Star wars

Revenge of the Sith

(I dont own any of the Star Wars universe)

The skies above Coruscant are red with flames as the assault on the metropolis world dwindles, but it has taken its toll, countless are dead from the invasion and even more are buried alive under the smoldering wreckage that once was home, and to add to the disaster chancellor pallpatine, the very one who's spirit and leadership has kept the republic from collapsing in on itself has been abducted by the droid army general 'Grievous'. As civilians pray for a miracle that their beloved chancellor will be returned to them; two Jedi star fighters approach the battle far above Coruscant. Obi-wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, the two most well know heroes of the republic, race to save the Chancellor from enemy hands.

Obi-wan mirrored Anakin's moves turn for turn in and out of the way of turbo-laser fire that could have easily disintegrated them in a millisecond, but Obi-wan and Anakin were not flying through experience or technique but through the power of the force, and they both knew if they let it control them then they would live to fight another day.

"Anakin the Chancellor's homing beacon is coming from inside the warship to the left" Obi-wan said as he destroyed yet another droid fighter.

"Master, you have one on your tail. I'm coming beside him to flank" Anakin said into the intercom

"No Anakin I can handle things here. You must get to the chancel..." his sentence was cut off as a laser caught the top his right wing. "This is why I hate to fly" he said to himself.

"Don't worry Master R2 has him locked on. Fire… NOW!" as he said the words two blaster shots engulfed the droid tri-fighter. "Direct hit good shooting R2" R2 gave a whistle of pleasure in his ability's.

"Yes very good R2, now can we focus on the task at hand please" there was a slight bit of sacasticness in his voice he never liked to thank R2 for doing anything he was just a droid.

"Now Master be nice to R2 he did just help you didn't he?" Anakin said in a lecturing kind of voice while barely avoiding a stray laser bolt.

Obi-wan didn't like the thought of being indebted to a droid "Thank you very much R2" he said with a more serious voice this time. He heard R2 chirp with pleasure. "Now Anakin were going in" and with that both fighters dived heading at tremendous speed toward the warship dodging and weaving out of harms way.

"Anakin the bay door energy shields are still up will you fix that please" Obi-wan said.

"Yes Master I'm on it" Anakin then twirled his fighter so he had a clear shot through the debris and fighting. " R2 lock on to there power generators" but before R2 could start the command Anakin's warning alarm sounded there were two tri-fighters on his tail "Master can you keep them occupied while I bring down there shields"

"Yes I think I can manage that Anakin" he then started firing upon the tri-fighters. One exploded into flames and spun out of control nearly hitting the other fighter. "There one down, one to go" with a certain bit smugness.

"Master do I detect a bit of cockiness" Anakin said through a smile.

"No of course not" Obi-wan said, but his face was a little more red then it should have been. He then started firing again at the second fighter but this one wasn't going to go down as easy, it dodged and weaved and pulled an amazing maneuver that spun him around in a circle and shot at Obi-wan, then spun back around and started his pursuit on Anakin once again.

"Master R2 has there generators locked on just a few more seconds" Anakin said into his intercom.

"Good, I've nearly got this fighter now" he shot at the fighter blindly and to his astonishment it hit the tri-fighters wing, it spun out of control and exploded.

"Good shooting master" Anakin said

"Umm yes thank you Anakin" Obi-wan said.

"Fire now R2" Anakin said and two rockets lurched forward and hit what must have been their shield generator because the shields flickered and died. Without missing a beat armor platting started sliding over the now exposed hangar bay door

"Oh I have a bad feeling about this" Obi-wan said in a very nervous voice. It seemed they were inching when they were actually traveling at ferocious speeds. Obi-wan became more and more tense and then he braced himself for impact against the sliding doors, but then barely missed it and the two fighters came skidding down the bay floor.

Anakin's fighter slowed enough for him to open his cockpit and jump out, his blue lightsaber lit and at the ready. Droid's bolts lit up the hanger and Anakin sent almost every bolt back to the sender. He then made his way forward slashing every droid that came near him.

Obi-wan's fighter slowed a great deal further down the hanger and when he finally did get out of his fighter Anakin had mostly cleared his part of the hangar. That didn't mean there weren't quite a few more at his end of the hangar though because the second he got out a hail of bolts headed towards him. In that second though Obi-wan had calmed himself and let the force flow through him and control his movement's and just like Anakin sent wave after wave of bolts back to the droid who shot it. They both cut there way through droid after droid until till the hangar was vacant except for them, R2 and pieces of battle droids.

"Well that was a good work out" Anakin said jokingly

"Indeed, well shall we get moving then" Obi-wan said and started jogging on.

"Wait master" Anakin said with a very grim face "I sense Dooku"

"Yes Anakin I sense him also… and I also sense a trap" Obi-wan said with a slight frown"

"Well what should be our next course of action then" Anakin said with a puzzled look on his face

"Spring the trap" he said with a smile. Anakin grinned "R2 locate the chancellor please"

R2 went over to security terminal and jacked in after a minute he transmitted a schematic of the ship to Obi-wan's data pad and there was a marker where the chancellor's beacon was coming from

"He is being held on the observatory level" Obi-wan said with a slight frown "I doubt it will be easy to get up there"

"Nonsense master we are Jedi it will be a breeze" Anakin said, but he didn't trust his own words.

"I hope you are right my friend"

They started to jog on with R2 on there heals, but then Anakin said to R2 "Stay with the ship R2. We may need to contact you with this" Anakin held out a two way communicator and R2 took it with his claw.

Anakin and Obi-wan started to bored an elevator, but then found it was full of battle droids

"Drop your weapons" the squad leader demanded "I said DROP THEM!"

Anakin and Obi-wan responded to this by lighting there light sabers and proceeding to slash through the small lift.

"Well going up" Anakin said with a smile as the doors closed in front of them.

R2 was still standing by the security terminal when two Super Battle Droids marched in and started examining the two Jedi star fighters R2 then backed away behind some crates and hoped they wouldn't find him.

The elevator started going up, but about half way up to the observatory level it stopped.

Anakin reached into his robes and pulled out the other communicator "R2 can you make our elevator go up please" There was silence on the other end of the communicator "R2"

The communicator rang out "R2 can you make our elevator go up please" R2 just stood there. "R2" He then decided to risk it and go back to the security terminal.

"Well there's more than one way out of here" Anakin said while turning on his lightsaber and the proceeded to cut a hole in the ceiling. The smoldering chunk fell to the floor and Anakin jumped through the hole. He saw a door a little above wear the elevator had stopped "Ok" he said to himself and he grabbed the sides of the doors and pulled with both the force and physical strength.

R2 had gotten to the security terminal and had activated the elevator, when the communicator rang out "R2 we need to go up not down. Do you here me? We need to go up not down!" R2 then corrected his mistake and sent the elevator up. "That's better" but the damage had already been done and the two battle droids had noticed R2

"Hey you come here" the first droid said as it grabbed R2 and picked him up like he was a toy "stupid astromich droid"

With that R2 spurted oil out all over the two battle droids and activated his rockets setting them ablaze and he flew to safety. He chirped with delight about his actions.

As Anakin was just starting to budge the door the elevator fell from beneath his feet and now he was holding on to the ledge for dear life.

Obi-wan was standing there watching Anakin through the hole he had cut until the elevator had dropped suddenly "R2 we need to go up not down. Do you hear me? We need to go up not down!" the elevator came to a violent halt and started shooting up. "That's better.

Anakin heard the opening of the door above him and two battle droid commanders stood in the doorway. They looked down on the helpless Jedi holding onto the ledge. "Hands up Jedi" and they pointed there blasters.

Hands up Anakin thought I'm holding onto a ledge, just then he heard the whooshing of the elevator coming up under him. He pushed off the ledge and let the force guide him back into the hole he had cut in the elevator's ceiling.

"Uh oh" the droid commanders said in unison. The elevator then smashed into the head's of the droids evectivley beheading them.

Anakin then fell right through the hole and landed neatly next to Obi-wan.

Obi-wan reacted by bearing his light saber ready to strike, but then realized his mistake "Oh it's you" while extinguishing his light saber. "Well R2…"

"Don't Master" Anakin said protesting.

"I didn't say anything" Obi-wan said with an innocent look on his face.

"Yes, well you were going to. He is trying his best Master and that's all I want of him" Anakin said while the elevator was coming to a stop

"Well let's go Anakin we will talk about your droid later" Obi-wan said jokingly while stepping off the lift. Anakin just shook his head grinning.

There was very little to no resistance in this part of the ship, a few lone battle droid's here and there, but other than that it was relatively quite.

"Why are there no guard's here" Anakin asked

"I have a feeling we are about to find out" said Obi-wan as he saw a very large door at the end of this hall "Chancellor Pallpatine's beacon is coming from behind that door"

"Well let's make haste we have no time to lose" Anakin said as he started to sprint. There was no lock on the door no retina scan no nothing just an unguarded door and this made Obi-wan very nervous

"Be ready Anakin I cannot tell what's going to happen the dark side is very strong in this place" Obi-wan said

"I know Master I can sense the dark side is strong here also" Anakin said irritated, he didn't like how Obi-wan still acted like he was his padawan.

They moved forward and the doors slid open. It was dark and cold inside the room. There was a window on the far side of the room where they could see the space battle raging outside. The door's shut behind them and left the two Jedi in complete darkness. Then bright light's turned on blinding them momentarily, but what Anakin saw next made his heart plummet. It was Pallpatine, but it wasn't Pallpatine it couldn't be he looked ancient, starved and terrified. Anakin had never seen Pallpatine so awful before. If Obi-wan was at all worried he didn't show it.

"Chancellor" Obi-wan said "it's good to see you are all right"

"Look behind you!" was all that he could mutter at them.