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Hey folks. Here's part 7
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Coruscant. Senate Building.
The sun is setting as the lights come on in the massive Senate Office Building. The sky is red.
Palpatine listens to a delegation from the Senate, which includes PADME and five other Senators: Nee Alavar, Fang Zar, Maledee, Sweitt Concorkill, and Lux Bonteri.
Anakin stands to one side of Palpatine.
"I understand your reservations completely, Senator, and I assure you the appointment of Governors will in no way compete with the duties of the Senate," he said reassuringly.
"May I take it then, that there will be no further amendments to the Constitution?" Padme asked with concern.
"I want this terrible conflict to end as much as you do, My Lady, and when it does I guarantee an immediate return to democracy," Palpatine said.
"You are pursuing a diplomatic solution to the war, then?" Padme asked.
"You must trust me to do the right things, Senator. That is why I am here," Palpatine said to his old friend.
"But surely..." Lux tried to say.
The Chancellor turned on Lux Bonteri, who then stifled himself.
Lux was a new senator. A former Separatist Senator, who's parents joined the Separatist movement before the War. He wasn't very popular with the old guard of the Republic senate, especially Palpatine. Even Anakin had reservations with Lux, mostly because he was dating his former apprentice.
"I have said I will do what is right, that should be enough for your...committee," Palpatine said after pausing.
All of the senator stood in silence as their chancellor stared them down for what felt like an eternity.
Padme was the first to break the ice.
"On behalf of the "delegation of two thousand," I thank you, Chancellor," She said with a slight bow.
"I thank you for bringing this to my attention, Senator," he said with a slight bow of his head.
The members of the delegation of 2000 began to file out of the room.
Before she left, Padme gave Anakin a frustrated look before she turned to the exit with the other senators.
When they all left, Palpatine turned to Anakin.
"Their sincerity is to be admired, although I sense there is more to their request than they are telling us," Palpatine said with skepticism.
"What do you mean?" Anakin asked.
"They are not to be trusted," Palpatine asked.
"Surely Senator Amidala can be trusted?" Anakin asked, trying to defend the woman that he was secretly married to, and who was carrying his child.
"These are unstable times for the Republic, Anakin. Some see instability as an opportunity. Senator Amidala is hiding something. I can see it in her eyes," The old politician said.
"I'm sure you're mistaken," Anakin protested.
"I'm surprised your Jedi insights are not more sensitive to such things," Palpatine commented.
"I simply don't sense betrayal in Senator Amidala," Anakin said.
Palatine studied Anakin carefully and gave him a skeptical look.
"Yes, you do, but you don't seem to want to admit it. There is much conflict in you, Anakin," Palpatine said.
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Mandalore. In the buildings near the Royal Palace. Day 8 of the siege. Concurrent to the events unfolding on Utapau and Coruscant.
Republic and Mandalorian cruisers continued to hammer away at each other above the city.
Fighters from both sides continued their dance of death.
Near the forward base where everyone was getting ready for battle, several Republic heavy cannons continued pounding the enemy emplacements near the palace.
Bo-Katan stood on a crate to inspire her warriors with a rousing speech.
That was when she turned to Ahsoka.
"Tano! You remember the plan?" She asked.
"I got it Kryze," Ahsoka said.
"Good. Because today, Maul's regime will be destroyed, and with it, Mandalore's chains. To me liberators of Mandalore. We have a planet to free," Bo-Katan said.
She turned around and jetted up into the sky. Her warriors followed her up into the sky.
Ahsoka turned to Rex.
"Let's go troopers!" Ahsoka said as she and Rex took their men through the buildings near the palace.
Their job was to clear the buildings and secure the Regiment's left flank.
As they moved through the alleyways, they saw bodies handing from window sills and lampposts.
"What's all this?" Ahsoka asked.
"Maul's hanging his cowards in the streets. It's supposed to make an example for his remaining followers," Rex said.
Ahsoka looked closer. They all had signs on them with righting.
One read: 'I am a coward who refused to defend Mandalore'.
Shivers went up Ahsoka's spine. She's seen some disturbing things in her life, but this takes the cake.
As the company continued through the side streets and alleyways, the came up on the front of a large building.
Everything seemed quiet, when all Hell broke loose.
Shadow Collective blaster fire poured out of the building in front of them.
Several clones fell from the storm of firepower.
"Get to cover!" Jesse shouted.
All of the clones dove for cover. But most weren't able to get up and return fire.
"Gah! Rex, we don't have time for this. We have to meet up with Appo and the rest of the regiment. I'll draw their fire. You guys use your grenade launchers and take out those windows!" Ahsoka ordered.
"You got it Ma'am," Rex said as he gave everyone a hand signal. Everyone who had a DC-15a rifle placed a small grenade launcher tubes underneath their rifle barrels.
"Now!" Ahsoka shouted as she cartwheeled out of cover and ignited her lightsabers.
A storm of yellow blaster bolts flew straight towards her. The nimble young jedi blocked dozens of bolts with her sabers. When it seemed like too much for her, she dodged the bolts and jumped to a new position to block from, throwing off the aim of Maul's troopers.
While this was happening, several clone troopers fired their small rocket propelled grenades at the windows.
Ahsoka could hear several Maul troopers shout in terror. 'Stang! Run!' one said, before a couple dozen explosions blossomed across the front of the building.
Debris was sent flying in all directions as dust fell from the roof.
"Now's our chance. Go!" Rex ordered.
Every Clone in the company vaulted over cover, activated their laser bayonets, and charged the building.
The lull in the storm of Mandalorian firepower allowed the Clones to get up close and personal. They entered the building through the windows, doors, and holes, before they slashed and hacked their way into the Maul troopers to secure the building's ground floor.
Ahsoka took a running start and used the force to jump up high. The angle at which she jumped took her through a window on the 2nd floor. There was a Maul trooper in her way.
As she dove through the window, she used the force to summon a shockwave that she sent into the trooper. He was sent flying over the balcony behind him and out a window on the other side of the building.
She wildly swung her sabers and hacked up the Maul troopers on either side of her.
Ahsoka looked down to see that her troopers down below were still taking fire from the 2nd balcony on the other side of the building. She looked up and had an idea.
The young togrutan used her powers to rip off a section of the balcony above her.
There were still enemies up there apparently, as two Maul troopers still clung to the floating balcony section.
"What's happening?" One asked in a panicked tone.
"I have no idea!" The other one shouted.
The two enemy combatants screamed as Ahsoka threw the section of balcony to the enemy troopers on the other side, crushing all of them.
The Clones below were pursuing the remaining Maul troopers out of the building.
She smiled before she jumped down to join them.
After clearing out another building, Ahsoka and Rex determined that the Regiment's flank was secured.
"Alright everyone! The tanks are moving into position. Let's go link up with them!" Ahsoka ordered.
They all moved off to the side near where everyone was gathering.
There were no buildings, that were intact at least, between the Allies and the Palace. The space between them was all open ground.
High above them, Republic and Mandalorian warships battled Maul's navy.
It was still close, sense Maul still had a few heavy guns protecting the palace. But they weren't enough to beat back the wave of Allied Naval assets.
Fighters from both sides continued to fly across the sky to bring death to other.
Ahsoka's regiment faced the palace.
Bo-Katan and her warriors jetted, with Bo landing next to Ahsoka. Some of the troopers had just equipped themselves with jetpacks. They would assist Bo's forces in the sky.
She turned to face her warriors.
"Warriors. Today is the day of our glorious victory. Before we begin the final battle for the freedom of our historic homeland, I want to thank all of you, Night Owls, Colonials, and Republic troopers alike, for your sacrifice and courage," Bo said.
The Mandalorians cheered. This was their hour more than it was for Ahsoka and her men.
Ahsoka smiled.
She might pull Mandalore together after all.
Bo turned around.
"For Mandalore. Charge!" Bo shouted as she and her warriors jetted up into the sky.
Ahsoka ignited her lightsabers and motioned her troopers forward. Mandalorian laser bolts flew towards her and her men, but she deflected every bolt that flew in her direction.
But many of Ahsoka's troopers fell nonetheless. They had to bust open Gar Saxon's frontline.
Lucky for the Allies, they could do just that.
The AT-TE's held back and blasted the Shadow Collective tanks that were dug in near the front of their defensive line.
The Night owls flew towards the enemy frontal positions and fired the rockets that were mounted on their jetpacks. Their missiles destroyed several anti-personal repeating blaster turrets.
The way was clear for 'Ahsoka's loyalists' (the name that the troopers most loyal to Ahsoka gave themselves when she was branded as a terrorist).
Hundreds of 501st troopers, with orange markings along with their usual blue ones, charged at the Shadow Collective positions.
They vaulted over the enemy barriers and started getting into a heavy up close brawl with Maul's forces.
Ahsoka jumped up and slashed at a death watch trooper's jetpack, forcing him to spin out of control, before he crashed into a turret and exploded.
When she jumped off, she used the force to smash two more into the ground as they flew by.
They smashed into the ground before scraping across the ground due to the momentum caused by their jetpacks.
The Clones and Night Owls pushed forward. Maul's forces were falling back.
When that happened, the AT-TE's marched forward, their heavy and secondary weaponry blasting away at everything that got in their way.
Unfortunately, some of the things that would get in their way was enemy firepower.
A pair of heavy anti-tank cannons blasted the lead tanks.
One AT-TE was hit in the cockpit and exploded. The six-legged tank collapsed onto the ground, lifeless.
"Take out those cannons!" Ahsoka ordered.
As most of Rex's men were in the middle of an all out brawl with Maul's forces, they could not get on those guns.
But a few of Bo's Night Owls could.
They swooped in with their jetpacks and flew towards the two cannons.
They strafed the guns to take out their crews, before they used rockets to take out the guns themselves.
It was clear.
Ahsoka's men pushed further into the ruins in front of the palace.
Maul's troopers continued to charge out of the palace, while Death Watch, if they weren't dogfighting the Night Owls, swooped in from the roof to bring death from above.
The AT-TE's pushed further into the ruins. Their heavy cannons pounded away at several bunkers.
Holes were blasted into the sides, and anyone inside was either vaporized or crushed by debris.
A platoon of AT-RTs charged forward with Ahsoka's men.
That's when another pair of heavy cannons fired on the AT-TE's.
Another tank was hit. Twice. One in the cockpit, and another in the dorsal section that connected the front and back.
This one collapsed on its side.
Ahsoka, Rex, and Rex's squad took cover behind several makeshift barriers with a few other clone squads.
"Damnit! More of those guns! And bunkers!" Jesse shouted.
"What are we gonna do now?" Tup asked.
"Maybe we can use harsh language. Lucky for you guys, I've got six barrels worth of it," Hardcase joked as he held up his rotary gun.
"Cut the chatter you grunts! What are your orders Commander?" Rex asked.
As he asked this, another group of Shadow Collective commandoes swooped in.
The AT-RT's and the troopers around them fired up at the sky.
More than half of the Maul commandoes were hit and spun out of control.
But the rest fired their missiles.
The missiles collided with some of the AT-RTs, which exploded and took several troopers with them.
Ahoska became frustrated.
"Grrrrr! We need to get past these defenses and into that palace. Rex, take your men to the right. Take out the gun and clear out the bunker. Hardcase! Toss me some detonators!" She ordered.
The hyper-active trooper threw her a pair of detonators. She caught them and looked at her troopers.
They all looked back.
"I'm gonna go left," she said before she looked back at Appo, who was taking cover a bit of a ways back, laying down fire on the palace with several other platoons. The armor was hanging back with the other companies.
"Appo!" She shouted, trying to get his attention over the sounds of battle.
"Wha'da'ya need Ma'am?! He shouted back.
"We're gonna take out the emplacements on the other side of these barriers. Contact Kryze and the rest of the company commanders. I want you all ready to move up with the armor when we've taken out those emplacements!" Ahsoka said, shouting out her command.
Ahsoka saw Appo nod his head in understanding. "You got it Commander!" He shouted back before speaking into his comm, presumably to contact the others.
"You ready Rex?" She asked.
Rex turned back to the other troopers. "Let's do this," he said.
"Yes Sir," Jesse said.
"Uhhah! I live for this," Hardcase said.
Ahsoka jumped over the barriers and charged at her cannon. She landed on the barrel as she summoned a powerful force push to blast the crewmen away from the cannon and into a wall before they even noticed her.
She then took her swords and dragged them behind her as she ran across the length of the barrel, slicing it apart.
Ahsoka looked to her right to see Rex's men sprinkle their cannon with blaster fire before two of the troopers demolished it with thermal detonators. It went up like a fireworks display.
They then stacked on the door to breach it.
Tup placed the explosive on the door.
When the locking mechanism was destroyed, the door slid open and the troopers ran into the two-story bunker to clear it out.
That's when blaster fire from the bunker on her side started to hit her position.
She blocked and deflected dozens of laser bolts, but the Shadow collective troopers inside were to well concealed for her to get a good angle on them.
So Ahsoka charged the bunker and threw her detonators at the bunker, using the force to put them through the bunker's outer wall.
With her montrals, she could hear screaming from inside.
"Stang! Grenades!"
She must've hit something important, like munitions, because a powerful explosion ripped a massive hole in the roof.
It was big enough for her to jump through.
No one was upstairs, that was alive at least.
So she went downstairs.
As soon as she got to the bottom of the stairs, the last Maul trooper ran out the ground floor exit.
When she ran out of the exit, she saw Rex and his men exit their bunker, which had smoke pouring out of its gaps.
They linked up at the bottom of the stairs that led to the palace's front entrance.
"Nice work," Rex said, complimenting Ahsoka's handiwork.
"Thanks," she said as she continued deflecting more and more laser blasts from Shadow Collective forces that continued to pour out of the building and rain down heavy fire onto the plaza.
The fire from Maul's forces was murderous.
But so was the Republic's.
The AT-TEs, along with the heavy cannons near the Republic's outposts, fired at the palace. Holes were blasted into the sides, and Maul troopers were blasted off of the roof.
Ahsoka peaked over her shoulder real quick and saw Appo and the rest of the Battalion pushing forward, whilst laying down heavy fire on the front of the palace.
"Nice of you to join us Appo!" Jesse shouted.
"I assumed your de-construction project meant 'advance'," Appo said.
"Ha! That's one way to put it!" Tup shouted.
"Less yappin', more blastin'!" Hardcase shouted as he fired his rotary gun at a group of Maul troopers.
The artillery from the AT-TEs intensified. The enemy firepower was getting thinner and thinner until nothing was coming out of the building.
The bombardment continued for a few moments when Rex spoke into his wrist comm.
"Cease fire!" Rex ordered. The cannons fell silent, for now. "Advance!"
Everyone moved up the stairs.
Rex was the furthest along, with Ahsoka right behind him.
They were nearly at the top when one more Death Watch trooper revealed himself from behind a column, with a few security troopers.
It was Gar Saxon, the Commander of Maul's forces.
He pointed his blaster at Rex and fired. "Victory or Death!"
Several bolts hit Rex in the left leg, right arm, his left shoulder, and the torso.
"Gawh!" Rex exclaimed in pain.
"REX! NNOOOO!" Ahsoka shouted as she jumped between Rex and Saxon.
She deflected several more bolts. One flew back at Saxon's blaster.
It exploded in his hand, causing major pain.
"Grrr! Block this Jedi scum!" Saxon hissed before he used his wrist vambrace to fire a jet of flame at her.
She used the force to stop the jet of flame. She then summoned a shockwave that sent him flying into a wall.
The clones finished off the remaining Maul troopers.
Ahsoka turned around to check on Rex, allowing Saxon time to escape.
He used his jetpack to fly away.
The clones then secured the staircase and the front entrance.
Ahsoka and several other trooper checked on Rex.
Ashoka ripped off Rex's helmet as her eyes began to well up. "Rex, speak to me. Rex? Kix! Get over here".
Kix, the squad's medic, ran over very quickly.
He checked Rex's vitals.
Rex was moaning in deep pain, but it was so soft. It was like he didn't have the strength to shout in agony.
"Awh stang. We've got to get him to a field hospital, now!" Kid waved over several clones. "Get me a speeder. We need to move him now".
"Is he going to be okay Kix?" Ahsoka asked.
"I don't know ma'am. I'll see what we can do. Just carry on with the mission!" Kid said as he and a few others carried Rex over to a speeder.
Ahsoka gathered herself up. The field of battle had no time or place for mourning.
Everyone was stunned.
Ahsoka's comm device went off. She answered it.
"Tano! We can't do this alone. We need you and your men to take that building. Maul's reign of terror ends today!" Bo-Katan said.
"Understood!" Ahsoka said before she walked over to the top of the stairs. When she got there, she turned around to look at her men.
"Look everyone. I know how you all must feel right now. But we need to focus. We're so close to victory. We can do this. We have to do this. Rex is hurt. Maul has hurt a lot of people. That's why we need to finish this battle today. We're not just doing this for Mandalore. We're doing this for the Republic, and to honor those that we've lost," Ahsoka said.
"The commander's right!" Jesse said as he walked up the stairs next to Ahsoka. "This is for our brothers".
Everyone shouted. "Uhhah!"
"Do you want to honor your brothers?" Ahsoka asked.
"Uhhah!" They shouted again.
"Are you ready for some payback?" Ahsoka asked.
They all cheered again.
"Then let's go. Come on!" Ahsoka shouted, waving the battalion forward.
A massive battle cry was roared out as the battalion charged up the stairs.
"For the Republic!" Someone shouted.
Ahsoka used the force to throw a few detonators that Hardcase tossed her earlier.
They hit the door and exploded.
The door, along with several Maul troopers on the other side, went flying.
Ahsoka ignited her lightsabers and charged through the entrance with her men.
Yellow and Blue laser bolts illuminated the hallway as Clones and Maul troopers exchanged fire.
Ahsoka pounced forward with her sabers, ready for the sting of battle.
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Jedi Temple. Later that same day.
Ki-Adi-Mundi, Anakin, Yoda, Mace, Clone Commander Cody, and Aayla Secura talk via holograms.
"Master Windu, may I interrupt? General Kenobi has made contact with General Grievous, and we have begun our attack. We're moving to assist Kenobi as we speak," Cody said.
"Thank you, Commander," Mace turned to Anakin. "Anakin, deliver this report to the Chancellor. His reaction will give us a clue to his intentions".
"Yes, Master".
Anakin leaves the room. Commander Cody's hologram disappears right after.
When Mace was sure that he was only speaking to the Jedi, he spoke up.
"I sense a plot to destroy the Jedi. The dark side of the Force surrounds the Chancellor," he said.
"If he does not give up his emergency powers after the destruction of Grievous, then he should be removed from office," Ki-Adi suggested.
That got him some surprised looks.
"That could be a dangerous move ... the Jedi Council would have to take control of the Senate in order to secure a peaceful transition for another candidate. Perhaps Dalyell . . ."
". . . and replace the Congress with Senators who are not filled with greed and corruption," Ki-Adi continued.
Yoda was still on Kashyyyk during all of this. But his wisdom was still as effective as it would've been if he were in the same room.
"To a dark place this line of thought will carry us. Hmmmmm. . . . great care we must take," Yoda said, being naturally cautious about planning a hostile takeover of the Government.
These were dark and chaotic times indeed.
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Chancellor's office. Sometime later.
Anakin walked through the ornate halls of the Senate Building to reach the Chancellor's office.
He walked through the door to his office. Anakin found Palpatine in a private room somewhere adjacent to the main office.
Palpatine's chair turned away from a red hologram image of something. It looked like an eye-ball, but the hologram disappeared just as Palpatine turned to face Anakin.
"Chancellor, we have just received a report from Master Kenobi. He has engaged General Grievous," Anakin said.
"We can only hope that Master Kenobi is up to the challenge," Palpatine said.
"I should be there with him. I should be on Mandalore helping my old padawan," Anakin said, clearly not liking how everyone he's close to is out fighting while he's stuck here.
The Chancellor noticed this.
"It is upsetting to me to see that the Council doesn't seem to fully appreciate your talents. Don't you wonder why they won't make you a Jedi Master?" He asked.
"I wish I knew. More and more I get the feeling that I am being excluded from the Council. I know there are things about the Force that they are not telling me," Anakin said
"They don't trust you, Anakin. They see your future. They know your power will be too strong to control. Anakin, you must break through the fog of lies the Jedi have created around you. Let me help you to know the subtleties of the Force," Palpatine said as he got up and led him into the hallway.
They walked for a few moments.
"How do you know the ways of the Force?" Anakin asked, confused.
"My mentor taught me everything about the Force . . . even the nature of the dark side," Palpatine said. This got Anakin's attention.
He stopped in front of the chancellor. He turned around to face him.
"You know the dark side?!" The young jedi pressed.
"Anakin, if one is to understand the great mystery, one must study all its aspects, not just the dogmatic, narrow view of the Jedi. If you wish to become a complete and wise leader, you must embrace a larger view of the Force. Be careful of the Jedi, Anakin. (pausing) They fear you. In time they will destroy you. Let me train you," Palpatine said.
"I won't be a pawn in your political game. The Jedi are my family," Anakin said, holding his ground.
"Only through me can you achieve a power greater than any Jedi. Learn to know the dark side of the Force, Anakin, and you will be able to save your wife from certain death," Palpatine said.
"What did you say?"
"Use my knowledge, I beg you . . ."
Anakin took a step back and ignited his lightsaber before assuming a defensive stance. It was cloudy outside, so the gray clouds blocked out the sun, cutting off the natural light. The blue light from his blade illuminated the dimly lit hallway.
"You're the Sith Lord!" Anakin said, with venom clearly in his voice.
"I know what has been troubling you . . . Listen to me. Don't continue to be a pawn of the Jedi Council! Ever since I've known you, you've been searching for a life greater than that of an ordinary Jedi . . . a life of significance, of conscience," Palpatine continued.
"You're wrong!" Anakin shouted.
Palpatine took a step away. His back was turned to Anakin, who still had his blade out, although his stance was becoming less defensive, and more aggressive.
"Are you going to kill me?"
"I would certainly like to," Anakin hissed.
"I know you would. I can feel your anger. It gives you focus, makes you stronger," Palpatine said with his eyes closed.
Anakin raises his lightsaber to Palpatine's neck. There is a tense moment, then Anakin relaxes, and then turns off his lightsaber.
"I am going to turn you over to the Jedi Council," Anakin said.
"Of course you should. But you're not sure of their intentions, are you? What if I am right and they are plotting to take over the Republic?" Palpatine said.
"I will quickly discover the truth of all this," Anakin said.
"You have great wisdom, Anakin. Know the power of the dark side. The power to save Padme," Palpatine said.
Anakin stares at him for a moment.
The Chancellor turned back and moved to his office.
"I am not going anywhere. You have time to decide my fate. Perhaps you'll reconsider and help me rule the galaxy for the good of all . . ."
Anakin just stared daggers at him before turning away. He walked out of the office, the door sliding shut behind him.
Palpatine sat down behind his desk.
A devilish smile spreads across his face.
"You'll come to your senses," Palpatine said to himself.
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Utapau, Pau City sinkhole.
Obi-Wan gave his lizard a swift kick with the heel of his boot, and they take off down the vertical side of the sheer cliff. As GENERAL GRIEVOUS reaches the landing platform where his shuttle is waiting. Obi-Wan drops onto the top of the starship with his lizard.
Grievous growled in annoyance before he spun his scooter around and takes off up the vertical cliff face with Obi-Wan and his lizard in hot pursuit. All around them, the sinkhole is engulfed in a great battle between Clones and droids.
The people of Utapau, on the other hand, cowered in whatever shelter they can find.
Many others took up arms with the Clone Army to fight off their occupiers. They rode other lizards and odd looking winged creatures into battle.
Kenobi and Grievous continued race through the city at breakneck speed, passing through battle zones, narrowly escaping explosions, laser bolts, and troopers from both sides.
Grievous lays the Scooter down as he goes around sharp turns. Obi-Wan's lizard breathes hard as she tries to keep up. They destroy droids, equipment, and clone troopers as the Jedi and the General cut a swath of destruction through the city's cliffside dirt roads.
Above them, a Republic gunship was flying parallel to the chase seen.
The passengers included Commander Cody and his men.
"There they are sir!" Boil exclaimed.
Cody looked out the side.
"All right, light him up!" Cody ordered.
The Clones aimed at Grievous' bike and started firing their rifles out of the side hatch.
Obi-Wan noticed this.
"We've got your back General. And by the way, you really should keep a better grip on your sword next time," Cody said.
Obi-Wan gave a sigh of relief.
"Just don't tell Anakin about this," Obi-Wan said. He knew Anakin would've loved the irony of the person always telling him never to lose his saber would end up losing his own saber.
"Copy that Sir. Stand by: We'll get you the saber," Cody said.
As Cody's gunship tries to fly alongside Obi-Wan's lizard, Grievous works his way out onto the rim of the sinkhole, passing some massive wind blades.
The evil Droid General releases the brakes on the lethal blades, and they begin to spin, cutting off Obi-Wan's access to the General.
When Obi-Wan reached out to grab his sword from Cody's hand, the gunship broke off to avoid the massive wind blades, with the saber still in Cody's hands.
Obi-Wan's lizard pulls up short in front of the blades. Grievous laughs at the misfortune of his greatest rival and talks into a comlink.
"Prepare to move out of orbit. I will be up in a few moments," he said. "Roger, Roger".
Obi-Wan sizes up the situation, looking for a way to get to Grievous.
The General accelerates off the edge, activating his claws, drops, and clings to another nearby grouping of windmills. Obi-Wan's lizard attempts to jump to follow and barely makes it, almost falling into the precipice below.
As Obi-Wan continues his pursuit, Cody's gunship reappeared.
"Alright, let's try this again," The Jedi said into his comm-link.
As the gunship flew parallel to Obi-Wan's lizard, Cody held out the lightsaber hilt again, and again Obi-Wan reached out for it.
Suddenly the gunship banked hard to the left to avoid a tunnel, which Obi-Wan continued into after Grievous.
"Shit! This is ridiculous. Sorry General. But we'll have to come back and try again later," Cody said over the comm link.
"It's alright Cody. You and your men gave it your best try. I'll continue forward. Just keep following my locator beacon," Obi-Wan said as he kicked his heels into Boga to get her to move faster.
"Copy that. Happy hunting," Cody said before the feed was cut.
Grievous' bike roared through the stone block tunnel system, riding up on the curved walls as he goes around corners or passes oncoming traffic.
Obi-Wan races after the Droid leader, his lizard moving onto the ceiling as they pass traffic. Obi-Wan catches up with Grievous, and they charge through the tunnel, side by side.
The Jedi master grabs the Droid's electronic staff.
Extending from the wall of a small sinkhole is a secret landing platform with a small Federation Fighter sitting in the middle of it.
Obi-Wan and Grievous race out of the tunnel system and onto the landing platform.
Kenobi yanks on the General's electro staff, then jumps off his lizard, which halts in the middle of the road, onto the General's scooter, knocking both warriors to the ground.
The bike's momentum carried it over the side of the landing pad where it exploded at the bottom, into hundreds of pieces.
Grievous pulls out a sidearm and fires at Obi-Wan. The Jedi reaches out his hand, grabs the General's electro-staff and spins the staff, blocking the laser bolts.
He then charged Grievous, swinging the staff and hitting the Droid in the stomach, knocking the gun away. Grievous is hit by the staff, and the Force bends his forearm. He pulls Kenobi close to him, and they engage in a furious fight. The electro-staff is knocked away. The two engage in hand-to-hand combat.
Obi-Wan tries to rip open his chest, revealing the protective sac that protected his organs.
Grievous bashes Obi-Wan away with his mechanical arm. He then stomped his massive clawed foot into the ground, trying to crush the fragile human beneath him, his powerful stomps echoing through the ground. The Jedi struggles to avoid the deadly blows of the brutal, unstoppable Droid.
He kicks Grievous, who's leg buckles a little from the blow, but Kenobi cries out in pain.
Grievous laughs and hoists Kenobi by his throat and tossed him across the platform. Obi-Wan dangles off the edge of the platform. He clutches the rim, trying to hold on. The Cyborg General then uses his two remaining hands to grab his sabers, stolen from the many Jedi he's slain. A green one and a blue one.
As he marched towards the dangling Jedi, his wrists began to rotate, the blades spinning like propellors, which chopped up the ground in front of him. The destructive force moved closer and closer to Obi-Wan. This seemed like the end.
Obi-Wan closed his eyes in order to shield himself from what was coming.
That's when he heard a loud buzzing and humming sound.
He looked over his shoulder to see what it was.
Cody's gunship slowly rose from the bottom of the sinkhole.
Grievous noticed it too.
"What?!" He exclaimed.
The gunship's side hatch opened up to reveal Commander Cody and his squad.
They fired their weapons at the General.
Cody and his men fired their blaster rifles at Grievous, who started to deflect them.
Boil fired a rocket launcher at Grievous' fighter, destroying it.
Grievous didn't have a way to escape. It was do or die. And sense he could, kill Kenobi, jump really far, and hack away at the gunship, he was probably going t go with 'do'.
As Waxer and his team fired at Grievous, Cody reached for his belt. He pulled Kenobi's saber off of his belt.
"General!" Cody shouted.
Kenobi turned around just in time for Cody to throw the saber, which spun like a propellor as it flew towards him.
He caught the saber with one hand, while dangling from the cliff with the other.
Grievous was right above him.
"You can never defeat Grievous!" He shouted as he prepared for the killing blow. "Never".
Obi-Wan ignited his blade and thrust it upwards into Grievous' chest.
"Hhhhkkk," Grievous exclaimed as the blade was thrust into his vital organs.
He looked down.
The clones had ceased firing, opting to watch their Jedi leader kill Grievous.
Grievous then stumbled when Obi-Wan withdrew his blade.
He stumbled forward and fell over Kenobi's head.
The Cyborg General, the great Kaleesh warlord, the mechanical nightmare of the Republic, plummeted to the bottom of the sinkhole.
His lifeless body caused a splash in the pool at the bottom.
Obi-Wan climbed back onto the platform as Cody's gunship landed.
Cody's men emptied out of the gunship and secured the platform.
"General. Are you okay?" He asked.
Obi-Wan looked at the bottom of the sinkhole. He then noticed Cody.
"Hm? Oh yes, I..I'm fine. Let's get a move on. We have a battle to win here," Obi-Wan said.
He and the clones moved back into the gunship, which took off and headed back into the battle.
But down at the bottom of the sinkhole, a group of mysterious figures began fishing through the pool.
They were all wearing helmets and black armor with blaster rifles.
One of them was an Utapauan with black armor, with a chrome cylinder and a circular guard around it attached to his belt.
He stood their as his companions fished the mechanical corpse of General Grievous.
One armored soldier waved a scanner near Grievous' head.
"His brain is still active Grand Inquisitor. We may have use for him yet," he said.
The pale figure smiled.
"Good. My master will be most pleased," he kneeled in front of the General's corpse. "Do not despair General. You will be fulfill your purpose yet".
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