Star wars stories: I need to kill what to get a time travel coupon? chapter 2

AN: Hello there everyone and welcome back, here is the next chapter of the misadventures of Skywalker, Tano and Co. I hope you'll have as much fun reading it as we had writing it, now onto the disclaimer.

Disclaimer: Since I am not an employee nor stakeholder for Disney nor an employee or stakeholder with HBO while lastly also not being the original author of the book series Game of Thrones is based on, I do not own anything related to all this and this is thus a non-profit fan made work. Please do not sue, I'm already poor enough.

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Anakin's quarters

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The buzzing of the intercom wakes Ahsoka up however the moment it does so she also realizes that she did not lay still while sleeping and instead moved over and hugged Anakin, who had unconsciously returned the hug leaving her now trapped within his arms. This action has pressed her body into his, her Leku lying along his abs as she blearily tries to look around before deciding it doesn't matter too much as she almost goes back to sleep in the comfortable warmth, only for her head to shoot up a bit as she realizes after a moment just what she was doing and where she is resting her head. She tries to leave the hug but Anakin has too strong a hold on her to leave it since whenever she tries to move away he drags her back.

After a minute or so she gives up and instead starts trying to wake him up, which works after a while and he looks down at her in his arms, smiling for a moment before realizing that his upper body is naked and he was holding her in a similar fashion to how he held Padme while cuddling, causing him to quickly let go. At which point he notices his com going off, causing him to quickly leave the bed and answer, hearing a muttered sigh of 'Finally' from the other side once he does so. ''Yes Rex my apologies but Ahsoka thought it best if I slept for a while during the moment of rest you two decided I needed and it has honestly done me good, so what do you need from me.''

Rex chuckles nervously ''I called with Lawrence Waters a moment ago and he is willing to give us some maps of various places around the world, however the father of the girl you saved and the girl herself want to meet you again. Also, if possible could you keep this silent from Ahsoka for a moment? I'd rather not get her on my case just yet.'' Anakin chuckles while looking at Ahsoka who is listening in from his bed.

''Sure Rex I'll go down there and won't say a word about you being the one to call in and wake me to Ahsoka.'' Rex sighed and thanked him before closing the line, all the while Anakin and Ahsoka looked at each other for a moment before Anakin tried joking ''Well I'm not the one telling you.''

To him the situation was somewhat awkward, since he did hug her to himself and he thought she might have had an issue with that, though otherwise he thought it normal since in his eyes despite now physically being roughly his age, she was still the charming little rascal he had picked up as his student all those years ago that had spent years sleeping in a room with him. To her meanwhile, she had just slept in a bed with a half nude man that she hadn't seen in five years until the day before and woken up with her face pressed into his bare skin… this situation was about as awkward as it could get.

He shrugs after a few moments and redresses before looking over at her ''Come on, I'd like for you to join me on the trip down. We should probably talk about some more things, hopefully a number of the good ones.'' Then he smiles softly at her ''That was one of the most restful nights I've had in weeks, thank you for suggesting it.'' As he turns around and walks towards the door he can hear her move out of the bed as he opens the door and waits outside for a few moments before the door opens again behind him before both he and Ahsoka walk towards the hangar.

After a few minutes in spite of everything that happened curiosity overtakes Ahsoka ''So ever since I found out that you and Padme had a thing I wanted to know just how it started between the two of you. How did you two meet, and was the relationship started shortly after you met or far later? Which one of you initiated it?'' A small smile appears on Anakin's face, though it also pulls into a grimace as he remembers some of the circumstances.

''We first met when I was still a slave on Tatooine, working in the shop for a Toydarian named Watto as I saw an older man walk in followed by the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.'' Anakin shakes his head smiling ''To be honest she was probably one of the few good looking women I had ever seen up close and personal by that point besides my own mother as I was a nine year old boy that spent most of his time working, but still.''

Ahsoka gestures for him to continue causing him to rub her head while chuckling ''Calm down Snips, I'll get there.'' Unknown to Anakin the gesture provides both warmth and embarrassment for Ahsoka, making her unsure how to feel when he stops ''Now first the man, who I would learn was called Qui Con Gin and was Obi-Wans jedi master, talked to Watto about the possibility of acquiring an engine for their ship. As they went into the back I, the nine year old with a surprising amount of social skills for a slave who spent 90% of his time working, started flirting with her.''

As Anakin continues the story they walk into the hangar and board one of the gunships ''Wait, wait, Padme is currently 29 right?'' Anakin nods ''So you were a nine year old flirting with a fourteen year old queen that ruled a planet… how exactly did that go?'' Anakin chuckles, the conversation bringing the happy memory back to the front of his mind.

''About as you would expect, while she wasn't really interested she did both find it funny and did like the fact of being genuinely complemented by somebody close to her age like any teenager, so she happily chatted with me for a bit before Watto came back.'' Ahsoka gave him a look ''Oh, you mean what was actually said.''

He takes a breath and then with a higher voice than usual ''Are you an angel?'' at her 'what' he smiles and he continues ''An angel, I heard the deep space pilots talk about them, the most beautiful creatures in the universe.'' By this point Ahsoka is silently laughing and after a moment of faked indignation Anakin joins her, knowing just how it sounds when listening as an adult.

As the ship descends they keep talking about the good memories of the past, him about moments with Padme and Obi-wan that she wasn't there for, while she talks about life at the jedi temple with Plo Koon. They continue after they land in town, occasionally reacting when the villagers come to them to say some words with smiles on their faces, assumed to be thanks for rescuing their relatives. After about ten minutes of this, a young woman walks up to the two of them with a plate with a few fruits, bread and a tiny bit of salt in a small bowl on it ''Sir, milady,'' she says in a voice that while accented is still more understandable than the basic used by a number of the species in their home galaxy ''This is an offering of bread and salt, to show our thankfulness and welcoming you to stay here safely.''

The two look at each other before nodding, not one to turn down food from a local custom especially as they remember the rarity of positive initial receptions they had gotten throughout their careers. They each sample a small bit of salt as asked before taking a slice of bread and half of an orange fruit each. The bread tastes good, seemingly being relatively freshly baked while the fruit is a bit on the sweet side for their taste however since they rarely have it when away from major population centres it is still a nice gesture, especially since they know it is mainly military rations waiting for them back on the ship.

They thank the young woman who smiles and bows before leaving, after which they spend a few more minutes conversing before they can hear the engines of another gunship, causing them to move to approach its landing zone. As the doors slide open and the passengers step out, they can see Lawrence, the young boy and girl they had met before and a man and woman seemingly of roughly the same age as Lawrence, with the woman even looking somewhat like him.

Now that the children are cleaned up and given less dirty clothing, they can see the two have silver hair, though most of their attention is on the adults as they give a look over the two new faces they see a man of roughly six foot (180cm) with dark brown hair that is showing some strands of grey who has a similar physique to Lawrence, a man out of his prime but still a visibly competent warrior that kept up a high level of fitness, however currently sporting a crutch to keep him standing. The woman meanwhile has greying blond hair and is shorter than either Lawrence or the other man at five foot eight (170 cm) and thus still around average height for a human woman.

After they stand there silently for a minute, with both sides looking the other up and down the blond woman walks up to Anakin and takes his hands in hers ''Thank you Ser, you have brought my nephew and niece back to us safe and sound, I was afraid I'd never see them again. My husband was wounded while trying to fend off one of their attacks and couldn't go after them while the rest of the town was barely hanging on with most of our able bodied adults being either dead, wounded or taken.''

He nods accepting her thanks ''No problem madam, wiping out slavers and knowing there are a few less of those monsters to prey on people is a bonus on its own. However I do feel the need to inform you that a large part of the operation lay in the hands of my colleague Ahsoka'' gesturing to her ''and our men.'''

The woman's eyes widen before she hugs the other woman and thanks her as the wounded man moves over to Anakin with tears in the corners of his eyes ''Thank you for saving them, we wouldn't have known what to do without them. I know you said no reward, but anything you want that we can provide, I'll do my utmost to get it to you.'' Anakin thinks for a moment before looking around at the small crowd that had gathered around to watch them.

''I do have some things we'd like to discuss, could we possibly go to Lawrence's place and discuss all this?'' The three nod as the children, whom have both been silent until now approach Anakin and both grab one of his hands before starting on pulling him towards their destination with the other adults chuckling as they follow.

Upon arriving there, closing the door and calling over one of their soldiers to guard the door against listeners Anakin gives it to them straight ''While we were taking care of their injuries and illness both of the children showed that they are force sensitive, for this reason I would like to train them at least a bit on how to control and handle it.'' All five of the locals look at him not understanding, causing Ahsoka to jump in as she floats up the individual fruits out of the basket lying on the table.

''The force is an energy field surrounding every living being however only some, like Anakin and myself, have the luck of being born with enough strength in it that we can use it to influence the world around us. Just to what extent depends on both the raw power and control available to each and every individual in addition to how much training they've had however our entire order, the Jedi order, was made up out of those with this ability.'' As she ends Anakin picks up where she left off.

''And from what I felt from the youngsters, both of them have a fairly strong ability to use the force, with especially the girl having quite a bit more than the average Jedi if I was feeling it correctly. Now we know that this is a large commitment and as such are more than willing to give you time to think on it, however we would like the answer at least relatively soon since it is harder to effectively control the later you start learning for most people.''

While the woman looks a bit apprehensive the man looks interested. ''While I am actually interested in that possibility since anything to make them better able to defend themselves is a good thing, I think we all forgot to introduce ourselves to each other, so let us start with that.'' He stands up and looks at the both of them ''My name is Harrold Arryn, while my wife here is Henrietta Rochefort.''

At this his wife looks at him, not too happy with him for having revealed that last name ''Honey, this incident has shown me that anonymity isn't a great solution anymore, especially not since these two don't even know anything about Westeros and will likely not care much one way or the other. In addition it was decades ago that we fled from there and last we heard the Targaryen's were about to lose control of the country anyways and any new ruler won't care much about the last members of a house that fled for the crime of having sided with the wrong Targaryen that long ago and being unwilling to let a son of their house that happened to have a mother that was a Targaryen bastard die for the crime of being born.''

After looking at her husband while sighing some more angrily she loses that anger and turns towards the two slightly confused looking Jedi ''My apologies for my husbands brash behaviour, though he is probably right on this point. Me, my younger half brother'' at this she gestures to Lawrence ''and my cousin fled here from Westeros as political refugees, with Harrold being a knight of our house that stayed loyal to us even after having been ordered by his great-uncle, the lord of Vale, to give all of us up. When we arrived in Essos, the three of them founded a sellsword company that recruited mainly from other Westerosi exiles and locals willing to adapt to our style of living and fighting, however in spite of our time here the three of them remained Westerosi knights.''

She seems to be lost in memories for a moment and after a short silence Lawrence takes over ''What that meant is that when we were ordered to slaughter a group of slaves that had risen in rebellion to the last man, woman and child, we instead sent a messenger to the rebelling slaves and with their assistance ambushed the Essosi companies that were supposed to be the main fighting force for that operation. We won the battle, however now being outcasts even in most of Essos we instead travelled around with the slaves a bit before settling in two villages in this area, far from the reach of most larger powers.''

A smile appears on his face ''However along the way our cousin had fallen in love with the leader of the slave rebellion, a very feisty young woman. Together they produced the two wonders sitting here at the table with us.'' Upon finishing the sentence he brushes a hand through the hair of the teenagers who while verbally protesting do lean into the motion. The fate of the man and woman is left silent as both Anakin and Ahsoka easily understand they are no longer in the land of the living.

Instead Anakin looks at the three adults ''So all of you would be fine with us training the young ones into being able to use the force to defend themselves and if they're interested afterwards keep on training them?'' The three nod, after which Anakin turns towards the teenagers ''And you two, would you be willing to be trained to be able to do things like Ahsoka just did and to control the abilities you used while in that cell?'' They both nod at him, causing him to smile.

At this point Lawrence stands up ''Now that we've dealt with that, I'll grab the maps sir Rex asked for and explain whatever we can on how things worked on this world to our latest information, though things may have changed since we have been out of the loop for quite a while, meaning we only really know the broad strokes of more current events.'' Anakin gestures it is fine and takes a device out of his pocket and attaches it to a support beam on the ceiling.

''It's a recording device, similar to the device you have it can transport words said and images taken back to the ship, however with this instead of being used for communication it is instead used so we can look the information over again at a later point.'' As the trio nod to Anakin's explanation, Harrold grabs the teenagers attention and gets them to leave with him to visit some other people in town they know as Lawrence returns with the maps he has.

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Several hours later, in a war room onboard the ship

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''And this is the north, with one of the most impressive pieces of architecture in the known world, a sevenhundred foot high wall extending from coast to coast to keep out threats from further North.'' Rex, Ahsoka and Anakin sit there the three of them having just rewatched and discussed the information they had just gotten. The three exchange looks before Anakin speaks up.

''First things first, I propose at some point one of us goes on a tour to meet with these lords Paramount of Westeros to try and figure out both more recent information about the area and to try and get us a better image of those currently leading these regions.'' He looks at the copy of the map of being projected on the table in front of them ''Especially the kingdom of the North, since I assume that is what it meant when it said far north, what with the seven-hundred foot high wall she described being located there. And I assume you don't build more than one wall that high to deal with just human enemies in a pre-industrial civilization, especially not all the way from one side of a continent to the other side. So that is almost certainly going to be one of the initial defensive lines to fight this world ending threat from, and probably a fairly effective one at that. I can't see anyone without the ability to fly taking that thing with less than a twenty to one advantage in numbers if not even more.''

The other two nod before Rex speaks up ''But whom of the three of us, we've all got enough experience to do something like that but we need at least one, preferably two of us to run this show here especially since the scouts have found a decent place to start that agricultural community you proposed General.''

Ahsoka enters the discussion at this point ''Since we can't bring the larger ship with us to convince them every time I think it is a better option if for the North two of us go, with myself and Anakin being the best options in my opinion before Anakin returns to here while I continue the tour while bringing both of you to the most important meetings through a communicator device so you can be there holographically, since the main population on this planet seems to be human and this would give our story more credibility.''

Both of the men opposite of her exchange a nod before Anakin speaks up again ''Good idea overall, though I feel we might need to wait with this for a while still so that we've gotten settled here before head halfway across the planet to meet with some people.'' At this point he frowns ''I especially don't like the look of the situation in this region after what they explained about how it has started changing recently, to me it looks like some group within Myr is weakening the area ahead of an attempt to actually integrate more of the region instead of only formally claiming it. So we might very well have to fight off an invasion force from Myr instead of just a pirate counter attack.''

Both of them have a similar feeling before Rex smirks for a second ''And regardless of which will happen, we can start preparing for either of such a situation by clearing out pirate bases along the rivers and getting more of the towns to align with us. We can then work on bringing the towns leaders together to form a coalition of some kind to strengthen them…''

Anakin's smile is a vicious thing ''And then when they make their move we strike it down together with local allies and march to free the slaves held in the areas near Myr if they are involved, before forcing terms on Myr once we make it clear just how out of their league the fight they chose is… while if Myr isn't involved we can slowly, methodically clear out pirate bases along the river and bring towns into a defensive alliance untill we are in a position to force Myr into co-operating with us. Good thinking Rex.'' He then looks at the map again thinking ''And what if we add some more positive terms to the coalition other than only a stronger defence and instead assist them in improving the infrastructure in their towns, semi-modern sewer systems, better roads, more advanced farming equipment and various other similar things. That would even help us indirectly with how food production and transportation would be improved enough for us to more easily buy from the local surplus.''

The other two smile at that, though Ahsoka speaks up ''That does sound like a good idea, though are you sure you're not trying to form an empire of some kind with the locals? Emperor Skywalker The First or something similar?''

The mentioned Skywalker deadpans at her ''And have to deal with all that paperwork? No thank you, I'd rather keep being a general and help these people beat back the scourge that is slavery, not have to deal with being all the politics and shenanigans involved with ruling an Empire. Besides'' he smirks at her ''I think it would suit you more, Empress Tano, an angel that came down from the heavens to assist the human population.'' As the meeting devolves from serious into this Rex looks on from the side with a small smile on his face, feeling good to have the banter between Ahsoka and Anakin back into his life.

After a few moments of it though he does have to break it up ''General, Commander, may I have your attention please?'' The two stop their banter and turn to him ''I planned an expedition to the planets moon and the various asteroids in the system to check if there are any resources we can use on them, does either of you want to accompany the exploratory groups or otherwise change the plans?''

Ahsoka and Anakin share a look for a moment before both shaking their heads as Anakin speaks up ''I trust your ability to plan such things Rex, I would like to get reports sent through though. After we've had some dinner I'm instead more inclined to take a look at the location the scouting group had in mind found the agricultural settlement and then deal with the preparations for announcements regarding honourable discharges for those that want them.''

Three days later, briefing room

''Good morning gentlemen.'' The forty clone troopers and one Westerosi Knight in the room stand up from their seats, with the troopers saluting as Anakin walks into the room before he goes to stand next to the projector, signalling for them to sit back down ''You have been selected to join me in taking out a pirate and slaver base among one of the various arms of the river delta that is the lifeblood of both trade and agriculture in most of the region. We have determined six bases were river pirates operate from through a combination of air scouting and the newly active satellite, of which we are going to be targeting the largest one today while other platoons will handle the smaller ones. Before anyone asks, yes we'll have air support, the gunships that will transport us to the combat area will also serve as air support.''

He looks around to see if there are any questions yet, seeing them to not be there he continues ''Our main objective will be to free the captured slaves, which are in two very large cages at the east end of the camp closest to the river and guarded by between twenty and twenty-five men depending on the time of day. Securing these will most likely be the hardest part of the operation, since you will have to drop down and engage the enemy close up before they have any chance of taking the captives as hostages. After this twenty of you will stay with the prisoners while our medics care for their wounds, the rest of you will split up into two groups and secure the southern and northern exits of the camp, while Lawrence assists as a translator to the prisoners.

To make these tasks easier on you all I will perform a one man assault on the western entrance of the camp, drawing as much attention to myself as possible before pushing up to grab the maps and other paperwork from the commanders personal tent to figure out who exactly they are selling to and what route their convoys take. After we have secured the camp and taken out all hostiles half of the guards will leave with me and the previous captives to find their towns while the remainder of you scavenges the dead hostiles and the camp itself for potentially useful equipment such as coin, tools, weapons and armour since we have no reliable mining operations currently anything metallic to reforge into machines is useful. Is everything understood?''

The clone troopers all nod and he replies ''Good, head to the armoury to stock up we're heading out in fifteen minutes. Dismissed.'' As they stand up and salute him before all leaving he himself looks the plans over one last time and nods to himself, so far so good. He heads towards the Hangar to do some last minute checks of his starfighter.

Fifteen minutes later he is sitting in his cockpit, sounding off ''All units ready?'' he waits for all squad leaders to confirm, before ordering ''Blue wing perform last pre-flight check ups then follow my lead, Skywalker taking off now.'' As he takes off and starts flying towards the target area he listens to the pilots do their final check ups before lifting off themselves. Within fifteen minutes he arrives at the target area and quickly checks to make sure his targeting computer is aiming at the correct entrance before announcing ''Skywalker engaging hostiles in 3, 2, 1.''

As the last number leaves his mouth he turns back to the western gate from his flyover and pulls the triggers, sending blasts flying down towards the entrance and ripping the area to pieces, leaving his run before turning around and doing another run at it, finishing off whatever gate guards survived the first run and blowing a large hole in the palisade wall, before doing turning around in his last run and opening fire through the main lane of the camp that the braver of the pirates are rushing through to get to the gate, killing several more. At this point he hears the signals of the other ships preparing to engage, causing him to set his ship down and announce ''This is Skywalker, exiting and engaging on foot.'' All the while commanding R2 to fly the ship upwards and take out anyone trying to flee through this entrance.

Afterwards he charges into the camp, and as he passes by the burnt and ripped up corpses near the entrance he sees a row of four archers rushing around the corner, quickly taking aim at him but before they can loose he grabs one with the force, sends him crashing towards himself and then stops him just shy, using him as a meatshield for the first volley as he moves forward before tossing him aside and charging the remaining distance, slicing one in half, punching the second with a force enhanced punch sending him flying with his face caved in as the last tries to run only for Anakin to grab him with the force and drag him back right onto his lightsabre.

After ripping his sabre free to the right and tossing the man aside Anakin marches onward, finding a group of a dozen men two rows deep with polearms, mainly spears but with two halberds in there, holding a defensive line. He smirks and chuckles, darkly noting ''That's all you can offer?'' before ripping two of the men in the first line forward before throwing them back again, one onto the spear of one of his allies while the other just rams into the man that was behind him.

At this they panic and all try to rush forward, giving Anakin the opening he needed to send out a wave push, causing the now unstable small mob to ram into one another and become completely uncoordinated while smaller stones and sand from the ground proceeds to smash into the frontal members. Anakin charges forward, beheading the lone man ahead of them all and using his head as a projectile to worsen the confusion of the group even more as he picks up the mans falling spear before jumping upwards all the while throwing the spear down into the group.

As he lands he turns around and charges into the back of the group, beheading another man that couldn't turn around to face him in time before chopping off the ends of the spears the two men that did manage to turn around are using before slashing forwards into the confused mass of men, chopping off limbs and killing at least one other as while screams are let loose one voice is silenced instead before a force push sends the group tumbling down allowing him another chop in bisecting two of them before he jumps back as one manages to stab his spear out, Anakin gripping it and ripping it out of the wounded mans hand before stabbing him with it followed by stabbing it through another, beheading one trying to stab his leg with a dagger and stomping onto the neck of the last still moving man.

Looking around to make sure all of them are dead he leaves the scene and moves further towards the centre of the camp. Shortly afterwards another three men rush him as he exist a lane of tents only for him to redo the trick of grabbing one and throwing him into another, however before he can do anything about the third man he instead has to roll to the side to dodge the mans thrown knives as he closes in with his sword, only for Anakin to parry his slash, and after two attacks by Anakin the mans last slash is done in by his opponents sabre breaking through his sword and slicing onwards through his head.

His dead foe collapsing, Anakin moves to the two men that have only just managed to get up in time to see their ally falling over dead with Anakin smirking as he throws his sabre through the neck of one before grabbing the last man with the force and throwing him into a nearby campfire that had a spit roast over it. Grabbing his returning sabre out of the air he moves onwards hearing the melodious sound of gunfire in the distance as he approaches his target. Once having arrived at the central tent however he sees nobody to fight back at which point he enters the tent to see what he assumes to be the 'commander' hiding in the corner.

He grabs the man with the force and pulls him towards himself ''Now,'' he begins as the man hangs in the air in front of him, chocking slightly ''You will tell me everything I want to know or I will get the information from you the hard way… choose wisely.''

The man immediately starts trying to talk, causing Anakin to drop him to the ground where the heavyset man coughs for a few moments before starting in broken basic, or Westerosi he supposes, ''I speak, I speak!'' Anakin lets him catch his breath and voice for a second before the man starts up again ''What you wish to know?''

Anakin leans down on the man ''Everything about who you where going to sell these slaves to and when you were going to do so. Don't leave out a single word or'' and at this he tightens his fist slightly, giving the man a slight recurring taste of what he just experienced. The fearful man easily agrees.

''The honourable masters of Myr, my clients are the Honourable masters of Myr!'' Anakin steps back slightly to allow the other man to talk more easily, especially since he gets the message from his men that the camp has been cleared of enemies, though they could see a few men managing to flee into the surrounding forest before they could get to the gates. For now Anakin doesn't mind, instead spending the time interrogating the man in front of him before knocking him out and dragging him out towards the eastern riverside entrance.

Once he arrives there he can see Lawrence standing there, talking with two of the freed captives. As he approaches Lawrence notices him and finishes his conversation with the two, while Anakin waits until it is over, at which point he walks towards Lawrence ''Good to see you made it out without a scratch Sir Skywalker.'' At Anakin's nod in return he looks at his captive ''So that is the camps commander? Would have assumed somebody slight more impressive to be honest.''

Anakin nods back ''I had the same initial assumption however I know now why this one is the nominal leader. He was the financial head and has connections to several important families in Myr itself, allowing for easier sales and access to equipment since they had to pay less in tolls than the other groups in the region, in addition to being the one that owned the ship they use for transport to Myr itself. He used this to move himself into the leadership position after the last one died in a raid.''

As Lawrence nods in understanding Anakin continues ''I also learned a few other things, including the fact that said ship is supposed to return here in two weeks. I am planning on setting up an ambush here and taking out both ship and crew out of the equation.'' Leaving Lawrence to think on that Anakin instead turns towards the nearby medic that was closing up his supplies ''How far along are we in treating the wounded and sick?''

The medic looks over ''Almost done sir, once Gregor is done applying bacta to his current patient we should be ready to go.'' The trooper turns to Lawrence for a moment ''Though sir if possible, it might be a good idea for you to go to them and explain the importance of keeping the bacta in place for now, if they remove it too early the wound might open again.'' Lawrence nods and heads over to talk to the young man being treated by the other medic on the scene.

Shortly afterwards ten of the men in addition to Anakin and Lawrence are mounted up in the gunships again with the captives coming along while the remainder of the soldiers continues scavenging the camp for anything useful. With directions from Lawrence they arrive at their destination after five minutes, the last of which was spent flying fairly slowly to make sure they wouldn't miss the village. As they land they are first looked at in confusion and suspicion before they recognize their family members and friends among the civilians exiting the airships, causing what seems to be more than half of the towns population to rush out and tearfully hug the people they thought lost.

While the heartfelt re-union is taking place Lawrence and Anakin meet with the local leaders, a trio of elders stepping forward out of the crowd. They first enter a conversation with Lawrence for a moment before he translates over to Anakin ''They are very thankful, however they wish to notify you they do not have much in the way of wealth to reward you with.''

Anakin smiles at them for a moment while nodding before turning back to Lawrence ''Understandable, however I do not wish to be rewarded in wealth, instead my fellow commanding officers and I have reached the idea that it might be a good plan to offer to be the neutral party and military backer of a local coalition.'' Lawrence looks at him with some surprise, so Anakin resumes explaining ''The rough plan is to support your village, this one and other larger villages by giving you communication devices to contact one another and then assist as a partner in a defensive alliance so we can work better together against slaver or Myrish attempts at retaliation. In addition, we'll aid in improving local infrastructure such as roads, sewage systems and bridges.''

Lawrence looks stunned for a minute before a smirk comes across his face as he turns towards the three elders and explains the situation, including the fact that the man in front of them represents an army of thousands that despise slavery a lot, which stuns the three but very quickly makes one of them smile and laugh before they exchange nods as he then speaks to Lawrence again who turns back to Anakin with a smile ''He asks and I quote 'Where can we sign to this wonder deal you're offering, Myr's mercenaries have been getting far too cocky lately, they need to be knocked down a notch.'''

Anakin smirks before holding out his hand to the elder that had spoken who smiles back at him and accepts the gesture before shaking his hand. ''Tell them we're giving them a radio immediately to communicate and send over a platoon of forty men to support them which should arrive before the end of the day.'' As Lawrence translates the locals all gain more smiles before one turns back towards the crowd and shouts something that makes them go silent for a moment before cheering starts as the locals go to the clones and start thanking them before somebody brings out offers of food for them as thanks.

Three hours or so later after the impromptu party, hashing out some of the details of the as of yet unnamed coalition and explaining how to use the radio set, Anakin and Lawrence are talking in the gunship on the way back ''So you would like for me to send somebody with your troops to that town that speaks both westerosi and Myrish or the local low valyrian dialect?'' at Anakins nod he returns the gesture ''No issue, though I would like to talk with you about those roads and that sewer system you said you were interested in building.''

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A week later, scouting group on and near the moon of Planetos

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''This is Yellow wing commander calling in, none of yellow wing have found anything other than some heavy metal deposits in the various asteroids, signals have been attached and are being sent through to high command.'' The radio is silent for a moment as everyone takes in that information and proceeds with scouting before an excited voice can be heard over it.

''This is red-4 to all wings, I have just found a potential deposit of Tibanna gas on the planets moon, am sending co-ordinates now for confirmation.'' Everyone is silent for a moment as red-2, the nearest ship with more advanced scanners jury rigged onto it joins in on checking out the indicated area ''Red-4 was correct, there is a reservoir of Tibanna gas here and the scan also reveals a large amount of heavy metals further into the ground of this area of the moon.''

''Good job men, Red-2, Red-4 send down a beacon and signal the location to command, that place is going to be fairly important for us in the near future.'' A minute or so after this a signal is received by the commander from base ''They are congratulating us on our finds but requesting us to return, a storm is heading in the direction of the base and if we wait any longer we'll be stuck trying to fly and land in it and without much in the way of lighting they don't want to risk us crashing, what with the state of the current landing runway.''

Confirmation is sent by all flights as they form back up and start the return journey towards the planet, slowing down as they pass through the atmosphere before flying over the large forest, visible by the locals who wave and shout, though the pilots cannot see it as the thankful people look towards what they know to be the vessels of the 'Sky Soldiers'. As they approach the giant large clearing in the forest they slow down even more and call in for confirmation that the runways are cleared for landing, which they receive.

Then they can actually see the kilometres long and wide open clearing that is ever being expanded by other men chopping down trees, a sizable town in the process of being built along one main street with several side streets, while their ship is landed, taking up most of the southern half of the clearing, with the runway between the town and ship as a form of separation. As they land and leave their crafts one of his brothers walks up to 'Yellow leader'.

''So Oddball, how are you feeling about that announcement the general is going to make? You think he's going to announce a crusade against slavery?'' Oddball chuckles in response as the two walk away from their fighters and towards the ship to grab some food.

''No, I think he's going to announce something about that coalition with the locals I've heard about from one of the troopers that went with him to assault some of those slaver bases. With the current food supply, I for one wouldn't mind an alliance with farmers.'' The other soldier chuckles in agreement as they walk onto the ship towards one of the mess halls.

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A few hours later, bridge of the ship

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Anakin stood together with Ahsoka and Rex, ready to send out their announcement, at the moment only waiting on the time they had given for it all the while softly discussing with each other before one of the deck officers turns to them and announces ''General, commanders, its time.''

At this Anakin nods his thanks before he activates the comm system, checking with the operator if it was working properly before he starts up ''All soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic here with us, I make this announcement as my thanks for your loyal service to both myself and the Republic in general for these past years. You fought side by side with me through the gruelling events that would become known as the clone wars, only for us to realize that a large degree of our suffering was organised as little more than a puppet play by the chancellor, a ploy for more power.''

He is silent for a moment, taking a deep breath before continuing ''To give my thanks to all of you and as an attempt to compensate you for all your suffering, from now on all of you can request an honourable discharge a month in advance of said discharge, at which point you will be given a house, plot of land and either a paying job or farming equipment in our new settlement down on the planet in addition to being allowed to keep your armour and anything you have gathered over your term of service with the Republic, later on we will also be handing out a side arm to those honourably discharged that will enter production once we have the industry setup to build them.

''Any who wish to resign temporarily but return if the need is high will be placed in a reservist system in addition to being allowed to keep their service weapon, to be called upon again when the mission we came to this world for calls for us.'' He sighs ''I know this is nowhere near enough to pay all of you back for what you have done for the Republic, and many of you for me personally, however sadly enough I cannot give you all more. General Skywalker, out.'' All throughout the ship everyone is silent for a moment before cheering erupts and the chanting of 'Skywalker, Skywalker!' can be heard throughout the halls.

The bridge officer that had spoken earlier walks up to the general and salutes him with tears in his eyes ''General, I thank you for your kindness. Even if myself and many of our brothers will not take the option, the fact that there is the option in the first place is a blessing.'' He goes silent for a moment ''I survived the clone wars and saw exactly what the Empire did to both former allies and a number of our brothers. With this one action you have already done more than either government ever did for us, in spite of having far lesser means.''

The clones around the bridge seemingly agree as they all thank him as Anakin gives them a thankful smile in return while Ahsoka holds up her hand ''Can we get a cheer for Skyguy?'' Resulting in her starting a cheer while the rest of the bridge, including Rex goes along with it for a bit. While he is embarrassed by the situation, Ahsoka can also see this is helping Anakin in putting the issues of coming here somewhat behind him.

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AN: Hello everyone, I hope that was an enjoyable read. So after this chapter posting will probably slow down for a bit, since we wrote most of this chapter already before posting the last one and it was written while we both had a day off. Mostly it will be me writing in the future while my friend will be checking the story for mistakes and just overall reading it to see if the story reads fluidly or not, while some smaller sections will be his ideas instead. Now, onto answering the reviews.

Zekariah C.L. Schron: Interesting idea, I hope you continue writing this, and when in the book/show time frame will this be happening in?

Answer: I think this chapter made the rough time period somewhat clearer, it is within a year after the end of Roberts Rebellion, the specific amount of time afterwards is something we are currently debating on since it will be part of a plot point. Thanks for the compliment.

Guest: cool

Answer: Thank you for the compliment

That was nice, now if you have the time, please do review, tell me what I do well and what can be improved upon, for instance is the violence Anakin typical violent enough, is it too violent, is it not violent enough, is the banter going somewhat decently, etc. Hope to see you again next time.