So someone commented on the Sith stuff being Darth Rock, Sorry but that won't be his sith name, if anyone has ideas for Leo eventually getting a Sith Title I'd love to hear it

GEONOSIS

Southern Hemisphere,

"Don't let up, we have them on the run!" Leo yelled at the front of the clone troopers, Captain Alpha was behind him following closely behind as the clones tried to keep up with the two of them ready to take out the Geonosian army all on their own. General Krell's battalion was mopping up the remains of a regiment of Geonosian warriors holding out against the Republic forces.

They had dug in on the slope of a steep plateau shooting down at the advancing clones as across from them on another canyon top, Krell was watching Leo with intent.

"Remember what we discussed, Padawan, focus on whatever it is that channels the battle meditation the sooner this happens the sooner we have victory." Pong said into his comlink.

Leo heard him say "Yes Master." Leo looked at the Geonosian warriors charging down the hill engaging the advancing clones with their bare fists to fight for their home. He felt the fury and strife of the battle around him, the rage and fear between warrior and trooper all of it like screams to the mind of a Jedi, he closed his eyes and focused on it, only the thing that kept him alive in moments like this.

Then he opened his eyes, a pulse was sent through the living force back to Krell who grinned ear to ear as Leo had tapped into whatever it was he had. Whatever it was the clones felt, their pace doubled along with their tenacity "Charge!" Captain Alpha yelled as the opposite effect hit the Geonosians. The warriors skirmishing couldn't find the will to resist and lost all heart turning tail and retreating before the clones surrounded their position and they bugs dropped their guns in surrender.

"General Krell, we've secured the position." Captain Alpha reported in.

"Understood, I will join you shortly." Pong said as a Republic transport flew overhead.

When the transport landed the doors opened before Leo, Pong and Alpha to reveal Jedi Master Ki-Adi Mundi all healed up with the only other two Padawans on the planet, Barriss and Offee.

"Greetings Master Mundi, this is unexpected as you see we've mopped up the last of the resistance." Pong said as Leo watched the Geonosians be led off in chains by the clones shoving them to move along like cattle.

Mundi walked down the ramp with Ahsoka and Barris behind them "I can see that Pong, but this is another matter, Skywalker and Kenobi have been able to rescue Luminara and capture Poggle."

"Then the planet is ours." Pong said, holding up his fist.

"Not quite, I fear taking out the Geonosian leadership has turned the situation here more difficult, without a central leadership to command the remaining holdouts it will become rather chaotic in addition there is word from Dantooine."

Leo snapped his head back "What's wrong?"

"Come I'll explain on the way and we can discuss the matter of what is to become of Geonosis." Mundi said before everyone followed him into the ship.

Leo stayed back watching the Geonosians being carted off, when he was about to follow he heard a Geonosian scream.

Everyone looked to see a single Geonosian warrior kneeling down over another one, to them the bugs looked no different from the others but this one seemed to know the dead one as he held onto his fallen brother. "Get moving." One of the clones ordered but the Geonosian looked up and started to curse the clone.

"I said move it bug!" The clone barked, smashing the Geonosian in the face with the but of his rifle "Trooper." Leo said as the Geonosian started to get hammered by the clones "stop it… STOP." Leo said running over hearing the cries of the already defeated geonosian being beaten, whatever Leo had done seemed to have an after effect on the clones leaving the others still as they watched the clone beat the bug to near death.

Leo ran up and grabbed the clone, throwing him off before he kicked the others away "I SAID STOP!" Leo yelled at the clones, one of them saw him and in a split second the clone smashed his rifle into Leo's jaw and pointed the rifle at him.

In a flurry of motion, Captain Alpha appeared and tackled the out of control clone trooper and restrained him "Arrest that clone!" Pong barked, marching up to the scene as Leo stood between them and the defeated Geonosians as Pong walked up "CT-0017 escort arrest this clone for striking a superior officer."

The clone trooper helmet was peeled off and he appeared to be feral his eyes glazed over before he shook the rage off "W-what… General- Commander I-I I don't know what came over me I'm sorrry."

The jedi starred at Leo stunned at the sudden scene before Pong walked up to him parting the clones "I think that's enough padawan." Krell said his tone was back to his sour disposition.

Leo was panting before he saw the way everyone was looking at him "Yes…. my master."

TEMPLE OF THE QUEEN

Later and after a series of unfortunate and extremely strange events for those not accustomed to the Jedi Knights live. Anakin, Obi-Wan and their brave clones had rescued Luminara Unduli from the clutches of Geonosis's queen and her strange powers with the worms. That took hold of the replied as they walked up to Obi-Wan, Anakin and Luminara before they heard Mundi's voice from behind them as he walked up to them, "I'm afraid we have a complication." Mundi said behind Krell as the two Padawans walked out to join their respective masters Leo was behind Krell as always.

As Poggle the Lesser was escorted onto the ship, he spat right at Leo's feet as he walked.

"Don't we always?" Anakin asked with a smirk as his padawan stood behind him.

"I've just received a distress signal from our forces on Dantooine Master Windu's defense held, but at a great cost to his men they need medical supplies immediately we can obtain these supplies at the medical station near Ord Cestus." Mundi said to them.

Leo listened but got distracted when he saw the ruins of the Geonosian temple behind the Jedi and clones, yet another casualty of the battle to take a planet that none of them belonged to.

"We're delivering Poggle to Coruscant and Cestus is not exactly on the way." Anakin said Luminara walked forward.

"The Republic must begin debriefing Poggle right away if we're to get useful intelligence from him." she said.

Anakin suddenly had an idea waking behind both Padawan girls "I suggest we let our padawans handle the supply mission." Anakin smirked as he placed a hand on both Barriss and Ahsoka's shoulders.

"Whatever needs to be done I'm happy to help." Ahsoka offered with a smile "As am I." Barriss agreed, Leo looked back at them listening with one ear and looking at the temple with his eyes.

"Very well take a medical frigate and after we've delivered Poggle to Coruscant, we'll rendezvous with you on the voyage to Dantooine." Obi-Wan said Anakin had taken note of Leo's gaze on the temple and looked at it too.

Then he turned to pong "Master Krell, we'll leave the securing of Geonosis to you and your padawan." Obi-Wan said as Pong looked at the distracted Leo.

"Actually Masters… I would like to offer my Padawans assistance in Tano and Offee's mission, I believe he needs some time away from combat." Krell said in a sudden twist of the Battlefield Legends persona.

None were more surprised then Leo "W-what, but Master I belong at your side." Leo said unaware the weight his words hit on Anakin.

"I concur with Pong, after what we saw before arriving some rest from duty would serve you well Padawan Rock." Seeing the other masters back Pong's suggestion Leo knew there was no point in defying the order.

Leo closed his mouth before he could object "Yes Masters."

Luminara, Obi-Wan and Ki-Adi all ventured onto the shuttle leaving the padawans to go prepare for the voyage and Anakin alone with Pong.

Anakin turned to Pong and looked up at the besalisk "What was Ki-Adi referring too?" Anakin asked.

Pong eyed Skywalker carefully "A minor incident, the boy interfered when a clone was disciplining an enemy combatant who refused to move, but still I think it prudent that Leo leave this planet sooner rather then later."

"You and me both, I'm glad to see you taking an interest in your padawans well being." Anakin said before he realized what he had just said.

It earned him the ire of the besalisk "I- meant no offense Pong I just…." "No apologies required Skwalker, I must say thank you instead your own actions in recusing the Padawans earlier have shown me my own failures as a Master."

"We as the older generation must guide and protect the younger generation if they are to continue the traditions of our Order, one I intend to see stand for another thousand years." Pong said standing tall watching the padawans walk away.

"There the future of the Jedi aren't they?" Anakin asked, smiling "One can only hope Skywalker, one can only hope."

Eventually the padawans along with a squad of clones under Barris's command walked onto the frigate and the pilots started take off a moment later. The Jedi walked to the bridge as Fisto appeared on the view screen. "We are ready to make our jump Master Fisto." Barriss said.

"Good. I look forward to your arrival." he replied, giving them a smile before cutting off as they entered hyperspace.

When they jumped Leo turned to the door and walked away in silence out of the bridge, he reached into the folds of his robes and pulled out the red kyber crystal almost forgetting he'd had it with him "You've been quiet lately?" Leo whispered to it.

I was simply admiring your work, the fear the insects had for you was almost…. intoxicating.

Leo glared down at the crystal "What is happening to me, why am I feeling such… anger?" Leo asked the crystal.

My dear child, if only you knew the power of anger

The boys walked and led him to the crew quarters where he passed by the clones getting into their bunks happy to sleep on beds instead of rocks for a change. He closed his fist around the crystal before he got safely into his own room "Show me then." Leo said before he sat down on the floor placing the crystal down, sitting legs crossed Leo felt the force flow into and out of the crystal and in a flash he entered its dimension.

Leo was transported away from his quarters and onto the barren wastes of a desolate world, he was in the middle of a great arena surrounded by battle. Red lightsabers and melee weapons from swords, axes and spears flew around him he reached for his lightsaber but it was gone suddenly a titanic dark warrior wielding a great axe appeared before him before a red lightsaber appeared through his chest.

The warrior fell and behind him Leo looked to see the Sith Spirit behind him, he was wearing a chainmail sleeve on his right arm and leather greaves on his feet, with most of his chest tattooed with sith markings "W-what is this?" Leo asked.

"A test." The spirit said as the battle raged around them "A test for what?"

"To see who is worthy of apprenticeship." The Sith said pointing up to the only box in the arena. There stood a black cloaked figure on a throne looking down, Leo took only one look to know that it was no ordinary person; it was a Sith Lord.

The spirit spoke again "Only the strongest may be worthy of the Lord's teachings, here gathered are some of the fiercest warriors of my time and it was only through anger I SURVIVED!" The sith said suddenly striking at Leo only to hit above him and sever the head of a tholothian gladiator with a triton.

The sith spirit walked over and picked up the trident "Care to join." He said tossing Leo the trident

When he caught it looked around at the fighting and without a second thought plunged into the vision.

Back on the bridge none of them had noticed Leo had left "Alright I think I'm going to get some shut eye, what about you Leo?" Ahsoka asked when she saw he was gone.

"Where'd he go?" Ahsoka asked Barris "Perhaps Master Mundi and Krell were right, he did need some rest from battle and speaking of."

"I could use a nap too." Ahsoka said over to Barris before the two girls returned to their quarters. When they arrived at the padawan quarters Ahsoka was about to knock on Leo's room "Probably asleep." She said unaware that inside Leo's room, the boy was floating off the floor, his eyes bright red like the crystal that surged with dark side energy between his palms seething into the boy's mind.

Later when Ahsoka and Barriss arrived at their room, both of them being girls around the same age decided to share a cot aboard the medical ship.

After a while when she couldn't find the ability to go to sleep, Ahsoka laid there thinking while hearing her toss and turn, she looked over at Barriss who had her eyes closed shut but Ahsoka could sense her counterpart was still awake.

"What is it?" Barriss asked her from the other side of the room, eyes still shut.

"It's too quiet it's a big change from all the fighting the last few days." Ahsoka complained as Barriss faced her raising her head and opening her eyes. "You should enjoy this peace while it lasts." She suggested.

"I can't let's go eat." Ahsoka suggested Barriss nodded and got up "Should we see if Leo wants to join us, you two are so much alike he probably can't sleep either?" Barriss added as hey walked out of their own room.

The girls made their way to Leo's door and wrapped their knuckles on the door "Hey Rusty, you want to get some food?" Ahsoka called in.

But no answer came, "Must be asleep, best not to wake him?" Barriss pointed out.

"Guess so, come on." Ahsoka said as a clone trooper with a tattoo on his forehead walked past them unnoticed into the clone quarters. He was holding a backpack over his shoulders before he walked in on the sleeping troopers. Kneeling down through the contents of the bags outside at first glance they looked like green fruits before they hatched to reveal eggs, eggs from the Geonosian queen. The worms slithered out and up the walls of the beds into every nose of the clone troopers asleep at first they all thrashed and gagged before going limp and rising in one motion, one mind, one purpose.

What neither the padawans or none of the rest of the crew knew was that inside Leo's room and inside his very mind something else was happening all together.

Leo was at the center of the kyber crystals spell, in the heat of the culling fighting swarms of oncoming wraiths wielding all manor of weapons. At his back covering his flank was the fallen Jedi within the crystal, this ghostly avatar of rage and fury wielded a red lightsaber that matched the color of the crystals sky as the Dark Lord above them watched the battle.

Amongst the gladiators Leo started to see them shift into the Geonosian warriors who defended their home, his triton and the siths lightsaber piercing and slashing them into nothing, "You feel it don't you, the fear you felt when you faced them." The spirit said in Leo's ear.

"Good embrace it, it'll keep you focused, honed and precise." The spirit said before Leo looked behind him to see the spirit was gone but his words continued and Leo found he wasn't just holding the trident anymore."

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to…" Leo looked around surrounded on all sides wielding the trident and unknown in his right hand he held the ancient siths lightsaber "... Salvation."

Outside the dream, Ahsoka and Barriss were in the mess hall eating rations off a tray. It turned out the two girls were the only ones in the mess hall as the rest of the crew were asleep or on the bridge.

"I was just thinking about what you said earlier about enjoying the peace while it lasts as a Jedi, I'm not sure I know how to do that." Ahsoka admitted before taking a bite.

"Master Windu has said we are keepers of the peace not warriors however once the war is over it will be our job to maintain the peace." Barriss replied.

"Yes, but will we do so as keepers of the peace or warriors and, what's the difference?" Ahsoka asked her.

"I don't have all the answers, Ahsoka. Like you, I'm a learner. What does your Master tell you?" she asked while taking a drink.

"Anakin? Oh, um… you might find some of his thoughts on the future… a bit radical." Ahsoka replied.

"Really why?" Barriss asked, smiling a bit curious.

"Let's just say my Master will always do what needs to be done I'm not even sure how peacetime will agree with him." she replied.

Barriss poked at her food "I'd like to ask Leo the same thing?"

"What do you mean?" Ahsoka asked her, "Before we destroyed the weapons factory, Leo was the only one who suggested we offer the Geonosians a chance to surrender seemed out of character for someone called the Berserker."

Ahsoka nodded "Yeah…. out of character, you know I better go check on him."

She was about to get up when the door opened revealing Ox and Edge with their blaster rifles out, to the two padawans they only saw the clone troopers as normal comrades "Evening, Ox, Edge would you like to join us?" Ahsoka asked, smiling while the clones just stared at them.

"Is something wrong troopers?" Ahsoka asked slowly, the clones stepped into the room and the clones raised their blasters opening fire Barriss and Ahsoka stood up, ignited their sabers and deflecting as well. Ahsoka flipped the table and they hid behind it, deactivating their sabers.

"Troopers! Stand down!" Ahsoka ordered just as one of them aimed over the table. Barriss reactivated hers for a moment to cut his blaster in half before punching him away just as the other attempted to go around. Ahsoka then force pushed him into the first and against the wall, knocking them out. The door opened as two other clones named Trap and Havoc entered, blasters aimed.

Barriss and Ahsoka ignited their sabers and brought the tips close to the troopers necks "What are you doing?" Trap asked surprise as they raised their hands in surrender.

"Two clones just attacked us! What is going on?!" Ahsoka demanded.

"Trap do you know what happened to those troopers?" Barriss demanded.

"Couldn't tell you, Commander. I'm just as confused as-" he started before she cut him off, "You're in charge of those men did you order them to kill us?!" Ahsoka demanded again.

"No, sir! I did not!" he replied quickly.

The clones looked at one another with confused expressions at a loss for words "What's happening, why would they do this?!" Ahsoka demanded again.

Havoc answered, "We don't know we heard shots!"

"Why should we believe you?" Barriss demanded. "Look we'll even put our guns down." Trap said as he and Havoc put them down the girls shared a look and seemed to believe them before they sheathed their swords.

"These men wouldn't just attack us without reason." Barriss said, still confused.

"My Master had a clone betray them once, a traitor who was paid off by Ventress." Ahsoka said, frowning from remembering but Barriss wasn't convinced "It can't be that simple." Barriss argued before waking over to the unconscious clones and continuing, "At least it didn't feel like that.".

Trap then stepped forward "Excuse me, sir we should make sure that we're still in control of the bridge." Trap suggested.

"Bridge, this is Barriss. Respond." she said over her comlink but only to receive no answer. "We need to get up there, we need to find out what's going on." Ahsoka said, urgently before dread crossed her face.

"What- what is it?" Barriss asked her friend.

The torgurtan turned to the miralian "If these clones came for us, they must have gone after Leo too come on!" She said running to the door.

"But these two will be coming around any minute." Barriss warned stopping. "Havoc can watch them until we check on the bridge." Trap suggested as his brother picked up his blaster ready to go.

"Okay let's go." Ahsoka said before Trap picked up his gun before the three left the room and started heading to Leo's room.

In said room the kyber crystal was working its power on Leo his red hair was swirling up as his eyes glowed red and the interior of his mind was being warped.

The warriors in the visions arena were thinned out to only a few, through the triton into a gamorean siths face, as he sliced another geonosian with his red lightsaber in half. Finally he grabbed the last would be apprentice with the force and crushed his neck, Leo's eyes were no longer green but yellow and bleeding red before he let out a triumphant yell to the sound of a soft applause. Gazing upward Leo saw the Dark Lord standing up applauding him slowly at his success.

Just then, the doors to Leo's cell were opened by two possessed clones, they looked at one another and saw the strange thing before them, Leo hovering a foot of the floor with the red kyber crystal before him they held up one of the eggs lettin it hatch and walked up behind Leo holding out out.

Leo blinked and his eyes returned to normal. He looked down to see his jedi robes were gone and he was dressed in the Sith Spirits armor and tunic the lightsaber in his hand "W-what…. no this isn't right?"

"But it is." The sith spirits voice said as Leo looked down in the pool of blood to see the sith spirits dark skinned face and yellow eyes looking back at him.

Leo dropped down to his knees "NO! I am a jedi!" Leo barked.

"Yet you kneel before a Dark Lord of the Sith." The spirit said making Leo look up at the Sith Lord who reached down and offered Leo his hand.

Leo looked up and then looked at is hands stained with blood "You are Sith Leo Rock, why fight it the Darkness calls to you like a flame to a moth only instead of burning you shall rise stronger than any Jedi all you need to do is reach out…" the spirit said Leo looked up at the Sith Lord, the vision of the arena started to fade as Leo raised his arm and hand, the dark cloaked Sith Lord grew closer to him hand ready to lift Leo up.

"And take it!" The spirit said from all around and Leo started to see the shadows around the Sith Lords face recede to reveal who the Sith Lord was, it was-

The shadows shattered back to the arena by a blood curling roar "...no…" the sith Spirit said as the earth shook beneath Leo's feet. It cracked open and a gigantic green worm shot up out of the ground the size of a train, it had a dozen eyes and its mouth opened in three lips with razor sharp teeth screeching a roar to the sky.

Outside the vision the crystal dropped to the floor as the brain worm wriggled into Leos head. The taken clones watched as Leo's hovering halted and he dropped to his wet grabbing his head thrashing in the cabin.

Inside his mind he was still in the sith spirit's spell "What is this!?" Leo demanded as the sith Spirit reappeared in his usual regal red and black robes. The worm tore apart the arena crumbling the stones and drilling in and out of the earth coiling around them.

"An invader, not of my doing." The Sith told him "Liar, this is just another trick." Leo accused.

"Foolish boy this thing seeks to take us both, we must act." The sith said flicking his hands before they electrified with force lighting, Leo looked down at the lightsaber and picked up turning on the red blade

Outside in the ship, Ahsoka, Barriss and Trap were about to make another turn when the security shields were activated in that hallway. "Someone doesn't want us going up there." Ahsoka said as Barriss kneeled down beside a panel.

Ahsoka held up her wrist trying to contact the other padawan "Leo, come in somethings wrong with the clowns."

"Graaaaahh!" Leo was screaming on the other end "Barriss Hurry!" Ahsoka snapped hearing her friends shrieks.

"I'll attempt to override the controls." she said before pressing the buttons Ahsoka suddenly spun on her heels when she sensed Trap was raising his blaster at them and slashed Trap's gun in half as the trooper attempted to shoot Barriss before knocking her saber out of her hand as he grabbed Barriss the clone's eyes went white as a long green worm started crawling out of his mouth Barriss managed to summon her lightsaber and stab him through the chest.

The worm jumped out of Traps slacked mouth and started crawling on his Barriss' neck. "Get this thing off me!" she cried out before managing to grab it and throw it off. Ahsoka cut it in half as she flew past her before deactivating her saber.

The two halves of the worm kept wiggling on the ground as Ahsoka shuddered in revulsion. "What is that?" she asked, looking at its dying body.

"Looks like some type of parasite must be controlling their actions." Barriss replied. "Mind control… Well that explains a lot Trap was my friend, he would never have tried to kill us." Ahsoka reasoned as the worm finally died.

"How did these things get on board in the first place?" Ahsoka wondered as the mystery plot thickened.

"They must have infected the clones while they were on Geonosis." Barriss realized.

"We'll have to quarantine the ship." Ahsoka said.

"We should also contact Master Fisto and let him know about the situation." Barriss suggested.

"Let's go." Ahsoka told them as they started running through the corridor before hearing a familiar sound coming from the storage room.

"That sound, it's…" Barriss started before Ahsoka finished, "Geonosian." She frowned as they hid behind the open door and watched as two infected clones held an uninfected one that was struggling while another walked up to him with a worm in his hand. "We have to help him!" Ahsoka said urgently.

the worm crawled into his nose and he started convulsing. "It's too late." Barriss said quietly as the clone stopped before blaster fire came at them from the other end of the corridor. The padawans ignited their sabers and started deflecting as they were forced to move back and into the room with the infected clones. Ahsoka used the Force to close the door just as the infected clone reached it before they turned around to face the others. One of the clones walked forward with two eggs and Ahsoka tried Force pushing him away, the clone managed to throw them before he was pushed but luckily they slashed the eggs in time. This seemed to anger the clones as they screeched in Geonosian and opened fire just as the clone outside the room got the door open.

Barriss pulled a crate down in front of them and Ahsoka slashed the gun of one that was beside the crate before pushing him away and knocked back the clone near the door before the three took behind a larger crate looking up. "Let's go for the vent!" she said before they started jumping up on the crates and reaching the top.

The other padawan quickly used the Force to remove part of the vent before they jumped in as the clones continued shooting as both crawled through the vent before noticing clones running just below them in one of the corridors.

"We can't do this alone, we need Leo to go find Leo before it's too late" Ahsoka insisted "By the sound of your comlink it already sounded like it was too late."

"I'll go to the reactor room and disable the thrusters, you head for the AFT comm-centre and send a warning to Master Fisto we have to stop the ship from reaching the medical station." Barriss told herbefore they started crawling forward again.

Ahsoka suddenly grabbed Barriss by the arm "I'm not letting whatever those words are get Leo."

"Ahsoka I know he's your friend but we have to think of the greater good." Barriss urged both padawans sounding exactly like their masters "No he'd come back for me I know it."

Barriss could feel the pain in Ahsoka's voice "Alright go then, but let me go to the reactor room to disable the thrusters." Barriss urged.

"I don't know Barriss I think we should stay together three lightsabers are better then one." Ahsoka said, unsure about splitting up as they stopped at a junction. "As do I unfortunately that's not a luxury we have right now one of us must succeed Ahsoka If you need to, you'll do what must be done…. I know it." Barriss said to her. "Yes, of course then i'll see you soon." she replied.

Leo and the Sith Spirit were fighting the great wyrm beast, outside the brain worm was just that a worm inside the mind it was a great serpent slithering and striking like a cobra. Leo jumped on its back stabbing at its thick green hide as the sith spirit shot blasts of force lighting at it making it screech in fury.

Back in Leo's room he was still convulsing as the mind controled clones looked at one another before Leo suddenly went limp, his back to the possessed clones.

They leaned in waiting to see him raise up to show he had been taken control of, but hung over Leo suddenly straightened rolling his neck so much his joints popped. Like a tornado Leo shot around his eyes shut before he raised them. The eyes shot open, not white and rolled back but bright red like the kyber crystal and escaping Leo's gritted teeth like fangs was a snarl like a lions. Like the king of the beasts Leo pounced, throwing a punch right at the first clone so hard he knocked the trooper back and proceeded to smash the man's face in with a barrage of punches in a feral rage.

The other clone trooper tried to restrain Leo but the brain worm had no idea what he was facing, Leo turned around and threw an elbow into the possessed clone's jaw, knocking him out before he resumed his assault on the clone trooper. Leos fists started to break bone from nose to cheek making the clone trooper spit up blood before Leo grabbed the clone trooper and smashed him right in the throat, in a convulsive move the clone trooper spit up his own guts and the parasite. Leo looked down at the parasite and grabbed it before it could run away, it squealed in his grip as Leo or whatever he was now roared at it before crushing the worm in a gooey crush. He turned his attention to the other trooper on the floor. Kneeling down Leo grabbed the trooper by his armor and pulled before he held up his hand.

Leo was gone, something else was controlling his actions as he reached into the clone trooper with the force, he convulsed in reverse as Leo made the clones nose bleed followed by the brain worm being pulled out against its will when it showed its first inch Leo grabbed it and pulled it out throwing it into the wall with a splat.

Inside his mind another battle was being waged, the two forces vying for control of Leo's mind battled relentlessly as Leo was thrown off the back of the serpent. The sith spirit held it at bay with his force lighting and sith magic but the beast's gigantic size could easily take whoever was thrown at it.

"What are you doing pathetic boy, get up!" Leo heard the Sith Spirit order him as he got to his feet when the serpent appeared to back away.

"NO HE WILL BE MINE!" A new voice suddenly roared out, Leo looked up to see it was the serpent that spoke "You- your kind have killed my children I will have my revenge!" The voice was deep at first bust started to lighten into what sounded like an female, they watched the worm shed its skin like a snake before its head burst and before Leos minds eyes he saw the worm turn into the Geonosian Queen, Karina the Great.

"Jeedai fools- you thought you could kill ME, my kingdom is Eternal!" She screeched down at them.

The sith spirit only smirked, then snickered then laughed "You daaaare laugh at I, Queen of Geonosis!"

"You are no Queen insect." The sith spirit said "We are no Jedi, we are SITH AND THIS BODY IS MINE!" The sith spirit said throwing a lightning bolt at her, Leo felt the lighting hit her and felt the lighting as if it hit him instead he fell down looking at the red sky shattering around him his mind breaking, he grabbed onto the sides of his head where the pain was the greatest out of control of what was going on.

Elsewhere in the vents Ahsoka climbed her way to Leo's room when she heard him, Leo was wobbling in the hallway hands around his head trying to resist both the brain worms of the Queen and the Sith Spirits incantation.

His moans of pain were almost too much to bear when Ahsoka looked down to see Leo was foaming at the mouth bleeding out of his nose. Suddenly a squad of the posed clones appeared speaking in geonosian Leo snapped his head toward them and took out his white lightsaber "Get- get- GET OUT OF MY HEAAAAAAAADDD!" Leo screamed running at them as he turned on his lightsaber, deflecting their lasers.

Ahsoka didn't need to be a Jedi master to know that if Leo got within striking distance of the clones it would be a bloodbath, she kicked the vent open and dropped out between him and the clones. Summoning every ounce of force she could muster Ahsoka repulsed Leo and the clones back into the wall. The clones crashed into ships haul hard getting knocked out, Leo tumbled back on the floor still growling as a war was waged inside his mind.

Queen Karina continued to attack the Sith Spirit "Take you, I take you I control you to KILL YOU LIKE YOU KILLED MY CHILDREN!" she screeched as the Sith Lord grabbed her with the force.

"Kill me, don't make me laugh!" the sith said grabbing her with the force, Leo watched the spirit lift Karina's image off the floor of the ruined arena "I am Sith, entire armies have failed to vanquish me even Death cannot touch me here." he said, smashing her on the ground.

Outside Ahsoka saw Leo thrash "Leo?" Ahsoka asked inching closer to him taking out her lightsaber.

Karina screamed as the sith electrocuted her "Puny insect whatever revenge you seek it pales in comparison to our own, the boy will serve me and me alone." the spirit said.

"Leo… come back." Leo's eyes shot open inside the spell, he heard Ahsoka's voice calling to him as the sith said "He will bring forth the Revenge of the Sith which has been so long denied to me."

Leo looked up at the Sith rising, he had the lightsaber in his hand "Serve you?" Leo asked behind the Spirit who turned around to see Leo walking toward him up the pile of ruins. The spirit stopped his attack on Queen Karina "To serve yourself, I am here to tell you the truth- the truth about the force and the Jedi."

Ahsoka's voice called out to him again, "Leo snap out of it."

Both the boy and the spirit heard her "They don't care about you, they'll turn on you out of fear of your power."

Leo looked back at the sith then down at Karina who was slowly recovering "I can't control their fear… I can only control my own, and as for serving you." Leo said fighting his grip on the lightsaber.

The sith spirit swung his arms around with force lighting tanking a round his finger tips before Leo drove the lightsaber into the sith spirits chest "I WILL NEVER SERVE THE SITH!" Leo yelled, pulling out the lightsaber and the vision began to shatter around him Karina let out a cackle of laughter as she rose expanding in size and enveloping his mind.

"But you will serve me!" Karina howled opening her massive jaws that grew with fangs and pincers before Leo held up the red lightsaber and hurled it right at her face.

"Leo, Leo come on fight it." Ahsoka said shaking him and slapping him across the face, Leo's eyes shot open emerald green before he saw her. Ahsoka smiled closely looking at him "Ahsoka I L-urk." Leo grabbed his mouth and got up walking away before he keeled over and puked out the brain worm, he looked scurry away before going into the floor vents.

Ahsoka came up behind him "That looked unpleasant what were you about to say." she said.

Leo wiped the puke and blood away from his nose and lip "Yeah… nothing, what's the situation?"

"In a nutshell, clones are being mind controlled by worms and we may all die." Ahsoka said shrugging as Leo picked up his lightsaber "When we got sent on this mission, I was not ready for today." Leo said beside her "What's the plan?" Leo asked her.

She started to head down the hallways "Barriss is turning off the engines, I'm going to warn Master Fitso before we can make port." she told him "Lead the way." Leo said passing by his quarters he stopped to look at the kyber crystal before following her to the commutation aboard the he ship. When they came in Ahsoka jumped into the seat and hailed the medical outpost.

When she brought Master Fitso up to speed she finished with "As long as these things are on board, we dare not dock with the medical station." Ahsoka said to Fisto and a communications clone on the view screen after they reached the comm-centre and informed the older Jedi of the situation.

"You must bring the ship in the only way we can stop these parasites is to analyze them." Kit informed them.

"You don't understand how terrible these things are." she warned before asking, "What if they get loose?" she asked him.

"We will take precautions." he assured her "I have a bad feeling about this, Master Fisto but we will follow your instructions." she complied but sounded unsure and worried looking up at Leo "Any ideas Rusty?"

"We should try contacting the Resolute, let them know what's happening." Leo suggested.

"Good idea." she replied before doing so. "Almost got it." she said, pressing a few more buttons when the screen suddenly showed Rex.

"Cargo ship, TB-73. This is clone captain Rex on the screen please respond." he said. "Rex, this is Ahsoka and Leo boy, am I glad to hear your voice." she said with a relieved sigh.

"Likewise, Commander, I've got someone here who wants to speak with you." he said before moving out of the way as Anakin appeared on the screen.

"Leo, Ahsoka, what's going on, are you okay?" Anakin asked. "Well... not exactly." she started slowly before explaining the situation, "Two clones attacked Barriss and I, they also attacked Leo trying to force these worms into our heads."

Anakin's face went white with fear "The brain worms, when Obi-Wan and I rescued Luminara we encountered the Geonosian Queen she used the worms to reanimate dead soldiers and tried to take control of Luminara."

Leo shrugged "Makes sense I think I had a conversation with her before I Ahsoka rescued me."

"What?" Ahsoka asked him "Yeah what she said." Anakin said "I think Queen Karina's consciousness survived in the worms, she doesn't seem to be in a good mood." Leo told them as Anakin assessed the situation from light years away.

"Make sure you both have a wrist com, keep them on, I'm going to interrogate Poggle he might have some answers, find Barriss and wait for my signal." he said as they turned their coms on before he cut out.

Ahsoka swiveled her chair around to him "So let me get this straight you were able to communicate with the worms?" Ahsoka asked him.

"Somehow, It may be because we're Jedi." Leo said "Well what did she say? What do they want?" she asked him.

Leo paused thinking it over "Revenge for us attacking Geonosis, killing her children it was so much anger- hate."

When the door opened and Barriss walked in unarmed and alone "Barriss, you're back were you successful?" Ahsoka asked her, but Barriss just stared at them ominously. "Barriss… what's wrong?" Ahsoka asked her, frowning while her voice became a bit shaky as the miralian raised her hand and Leo's moved to his lightsaber.

"Barriss no!" Ahsoka gasped, getting out of her seat as her friend Force pushed the glass, shattering it and pushing the shards forward.

Ahsoka dodged protecting her body, luckily none of the shards pierced either her or Leo. "We're your friends! Barriss snapped out of it!" she begged but Barriss ignited her saber and jumped at them.

Leo blocked the blade with his own and pushed her away "Barriss it's not you! It's the creatures that fight them!" Ahsoka pleaded, trying to reason with her jedi Barriss only smiled as Leo started to get up "They were pathetic." Leo said, getting Barriss attention.

"Your warriors?" Leo asked as Barriss looked over at him "I slaughtered them, your children I KILLED THEM ALL!" Leo yelled. Barriss screeched like a Geonosian and ran at him before Leo used the force to push her into the wall "Run." Leo snapped before they fled out of the room.

After making another turn they noticed Barriss had finally caught up. The two padawans were suddenly thrown against the wall and Barriss brought her saber down on Ahsoka, but Leo managed to block it before kicking her away. Ahsoka crouched and kicked her feet out from under her before Leo kicked her in the chest, sending her to the ground on her back. They ran off again while trying to put some distance between them and her. They stopped upon noticing a vent cover above them. Leo moved it open with the Force before Ahsoka jumped into it, he then jumped up as Barriss stopped underneath them to look around for a moment before continuing then placed the vent cover back on just in case.

The two stopped moving for a moment when they noticed a group of clones walking below them. "This is Ahsoka, come in." she whispered urgently into her com. "Ahsoka, Leo, listen to me. The worms are affected by the cold." Anakin said.

"Cold? That's how we stop them?" she asked as Leo looked down at the Geonosians possessed clones hearing them, he winced as something in his ear tingled he began to understand them.

'We must find the Jedi Murderers, our Queen will have her Justice' one of them said 'Justice for Geonosis the Jedi will pay'.

"Rupture the cooling systems." Anakin said just as a clone walked underneath the vent. Leo quickly grabbed her and pulled her away from the opening as they both slapped a hand over her com, trying to muffle Anakin's voice. The clone seemed to think it was nothing and walked away, the padawans looked at one another distractedly before snapping out of it and separating with blushes when Anakin spoke, "Did you hear me? Rupture the coolant system!" he said.

"The coolant system got it." she replied before cutting off and exiting the vent Leo jumped down after her and they started to move through the ship again.

A few more minutes later they reached their destination and entered the room with three identical cooling systems and a console in the middle. Leo stood in front of the console with his back towards it and watched the door as Ahsoka started moving around it and pressing buttons before she was about to pull a lever, but then Leo grabbed her arm.

"Wait." he said "If we do this, we're killing the Queen too."

"So, she's already dead right?" Ahsoka asked him "I- I don't know if something is telling me to wait." Leo said to her as their comlink went off.

"Padawans this is Master Fitso, you're coming in fast you must slow down." he said, Leo and Ahsoka exchanged glances.

Ahsoka reached for the lever "No time to argue." Leo grabbed her arm again before he let go "Do it."

The yellow lights in the room went out and temperature started to drop before they exited the room and started running down the corridor again, Leo shook his head in disgrace as he followed Ahsoka the ship's new temperature filling the corridors with thick frozen fog. The padawans stopped for a bit and rubbed their arms shivering before they came out of a vent. "Still think a tube top is practical?" Leo asked her.

"Sh-sh-shut up- r-r-rusty." Ahsoka said before they heard a lightsaber turn on, Leo and Ahsoka turned round to see Barriss speaking with Karina's voice.

"There you are you can't hide from me!" The infected Barriss' voice said from behind them.

The two of them started to run before Leo stopped at a vent "Get to the bridge I'll hold her off." Leo said as Ahsoka opened a vent.

"What- okay just don't kill her." she said before hopping into the vent, Leo turned around "I won't I've had enough killing." he said taking out his lightsaber and engaging Barriss.

"Murderer you killed my children!." Barriss/Karina screamed "I did!" Leo snapped his anger rising as he swung at her and she used Barriss's Jedi training to black and parry his blows "But you brought war two your people by joining with Dooku, you could have surrendered any time but instead you chose to fight." Around the ship the possessed clones were starting to become infected by the cold severing the world's control on them.

Leo dodged another strike "The Republic hated Geonosis, the Republic never helped, never cared about my children but Dooku did, Dooku gave us power." she said, Leo's mind drifted to the words of the Sith about becoming powerful.

His distraction cost him dearly, as Barriss used the force to smash Leo into the wall before she went over Ahsoka, who had finally made her way to the bridge via the floor vents.

"The bridge, at last." Ahsoka said relieved while shivering as they ran through the door, she sat in the pilot seat and started pressing buttons to try and contact the station up ahead.

"We're coming in awfully fast, this is Ahsoka Tano! Can you hear me? I'm shutting down the engines, I'll try to reverse the-'' she stopped speaking when she sensed Barriss had come into the room behind to dodge a slash from Barriss that hit the console, causing a few coolant tubes to come loose. Barriss cried out in surprise as one blasted her in the face with cold air and fell back to the floor when the door to the bridge opened with Leo walking in clutching his side, a rib most likely broken.

"Kill me, please!" Barriss begged her. "I can't." Ahsoka replied as she managed to get up and look out the viewport before turning around as Barriss grabbed her and a worm started coming out of her mouth, Ahsoka drew her lightsaber ready to cut Barriss down where she stood "STOP!" Leo snapped, halting Ahsoka's lightsaber, the freezing cold of the ship showering them with frost.

Leo knelt down in front of the screeching Barriss and held out his hand to her, the worm slithered up onto his palm and up his arm, Barriss fell over onto the floor unconscious "Leo- what are you doing!" Ahsoka shivered to ask.

The worm coiled around his neck "I have to make this right." Leo said as the worm went into his head he backed out of the room and shut the door "Leo no-" Before the worm seized control of his mind.

Leo was on a frozen cliff side of red rock, thick white clouds were overhead with a blizzard enveloping an entire desert. It was Geonosian, the shining suns of the world were nowhere to be seen but what Leo did see, cloaked in snow and frost was Queen Karina the Great, and she was dying. She was shivering up on the hill breathing in raspy weak gasps of cloud before Leo approached her and kneeled.

"Your Majesty." he said in respect "May I speak."

Karina was hunched over her head bowed, holding her frostbite covered crown "Speak… don't speak… it doesn't matter my Kingdom…. my children… my world is gone."

"Your world lives, your people are alive, they fought bravely to defend you and their kingdom." Leo said rising "Jedi don't know, no Jedi know…" she said looking up at the stars.

"Geonosis never wanted war- I never wanted war, I wanted to see my children flourish in the Galaxy but we were ignored, forgotten by the Jedi and Republic Dooku said he could make us Strong….." she said turning around "I was not strong… I was not a Queen." she said, throwing her crown off the cliff they stood on before a cold wind started to blow, the desert itself started to become blanketed in snow as the stars were covered by thick white clouds raining snowflakes down on them.

Karina shivered again as Leo held out his hand to her "I… I'm sorry your Majesty." Leo said "But you weren't weak, you didn't fail your people- you fought on to the end even after death to avenge your people… you did not fail, we failed you." Leo said before Karina reached out and took his hand as the snow storm frozen them into darkness.

Ahsoka cradled Barriss in her arms as the frost started to reach her very core, she waved her hand at the door and it opened to reveal Leo on the floor, the brain worm slithering out of his mind before it died right in his hand. Outside the transport was heading straight for the station before it docked.

A boarding tube locked onto the bridge's side before clones burst in with Master Kit Fitso seeing Ahsoka and Barriss together and Leo on the floor. He walked in and knelt down Ahsoka. He cupped her cheek and she woke up in a shiver "Hello- Master Fitso-o-o- we're ready to pick up the supplies."

"We'll take care of that, you rest now Ahsoka." Kit said before she passed out.

Ahsoka shot up from the bed he was on, knocking the sheet off in the process. "It's alright you two. It's okay. You're safe." Ahsoka looked to see Anakin sitting over her speaking as he reassured them gently.

"Barriss- Leo?" she asked him concerned before her master gently pushed her back onto the bed before bringing the sheet back up. "Barriss and Leo are fine thanks to your efforts." he reassured with a smile as they looked over to her sleeping and Leo across from them in another bed "And so are the clones." the Knight added. "What were those things?" she asked him tiredly.

"I think I can help answer that." Fisto said as he entered the room, smiling before continuing when he walked up to Ahsoka's bed "We had the parasite ones analyzed, they are the same type of creature you found on Geonosis, Master Skywalker." Anakin sat up from Ahsoka's bed and walked up to Fisto while speaking Leo started to wake up too.

"We'll have to inform the troops on Geonosis, this parasite may explain how they recaptured the planet the first time. I don't want it happening again."

Fisto and Anakin turned their attention to the two conscious padawans before Fisto spoke with a gentle smile, "You have been through quite an ordeal, little ones." Leo continued to pretend to be asleep turning his head away so none would notice he was wide awake would've glared at the person who called him a 'little one', but after everything that happened to him today he didn't care and just smiled tiredly. "Master Skywalker, may I have a word?" Ahsoka asked as Leo pretended to still be asleep. He nodded to her and Fisto left.

"Master on the ship, Barriss was gone and she wanted me to kill her… She told me…" she trailed off. "But you couldn't do it." he finished gently.

"But, should we have…? I mean. It worked out now, but if we had failed if the ship docked and the worms spread and..." she asked Anakin quietly, trailing off at the end.

"Ahsoka. It's your duty to save as many lives as you can Barriss knew you could save thousands if the worms were destroyed. Which she thought meant destroying her too but you did the right thing." he said with a gentle smile before standing up and continuing as Leo listened turning his head over to look out at the stars thinking of Geonosis of the warriors he'd slain of the Queens last moments.

"You knew the freezing cold would kill the worms." They looked at Barriss before he turned back to Ahsoka and spoke again softly, "Letting go of our attachments… is a difficult struggle for all of us you followed your instincts. I'm sure she would agree it was the right choice." Anakin then took his leave while Ahsoka looked out the viewport of the stars.

Leo finally started to rise letting the blanket fall, Anakin looked to see him "Ah Rusty welcome back." Anakin said before he met Leo's cold glare, still as cold as the ship most likely.

"Did we?" Leo asked him.

Anakin was puzzled "Did we what?"

"Did we make the right choice General Skywalker?" Leo asked getting off the table his legs almost falling out from under him "Whoa take it easy." Anakin urged.

"Geonosis did we make the right choice attacking them?" Leo asked leaning on his bed pushing himself to his feet "Leo we-" "We slaughtered them!"

"Like Animals!" Leo screamed at Anakin, his words ringing to deep into Anakin to respond. The sudden commotion brought in Kit and one of the medical clones "What's going on here?" Kit asked when he saw Leo up.

"Trooper help him." Kit ordered but Leo pushed him away "We attacked first- they were only defending their home from us- US JEDI!" Leo yelled at them.

Anakin calmed Kit down with a wave of his hand "Leo what you all did on Geonosis what we did helped bring peace."

"Peace- peace we brought war, death and destruction General!" Leo yelled at him panting hard still weak "I will carry the shame of what I did on Geonosis forever." he said using the wall to lean on as he headed to the door trying to get out.

"Leo you-" "I felt her die!" Leo almost yelled looking back at Anakin "Who?" Kit asked.

"The Queen, I felt her in my head with the worms- she was so afraid she was lost. The death of her children drove her insane and in the end she died, cold, afraid… and alone." Leo said, finding his footing shaking his head walking to the door.

Anakin followed him "Leo stop." Leo obeyed but didn't turn around "As Jedi we make difficult choices everyday, like attachments we have to learn to let go of the past."

"If this is what being a Jedi… then I don't know what I am." he said before walking out.

Anakin was about to follow but Kit stopped "Let him go for now Skywalker."

Later Leo was back aboard the transport as heat lamps were melting off the frost into puddles. He walked into his old quarters and found the red kyber crystal before he picked it up and walked out leaving the transport behind so it could take the medical supplies to dantooine and as he returned to the station it began to speak to him.

I knew you couldn't go on without me…

He said nothing only walked through the station clutching the crystal around his fist as he got into an elevator.

See the Jedi don't care what you think, they only want to control you the way they want to control Geonosis, when one person says no to them they grow in fear.

The elevator lowered and Leo came out onto an almost empty hanger with only a few service droids moving cargo and supplies around as Leo walked up to the hanger entrance that was rayshielded.

What, nothing to ask, nothing to say- SPEAK TO ME, YOU THINK YOU COULD HAVE COME THIS FAR WITHOUT ME!

Leo stopped at the edge of the hanger looking out at the stars then down at the crystal in his palm.

What are you doing you- no, no you can't get rid of me I helped create you I am Sith I am your Master obey me I COMMAND

"Nothing." Leo said, throwing the crystal out of the force field where he saw it began to drift away "Your nothing but a shadow of a traitor long dead, you have no power or control over me… only I do."

Foolish boy, one day I shall return to you and DESTROY ALL JEDI LIKE YOU!

Do You Hear Me!

i will return… and destroy…. you… jedi...

"That's right, Jedi and don't you forget it." Leo said turning around and turning his back on the red kyber crystal that began to drift along in space its voice no longer able to reach him, the small speck of red light in the darkness drifted far away. Flowing all the way into regions far out of Republic control before a crimson starship appeared to spy it from almost out of nowhere, far away from the Republic Station now the crystal was sucked inside the ship before it found itself onto the bridge in the hands of Tol Skorr.

Tol held up the crystal in his palm "Hmmm seems like you weren't enough to turn the boy… whoever you are?" he said The crystal awoke to the sound of his voice

Insolent Acolyte do you know who I am!?

"No and I don't care." Tol said before he opened a drawer and put him in it "My Master has plans for the boy, as do I perhaps you will be of some use later." Tol said before he flew his ship into hyperspace.

Alright, so as always tell me what you think. Give me ideas and so on, also as we near closer to the end of this book. I want ideas of what Leo should look like in season 3 and what next episode of Season 2 since we have quite a few to pick from. Also I may just some of the first 9 episodes of Season 3 before they all get new looks