Sorry it took so long to get this up. I was planning on writing much more than this over Thanksgiving break, but unfortunately I wasn't feeling good. I wasn't happy about it either… I only got one chpt done. I also had some stuff to do for school, but I barely got anything done for that. So I had lots to do for this weekend, which is why this is the only chpt until later. Hopefully I get another chpt done next weekend.

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The Clone Wars

Infiltrate the Invisible Hand

"Yes Lord Sidious, we have engaged the Clone fleet." The captain of the Invisible Hand said to a hologram of an old man wearing a black cloak, with the hood over his head partly concealing his face.

"Excellent." Sidious spoke in a deep and raspy voice, "I presume that Grievous has made it to the ship."

"Yes my Lord," The accent of the part human, mostly droid spoke up from the background, General Grievous stepped forward into Sidious' sight, "I have made it, and I'm sure those Jedi scum have followed me. I am prepared to fight them, and destroy them!"

"There's no need for that, I will have someone else take care of them." Grievous was about to speak before he was stopped by the raspy voice, "There's no reason for you to waste your time with them when someone else can do it." Grievous didn't see through the words that his Lord spoke; what Sidious really meant was that Grievous was no match for the two Jedi Knights that chased after him. Sidious still had other plans, and he needed Grievous for them, "My new pupil, Darth Ravel, should be arriving shortly. He will deal with the Jedi."

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Just above the planet, the two capital ships of the opposing sides were battling it out. Particle beams and laser fire piercing through space and colliding with their targets.

The two Jedi Starfighters flew up from the planet below and joined the battle. Anakin and Salo dodged all of the laser fire aimed toward them, all of the particle beams and shrapnel.

Both of the Starfighters carrying the two Jedi Knights were nearly side by side as they soared over the Clone capital ship dodging the enemy fire along with the obstacles in their way. Shooting down any enemies that got in their way and steadily heading toward the Invisible Hand.

"Hurry up and make your way to the Invisible Hand." Anakin called to Salo over the fighter's intercom.

"Hey I'm following you," Salo answered back, "you need to hurry up too." Anakin only smirked in reply and continued on his course, Salo flying right beside him.

They both spun in opposite directions to avoid the oncoming swarm of enemy fighters, firing multiple shots at them. Tons of the fighters were spinning out of control and exploding into several pieces after being shot by the Jedi Starfighters. Some ARC-170 Starfighters were helping the two Jedi by diverting some of the attention towards them, along with destroying the attention.

"We're closing in on the Invisible Hand." Anakin said. Salo didn't reply, until he saw the Vulture droid, but he wasn't able to destroy it in time.

"Look out, missiles!" The Vulture droid was destroyed after it released the missiles. Salo and Anakin managed to dodge them in time, "That was close."

"It's about to get closer, they're coming back."

"Oh great, they just had to be heat seeking..." The two missiles split up to trail their opposite target. Anakin and Salo dove and rolled to try and get rid of the trailing missile behind them, but with no luck, "Damn these things are persistent."

"Follow me, I've got an idea." Without a reply, Salo followed. Anakin continued flying toward the Invisible Hand with Salo beside him, and the missiles closing in.

They managed to reach the huge ship, but they passed up the hangar, they had to get rid of the missiles first before landing. The two of them kept on going with the missiles still trailing behind them. They passed the Invisible Hand completely, but once they got far enough, they both dove their Starfighters up until they were facing the back of the ship and leveled out again. The missiles still hot on their trail, Anakin and Salo speeding toward the Invisible Hand, Salo already knew what Anakin was planning. Once they got close enough, they quickly pulled up before they collided into the engines of the ship. The missiles, however, locked on to the heat from the Invisible Hand's engines and collided into them instead. Of course the Invisible Hand was virtually unharmed, Anakin and Salo were now safe, and they continued on to the hangar, dodging explosions and enemy fire and anything else that would be a threat to them.

They finally got into the hangar and immediately jumped out of their cockpits with their lightsabers ignited. The slow witted battle droids realized the Jedi were there after a few of them were already cut down. The blue glow of both lightsabers made it seem like they were everywhere as the two Jedi twirled them all around, cutting down several droids in a matter of seconds. The buzz of the blades filled the air with it's eerie sound - the last sound the droids would hear before the lightsaber blade pierced through their metal hide.

Salo took his lightsaber out of a droid's chest and let it fall to the ground as he spun around and severed another droid's head from the rest of its body. He took a few more steps leaving three more battle droids destroyed in his path.

Anakin was next to Salo slicing through battle droid after battle droid. The droid's blaster shots not even close to phasing the two Jedi as the lightsabers deflected every shot directed at them. A droid's arm fell to the ground as Anakin's blade pierced through it, then through the droid's head.

A super battle droid showed up and started rapidly firing at Anakin and Salo, but every shot was deflected just like any other blaster bolt. Salo finished with the few battle droids in his vicinity, then turned his attention on the super battle droid. He soared through the air deflecting the shots directed toward him, and his lightsaber pierced through the thick metal exterior of the super battle droid - cutting it in half.

The two pieces of the super battle droid lay on the ground as Salo turns his lightsaber off. Anakin finishes with the last of the battle droids in the hangar and turns his lightsaber off after each of them are reduced to scrap metal. He walked over to Salo who was waiting at the exit from the hangar.

"What are you waiting for?" Anakin asked impatiently.

"The door's locked, and I'm looking-"

"So there's more than one way to get through a door." Anakin cut in igniting his lightsaber.

"I wouldn't suggest that," Salo gently grabbed Anakin's wrist to stop him, "They have shields on this door that aren't visible."

"So what do you suggest?"

"You know I can hack through this door."

"Don't you need a control panel for that?"

"There's one in here, it's hidden." Salo walked over to the wall that held the door. In just a second, his lightsaber was ignited and cutting a hole in the wall. The hole revealed a control panel, and Salo was hard at work trying to shut down the shield on the door. After a minute, he still couldn't hack his way through the console, "Screw it!" His lightsaber was ignited once again and slashing through the console.

"What's wrong? Couldn't figure it out?"

"That's not the problem, normally I don't need that many computer spikes to hack my way through a console like this, but they really reinforced this one."

"So then what? How do we get through the door?"

"Um…walk…"

Anakin was puzzled at first and asked, "What about the shields?"

"They're gone…" Anakin didn't say anything, he had trouble finding words for a second, but Salo already knew what Anakin wanted to ask and explained, "Destroying the console disabled the shields. Maybe you wonder why I didn't just do that in the first place. There are two reasons for that: At first, I didn't know that this console would disable if I destroyed it, because most consoles aren't like that, but this one was. And…I didn't want to disable the shield that way because I was determined that I could figure out how to hack the computer…" Salo briefly sighed before continuing, "And I would have if they weren't so determined to prevent us from getting in. It would take a really skilled technician with a lot of spikes to get through that…"

"But it only takes a swing of a lightsaber to actually make progress." Anakin mocked. Salo hung his head down for a second with a sigh before continuing.

"Alright, let's just go…" Anakin laughed a little before they opened the door and walked through into the corridor. They had no trouble for a while as they moved through the corridors of the Invisible Hand, "So where do you think Grievous is anyway?"

"I think he would be on the bridge."

"Would be?"

"I don't think he's here…" Salo stopped in his tracks.

"What do you mean you 'don't think he's here'?" Anakin stopped and looked at Salo.

"Do you feel him on this ship? And did you see his ship when we were in the hangar?"

"If he's not here, then why the hell are we here?"

"Because I do sense something, maybe it's not Grievous, but I'm eager to find out what it is."

"Hmm, now that you mention it," Salo took a brief pause to close his eyes and concentrate, "I do sense something…You think it could be Dooku?"

"I'm not sure, it could be. If it is, I'm sure we can take him." Salo had a hint of worrying in his expression, but he quickly got over it.

"Then is the bridge still our destination?" Salo started to walk again.

"Yup." Anakin said simply as he also started to walk again.

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Darth Ravel, just recently arriving on the Invisible Hand, was busy pacing on the bridge. A tall alien man, blue and red scaly skin, black hair down to his neck, pointy ears and evil yellow eyes - caused from his connection with the Dark side - he wore a simple Dark Jedi robe along with the tunic underneath. His race is unknown; he seems to be the last one left. However he's had a connection to the force for all of his life, and was trained to harness his power and skill by the Sith. Now he waited for his chance to finally kill a Jedi, after being hidden from them all these years.

"Sir, the Jedi have been detected, they-" The Nemoidian officer was cut off by the deep, snarling voice.

"I suggest you not bother me with your meaningless information. I already know the Jedi are here, I don't need to hear it from a sniveling worm." The Nemoidian was trembling in fear and quickly went back to his job - which apparently, right now, was not bothering Lord Ravel - but he let slip out a little insult under his breath, and Ravel heard it, "What was that?" The Nemoidian's stomach turned as he heard those words.

"N-nothing s-sir." The Nemoidian was trembling as he turned to meet the piercing gaze of Darth Ravel.

"Nothing? I heard something come out of your mouth, and it definitely wasn't a complement." Ravel started slowly striding over to the cowering Nemoidian. As he got closer to the whimpering officer, Ravel's hand rose up in a gesture aimed toward the Nemoidian, "I never liked you Neimoidians." The Nemoidian made a gurgled sound as he held his neck to try and stop whatever it was that was choking him - to no use. Ravel had a firm, invisible, hold on the Nemoidian, and he wasn't letting go. He watched as the Nemoidian flailed about, trying to gasp in some air, he felt the life slipping away.

All of the other officers were watched in horror as the Nemoidian's lifeless body dropped to the ground. Darth Ravel snarled as he lowered his arm and glared at the other officers, "Let this be a lesson to the rest of you." Ravel said no more as he went back to his pacing space, and the officers went back to their jobs without a word or second thought.

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The last of the battle droids that swarmed the corridor dropped to the ground, headless. Now all that was left were the two super battle droids, and Droideka. They really didn't want Anakin and Salo to enter the bridge.

Both Jedi deflected all of the laser fire directed at them as they stood their ground. But right as Salo and Anakin found their split second chance, they raised their arm and the Force swept through the corridor and pounded into the droids, sending them into the wall.

Anakin and Salo continued their trot through the door with their Jedi Robes swaying behind them. They stepped into the short corridor that held the bridge at the end. On closer examination, it was revealed that this corridor was lined with escape pods on each side. The two Jedi moved closer to the bridge, but were stopped when they heard the deep demented voice from behind.

"Looking for something?" Anakin and Salo whipped around to see who it was, but they couldn't see his face, it was a hooded figure, but he was definitely a Sith. He wore the original Dark Jedi robes, and he was able to sneak behind them undetected.

"This must be what we sensed." Anakin implied.

Salo didn't reply, he just studied the figure in front of them before demanding, "Why don't you show your face? Are you ashamed to show yourself? Are you too ugly?" Salo had a mocking smirk on his face as Anakin let out a chuckle.

"Arrogant Jedi scum!" The figure hissed, he lowered his hood, showing his face. Salo and Anakin remained still, their expressions changed to serious after they saw the evil eyes of Darth Ravel. His Dark Jedi robe slipped off and fell to the ground, only left with his tunic - and the lightsaber attached to his waist. Salo and Anakin copied and slipped off their Jedi robes.

"So you are a Sith then." Anakin confirmed.

"I am Darth Ravel, and you two will be my first Jedi victims."

"Darth Ravel huh?" Salo mocked, "I'll remember that, so I can tell of how you were the first Sith I've ever defeated!" Ravel was angered by the remark. The red plasma of his lightsaber was instantly ignited, giving more light to his face - the blue glow of the other two lightsabers doing the same for their wielders.

Two on one, the odds were against Ravel, but that didn't stop him, he was capable of holding his own. Both Jedi came at him with amazing speed, twirling their lightsabers through the air, the light of the blades leaving afterimages through the air. The eerie buzz and the crackle of the blades contacting were the only sounds that were heard.

Ravel, amazingly, was holding off two Jedi Knights at once. Salo ducked under Ravel's lightsaber as Anakin brought his own lightsaber up to block. Salo then quickly lunged for Ravel, but the Sith spun out of the way aiming his blade at Anakin's legs. Anakin jumped over the blade and swung at Ravel's head, who ducked under the blade and held his lightsaber up horizontally, with one hand, to block Salo. With his free hand, Ravel sent the off guard Anakin flying though the corridor, making it one on one for the time being.

Salo spun and whirled his lightsaber that continuously clashed with Ravel's lightsaber. Ravel was being forced back, until he was almost back against the wall. He forced himself to stop backing up, planting his feet firmly on the ground and continuing to clash with Salo, who also had his feet firmly planted.

Ravel caught glimpse of Anakin who was once again soaring through the air, this time on his own free will. Ravel brought his foot up to collide into Salo's jaw, knocking him off balance as Ravel rolled away from Anakin's attack. Salo quickly regained his concentration and swung at Ravel, the attack was parried, but Anakin blocked the counter attack - saving Salo. Salo flashed a thank you glance as he and Anakin continued the assault.

Salo and Ravel reached a deadlock for a second, until Anakin quickly came in for a hit, Ravel pushed Salo back to block Anakin's blade. Salo jumped up and over Ravel's head, deflecting a blow from Ravel's blade as Ravel also kicked Anakin back to focus on Salo for a minute. Salo managed to gain the upper hand as he knocked Ravel's blade away in time to get in a swift kick in that knocked Ravel back a few steps. But Ravel was able to block a hard attack from Anakin that sent him tumbling to the floor.

Ravel quickly jumped back up to his feet and swing at Salo, who swung back, and their blades clashed. But Ravel didn't see Anakin come in, and before he could do anything, Salo had his opposite hand firmly gripping Ravel's wrist, preventing him from escaping Anakin's blade searing through his flesh right below the elbow. Ravel gasped in pain as he grasped his wound and watched his arm and lightsaber fall to the floor.

Did Ravel really think he had a chance? Maybe if these were two regular Jedi, but he was fighting a Jedi of legend, the Chosen One! And along with another Jedi Knight who was more than competent in his skills. Ravel was blinded by his own arrogance, he never fought a Jedi, and he was overconfident in his power.

Salo and Anakin smirked. They stepped forward to the keeled over Sith, grasping his wound to stop the pain. But Ravel wasn't ready to be beaten, but he was in no condition to fight either. He used his remaining hand to send both Jedi soaring down the corridor, then got up to his feet, his lightsaber flying into his hand as he opened the door to the escape pod and quickly took off.

"Damn!" Salo exclaimed as he got up to his feet.

"Don't worry about it," Anakin also got up to his feet, "Let the coward go for now."

Salo sighed, "Alright fine."

"There's nothing you can do now anyway, he's gone."

"Hmm…maybe not." Salo turned toward the bridge and ignited his lightsaber again. Anakin was questioning in his mind what Salo was doing, but he followed anyway.

They killed all of the Neimoidians and droids on the bridge. Most of the Neimoidians begged for their life, some of them were allowed to run away, but the rest met their demise as the lightsaber blade seared through their flesh.

Once all the crew was gone, Salo turned his attention on the control consoles. Anakin wasn't exactly sure what Salo was doing, but he had a good suspicion, so he didn't say anything.

After a few minutes, Salo finally found what he was looking for, "Ha! I found it!"

"What?"

"He's headed for Nar Shaddaa." Salo concluded.

"Really? I didn't think the Separatist had any control on that planet."

"Yeah I don't know why he chose to go there. Probably to hide, he may even be able to get a new arm there. But I think we should go after him."

"We're not going to do anything without the approval of the council."

"Yeah you're right, we should get approval from the council first."

"You can if you want, I think me and Obi-Wan have other things to do."

"Too bad, I would like to take down a Sith by your side."

"You already did, we beat him together. I just don't think I'll be able to go with you to beat him again. I do think, however, that we should be getting back to the city. I'm sure Master Obi-Wan and Zare would like to here about this, and how we failed at capturing Grievous."

"Hey it's not our fault he got away, he's a coward, what do you expect?"

"Yeah, that's true…"

They retrieved their Jedi robes, then returned to the hangar and hopped into their ships and took off. They noticed the battle dyed down, a lot of the cruisers, from both sides, were destroyed. And as Anakin and Salo left the Invisible Hand and were nearer to the planet, the Invisible Hand erupted into light speed and practically vanished