(Planet Fondor, 20 BBY)

A grey video with target crosshairs on the screen going at a high speed towards an unknown location.

"Missile in-bound, t-minus twenty seconds," said the voice of a clone soldier. The video continues to move forward until it comes over a hill to what appears to be a metal walled area with turrets, sattelites, and hundreds of droids moving around. The point-laser defenses attempt to target the video, but it's too fast for it. The video is none other than a guided missile headed straight for a sattelite dish. It hits it's target, causing massive damage to the structure, causing it to fall. The structure fell onto a group of droids trying to run away, crushing them flat.

V-19's, Y-wings, and a few prototypes of the new V-wing starfighters dropped bombs or fired missiles all over the Separatist bases. A few of them were shot down by the base's anti-aircraft turbolasers. Despite the losses they pressed on to finish off their targets. LAAT's landed on the ground, allowing their deadly cargo of clone troopers into ground combat. One LAAT landed on top of a SBD that wasn't quite dead yet. Two men got off it, one of them putting the droid out of it's misery with two well-aimed shots to the head.

"That's what I like about you Rex, you're straight to the point," said Taran. Taran's Jedi robes were now customized to his liking. He had his same brown tunic, but under it was a forest-green undershirt to represent his affiliation with the Earth kingdom. He had two clone armor gauntlets, one emblazoned with the emblem of the Republic and the other with the Four Nations and also two greaves from the same armor to protect his shins. He was also wearing black gloves that resembled in design the rock gloves worn by the Dai Li agents of old, but the gloves could be used to hold rocks and water whenever he needed to, since he needed a source to bend the two elements when necessary.

"Kid, when you've been trained your whole natural life to kill that's all you are," said Rex. The two ran into the combat zone, taking down as many droids a possible. Rex led a platoon of his clone brothers in a cover fire situation when a squad of battle droids and SBDs took cover behind some barrels and poured deadly fire into the clones. Taran snuck up behind them while they were preoccupied and killed all of them in five swings. A battle droid tried to sneak up on Taran while his back was turned, but it's head flew off from a well-aimed shot by Rex. Once those droids were finished the base was clear.

"General Skywalker, me and Rex have cleared the sight, further orders?" said Taran.

"Get into the mainframe and bring up the data, over," said Anakin.

"You heard him Rex, let's get in," said Taran. He, Rex, and three other clones went to a crashed sattelite where a massive hole saterd back at them.

"Ascension cables," said Taran. Rex and the clones hooked their ascension cables to the side and began to climb slowly down while Taran summoned some earth onto his gloves and used them to crawl down on the wall, always staying level with the clones. They all continued climbing until they came to a level in the pit. The clones retrieved their ascension cables back once they had gotten back on solid ground.

"Remeber boys, stay alert," said Rex. Taran turned his lightsaber on to give them some light while the others used the lights installed in their helmets to light up the way forward. He went before the, sensing their way through the metal tunnel, always looking around for any signs of danger at every corner. As they continued walking the came to a room filled with monitors and computers. Rex and the other clones patrolled around the room while Taran took out a GPS looking device and plugged it into the nearest computer to hack into the network. In less than five seconds he was in.

"Where did you learn how to do that?" said Rex.

"Rex, I've been hacking into things since I was eight, it's really not that hard," said Taran. Rex rolled his eyes and continued to patrol the room. As Taran browsed through the network he found two files that caught his eye, one labeled Innovations and another Project: Time Space. Taran clicked on Innovations first and saw the schematics for a new droid unit.

"Rex, take a look at this," said Taran. "It looks like clone intelligence was right." Rex walked over to him and took his helmet off to get a better look.

"What is that?" said Rex.

"It's called a tri-fighter droid. Its a new starfighter for the Seps. According to this they just started making these," said Taran. The schematics showed a life-like appearance of the tri-fighter droid and it also showed the missiles it was decked with.

"It fires regular concussion missiles and discord missiles packed with buzz droids," Taran continued.

"Great, just what we needed, more clankers to deal with," said Rex. Taran copied the file to a storage device (a.k.a flash drive). Then he clicked on the file that said Project: Time Space. In it were blueprints to an invention the likes of which neither Taran nor Rex had heard of. They were too complex for anyone to decipher. Taran copied that file too. Taran's comlink came on.

"Taran, have you guys got the data?" said Anakin.

"Yes, the Separatists have a new droid they're going to use. and there's also something else here called Project: Time Space," said Taran.

"Well get out of there and return to the surface, the bombers are about to do one more final run. Pop green smoke when you're ready," said Anakin.

"Acknowledged," said Taran. Taran packed his things back up and he and the others began to walk back towards the pit while Rex put his helmet back on. As they walked Taran heard what sounded like something rolling towards them. He turned around and activated his lightsaber. Out from the shadows came a droideka. It stopped, got out of it's ball form, flipped on it's shield projector, and began firing at the group. The clones took cover behind the corners of a hallway running perpendicular to their own and returned fire while Taran stood in the hallway and defelected the incoming lasers.

From behind the droideka came two SBD's, giving more fire to Taran, Rex, and the troopers. Taran knew that unless they figured a way to kill the droids, he would be pverpowered by the sustained fire from the droids, and this was not one of the places he though of dying in. He did think of one thing that would be able to stop the droid's onslaught.

"Rex, poppers," said Taran. Rex and another clone took out the EMP grenades and threw them at the droids. The SBD's tried to shoot the grenades before they went off, but their aime was horrible when it came to that. The grenades went off and the droids shorted out, ending their threat.

"Let's get out of here," said Taran. They all ran for the pit. When they got their the clone reconnected their ascension cables and began to climb back up. Taran began to clomb back up using the same methid he used to get down. As they group climbed they saw nine red dots coming towards them from out of the pit. Rex shed some light down for them to see three five foot tall crab droids scuttling up the walls towards them.

"Muckrackers," said Rex. As they got closer they began to shoot at the group. Taran used his one hand and his feet to keep climbing while he deflected incoming fire from the droids. Rex used the same concept with one of his blaster pistols and returned fire. The other three couldn't fire due to their ascension cables being hooked to their firearms, therefore not allowing them to shoot. Instead they kept walking while Rex and Taran covered for them. One blast caught a clone in his back and he fell to the botton of the pit, if even a bottom were to be seen from the others.

Taran deflected as best he could while Rex shot down one crab droid in it's head, sending it tumbling to the bottom.

"Rex, get up there and shoot the smoke, I'll be there in a minute," said Taran. Taran jumped from the wall and landed on a crab droid right below him. Rex and the two surviving clones climbed up to the surface while Taran hung onto the back of the crab droid. The droid tried it's best to throw Taran off, but thanks to his gloves Taran hung in there. The other droid tried to shoot him off, but most of the bolts connected with it's brothers legs, not doing any damage but discouraging it. Taran took a cable out his leather belt. He tied it around the droid's forward receptors, then threw the other one down to the other droids forward receptors and used the Force to tie it around too. Taran got in front of the crab droid he was holding on to and cut it's blaster off, then sawed it's legs off.

The droid tumbled down towards the bottom when Taran latched back onto the wall. It's predecessor strained from the weight and the crab droid was slowly brought skidding down towards the bottom, it's friend dragging it down with it's sheer weight. Taran climbed down a bit further and cut the droid's forward legs off, sending the two down. Taran began to climb up and once he sensed he was up far enough he Force jumped all the way back to the top. He landed on the ground next to Rex.

"Glad to see you made it out kid," said Taran.

"Thanks, Rex, now where's the safe zone?" said Taran.

"Over there?" said Rex pointing to a hill outside the metal fence. As he spoke Taran saw a green smoke starting to curl around them

"Rex, is that the green smoke?"

"Yes."

"When did you set it off?"

"Thirty seconds ago, the muckracker shot it when I got to the top," said Rex.

Taran sighed, then screamed, "Run!" The group sprinted off to where Rex had said the safe zone was. As they ran they heard the sound of approaching Y-wings incoming. Taran knew they didn't have time to run off, so he bended four columns of earth under them all and propelled them into the air. They all landed on their various body parts: backs, arms, stomachs, just before the Y-wings came in and dropped their bombs, completely demolishing the Separatist base. Taran and Rex got up to see the fireworks go on. Taran's comlink went off.

"Taran, are you guys out?" said Anakin.

"Yes, we're out," said Taran.

"I'm sending a gunship," said Anakin. The comlink went out.

"Do you still have the data?" said Rex. Taran held up the leather pouch.

"You really don't know me well do you?" said Taran.

"Kid, why do you torment me so much?" said Rex.

"Just to keep your mood up," said Taran once the gunship landed and they all got on.

"I don't see how it does," said Rex. The gunship took off towards the Resolute waiting in the planet's sky.