Note: I can't believe no one pointed this out to me, I just noticed it. I seem to be spelling Grivous's name wrong, I spelled it Grevious, it is in fact Grievous. Well now I know so I'll continue spelling it right.
Chapter 10: The Battle of Kashyyyk
Obi-Wan had literally been mediating for five hours, trying to locate Siri, he was unsuccessful but still he kept on trying. He had sealed himself inside his quarters and refused to come out, Adi Gallia and Stass Allie stood outside of his door, discussing the possibilities.
"He seems obsessed with finding her," Stass Allie noted thoughtfully.
"I sense a strong bond between them." Adi Gallia said.
"As do I," Stass Allie agreed. "What could possibly have created a Force bond between them, I thought it only happened between a master and an apprentice."
"I doubt Force bonds are as narrow as that." Adi Gallia said. "It seems like they have feelings for each other."
"You mean ones that defy the code?"
"That is the sense I am getting…. Before Siri left did you sense a new light around her? It seemed like something wonderful happened."
"Her stomach has gotten slightly bigger," Stass Allie said. "I didn't even notice it until she turned and her tunic stretched."
"Indeed," Adi Gallia said, then an impossible scenario went through her mind. "You don't think she is pregnant?!"
"Of course not, even if Obi-Wan and Siri had feelings for one another they would not dare go that far!"
"You're right of course, I'm just jumping to conclusions. Obi-Wan and Siri have been friends for a long time, it is only natural that they have some feeling for one another's well being and I am sure Siri is just missing some exercise routines."
"Perhaps… well I don't think Kenobi will be out for a while. We'd better just let him come on his own time."
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It would be obvious to those who knew nothing about combat. Even with the combined forces of the clones, Wookies, and Jedi the Republic army on Kashyyyk was outnumbered, outgunned, and frankly outsmarted. The droids knew exactly what to do. They rushed up onto the beach, super battle droids and regular B1 battle droids alike, droidekas rolled in front of them and unfolded right at the front line of clones and Wookies. Bubble-like shields sprang up around them and they opened fire as did the battle droids behind them, protected by the line of droideka with their shields. Clones were plowed down like grass in the fields of Naboo, they fell everywhere, some before they could even squeeze a shot off.
The battle droids fired continuously, a select few were shot in the head thanks to a clone's good aim but that was it. The droideka's shields took a beating but didn't give up. As the line of clones began deteriorating a wave of huge Wookies ran forward. The droids retaliated and opened fire, a handful of Wookie went down, the others kept running, charred blaster holes everywhere under their fur. The droidekas back stepped slightly as the Wookies threw themselves on the tri pod like droids, some died before they hit the cold metal. Many droidekas were crushed thanks to the Wookie's sacrifice. Clones were able to chop down battle droids with ease now. Through the line of them sprinted three Jedi. Anakin Skywalker, Yoda, and Luminara Unudil, sabers held high.
They tore through the line of droids, cutting them down to quick for the eye to see; nearly reaching the mouth to the giant lake on the beach they banked sharply left and ran the entire length of the beach in only a few minutes, the Force as their energy source. They didn't tire when they stopped in front of the fiendish droid general. He looked at them in coughed. Several battle droids stopped and aimed their weapons at the Jedi.
"Hold your fire!" Grievous shouted to them. "I will deal with these Jedi slime myself."
In a flash he had two lightsabers in either hand, regrettably he could not fight four handed thanks to Siri Tachi. Anakin smiled.
"Your move," Anakin challenged.
"You fool! That's what every single Jedi says to me. They all lose!"
"Not this time." Luminara said confidently. Grievous emitted what sounded like a cross between a dying batha's cry, an electronic hacking cough, and the sound of a lava fall, he had a hideous laugh. Following shortly after that he stabbed Luminara through the heart and snatched her lightsaber before she hit the ground. Yoda and Anakin gazed at her fallen body while Grievous cackled again.
Yoda did some sort of battle cry and flew into the air, striking furiously at the droid general. Grievous parried Yoda's strikes with impressive ease. When the small Jedi landed on the sand he sent a metal foot a him, Yoda tried to dodge but the metal claws hit him hard and sent him flying away. Anakin was temporarily stunned, Yoda was the best duelist in the entire order. He looked at Grievous as the general laughed for the third time.
The droid barely had time to parry Anakin's overhead slash, and just hardly met any of his following strikes. Even with two lightsabers the general wasn't fast enough to parry. He found himself backing away towards a huge tree. Finally as Anakin struck low he nearly hit it. Anakin pulled away and tried another overhead strike, Grievous stopped it, his sabers in an X formation. Their blades locked, Grevious looked behind him and up, there was a loft there, his legs might just be powerful enough…
He crouched, charging up energy in the hydraulics that powered his metal legs while breaking the saber lock, using the crouch he stabbed up at Anakin's torso. The Jedi back stepped and Grievous leapt into the air. Anakin growled in frustration and tossed his lightsaber at the flying droid. It spun like a deadly fan and made a good sized gash in Grievous's left thigh, the general was unfazed, he landed on the Wookie platform and spun, slicing a youngling Wookie neatly in half. Two snipers aimed their primitive rifles at him and fired, the bolts simply bounced off his armor and he cut the Wookie's down.
Anakin looked up as Yoda, rubbing his head came to his side.
"I'll never make it up there." Anakin said.
"Perhaps not," Yoda said, he had a major headache. "But make it up I can, my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."
The Jedi suddenly leapt into the air, flying towards the tree trunk, he landed on it, a good twenty feet off the ground and sunk his claws into it, one hand still clutching his active lightsaber. The platform was still a good sixty feet up. Gathering the Force again he propelled himself another thirty feet and grabbed onto a branch of the tree, unusually small. Leaping onto it (since it was big enough to support him) the Jedi master jumped one final time, flourishing his lightsaber in the air he landed in front of the cyborg.
Grievous looked down at him and threw another kick, Yoda chopped off his foot and it fell down onto the beach. Anakin stood there dueling a magna guard that had just approached him. Grievous pulled his leg back and growled, balancing on one foot he struck down at Yoda who flew into the air, spinning he cut off the general's right arm, then his left. Grievous roared in frustration. Yoda landed and sliced off the droid's remaining foot. Grievous tipped dangerously toward the edge as Yoda deactivated his lightsaber, the droid general tried desperately to balance on the hot point of his left which his foot had once been attached to but to no avail.
Grievous leaned too far and fell off the edge; he fell eighty feet before he crushed the magna guard Anakin was battling. Now seriously malfunctioning from the hard impact Grievous's head turned a full one hundred eighty degrees, nearly snapping the cord that attached his organic brain to what was left of his organs. Anakin sliced it off neatly as Yoda landed roughly beside him.
Several battle droids looked at their dead general. The droids of the CIS had a list of protocols programmed into their brains, one of them was to immediately retreat if their general was killed. So the droids who had seen Grievous die ran back to their transports broadcasting retreat alerts to the entire force. The clone trooper laughed and the Wookies roared loudly when their enemies turned and ran. Now it was simply moving target practice. Thousands of droids fell, barely any made it back to their transports. The ones that did entered quickly and the transports zoomed off over the water along with the tank droids. The Republic had won the battle of Kashyyyk. Anakin and Yoda smiled, this was a major victory despite the loss of Luminara.
Chewbacca approached Anakin from the side and gave him a hard slap on the back which nearly knocked him over, the Wookie roared his congratulations for the killing of Grievous. Yoda chuckled and looked down at the headless general, in a way he felt that Siri had been avenged, there was no way they would ever have gotten her location from Grievous, she was as good as dead, these thoughts brought grim feelings to Yoda's heart.
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Palpatine dropped his glass of water and it shattered on the floor of his private office, the red robed guards rushed in to check on their master but were shooed away. Palpatine fell back onto his chair. Grievous was dead, he felt it. The shock of it wore off almost instantly, he never expected Grievous to die, though he did plan on killing the general himself. No sense pondering on what cannot be undone.
Palpatine stood up, he paced his office deciding when to give the order to kill Siri. The general's death had reminded him of it. Perhaps he would wait until Obi-Wan was nearly in his presence, that way once he felt Siri's death he would not do anything rash like leave the galaxy and then in that set of mind Obi-Wan would turn. Palpatine laughed loudly, the next time Obi-Wan came to see him Siri Tachi would die.
Yeah I know, the action was short but ever since that last chapter on Unknown Son 3 (for those of you who don't know it was NOTHING but sword fighting) I've gotten a bit tired of doing long epic battles, not to worry though, I think Anakin and Obi-Wan will battle in this fic, that'll have a chapter or two dedicated to it. Now if you will be so kind as to click review, log in or remain anonymous and then type up a short, sweet and to the point review because I just like reviews….