Chapter 1: Return
As the Star Destroyer dropped out of hyperspace Anakin felt saddened at the sight of Geonosis. He had hoped he would never have to come back here again. The clones who gave their lives here helped turn the tide of the Clone Wars for the Republic. He felt saddened at the sight of it. He remembered all of it. Every scream, every explosion and every blaster shot.
They were back here for hopefully the last time on a mission to kill or capture the separatist leaders. If it went according to plan this should be one of the last battles of the clone wars.
They were so desperate to win that they had pulled out as many clone commando squads as they could and bought half the grand army of the republic. In total it was something like 5 million troops, 1 million space/atmosphere vehicles and 1 million land vehicles.
'General we are be preparing to enter the atmosphere, you need to go and brief you troops'. That was 22 a clone trooper, who had just been promoted to Admiral. " OK 22 I'm going now" Anakin replied. He left the bridge and walked down to the armoury. Usually Jedi do not carry any more weapons than their lightsaber, but today Anakin wasn't keen to relive what happened at the second battle of Geonosis. He had been surrounded by battle droids with out any backup or his lightsaber. Today he was going to be carrying a DC-5w the most hi powerd side arm in the entire Republic army and navy. When they reached the central hive he would step into a mech suit that was equipped with a DC-23 minigun, the Big brother to the standard minigun; and a slot to put his lightsaber that was remotely activated so he could fight with it as well.
After he visited the armoury he headed down to the hangar to brief the 501st legion. "General on deck!" The voice of Captain Rex rang out and echoed around the hangar. The entire 501st command group sprang to attention. "At ease soldiers". "Here is our strategy, The 41st attack corps will attack the main hangar and disable the main hangar bay. They will then meet up with the flame cor and torch the whole place. Most of the army will be attacking on the north or east sides if the droid factory and main hive. Our mission along with the 212th is to destroy the cannons and the tank factory that supports the enemy. We will be dropping out side of the main radar and using speeder bikes and gunships to get to the cannons. Any questions?". There were no questions so he dismissed them all except for Fives and Rex. "We need to find the extra supplies of ammunition and shells left behind after the last siege. Get the men you have chosen ready to leave as soon as possible". He said to them. They both saluted and walked away to the guship that was going to carry them to the ground.
Anakin walked over to the same gunship and joined them. "Inserts going to be hot sir" said Rex. "I know Rex, we just need to get to the rondeaveu intact so we can start the mission" Anakin replied. "Doors open in 15 seconds… 14 seconds" The voice of the opening sequence enganged. "Prepare yourselves!" Anakin yelled. "Doors open" came the mechanical voice. "Here we go boys!" Yelled Fives.