Chapter 10

"General Fair, we our entering the Hypori system." One of the clones reported to the newly promoted Jedi Master Zack Fair, in the battles that came, Zack has made his presence in the war. Zack was sent to Krant under the command of Mace Windu, to check on why the clones stationed on the planet have gone silent. Surprisingly when the Jedi knight arrived right outside of the planet's gravitational pull, there were three CIS cruisers. Immediately, Zack commanded his own three cruisers to attack. The battle was relatively short, under the command of Zack; the three CIS ships were eliminated. Then after the battle in space, Zack lead the clones down to Krant, to purge any leftover Cis troops. There was a large army of droids under one of the unknown dark acolyte's command, but Zack fair, managed to destroy the Separatist forces and kill the dark acolyte, with minimal casualties, but the battle was over as three more Separatist ships jumped out of hyperspace. Jedi Knight Zack Fair quickly commanded his ships into victory, only having a total of 25 wounded 2 killed and one damaged cruiser. After that battle, The Republic promoted Zack Fair into a General and gave the new General a fleet of his own to command. But that wasn't all, upon his return to the Jedi Temple, the young Jedi knight, managed to become a Jedi master, by impressing the Jedi with his victory over retaking Krant.

"Good I want Captain Fordo, to be in charge of evacuating the surviving Jedi. This battle is not lost yet." Zack said as he stared at the planet, he could feel the distress on the planet. The young general also felt something strange, something familiar, yet cold and dark. 'Shaak-Ti I hope you're alright, something dreadful is bound to come.' It was at that moment when Zack remembered what his friend Obi-Wan said, "Master Barrek has died on the planet of Hypori, Zack take the arc troopers and your fleets to Hypori now, the lives of more Jedi are at stake."

"Sir Captain Fordo and the other arc troopers are already on their way to the planet's surface." Nodding The General commanded his ships to invade Hypori, hoping to bring back the Jedi alive while destroying one of the major droid factories.

Hypori's surface, nearby Droid factory, within a canyon.

"I see, a republic gun ship heading towards the republic wreckage." Yuffie said as she brought down her binoculars, "Isn't that were General Grievous cornered the remaining Jedi." Yuffie looked at Darth Fenrir. We see our young sith lord meditating sitting on the edge of the canyon. "That will be Grievous's problem, for now make your way to Vincent, and help prepare commander Zillow with his droids. "What's with the change of plan? Think Vincent can't take command over the army here."

Cloud opened his eyes under his mask, and stood up, his black cloak billowing in the wind, giving him a ghostly image. "I sense the republic has sent a more formidable opponent, more than any other." Yuffie was about to ask who he was talking about but Fenrir continued. "I gave you an order, bounty hunter." Yuffie just sighed and made her way to one of the speeders they parked nearby, leaving her master alone. Darth Fenrir looked up towards the sky the clouds slowly drifting by, but underneath the mask Cloud was using the built in scope lens at its maximum distance, which is a good 10,000 miles, and with that enhanced sight the formation of five republic cruisers could be seen closing into the atmosphere getting larger by the second.

Cloud's fist balled up in fury, when he was meditating he felt a bright and warm echo in the force. It was like staring into the sun, but without the harshness that comes from something so powerful. It made Cloud livid, and heart broken. It was like going back to a home to a family that abandoned you. You love them, but you still resent them. "So you came… My dear brother."

Republic cruiser, General Fair's bridge.

"General are you all right, you seemed distracted." Arc trooper, 117, also given the name of Angeal, asked his Commander. Zack looked back at his ARC trooper, "For a second I felt a disturbance in the force, almost as if… never mind. Angeal do you have the status of the Jedi." The Clone captain nodded as he pulled up a small data pad, "It is confirmed that Jedi master Daakman Barrek has been confirmed KIA, along with his padwan Sha'a Gi, and Jedi Knight Tarr Seirr. Jedi master K'Kruhk, is also another casualty. Of the seven Jedi only three survived, Including both Jedi master's Ki-Adi-Mundi, and Shaak-Ti, along with Jedi knight Aayla Secura. All three came out with minor injuries, and requested to aid you destroy the droid factory."

Zack took his time to take in the losses, other than nearly a whole army, the republic lost four Jedi, and all of them due to General Grievous. Any help he could get will be welcomed. "If they are capable to offer there aid I will not turn them away. When they get on board I want the medics to make sure they are fit enough to fight. I believe that this Grievous is too much to handle alone."

"Permission to speak freely, sir." After receiving a nod Angeal took off his helmet and looked at his general straight in the eyes. "Sir, how could you take down Grievous, that man single handedly took down four Jedi, two of them masters like yourself."

Zack smiled as if he knew a secret that no one else knew. "Tell me Captain Angeal, do you think the Droid General can handle four powerful Jedi masters at once."

"But Sir Aayla Secura is only a knight." Before anyone could say anything one of the crewmen shouted, "General we have several ships coming out of hyperspace, its General Kenobi's fleet. Zack's smile grew even larger, while Angeal stared back at his General dumbfounded. "How did you know?" Only receiving a hearty laugh from his General. "Establish a comlink to General Kenobi, I wish to great my old friend."

Republic Cruiser, fresh out of hyperspace, General Kenobi's bridge.

"Anakin stop, touching the wound, you're only going to get it worse." The General lectured his old padwan; it has seemed that the young Anakin had a near death encounter with a newly identified, acolyte, costing him more than just his looks, but his troops, and his ship. Anakin did as he was told, as the burn over his right eye, already knowing it would become a scar. After the battle at Muunilist, securing a republic victory, general Kenobi immediately took his remaining forces and made way to Hypori were he planned on helping his friends defeating the General Grievous.

"General Kenobi, incoming transmission from General fair's ship." It didn't take long for Kenobi to see the holographic form of his best friend, but when Obi-Wan saw the Gaian's face, he remembered about Cloud, and guilt slowly crawled from the depths of his mind.

"Ahh, Obi-wan my dear friend, glad to see you can make it." Zack started with his playful attitude, but it changed quickly, "The situation here is Grave, our first attempt cost us Most if not all the clone troopers, and four of the seven Jedi. Shaak-Ti and Ki-Adi-Mundi are still alive and ready for another push. This Droid General Grievous is more powerful than we expected.

Obi-wan knew that they failed the first time but the losses were more than he feared. The Jedi master turned and saw the look of disbelief in his padwans face. "Then let us prepare for the battle to come, we will need to rethink our strategies to win this battle." Zack nodded his head, "It shouldn't be long for the surviving Jedi to recover, and once they do we will need every last bit of Intel they can provide.

Hypori surface, droid factory, War room.

"This droid army is supposed to be under my command; you can't just walk in here and take over." Vincent stood in front of Neimoidian his cold piercing eye's intimidating the spineless sentient. It was easy to tell the short Neimoidian was terrified by the much taller armored Gaian that was Vincent. "We were ordered to take control of these droid so we can prepare for the next incoming republic invasion." Yuffie said getting ever so irritated by the spineless but stubborn Neimoidian.

It was at this moment that the doors to the war room were forced open by what seems to be an annoyed General Grievous, soon followed by a cloaked man. "I do not require your assistance Fenrir; go tell Dooku I can handle a few more Jedi."

The cloaked figure removed his head revealing the intimidating mask of Fenrir. "Watch your tone Grievous, you may be a General now, but it's only by the orders of count Dooku that I don't tear you limb from limb." The Droid general turned and swung his arm out of anger only to be shocked when his arm was caught by his fellow acolyte. Cloud was able to stop the General's monstrous strength by enhancing his already impressive physical strength with the force. "Have you forgotten, that you have yet to defeat me in a duel, have you forgotten who's saber style you tried to mimic, or have you forgotten the many times, we had to make you a new body because you thought you could kill me." Dropping the General's hand, the two glared into the other's eyes, or mask.

It was true Grievous's rough fighting style was based of Fenrir's Kuro-Shikon, but the General modified it along with his own modified body allowing him to make his own style, that proved its worth this day defeating many Jedi at once. Fenrir noticed his companions next to the Neimoidian in charge of this factory. "Vincent I thought I told you to take the army and prepare for my arrival."

"Forgive me, Fenrir but as you can see, this Neimoidian is give," Vincent was cut off by the Neimoidian, "what he meant to say my lord is that… ughh… the army wasn't ready yet, we still had a few more hundred droids to make." The Neimoidian put his hands together in hopes that he would not piss of the man capable enough to defeat Grievous.

Fenrir was not pleased one bit, and he slowly raised his arm, and with a twitch of an arm flung the Neimoidian against a wall and held the poor soul against it while he spoke, "I don't care if we are short a few hundred droids, or even thousands. What I want is that my orders are followed. Am I understood?" Getting a frog like gaging sound, Fenrir dropped the Neimoidian while the short creature was struggling to stand back up.

"Vincent take a company of super battle droids to the east, you know what to do when the republic arrive. Yuffie, take whatever you need, and make sure the republic doesn't take the hills to the north." Getting a quick nod from the two, the Mercenary and bounty hunter left to do their task. Grievous looked towards Fenrir. "What are you planning?"

Fenrir turned to face his Cyborg ally, and gave a evil smile, even though no one could see through his mask. "It's time to show the galaxy how powerful we are by crushing the republic's pitiable attempt to destroy our factory."

Republic cruiser, CIC.

"Destroying this droid factory will not be easy, but I came up with a plan." Zack Fair pointed at the holo map, "Our scouts have found an entrance to the east that leads directly to the factory, it would be the best place to have our gunships drop of our troops. But the canyon seems to be heavily guarded; the scouts were able to detect several droids, and a handful of Anti-Air Canyons."

"Even if we manage to get past the turrets, we would lose many gunships." Obi-Wan pointed out, rubbing his beard in thought. "It would be best to travel through the hills in the north, even though we will have to push through the enemy fort."

"I agree, Taking over the Fort will give us a location to fall back too. General, Shaak-Ti, I'll leave the fort to you." Shaak-Ti nodded, and told her Former padwan Aayla, to prepare the gunships. "General Kenobi, I would like for you to take your men and take out those AA-Guns in the east. Once Shaak-Ti's forces take the fort they will need those Guns down for air support." Receiving a nod, from the Jedi, Anakin already selects the troops to take with them. "Once the guns are down, and the fort is ours, we will leave the Factories destruction to our former padwans. We Will then go and face off with this General grievous. Taking him out will help bring this war to an early dismissal." With that said, The Jedi went into motion, Obi-Wan walking with Shaak-Ti towards the hanger, were their drop ships awaited. Ki-Adi-Mundi, stared at the younger General.

"I can sense your worry."

"Shouldn't I, I'm sending off, my two closest friends to what could be their deaths. I sense something stronger than Grievous waits."

"Your concern for your friends is inspiring but, you should be careful of such bonds."

"I know, yet I fear for them, this darkness I feel, it's strongly familiar. I should meditate on this."

Ki-Adi-Mundi Looked slightly worried for the young master, "Go ahead, I'll keep the troops in line till Obi-wan and Shaak-Ti complete their objectives."

Separatist Fort,

Yuffie could see small dots in the sky slowly getting larger and larger, through her binoculars. "Send out the vulture droids, to intercept enemy ships, and ready the first wave of droids." Yuffie said to one of the officer droids that soon carried out its orders, in a rush. "Droid 4427, get me my equipment." One of the nearby battle droids went to go get her weapons while complaining about how it's not a servant droid. Yuffie smiled even though she knew the droid was only complaining to pass time, most people find it annoying, but Yuffie found it as a way to improve the mood. She was brought out of her thoughts when a total of ten vulture droids went to counter the twelve republic gunships.

"Eh, Ma'am the first wave of droids are ready," One droid said.

"Good," Yuffie smiled when she saw that only three gunships have been destroyed before the others choose to drop off their troops and tanks. Most of the vulture droids tried to destroy the ships even while they retreated, only managing to shoot down two more be for the last droid was destroyed. "I want all automatic defenses on, and a squad of snipes on the walls. Have all armor head out to face the republic."

"Ughh, what," Yuffie turned to face the droid, "Have all the tanks go with the first wave, objective make clones go boom." And like a switch the droid understood and carried out its orders. "So they weren't kidding when they said they could only follow simple orders." Yuffie heard footsteps and turned around in time to see a droid holding her equipment. "Here's your armor Ma'am." Yuffie smiled, looking at the armor, it was similar to the Mandalorian design, but the color was a simple forest green, and it had many functions that only the technology of Gaia can provide such as a surprisingly durable yet light metal material, and minor deflector shields and the most convenient feature magnetically attachable guns and rifles. Although putting her armor on was a tedious task that took several minutes. For there were many things to check off. "Ok let's see, blaster pistols check, thrusters, check, and booster pack check. Right arm vibroblade check, left arm vibroblade check. Poisoned darts check, paralysis darts check." Yuffie kept making sure everything was in place when she donned her armor.

Jedi knight Aayla's strike force.

Aayla knew that a frontal assault on the fort wouldn't work; she just hoped her master's plan would work. Deflecting another round of blaster fire with her blue light saber the young Twi'lek encouraged her troops to move forward. It was a horrible sight to watch her men fall from the fire of countless of droids and the sniper fire from the fort. The only bright side is that the Vulture droids and all the enemy tanks have been destroyed. Aayla leaped over a clone in time to deflect many shots only to return the bolts back to their senders. The Jedi Guardian ran towards a wave of droids and started to make scrap metal.

Many clones have already been killed and the wounded were dragged back to the rear with the AT-ATs, well the last AT-AT. The loss of two At-ATs and several Fire teams have severely weakened their frontal assault. Aayla forced pushed a clone away from an incoming rocket from a super battle droid, and proceeded to cut down said battle droid. "Medic, we need a Medic over here!" a Clone shouted in desperation to save his brother. Aayla quickly made her way they're so she could cover the wounded while the Medics drag them to a safer distance. It wasn't long after that when the first wave of droids was defeated, but that didn't stop the Snipers from picking off her Men. "Snipers stay down." A clone said till he became another victim to the threat he warned about. The remaining clones a force of about twenty men took cover behind the rocks and waited.

Aayla managed to take cover with the clone sergeant. "Ma'am there snipers are thinning our numbers quickly, and those turrets are making it impossible to get close enough for us to eliminate the snipers. What is your command?" Aayla poked her head out to gain a better look at the wall, and noticed a total of two heavy auto turrets and the place where the snipers where located. Aayla didn't have much longer of a few for a red beam of heat gone past her head right when she hid behind to boulder. "Sergeant tell the At-AT to focus its main cannon on the main defense turret!" Aayla shouted to the clone. Nodding the clone sergeant repeated the orders on his comlink, and it didn't take long for the AT-AT to make its way to the battle front. Immediately the turrets focus at shooting at the republic armored vehicle. Trying in vain to destroy the tank, when the main cannon shot down the two turrets, then punched a hole in the wall right underneath the snipers eliminating the threat. The clones gave a battle cry. But the victory was celebrated shortly when more droids started making their way towards them.

At first Aayla didn't worry about the droids, between the fire of 20 clones and an AT-AT's cannon the droids were getting mowed down quick. But it wasn't until a group of super battle droids managed to launch their missiles into the critically damaged Republic tank. Now with the destruction of the tank, the remaining republic forces were no longer able to keep back the flood of droids coming their way, they were being outnumbered three to one and that number still continues to climb.

Fort War room.

"Flame thrower check, E.M.P grenades check, thermal detonators, check, and lastly, deflector shield check. All right now that my equipment is in order. Time to stop the republic." Yuffie said now fully armored and unrecognizable minus the height. "Ugh Ma'am there are only twenty clones left and one Jedi." One of the many officer droids told her, to which she could only smile. Yuffie grabbed on to the large anti-armor rifle she had magnetically attached to her left shoulder. "You're forgetting the reinforcements." Yuffie soon made her way to the small platform that held her speeder. Using the built in scope of her helmet Yuffie raised her special Rifle towards the sky and waited for the small dots to become visible.

Aayla's strike team.

Jenson, the clone sergeant barely had enough time to take cover behind one of the large rocks that littered the battle ground, as he received a message. Activating the holo communicator the clone was relieved to see General Shaak-Ti. "Sergeant where is commander Secura." Before the clone could answer one of the super battles droid's missiles hit the rock he used for cover. "She is currently busy," the clone said, as he saw the blue Twi'lek during her best at defending her men from the barrage of blaster fire. "It would be best to not distract her."

"I see, well them it seems I arrived on time." With that said the clone looked up and noticed seven gunships make their way to the fort and mowing down any droid that they saw. Three of the seven gunships landed right in front of the surviving troops, opening their doors to revile the General herself and more clones. "Get the surviving clones onto the gunships, the rest of you help me clean up this mess." Shaak-ti said, making her way to Aayla, "Can you still fight."

"I'm well master, tend to my men." Nodding the Togruta General and her former padwan made to the battle front mowing down the last of the droids. The battle was as good as over until, the least expected thing happened. While fighting off the last groups of droids, they never noticed a single figure on a platform, taking aim. In one loud bang, one of the many gunships that were about to land and provide reinforcements was shot down. To be precise the Pilots of the space craft have been sniped. The Republic forces on the ground watched in horror as, one gunship after another crash landed and if that wasn't the worst part. More droids came out of seemingly no were from within the main building. Many of the droids ignoring the main force and making their way to the fallen Gunships.

Shaak-Ti immediately sprang into action trying to command her men to destroy the droids before they reached the destroyed gunships. Aayla on the other noticed the one figure that shot down a total of four gunships before focusing its attention the retreating ships and easily shooting them down as well. Angered at the armored figure the young Jedi went to go confront the figure.

Fort's platform.

Yuffie replaced her high powered rifle onto her back again. She would never get tired at how much easier it was to hit all her marks, with the built in multi-target finder function, although it was only the prototype, Gaian government only giving out the real product to their special task forces. Yuffie was about to mount her speeder and move on to the factory and report her, failure, although Yuffie, doesn't care. Considering the Republic lost several At-At-s and gunships, the young Gaian knew she failed from stopping the republic, and was not looking forward to Fenrir's anger. Right When Yuffie was about to Leave she saw the doors open revealing the blue Twi'lek Jedi. Choosing to taunt the Jedi Yuffie said, "Next time, Jedi." The Gaian bounty hunter said as she speed her way back to the factory.

Aayla tried to stop her but, before she could grab the woman with the force, the bounty hunter was already gone. Frustrated the Young Jedi looked over the battle in front of her, looking over the destruction they made. Many bodies of clones lie still and many have been buried or disfigured by the explosions and ruins of any vehicle. Not to mention all the scrap metal you can wish for. They completed the first step to General Zack's plan, but it cost them more than they had thought. All of Shaak-Ti's reinforcements minus 30 clones have been demolished by one bounty hunter. Aayla wondered, if they should just turn back now and cut our losses on this planet.

Battle of Hypori

Republic

Commanding officers: Generals Zack Fair, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Obi-wan Kenobi, Shaak-Ti.

Military strength: Three republic fleets, 300 gunships, 100,000 clones, 120 AT-ATs, 10 Jedi.

Casualties so far: One republic fleet, 110 gunships, 45,237 clones, 50 At-ATs, Four Jedi.

CIS

Commanding officers: General Grievous, Dark Acolyte Fenrir, Gain Bounty hunter Yuffie, Gaian mercenary Vincent

Military Strength: Two separatist fleets, Droid factory, two sith, 1 bounty hunter, 1 mercenary.

Casualties: One separatist fleet, 73,113 droids, 30 tanks,

(remember most republic forces were decimated before Zack and his fleet showed up, Oh plus I'm not so good at writing a large scale battle. So sorry if it disappoints a bit.)