Chapter 3

They moved swiftly and silently through the corridors, each looking either side of them 'I knew there was something about this place, I just couldn't put my finger on it' Whispered Anakin to Ahsoka

'I know master, let's just find this droid and get out of here. There's something else on this platform, something we've missed, I'm sure of it. Another being' said Ahsoka, peering into a darkened room 'Master! Over here!' she suddenly shouted to him, he turned back and looked where she was pointing 'the dust has been disturbed recently see! On the floor, looks like a type of footprint, but different. Like a humanoid droid, but the one we saw wasn't like that. It had wheels on the bottom, but look no wheel marks'

'Yes, but then who's are these?' Anakin said

Suddenly, in the darkness, they heard the noise of a lightsaber being ignited and they saw a red line of it, highlighting the features of one they knew well.

General Grievous.

He was looking directly at them and then something turned on a light and they saw that they were in some kind of arms room, empty gun racks lined the walls and discarded brackets on the floor. Everywhere was covered in dust except for the unusual prints on the floor leading directly to Grievous. Both Anakin and Ahsoka ignited their lightsabers and prepared to fight him. 'Ha! Foolish Jedi, you didn't think I came alone did you?!' Grievous said menacingly gesturing to his sides, all at once, battle droids came out of the shadows and started firing at the two Jedi, they started blocking their attacks, killing some by making the blaster beams bounce back at the droids, hitting them. Grievous walked round the perimeter of the fight, unnoticed by Anakin and Ahsoka, who were distracted by the droids, until he was behind them and then he kicked at Ahsoka who was directly in front of him. She landed a good few yards away, she sat up, rubbing her back and turned towards the cyborg. 'You ok there snips?' said Anakin, fighting with a droid 'never better' she replied stabbing furiously at Grievous with her lightsaber, seeing this, he brought out his other two arms that also held lightsabers of past Jedi he had killed. Ahsoka felt a twinge of fear, last time he used all of his arms against her, he had beaten her. But this time she wasn't alone, she had Anakin with her, and together they would defeat him. She looked for him and saw that he was battling with a group of droids that had appeared from out of the corridor outside

Looks like I'll have to keep him busy for a while she thought 'You won't get away this time Grievous, I'll make sure of it' she said to him, circling him whilst getting a better grip on her lightsaber

'Foolish youngling, do you think you can defeat me?! Your protector is rather busy at the moment and I'm afraid that you will not beat me alone. Let's see how you have improved, if you have at all' He said back to her spinning his arms then taking a fighting stance

'You'd be surprised' She said, then she lunged at him, spinning her lightsaber and then ducking round him and turning to his back whilst making a slashing movement at him, which he parried easily, flicking his lightsaber at her wrist, she dodged the movement and rolled on the floor, moving to his other side attempting the same slashing movement which he blocked again, and when that didn't work, she tried to use the force against him, trying to push him into a wall but a droid had knocked into her from blocking a movement from Anakin which knocked her concentration , Grievous took this moment to knock her lightsaber out of her hands and then to grab it and throw it onto a corner. Now she was weapon less. She tried to dodge his movements with the lightsabers, but she felt a searing pain on her thigh and realised that he had got her and sliced through her clothing and skin. She fell onto one leg with the pain, that's when she saw Grievous coming for her, then she felt his metal hand grab her round the neck and lift her from the ground

'Master!' she managed to call out weakly before Grievous squeezed then all she saw was blackness.

Anakin, hearing her call, turned round to see her go limp In Grievous' hands 'Ahsoka!' he called to her, and getting no response, he quickly dispatched with the rest of the droids then went for Grievous who had put the unconscious Ahsoka on a levitating stretcher which he ordered a droid to take back to his ship, then turned to face Anakin, he felt a great rage inside of him at seeing Ahsoka taken away, he tried to go after her, but Grievous barred his way and he hoped that captain Rex would get back in time to rescue her, so he started fighting Grievous with a lot of slashing movements with his lightsaber, then flipping over his head to land on the other side and tried to stab him in the chest but Grievous blocked his stab and hit Anakin over the head with one of the lightsaber handles, knocking him unconscious.

Grievous chuckled evilly to himself, he had what he wanted. That padawan was going to wish she'd never tried to become a Jedi. He turned and headed towards his ship where everything was set to go and the youngling was in one of the shuttles cells, chained to the wall, still unconscious for now.

'Set co-ordinates for my ship' Grievous barked at the droid pilots, settling into a chair.