Star Wars: AU

Summary: The battle of Donadus continues, with the Jedi outnumbering Ventress and Grievous having fled, how will the Separatist forces win this battle? What's Ventress' secret plan?

Disclaimer: I don't own SW.

Chapter 4:

Ventress paced into a dark, round room. It was empty, except for the throne that stood against the back wall. A dark figure, cloaked by a robe sat in it. A male voice spoke. 'Ventress. I have received word of your… failure.' The figure said. Ventress kneeled down.

'I'm sorry, my master.' The dark Jedi said. 'Out of my sight. Make sure you catch up with Grievous' fleet, that is already on it's way to Correlia.' The figure commanded. Ventress nodded briefly before turning around and walking out of the room. The figure smirked under it's cloak, he could feel Ventress' determination to become stronger, he liked that in her.

Coruscant, senator's stay,

Padmé Amidala walked into her room to see her husband, Anakin Skywalker, the hero without fear play with Luke. He held the boy up by means of the force and the boy giggled and screamed in excitement. He then dropped the boy and caught him with his strong arms.

He looked up at his wife and grinned. She walked up to him slowly and kissed him passionately. Suddenly, Anakin's eyes shot open when a crystal formed in the thick glass that was shielding the stay from the world outside. He took a step back and handed his wife Luke, whilst letting his fingers slip down to his lightsaber.

The glass shattered violently when a magna guard hopped into the room. Two other followed shortly. Anakin peeked over his shoulder to see his wife, holding Leia and Luke in her arms. 'Run!' yelled Anakin. Padmé nodded and turned around whilst the magna guards activated their electric staffs.

Anakin ignited his lightsaber and got into his fighting stance. 'What are you doing here?' asked the young Jedi, loudly. 'We are here under the command of General Grievous.' The middle of the droids said in it's monotone voice. Anakin growled, how dared he attack him right here on Coruscant?

'He wishes you to be disposed of.' Said another of the magna guards. It charged forward, destroying the couch in the room by drilling through it with it's staff. It reached Anakin not much later, and the Jedi clashed weapons with the droid. Anakin then used his free hand and jabbed against the magna guards head, putting a deep dent in it's armour and knocking it back.

Anakin then jumped and kicked the droid into the others. One of them fell out of the window but managed to cling on by planting it's electric staff into the wall. It then pulled itself up from the staff and hopped back into the room to see Anakin block several strikes thrown by the other magna guards.

Anakin couldn't remember Grievous' guards to fight this well, but what he didn't know was that these were updated versions, that consumed more energy but were also far more powerful. One of them stabbed forward and Anakin jumped over the staff with his great agility.

He let his blade rain down on the droid as he descended, but the droid was surprisingly quick and flipped backwards, causing Anakin to drill a hole in the floor. The second droid he was engaged in battle with lashed forward and tried to slash at the Jedi, but Anakin was too fast and swirled out of the way of the attack.

He then slashed with his lightsaber, this time severing the droid's arm, but this didn't stop the droid from being dangerous as he now slashed at him with his remaining arm. But the droid couldn't attack and defend at the same time anymore know and Anakin used this to his advantage as he hopped back to avoid a strike and then countered with a powerful stab.

The droid imploded and fell to the floor. The two remaining droids attacked Anakin with all their might now, but the Jedi had no trouble blocking their attacks. He stepped back after a long strike and let his lightsaber cut through the droid's outstretched arms, rendering it useless.

He picked the struggling droid up with the force and threw it into the other. The droids were launched out of the room and fell down several floors before smashing into bits when they hit the hard concrete. Anakin deactivated his lightsaber and hung it back on his belt.

His mouth opened up in shock when he swirled around. General Grievous had Padmé by her chin with is strong robotic hands. 'Let! Her! Go!' screamed Anakin, not able to control himself. He ignited his blade violently and roared. Grievous threw Padmé to the side of the room with his power and giggled evilly.

He was about to ignite one of weapons when Anakin lunged at him in an incredible outburst of rage. His knee collided with Grievous' hull and knocked the cyborg back just enough for him to avoid Anakin's slash. Anakin growled at himself and stabbed forward with power, but Grievous jumped backwards and dodged it.

Anakin then brought up his blade but Grievous blocked the attack by igniting a blue lightsaber and letting it collide with Anakin's. Grievous was pushed back by Anakin's power however and he was smashed into a wall. Anakin stabbed with aggression and shaved off a piece of Grievous' armour.

'It was a mistake of you to come here Grievous!' roared Anakin and he threw the cyborg against the smashed sofa with the force. Grievous shouted with his robotic force and used the distance between him and Skywalker to his advantage. He extended his arm out, seemingly folding it into a longer shape and slashed at Anakin without being in danger of being hit.

But Anakin was not just some Jedi. He ducked to the side after a slash and came up, slashing his blade. Grievous' arm was cut off and the General yelped in shock. He detracted his arm and charged at Anakin with the three green blades he had left. Anakin dodged the attacks with surprising swiftness before using his free hand to smash Grievous into the door leading out of the apartment with the force.

Grievous shouted as he fell down the countless stairs with incredible speed. He eventually fell down the main stairs and bumped into a hall filled with senate guards, who immediately aimed their blasters for the well-known threat that was Grievous. Grievous got up quickly and looked around observing his surroundings.

He slashed at the guard next to him, severing the man's arm that was holding the blaster. The guard fell to the floor screaming and Grievous was about to dish out a deadly blow when Anakin slashed at him. Grievous was caught off guard, but managed to block the attack and turn towards his attacker.

He slashed with his remaining three arms, simultaneously. Anakin jumped backwards to avoid the strike but countered with a slash of his own. Grievous however ducked out of the way and rammed his robotic shoulder into Anakin's chest, knocking the brave Jedi into another senate guard.

The other senate guard's seemed to have woken up from their shock as they started to fire their blasters at Grievous. Grievous shouted in pain when a stray bolt hit him in his back.

He turned around and faced two senate guards, who he then killed by stabbing them with his lightsabers.

A daring guard jumped onto Grievous' back and the general spiralled dangerously and wildly. The guard was knocked off but Grievous kept spiralling, right towards Anakin. He pointed his three arms out at the Jedi, who had to duck to avoid a blade. Grievous kept spinning and striking out at the Jedi, but Anakin was fast enough to avoid being he hit.

Suddenly, he pointed out his weapon to block one of Grievous' strikes. Grievous was knocked out of the spin and had to take a step back to regain balance. Anakin used this moment of weakness and sliced his blade through the general's robotic hull. Grievous screamed out as his body was divided in two.

Grievous' upper body dropped onto the floor and his legs stopped moving, but Grievous hurled his lightsabers away and took off, running on his hands. Anakin shouted in frustration when Grievous jumped onto a speeder up high in the air, threw out the pilot and escaped.

Suddenly, Anakin remembered his wife, who he had left in the stay to hunt after Grievous. He ran up the stairs as fast as he could, using the force to increase his speed. He reached the top of the eighty floor staircase faster than anyone else could have and barged into the room.

Padmé lay against the wall, unconscious. Anakin rushed over to her and kneeled over her body. He could feel that Padmé was badly wounded and so could Luke and Leia, judging by their crying from out of the bedroom. Grievous will pay for this! And so will the other Separatists! Anakin thought, still angry.

Correlia,

A republic assault ship flew through the sky of Correlia. It's turbo lasers fired repeatedly at an army of droids down below. Then, the hangar door of the ship opened and many LAAT republic gunships flew out of it. The droids on the ground immediately aimed their weapons at the ships, happy to have a target they could actually harm.

Obi-wan Kenobi leapt out of the gunship with his lightsaber ignited. He landed on the battlefield and started to cut his way through the droid ranks. A super battle droid fired a rocket at the Jedi, but Kenobi bent it away, using the force. The rocket drilled into a battle droid and the droid exploded in a sea of fire.

Obi-wan was now surrounded by fire and the experienced Jedi leapt into the air. He was fired upon by the droids on the ground, but he deflected most of the bolts with ease. They redirected into the ones who fired them, destroying them instantly. He landed back on his feet and swirled around to see K'kruhk slash through a spider droid with great speed.

Obi-wan flipped backwards to avoid a salve of bolts fired by some droids and landed next to the imposing whipid Jedi knight. He was just in time to push K'kruhk out of the way of a set of homing missiles fired by a hailfire droid. 'Master Kenobi! Thanks for the assist.' Said K'kruhk.

The two Jedi now turned around to face the hailfire droid, who was coming at them with high speed. They ran towards the dangerous droid and split up just before they collided with it. K'kruhk slashed one of it's wheels in two, whilst Obi-wan let his blade penetrate the hailfire droid's armour.

The droid crashed onto one side and the hole Obi-wan had created caused it's engines to explode. Obi-wan swirled around after feeling a disturbance in the force and his look fixed on someone he had already expected to be here. Asajj Ventress had both of her crimson blades ignited and smiled at Obi-wan.

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