Hey guys! Welcome back for another chapter of The Assassin: The Final Stand! We're really starting the story pretty strong here folks! If you all remember last time, I believe I left you all with Desric persuing the Jedi and the Chancellor through the streets of Coruscant. Will they be able to escape? Will the Republic be able to fend off these invaders? We'll find out!

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The Battle Of Coruscant: Part III

City Streets

As the battle for Coruscant continued to take place in the city, many clones and droids were being killed and destroyed in the battle. As the fight for the city went on, many young padawans were being thrown into the conflict where they were eager to fight for their home. But as the battle continued on, many Jedi were being killed on the battlefield. And while the padawans fell, alongside the clones and few Jedi Masters, the streets were stained with blood.

With the battle drawing to it's close, both sides of this conflict were fighting with their last bit of strength to destroy the other. However, the Separatists had a distinct advantage over the Jedi and clones, for they had the assassins on their side. With the help of the assassins, the Separatists were able to launch coordinated attacks on areas the Jedi were not expecting.

Not only were these assassins great tactitions, but they were also strong warriors as well and were just as skilled as the Jedi. With the help from these trained killers, the Jedi were caught off guard and were unaware that their leader, Desric Dameris, was alive and waging war on them.

As the fight continued on, Master Windu flew across the city sky on top of his new Vulture Droid that he highjacked. Flying around buildings and through narrow tunnels, Windu used his purple lightsaber to cut down any droids that flew into his path, and thanks to his fellow clones, reclaiming the skies seemed possible.

While Windu flew above the streets, he looks down and sees several tanks rolling down the streets, unleashing their fire upon retreating clones. He decides to take a small detour and dives down to the tanks and forces his Vulture droid to fire down at the tanks. The heavy machines were caught off guard, not realizing that one of their own droids had been taken over and used against them. In an instant the tanks were completely destroyed and the clones screamed in joy before rallying their brothers and pressing forward against the invading droids.

With that taken care of, Windu flies around to see if any more troops were in need of any dire help. The Jedi master soon flies around the city, but suddenly feels a strange disturbance. He looks behind him and sees an Assassin Interceptor lock onto him. Having remembered of what had happened last time, Windu does not waste any time and pulls his Vulture Droid up, snding him flying toward the sky in an upward flight.

The Assassin follows him and fires all of his cannons at what appears to be an easy target. But as the assassin fires at him, Master Windu uses the force to deactivate his droid before the two of them plummitted so fast that they flew past the Assassin. Seeing that they were now behind the Assassin, Windu reactivates the Vulture droid and opens fire at the assassin who was now the sitting target. In a matter of seconds the assassin did not stand a chance and was blown up into the sky.

But, as Windu flew down to the streets to assist any clones, he did not realize that he had disturbed a wasps nest. He turns around and sees two interceptors locked in on him. Seeing that he now had two more assassins chasing after him, he now realized something about these assassins. They were not just killers, they were also warriors dedicated to each other and were loyal to one another. If one man killed a member of their clan, then dozens would rise to avenge their fallen.

In a matter of moments, the assassins open fire at Windu, and the Jedi Knight tries to deflect some of the oncoming fire, but the Assaassins were able to shoot down the Vulture Droids engines, sending Windu on a downward spiral.

As he fell toward the surface, Windu spots a bridge filled with marching droids and decides that this was going to be the spot to crash his droid. In an effort to stop this army of droids, Windu manages to crash his Vulture Droid across the bridge, where he was able to wipe the droids clean off of the bridge before the clones rallied behind him.

As he ran beside his clones, his wrist comm. goes off. "What is it Commander?"

"Gneeral Windu, we saw your fighter droid crash. Are you alright?" A Clone Commandr asked.

"I'm alright Commander. I'll be handling the fight from down here." Master Windu said, knowing that he had no way of getting back up in the sky. "Continue to keep the fight contained and drive these droids out of the sky."

"Copy that General. Good luck." The Clone said before Windu deactivated his comlink and drew out his purple lightsaber and ran into the ongoing battle.

As he ran beside his clones, Windu uses his lightsaber to block all incoming enemy fire before deflecking them right back to the machines that were firing at them. With a life time of training and knowledge of the force on his side, the Jedi Master is more than a match for these battle droids.

While Windu runs through the streets, he soon is reunited by his mentor Master Yoda who is also aiding the clones in this ongoing conflict. With two Jedi Masters on their side, the clones feel more safe and more confident that they can win this fight.

"All troops! Forward! Keep up the pressure on the right!" A Clone Captain said while his men ran past him at the droids that were pressing forward, but were losing more droids instead.

"Sir, what about our left flank?" A Clone asked.

"The Jedi have the left." The Captain said, feeling confident that Master Windu and Master Yoda would be more than capable of handling the clone's left flank.

While the clones pushed forward, Master Windu is scene running across the battle field and uses the force to push a wave of oncoming droids. Master Yoda sees his student and jumps beside him, before the two washed away more than 300 hundred droids in an instant.

The two split up to cover more ground and the humming of Windu's slightsaber is heard as he waves it across oncoming red bullets and slashes through several dozen battle droids. At the same time, Master Yoda could be seen across the battlefield, cutting down the droids in lightning speed before force pushing a few across the streets. However the two saw a small army of new droids marching across the streets and alongside the buildings as well.

These droids were tall and skinny, while also having spider-like legs and a large round head. They had no arms, but had three blasters around each of their heads. These were the Separatist new Sniper Droids. These droids must have been the newest addition to the Droid Army as well, for they had extrodinary accuracy and were also precise with their shots.

Showing no fear, Yoda runs towards these new droids, and like tress in a large forest, the Jedi Master cuts them down one by one. Windu sees this occur right in front of him and joins his Master before the two were both locked in a battle against these droids.

As the droids fired down at them, Windu uses his lightsaber to deflect several shots comoing at him and sees a few droids get destroyed from their own bullets. However some of the droids rotate their heads and suddenly they all began firing how powered laser beam and the Jedi master.

Not being able to move forward, Windu sees a beam come right for him and uses his lightsaber to control the beam. As he felt the heat draw close to him, Windu redirects the beam at several droids marching for him, and the laser cuts through the droids with ease before redirecting the laser at the droid firing it at him and watches the machine explode.

With these new droids taken care of, the two Jedi Masters regroup and deflect shots that were being fried from the droids. Having each other's back, now seemed the perfect time to uncover the reason why the Separatists decided to attack Coruscant.

"Stange is the enemy's strategy." Yoda said while he delfected oncoming fire.

"A massive invasion, but no attempt to take the Temple or Senate." Windu added. This was strange indeed. These droids only seemed focus on attacking large public areas and the assassins only seemed focused on attacking small populated areas. However none of them were making an attempt on the Senate or Jedi Temple.

"Unless…an elaborate distraction?" Yoda asked.

"To hide their primary objective." Windu stated.

"Palpatine!" The two said in union, realizing that this invasion was just a distraction for the Jedi while the Assassins would work in the shadows to kidnap the Chancellor. Once they knew what was really happening, Windu uses the force to propel himself into the air before landing inside a flying gunship.

Without any thought of hesitation, Windu has the ship turn around and head straight for the Chancellor's hidden bunker where he hoped that he would not be too late.

Tunnels

Wit the battle continue on, Shaak Ti and her two Jedi Knights have been running through an underground tunnel for almost two hours, trying to reach a pod that would take the Chancellor to his bunker. However the two had realized something, the Assassins were no longer on their tail. While her two Jedi believed that they had finally been able to lose them, Shaak Ti feared that this was the calm before the storm.

As they reached the pod, they were relieved that once they got inside, it was a stright shot to the bunker. Shaak Ti watches her Jedi and the Chancellor run to the pod. "Get inside! Get to the bunker!"

"My dear, what about you?" Palpatine asked.

"I will stay here…and hold them off." Shaak Ti responded before she looked behind and stared into the deep dark tunnel.

"But we are not sure that they're still following." The Chancellor suggested.

"Make no mistake Chancellor. The ARE coming." Shaak Ti responded before she looked toward her to Jedi Knights and said her good byes. "Protect the Chancellor, and yourselves."

"This selfless sacrafice will be remembered in the archives of the Jedi Order." Palpatine said before he and the two Jedi Knights ran inside the pod and activated it

As she heard the pod's doors close behind her, Shaak Ti stared into the darkness while the pod took off in the blink of an eye. While she waited for the enemy to come, she draws out her saber and does not blink as she stares down the tuneel, until she heard the sound of marching soldiers coming her way.

Her eyes narrow as she soon sees shadows of silhouettes march toward her before she saw the glowing eyes of these half men, half machine, assassins. As they marched closer to her, Shaak Ti could clearly see they're armor and can clearly see that there are about fifteen to twenty Assassins. Leading them were three of Desric's most trusted asassins, Pain, Misery, and Ruin, who have been waiting for the chance to kill a Jedi Master. Shaak Ti then activates her blue lightsaber and is ready to hold these monster for as long as she could. Even if it meant by sacrificing her life.

In an instant, one assassin makes the first move and lunges toward the Jedi Master and activates his black sword before Shaak Ti deflects an upward slash and sees several more assaassins jumo into the fight as well, including the three Shadows of Death.

Using her lightsbaer to delfect several shots, she tries to kill off a few assassins, but these warriors had trained all their lives to kill Jedi. An attempt to kill one assassin seemed near impossible. The Togrutan Jedi decides to run down the tunnel while trying to get into a better position to try and fend off these robotic monster.

"Killer her!" Pain said. "Bring me this Jedi's head!"

Soon enough, all of the asassins run toward Shaak Ti and chased after, like wolves running after a single dear. And like wolves, they each were out for blood.

While she was being chased by these assassins, Shaak Ti manages to block a few shots before attempting to land a few blows towards the assasins. However her attempts to kill even one assassin, was not strong enough to stop this ongoing attack.

As she blocked one attack from an assassin in front of her, Ruin jumps high into the air and screams at the top of his lungs before slamming his fists down at the Jedi Master. However Shaak Ti sees this attack come from behind her and dodges out of the way just in time, before she felt Ruins fists shake the ground beneath them. Not wasting any time, she drives her saber down onto his neck, attempting to decapitate this monster. However Ruin's sister, Misery, was able to block the attack with her own black saber.

With their blades locked, Shaak Ti looks down and sees Ruin reach for his sword. She knew he was going to attack her exposed chest. While looking at Ruin she looks forward and sees the assassins close in on her. Out of instinct, she places her hand up and force pushes the whole pack of assassins, sending them to fly back and fall onto the floor.

Seeing that she can not take them all together, she makes a run for it. However, scent of fear filled these tunnels, and the Assassins knew that they had this Jedi on the run. Getting up on their feet, the Asassins quickly run after Shaak Ti and are able to catch up to her in a short amount of time.

Surrounding her like a cornered prey, each assassin had a chance to strike at the Jedi Master. While she was able to avoid getting hit by their black sabers, Shaak Ti was running out of time and out of options.

As she held her ground, blocking several strikes from each assassin, Shaak Ti looked forward and saw an Assassin running toward her with his saber raised high. She anticipates the attack and deflects the saber slash before she was able to cut his arm completely off, and uses the force to send him crashing into several assassins. With one assassin taken care of, she reaches her hand out and pulls the fallen Assassin's sword before igniting the black saber.

Now that she had two weapons, she was ready to fend off these monsters. In the blink of an eye, she lunges toward several assassins and attacks them. Using both swords, she is able to disarm several assassins, by cutting off their hands and arms, while also cutting off some of their legs to immobolize them. However she was only able to get a few assassins. Most of them were wearing Mandalorian Iron Armor, making them practically invulnerable to saber strikes.

However, thanks to her years of training, Shaak Ti knew that each strike she made would have to be precise. Using her sabers for both offense and defense, the Jedi Master was able to make well precise strikes on places that were not covered in the iron armor. Such places included joints, such as the elbows, shoulders, and knees. She also struck other places that would end the lives of these killers, like the neck.

Holding her ground, Shaak Ti managed to disarm, dismember and decapitate several Assassins. As she stood in front of these trained killers, she looks forward and sees a trail of dead assassins, as well as several limbs and scattered throughout the tunnel. But as she looks forward, she was only able to destroy only seven of the fifteen assassins that were persuing her. Among those included, Pain Misery, and Ruin.

Knowing that she was able to handle more than half of these assassins, Shaak Ti knew that this fight was far from over. She readies her two swords and looks at the assassins standing in front of her. Without even blinking she runs toward them and attacks them with all the fight she had left.

Bunker

About thirty minutes after Shaak Ti stayed behind to make her final stand against the assassins, the pod carrying the Chancellor and the two Jedi Knights finallay reached the bunker. Wasting no time the three of them quickly leave the pod and make a run for the bunker that was so close.

As they ran toward the entrance to the secured bunker, several large doors began to close behind them. They all knew that if there was ever an attack on Coruscant, the Chancellor would have to be safely secured in the most heavily guarded place. Fearing that someone would betray the Chancellor, only the Jedi knew about this secured location and would protect the Chancellor at all cost.

With the last doors closing, the Chancellor runs inside his bunker while the Ithorian and Talz Jedi run behind to secure this place. With all three of them inside the large room, the room was dimly lit with only a few lights. But it was enough for them to see.

Believing that the battle on the surface would end soon, the two Jedi felt relieved and safely assured that their objective was complete. The Chancellor was safe inside his bunker and the both made sure that no one followed them. However, they were unaware that someone had fed the information about the bunker to a certain assassin.

In an instant, two black sabers ignited and the two Jedi were in shock to see that somehow Desric was able to find the bunker. Not knowing that they walked into Desric's trap, the two suddenly realized that there was no where left to run, they were locked in the room with a dragon.

As Desric ignited his sabers he makes an attempt to grab the chancellor but suddenly the two Jedi rush over and block and defend several strikes Desric made. With two blue lightsbaers locked in a battle against two black sabers, the two men had Desric pinned. But as they pressed down onto their lightsbaers that Desric was blocking, they hope that this would be enough to tire him out before they could press forward and kill the leader of the assassins.

But as they locked sabers with Desric, something changed. Desric removes his helmet and the two Jedi see the face of the man attacking them before he gave an evil smile. In an instant he shuts his eyes tight before quickly reopening them, only to appear glowing in a shade of yellow. The two Jedi were confused at what was happening but they both soon saw Desric's viens glow yellow before his muscles and entire body began to grow. They soon saw the young man before them suddenly grow almost eight feet tall with muscles strong enough to crush a man's skull.

The two were in shock to see that their foe grew large and strong. Suddeny the tables were turned and Desric now began to press hos swords down at the Jedi who soon went from offense to defense. With his eyes and veins glowing yellow, and his entire body large and strong, Desric soon unleashes all of hell onto these Jedi and shows no mercy.

Tunnels

Meanwhile, in the tunnels, Shaak Ti does her best to fend off the remaining assassins that were attacking her. While she was able to kill a couple of them with her two swords, it still wasn't enough to hold off the rest of them. Seeing that she could not finish the rest of them, she goes back on the run and decides to only use her weapons as tools to defend her self.

While she ran from these monsters, she does her best to block several attacks made by each of the remaining assassins, including Pain, Misery, and Ruin. But as she ran away, it wasn't long until they all surrounded her. Shaak Ti knew that this was then of her fight. Despite the odds stacked against her, she was not going to go down without at fight.

However as she blocked one last attack from the assassins, she suddenly heard and saw a small green light blinking on their wrists, and suddenly the assassins decided to back off and retreat. While some were angered that they were not going to kill the Jedi, others like the Shadows of Death, knew that she would soon meet her fate.

As Shaak Ti watched each of the assassin disappear into the dark tunnel. She suddenly realized something and feared the worst. "No…"

Without wasting anytime, the Jedi Master uses the force to help push her faster through the tunnel, hoping that she would reach the bunker before it was too late.

Bunker

While Shaak Ti ran toward the bunker, the two Jedi were all alone with Desric who was angrier and yet happier than ever. As the Grand Master of the Assassins launched his attack against the Jedi, they did not last long against this monster. With every slash and stab, the two Jedi tried to hold their ground, but it was not enough to stop Desric's forward attack.

As Desric attacked them, he decides to split up these two jedi and handle them separately. He first punches the Talz Jedi across the face with his metal gauntlet before watching the Jedi fall to the ground. With one Jedi temporarily taken care of, Desric focuses his attention to the Ithorian Jedi. Blocking only a few attacks from Desric, the Ithorian Jedi did not last long, for Desric soon decided to end this Jedi's life by slashing his two swords across his belly, gutting him like a fish.

With one Jedi dead on the floor, Desric looks over to the Talz Jedi, who is scene standing in front of him with a look of hear in his eyes. This Jedi knew that he was going to die.

While he was able to deflect a couple of slashes, Desric sensed that this Jedi was weak and soon kicks him in the chest before watching him fall to the ground. As the Talz tried to recover from the attack, Desric slams his boot down onto the Jedi's right arm, completely crushing it while hearing the Jedi scream in pain, before thrusing his saber into the Jedi's mouth to permanently silence him.

In only a few mere moments, Desric had killed two Jedi and knew that there was only one left, and she was on her way. While he waited, he looks forward at Palpatine. "You're mine old man."

"I'm not afraid of you." The Chancellor said. "You wouldn't dare harm The Supreme Chancellor of the Republic. Whatever would your masters say?"

Tired from his long hunt, Desric has had enough and grabs the Chancellor. "You're lucky they want you alive."

Not a moment too soon, Shaak Ti rushes into the room and suddenly sees her two Jedi Knights lie dead on the cold floor while also seeing Desric, who has grown large in size while also carrying Palpatine. "Chancellor!"

"Shaak Ti, my dear, you've come to rescue me." Palpatine said, relieved that Shaak Ti survived and was hear to rescue him.

Angered that this monster had killed her friends, Shaak Ti rushes towards Desric out of anger and attempts to decapitate this monster. But her anger surely makes her attack sloppy and Desric senses this before he soon blocks the attack with ease before slamming the Jedi Master against the cold metal wall. "You're anger has made you off balance. That is not the Jedi way."

While Shaak Ti struggles for breath for Desric had been able to wrap his left hand around her throat. Desric surely smiles at how easily he can snap her neck.

"You are tired, my dear." Desric said as he watched Shaak Ti struggle in his grasp. He soon decides to take her lightsaber. "You won't be needing this, I've got something else for you."

As Desric placed her lightsaber on his belt, Shaak Ti looked down in horror as she soon saw Desric reach for something in one of his pockets.

Streets

Several minutes after Desric's final encounter with Shaak Ti, the leader of the assassins is scence walking outside onto the streets with the Chancellor before the two saw an escort shuttle land right before them. As the ram to the ship extended its way to them, Desric looks up and sees General Grievous walk out with two Magna Guards. "I see that you're mission was a success."

"The strategy worked perfectly, General." Desric said as he soon handed The Chancellor to the General of the Droid Army. "He's all yours General."

And just like that, Desric and General Grievous both exchanged nods before Desric activated his cloaking device to regroup with his assassins unseen.

However, shortly after Desric left the Chancellor alone with Grievous, the droids soon saw a Republic gunship heading for their way. Quickly activating the guns, the droids were able to shoot the gunship down with ease, however they were unaware that Master Windu jumped off before the ship crashed.

As he landed right behind the escort ship, the Jedi Master watched as droids forced the Chancellor inside the ship before looking toward Grievous, who soon extends out all four of his arms and activates four of his lightsabers.

Without even blinking an eye, Windu uses the force to crush several of Greivous' ribs before the general fell on one kneee and gasped and coughed for air. However the doors of the escort ship surely closed and Mace WIndu watched as the ship quickly flew off with the Chancellor off the planet. Fearing the worst, Windu quickly runs toward the bunker to see if anybody had survived the attack.

Bunker

As Windu ran into the bunker he looks inside and sees two Jedi lying dead. One with his gut slashed almost completely in half while the other one had a stab wound goig directly into his mouth. He then looks up and sees the horror of what had happened to Shaak Ti. Windu looks at her in horror, "Shaak Ti!"

He looks forward and sees Shaak Ti's entire body hang from the ceiling as it is completely wrapped in barbed wire that is giving off electric currents. Shocking the life that was out of her. As he looks at his dear friend, her eyes are wide open while a noose of normal barb wire was wrapped around her throat and headtails and was the reason why she was hanging from the ceiling.

His heart was filled with sorrow as he saw one of his close friends was brutally murdered by the hands of some monster. He soon activates his lightssaber and cuts Shaak Ti loose before watching her lifeless body fall onto the floor. As he removes the wire from her, he notices that there was writing across her face and chest saying:

Ha Ha Ha Jedi! You're Too Late!

This is the beginning of the end!

Soon your world will burn!

Assassin Shuttle

After Desric made his way back to the shuttle, he and his remaining assassins that survived the battle, went into several shuttles where they each flew back to their war ship.

As his shuttle took off into the sky, Desric looked down at the city and watched the droids retreat and head back to their ships, knowing that the fight was going to take place above the planet of Coruscant. But as he and his assassins watched the city burn to the ground, Desric knew that his part of this battle was now over.

While looking at the lightsaber he collected from the fallen Jedi Master, Shaak Ti, he is more than pleased of how this mission ended. Now it was time for him to head to his new base on Zanbar where he will have a chance to check on his new apprentice and entertain his three new guest that arrived there not too long ago.

Okay everyone that'll be it for this chapter! What do you guys think so far? With Desric burning everything to the ground, will the Republic be able to recover from such a blow? Will Ahsoka and her friends be able to come to the Republic's aid? Who knows!

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