Since the last one was so short here is another update with a longer chapter. Plenty of action. Oh and warning there is some bad language in this chapter.
Chapter 12: Mustafar
The ships entered real space within milliseconds of one another. Anakin stared out the bridge view port. Sidious had amassed a huge fleet, there were at least one hundred battle cruisers probably more, and within that there would be thousands of fighters. They largely outnumbered the Republic fleet of, fifty or so battle cruisers. They were deep in it now.
The Yoda sounded over the system comm.
" All pilots to their fighters, all cruisers heavy bombardment prepare for."
" Shaak Ti!" Anakin called.
" Yes?"
" Stay here, I'm going to help the fighters."
" I'll come too." Obi-wan said.
" Alright." As they left Shaak Ti began to give orders to the officers. She had led a space battles a few times before and she knew what to expect.
" Alright, shields full power and get the gunners to their stations." Ti said.
" Yes ma'am. Gunners to their stations, shields to full power." An officer said.
" Copy that sir."
" Alright, captain?"
" Yes master Ti?"
" I need to know how many ships we have at all times and keep the comm. open."
" Of course."
Bridge of CIS Capital Ship
" Is it wise, milord to wait for them to attack us?" Xen asked.
" Yes, we have them greatly outnumbered, lets start it out fair. Shields up." Sidious said.
" Roger, roger."
" Get the auto turrets online."
" Auto turrets online sir."
" Good program them to attack the targets and get the bombardment gunners to their stations."
" Roger, roger."
Sidious stepped closer to the view port as hundreds of clone fighters began to seep out of their hangers.
" Give them the order." He said to Xen.
" Release the tri's and start bombardment after their first shot is fired." Xen ordered.
" Roger, roger." That didn't take long. The Republic capitol ship was the first to start bombardment, they barley took any power away form the shields. Sidious smiled as his whole fleet began to open fire. Everywhere there were strings of ion from the turbo lasers, or blue trails of energy flying about an hitting fighter ships. Clones were dying rapidly and so were Jedi. They had brought about every single master. This was already working better than order 66.
Madly Anakin battled to stay along side Obi-wan and keep his ship from getting toasted. In all the time he had been out there he had only seen two CIS cruisers go down and at least a dozen Republic cruisers had been blown to chunks. The situation was not good, they were outnumbered on every single thing. Cruisers, fighters, guns, ammo you name it. The droids would surly win.
But Anakin couldn't think any more as another wave of vulture droids flew at him cannons spitting raw laser. He used a flip twist to avoid them and then fired a good little cluster of missiles blowing the ships into dust.
" Good shot master Skywalker." A clone said, then Anakin saw his ship get vaporized by a CIS auto turret followed by another Republic cruiser going down.
" Obi-wan." Anakin said into the comm. while blasting a squad of tri-fighters.
" Anakin?"
" We have got to take out their turbo lasers."
" That's impossible, they are all controlled by a central mainframe and we don't know which ship has it."
" Scan them all them."
" We'll be killed.
" Obi-wan we're all gonna die eventually."
" Not today."
" Well then don't, scan the damn things!"
At that moment he saw another Republic cruiser go down. Followed by Yoda's voice over the system comm. and a lot of static interference.
" The fleet… half… strength… is…now."
" Perfect." Anakin muttered as he destroyed another wave of vulture's. Then a smooth female voice fluttered through his comm.
" Nice shot Skywalker, how do like this one!" It said, then several alarms on his ship flared. Whoever that was had just sent six missiles his way.
" Anakin!"
" I know, I know! Damn!" He had his ships thrusters at full power and he was in a death roll, thankfully two of the missiles collided but the explosion damaged his shield generator and with that they flickered away.
Still four missiles.
" Obi-wan I have to get to the ship my shields are fried!"
" I'll escort you."
" Aw, leaving so soon Skywalker?" The female asked cruelly.
" Sadly since my shields are down I cant stay."
" And are you so sure you can make it back? After all there are, one, two, three, four missiles on your tail."
" You had to count? Are you honestly that stupid."
" Taunt me if you will but you are going to die."
" Who the hell are you?"
" You can call me Xen."
" Good name for a sith slut."
" Your taunts are meaningless you Jedi whelp."
" OBI-WAN! GET THESE DAMN MISSILES OFF MY TAIL!"
Anakin glanced at his radar, another missile was coming at him and laser shots, form Obi-wan! But he soon saw why, the four missiles on his tail flew back and collided with the others. Anakin reached the hanger seconds later and so did Obi-wan. Once he touched down he heard someone call him on the comm.
" Good job Skywalker, lucky you had your old master with you isn't it?" Anakin switched off his comm. and jumped out of his ship. He turned his head out towards space just as an odd looking ship passed by, it was jet black and to Obi-wan it look similar to General Grevious's ship. In the cockpit Anakin could clearly see a woman dressed in leather wave at him. Then she flew away and the ship was jolted by heavy fire. Anakin's personal comm. then chimed.
" Anakin, this is Shaak Ti, get to the bridge at once, we are jumping to hyperspace! Our coordinates are set."
" Are any others coming?"
" No, seems we are the only one's who still have a working drive."
" What about Yoda and the capital ship?"
" Yoda is dead."
" What?"
" His ship exploded a minute ago."
Indeed there was a huge ripple in the force and a great light had been extinguished, it was replaced by total darkness.
" I'm on my way."
There's one character death, plus about a thousand others since a load of Jedi died as well.