Shadow's Odyssey 2: The Chaos Continues

Luke concentrated on the pieces of his lightsaber. Letting the Force guide where the pieces should go.

"Make sure you don't put the emitter matrix in backwards or you'll have a bomb instead of lightsaber." Anakin advised.

Luke readjusted the piece in question and brought all of them together. He opened his eyes and surveyed his work. Luke glanced at his father.

"Try it out." Anakin said.

Luke pressed the switch… and a green blade shot out of the hilt.

"Whoa…" Luke breathed.

"Impressive. Most impressive." Anakin praised.

Shadow hurried into the workspace they were using. "Everyone in the meeting room now! Sidious is here!"

Anakin's entire body tensed. He knew this moment would come. He just wished he had more time. But the will of the Force clearly didn't care what he wanted. And so, Anakin left the room to go face his destiny.

In the meeting room, everyone gathered around a table.

"How many ships did he bring?" Bo-Katan asked.

"By the looks of things, I'd say all of them." Tails replied.

"Wow, he must really want to kill us." Sonic snarked.

Han groaned. "I knew this was a mistake."

Gungi roared.

Petro provided a translation. "Gungi's right. We need to stay focused on the present here. We need to come up with a defense strategy now." He looked at Anakin. "So General Skywalker, what do we do?"

Anakin took a second to process what Petro just said. "I'm sorry, what?"

"You're the one with the most experience in military leadership, so you're in charge."

Anakin looked at everyone else at the table. They were all looking back at him expectantly.

"Okay, first things first, we need to be able to fend off any type of air strike. Who here is a good pilot?"

Tails raised his hand, along Han and Chewbacca.

"Alright, the three of you will be with me on air defense. Then, we can expect them to deploy ground forces. Now there's a lot of open space surrounding this temple, so the enemy won't have any cover. Of course, that also means neither will we."

"I could dig us a trench." Knuckles offered.

"I'm afraid we're not gonna have time for that."

Tails spoke up for his friend. "Actually, we do. He's very good at digging."

"He really is." Luke agreed. "He was able to dig out these long tunnels in just a few minutes."

"Alright then. Get to work on that trench now." Anakin thought it over a bit more. "And once you're done with that, I'm gonna need you to dig a lot more tunnels."

Everyone took their positions. Tails had forced Sonic to be his co-pilot to make sure he wasn't running around with his bad leg. Chewbacca chose to be Han's co-pilot aboard the Falcon. Omega begrudgingly joined everyone else in the trench. Normally, he would be excited for such a battle but now he felt might as well save his enemies the trouble and just shoot himself.

Anakin was in his starfighter and he saw the enemy ships coming in. "Alright everybody, here they come."

They fired everything they had against the incoming fighters. Several ships were destroyed, but the ones that survived returned fire. Tails and Han maneuvered away from the incoming attackers, but Anakin only accelerated and blasted more of the enemy ships. The enemy broke its formation to get out of the way of Anakin's aggressive assault.

"They're scattering! Take them out!"

Han and Tails reengaged, blasting ships as they frantically flew around.


Sidious and one of the Grievous androids were looking at a holomap of the battle.

"Hmm, impressive. Yet, they only delay the inevitable. Tell the other two androids to begin the ground assault."


Leia looked through her binoculars. She could see troop transports landing. "Weapons ready!"

Hundreds of droids spilled out of the transports and began marching towards the temple.

"Wait for it!"

The droids marched closer and closer…

"And… fire!"

They all began shooting at the droids. They fired every weapon they had, which wasn't much by this point. Boba and Bo-Katan has both exhausted their jetpack fuel at the battle of Iego. All of their blasters were close to empty, with nowhere to resupply their ammunition.

Shadow, while having a plentiful supply of Chaos Energy thanks to the Emeralds, could only do so much on his own. He, of course, had the option of removing his inhibitor rings and unleashing his full power, but Shadow knew this was only the first wave and using up all his energy now would be a waste.

"Cease fire!" Leia ordered. "The Jedi will take it from here."

Everyone stopped shooting and crouched down. The enemy droids pressed their attack. As they got closer, they noticed a series of holes in the ground. But they paid them no mind and continued their attack.

But then Petro suddenly jumped out of one of the holes and slashed two droids that were standing too close. The other droids turned and began shooting at him, only for Petro to deflect the blasts and jump back down the hole he came from. One of the droids pulled out a detonator to throw into the hole, but Katooni popped out of the hole behind it and took its head off. The droid dropped the detonator and Katooni hopped back into her hole before it exploded.

"They're hiding in the holes!"

They surrounded the holes. One of the droids poked its head down inside to find an entire tunnel. Gungi grabbed the droid's head and yanked it down into the hole. As the other droids tried to process what was happening, Petro, Katooni, and Luke popped out of three more holes. They slashed a couple dozen more droids before disappearing back into the underground tunnels.

The droids fell into complete disarray, trying to guess which hole the Jedi would pop out of next, only to ultimately get impaled in the back by a lightsaber.

The Grievous androids were observing the situation. "Send in the artillery."

Leia spotted the incoming Umbaran walker. "Oh, that's bad."

"What's bad?" Knuckles asked.

"That's an Umbaran walker."

"So?"

Those things can take a direct hit from a rocket launcher without a scratch. And we don't even have rocket launchers."

The walker fired its first ball of plasma. It struck the ground where all the holes were.

"It's trying to collapse the tunnels!" Rouge realized.

"We've got to get them out of there." Leia said.

Shadow removed his inhibitor rings. "I've got this." He ran across the field of battle.

The walker fired another shot, but Shadow froze time with Chaos Control. His zipped into the tunnels and one by one retrieved the Jedi and brought them to the relative safety of the trench. Petro was the last one out when the time freeze ended, and the plasma ball struck the ground and the tunnels began to collapse.

Shadow turned his attention to the walker. He charged up a spindash and rocketed towards it. The Mandalorian operating the tank only saw a brief yellow flash before Shadow came smashing into it.

The walker erupted into a great ball of fire. Shadow walked out of the flames and dropped to his knees.

"He's out of energy, we need to get him out of there!" Rouge exclaimed.

The Grievous androids noted this.

"He has used up his energy. Send in the main force."

The main force consisted of a few thousand more droids and three more Umbaran walkers.

Seeing this, Leia ordered a retreat. "Everyone! Back inside the temple!"

The defenders all ran back inside, except for Petro. "You guys go ahead, I'll get Shadow!"