Disclaimer: I do not know Star Wars or any of their characters or Danny Phantom. Star Wars is owned by Disney. Danny Phantom is owned by Butch Hartman.
Author's Note: Sorry for having taken so long. Summer and with all of my upcoming arrangements, I didn't have a lot of time like before. Good news, Danny will begin to use his new lightsaber in this chapter. Now no one, not even his own Jedi Master knows about the lightsaber that he has. Remember from Clockwork, this is the weapon that he would first create. And in this episode, he will get to use it. I plan to have some suspicion about it, but not until Geonosis that everyone will discover it.
Season 1, Episode 18: Mystery of 1000 Moons
"A single chance is a galaxy of hope."
"Hard-pressed Jedi and their valiant clone troopers have thwarted an insidious Separatist plot to plant bombs loaded with the deadly blue shadow virus in key Republic systems. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker have captured the vile scientist behind the nefarious scheme, Dr. Nuvo Vindi. Now the Jedi prepare to transport Vindi to the Republic Capital for trial."
"That was close. If that virus had escaped, everyone on Naboo would be dead now." Anakin said to Obi-Wan as they load up Dr. Vindi in the Republic cruiser for trial.
"Oh, well. Just another boring day saving the universe." Obi-Wan remarked sarcastically.
"All right, let's take this sleemo back to Theed so we can help Padmé, Ahsoka, and Danny clean up down there." Anakin said as they finished loading up Vindi.
Back In The Lab's Landing Platform...
Clone Troopers are continuing to complete their full sweep and investigation of the Lab. Making sure that there are no more surprises, vials, secrets, weapons, or hidden bombs that Vindi had not managed to activate or worse a hidden back-up plan that was readied for emergency.
As Jar Jar and Padmé are talking towards each other, a Republic Clone Bomb Trooper picked up a deactivated blue shadow bomb and noticed something about it.
"Senator, you should see this. It's one of the virus bombs." The Bomb Trooper stated, getting both Senator Padmé Amidala and Jar Jar Banks.
"It looks like the chamber that holds the virus is missing." Padmé discovered.
"That droid must have taken it." The Bomb Trooper had stated.
"Sound the alarm." Padmé ordered.
A whining alarm suddenly blared and symbols on the walls started flashing yellow.
"How could droids have gotten ahold of the virus containers?" A random Clone Trooper had said.
"I don't know, but I don't want to be around when they set it off." Another random Clone Trooper said.
Unknown to them, the droid holding the missing virus vial was near them and entering the bomb room.
"We've already taken the virus containers out of these bombs. We'll just have to check them again." One of the Clone Troopers said, as the droid walks over towards one of the empty-loaded bombs.
Back on the Surface...
"The virus is liberated. You are doomed, young Jedi, along with the rest of the planet." Dr. Vindi proclaimed, almost as if he knows what's happening.
Back in the Lab...
The small droid had loaded up the vial into a deactivated bomb and was getting ready to set it off.
"Hey, you. Get away from there!" One of the Clone Troopers ordered and yelled, but he was too late. The bomb had exploded, triggering the virus and murdering the Clone Troopers and the droid that set it off. Everyone stopped when the lab sook for an explosion.
Back on the Surface...
"What was that?" Anakin asked as he could feel the explosion from the surface.
Back in the Lab...
The alarm's tone changed and the symbols on the wall started flashing red.
"The Virus leaked, get to the safe room! Come on!" yelled Rex as he turned and ran down the corridor. Danny, Ahsoka and the other Clone Troopers following Rex in a full-on sprint.
The giant blue cloud was becoming almost inferno-like. All of the lab doors have closed and started to shut
Danny looked at the rapidly approaching blue cloud of the virus and Danny had started worrying.
The thought of putting a shield around his group then phasing them all out of danger, moved to the forefront of his mind, but he didn't know if his shields were airtight. He couldn't take that gamble and so he simply continued following the group.
"There's the safe room!" yelled Ahsoka. Pointing at the safe room entrance.
"No chance!" yelled Clone Trooper Kix as the safe room doors started to close.
"Hurry! The doors are closing!" yelled Rex as he and his brothers tried to keep the door from closing some of the clones tried wedging the door using their blasters.
"Don't worry." responded Ahsoka as she began to use the Force to slow down the door to have it open for them and Danny began to join in assisting her in using the Force to keep the door open.
"Get inside, Captain." Ahsoka ordered as the Clone Troopers climbed into the room.
Danny was concentrating when he felt the virus get closer and closer and was starting to lose focus.
"Hurry!" yelled Rex as Clone Lieutenant Jesse was holding the door for them to get in. The airborne bioweapon was getting closer, and closer.
Unfortunately, the blasters wedging the door open feel out and Jesse didn't have the fully strength to keep the door open and was slowly closing shut.
"No time." Danny said as he acted quickly scooping up Ahsoka getting a yelp of surprise out of her and flying toward the door.
Ahsoka had seen Danny pass through solid objects before, but this was the first time she experienced his intangibility personally. Ahsoka felt a tingling sensation all over her body for a moment. As the pair phased through the closing door Ahsoka felt cold as parts of her body moved through the metal. Once they were in the room the door closed with only a puff of the blue could making it in before the door closed. Danny and Ahsoka's commlinks both started going off.
"Ahsoka, what is going on down there?" asked Anakin from within the cruiser. Ahsoka answered her commlink.
"The droids released the virus, but we managed to seal the lab." Answered Ahsoka. Just now noticing that she was still being held in Danny's arms.
"And Padmé?" Asked Anakin concern in his voice. Ahsoka quickly scrambled out of the halfa's hold slightly embarrassed.
"Haven't heard from her since the bomb." Replied Ahsoka as she notices Danny sending a teasing smirk her way, she huffed at him and turned her back to him. Some of the clones chuckled at the display. Ahsoka cut the connection when she heard Padmé answer Anakin.
"Anakin, can you hear me? Anakin?" Padmé calls out over her commlink as she is back in her containment HAZMAT suit.
"Padmé, I'm here. Are you all, right?" Anakin replies over the commlink. In the back you can see Jar Jar freaking out and trying to find his helmet.
"Yes, for the time being. Jar Jar and I were in a safety chamber when the alarm went off. We're wearing protective suits." Padmé reports and answers back.
"The virus is loose, but Ahsoka has sealed off the entire facility." Anakin sighs in relief and informs her from the Republic Cruiser while Obi-Wan is talking to Vindi.
"Yes, but any remaining droids will try to break out. I'll do what I can to stop them. I cannot let that virus escape." Padmé said in determination.
"Be careful." Anakin says out of concern.
Padmé grabs the lost helmet and hands it towards Jar Jar Binks.
"Put this on. Come on, Jar Jar. We're going to find Ahsoka and Phantom. We'll need her help to find those droids." Padmé said towards Jar Jar as she and her Clone Trooper squad walk out to find Ahsoka and Danny.
Inside the Republic Cruiser...
Anakin pulls out his lightsaber, activates it and begins to interrogate Vindi, while Obi-Wan looks at both Anakin and Vindi.
"Where's the antidote, Vindi?" Anakin asks, holding his lightsaber at Vindi and beginning his interrogation.
Vindi starts to laugh at him at Anakin while starting to look up at him. "You mistake my role, Jedi. My job was to manufacture a plague, not to cure it."
"We don't have time for games." Anakin said, starting to get impatient with the mad scientist and the whole situation.
"Patience, Anakin. There's more than one way to skin a womp rat." Obi-Wan said, trying to calm down Anakin.
"I said, 'where?'" Anakin asked again with more impatience.
"Yes, kill me now and spare these old bones the blue shadow's dire embrace, because once the first droid breaks out of that laboratory, all Naboo is doomed!" Vindi laughed as he looks at Anakin. Obi-Wan is thinking about the situation and how to save them.
"Anakin, the fastest way to save Senator Amidala and our Padawans is to get Vindi back to the capital and find an actual antidote." Obi-Wan says and convinces Anakin. Anakin deactivates his lightsaber, and the Republic Cruiser takes off for the Capital.
Back in the Lab's Safe Room...
"Oh, no, no, no! Some of the virus got in here! We didn't close the door fast enough!" Reported a trooper to Ahsoka, Rex, and Danny.
'I always figure I'd go down fighting, or by self-sacrifice, not by a plague.' Thought Danny as they weighed their options in his mind. If they escaped, they are all infected and would doom the planet. If they didn't, everyone would be saved, but they would be dead.
"We may be dead men, but we could still stop those droids." Spoke Rex with resolve.
"Don't worry. Our Masters will find a cure for this virus…We're not dead yet." Spoke Ahsoka, trying to instill hope in the others. Danny held back a chuckle at her choice of words.
"Is anyone out there? Can anyone hear...?" asked Padme over the comms. Danny raised his arm and activated his commlink.
"Senator Amidala, we're trapped in the safe room at the end of …." Spoke Danny pausing as he tried to remember the layout of the lab.
"Complex B." finished Ahsoka for Danny as she leaned closer to the commlink.
"We'll be right there…Are you contaminated?" asked Padme with concern.
"Stay where you are. We can handle the droids." Danny said to the Senator, his hero-complex kicking in.
"And yes, I'm afraid so, we are infected." Answered Ahsoka, as Danny, Ahsoka and Rex all looking at a couple of clones starting to cough violently.
Back on the Naboo Hangar...
Obi-Wan and Anakin have arrived at the Naboo ship hangar in their Republic Transport with the arrested Dr. Vindi, with Captain Typho of the Naboo's Queen's security force and a few pilot-officers waiting for them.
The exit opens up and Vindi, Anakin and Obi-Wan all walk out to meet the captain.
"Dr. Vindi, you'll pay for your treachery. Take him away." Captain Typho spoke and ordered the pilots to take him into custody.
"Now we'll need to find an antidote." Obi-Wan thought out loud and reminding both Anakin and Typho.
"I think I found an answer for you." Captain Typho said to them as he led them towards the holo-conference room.
Inside the Holo-Conference Room...
"So, you think you found a cure?" Anakin asked Typho.
"Possibly. A little-known extract made from reeksa root, a weed-like vine found only on Iego, the world of 1,000 moons, deep in Separatist-controlled space." Typho explaining to the Jedi Knights and showing them the possible cure and where it is located.
"Let's go." Anakin said, punching his hand into his fist and already eager to head out.
"You must move cautiously if you...-" Typho starts to suggest before being interrupted by Anakin.
"There's no time for caution. My Padawan is trapped on there, and so is Padmé." Anakin interrupts before getting looked at by Obi-Wan, "I mean, Senator Amidala."
"Anakin, my Padawan is down there too." Obi-Wan reminded him.
"I applaud your courage, General Skywalker, but it's suicide. Once we contain the virus, we can send troops." Typho said, trying to convince Anakin about how to handle this situation.
"No, Obi-Wan and I can handle it." replied Anakin, already heading out towards the hangar.
"I concur, Anakin." Obi-Wan agreed.
Soon enough, Obi-Wan and Anakin were on board The Twilight, a Corellian G9 Rigger-class light Freighter that Ahsoka and Anakin have used as their personal starship ever since their escape with Jabba the Hutt's son from the Battle of Teth, and now were on their way towards Iego, the Planet of 1000 moons to find the cure.
"Padmé, Ahsoka and Daniel will be fine." Obi-Wan telling Anakin.
"They will be, if we succeed." replied Anakin as he set the coordinates for Iego. He pulled down the switch lever and they had entered hyperspace.
Back in the Lab...
"All the doors are locked. How are we gonna get out?" A B-1 Battle Droid asked.
"It's not our problem." another Battle Droid asked.
"Boy, that's a relief." the first droid said sarcastly.
Unknown to them, Padmé and Jar Jar had been sneaking around and trying to find the safe room that Ahsoka, Danny and the Clone Troopers were all in.
Inside the contaminated Safe Room...
As time has gone by, some of the Clone Troopers have begun to feel the effects of the Blue Shadow Virus, as some of the Troopers start coughing.
In-between coughs the Clones gathered their gear and were now waiting for the senator. Danny watched Ahsoka pace back and forth as her worry visibly grew. Danny could feel her anxiety growing more and more, so he decided to try to get her to relax a bit.
"Ahsoka, we will be fine. I can feel your anxiety. You need to relax." Danny trying to get her to stop pacing.
"Danny, this is a little bit of a situation, and if we don't stop the droids, we may doom the planet." Ahsoka said with some small panic
"Ahsoka, do not worry, the senator is almost here, Vindi is in custody on Naboo, and both Master Kenobi and Skywalker is odds are on their way to discover a cure. We will beat this." Danny said assured.
"I believe you in that they are both on their way to discover a cure. How can you tell if Senator Amidala is on her way?" Ahsoka asking curious.
"I can sense determination and anxiety from someone else and no one matches this other than her." Danny explained. Ahsoka was actually surprised about how much he was able to sense already.
"You are stronger than what I thought." Ahsoka said as she was looking into his glowing green eyes and smiled brightly. Danny had an idea that would be able have her relax.
"Hey, Ahsoka, when this is over and we get a chance to recover, how about I show you what all of my full powers are and what I can do." Danny suggested.
"Ok, it's a promise then." Spoke Ahsoka. The two met each other's eyes and Ahsoka smiled brightly at Danny. Danny could have sworn that he felt his heart skip a beat at the display despite him not having a heartbeat in his ghost form. But the moment came to an end when Ahsoka started to cough heavily. Danny moves to the Togruta girl's side and patted her back in an attempt to comfort her. After Ahsoka's coughing had subsided, he quickly raised his commlink.
"Senator Amidala, where are you?" spoke Danny into his commlink.
"We're right outside your safe room." Answered Padmé.
"Ok, give me a second." started Danny as he walked over to the door. "Come on in Senators, we have some clankers to stop." Finished Danny as he places a hand on the door and made it intangible. Padme and Jar Jar walked through the door and into the safe room where Ahsoka and the clones waited for them.
"I'm sorry, Ahsoka, Danny." spoke the senator forlornly.
"Don't worry about us, Senator. We still have a job to do." Ahsoka said, ready to go.
"There aren't very many droids left. We saw some heading toward the south entrance." Padme reporting to Ahsoka, Danny and the Clone Troopers.
"As long as we're able, we'll help you destroy those droids before they breach the compound." Ahsoka said as Rex hands Padmé a DC-15S Blaster Carbine.
"You take the North corridor, Phantom will take the West, and we'll take the South." said Padmé, raising the blaster.
Throughout the Lab...
Danny floated silently in front of two Clone Troopers who introduced themselves as Hardcase and Echo, they quietly made their way through a corridor. Converging on the same exit hatch as the other two groups. Danny suddenly stopped raising a hand the two troops frozen weapons raised.
"What is it sir?" asked Echo quietly.
"I hear Droids around the corner." Whispered Danny as he drifted toward the corner, with the Troopers stacked up right behind him.
Danny glanced back at the clones and did a quick countdown on his fingers. 3….2…1 Danny blitzed around the corner sending ecto-blasts into a pair of droids. The clones followed Danny, unleashing a barrage of blue blaster bolts into the droids ahead of them.
The droids finally recovered from their surprise and returned fire. Just as they finished off the last droid off, one of the doors next to Hardcase opened and a super battle droid stepped forward its wrist-mounted blaster pointed at the clone's head. Hardcase tried to raise his blaster, but he was too slow.
*PEW*
When Hardcase didn't feel anything, he looks and immediately realized that Danny took the hit meant for him. Danny's shoulder was smoking slightly as he grabbed the droid's wrist crushing it. Danny then places his other hand on the droid's 'face' and crumbled it like it was paper. The droid collapsed to the ground as Danny held his left shoulder.
"Sir! Are you alright?" yell both troopers as they checked on Danny. Danny removed his hand revealing that the blaster hit right in his left shoulder and chest, a few inches from where the Clockwork symbol was, causing a burn.
"Yeah, I'm alright. It'll be gone in a few minutes." Explained Danny as the troopers could visibly see the injury healing before their eyes.
"Thank you for the save sir! I owe you one." Spoke Hardcase respectfully.
"No problem. Come on we're missing the party." Joked Danny with a smile as the sounds of battle drew their attention. They ran down the corridor and after tearing through more droids met up with Ahsoka and Padmé's groups.
Previously, At Another Part of The Lab...
"The droids are close. I can hear them cutting through the wall." Padme spoke to the squadron of soldiers she has. She turns the corner and sees the droids, trying to cut through the hatch.
Padmé gives the order, and they all begin to fire at the droids destroying them. In a few seconds, her troops cut down the droids and destroy their weapons. As Padmé finishes her off squad and enters at the center. Danny and Ahsoka's groups meet up with them as well.
Padme and Rex rushed up to the ladder pointing their weapons up at the droid on the ladder.
"Stop!" commanded Captain Rex.
"Don't open that hatch." Added Padme.
"HA! You're too late." Mocked the B1-Battle Droid as it fired its blaster at the hatch only for the bolt to bounce off the hatch and then off the walls before striking the droid itself. The battle droid fell to the ground as everyone looked at the remains of the droid.
"Well, that was some very big Deja Vu and a little very funny." Danny commented.
Meanwhile...
The Twilight has just come out of hyperspace and has arrived at Iego, the world of 1,000 moons.
"There it is. Iego." Obi-Wan telling Anakin.
"What do you make of this?" Anakin asking him
"It looks like a graveyard of ships." Obi-Wan commenting as they look on.
As they fly through and look around, making sure that they do not hit the debris that is scattered around the planet. As they travel through the obstructions and ship's remains, they enter the atmosphere of Iego and head down to the closet landing pad for their ship.
As the Twilight landed on Iego, a large squadron of Battle Droids and Vulture Pilot Droids were already waiting and on Iego. Both Anakin and Obi-Wan had already seen the droids and were surprised.
"Let's go." Anakin said, already ready to go.
"Anakin...-" said Obi-Wan, trying to get him to not rush off.
Anakin has opened up the entrance ramp and ran down the ramp to discover a large number of droids, almost the amount of a small army, marching towards Anakin.
"Not good." Anakin thought out loud, and then activated his lightsaber, letting the blue glow on his face.
"Welcome to Iego. Roger, roger." All of the battle droids said as they continue to march towards him. Obi-Wan has come down the ramp to meet up with Anakin.
"Anakin, wait. Wait!" Obi-Wan said trying to slow Anakin down or get him to ease up, but he was too late. Anakin began to rush off and start to slice up battle droid after battle droid while they were all saying, "Welcome to Iego." He stops after seeing that none of these battle droids were even armed.
"Welcome to Iego." the droids continue to say.
"Very impressive. You just destroyed 17 defenseless battle droids without suffering a scratch." Obi-Wan said sarcastically.
"Welco-..." one droid had started to say before the droid had fell destroyed like the rest.
"18, actually." Anakin corrected, sarcastically.
"The venerable Jaybo Hood requests an audience." The leader battle droid informed them.
"Jaybo?" the Jedi Knight asked out loud.
"Hey. You guys have any idea how long it took me to repurpose those droids?" Someone from behind the droids came up towards them and asked in frustration. It looked to be a kid, no older than 12, with cherry hair and brown eyes, holding up a battle droid head.
"You're Jaybo?" Anakin asked, a little surprised.
"Well, do you?" Jaybo asked again.
"I apologize for my friend's rather rash behavior." Obi-Wan apologized.
"Nine months, man. It took me nine months." Jaybo said, as he throws down the droid and walks over towards his hammock created with two vulture droids and lays down sighing. Anakin and Obi-Wan both look at each other.
Jaybo claps his hands twice and the droids are signaled. "Oh, that's our cue."
The droids begin to serve Jaybo almost as if Jaybo is a king. Fanning him, holding up a plate, turning on the radio. "Channel 2" the radio droid said.
"How'd a kid like you come by this many battle droids anyway?" Anakin asked as he examines them.
"Simple. When the Separatists took off, they left all this junk behind. I got a whole warehouse full of 'em, right over there." he answered
"So, you programmed them to serve you." Obi-Wan clarified.
"No reason to let a good droid rust, right?" Jaybo asked.
"Looks like you used a macro protocol to wipe them all simultaneously. Impressive." Anakin commented.
"I see you know your droids. You're Jedi, aren't you? You want me to show you how I did it?" Jaybo asked.
"Perhaps another time. What we need now is reeksa root. Do you know where we can find some?" Obi-Wan asked.
"Here, there, everywhere." Jaybo just said.
"We don't have time for games, kid. Where's the root?" Anakin asked/demanded, impatiently.
"What my friend is trying to say is that we are in a bit of a hurry." Obi-Wan said in a calmer voice.
"Not anymore, you're not." Jaybo said.
"Look, you little...-" Anakin said in anger.
"This system is haunted, cursed, whatever. Anyway, Jedi or not, no one gets off this rock alive, not past Droll." Jaybo informed them.
"Droll!" the battle droids freaked out.
"Droll?" Obi-Wan asked.
"Yeah, Droll, the phantom ruler of Iego. He destroys anything that leaves the planet. 50 of the best star pilots in the galaxy have tried. 50 tried, 50 died." Jaybo answered as he eats some fruit.
"I suppose that explains the ruined ships in the moon belt." Obi-Wan realized.
"First things first. We'll have to deal with this Droll later." Anakin said.
Back in the Lab...
Danny and Ahsoka both moved quickly down a corridor side by side, the group of clones and the two senators following right behind. Danny had noticed how that under Ahsoka's eyes that large blue-purple patches were developing.
Suddenly a pair of Droidekas rolled in from a side hall. They deployed and opened fire on the group. Danny and Ahsoka continued charging forward while the rest of the group stopped and took cover. Ahsoka wielding her lightsaber and Danny forming an ecto-blade.
Danny weaved through the oncoming fire closing the distance just as he got within reach of the first Droideka, he bent forward allowing Ahsoka to use Danny as a spring broad and jumped over the first Droideka. She landed on top of the second, just as Danny was tearing through his Droideka. Ahsoka deactivated her lightsaber, passing it through the Droideka's shield and then reactivated it inside the shield trying to slice its head.
"This-a help." Said Jar Jar firing a blaster pistol.
"Jar Jar, no," yelled Padme tackling Jar Jar. The senator's blaster bolt impacted on the Droideka's shield, only a couple of centimeters away for hitting Ahsoka.
"Senator!" yelled Ahsoka as she and Danny rushed towards Padmé.
"Senator, your suit's been compromised." stated Rex. Padmé looks down and sees the cable connected the helmet is disconnected. Ahsoka looked down saddened.
"I'm so sorry." apologized Ahsoka as Padmé sat up
"Don't blame yourself. These things tend to happen in a war zone." Spoke Padmé removing her now unneeded helmet as Danny walked past them and over to Jar Jar. Ahsoka visibly flinched at the dimmed cold anger that flowed off Danny.
"I am sorry, but Senator Binks, I am gonna have to take the blaster." Danny said as he took the DC-17 Blaster Pistol and disarmed the blaster and removed the ammunition, before he helped both Senators up towards their feet.
"Here, Captain. You can never be armed too much." Danny said as he gave the weapon to Rex. The Clone Troopers all looked the display of watching Danny disarm the weapon.
"Impressive Commander." Rex complented.
"Where did you learn that Danny?" Ahsoka asked curious.
"I grew up in a house with my family creating weapons and inventions to study and design. I learned from my mother how to use, arm and disarm all of the weapons that they had created. After a while, I start learning how to use and disarm everything almost any weapon I can." Danny explained, "Let's get to work."
Back on Iego...
Anakin and Obi-Wan descend a cliff to grab the Reeksa Root that they need at the bottom.
"Are you coming?" Obi-Wan asked him, yelling.
"You've got to be kidding. No way I'm going down there." Jaybo replies.
"You trying to tell us something?" Anakin asking.
"Don't worry, it's simple. Follow the vines to the bottom, dig up the roots, but don't touch the vine." Jaybo yells down for instructions.
"Aside from the obvious, why not?" Obi-Wan asks sarcastically.
"Because the plants don't like it, and they have big, sharp teeth." Jaybo yells back, clarifying.
"Teeth? This is getting better by the minute." Anakin says sarcastically.
"And watch out for the flying Xandu." Jaybo yells down again.
"What's a Xandu?" Anakin asked as his old master lands down onto a small cliff.
"I'm not sure." Obi-Wan says, confused as he is.
Almost by mention, a Xandu appears, and Anakin grabs on its legs. The Xandu starts to fly all around and taking Anakin with it, while Anakin is holding on for dear life.
"Master, hop on!" Anakin yells to Obi-Wan and he follows his lead. The Xandu starts head down towards the bottom.
"This isn't going to work." Obi-Wan in reluctance.
Back in the Laboratory...
"How are you doing up there?" asked a Battle droid as his partner was working on opening the hatch.
"I'm almost through." another battle said as he almost finishes cutting through the hatch.
"There they are." Yelled Ahsoka as she, Danny, Padmé, and the Clone Troopers find the droids cutting through the exit. Without warning, she dashes forward cutting one droid in half. She then used the Force to pull the second droid that was trying to cut through the hatch. With a pair of quick slashes, Ahsoka cut the B1 Battle Droid into three pieces. Ahsoka then lost balance and had to lean on the ladder for support.
"Ahsoka!" cried Danny and Padmé in concern as he bolted over.
"I'm all right." Spoke Ahsoka. she breathed heavily while she weakly waved off Danny before he could get to her.
"No, you're not. You can barely stand up. You're going to take it easy in the safe room until Anakin and Master Kenobi comes." Stated Danny in a stern tone.
"But what if there are more …droid…s!?" questioned Ahsoka with slight surprise at the end as Danny picks her up in his arms with little effort.
"Well, those were probably the last droids in the base." Spoke Padmé.
"And if they're not, I can take care of the rest." Spoke Danny, re-adjusting his grip, so he can hold her better.
"Fine." Said, Ahsoka, as she started coughing again.
Back on Iego...
The Xandu takes Anakin and Obi-Wan down to the bottom.
"There, those are the roots we're looking for." Obi-Wan says, pointing down towards the roots.
"Oh, poodoo." Anakin says in frustration.
Both Anakin and Obi-Wan landed down onto the ground, when suddenly a giant Reeksa plant began to rise from the ground and screeching, with its teeth flashing them both.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Obi-Wan said as Anakin digs out a shovel from his backpack and more Reeksa plants emerge from the ground.
"Don't take too long with that." Obi-Wan says as he activates his lightsaber to hold off the plants.
"I'll go as fast as I can." Anakin says as he begins to hack away part of a root while the Reeksa plant starts to come closer.
"Anakin, hurry." Obi-Wan states as he starts to worry about the plants multiplying and soon seeing them, "Anakin? Now."
"Okay, okay. Got it." Anakin says as he has managed to pull a Reeksa root from the ground, unfortunately, the Plants had discovered them.
"Hold still." Anakin said as he put the root in Obi-Wan's backpack.
"We've got to get out of here now." Obi-Wan says obviously, as the plants rush towards them.
They run back towards the cliffs that they got down to the cliff floor as the plants continue to give chase. They both climb up with high speed and small panic, the plants also begin to rise towards them. Both Anakin and Obi-Wan activate their lightsabers to defend themselves from the plants. They both cut the plants, killing them and buying themselves the time they would need to get away from any of the plants. They finally reach the top with Jaybo waiting on them.
"You made it. I knew you would." Jaybo said in relief.
"Oh, did you?" Obi-Wan asks sarcastically.
Jaybo, Anakin, and Obi-Wan all walk around Iego and seeing all the people that the planet is afraid of the ghost of Droll.
"The place dried up once the spice convoy stopped running. Out here, we're just one of the millions of little backwaters no one cares about. Those of us who are left can't leave because of the curse." Jaybo says as he shows them his home planet and his small city.
"Cursed, we are. The planet is cursed." a homeless local that is scared and nervous. Anakin looks back to hear him talk.
"Cursed by whom, my twitchy friend?" Obi-Wan asks him.
"The ghost of Droll, that's who." The local replies.
"A ghost?" Anakin asks.
"The spirit of the 1,000 moons, our protector and destroyer." He explains.
"It sounds like a load of..." Anakin starts to say,
"Superstition?" Obi-Wan asks.
"That's one word for it." Anakin replies.
"Superstition, you say." The local says, before he shows him a hologram of a Rodian in a pilot's chair.
"Can't hold on much longer, someone help me." The Rodian says before he explodes, and the feed dies.
"That was Takido. He was a friend of mine." Jaybo explains.
"Try to leave this planet and your fate will be the same." The local warns them and Anakin looks at him suspiciously.
In Another Part of The Naboo Lab...
Danny had been going through the laboratory, using his holomap and keeping track of all of the hatches that the Lab had to get to the outside. So far, no battle droids had been found as Danny kept making his rounds around the entire lab. Mostly what Danny had been thinking about was this plague and how it had brought up some memories of home.
This was not the first time Danny had been caught in a situation and a deadly disease had been released and created a near mast genocide and catastrophe. Danny remembered when Spectra and her assistant, Bertrand, had created and released a species of ghostly insect bugs that had infected most of the students at school; including his sister, Jazz and Sam, and gave them uncontrollable ghost powers and an ailment that was fatal within 24 hours, in the quest to create Spectra a new body using the best genes of everyone's talents and born traits to become unstoppable.
Danny and Tucker had managed to create an antidote with Tucker's cologne and managed to destroy the virus and cure the students. Danny had tricked Spectra when she attacked him. She needed Danny's DNA to complete the ghostly form for her new body. Unfortunately for her, she got Jack Fenton's DNA instead and allowing Danny to defeat her and Bertrand.
That time, Danny had won, and no one had suffered a horrible tragdey. This time, they were not so lucky. They had already lost a few soldiers and Clone Troopers to this deadly plague released within the confines of the lab. Danny had hoped that his new Master; Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker had discovered the treatment to this deadly plague.
Danny had been broken out of his musings by the sound of blaster fire. Danny had found a small pack of Battle Droids still left standing and running towards the hatch to open it. Danny had raised an icy shield to block the firefight. The droids continue firing hoping to break through the shield and get to him. Danny was looking out to see how many targets are there and openings.
Then, Danny had a thought that had popped up in his head and thought that this would be the best and most perfect time to test it.
Danny had deactivated the cloak hiding his lightsaber from everyone and lowered the shield on separating the droids from him. Danny had stood up from his hiding place and grabbed his lightsaber from his right side and activated his weapon. The droids all stopped firing as they saw Danny's lightsaber hum with light and as the beam of green energy had glowed in the corridor illuminating the corridor of the lab and Danny's face with green light. Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka could all feel the disturbance in the Force as Danny's lightsaber was lighting up.
Danny held up his blazing green lightsaber with his right hand and waved and spun it around a few times before going into his battle stance. As Danny was looking at the battle droids, they all noticed that the glow and shade was almost exactly like his own energy and eye color. Most of the battle droids were shocked to see this and were almost frozen with fear.
"He's a Jedi!" One of the battle droids exclaimed.
"Get him! All units fire!" another droid ordered and the next second, all of the droids, even the ones running towards the hatch began to fire.
Danny began to deflect the blaster fire with his lightsaber and started moving in closer towards the battle droids. While some kept firing at Danny, he was starting to slice up their weapons before destroying the droids. One by one, most of the droids were all destroyed until there was only one left.
"You were that new Jedi that Dooku warned us." the droid acknowledged.
Danny didn't reply as he used the lightsaber to destroy the rest of the droid.
'This pleases me.' Danny thought as he looks at the lightsaber, until he had another thought. 'Plasmius has told Dooku about me.'
"Worry about Dooku and Plasmius later. Finish sweeping the lab now." Danny said as he deactivates his lightsaber and places it on his hip. He continues to search the lab not finding anything else.
Back on Iego...
Anakin and Obi-Wan have loaded up and are ready to head back to Naboo to save their troops, their padawans, and the senators. Jaybo stands on the landing platform ready to watch and hope that Droll doesn't kill them.
"They'll never make it past Droll." Jaybo says as he holds a radio and watches their ship fly up and leave Iego.
"The ghost of Droll may be a local superstition, but something real blew up those ships." Obi-Wan said as he drops his backpack and starts to sit down.
"'Real' we can handle." Anakin replies as he begins to fly up towards space.
"Too bad. I really liked those guys." Jaybo comments as he holds up his binoculars and watches them fly.
"Thanks for your help, kid. We couldn't have done it without you." Anakin says through the comm frequency as he flies up toward space
"Have you run into Droll yet?"
"Not to worry, Jaybo." Obi-Wan replies.
All of a sudden, The Twilight has triggered something on one of the moons and suddenly a generator begins to power up and shoots an energy beam onto one of the moons and it begins to bounce back. R2 begins to see it and starts to worry.
"What's the matter, R2? Afraid of a ghost? Droll is just a superstition" Anakin asks as he hears R2 begin to worry but trails off as he and Obi-Wan see the energy beams.
"There's our ghost." Obi-Wan said.
"Lasers." Anakin exclaims.
"We've triggered an energy field." Obi-Wan says, down below the natives, see the energy field in their sky, and believe that Droll has seen them. "Turn the ship around. We'll never make it through."
"The Separatists installed those lasers to prevent people from leaving the planet." Obi-Wan observes as they watch the energy field die down.
"They're coming back." Jaybo announced as he sees the ship landing onto the platform. All of a sudden, The Twilight comm has activated as they see Ahsoka and Padme on the message.
"Master, can you hear me?" Ahsoka asks.
"R2, amplify the signal." Anakin orders his droid.
"Destroyed all the battle droids inside the compound, Master. Naboo is safe from further contamination. I repeat. Naboo is safe." Ahsoka reports.
"Promise me that no one will ever open this bunker…Good-bye, Anakin." Asked Padmé solemnly as she terminated the transmission.
"NO!" Anakin exclaims.
Jaybo and the natives are all gathered around to see the ship door open and Anakin and Obi-Wan walking down the ramp.
"We'll borrow a power converter from Jaybo and reprogram it to feed our..." Anakin began to talk with speed as he is worrying.
"Slow down, Anakin." Obi-Wan said as he was trying to calm his fellow Jedi down.
"'Slow down'? You saw them, Master. They're dying." Anakin replies, angry and agitated.
"A great leap forward often requires first taking two steps back."
"And sometimes all it requires is the will to jump."
"At least hear me out on this." Obi-Wan asks.
Soon the Jedi Knights have most of the townspeople gaithered around at a planet's conference room, including Jaybo to tell them about their plan and what they would need to do.
"Citizens of Iego, Droll is not a ghost. Rather, it is a Separatist security system."
"Nonsense. You were lucky to escape alive, simple as that." The same local homeless scared local that warned them about leaving said.
"And who says we didn't make our own luck?" Anakin replies, smirkingly.
"The ghost of Droll does, that's who." The local says as other look at him.
"Did anyone inhabit Iego's moons before the Separatists arrived?" Obi-Wan asked
"The angels, of course." he answers.
"Angels?" Obi-Wan asks, and almost by mention, a beautiful glowing being with a hood and wings had walked into the room and went to Obi-Wan.
"We were a peaceful people before the Separatists drove us from our homes and stole our moon." The angel said.
"And which moon was that?" Obi-Wan asked.
"Millius Prime." The angel answered as she held up a holoprojector to show Obi-Wan.
"The primary node, it must be near Millius Prime." Anakin realized in
"Vulture droids." Obi-Wan gets an idea, "Jaybo, can you reactivate those vulture droids?"
"Sure. I can even fly them by remote control." Jaybo answers.
"Good. We can have R2 fly the vulture droids as a decoy into the laser field.
"And since we know what we're up against, we can destroy the laser emitter." Anakin says, ready to roll.
"And cut a path right to Millius Prime." Obi-Wan finishes.
Back in the Lab's Safe Room...
Danny had returned shortly after the transmission had been terminated. Since then, he has been helping Ahsoka and Padmé by bringing the Clone fresh water. The condition of the infected was rapidly declining. They all were coughing more often, and some were coughing up blood.
"What a waste." Spoke Padmé as she witnessed rex covering one of his deceased brothers with a white cloth.
"With all due respect, Senator, it's what they're born to do." Spoke Captain Rex
"They deserve better than that." Murmured Danny. 'I hope whatever afterlife they have here is nice.' Thought Danny.
"I hope that their sacrifice brings us closer to peace." Spoke Padmé as she looked away from the corpse.
"It will, Padmé. You must believe that…. You…. Must believe." Spoke Ahsoka in between coughs as she wobbled on her feet before she collapsed.
"Ahsoka!" yelled Rex, Padmé, and Danny. Danny caught Ahsoka before she could hit the ground. Ahsoka was limp in Danny's arms, the facade of control crumble and Danny's face reflected what he felt helplessness and worry.
It had been 30 minutes and Danny refused to let go off Ahsoka. he'd been trying to help her since she collapsed. The others could barely move now as Danny and jar Jar watched them slowly slip closer to death.
"Dan... ny…..." groaned Ahsoka as her eyes opened ever so slightly.
"Ahsoka save your strength." Spoke Danny as he held her a bit closer.
"Danny…. don't…. blame… your… self…. don't let…. master …blame him…self…" spoke Ahsoka.
"Don't talk like that, you just need to hold on a little longer Ahsoka, Anakin's almost here," spoke Danny his voice shaky.
"Help…. bring…. peace… end… this war..." spoke Ahsoka as she lapsed back into unconsciousness. Danny shook the girl gently trying to rose her.
"Hang on Ahsoka, you'll pull through." Danny said as he tries to wake her up. 'Wait, virus, if this holds the same ideas for diseases to slow and treat. Slow down the spread of the Blue Shadow Virus.'
He calls forth his ice powers and places his hand on her stomach and sends a small chill to slow down the pain and spread of the disease. Rex and the Senators all turn around and see the display.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Rex asks as he sees Danny and Ahsoka with a blue glow.
"An old trick that I had learned from the last time I had encountered something like this. Not a cure, just to slow down the disease. Slow down the spread of the disease and relief some of the pain." Danny answered.
Back on Iego...
"Ready, General Kenobi." Jaybo said into his radio.
"Jaybo, activate the droids. Transfer control of the vulture droids to R2." Anakin tells Jaybo to do. Jaybo begins to power up the Vulture Droids and they start to move around and soon R2 begins to gain the control of the droids. They head back to space with the Vulture Droids and hope to beat the energy field. They reach the moon and trigger the energy field to stop them from leaving the planet.
"R2, intercept the lasers. Send the vulture droids directly into the laser generator." Obi-Wan orders. R2 does as he orders as the Vulture Droids intercept the lasers giving Obi-Wan and Anakin the opportunity they would need to destroy the laser generator and destroy the energy field.
"You guys, okay? Guys?" Jaybo calls out on his comm.
"We're fine, kid. I'm afraid you'll need some new droids to boss around, Jaybo. The ones you lent us are pretty much toast." Anakin replies and the rest of the native cheer as they have won.
"But the good news is that you're now free to leave Iego whenever you choose." Obi-Wan said to them.
"R2, set a course for Naboo." Anakin said to his friend and in 30 seconds make the jump to hyperspace.
Back in the Laboratory...
Anakin and Obi-Wan have make it to Naboo just in time as they see several medical droids with hover stretchers that hold the surviving clones, Senator Padme, Ahsoka and Danny being carried out. Although Danny is still standing, and Jar Jar is struggling to remove his helmet. Anakin as soon as he sees her, runs toward his secret wife, even though he saw Danny watching.
"Padme, I spoke with the medical droid. He expects you to make a full recovery." Spoke Anakin.
"I never lost faith in you. None of us did." Said Padmé smiling at Anakin.
"That's good to hear because there were a few moments where we weren't so sure of ourselves." Replied Anakin joking lightly as he smiled back.
"Well, you did make it. By the way, your padawans were brilliant." Stated Padmé. Anakin looked back at Danny and Ahsoka. Anakin could see them laying down while Danny is still stretching, Anakin looked back at his secret wife.
"I trust I'll see you soon, General Skywalker?" asked Padmé as she discreetly took his hand in hers.
"Of course, my lady." Replayed Anakin with a slight bow. As he let go of her as she was loaded into the LAAT.
Obi-Wan was checking up on Hardcase being carried away onto the ship, when he hears Jar Jar struggling with his HAZMAT helmet. Obi-Wan kneels down to talk with him.
"I heard you were quite brave fending off the battle droids, Jar Jar."
"Really?" Jar Jar asks.
"Senator Amidala suggested we offer you training to help hone your skills with a blaster." Obi-Wan tells him.
"Really?" He asks as he gets up.
"Really." Obi-Wan confirms as he hands him his helmet.
"Oh, boy. I'm a-gonna be trained." Jar Jar said in excitement.
"I am not training him." Rex said as he is loaded up onto the ship.
Obi-Wan notices his Padawan and walks over, when he sees Danny, he is surprised to see him not infected much.
"You don't look like you have been infected much." Obi-Wan comments.
"Hyper Cellular-Regeneration. But I am still taking the cure so nothing will happen to my human side." Danny said.
"Good Thinking, my young apprentice." Obi-Wan said, proud of the thought that his new student holds.
"Oh, yeah after once the cure is complete, can we talk? I discovered something big down there." Danny asked.
"Yes." Obi-Wan replies. Soon Danny and Ahsoka are side-by-side on their stretchers.
"You two did a fantastic job today, Snips, Spooks," spoke Anakin praising the younglings.
"It was all thanks to your training, Master." Commented Ahsoka weakly.
"Yeah, you're right. I probably do deserve most of the credit." Anakin says cocky. Ahsoka rolls her eye, "but not all of it."
"Good thing I know you don't mean everything you say." said Ahsoka. Danny chucked lightly at the exchange. Ahsoka is carried into the LAAT.
"Was he like this when he was learning from you?" Danny asked,
"Oh, yes. Yes, he was." Obi-Wan said smiling, while Anakin looks with a fake offended look.
"Well, I can say as long as I am stuck here. You will never see anything like that from me." Danny said.
"Pilot, get these three out of here." Ordered Anakin. The clone pilot gave a thumbs up as the craft began to hover just off the ground.
"Thank you, Master." Spoke both Ahsoka and Danny in unison as the LAAT side doors close. The transport took off heading for the capital of Naboo.
The camera looks out at the ship and into the sun at sight of the Republic Victory.
End Episode
Author's Note: Sorry again for having taken so long. Summer and with all of my upcoming arrangements, I didn't have a lot of time like before. I will give a sneak peek at the next chapter. Danny talks with Obi-Wan and tells him about Plasmius and what could happen. Danny and Ahsoka will continue to bond, and we will have a flashback to what happened after the Dis-asteriod exploded with Danny and Vlad and what happened with the people on Earth.
