Hey folks, Grubkiller here.

I'm coming at you with another exciting chapter of the crossover for the greatest tv shows ever made, and one of the greatest video game franchises ever made.

As always, I want you all to follow my famous three R's: Read, Relish, and Review.

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Aspho Point weapons research facility.

Back at Aspho point, just outside the weapons research facility, the remaining clones and gears that followed Hoffman and Skywalker were still outside. They were about to have their hands full, as the first wave of Separatist reinforcements from Peraspha Military Base, one of the two bases that was sending CIS reinforcements to the field, was just arriving.

CIS commando droids that were painted dark green, with a red UIR lightning bolt began to attack the commando team. They flipped over cover and dodged blaster fire, returning fire with deadly efficiency, killing a couple gears and a clone.

"Indie droids, left side!" A female gear called out before she began to return fire, her rounds pinging off of the metal ground around the droids.

"Hold 'em back!" A clone called out.

The entire remaining strike force unleashed a hailstorm of blue laser bolts and Lancer rounds from cover, which the Indie droids had to brave in order to reach the research lab. Several droids fell, but many more took their place.

"Will somebody use that Guad-cannon already?!" The clone sergeant, CS-1004, aka Kano, called out.

One of his clones, a 'shinie', had set up a 4 barreled blaster cannon and began to use it tom tare up any droid that was unfortunate enough to jump in front of his line of fire when he pulled the trigger. Several powerful bolts slammed into the metal ground, causing several small explosions that ripped several droids apart.

But several more droids started coming in from a different direction.

"They're coming in on the right side!"

"Hold your positions."

Every trooper and gear in the squad shifted their aim to meet this new threat, taking several droids down as they charged their positions.

One droid sniper was on top of a catwalk that overlooked the entrance to the main lab. It fired, killing the clone with the quad-cannon.

"Sniper! Take that son of a bitch down!" One of the gears shouted, and then every single team member opened fire on the catwalk. The supports were blasted apart, and a fuel canister was ignored, causing the supports to finally give way, bringing the whole catwalk down.

The droid fell to the ground. It began to spark and whine from the damage that it sustained. One of the gears walked up to it, looking down on it with the emotionless mask of his helmet, and brought his armored boot up over its head, before curb stomping the droid, smashing its head in.

After a few minutes, the droid assault began to falter, and the commando team stood triumphantly over their fallen metal adversaries.

"Area clear!" Clone Sgt. Kano called out.

That's when the door opened behind them. They all turned around to see Anakin, Hoffman, Dom, Fives, Echo, and Artoo walking out of the facility with several civilian scientists.

Anakin was talking to someone on his holo-device. "Control, the data has been secured."

"Copy that, proceed to the beach for marlin extract," said a female Republic naval officer, who was on the Resolute.

Anakin nodded. But before he could put the com-link away, the image of the republic officer fizzled out and was replaced by a female Dathomirian. The sith assassin of Count Dooku.

Asajj Ventress.

Anakin's face turned into a sneer. "Ventress!"

Her lips curled upwards in a devious smirk. "It's been far too long, Skywalker. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to kill you. But here you are."

"You must be so happy," he mocked. "But I'm afraid we can't stay too long."

"Well, I'm afraid you're not leaving with those plans." She said.

"If you want these plans so badly, then you're gonna have to come here and take them yourself," Hoffman quipped.

Ventress smiled.

"I was hoping you would say that. We'll meet again," she said, before her hologram fizzled out and disappeared.

As soon as Anakin put his com device back on his belt, a low whistling noise could heard from afar. It's volume was increasing.

"You here that?" Dom asked before he looked up. Then he saw what looked like fireballs raining down on the base. "Mortars!"

They began to rain down on the base, slamming into the buildings and ground, blasting apart everything they hit and causing burning shrapnel to fly in the faces of the helmeted commandoes.

"Control, we've got mortars incoming," Anakin said into his wrist comm.

"Then I suggest you run, General," the female voice said in an uninterested tone.

Anakin waved his arm forward. "To the beach! GO! GO! GO!"

"Run, get out of here!" Hoffman called out.

Each of the remaining commandoes started to beat feet through the base, which was about to become a crater, as Separatist mortars continued to rain down around them. Some troopers and scientists were unlucky enough to step into the spot where the mortars fell, making body parts fly up into the air with the explosion.

The team ran out of the base perimeter, and could see the beach. Several pontoon boats, manned by several gears, were waiting for them. Mortar bombs continued to drop all around them.

"Don't stop! Boats are just ahead. Keep moving!" Dom called out.

"God, I can't see shit," Fives complained.

As the team ran down the beach, a mortar bomb fell between Fives, Echo, and another clone. They were all thrown to the ground. The trooper was killed. Echo suffered a shrapnel wound to the leg.

"AAHhh DAMMIT!" He shouted out before he seethed in pain.

That's when Fives got up and put his arm around Echo, before he picked him up and led him to the boats as mortar rounds continued to fall all around them.

"I've got you brother," Fives said as he got into the Marlins with the rest of the strike force, "No one's getting left behind."

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At this point in the battle, only one AA tank still remains, and will oppose any Allied effort to evacuate the many wounded clones and gears that still remained behind. Marcus, having just inherited the stop of squad leader after the death of Sgt. Kennen, took Carlos and three other men to ambush the remaining AA tank.

The pyrotechnics should have marked the end of the op and the beginning of the extraction, but Peraspha hadn't been destroyed, and it looked like the commando raid has hit trouble.

"What the Hell's that?" Carlos asked, as he saw some kind of giant mechanical squid out to sea with several fierce beams of light playing beneath it. It hovered above the water, thrashing it's metal tentacles around, while firing red blaster bolts into the sea. "What's going on over there?"

Then the realization hit him.

'Dom. Dom's out there'.

"Nothing you can do," Marcus said. "Where's our air support? They need to take out that Asp."

Across the battlefield, Bernadette Mataki pressed her finger into her earpiece. "Kalona control, please advise on progress of Petrels." she said. Her tone was abnormally gentle. Anya was still on watch. Carlos marveled at the capacity of anyone to go easy on urgent requests because might upset a bereaved CIC controller. "We need that Asp shut down. Also, advise on medevac ETA-"

WHOOMP!

Mataki's voice stopped dead. A fresh wave of mortar fire started up and t was falling on her position. There was a pause that felt like an eternity and she received a reply from Anya.

"Longstop two, Merit has launched all six of its available Petrels. They've encountered an Ostri squadron off the coast and are engaging. Sea Ravens and Republic Larties are going to attempt a landing. They're five minutes out. It's going to take more that two drops, you understand that, yes?"

"This is Commander Tano. We're holding the extraction zone, but are encountering heavy resistance. We need that support soon!" Ahsoka said, the sound of two lightsabers humming in the background, along with explosions, blaster fire, and clones screaming.

"We're working on it commander," Anya said.

There was only so much room on gunships deployed by either allied faction. Not to mention the space and kit required to deal with the most urgent injuries. A lot of good men were going to be waiting on the beach for the next drop.

"Sarge, they're on the move," Pvt. Jakovs said suddenly. "The Asp is heading back onto the road."

Carlos scoped through and spotted it moving. It was making for a concrete road on the other side of the snow-covered grounds of Aspho Fields that linked the facility to the rest of the outside world.

"It's a bit late to reinforce the facility." Jakovs said.

"They must be trying to hit the LZ," Carlos said.

"Or... they've been called to back up whatever's going on offshore." Marcus said.

Since Dom was out there, that was all Carlos needed to hear. Let's stop the bastard before it can get the chance. Come on Jaks, your guys up for it?"

"You bet," the helmeted gear said.

"Don't go racing off half-assed." Marcus grabbed Carlos's arm so hard that it hurt. "Think this through. I can get out across the bridge and take it out."

"Like Stroud, you mean." Carlos was already up and moving for the bridge. We're down in minutes. Just do it."

"Santiago, no heroics. Listen to Corporal Fenix. That's an order. Take your ordnance and take the Asp from max range," Mataki ordered over the comm. The loud thumping of mortar rounds forced her to stop. Then she continued as if nothing happened. "We won't be able to extract you out there. So listen to Fenix and do what you were drilled to do."

Seconds later, when the transmission ended, the gears moved underneath the bridge with their heads down. Marcus and Marasin went up one slope to attack one flank, while Carlos took Jakovs and Hurnan up the left.

"Here it comes. Wait on my mark." Marcus ordered. The anti-air tank rumbled down the bridge and onto the road.

When the tank was passed them, but was still close enough to see every rivet and track on it, Marcus started counting down.

"Three... Two... FIRE!"

The gears opened up. The gears used their 'gut-puncher' anti-tank weapons. Carlos saw a ball of light and smoke where he hit the tank. A small hole was punched into the tank's hull. The tank swerved to face them, and the top hatch closed as the tank commander went back inside the tank.

'Shit!'

Carlos ran back towards the bridge to seek cover. Jakovs and Hurnan followed, thinking that he had a plan, which he did. But when he heard Marcus yelling after him, he realized that it was a bad plan. As he turned back to stop, fire from the tank started ripping his fellow gears apart. Hurnan fell and hit the ground hard. A wounded Jakovs tried to scoop him up as he passed but was hit as well. Carlos was hit himself, and slid down the slope into the muddy water beneath the bridge.

"Three man down!" He heard Marcus shout in a way that he usually didn't. Instead of silent and battened-down, he was a bellowing animal.

Up above, Marcus and Marasin rushed the tank while it was still distracted. That's when the tank commander popped back up to investigate. He saw the two gears charging and fired his sidearm. Marasin was hit and dropped to the ground, dead. But Marcus sprayed the commander, killing him. He then climbed aboard and entered the tank, killing anyone that was left inside.

"I've got the asp," Marcus said, "I'm in."

Carlos could here him and Mataki over the radio.

"What do you mean, 'in'."

"I'm in the Asp. It's drivable."

Carlos struggled to get back up, and even managed to get onto the bridge. That's when he collapsed. He knew he was hit, but he didn't know it was bad. Then he looked down to see his innards hanging out.

'Shit, shit, shit . . . . I can do this. Guys get shot up like this all the time. Keep cool. just pack some dressings into it,' Carlos thought to himself.

But all he could do was observe Marcus' commandeered tank blasting away at Separatist tanks and droids from a distance.

Knowing that there was no way out of this, he pressed his radio button and spoke into it. "Sarge... Sarge, I'm going to lay up here for a while and keep an eye Marcus..." Carlos said, not telling anyone about his injuries.

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Back as Aspho Point, Anakin and Hoffman's strike force pulled away from the shore with their marlins, just as the spot they occupied was blasted to hell by mortar fire.

With the plans in hand and the facility becoming a speck in the distance, they thought that they could breath a sigh of relief.

That's when the water around them started to glow. They all aimed their weapons at the water in preparation for what would come next. That's when a ship broke through the waves, and sent one of the boats flying, along with its passengers. The ship that hovered above them looked like a giant metal squid.

"It's a trident droid, take it out!" Anakin shouted as he stood up and ignited his lightsaber. He started to deflect bolster rounds, while every rifleman in the strike force opened fire with a powerful barrage.

As bullet and blaster shots pinged off of the armor, a wicked laughter could be heard over the ship's external speakers, as Ventress laughed at how helpless her prey was, before slamming the tentacles into the water.

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Explosions started to go off all around Rex and his men. He continued to fire his dual pistols into the seemingly endless horde of UIR-controlled AAT tanks and Battle droids, which served as a buffer between the Allied forces armor, and the UIR AA tanks.

"Take positions! We've just got to hold them off a little longer!" Rex said.

All around, clones and gears fell to enemy fire. It looked like three battalions were in front of them. Crab droids, spider droids, SBDs, B1 type battle droids, you name it. They were all painted an olive green to represent their usage by the UIR.

Ahsoka continued to deflect blaster bolts with her lightsabers. But the fire became too intense. A handful of clones and gears that were standing around her were hit and wounded.

"I can't hold them," Ahsoka said in a strained voice. That's when she was grazed in the leg. She shouted in pain before she fell forward onto her knees. An SBD saw the whole thing and took aim with his wrist rocket before firing. The grenade headed straight for Ahsoka. But then, she raised her hand and used the force. The rocket-propelled grenade seemed to stop in midair before it was flung back into the droid by an invisible force. The droid was impacted and wiped out, along with several other droids.

That's when an explosion went off near Ahsoka. It wasn't close enough to hit her with shrapnel. But it was close enough where the shockwave sent her flying back several yards.

She was soon unconscious. A pair of clones, one of them was a medic named Kix, picked her up and started to drag her behind cover. Rex was nearby, continuing to hold the line with his men, Jesse and Hardcase.

"Hold the line!" Rex shouted.

"We've got spiders inbound!" Jesse called out.

"Less yappin, more blastin'!" Hardcase shouted as he fired his Z-6 rotary gun at the approaching droids.

Nearby, Sgt. Mataki was using her sniper rifle to pick off targets from a distance. She was able to see Marcus's captured tank picking off what was left of the enemy's AA capabilities.

With the skies clear of AA fire, she could here the sounds of jet engines roaring overhead. She looked away from her scope and tracked the Petrels as they flew over the battlefield.

As the droids looked up in unison, confused as to what would happen next, the Petrels unleashed a heavy barrage of missiles that went straight for the Separatist forces on the ground.

"Uh-oh!" One of the droids exclaimed as he tried to push his way through his counterparts. But it was too late. Every AAT tank in the are was blown apart by the missile strikes. With the tanks gone, the remaining droids were at the mercy of what remained of the joint GAR-COG strike force.

Then the Petrels flew overhead and dropped their payload over Peraspha base, carpet bombing the whole area. Explosions ripped through the vehicle depots, barracks, and supply pads that kept the UIR forces in the region reinforced.

Clones and Gears alike started to cheer before they unleashed their firepower upon the retreating droids.

Far away, Ahsoka was regaining cpnciousness, and allowed herself to smile, knowing that her men and the Gears were able to pull this off. Bernie allowed herself to do the same thing. Then she looked off in the distance and saw what looked to be a mechanical squid attacking a group of Marlins.

Acting quickly, she keyed her radio and contacted Rex, who was the highest ranking officer still active.

"Captain, this is Sgt. Mataki," she said.

"Go ahead Sergeant," Rex said.

"The Commando raid seems to have run into a few problems.

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That's part 5 folks.

Sorry it took so long.

It may be a while for me to get part 6 out as well. But thank you for your patience.

This is Grubkiller, over and out.