Chapter 21- A/N- this story has come a long way from when I first started it. I've gotten better at writing, its more detailed, makes more sense, and is just overall better. I want to thank everyone who has reviewed, read, and favorited this story. It makes me so excited when I see a review or pm in my email box. It motivates me, I couldn't have gotten this far without you guys. Thank you so much.

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Intermission

Resolute

Bridge

4 hours out from Mandalore

Ahsoka's POV

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The moment last night was… powerful to say the least, I felt love, security, and overall peace. That is something you don't feel in the war often.

We were a family, that was something I realized, we have been through so much together, all the battles, the loss, the pain. Somehow we have all lived through it, it only made us stronger and more determined to win the war for the Republic.

Obi-Wan never spoke about it, but I could tell he was on edge about going to Mandalore again. We never actually got intel on if Satine was alive, and if she was wasn't, it was bound to put a world of pain on Master Kenobi's shoulders.

Anakin was still in our room, sleeping, he was snoring and woke me up so I just went to the bridge.

What sounded like footsteps came up behind me, the person put their hand on my shoulder.

"Shouldn't you be restin' kid?"

I instantly recognized the familiar voice.

"I couldn't sleep Rex, Skyguy kept snoring" I told him.

"I didn't know that the General snores" He replied.

"Yeah I didn't either" I replied humorously.

I looked down to see that he had his lightsaber clipped onto his munition belt. Had he even used it yet?

"Have you tried out the saber yet?" I asked.

He unclipped it and brought it up into his hand, tossed it up a few times and caught it.

"Actually no I haven't"

I gained a smile on my face, this was a perfect time to spar.

He saw that smile

"Uh oh I know that smirk, What do you want?" He asked.

"C'mon, let's go spar" I told him

"Are you sure?"

"Of course, now let's go"

We walked through the long hallways of the Resolute, saying hello to a few clones along the way to the training room that had been added to our ship. Some asked if they could watch the sparring match, I didn't see any harm in it so I just told them why not.

Once we got to the training room we had about ten clones watching us. The only one from Rex's circle was Fives, who was more than ready to watch.

I saw Rex talking to Fives as he took his top chest plate off, I guess it made him more versatile. Fives gained a smirk as something was said to him, but I couldn't tell what.

We both walked up in the circle, ready to fight.

I watched Rex turn the intensity notch down on his saber before he ignited it, I did the same. This was going to get interesting really fast.

Rex ignited his pure white blade, the clones watching gasped, I guess they hadn't seen a white lightsaber either.

He held the blade in front of his face, waiting for me to do the same, I didn't think he knew anything about dueling.

I ignited my main saber, not wanting to overwhelm him with two.

I held my blade in front of me as well. Ready to spar.

He made the first move, he spun his saber beside him and lunged quickly towards me. I wasn't expecting him to move so fast, I ended up ducking instead of parrying.

After ducking I swung towards his chest, which he blocked rather easy.

He wouldn't let me get another swing in, he kept using speed instead of power, swinging his saber at me in multiple directions very quickly.

I leapt over his body and blocked a strike going for my legs. When I landed on my feet, a hand physically pushed me, causing me to land on the durasteel floor, and to lose my saber, I saw it role away as the Force warned me to roll to my right, as soon as I did a white blade collided with the floor exactly where I was laying.

I did a backflip from the floor up back onto my feet. I had to quickly lean back to dodge his blade from hitting my face.

I saw my light saber laying across the room, But Rex was in my way, I watched him make the fatal mistake of swinging overhead.

I grabbed his arm, causing him to yelp in surprise, and I swung him past me, allowing me to use the Force to pull my lightsaber towards me.

Igniting the saber for the second time, I blocked the incoming strike coming for my face. This caused us to get into a saber lock.

This was the first time I noticed the crowd, there was a lot more clones watching us now.

While I was looking away I heard Rex yell "Fives now!"

"Oh kriff" I thought.

Using one arm to push on me, Rex grabbed his force pike and tossed it to Fives, who came running.

Realizing my situation, I leapt straight up into the air, pushing myself forward and landing on a crate. I pulled out my second lightsaber.

"Can't handle me huh Rex?" I taunted.

All he did was smirk.

I had already decided to go for Fives first, considering he didn't have much experience with any type of saber.

All the clones were cheering.

"Good luck boys!" I shouted.

I jumped down from the crate, spinning, causing them to back up in surprise.

I twirled each of my sabers in my hand, switching to Anakin's preferred lightsaber form. And struck both of them at the same time. Hard.

Rex was able to handle the strike better then Fives since he had an actually lightsaber.

Instead of wasting my energy trying to disarm them both, I stuck my hand out, sending electric judgement towards Rex, being careful to make sure it wasn't actual lightning.

He wasn't expecting the judgement and it hit him dead in the chest. He dropped to his knees

"Aghhh!" He screamed

I made the mistake of opening myself up to Fives, he swung his pike right at my left leg, he hit it causing me to lose control of it. I dropped to one knee.

He pushed hard against my saber. I couldn't hold It much longer.

I heard another lightsaber ignite, Fives looked back and his face paled.

The crowd went silent.

It was Anakin.

Fives grabbed my saber and pushed me back. I landed on the floor.

I saw Fives get into a defensive stance, with my green saber and Rex's force pike, I think he forgot that I had a shoto.

"Scared Fives?" Anakin asked, taunting him.

"N-No sir" He stuttered

"On with it then." I saw Anakin smile.

Anakin swung powerfully with his saber, Fives tried to block with the pike but it flew out of his hand.

'C'mon trooper you can do better!" Anakin shouted.

Fives gripped my saber tightly with both hands and swung towards Anakin. He blocked it easily. Fives picked up the pace, swinging faster, only to have Anakin block faster.

I watched Rex get up, ignited his saber and lunch towards Anakin.

"Master!" I yelled.

Anakin ducked just in time, Rex's weakened saber collided with Fives chest, knocking him out the game.

Rex turned towards Anakin, Swinging hard, Anakin batted the saber away.

Re swung towards Anakin's legs, He caught the blade with his and twirled Rex's saber out of it his hand, causing it to fly up and deactivate.

Rex realized in that moment that he lost. He got to his knees and put his hands behind his head.

Anakin deactivated his saber, and helped Rex up.

"Good fighting eh?" He asked.

I didn't hear Rex respond but I got up and went to help Fives up, retrieving my lightsaber in the process.

"Good match Fives" I smiled.

"You too commander" He told me.

We would all be a bit sore during the upcoming battle, but we had suffered worse.

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Mess hall

We had all went to go get something to eat after that match, almost every clone had seen the fight, and we still had two hours until we dropped out of hyperspace.

The mess food wasn't that great, hopefully when the war ends, the Republic will put some more thought into the food.

Me, Rex, Anakin and Fives were all sitting at a table, Obi-Wan would be here, but he took a shuttle to his own cruiser before the fleet went into hyperspace.

I saw that Fives kept trying to flex his chest

''You a bit sore there?" I asked.

"Lil bit" He replied.

"I think we all are" Rex said.

Anakin smirked innocently "I'm not…"

I punched him in the shoulder

"Ow! What was that for?"

"For having no mercy on Fives" I said with humor

"Sorry about that" Anakin said

The two clones just laughed

"I think we have to agree that was a good match" I said.

"You know it's recorded right? There are cameras in the training room."

I snickered "Wont that be fun to watch"

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Bridge

It was time. We were only minutes away from Mandalore

Obi-Wan's body appeared on the holotable.

"Are you ready for this Anakin?" He asked.

"As ready as I'll ever be" He replied.

"I'm going to keep our ground cruisers back until you deal with the enemy fleet, I'm also hoping that they don't try to go after them." Obi-Wan said.

"We will form a half ring around our ground craft, that way there will be a barrier between them and assault force." Anakin replied.

"Sounds like a plan to me" I told them both.

"We are coming out of hyperspace General!" Yularen shouted.

Me and Anakin walked up to the windows on the bridge, waiting for the ship to come out of hyperspace.

The blue whirls came to a stop as we appeared over the planet, I didn't like what I saw.

There was a massive fleet of Separatists, and ships I didn't recognize, already fighting.

"Oh boy, this is going to be a messy one" Anakin said.

He was right, this is going to get messy.

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A/N- well this is sort of an intermission chapter, it gives a feel of what happens during the long trips that they have to take. It's a little shorter than the rest but it serves its purpose. Anyway next chapter is the space battle over Mandalore. Please review and tell me what you think. Don't forget you can always PM me