Watching Jania performed was quite the experience for Barriss and Ahsoka. They never witnessed a soldier of her caliber work first hand. Clones worked with ruthless precision. Jania hummed while she shot the heads of battle droids, getting louder as her kill count increased.

"How does someone learn this?" Ahsoka asks Barriss. The two crouched behind Jania to keep their location secret. Jania let the barrel of her sniper rifle only show a little bit from the shrubs.

"Military school?" Barriss guesses. "Wait... maybe, at the gun range?" Barriss knew the Clones were trained on Kamino from the day they formed from the tanks, she wasn't sure if the regular academies shared in the same methods as the Kaminoans.

"That's it. You should be cleared to advance, Skywalker. You want me to remain up here and I'll watch you from the sky?" She proposes. Thinking for a moment, Anakin supposes it's good to have someone watching them from above. Their air support is between little and nonexistent at the moment.

"So do we stay up here?" Ahsoka pondered, worried she'd miss out on all the fun. Barriss nods.

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"They're too many sir!" One soldier bellowed, before being shot down. Anakin and Tera needed to think of something fast. Their manpower was rapidly depleting.

Panaka thought on his feet, deploying rockets from a nearby mortar, it sent the droids into a mad scramble as their intended trajectory's been altered. While their circuits sought to catch up and adapt, the Jedi seized on their brief window to turn this battle around and led the charge. Now this is the kind of fighting Skywalker grown accustomed to. A steady diet of unrelenting offense, making a beeline to the targeted area. Treading across the red sand of Geonosis the green republic soldiers advanced past enemy lines with little fear, their guardian angle watched over them gunning down whoever stood in their way that wasn't in their sights.

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Ventress monitored the battle from a safe distance, feeling confident even with the sudden setback. "I want you to place mines five miles from the foundry."

"You sure about giving the Jedi that much time?" The droid asks. Ventress was at her breaking point with these nagging, useless pieces of machinery. Droids are designed to take orders, not ask questions. If she wanted a droid who'd question every single thing she did, she'd purchase a protocol droid.

Instead of answering, Ventress withdrew her red lightsaber and cut the droid's head clean off, turning to the next in command silently asking if it had the same reservations. "If the Jedi don't destroy these foundries, I surely will." She remarks internally.

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"We're almost there." Pedro tries to keep his fellow soldiers energized. Their push was strong, they're mowing down these battle droids like long grass on a summers day.

"It's too easy." One soldier interjects. "I've raked up fifteen kills already." Little did he and Pedro know what was waiting for them in a few minutes.

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Ahsoka and Barriss kept an eye on the advancing soldiers soldiers, while Jania surveyed everywhere else. Curious no Separatists aircrafts have shown themselves. This battle could not have been going against the C.I.S favor any more than it has.

"Looks like we'll be victorious quicker than we thought." Ahsoka comments, filled with optimism. Meanwhile, Barriss exuded concern, a weird twist in her stomach form. "What's wrong?"

"It's never this easy." She said breathlessly. Just then, their whole center of gravity was taken from them. Barriss almost fell over, but Ahsoka clutched on to the Jedi Knight's sleeve. The foundries collapsed atop the Jedi and their troops as the three women watched in horror.

"Master!" Ahsoka cries out, unable to conceal her deep concern. Jania's eyes widened, her heart caught in her throat. She felt she stumbled into a nightmare and wanted nothing more than to wake up.

"Are they?" Even the collected Barriss couldn't bring herself to say the words. To say them, validates what just transpired. "No."

"Master... come in, Master!" Ahsoka calls through her com-link.

"Ahsoka?" Anakin replies, gasping for air, his lungs contaminated with dust and debris.

"Stay where you are, me and Barriss are coming to save you." Ahsoka knew Barriss outranked her; the emotions of the young Padawan were getting the best of her.

"No. Ahsoka, we'll be fine. We'll get out ourselves. Just finish the mission. Go inside the foundry and set up the charges." Skywalker ordered.

"Just one foundry?" Ahsoka was curious as to why only one.

"The foundries are all connected to one another. Bomb one, the others will fall and so on." Anakin answers.

"Yes, Master." Ahsoka says obediently.

"We can get around this mess by cutting around it heading East." Jania informs them. Ahsoka couldn't take her eyes off the rubble entrapping her master, worried it wouldn't be long until the shaky structure collapses and finishes the job.

"You should head down there and help them out of there." Barriss orders of Jania.

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For a brief moment, Anakin thought he's gone blind. All he could see was black, and hear the cries of the poor irregulars in indescribable pain. Skywalker could not use his lightsaber to provide a much needed source of light, his weapon was crushed by the falling debris. "Again?" Anakin groans mentally. He lost his initial green lightsaber during his first duel against Dooku, a year later, he loses another.

A familiar blue light fills the dark atmosphere, Anakin turns around for a brief moment believing it was his weapon, but it was Tera's.

"Are you alright?" She asks, Skywalker doesn't answer and shifts focus to everyone else. No matter who is standing army was, Skywalker always made sure to put his men first.

"Master Jedi!" Jania could be heard on the outside. She didn't know how to refer to them as plural. "Can I help you?" She was already moving rocks by hand.

"Stand back!" Tera warns Jania before she uses her lightsaber to slide through the rocks, the tiny window supplied the entrapped with a refreshing source of light. But the collective strength of Tera and Anakin, even with his robotic right arm it isn't enough to pry them free.

"At least we'll have a source for air." Tera breathes, her chest pounding. Skywalker felt his heartbeat double and needed to settle down.

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"There's only two super battle droids, one for each of us." Ahsoka comments, before starting to walk off intending to confront them. The two were preparing to overtake a bunker where the foundry resides below.

"Hold on, this may be a trap." Barriss explains.

"They think we're dead." Ahsoka points out.

"No they don't. There's only two we can see, but there could be more laying around. You seen what happened to the Masters. The Separatists could have also set traps for us. This bunker directly leads to the main foundry. They aren't going to let us waltz in."

"Okay, so what can we do?"

Barriss thinks for a moment. "Your montrals can sense activity from 25 feet away. Why don't you survey the perimeter and I'll take care of the droids in the front?" Ahsoka liked the sound of this plan, also noticing this is the first time somebody commented on her blue and white montrals being used for the purpose of hunting. A calling card for her race of people.

Barriss was right. There were droids laying in the shadows ready to pounce. Ahsoka made quick work of them, utilizing her hunting skills which came during her days as a youth on Shili. Her only bruise came when one of the wires of the droid she cut down short circuited and electrocuted her. Nothing a little spit could fix!

"You're all clear." Ahsoka gave Barriss the green light and she began going to town on the remaining battle droids. The bunker was soon unguarded, all those who intended to defend it fell into a heap of scrap metal.

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It was a good thing the soldiers prepared themselves for every conceivable outcome. The irregulars came armed with first aide kits as well as weapons, and tended to their wounded. Skywalker looked over the wounded and was more preoccupied with the casualties.

"It's all your fault Jedi! What good are you?" He imagines a soldier who just lost his friend berating him no matter the outcome of this. He tried to silence the noise, but the voices inside his head persisted causing him to double over and clutching his head. Pedro was next to the Jedi and gave him a swig of water from his canteen.

"Thank you." He says while short on breath.

"You alright, sir?" Pedro never thought he'd see the great Anakin Skywalker in such a state.

"I'm fine just give me a moment." He demands. He looked around as far as his eyes would let him in this dark hole, all these lives depended on his ability to get them out of this predicament.

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"That's the last of them." Ahsoka said confidently, after slicing the final super battle droid in half.

"Oh, I wouldn't be so sure." A familiar voice teased, followed by the sound of a lightsaber igniting. Barriss and Ahsoka looked at each other. It's Ventress, looking as undemonstrative as ever, wearing only a scowl.

"Ahsoka, I'll take care of Ventress. You just set up those charges. Whatever happens, just make sure this place is torn down." Barriss instructed Ahsoka.

"But-" Ahsoka was about to protest when Barriss interjected.

"I outrank you, Padawan, you must listen to me." Ahsoka was growing tired of being big leagued all the time, but knew Barriss' value of the bigger picture was right.

"I don't believe we've had the pleasure of crossing paths." Barriss was trying to buy time and distract Ventress for Ahsoka to perform her duty. She's heard of Ventress in the past. Her master fought her once. Never having the misfortune of running into her.

"I doubt my name hasn't been thrown around your temple." Asajj comments, filled with self satisfaction at her growing celebrity status.

"Actually, you're more known for getting beat by a Padawan on his first mission." Barriss sneers in a departure from her usual character.

It seemed to have lit a spark inside of Ventress as she went on the attack, hoping to gut Barriss like a fish. Ventress' twin blood red blades collided with Barriss pure blue single. If Ventress hoped to preserve the machinery and computers in the foundry, she failed miserably, leaving behind a burnt wreckage during her rampage. Barriss remained steadfast, only getting minor burns during Ventress' offensive. Now she knows why her master advised her to not fight a Sith. They are overwhelming and relentless. She was slowing down and Ventress knew it.

Ventress momentarily distracted Barriss with a jab to the forehead, followed-up with a slash to her ankle. The Jedi Knight falls to one knee, unlike before, Ventress wastes little time going in for the kill. Bringing her weapon above her head, she brought it down in one shift motion intending to put her opponent down like an animal. But her momentum was halted. A green lightsaber came into her view, and a cocky grin on a certain Togruta rival.

Ventress' expression wasn't shock, more "Really?" No matter what she did, a recent string of circumstances at the last moment causes her to lose her precise kills. Already far behind Grievous, she needed something to prove her worth to Dooku in case he needed to cut one of them off as a loose string.

"I didn't even know you were here." Ventress lies, hoping the slant would enrage the young Padawan.

"I guess today isn't your lucky day." She throws Ventress back, allowing Barriss a chance to recover and nurse her wounds.