A/N: Welcome Jedi and Sith to A Jedi Warrior Of Peace Chapter 35 and I hope everyone is doing well and I am happy to see this story is catching steam with people enjoying the story while favoriting it and me I thank all of you! Also I will release a "Source Page" which will give anyone curious about Artis's lore and characteristics up until this point which will be changed at the end of this story and the coming Rebels sequel.

Chapter 35 - Rescuing a Jedi?

Invasion! As the Separatists move further into the Outer Rim The Republic Base on Taris is at risk! To fend off an invading force Jedi Knight Artis Lendix and his padawan Turkurt have been sent to repeal the enemy! But, a even more dangerous task lies ahead!

Artis and Turkurt walked through the base as they walked into the command center as Clone Commander Fix awaited them. "Commander are the bases defense set up?"

Fix nodded. "Yes sir. The bases anti air defense system is at max capacity and are awaiting orders."

Artis crossed his arms. "Good work Commander. I hope the 312th are ready for fight."

Fix chuckled. "Don't worry sir the 312th are always prepared for a defensive stand and are ready for anything."

Turkurt looked at Artis. "Master why would the Seps come here? I mean there's nothing special about this planet other than our base."

Artis looked at his padawan. "That's precisely it my young student. If the Separatists manage to take over this planet then all our intel about the Outer Rim is at risk."

Soon the alarm flared as a clone trooper looked at the scanners. "Sir we have incoming enemy ships! East side!"

Artis looked at Fix. "Commander have your troops ready to move out and hold off any ground forces."

Fix nodded. "Yes sir!" Fix ran to get the ground forces mobilized.

Artis looked at the troopers manning the air defenses. "Open fire!"

The Republic Base Defenses started to fire at the Separatists invasion ships as they were hitting the closest ones first. But, that left other ships to send out dropships that held their ground forces as one of the large invasion ships was hit enough to blow up.

Artis looked at the clones. "Send out the walkers and get those lightning squads moving!" Artis looked at Turkurt. "Come on we need to get out there." Artis ran off to help fend off the enemy forces.

"Yes master." Turkurt followed Artis out of the base and onto the battlefield.

Artis met up with Commander Fix and saw large waves of droids marching towards the base as the lightning squads ran into the fire blasting at the droids and tanks. Artis looked to the cannons that stood outside the base and motined them to fire. The cannons fired as Artis activated his lightsabers and gave the order as the clones all ran to engage the enemy. The clones took cover behind rocks and reinforced barriers. The clones all opened fire as the droids dropped from being hit as a pair of clones had ran behind a barrier carrying a blaster turret. The two clones set it up as another clone maned the gun and started firing into the group of droids. Artis and Turkurt deflected blaster fire before Artis used the force to slam a droid into the ground.

Fix and another clone threw thermal detonators into the group of droids which exploded as Artis sliced another droid in half. The main cannons fired on the droid tanks and spider walkers as bases main focus was the droid fighters. Once it became clear the seps sent out fighters the base unleashed all Republic fighters to engage the enemy in the sky. Artis threw out a powerful force wave sending droids flying through the air he then grabbed a droid fighter and slammed it into a droid tank. Artis's skill and power in the force seemed to have grown greatly after the Umbara campaign. The first wave of droids was finished as Artis cut the last droid in half.

Turkurt let out a sigh. "That wasn't so tough."

Artis looked at his padawan. "That was just the first wave." Artis then looked to Fix. "Commander have the wounded pulled back and get those turrets set up."

"Yes sir." Fix looked to his troops and motioned them to get the turrets set up for the next wave.

The clones had set up turrets on the front lines in order to take the pressure off the ground forces as Artis had the Republic walkers set in strategic locations in order to flank the enemy. Once the defenders had a better set up for the coming battle Artis saw the next wave of droids coming. Once the droids fired at the defenders Artis blocked the blaster fire with his lightsabers.

"Move it troopers!" Fix ran towards the front to help Artis and Turkurt fight.

The clones all ran to cover as they all got into position once that was done Artis gave the order. "Fire!" The clones all opened fire while the turrets fired into the crowd of droids. The Republic walkers all soon came out of hiding and flanked the enemy. A droid fired a rocket destroying one of the walkers near the base with an explosion.

A second droid fired a rocket as Turkurt dodged it looking to the walker. "Tank three two clicks east!" The clone manning the cannon aimed east and fired destroying the rocket. "Nice shot!"

Artis saw a chance to advance on the droids and did so. "Come on men!"

The clones felt great pride in their skill and in their general so when he said charge that's what they did. The clones soon charged the droid forces firing into the large crowd as for every clone that was killed ten more droids were destroyed. A clone had his blaster shot out of his hand so he ran up and punched the droid only to get shot. Fix ran up smacking a droid with his blaster before kicking one as he fired into the crowd of droids. Artis deflected blaster fire as he then cut the droid in half as Turkurt launched a droid into another.

Artis deflected a blaster bolt as he slashed a droid across it's chest before stabbing one through the head. "This never gets old." Artis slashed another droid and threw the pieces into a pair of battle droids as he looked to see Turkurt slicing another.

Fix shot the last droid as he looked around. "That seems to be the last of them General."

Artis walked beside Fix. "Good work Commander. Gather the men we need to make a push."

"Yes sir." Fix walked off to gather up some troops as a gunship landed.

Artis looked at the gunship as the doors opened and an old friend stepped off. "Sev. It's good to see you made it."

Sev walked up to Artis as Artis put a hand on his shoulder. "It's good to see you as well sir. I'm sorry about Jax."

Artis looked at his clone comrade. "Yes..well. I know he would've loved to scrap some more droids with us. So would the others.."

Sev nodded. "They died fighting sir. Havoc squad will never be forgotten as long as you and I are alive."

That at least lightened up things. "Yeah your right. Anyway let's go. We need to devise a plan to push the Separatists back and off Taris."

Artis and Sev walked towards a holo table as Fix was talking to Turkurt on how to ambush the Separatists ground forces.

"We don't have a lot of time to waste. We need to push through the streets here at the center and once we do we'll reach the Separatists base camp. Once we do we will stage a surprise ambush and take down any Separatists forces." Fix pointed the the streets heading towards the enemy base camp.

"Alright we have our plan. Now let's move out!" Artis looked at the troops as they all began to march as tanks and other vehicles followed.

Artis, Turkurt, Sev and Fix all marched with their troops as they walked through the city streets. It was going smoothly until a sudden ambush by the Separatists stopped the 312th in their tracks. Artis activated his lightsabers and deflected the blaster fire as the troops all moved into cover. The tanks all started unloading as Turkurt sliced a droid in half. Artis deflected a blaster bolt back at the droid that shot it as Sev ran up and blasted a droid.

Fix threw a thermal detonator into a group of droids destroying them. "Sir! I think we reached the base camp already!"

Artis kicked the droid down. "Yeah I noticed! Now we need to push!"

The walkers soon destroyed a Separatists dropship as Artis ran up cutting a droid in half before launching out a force wave throwing droids through the air. Turkurt slashed a droid before deflecting blaster fire leaping on top of a droid tank and slicing it open. Fix threw a thermal into the hole as they ran before it exploded in a ball of fire. Sev punched a droid causing its head to spin like a toy before kicking it and shooting another droid.

Once Artis destroyed the last droid he deactivated his lightsabers. "We did it." Artis coms went off so Artis answered. "Yes Master Windu?"

"Artis. I hope your mission on Taris was a success. Because we have a problem. Skywalkers fleet is in the middle of a firefight and need reinforcements and your the closest one in the sector."

"I'll head out immediately Master. Lendix out." Artis disconnected the link as Turkurt walked up. "Turkurt you stay here and finish up. I need to go assist Master Skywalker."

Turkurt nodded. "Yes Master good luck."

Artis took a shuttle to the cruiser so he could leave the system and head off to help Anakin but, he needed to hurry. The shuttle landed in the hangar and once it did Artis ran to the command center as it launched into hyperspace.

Artis walked onto the bridge and opened up a link hoping to contact Anakin. "Anakin this is Artis do you read me?"

Anakin's image appeared tho barely. "Yeah we read you. I hope your close we could really use the help."

Artis's fleet came out of hyperspace and into a firefight. "Don't worry we're coming to save the day."

"Took you long enough. See you in the field. Skywalker out." Anakin's image vanished.

Artis looked at the Admiral. "Admiral scramble all fighters and engage the enemy fleet by targeting the command cruiser." Artis went down to the hangar and climbed into his fighter as R9 chirped. "Don't worry R9 we'll be done soon."

Artis flew out of the cruiser as the other fighters followed behind him as they flew into the oncoming fight. Artis soon broke off as he flew around a Separatists cruiser and started shooting the defense towers as the exploded. Artis smiled as he spun around dodging blaster fire as he flew up and got behind the droids shooting them. Artis soon flew back around and launched torpedoes into the Separatists bridge causing it to explode. Once that happened the ship started exploding and Artis heard a clone pilot was in trouble so he reared back.

Ahsoka saw it. "Boulder you got two on your tail. Can you shake them?"

Boulder started to panic as he couldn't. "I can't shake them!"

Soo Artis came down blasting the droids ship. "I got your back Boulder."

"Thank you sir. Sorry I panicked."

"Don't worry Boulder happens to everyone." Artis turned left as he was being chased by two rockets. "Convert all power to the engines reverse thrusters." Artis's fighter started spinning until the two rockets collide exploding. "Heh. We got em R9." Guess spinning is a good trick. Who knew. Artis doubled back as his cruiser was being hit from all sides and he saw..a drop ship. Grievous.

Artis flew towards the cruiser and made it first as he landed and R9 jumped out and rolled off while clones ran into the hangar. The droids landed in the hangar as they opened fire as Artis deflected blaster fire. The Separatists drop ship landed as Grievous walked out as he grabbed a clone and threw him across the hangar. He activated a lightsaber slashing a clone across the chest, he stabbed another clone through the stomach. He kicked a clone before grabbing another with his mechanical foot and slamming him into ground.

Artis looked seeing Grievous stepping on the clones neck while he struggled only to die from Grievous crushing his throat. "You'll regret that."

Grievous laughed. "Are you going to make me regret it Lendix?" Grievous activated two lightsabers as Artis charged him.

Artis slammed his sabers into Grievous's blades as he leaped over Grievous with a summersault as he dodged Grievous's wide sweeping slash as he blocked the cyborgs second blade with his shoto. Artis jumped back backflipping away as Grievous tried to slash Artis but, missed. Artis slammed his main white blade into Grievous's saber again. Artis blocked one of Grievous's blades before using the force to push Grievous across the hangar. The cyborg growled as he got to his feet in order to block Artis who came down with an over head strike. Grievous pushed Artis off as the jedi landed on his feet before blocking a slash from Grievous. Artis gritted his teeth before jumping back as he he blocked a strike from one of Grievous's magnaguards. He knew he needed to pull Grievous back and away from the clones while giving them and the crew time to escape.

Artis had an idea. "Come on Grievous. You haven't impressed me yet. I'm getting bored."

That got Grievous angry. "I will kill you here and now Lendix!"

Grievous marched towards Artis flanked by his guards so Artis slowly backed up going through a pair of doors. Artis blocked Grievous's slash as he ducked another slash aime for his head as Artis blocked one of the guards staff strikes. Artis kicked the guard against the wall as he leaped over Grievous's strike as he blocked another saber slash. Artis blocked Grievous again but, retaliated with a cross cut aiming for the cyborgs midsection. Grievous blocked it and managed to grab Artis with a third hand and tossed him down the corridor of the cruiser. Artis stood up shaking it off as he reactivated his lightsabers and blocked Grievous's overhead cleve. Artis leaped back as he slashed the magnaguard across the chest kicking it down. Now it was one on one no assistance, no clones, no droids, no guards, or jedi help which is what Artis wanted.

Artis took a breath as he looked at Grievous. "Alright Grievous. It's just you and me. I won't let you leave this ship because, your going to be arrested for your crimes."

Grievous laughed. "No. You will die here Lendix and I will add your saber to my collection." Grievous soon extended his second pair of arms activating two more lightsabers.

Grievous started to spin the top two blades in a circular motion like a buzz saw as he marched towards Artis. Artis remained calm as he stood his ground until thrusting his saber forward as Grievous blocked his stab and they slammed their lightsabers into one and other. When Grievous tried to stab Artis he leaped back as Grievous pressed his attack. Artis blocked each strike that Grievous threw at him and Artis had done his homework on Grievous and his speed. Grievous is capable at giving eighteen strikes a second which isn't surprising. Artis knew if he fought Grievous like this he needed to be prepared for that speed. Artis had been training against that kind of speed at the temple setting the droids speed at the highest it could get. This was going to be a difficult battle as Artis backflipped dodging Grievous's strikes as he ducked and jumped around. Artis blocked another of Grievous's blades as he ducked cutting off one of his hands. Grievous groaned in pain and annoyance as he tried to push Artis again as the young jedi dodged an blocked his strikes. Artis managed to cut a second of Grievous's hands leaving the cyborg with only two hands.

Artis blocked another of Grievous's strikes as he pushed back against the cyborg general as he gritted his teeth. When Grievous leaped up to strike Artis threw out a force push sending Grievous flying back as the cyborg coughed. Artis twirled his lightsaber and dodged Grievous as he slashed at Artis's sides before Artis blocked his strike. Artis pushed back against the cyborg general despite the fact Artis was using a Jar'kai style of Niman which has plenty of disadvantages. One of those disadvantages is lacking strength which is sacrificed for speed. But, Artis had a strange ability with the style as his grip was tight on his blade he could actually use his own strength through the force. Artis had understood that his style of combat had been known to be weak against a one on one duel sentrick style. Despite this Artis's adaptability in combat was what saved him more than once.

Artis backed up through a pair of doors as the bridge was empty as Grievous followed slashing at his sides while Artis dodged each strike. Artis slammed his blade into one of Grievous's as he blocked the second with his shoto. Artis gritted his teeth as Grievous grabbed him with his claw like foot and threw him into the ground. Artis rolled across the floor as Grievous tried to stomp his head in before Artis used the force to throw Grievous to the side. Artis breathed heavily as he threw Grievous around with the force like a ragdoll before throwing him against the bridges glass cracking it.

Artis jumped towards Grievous as he readied himself again but, Grievous knew that this battle could go on forever but, Artis's cruiser was about to be destroyed. "You lose! General Lendix!" Grievous destroyed the bridges observation glass as the vacuum of space sucked Grievous out but, Artis grabbed onto something. Once the vacuum was stopped by a blast shield Artis hit the floor with a thud as he groaned. He couldn't waist time so he got up and ran through the bridge and down the ships corridor in order to reach the hangar.

Grievous caught a droid fighter that took him back to his ship. "Concentrate all fire on Lendix's ship. I want it destroyed."

Artis ran through the destroyed hangar as explosions rang out all around him one knocking him down. But, he got up and made it to his fighter as R9 whistled in concern. "I know R9! I know! Let's get out of here!" Artis fired up the engines and launched out of the hangar as it exploded behind him as his fighter shook. The cruiser exploded as it sent his fighter spinning as he tried to regain control before a piece of debris slammed into one of his fighters wing. The damage flared alarms in his fighter as he pulled his fighter back.

Artis was trying to maneuver it to Anakin's cruiser that was waiting for him. "This is gonna hurt!"

Artis managed to make it to Anakin's cruiser only his fighter slammed into the opening and skidded across the floor into the hangar. Clones and engineers ran or jumped out of the way as Artis's fighter skidded and slammed into the wall as it caught fire. R9 popped out as he rolled away before turning around and attempting to put out the fire.

Anakin, Rex and, Ahsoka all ran down into the hangar and saw Artis's fighter. "Get that fire out now!"

Clones ran up with extinguishers and started spraying the fire trying to put it out as Ahsoka ran into the heat as she forced the fighter open. She found Artis was barely conscious but, alive so she pulled him up and threw his arm over her neck and tried to get him away. Rex ran up and helped Ahsoka as the clones got the fire under control.

Anakin ran up with medical personnel. "Get him to the med bay quickly."

"Sir yes sir!" the clones took Artis as they hurried to the medical wing of the cruiser.

Anakin and Ahsoka made there way back to the bridge as they saw reinforcements arrived and Ahsoka smiled. "Master Kenobi made it."

Obi-wan's holo image appeared. "Anakin do you read? I hope my delay didn't affect anything."

Anakin smiled. "Your just in time master."

Obi-wan crossed his arms. "I'm not even going to ask where Artis's cruiser is."

Ahsoka looked down. "Artis's cruiser was sacked by General Grievous. He escaped."

Obi-wan looked to Anakin. "And what about Artis?"

"He's in the med bay. He had a managed to make it out but, barely." Anakin crossed his arms. "He saved a lot of lives."

"Indeed. We will pursue Grievous from here. You take your fleet back to Coruscant. That way he and your crew can receive some rest." Obi-wan's image vanished.

Anakin's fleet returned to Coruscant but, Ahsoka didn't leave Artis's side the whole way there for..reason's. But, once the ship landed Artis was being taken to the medical ward of the temple so he could receive proper treatment.

"Artis…Artis...can you hear me?"

Artis opened his eyes looking around and only seeing a sleeping Ahsoka by his bedside. "Who's there?"

"My name is Qui-gon Jin...you know of me correct?"

Qui-gon!? "You were Obi-wan's master. I remember now. Why can't I see you? Like Master Shaun?"

"My training was incomplete..she was merely a messenger I manifested through my will..there laid a holocron on Tython..that helped project her to you. All the training you went through..I was truly teaching you.."

Artis looked down in realization. "That's right..if Master Shaun learned the ability to transcend through the force that would be taught to grand masters of the order for generations.." Artis looked around. "I don't understand. Why teach me anything?"

"I did not teach you the abilities you use now. You merely taught yourself. I have a request for you..go to the Dagobah system once more. You will find answers to a great many questions you have."

Qui-gon's voice vanished leaving Artis in silence until he saw Ahsoka stir awake as she looked at him. "Artis your awake.." She noticed the look on his face and grew concerned. "What's wrong?"

Artis looked down before looking at her. "I..heard Master Qui-gon's voice..I need to go to the Dagobah system."

End Of Chapter 35

A/N: DUN! DUN DUN! There it is Chapter 35 I hope you all enjoyed and remember to leave a review if you enjoyed. Remember my Jedi friends...Peace...Love...And May The Force Be With You….Alway.