Homki was upset. He wandered around the building Rex had shut him in. He could still hear the lightsabers ringing in his ears, and the other loud, annoying sounds caused by the battle. They were starting to make his eardrums throb. He clapped his hands over his ears, which helped a bit, but the sound was still boring into him. He couldn't stand the cacophony anymore. The source of the sounds was too close, he had to get away.
Hands still clutching his dolls and com-links and covering his ears, Homki ran around the building looking for a way out. He found a hole in the middle of a wall. After squeezing through, he ran away from the horrible sounds. When he could no longer hear the sounds Homki skipped around playing with the com-links that made animal sounds.
Fale, one of the Tuyepov citizens, was grateful for the people who were helping them fight (Obi-Wan, Anakin, Ahsoka, Rex, and Waxer). Without their help, they would have probably had even more of their city destroyed. The Nelesinari were responsible for destroying a lot of buildings in the city before. Truth to be told, Fale and his fellow citizens hadn't even known the Nelesinari were coming again. They'd been building weapons for months in case they needed any for some reason or another, and had just figured out how to make clubs, spears, and other primitive weapons.
The previous time the Nelesinari came, they all just cowered in the buildings, which had been ripped apart. Now the citizens were fighting back, and they were all very confident that the Nelesinari were no match for their fighting skills. In reality, the Nelesinari a pretty equal match for even the Jedi and Clones, who had lots of experience fighting beings of all shapes, sizes, and I.Q.s. The citizens, however, were complete failures when it came to fighting.
Fale tried to stab a Nelesinara in the leg with a spear. The shaft shattered, and Fale was holding a useless fragment of a stick. He then shoved the fragments under the Nelesinara's toenails. It howled in pain, and Ahsoka leaped in the air and gave it a jab with her lightsaber. Fale now had a club had been strapped to his belt and swung it as hard as he could at the monster. Unfortunately, Ahsoka landed in front of Fale, who accidentally whacked the Jedi with the club instead of the Nelesinara. Of course, that club just had to be the one weapon that stayed intact, and Ahsoka was knocked out cold.
Anakin groaned when he saw that his apprentice had been knocked out and by someone they were helping, for crying out loud! He carried Ahsoka's limp body out of the middle of the battlefield, and placed her in the same building Homki had been in, not noticing the boy had left.
Rex and Waxer were painstakingly shooting down Nelesinari down. They were annoyingly like battle droids. No matter how many they shot down, more kept coming. The incompetent citizens had all fled the battle, leaving only two clones and two Jedi, since Ahsoka had been knocked out, to fight the Nelesinari. They were running low on ammo, since it took about thirty blaster bolts to kill a Nelesinara. They'd used most of the spare cartridges on their belt in half an hour. They hadn't brought many, which had been a mistake. Then again, they didn't think they'd be fighting monsters for a bunch of "warriors" who were hiding in a library two blocks away.
Anakin and Obi-Wan were leaping around the Nelesinari, stabbing them with their lightsabers. Unfortunately, even lightsabers had a hard time penetrating the skin of the ten foot tall creatures. They aimed for the eyes, although that was easier said than done, too. They only managed to blind one out of five. One of the Nelesinari grabbed Anakin's lightsaber by the blade (apparently, the lightsabers didn't affect them at all) and hurled it into a nearby building. Anakin summoned it with the force, turned it on, and realized with dismay that it wouldn't ignite. Meanwhile, Rex and Waxer had finally run out of ammo.
Things were looking very, very, grim. It was four humans against five Nelesinari, and three of the humans didn't have weapons. Technically, Rex had a pouch full of grenades, but those would blow up at least ten streets, so he couldn't use them. Obi-Wan's lightsaber was pretty much useless, since it had no effect on the monsters.
For some reason, the humans and the beasts were quiet for a moment, and during that moment, the chattering of a monkey echoed around the city. The Nelesinari turned and ran off towards the monkey sounds.
Homki had tweaked the com-links again, so that the sounds were now very loud. He'd been playing with Ahsoka's and, after the loud monkey sounds had emitted from it, a bunch of Nelesinari had run past him, not even seeing the small Twi'lek sitting on the ground. Homki, not knowing he'd just saved peoples' lives by luring the animals away, got up and began to spin around and around.
After the relief of the Nelesinari leaving, Rex and the others went back to the place they'd left Homki and Ahsoka. They were happy to see that Ahsoka was now conscious again. However, worry replaced their joy as they realized Homki was not in the building. What if he'd gotten killed? Then, Anakin realized something. "The monkey sounds, couldn't they have been the com-links?!" Then ran off in the direction the Nelesinari did, and they found Homki in almost the exact same way they found him in the start, where the boy was happily spinning around and around.
The citizens all seemed to consider the Jedi and Clones their heroes. Fale shook their hands and congratulated them, not believing that they had almost lost. The citizens completely ignored Homki, which suited Homki fine but annoyed the others. After all, Homki had distracted the Nelesinari and lured them away with animal sounds. Actually, thought Anakin, if it wasn't for Homki, we might not be here.
Now they just had to get to Ryloth. Ahsoka asked if the public cruiser would open anytime soon. "No, we stripped that down for parts to make our weapons." Fale said.
After asking a hundred people if they had a ship, none of whom did, they started to wonder how they'd get Homki home. They eventually made an announcement to the entire city that a ship was needed, and out of the thousands of people who lived in the city on Tuyepov, only fifteen owned ships. One of them agreed to fly them to Ryloth, though.
Rex, Anakin, Ahsoka, Waxer, Obi-Wan, and Homki were rather cramped in the back of the small cruiser. Luckily, though, Homki did not seem very agitated by having to be in close proximity with five other people. The child gazed out the window at the stars as the ship carried him home.
Sorry if my battle scene was lame. There's still one more chapter left, so don't stop reading.