Ok I've decided instead of responding to reviews individually I'll just answer them here:

Guest: Thanks and yes I did watch NXT Takeover. Once again I'm blown away by the stuff those guys pull off. My favorite match of the night was Keith Lee vs Dominik Dijakovic.

Fire of Eden Red Rose Aurora: Thanks for your support!

Sheeta Potter: Thanks for your support and hopefully the past few chapters have satisfied.

De12now: Well I'm glad you were looking forward to this.

Now I feel like I should give my thoughts on Season Seven.

Spoilers if you haven't watched already. Bad Batch 7x1: Thought it was a good start. I like hunter the best and Rex continues to prove why Rex is my favorite clone. 8/10 a good comeback. A Distant Echo 7x2: Not as good as the first episode, still is a fun watch. Obi-Wan definitely knows, Anakin is a badass, and holy shit Echo is alive. 7/10 not as good as the return but still a fun clone wars episode.

That's all I have to say, once again thanks to everyone for reading.


The excitement on the Resolute was buzzing as clones and Jedi celebrated Anakin Skywalker being able to walk on two feet once again. Rex and Ahsoka organized the celebration in the mess hall and now the soldiers began to relax for the first time in months.

Sitting together at a table was Anakin, Obi-Wan, Satine, Ahsoka, Rex, and a few clones that had become good friends with their Jedi general.

"A toast" began Rex as he lifted his drink high above his head. The group following him, lifting their own drinks into the air.

"A toast to the good General Skywalker, the only man to have his arm sliced off, stabbed in the gut, and being nearly blown up and still being able to walk it off like it was only a scratch!"

"Cheers!" the group responded, downing their drinks in one swift go.

Anakin smiled watching as Obi-Wan placed an arm around Satine's shoulders and brought her close.

"You know this is nice, having this downtime as we wait for Anakin's transport to arrive," Obi-Wan said as he poured himself another whiskey.

"Master I assure you that I'm fine and can just lead my space."

"Oh I am sure you are but I'm already here and you deserve some time off. It'll give you time to spend with Padame."

"Master I can assure you that I'm not going to see the senator."

"Anakin you can't fool me, in fact, you told me yourself about how you felt about the good senator from Naboo."

"I did?"

"Yes, you probably don't remember cause Kix had you on a bunch of painkillers."

"You're not gonna tell the council?"

"Why would I rat out my brother after he clearly sees me with the Dutchess of Mandalore?"

"I don't know master, I don't know."

Obi-Wan smiled as he saw Anakin brighten up, 'Must be relieved he doesn't have to hold secrets from me' Obi-Wan thought. Rex put an arm around Ahsoka and pulled her close as the two of them tried to out-drink each other.

"Hey Snips easy on the drinks."

"Aww, you're no fun."

"I don't want my padawan having a hangover come tomorrow."

"You just don't want me having a little fun."

"No, I don't want you or Rex not being able to fight if a battle to break out. I don't want the two of you drunkenly stumbling over battle droids and spewing your guts out on them isn't the best way to take them down."

Rex and Ahsoka blushed as Anakin smirked, winning the debate. Obi-Wan and Satine couldn't help but laugh at the entire exchange, enjoying the reactions Anakin got out of his friends. At that moment everyone felt that nothing could ruin the good times, the group was having.

'Attention, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, and Captain Rex, please report to the bridge' The loudspeaker rang.

Obi-Wan sighed removing his arm from Satine.

"Duty calls," he said.

The four of them made their to the bridge and saw Admiral Yularen leaning over the holo table.

"Alright Admiral, we're missing the party, what's going on?"

"General, we have received a transmission from Coruscant. I think you should hear this."

Yularen played the transmission and waited for the group's reactions.

"Attention all fleets, Coruscant is under attack by the droid army. General Grievous has kidnapped the chancellor and has taken him aboard his ship. I am asking for any available fleets to please return back to Coruscant and help fight off the droids. Windu out!"

The transmission ended leaving the group stunned and what they heard.

"We have to go help them," Rex said.

"We can't leave Mandalore, Maul will escape," Anakin replied.

"No the force is telling me that Maul is not going to leave Mandalore. Admiral, tell Cody that we are returning to Coruscant and alert all troops to get to their battle stations."

"Understood General."

The fleet turned around and jumped to hyperspace. Obi-Wan told Satine what was going on and advised her to stay either in the bridge or their room. Ahsoka and Rex made preparations for the upcoming fight, knowing that if the droids were so bold, the fighting would be bad. Anakin made some final repairs on R2-D2, making sure that he was ready for what they might encounter.

All fighter pilots aboard the Resolute gathered in the hangar waiting for the Jedi to tell them their plan. Anakin and Obi-Wan stood on a pile of crates and looked at their troops.

"Ok, so we have no idea of what we are going into. All we know is that Palpatine has been kidnapped by Grievous and that we need to rescue him."

"Anakin and I will take our starfighters and try to cut a path towards our friend the good General's ship. We will need fighter support however if we are going to escort the twilight."

"Ahsoka and Rex will be taking a small team with them aboard the twilight and accompany us aboard. Once we find the chancellor and get him out of there, our bombers can rip Grievous apart."

"Unfortunately there will be some casualties but I promise you your sacrifice will not be in vain. May the force be with you all!"

The seconds ticked down and the fleet exited hyperspace. Admiral Yularen was shocked at the sight of everything, Republic and Separatist ships broadsiding each other, starfighters shooting each other down, it was a mess.

"Open the hangar bay and good luck generals, happy hunting."

"Thank you, Admiral," replied Anakin as he began to take off.

Leading the pack was Obi-Wan and Anakin in their red and gold starfighters respectfully. Behind them was the Twilight and behind them was a squadron of ARC 170s. The pack flew around the Resolute and dived down into the chaos below.

"That's a lot of clankers," Rex said as the twilight followed the two Jedi.

"Well, that's more droids we need to scrap," Ahsoka responded. "Master how things looking in front of us."

"Well General Grievous's ship is in front of us so I guess this is where the fun begins."

"You mean the one crawling with vulture droids?" Obi-Wan asked.

"Precisely that one."

"And here I thought we were gonna take a nice ride over the planet. R4 notify the Resolute that they've got two banking clan frigates moving towards them."

R4 responded with a series of beeps and opened up his antenna.

"Hey Master, those vulture droids are beginning to take off!" Ahsoka called out

"I see them Ahsoka, lock on to them R2."

R2 chirped a response and Anakin's weapon system began to lock onto the incoming droid starfighters.

"Jesse get on the gun turret!" Ahsoka yelled.

"On it commander."

The droid fighters got closer and hell broke loose. Red streaks flew past them as the droids tried to shoot them down. Anakin did a quick barrel roll and shot down two vulture droids. The Twilight also shot down a couple of enemy fighters as they continued to make their way towards the enemy's ship. Two vulture droids fired missiles at them and the squad dodged.

"Missiles? That's a bit excessive don't you think Master."

"Well after all we are trying to save the Chancellor my young padawan."

"Sorry to interrupt you little chit chat but those missiles are turning around."

"You heard Obi-Wan, evasive maneuvers."

Two missiles locked onto Anakin while another two locked onto Obi-Wan.

"R4 evasive maneuver- no, no no, nothing too fancy."

Ahsoka and Rex watched as Anakin forced the missiles chasing him to crash into each other. Jesse locked onto one of the missiles following Obi-Wan and fired. The blue laser crashing into it, causing it to explode. The other missile flew past Obi-Wan and blew up, releasing buzz droids onto his ship.

"Great buzz droids, R4 watch-" The buzz droid cut off the poor droids head. "-Out, oh dear. Umm, Anakin I'm kinda in a little bit of trouble."

"I see them, don't worry master."

Anakin rolled behind and shot at Obi-Wan's ship, trying to hit the buzz droids. The only thing that he did end up hitting was Obi-Wan's wing.

"Anakin, your not helping!"

"Your right master, bad idea," Anakin replied as he dodged a piece of Obi-Wan's ship.

"I don't think I'll make it to the ship, you, Rex, and Ahsoka need to finish the mission without me."

"No, master, I'm not gonna leave you behind."

Anakin got close to Obi-Wan's ship and started to ram his right-wing into Obi-Wan's ship, hitting as many buzz droids as he could.

"Are you trying to get us both killed?"

"Not at all Obi-Wan, just trying to get the droids off you."

"Well you're doing a good job, it seems one of them have boarded your ship."

Anakin looked at the buzz droid making its way across his ship. R2 began to make some nervous beeps as the enemy approached.

"R2 aim for the eye," Obi-Wan called.

R2 beeped a response and shocked the buzz droid's center eye.

"Yeah, you got him R2!" Anakin cheered.

The buzz droid's body fell on the ship and flew off. More bits of Obi-Wan's ship began to break off as they got closer to the target's hangar.

"Hey Anakin, not to alarm you or anything but have you noticed that the shields in the hangar are still up?" Obi-Wan sarcastically asked.

"I'm on it master."

Anakin rolled over Obi-Wan's ship and fired at the shield generator. The lasers hit their target and the shield went down, however, the airlock door was beginning to shut.

"Oh, I've got a bad feeling about this."

Anakin and Obi-Wan's ship, as well as the twilight, got in before the door shut. Ahsoka landed the freighter as the two Jedi starfighters skidded across the hangar area. Obi-Wan jumped out of his smoking starfighter and ignited his lightsaber. Battle droids began to shoot at him but Obi-Wan deflected the shots back at them. Form the twilight emerged Ahsoka and the squad of clones that were onboard. Anakin and R2, now out of their ship, made their way over to the group as more and more droids shot at them.

"Nice welcoming party for us," Obi-Wan said as he deflected another blaster bolt.

Rex shot a Super Battle Droid down and moved to take out another droid but Ahsoka beat him to it. Soon all the droids in the hangar would be destroyed, leaving the squad alone.

"R2 plugin here," Anakin commanded.

R2 attached himself to the mainframe and displayed a hologram of the droid ship.

"No doubt the chancellor is in the observation deck, so Obi-Wan and I will go there. Ahsoka and Rex, your job is to distract the droids long enough so we can get Palpatine out of there."

"Just try and not make the good general come out of hiding."

"Yes masters," Ahsoka responded.

Anakin pulled and communicator from his belt and tossed it to R2.

"Stay in contact with us, buddy. It's too dangerous for you to follow us."

R2 chirped a response and rolled over next to the ship. Obi-Wan and Anakin looked at each other, sensing something.

"Do you sense that?" Obi-Wan asked.

"Yes, what do you-"

"I sense a trap."

"Well, what are we going to do?"

"Spring the trap," replied Obi-Wan smiling.

The group split up when they reached the elevators. Obi-Wan and Anakin got into an elevator and they began to climb.

"I know this is not the time to ask but were Padme and you ever?"

"Boyfriend and girlfriend, yes for a little bit."

"It seems everyone is finding love these days. I've got Satine, you've got Padme, Rex and Ahsoka have each other."

"Good for them, they need each other. My mind is more at rest knowing Rex is with her. He'll jump in front of Grievous to save her life."

"Yes, Rex is a loyal man, we are lucky to know him."

"Agreed. Now that I'm thinking about this, you've fought Grievous one on one, Ahsoka has fought him, how come you guys fought him before I did?"

"I know odd, isn't it. The two of you just seem to narrowly miss each other."

"Well, hopefully, that'll change today."

"Agreed."

The elevator stopped and the door opened revealing some droids. Anakin and Obi-Wan smirked and cut through their group with ease. The two Jedi masters ran down the hallway and made it to the observation deck.


Ahsoka and her team ran down a corridor being chased by a couple of destroyer droids. As they ran they could feel the droids rolling closer to them.

"Alright, when I say now turn around and blast them!" Ahsoka yelled.

"Understood sir!" Rex replied.

Ahsoka felt the droids get a little closer and she knew this was the moment to strike.

"Now!"

Rex and the clones turned around and opened fire at the droids. All 3 of them down went down ad skidded across the floor until the reached the feet of the clones.

"Good work let's keep going. I hope master Skywalker and Kenobi rescued the chancellor by now."


Upon entering the room they could see Palpatine tied up on a chair. Anakin and Obi-Wan walked towards him, cautiously.

"Chancellor, we're here to rescue you," Anakin said.

The chancellor paid no heed to Anakin's words and looked past him.

"Dooku," he said.

Obi-Wan and Anakin turned around to see the count standing beside two SBDs.

"Skywalker, Kenobi, welcome."

Dooku jumped down and landed on the floor.

"Your lightsabers please, we don't want to make a mess of things in front of the Chancellor."

Obi-Wan was about to respond when Palpatine said something to him and Anakin.

"Your no match for him, get help."

Obi-Wan turned around to look at the chancellor. Smiling he said, "Chancellor, sith lords are our specialty."

Obi-Wan and Anakin turned around to face Dooku and let their cloaks fall to the ground. The three of them facing down each other.

"You won't get away this time Dooku."

"My powers have doubled since the last time we met count," Anakin added.

"Impossible we only last met a couple of weeks ago. However, twice the pride, double the fall."

Obi-Wan and Anakin ignited their lightsabers, Dooku followed suit. The lightsabers hummed in unison as the three warriors stared at each other.

"I have been looking forward to this," Dooku said, grinning.

The two Jedi rushed Dooku, lightsabers clashing as they fought for dominance. Dooku's fencing style of form II once again proved difficult to fight against. Anakin blocked a lunge from Dooku and Obi-Wan went to go strike Dooku's arm but the sith blocked his strike. Anakin tried an overhead strike on Dooku, but he blocked and used the force to push Anakin away.

Obi-Wan rushed to the stairs that Anakin him had walked down earlies and blocked a stab from Dooku. Obi-Wan continued to play defensive as the two fought up the stairwell and onto the balcony.

Anakin got back on his feet and rushed up the other stairwell. The Super battle droids on said stairwell began to fire at Anakin. The Jedi knight blocked the shots and deflected them at one of the droids. He then sliced off the closest droids right arm, then its lower half. Anakin summoned the force and brought the other droid to him and stabbed it in its center, destroying it.

Obi-Wan blocked a strike from Dooku and locked sabers with him. From behind Dooku, Anakin went up to strike his enemy from behind but Dooku sensed this and pulled away from Kenobi. Dooku blocked Anakin's strike and pushed the Jedi knight back. Anakin blocked more strikes from Dooku as Obi-Wan did his best to get Dooku to focus on him but the sith lord's attention was on his padawan.

Anakin tried to slash Dooku across his chest but the sith lord blocked and sent lightning towards him. Obi-Wan watched as Anakin fell to the ground in pain and felt the anger in him rise. Obi-Wan became more aggressive with his strikes, aiming for any opening he could find. Dooku kicked Obi-Wan away and when Anakin got back up, he stopped him with the force. The sith lord pushed Anakin towards a catwalk and smirked when Anakin hit it with force. Anakin fell to the ground below the catwalk but was still conscious. Dooku then brought the catwalk down on top of him.

Obi-Wan got back up and kicked Dooku off the balcony, watching as he fell to the ground. The Jedi Master then jumped off the balcony and landed on the ground in front of Dooku. Obi-Wan aggressively stalked his opponent as he got back on his feet. Dooku and Obi-Wan exchanged furious blows aimed to kill each other. The strikes went above their heads as both men did their best to defeat each other. The two men for a brief moment stopped swinging, allowing Dooku to talk.

"You have hate, you have anger, but you don't use it master Kenobi. You should have joined me when you had the chance."

Obi-Wan said nothing as advanced towards Dooku, swinging madly to his right. Dooku blocked the strike and moved to block the strike coming to his other side. Obi-Wan then went for an overhead strike but once again Dooku blocked. The two blades battled above their heads for a brief while more before the two of them went into a saber lock. Obi-Wan, from out of nowhere, grabbed Dooku's arms and slipped his lightsaber out of the saber lock. The Jedi Master then used his blade and lifted it up into Dooku's arms, slicing them off. As Dooku's blade flew through the air, Obi-Wan caught it and ignited it. Obi-Wan crossed his blade over Dooku's and aimed them at Dooku's neck.

From behind Obi-Wan, Palpatine smiled at the Jedi master's actions.

"Good Obi-Wan, good. Kill him."

Dooku looked over at Palpatine, shocked.

"Kill him now."

Dooku looked back at Obi-Wan, seeing the conflict in his eyes.

"I shouldn't, it's not the Jedi way to kill an unarmed man."

"Master Kenobi, please, I beg you don't kill me. Please spare me," Dooku pleaded.

Obi-Wan was about to say something but from behind him, Palpatine spoke once again.

"Do it!"

"No, no pleas-"

Obi-Wan sliced the blades across each other, cutting Dooku's head clean off his shoulders. An ear wrenching hiss soon followed in the eerie silence that was in the observation deck. Obi-Wan turned the lightsabers off and tossed Dooku's saber to the ground beside his body. The Jedi master turned away and went to go free Palpatine.

"I shouldn't have done that."

"Why, it's only natural to get revenge. After all, he did hurt your friend Anakin. Now come on before more security droids arrive," Palpatine said getting up from his chair.

Obi-Wan was about to say something but realized Anakin was still under the fallen catwalk. Wasting no time, Obi-Wan used the force to lift it off of his friend and rushed to his side. Anakin was unconscious but wasn't hurt too badly.

"Obi-Wan leave him or we will never make!" Palpatine shouted.

"I will not leave my best friend behind."

Obi-Wan lifted Anakin's on his shoulders and made their way to the elevator. Obi-Wan hit the button for the lift but nothing happened.

"Elevator is down," he said. Pulling out his commlink, he commed R2. "R2 activate elevator 1134."

Getting a response of a couple of beeps, satisfied Obi-Wan patiently waited for the lift. Then all of a sudden the ground started to tilt.

"Chancellor in the lift shaft now!" Obi-Wan yelled.

The two men got into the lift shaft as the ship continued to list. They were now running down the wall trying to make it to a door. Then all of a sudden the ship started to turn upright causing them to slide down the wall. With his free hand, Obi-Wan grabbed onto some wiring causing them to stop sliding down the elevator shaft.

Anakin sturred awake and looked down, he immediately started to hold onto Obi-Wan tighter.

"Anakin, stop moving you're making things a bit difficult here."

"I'm sorry did I miss something?"

"Yes, you were knocked unconscious. You should really get the arm of yours checked out, you seem to be losing a lot of duels recently."

"Ha, ha master. I think your joke would be a lot funnier if we weren't dangling from a small section of wiring."

Obi-Wan was about to say something in response but he heard a rumbling from above him. Looking up he saw the elevator meant to carry them coming right towards them.

"Well there's our lift," said Obi-Wan

"It seems to be getting a little too close Obi-Wan!"

"I can see that."

"Jump!"

Obi-Wan obliged letting go of the wires. Anakin looked below him and saw an open door. Feeling Palpatine grab his leg, Anakin put an arm around Obi-Wan and unhooked his grappling hook. Anakin shot the device at a pipe he saw them slide past and hoped for the best. He felt the wire snag and then used their momentum and swung themselves into the open door.

The group slid across the floor coming to an eventual stop. The three men got up and looked around them. Seeing no immediate threat, they began to run down the hallway. After running down the hall for a little bit they were soon stopped by a ray shield. They stopped running and stood there in disbelief.

"A ray shield," Anakin said, stating the obvious.

"How did this happen, we're smarter than this."

"Not to worry master, I'm sure Ahsoka and Rex or R2 can shut this thing down."

Anakin pulled out his communicator and commed either party.

"Hey guys we're in a bit of a situation can you guys come to our location and shut this ray shield off."

After getting no response the group just stood there, waiting.

"I'm sure they can get this thing off."

"I hope so."

At the moment a door opened revealing R2 moving as fast as possible wailing a high pitched noise. Behind them, another door opened and team Ahsoka and Rex ran through it.

"See I knew they heard us."

Droids started appearing from the doors their friends had entered through, surrounding them.

"Kriff," muttered Ahsoka as she let the droids take the lightsabers out of her hands.

The clones were disarmed and the ray shield was lifted, letting the droids take team Kenobi into custody.


Being forced into the bridge of the droid ship was a fun affair for the Republic's warriors. They had everything under control until it suddenly wasn't. Now they were graced with the presence of General Grievous.

"Ahh yes, the Negotiator," The droid general said referring to Obi-Wan. "And Skywalker's pet and lapdog," he continued upon seeing Rex and Ahsoka.

"That wasn't very much of a rescue Kenobi. After all these years I now have all of you in my clutches."

Then Grievous turned to face Anakin.

"You must be Anakin Skywalker, for someone with your reputation I expected you to be a little bit older."

"General Grievous, for someone with a reputation like yours I expected you to be taller."

The droid general did nothing but cough as he turned away.

"Anakin, try not to upset him we have a job to do."

A droid squeezed past Obi-Wan and handed Grievous their lightsabers.

"Ahh yes, a fine addition to my collection."

The general placed the lightsabers in his cloak and turned around to face the battle. Meanwhile, Anakin and Obi-Wan looked at each and nodded.

"R2 now!" Anakin yelled.

The droid sprung out all of his tools, breaking Obi-Wan's restraints. Obi-Wan used the force to bring his lightsaber to him from Grievous cape. He ignited his blade and sliced Anakin's binders in half. Anakin then brought his own lightsaber to him and sliced the nearby droid in half. Obi-Wan freed Ahsoka and Rex and the two of them proceeded to free the remaining clones. The Jedi master advanced towards Grievous but a Magna guard blocked his path.

The droid swung its electrostaff at Obi-Wan but he blocked it. He then swung his lightsaber at the droid but it blocked him. Obi-Wan blocked an incoming strike and pushed the droid back leaving an opening for the Jedi master to take. He swung his lightsaber at the head of the droid and sliced it clean off.

Anakin made his way over to Grievous and for the first time the two lightsaber wielders stood off. Grievous ignited two blades as Anakin advanced. Grievous blocked his strike and went to go swing his lightsabers at Anakin but he blocked the strike.

Ahsoka and Rex fought back to back as droids tried to shoot at them. Rex, out of the corner of his eye, saw droids leading the chancellor away.

"Commander they've got Palpatine!"

"I see them, cover me."

Ahsoka rushed forward with Rex close on her heels. Rex shot a droid in the head that tried to shoot Ahsoka. The young Padawan sliced the head of one of the droids guarding Palpatine then she turned her attention on the other droid. The battle droid tried to lift its blaster but Rex shot it, destroying it.

Anakin and Obi-Wan cornered Grievous near the windows of the bridge. The two Jedi fought hard against the droid general but Grievous for once proved to be a worthy adversary. Grievous forced the two of them away and picked up an electrostaff. Turning to both Jedi, Grievous laughed.

"You lose Jedi" he growled as he sent the staff flying towards the window.

The staff crashed through the glass allowing for the vast emptiness of space to start pulling them out of the ship. Grievous flew out the window, followed by a couple of bodies of fallen clones and droids. Anakin, Obi-Wan, and the rest of their group held onto dear life as Anakin desperately tried to turn on the emergency airlock. He managed to get to the panel and turned on allowing them to catch their breath.

Anakin sat down behind the controls of the ship as he felt another explosion rock the ship. Obi-Wan and Ahsoka joined him in the co-pilot seat as Palpatine sat down in the captain's chair. Jesse looked at the escape pod monitor and saw that they had been all launched.

"Sir all the escape pods have been launched."

"Grievous," Anakin grumbled.

"We can worry about that later, Anakin can you try and land this thing?"

"I mean it shouldn't be too hard, but then again maybe we can just dock somewhere."

Another explosion rattled the ship and R2 gave out a nervous beep. Ahsoka looked at the monitor and watched as half of the ship disappeared.

"Hey, master I think we lost something."

"Not to worry, we are still flying half a ship," Obi-Wan responded getting a slight chuckle from Ahsoka, Rex, and Jesse.

"Obi-Wan open up all flaps, I would say put on the reverse thrusters but we don't have any more engines."

The droid ship entered the atmosphere, on fire and losing bits and pieces as it made its descent. Fire fighting ships started to chase the flaming wreck, extinguishing the fires as they continued.

"What is this, our thirtieth crash landing?" Ahsoka asked.

"Possibly," Anakin responded.

"We should celebrate," Rex added as he strapped himself in.

"We've got fire ships to our right and left, landing strip just ahead," Obi-Wan said.

"Alright, this is going to get a little bumpy, strap yourselves in," Anakin told everyone.

The ship hit the ground hard and began to skid across the landing strip. Anakin winced as he felt the ship hit a control tower. Obi-Wan looked around as dirt and asphalt flew up past them, relieved that more of the ship wasn't crashing around them. The ship came to a halt and its occupants breathed a sigh of relief.

Obi-Wan brushed his hair out from his eyes and smiled. "Another happy landing."