The Dark Side of Things Chapter 14.
14 chapter… dang, I didn't think I would get this far. This chapter we will see the horrors of the Clone wars and the misery it can bring.
ON WITH THE STORY
The barrage of missiles from orbit that hit the Temple had done tremendous damage. Two of the five towers were gone. The Tower that contained the Council Chambers was still standing, but damaged.
Inside the tower everyone got knocked out by the savage strike. Ahsoka tano was the first one to come to.
Ahsoka stirred slightly as she could hear blaster fire. She looked up and saw that everyone was on the floor, including Anakin. Ahsoka gasped in horror. Could he really be dead?
She quickly checked the Force to see if her friends were still alive, thankfully they all were, except Obi-Wan had a large gash across his chest.
Ahsoka quickly got to her knees quickly when a sudden pain came to her side. She looked down to see she had a shard of glass in her side.
"Oh no" She whispered to herself quietly.
She tried to take in some air but it hurt when she tried to.
"Why can't I breathe?" Ahsoka thought to herself.
She began to feel lightheaded as she tried to make it over to Obi-Wan, the sound of blaster fire and fighters surrounded her.
As Ahsoka was trying to walk she fell down to her knees and her vision started to blacken.
"No, I have to… get to him" She thought.
Ahsoka started coughing up blood.
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Anakin started to stir and when he opened his eyes he saw his Padawan coughing up blood.
"Snips!" He tried to yell, but only a whisper came out.
She seemed to hear him ad looked over.
"M-Master" She was barely able to whisper as she passed out onto the floor.
Anakin rushed up to discover that his flesh arm was broken.
"Kriff!" He yelled as he tried to get up using that arm.
He saw Obi-Wan and the rest of the Council knocked out, His eyes widened as he saw the gash over Obi-Wan's chest.
"Not you too" He mumbled to himself.
Anakin slowly got up and got a line of sight out of the broken windows, Coruscant looked like it was on fire all over.
"This can't be happening" Anakin told himself.
He made his way over to Obi-Wan and Ahsoka.
He was able to pick up Ahsoka and Obi-wan was went to the elevator, he would have to check on the rest of the Council later.
To Anakin's surprise the elevator worked and Anakin pushed the button for the main level with the Force.
The ride down the elevator was the longest Anakin ever had in his life.
When the door opened he quickly rushed out the door as fast as the two bodies on his shoulders would allow.
He rushed to the halls of healing to find a healer there, that had surprisingly not hurt. There were multiple other healers tending to other Jedi as well.
"Please help them" Anakin begged the healer.
The healer nodded quickly as Anakin layed Obi-Wan and Ahsoka down onto bed and the healer tended to them.
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Anakin went back to the elevator and went back up to the Council chambers. He found the rest of the members setting up against walls, they were obviously stunned.
"What happened?" Master Windu asked.
Anakin replied quickly.
"The Separatists have attacked Coruscant"
The Shock In the Force was huge.
"Defend the planet we must" Yoda exclaimed.
Anakin didn't stay around any longer as went back down the elevator and rushed back to the halls of healing, he needed to make sure Obi-Wan and Ahsoka were okay before he off to battle.
When Anakin walked into the room where his lover and brother were he saw that Ahsoka had a breathing mask over her face, unconscious. Obi-wan was awake. All he had was a bandage over his wound.
The healer came up to him and started to speak,
"Master Kenobi's injury was only superficial, the cut wasn't deep at all, Padawan Tano had a shard of glass in her side, she got lucky, it didn't hit anything major, I put her under because of the pain."
Since Obi-Wan was awake, Anakin went to talk to him first. When Anakin approached him he tried to sit up but grunted "Ow" As he tried to.
Anakin pushed down on Obi-Wan's shoulder to lean him back.
"Careful Master"
"Anakin, what happened?"
"The Temple was attacked, the Separatists launched an attack on Coruscant." Anakin said.
Obi-Wan's eyes widened. He heard a sound.
"Anakin…. What is that..? The sound was the marching metallic feet.
Anakin rushed to the gates and saw thousands of battle droids marching up the stairs of the temple.
Anakin turned pale.
"That's not good" Anakin whispered to himself.
Anakin contacted Rex as he retreated a little way into the temple.
"Rex! I need the men here. I need them here Now!" Anakin yelled into the comlink.
A voice came though
"Sir we are engaging the enemy in space."
"Rex there are Droids marching on the Temple, I need you down here now!"
"Right away Sir!"
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Anakin was leading a group of Jedi against the Enemy marching on the Jedi's home.
Anakin leapt into the mass of droid and began slicing them down, the Jedi around him were doing the same, trying to protect those inside that couldn't fight, the missiles had injured a multitude of Jedi.
No matter how many droids the group cutdown there were always more coming.
Anakin was blocking blaster bolts and trying to destroy the enemy at the same time. Jedi all around him kept falling.
A lot of Jedi kept pouring out of the Temple to push back the enemy. They had formed a line of Jedi defenders.
There were Jedi inside the temple ready to fight if they had too.
The droids kept coming and Jedi kept falling. The enemy were pushing the Jedi back into the Temple.
"Rex where the kriff are you!" Anakin yelled into his comm.
"On our way!"
"Hurry, I don't know how much longer we can take this!" Anakin yelled as he blocked a blaster bolt from hitting his face.
"Yes Sir!" Rex replied.
The comlink shut off.
Anakin looked over and saw a Twi'lek Padawan get shot in the chest, he could sense his life force draining away.
Anakin called the Padawan's lightsaber to his hand
"I won't let you die in vain."
Anakin now had two sabers and was going crazy on the attackers.
"For the Jedi!" Anakin yelled as he spun around slicing droids in half.
The attack was getting more intense as the Defenders were pushed deep into the temple.
They were pushed deep back into the Temple. Every Jedi that could fight was involved now, including the Council.
Obi-Wan forced himself up out of his bed and ignited his lightsaber and joined the fight despite the horrid pain in his chest.
The Temple had suffered horrible damage, Anakin was in the middle of all the droids, deflecting bolts at speeds that were dizzying.
Anakin was wasting the droids just as he was shot in the upper leg. He screamed and dropped to one knee.
"Anakin!" Obi-Wan yelled.
Just as the droids were about to execute Anakin, the sound of gunships could be heard in the distance and the cry "For the Republic!" could be heard.
The gunships had landed at the stairs of the Temple and blocked off the droid advance, The clones pushed into the Temple. Blasting the droids that stood in their way.
Rex was using his blaster in one hand and his Force Pike in the other. Shooting droids and slicing them down at the same time.
The clones were destroying droids left and right and pushed back to the Jedi's position.
"Nice of you to join us Rex!" Anakin yelled, he was still in pain from the blaster shot. But he pushed on.
"We have set up a perimeter around the Temple" Rex said.
"Very good" Anakin replied.
The Jedi returned back to the stairs and were defending the front of the Temple.
The clones were standing beside the Jedi and defending the Temple. The Separatists were continuing to push their attack. The rest of the city including the Senate building was on fire and burning. Clones all over the city were combating the enemy.
Thousands of droids were pushing the defenses of the Temple, they had direct orders from dooku to completely destroy the Jedi Temple.
The Defenders of the Republic had a different idea.
Stronger classes of droids were now trying to break through the line. Super battle droids were continuously firing missiles at the gunships that formed a barrier around the entrance.
Ahsoka got up out of her bed as well, fighting against the pain, she was determined to save the only true family she had. She wasn't able to swing a saber due to her side, she instead was using a Clone's blaster and was shooting the droids with deadly precision.
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The space battle was massive, hundreds of ships were battling it out in the atmosphere and high orbit. Droid ships were descending into the sky and the Republic ships tried to shoot them down. But very few were actually shot down.
Coruscant was being crippled
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So many Clones and Jedi had died.. The defense was holding. But barely.
The sheer will of the Jedi were keeping them going. They were slowly outmatching the droids.
The remaining Jedi were cutting down droids faster then they could appear and eventually… Anakin made the last kill as he sliced though the last droid assaulting the Temple.
The Rest of the City was still under siege. The Republic made the decision to use the EMP's against the droids which eliminated the threat on the ground. The space battle continued until all of the Enemy ships were destroyed.
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Coruscant was left in a cripped state, the Jedi were in disarray. Thousands apon thousands died that day.
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The Jedi suffered heavy losses. The Temple half destroyed, over 3000 Jedi died on that horrid day.
Anakin Skywalker went to every single burial.
The Republic had to reset all of its technology after the EMPs. Hundreds of thousands of clones died. A heavy weight of guilt was pressed upon the survivors.
Everyone wanted to launch a counter attack, but due to the state of Coruscant and the Jedi, a counter offensive was almost impossible at that point, all they could do was hope that the enemy didn't return. The Republic needed to heal.
Half of the Jedi Council was killed. All that remained was Obi-Wan, Master Ti, Master Plo, Master Windu, and Master Yoda.
The Republic was without a Chancellor, there was no leader. The Senate was too crippled to vote in a new one at the moment.
Ahsoka, Anakin, and Obi-Wan all needed to recover from their wounds. Both mentally and physically.
The Republic had entered a new dark age of war against the Separatists. It was going to be a long war ahead of them.
END OF CHAPTER
This is a new state of dark war, The Republic will go though some hard times and so will the Jedi. What will happen between Anakin and Ahsoka? Will their relationship be able to withstand the pressure of this war? Will the Republic be able to win. Next chapter we will talk about the aftermath.