The hours went by as the Resolute flew in hyperspace, unable to stop. General Skywalker informed the Jedi council of their predicament. The council knew they could not aid them in any way; all they could do is suggesting patience for the Jedi and the young padawan and send reinforcements to Geonosis to finish their mission.
Like that's any help, Ahsoka thought. But what could anyone do to help? They were stuck in hyperspace until the drive overheats and shuts down. Most of the clones on the bridge were checking the energy levels of the hyperdrive while the others were relaxing a little. Even though they had no control of where they were going, it was still slightly peaceful.
Rex, Yularen, Anakin, and Ahsoka were all on the bridge. The grownups were relaxing while Ahsoka was quietly scanning their known coordinates to the map of the galaxy. They were getting dangerously close to the end of Wild Space. Ahsoka bit her lip at the thought of leaving the entire galaxy; Jedi aren't known to show emotions, but she was fearful at this thought. But her fears ended in the most unfortunate ways because she found that the ship had just left Wild space. She took a deep breathe and rose to tell her master about their newest problem, until a clone beat her to it.
"Sir, we've just left Wild Space!" he stated while at his computer. Anakin looked at the clone, confused. "Left Wild Space, what do you mean?"
"He means we literally left the entire galaxy," Ahsoka said. The emotions in the three men's faces were mixes of fear, worry, and surprise; Ahsoka's was showing sadness.
"Sirs, I don't think that's going to be a problem," said the same clone that told them about the Hyperdrive problem. "My readings show that the Hyperdrive is about to auto shut down." Everyone in the room felt joy and relief, even the clones. With a smile, the clone continued. "The shut down is in five…four-" in an instant, the Resolute stopped. Because the drive shut itself down, the stabilizers were offline and everyone fell forward. Moments later, they slowly got up because the forward force was pretty rough. Anakin was the first to see the blackness of space once again. In an instant, the general said loudly, "One!" and laughing afterwards.
All of the clones cheered and began patting the clone, which mentioned the shut down, on the back. Ahsoka let out a long sigh in relief. She was very happy that nothing bad happened on this voyage. She then noticed Admiral Yularen; he was focused at the window while the rest of the ship was celebrating.
"Admiral, is everything alright?" Ahsoka asked.
"I-I think you all should have a look at this," he replied and pointed outside. And what the entire crew saw was a brand new star system. This one held nine planets; that's more than any star system has.
A clone ended the silence of awe. "Sir, I'm detecting life on the third planet from the sun."
"The third planet? Take us there trooper," Anakin replied. The ship started moving through the system. They first passed a very small planet made of mostly ice but it seemed more like a large Moon. Then they passed a large blue planet and a gray planet of similar size. The next planet resembled Geonosis exactly with its giant meteor ring. In front of the Resolute came the largest planet; big enough to cover the entire ship from the sun. As they passed the planet, the next planet was seen on the right. It was a red planet the same shade as Ahsoka.
"There it is!" a clone shouted. Everyone looked straight ahead to see the only planet in this system to be known to have life. To all the men, this was a first time seeing this planet; to Ahsoka, this was a second. Her heart felt as though it stopped as she recognized the desert island covering one third of the planet, the dark blue waters surrounding it, and the two ominous metal rings. It was the same planet Ahsoka saw in her dream!
"Master, maybe we should fall back," Ahsoka told Anakin. She was afraid that if this was true about her dream, maybe the rest of the haunting things were on the island. Anakin made a slight chuckle, "Fall back? Ahsoka, we just found a new world with life. If there's anything we should do its-"
"Sir, we've just been targeted by one of their rings!" a clone exclaimed. This caught Anakin, as well as the entire ship, off guard. "But we haven't shown any engagement." In a flash, one of the rings launched a massive yellow bubble that engulfed the entire vessel.
"What the Heck is that?" Anakin shouted after the ship was trapped. A clone replied, "Its some kind of tractor beam, sir. Our engines have shut down."
"Sir, our communications are being hacked," another clone announced.
"Fire at that bubble! Get us outta here!" The ship began to open fire at their yellow barrier. Anakin then remembered that Ahsoka thought they should fall back. He quickly turned to his young padawan, looking out to the planet. "Ahsoka, did… you know they would attack?"
"Well…not exactly knew."
"Sir, the bubble's destroyed," Captain Rex said, and the prison disintegrated like a deactivated ray shield.
"Turn the ship around, immediately!" Admiral Yularen exclaimed. But it was too late; the planets' rings open fired on the ship. There had to have been thousands of guns on those rings. Their fire was so thick; you could barely see the planet. Every clone began announcing something that was destroyed.
"Sir, we just lost all power to the shield Generator."
"Lasers are permanently disabled, sir!"
"Targeting system's destroyed sir!"
"Reactor pumps have been breached!"
"All engines are loosing power!"
"All Power Cells are being depleted!"
"The ship's reactor is overloading!"
All this damage came in less than 30 seconds of combat. Anakin finally had enough; he definitely didn't want to believe it, but they were loosing the ship.
"We have to get out of here! Everyone get to the escape pods!" In an instant, the whole ship's crew was rushing to the pods. Every hall Anakin and Ahsoka were running in filled with smoke, loose wires and fires. They had to watch their step because the ceiling started dropping everywhere. As they turned the corner to find all the escape pods, Yularen was right at the last one waving them to hurry.
Just then, Ahsoka noticed the ceiling about to crumble infront of them. As it fell, she immediately stopped to avoid being crushed. Her master, however, force sprinted to the pod and was able to avoid the debree. Now the teacher and the student are separated.
"Ahsoka!" Anakin Yelled.
"I'm alright, master. I'm gonna have to take another pod. Meet you outside, Skyguy." The two rushed to their separate pods. Ahsoka had merely clone troopers whereas Anakin's contained all the superiors as well as R2-D2. The pods launched and left behind the burning ship still under fire from the rings. Ahsoka looked out the window to see the planet; thankfully, they launched aways from the planet. She wanted everyone to be as far away from the planet as they could possibly be.
Suddenly, the pod Ahsoka was in began to rumble like they hit something. A clone asked, "Uh, what was that?" Then the whole pod jumped forward at an accelerating rate. The were getting pulled into the planet by some force. The pod was continuing to increase speed.
"Brace yourselves, troops," Ahsoka said as everyone strapped themselves in as they sped through the rings and past a shield of clouds. The ground was visible as the pod heated up. The pod was just inches away from the ground, and then Ahsoka's world went black.