Major Jorir stared with an intense awe at what had just transpired before his very eyes. If there was one thing he respected in life, it was the ability to fight. He was bred for that very purpose, and he had made the rank of Major because he was naturally so much better than all of his clone brothers.

Yet, never in his short life had he seen anything like what just occurred before his very eyes. He lifted an entire mountain and used it to crush two complete divisions of my armored vehicles. How am I supposed to fight against this? he thought. He had served under the Jedi since the beginning of the Clone Wars, and he had seen things he thought impossible by the mysterious 'force' that the Jedi controlled and manipulated, but never had he seen something on this scale.

All his troops, and even the droids, were absolutely silent as the last of the dust and debris settled down upon them. Through the clearing, they could see the lone figure clad in black approaching them with his lightsaber drawn and held with the humming blue blade at an angle to the ground to his side and slightly behind him. Major Jorir knew he needed to shake his troops out of their trance and attack while they still had a chance.

"Open fire," he yelled as the laser fire poured upon the solitary figure before them.

Anakin was fully consumed by the battle, giving himself over completely to the fight before him. He had never felt the power of battle control his actions as he did now, and realized that it was the force awakening in him like it never had before.

It seems necessity had awakened a hidden, dormant power from deep within him that enabled him to perform what even other Jedi Masters would consider impossible feats. At this moment he seemed to truly recognize the force, and he was at one with its awesome power. Whatever he needed to do would be done, and whereas before he had believed he could accomplish tremendous feats of power and skill, this had now progressed to a sure knowledge of what he could do.

As the blaster fire rained upon him, he let the force guide his actions, and it was as if his lightsaber became a solid wall of light by the sheer speed at which he moved. Droid and clone alike fell as their own shots were reflected back into them, and suddenly dozens of troops were blown aside by a mere wave from Anakin's hand.

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Plo Koon deftly flew his craft around the main tower of the battleship and lost the vulture following him, while simultaneously getting in position to destroy the ship on Obi-Wan's tail.

"I owe you one, Master Koon", Kenobi said hurriedly as he destroyed another vulture while spinning underneath a piece of floating debris. The Jedi proved to be too much for the remaining droid ships, and soon the battle was over.

A new voice suddenly crackled over the comlink. "Head to the planets surface we now must."

"Master Yoda, when did you arrive?" Obi-Wan said enthusiastically.

"In time to see your victory I came," Yoda responded.

"Master Yoda's right," Kenobi added, "the longer we stay up here now, the more likely that battleship will be to get a lucky shot off and take one of us out. Besides, Anakin could use our help on the surface to reach Palpatine." All the Jedi craft quickly sped off and entered Onderon's atmosphere, racing to the planets surface in hopes that the events of this day would forever be chronicled in the Jedi order as the day the Sith were finally destroyed.

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Major Jorir knew he needed to act now or all would be lost. He raised his comlink to his helmet and shouted, "Divisions Alpha and Bravo, flank from the left. Divisions Charlie and Delta, flank from the right. Blasters aren't working, so I want everyone to rush him and use whatever means necessary to take him out."

Abruptly, the blaster fire ceased, and hidden divisions armed with melee weapons of mainly force pikes, vibro swords, and shock staffs converged upon him from all sides, running at the peak of their ability to destroy this lone figure before them.

Anakin's lightsaber was striking right and left, moving in one continuous stream that engulfed him in a wall of protection as the advancing forces were mowed down by his blade, but the enemy seemed to have endless reinforcements.

Anakin realized that he needed to end this and end it now, as with every passing second Padme's life hung in the balance. Anakin temporarily stopped his dance of death, and holding the hilt of his lightsaber by both hands, drove the tip into the ground as he dropped to one knee to focus all of his strength and power. A sound of rushing wind was heard by all as Anakin summoned all the energy of the force around the vast area and concentrated it into his very being. As clone and droid engulfed him, he let loose a tremendous wave of the force that decimated everything within a mile radius.

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Palpatine was going over and over in his mind what Jorir had communicated to him only minutes ago. A lone figure in black armor is attacking our forces sir. Those were the last words he had heard of the battle, though he keenly felt the deaths of his troops.

He was desperately trying to contact Major Jorir for an update on the battle when he felt the effect of a tremendous blast of the force so powerful that he staggered against a wall in his spacious hall. What was that? he wondered. Surely that couldn't have been Skywalker.

He reached out with the force, feeding off of the death of so many of his clone troops, yet he couldn't feel Anakin's presence. He hurried to his throne room and went out to the balcony, trying to get a view of what had transpired. Seeing nothing, he reached out with the force again, and felt the presence of many Jedi Knights coming closer and closer to his destination.

Without hesitation, he turned to his two Royal Guards behind him and said simply, "Kill Senator Amidala immediately, and send all available troops to prepare for an invasion of the palace."

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Anakin slowly raised himself from the grassy terrain, the trace remains of his force explosion still rippling from his body.

All around him was now silent, as if a great void had come where he had used the force to destroy all within the immediate area. Countless bodies lay strewn all over the countryside, and Anakin now turned his attention to the walls of Iziz off in the distance.

I will have to levitate over them he thought, as he realized they were too high for even someone of his force abilities to jump over. The walls were impressive in their own right. They were a dull white, yet seemed to glisten under the rays of the sun above them. They were fully two hundred feet high, and must have been at least fifty feet at the base. He could immediately see how effective they would have been at keeping out the ferocious beasts that used to dwell in these regions.

As he pondered over these things, he felt an almost imperceptible disturbance in the force, as if something was moving and causing a slight ripple through the air around him. He proceeded to travel over to the crater that remained when he had removed the mountain only moments earlier.

To his surprise, he saw what looked to be the remains of an ancient temple that must have been buried deep within the mountain and hidden from the rest of the world for countless ages.

Anakin quickly jumped into the crater, and headed toward the massive entrance lined by ornate pillars on either side. Upon his approach, a low rumble sounded from the dark recess of the temples interior. Undeterred, he entered the gaping chasm, using the force to illuminate the interior. To his surprise, he found that a gigantic drexl had maid the temple's interior its lair. In the far corner, the massive beast turned and slowly approached him, and Anakin couldn't help but smile.

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Padme almost shouted for joy when the lock to her cell opened with a metallic click.

She hurriedly opened her cage door, but the hinges were somewhat rusty and seemed to scream in protest. Great, she thought. Good work Padme.

She stopped and listened intently for any sound of approaching danger. Satisfying herself that no one had heard her cell door open, she quickly moved down the stone hallway to what appeared to be a spiral staircase at the opposite end.

As she neared the stairway, she could hear a faint sound of footsteps up above, and they seemed to be getting louder as she listened at the base. I have a bad feeling about this she thought, as she frantically ran through her mind the limited options that lay before her.

She quickly ran back to her cell, leaving the door open, and headed to the skeleton on the table before her.

"It looks like I need one last favor," she whispered as she grabbed its right femur and attached it to her belt. She then moved toward the chains hanging from the wooden beam high above the room, and proceeded to nimbly climb one as silently as she could.

She quickly reached the top, where she maneuvered herself along the beam to where she was near the entrance to her cell. Unfastening the bone from her belt, she locked her legs and arms around the circumference of the beam as she slowly worked her way to a hanging position underneath it.

She didn't have long to wait as she saw two robed figures come down the steps and head for her cell. Her arms and legs began to tremble slightly with the strain they were under holding her body to the wooden beam as the guards reached her door. She noticed them stop in their tracks, and the one in the lead motioned slightly to his companion, who then turned and headed back towards the stairway.

Both guards had readied their force pikes, and a small blue glow illuminated the immediate area around the tip of the staff. The guard that remained quickly scoured the surrounding area, and then slowly entered the door of the cell. As he moved toward the table, Padme let go of the beam with her arms, and let the top half of her body hang down, the femur held tightly by both hands.

If this doesn't reach him, then I'm in trouble she thought, as she drew her torso back the best she could in this awkward position. As she swung forward, she put all of her strength into a massive blow that connected with the back of the guard's helmet, shattering the femur as he fell unconscious to the floor.

Padme quickly swung her body back up to reach the pillar so she could release her legs, and then dropped lithely to the floor beneath her. She immediately picked up his force pike, rolled his body over, and delivered a blow with the pike directly over his chest at full force that stopped his heart, killing him as he lay on the stone floor.

She quickly ran out of the cell, and waited by the side of the staircase for the other guard to return from his patrol. After a few moments, she heard soft footsteps reach the bottom of the stairway as the red robed figure headed slowly toward her cell. She took a step forward to deliver a blow with her pike, only to see the guard spin around at a blinding speed with his staff arching toward her head.

Luckily, she was already ducking as the guard turned around, and his staff passed harmlessly over her head as she delivered a powerful shock to his abdomen. He reeled over in pain as she then put all of her strength behind an upwards blow aimed squarely at his visor that shattered his helmet as the tip sent out a forceful shock that sentenced his death by sending him into a continuous seizure.

A wave of relief rushed over her as she picked up the other force pike and headed slowly up the stairs, determined to find a way out of her dungeon imprisonment.