So the next chapter of this story. This is quite an enjoyable story to write.

(24/02/22)

(Draco POV)

It had been a couple of weeks since the Slick incident, while he was now dead he had severely damaged our supplies and equipment. We were now running low on supplies and the droids were still as many as ever.

I was now able to deflect blaster fire with the force, through great trial and error as several new marks were now on my armour.

Now we were currently in the middle of a battle. "I told you we shouldn't have sent the ship back, this victory was too easy," Kenobi commented to Anakin as we watched several thousand droids, tanks and other support things I had yet to study.

"And it wasn't my idea to send the ship back." Anakin rebutted as I just sighed at their antics.

Sighing I just walked forward raising my pistols. "Cover me," I ordered the clones as I walked past, due to the recent events having given me some respect that they listened to me along with practically being a commander as well.

"Of course sir." They said as I finally reached the start of the droids calling out. "Your outnumbered, surrender," I said and like I predicted they stopped and the lead droid said. "Wait." "one, two three..." it said as I just watched, hearing Kenobi order the men forward. Letting him get to twenty-five before shooting him.

The second I did the rest of the clones started firing, tearing into the army like a hot knife through butter. Then the artillery started firing, within seconds the front line of the army was reduced to scrap. Looking at the droids artillery I saw Anakin cutting into them, Rex and a group of clones dealing with another.

Within a minute they all came crashing down, this prompting the droids to retreat, huh they actually have some level of care, or maybe it is something else, either way, the ship should be back soon with supplies.

As this thought occurred a ship flew overhead. Walking over to Kenobi and Anakin I heard them going on about what the ship would bring.

"Fresh troops, new supplies and maybe they brought my new padawan." Kenobi finished as they walked towards the landing ship.

"You're getting another padawan, you sure that's wise?" I asked as Kenobi just gave me a questioning look. "What do you mean?" He asked.

"Well look how you lassst one turned out," I said making both Anakin and Kenobi unsure if it was an insult or compliment.

"Are you sure that it's a good idea to bring a padawan learner into all this?" Anakin asked as the ship landed.

"Maybe you should put in a request for one." Making both me and Anakin stop walking. "Him!?" I said as Anakin answered at the same time. "Me!" Both of us shook our heads as Kenobi just sighed and shook his head.

Seconds later the front of the ship opened up and out came a girl with orange skin, another thing I had to start researching, all these other races.

"A youngling," Kenobi commented as she walked up to us, I decided to stay silent, I doubt she would like to hear me speak.

"Who are you?" Anakin asked in annoyance.

"My name is Ahoska Tano." She introduced herself before continuing. "Master Yoda sent me to tell you that you must get back to the Jedi temple immediately." She said before Anakin interrupted.

"Well I'm not sure if you noticed but we are in a situation here." He said before Kenobi decided to takeover. "Yes, our communications have been a bit unreliable, but we've been calling for help."

"Master Yoda hadn't heard from you so he sent me to deliver the message," Ahsoka answered making Anakin start grumbling again. "Oh great, they don't even know that we are in trouble." After he finished once again I saw her taking a glance at me before snapping back to the Jedi when I looked towards her.

"Maybe you could relay a signal to the cruise that just dropped me off," she suggested making Kenobi and Anakin look at each other.

Both of them headed off to a holo-table leaving me with the youngling, both of us staring at each other, Ahsoka getting nervous as she looked at my masked head.

A few seconds later she finally broke the silence. "Are you a Jedi?" I had to admit it almost made me laugh though with what happened to my voice that would probably not end well.

Deciding not to let her hear my voice just yet I just simply shook my head and walked off leaving her confused, curious and still a little nervous.

-o0o-

(Ahsoka POV)

Watching the black armoured soldier turn and leave gave me a lot of questions. One of which was who was he, he met me along with Master Kenobi and Skywalker yet he indicated that he wasn't a Jedi, he didn't look like any clone I had seen but he obviously at least knew them both.

A few minutes later Master Kenobi and Skywalker returned. "Well, it looks like we will have to hold out a little longer then," Master Kenobi said as Master Skywalker continued to grumble.

"Now my apologies young one, I am Obi-Wan Kenobi your new master." He introduced himself formally, but I was afraid he was wrong. "I am at your service master but I'm afraid that Master Yoda was very specific that I am Master Skywalker's padawan," I said making Master Kenobi look at Anakin with a smile and a bit of pride.

"What, no he's the one that wanted the padawan." Master Skywalker said pointing at master Kenobi.

"No, master Yoda was very specific that I am yours," I repeated emphasising the very.

"But..." Master Skywalker before Master Kenobi cut him off. "We can figure this out later." He said stepping in between us both. "Right now we have more pressing problems." as he said that we started heading to our troops.

"Master Kenobi?" I asked him since he was probably in a better mood than my master. "Yes, young one."

"I was just wondering who that guy in black armour was, he said he wasn't a Jedi but he doesn't look like a clone, at least not one I've seen," I asked as they both gained a sad look.

"No that wasn't a Jedi and you are right when you say he isn't a clone." Kenobi started, Master then continued. "He was a prisoner on general Grievous's ship before he escaped and ended up here, did he say anything to you?" He then asked as I just shook my head.

"Just give him some time, he had a rough couple of months here." Master Kenobi finished as we continued walking before one last question came up. "What's his name?"

"The only one we know and what he goes by is... Dead Space." Master said with a grim look, whatever happened to him on that ship must have been serious if that was what he went by.

We then continued our walk in silence.

-o0o-

(Draco POV)

Leaving Ahsoka I went to find Rex, maybe something interesting would happen. A few minutes later when I found him, I was deeply disappointed all he was doing was watching another group of clones to see if they saw anything.

A few minutes later thankfully Anakin arrived with Ahsoka, interesting but nonetheless I kept looking out listening to their conversation, though I kept getting looks from Ahsoka, maybe they had told her a little about me.

"All quiet for now sir, they're gearing up for another assault." He responded looking away from those clones.

Then he noticed the new arrival. "Who's the youngling?" He asked looking at Ahsoka with a little surprise.

"I'm master Skywalker's padawan, Ahsoka Tano." She said placing a hand on her chest as she did.

"Sir I thought you didn't have a padawan," Rex says looking at him with a look of disbelief and confusion.

"There's been a mix-up, this youngling isn't with me," Anakin argues, still against the idea of having a padawan.

"Stop calling me that, you're stuck with me Skyguy." Ahsoka rebutted with a smug smile, the rest of the clones with us now looking at the altercation, the clones laughing at his new nickname.

"What did you just call me?!" He said annoyed that the clones had also laughed.

The other clones thought that they should move on with what they were doing after seeing how displeased he got. "Don't get snippy with me little one, you know I don't think you are old enough to be padawan."

"Maybe I'm not, but master Yoda thinks I am." She continued with a smug smile again. They had only just met and they are perfect for each other as master and padawan.

Bored with looking at droids not doing anything except preparing for another offensive I zoned out for a little bit, I wonder if when I became a Jedi if they would give me a battalion.

"Maybe if you spent some time with Rex you will learn some respect." Anakin finished as I finally had enough of sitting around doing nothing.

-o0o-

Down by our artillery line, I followed behind Rex and Ahsoka as they walked around them. Talking about strategy and the position of the cannons and Ahsoka now giving Rex trouble. As they were still arguing I then noticed a ray shield activate.

Tapping Rex on the shoulder I pointed out the shield. "That's not good." He muttered before continuing. "That's going to make it damn near impossible." He finished as I just sighed, the first thing Ahsoka had heard me make.

I seriously had had enough battle for the time being I wanted a little reprieve. I just started walking towards their front line.

"Dead, where are you going, you're not thinking of taking them on by yourself?" Rex asked suddenly concerned compared to the annoyance he had when dealing with Ahsoka.

I just kept on walking, Rex looked torn for a second or two before he ran back to Anakin and Kenobi to tell them of the new development.

It took only a minute to reach their first line of troops, the droids a bit confused why there was only one person who wasn't even a Jedi from the looks of it.

Without bothering to speak, it had started to hurt if I spoke for too long now, either I had to use them more or less not sure which yet. Remembering that I could turn into smoke made me wonder what else I could do with it. Turning into a cloud of smoke I travelled through their lines, focusing on evolution I thought about doing more, pushing my limits.

Soon the smoke wasn't limited to just a vague outline of a person, but now a dense cloud that engulfed the entire column of the encroaching army. As I moved further into the army the droids at the front could be seen. They had lost their colour, their forms slowly dissolving with a black substance covering them.

Moving until I was in front of the tanks, time to see what I could do to them. The most effective way to damage them was by getting on top of them. Maybe I could evolve again, if I could evolve an attacking mechanism, maybe I could evolve a movement mechanism.

Focusing I thought about getting to the top of the spider-like tanks. A few seconds later I opened my eyes and saw that I was no longer on the ground.

Instead, I was floating on top of one of the massive artillery. I took a second to comprehend all of this, once I had I began laughing, the droids that could hear it became nervous, looking at each other before looking back at me or more precisely my smokey form.

The droids gave me this ability, now they will feel its power. Jumping off the tank I thought about attacking, as I fell electric blue laser fire now spawning from my smoke going in every direction, with much greater power than first thought, only a couple of them were needed to destroy the spider-like artillery.

Reverting to my regular form I looked around and took in all the carnage I had caused. This made me smile darkly, when I faced Grievous, he would face... "Death himself."

As I was walking back from all the carnage the shield finally fell. "Looks like this encounter is done," I spoke to myself, noticing the long walk back I just used my newfound teleporting ability.

-o0o-

When I got back all the clones were all at attention as I walked past, slightly surprising me, I had more expected them to be terrified of me, maybe it was because I had fought with them before. I doubt another stunt like this would get this result from another group of clones.

Looking around I noticed Kenobi looking at me and the clones at attention, a little smile on his face. Approaching him he then spoke. "Well, it looks like you have the respect of the 501st and a few of my clones as well Dead." I just simply nodded.

"Now we just have to wait for Anakin and Ahsoka to get back and then we can leave." He added as we looked back at the droid lines that they had left through, I wonder what they would think of the destruction I had caused.

-o0o-

(Anakin POV)

Walking back along the droid lines, the stragglers being dealt with. When we got to the front of their lines we saw droids killed, but not from laser fire from the look of it.

"What could've done this master?" Ahsoka asked as she inspected a droid that had a black substance on it.

Remembering what Organa said about Dead I had a pretty good idea what or rather who had done this. "If I had to guess what did this I would say it had something to do with Dead Space," I said as Ahsoka gained a nervous look, if it was indeed Dead who did this then I wonder how she would react if she knew he used the dark side as well.

So another chapter of this story, I also didn't include the hunt for Jabba's son as I kinda am a little impatient for getting into the rest of the clone wars.

Through Death I Get My Silence...