Our Own Conflicts / Chapter 2: Battle For...???
A/Note: Sorry for the short chappie peeps but I didn't have enough time to make it longer. ^-^ Tight schedule plus I just came down with a cold so I'm a little groggy. Hope you enjoy this chapter and like always I don't own Stars War or an affiliates.
P.S.: I try to describe the fight scenes as best as I can but I'm a little new at battle scenes. Plz be patient!
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There they all were. Standing together in a tight circle their backs facing each other's. The aliens and the droids unleashed upon them were slowly advancing holding their blasters high aimed at everything and anything.
Padme winced as she stretched her arm holding the blaster further out. Her cuts hurt tremendously. They were stinging.
Anakin stood ever faithfully beside her ready to strike at lightning's speed if any harm should come to her, his master, or the rest of the Jedi Council.
They had been fighting valiantly but soon many Jedi began to fall. Padawans and Masters alike collapsed in quivering heaps of dead flesh.
It all happened so fast. One minute, Obi-Wan reflected, he was destroying an ugly dinosaur and the next he was backed up against Mace Windu struggling for survival.
Dooku strode into the main hangar and pressed a button on a side containing a holo-communicator. As he waited for the communicator to send it's message through he waved a droid over to him.
The hangar was dark and bleak it's wall made out of brown rock that grew damp in the humid weather. The floor was black onyx a strong but still breakable material. A few speeder's lined the eastern wall while hover-bikes and other transportation devices filed along the northern wall.
"Yes, Master?" The droid asked in a small polite feminine voice. Dooku turned around.
"I want you to form a retrival party. If I am to weave the Trade Federation's powerful droid army into my Rebellion I need that blasted Senator dead. Gather a few Geonosisians from the dungeon. Tell them I want the Senator with me before I leave for my private shuttle." The droid nodded and turned hurriedly to scurry away.
Dooku folded his arms while the holo-communicator bleeped it's success. A cloaked, hooded figure stood hunched over.
"Is it done my apprentice?" Dooku looked at his feet in an embarrassed fashion.
"I am sorry my Master. But there has been a small problem. It seems as the honorable Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi has taken it upon himself to invite the Jedi Knights to crash the execution. I have a plan however you just might like."
The droid rushed down to the dungeons trying not to lose it's stiff footing. As soon as it reached it's destination it searched it's memory for the Geonosis language.
It began to converse with the shackled prisoners who looked eager to see sunlight again. They quickly agreed.
Dooku strode back to the ledge smirking with satisfaction. His Master had been very proud of him for his quick and logical thinking. It made him proud to serve Darth Sidious.
The sight that he saw put him into an even better mood. The Jedi Knights - as well as the Senator - were backed up against each other while the droids and the Geonosisians closed in.
"Halt!" He cried out. Immediately the battle stopped. All eyes - living and robotic - were focused on him.
"Do you surrender my prisoners?"
It was Mace Windu who spoke. "Surrender to you? We would rather die in honor them be led away like cowards." A murmur ran through the crowd.
Padme gave a small glance to Anakin. He was staring at her as if he'd never see her again. A slight wave of anger made her smallbody tremble. He closed the distance between them not caring if Obi-Wan was staring dissaprovedly. If they were to die then he would let her know again how he felt. They would die together if it was to be.
"We're not going to die here Anakin. I refuse to let it happen. Obi-Wan isn't going to die, Your not going to die, Master Windu is not going to die, and I will be damned if the rest of us die in this sandy pit!" She raised her blaster. A look of pure confidence and determination radiated around her.
Anakin felt strengthed by her very being. It wove around him like a ribbon of light. His lightsabre, which had been turned off like the rest of them at the beginning of Dooku's words, was lit again.
"Your right." He said simply.
"You had your chance. Very well. KILL THEM ALL!" The battle raged once more. The droids were evading the beams thrown at them now but some were much too clumsy to do so.
Before Padme could pull the trigger of her blaster, four Geonosisians had her by the arms and legs. In shock at their actions she felt her blaster being pulled out of her hand.
She struggled. And kicked and used all of her strength in trying to hurl the offending beings tugging at her body.
Anakin had been busy deflecting and slicing off a few heads and limbs there when he saw Padme's battle. He leapt over a few fighting pairs and ran towards her. They were lifting her into the air the putrid wings flapping at an intense speed.
Padme was giving them a rough time. He smirked slightly. His Padme, His fierey, spirited Padme.
The lightsabre battle was heating up to an intense degree. Obi-Wan was having a slight problem trying to keep up. Multiple blasts were being fired at them now and it took all of his concentration for the matter at hand. Master Windu glanced over his back at the younger Jedi.
"Master Yoda was bringing the clone army the Republic ordered here. He should be arriving any minute." He said.
"Let's hope it is soon!" Obi-Wan replied.
The Geonosisians were glad to be free but having to put up with a wriggling brat was another thing. An with a Jedi closing in on them they needed the speed their wings could give them.
"Let me go you over grown insects!" Padme demanded. Her foot managed to land on the alien holding her right leg. It gave a howl of pain. He traded a blow with her snapping her head to the left. A small trickle of blood ran down her chin.
She sat for a moment or so in shock before vengeance set in. Her right foot kept hitting the Geonosisian's knee over and over again. The movement kept the odd quartet from moving up any farther.
"Hold on Padme!" She looked down to see Anakin leaping for the bottom alien. With a swift movement the alien's headless body was sliding away from her body.
They weren't idiots. Thinking quick the Geonosisian on the left side of Padme balled it's hand into a fist and struck her square on the head. Instantly she was unconcious going limp in their grasp.
Anakin did not fail to notice this. But the aliens were quick and he could not fly. Besides that droids were closing in all around him their mechanical voices telling him to put down his lightsabre.
His face contorted into one of hatred. He lashed out at the droids blocking his pah. Padme was in danger. Who knows where the slimey bastards were taking her. Fleet of foot Anakin dodged blasts and melted metal and circuitry following the hovering group.
Just when everything was looking rather down, a part of the arena exploded into dust. A piercing sound, one that came from a large ship, rang out in the damp air.
All movement from the Jedi were halted. Coming towards them rapidly were a few carrier ships and from them were soldiers dressed in white armor.
"The clone army." Master Windu said with a certain air of happiness.
"Now we can switch our minds to something else. Like Dooku and that Bounty hunter of his." Obi-Wan commented. Master Windu nodded his slight smile turning into a frown. The bounty hunter as well as his son had disappeared shortly after the arena erupted into an all-out war.
Master Yoda looked over the battling circle. Speaking authoritively, even for his height, he told the soldiers exactly what to do.
"Set up a barrier you will around them! Desperately in need of our help, they are!" He called to the dispatcher over the loud noises the ships were making.
The dispatcher nodded from his post in the cockpit. Pleased, Yoda watched the carrier ships set up a perimeter around the surprised warriors.
"Sense suprise in you I do. More faith in me you must have." Yoda said calmly to Master Windu, his most trusted friend and comrade. Both Windu and Obi-Wan boarded Yoda's carrier as it took off to the 'command' post.
"Faith I have in you Master Yoda. However your timing is a little off." Yoda nodded grimly to Obi-Wan.
"Dead are many. Obi-Wan lost your Padawan have you?" Obi-Wan looked around at the arena flying past.
"He was protecting the Senator whom I'm guessing dragged him along for the ride."
"A disturbance I sense. In the middle of it the Senator is."
Anakin desperately tried to keep up with her and her captors. However it was not to be. They carried her high over the arena wall. It would be impossible for him, even a Jedi Master for that matter, to scale the wall in time.
His agony at failing her nearly consumed him but his determination would not allow him to lose the battle. Just then, His ever present stroke of luck caught on. The carrier transporting his Master and Master Windu and Yoda was hovering over him.
He jumped easily aboard kneeling as the ship abruptly pulled up. Obi-Wan looked at him warily.
"Where is Senator Padme?" He questioned. Anakin looked at his Master breathlessly. Master Yoda stepped forward.
"Hmmm..Taken she was." In an instant Anakin had his right mind back.
"Yes. By enemy aliens. They took her over the southern wall. I don't know where they're taking her." Anakin replied. His body craved water. The dusty sand stuck in his throat constricting it to a painful degree. Master Windu seemed to sense this and handed him a canteen which had been hanging on the side of the carrier wall. Anakin nodded and drank gratefully.
"Master Obi-Wan and Anakin. Find the Senator you will. Master Windu. Come with me you shall. A battle still we must fight." Yoda nodded his small green head marking the end of the discussion.
Dooku smiled as his prize was brought to him. She hung limp, bleeding, injured in their grasp. He pointed to the back of his hover-bike in which he would transport them to his private shuttle it was a distance off but if speed and a little luck was on his side he would make it.
Padme moaned slightly as Dooku climbed aboard. From the blood trailing down her forehead the beings must have hit her hard. He waved them away as if pardoning them of their guilts. The Geonosisians did not stick around to see if he was only joking. They flew away without hesitation eager to roam their homelands.
Dooku looked back at the young girl behind him. Shame such a beautiful creature had to die. Or did she? An evil smirk crawled over his face almost making him look handsome in his old age. Without a second thought to his maniacle plan he brought the bike to life and zoomed out over the rugged landscape.
Anakin and Obi-Wan were aboard another carrier again this one homing in on the mysterious Dooku's hover-bike. Anakin was much to fidgety to sense his beloved was aboard but Obi-Wan could.
"Padawan. Concentrate. You will sense her." Anakin looked hard at his Master as if believing he were lieing to him. But he closed his eyes and sat cross legged on the floor.
After a few minutes his eyes shot open. She was hurt, in pain, not aware of where she was or heading to. Her feelings washed over him like a tsunami consuming him drowning him.
Obi-Wan watched his Padawan struggle to his feet. "We need to find Dooku. Where he is Senator Padme shall be also." Suddenly the carrier jolted to the left nearly knocking Anakin and Obi-Wan out the open sides. The pilot leaned over to face the Jedi.
"A hover bike straight ahead. There seems to be to passengers. The driver and someone on the back." Anakin launched himself forward into the cockpit staring eagerly out the window. Yes it was them all right.
"Follow them. Don't take your eyes off of them or it will be your life!" Anakin warned.
In her mind she was racing for him at a speed she never thought imaginable. But he kept on getting farther and farther away. The black glue holding her feet now entwined up her legs flowing like ink around her creamy skin.
She tried calling out but couldn't. It was if her voice was held also in it's clutches. Slowly it began to suffocate her like the sands that whipped through her hair. Desperately she clawed at the material enfolding her but she found her arms would not move. They were held stedfast outright.
Pain. Confusion. Fear. They struck her like a lightning bolt. She couldn't calm down. Her heart was beating faster and faster. It was pounding within her chest.
Then he was infront of her just standing there with his cloak enveloping him like a mist. He was watching her with greif, sadness, and guilt. He wouldn't reach for her. He stood still.
Why Anakin? Why won't you save me? She thought desperately. He wouldn't fail her would he?
All these thoughts attacked Anakin. He didn't want to close the spiritual connection but he had to if he was to fight properly enough. Severing the connection wasn't difficult but he did it slowly so he wouldn't have to hear her painful thoughts.
Anakin watched the hover-bike warily dock at a hidde hangar. Obi-Wan looked over to his Padawan.
"Now don't go barreling in there without your head on straight. Take your ques from me. Our best chance at defeating him and regaining Padme is to fight him together. If we fight as individuals we will fall and all will be lost." Anakin did not like listening to his Master. It reminded him of his slavery days when he was forced to do whatever his Master willed him to. Now the rebellious air that had been given to him when he was set free clung to his very being.
But for Padme he would glady give up all independences given unto him. He nodded as the jumped aboard the hangar. It was now time to face the tip of the evil iceberg.
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Sorry it's so short but I wanted this ending to leave you haning! (Evil me!) The way I'm arranging this I'll have the next chapter out by Saturday night at the latest.
A/Note: Sorry for the short chappie peeps but I didn't have enough time to make it longer. ^-^ Tight schedule plus I just came down with a cold so I'm a little groggy. Hope you enjoy this chapter and like always I don't own Stars War or an affiliates.
P.S.: I try to describe the fight scenes as best as I can but I'm a little new at battle scenes. Plz be patient!
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There they all were. Standing together in a tight circle their backs facing each other's. The aliens and the droids unleashed upon them were slowly advancing holding their blasters high aimed at everything and anything.
Padme winced as she stretched her arm holding the blaster further out. Her cuts hurt tremendously. They were stinging.
Anakin stood ever faithfully beside her ready to strike at lightning's speed if any harm should come to her, his master, or the rest of the Jedi Council.
They had been fighting valiantly but soon many Jedi began to fall. Padawans and Masters alike collapsed in quivering heaps of dead flesh.
It all happened so fast. One minute, Obi-Wan reflected, he was destroying an ugly dinosaur and the next he was backed up against Mace Windu struggling for survival.
Dooku strode into the main hangar and pressed a button on a side containing a holo-communicator. As he waited for the communicator to send it's message through he waved a droid over to him.
The hangar was dark and bleak it's wall made out of brown rock that grew damp in the humid weather. The floor was black onyx a strong but still breakable material. A few speeder's lined the eastern wall while hover-bikes and other transportation devices filed along the northern wall.
"Yes, Master?" The droid asked in a small polite feminine voice. Dooku turned around.
"I want you to form a retrival party. If I am to weave the Trade Federation's powerful droid army into my Rebellion I need that blasted Senator dead. Gather a few Geonosisians from the dungeon. Tell them I want the Senator with me before I leave for my private shuttle." The droid nodded and turned hurriedly to scurry away.
Dooku folded his arms while the holo-communicator bleeped it's success. A cloaked, hooded figure stood hunched over.
"Is it done my apprentice?" Dooku looked at his feet in an embarrassed fashion.
"I am sorry my Master. But there has been a small problem. It seems as the honorable Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi has taken it upon himself to invite the Jedi Knights to crash the execution. I have a plan however you just might like."
The droid rushed down to the dungeons trying not to lose it's stiff footing. As soon as it reached it's destination it searched it's memory for the Geonosis language.
It began to converse with the shackled prisoners who looked eager to see sunlight again. They quickly agreed.
Dooku strode back to the ledge smirking with satisfaction. His Master had been very proud of him for his quick and logical thinking. It made him proud to serve Darth Sidious.
The sight that he saw put him into an even better mood. The Jedi Knights - as well as the Senator - were backed up against each other while the droids and the Geonosisians closed in.
"Halt!" He cried out. Immediately the battle stopped. All eyes - living and robotic - were focused on him.
"Do you surrender my prisoners?"
It was Mace Windu who spoke. "Surrender to you? We would rather die in honor them be led away like cowards." A murmur ran through the crowd.
Padme gave a small glance to Anakin. He was staring at her as if he'd never see her again. A slight wave of anger made her smallbody tremble. He closed the distance between them not caring if Obi-Wan was staring dissaprovedly. If they were to die then he would let her know again how he felt. They would die together if it was to be.
"We're not going to die here Anakin. I refuse to let it happen. Obi-Wan isn't going to die, Your not going to die, Master Windu is not going to die, and I will be damned if the rest of us die in this sandy pit!" She raised her blaster. A look of pure confidence and determination radiated around her.
Anakin felt strengthed by her very being. It wove around him like a ribbon of light. His lightsabre, which had been turned off like the rest of them at the beginning of Dooku's words, was lit again.
"Your right." He said simply.
"You had your chance. Very well. KILL THEM ALL!" The battle raged once more. The droids were evading the beams thrown at them now but some were much too clumsy to do so.
Before Padme could pull the trigger of her blaster, four Geonosisians had her by the arms and legs. In shock at their actions she felt her blaster being pulled out of her hand.
She struggled. And kicked and used all of her strength in trying to hurl the offending beings tugging at her body.
Anakin had been busy deflecting and slicing off a few heads and limbs there when he saw Padme's battle. He leapt over a few fighting pairs and ran towards her. They were lifting her into the air the putrid wings flapping at an intense speed.
Padme was giving them a rough time. He smirked slightly. His Padme, His fierey, spirited Padme.
The lightsabre battle was heating up to an intense degree. Obi-Wan was having a slight problem trying to keep up. Multiple blasts were being fired at them now and it took all of his concentration for the matter at hand. Master Windu glanced over his back at the younger Jedi.
"Master Yoda was bringing the clone army the Republic ordered here. He should be arriving any minute." He said.
"Let's hope it is soon!" Obi-Wan replied.
The Geonosisians were glad to be free but having to put up with a wriggling brat was another thing. An with a Jedi closing in on them they needed the speed their wings could give them.
"Let me go you over grown insects!" Padme demanded. Her foot managed to land on the alien holding her right leg. It gave a howl of pain. He traded a blow with her snapping her head to the left. A small trickle of blood ran down her chin.
She sat for a moment or so in shock before vengeance set in. Her right foot kept hitting the Geonosisian's knee over and over again. The movement kept the odd quartet from moving up any farther.
"Hold on Padme!" She looked down to see Anakin leaping for the bottom alien. With a swift movement the alien's headless body was sliding away from her body.
They weren't idiots. Thinking quick the Geonosisian on the left side of Padme balled it's hand into a fist and struck her square on the head. Instantly she was unconcious going limp in their grasp.
Anakin did not fail to notice this. But the aliens were quick and he could not fly. Besides that droids were closing in all around him their mechanical voices telling him to put down his lightsabre.
His face contorted into one of hatred. He lashed out at the droids blocking his pah. Padme was in danger. Who knows where the slimey bastards were taking her. Fleet of foot Anakin dodged blasts and melted metal and circuitry following the hovering group.
Just when everything was looking rather down, a part of the arena exploded into dust. A piercing sound, one that came from a large ship, rang out in the damp air.
All movement from the Jedi were halted. Coming towards them rapidly were a few carrier ships and from them were soldiers dressed in white armor.
"The clone army." Master Windu said with a certain air of happiness.
"Now we can switch our minds to something else. Like Dooku and that Bounty hunter of his." Obi-Wan commented. Master Windu nodded his slight smile turning into a frown. The bounty hunter as well as his son had disappeared shortly after the arena erupted into an all-out war.
Master Yoda looked over the battling circle. Speaking authoritively, even for his height, he told the soldiers exactly what to do.
"Set up a barrier you will around them! Desperately in need of our help, they are!" He called to the dispatcher over the loud noises the ships were making.
The dispatcher nodded from his post in the cockpit. Pleased, Yoda watched the carrier ships set up a perimeter around the surprised warriors.
"Sense suprise in you I do. More faith in me you must have." Yoda said calmly to Master Windu, his most trusted friend and comrade. Both Windu and Obi-Wan boarded Yoda's carrier as it took off to the 'command' post.
"Faith I have in you Master Yoda. However your timing is a little off." Yoda nodded grimly to Obi-Wan.
"Dead are many. Obi-Wan lost your Padawan have you?" Obi-Wan looked around at the arena flying past.
"He was protecting the Senator whom I'm guessing dragged him along for the ride."
"A disturbance I sense. In the middle of it the Senator is."
Anakin desperately tried to keep up with her and her captors. However it was not to be. They carried her high over the arena wall. It would be impossible for him, even a Jedi Master for that matter, to scale the wall in time.
His agony at failing her nearly consumed him but his determination would not allow him to lose the battle. Just then, His ever present stroke of luck caught on. The carrier transporting his Master and Master Windu and Yoda was hovering over him.
He jumped easily aboard kneeling as the ship abruptly pulled up. Obi-Wan looked at him warily.
"Where is Senator Padme?" He questioned. Anakin looked at his Master breathlessly. Master Yoda stepped forward.
"Hmmm..Taken she was." In an instant Anakin had his right mind back.
"Yes. By enemy aliens. They took her over the southern wall. I don't know where they're taking her." Anakin replied. His body craved water. The dusty sand stuck in his throat constricting it to a painful degree. Master Windu seemed to sense this and handed him a canteen which had been hanging on the side of the carrier wall. Anakin nodded and drank gratefully.
"Master Obi-Wan and Anakin. Find the Senator you will. Master Windu. Come with me you shall. A battle still we must fight." Yoda nodded his small green head marking the end of the discussion.
Dooku smiled as his prize was brought to him. She hung limp, bleeding, injured in their grasp. He pointed to the back of his hover-bike in which he would transport them to his private shuttle it was a distance off but if speed and a little luck was on his side he would make it.
Padme moaned slightly as Dooku climbed aboard. From the blood trailing down her forehead the beings must have hit her hard. He waved them away as if pardoning them of their guilts. The Geonosisians did not stick around to see if he was only joking. They flew away without hesitation eager to roam their homelands.
Dooku looked back at the young girl behind him. Shame such a beautiful creature had to die. Or did she? An evil smirk crawled over his face almost making him look handsome in his old age. Without a second thought to his maniacle plan he brought the bike to life and zoomed out over the rugged landscape.
Anakin and Obi-Wan were aboard another carrier again this one homing in on the mysterious Dooku's hover-bike. Anakin was much to fidgety to sense his beloved was aboard but Obi-Wan could.
"Padawan. Concentrate. You will sense her." Anakin looked hard at his Master as if believing he were lieing to him. But he closed his eyes and sat cross legged on the floor.
After a few minutes his eyes shot open. She was hurt, in pain, not aware of where she was or heading to. Her feelings washed over him like a tsunami consuming him drowning him.
Obi-Wan watched his Padawan struggle to his feet. "We need to find Dooku. Where he is Senator Padme shall be also." Suddenly the carrier jolted to the left nearly knocking Anakin and Obi-Wan out the open sides. The pilot leaned over to face the Jedi.
"A hover bike straight ahead. There seems to be to passengers. The driver and someone on the back." Anakin launched himself forward into the cockpit staring eagerly out the window. Yes it was them all right.
"Follow them. Don't take your eyes off of them or it will be your life!" Anakin warned.
In her mind she was racing for him at a speed she never thought imaginable. But he kept on getting farther and farther away. The black glue holding her feet now entwined up her legs flowing like ink around her creamy skin.
She tried calling out but couldn't. It was if her voice was held also in it's clutches. Slowly it began to suffocate her like the sands that whipped through her hair. Desperately she clawed at the material enfolding her but she found her arms would not move. They were held stedfast outright.
Pain. Confusion. Fear. They struck her like a lightning bolt. She couldn't calm down. Her heart was beating faster and faster. It was pounding within her chest.
Then he was infront of her just standing there with his cloak enveloping him like a mist. He was watching her with greif, sadness, and guilt. He wouldn't reach for her. He stood still.
Why Anakin? Why won't you save me? She thought desperately. He wouldn't fail her would he?
All these thoughts attacked Anakin. He didn't want to close the spiritual connection but he had to if he was to fight properly enough. Severing the connection wasn't difficult but he did it slowly so he wouldn't have to hear her painful thoughts.
Anakin watched the hover-bike warily dock at a hidde hangar. Obi-Wan looked over to his Padawan.
"Now don't go barreling in there without your head on straight. Take your ques from me. Our best chance at defeating him and regaining Padme is to fight him together. If we fight as individuals we will fall and all will be lost." Anakin did not like listening to his Master. It reminded him of his slavery days when he was forced to do whatever his Master willed him to. Now the rebellious air that had been given to him when he was set free clung to his very being.
But for Padme he would glady give up all independences given unto him. He nodded as the jumped aboard the hangar. It was now time to face the tip of the evil iceberg.
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Sorry it's so short but I wanted this ending to leave you haning! (Evil me!) The way I'm arranging this I'll have the next chapter out by Saturday night at the latest.