Minutes later, the Death Star's main weapon fired on the planet below. Its target: the Citadel complex, and any remaining rebel forces.
Tarkin held his chin, as the beam connected with the planet below.
The force of the beam created a shockwave that sent debris the size of skyscrapers in all directions and across all measurable distances.
The Death Star has been unleashed.
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Ahsoka and Anakin were still dueling on the surface. Their blades were constantly clashing in arcs of light, both white and crimson. Ahsoka was to fast for Anakin to land a blow on her, but she wasn't skill enough to just go toe to toe with Anakin.
"You have grown more powerful than I remember," Vader said.
"I had a pretty good teacher, Skyguy," Ahsoka said, using the signature nickname that she gave him long ago during the battle of Christpohis.
Anakin didn't seem to like that, so he pressed his attacks. With every strike, Ahsoka struggled to keep up and was forced eventually forced back onto the ground. Anakin stood over her.
"You did good, Snips," Anakin said. "But not good enough".
He then raised his blade, ready to deliver the final punishment, when all of a sudden a green light split the clouds and pierced the ground. It caused a massive explosion on the horizon. The explosion caused the horizon to rise up and move closer, destroying everything it its way.
Ahsoka and Anakin were distracted and looked up in horror at what was approaching them.
Ahsoka took advantage of the situation to channel the force to summon her blades, quickly jump up and slash at Anakin's cyborg hand, which he was holding his blade with, and severed it from his body.
Anakin screamed in pain and looked at Ahsoka with his enraged yellow eyes, or rather look at her using the force to sprint away from Anakin, and towards a nearby scout speeder that lied down on it's side.
The monster that was once Anakin Skywalker used his left flesh hand to channel the power of the force and shoot force lightning at his former apprentice.
Of coarse, it was to no avail. Ahsoka had travelled to far away for his lightning to be affective. He then remembered that he needed to avoid the approaching destruction that was caused by the Death Star.
Darth Vader then pressed a button on his suit that summoned his Advanced Tie Fighter to him. It approached his position after a few minutes and landed right next to him. He grabbed his lightsaber, jumped in, and took off.
As he took off, the wall of debris and the shockwave approached. It knocked over the Imperial Citadel complex, and completely overtook the entire complex and any sign of the Battle for Scarif, like a destructive eraser.
Vader piloted his fighter in the direction that Ahsoka was heading, while at the same time trying to avoid the approaching debris wall.
Ahsoka piloted her speeder as fast as it would allow. She piloted towards a nearby island chain for refuge.
But Vader was right behind her, and fired 2 missiles at her speeder. Two blue orbs with smoke trails followed her speeder and exploded the ground beneath her and ruptured the fuel tank, which propelled her forward, where she landed near a spot that just detonated from another pair of missiles.
The fire from the blast, as well as the shrapnel, critically injuring her.
Vader's victory was short-lived however. The debris wall may have stopped, even after traveling for hundreds of miles in each direction, but the shockwave from the Death Star blast overtook Vader's fighter and sent him crashing into a nearby island, which had plenty of water separating the two islands that both survivor occupied.
Ahsoka's vision was beginning to fade and the world around her began to turn white. But before it did, she reached for a button on her wrist communicator. It started to blink red and blue. She then fell unconscious. It was a good thing Skyguy crashed onto a different island, Ahsoka thought to herself before blacking out.
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The ships that carried what remained of the Scarif assault force, including the Ghost, had docked with the battle's survivors, and headed back to Yavin IV.
The Alliance corvette, Liberation, was commanded by Commander Jun Sato, a capable naval officer who started his career in the Republic's small Judiciary Fleet, before the Clone Wars. The fighters of Green, Blue, Gold, and Red squadrons that survived the battle flew along side the remaining ships as escorts.
Back on the Ghost, the crew began to mourn the loss of an important Alliance figure and a faithful ally to the Ghost crew. Captain Rex and his squamates, as well as Zeb, raised a glass to Ahsoka Tano.
"A toast, to those we lost today, and to a dear friend that saved my life more times than I can count, and who never gave up in the face of impossible odds," Rex raised his glass.
"To Commander Tano," Rex said. Zeb and the commandoes raised their glasses and repeated. "To Commander Tano".
Meanwhile, while walking through the Ghost's hallway, Sabine Wren could hear the sound of sobbing coming from Ezra and Zeb's room. She opened the door to find that it was Ezra who was sobbing.
The young Mandalorian walked over to Ezra's bunk and jumped up to sit next to him. She placed a hand on his shoulder to comfort him.
"Is there something that you want to share?" Sabine said to her teammate.
Ezra sniffed and wiped away what was left of his tears.
"I just-," Ezra choked out. "I can't believe that she's gone. She saved us. And it was the last thing that she ever did. Not to mention the fact that Kanan is totally blind".
"It wasn't your fault Ezra. We all tried to help you, Kanan, and Ahsoka. We gave it our all, and so did you. You can't beat yourself up for it," Sabine said comforting the young rebel Jedi.
"And don't worry. We're all here for you. I'm here for you," Sabine said. Ezra turned towards Sabine to look at her face. He gave a little smile.
Sabine then cupped Ezra's face with her hands. They looked each other in the eyes. Sabine then leaned in and kissed Ezra on the lips, surprising him.
She broke the kiss to look him in the eyes. She then started to place small kisses on Ezra's cheeks. She broke the kisses and placed her forehead against Ezra's. He then placed his hands on her wrists and rested them there. This is what he always wanted from her. He only wished that it was under better circumstances.
Ezra then rested his head on Sabine's shoulder, who then placed her hand on Ezra's head and slowly scratched his hair. They stayed that way for a while until Ezra slowly drifted off to sleep. But Sabine didn't leave Ezra's side. She knew that he needed comfort right know and she was happy to give it. (N/A: no they did not bang, so don't ask)
In the Kanan's room, Kanan was having his eyes bandaged up from his injuries by one of the Liberation's medic, who came aboard to treat the patient . Chopper and Hera were there with him. When the medic was done he walked out the door to give Kanan and Hera some privacy. Hera sat next to Kanan and placed her forehead against his.
She whispered in his ear. "Ezra is hurt right know. He's gonna need his master to help him through this," Hera said before planting kisses on Kanan's cheek. "No. He's gonna need his family to help him through this," Kanan said as he placed his hand on the small of Hera's back
Chopper let out a sad robotic groan.
Hera continued kissing Kanan, this time on his lips. She eventually pressed forward and push Kanan down onto his back with her on top of him. Hera broke the kiss to place kisses on Kanan's jawline.
Karan turned to Chopper who was still in the room. He mouthed out the word leave, and pointed towards the door while Hera continued kissing her love's neck. The droid turned around and left the room, looking the door behind him.
Hera stopped kissing Kanan and stood up on her knees, straddling the Jedi Knight beneath her. Kanan rested his hands on Hera's butt cheeks. She smiled and pulled Kanan's top over his head, leaving him naked from the waist up.
She drank in the site of his scarred torso and reached for the zipper fastener on her pilot's jumpsuit. She pulled the zipper down all the way and began pushing the suit down her body.
The suit slipped off of her light green shoulders and continued pushing the suit down, while slowly grinding against the bulge in Kanan's pants. Kanan undid his pants and pushed them down just enough to free his hardened member.
"Hmm, someone's excited," Hera moaned as she continued writhing on Kanan's exposed erect member, which started to quiver. Kanan, threw his head back into the pillow, slightly grunting in pleasure.
Hera pushed her jumpsuit down further, brushing the edge of her jumpsuit on her nipples. Her Plump, light green breasts looked like they were about to bust out of her suit.
With little bit more pressure, her breasts plopped out of her dress with a smacking sound and they danced with excitement. Her boobs moved up and down as they heaved with every breath she took. She then pushed her jumpsuit all the way down to her waste exposing her plump green breasts and her well trimmed stomach.
Hera leaned over on her lover's slim, yet muscular, chest. Her breasts pressed forward, her dark green nipples disappearing under the soft mounds of warm and green flesh.
Hera slid her tongue down Kanan's mouth, who slid his hands into Hera's jumpsuit to squeeze her well rounded butt cheeks. He pushed her suit down the rest of the way so that Hera could straddle Kanan's waist, which she started to ride. The two lovers moaned in pleasure as they started their erotic escapade, which would continue throughout the night.
Ezra and Sabine left Ezra's room to go get a bite to eat when they heard sounds coming from Kanan's room.
"What's that noise," Sabine asked. "It sounds like 2 gundarks fighting over a steak," Ezra added. Zeb walked by hearing the same thing.
"Oh their just at it again," the veteran Lasat soldier said. The two teens stared each other, blushed, and then laughed before going on their merry little way.
It would take a while for the Ghost crew to get past the pain that they've experienced today. But they would get through it together, because they were more than a crew. They were a family.
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Back on Scarif, Ahsoka was still slipping in and out of consciousness. Every part of her body was burning with pain from the first and second degree burns that she suffered from the blast. Her head felt heavier than a star destroyer. Blood was slowly trickling out of her body from the shrapnel wounds.
She looked at the blinking light on her wrist, when she was awake. Is this thing even working, she asked herself.
She then slipped back into unconsciousness. When she woke up again she could hear the hum of a starship engine. She ignored it at first, thinking that it was a hallucination. She then heard it getting closer until it sounded like a loud whining noise. The next time she blinked she saw a polished black shuttle landing.
The hatch opened to reveal several black armored figures. Oh great, Imperial death troopers. They were basically troopers that were financially loyal to the Emperor and everything sith.
But a closer look revealed that they all had red visors and were wearing black phase-2 clone trooper armor with red accents. That could only mean one thing, Ahsoka thought to herself.
Someone answered her distress signal, and that someone happened to be Clone Shadow troopers from the Grand Army's elite Onyx Guard. These troopers were based off of the Onyx Guard in the COG Army from Sera, Chancellor Dalyell's home world. They specialized in protecting important Government officials and buildings. They also went on missions at the personal order of the Chancellor.
One Shadow Trooper searched her person for what their real objective was: the extra copy of the Death Star plans that she still had with her. The black armored Clone fished out a data chip.
"I found something sergeant," the trooper said. The veteran trooper examined the chip. "Good work private. Now let's get the commander onboard," The sergeant ordered.
Ahsoka then began to slip into a coma, and the last thing she saw was being placed aboard the ship on a stretcher, and bandaged up with bacta. She may have been rescued, but would she survive to see Lux again?
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Vader was limping from the wreckage of his Tie advanced, which was forced down by the shockwave caused by the Death Star.
One of Vader's robotic legs was damaged from the crash and it forced him to limp. His leg sparked every time he planted on the ground as he walked. His robotic hand, or rather his robotic stub, had exposed wiring, and it too sparked.
His helmet was cracked and useless, as well as discarded on the sandy beach. The breather still covered his mouth and it was damaged, causing the suit to wheeze with every breath he took. He didn't really need the breather on a normal day, it really just added to the fear factor that his suit provided.
An Imperial Lamda class shuttle landed near his location, obviously responding to his locator beacon.
The shuttle's wings folded up as it landed and the ramp beneath the cockpit opened and a squad of black armored death troopers spilled out of the shuttle. They moved to secure a perimeter around Lord Vader.
Another figure walked out of the shuttle with two death troopers flanking him. It was Governor Tarkin, who was wearing gray torso armor over his uniform and a security helmet for protection.
"Tarkin! Did you lose faith in my ability to contain the situation," Vader asked, obviously referring to the Death Star blast that he narrowly avoided.
"You were taking to long my friend, and we didn't receive any news from the surface," Tarkin dismissed.
"My apologies," Vader said sarcastically. "I didn't realize that fighting the entire Rebel army, and their jedi leadersip, was so obviously simple".
"Enough excuses. We believed that the base was still compromised, and the Emperor himself ordered its destruction. As you and I very well know, the Emperor wants results and it is our job to produce them".
Vader stared at Tarkin, with an obvious frown.
"Did you kill the Jedi leadership," Tarkin asked.
"She crashed into a nearby island, significantly injured".
"She?" Tarkin asked.
"Ahsoka Tano". Vader said.
"Oh, that explains every thing," Tarkin said, referring to Ahsoka's refusal to just die. "And is that the island where she crashed?" Train said, pointing at a black colored shuttle taking off from the nearest island.
The shuttle unfolded its wings and sped away from the surface and toward the atmosphere.
Vader clenched his fists in rage. He lifted four troopers into the air and started to crush their helmets. The screaming troopers placed their hands on their helmets to take them off. But they failed, as their skulls were crushed and blood began to stream out of their helmets. The four corpses were still levitating in the air as Vader crushed the rocks, trees, and small animals within his reach. He was about to levitate and crush the remaining troopers and shuttles before Tarkin stopped him.
"Enough of this! Vader, release them," Tarkin ordered Vader. Vader shouted in anger and dropped the corpses and elements floating around him.
The other remaining troopers just stared in terror at the angered dark lord. Tarkin just simply starred at Vader without any visible emotion on his face. He then decided to ignore the incident, and focus on the situation at large.
"That was a Nu-class shuttle that carried her off. I haven't seen one of those since-," Tarkin stopped mid sentence and Vader shared a look with him.
"You don't think-, Tarkin said. "I do," Vader said before walking over to the shuttle with most of the death troopers following. Tarkin lingered behind with two death troopers. He placed a finger on his helmet comm and he spoke.
"Devastator. This is Tarkin. A black colored Nu-class shuttle is heading for the atmosphere. Track that ship and find out where it is heading," Tarkin ordered the fleet in orbit.
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In orbit, amongst the debris field from the recent battle for Scarif, an Imperial stealth frigate was directly in the path of the Nu-Class shuttle that was preparing to leave the system.
The ships commanding officer ordered the ship to cloak and avoid the shuttles path. Get the tracker ready and fire on my order.
The black shuttle flew passed where the cloaked frigate was waiting. Just before it passed, the frigate fired a small object at the passing shuttle. The object made contact with the shuttle and attached itself to the hull. The object was a small gray circle that, when planted, unfolded like a blooming flower with four petals. It then started to blink red and blue. It then started to transmit the location of the shuttle, or rather the object attached to its hull, to the Empire.
The shuttle was on its way to Azura, the final stronghold of the Republic, to give the plans over to the Republic so that they can find the weak spot on the Death Star.
With the Empire about to find the location of a secret stronghold of the Republic that they thought was destroyed, and with the Republic in possession of the plans (and weak spot) of the Empire's most powerful weapon, this war was about to take a very interesting turn.
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That's chapter one folks. I hope you enjoyed. Grubkiller out.