Chapter 8

As they went in, they heard a explosion, the explosion was coming from Obi-Wan's diversion. The vibration made the whole cave shake, making dust fall down. Anakin and Ahsoka held each other to cover their eyes from the dust. They released each other when the dust cleared and kept running

Meanwhile, Obi-Wan and Adenan were in a wide ventilation pipe, going to the ship that way.

"Master, why do Jedi have to sneak through ventilation shafts?" Adenan asked

"Because thats where Jedi are needed my Padawan" Obi-Wan teasingly answered

All of the people who caused a diversion squeezed, or crawled, in Adenan's case, until they found a probe droid, Sobek saw them through the probe droid and shut the ventilation shafts, killing a clone and slowing down their progress, but they still progressed steadily

"I sense a trap" Anakin said

"Yeah, me too! What do you suggest we do?" Ahsoka asked

"Hide towards the ship?" Fives suggested

"Yes. We do that" Anakin said

So they all hid towards the ship, except Tarkin, who didn't trust force senses, and went towards the ship.

Tarkin walked and Anakin exclaimed "Tarkin look out!"

"Bah! I don't trust your 'Jedi Powers'" Tarkin hissed and walked toward the ship, and Obi-Wan jumped towards it with Adenan and the other clone troopers. It was a trap just like Anakin sensed. Obi-Wan, Tarkin, Adenan, and a few troopers were bought in as prisoners

"Wheres Jedi Master Even Piell!?" Sobeck demanded

Anakin, Ahsoka and Master Piell stayed put and silent behind three pillars, and no one could see them. All of the captured ones kept telling they knew nothing of where they were, even Tarkin, because he just walked and didn't care of where the hid. Then, the force told Anakin he could use the power, so he concentrated on the air in Sobeck's neck and his neck bones, lifted him up and began using force choke. To Anakin, the experience was so fantastic, he couldn't wait to hear Sobeck's neck crack and hear the sound of him dying of suffocation. He kept a melody on his head (The Imperial March) as he suffocated Sobeck. Master Piell couldn't take it anymore, Anakin Skywalker, the great Jedi Hero, was using Sith Powers on an seemingly innocent life form

"Anakin! Stop!" Master Piell ordered Anakin

Anakin, knowing Evan Piell came out of his hiding spot, exposed to the Separatists, stopped the force choke, he came out of his hiding place frustrated, he couldn't kill Sobeck. Ahsoka came out as well.

"So there you are!" Sobeck exclaimed, trying to get his breath back

"Yes, I am here, show me what you puny Separatists got!" Anakin angrily shouted, his eyes now completed their transition, they went from Deep Sapphire Blue to a Fresh shade of Gold. His skin became paler and a cold atmosphere took over the heat of the lava

"Anakin!" Obi-Wan shouted, he didn't want Anakin to turn to the dark side of the force

So the crossfire began, Anakin began using Form VII, a restricted form because of it's darkness, but the form seemed best for him now. A cannon now shot, Echo intercepted the cannon and took the shot, Echo, the great 501st Trooper, was now dead

"I hate you!" Anakin screamed, Echo was a friend of his, he jumped up and killed the shooter, and every droid in the cannon's position.

Scared out of his life because of Anakin, Sobeck took a cannon blaster and shot the ship, and the immediate escape for the Jedi and the clones. Obi-Wan warned everyone to run, so they ran.

They ran for their life, and Sobeck was still recovering his neck from the force choke from the person who would've been Darth Vader. Then the worst happened for Sobeck, Dooku, leader of the Separatists and former Master of Qui-Gon Jinn, contacted him. Sobeck responded expecting the worst

"I just sensed that you let the prisoner escape" Dooku told Sobeck

"I tried to kill them, but Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker is too scary!" Sobeck didn't want to remember what Anakin's anger has done

"I once cut off his hand, thank god you aren't Nute Gunray!" Dooku exclaimed.

Nute Gunray, leader of the Separatist Council and Viceroy of the Trade Federation, was scared of anything that attacked him, just like other Nemodians. Dooku chided Sobeck, told him to track them out, and he would have consequences if he failed, so, he let out a pair of Anooba, who are dog-like creatures who can smell out an enemy and a space blockade around Lola Sayu to prevent any other intrusions. And the Jedi were running as Obi-Wan requested a rescue mission for getting them back.

"Just in case you run into any trouble my Padawan, remember what I have taught you these last seven days" Anakin reminded Ahsoka

"Yes Master! I will remember!" Ahsoka exclaimed

As the Jedi were running. The Anooba chased after them faster with battle droids on their backs, the faithful Jedi and the not-so faithful Tarkin were followed by their troop of Clones and reprogrammed battle droids ran and got ambushed by the Separatist forces on the lava lake, R2

s reprogrammed battle droids sacrificed themselves for them to run. All of the rest climbed down and , Skywalker, Tarkin and Tano discussed the way of the Jedi

"The reason you Jedi cannot stop the war effort is because your very strict code doesn't allow it" Tarkin mockingly said

"It is not the Jedi way to kill" Ahsoka answered back

"I am no longer loyal to the Jedi, I now answer to the Chancellor since I have been promoted" Tarkin exclaimed

"Why did Master Piell get that kind of guy to memorise the other half?" Ahsoka angrily asked

"Captain Tarkin doesn't trust the Jedi, he thinks that they should be stripped from their titles in the Republic and decimated from war effort" Anakin answered as they noticed the Anooba behind them with crab droids.

The Jedi were supposed to go to a island situated in lava to get rescued, but, they were so close when they got ambushed.

"Me and Ahsoka will deal with the Crab Droids! The rest deal with the Anoobas'" Piell ordered

They all obeyed, even Tarkin. Even Piell went for a Form I stance driving with Form V and Form III. While Ahsoka gone with her Form IV. They both fought the battle droids as Anakin, Obi-Wan, Adenan, Commander Cody, Captain Rex and Fives departed. As they fought, Ahsoka sensed that Master Piell was going to die, so she flipped her lightsaber grip from a reverse grip to a standard grip and started using a form Anakin told her not to reveal she knew it… Form VII! She began spinning he lightsabers rapidly, deflecting every shot and using force enhanced moves. Piell stopped fighting, first he had to deal with Anakin's force choke on Sobeck, now he has to deal with Ahsoka using the restricted Form VII enhanced with Form V for parts she didn't know of Form VII

"Stop this Ahsoka!" Master Piell exclaimed

When Ahsoka stopped, all the battle droids were cut or separated by Ahsoka's Form VII

"I will report this to your master"

'Uh oh!' Ahsoka thought 'thats why my master didn't want me to reveal it'

Even Piell had his eyes on Ahsoka as they went for Anakin, by then, they stopped fighting the Anoobas, Piell spoke to Anakin

"I am here to tell you that your Padawan used Form VII!" Piell angrily exclaimed

Obi-Wan looked, worried, the only explanation for Ahsoka using Form VII was if Anakin taught he from the hologram, he silently mumbled to them "You probably shouldn't talk about this!"

"Ahsoka! I thought I told you not to reveal that I taught you Form VII!" Anakin reprimanded Ahsoka

"But Master Piell was going to die if I didn't! The force told me that… I just know it!" Ahsoka replied

That part silenced Anakin, Ahsoka had as many midichlorians, organisms that live in Jedi's blood and give them the force powers. Ahsoka had 17,600 midichlorians, while he had 27,700 midichlorians, so Ahsoka had almost a lot as Yoda, so he could explain what happened

"Ok, I will ignore Piell's case, but don't use Form VII again unless it is an emergency!" Anakin apologised for reprimanding his padawan

Piell, was surprised, Anakin taught Form VII to Ahsoka, and that explained why he was using Form VII when he almost turned to the dark side, 'What happened since Mortis' he thought. But the thoughts they were having didn't last that long, they were trekking for a few minutes, and a river they gone past through looked good for a funeral, but no one died. Sobeck and the Separatist Troops found them before they could go to the island and started a fight as Republic Forces were going through the Separatist blockade

Anakin sliced Sobeck's transport in the air, which exploded, Sobeck landed on Tarkin and tried to cast him into the lava, as much as Adenan didn't want to do it, he took Sobeck and executed him before Sobeck could do that. In the crossfire, Plo Koon took Evan Piell, Willhuff Tarkin, Adenan Kornen, Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker, Commander Cody, Captain Rex and Fives out of the system and they all blasted out of hyperspace

"So, you want us to drop you to Dragitor?" Obi-Wan asked

"Nah! I need to do two things!" Anakin said

"What are the two things?" Plo Koon asked

"Tell Padmè I'm alive and.. oh! I forgot to tell the Chancellor that I've left the Jedi Order!" Anakin remembered that the Chancellor was a good friend with him

"You know the chancellor?" Tarkin asked, although Anakin was more Force-Inquired than Military-Inquired now, and Tarkin did not know

"That was when I still was a Jedi" Anakin answered

Tarkin then looked away and they reached Coruscant a few seconds later. When they landed, Anakin went with Ahsoka, Obi-Wan and Adenan while the council, Piell and Tarkin were talking something about the Nexus Route.

"Ah! Anakin, my boy! What have you came to talk about today?" Palpatine, secretly Sith Lord Darth Sidious and current Chancellor of the Republic, asked

"I forgot to tell you that I have left the order a week ago!" Anakin said to his former Political mentor, because of Palpatine, Anakin knew all about the Republic, The Senate, and how to be a politician, because of Palpatine

"Oh. Thats very bad news" Palpatine pretended to be sad, but in fact, he was very angry, his plans were at a failing point now, Anakin will not become Darth Vader if he doesn't see him everyday, but Palpatine will adapt to this loss "But I can teach you something new about politics every time you come here" He said to cover up his anger

Anakin, unaware of Darth Sidious's identity thanked his mentor with "That will be a very nice offer, Chancellor"

"I hope to see you again, Anakin" Palpatine replied

Anakin said bye to the Chancellor and then proved to Padmè he survived his latest mission and left for Dragitor, where Qui-Gon greeted him

"Ah! Anakin! Ahsoka! So you have survived The Citadel!" Qui-Gon told them both proudly

"Yes master! We have survived the Citadel and almost destroyed it!" Anakin responded.

So, that is the end of the very long chapter I was writing, I promise you, the new few chapters will be shorter, until then, NEXT CHAPTER: THE SEPARATIST INVASION OF CERESTA