Heroes UNITE!

by So-Pro Warrior

Commander Shepard and his team have gathered together the races of their Galaxy in an effort to defeat the Reapers. But is it enough? When the team comes across a strange woman they find out that if they are to truly defeat the Reapers once and for all. They will need all the help they can get. But not from their Universe. Multiverse Crossover! Chapters 6-22 Being Rewritten!

41. The Clone Wars

The TARDIS spirals out of control through the space-time vortex. Inside the ship everyone, from the heroes, to Saren and his phantom troops were stumbling around all over the place as the ship continued tilting in every direction. Shepard clung onto the railing next to the Doctor who held onto his control console as tightly as he could, Sora had been holding onto the railing next to the exterior doors. Suddenly the TARDIS took a sharp turn sideways sending everyone flying from the front towards the back end of the room; Natsu managed to grab a hold of one of the pillars with his right hand, as he then reached out and successfully grabbed Lucy's hand just as she was about to fly past him. Saren managed to grab onto a pillar as well as everyone else went crashing into the far back walls. Not even a second later the TARDIS turned to the opposite direction sending everyone flying again.

Chief grabbed onto another pillar along with Tigress and one of the phantoms, Happy and Eris spread their wings as Eris grabs Laval with Happy managing to catch and hold onto Troy. Marvelous hit the front wall along with the others, as he opened his eyes they immediately went wide in shock as he saw the back of Po coming towards him very fast before everything went dark. The phantom holding onto the pillar raised her palm blaster towards Tigress who was opposite of her on another piece, Tigress seeing this went wide-eyed and quickly threw the entire right side of her body back sideways as the phantom fired. Tigress instantly repeated the process with the left half of her body while making sure to grip the pillar again with her right arm when the phantom fired again. Chief looked up, he was right below the phantom who had failed to notice him, Chief grabbed his pistol and aimed up at her as he fired a round that went right through the chin and out the top of the head. The phantom's lifeless body then falling from the pillar to the ground.

"Doctor! Can you get this thing stabilized?!" Shepard calls out to him.

"That's what I'm trying to do Shepard!" the Doctor shouts back as he throws and presses a few more switches and buttons when more sparks come flying out from the console making him duck down.

James gets on top of a phantom and punches her across the face, another phantom sits atop Ashley and tries choking her while Ashley pushes at the phantom's face with her left hand. Tali turns around onto her back to see another phantom raise her sword up when Garrus jumps into and tackles her to the ground, Wrex grabs a phantom who is on top of Liara by the back of the head and tosses her into the upper platform. The TARDIS shifts again, this time at a diagonal angle throwing everyone to the ground as they begin sliding across the floor. Ashley, Tsukasa, and Javik manage to grab a hold of the lower platform along with two phantoms, Sora summons his keyblade and holds it out allowing Garrus, who is holding onto Tali, to grab it as Sora pulls it up allowing both of them to grab onto the railing. Wrex and Liara launch themselves from the floor and grab onto two of the pillars.

While still holding on tightly, the Doctor shimmy's his way around to the other side of the control console as he presses a few more buttons. He then reached up and pulled his monitor down "We're exiting the Time Vortex!" he yelled out as the TARDIS violently shook once more knocking him down.

The TARDIS exits the Space-Time Vortex, coming out over a light blue planet where a large space battle can be seen taking place.

Aboard the Venator-Class Star Destroyer

The Resolute...

"Admiral! Something just appeared!"

Admiral Wullf Yularen turned to the Clone crewmember that shouted this from the left-side pit "From out of hyperspace?" he asks.

"N-No sir. It just appeared. Whatever it is. It's gonna pass by at high speed!"

At this Yularen looked towards the windows as he saw something small, and blue zoom by "What in blazes?!" he nearly shouts taken aback by this.

The TARDIS continued flying out of control at high speed through the space battle raging between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems ships as red and blue lasers flew back and forth, fighters and bombers flying all over the place. Droid crewmembers aboard a Providence-class dreadnought's bridge looked out the window as the TARDIS flew by them as well.

"Uh~. What was that?" one of the droids at a control console questioned as it looked to the captain.

A warning message appears on the TARDIS's monitor "Ah~ great, just what we needed!" the Doctor says in an annoyed tone.

"What now Doctor?" Shepard asks.

"We're entering a planet's atmosphere. At the speed we're going the TARDIS is gonna start burning up. Need to slow her down before that happens otherwise we're gonna end up both burning and crashing and let me tell you. Crashing is one thing, but burning and crashing at the same time is a completely different one!"

Saren reaches for and brings out his pistol as he aims towards Happy and Eris, firing a shot as he unfortunately misses due to the shaking of the ship as his slug hits the ceiling past them. The two react with a yelp as Troy and Laval turn to see the former Spectre aiming at them, Saren fires again as Troy quickly brings out his Dragon Sword to block the shot that would've hit Happy had he not intervened, Laval doing the same for another shot aimed at Eris. Chief aimed his pistol at Saren, unfortunately he had no shot on any vital parts of Saren's body, he did however have sight on the pistol Saren was firing just as he fired another round. Chief pulled the trigger putting a bullet into Saren's gun, destroying it and knocking it from his hand.

"Can everyone stop shooting! This is how we got into this disaster in the first place, why is it so hard for everyone to follow that rule?!" the Doctor yelled out in an annoyed tone.

Seeing an opportunity, Troy tossed his Dragon Sword aside and pulled out his Mega Blaster to shoot Saren. The Turian however activated his biotics and cast a shockwave attack blasting the four back into the wall as Happy, Laval, and Eris fell to the ground while Troy fell onto the upper platform.

"Come on girl, come on!" the Doctor says in a panic as he continues pressing buttons.

As he begins moving around his console another violent shake from the TARDIS drops him to the ground, reaching out to grab something the Doctor's hand accidentally finds it in the form of the door release lever. Causing the exterior doors to open up as Sora looks back at this in shock due to how close he was. The TARDIS shakes once more and turns onto its side where the opened doors were now at the bottom, the air from the outside now pulling away at the people inside as Sora, Garrus, and Tali, hold on tightly to the railing to prevent themselves from behind pulled out. James, EDI, Po, Marvelous, and the remaining phantoms begin sliding towards the other side, Liara reaches out and grabs a hold of James, Tsukasa grabs Marvelous's arm while Po jumps and grabs Tigress's hand when she extends it out to him. Shepard reaches out and manages to grab onto EDI's hand just as she is about to slip away. The rest of the phantoms aren't so lucky as one by one the vacuum of the outside air begins pulling them out through the opened doors.

Everyone holds on as tightly as they can onto whatever it is they are grasping on to. The remaining two phantoms aren't so lucky as they lose their grip and go falling out the doors. Saren is forced to grip onto the pillar with both hands to prevent himself from being pulled out, as Chief looks over he notices how he can see both of Saren's hands now. Taking aim with his pistol, Chief fires putting a bullet right into Saren's right hand causing him to cry out in pain as he releases his hold on the pillar; Chief then aims at his left hand and fires again, putting a round through it as well as Saren is once again forced to release his hold. With both hands no longer gripping the pillar, Saren is sent flying through the TARDIS towards the doorway. Saren takes a quick peek over his shoulder, behind him to his right was Natsu and Lucy, Natsu holding onto the pillar and Lucy, while to his left on the floor were Laval and Eris holding onto the lower platform.

Saren narrowed his eyes as he powered up his biotics, looking back forward as he flew past the heroes the Turian casted a powerful Pull, generating a mass effect field around both Natsu and Laval as they both suddenly went flying backwards. Lucy going with Natsu while Eris dove out to try and catch Laval, grabbing onto his right hand only to end up getting pulled with him; Saren flies out the TARDIS doors and begins falling through the air towards the ground far, far below. Natsu, Lucy, Laval, and Eris all cry out as they go flying towards the open doorway; Sora upon seeing this acts quickly as he releases his hold on the railing and throws himself towards them. Grabbing a hold of Eris's hand as he summons his keyblade and slams the teeth into the floor, Laval reaching out and grabbing Natsu's hand as the weight of all five of them causes the keyblade to go dragging backwards across the floor towards the door. Lucy, Natsu, Laval, Eris, and then Sora all go out through the door until finally, and luckily the keyblade manages to hook itself onto the edge of the doorway, albeit barely.

All five heroes cry out in terror as they find themselves suspended thousands of feet in the air, all of them holding on tightly to each other.

"Natsu!" Happy cries out as he holds onto a pillar.

"Everyone hold on!" Garrus calls out to them.

"Trust me, I don't think any of us are planning on letting go!" Sora yells back as he grips his keyblade as tightly as he could.

Garrus begins carefully pulling himself along the railing towards the doors in an attempt to grab Sora's keyblade, hoping that he could pull them all in.

"Doctor! Get that door ready to shut on my order!" Shepard calls to him.

"TRUST ME I PLANNED ON IT!" the Doctor yells back with gritted teeth.

Garrus reached out for Sora's keyblade with his right hand, his left hand gripping tightly to the railing to prevent himself from being pulled out by the strong wind that was coming through the doors. Garrus made a swipe for the keyblade but missed by a few inches, immediately he made another grab for it and succeeded in getting a hold on it.

"Gotcha!" Garrus says.

Another small explosion erupts from the TARDIS's control console, causing the entire ship to shake violently once more and then suddenly begin to turn upside down throwing Garrus over the railing.

"Garrus!" Tali cries out as she lunges toward and grabs onto his arm with her right hand.

The keyblade suddenly slips from Garrus's hand.

"Ah!" Sora cries out as Garrus turns his head around in shock.

"No!"

Sora and the others cry out as they begin falling through the air towards the ground.

"NATSU!" Happy cries out as he suddenly launches himself towards and through the doors with his wings spread out again.

"Happy!" Tigress yells out.

"DAMMIT! Doctor, shut the doors!" Shepard cries out.

The Doctor pushes up the lever closing the TARDIS doors as Garrus falls to the floor. The TARDIS continues its out of control spiral and tumbling as it heads towards the surface of the planet, flying just above a city with towering buildings covered in crystals where a few highway-like roads can be seen above the otherwise completely hexagonal-shaped, crystalized ground. The alarms of the TARDIS blaring like crazy as everyone continued holding onto the pillars or railings.

"Well I got good news and bad news!" the Doctor speaks up.

"What could possibly be good news in this situation unless it's we're not going to crash!" Po shouts in a terrified voice.

"Well we're not going to be crashing while on fire, that's the good news! The bad news is we're still going to be crashing and it's going to be very, very hard!" the Doctor says.

"That did nothing to relieve me of the terror going through my body right now!" Po cries out.

"Uh~, the admiral says he saw a what?" Anakin Skywalker asks the Clone trooper in front of him with a raised eyebrow.

"A "flying blue box," sir. That's what he reported was heading our way." the Clone Trooper replies while standing at attention.

Anakin and his master, Obi-Wan Kenobi exchanged confused looks with one another, unsure of what to make of this as they look back at the Clone.

"Okay. Well, tell the admiral we'll be on the lookout for this "flying blue box" of his." Anakin says using his fingers to air quote the box part in a slightly sarcastic manner.

"You don't believe him?" Obi-Wan asks.

Anakin chuckles with his arms crossed "Come on master. A flying blue box? I mean there are some strange things out there I wouldn't be surprised. The galaxy's pretty big. But some kind of ship that's literally shaped like a box? That makes no sense."

"Uh~, sirs." the Clone calls to them catching their attention "You may want to look up." he says suddenly pointing to the sky while looking taken aback by something.

Anakin and Obi-Wan look up, just in time to see a strange, large blue box go flying over them on what looks like a crash course descent. Anakin's eyes go wide in shock while Obi-Wan seems less affected by the sight as he then looks at Anakin "Well, it appears we have found the admiral's flying blue box. Not so strange now is it?" he jokingly says.

The TARDIS heads towards a large road with a number of debris piles on either side.

"Oh this is gonna hurt. Everyone BRACE YOURSELVES!" the Doctor yells out.

The TARDIS gets closer and closer to the ground and then finally impacts. The impact is immense and powerful as inside the ship many of the heroes lose their grip and are thrown around the room as the lights begin to flicker on and off. The TARDIS bounces a few feet into the air before hitting the ground once more; back in the TARDIS everyone is viciously thrown around save for a few, the lights still flickering like crazy, while bits of pieces of the wall and ceiling begin to fall all overexposing a number of wires. The TARDIS tumbles across the ground for several more meters until finally crashing into a large pile of rubble, stopping it in its tracks leaving it tilted at an angle, lying on top of the rubble. Smoke begins to emit from the TARDIS.

From a distance, someone looks through a Macrobinocular to see the smoke of the TARDIS as it rises into the air. The person lowers it as they narrow their eyes "General, prepare the troops to move out." Count Dooku orders.

As standing behind him was a familiar male, cybernetically enhanced Kaleesh warlord, who served as a commanding officer in the CIS, or more precisely was the Supreme Commander of the Separatist Droid Army.

"As you command." General Grievous gleefully replies.

Obi-Wan and Anakin look through their own macrobinoculars as they see the pillar of smoke rising from where the strange, blue box ship crashed some distance away.

"Think that's the thing we came here for?" Anakin asks as he and Obi-Wan lower their devices.

"If it is, then it is also what the Separatist came here for. Which means we must reach it before they do." Obi-Wan says.

Anakin turns around "Rex, you and Cody round up the boys. We're heading for that crashed box immediately. And try contacting Ahsoka again. She should've returned from her patrol by now."

"Right away sir." Clone Captain Rex replies as he turns and hurries off.

"We cannot wait for Ahsoka to return. We will need to go ahead without her. No doubt the droids are already moving in on our mystery ship. I'm sure she's fine. She probably saw the same thing we did and is preparing to move towards it with her troops." Obi-Wan says.

"I sure hope you're right master." Anakin says.

Sora and the others continue crying out in terror as they fall through the sky, getting closer and closer to the ground with every second.

Eris opens her wings regaining control of her descent, as she then throws her right hand forward "Laval!" she calls out to him catching his attention.

"Eris!" Laval shouts back as he throws his right hand towards her, Eris eventually managing to grab a hold of it after a few more seconds.

"Natsu~!" Happy cries out as he flies as fast as he can towards Natsu.

"Lucy!" Natsu calls out to her while extending his right hand towards her.

Lucy turns around and reaches out, grabbing onto his hand as Natsu turns his head and reaches out for Happy. The Exceed grabbing Natsu's hand pulling both him, and Lucy to a stop as they now begin descending slowly; more so due to the fact that Happy was having some slight trouble holding them both up.

"So… heavy. Natsu, can you drop Lucy?" Happy nonchalantly asks with a straining voice and his eyes closed.

"Excuse me?!" Lucy yells in shock and anger.

She then realizes something "Wait, where's Sora?!"

"Don't worry about me." Lucy and the others look to where they heard his voice come from, as they see him slowly descending through the air. His arms simply outstretched to his sides "I'm fine." he says.

The Keyblade wielder using his ability to glide through the air to slow himself down.

The group eventually land on top of a building comprised of two towers, connected by a bridge of sorts near the bottom levels; as the group landed on the north tower. There they decide to catch their breath from everything they had just been through.

"Everyone alright?" Sora asks while bent over with his hands to his knees.

"Just some slight pain from being tossed around in a box. Really bad scare from falling thousands of feet in the air. Otherwise all good." Laval replies lying on his back.

"We're fine over here." Lucy says as she and Natsu stand up.

Eris helps Laval back onto his feet and turns to look over at Sora "What do we do now?" she asks.

Sora turns around and looks in the direction he saw the TARDIS heading while they were falling. After a few seconds spotting a lone pillar of smoke as he points towards it and turns his head back to the others "That's gotta be where they crashed. We follow that, we find Shepard and the others." Sora says.

"Let's hope they're alright." Happy says with a worried voice.

Sparks fly from various parts of the room, the lights completely off casting the entire TARDIS control room into darkness. The only source of lighting coming from the sparks that go off every now and then, and a single lit flame coming from the control console; revealing the heavily damaged control room as wires hung from the ceiling and pieces of the wall and ceiling had been completely torn off. Coughing and groans of pain could be heard as the heroes lied on the floor, spread throughout the room, few of them managing to slowly pick themselves up as two of them were Shepard and the Doctor, still on the main platform around the control console.

Shepard coughed a few times covering it with his left fist while pulling himself up with his right hand, his face a bit cut up and bruised as he turned around to see the Doctor, only visible due to the burning flame, also getting up as he let out a moan of pain.

"You alright Doctor?" Shepard asks.

The Doctor coughed a few times as well "I've been through worse." he says, his face also a bit cut up and grimy but otherwise alright.

Shepard accepted it, now for the others "Give me a headcount. Sound off! Ash?" he calls out while activating the flashlight on his omni-tool to help him see in the darkness.

"I'm alright Shepard." Ashley replies as she picks herself up below in front of him.

"Haha! Back aboard, already getting into a fight, and nearly dying. Love it." Wrex says to confirm he was okay.

"Dr. T'Soni and I live." Javik speaks up.

"Me and Garrus are alright." Tali says.

"I am alright as well, Commander." EDI says.

"Define alright. Everything's still spinning and hurting on my inside." Po says while still lying on the floor, requiring both Tigress and Troy to help pick him up.

As he is pulled to his feet he stumbles around a little, his eyes rolling until eventually coming to a stop along with him regaining his balance. He lets out a sigh of relief as then suddenly Marvelous smacks him in the back of the head, making him yelp in pain and bend over with his hands over where he got hit. He lifts himself up and looks at Marvelous "What was that for?!" he angrily questions.

"You fell into and nearly crushed me!" Marvelous states in an annoyed tone.

"We were being flung around all over the place, how is that my fault?!" Po questions.

Tsukasa limps forward as he looks around "Where's Chief?" he asks.

Just then from a pile of rubble in front of Po, the familiar armored arm of the Master Chief comes shooting out from it, terrifying the Panda who yelps out in fright. Planting his hand on top of the rubble the Chief pulls the rest of his body out from beneath it "I'm good." he simply replies.

The Doctor frantically waves his hands at the fire, in a rather comedic manner trying not to get burned, as he attempts to put it out. Troy rushes over and uses one of his power cards to blow a small gust of wind that extinguishes the flame for him "Thank you." the Doctor says.

"Let's hope Sora and the others are okay." Troy says in a hopeful tone.

"Oh no need to worry about them. After all there's Happy, and then two of them who can fly, well for Sora anyways he can glide so not flying but falling with style one could say. So I'm sure they found somewhere nice and safe to land and are either waiting for us to come to them, or coming to us." the Doctor says.

Some of Shepard's teammates activate the flashlight on their omni-tools, while Chief activates the lights on the lower sides of his helmet. "Chief, take James and Garrus outside and check our surroundings. If there's any unknowns call for us. No one is to open fire unless it's a confirmed hostile that we know." Shepard orders.

"Roger that." Chief says as he grabs his assault rifle "Vega, Vakarian, on me. Let's move." he calls to them as they bring out their assault rifles and rally on Chief. The three heads towards the doors as Chief pulls them open and head outside.

"Doctor, I need information. How's the TARDIS, and what's our location? Are we somewhere good, or somewhere bad?" Shepard then asks turning to the Doctor.

"Well at the current moment, obviously we aren't going anywhere." the Doctor says as he scans the TARDIS controls with his sonic screwdriver.

"Both because the TARDIS, obviously, is completely trashed," the Doctor says with a slightly raised voice; "and because we have some of our friends out there. But, no need to worry. Surprise you or not, she will be back on her feet in no time. Give you an estimation of… eh~, a few hours." another small surge of sparks erupt from the console off to the Doctor's left frightening both him and a few others as they duck down out of reflex.

The Doctor stands back up and looks to Shepard "Maybe a day…" he then says with a slightly concerned look on his face

This worries Shepard greatly "Depends to. If you want, I can work on trying to get the scanners and whatnot back up so we know where it is we've landed. Or I can work on the engines and other stuff so we can just skedaddle on out of here."

"Which would be faster?" Shepard asks.

"At the current moment." the Doctor raises his screwdriver and looks at it "Scanners."

"Then focus on that. Besides, it'll help us a lot more if we know where it is we are and who we're dealing with, if you know the location. That way we can distinguish good people from bad people. Cause I have a feeling our crash didn't go unnoticed; if there are natives nearby." Shepard says.

"Right, I'll get right to work on that!" the Doctor says running around his console to the other side "Tali, EDI! Could use your help. Might help quicken the process a little. Just listen to me and you will not mess anything up on my TARDIS!" the Doctor adds in.

Tali and EDI rush over as then Chief and the others walk back in "Perimeter secured, no natives in sight for miles. We'll probably be good for a while." Chief says.

"Man you gotta see this loco. Buildings here look like they were built into these large crystal towers or something, it's kind of cool looking." James says.

"Oh!" the Doctor suddenly shouts catching everyone's attention "Hang on a second. Monitor's still working. I can give the exterior cams a quick run through, see if they caught anything while we were crashing."

Shepard and the others gather around the Doctor as he brings up a video on the screen. At first it's nothing but the TARDIS spinning out of control as they see nothing but space; a few seconds later however they see what appears to be ships zoom across the screen due to how fast the TARDIS was spinning.

"Stop!" Shepard shouts as the Doctor stops the video "Go back a few seconds."

The Doctor listens and slowly rewinds the clip, eventually coming back to the large number of ships as he pauses the video, giving the group a clear view of what appeared to be a large space battle.

"Looks like a space battle. Big one to." Troy says.

"Hang on. Is it just me, or do those grey ones with the red stripes look a bit familiar?" Ashley then asks.

The Doctor's eyes go wide in shock.

"They… kind of do. But why?" Tali wonders.

"These ships greatly resemble the Imperial-class Star Destroyer. The star cruiser generally used by the Galactic Empire, the enemies of Luke Skywalker and the New Republic whom they fought back in their universe. The Imperial Remnants of which have allied themselves with Cerberus and the Reapers." EDI then speaks.

"Yeah, now I remember. Those New Republic guys told us all we needed to know about these ships once we found out about Cerberus gathering their own allies. Especially when they found out their Imperial fellas were among them. Suppose to be really dangerous and powerful, that's all I remember." Wrex says.

"But it can't be the Empire, most of their forces would be with Cerberus by now. I mean I would assume if they wanted to help them to take down the New Republic and whatnot. Not only that, if this were Luke's universe, wouldn't we be seeing Reaper forces with them? Since they are allies and everything?" Garrus questions.

"Perhaps the Doctor can tell us what he knows. Given the shocked look on his face." the Chief says as he turns his head to look at the Time Lord.

Shepard and the others doing the same thing upon hearing this as they too notice the shocked expression the Doctor had, as he then notices them and looks all around before looking back at the monitor.

"Change of plans, we're focusing on the engines. Picking up Sora and the others and getting out of here!" he says in a panicking voice as he pushes the monitor away and makes his way through some of the group.

This definitely catches everyone's attention, confusing many of them as Shepard decides to get some answers "Doctor, what's wrong?" he asks following after him.

"Can't talk now, need to focus on the repairs." the Doctor says trying to avoid the subject.

"Doctor, I do not like being kept in the dark. Are we in danger, or what? I need to know! Especially if the lives of Sora and the others are at stake!" Shepard states as anger begins to rise in his voice.

The Doctor stops as he takes in a huge breath of air before exhaling, then turning around to face Shepard and the others as they gather behind him.

"Yes, those ships do greatly resemble the Star Destroyers used by the Empire, because those were Venator-class Star Destroyers. Their precursors. Used by what Luke and the others would know, as the Old Republic from during the Clone Wars."

"The Clone Wars? I've heard that conflict mentioned a few times during some of my talks with Luke and Leia." Liara says.

"What did they mention?" the Doctor asks.

"Not much on it I'm afraid. Their father fought in it, and it's what led to the destruction of the old Jedi Order and the rise of the Empire." Liara says.

"Well that's most of the important stuff you need to know basically. Long story short. The Clone Wars was a galaxy wide conflict that lasted for three long years; and by the end of it, the Jedi, the guardians of peace and justice, had been betrayed and mostly wiped out. And the Old Republic became the tyrannical Galactic Empire. Which led to the Galactic Civil War where the Rebel Alliance, our New Republic friends, overthrew them to bring back freedom to the galaxy." the Doctor explains.

"We weren't just knocked off course into another universe. We were sent to another universe, and sent back in time. We're in Luke's Universe, but back in time during the Clone Wars. Before the New Republic, before the Galactic Empire..."

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Everyone takes in what the Doctor has just said.

"Okay~. So we're back in time. What's the big deal?" Wrex asks with a shrug.

"Have you met three assassin's known as Altair, Ezio, and Connor aboard the Infinity?" Tsukasa asks.

"Yeah, I've had a few run-ins with them. They're alright, except for Ezio. He's just great. Funny human, let me tell yah, hehe. Knows his way with the ladies as well; took him a while to get used to us aliens as all humans who have never encountered a Krogan before do. But once he did, I swear I don't think there hasn't been a female, human or alien he hasn't said something to that made them blush in some way aboard the Infinity. Even Bakara fell for some of his one-liners, surprisingly. Even better, knows not to go too far since me and her are a thing, he's actually a respectful male unlike most others. Otherwise I would've had to kick his ass back to whatever universe it is he came from." Wrex says.

"I feel like it's that accent of his. Makes him sound all smooth and sexy." Garrus says.

"Are you jealous Garrus?" Ashley asks sounding a bit taken aback.

"Who me? Nah~. I got those already, plus the scars to add to it. Ladies love scars, especially a smooth and sexy voice to go with it." Garrus says.

"Ahem!" Tali loudly clears her throat while staring daggers at Garrus making the Turian's eyes widen.

"I mean… uh~... moving on!" he quickly says.

"Well, this might sound a bit confusing but just go with it. To put it simple, those three aren't actually the assassins. I mean they are, but at the same time they aren't." Troy tries to explain.

Wrex remains silent as he looks at the young Ranger, "You're right, I don't follow. What the hell are you trying to say?"

"They're basically clones of the real ones. Just a bit more advanced then what Clone Shepard and his team were like. There was that so hard?" Marvelous says in a slightly annoyed tone.

"Okay, so they're not the real deal like every other hero thus far. Why is that?" Wrex asks.

"It's because in their universe, the three were separated across that Earth's timeline. They didn't live in the same time period. They were separated by thousands of years of history." Chief explains.

"And because of that, if we were to try and basically as the humans say, "pluck" all three of them from their respective periods of time, it could have disastrous consequences on that universe as a whole. Especially if they were to die due to playing important roles in shaping that Earth's history. Time and space is already being damaged greatly by the presence of the Reapers appearing in universes they were never supposed to. Killing people that were never supposed to die until a later time, destroying things that should never have been destroyed. However, according to the Doctor, it can be repaired in due time, just with changes to the future." Liara says.

"Basically creating a parallel universe in a way. Not so bad. That's how parallel universes are created all the time, a small change here or there, different choices or paths are taken. A new parallel universe is born. Some with huge changes, others not so much." Tsukasa says.

"However, if there were to be fluctuations in multiple time periods at the same time. Say the Reapers attacking that Earth in the early 21st century, and then finding a way to travel back in time to three other centuries. And perhaps even traveling to the future while they are at it. The space and time of that universe can become so distorted, so un-stabilized to the point that it would implode on itself due to all of the massive changes happening throughout history it wouldn't be able to handle." EDI finishes explaining.

"Which is what we're dealing with at the moment now that I understand the Doctor's concerns. Because we've already been to Luke's timeline, in this universe. If we were to mess with things here that could change the future, especially something big like changing the outcome of an event, someone dying that shouldn't have. This whole universe would be destroyed. Possibly us, and maybe even Luke and his friends with it." Shepard says.

"Correct. If this universe explodes, Luke, his friends, and the New Republic. They will all cease to exist. We'd be going along with them since we're in this universe so there's that as well. Also yes so would the Imperial Remnants but we'd still be losing a large portion of our Coalition Force, and us, while Cerberus and the Reapers would probably not feel a thing." the Doctor explains.

"That is why we need to get Sora and the others, and get out of here. If we change anything, it's goodbye this universe and us with it." the Doctor says with urgency.

"Okay. All I got out of that was the universe goes boom, and us with it. Along with our New Republic allies. Sounds bad, very bad." Wrex says.

"If I can ask Doctor, who exactly are the good and bad guys in this universe? Or during this timeline I should say. Don't ask why, just answer. Cause as much as I don't want to add onto our current problems, there may be another one we're going to have to deal with before we can leave." Chief speaks up.

"Saren…" Shepard says realizing where the Spartan was going.

"As much as I want to believe he died from the fall unlike Sora and the others, I doubt it would be that easy for him. Unless we have a body to confirm this, he's alive and a major problem we're obviously going to have to deal with before we can leave." Chief says.

"If he is alive, he could recruit the bad guys of this timeline, and mess everything up." Ashley says.

"If he does that, the universe would explode, right?" Tali asks.

"Yes it would. And what's worse is either he wouldn't know that, or wouldn't care and try it anyway. Whatever it takes to get more allies for Cerberus, right?" Tsukasa says.

"Oh, perfect. Just bloody perfect. We're doomed." the Doctor says.

"Doctor, answer Chief's question first. After that, I got something to ask as well." Shepard says.

The Doctor sighs, "It's hard to say. Both sides, the Galactic Republic, and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, were being played from the start by one man. Darth Sidious, a Dark Lord of the Sith. The Sith were basically evil versions of the Jedi who used the Dark Side of the Force. He orchestrated events that led to the Clone Wars starting. His goal, to wipe out the Jedi and become Emperor of the Galaxy, which he succeeded by the end of the war. Darth Sidious lived two lives; as a Sith he was Darth Sidious, outside of that though he was Sheev Palpatine, a Senator from Naboo. Stuff happened and Palpatine was able to become Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, the head honcho of the government."

"Bunch of political stuff happened, I won't bore you with the details plus to save on time, that led to a number of planets seceding from the Republic and becoming the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Separatists for short. More stuff happened and then the Clone Wars erupted, of course both sides blaming the other, yadda, yadda this is why I don't like politics…" the Doctor noticed the looks Shepard and the others were giving him, basically saying that they didn't need to know everything.

"Ahem. Right." the Doctor clears his throat.

"It's hard to say because again, both sides were being played by Palpatine. The Jedi are the good guys, that much is certain, I mean save for a few who may have gone a bit rogue during the Clone Wars, but again the majority of them were trying to protect the peace and everything and as such fighting for the Republic, which they had done for a thousand years. The Republic itself, as many other governments can be, had both its good and bad apples, some good things, some bad things so it's 50/50 for them but if anything they were nowhere near as evil as the Galactic Empire, and again were being led by a man deliberately trying to make them look bad to many people. The Confederacy was also made up of good and bad people, unfortunately it was the bad people that made up most of the higher ups of their government and military you could say." The Doctor begins to explain.

"Count Dooku who served as the Confederacy's Head of State, the head honcho for them. He's the Sith Apprentice to Palpatine, so bad guy number two. So while Palpatine is playing things on the Republic side, Dooku is playing things on the Separatists side, allowing both of them to manipulate things to keep the war going so it could serve their purpose for the Sith. Whenever someone tried to find a peaceful solution to end the war they did whatever they could to ensure that never happened, whenever there was a battle or situation that could have helped end the war quickly they worked to make sure it changed so it didn't. That's why the war was able to go on for so long. Hard to end a war when the main leaders on both sides are doing whatever it takes to keep it going to achieve their agenda."

"And let me guess, this Count Dooku basically had a lot of bad people put in charge of the Separatist's army." Shepard says.

"To put it simple yeah. You know, give the Republic people the look that the Separatists were completely evil and whatnot. Especially the Supreme Commander of their Droid army, General Grievous. Has a bit of a bad history with the Jedi; that plus his strategic genius and fighting prowess made him an ideal choice to lead them. And his ruthless and cruel personality made him feared by everyone. You know, again add to the whole make the Separatists look evil to a lot of people when in reality all of the good people were either being killed by Dooku or being kept where they wouldn't cause any damage to the Siths plans." the Doctor says.

"So what you're saying is, both sides are good and evil. But the lesser evil of the two would be the Republic because of the Jedi?" Tigress asks.

"If I had to wager, yes it would. As strange as that would be considering the Republic's main leader is the Jedi's greatest enemy and he's what led to the downfall of the Jedi later on as well as becoming Emperor of the very evil Galactic Empire. Thing is, it's only him and maybe a few bit corrupted Senators, a few bad Jedi that make up the evil side of the Republic while most everyone else are good people just being swayed by certain fears and other factors. Whereas the Separatists on the other hand, most of their higher ups where it would really matter, unfortunately, are all evil, and corrupt. And if my knowledge is correct, the heroes of this specific time would be on the Republic's side as well." the Doctor answers.

"So if Saren's alive, he's going to go to the Separatists to secure an alliance with them for Cerberus." Garrus says.

"Which we need to prevent from happening, so we really need to get to work people!" the Doctor says.

"But Doctor, on the off-chance we can't prevent that from happening. I need to know, is there a possibility of the universe not exploding if Saren does recruit the Separatists causing a change in the timeline?" Shepard quickly asks.

"Yeah look I'm all for wanting to stop Saren as well, rescuing Sora and the others and not causing a universe to explode with us in it. But with our luck it would be nice to know if things go bad, will they go completely bad or is there a small chance of that not happening?" Po asks.

The Doctor takes another breath of air in before letting it out in an annoyed manner "The only possibility of this universe not exploding due to multiple fluctuations in the timestream would be if we were lucky enough to be sent to a parallel universe. If we are, there's a less likely chance as it's not one whole universe being affected, rather two separate parallel universes. Like how in the Digimon universe, Digidestined from separate Parallel Universes were able to go to another, because they were all coming from different ones and only one point in time. Different from the Assassins where it would have been bringing them out from one specific universe from three different points in time. Different parallel universes, not so big a chance of a universe exploding since they're separate timelines anyway."

"Wait so if that's the case, couldn't we have just gone to parallel universes to pick up the Assassins instead of going to just one universe? Seems like maybe a little less trouble since we had to worry about distorting time in some way like you warned us about." James asks.

"Reason for that, the TARDIS can't do that anymore. Used to albeit with some difficulty, now though it's impossible and can only happen under extremely extraordinary circumstances. Technically there was a security protocol that's supposed to prevent the TARDIS from traveling between even alternate universes. But let's just say there was another incident where the stability of the multiverse was slightly damaged, besides the one with the Reapers, and the TARDIS took some damage which made me unable to control which universe it went to for a while. Fixed that problem eventually and now I can do the whole travel between alternate universes no problem. Luckily in time for all of this too. Parallel universes though are still a no-go, which is why we were forced to do that complicated method for the Assassins." the Doctor answers.

"But the Digidestined could do it no problem?" Tali asks.

"Someone of obviously higher power helped them in that regard. Not Time Lord work there. Helps us a lot, not gonna complain, otherwise we would have been only able to get two groups instead of five." the Doctor explains.

"So as long as this is a parallel universe, we have a chance of not going boom with the rest of this specific alternate universe. I like those odds." Marvelous says with his arms crossed.

"You like any odds that would give us a chance. Even if it were 99.9% to 0.1%." Troy says.

"Exactly, because it means we have a chance in some way. Right?" Marvelous replies with a smirk.

"Man, can we just stop with all this talk of space and time it's gonna give me a headache. I barely understood most of that." Wrex says with his right hand on his head while shaking it.

"All I got was something, something bad. Something, something possibly good. And the part where we may not go boom as long as we're in a parallel universe." Po says.

"Right… and what's the difference between an alternate universe and parallel universe?" Wrex asks.

"A Parallel universe is one that closely resembles your own with only a few minor, maybe even larger changes. But it still resembles your universe to some degree. While an alternate universe is completely different from your own. For example Po's universe would be an alternate universe from yours because there's not a single resemblance between the two. A Parallel one would be one where Shepard is female perhaps, or one where your Krogan Genophage isn't cured." Tsukasa explains.

"Ah, okay. That I can understand." Wrex says.

"I see." Shepard says finally understanding.

"If I can get the scanner working, I can determine whether we're in a parallel universe or not. If we are, we have a little less things to worry about. If we aren't… well you know how that'll end unless we do something about Saren right now." the Doctor says.

"Agreed." Shepard says as he turns around "Tsukasa, Marvelous, Troy. You three are the fastest people we got right now. Use your fastest forms and search this city for Sora and the others, and Saren. Split up to cover more ground. Bring Sora and the others back here without being discovered by either the Republic or Separatist side. As for Saren, it's up to you. Either bring him back here, or take him out. We can't have him making contact with the Separatists. If he does, and this isn't a parallel universe we're in, this will end badly for all of us."

"You can count on us Shepard." Troy says.

"Let's go!" Marvelous shouts as the three turn towards the entrance and head out.

"Right, so no more questions that will waste time right? Good!" the Doctor says clapping his hands "Tali, EDI, you'll help me with repairs. Again, listen to me and you won't mess the TARDIS up. Everyone else… do what you do."

"Guess we can just head outside, watch the surrounding area. Keep us posted Doctor." Shepard says as he and the remainder of the group head outside.

Sora's Group Location…

Several Minutes Ago…

"Let's hope they're alright." Happy says with a worried voice.

"I'm sure they're alright. They've gotten this far without trouble." Sora says resting his arms behind his head.

Eris seems confused by this as she looks at him "Yeah they have. They've been through lots of trouble." she says.

Sora looks at her "No, I mean. They've gotten this far without, you know. Anything bad happening. Like really bad." he explains.

"We should probably start walking. Looks like a long way from here." Lucy says with her left hand held above her eyes.

"Hold on!" Natsu suddenly speaks up catching everyone's attention "I hear voices below us." he adds as he begins heading towards the ledge of the rooftop that overlooks the front of the building.

Sora and the others follow him as they reach and look over the ledge to the street below. A group of people and robots could be seen, what looked like fifteen men in white armor, and a female alien with dark orange skin and… white with blue marking tails for a head? Were on their knees with their hands behind their heads; surrounding them were ten tan-colored robots, with at least fifty more several meters away with two large, floating tanks, and an alien female with bone-white colored skin, and a bald head. The robots were holding the group of people on their knees at gunpoint, while the bald-headed woman was wielding what looked like red-bladed lightsabers, as the group remembered them having encountered Luke Skywalker on the Infinity before going to the Loonatics' universe; one of them being pointed at the young alien girl.

"That doesn't look good." Laval says.

"Should we help?" Happy asks.

"We don't even know what's going on down there. I don't think Shepard would want us getting involved in a situation we know nothing about. We don't know who's good, or who's bad." Lucy says.

Sora remains silent as he furrows his brows at the sight before him.

"I'll ask one more time, you little brat. Where is this Republic secret weapon?!" Asajj Ventress questions Ahsoka Tano while pointing her right-handed lightsaber at the padawan.

"Even if I did know what you were talking about, I would never tell you!" Ahsoka boldly states.

Ventress looks at one of the droids to her right and throws her head to the left. The droid raises its blaster rifle and fires it, killing one of the Clones "NO!" Ahsoka cries out.

"Tell me! Or another Clone dies!" Ventress demands.

"I'm telling you the truth! I don't know what you're talking about!" Ahsoka shouts back.

"Fine then. Execute them all!" Ventress orders her droids.

All of the droids raise their blasters towards the Clones "NO!" Ahsoka cries out again.

Suddenly multiple bolts of lightning shoot down from out of nowhere striking all of the B1 battle droids around the Clones.

"What?!" Ventress says as her eyes widen in shock.

Sensing danger from above, Asajj looks to see a strange young human boy coming at her with what looks like a large key in his right hand. Sora aims his keyblade at the Sith assassin and lets out a battle cry as he spins around and swings his keyblade upwards, bringing it over his shoulder as Ventress launches herself back as the keyblade slams into the ground kicking up some sparks. Ventress lands several feet away, while Ahsoka and the Clones look up at their mysterious savior; Sora stands up and holds his keyblade at the ready. Ahsoka stares at the strange weapon being held by the boy before her, having never seen anything like it ever.

"And who are you supposed to be?" Ventress questions while pointing her right lightsaber at the keyblader.

"Just your friendly neighborhood hero, here to kick the butt of any bad person I see. Which I guess would be you and your army of tin cans." Sora says.

"Hero? What are you playing at boy? Do you have any idea who you are dealing with?" Ventress questions.

"No idea. But I guess I'm about to find out!" Sora states.

"Foolish child. Blast him!" Ventress orders the droids behind her.

The droids open fire on Sora "Might want to get to cover!" Sora urges Ahsoka and the Clones "Reflega!"

Producing a barrier of light, Sora deflects the laser bolts back at the droids taking a few of them out.

"Get to cover!" Ahsoka orders her troops as they break for the nearby rubble piles on either side of the road.

Some of the Clones grabbing the blasters off the destroyed droids while Ahsoka uses the force to pull her lightsaber from another of them. The lightsaber flying into her right hand as she activates it. The green blade of her lightsaber igniting as she rushes to Sora's side just as his barrier goes down; the droids continue firing on him and begin marching forward as Sora and Ahsoka begin blocking and deflecting the incoming shots, while the Clones pop out from their cover and begin returning fire on the droids.

From the top of the tower, the others watch the situation unfold "Uh~ shouldn't we be doing something? Like going down there and helping him?" Laval asks.

"Ah~." Lucy moans in an annoyed manner as she puts her left hand to her head with her eyes closed. "And I thought Sora was more level-headed then Natsu..." she says.

"Hey!" Natsu says slightly annoyed by this comment.

"Tch, whatever. I'm going down there and blowing some stuff up. Let's go, Happy!" Natsu calls to his partner as he gets atop the ledge.

"Aye sir!" Happy says spreading his wings and taking to the sky.

Natsu jumps forward as Happy grabs him by the back, the Exceed descending down before turning at an angle as he flies Natsu towards their new enemy. Ventress blocks incoming laser fire from the Clones as the droids move forward around her, behind her the two AAT's aim their main laser cannons and fire. The shots impacted a few feet behind Sora and Ahsoka, luckily missing them and the clones.

"Let's take those big things out." Natsu says turning his head slightly to the right to look at Happy.

"Aye sir!" Happy says in agreement.

Ventress blocks another laser bolt when she gets another bad sense from above and looks, Ahsoka also senses something and looks up.

"Brilliant Flame of the Fire Dragon!" Natsu yells raising his hands above his head, creating a large fireball which he tosses at the tanks.

The fireball impacts between them causing a large explosion that takes out and propels the two tanks away. The explosion and shockwave also manages to take out a few of the rear droids as a few of the Clones stop firing upon noticing this, becoming shocked and awed by what they had just witnessed.

"Look, in the sky!" one of the droids shout.

"Fire! Fire!" another yells as a few of the droids fire at Natsu and Happy.

Happy being forced to begin some evasive maneuvering in the sky to dodge the laser fire.

"Let's go!" Eris shouts as she flies a few feet into the air, Laval jumping up as the two grab hands and begin flying down while Lucy pulls out her Fleuve d'étoiles whip and activates it. Swinging it down and wrapping it around a nearby pole as she jumps down.

Sora and Ahsoka continue blocking the incoming laser shots when Laval and Eris appear to Sora's left, Eris dropping Laval as he immediately draws his sword and begins blocking the enemy fire while Eris takes to the sky again. A second later Lucy lands behind Sora.

"Glad you guys could join the party." Sora casually greets.

"I hope you know what you got us into!" Lucy says taking out one of her golden keys.

"I'm sorry, but I've never seen a good guy about to order an execution on unarmed people. So I think it's safe to say who the good guys, and who the bad guys are." Sora says.

"How about less talking, and more let's take these guys down already!" Laval says as he brings out a CHI orb.

Inserting it into his harness powering the lion prince up as he lets out a mighty roar, the blue energy figure of a humanoid lion shooting up from his body before going back into him as he charges forward.

"I agree!" Sora says as he joins alongside him.

"Star Dress: Capricorn Form!" Lucy shouts changing into the Star Dress form as she runs after them.

Leaving a very confused Ahsoka behind as she had absolutely no idea of what was going on, who these people were, and what in the world it was they were doing. More so in terms of whatever their strange powers seemed to be.

"Commander!" one of the Clones behind her called out catching her attention.

"What's the plan?" he asks.

"Let's take these droids out first." Ahsoka says.

"And these unknowns?" the Clone adds.

"Well, they saved our butts just now. And they're helping us fight Ventress and the clankers. So I think it's safe to say they're on our side. For now anyways. Until we know what's going on." Ahsoka says.

Laval jumps forward and side slashes the first battle droid, as Sora drops from above diagonally down slashing another droid as Lucy side kicks another breaking it in half. Eris flies in from their right flank and cuts the heads off two more droids.

"Happy! Drop me!" Natsu orders.

Happy listens and releases Natsu as he drops in the middle of a large group of droids as they turn to aim their blasters at him "Wing Attack of the Fire Dragon!" he yells blowing a number of droids away and to pieces with two streams of fire from his hands.

Sora upper slashes another battle droid, turning around to cut through another, and then spinning back around to fire a shotgun-like blast of Blizzard magic, firing a spread of icicles into multiple droids taking them out. A yell from behind catches his attention as he turns again to see Asajj Ventress jumping in the air towards him, both her lightsabers pulled back as she brings them down onto the keyblade wielder. Sora raises his keyblade sideways blocking both weapons as he pushes with both hands in an attempt to push Ventress back. Eventually Sora manages to, shoving her back a few feet as he jumps up and reverse roundhouse kicks her in the chest, sending her flying a few feet as she hits the ground and rolls back landing on her knees and left hand as she raises her head and scowls at the young keyblader.

Laval jumps up as he slices two droids' heads off, Eris drops down to avoid fire from a lone droid as she rolls forward and cuts it at the legs dropping the rest of its body to the ground as she rolls past it and stops on her right hand and left knee. Lucy roundhouse kicks another droid across its face knocking the head clean off, turning around she ducks down to avoid a shot from another B1; and as she goes up she elbows the gun out of its hands and pulls her left arm back as she punches it square in the chest sending it back into two others. As she straightens herself, Lucy fails to take notice of a droid walking up on her from behind to her right. Just as a green lightsaber cuts diagonally down from right to left the droid's body causing it to slide apart, Lucy turning to be greeted by Ahsoka as she straightens herself and looks at the Fairy Tail mage.

"Thanks!" Lucy says.

"Fira!" Sora shouts shooting two fireballs from his keyblade as they split up sideways and fly towards Ventress.

The Sith assassin using the force to push the two fireballs away past her as she charges Sora with a screech. Sora holds his keyblade back to his right with both hands and charges forward; the two closing the distance quickly as Sora swings his keyblade at Ventress who blocks the attack with her right saber. Ventress attempts to strike him with her left lightsaber as Sora spins around and switches his keyblade to his left hand, holding it diagonally downwards to block her attack as he spins back around and switches back to his right hand. Ventress swings her right lightsaber down at Sora who raises his keyblade above him sideways to block it, pushing it away as Ventress swipes at him with her left saber forcing Sora to backflip as he avoids it and lands a few feet away crouched. Standing back up Sora rushes her and leaps forward with his keyblade held above his head, bringing it down as Ventress quickly jumps back to avoid it as he slams the keyblade into the ground creating a few cracks.

Ventress lands a few feet away when Natsu suddenly appears to her right from behind, his right fist engulfed in flames and pulled back "Iron Fist of the Fire Dragon!" he yells throwing his fist down as Ventress quickly launches herself back once again.

Missing Natsu's attack as he slams his fist into the ground, flames shooting out in every direction along with a shockwave from the powerful impact as Ventress covers her face with her arms and is propelled far back. Hitting the ground and rolling back a few times before coming to a stop as her lightsabers de-activate. Smoke lightly emitting from parts of her body due to being singed a little, Ventress picks herself up onto her knees as she catches her breath. Raising her head sideways Ventress looks at the strangely clothed, pink-haired human as he stands back up and turns to her, the other boy with the strange key-like weapon rushing up to his side as he holds his weapon at the ready to continue fighting.

Baring her teeth while snarling quietly, Ventress reaches to the right side of her hip and tosses two silver, spherical objects towards Sora and Natsu. The objects rolling in front of them as they look down, confused by what they were looking at as the spheres roll to a slow, revealing a single red button and light as it flashed repeatedly. Which seemed to be picking up while a beeping sound could also be heard coming from them, which were also beginning to beep faster and faster.

"Get back!" Ahsoka shouts as she raises her hands forward and closes her eyes, while Laval, and Eris gather on her left with Lucy and Happy on her right.

Both Sora and Natsu suddenly find themselves pulled back by an invisible force, flying through the air as the two thermal detonators finally explode kicking up dust and debris. Using this as cover, Ventress grabs her lightsabers and quickly slips away.

Lucy, who returns to her normal clothes, and the others rush over to Sora and Natsu, the two pushing themselves up from the ground as Lucy drops down beside Natsu "You two alright?" she asks.

"Of course. It's gonna take a lot more than that to stop us." Natsu replies.

"I'll say." Sora adds in.

Sora gets back on his feet while Lucy helps Natsu up, behind them Ahsoka approaches with her lightsaber deactivated and placed away.

"Thank you for your help." Ahsoka says.

Sora and the others turn to face her "No problem. You looked like you could use it." Sora replies.

"I've never seen anyone who wasn't a Jedi been able to take on Ventress all by themselves and survive." Ahsoka says as she crosses her arms "Then again, after what I just saw. It looks like there's a lot more to all of you than meets the eye. I'm also sensing… power… power that I've never sensed before. It's strange. Almost alien. Who are you guys?" Ahsoka asks.

"I'm Sora. This is Laval, Eris, Natsu, Lucy…"

"And I'm Happy!" Happy introduces himself flying in front of Ahsoka's face taking her aback a bit.

"I see. I'm Ahsoka. Ahsoka Tano." Ahsoka introduces herself as her troops gather behind her. "You guys don't look like you're from around here. Where are you from?" she asks.

"Would you believe us if we told you?" Laval asks.

Ahsoka raises her left eyebrow at this "We're from a bunch of alternate universes that crashed here when our ship that travels through space and time was boarded by our enemy causing a fight that brought us here." Natsu casually says with a deadpan look and his hands rested on the back of his head.

This confuses Ahsoka even more as even a few Clones exchange looks with one another unsure of what to make of this.

"It's a long story." Sora says.

"I'm sure it is. Would it be alright if you and your friends followed us back to our base? You're not in trouble, if you were the enemy you wouldn't have helped us in the first place. But my masters will want to know about this and want to ask you a few questions." Ahsoka says.

Sora and the others exchange looks and then look back at Ahsoka "Wish we could, but we were on our way to our ship. The rest of our friends are there probably waiting for us. It crashed somewhere in the city and we need to make sure they're okay." Sora says.

"If it crashed in the city, my masters might have seen it and will probably go check it out. If they do find any survivors, I'm sure they'll bring them back to the Republic base for safety." Ahsoka explains.

"Well if that's true. It would probably be the more safer way of regrouping instead of running into that crazy woman again and more of those… whatever they were." Laval says.

"Droids." Ahsoka corrects him, her left eyebrow going up again as she found this once again confusing. Did these people really not know what battle droids were? If that was the case… what else did they not know?

"Yeah, those things." Laval says.

"Alright then Ahsoka. Lead the way." Sora says.

Back at the TARDIS…

Shepard and the others spread out around the TARDIS to keep watch; the Doctor, Tali, and EDI inside repairing the ship. Garrus took position on top of the nearest, and tallest mound of rubble giving him overwatch of the road heading south of their position, which was mostly clear of rubble giving him a good line of sight on anyone who would attempt to approach from the direction. The main problem if anything was the far end which curved off into two roads heading in either direction, both roads' sights were being blocked by the buildings which meant Garrus wouldn't be able to see anyone coming until they made that turn toward them. It was however still pretty far away so if there were to be people coming, Garrus would have plenty of time to see them.

Chief, along with Tigress, and Ashley covered the north road which unfortunately for them split off into three different directions. One road continuing to head north, the other two curving, one going northeast, the other northwest; the road to the northeast had a tall building topple over onto it giving the three even less of a view should anyone attempt to approach from that road specifically. As for the rest of the group, they took up positions on either side of the road to make sure no one tried sneaking up on them from the natural crystalized ground that surrounded them and the man-made structures.

Shepard approached the Chief and his group from behind, crawling up the pile of rubble Chief was taking cover on as he got down beside him "Anything?" he asks.

"Nothing. We're good here. What about Garrus?" Chief asks back.

"Road south is clear too. The others have nothing to report either." Shepard says.

"It won't be long. We may have put the smoke out, but it was in the air long enough for anyone within several miles of us to have seen it and get a precise location on us." Chief says.

"We just need to keep our eyes peeled for the bad guys. They're the biggest thing to worry about at the moment." Shepard says.

"And the good guys?" Chief asks.

"Trying to figure that out myself. Given the situation. Still, would rather have people we know are good finding us compared to the bad guys finding us first." Shepard says.

"Shepard!" Shepard and Chief turn upon hearing Tali's voice as they see the Quarian standing at the doors to the TARDIS "The Doctor wants to speak to you." she says.

The two look at each other "Let's hope it's good news." Shepard says as he turns to leave.

"We could really use it." Chief says in agreement as Shepard slides down the mound and rushes over to the TARDIS.

Back inside the TARDIS, Shepard finds the lighting back on, and a few wall panels back in their place but otherwise the ship still looked trashed. The control console had been torn apart in a few areas, save for the section beneath the monitor which the Doctor was currently looking at.

"What's the news Doctor?" Shepard asks approaching him.

The Doctor turns his head "Ah, Shepard good news. We don't have to worry about the universe exploding."

"So we're in a parallel universe then?" Shepard asks to confirm it.

"Lucky us, right? Technically, we're still in the past but in a universe parallel from Luke's universe. So no need to worry about messing up the timeline or causing the universe to explode due to any unforeseen meddling. Takes a bit of pressure off us that's all that matters. Still though, would rather we get Sora and the others, deal with Saren however you feel like, and get out of here." the Doctor says.

"Doing the best we can Doctor. With only three people out there, searching this whole city for Sora and the others is going to be difficult. And that's hoping they themselves didn't get into trouble considering we've landed in the middle of a warzone." Shepard says.

"There always has to be some sort of problem. Wouldn't be exciting otherwise." Tali says in a joking manner.

"Shepard, permission to speak?" EDI asks while picking up a piece of the wall.

"Go ahead EDI." Shepard says turning to her.

"If we are in a parallel universe, meaning there is no risk of this universe being in danger due to our presence or potential meddling. As our mission is to recruit as many allies as possible, hero, and military armies alike. Would it not benefit us if we were to go to this universe's current version of the Republic for aid in the war against the Reapers?" EDI asks.

"No! No, bad idea Shepard! I'm telling you now, that would be a bad idea." the Doctor quickly speaks up as Shepard turns to him.

Shepard narrows his eyes in a confused look "But Doctor" he crosses his arms "didn't you say being in a parallel universe wouldn't cause problems? Meaning if we were to recruit this version of the Republic, even if it is the past technically, the universe wouldn't explode from multiple distortions in the timeline?" Shepard asks.

"Yes, I did. But still, it would be a bad idea!" the Doctor warns.

"Could you explain to me as to why it would be a bad idea? EDI's right, our mission is to recruit every possible ally we can. Every hero, every army we get increases our odds at beating the Reapers, Cerberus, and their allies. If this had been Luke's universe in the past, I would have listened to your warning and not be taking the idea into consideration. But you just said we were in a parallel universe. Meaning your warning shouldn't apply now." Shepard says.

"Keyword Shepard, past. We're still in the past of Luke's universe. We may be in a parallel universe, but things still play out the same unfortunately. I've done the scanning, what happened in the past in Luke's universe still applies here just with a few minor changes. Even if that weren't the case, think about it, think about how the New Republic will react if we were to bring the Old Republic to them after everything that transpired in their universe. At the end of the Clone Wars, the Jedi were destroyed, and the soldiers of the Old Republic were responsible for it. They were the ones that transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire, made Palpatine the Emperor and basically rule the whole galaxy! I'm pretty sure no one in the New Republic would like that, not one bit." the Doctor exclaims.

"The other universes will have their futures affected by the appearance of the Reapers. You said this would change things, cause some trouble in the space-time continuum, but things would be alright for the most part. If the future can be changed to a degree, especially as we're in a parallel universe where there are some differences from the one I was in. Couldn't we change things here? Kill the Chancellor and prevent the whole thing from happening?" Shepard asks.

"Trust me Shepard, what happens to the Jedi and to many, many future lives is a tragedy. All of them caused by Sidious, but as a soldier one, how do you think the Republic would be affected if their big leader were to suddenly be killed? We're only in the first year of the Clone Wars and while Sidious is a terrible man, there were some things that happened in the Clone Wars, victories, that happened for the Republic because of him. While keeping up his facade there was some good he did for the Republic during the war. And two, not only that, but unfortunately, what happens to the Jedi, is a fixed point in time." the Doctor says.

Shepard sighs in annoyance "What's a fixed point in time?" he asks.

He was really starting to hate all these rules and stuff to do with space and time. But he knew they existed for a reason so there wasn't much arguing he could do. After all, without these rules he could only imagine how unstable everything could possibly get. An example being the Reapers and the First Civilization since it was them who caused the Reapers to gain access to the Multiverse leading to the billions of deaths so far.

"A fixed point in time is a moment in history in which events are quite literally set in stone and can never, ever, be changed. No matter what. Not even the Time Lords, not even many of our greatest enemies who've caused trouble themselves throughout time in our universe, dare to challenge it." the Doctor says.

"Or let me guess, it could cause massive problems in the space-time continuum." Shepard says in a monotone voice.

"Problems like the end of the universe. Basically back to square one in the problem area. Question, you ever learn about the Italian City of Pompeii and its destruction by the volcano Mount Vesuvius?" the Doctor asks.

"May have done a bit of reading on it during one of my off-duty times. Learning a bit of history about Humanity's homeworld." Shepard says.

"Yes, well, that right there. Is a fixed point in time. Can't be changed, no matter what." the Doctor says.

"So we can't stop the eradication from the Jedi from happening. That's not exactly something I like hearing. Knowing of something terrible to come and being unable to prevent it from happening." Shepard says as he lowers his eyes to the ground, an angered look in them.

"As for the military thing, I can understand. We'd basically be crippling the Republic if we were to do that, so it'd be a bad ending in either situation. If we were to go to the Republic of this time, even knowing what Palpatine is, there's nothing we can do to prevent what he does in the future from happening?" Shepard asks looking back at him.

"Not one. And like I said, if we were to bring the Old Republic into this war, you know how difficult it would be for the New Republic to fight alongside them? You're basically asking the soldiers of the New Republic to fight alongside those who transformed the Old Republic into the Galactic Empire. That in a way, makes them enemies. They wouldn't like the idea, one bit. Even with everything going on. Not only that, all it takes is for one soldier to say something, to the soldiers, to the Jedi, something that prevents the destruction of the Jedi from happening. And we have an end of the universe situation on our hands because they're preventing a fixed point in time from happening." the Doctor says.

"There has to be something we can do Doctor. Sparing the Chancellor to prevent the end of the universe I'm just going to have to deal with, but may I remind you we still have Saren MIA at the moment. If he lives, there's no doubt he's going to go to the Separatist and attempt to gain their alliance for the war. Now we don't have much to worry about in terms of the universe exploding because of him but if he succeeds, we're looking at trouble in terms of the war itself. Without the Reapers, we outnumber Cerberus and their allies 10 to 1. All we have to do is take out the Reapers, and Cerberus and their allies will follow. But if they gain the Separatist support, our odds after the Reapers are gone might not look so well. If that happens, we will be needing both the New Republic, and the Old Republic's support if we're to both win and survive this war!" Shepard states.

The Doctor grits his teeth in anger and annoyance as he turns and takes a few steps away from the Commander, putting his hands to his hips as he lowers his head.

The Doctor sighs in defeat "As much as I don't like it… we really could use all the help we can get. And if Saren does get the Separatists to fight alongside the Reapers, things would get really bad for us indeed." the Doctor turns to face Shepard "The only thing I can think of that would be able to resolve all of these problems. Would basically be… telling the New Republic half the truth, and lie for the other half."

Shepard raises an eyebrow at this "What are you suggesting Doctor?" Shepard asks.

"Lucky for you, there's no other Time Lords with the Coalition or anything. So anything said from me when it comes to parallel universes, surely most people will choose to believe. What I am suggesting is this. We tell Admiral Ackbar, Luke, and his sister Leia what's really going on. The truth. They will need to know this at the most, and we can trust them not to say anything. As for the troops, we have the Admiral tell them half the truth, while also mixing in a bit of lies among it. To keep the future of this universe from changing any more than it already will." the Doctor says.

"That's going to be asking Admiral Ackbar for a lot. The Admiral's a good man, to ask him to lie to his troops is going to be difficult... But he's also reasonable, and if we explain things to him, he might understand." Shepard says.

"It's the only thing we can do. If we can make the New Republic, and the Old Republic, think to themselves the other group is just from a parallel universe where things are different, we may be able to get them to fight alongside each other more easily. Not only that, if any New Republic soldiers say something to the Old Republic troops, they'll just think if off as something having happened in their universe and it won't happen in theirs. Obviously that will include things such as having different Chancellor's, and some other stuff. Again bit of a truth mixed in with some lies to cover it all up so both versions of this universe don't get messed up in any way that could do harm to the space-time continuum. Bit of a long shot, but it should work if played right." the Doctor says.

"It'll have to do. When can you get communications back up so we can contact the Admiral, and the Skywalkers?" Shepard asks.

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The internal view of a macrobinocular zooms in on Chief and the others as they continue keeping watch on their perimeter.

"Well, they certainly seem like an interesting bunch." Anakin comments as he, Obi-Wan, Rex, and Cody all look through their own macrobinoculars down at the group.

The four crouched atop a nearby building's rooftop while the rest of their troops were below keeping watch of the surrounding area so they could scout out the crash site.

"A few of them are human. But some of the others, I can't recognize. Never seen any species like them before." Rex says.

"Their weapons and armor are also quite alien as well you could say. They definitely don't seem to be from around here." Obi-Wan says.

"How should we approach this sir?" Cody asks lowering his binoculars to look at Obi-Wan.

"Very carefully. We don't know how many more of them there are." Obi-Wan says.

"You really think there's possibly more of them master?" Anakin asks while bringing his binoculars down, a look of confusion on his face as he looks at Obi-Wan.

"That "ship" or whatever it is, looks like it should only be capable of being manned by a single person. Yet how else do you explain where these other beings came from?" Obi-Wan questions while also lowering his binos to look back at Anakin.

"He's got you there sir. There might be a lot more to this "box" that we don't know. We should approach this carefully. Especially gonna want to be careful of that big thing in the green armor. Whoever or whatever that is, looks like it could take on an entire battalion of clankers and take them all down without breaking a sweat." Rex says, his eyes focused on the Master Chief as the Spartan scanned around.

"Scared Rex?" Anakin asks in a joking manner.

"Depends sir. They on our side? Or the Seppies?" Rex says.

The others continued watching the perimeter outside the TARDIS. Garrus let out a yawn as he sat with his back to the top of the mound of rubble, his sniper propped up beside him.

"Everything good over there Garrus?" Chief asks on the comms.

"Not much action Chief." Garrus replies.

"And when was the last time you looked?" Chief asks looking over to the Turian sharpshooter.

"Three minutes ago." Garrus replies.

"A lot can happen in three minutes. Take another look." Chief orders.

"What? You act like a huge army can just appear out of nowhere in the three minutes I haven't looked down this road. Plus I'm pretty sure I would have heard if there was an army coming towards us." Garrus says as he picks up his sniper and goes to peek out over the rubble again.

Looking over the rubble he freezes immediately, as without even needing to look down his scope he spots a large number of mech-looking things marching towards them.

"Let me guess, there's an army marching towards our location." Chief says.

"Don't wanna talk about it." Garrus says as his face drops into a deadpan look.

Someone zooms their macrobinocular in as it highlighted Garrus's visible upper body with a yellow outline.

"Sir, there appears to be one unknown individual at the top of that mound in front of us. Seems to be acting as a lookout." a B1 Command Droid reported.

At the back of the army of battle droids was Count Dooku, General Grievous and the Commander Droid.

"Our orders are clear. We are to destroy whatever this thing is, and kill anyone that came with it. We cannot risk the Republic or Jedi getting their hands on whatever this technology is, or gaining the support of these strange beings. Leave nothing." Count Dooku orders.

"Shepard!" the Commander, Doctor, Tali, and EDI turn to the doorway to see Chief standing there.

"We got a problem."

B1 and B2 battle droids continue marching towards the TARDIS's location, a company of B1's at the front followed by a company B2's, and then alternating back and forth towards the back. Garrus remains at the top of his mound, his sniper now held at the ready as he aimed down the scope towards the mech-like machines while below the others took up defensive positions at other rubble piles. Tali and EDI joined alongside Po, and James while Shepard, Chief, and the Doctor went over to the pile that Ashley was taking cover behind; her assault rifle already aimed at the army of droids.

"What are we looking at Doctor?" Chief asks.

"Oh, yeah. That's the Separatists droid army right there." the Doctor says.

"So the bad guys, right?" Shepard asks to confirm this.

"Yep." the Doctor says.

"Hey I got eyes on two very important looking guys at the far back. Out of my range unfortunately. One of them's a human, looks very old, white hair and a beard. The other's… I have no idea but he looks really sinister is all I got to say." Garrus reports.

"Sounds like Count Dooku and General Grievous." the Doctor says.

Shepard furrows his brows and looks at the Doctor "The two main leaders of the Separatists?" he questions.

"Yep." the Doctor says.

"Great. Just our luck." Shepard sarcastically says.

"What are your orders Shepard?" Chief asks, aiming towards the droids.

"Hold your fire. Just because we know they're the bad guys doesn't mean we shoot first. For all we know they might just be here to talk to us. And if we can talk our way out of this, I'd prefer that. Less likely chance of dying, especially since our numbers aren't exactly looking great at the moment. And our heavy hitters aren't with us." Shepard says.

"We are good to fire on these guys if it comes to it, right? Like we're not going to cause the universe to explode or anything?" James asks.

"No need to worry, we're in a parallel universe. If things go bad, you're all free to start shooting like normal." Shepard says.

"Order the troops to fire at will!" Grievous orders while raising his right hand and clenching it tightly into a fist.

The droids begin their barrage of laser fire on the heroes. Shepard and the others all duck down to avoid a number of laser bolts as they fly all around or impact into their cover.

"So we can shoot back now, yes?" Javik sarcastically questions.

Not even needing to be told, Shepard and his team along with the Chief pop back up and fire their weapons. High-velocity slugs and bullets slamming into B1 battle droids taking them down with ease as the army of droids nevertheless continue marching forward while firing their blasters.

"EDI, call Marvelous and the others back. Now!" Shepard orders while continuing to fire his Avenger.

EDI fires another burst from her Shuriken before ducking back behind cover "Troy, Marvelous, we need all of you to return. We are under attack and require assistance."

"Roger that EDI, I'm on my way." Troy, as the Red Ninja Storm Ranger, replies from the top of a building.

Marvelous, who was NinjaRed, and Tsukasa, who was Kabuto, the two of them together, were on another roadway somewhere when they got the call "Sounds big. Make sure to save some for the rest of us." Marvelous jokes as he turns and jumps away.

"Attack Ride: Clock Up!" while Tsukasa uses the Clock Up card to speed away.

Meanwhile from their position Anakin, Obi-Wan, and the two clones watched the battle unfold.

"Well, it definitely appears they aren't with the Separatists. If anything, it looks like they want them dead more than anything." Obi-Wan says.

"We should go help them!" Anakin says getting up and activating his lightsaber.

"Wait Anakin." Obi-Wan quickly speaks "I'm rather curious to see how this plays out." he then says.

"Uh~, master. Do you not see all of those battle droids coming down on them? They are not going to last long." Anakin says.

"Most of their weapons appear to be firing some form of a slug round, while the giant green armored one's weapon is firing normal slugs." Obi-Wan begins to observe with his right hand striking his beard.

Rex watches as a laser bolt hits the Chief's left shoulder causing his shield to flare up, the Spartan's shoulder getting thrown back as he immediately recovered and continued firing.

"Looks like a few of them have personalized shields. The green one has gold; the others have blue for some reason." Rex says.

"Obi-Wan!" Anakin says with a rising tone of annoyance.

"They seem to be handling themselves quite well so far Anakin. This battle will give us an opportunity to see who it is we're potentially dealing with. Should they not be so friendly to us." Obi-Wan explains.

"Okay, so what happens when they start getting overrun by the droids?" Anakin asks.

"Then we will intervene. Cody, have the troops move into position. If the situation gets bad for our newcomers, then we'll join the fight alongside them. Until then, let us watch and see what it is these people may be capable of." Obi-Wan says.

Shepard and the others continued firing their weapons; the droids dropping like flies. Unfortunately, their number was just too great as no matter how many droids they shot down; more were just right behind them to take their place.

"At this rate, we're going to run out of ammo before we can destroy all of these things!" Tali says while firing her Predator pistol.

"Then we just have to do it the fun way." Wrex says as he places his shotgun on his lower back and jumps atop the pile of rubble he was taking cover behind.

"Allow me to introduce myself, you pile of tin cans!" Wrex announces as he powers up his biotics and launches himself forward in a biotic charge.

Slamming straight into a B1 battle droid smashing it to pieces as the impact also sends out a shockwave that sends a few others flying back. Wrex then immediately follows up with a biotic shockwave sending many more battle droids flying and getting torn to pieces.

"What… was that?!" Anakin asks in complete shock at what he had just witnessed; "Did that thing just use the force?"

"Last I checked, using the Force doesn't cause a strange glowing aura to appear around the person. Nor have I ever seen any type of Force ability that would do the previous thing that being did." Obi-Wan says.

Wrex pulls out his Claymore shotgun again and fires, blowing a B2 super battle droid away and to pieces as he reloads and fires again taking another B2 out.

A B2-HA super battle droid aimed its cannon arm towards Wrex and fired a rocket, the rocket closed in on Wrex who turned to notice it. Just as it was about to hit, the Master Chief appeared in front of the Krogan and raised his Hardlight Shield blocking the projectile as it safely exploded against the shield.

"Thanks for the save Chief." Wrex says.

Just then nine more B2-HA super droids joined alongside the other and aimed their cannons towards the two "Hope that shield can take a couple more of those though." Wrex comments.

"Mega Blaster!" a volley of energy blasts and bullets come from out of nowhere and slam into the droids taking them out.

Troy jump flips forward through the air, followed by Marvelous, and Tsukasa jumping in behind him. The three landing on the ground, Troy rolling forward onto his feet, and charge forward; Troy and Tsukasa with their swords while Marvelous fires his gun with his saber shouldered. The three rush past Chief and Wrex and engage the droids in close quarters combat, cutting down one after another in rapid succession as the droids didn't even attempt to dodge, more so just attempting to at least shoot them with their blasters.

"Backups here. Come on people, let's start pushing them back!" Shepard says as with a shout of agreement from the others, the entire group push forward from their positions.

Shepard and the others stopping after a few feet as they resume firing their weapons, while Po and Tigress rush forward and join Troy and the others in engaging the droids at close range. Chief crouches onto his right knee and continues firing his MA5D in short, controlled bursts taking down a few droids, Troy diagonally slashes a B1 cutting its body apart as he ducks down to avoid blaster fire from an approaching B2 super battle droid. Troy then launching himself towards the droid and slicing it across its stomach as the upper body falls to the ground followed by its legs collapsing. Two B1 battle droids fire at Tigress as she jumps up sideways in the air, spinning around as the laser bolts fly all around her as she reaches the droids and throws both her legs, one down, the other upwards, kicking both droids in the head taking them out.

Po elbows a B1 droids blaster down as it fires, spinning around to its back to elbow the back of the head as he then ducks down to avoid another blaster shot and then leaps forward and knee strikes a B2 in the stomach. Garrus fires a concussive shot blowing away three droids, while Tali summons her defense drone which floats forward and electrocutes a B1 battle droid; Liara casts a singularity catching a group of battle droids in it as this allows James and Ashley to safely shoot all of them.

"Look at them go. They're tearing right through those clankers!" Rex says surprised and a bit impressed by what he was seeing.

"I'll say. Would only ever see that if it was a squad of Jedi doing it." Cody adds in.

"Who are these people?" Anakin can't help but ask again.

"I don't know Anakin. I really don't know now." Obi-Wan says.

Po punches straight through a B2 battle droid's stomach as it falls back. The army of droids continuing forward as then suddenly four droids that almost resemble wheels, appear in sight rolling rapidly towards them. The four reaching the front of the army as they suddenly transform into a tripodal form and are surrounded by some kind of glowing bluish-purple bubble. The four droids then open up on the heroes with their twin blaster cannons, causing Po to yelp in fright as he quickly ducks down, Troy getting in front of the panda as he swings his Dragon Sword to block and deflect the shots. Shepard and Chief both focused their fire on the new droids, only to discover their shots were being blocked by the bubble shield around them.

"They're shielded!" Chief says.

Two of the droidekas focused fire on them, acting quickly Shepard erected a biotic sphere around him and the others; Tigress rushed back and slid into the sphere to seek cover while Marvelous and Tsukasa used their saber and sword to block and deflect the incoming blaster fire like Troy.

"Let's see how tough their shields are against this. Decade!" Marvelous calls to him.

"Yeah!" Tsukasa shouts back.

Marvelous inserts a Ranger Key into his gun's cylinder and twists it "FI~NAL WA~VE!"

While Tsukasa inserts a Rider Card into his Driver and closes it "Final Attack Ride: D-D-D-Decade!"

The two aim their guns forward and fire a single supercharged bullet. Marvelous's coming out as a large red energized bullet while a row of large golden Final AttackRide Decade cards appear in front of Tsukasa which his shot travels through, emerging from the final card as a highly-energized, golden pixelated projectile. The two shots impacting into the droidekas causing a large explosion, one which takes out their shields and destroys the four droids sending bits and pieces of their bodies scattering all over the place.

Po jumps back on his feet while Troy lowers his sword, Shepard drops the biotic sphere as he and the others wait for the enemy fire to resume, but it never comes. Instead, through the smoke they begin to make out two figures that begin to approach. As the smoke dies down, the two figures turn out to be both Count Dooku and General Grievous as they stop several meters away.

"Dooku and Grievous!" Anakin says in anger upon spotting them.

"Impressive. I must say I was not expecting this. I may not know who you are, nor where it is you come from. But your fighting skills are quite remarkable, I must compliment. And the powers some of you possess are the likes of which I have never truly seen before. Ever, anywhere in this galaxy. You are very unique individuals." Count Dooku compliments.

Shepard and the others remain silent.

"Originally, my intention was to come here and destroy anyone and anything that did not belong. For you see, your appearance here has caught the attention of some very powerful people. Some of whom would see you dead, rather than falling into the hands of our enemy." Dooku continues.

"Let me guess, having a change of heart? Want to recruit us to your side after seeing what we're capable of." Shepard surmises.

"Precisely." Dooku replies.

"Sorry, I think we'll pass." Shepard says.

"You would be fools to decline our invitation. Join us! Join the Separatist Alliance, and help us rid the galaxy of the plague that is the Jedi!" Grievous states.

"Okay first of all, you just attacked us! Are we supposed to just forget about that whole thing and accept that invitation of yours like nothing happened? Secondly, last I heard, I'm pretty sure the Jedi were the good guys." Po says.

"LIES AND DECEIT! The Jedi are not who they claim to be!" Grievous angrily proclaims.

Dooku raises his right hand to Grievous to get him to calm down and stop talking before looking back at the heroes.

"My apologies for the hostility. As I have stated, my original intentions were indeed to do harm, but from further observation, I can see that you are not soldiers of the Republic. In fact, you don't seem to belong to any of the factions taking part in this war. Tell me, do you know what is currently going on in the galaxy?" Dooku asks.

"The Clone Wars." Shepard says.

"Ah, so you do know. Yet there is something about you, that just does not seem right. Your weapons, armor, abilities, some of your companions, I have never seen anything like them before. Could it be your from the Unknown Regions of the Galaxy? Or… is there much more to you then what we could ever imagine? You know of the Clone Wars, you seem to have some knowledge between the two sides, and the Jedi. Yet I sense that you do not belong here. Nevertheless, where you are from could be explained later on, you have impressed me and as such, I will offer you this one more time. Join the Separatist Alliance, help us to destroy the Jedi and bring down the Republic. And you, and your friends. Will live." Dooku says.

"Always with the "do this and you and your friends will live" bullshit. Though you actually seem like the kind of guy who actually would follow up on his word. I don't know. Hey Commander, what do you think?" Marvelous asks leaning and turning his head back to look over at Shepard.

"Hm~. Let me think." Shepard says closing his eyes and putting his right hand to his chin with his left hand to the elbow "Chief." Shepard looks at the Spartan.

Chief raises his assault rifle and fires at Dooku. The Count raises his left hand and uses the Force to stop the bullets mid-air just a few feet away from his face "I see. How unfortunate that is your answer. General, proceed with the attack." Dooku orders.

"Destroy them!" Grievous orders.

The droids resume marching forward and firing their weapons. Po cries out in terror as he turns and starts running, Troy, Marvelous, and Tsukasa blocking the incoming blaster bolts with their swords as Shepard and the others return fire. Dooku brings out his lightsaber while Grievous pulls out two of his "trophy" lightsabers, the two activating them as they are about to move forward, when suddenly blue plasma bolts begin flying past all around them. More droids begin going down as the blue bolts slam into them. The two look back forward, while Shepard and the others turn around to see who was now shooting the droids.

"Come on men, forward!" Obi-Wan shouts from the top of the rubble pile Garrus was on earlier as he waves his lightsaber forward, Anakin next to him with his lightsaber ignited as well.

From behind the rubble Captain Rex, Commander Cody, and a number of Clone Troopers come charging out as they open fire on the droids with their weapons.

"Come on!"

"Give it to them!"

"Take those clankers down!"

"For the Republic!"

"Looks like more help has arrived." Shepard says surprised by the sudden appearance of Republic troops and two Jedi.

"It's the Republic!" Grievous says.

"We mustn't fail. We cannot allow these beings to join the Republic's side. Press the assault!" Dooku orders.

The droids continue marching forward while firing their guns. The Clones join Shepard and his team in firing back; one Clone trooper is shot followed by another. Obi-Wan and Anakin jump flip forward through the air and land beside Troy, Marvelous, and Tsukasa as they begin blocking incoming laser fire as well "Hello there." Obi-Wan casually greets.

"Looks like you fellas could use some help." Anakin comments.

"That would be greatly appreciated at the moment." Troy replies.

Grievous and Dooku begin to approach the five "Kenobi." Grievous greets in a sinister voice.

"General, Count." Obi-Wan greets back.

"Must it always be you two interfering in our plans?" Dooku questions in a monotone voice.

"If it means making you mad. Then yes, it will always be us." Anakin replies in a snarky tone.

"We'll take care of General ugly; you guys can have the old man." Troy says.

"No, leave these two to us. They are not to be taken lightly." Obi-Wan says.

"Yeah? Same goes for us." Marvelous says as he, Troy, and Tsukasa get in front of the three Jedi "Let's go!" Marvelous shouts.

"Super Mega Mode!" Troy shouts transforming into his Super Megaforce Red form.

"What the?" Anakin says as he and Obi-Wan were both taken aback.

Even the Count and General Grievous were surprised by what they had just witnessed.

"Time for some Legendary Space powers." Troy says as he and Marvelous take out a Ranger Key from their belts while Tsukasa brings out a Rider Card from his Ride Booker.

"Legendary Ranger Mode!" Troy shouts inserting his Ranger Key into his Morpher.

"Gokai Change!" Marvelous shouts inserting his Ranger Key into his Mobilate

Tsukasa inserts his card into the Driver "Kamen Ride!" and closes it "Super-1!"

"FLA~SHMAN!"

The three complete their respective transformations; Troy having become the Red Space Ranger, Marvelous Red Flash, and Tsukasa transforming into Super-1.

"Red Space Ranger!" Troy shouts as he throws his left hand forward upwards with his right hand held back

"Red Flash!" Marvelous shouts bending down on his right leg with his left leg out to the side while throwing his right arm forward, bending the elbow a bit with his left arm held upwards at a curve over his head.

"Kamen Rider Super-1!" Tsukasa shouts with his left hand thrown forward and his right arm held back behind his head.

Anakin and Obi-Wan were both shocked and confused by what they had just witnessed.

"What trickery is this?!" Grievous questions.

"Spiral Saber!" Troy shouts bringing the weapon forward.

"Prism Holy Sword!" Marvelous shouts bringing his weapon forward as well as the two, along with Tsukasa charge towards Grievous.

The General, not intimidated as he holds his lightsabers at the ready and charges forward. Dooku faces Obi-Wan and Anakin as the two Jedi stand at the ready, Dooku rushing towards them as they charge him.

More droids fell to the hail of combined plasma, high-velocity slug, and bullet gunfire, a few Clones unfortunately were shot down by droid fire as well as the two sides continued fighting with the Clones attempting to push forward along with Shepard and his team. One clone armed with a Z-6 Rotary blaster cannon moved forward while firing the weapon, until suddenly a laser bolt struck him in his right shoulder causing him to cry out in pain as he fell to the ground. Chief noticed this as he looked over and lowered his weapon, he then turned to Liara.

"Liara, with me!" he says as he runs off, Liara quickly following after him.

The Clone groans in pain while clutching the spot where he got hit as then Chief and Liara drop next to him "You alright soldier?" Chief asks.

"Y-Yeah. I'll live." the Clone replies.

Chief looks at Liara "Take care of his wound." he says as he grabs the Z-6 and sprints forward.

Rex has pushed up a bit as he fires his dual DC-17 hand blasters taking out two B1 battle droids. A second later Chief rushes up beside him and lifts the Z-6 up as he pulls the trigger, spooling the barrels up as he begins to unload a barrage of plasma bolts onto the droid forces. A number of droids go down within seconds as Chief begins to slowly push forward, turning the weapon from side to side to take more and more droids down as Rex watches, seemingly in awe by what he was witnessing.

"Come on grunts! Let's start pushing them back!" Cody orders also seeing this as with a wave of his right arm the Clones begin moving forward more steadily.

"Let's help them out." Shepard says to his team as they begin to move with them.

"Wish we could but with all this going on I don't want to get shot in the back!" Po says rather annoyed that he and Tigress were missing out.

Troy jumps up and swings his Spiral Saber down at Grievous who blocks it with his left lightsaber, Troy pulls and spins away as Marvelous throws a push kick at Grievous from his right which the General sees and dodges by moving back a few feet. Grievous then bringing both of his lightsabers down on Marvelous who drops onto his right knee and raises his Prism Holy Sword up sideways to block both sabers. A few feet behind Marvelous, Tsukasa steps to his right and turns towards the two.

"Attack Ride: Elek Hands!"

Marvelous eventually manages to push both of Grievous's lightsabers upwards as he rolls to his left, the General then takes notice of Tsukasa as he holds up the Blue gloves of Super-1's Elek Hands. Decade letting out a battle cry as he throws both hands forward firing two bolts of electricity from them, Grievous crosses his lightsabers blocking the bolts from hitting him. Grievous then pushes his lightsabers forward and throws them out to his side sending the bolts of electricity deflecting out around him causing some minor explosions.

Tsukasa throws his arms out to the side as Troy and Marvelous jump at him from behind, the two landing on his arms and using them to launch themselves higher in the air into a front flip as they swing their respective weapons down at the droid general again. Grievous brings his sabers up to block their attack, the two break and spin away from him once more, only to reveal Tsukasa having closed in on him.

"Attack Ride: Thermal Hands!"

Swinging his right hand forward Tsukasa produces a stream of flames from the glove as Grievous is unable to dodge it, causing him to flail his arms around from the intense heat as he raises his arms and turns away to protect his face.

"Now!" Tsukasa shouts as he spins away to his left revealing Troy and Marvelous behind him.

"Spiral Saber Booster Mode!" Troy yells aiming the combined Spiral Saber and Astro Blaster weapon forward.

"Prism Shooter!" Marvelous yells aiming the sidearm gun of the Flashmen.

"Fire!" the two shout simultaneously as Troy fires a large blue ball of energy while Marvelous fires a single red energy bolt. The two shots combining into one as they slam into the general as he turns back to face them causing an explosion that sends him flying back as he hits the ground.

Dooku jumps back and slides to a stop as he turns to see the fallen general, Anakin and Obi-Wan also taking notice of this.

"Whoa, they weren't kidding. They actually managed to take down Grievous!" Anakin says surprised by this.

Dooku looks back forward at the two Jedi "I would surrender now Count. Your top general is down, and your droids look like they're about to fall as well." Obi-Wan says as he points his lightsaber at him.

Dooku looks once again, barely any of his droids remained as they continued going down. The Z-6 finally ran out of shots forcing Chief to throw it aside as he brought out his assault rifle again and resumed firing on the droids.

"I'd listen to him if I were you." the voice of Troy calls out as Dooku turns to see the three approaching him, the Ranger and Sentai with their weapons pointed at him.

Dooku backed up until he was right beside Grievous "Get back on your feet, general! This is a battle we cannot lose!" he orders.

Obi-Wan and Anakin, and Troy, Marvelous, and Tsukasa approach the two. All of a sudden someone, who was very fast, lands in between the Sith and the Jedi and Heroes kicking up some dust and small debris; Saren who was in his Husk form, raises his head sideways and looks at them, shocking and confusing the two Jedi while Troy and the others lightly gasped.

"Saren!" Troy shouts, attracting both Shepard and Chief's attention.

Before they can react any further, Saren activates his biotics and stands up as he throws his right arm outwards, casting a biotic shockwave that blasts both the Heroes and Jedi back as they are sent flying through the air.

"Generals!" Rex yells out.

Saren turns to Dooku who was confused by the former Spectres sudden appearance, and appearance in general "If you wish to live. I suggest you come with me." Saren says.

"Stop him!" Shepard yells as he, along with Chief, Po, and Tigress, and Ashley, and James start running towards him.

Rex doing the same along with a few other Clones.

"Very well." Dooku says.

Shepard and the others close in as Saren looks back towards them and then slams his right hand into the ground kicking up a cloud of dust and debris. Shepard along with his team and the Clones come to a stop as they raise their weapons and fire into the dust, however as it dies down, it reveals Saren, Count Dooku, and General Grievous no longer there.

"Dammit!" Shepard says in anger as he throws his arms down while everyone else lowers their weapons.

The last of the droids are shot down allowing the remaining clones to lower their weapons as well. Cody and Rex rush over to Obi-Wan and Anakin as they pick themselves up from the ground.

"You alright sirs?" Rex asks.

"We've been hit with worse Rex." Anakin replies as he and Obi-Wan dust off their clothes.

"All the droids have been dealt with sir." Cody reports.

"Excellent. Have the troops take care of the wounded and gather the dead. We still have some business to attend to." Obi-Wan says.

"Yes sir." Cody says.

Shepard, Chief, and Tigress help Troy, Marvelous, and Tsukasa back to their feet as the latter three revert to their basic forms.

"Something always has to happen that lets the bad guys get away." Marvelous says in an annoyed tone.

"Yeah, that does seem to happen a lot. But they usually get what's coming to them. Eventually." Po says.

"Shepard." Chief says catching his attention as he then gestures to the approaching Jedi and Captain Rex.

"Thank you for your help back there." Shepard says.

"No problem. Though I'm actually wondering if you guys needed our help at all after what we just witnessed." Anakin says in a joking manner as he crosses his arms.

"Hey, just because some of us look like they can kick some serious ass doesn't mean the rest of us are on the same level." James says.

"I am Obi-Wan Kenobi, and this is my apprentice. Anakin Skywalker." Obi-Wan introduces.

"Hey there." Anakin adds in.

"Skywalker?!" everyone says shocked and surprised by this as many of their eyes went wide, especially Po who even hopped a few feet into the air.

Anakin is a bit taken aback by how they said his last name "You~ know me?" he asks in a confused voice.

Shepard and Chief look at each other and then back at the Jedi "Well…" Shepard begins to speak.

"It's a bit complicated!" the Doctor says suddenly appearing from out of nowhere in front of the Commander.

Anakin and Obi-Wan exchange confused looks with one another before looking back at the strange group of people.

"I'm sure you have questions. Though perhaps this isn't the best place to be to answer them. Do you have a base you can take us to?" Shepard asks.

"Perhaps not a terrible idea. We wouldn't want a second wave of droids appearing from out of nowhere now. Plus we need to get the wounded back to base to be cared for." Obi-Wan says.

"Do you also have any vehicles per chance? Our ship is damaged and we need to get it out of here." Chief says.

"That blue box back there? Yeah, we can spare a speeder to carry it back. I'm surprised how intact that thing looks." Anakin says.

"On the outside yes. But you do not want to see the inside." Tali says.

"R~ight. So you all came here, in that thing?" Anakin asks.

"Looks can be deceiving." is all Tigress says.

Once the dead and wounded had been gathered, and the TARDIS attached to a BARC speeder via tractor beam as it was surrounded by purple electrical energy originating from the speeder's rear, both Shepard's team and the Republic forces began their trek back to the Republic base. Along the way, while out of earshot of Anakin and Obi-Wan, Shepard explained to his team their current situation, how they were in a parallel universe, still back in time technically during the Clone Wars, and the idea of recruiting the Old Republic for the fight. Some did voice their concern but the Doctor told them they had everything "somewhat" figured out for how this was going to work which eased them a little, all of them after all understanding they needed the Old Republic's help anyway no matter what if they were going to win this war.

If Saren managed to recruit the Separatists they were definitely going to need them to even the odds, if not, well having them either way would increase their chances of success even more. First things first though, they needed to contact Admiral Ackbar to get his approval since it was going to be up to him whether or not an alliance would happen. As the last thing they needed was infighting among allies between the Old Republic, and the New Republic if they were to get the Old Republic to aid them in the war against the Reapers. If they could convince Admiral Ackbar to lie to his troops about this alliance with a parallel universe Old Republic where they never go evil, and it worked or eased the New Republic troops a bit they would be able to fight alongside them, then that would be good.

After some time of walking, the group finally reached the Republic base. While leading at the front, Anakin and Obi-Wan both noticed a rather large gathering of Clones over by the AT-TEs.

"A giant robot huh? And you're sure it's a good guy?" A clone asks.

"Pretty positive. Otherwise he wouldn't have been hanging out with all the other heroes." Sora says, he and the others surrounded by Clone troopers with Ahsoka off to his left.

It appeared he was telling them about the other heroes.

"Oh and then there's this other hero. He's a giant dragon. Well, actually not really he looks like a dragon but he says he's a Bakugan. You guys know what a dragon is right?" Sora asks.

"What's going on over here?" the voice of Anakin calls out attracting everyone's attention, he and Obi-Wan then take notice of Sora and his group "And who are they?"

"Sora!" Shepard calls out.

"Hey, Shepard!" Sora calls back waving his right hand in the air as he and the others are glad to see them alright.

"See guys, told you coming here was a good idea." Laval says in a proud manner with his hands to his hips.

"You know them?" Obi-Wan asks the commander.

"They're with us. They fell out of our ship before we crashed." Shepard explains.

"And it's a good thing they did, and they survived the fall. They saved us from Ventress and a bunch of tinnies." Ahsoka explains to her master.

"I see." Anakin says as he then looks at Sora's group "Thank you for saving my padawan."

"Hey, it's what we do." Sora says.

"So I take it you're the group Sora, Natsu, Lucy, Happy, Laval, and Eris are from? It's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Ahsoka. Ahsoka Tano." Ahsoka greets Shepard and his group.

"She would be my padawan." Anakin explains.

"Well, at least that's both missing party mysteries solved." Troy, who was unmorphed along with Marvelous and Tsukasa, says.

James and Ashley happen to look at the troops in white armor, when they look at their faces and are slightly taken aback by what they see "Whoa." James says.

Rex and Cody walk up beside them as they take their helmets off "Is something wrong?" Rex asks.

Shepard and his group are all slightly taken aback by the fact that all of these men basically had the same faces.

"Either I hit my head hard during the crash. Or I'm seeing double. Lots and lots of double." Po says.

"What? You've never seen a clone before?" Anakin asks.

"Your men, they're all clones?" Chief asks.

"You got a problem with that?" Anakin asks.

"Not with your clones particularly no. To explain, me and my team have had to deal with a team of evil clones of ourselves for quite some time. Most of them have been taken down save for the evil clone of myself. But I know your clones have nothing to do with our clones, so I apologize if you took any offense from our reactions." Shepard says.

"Don't worry, it's understandable. Not everyone has good experiences with clones. Especially ones that were bred to practically be the evil versions of yourselves. I would imagine." Rex says.

"But you have nothing to fear from us." Cody says as he stands at attention with his hands behind his back "We Clones were bred to serve the Republic and only the Republic. So as long as you're with the Republic, you're on our side."

"Then I guess it's a good thing we are." Shepard says.

"Now that we're back at base. Let us return to our earlier business shall we? We've introduced ourselves, but we still have yet to learn your names." Obi-Wan says.

"Right. I'm Commander John Shepard. Systems Alliance and Citadel Spectre. And this is my team." Shepard says gesturing to them.

"Ashley Williams."

"James Vega."

"Garrus Vakarian, at your service."

"Liara T'Soni."

"Tali'Zorah vas Normandy."

"I am Javik."

"You can call me EDI."

"Urdnot Wrex."

"Master Chief."

"Po."

"Tigress."

"Troy Burrows."

"The name's Marvelous, Captain Marvelous."

"Tsukasa Kadoya."

"We should probably introduce ourselves as well since we just met you. I'm Laval."

"Eris.

"Natsu Dragneel."

"Lucy Heartfilia.

"I'm Happy!"

"And I'm Sora!"

"Hm." Obi-Wan hums with a nod as he then looks at the Doctor "And you are?" he asks catching his attention.

"Oh right, I'm the Doctor. Just the Doctor. Nothing else, just the Doctor."

"Just… the Doctor?" Ahsoka asks sounding confused.

"Yep, that's right." the Doctor replies.

"Systems Alliance? Citadel Spectres? Never heard of them." Rex says.

"There's a reason for it. Long story and there's really no way to shorten it. And what we're about to say may sound crazy, but it's the truth and nothing but the truth." Shepard says.

"Crazy? How crazy could it possibly be?" Anakin asks.

"How does we're all from different universes sound?" Garrus says.

---

"Alright… so maybe I underestimated how crazy of a story you had." Anakin says, a highly confused look on his face.

"I know how you feel master. I'm still having a hard time believing it when Sora explained the whole thing to me, while we were waiting for you. Hearing it again, still finding it difficult to believe. Though Commander Shepard did explain things a bit more better." Ahsoka says.

"Hey like I said, I tried explaining as best as I could but this was something more suited for Shepard and the Doctor to explain." Sora says.

"Is… is all of it true, sir?" Cody asks as he and Rex look at Obi-Wan.

"Unfortunately, it is. I sensed no deceit in their words throughout that entire story. Even with the Force basically telling me everything they just said was the truth, I still can't believe it myself. It's just… alternate universes?" Obi-Wan questions.

"We've all been in the same shoes Obi-Wan. But it's real. Everything we said." Shepard confirms once more.

"Which includes those Reapers. Whom you say you want us to help fight." Rex says.

"That's correct." Chief says.

"They're a threat to the entire multiverse. Eventually, they will make their way to your universe and destroy all living life across your galaxy. Unless the Republic can help us in defeating them in my home universe." Shepard says.

"With that superweapon of yours. Which the Reapers have the main component to activate it with." Anakin says.

"Correct again." Po says.

"If these Reapers are as big of a threat as the Commander says, we should help them!" Ahsoka says with urgency.

"If these things truly are real, and they're as big a threat as he says they are. Then Ahsoka's right, we should help the Commander and his Coalition fight these things." Anakin says turning to Obi-Wan.

"I wouldn't mind either. But this is not our decision to make. We would need to bring this to the Senate to gain their approval. And I don't see that going well at all. We're already in one war, and with the Separatists pressing us on all fronts, convincing them to send troops to partake in a second war will be all but impossible without the right reasons to give the support." Obi-Wan says.

"Even with the entire Multiverse at stake?!" Ahsoka questions in shock hearing this.

"There's that too. Convincing members of the Senate that everything you've said is true. And not some Separatist plot to try and weaken our defenses in some way." Obi-Wan says looking to Shepard.

"We have evidence to show if they ask for it. Though I understand the situation you're in." Shepard says.

"I truly wish to help you Commander, I do. But without the support of the Republic Senate, we won't be able to supply you with any ships or troops." Obi-Wan says.

"Politics. Soldiers worse nightmare." Chief says.

"Spirits do I agree with that so much." Garrus adds.

"Ugh, I came with you guys to get away from that boring stuff. Not get involved in another universe's politics." Wrex complains with a facepalm and a shake of his head.

"So what can we do to gain the Republic's support for the war?" Lucy asks.

"Well first we would need to contact the Supreme Chancellor and explain the whole thing to him. He would have to believe everything we say and then call for a Special Session of Congress so then all of the Republic Senators can come together to hear your plea for aid. From there it would then be getting you guys to Coruscant where you would then have to basically ask the Senate themselves for approval in receiving support from Republic troops in the fight against the Reapers." Anakin explains.

"We must also let Master Yoda know about this. Even though the Jedi Council has no say in what the Senate votes for, they will want knowledge on what has transpired here and what is to come. Should or should we not join the Commander's fight against the Reapers." Obi-Wan says.

"You said something about Coruscant. Is that a planet?" Chief asks.

"That's right, capital of the galaxy since the ancient days of the Old Republic." Anakin says.

"Right. Which would require us to leave the planet. So how are we supposed to do that with a massive space battle going on overhead?" Chief asks.

"Oh! That reminds me, Admiral Yularen contacted us not that long ago. He says reinforcements should be on their way and with their support he should be able to drive the Separatist fleet away." Ahsoka quickly explains to Anakin and Obi-Wan.

Anakin looks back at Chief "Well Master Chief, there's your answer. And we still need to win the battle down here before we can leave." he says.

"Especially if it gives us a chance at capturing Dooku, and Grievous. If we can capture the two of them, it would hurt the Separatists greatly and lead us one step closer to ending this war." Obi-Wan says.

"There's also Saren to worry about. The Turian that attacked us. He's with Cerberus, and knowing him, he's going to try and gain the Separatists as allies in their war against us. If we can capture, or take him out, at least we might not have to worry about the Separatists getting involved in our war as well." Shepard says.

"This works perfectly. While we finish the battle here, it'll give the Chancellor time to gather the Senate together. Of course we will need to contact him first." Anakin says.

"Then you do that. Contact your Supreme Chancellor and the Jedi Order. Inform them of what's happening so we can try and talk to your Senate into aiding us in the war against the Reapers." Shepard says.

"And what about you?" Obi-Wan asks out of curiosity noticing how he neglected to mention him or anyone else from his group taking part in the communication call back to Coruscant.

"As mentioned before, we were brought here unintentionally by Saren while on our way back from a mission. Most likely our friends, and the leaders of the Coalition are wondering where we might be. We will need to give them a call as well and let them know the situation. If that is alright?" Shepard asks.

"Hm. Understandable. Very well, once you are done, we'll reconvene at the holoprojector to go over the battle strategy for how we will deal with the Separatist forces." Obi-Wan says.

Shepard and his team enter the TARDIS "I'm confused Shepard. Why were you telling them we were on our way back from a mission? Weren't we going to another universe when we were attacked?" Sora asks.

"A lot has happened while you and the others have been gone Sora. Chief, mind filling them in for me?" Shepard asks.

"Will do." Chief replies.

"Doctor, communications back up?" Shepard asks.

"Communications are good to go Shepard. Contacting Admiral Ackbar and Admiral Hackett now." the Doctor says pushing the monitor over towards Shepard while pressing a few buttons.

On screen both Admiral Ackbar, and Admiral Hackett appear "Admirals." Shepard greets.

"Shepard, should I be worried your contacting us? Is everything alright?" Hackett asks.

"It's… a complicated situation sir. Which is why we contacted you as well, Admiral Ackbar. We also need to speak to Luke and Leia, are they around?" Shepard asks.

"As a matter of fact..." Admiral Ackbar says as he moves his seat back a little as Luke and Leia join alongside him, Luke on his right and Leia on the left.

"Commander." Leia greets.

"Luke, Leia." Shepard greets.

"I sensed you would contact the Admiral and would want to speak to me and my sister. So here we are. Is everything alright?" Luke asks.

"Somewhat. We were on our way to another universe when Saren attacked us." Shepard begins to explain.

"Saren? Wait, aboard the TARDIS?" Hackett asks.

"Unfortunately so sir. Him and a number of Cerberus Phantoms managed to sneak aboard while we were in Ratchet's universe. We're all okay, but the TARDIS got damaged during the fight and we crashed in a… well not an alternate universe per say. But a parallel universe. To explain it quickly, it's a universe where it shares many similarities to another save for a few changes here and there." Shepard says.

"At least you're all okay, that's what matters. But what does having crashed into a parallel universe got to do with contacting us?" Hackett asks.

"Because of the parallel universe we crashed in. Admiral Ackbar, Luke, Leia. The parallel universe we crashed in, is one related to your universe. More specifically, we're in a parallel universe, and have gone back in time to the beginning year of the Clone Wars." Shepard says.

"What?!" Admiral Ackbar nearly yells as he, Luke, and Leia are all taken aback by this information.

Back outside with the Republic forces, "This… is a lot to take in. And it is very difficult to believe this is all true." Chancellor Palpatine says as light blue holograms of him, Yoda, and Mace Windu stand atop the holoprojector.

"Unfortunately it is Chancellor, and unless we help the Commander and his Coalition deal with the Reapers. It will only be so long until they reach our universe as well and lay siege to it." Obi-Wan says.

"I want to believe you, I do. After all the two of you have done for the Republic I know you would never lie to me. But the rest of the Senate when they hear of this…"

"The Commander says if they require evidence they'll gladly show it to prove they're telling the truth." Anakin says.

"Even then. We're barely holding as it is against the Separatists as they press us on all fronts. To spare any large number of ships and troops that would actually make a difference, to support our potentially new allies in what would be a second war to us. It would be very difficult to do." Mace Windu says in a concerned tone.

"There's also the possibility of the Separatists joining forces with the Commander's enemies as well. Their main goal is to take control of the Reapers, and if the Separatists gain that power…" Obi-Wan says.

"Dark days in the future, for the Republic. There will be. Troublesome this whole situation is. Act quickly, we must." Yoda says.

"I will call for a Special Session of Congress immediately. All we can do is hope that the rest of the Senate will understand the magnitude of this situation. And make the right call." Chancellor Palpatine says.

"Once we've finished things here on Christophsis. We'll take Shepard and his team to Coruscant immediately for the Senate to hear." Anakin says.

Back in the TARDIS Shepard and the Doctor have just finished explaining the situation to both Admirals as well as Luke and Leia.

"Our father… you actually met him. Is it truly him?" Luke says, both he and his sister in shock hearing that Shepard had actually met their father before his turn to the Dark Side.

"It is Luke. Even though it's a parallel version of him. He's still your father, before his turn into Darth Vader." the Doctor says.

"Now you understand the situation we're in, Admiral." Shepard says.

"I see…" Ackbar says "So, what is it you wish of me? Surely there is more to this call then just informing us that you've met the Galactic Republic before their turn into the Galactic Empire."

"We need all the allies we can get." Shepard says.

"You're proposing we gain the alliance of the Galactic Republic as well." Leia says.

"That's correct." Shepard says.

Ackbar lets out an audible grunt, a conflicted look on his face "Commander. What you are saying. You do know our history, right?"

"The Doctor has informed me about it. And even though we're in a parallel universe, according to him things still play out the same unfortunately." Shepard says.

"Then you know that you are asking for a lot. Even though I understand the situation, know that even I am conflicted with allying ourselves with those who betrayed us in our past. The Jedi are not a problem, but the Clones. It was because of them that the Empire rose into power. Them that lead to the high number of lives lost across our galaxy…"

"I understand Admiral." Shepard says.

"I understand the situation Commander. And while I may be able to hold my tongue and handle allying myself with them. There are many in the New Republic ranks, who might not be able to handle such a task. They will either not want to work with the Clones, or try and alter history by saying something to any Jedi that may come aboard." Ackbar says.

"Which we cannot have happen! As tragic as Order 66 was, it's an event that has to happen or else the entire universe could implode!" the Doctor quickly and urgently explains.

"I see. Even worse. I know we need all the allies we can get Commander, but is the Galactic Republic-"

"We don't have much choice. Saren is still alive and here in the universe with us. And he's with the Separatists." Shepard says.

"I'm going to assume that's bad." Hackett says.

"It is. Especially if he succeeds in gaining the Separatists' support for Cerberus and their allies. What happens after the Reapers are defeated it's hard to say, but at the moment we do have just Cerberus and their allies outnumbered. But if they gain support from the Separatists ships and droid army. The situation could take a really bad turn for the worse for us." Ackbar says.

"Which is why we need the support of both the Galactic Republic, and the New Republic." Shepard says.

"And how is that to happen, Commander? If our troops do not want to fight with the Clones…" Leia begins to speak.

"I apologize for what it is I'm about to suggest Admiral. But it's the only thing we can do. Tell your troops the truth. Tell them the Galactic Republic we're allying ourselves with is from a parallel universe, that it's only the first year of the Clone Wars. But then you're going to have to lie to them. Tell them that in this universe, the Jedi aren't betrayed. That the Republic never becomes the Empire. Tell them whatever you need to if it'll help them fight alongside this universe's version of the Galactic Republic without issue." Shepard explains.

"Commander. You are asking me to lie to my men!" Ackbar says not sounding the least bit pleased by what he was hearing.

"I understand that Admiral. But it's the only other option. We need everyone we can get and if the Galactic Republic can make a difference in the fight against the Reapers, or if Cerberus does succeed in gaining the alliance with the Separatists, we're going to be needing the Galactic Republic's help in fighting them!" Shepard states.

Ackbar lowered his head as he looked away for a few seconds "You're asking a lot Commander. And unfortunately, what you're saying makes sense. We need the Galactic Republic, the Jedi's help if we are to have a better chance at winning this war." he sighs in defeat and closes his eyes.

"Very well. I will come up with something to tell my men that will ease them a little should and when the Clones from the Galactic Republic appear." Ackbar says.

"Thank you Admiral." Shepard says closing his eyes and bowing his head forward "I'm sorry for putting you in this situation."

"It is not your fault. The entire Multiverse is on the line. Trillions, and trillions of lives are at stake. I cannot let grudges from the past stop me from saving the future of everyone else's. I will do what I can." Ackbar says.

"Unless there is anything else to be discussed Commander. I must take my leave now." Hackett says, he then looks off to the side "Saren was aboard the TARDIS with Cerberus troops. And you landed on the Infinity before you left."

"Contact the Captain and let him know!" Shepard urgently says, if Saren was smart enough, which he was…

"I will get right to that. Hackett out." Hackett says ending his transmission.

"Admiral, if you would allow it. Me and my sister must speak to the Doctor." Luke says to Ackbar.

"As you wish." Ackbar says getting up and walking away.

Luke turns his attention to the Time Lord "Doctor, I must ask. About our father…" Luke says.

"Yes, I'm sure you do have several questions regarding that part." the Doctor says.

Separatist Base…

"So, you're Darth Sidious?" Saren, back in his normal form, calmly asks with his hands behind his back.

The Turian standing before a holographic projection of the Sith Lord in a dimly lit room, as off to his right side was Count Dooku.

"You know of me?" Sidious questions.

"Perhaps…" Saren says as he begins walking to his left while still looking at him "Your name sounds familiar."

Dooku follows Saren with his eyes as he circles his master, his hand ever so close to his lightsaber should the unknown lifeform attempt anything.

"Hm~. Now that I think about it. Yes. You were the Emperor of the once great Galactic Empire. Such a shame what became of them." Saren says.

"What are you talking about? What are these riddles you speak?" Sidious questions again.

"Oh but they aren't riddles. I know who you are. And let's just say, I know what the future holds for you. Unfortunately, it doesn't go the way you want it to." Saren continues to speak.

Dooku narrows his eyes at Saren, a distrustful look in them.

"Who are you? What is this nonsense you speak of?"

"My name is Saren, Saren Arterius." Saren introduces himself as he finally stops back in front of Sidious's hologram "My story is rather complicated."

"You are from another universe, aren't you? Just like those who are with the Jedi and Republic now." Sidious says.

"So, they've already told them everything. Good, then I don't have to explain much. Let's just go straight to the point then shall we? I've seen your future, Palpatine." at this Sidious bares his teeth toward the Turian in anger "How you do it I do not know, nor do I care. But you succeed in taking control of the galaxy, and establishing an Empire of sorts. You rule your galaxy for quite a number of years, but eventually it all falls. You and your Empire, lose to a pathetic rebellion."

Dooku used the Force, and to his shock he sensed no lie in what this Saren had just said. He looked to his master; the lower half of his visible face completely emotionless. He had a feeling his master was also sensing the same thing.

"What is your purpose being here before me? Telling me all of this?" Sidious asks.

"Simple really. All I ask is for the aid of the Separatists in our war against the Commander and his allies. You see, the organization I serve, their leader's goal is to take control of the Reapers. However, I'm going to steal that power for myself and use it to help my galaxy return to its former glory. Should you help me to gain this power, I will help you in return. Help me, and I will grant you the power to control the Reapers as well. And with them, not only will you take control of this galaxy as you eventually would, but any who would dare to resist you, will easily be crushed by the power of your future Empire, and the Reapers…" Saren explains.

A sadistic smile slowly forms on Sidious's lips.

Back at the Republic base Shepard's team approaches the Republic group as they stand around the holoprojector "How'd things go with your Chancellor?" Shepard asks.

"Went pretty good. He's calling for an emergency Senate meeting as we speak. We just need to quickly finish things up here, so we can get you there." Anakin says.

"Did things go well on your end?" Obi-Wan asks.

"The leaders of the Coalition hearing we've potentially gained another ally in the war against the Reapers? Of course." Shepard replies in a humorous manner.

"Let's just hope it happens. Now then, let's discuss the strategy for how we're going to deal with the Separatist forces on this planet." Obi-Wan says pressing a button on the control console.

Bringing up a holographic display of the city, Shepard and his team gather around it with Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Rex, and Cody.

"The Separatist base is here." Obi-Wan says pointing to an area in the city where three roads converged onto a very large courtyard with a single, dome-like building behind it. "Unlike what happened last time we were here, we're the ones who are going to be going on the offensive. We took out a lot of droids in that fight in the city." Obi-Wan continues.

"And we took quite a number out ourselves." Ahsoka adds in.

"And with no Separatist reinforcements in sight. I think it's safe to say we got the droids outnumbered, and now outpowered thanks to our new friends." Anakin says.

"Sounds like a winning fight to me!" Po says pumping his fists up.

"Yes, unfortunately though it's still not going to be an easy one. The droids have blocked off the other two roads leading to their base." Obi-Wan points to the two side roads as red blocks appear on them "So the only option we truly have is a direct assault down the center causeway."

"A direct assault using only a single road? That's highly risky. Even if we have them outnumbered, we're going on the offense while they're on the defense. If they've had time to prepare their defenses, they're going to have every single gun pointed down that road alone." Chief speaks.

"The Chief's not wrong sir. Our scouts reported at least three Repeating Blaster emplacements built into the rubble around the front of the base, and five artillery cannons near the back. The droids also made sure there was barely any cover to utilize on the approach. The minute we start marching down that road we're all going to be sitting ducks." Rex reports.

"We'll need our Walkers to take out those blaster emplacements from a safe distance. Problem is, with those cannons up they'll never be able to get within firing range of them." Cody adds in.

"Those cannons then are our main priority. If someone can take them out, it'll allow your vehicles to move forward to take out those emplacements. Opening the road up to assault the base. Only thing we would have to worry about then is the remaining enemy troops and any vehicles they have." Shepard says.

"Me and Happy can fly over them and blow these cannons away no problem!" Natsu speaks up slamming his right fist into his left hand.

"Aye!" Happy shouts in agreement.

"They'll probably have lookouts keeping watch on the skies for any potential aerial attack. They see you coming alone every gun will be pointed right towards you. Wouldn't make it anywhere near the cannons." Garrus says.

"Is there any sewer tunnels that run underneath the area they're in." Troy asks.

"There is. But the droids sealed them off with explosives. If we had time we could try digging our way through the rubble. But we'd need the right equipment and we don't have the time for that." Anakin says.

"Leave that to me! Me and my spirit can deal with that." Lucy speaks up.

"You and your spirit?" Anakin asks as he and the others in his group became confused by what she meant.

"Perhaps it'd be best if you showed them what you meant." Tsukasa says.

"Alright then." Lucy says as she reaches into her pouch and brings out Virgo's key.

"Gate of the Maiden, I open thee! Virgo!" Lucy says while swinging her key out to the side as it begins glowing.

In a flash of golden light the Celestial Spirit appears right beside her "Is it punishment time, Princess?" she asks in her usual monotone voice with a deadpan expression on her face.

Anakin and the others were speechless by what they had just witnessed "O~kay?" Anakin says as he and Obi-Wan look at each other.

"Plus. Star Dress: Virgo Form!" Lucy shouts changing into her Star Dress outfit based on Virgo, basically making her look like a maid as well.

"So you can summon… "spirits" and change outfits?" Anakin questions.

"It's quite a bit to explain my magic." Lucy says in a slightly embarrassed manner as she scratches her left cheek with her index finger, her eyes also closed.

"Virgo here's a Celestial Spirit who can dig through anything. And now that Lucy's in that strange outfit she can dig through stuff as well." Natsu casually explains while pointing at her with his right thumb.

"Don't call it a strange outfit!" Lucy shouts at him.

"Basically, Lucy here is what we need to get through that collapsed tunnel. Once that's dealt with, whoever we send behind enemy lines will have an open path to then take out those cannons allowing us to move forward with the assault." Shepard explains.

"Sounds like a plan to me." Ahsoka says in agreement.

"It certainly sounds better than just marching into all of those guns and getting blasted to pieces. So, who's crazy enough to go behind enemy lines to do that?" Anakin asks.

"Why thank you for volunteering yourself to do that Anakin." Obi-Wan then says.

"Wait, what?" Anakin says with widened eyes as he turns to Obi-Wan.

"You asked who was crazy enough to do that. And your various escapades so far throughout this war do fit the bill of crazy so, congratulations. You will take part in the assault on the enemy base from behind their lines." Obi-Wan says.

Sora, Laval, and Natsu tried to suppress their laughter leading to all three of them snorting rather loudly.

"I heard that!" Anakin shouts at them annoyed.

"If it helps master, I can join you as well." Ahsoka says in a joking manner.

"Right, cause the last time you and I went behind enemy lines here went so well." Anakin jokingly retorts back.

Ahsoka seemed a bit annoyed by this remark.

"Besides Lucy, I can send some other members of my team with you as well just to act as backup. Tigress, Troy, Sora, you're going with them as well." Shepard says looking over to the three.

"You can count on us!" Sora says while Tigress, and Troy just nod their heads.

"I can gather a fireteam of our best men to assist you as well, general." Rex adds in.

"Thank you Rex." Anakin says.

"Wait, but the minute those cannons are destroyed. Won't every droid in the base go after them?" Tali questions.

"Not if we can time our attack just right. Maybe a few droids might stay to try and deal with them, but the majority will be forced to focus on us. Troy, as soon as those cannons are rigged to explode, send word to us and we'll start our attack. Right as they're about to fire on us, take them out." Chief says.

"You got it Chief." Troy replies.

"Excellent. We seem to have our plan of attack. Now then, Cody, Rex, prepare the troops to move out." Obi-Wan orders.

"Yes sir!" the two Clones reply while standing at attention.

Placing their helmets back on as they turn and run off.

"Let's go get ready ourselves." Shepard tells his team.

The Clones throughout the base began to gear up; the soldiers grabbing their weapons whether it was a DC-15A blaster rifle, or a DC-15S blaster carbine, with a few taking up a Z-6 Rotary blaster cannon, and others taking RPS-6 rocket launchers and slinging them onto their back to carry. Ammo cartridges were being loaded up, and helmet HUDs were being checked to make sure everything was green. Nearby on one of the All Terrain Tactical Enforcer walkers, or AT-TE for short, James was seen getting into the Mass-Driver cannon as a Clone next to him seemed to be telling him how to handle the weapon. Laval and Eris meanwhile mounted up onto two All Terrain Recon Transports, or AT-RT walkers for short; Laval turned his on causing it to rise up as it powered on frightening him a bit and nearly causing him to fall until he caught himself.

Four Clones, two with blue markings on their armor, the other two with orange markings, jogged towards Rex from behind as the Captain heard them coming and turned to face them. The four Clones stopped and stood at attention with their weapons held to their chests.

"Fives reporting sir."

"Echo reporting sir.

"Waxer reporting sir."

"Boil reporting sir."

"Good, I have a special assignment for the four of you. You are to accompany General Skywalker, Commander Tano, and our new allies in infiltrating the Separatist base and taking out those Proton Cannons so our tanks can move up during the assault." Rex informs them.

"Sounds easy enough, when do we get started?" Fives humorously asks.

Something seems to catch Boil's attention as he turns his head for a second before looking back, then doing a double take upon realizing what it was he was looking at "What the?" he says.

Catching the attention of the others as they follow his gaze to where he was looking. A number of other Clones also stopped what they were doing and seemed to be looking at something. That something, would be the M6/E Grindell/Galilean Nonlinear Rifle, or more better known as the Spartan Laser, being carried by the Master Chief who had 2 M7/Caseless SMGs magnetically attached to his thighs. The Spartan walking through the base very casually without a care about all the stares he was receiving as he continued to his destination.

"Now that's a big weapon." Boil says.

"Yeah, looks like it could cause quite some damage." Waxer adds.

"Then it's a good thing it's being used against the Seppies and not us." Echo comments.

Once everyone was geared up and ready to go, Shepard's team and the Republic troops moved out.

After some time of trekking through the city, the Republic force and Heroes reached their destination. The Separatist base was in sight just around the corner. The troops and vehicles were kept back so as to not be spotted by the droids, while Shepard and Obi-Wan did a quick scout ahead with macrobinoculars to see if their presence had gone unnoticed so far. Zooming in they could make out several droids just walking around in the base, a few on guard duty at the front, their vehicles offline, and the cannons unmanned. Looking around some more they spotted all three gun emplacements, the crews to the weapons in place as they just scanned around, keeping watch.

"Looks like we still have the element of surprise." Shepard says.

The two make their way back to the others "They haven't noticed us yet. Anakin, take your team and begin the mission." Obi-Wan orders.

"Alright, you heard him people. Let's get to work." Anakin says turning to his group, a backpack on him to carry all of the explosives they would need to take out the cannons.

Opening up a nearby manhole cover, Anakin drops down. Followed by Ahsoka, then Tigress, Lucy, Troy, Sora, Fives, Echo, Waxer, and Boil. Once the last of the group had dropped down, the manhole cover was placed back over the hole as the infiltration team began to move out.

"So that weapon of yours. It's called a Keyblade?" Ahsoka asks as the team continues their trek through the sewer tunnel.

"That's right." Sora says summoning his weapon to show it to Ahsoka.

"I would say I've never seen anything like it. But then again, you are from another universe so it makes sense. On appearance alone, it doesn't really look like it can do a whole lot. Like it doesn't have any cutting edges as far as I can see, yet I saw you cutting down droids just like a lightsaber would." Ahsoka says.

"Don't ask me. It just kind of works like that. At this point I assume it's just some kind of magic thing." Sora says.

"Magic… thing?" Ahsoka questions with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah. Like I just swing and it just magically cuts whatever I'm attacking. Only way I can explain it really." Sora replies.

"Uh huh." Ahsoka says just to go with it as she looks back forward "Back there, I also saw you shoot fire from the tip. And was that you who summoned those lightning bolts to save me and my men?"

"Yeah, that was me. The Keyblade can also do a variety of different magic attacks. Summon fire, ice, thunder. I can control gravity, make people freeze, summon the wind. There's a lot of cool things it can do. Yet for some reason, I feel like I haven't even unlocked all of its powers. Like there's a lot more to it I just haven't learned yet. Probably is, I wouldn't be surprised." Sora says.

"Well, I should thank you first, again, for saving me and my men from Ventress. Secondly, isn't that your weapon? So shouldn't you know everything about it?" Ahsoka asks.

"It is. But it's not like I've had it since I was born. I've had it for about, almost a year now I think? Bit of a long story. Simple version is, the place I grew up was swallowed by darkness, and the Keyblade sort of just appeared in my hand. I've been told it has to do with my strong heart and the light within, or something like that. And I've been using it since to combat the forces of Darkness back in my universe." Sora tries his best to explain.

"Darkness? Light? You'll definitely have to tell me this story sometime, sounds interesting. Almost sounds like how the Force is separated between the Light side and Dark side powers. With us Jedi using the Light Side of the Force for good, while our ancient enemies, the Sith, use the Dark Side of the Force for evil." Ahsoka says.

She looks back at the Keyblade "Mind if I hold it?" she asks holding her right hand out.

"Sure." Sora says handing the weapon to her.

Ahsoka examines the Keyblade, only for a few seconds however as it suddenly vanishes from her hand and reappears back in Sora's surprising her.

"How did you do that?" Ahsoka asks.

"One, I can summon the Keyblade to me at any time. And two, no one else can really wield it. I give it to someone else and it just comes back to me. Only exceptions so far have been one of my best friends, and Chief." Sora explains.

"Huh, that's interesting. Definitely a lot more better than a lightsaber in that regard. Whenever me and my master go anywhere where there's no one but a bunch of criminals, I always have to worry about one of them trying to snatch up my lightsaber. Hope that'll never happen to me." Ahsoka says.

She then raises her right hand to look at her palm "As for that Keyblade. Even though I only held it for a few seconds, I sensed a lot of power within it. That is definitely not a normal weapon. Might even be stronger than a lightsaber." Ahsoka says.

"Well, I don't see your lightsaber shooting out balls of fire or summoning lightning from the sky." Sora says in a humorous tone.

"Yeah, well I'd like to see your keyblade cut through a metal thick door." Ahsoka retorts back also in humor as she grins at him and crosses her arms.

"No need to. The whole part of it being a key still applies. Meaning I can just unlock any and every door imaginable." Sora counters turning his upper body to her while putting his hands to his hips.

As the two continued their playful banter, Anakin couldn't help but smile at it while still looking forward.

"Those two seem to be getting along." Troy speaks up while walking beside him "And you look like you're happy for it." he adds while turning his head slightly to him and smiling.

"I think it's nice for Ahsoka to be making friends with people more around her age. And outside the Jedi Order. All her life the only thing she's really known is learning how to be a Jedi. You see, a Jedi is recruited into the order shortly after their birth. Utilizing blood tests we look for these things called midi-chlorians and using them the Order is able to identify Force-sensitive children, those who are more keenly attuned to the Force. The Force flows through every living being in the galaxy as we're taught, but there are only a few who are able to actually use it. There are those who would use it for good, us the Jedi, and those for evil, our enemy, the Sith. Once the child is old enough, they're brought to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant where they begin their training to become a Jedi. Once they're at the right age, they're then apprenticed to either a Jedi Knight, or a Jedi Master to continue their training; in which case for Ahsoka she was apprenticed to me. From there it's a one-on-one training session where I basically teach Ahsoka how to be a full-fledged Jedi. Albeit in my own way, so long as it's still the Jedi way." Anakin explains.

Troy furrows his brows a bit "Aren't you basically taking someone else's child then?" he asks in a concerned voice.

"In an unfortunate way yes, but we're not kidnapping them. If anything we're saving them. Even though the Sith aren't as numerous as they were centuries ago, they still exist. As such, we're protecting the children from being taken by them where they could be put through a lot worse. There have even been reported incidents of people posing as a fake Jedi in an attempt to kidnap and enslave these force-sensitive children to use their powers for their own ends." Anakin says.

"I see…" Troy says being eased a little by this explanation. Still didn't feel right to be taking these children away from their parents but it was better than those alternatives that was for sure.

"And while being a Jedi isn't bad or anything. You come to learn that sometimes, it can be a little too serious. I mean at the moment we're in a war so, that's different. But even before the Clone Wars, when I was Obi-Wan's apprentice there were times I feel like we could have just relaxed a little bit but we just kept on being all serious for no reason." Anakin looks over his right shoulder.

Sora and Ahsoka, and now even Lucy who seemed to have joined their conversation at some point were talking and laughing amongst each other.

"Some Jedi I know can be way too serious. They'll have their humor here and there but; sometimes it's nice having people, friends outside the Jedi Order so not everything is about Jedi here, Force thing here, that sort of stuff. You can in a way just have a normal conversation about other stuff. Perhaps even some fun you would never really get to experience with someone from the Jedi Order." Anakin finishes.

Tigress who was at the front of everyone else turned a corner and then came to a stop "We're here." she says.

As everyone else turned the corner they came to a stop as well. They had finally come upon the caved in section of the tunnel, a mound of dirt and debris now blocked their way to the area below the Separatist base.

"So~ how are we supposed to get through that?" Fives asks.

"No way we can dig our way through that. There's too much dirt and debris it'd just come right back down whatever hole we dug up." Boil says.

"Who said anything about digging through it?" Lucy says as she is enveloped in a golden light, changing into her Star Dress Virgo Form as she then summons Virgo beside her.

"We're going under. Let's go, Virgo!" Lucy says.

"Right, princess." Virgo says as the two suddenly begin digging straight into the ground, their bodies not spinning around or anything as they just go straight down kicking up dust and concrete while the others just watch.

"What's with that maid calling her a princess?" Echo asks.

"No idea. She just calls her that even though she isn't one." Sora says raising his arms up in a shrug with his eyes closed.

"Really that's the thing you question? Not the fact that they not only just dug into the ground without any sort of equipment but without moving as well." Waxer says.

"That would be magic for you." Tigress simply explains with her arms crossed and eyes closed.

"Alright, we're through!" the group hear Lucy call from the other side.

One by one the group travel through the newly created tunnel and emerge out of the other side where Lucy, back in her normal clothing awaits them, having sent Virgo back to the Spirit World already. Boil is the last to exit the tunnel as he is helped out by Fives and Waxer "Where to now?" Sora asks.

"There should be an exit at the next right." Anakin says.

Sora runs on ahead as he reaches the corner and makes the turn coming to a stop, several feet away was a ladder "I found the exit! It's right here!" Sora calls back as he looks back forward.

A confused look coming to his eyes when he noticed the path leading towards it had a bunch of antennae sticking out of the ground.

"What in the world?" he says as he approaches one of them, crouching onto his left knee as he begins reaching out to it.

The rest of the group turn the corner as Ahsoka then notices Sora, and what he's reaching for. Her eyes widen in terror "SORA STOP!" she shouts.

Sora taps the antenna with his finger causing it to wave from side to side while making a strange sound. Suddenly the ground in front of him begins to crack and then erupt upwards, the keyblade wielder falling onto his butt in shock as he looks up with a dropped jaw and yelp of fright. Three LR-57 combat droids rise from the ground causing everyone to tense up as the Clones ready their blasters while Troy, Lucy, and Tigress stand ready to fight.

"All of a sudden I'm having a strange case of Deja vu." Anakin comments gaining an irked look from Ahsoka as the two pull out and ignite their lightsabers.

"Don't worry, I got this!" Sora says as he quickly gets back on his feet, raises his hands up to his right and summons his keyblade as he brings it down.

Cutting the droid in front of him diagonally down the mid-section of its body as he then jumps up "Aeroga!" he shouts throwing his keyblade forward summoning a strong gust of wind that sends the upper half of the body flying backwards into the other two droids, destroying and knocking them back as they fall to the ground. Unfortunately the upper half of the first droid hits the ground and begins rolling back, along the way basically hitting any and all antennas that remained in the ground. Causing at least twenty more of the same droids to pop out from the ground as the Heroes and Clones just look on.

"Okay. So I made things worse!" Sora says wincing back with gritted teeth.

"Master. Now I know how you felt that day." Ahsoka says with a deadpan expression.

"Glad to know Snips." Anakin says in an annoyed tone.

"I can still fix this!" Sora says.

"Haven't you done-" before Anakin can finish his sentence Sora disappears in the blink of an eye, and reappears almost instantly behind all of the droids, his keyblade swung out to the side as his eyes were closed.

All of the droids remain motionless, until suddenly one by one what appear to be slash marks of light appear on all of their mid-sections and they begin falling apart while collapsing to the ground. The last of the droids fall; and Anakin, Ahsoka, and the four Clones are all completely taken aback by what they just… saw? Since in their eyes they didn't really see anything. Troy, Tigress, and Lucy were also a bit taken aback themselves since they still hadn't really seen the full extent of Sora's fighting abilities. Sora stands up and de-summons his keyblade as he turns around with a panicked expression on his face "Sorry about that! I am really sorry about that!" he quickly apologizes.

Anakin and Ahsoka just look at each other and then back at Sora "Uh~. Don't worry about it. Considering how fast those droids were taken out. I highly doubt they had any time to send an alert. So we should still be good." Anakin says.

"Phew." Sora says with a sigh of relief as his arms drop and he bends over. Straightening himself after a few seconds as he turns back and looks around "Well, I don't see any more of those things sticking out of the ground. So we should be good to go now. Come on, Shepard and the others are waiting!" Sora calls to them as he waves his right arm forward and then runs toward the ladder.

"He's strong." Ahsoka says in shock and awe.

"I'll say… At least he didn't drop a wall on me." Anakin says.

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Garrus looked down the scope of his sniper towards the Separatist base "Anything?" Shepard calls to him.

"Nothing yet. Place still looks quiet so that's good news at least." Garrus replies.

"Wonder what's taking them so long?" Shepard questions.

"Knowing Anakin's luck, I wouldn't be surprised if they ran into some sort of trouble down in the sewers. All we can do is just hope everyone's alright and they're getting closer to destroying those cannons." Obi-Wan says.

Two B1 battle droids walk by an area with nothing but supply crates, at the center of all the crates was a manhole with its cover on. After a few seconds the cover began to move, getting lifted a few inches up and then slid over as Anakin poked his head out to see if the coast was clear. He looked back down "We're clear." he informs the others.

Looking back outside, he climbs out and is soon followed by everyone else as they take cover behind the crates to stay out of sight.

"General, there are the cannons!" Fives quietly says pointing over to their right.

The five cannons were all lined up, no droids in sight guarding them with their piles of shells stacked behind them.

"Alright. Ahsoka, Fives, Echo, and I will plant the explosives. The rest of you keep look out." Anakin says.

Doing one last look around to make sure they were in the clear, Anakin gets up and sprints forward followed by Ahsoka, Fives, and Echo as they reach the cannons and crouch down. Anakin takes the backpack off his back and swings it around in front of him, opening it as the other three grab their equal amount of thermal detonators and get to work placing them on the cannons.

"Chief, this is Troy." Troy begins to contact him through his morpher.

"We're setting up the explosives now."

"Good." Chief replies as he ends the call and walks over to Shepard and Obi-Wan catching their attention "They're setting the explosives on the cannons." he reports to them.

"Excellent, shall we get things started?" Obi-Wan asks looking towards Shepard who looks back.

"Hold on a second." Shepard says raising a finger as he then turned his head to look back "Marvelous, Tsukasa, suit up!"

"About time." Marvelous, who was leaning against an AT-TEs leg with his arms crossed, says as he stands up and walks up beside Tsukasa.

The pirate captain takes out his Ranger Key and Mobilate while Tsukasa takes out his Decadriver and places it on his waist before taking out his Rider Card.

"Gokai Change!"

"Henshin!"

The two shout as they go through their normal movements to transform.

"GO~KAIGER!"

"Kamen Ride: Decade!"

Obi-Wan and the Clones watch the two's transformation as they are complete "Well, that was quite a show." Obi-Wan says.

At the front of the Separatist base, two B1 battle droids stood guard "Hey OM-9." the battle droid on the left called.

"Yes OM-3?"

"Do you ever wonder why we're here?"

OM-9 looks at OM-3 "Uh~ because we were created for this?"

"I mean… I guess if you want the simple explanation. Though I was kind of going a bit more further than that." OM-3 explains.

"Your circuits must be fried. We're droids, we're not supposed to think beyond responding to orders and fighting." OM-9 says.

"I guess so. Hey, what's that?" OM-3 says looking off down the road.

AT-TE walkers along with Clones come into view as they turn onto the road towards the base.

"It's the Republic! Sound the alarm!" OM-9 shouts.

Alarms begin going off throughout the base catching the infiltration group's attention "Sounds like the attack just started." Ahsoka says.

"We're all good over here general." Echo reports as he and Fives finish setting up their explosives.

"Good, let's get out of here." Anakin says as the group gets up and starts running back to the others.

"Just as expected." the voice of Count Dooku calls out making Anakin, Ahsoka, and the Clones stop as they turn to their left to see Dooku, Grievous, Ventress, Saren, and a couple of Commando Droids walking towards them.

Seeing this Sora and the others run out and join alongside them "I had a feeling you were going to target the cannons first before launching any sort of attack. And here you are, Skywalker. Along with some new friends it seems. The so-called "Heroes"." Dooku continues.

Acting quickly Anakin takes out the detonator and presses the button, blowing all five cannons up as pieces of them are sent flying, the Count and his group come to a stop.

"Might I suggest you surrender now Dooku? Without those cannons your base will be overrun in no time and you'll be surrounded." Anakin says.

"There is still plenty of time for us to kill all of you before your friends arrive. That way it will not be a total defeat." Grievous says as he and Ventress bring out and activate their lightsabers.

Anakin, and Ahsoka activate their lightsabers while Sora summons his keyblade. Troy brings out his Morpher and Megaforce Red Power Card as he inserts it into the Morpher "Go, Go Megaforce!" he shouts swinging it around and closing the mouth as he transforms into his power suit and brings up his Dragon Sword. Tigress and Lucy stand ready for combat while the Clones raise their blasters.

Dooku brings out and activates his lightsaber while Saren activates his biotics. The two sides stare each other down.

"Destroy them." Dooku orders in a calm voice.

Grievous and Ventress charge forward, as do Sora, Ahsoka, and Troy. The Keyblade wielder and Jedi Padawan engage the droid general while Troy clashes with Ventress; Dooku runs off to his right as Anakin runs after him.

"Star Dress: Capricorn Form!" Lucy shouts changing into the Star Dress form.

"Hmph. This is my challenge? Pathetic." Saren says narrowing his eyes.

Tigress and Lucy charge the former Spectre. The Commando Droids open up on Fives, Echo, Waxer, and Boil as the Clones return fire "Lucky us, we get stuck with the clankers!" Fives says.

"You'd have to be a defect to get involved in all of that." Waxer says.

At one of the weapon emplacements a B1 battle droid fires its Double-barrel repeating blaster at the advancing Clone forces, two other droids on either side of it firing their weapons. Until suddenly a heavy plasma round impacts directly inside completely destroying the bunker and taking out the droids with it, it's not that long until the other two gun emplacements are blown up as well.

"Woohoo! Hell yeah, do I love this thing!" James shouts in excitement as he continues firing the mass-driver cannon.

"That takes care of those gun emplacements." Shepard says as he fires his Avenger assault rifle alongside Obi-Wan who deflects laser bolts with his lightsaber.

"All that remain now are the droids." Obi-Wan says.

With said army of droids marching towards the Republic forces and Heroes, B1s and B2s supported by Dwarf Spider Droids, Armored Assault Tanks, Snail Tanks, and Tri-Droids. One Tri-Droid fired its forward laser cannon before rotating to its second one and firing again, rotating to its third and final laser cannon and firing two more shots. The Clones slowly pushed forward while firing their weapons, one AT-TE walker had already been destroyed by enemy fire while AT-RTs rushed forward firing their repeating blaster cannons.

Chief took cover behind one pile of rubble off to the side of the road as he then turned out around it and raised his right M7 firing a burst, then raising his left SMG to fire another burst of 5x23mm Caseless FMJ rounds as he dropped down and spun around to his right dodge some laser fire. Aiming his left gun forward again as he let off another burst of gunfire taking a few more droids out; Rex rushed up beside him and fired his dual DC-17 hand blasters taking a few droids out himself. Marvelous blocked incoming laser bolts with his saber before raising his gun and firing back, Tsukasa firing his Ride Booker in gun mode beside him.

Po remained atop the walker James was on, crouching low behind him to avoid the enemy fire; below Garrus used the front right leg of the AT-TE for cover as he aimed and fired his Vindicator. Cody and Ashley pushed up while firing their weapons until eventually Ashley fired a concussive shot taking out a B2 super battle droid. Laval and Eris moved their AT-RTs forward before coming to a stop as they fired their chin-mounted laser cannons, overhead Happy carried Natsu "Brilliant Flame of the Fire Dragon!" Natsu yells throwing another large fireball down at the droid forces taking out a number of them along with a few tanks.

Troy jumps diagonally sideways while swinging his Dragon Sword, bringing it down on Ventress who blocks it with her dual lightsabers and pushes him back. Troy recovers and lands on his feet, rushing towards her while twirling his sword around to confuse her as she retreats back a couple of steps; Troy thrusts his sword forward making Ventress throw the right side of her body back to dodge it as she swings her right lightsaber upwards knocking his sword up. Ventress brings her left lightsaber back across her body and swings at Troy who launches himself forward into the air, flying just a few inches above her weapon causing her to miss. Hitting the ground Troy goes into a roll and lands on his right knee, behind him Ventress charges him with her right lightsaber pulled back. The Sith assassin swings at him as Troy drops to the ground dodging it, turning onto his back as he grabs his blaster and fires a few energy blasts into her body forcing her back as she stumbles and then falls to the ground.

Ahsoka locks lightsabers with Grievous's right hand one, the Togruta gritting her teeth as she fights back against his strength pushing the lightsaber down on her. Sora jumps in the air and with a battle cry brings his keyblade down, forcing Grievous to raise his left lightsaber to block it as both sides realize they aren't getting anywhere and pull away from each other, Sora managing to launch himself back while Ahsoka and Grievous both jump away from each other with Sora landing beside Ahsoka.

"This ought to be interesting. Fighting a warrior from another universe. Alas he is nothing more but a child just like the Jedi!" Grievous seems to slightly complain. "Nevertheless, that weapon of yours will make quite an interesting trophy to add to my collection."

"Yeah? Good luck with that. And this child has taken on creeps a lot more tougher than you!" Sora states while pointing his keyblade at him.

"Is that so~?" Grievous questions as he narrows his eyes.

"Yeah, so bring it on!" Sora challenges getting back into his normal fighting stance.

"As you wish." Grievous says.

All of a sudden Grievous's two arms split into two more! Giving the cyborg general four arms now as his new hands reach down and grab two more lightsabers, igniting them as he spins them around while still staring towards Sora and Ahsoka who are taken aback by this.

"Nice going!" Ahsoka chastises Sora.

"You forgot to mention the fact he has four arms! Otherwise I wouldn't have said anything!" Sora defends himself.

The General begins slowly moving towards them, now spinning all four of his lightsabers around as Sora and Ahsoka brace themselves for how difficult things were most likely about to get.

Dooku shoots force lightning from his right hand as Anakin blocks it with his lightsaber, once the Count let up Anakin quickly dashed forward and swung his lightsaber which Dooku blocked. Anakin backflipping to get some distance as Dooku dashed at him forcing Anakin to block a swing from his lightsaber.

Another Commando droid was shot dead as Fives, Echo, Waxer, and Boil, having taken cover back among the supply crates, continued firing on them. Unbeknownst to them, was a small platoon of B1 battle droids exiting the Separatist headquarters building as they marched towards them; Boil luckily managed to pick up their metallic footsteps and spun around.

"Droids! Coming at us from behind!" Boil shouts.

"Deal with those ones! Me and Echo got these Commandos!" Fives says.

Waxer and Boil reposition themselves on the other side of the crates they were using for cover and then open up on the new approaching droids just as they begin to fire.

"And I thought we'd be missing out on all the fun!" Echo jokingly remarks.

Lucy throws a side kick at Saren who dodges to his right while turning his body, the Turian then raising his right arm to block a roundhouse kick from Tigress who then retracts her leg and throws a straight jab at him which Saren catches. Saren then throws Tigress's arm aside sending her stumbling away to her left as then Lucy jumps up and throws a reverse hook kick which Saren also catches grabbing her by the heel; Saren spins around bringing Lucy with him as he then tosses her at Tigress who is unable to react in time as Lucy slams into her knocking them both down.

James fires the mass-driver cannon again taking out another Tri-droid, the last one continues marching forward as it fires its laser cannon which slams into the front right side of the AT-TE he and Po are on causing it to shake from the damage.

"Hey James, might wanna take out that final metal thing with the three legs!" Po urgently tells him while pointing to it.

"I'm trying!" James responds "One problem with that though. The cannon overheated!" he then shouts at Po as smoke now rose out from the gun.

The tri-droid rotated its cannons and fired two more shots "Incoming!" Po yells making James look back forward.

The two managed to quickly dive off the tank as the heavy laser beams slammed into the AT-TE, one shot hitting the top of it while the other impacted into its forward left leg, destroying it and causing the walker to collapse to the ground. The tri-droid continued firing beam after beam while rotating its laser cannons, one shot impacted into a group of Clones sending them flying, another hit the rubble Tali and a few other Clones were taking cover behind sending them flying back. Liara and Javik meanwhile were able to put up biotic spheres to protect them and several groups of Clones from the droid's attack.

"We need to take out that tri-droid!" Cody says with urgency as he, Rex, and Chief take cover behind a fallen spider droid.

"Leave that to me." Chief says attaching his SMGs to his thighs as he brings out his Spartan Laser, the two Clones watch as he moves out around the dwarf spider droid, drop onto his left knee and take aim at the tri-droid.

Chief pulls the trigger as a red targeting laser shoots out from the barrel, appearing on the tri-droid. An audible whining sound begins to emit from the weapon as the Spartan Laser charges up, the sound growing louder and louder and higher pitched with each passing second until finally a massive red laser shoots out from the weapon. Slamming into the tri-droid causing its entire head to explode as it collapses to the ground.

"What the hell?!" Rex shouts at the top of his lungs, he and Cody completely shocked by what they had just witnessed.

Chief turns the weapon towards an approaching AAT, charges the weapon up and fires again, taking the tank out along with a few droids around it due to the blast radius. A group of five Droidekas role forward to the front of the droid lines, stopping and transforming as they activate their shields and begin firing on the Republic troops. Seeing this Chief aims the Spartan Laser at them, charges it up and fires as the laser penetrates the shield of the one in the center and explodes taking the rest of them out.

Chief lowers the weapon and looks back at Rex and Cody "Let's push up!" he tells them with a wave of his head as he gets up and begins moving forward.

The two Clones just watch as Chief runs up to a platoon of B1 battle droids who fire at the Spartan, Chief sliding to a stop, while placing his Spartan Laser on his back, as he raises a hardlight shield to take the shots. The Chief then takes out a frag grenade, primes it and rolls it beneath the shield to the feet of the droids at the front as it goes off taking a few of them out. Chief drops the shield and sprints forward, the droids continuing their fire as Chief drops to the ground into a slide sliding through two battle droids knocking them to the ground. Chief gets up and throws a uppercut literally knocking the head off another droid as he then grabs its body, spins around to his right and throws it at droids on his left. A few Clones take notice of this and can't help but lower their weapons to watch the scene unfold before their eyes, even Obi-Wan becomes intrigued by what he begins to witness. Chief drops down and sweep kicks two more droids off their feet as he then grabs his M7 from his right thigh and aims outwards, firing away as he does a full 360 degree spin taking out a number of droids around him.

A B2 super battle droid approaches him as the Chief gets back onto his feet and takes notice of it. The droid fires its wrist blaster as Chief throws his upper body back to his left, ducking down and sprinting up to it as he wraps his arms around the droid's and pulls it over his shoulder slamming it into the ground on its back. Chief then pulls his right arm back and clenches his hand into a fist as he drives it right through the super battle droid's face, pulling his fist out to reveal a large hold where it once was. Hearing more heavy footsteps behind him, Chief turned his head to see five B2-HA series super battle droids walking towards him, all of them aiming their cannon arms at him and firing missiles at the Spartan. The missiles soared towards Chief as then suddenly Marvelous and Tsukasa both appeared in front of him, Marvelous aiming his gun forward and firing as to the amazement of the Clones he managed to shoot every missile out of the sky before they could even reach them.

"Attack Ride: Blast!"

Tsukasa raised his gun and fired a rapid barrage of bullets taking down every one of the B2-HA super battle droids as they exploded. Suddenly through the smoke, three IG-100 MagnaGuards appeared marching towards the Heroes with their already activated electrostaffs, the one at the lead wearing a white cloak and head wrap.

"Oh, these guys look interesting." Marvelous comments while throwing his saber up to point at them.

A few seconds later at least ten BX-series droid commandos rushed through the smoke running past them; seven of them with E-5 blaster rifles which they fired and three of them with Vibroswords.

Marvelous and Tsukasa block the incoming laser bolts as Chief walks in between them showing no care for the enemy fire, "Take care of the newcomers. Those three are mine." Chief orders as he runs forward and jump flips forward through the air, over the commando droids and over the MagnaGuards who follow him as he lands behind them on his left knee and right fist.

The Master Chief gets up and turns around as the lead MagnaGuard simply holds its electrostaff at the ready while the other two do some fancy twirls with theirs before holding them steady, ready for combat. Chief unsheathes his combat knife and also gets into a fighting-ready stance.

"Figures Chief gets to have all the fun." Marvelous comments.

"Let's just take these things out already." Tsukasa says as the two spin off into two different directions, with Marvelous going left and Tsukasa going right.

The majority of the Commando droids run towards Marvelous as they fire their blasters "Hmph." Marvelous simply hums as he hits the button on his buckle bringing forth DekaRed's Ranger Key which he grabs.

"Gokai Change!" Marvelous shouts inserting the key into his Mobilate as the laser bolts fly all around impacting behind him.

"DE~KARANGER!"

The symbol of the Dekarangers flashes before him blocking several of the shots as he completes his transformation into Dekarangers DekaRed.

"D-Magnums!" Marvelous shouts bringing the two guns up as he charges forward.

Taking aim Marvelous unleashes an insane barrage of energized bullets, hitting the first three Commando droids multiple times as they stop and begin flailing about from the impacting shots. As he rushes by them and approaches the fourth, he pushes that droid's gun away and throws a push kick into it sending the droid into the fifth one who catches it. Marvelous raising his guns and firing multiple times into them as the seventh one moves to their right side and aims its blaster at the Space Pirate, Marvelous ducking down to avoid the first shot as he closes in on the droid and pushes its gun upwards. Punching it in the chest knocking it back a few feet as he approaches it and then wraps both of his arms around its neck before turning and throwing it into the rest of its comrades.

"Hybrid Magnum!" Marvelous shouts combining the two guns together as he takes aim at the Commando droids.

He pulls the trigger powering the weapon up "Hybrid Charging Shoot!" he yells firing a highly charged, red energy bullet as it flies towards and impacts into the Commando droids causing all of them to explode.

Tsukasa comes to a stop as he sees the three Commando droids with Vibroswords charging him "Lightsabers seem to be really popular today. So let's use your look-alike." Tsukasa says holding up Kamen Rider Faiz's Rider Card as he inserts it into his Driver.

"Kamen Ride: Faiz!"

Transforming into Faiz and armed with the Faiz Edge lightsaber-like weapon, Tsukasa brings his saber across his body and swings it, while stepping to his right, as the first Commando droid jumps at him cutting it across the body. The second Commando droid swings its vibrosword down on him which Tsukasa dodges by ducking to his right again, as he gets up and moves to the left, reaching behind and pushing the Commando droid forward from its back as the droid turns around only to be struck with a diagonal slash from Tsukasa. Decade turns around and ducks to his left as the last Commando droid swings down at him from the right, and then again from the left forcing Tsukasa to throw his body to the right again as he then punches it in the stomach knocking it back. Tsukasa then jumps over the Commando droid landing behind it as the droid turns to face him, only to be met with a side kick knocking it back once more as it stumbles over to the other two Commando droids as they recover.

"Final Attack Ride: F-F-F-Faiz!"

Powering the Faiz Edge up with red energy, Tsukasa swings the sword up from the ground sending a red energy wave pulsing along it towards the Commando droids; the energy hitting the droids as they are suddenly surrounded by a tornado of red energy and levitated off the ground. His weapon charging up once more, Tsukasa rushes towards the Commando droids and strikes them with a sideways slash followed by an upwards diagonal slash. A red circle with a slash through it appearing in front of them as they explode.

Chief calmly approaches the three MagnaGuards who stay in place, once close enough the two MagnaGuards on the sides rush him. The one on his left swinging first as Chief blocks the attack with his combat knife and pushes it away, allowing him to then throw a front kick into the droid on his right sending it back. The lead MagnaGuard twirls its staff around before swinging it diagonally down at Chief who ducks to his left and then jumps back when the droid attempts a side swipe at him with the other end. Chief grabs the SMG on his right thigh and aims it at the droid as he fires at it, the MagnaGuard spinning its electrostaff around blocking many of the shots while some manage to get through to hit him but not enough to cause any significant damage. His gun finally running dry, and with no ammo left for it Chief throws it at the droid who is just barely able to smack it away due to how fast it was coming; the droid looking back forward, in the short amount of time it was looking away Chief was able to close the distance as he drove the combat knife right into its forehead pushing it back a little.

To the Chief's shock, the MagnaGuard pulls its head right back up, the droid still completely operational as it looks at the Spartan. Chief quickly pulls the knife out and jumps back as it swings its electrostaff at him causing it to miss. Landing back a few feet Chief looks to his left to see the other MagnaGuard coming right at him, Chief moves back as the droid swings the electrostaff from the side; his motion sensor picking up movement from his right Chief turns just in time to see the other MagnaGuard with its electrostaff raised as he jumps back once more as the weapon is slammed into the ground where he once stood. The three MagnaGuards regroup, still facing the Chief who stands ready to continue the fight. The droids begin to move on the Chief, the ones on the sides moving out around him to surround the Chief which he took notice of, his eyes ever switching between the three waiting for them to make their move. The first to move again, was the MagnaGuard on his right as it charged him.

Chief turned to it and activated his hardlight shield causing the droid to slam into it, the one behind him began to rush him as well as Chief deactivated the shield and jumped into a backflip landing right behind the MagnaGuard. Before the droid could even turn Chief was already wrapping his arms around its head and yanking it off the body; to his surprise the droid not only continued to move but even turned to face him like it could still see him.

"You have got to be kidding me!" Chief says highly annoyed by this.

Movement out of the corner of his eyes to his left catches his attention as he sees the lead MagnaGuard coming at him again as it swings its electrostaff. This time Chief dodges the swing by moving to his left as he then grabs a hold of the staff's mid-section, reaching behind him for something before slamming his palm into the droid's chest as he then push kicks the droid back sending it into the other two as all three stumble a few feet before coming to a stop. Chief gives the droids a two-finger salute as the lead MagnaGuard then hears a hissing sound coming from beneath it as it looks down to see a plasma grenade stuck right onto its chest. The droid looks up just a second before the grenade goes off taking all three MagnaGuards with it.

"Incredible…" Cody says shocked and awed by this.

Rex nudges Cody's shoulder with his elbow catching his attention "I told you he could take on an entire battalion of droids without breaking a sweat." he says.

"Did you see that?" one Clone asks another.

"No kidding." the other Clone says.

"That's one hell of a soldier right there. Might even be better than one of those ARC troopers."

"What are you kidding me? Might even be better than a Jedi, and that's saying something!"

Obi-Wan could overhear all of these conversations causing him to smirk, the Chief just gave these Clones a huge raise in their morale. Now was the time to act!

"Come on men! Let's finish these droids off!" Obi-Wan shouts as he raises his lightsaber and waves it forward.

Earning a bunch of battle cries and cheers from the Clones "Come on!"

"Let's give it to them!"

"For the Republic!"

"Take them down!"

With this all of the Clones began to push forward, Shepard and his team joining alongside them. A couple of Clones brought out their RPS-6 rocket launchers and fired them taking out most of what remained of the droids' vehicles, those with Z-6 Rotary blaster cannons moved to the front, raised their weapons and began to unleash a heavy barrage of plasma fire taking down multiple battle droids. Laval, Eris, and the AT-RTs that remained rushed forward firing their laser cannons like crazy taking down more droids along with a few more vehicles with support from the remaining AT-TEs. The droids were now on the retreat as they began backing up while still firing at the incoming Republic troops.

Marvelous, Tsukasa, and Po who finally began getting in on the action engaged the droids at close quarters, the former two swinging their respective bladed weapon to cut down droid after droid. While Po of course used his fists, and feet to punch or kick down a droid. Obi-Wan joined in using his lightsaber to deflect laser bolts back at the droids that fired at him, getting close to others and cutting them down with his weapon. Using his last M7, Chief fired short, controlled bursts to continue taking out more and more droids; Shepard joined alongside him as he tossed a frag grenade taking another group of droids out.

"Roar of the Fire Dragon!" Natsu yells from above releasing his roar attack taking out more droids in a massive explosion.

"I think it's safe to say this battle is won." Shepard says.

"We still have to reach Troy and the others. And considering we haven't run into Saren or any of the Separatist leaders, either they bailed which I highly doubt, or they're engaging them right now in the base." Chief says.

Ventress slams into two stacked crates knocking them over as the one from the top pops open causing a bunch of vibroswords to come falling out. Troy lands back on his feet and looks over at the Sith Assassin as she recovers. Groaning in pain and holding her head, Ventress looks out of the corner of her right eye to take notice of the vibroswords spread across the ground; an idea immediately forms in her head as she gets back up and uses the force to levitate all of them into the air. Troy grunting in shock upon seeing this as he holds his sword at the ready to defend himself. Ventress makes sure all of the swords are pointed right at Troy and then throws her hand forward, sending all of the vibroswords flying towards Troy. The Red Megaforce Ranger begins twirling his sword, using it to block some of the swords while also managing to dodge most of the others by throwing his body around in multiple directions, with an upwards swing of his Dragon Sword, Troy deflects the last vibrosword.

Angered by this Ventress screeches at him and begins charging towards him "Super Mega Mode!" Troy shouts inserting his Ranger Key into his Legendary Morpher as he charges her.

In a flash of red light completing his transformation into Super Megaforce Red as he then jumps over her, facing downward as he aims his Super Mega Blaster and fires a few shots which she deflects. Troy lands behind her crouched on his left knee as he inserts a Legendary Ranger Key into the morpher "Legendary Ranger Mode!" Ventress turns to face him as he is engulfed in another bright red light just as he stands up.

"Lost Galaxy!" Troy shouts as he turns to face her while completing his transformation into the Red Galaxy Ranger.

"You think constantly changing your look will help you?" Ventress questions while pointing her right lightsaber at him.

"Has a lot of times before." Troy replies as he unsheathes the Quasar Saber and holds it forward.

"You have no idea who you are messing with, boy." Ventress says.

"And the same could be said for you!" Troy retorts.

Ventress bares her teeth at him and charges forward with a battle cry. Troy stands his ground as he turns his saber, with the flat side facing forward, and holds it straight up in front of him "Quasar Saber, full power!" he shouts.

Troy is suddenly surrounded by darkness with flames dancing all around him; red energy suddenly flying towards and into the gold symbol of the Lion Galactabeast on the guard until a bright flash of red light emits from the symbol. Troy then turns the saber once more with the edge facing outwards again, as the gathered red energy travels up the blade until it reaches the tip causing another flash of light to emit out for a second. Ventress brings her lightsabers back to her right and swings them forward, Troy raises the Quasar Saber and swings it forward. A red energy slash cuts down Ventress's body causing sparks to fly from her as she cries out in pain; Troy jumps around and lands bending down on his knees with his left hand held out to the side forward, his right arm held back still holding the Quasar Saber upward as explosions erupt around the Sith Assassin throwing her to the ground.

Landing on her stomach with her lightsabers deactivating, Ventress groans in pain as she manages to raise her head to look at Troy "Im...possible." is all she says before falling unconscious.

Due to the nature of Grievous now wielding four lightsabers, Sora and Ahsoka have both been forced to go on nothing but the defense. His two upper lightsabers constantly spinning around, every attempted attack has led to the same outcome, Grievous blocking them and then them nearly getting hit by his other sabers forcing them back. Sora and Ahsoka both lunged forward at the same swinging their respective weapon, once again Grievous blocked their attacks, the General then swung both of his upper lightsabers down at Sora and Ahsoka forcing them to jump back to avoid them as they landed several feet away.

"Even with two of us we can't beat him!" Ahsoka says annoyed by this.

Grievous laughs at this.

"I might have an idea. You can push things with the Force, right?" Sora asks.

"Yeah, but that's not going to work on him." Ahsoka says.

"Doesn't need to. So long as it gives me the opening I need. Do you trust me?" Sora asks.

"You don't exactly have a very good record at the moment. What with those droids in the sewer?" Ahsoka points out.

"I saved you didn't I?" Sora jokingly teases her.

"Time to end this!" Grievous states as he dashes towards them.

"Okay, following your lead!" Ahsoka says as the two prepare themselves.

Grievous closes in on them as Sora for some reason closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. Grievous raises all four of his lightsabers as he swings them down at the two. Sora's eyes shoot open and he thrusts his keyblade upwards towards Grievous's sabers "Reflect!" he shouts.

Summoning a domed barrier of light around him and Ahsoka causing Grievous's lightsabers to slam into it as the impact knocks him back a little "Ahsoka, now!"

The barrier falls as Ahsoka throws both of her hands forward casting a force push that sends Grievous flying back, after a few feet the general digs his clawed-toes into the ground, effectively bringing him to a stop after sliding back a bit more.

"Stopga!" Sora shouts aiming his keyblade at him.

Grievous suddenly freezing in place as a clock flashes in front of him before disappearing.

"Limit Form!" Sora shouts changing his clothes into said form.

"Whoa." Ahsoka says taken aback by this.

Sora spins his keyblade around behind him "Zantetsuken!" Sora shouts launching himself forward as he thrusts his keyblade, dashing across the ground at high speed towards Grievous just as the Stop Magic wears off. The general, unable to do anything as Sora slams his keyblade right into his chest, a spear-like beam of light going through him upon impact, as he is sent flying back and smashing into a wall kicking up a cloud of dust and small debris. As the dust dies down, it reveals Grievous embedded in the wall for a second before he falls to the ground groaning in pain.

Sora returns to his normal clothes while panting, trying to catch his breath "How's that for being a child?" Sora states.

The Keyblade wielder suddenly begins to collapse until he is caught by Ahsoka "You alright?" she asks.

"I'm good. Just a bit exhausted is all." Sora replies.

Ahsoka looks back over at Grievous, she could sense he was still alive. But at the moment he was not moving, it appeared Sora's attack had completely knocked him unconscious.

"You actually did it. You took down Grievous." Ahsoka says completely shocked by this.

She had heard a lot of things about Grievous, how brilliant of a strategist he was, how strong and skilled he was in lightsaber combat even though he himself didn't have the Force. He had killed so many Jedi since the war began, Padawans, Knights, even Masters. Very few were able to stand up to him and live to tell the tale; she would know considering their first encounter on that listening post station which led to her barely escaping with her life. Even her master's master, Obi-Wan had trouble fighting him. The fact that she just witnessed the droid general's defeat, especially by someone who was basically her age was just… shocking, completely shocking as that was the last person she ever would have expected to beat someone like him. Yet as Ahsoka looked back at Sora who was still catching his breath, she could just sense power.

During their first encounter she could sense incredible power from each and every one of the heroes. More so from Natsu and Sora. Now that it was just Sora with her, she was able to get a more accurate reading on his abilities and it was… strange. Reckon all of them were giving off very weird readings; perhaps having something to do with the fact whatever abilities they possessed came from different universes after all so the Force might not be able to give an entirely accurate reading per say as they were things not of this universe. But for Sora specifically what she was sensing from him was just, both incredible and odd. This power of his, it was all over the place; like it was in a constant state of fluctuation. The only way she could describe it was as if his powers were still growing, as if he was nowhere near where he could be, and if this was the case… how strong could he possibly get if even now he was able to take down the likes of General Grievous? There was something else she sensed which was very, very strange. She… she could also sense, the only way to describe this was almost as if there were other people within him? None of this was making sense; but if there was one thing that did. It was the bright light she could sense shining within him, she could not sense a single bit of darkness in his heart. This light was definitely different from what she normally felt from the other Jedi, who were after all practitioners in the Light Side of the Force, it was… calming, warm, welcoming.

Sora looks up at her and smiles with a small chuckle "See, I had everything under control." he says.

Ahsoka continues staring at him with a surprised expression. After a few seconds she smiles back and chuckles "Sure looks like it." she replies.

Echo shot another Commando droid down, the last one seeing this dropped its blaster and brought its vibrosword out as it rushed towards the clones. Both Echo and Fives shot at the droid as it jumped up and came down at Fives while swinging its sword, acting quickly Fives dived to his right into a roll causing the droid to miss as it landed on the crate he was using for cover. Echo raised his gun to fire but the Commando droid threw its sword at him forcing Echo to duck as he just barely dodged it with it flying a few inches over him. Before he could get back up the droid was already diving into and tackling him to the ground as it wrapped both its hands around his neck and begin choking him. Fives suddenly tackled the droid getting it off Echo as he slammed it into the ground, Fives pulled his right fist back and punched the droid across the face; the droid pulled its legs back and used them to push Fives off of it. The droid kicked up into the air to get on its feet, only for Echo to start laying into it with his DC-15S as he fired like crazy while walking towards it, putting multiple plasma shots into the droid before it finally dropped to the ground. Behind the two Waxer and Boil were finishing off the remaining B1 battle droids, Waxer reaching to his left side as he brought out a thermal detonator, primed it and then tossed it at the droids taking the remaining ones out in an explosion.

Anakin took a left swipe at Dooku's legs which the Count blocked, Anakin pulling his lightsaber back as he tried and overhead strike which Dooku blocked as well. Nearby, Tigress and Lucy continued their fight against Saren. The Turian casted a biotic shockwave blasting the two back as they slammed into and knocked a few crates over. Saren lowered his left arm and straightened himself having of been bending down a bit before; Tigress and Lucy meanwhile picked themselves up with both of them letting out grunts of pain while doing so. Lucy clutched her left arm and had dirt and bruises covering parts of her body, her left eye closed; while Tigress just stood with her knees slightly bent and her hands clenched tightly into fists. Both of them panting heavily.

"You have tenacity I'll give you that." Saren comments "But that's all you have." he adds while putting his hands behind his back.

"You I already defeated." he says looking at Lucy before moving his gaze over to Tigress "And you. All you can do is throw punches and kicks in fancy ways. You're no threat."

"I don't know about that. It's like you said, we have tenacity. And sometimes that's just all you need." Tigress says with a grin.

"As long as there's a reason for us to keep fighting, you'll never stop us! We'll just keep fighting, fighting, and fighting until the end!" Lucy says with a determined look in her eyes.

"Until the end… so basically. Once I kill you." Saren says as his eyes begin glowing red with electricity surging through his body.

In an explosion of red electrical energy which encompasses Saren in a sphere of red light, Tigress and Lucy raise one of their arms and turn their heads away with their eyes closed. As the light dies down, the two look back forward to see Saren transformed into his Husk form "So that's what Shepard was warning us about?" Tigress asks.

"Yeah, be careful. He can move really fast in that form. And his powers have increased as well." Lucy explains.

"Sounds like a fair fight to me." Tigress says striking a battle ready stance while trying to remain composed, inside her though was a different story as she was highly worried for how things were most likely about to go.

In the blink of an eye Saren disappears, next thing Lucy knows is Tigress is hit and sent skidding back across the ground kicking up a high amount of dust into the air for quite a distance "Tigress!" Lucy cries out in shock. Saren then reappears in front of her as she senses this, with her eyes widening in shock.

All Lucy is able to do is raise her arms up in time as Saren throws a roundhouse kick into her sending her flying, luckily she is able to recover mid-air and backflips onto her feet. Saren launches himself towards her again at high speed with his right claw pulled back "Star Dress!" Lucy shouts while throwing one of her keys back "Aries Form!"

Lucy changes into the Aries Star Dress as she throws her left hand forward summoning a stream of pink-colored wool from her palm, the wool forming into a large cloud in front of her as to her shock Saren cuts his way right through the center of it with a single swipe of his claw.

"No way!" Lucy shouts.

Saren then throws his right hand forward and activates his biotics casting a warp on her, causing Lucy to be surrounded by a mass effect field as she immediately begins feeling sharp pains erupt throughout her body causing her to cry out. Saren then grabs her by her face and lifts her up, Lucy continuing to cry out which is now muffled as she throws her legs back and forth with her hands gripping his wrist. Suddenly off from Saren's right the recovered Tigress jumps high into the air with her right leg lifted straight up, a roaring battle cry as she comes down at him with an axe kick which she slams into the ground when Saren releases his hold on Lucy and jumps back. The impact sending small bits of the ground flying into the air with cracks forming outward for a few feet. Tigress looks to her left towards Saren as he lands a few meters away, getting on all fours Tigress charges towards Saren, gaining momentum before launching herself towards him with both her hands pulled back to her right.

Throwing a double-palmed strike at the Turian, Saren dodges by jumping to his left as Tigress comes to a stop. Looking over to him Tigress jump flips into the air and lands in front of him, getting up as she throws an upper palm strike at him with her left hand which he dodges by moving his head to the right, forcing Tigress to try again with her right palm which he ducks under. Saren delivers his own palm strike into Tigress's stomach sending her back as she slides across the ground until she stops herself by planting her right hand down. Tigress charges him again with her arms trailing behind her, throwing an angled front kick with her left foot at Saren to her right which he dodges by turning his body sideways to his left, Tigress then throws a spinning hook kick with her right foot which he ducks under as Tigress lands while taking a step forward and then throws a side kick into him which actually hits sending him sliding back a few feet while bent over.

Saren raises his head and looks at Tigress who is once again panting heavily due to being out of breath, herself hunched over a little with her arms hanging down "How are my fancy punches and kicks now? I landed a hit on you." Tigress boasts as she smirks.

Saren straightens himself "A lucky strike. One you won't get again." he states as he takes a step towards Tigress and then launches himself forward.

Tigress attempts to throw a punch but Saren is faster than her as he strikes her across the chest with his claws sending sparks flying from her body, blood splattering on the ground as Tigress falls to her knees with a large scratch across her chest and blood pouring out from it. Saren lands, turns, and jumps again, the Turian jumping all around Tigress as she lies on her knees grunting in pain; the Kung Fu master forces herself to endure the pain through clenched teeth as she pushes herself back up, only for Saren to strike her across her back causing her to cry out in pain again as a large, bloodied scratch is now seen. Tigress continues to push herself as she throws a random punch, hitting nothing as she immediately receives a scratch to her upper left arm; this is then followed by a rapid succession of claw strikes to her right thigh, lower back, and left shin. This one bringing her onto her left knee as she bares her teeth in pain with her eyes clenched shut.

Saren finally comes to a stop off to her left as he calmly walks over to her and stops. Tigress raises her head shakingly and looks up at him. Saren remains quiet as he just stares down at her, then raising his left claw upwards into the air; Tigress shows no fear and just stares at him with anger. Saren then brings it down on her, when an omni-blade suddenly blocks his attack. Saren looks to his left to see Shepard who looks back at him with gritted teeth, he then hears heavy footsteps rapidly approaching and turns more to see the Master Chief sprinting towards him with his left fist pulled back as he then throws it forward. Punching Saren right in the face sending him flying back while flipping his body upside down. The former Spectre recovers and flips around to upright himself as he lands on his feet and plants his hands on the ground sliding to a stop; acting quickly Shepard activates his biotics and casts stasis before Saren can move as he is hit by it and frozen in place. Chief brings out his Spartan Laser and aims at Saren, pulling the trigger charging the weapon up; once completely charged the weapon fires, just as the stasis on Saren wears off causing him to be hit directly by it as he is fully engulfed by the laser and then the following explosion.

Saren flies out from the explosion and crashes into the building; Dooku takes notice of this as he turns around. Then sensing danger from above as he looks to see Obi-Wan coming down at him with a overhead lightsaber strike, forcing the Count to quickly jump back as he dodges the attack and lands in front of where Saren impacted, crouched with his right hand planted down. Nothing but a cloud of dust surrounding the area at the moment. Dooku stands up as he sees Clones and the rest of the Heroes running in, it seemed he had been so focused on the battle with Skywalker that he failed to notice the fighting stopped which could only mean his droids had all been destroyed.

"Lucy!" Natsu cries out as he, and Happy rush over, Natsu dropping down and picking her head up as she opened her eyes.

"Natsu." she says in a weak voice glad to see him.

"Tigress!" Po cries out as Po also rushes over to her and kneels down beside her, putting his right arm behind her back and left hand on her arm.

Tigress opens her eyes a little and looks at him with a small smile "What took you so long?" she jokingly asks.

Dooku looked around, Clones were surrounding both the unconscious Grievous and Ventress. None of them looking like they would be moving at all at this point. He furrowed his brows at this situation as he then heard Saren drop to the ground behind him, making him look to see the Turian back to his normal look and on his hands and knees. Saren raised his head to look forward with narrowed eyes.

"It's over Dooku! For both you and your new accomplice!" Obi-Wan shouts as Rex, Cody, and all the Clones around him, and Anakin aimed their weapons at the two.

Shepard, Chief, and the rest of the team also aiming their guns and blasters at them.

"Surrender now. Don't do anything stupid." Obi-Wan says.

Dooku looked around, unfortunately he could not see any way out of this.

All of a sudden, a red portal opened up in the air in front of the two villains as a lone figure dropped out from it before closing up. The Jedi and Clones were all taken aback and confused by who it was that had just appeared before them, while Shepard and the others, especially Troy, recognized the threat immediately.

"Vrak!" Troy angrily yells.

The young Prince of the Armada slowly raises his head, "Friend of yours?" Anakin asks, already knowing the answer though as he and Obi-Wan immediately sensed the dark and evil presence within this being.

Saren pushes himself up and clutches his right arm "Took you long enough." he says in a chastising voice.

"Do you know how difficult it is trying to receive and then set coordinates to another universe?" Vrak questions in a highly annoyed tone as he turns to look at Saren "It involves a lot of numbers and other things that I could care less about. And don't you dare chastise me, or else I will leave you behind without a second thought!"

"Take him down!" Cody orders.

The Clones fire their weapons directly on Vrak as multiple plasma bolts impact into the prince sending sparks flying. They stop firing however as to their shock as well as the Jedi's, Vrak doesn't react, or even flinch from the multiple shots fired into him. If anything he just turns his head around and looks at them "That doesn't look good." Anakin says.

"More nuisances?" Vrak questions as he turns the rest of his body to face them.

"Everyone get down!" Troy yells.

Vrak throws his right hand forward shooting multiple bolts of red lightning from his hands. The first one striking right in front of Shepard, his team, Anakin, Obi-Wan, Rex, Cody, Fives and the Clones that accompanied them, tossing or forcing them to drop to the ground as many of them cry out. The other bolts strike all around impacting amongst the Clone troops causing explosions to erupt as Clones are thrown through the air or dropped to the ground. Once he was finished Vrak lowers his arm "Let us take our leave." he says.

"No, wait!" Dooku says raising his voice.

But it's too late as a red portal opens above all three sucking them in. Multiple Clones lie on the ground groaning and writhing around in pain.

"Medic! We need a medic!"

"We got wounded over here!"

Shepard and the others are okay for the most part as they pick themselves up back onto their feet. Anakin and Obi-Wan get back up as well as Anakin angrily slams his left fist into his right palm "Agh! We had him!"

"Patience Anakin. We will have our chance. At least we aren't leaving entirely empty handed." Obi-Wan says as he looks over to his left.

Using her lightsaber, Ahsoka cuts off Grievous's four hands and then deactivates it putting it away on her hip as two Clones begin to place him in cuffs.

"There we go. Now he's less of a threat." Ahsoka says turning to Sora with her hands to her hips.

"I'll say." Sora says with his arms crossed "Now if he wants to do any fighting, he might need a helping hand or two." he then says with a large grin on his face.

Ahsoka is a bit taken aback by this as she raises her left brow and bares her teeth in a cringing smile. Sora's face changes to surprise as he then looks around, noticing how all the nearby Clones, even the two cuffing Grievous were now just looking at him.

"Wow. Tough crowd." Sora says.

Ahsoka now couldn't help but start laughing "Are you always like this?" she asks.

"What? It's part of my charm." Sora says with a wide smile while putting his hands behind his head.

"Uh huh. I'm sure it is." Ahsoka jokingly agrees.

"Sora!" Sora hears Chief call for him "We need your magic." he says pointing over to Tigress and Lucy, whom Natsu had brought over, as the two layed on the ground.

A serious look comes to Sora's face "Right!" he says as he rushes over.

Sora stopping beside them as he summons his keyblade "Curaga." he says throwing his keyblade over the two, creating three yellow flowers above them as petals slowly fall onto them before disappearing with a flurry of petals floating around them.

In an instant, any and all wounds they had are completely healed up. The sight of this awes both Anakin, and Obi-Wan as their eyes widen, with Ahsoka also amazed by what she had just witnessed as she walks over. Cody, and Rex are also visibly awestruck by this as Sora looks to them "Bring any of your seriously wounded to me. I'll heal them up." he says.

"You gonna be alright for that Sora? There are a lot of wounded." Shepard informs him.

"It's better than any of them dying." Sora says, a serious tone in his voice.

James and Ashley walk up behind Shepard "Kid's got spirit and his priorities straight." James comments.

Chief walks up to Rex and Cody "Using his magic exhausts him depending on what he's casting." he explains to them.

The two nod their head understanding him "We'll bring him those who need immediate medical attention. Those with minor injuries we'll take care of until he has a chance to properly care for them." Rex says.

Just then Anakin's comlink begins going off as he answers it "General Skywalker. We've defeated the Separatist fleet! What remains of them are retreating now, reinforcements are on the way!" Admiral Yularen reports.

Anakin and Obi-Wan look up just as a number of Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry gunships fly overhead.

"And like that, Battle of Christophsis. Republic 2, Separatists, 0." Anakin comments as he puts his hands to his hips.

"Let us hope this will finally be the turning point in the war we need. With Grievous captured, this will deal a serious blow to the Separatists droid army. Taking Ventress out as well may also hinder many of Dooku's future plans." Obi-Wan says with his arms crossed as he strokes his beard.

"Now if only we could follow up this battle with that momentum we just gained. Thing is…" Anakin says as he looks to Obi-Wan's right who follows his gaze to see Shepard and Chief approaching him.

"I wish my war didn't have to interfere with yours. Especially after a major victory like that." Shepard says as the two come to a stop.

"Yes, this is quite unfortunate. But so long as we keep Grievous and Ventress locked up, it may take some time for the Separatists to truly recover from this defeat. Meaning if we can get your Reaper War over and done with quickly, we may still have a chance to capitalize off this victory." Obi-Wan says.

"What about that Saren guy? He just took Dooku with him? If they weren't in any sort of alliance, I feel like he would have left him behind. If so, then perhaps that means the Separatists are joining Cerberus and the Reapers." Ahsoka points out.

"She's right about that sir. And if the Seppies do join the fight, then perhaps that'll give us a chance at hurting them even more." Rex says.

"True. But this is still something we must take to the Senate and gain their approval for." Obi-Wan says.

Shepard lets out a slightly annoyed with his eyes closed "From one battlefield, to another." he opens his eyes "The battlefield of politics."

"And when this whole thing started, I thought we'd be done and over with that crap. But here we are now. Just can't escape it, it seems." Ashley comments.

"Politics. Never had to deal with it. Glad I don't have to. I don't like fighting an enemy I can't just shoot and get it over with." Chief casually says with his arms crossed.

"Tell me about it. Bunch of stuck up people with their own agendas that could care less about the people. Though there are some good ones I won't group every political person together, though they are very few." Garrus agrees.

"Ugh, sometimes I miss my days of being just a mercenary. Didn't have to deal with crap like this all the damn time. What a simple life, just pay to shoot someone." Wrex adds in.

"Sounds like you're well-versed in the world of politics." Obi-Wan says to Shepard.

"Even though I'm supposed to be just a soldier. I've found myself being put at the forefront of a lot of political stuff for quite some time. Don't like it in the least bit, but gotta do what I can if it helps solve the situation, right?" Shepard says.

"Well, hopefully that experience of yours will help you out quite a bit. The Republic Senate, they can be qui~te something." Anakin says.

Shepard rolls his eyes "Perfect." he says in a less-than joyous attitude.

Back in Shepard's Universe…

UNSC Infinity…

Two New Republic soldiers, one a female human, the other a male Twi'lek, were looking down at a datapad being held by a third New Republic trooper, a male Zabrak, as they exchanged looks with one another.

"Is the admiral being for real?" the female human questioned.

"Fighting alongside the Clones from the Old Republic?" the Twi'lek says.

"Yeah but they're supposed to be from some parallel universe where apparently they don't go bad…" the Zabrak begins to speak.

Off to their side, Ratchet and Clank were walking down the hallway. As they walked they noticed that a lot more soldiers seemed to be walking around armed with weapons, a squad of various Coalition troops even ran by in a hurry.

"What's got these guys spooked?" Ratchet wonders.

"It doesn't seem good, that is for sure." Clank says.

Up on the bridge, Lasky stood at the holotable, Roland next to him on his right with a holo-vid image of Hackett in front of him.

"We have troops, and even a few heroes who volunteered to help, scouring the whole ship Admiral. If there are any Cerberus troops aboard, we'll find them and deal with them. I've had Roland shut the hangar doors, no one's coming in or out, and no ships have left since the Commander and his team's departure." Lasky reports.

"Good. Better one ship risk getting sabotaged then the entire fleet. Nevertheless me and the other leaders have put the entire Coalition Fleet on high alert, don't want there to be any more surprises." Hackett says.

"I understand Admiral. We've stationed guards at every possible high target. Reactor core, engine room, weapons and AI systems. We're ready for whatever these guys attempt, if there are any." Lasky says.

"Better safe than to be sorry. Check every nook and cranny aboard your ship, every ventilation shaft. Leave nothing unturned. We cannot risk anything happening that could jeopardize this whole war." Hackett says.

"Sir. I've lost contact with the squad guarding the reactor room!" Roland suddenly speaks up in alarm.

"What?!" Lasky says in shock and terror.

Ratchet and Clank find themselves looking upon a very bad scene, three UNSC, two Gondor and Inquisition, four Asari, a single Sangheili, and two Eagle soldiers lied dead before their eyes. Among them were four Cerberus phantoms "Cerberus!" Ratchet says in shock seeing these bodies.

Opening the door Ratchet and Clank are greeted by the sight of a phantom slitting the throat of a UNSC crewman, around the room were the bodies of five other crew members, with five phantoms standing before them as they tall turned to the two.

"It appears they are attempting to blow the Infinity up!" Clank says in alarm.

"Yeah, tell me something I didn't notice! Go find some help!" Ratchet says bringing out his Omniwrench and charging forward with a battle cry.

One phantom charged him and swung her sword as Ratchet jumped up and slammed his wrench across the side of her face sending her flying. Another phantom from his left rushed him as Ratchet quickly threw his Omniwrench into her stomach knocking her back as it returned to his hand. The lead phantom lunged at him and brought her sword down forcing Ratchet to raise his wrench to block the attack.

"Set the reactor to overload! Hurry!" the phantom orders her remaining troops.

The two other phantoms get to work on the control consoles.

"I just got here, and I like this ship. So I ain't letting you blow anything up!" Ratchet states.

"Just try and stop us." the phantom challenges.

All of a sudden purple plasma bolts slam into both phantoms on the consoles killing them instantly.

"What?!" the phantom cries out in shock as she looks up.

Only to get hit in the chest by an orange laser blast and blasted back as Ratchet falls on his butt.

"Didn't your mother ever teach you it's not nice to be blowing other peoples' spaceships up?" Ace jokingly remarks, Thel 'Vadam beside him holding up a T-57B Covenant Carbine, with the rest of his team as well as Coalition troops behind him.

Clank pushes his way through and runs up to Ratchet as the group moves in, the soldiers scanning around the room with their weapons "All clear." a male SPARTAN-IV reports.

Ace helps Ratchet to his feet "Don't think we've met yet. I'm Ace." Ace introduces himself.

"Hey Ace, maybe save the introductions for later." Lexi says while still looking forward.

The phantom Ace had blasted still lived as she groaned in pain while lying face down on the floor. Thel sped walked over to her and pushed her over with his right foot "Are there any more of you aboard this ship? Speak now!" he demands while activating and pointing his Prophets' Bane energy sword at her.

The phantom lets out an exasperated breath, which then suddenly changes into her chuckling.

"Why is she chuckling?" Duck questions with a highly worried look on his face "That's usually a bad sign." he continues now clutching his head with his hands and a crazed look in his eyes. "WHY IS SHE CHUCKLING?!" he cries out while then grabbing onto Ratchet's suit and pulling him until he was right in his face as the Lombax was completely taken aback by this.

Rev was kind enough to separate Ratchet from Duck, "Eh~, what's so funny doc?" Ace questions.

"You should have just let me blow this ship up. Hope you're ready heroes. The Illusive Man, sends his regards." the Phantom says as she puts her palm blaster to the side of her head and fires, blowing her whole head completely off as blood goes spraying everywhere.

"Sheesh, a bit excessive much?" Duck says disgusted.

"Rabbarhwooeyuhoh." Slam speaks in his garbled language.

"I'm just gonna assume he said, "That didn't sound good."" Ratchet says with a deadpan expression.

Suddenly the alarms begin going off attracting everyone's attention.

"Captain, what is going on?" Thel asks activating his communicator as he turns around.

"We have Husks, Arbiter! I repeat-"

"Husks are aboard the Infinity!" Lasky yells as all around him the crew of the bridge are on full alert with people shouting various things.

"THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!" A male UNSC Marine shouts as he fires his MA5D, with a US Marine beside him firing his M4A1, and a backing up Systems Alliance Marine firing his M8 Avenger.

In front of them and other Coalition soldiers, a massive dimensional wall from which a horde of various Husks comes marching through. Cannibals, Marauders, and Ravagers firing their weapons away, with regular Husks running at them, and Brutes, and Banshees just slowly walking forward. The Systems Alliance Marine crouches as he continues firing his weapon; some Husks going down from the high volume of fire from the Coalition troops, unfortunately it isn't enough as they just keep coming through the dimensional wall as a high-velocity slug penetrates the Alliance Marine's armor killing him instantly.

Sarah Palmer ducks and spins around to her left as she pulls out her dual M6H2 handguns and joins the fight firing both pistols away one at a time "Hold the line! Nothing gets past!" she shouts.

Lennox who was behind her, moves up to his left "Take cover! You, get that man out of here!" he shouts to a female Dalish Elf as she begins carrying a wounded Turian soldier away.

Lennox crouches behind a UNSC crate as he props his gun up on it and begins firing away.

The Husks continue pouring through, as one normal Husk comes out from the dimensional wall and stops. Letting out a roar.

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Q&A…

To Critic88 - Time is against him, remember that. He doesn't have time to travel around a galaxy in one universe in an attempt to gather more allies. Hence why he only goes for the Turtles. Otherwise you could say he would do that in all the other universes, instead he just works with what he's got on one specific planet.

To William Hoenicke - I'm not much of a song writer so I would have quite some difficulty doing that XP. Only ever played the more recent MK games so don't know a whole lot about the series. Heard of JoJo's Bizarre Adventures, never seen the series. Yu-gi-oh, Bakugan, Digimon (mostly cause those I watched growing up before I came across Anime in general on the internet) just off the top of my head. Other then that, most other anime I watch are the original Japanese Language. I don't understand the whole -kun, and -san thing but a quick google search helps with that. Really? Cause for me the Japanese VAs fit the Characters WAYYYYYYYY BETTER than the English Dubs. I mean, have you heard Natsu's voice in both Japanese and English? The subtitle thing, eh, I guess that's a problem with a lot of people but I'm used to it at this point. Just takes time I guess.

To Actionmoviefan - Because I haven't re-written any other chapters to feature them (if I plan on it). I only re-wrote that chapter to include them just recently. Don't worry they will appear in future chapters to come.

To Krytic - The Master isn't going to be brought up again. Shepard was going to talk to the Doctor yes, but then the whole situation happened that propelled them into the Loonatics Universe. With that being the case Shepard's mind had to go back to "Mission Mode" you could say. And at this point he's too focused on the mission to really bring that up, and he's probably forgotten about it since nothing else has come up to remind him of it as it was only a name brought up once.

To tijearnie16 - Sorry, never seen the Fate/Series or Bleach.

To Gameer98 - Because I have never played any of the Borderlands games.

To Beast Tamerr - Right… cause they would have the time to try and tame Dinosaurs without getting their own men killed in the process or anything. Also I do not see John Hammond, or Owen getting involved in a Multiversal War. Also what powers/abilities do they have that would in any way contribute to the war? Especially John Hammond?

To Dracus6 - Shepard would never allow those who are basically Heroes in Training to get involved in a war. As much as I love My Hero, they won't be appearing in this story just cause they wouldn't work due to their situation as being Heroes in Training.

To nyjoshua - No. I've never seen One Punch Man, and even if I did I would not include him since then the War would end rather quickly.

To Rayman - Ratchet and Clank? It's a video game series, exclusive to the Playstation Series of Consoles.

To FightingKing007 - Sorry never played Killer Instinct, Tekken, King of Fighters, Street Fighter, and Soul Caliber. Fighting games aren't really my thing…

To TheDidactsHand - He is using the new armor, basically the one he wore in Halo 5 Guardians, I looked this up on Halo but I didn't see anything about them including thrusters that...and as I typed this I did a quick look up of Halo 5's cutscenes and they literally use thrusters to get onto a space station. Huh. Didn't say anything on the Halo wikipedia, that or I just skimmed over it somewhere XP. I'll include those in future re-writes but only when it's applicable, also what do you mean by increased abilities? Also this takes place before Halo 5 so Halsey isn't even with the UNSC at this moment in time.

To CT7567Rules - Nope, surprise, I've had the Clone Wars planned since the beginning! The coincidence of the Final Season is just there and perfectly timed you could say. Yeah, to give an exact time, I'm placing this after the Battle of Ryloth Arc so yeah a bit early in the Clone Wars. I can see you're a fan considering your name XD.