Chapter 5

Katsuo and a group of clones were in the hangerbay of one of the republic cruisers.

Katsuo looked magnificent in his battle armor. He wore a hood hiding most of his face, except the tip of his nose to his chin. His shoulder armor further extended his already broad shoulders. The sleeves of his black tunic were tucked into elbow length black leather gloves, much like his black pants were tucked into his kneed high boots. On his black utility belt he wore his lightsaber and a blaster, and in it held his comlink, and small binocculars, as well as a few flares. His one dark blue eye was barely visable aside from a glint. His white one was visable, giving it a very sinister look.

"Approaching Cato Nemodia, sir," said one of the clones, saluting.

"Good," replied Katsuo. "Lets get this over with quickly."

"Yes, sir!" the clones said in perfect unison, raising their weapons.

"Splint, are you ready to draw their fire?"

"Yes, sir," replied the commando clone.

"Admiral?" Katsuo asked.

"Ready when you are, General Katsuo." The admiral was a short man, with a blonde walrus mustache. He turned and walked towards the elevator to get to the bridge.

So first, the republic cruisers and the escorts would fire on General Grievous's cruiser. While they did that, a group of starfighters would attack the other side. With their attention divided, Katsuo would enter and kiddnap the girl.

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"And how, Master Yoda, is Katsuo supposed to get this girl?" Master Windu challenged. "Waltz right in? He doesn't even know what she looks like! He said so himself!"

The short and green jedi master laughed a little.

"Waltz right in, he will," Yoda responded nodding, a smile still on his old face. "Find a young female human amoungst droids, not difficult to do."

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"The Separatist ship is firing apon us!" yelled one of the clones. And as he yelled, the hanger bay opened.

Katsuo got in his starfighter, turning on systems and checking and triple checking them.

"General Katsuo!" said a voice in his head set.

"General Kenobi?"

"Change of plans, Grievous is on Cato Nemodia!" Obi-Wan told him, his voice urgent.

"Master, I'm positive Katsuo can hear fine," said the voice of Skywalker. "You don't have to scream."

"I wasn't screaming," Obi-Wan said matter-o-factly.

"You're positive that the girl is with him?"

"I never said that," Kenobi amended. "She is not with him that I saw."

"Saw? You mean you are there?"

"Now, I didn't say that either," Kenobi laughed. "He just now passed our position. Oh, wait. Scratch that, he's coming back to the ship..."

"Distract him while I take the girl."

"Easy enough," Anikan responded.

As Katsuo took off from the hanger bay, he though how cocky this "chosen one" was. Even if he truely was the chosen one, he shouldn't face battle like he was invincible. His flight to the hanger bay of the enemy was rather boring as literally no one saw him. I guess black is a good camoflauge out in space, Katsuo thought, looking around at the more flashier colored starfighters.

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Ella was in the hanger bay in an instant, going straight for her dark grey starfighter. Demon had a special place in the front portion where he could connect with the ship and fly it and attack as necissary, as Ella had no flying skills what-so-ever. The fist time she had flown a starfighter, she not only crashed it, but had taken a good number of nearby droids as well.

Neadless to say, Dooku saw it would be less costly to build a special starfighter for Ella, and finace Demon to have a flight control circut as well.

It was in the shape of a bird, it looked like, with rotating jet engines at the tip of each wing and a tail shaped ion engine capable of taking the ship to lightspeed.

But before she reached it, a black and red jedi starfighter breached the hangerbay and landed quickly in front of her.

"DEMON!" she screamed, sliding to a hault in front of the starfighter. "JEDI!" Then she ran as fast as she possibly could in the oppsite direction.

The AI came out of no where it seamed and lowered himself as if ready to pounce.

The jedi was in all black, and Ella could see his right eye was blinded. He looked shocked, as he looked at Demon, as if he were definately not expecting that. But he recovered quickly and got in a slightly crouched position, his left hand on his belt, the other grasping a lightsaber. But other than that he was absolutely still, not even pulling the lightsaber out.

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Katsuo readied himself to attack this huge droid, feeling horribly ill prepared for it's size. It could even fit an entire human in it. That's when Katsuo realized that is part of it's design. Mino-Tari said that he lost sight of the girl very soon after they spotted his padawan.

After a few moments of complete silence, an squad of droids marched towards him and started firing.

He pulled out his lightsaber as he activated it and waved it around in a circle, deflecting the blaster bolts. He had no time for this, he had to prevent the girl from getting inside her droid.

The whole squad got blasted out into space with a strong force push from the jedi master, and with the same fluid-like motion, he grabbed the unsuspecting girl in the force and brought her to him. With a smart tap to her forhead with his finger, he knocked her out. Now to deal with this new droid.

It was already bounding to him at an alarming speed, causing the floor to tremble violently. He had to somehow bring this droid with him to show to the council. A new elite set of droids, maybe? So destroying it wasn't an option.

Katsuo inwardly scowled. He bent down, the force urging him to press a blue button on the girls wrist consol.

The droid dropped immediantly and slid a little behind Katsuo, grazing his knee.

Another squad of droids not too long after the first squad was spaced.

"I'm in need of heavy pickup."

"Roger, roger," said a clone, amused at making fun of the clankers, as the clones called them.

"Are you eating the droids,or do you want to pickup your starfighter?" asked the ever so cocky Anikan Skywalker.

"Neither, Skywalker," Katsuo growled.

Pick up came swiftly and before Grievous could say "RETREAT!" the republic pulled out.

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As the General landed his starfighter aboard his cruiser, preparing to comand in a more proper place, the jedi and the clones left as suddenly as they had appeared.

He narrowed his eyes.

Why would they catch him off guard to gain an upper hand over him, only to retreat as soon as he boarded?

"Cowards," he muttered, slightly dissappointed. Then he looked around. There was damages EVERYWHERE in the hanger bay. And why was Ella leaving?

The tracking beacon he placed in Demon's circutry was revealing his position to be moving in hyperspace towards Coruscant. But why? Did she betray the Separatists? He growled in fury, but before he could destroy anything, he spotted her starfighter still inside the cruiser. And destroyed as well...

Someone must have kidnapped her then!