"General", said a trooper, in an unfeeling voice, electronic due to the speaker in the helmet "I'm sorry but the time for you to die has arrived." He raised his blaster as did the 4 other ARC troopers and opened fire on the jedi master know as Zoe Adiila.

She ignited her two green blades and expertly deflected the blaster bolts into the helmets of the ARC troopers she had taken on a scouting mission. She deactivated the green blades and re-attached them to her belt.

She charged off towards the base, the loose fitting white combat pants moving like a blur and the white hoodie with a dark blue trim flailing behind her as she ran, pushing herself to go faster, she had to go faster.

She bolted across the open plains of Dantooine the tall yellowish grass swaying in the wake of her speed. She was about ten klick's south of the base when her montrals sent a warning to her about the trooper 50 meters away. She skidded to a stop and crouched down into the grass. She slunk towards the trooper like and akul might hunt her on her homeworld of Shili. She was only three meters away from the clone now and still undetected.

She pounced on the clone, knocking his helmet off in the process. Zoe straddled him and activated a lightsaber and held it to the poor clones throat.

"General!" yelled the clone "What are you doing?"

"Why did my ARC troopers attack me, Captain Nox?" Snarled Zoe, all pretenses of jedi serenity shattered.

"How in blazes should I know, I certainly didn't order that!" Yelled the confused captain in return.

"Don't lie to me Nox, I thought we were friends." She said as her lekku had started to quiver and shake uncontrollably, indicating her stress and sorrow.

"I did hear some clones talking about how order 66 was enacted over the comm channel but that can't be right as that would mean the jedi have betrayed the republic, have they general?" asked Nox unsure of himself.

"WHAT! Of course we didn't betray the republic, we are supposed to defend it and the people with in it." She replied equally as bewildered as the clone.

"Um, I don't mean to be rude but could you get off me general." Inquired Nox.

"Y…yes." Replied Zoe blushing slightly at the mix up. She then asked, "Why didn't you try to kill me?"

"Well you see it might have something to do with the fact that my inhibitor chip is disabled, it happened after an electric shock but I never bothered to report it." Replied Nox. He stood up and dusted his white armor with red makings off. His recessive blue eyes a rarity in clones especially with the blond hair, which was tied into a bun.

"So, what's the plan General?" asked Nox ready to help.

"Right… we need to get of this planet, you will go back to base and report that the droids killed me. You will proceed to steal a shuttle and come and pick me up. Then we will go to my home world."

Zoe walked over to be under one of the few trees found on the plains of Dantooine. She sat down, her brick red skin blending in with the tree. This only showed the white facial markings and cloths. She closed her eyes and began to meditate.

Nox began to retune to the base. His mid was wondering. It came to the topic of his general. He thought about how she cared for her men, after a battle she, instead of sleeping, would head to the medical ward and use the force to heal her wounded men. He would know she had treated him once. It then wondered over to her cunning intellect, which never failed her, in battle or in games of dejarik they played against each other. Over the 4 years they had known each other they had become good friends.

Zoe had been trying to meditate but was failing so she decided to just let her mind do as it pleased. She thought back to the first time she had met her captain. It had been the second battle of Geonosis. She had just bee assigned command of the 17th Battle Corps. She had walked onto the bridge of her Acclamator-class ship. He had been standing on over the holo map revising battle plans. She had strolled over confidently and said in a professional tone "Hello captain, I am you new general you may call me general or ma'am." Then in a softer more compassionate tone she said, "So what's your name captain and what's the plan?"

Little did she know this first meeting would set off a chain of events where she would end up being attracted to him and wanting to be with him yet being barred by the jedi code. Now she realized that there was no code holding her back anymore. She had to test the water to make sure the feelings were mutual first though.

Nox entered the base. Seeing the commander he walked over and saluted and said "Sir, the droids have wiped out the general and our scouts."

"Very good captain", Replied the commander "dismissed."

"Sir, yes Sir." Replied Nox.

He slipped away. He strolled over toward the republic shuttles. Greeting clones he new personally. When he arrived at a shuttle he was surprised to find a clone already inside. He said surprised "Headshot, what are you doing here."

The clone known as Headshot replied coolly "I might ask you the same question sir."

"Well you see." Began Nox before he was cut off by Headshot who said, "Don't worry sir I know your inhibitor chip was disabled, so is mine. We can take this shuttle and escape this place."

"Headshot, the general is alive we will go and get her then escape, alright."

"What are you crazy, we would be killed of we did that." Replied Headshot outraged.

"We will get shot anyway", Replied the captain "Now lets go."

Headshot conceded and fired up the engines. The commander heard this and yelled, "Who authorized this?" The shuttle then lifted off and sped out towards the south of the base.

They touched down by the tree and the Zoe rushed onto the shuttle. It lifted off into the atmosphere of the planter before exiting into space and jumping to light speed.