"Up the mountain let's go!" Rex shouted as they shot their cables up and into the mountain.

Many of the troopers of Torrent began to shoot their cables as well, connecting a quarter up the mountain. Naruto then watched as he saw dots in the skies above them, he focused his eyes, seeing some sort of bird.

"Anakin, do we have fighter support?" Oddball asked as he to noticed these birds flying above them.

"No, we don't get ready! Have the troopers with Smart Rockets target the skies, if one of these fighters start heading our way, blow it out of the skies!" Anakin ordered.

Naruto cursed as he saw something rolling on the cliff towards them, he could see some sort of round, oval like object, with what appeared to be ducked in legs. Naruto quickly cut his cable, and jumped onto the back of a AT-TE, and got ready.

Ahsoka took notice, readying her saber, as well as Anakin.

"Get ready! Rollers heading our, everyone with heavy blasters focus your fire!" Anakin ordered as the troopers aligned themselves to fire.

The long piece of metal Naruto had been hanging onto began to vibrate, he had to hold on with all of his might when it blasted out something from the end, the blonde looked up to see a part of the mountain explode.

Taking some of these Rollers with it.

Naruto watched as the birds from earlier began to swoop down towards them, becoming bigger and bigger with each passing second. Naruto watched as laser began to fly out from one of them, heading straight for his AT-TE.

Quickly think, the blonde thrusted his hand forward in a fist. The aircraft jarred from The Force he had sent out from the first, smashing just above them. The blonde quickly focused on the other one heading for him, and did the same thing.

However, this time, he made it spiral out of control, barely missing some people at the bottom.

He quickly turned around to see a Roller jumped out at him, using some jump pack modification to it's foot. Quickly Naruto grabbed his new saber with the force, and activated it. A bright green color blasted from the hilt, and slashed at the roller.

It was like a hot through butter, the droid was sliced in half, and sent down the mountain. Several more starting heading for The AT-TE Tanks, and Naruto cursed as he gathered some of The Force to his legs.

"Anakin, I think these things are targeting The Tanks!" Naruto shouted as he watched as troopers barely stopped the rollers from hitting their tanks with some front mounted blasters.

Anakin furrowed his brow, and growled out as he activated his saber, slicing apart a Roller that headed straight for him. He looked at Naruto who was leaping towards the second AT-TE, and attempting to intercept a jumping Roller from smashing into it.

He succeeded, barely in time, but Anakin had to grab him with The Force to keep him from falling off.

"Thanks!" Naruto shouted as he blasted several of the droids with The Force.

One jumped right at him, but he manged to blast it back into the mountain, and when it attempted a second jump, Naruto sliced it apart with his saber. The blonde got an idea, and shot one of his cables up, and caught a droid. Quickly he tied the cable to the AT-TE.

Taking a deep breath, praying it would work. He pulled hard, sending the Roller towards himself.

He combined both of his hands, channeling his energy into both, and blasted the droid back up the mountain as it rolled into others. When the cable became loose, he pulled it back, catching it with his off hand, catching with his freed hand.

The blonde watched as Anakin did the same thing. Ahsoka was running cover for the troopers, some of the Rollers targeting them instead of the tanks. Rex came besides the blonde, firing his T-21b blaster at the droids.

"What's the kill count kid, mines at fifteen so far!" Rex stated as he blasted another droid. "Make that sixteen!"

"Ten so far, hang on!" Naruto pulled a droid towards himself and sliced it in half horizontally. "Make that eleven."

The blonde and trooper watched as the tanks fired another volley upwards. Followed by cables being sent up, to the half way point of the mountain. The blonde was about to lasso another droid, but one of the aircraft came down.

It ended up being lassoed instead, and Naruto was jerked from The Tank.

"General Skywalker, Naruto's in trouble!" Rex Shouted as he watched boy began to take a ride upwards.

"Oh come on with this bullshi-aaaaahhhhh!" Naruto screamed as he was carried off.


The blonde was then feeling the air as he slowly was pulled from the mountain, the fighter, having somehow saw him began to try and shake him off. Naruto wrapped the cable around his hand, and began to climb up.

When he had tried to wrap his other hand up, he dropped his saber, and watched as it fell from the ground. Cursing loudly, the blonde slowly began to up towards the lasso at the tail end of the aircraft.

He reached the top of it, holding on for dear life. He saw that it's pilot, a droid, thought he had been shaken off. It began to dive towards where Anakin was, quickly Naruto reached out with The Force. Making a crushing motion with his hands, the droid screamed out as it's head was crushed.

The fighter began to spin wildly. Naruto held on for a just a few more seconds,unwrapping his hands of the cable and finally let go when the fighter flipped upside down.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, oh shit, shit!" Naruto shouted as he tried to load a cable into his wrist launcher.

He managed to load, and shoot it at a nearby wall of rock, and began to let it spoil out. Naruto came to jerking stop, he felt his shoulder out of place, making him yell out in pain. He angled his body, and rolled himself to where part of the cable was around his stomach. Allowing himself to tangle.

"This is not good kit, they're coming massive droves. However, I feel as if they're about to run dry of these Rollers as Anakin called them. Don't be surprised if they managed to pull something else out of their mix bag of tricks." Kurama said to Naruto as he the blonde popped his shoulder back into place.

A heavy wind gust made him swing around a for a few moments, until he heard something in his ear. Something he had been instructed to put into it prior to the mission. It sounded statically at first, but a clear voice came through.

"Anakin to Uzumaki, are you alright, report in!" Naruto let out a sigh of relieve.

He pressed his finger on the device, and held it down.

"This Naruto The Flying Fox, how may I take your order?" The blonde weakly joked as he continued to joke.

"Classic." Kurama quipped inside Naruto's mind.

The blonde watched as something fell near him, reaching out, he grabbed it with The Force, and made it come to him. He looked at it, and smiled.

"Well, I'll be a lucky bastard." Naruto said as he activated his dropped light saber.

"What, just because we're in another life doesn't mean we lost our luck, now report back!" Kurama ordered as Naruto watched the droids speed towards Anakin.

"Uzumaki, The Force is truly looking out for you, you're okay right?" He heard Anakin asked.

"Yeah, but you've got a lot of these rollers heading right for you. I got my light saber, and one more cable, and two more cables. I'm out of stuff after that." Naruto spoke.

"Okay, Naruto, listen carefully. We just suffered some casualties down here. We are struggling, some of the Rollers are firing in a line above us. It's become difficult to fire back, and fight back against the ones heading towards us. I need you to get rid of them." Anakin spoke through the communicator.

"Okay, but Anakin, I don't have much." Naruto said as he looked at the droids Anakin had been talking about.

"In your utility pouch should be some explosives. Did the troopers show you how to use them?" Naruto reached into his pouch,pulling a canister of some sort out.

"No, but this looks big enough to do the job. It has a button on top of it." Naruto explained the object in his hands.

"That's a thermal implode charge, it's an anti vehicle weapon. Naruto, it has a good blast area, is that all you got?" Anakin asked as he felt concern about the boy.

"Relax. I got this, however, I may be falling afterwards." Naruto honestly replied as he thought about the blast and what it might do to his cable.

"I'll be ready, go, now!" Anakin ordered.

Naruto untangled himself, swinging with the cable, before detaching himself at the pinnacle of a high swing. Naruto stayed silent as he moved closer to the droids, firing off one more cable to closer, and detached from his wrist launcher.

He grabbed the cable as he fell down, running along the mountain wall, and finally he jumped off the all. He loaded another cable, and looked to where he could fire. He find a spot, right under a droid. Using The Force, he enhanced his eyesight, and fired.

The cable harpoon sunk into the ground right below the droid, Naruto slammed into the mountain wall, right next to a droid. He quickly kicked it off, and focused on a droid that was going for his cable. He blast it with a massive Force Push, sending it into another.

Several more Rollers came down, and attempt to fire at Naruto. One scoring at grazing hit on his cheek, making Naruto hiss in pain. His heart beat faster, his senses became more in depth, growling out. The blonde channeled The Force, and grabbed the droid.

The droid came towards him rapidly, acting like a shield. The blonde pressed the button on top of the thermal implode charge, and slammed it into the metal body of the droid.

He pulled his hand back out, hissing as blood slowly dripped from several cuts made from the metal. He launched the droid at the firing line set up, and watched in amazement as a bright and large sphere of orange engulfed the droids.

The blonde felt his cable go slack, and himself, just as a massive explosion reached his ears.

Naruto fell backwards, angling his body so he could face downwards. He saw some droids rolling towards Ahsoka, so quickly he angled himself. Pressing the device in his ear, and yelled.

"Get ready, I'm coming in hot!" Naruto instructed as he screamed past the droids.

He held up his bloodied hand, and blasted them with The Force, quickly sweeping the area in his view. The droids flew off the mountain, the blonde then felt himself jerk as Anakin caught him. He looked over at Anakin smiling, only to feel something pierce his shoulder.

Fighting through the pain, Naruto saw a droid fire at him once more, and quickly brought his light saber up. He barely was blocking any of the lasers, but he was keeping up with them, just in time. The blonde watched as Rex fired a rocket at the droid, and made it explode in all of it's glory.

Naruto was jerked towards Anakin, catching him by his hand, and slammed him into AT-TE. He moved Naruto's hand to grip onto a handlebar, and looked at him.

"You've got some courage kid, a lot of it. That's some good stuff." Anakin praised at Naruto who just smiled.

Blood slowly leaked from his shoulder wound, which then began to hiss. The blonde grunted as steam flowed off the wound, making Anakin look at him. He looked at the wound closing, and back to Naruto.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"Yeah, just need a minute, man this stings more than usual." Naruto commented on his healing factor.

"It's because I'm rebuilding entire flesh, not kneading them back together. It'll take about five minutes, take a breather kit. I think they just lost the last of their Roller thingies." Naruto sighed in relieve.

"Anakin, how long until we reach the top?" Naruto asked.

"You know, you need to start to call me General Anakin...right?" Anakin joked.

"Uh huh, and I'll make the first flying Jedi...I think." Naruto joked back as he gripped the bar with all his might.

Rex came over to him, and looked at his commanding officer.

"Is he okay, looks like he'd be battered to shit from the beating he could've taken from the little escapade with The Fighter." Naruto just smirked at him.

"Please, I'm invincible." Naruto joked as he grunted from pain.

"At least he has a winning attitude." Rex commented as they had a small break moving up the mountain.

"Say, doesn't it seem weird that the enemy stopped attacking?" Ahsoka asked as she surveyed the area.

Naruto looked up cliff, noticing no droids. He looked at the commanders surrounding him with concern. This may be a more advanced era, it may even have things Naruto could only dream of, but tactics remained roughly the same on ground fighting.

"In my former life, during several mission I undertook as Shinobi, or ninja in your language. There was times enemies, bandits and other Shinobi, would just back off. One time I followed them, and almost ended up getting killed for it. I think they're luring us." Naruto stated as he looked up.

"You're probably right, however, we're going to have continue this way. It's the only way from here forward." Anakin said as he looked around.

"No, it's a bad idea, we'd be torn to bits as soon as we get up there!" Naruto argued as the walker kept moving.

"Then, what do you suggest, how long have you been fighting battles?" Anakin asked showing pride in his military and Jedi record.

"I've been fighting since twelve years old, I've fought people way stronger than me, and I've been several battles that involved fighting people who could literally destroy mountains. So, Anakin, I know what I'm talking about. When we get up on that hill, they'll be waiting to hit us hard. It'll be a massacre." Naruto said in frustration.

Naruto sat in thought for a moment, he looked at Anakin and snapped his fingers.

"I got it, it's risky, but it's gonna work!" Naruto yelled in excitement.

"What's that?" Anakin asked.

"I'll take a small team, heavy weapons would be nice, and sneak behind them from the mountain's path we saw at The Monastery up top. They'll be waiting for you coming this way, but they'll never expect me and a ragtag team of bad asses coming from behind!" Naruto spoke with enthusiasm.

"That actually could work...hmm, Oddball!" Anakin yelled out.

The commanding trooper with yellow stripes came over to the AT-TE and grabbed onto a bar next to Naruto. He looked tired as he surveyed the area.

"Sup General, got any request?" Anakin nodded.

"I need you to gather a team of soldiers, at least eight, armed with moderate weapons. You'll need some heavy weapons, you're going towards a foot path that was spotted on our fly in here. Naruto here thinks there might be a trap up top, we're going to slow our advance. See to it that no such fortification is waiting for us on top." Anakin instructed as Oddball nodded.

"With pleasure General, yo Naruto, you good to move? Cause I'm ready to kick some ass!" Oddball declared.

"Just about, still healing. Anakin, give me and Oddball half an hour. We'll let you know we're up there." Naruto said as he took some cables from a trooper who was supplying him.

"You got twenty five." Anakin stated.


Naruto, Oddball, and a small company of troopers landed near the footpath. Naruto was breathing slightly hard, having experienced a near fall on the way in. The blonde's tail had served to catch the cable, he wasn't planning on becoming a pancake anytime soon.

They were walking up the path, till they came across a droid patrol. They were spotted, and Naruto cursed as he quickly, and took out the two droids with his saber. The blonde looked at the troopers, and then looked up at the monastery.

The blonde looked towards the troopers, they were marching up the path. He looked at Oddball, and smirked.

"So, code name Oddball, what's that for?" Naruto asked trying to make some conversation.

"I'm named Oddball for my most illustrious and winning personality." Naruto stifled a laugh and smiled.

"I'm calling bullshit." Naruto stated as they came towards the monastery.

They were at least two miles away, Naruto stopped the troopers, and looked down to see a second foot path. He looked at it for a moment, and then smirked like deviant.

"See something you like?" Oddball asked.

"Oh, yes, yes I do. Instead of a going at the second entrance, we go to the third." Naruto stated as he shot cable off, and connected it to the mountain wall overlooking the third passage.

"Hell yeah, now we're talking, let's go boys!" The clone commander said as they all fired off cables.

Naruto used the hilt of his saber, zip lining across, while the clones used their weapons. They came towards the third passage, and all of them gathered their bearings. Naruto cut all their cables with his sabers, and motioned them to stay down.

They crouched down, watching as a sizable droid patrol of heavy droids came down the path they were originally taking. Oddball looked at Naruto, and had only one question.

"How did you know?" Naruto looked at him and pointed at his own head.

"I'm not all talk, I'm not book smart either, but I knew they would come looking for the droids that didn't make it back. Which is why, this plan just got better, they'll be sending part of their forces to guard that back area. They know I'm capable in The Force, and if they have Hutt's son here. I'm now their biggest concern, not Anakin. They'll think he's a distraction for the stealth approach." Naruto explained as they continued up.

The blonde ran with the troopers, pressing his finger into his ear.

"Anakin, where are you at?" Naruto called out.

"We're nearly at the top, are you there yet? We'll be up there in about ten minutes." Naruto smirked.

"Not yet, but plenty of time." Naruto looked up and saw The Monastery's walls.

He motioned upwards, and the troopers nodded. They fired off their cables, and began to climb upwards. The blonde teen jumped when he fired his, and began to rapidly climb up the mountain's rock, before feeling the flat wall of the Monastery.

They all managed to climb on top of the structure, Naruto looked around, sighing in relief when he saw no entrances around them. The blonde motioned for them, and they came to the side of The Monastery.

The blonde's mouth was slightly agape at what he saw, and he quickly pressed the device in his ear.

"Stop, stop now!" Naruto almost yelled into his ear piece.

"What's wrong, Naruto, what do you see?" Anakin's frantic voice came into his ear.

"I see...dozens of them, small droids, but there are a lot of Rollers left...they're waiting for you." Naruto said as he stared in shock at the number.

He then watched as woman came walking up to the droid army, she looked very familiar, difference being the now shaved head. Naruto growled out as she looked proud at what she was waiting, and finally he growled out her name.

"Ventress..." Naruto clenched his fists.