Chapter 3 Geonosis

Anakin and Dan's POV

Now that Nate had left, Dan and Anikin had nothing to do but wait for Nate's signal. It seemed like days but the signal came after thirty minuets.

"NOW!" commanded Anikin, "light speed to Geonosis!"

As they exited light speed they got their glance of the planet, but they where distracted by a sudden explosion that rocked the ship. This blast sent some troopers flying and sent the rest searching for a reason for the blast. As they looked away from the planet they found out the blast came from a cruiser and that a battle was surrounding one little fighter.

"Now what have you gotten yourself into," said Dan half mindedly.

Nate's POV

Nate had just taken off and jumped to light speed on his way to Geonosis. Now the trip in a small one-man fighter was never comfortable, but this time it was worse. This time the reoccurring thought that he was all alone and he might never make it back because he might die in this crazy stunt. As he left light speed he got his first glimpse of the planet, which was immediately eclipsed by one of the confederacy battle ships. He found the ship that looked like the command ship and headed toward it. As he approached he had to weave through about ten patrols. After he got there he found a way into the ship. After he got in he felt a familiar feeling, he had heard of doing something like this. He had it, Anikin's stunt above Naboo. Nate knew now what to do; he landed in a spot that looked good. Then he took off and just hovered off the ground and fired a barrage of torpedoes. The plan worked, he hit the main reactor and the cruiser started to blow. Now all he had to do was get out to send the signal transmission. The doors were closing on him but he got past them and got out just before the whole ship was engulfed in flames. "Now," thought Nate, "for the transmission." It got away now he had to wait for the cavalry to arrive, when suddenly, BOOM, his ship had been hit.

"What in the blazes was that," Nate asked himself. He turned around to find he was being chased by at least half a dozen vulture droids. "Now is where the fun begins," sneered Nate as he looped over the droids to fire at them but this maneuver didn't work too well and ended up in the middle of three dozen vultures.

Normal POV

Nate was so concentrated on the combat he nearly left his skin when he heard the clone trooper over the comm. "General Zabel, I have two squads for your command, General Skywalker has the other three squads and are using you for a cover maneuver."

"Copy that" said Nate, "form one squad on either of my flanks."

"Yes, sir!" the clone replied sternly.

"Dan," Anikin said over open comm., "take the fleet one on one with the rest of the cruisers and try to get the acclimators past to start landing the troops."

"Good plan," replied Dan, "I'll try to save as many ships as I can. They don't stand a chance."

Now Anikin was dodging too many vultures to hear this last part but he got the idea. "Oddball," said Anikin into the comm., "break off and take any droids out that you can find." After he said this, one squad broke off but he kept the other two to help him. He was headed toward the biggest CIS battle cruiser to hopefully take it out. As he got there he saw at least fifty vultures come out of the main hanger hole. "Oh crap," muttered Anikin, "this is going to get messy."

Now Dan was preparing to move in for the kill on one of the cruisers but his ship go hit hard and he had to move out of firing range. As he did he commanded another cruiser to go in and take it out. The second cruiser successfully destroyed the ship. As Dan was celebrating he spotted Anikin in a bit of trouble with the vultures. Seeing his ships turrets could not target the tiny fighters he contacted help. "Nate," said Dan, "Anikin's in trouble could you go and help him out?"

At the request of Dan, Nate called Oddball to his wing and went off in Anikin's direction. As he approached he saw hundreds of buzz droids swarming Anikin's fighter. Nate instinctively backed off the thrust and fired at the vultures and took out almost all the droids so Anikin could get out of range. "Thanks," said Anikin, "I thought I was a goner there for a second, now cover me as I go in for the kill."

At this last command Nate took Anikin's right wing and followed covering him as much as he could so Anikin could concentrate on hitting the cruiser. "I do hope you know you have a clear shot at the ship," pointed Nate, "I suggest you take it and blow the thing to smithereens."

"Thanks for the tip," huffed Anikin, "but I can handle myself." Anyway it seemed Anikin took Nate's advice because he landed a direct hit on the main engine sending a chain reaction throughout the entire ship completely destroying it.

Dan was watching this stunt from a little farther back. As he gazed upon the still raging battle he found a weakness in the blockade. "Commander," commanded Dan, "tell the Eclipse to move in on the right and take out that cruiser on that side. Then tell me, can we hold out long enough to remove that last battle cruiser?"

"We cannot sustain much more damage," replied the clone, "but we might be able to wound it enough to get past it."

"Okay," said Dan contemplating the next move, "tell Nate and Anikin to be ready to attack on my signal."

The next move was now clear to everyone. The plan was to take out the shield generator and guns so that the fighters could get close enough to get a barrage of torpedoes off at the engine.

"Are you sure this is going to work," said Nate unconfidently, "because if it doesn't we will be right in the line of fire of the vultures, and you know I hate being in the line of fire."

"Yes, it will work," replied Dan confidently, "just be ready to move on my signal."

Now the plan was in motion, the Eclipse was moving toward the battle cruiser on the far right and the Freemont was moving toward the other. As the Eclipse engaged the other battle cruiser set off in that direction to help. This move helped Dan out a lot, as soon as the cruiser started moving he gave the command to fire all guns upon the battleship. The shields and heavy turrets went down quickly, and the fighters moved in. After a blinding light the cruiser blew up and sent a shockwave tearing through the other ship severing it in two. But the plan didn't end so greatly. The shockwave destroyed three acclamator cruisers also. The Eclipse also sustained severe damage due to the shockwave. Now that the space was empty the Republic cruisers moved into blockade position. After which the remaining Acclamators released their loads of ships to debark onto the planet.

Now that the first wave was on it's way to the planet the Jedi planned a set down point for the forward command post. "I think it should be close but yet far enough to be out of the direct fire so it will survive," input Dan.

"Yes, but if we are too far we will be in no position to help out with reinforcements," said Anikin.

"My question is why we even need a assembly area," chimed Nate who was away from the others like this plan was a waste of time.

"You know Republic standards we need one to secure a good landing point for the heavy units," reminded Dan.

This argument lasted about five minuets but by that time Anikin found a good landing point. The area was not too close but not too far so they could get in the action quickly but not be in the direct line of fire. After the area was picked they loaded into the landing transport that was heading to the planet with the forward command post assembly area. As they were headed to the planet the battle came into view and an unbelievable sight came with that. Clones were firing at clones!

"What in the blazes is going on down there!" exclaimed Nate

As they scanned the rest of the battle they found a possible solution. It was the infamous Darth Reven! He was turning the clones against their brothers. At this sight the trio of Jedi were enraged which seemed to send a very strong emotion because at this exact time Darth Reven looked up and saw the transport. He looked confused for a second but then he turned tail and ran. The trio was about ready to jump out of the transport but caught themselves. After the command post was set down the Jedi set out to even out the battle. They told the clones to focus on the droids and that they would take care of the rouge clones.

As they got through most of the rouge clones they gathered together at the forward command post. "I think we should gather the most elite troops we can and go after Darth Reven," Nate stated as his opinion.

"Yes," agreed Dan, "but I think we should help to finish this battle before we start another one so we aren't too spread out."

"I agree with Dan," said Anikin, "we should stay and make sure we can win this battle before we go and start another."

"Okay," said Nate giving in too the other two's proddings, "we will wait for a while to get this battle under control until we go after him."

"Good." added Dan, then turning to a clone said, "Call down half a dozen AT-TE's."

After the transports had landed Nate and Anikin took control of one for each of them and Dan took co-pilot in a third one. Though the transports moved really slow the weapons had good range and power so before the droids could fire at them they had destroyed them. The battle raged on longer than the trio wanted it to. Every time they hade the battle under control thousands more battle droids would come.

"This is taking too long," said Nate.

"Yes, we should split up," suggested Dan, "I'll go destroy droids in hand to hand. Anakin, you and Nate give me some cover fire."

"Copy that," said Anakin.

With these last words Dan jumped out of his transport, ignited his saber and headed off to the front lines. It was easy for the others to see Dan from their transports, his dark blue blade stood out from the battle raging around him. Suddenly a whole pack of droids just fell over.

"What in the name of the living force did you do Dan?" inquired Nate.

"I set a audio charge at a high frequency and fried the droids CPUs. Now I'm going to try to turn the droids to our side," said Dan

"How are you going to do that?" asked Anakin.

"Easy I'll just reprogram their CPUs to do our bidding," answers Dan.

"Okay but I thought you said their CPUs where fried, doesn't that mean destroyed?" inquired Nate

"Well they weren't so much as fried as they shut down and their programming got erased," said Dan.

Within minuets Dan had turned about one hundred droids to the Republic's army and he kept on turning droids until the Republic army was twice the size it was when it landed. Now Nate and Anakin were so amazed at Dan's speed at this task they hadn't fired another shot or moved another inch until Dan radioed in.

"Um, where is that cover fire I asked for, I'm getting over run," said Dan.

"Oh, sorry, we'll get right on it," replied Anakin.

After that Anakin began to blast away at the droids again but Nate didden't moved another inch.

"Um, Nate," said Anakin, "shouldn't you be shooting at the droids."

"No," said Nate half mindedly, "not the droids, the star ships."

"What was that," asked Anakin.

"Anakin, stop shooting at the droids," commanded Nate.

"O.K. now I know I'm hearing things," said Anakin, "I believe you just said to stop shooting at the droids."

"I did," said Nate, "shoot at the star ships."

"And how will that help Dan?" asked Anakin.

"Just trust me, it will," replied Nate

After Nate had said this they went ballistic on the starships. Within minuets they all had been destroyed. Which led to a sudden slow in the flow of droids. This lessen in droids made it easy work to gain the upper hand. Now that the tide had turned the trio regrouped at the forward command post.