Hey everyone welcome back for another new chapter of The Assassin: The Final Stand! Now that the Sith and the Assassins are making the final move, it looks like Aaron and his friends are going some place we are all too familiar with. I hope you all like this chapter and I'll see you all at the end of this chapter. Star Wars is property owned by Micky Mouse, while I just own my Ocs. Enjoy Chapter 29 guys!

Bad Moon Rising

Coruscant

Several hours have passed since Padme learned the horrific truth about her husband, Anakin Skywalker. After Obi-wan cane to her, and told her what he saw in the security archives, the Senator from Naboo had trouble grasping the fact that her husband was capable of killing innocent children at the Jedi Temple. As the sun was setting on the planet, Padme had realized that she had to know for sure.

In doing so, she had her personal ship from Naboo, land on a platform near her pent house. As the ship docked onto the landing pad, Senator bail Organ comes walking off the ship. Up until, now, the Senator of Alderaan was unaware of Padme's true untentions but what he did now was the location she was heading.

"Thank you Senator Organa." Padme said while she saw her friend wait for her outside of her ship.

"You're welcome my lady, but I still strongly suggest that I go with you." Bail responded. Knowing that Padme was heading towards a hostile planet, he believed that he should go with her for protection.

"Thank you Senator, but there's no need for that." Padme suggested. "The war is over, and this is personal."

"I understand my lady, but-"

"Don't worry Senator, I'll be alright. And I won't go alone, 3PO will be with me." Padme said before Senator Organa watched Padme walk into the ship with her friend 3PO.

But as everyone began to clear the landing pad, a cloaked figure suddenly sneaks on board the Naboo ship, just when the doors were closing and the shpi was readying its engines. At the front of the ship, Padme watched as 3PO was getting the ship ready for take off. "You know, I think I am getting the hang of this flying thing."

While Padme worried about what she would find on the volcanic planet, Mustufar, the cloaked figure takes off his hood and revealed himself to be Master Obi-wan Kenobi. After Obi-wan left Padme's home, he knew that she was the only one that really knew where his fallen apprentice was. But seeing that Padme refused to reveal Anakin's whereabouts, Obi-wan felt regret for what he was doing when he smuggled himself onto Padme's ship.

If Padme feared for husbands life, Obi-wan knew that Padme would come to him to learn the truth, leading him straight to his apprentice who has turned to the Dark Side. But Obi-wan hated the fact that he is hiding behin one of his friends in order to carry out an act that would destroy both Padme and Anakin.

If Anakin refused to change his ways and refused to come back into the light, Obi-wan would have no other choice but to put down Anakin. If it came down to that, and Obi-wan was forced to kill Anakin, Padme would be devastated knowing that her husband slaughtered innocent children and would be destroyed if she saw her old friend kill her husband right in front of her. For the sake of the galaxy, Obi-wan hoped that Anakin would see the error of his ways and come back into the light.

Rhen Var

While Obi-wan and Padme made a jump to Mustufar, Aaron and his friends had just arrived on the cold planet of Rhen Var. As the ship flew through the blistering cold planet, Jaybo was flying the ship around the castle that once belonged to the assassins. Seeing the castle, now fully restored, brought back memories to everyone who was at the controls, landing the ship.

For Aaron, Grace, and Jaybo, the last time they were here was just a few years ago, when the three of them decided to come her and kill the assassins upon learning the truth that they were the ones responsible for murdering Aaron and Grace's family. For Derric, however, this new castle was all to familiar. The last time he came here, he was ambushed by the new Shadows of Death, and learned that an army of assassins had returned and that Desric had survived.

But Since Derric was the only person who knew about the new and improved castle, he knew that several additions have been made to this new castle. One of them included a new docking bay hangar that sat beneath the castle. As the ship landed inside the hangar bay, Aaron was among the first to walk off the ship and step back into the place he once called home. "Well, it looks like we're here."

Derric and Grace follow behind him before Grace let out a small breath of cold air. "Yeah."

"Go get everyone at the center chamber." Aaron said, "I gotta go check on Ahsoka."

Derric and Grace respond only with a nod before they got everyone off the ship. As Aaron walked through several Jedi and several of his friends, he makes his way back to the ship and walks inside the room where Ahsoka slept peacefully. He gets closer and kneels down before her as he gently grabs her hand and holds it to his face. Not a moment too soon, Ahsoka's eyes begin to wake.

"Wha-where am I…" She said before looking to Aaron who was happy to see she was okay. "Aaron, what happened?"

"After we got ambushed, one of the assassins shot you with a poison capsule." Aaron said. "When we escaped the temple, Derric was able to inject you with an anti-venom. By now the poison should be out of your system."

Before Ahsoka could say another word she felt the cold air rub through her skin, causing her to shiver. "Why's it so cold? Aaron where are we now?"

"We're on Rhen Var." Aaron said. "By now the assassins, will probably know that we're here. But we're gonna end this right here."

Ahsoka nods, but suddenly remembers something. "The yougnlings!"

"It's okay Ahsoka." Aaron said as he tried to calm her down. "The kids are safe. But we have to get ready if any of us are going to last long enough."

Ahsoka nods before the two decided to get off the ship. As the two of them began to walk down the halls of this large stone castle, Ahsoka and Aaron began to remember every inch of this place. They both remember the hardship Aaron went through when he was being trained by these monsters, the same ones who butchered and slaughtered Aaron's family.

When they finally made it to the center chamber of the castle, Aaron and Ahsoka saw everyone sitting on several stone chairs that circled around the two. They saw the remaining jedi watch over them while their friends were standing in front at them, waiting for them to say something. Aaron is the first to speak. "Words can not express how eternally greatful I am to each and every one of you. But, we need to be ready for when they arrive."

"How do you know they're coming?" One of the surviving Jedi spoke.

"Make no mistake, they ARE coming. By now they propably know we're here and are on their way. And thanks to a reliable source, we know that they are on Coruscant." Aaron said. "Which means they won't be here until morning. That gives us some time to get ready for when they arrive."

"What do you suggest then?" Kai asked.

"From what Derric told me, this castle still has some emergency weapons and ammunition. But the assassins also forgot that there are several training droids still here, and based on my experience they were meant to kill assassins during training." Aaron said.

"Which means we have a small squadron of droids just waiting to be activated." Grace said.

"And with a little bit of tweeks and modifications, they'll be able to help us in a big way." Jaybo said. With his ingenuity, and skills, the training droids will be able to help Aaron's small army fend off against the assassins.

"What if they decide to attack us from orbit?" One Jedi asked.

"The castle has it's own shield generator that'll be able to protect us from an orbital strike." Derric said. "But since we don't have any anti-air canons, there is another way to destroy their ships."

Derric looks over at Aaron before he pulls up a weather hologram of the planet. "Based on these weather patterns, there's a high chance of a blizzard hitting this place, and the high winds on this planet are enough to throw fighters and small cruisers off course. If they decide to use their cruiser, and drones, they won't be able to stop themselves from crashing into the mountains. They'll have to attack us on foot."

"And that's where you come in." Ahsoka said. "These assassins are nothing but killers and mercenaries. You are Jedi. You have all trained your whole lives to become Jedi Knights. They may outnumber us, but they are outmatched. We can beat them."

The small band of surviving jedi, including Kai, all stood up and nodded at Ahsoka. Even though they lost everything and everyone they knew, they each had a sliver of hope, telling them that they will be able to win this final fight.

With everyone in agreement, there was no time to waste. With dawn approaching them in mere hours, everyone wasted no time in preparing for this final battle.

Derric, Marcus, Saw, Rex, and Ventress went to the armory where Derric was able to find an emergency room that was caring several dozen blasters, rifles, and grenades. Rex enters the room and soon inspects everyone weapon to see if it was fit for combat while Marcus and Ventress were counting and carefully carrying out the limited amount of explosives. At the same time Derric and Saw pulled several crates of ammunition and began counting them to see if they had enough to help them last this fight.

With weapons and ammunition being taken care of, Jaybo and a couple of Jedi went down to the lab where they found about a dozen training droids. These were not the typical droids the Jedi sparred with in the Jedi temple. These droids stood at almost nine feet tall. Their long pointed arms and legs made their black bodies tower over the Jedi while their eyes glowed red when Jaybo activated them.

Seeing that they needed to be reprogrammed to obey their commands, Jaybo began to get to work by creating a helpful virus that could allow them to control the droids by command. Jaybo puts on a voice headset before typing in several codes onto a computer while a couple of Jedi began inserting large cables onto the back of the droids' round heads.

It wasn't long until Jaybo launched a virus into each and everyone of the droids. When the virus entered the metallic bodies, the droids began to twitch and stutter before they red eyes glowed yellow, showing everyone that the virus worked. The droids were now under their control. Jaybo activates his head set and gives off several commands before the tall droids respond by saluting the Jedi in front of them. Now the droids could follow their orders, it was time to arm them.

With all the weapons and ammunition counted, Jaybo and Rex spent several hours attaching and modifying the droids with several unique weapons. While some carried small high powered machin guns on their wrists, others carried rocket launchers onto their shoulders and others had deployable shields that could protect them and their friends.

As the night went on, and with only a few hours to prepare, everyone was working double time. With a crate of several explosives all counted for Marcus and ventress spent an hour outside the castle laying out several explosives deep in the small valley of snow that laid out in front of the castle. They needed to find a way to slow down Desric's army so by having a mine field in the snow, the two knew that this would atleast by their friends some time.

While everyone was doing their job, Aaron and Ahsoka were in a small room where they began to explain their plan on how to beat Desric. They all knew that the safest place to be during the fight would be behind the castle walls. If any of them were outside during the fight, Desric's army would tear them apart. Fighitng in narrow hallways and corrodors meant that Desric would have to send his men by small numbers in order to attack them. With every assassin attacking them in a single rush, Aaron knew that they would growded during the attack, leaving him and his friends an easy chance to destroy the first wave that would try to breach the wall.

But once they got past the wall there needed to be a plan to prevent the fight from spreading everywhere. If Aaron could keep the fight contained at the front entrance of the castle, it would be easy to handle Desric's army, but if his army was able to spread across the castle, everyone would soon split up. If Aaron and his friends are going to surivive this battle, they would have to stick together and work as a unit.

But thanks to Jaybo and Rex, Aaron was also going to have an iron calvery behind them. This was a huge advantage for them, not only were they getting more support but Aaron was going to have enough fire power to take out several dozen of Desric's men.

With everyone ready for the coming fight, the sun was going to rise within a couple of hours, and Aaron needed his friends to rest up before the fighting began, in doing so, Aaron established a watch on duty every couple so often to inform everyone if anything happened. Aaron and Ahsoka were the first to take watch and while they watched their friends sleep, the two began to walk through the halls before they saw Barriss and Grace, tucking the three younglings to sleep in a small room.

The two smiled when they saw the children were fast asleep but they knew that more than anything, they would have to protect the children at all costs. Knowing that the fight was going to be butal, and harsh, Aaron decided to strap on some armor that was found inside the armory. Ahsoka voluntarily strapped on a smooth chest plate onto her husband while Aaron wrapped some forearm plates at the same time.

Aaron does the same for Ahsoka and helps her put on a metal breast plate while also giving her some shin guards to protect her legs. As the two continued to wrap each other in protective armor, they walk close to each other and not a moment too soon, their eyes begin to close before they suddenly kiss passionately. As if the stars aligned, the two had almost forgotten that the world they knew was falling apart, they somehow forgot about the losses they suffered, all that mattered was their own galaxy as they kissed fervently they were ready to stand by each other in one final fight.

Well everyone that will be it for this chapter guys. Now I know some of you are very eager to see the final battle, trust me, next week's chapter will light a fire under everyone. I can't wait to see you all next saturday to see the beginning of the end! See you all next week!