Author's note: You know what's coming.

InjuredPelican: You'll see why they were doing there, just be patient.

lightman: You've got a point, but I already changed it. Thanks for the heads up!

TigerTank: Okay, I read your review and I realized everything you said was true. I'll try to work on those things and thanks for helping.

Shawn: Maybe, maybe not, just got to keep reading.

Wow, I noticed how many good reviews I got from the last chapter and I just want to thank you guys. If it wasn't for your reviews I would've quit this story a long time ago. Your reviews even helped me find a way to make a sequel to this story. Yes, I am going to make a sequel and no I'm not going to tell you what it's about yet (I kind of don't know myself.) But I just want some votes, should I keep working on Now or Never (my other fanfic I put on hold for this one) or should I go ahead and write the sequel? I'll listen to what you guys will say.

A New Squad

When three-eight woke up, he could tell immediately something was wrong. Everyone in the room was staring at the door that led to the cell and everyone was silent.

"What's wrong?" asked three-eight. They turned to him, startled, not knowing that he was up.

"Something's up," replied Kelly, "Listen." Three-eight sat up and listened, and what he heard sent a chill up his spine. There was the sound of marching, and things rolling.

It was the sound of the droid army.

"That's impossible," three-eight whispered.

"What is?" asked Adams, but he ignored him and got closer to the door to listen. Suddenly the door opened and two droidekas rolled in. Three-eight leaped back and stood ready to fight. Kelly got up beside him and put Adams and Dr. Halsey behind them. The droidekas unfurled themselves from their ball position and stood on their tripod legs, their two blaster arms pointed at the four.

When they didn't fire, three-eight relaxed a little bit but didn't let his guard down. That's when two super battle droids, or SBDs, marched in behind the droidekas, their arms against their chest in a non-attack position.

"We're moving," said one of the SBDs, "Come with us, now." Three-eight hesitated, he didn't know how these droids got here or why Grievous's guards weren't doing the moving, but he knew he had no choice. He walked in between the waiting droids with the others following his lead.

When they walked out into the corridor, four more SBDs were waiting for them. They formed a circle around the prisoners, with the droidekas following behind. They walked down the hallway for 10 minutes when three-eight noticed a door farther down. He then got an idea, an idea that might help them get out of this situation.

"On my mark, take out these two lead droids," he whispered to Kelly, who was walking beside him.

"Are you crazy?" she whispered back, "By the time we do that, we'll be killed."

"I know this things way better than you," he said, "By the time we've done that and get out of here they wouldn't have even fired, and their aiming isn't the best." He paused for a second, thinking one of the droids had heard him. When it didn't do anything, he continued, "See that door? We could run in there and take cover; do you know how to lock these doors?"

"Yes," she replied. She remained silent for a second, and then said with a resigning sigh, "That's the best chance we got, alright on your mark." Three-eight nodded then waited a moment. They were lucky that they hadn't handcuffed them. He waited a few more seconds, then without hesitating yelled, "Mark!"

Both him and Kelly lunged forward and punched the lead SBDs. Their fists went through their armor and into their wiring, short-circuiting them. They fell forward, but before they even hit the ground three-eight had grabbed Adams and Kelly grabbed Dr. Halsey saying, "Sorry, ma'am." They leaped over the dead SBDs and made a break for the door. They were halfway there when the droids finally started shooting, and the droidekas started to stand up in their tripod stance.

Their shields took the shots up until when they reached the door, when they ran out. The door opened automatically when they reached it and they all dove in. Kelly put Dr. Halsey down and she sprinted back to the console by the door, hacking it. A few moments later the door shut and it turned red to show it was locked. They stood there, waiting, until they heard blaster fire hitting the door. They all dove for cover but when the door held, they got back up.

"Uh, guys," said Adams, "I think luck might be on out side." They looked at him and what they saw gave three-eight hope that they could actually get out of here.

Weapons upon weapons lined the wall and were stacked up on the floor, with ammo piled onto shelves. Not only were there covenant weapons, but there were human ones as well.

"We just locked ourselves into an armory," said Dr. Halsey in awe.

"Did you plan this?" asked Kelly, turning to three-eight,

"No," he replied, surprised as everyone else in the room, "I hadn't the slightest idea."

"Well, finder's keepers," said Adams, grabbing a Shotgun. Kelly and three-eight moved forward and grabbed their pick of weapons. Three-eight stopped still when his left arm started hurting him, his broken one. He probably hadn't felt it during battle because of the adrenaline. Kelly looked at him and asked, "That escape took a lot out of your arm didn't it?"

"Oh," three-eight responded, continuing forward, "I've still got a lot left."

They chose their weapons, Kelly picking out a Battle Rifle and a SMG, three-eight picking up a Shotgun and a Battle Rifle. Dr. Halsey picked up a Magnum to defend herself. Kelly eyed the Sniper and murmured sadly, "Linda would've used that." Three-eight didn't reply, not knowing who Linda was but figured she was a Spartan along with the Chief and Kelly.

"I think it's time to take out those droids," said Adams, tossing a grenade up and down.

"Let's do it," said three-eight.

The Chief dove to the side as a MagnaGuard lunged at him, his staff whirring as it was activated. He wasn't fast enough and the Guard caught him in the back. Fixer shot the Guard, who was advancing on the Chief. It didn't flinch at all from the shot and was on Fixer in a second, hitting him over the head. He fell backwards but before the Guard could make his move, Sev leaped in and hit him from behind. The Guard stumbled but caught his balance. He whipped around but the Chief and Sev were ready and opened fire. The Guard wasn't able to defend itself in the onslaught on bullets. It fell over and lay still.

Fixer, who was closest, got up and slowly walked over to the Guard.

"Is it dead?" asked Sev, "If not, let me add a few more bullets." Fixer reached him and jabbed him with his foot. When it didn't respond he said, "Dead." But as Fixer turned to help the others with the other Guard it leaped up and wrapped its arm around his neck, holding him in front of him as a human shield. The Chief and Sev immediately had their Battle Rifles at the ready, but didn't shoot afraid that they would hit Fixer.

The other MagnaGuard leaped from its fight with Scorch, Johnson, and the Helljumper and landed beside the Guard and his hostage.

"No!" yelled Scorch as he saw Fixer and without the Chief to hold him back this time, he ran forward.

"Scorch, don't!" yelled Fixer, but before anybody could do anything, Grievous leaped out of his hiding place and landed right in Scorch's path. He leaped back out of Grievous's range and joined back up with the others.

"You're not supposed to be here," said Sev, "Your guards said you were guarding the prisoners."

"And you thought their information was reliable?" he replied, "You have a lot to learn clone. But, of course, their information on the prisoners was true."

"So you do have Boss!" yelled Scorch.

"Yes, and we plan on taking the rest of your pitiful squad too," he then turned quickly to his guards and muttered, "Take him away, and don't wait for me." With that, he leapt forward, three lightsabers in his remaining three hands.

As everyone was distracted by Grievous, the two MagnaGuards dragged the struggling Fixer toward the Phantom they had come in on. As soon as the three of them were in the ship, the Gravity Lift shut down and the ship took off towards Jecovah.

"We can't win here!" yelled Johnson over the COM link, "Chief we've got to bail!" The Chief knew he was right, he could tell Grievous wasn't even trying, and since Fixer was already captured there was nothing they could do.

"Retreat! Find cover!" yelled the Chief to everyone. They started to run, firing over their shoulders. To their surprise Grievous did not pursue. Instead he deactivated his lightsabers and watched them run.

"Run while you can," muttered Grievous, "You won't be able to hide."

It was nighttime on Kashyyyk when two clone commandoes made their way down into a valley, Blaster Rifles raised. They kept silent until one asked, "Niner, are you sure this is the last place Delta Squad was?"

"Yes, Dar," the other replied, "General Kenobi said that General Windu came out here looking for them, but he hasn't heard from him or Delta Squad since." They fell silent again, keeping a lookout for enemies when the first commando asked, "You think they're dead?" The other didn't answer for a moment, and then said in a solemn voice, "I don't know, Dar."

Omega three-six, Darman, turned around to make sure there wasn't anyone sneaking up on them, and then said over the COM link, "Fi, Atin, you still got our backs?"

The first to reply was Omega one-five, Fi, who was positioned on one side of the valley "Course we do, you expecting us to fall asleep on the job?"

"Wouldn't put it past you," said Omega two-two, Atin, from the other side.

"I might," he replied, "We haven't had one bit of action yet."

"Which is a good thing," said Omega oh-nine, Niner, who was also the Sergeant of the squad, "At least it looks like Delta Squad got their mission done, I haven't seen one hostile yet."

"They get the job done," said Darman, "Trust me; I've worked with them before."

As Darman was talking he wasn't paying attention to where he was going and he tripped over something.

"Ah!" he yelled.

"Dar!" said Niner, running over to him, "You alright?"

"Yea, just tripped," he replied, then when he shined his light on what he tripped on, he let out a cry of surprise.

"General Windu!"

Mace Windu was laying on the ground spread eagle with his eyes open in surprise. Niner didn't have to feel his pulse to know that he was dead. He knelt down and went to retrieve his lightsaber when he noticed that it was gone.

"Where's his lightsaber?" asked Niner. Darman looked up,

"It's not here?"

"No," said Niner, getting up and looking around, "I don't see it anywhere."

"Maybe it flew somewhere when he was killed," replied Darman, turning on his head light and scanned the valley wall. That's when he saw something really strange.

"What the…?" he said, passing his light over a certain spot several times.

"What is it?" asked Niner.

"Watch this," he said, and he passed over the spot with his light again, but when he did the spot didn't light up, it stayed pitch black.

"Strange," said Niner, walking cautiously up to it with his gun raised. He took at shot at it, expecting it to hit the wall, but instead went right through it.

"You find anything?" asked Fi over the COM link.

"Yea," responded Darman, "General Windu."

"What?" asked Atin in surprise who was listening to the conversation, "Is he okay?"

"No," Darman said gravely, "He's dead."

"But, how?" asked Fi.

"Haven't checked yet," said Darman, who had forgotten to in his surprise at finding him, then added, "Careful, Niner, you don't know what that is." Niner was now only a foot away from the shadow, which was a perfect rectangle.

"We should probably contact General Kenobi to pass on the news," said Niner. He then moved back from the shadow and walked over to Darman.

"Fi, Atin, I want you two down here, something's going on and I want us together."

"Heading down now," said Atin.

"Same here," replied Fi. Niner then turned on his COM link and said,

"General Kenobi, this is Niner. Come in."

"I read you," answered Obi-Wan Kenobi on the other side of the COM link, "Have you found something?"

"Yes, sir. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but we have found General Windu. He's dead." There was a long silence on the other end, and then Obi-Wan murmured, "I can't believe it."

"I'm sorry, sir," replied Niner.

"Do you know how he was killed?" asked Obi-Wan.

"Just a second, sir," he answered then said to Darman, "You know what killed him yet?"

"Sarge," said Darman, "It was a lightsaber."

"What?" asked Niner, surprised. All the Jedi had been killed at the temple, not counting Obi-Wan and Yoda, but who would've tracked Mace all the way out here?

Then he remembered Obi-Wan was waiting for him and he replied, "It was a lightsaber, sir."

"Are you sure?" asked Obi-Wan in surprise. Niner knew he was thinking the same thing he was.

"Positive," he replied.

"Well," Niner knew he was trying to hide the grief from his voice, but he could still hear it, "If you find Delta Squad or anything else weird report in."

"Sir, we have found something a little strange."

"What is it?" asked Obi-Wan.

"It's a door way type thing," said Niner, "But when you shine a light on it, it remains pitch black."

"How odd," said Obi-Wan.

"We'll check it out, sir," said Niner.

"Careful," Obi-Wan said cautiously, "You don't know what's in there."

"We will," he replied, "Niner out." He then shut off the COM link. Just as he did, Atin and Fi were climbing down into the valley.

"What did you guys find?" asked Fi.

"Well, General Windu as you already know," said Niner, gesturing sadly to the fallen Jedi.

"And this," said Darman, standing up and shining the light on the shadow.

"What?" asked Fi, but then Atin said, "How is it doing that?"

"What?" asked Fi again, "I don't see anything."

"That's the point," said Darman.

"Oh," said Fi, "I knew that."

"But watch this," said Niner, aiming his blaster rifle at the shadow and shot it once again, and again it went right through it.

"Ok, now I really see it," said Fi.

Niner walked up to it, and stuck his hand about two inches from it.

"Niner, don't!" said Atin, "You don't know what will happen!"

"That's why I'm doing it," said Niner, and then thrust his hand into it.

It all happened in one swift motion.

The time portal pulled him through and the others tried to grab him, but it was too late. When he came out he landed on his side, his shields completely gone, in what looked like to be a throne room. He looked up and what he saw made his stomach drop.

Ten SBDs.

Author's note: Bet you weren't expecting that! I know if you've read Hard Contact that those aren't the correct numbers for Darman and those guys but I had to cut them short so they matched Delta Squads. And yeah a little on the short side but at least I updated faster! But, hope you like it.