Chapter 21: Obi-Wan Kenobi Arrives on Utapau

Setting to Chapter 21: Obi-Wan Kenobi landed his ship on Utapau and Roxanne has made herself comfortable inside a cargo hold onboard his ship.

Obi-Wan Kenobi landed his ship on the planet of Utapau, into the hangar bay of Pau City and Tion Medon greeted him. "Greetings, young Jedi. What brings you to our sanctuary?"

"Unfortunately the war," Obi-Wan replied.

Tion Medon gave him a confused look and replied, "There's no war here, unless you've brought it with you."

He's afraid, Obi-Wan thought.

"With your kind permission I would like some fuel and to use your city as a base as I search nearby cities for General Grievous," Obi-Wan explained.

Tion Medon spoke in the alien language to the other group who turn to the Utai and they nodded.

"He is here," Tion replied. "We are being held hostage and they are watching us."

"I understand," Obi-Wan answered.

"Tenth level," Tion answered. "Thousands of battle droids."

"Tell your people to take shelter," Obi-Wan said. "If you have warriors now is the time."

They bowed to each other and Obi-Wan walked to his ship.

He turned his unit on and said, "Take a message to Cody and tell him I've made contact."

He went to the cargo hold where Roxanne was and said, "Well, according to our information Grievous has thousands of battle droids."

"Just more scrap metal for us to wipe out," Roxanne replied with a grin.

"I'm going to land the ship outside the hangar bay," Obi-Wan said. "You may want to hide somewhere else."

"He'll probably have an emergency vehicle stashed somewhere so I'll beat him to it," Roxanne said.

"Sounds good to me," Obi-Wan said and landed his ship outside the hangar bay.

Obi-Wan landed his ship outside the hangar bay and found himself a big lizard to ride to the tenth level.

"You know how to ride a thing like this?" Obi-Wan asked as he got on.

Roxanne smiled and said, "I'll help you with her or whatever it is."

They rode the lizard to the tenth level, searching for the control center.

General Grievous was talking to the Separatist Council so Obi-Wan and Roxanne stayed hidden where they were and listened in on their conversation.

"It won't be long until the armies of the Republic track us here," General Grievous said as he walked around the room. "That is why I am sending you to the Mustafar system in the Outer Rim. It is a volcanic planet. You will be safe there."

"Safe?" Nute Gunray repeated. "Hmph! Chancellor Palpatine managed to escape your grip, General. Without Count Dooku, I have doubt about your abilities to keep us safe."

"Be thankful, Viceroy that you have not found yourself in my grip," Grievous snapped.

He waited a moment for the lesson to sink in and said, "Your ship is waiting."

"This is it," Roxanne whispered in a low tone. "Now all we have to do is wait."

Obi-Wan nodded and waited until Grievous and the other droids around him got busy with something else.

Then Obi-Wan leaped down and landed behind General Grievous and he and his guards hardly noticed Obi-Wan standing behind them. Roxanne stayed in her hiding spot.

"Hello there," Obi-Wan said.

The droids and guards held up their weapons and General Grievous turned around and said, "Ah, General Kenobi. You are a bold one."

Grievous turned to face his droids and laughed. "Kill him."

Obi-Wan ignited his light saber and began to fight the droids. He used the Force to send a piece of durasteel down from the ceiling, crushing three body guards.

When he was finished, more droids circled around him, and Grievous said, "Back away. I will deal with This Jedi slime myself."

"Your move," Obi-Wan said coolly.

"You fool," Grievous growled. "I have been trained in your Jedi arts by Count Dooku."

"Really?" Obi-Wan asked. "I trained the man who killed him."

Then Grievous threw back his cloak and let it slide off and revealed four different color lightsaber and said, "Attack, Kenobi."

Obi-Wan got into position, but nothing prepared him for what Grievous had planned. He started to spin in a circle and with his lightsaber swinging.

Obi-Wan waited for the right moment to come and cut off one of his arms.

Grievous groaned and looked at his cut hand and got madder than a pack of wolves and attacked Obi-Wan.

Suddenly someone sent a orange double-bladed lightsaber flying like a boomerang and cut off Grievous' arm.

"Hey, you old bucket of bolts. We meet again," Roxanne said as she retrieved her lightsaber and added to Obi-Wan, "Sorry I'm late."

"No problem," Obi-Wan replied.

"You two realize that you are doomed," Grievous said.

Roxanne arched an eyebrow at Obi-Wan and said, "He obviously doesn't know who he's dealing with."

"Jedi scum," Grievous replied as he raised his hands and realized that he had two hands with two lightsabers.

Then the sound of blaster fire filled the area, the clones had entered the room and Obi-Wan watched as Grievous moved to a one-man scooter.

"I'll meet you where you parked your ship," Roxanne said. "You follow Grievous and we'll see where it goes from there."

"All right," Obi-Wan said as he jumped on his lizard and followed Grievous in pursuit.

Roxanne motioned for Commander Cody and he loaned her a crab droid.

"Make contact with the Council and let them know we've engaged General Grievous," Roxanne said.

"Yes, ma'am," Commander Cody replied and Roxanne took off.

(End Chapter 21)