Chapter 3: Unexpected Detour

The Tennyson party were quite desperate to escape the likes of the area where the strange shuttle had landed. As it turns out, General Grevious and the remaining battle droids with him had managed to put out the fire that Heatblast had started.

"I want the one with the Omnitrix found!" cried General Grevious as he ordered the battle droids to get on their speeders to follow a strange trailer that had temporary parked by the shuttle.

Meanwhile, back inside the trailer, the Tennyson party were quite unaware that a certain Mace Windu had secretly leaped right onto the roof of the trailer following them to ensure their safety. As Gwen took a look through the window and noticed that the droids were giving chase, she looked up and noticed the likes of Mace Windu on the roof the trailer to which Mace never saw Gwen.

"Uh, grandpa" said Gwen as she turned to him who was at the wheel of the trailer, "we got company and there's also somebody on the roof."

"What do you mean somebody on the roof of a moving vehicle like this?" asked Grandpa Max as he then suddenly noticed the likes of Mace Windu on the roof, "Oh, I see what you mean by that."

"Time for me to go hero" said Ben as he began to scroll through the aliens he had on his Omnitrix.

"Ben, for the last time, don't get into this conflict, I think the man on the roof is here to help us" said Grandpa Max as he noticed some sort of lightsaber being taken out from Mace Windu to which he began to deflect the lasers that were coming directly toward the Tennyson party.

"Aw man, but I wanted to go hero" complained Ben.

"Sorry Ben, but I don't think this is our fight" said Grandpa Max as he continued to drive the trailer.

"Well, I'm making it my fight" said Ben as he then switched the alien on the Omnitrix to the likes of Upchuck and began to change into the alien in question, "I'm going to show those scrap heaps what they're messing with."

While the likes of Mace Windu continued to deflect the lasers that were coming directly at the trailer with his lightsaber, he then suddenly noticed a strange alien creature which had the symbol of the Omnitrix on it.

"What the heck are you doing up here?" asked Mace as he continued to deflect some lasers that were coming directly at him.

"I can help out" replied Ben.

"Like how?" asked Mace.

"Like this" replied Ben while still as Upchuck as he began to hold his breath and then fired a large slim ball right directly at some of the speeders to which sent them out of control and crashing right against some rocks.

"Fine, fine, you can help out" said Mace as he continued to deflect some of the lasers that were still coming at them.

"I didn't get your name" continued Ben.

"The name is Mace Windu, I am a member of the Jedi Council of the Republic" said Mace as he continued to be quite busy in deflecting some more lasers along with also using his force push at some droids who managed to get quite close to the trailer sending them crashing against their comrades sending them into pieces, "we need to get to a safe place so that we can come up with a plan to drive the Confederacy away."

"Any sort of suggestions?" asked Grandpa Max who had secretly overheard the conversation between Ben and Mace.

"That large abandon warehouse might do the job" replied Mace as he noticed the large structure in the distance.

"Sir, they're getting away" said the battle droid commander to General Grevious.

"Looks like they are receiving a helping hand from the likes of my old enemy Mace Windu" said General Grevious as he observed Mace and Ben getting back inside the trailer.

"Shall we call out the heavy artillery?" asked the battle droid commander.

"No" replied General Grevious as he began to ready to take out some of the lightsabers from his belt, "I shall go and personally retrieve the Omnitrix for myself."

While the likes of General Grevious began to head toward the large abandon warehouse alone, the Tennyson party and its ally-Mace Windu had arrived at the scene.

"So, you worked with non-humans before?" asked Mace to Grandpa Max.

"Yes" replied Grandpa Max, "I was part of an organization known as the Plumbers."

"So what do you think we should do about General Grevious trying to obtain the Omnitrix your grandson seems to be literally attached to?" asked Mace.

"I say we should bring on the heavy artillery" replied Grandpa Max as he took out a large laser gun from the trailer itself.

Meanwhile at the entrance of the abandon warehouse, the likes of General Grevious could sense that he was getting quite close to the Omnitrix.

"Yes, I can certainly feel that the ultimate weapon the Confederacy needs to destroy the Republic is quite close" laughed General Grevious.

"The only thing you're close to is getting off this planet" said Grandpa Max who came out into the scene with a large laser gun and fired it right directly at the general.

Grevious then quickly dodged the laser from the large weapon with his agile body, but Grandpa Max just kept on firing at Grevious to which Grevious had enough of running away and took out two of his lightsabers and began to deflect the rapid fire of lasers that were coming toward him.

"He's too strong!" cried Grandpa Max as he kept at it with his weapon.

"I'll help you out here" said Mace as he turned on his purple lightsaber once more and leaped into battle.

"Two against one" said General Grevious as he noticed Mace Windu with his lightsaber ready right next to Grandpa Max, "that doesn't seem to be fair."

"Tough, either deal with it or leave this planet, your choice" said Grandpa Max.

"I think I can handle my chances with the likes of you two" said General Grevious.

Grevious then made his attack at Grandpa Max, using one of the lightsaber blades to cut his large laser gun in half and then kicking him to the side, to which Max then landed right into some empty boxes knocking him unconscious.

"Grandpa!" cried both Gwen and Ben as they were trying to rush to the scene to help him up.

"Don't get involved!" ordered Mace as he was using his Jedi skills to defend himself from the many lightsaber blades that General Grevious was unleashing against him.

"Well, I'm not going to waste anymore time" said Ben as he was waiting for his Omnitrix to go green, "because when this is ready I'm going to go hero."