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Chapter 15

"How nice," Anakin shouted back over the roaring crowd, not even phased, "Padme and I are going to become mutants, too." Padme stared at him, surprised, and Obi-Wan and Serena were shocked.

"You what?" Serena shouted.

Padme grinned sheepishly.

"Since when did you discuss becoming mutants?" Obi-Wan asked incredulously. He wondered how long this had been going on.

Anakin shrugged. "We just decided, actually, today," he replied. "But we both want to be mutants, and also be together, without breaking any rules. Right Padme?" She nodded happily.

Serena and Obi-Wan smiled at each other. "Well, if we all live through this thing, then I'll be sure to get you both a nice wedding present!" Serena said.

In the archducal box, Nute Gunray turned angrily to Count Dooku. "This isn't how it's supposed to be!" he raged. "Jango, finish her off!"

Dooku motioned for the bounty hunter to stay put. Boba Fett was enjoying the spectacle. Dooku smiled enigmatically. "Patience, Viceroy, patience, she will die," he assured his friend. With that sentence, Droidekas rolled to the center of the arena where they transformed and surrounded the Reek and contained the Jedi.

In the archducal box, amid the uproar, Mace Windu slowly made his way towards the Count. He ignited his lightsaber and held it to Jango's neck.

Dooku turned to see Mace Windu standing behind him, and masked his surprise elegantly. "Master Windu, how pleasant of you to join us," he said. "You're just in time for the moment of truth. I would think these three new Jedi of yours could use a little more training."

"Sorry to disappoint you, Dooku," Mace replied coldly. "This party's over." He signaled, and at strategic places around the arena there are sudden flashes of light as about one hundred Jedi switched on their lightsabers. The crowd was suddenly silent, and Dooku's lips curled in slight amusement.

"Brave, but foolish, my old Jedi friend," he said to Windu. "You're impossibly outnumbered."

Mace snorted. "I don't think so. The Geonosians aren't warriors. One Jedi has to be worth a hundred Geonosians."

Count Dooku looked around the great theater, his smile growing. "It wasn't the Geonosians I was thinking about," he said. "How well do you think one Jedi will hold up against a thousand Battle Droids?"

Mace had been told from Yoda that the entire Jedi mutant team was coming to help, and he would have said something to Dooku, but in truth, he didn't want to ruin the 'surprise'. He himself was curious to witness the powers of all these mutants, and wondered when they were going to arrive.

Dooku signaled, and thousands of droids started to pour into all parts of the arena. Jango fired his flamethrower at Windu, igniting his robe. The Jedi Master jumped into the arena, and the battle began. Geonosians, not known for their bravery on any account, flew away everywhere. The droids fired at Jedi, who deflected the bolts and cut down the droids. The Geonosian troops, a little braver, fired ray guns that were more difficult for the Jedi to deflect.

Meanwhile, several Jedi ran to the center of the arena and threw lightsabers to Obi-Wan, Serena, and Anakin. Serena looked happily upon her two double bladed purple lightsabers, and jumped off the Reek, eager for battle.

The Reek was spooked by the battle, bucked the riders off its back, and stampeded around the arena, trampling droids and Jedi that have moved into its path. Padme picked up a discarded pistol and joined the fight.

Among the crowd, Jedi cut down swaths of Geonosians and droids. On the sand, Jedi fought furiously, attacking droids. Obi-Wan, Serena, and Anakin swung their lightsabers, cutting the droids in half.

By now Serena's powers were in full swing. With one motion she hurled a large forcefield at a sea of approaching droids, knocking them all down and destroying them completely. She then held up both her hands and hurled waves of fire at the droids and Geonosians, burning them all until they quickly melted. She continued to do flips and acrobatic moves in the air and on the ground, all the time using her powers and lightsabers. She was an force that could not be stopped, and all the Jedi were amazed. She knew now that she could not hide her powers from the universe anymore.

"That's my girl," Obi-Wan said to her proudly, as she cut down a droid in front of him.

She smiled. "Don't think that I'm going to let you fight on your own, because you're not," she replied, and held up a hand. Her eyes became red, and a whole other mass of droids was hurled against the arena wall. He stared at her, and she grinned sheepishly. "That's another mutant's power that I used," she explained.

Padme simply blasted away at droids and Geonosians.

Mace Windu ran to the center of the arena and fought back to-back with Obi-Wan and Serena, as they swiped and mangle more droids. Among the tiers, the Jedi were slowly being driven back. They had killed heaps of Geonosians and knocked out piles of droids, but sheer numbers were telling. Individual Jedi were being cut down or blasted, and the rest were retreating into the arena.

Anakin and Padme, meanwhile, were back-to-back, fighting droids and flying Geonosians. "You call this diplomacy?" he said to her as they took cover behind an overturned cart.

"No, I call it aggressive negotiations," Padme smiled. Anakin grinned and turned back to the fight.

Threepio's body with the Battle Droid head entered the arena. "My legs aren't moving, I must need maintenance," it said in a monotone. The droid was fired upon and knocked back, and its head went flying off Threepio's body.

Padme jumped on top of the Orray pulling the execution wagon. Anakin ran, jumped, and landed in the cart, deflecting laser blasts with his lightsaber. Padme blasted Battle Droids as the two rode through the arena.

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