This is the chapter… where a secret comes to light!
"Contact left! Rex, take out that tank!" Ahsoka screamed.
"Womp Squad, clear that platform!" Rex ordered. A squad rushed over to a tank. The tank fired on them, but they were faster. They ended up throwing grenades into the hatches, the blast sending a shower of shrapnel on the clone's position.
The location of this battle was Mandalore, following the Battle over Coruscant. The Chancellor was safe again, but through the distraction, droids had begun to occupy Mandalore. Even at the end of the war, Mandalore had to choose a side. Ahsoka led the 501st Legion against the droids.
"Mark 9-7-5! FIRE!" Rex shouted to the heavy cannon gunners. The gun swiveled, then let loose a barrage of powerful energy. That assault was nearly useless though, this being a full-scale invasion. Blaster fire cut down clone troopers left and right.
Rex turned to Ahsoka. "Commander, now would be a good time!"
She held up one hand. "Wait…. Wait….."
She waited a few seconds more. "Now!" She shouted.
Rex pushed the button on the controller he was holding. The droid's position went up in smoke and explosions. More were coming. The outlines of Corporate Alliance Tank droids and C.R.A.B droids could be seen through the dark haze.
Ahsoka switched on her comlink. "Rocket launchers, fire!"
From behind her, rockets streaked through the sky and rained on the droids.
She turned to Rex. "Follow me." She smirked. She vaulted over the barrier and charged.
"501st… Charge!" Rex shouted as he, too, leapt the wall. Clones began pouring across the landscape, bathing the ground in a moving white and blue mass.
The next scene cannot be put in words. The only befitting word for the battle was chaos. More rockets, plasma charges, detonators, blaster bolts, screams, commands, running…. The battle raged on.
Ahsoka came near the Separatist headquarters. A cyborg figure approached. (Author's note: I am angered whenever people refer to Grievous as a droid. He is a cyborg. Just thought I'd throw that in there)
"Grievous." She whispered maliciously.
"Once again, the Jedi send a child to defeat me."
She smirked. "Last time your battle station blew up."
He growled and activated his four lightsabers. She jumped through the air on top of Grievous. His lightsabers whirred and he parried her attack. Slice, stab, kick, parry, attack, retreat. He lunged out irregularly at one point and she slashed out at his prosthetic leg. He growled in pain and rage as part of it was burned.
"You should have stayed over Coruscant where you were safer, Grievous!"
And the battle between the two went on as Ahsoka's heroic clones pushed forward.
In the end, they took the capital, and stopped there to rest. Grievous had long retreated, and it was said the Obi-Wan was fighting him on some planet called Utapau.
Ahsoka was quite tired, as were the clones. But what she didn't know was that, at this moment, her master was turning to the Dark Side, and the Jedi Order was about to fall.
She was reading a holo-report of the battle - casualty numbers, strategies, and so forth, when she heard, in her head, a scream. Then another. Then a pang of sorrow shot through her frame. The screams became much more frequent and intensified. Something was wrong. Terribly wrong. And it involved the Jedi.
She put down the holo-report and closed her eyes. She saw… clones. They were firing on the Jedi. The Jedi were outmatched and fell. So many Jedi… dying.
Meanwhile, across the room… "Take those missiles to the heavy cannons right away." Rex told a trooper. His comlink warbled. He took it out from his belt and activated it.
A hooded and cloaked figure appeared on the hologram. He knew who it was.
"Captain Rex… now is the time. Execute Order 66." Then the hologram disappeared. Secretly, it was the order he feared the most to carry out. He nodded at several troopers lounging in front of him. They loaded their weapons and surrounded Commander Tano.
Rex placed on his helmet and walked up to her. He pulled out his blasters and pointed them at her. Her eyes opened.
"I'm sorry, Commander…" He almost squeezed the trigger when a figure landed right in front of Ahsoka.
Ahsoka knew that being. It was the Being on Umbara. The one with the Force of the Void. Head still bent to the ground and in a kneeling position, he thrust his arms outward. The Force push was powerful enough to knock them all off their feet.
"Ahsoka, time to go!" The figure said in a familiar voice. It wasn't the dark voice like on Umbara. It was… no. It couldn't be.
He grabbed her arm and started running. She ran with him as the clones fired on them. He deflected the blasts with his white lightsabers, but they were gaining.
They ran around a corner. He stopped and turned around.
"What are you doing?!" Ahsoka shouted at him. He lifted his hands and the ceiling on the large room shook… and crumbled. Large pieces began to fall, until the whole ceiling collapsed and crushed many clones. More were coming, hellbent on killing Ahsoka.
"We must fight." The Being breathed. Ahsoka activated her lightsabers.
They could only get through one point in the wall of collapsed ceiling. The men in blue and white streamed through, blasters firing. The two acted as one mind and lunged at them, using the razor attack. Clone after clone screamed and fell. They fought, it seemed, endlessly. The clones fell back to regroup. She knew they wouldn't be gone long.
"I know where to go." He said. He gathered the Force, and leaped straight up into the shadows of the building's roof. He didn't come back down. He had disappeared. Ahsoka, too, gathered her energy and leaped with all her might. She went up, up, up… and then landed on a surface. Her eyes accustomed to the darkness, and she could make out his shape. He whispered,
"Follow me." And ran down the hidden path in the shadows. She quickly followed him. They ran for a while until Ahsoka's legs began to give out. At this point, he turned towards the wall and opened a secret door to the outside.
He motioned for her to come, and he went through the door. She was panting; more exhausted then she had ever been, and that was saying something. Out of nowhere, he picked her up bridal style and jumped off the roof. They plummeted down to the ground and Ahsoka could not help but let out a low squeal. They were about to go ker-splat against the ground, when they went past the planet's surface and into the ground.
They landed in darkness, underground. He put her down, and flipped some switched. The hatch above them closed, and lights turned on. It was a neatly kept underground apartment, it seemed.
He turned to her. The void where his face should be seemed to fade, and he simultaneously threw back his hood.
"Hopefully you haven't forgotten me yet, Ahsoka." He said, jokingly.
She clutched his collar and kissed him passionately. He groaned into the kiss, and she pulled away, smirking.
"Lux Bonteri, have I ever told you that you are more trouble than any guy I have ever met?"
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