The Resolute dropped out of hyperspace to a welcoming barrage of turbolaser fire and vulture droids attacking.
"All pilots get to your ships!" Anakin announced over the intercom, "I repeat all pilots to your ships!" Disengaging the intercom Anakin turned to the group, "get into Y-wing bombers you guys. You will be the gunners." The group nodded and ran to the hanger. When they got there they saw the Y-wings Anakin talked about. The full metal plating on the starship made it look like a capital y. The bubble turret behind the pilot was able to swivel 360o. There was one for each of them. They activated there armor and boarded the bombers. The turret controls were simple. Two handles that twisted up to 90o left or right determined the speed and directing of the turret and two buttons on the top of the control yolks fired the lasers. Anakin and Ahsoka jumped into the lead bomber. "All wings check in," Anakin said over the comm. link in the ships. Each bomber checked in and the bombers took off into the battle.
"All wings alpha formation," Anakin told the bombers under his command, "we are attacking the shield generators on the main ships so our turbolasers can take them out. Shadows six, seven, and eight I have replaced your torpedoes with mini gravity well generators. I want you to fan off from the rest of the group and activate them in the asteroid field to stop the fleet from fleeing. Shadow Eight I have left you one proton bomb for a run when you have finished. Go now!" Roxas's, Sora's, and Riku's Y-wings moved down to flee from enemy fire to launch the gravity wells. The Y-wing normally had 4 torpedoes each. Now they had four gravity wells each. If they fired into the asteroid belt five hundred meters apart they will create a gravity well large enough to trap the separatist fleet but not the republic fleet. When all eleven had been activated their pilots rejoined the battle.
"Shadow leader," Sora's pilot Broadside said into the ships comm. "We have planted the gravity well generators and are rejoining the battle."
I read you Broadside," Anakin replied, "go take out the underbelly shield generator on the flagship. All the other ships have been disabled. Accelerate to max speed and at the last moment turn the ship upside down and fire your bomb. The momentum should carry the bombs to the target. Go now!" Broadside accelerated to his highest velocity of 2,700 g and, like the general, said turned the ship upside down and launched the proton bombs. Sora was keeping fighters off him the whole time. "Resolute, fire at will!" Anakin said to his ship. Within moments the CIS fleet was nothing more but space debris. "All ships return to the Resolute for the landing force."
When Shadow squad returned they hadn't lost any ships, but one of the starfighters had lost their engines and new ones would have to be built.
"Alright men," Anakin said to his personal legion, the 501st, "we will be doing this the hard way. Blasters and droid poppers only, we can't have the crystal caves damaged. If we lose them the Council will have to find another planet rich enough in the Force to supply us with quality crystals. Let's move out!"
When they arrived on the planet Axel was freezing. His element was Fire and the ice world of Ilum was his exact opposite.
"Dang," Axel said to Roxas through the added comm. link added to their armor, "Vexen would have liked it here. It's creepy and cold. Just like him."
"If you think its cold here check out Hoth," Ahsoka said to Axel, "it's a barren wasteland. Nothing but tauntauns, wampas, and ice."
"GET DOWN!" Riku exclaimed just before blaster fire came flying toward them. Battle droids started marching toward them firing at them with no worry of their safety. While the clones fired from snow banks The Jedi were deflecting blaster bolts with their lightsabers. "Cover my guys!" Riku said charging into the droids, lightsaber and Keyblade moving so fast they were blurs. Sora ran to join his friend using Ataru aerobics to get through the droids. Within moments the droids were nothing but smoldering metal.
"It's a good chance the CIS knows we're here," Anakin said with a frown, "we should get out of here."
"Look," Kairi said pointing to a flashing in a cave about 100 meters away.
"That's the secret entrance to the Jedi Temple here," Obi-Wan said, "we should be able to find data showing the invasion and our missing Jedi." They started running.
"I sense something," Count Dooku said sitting in the meditation room of the Jedi temple of Ilum. A second latter a battle droid came in and told him that a strike team has landed on the planet, "ahhh. The Republic makes their move. Send all squads to the entrance of the temple to wait for them. Shoot to kill."
"These guys just don't give up do they!" Axel said to Xion and Roxas beside him. They had walked into a droid ambush at the entrance of the temple. The mines killed their troops. Only the Jedi who sensed the danger jumped away in time.
"There must be at least three-hundred droids!" Ahsoka exclaimed using her dual lightsabers to reflect the bolts."
"Can you lure the droids out of the temple?" Kairi asked
"Why?" Anakin also asked
"I think I can short them out with thunder magic if you bring them out." As if on cue the Battle droids started to charge at the girl. She focused her energy and yelled, "THUNDAGA!" A ring of electricity shot out around Kairi and where droids touched lightning fell on top of them shorting out their circuits leaving them scorched. Kairi fell into the snow bank from exhaustion.
"Kairi!" Sora exclaimed rushing to aid his friend and casting Cure on her to give her strength. Just them Count Dooku came walking out of the Temple.
"Dooku," Anakin said with anger in his voice.
"Ahhh master Kenobi" Dooku said acting as if Anakin were invisible, "I see you brought Skywalker and his little pet. I wanted to show you my new recruits to my army," Dooku snapped his fingers and about a hundred Heartless appeared.
"You guys handle Dooku," Roxas said getting ready to attack, "we'll take the heartless."