Chapter 3

A Plead for Help

(A/N for those of you that couldn't get the link in the last chapter to work the video was Never Gonna Give you up)

(A/N the Allied Species have spent the last 34 years researching technology and reverse engineering forerunner tech therefore their weapons and shields are a lot stronger then they were in the game ex. All UNSC ships have a MAC the equivalent of a Super MAC)

"Well," thought Ahsoka as she walked down the hallway of the Glorious Victory "This is actually pretty enjoyable." She had been on Glorious Victory for a couple of days now and she had learned a lot. In one day she had been the first one in the Republic to make contact with eight new species. In the same day! Although these humans looked similar to humans in the republic she had checked the DNA and noticed that there were key differences. Most noticable was that none of these new species had midichlorians. " I guess master Qui Gon was wrong," thought Ahsoka "Life can exist without midichlorians."

The Allied Species had saved her life and they were offering her shelter although they did ask her a lot of questions. Considering that they had a common enemy Ahsoka had not considered this to be a big deal and she had been more than happy to tell these Allied Species everything there was to tell. About the Republic, about the Separatists, about Jedi, about Sith, and everything else there was to know about her galaxy. In turn she had learned quite a few things, about the Human-Covenant war, about the Great Schism, about the SPARTAN project which had been abandoned due to it being immoral. But two things that she had learned about stuck out and made her shudder. The Halo rings and the Flood. She wasn't sure which was worse weapons that could wipe out all life in a galaxy or parasites that could infect other living things and make it one of them. She shook her head neither was currently a threat and she reminded herself of her destination.

The ODST Aaron Colton was showing Ramore Altre an old human movie and he had invited her also. She had quickly become friends with the two of them and she didn't even need to think about it before she said yes. Odds are she might be stuck with this attack squadron for awhile for they couldn't just send off a ship to drop her off at a Republic base. Normally this lack of help would have irritated her but now Ahsoka was finding hard to become frustrated for reasons she wasn't quite sure of. "Maybe my Jedi training is finally paying off," she muttered although for some reason she was pretty sure that wasn't it.

"This war just keeps getting weirder and weirder," said Aaron as he set up a holographic projector in the leisure room.

Ramore nodded in approval "First weird in a bad way with the CIS then in a good way Ahsoka." Just a few seconds after he said the Togruta's name then she walked into the room.

"Just in time," said Aaron standing up "I just got the projector working. Now bear with me the movie is only in 2D but there's a reason we still have a copy after 600 years." Dimming the lights in the room and activating the projector Aaron sat down with the other two as The Shawshank Redemption played.

"I knew that that story was promising." said Ramore as the three of them walked out of the leisure room.

"He dug his way out of prison with that little toothpick?" asked Ahsoka.

"The will can be a powerful thing Ahsoka," said Aaron "Put your heart into it and you can do nearly anything."

Ahsoka smiled and looked like she was about to respond when the voice of the ship master boomer over the intercom. "Attention all hands we have just received the following distress call." The group of three stopped dead in their tracks as they listened to the recording. "This is General Obi-Wan Kenobi to and Republic ships that may receive this message Naboo is being invaded by the Separatists and we don't have the manpower required to stop them. Half of our ships have already been destroyed and the capital city Theed has already been captured. If we don't get reinforcements then the whole planet will fall!" Ahsoka gasped as she heard the message play out. The shipmaster spoke again "We are five minutes away from the origin of the distress call and we are en route to help." Ahsoka didn't listen to the rest of the shipmaster's speech and simply bolted towards the hanger with Aaron and Ramore hot on her heels.

As a result of their speed they were one of the first to reach the hanger. "Any particular reason you sprinted here so fast?" asked Aaron not out of breath due to his genetic augmentation.

"Obi-Wan Kenobi sent that message." said Ahsoka "I know him he's a very good friend of mine."

In an attempt to comfort her Aaron gave her a small hug before saying "It's going to be ok we're going to help him." Ahsoka gave a small smile as the rest of the hanger filled up with Allied Species solders. They turned to see the shipmaster making his way towards them.

"Everyone listen up!" he shouted as the room fell silent. "We don't know what kind of a situation we're flying into so until we get a good idea about what we're going we are going to be delaying the launching of drop ships." turning to face the group of three he said "Now I've got a little trip for you three to make."

The attack squadron came out of Slipspace to find six CIS ships firing on two badly damaged republic ones. Republic ones the three UNSC ships present fired their MAC guns. One of the rounds missed while the other two tore through two of the ships effectively destroying them. The mixture of former covenant ships bombarded the remaining ships with point laser turrets and plasma torpedoes resulting in two more destroyed ships. The two surviving ships attempted to jump into Hyperspace. One of the ships engines had been damaged and it exploded went it attempted to jump while the other one successfully escaped. A few minutes after the battle had ended a green Phantom made it's way towards the Republic ships.

Obi-Wan Kenobi walked towards the hanger. He had just received transmission from an alien known as a Sangheili who was commanding the fleet that had just saved the rest of his. He had said he was sending over someone whom he would be very sure would be able to convince him that they were here to help. Cody was walking alongside him. "I find it hard to believe that these people have anyone that knows enough about us to really understand what is going on here," he said as the arrived in the hanger with a green ship landing in it. "As a matter of fact I'm willing to bet that the odds of this person being as good as they say he his is about as likely as Ahsoka still being alive." Obi-Wan shoot a glare at Cody for his last comment. "Although it was true," he thought "Ahsoka's patrol hasn't been heard from in nearly a week now the odds of her being alive are… AHSOKA!" he said shouting the last word instead of thinking it.

Ahsoka exited the Phantom with Aaron and Ramore right behind her when she heard her name shouted and saw Obi-Wan waving his arm at her. Smiling she waved her own hand as Aaron whispered "I told you he'd be fine,"

Obi-wan walked forward relieved to see that the Padawan was alive and well. Two people were standing behind her a Human and another Sangheili. "It's ok Master you can trust these people."

"Ahsoka it's great to see you again," said Obi-Wan But why didn't your patrol report in?"

Ahsoka's happy expression slid off her face as she said "The Separatists ambushed us. When these guys found my damaged fighter I was the only survivor." The Human and the Sangheili looked thoroughly depressed at this point for they had not forgotten that ship graveyard.

"Oh," said Obi-Wan mentally slapping himself for not realizing this fact which now seemed painfully obvious. "I'm sorry to hear about that."

"So," said the Human standing next to her in an attempt to change the subject "What's the situation on the planet. What's it called? Naboo."

"Oh yes," said Obi-wan "Well we were stationed her to guard the planet. We only had five ships when eight separatists ships attacked us. As you saw they were repelled but the Separatists still have a large ground force. They've taking Theed and now they're moving out to take the surrounding areas. It gets worse General Grievous is leading Separatist forces and they managed to capture Anakin who was leading our ground forces. Judging from his signal he's still alive and well in the Theed palace. But there are huge amount of vulture droids so unless that ship of yours can turn invisible you're not getting anywhere near…why are you grinning like that?"

Aaron grinned as Obi-Wan asked him why he was doing so. "Pal let me just say I think we'll be able to slip in there no problem."

Here's a hint to a location I plan on bringing my story to 03-49

Everyone can have one guess in which I will tell them if they're right or wrong any guesses after that will be ignored so think carefully.

Well now that's done I would really appreciate some reviews.