A/N- Ahh chapter 22, this story is moving along quite nicely, by the end I'm probably going to have around 70ish chapters so we still have a long way to go. As always thank you all for the suggestions and what seems to be constant support. I love it, keep it up guys
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Resolute: Left bridge
Time: Unknown
Planet: Mandalorian Orbit.
Ahsoka's POV
"Let's get on with it Skyguy!" I shout as I start for the hanger, determined to get to my Starfighter before he gets to his. This would probably be the last little bit of fun we would have for a while.
"Oh c'mon Snips!" I hear him yell at me before the Bridge blastdoors shut.
I'm already halfway down the hallway before I hear Anakin shout again, I can't even make out what he's saying. The sirens that had come on about minute before had drowned out his voice.
Many unfortunate clones were trying to dodge me racing down to the Hanger deck. I hit a few, sadly.
The pilots were already in the Arc-170's when me and Anakin arrived in the hanger. I could see them giving a thumbs up as we went past them. I hoped we wouldn't lose any of them, like the first time I commanded a space squadron, that was a horrible day, so many of them died.
I pushed back that thought as I hopped into my red Starfighter, looking at the all too familiar controls as I hooked up the restraint buckle.
I put on my headset that was automatically connected to the channel we use.
"Ready for this Snips?" Anakin's voice came through.
"Of course I am, the question is, are you?" I scoffed jokingly.
"Does it look like I'm not?" He asked. With our fighters being right beside eachother he looked over and gave the thumbs up, and I saw a devious smirk.
I ignored the smile and pushed the ignition, the power of the engines was way more then it should have been, as a shock way was sent out the back.
"Woah!' I yelled.
All Anakin did was laugh "Ya like it?"
I realized what the smirk was about now.
"Well yeah! Did you do this?"
"Yup. Time to go!" He said into the comm.
I watched as his Starfighter lifted up and flew beyond the small hanger forcefield. I let the clones go after him first.
After they were out I lifted up on my throttle, trying to get used to the amount of power in my thrusters, I wonder if he touched my weapons…
I Blew out of the hanger and into space rather quickly to form behind the squadron of Republic fighters
"All pilots check in!" Anakin said in his now General voice.
"Blue one here!"
"Blue two here!"
"Blue three here!"
"Blue four here!"
"Blue five here!"
"Blue six here, read to swat some flies!"
"Blue seven here, Agreed Blue six!"
"Blue eight here!"
"Blue nine here!"
"Blue ten here!"
When it was my turn to check in I decided not to mess with him
"Red two here" I say in my normal, loving voice. Me and Anakin were red and the clones were blue
"Alright boys, nice and easy" I said.
There were a few laughs.
Our fleet was little distance away from the actions, so it was encouraging to see all the Republic Starfighters moving in space towards the enemy.
With Venators having a massive carrying capacity for fighter craft, there were two hundred squads, with ten it each, that put our count at around two thousand fighters, that was a lot of fighters.
I could see fighter craft from both sides flying towards us, I don't think they have as many. That's a good thing.
Mine and Anakin's squad was up front. So we got the good view, or bad. Depending on your point of view. Nevertheless, I was ready for a fight.
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The enemy fighters were about a click from us, I didn't want to wait any longer so I hit the triggers on my throttle. The power from it literally pressed me back against my seat. I heard some clone yell "Woah!" as the crackly orange bolt flew through the empty space.
Apparently the upgrade changed the color from green to orange… I'm fine with that…
There was a mini explosion that happened when the bolt got so far.
We got to the enemy and everyone started to open fire, my bolts standing out against the largely blue ones.
I kept pushing the trigger button, and vulture after vulture after vulture kept exploding in a amazing fire ball. These cannons did a lot of damage.
"Who the kriff is firing that thing?!" some clone yelled.
"That would be me!" I yelled.
"Well keep it up commander!" He yelled.
I simply responded by firing some more.
We were some distance from our cruisers now, and to my dismay I kept seeing clones get shot down, its like the droids knew exactly what we were going to do. Seeing this only made me press the trigger harder, and to feel joy everytime I saw a droid go up in a ball of plasma.
I saw about 3 vultures form up behind me and start to fire. You have to be kidding me.
I pushed my throttle all the way up in an attempt to outrun them considering the fact I had superior engines, but they somehow kept behind me and I couldn't shake them.
"I need to some help Anakin!" I shouted.
"Where are you?" he responded, worry in his voice.
I soon realized that I was completely out of our battlezone, almost in front of one of the Separatists dreadnoughts.
"In front of one of their dreadnoughts!" I shouted back.
"Well which one!" He asked panicked
"I don't know!"
One of the vultures behind me ended up clipping my left wing, causing the tip to burst into a flame.
"That's not good…" I whispered to myself, my eyes wide.
"Master I'm hit" I said gravely.
I heard a lot of chatter on the comms after that.
"Turn on your distress beacon!" He yelled.
"I franticly tried to find the right button but I ended up getting hit again.
"Aghh!" I shouted.
"Snips!" I heard him yell, again.
"I'm going for their hanger!" I told him, barely being able to direct my starship towards the enemy hanger. I put the engines at 100% and blasted towards the forcefield.
After successfully dodging multiple enemy bolts, I crashed through the forcefield and my fighter slammed into the durasteel floor. Causing a very loud sound.
"How am I the one crashing!" I yelled to myself, the comm being damaged.
My fighter finally stopped skidding across the hanger, I punched the distress beacon, unhooked my belt, pushed the release and jumped out of my fighter.
I quickly ignited my sabers only to find no droids, but my luck soon ran out and a very large amount of droids came out of the sliding doors.
"Oh isn't that just lovely" I mumbled to myself.
Instead of fighting the droids, I went through the door behind me, might as well take this vessel while I'm here.
I started down the hallway as I heard an explosion, the droids in the hanger probably destroyed my fighter. That means my distress beacon stopped transmitting, hopefully Anakin had seen it.
I made my way through the corridors when I heard a lightsaber ignite, I quickly turned around, thinking it was Dooku, but it wasn't. I think this is someone new.
"Hello child" A feminine masked figure asked.
She had rather dark clothing on, I can't see her face due to the mask
"I see Dooku has been rather busy." I stated
I lifted my sabers infront of me in a defensive position, ready to block any surprises.
The lady simply laughed, and then she lunged toward me.
She had absolutely no idea what I could do.
I easily dodged a swing that was coming for my head, I spun around her, causing her to go into dead air.
"Is that all you got?" I taunted.
All I got back was a growl.
I went on the offensive and stabbed towards her mid section, she was barely able to block that.
I unleashed a volley of fast attacks going for multiple places on her body and she almost couldn't handle it. She was obviously not well trained.
I swung powerfully once at her saber and it went flying out of her hand. She tried to punch me, but that was a mistake.
I picked her up with the Force and choked her for a seconds, and then sent her flying with a blast of electric judgement. I'm sure that I surprised her with that move.
I treaded over to her, her head slumped down, despite that I still put my blade at her throat.
"You are beaten" I said.
She just scoffed and didn't try anything.
"Snips!"
I guess Anakin saw the beacon.
"Down here!" I yelled.
I saw Anakin's dark figure in the corner of my eye. He was running towards me. When he got beside me he looked worried.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
"Yes Anakin I am fine; she isn't" I said pointing to the masked lady.
"Who is she?" He asked.
"I'm not sure, one of Dooku's pawns" I said with some level of disgust
"Oh, I see, so that's what he has been doing…" Anakin said with surprise in his voice.
I extinguished my blade, grabbed the lady by the shoulders and yanked her up off the ground. Anakin put Force binders around her wrists.
I realized something
"How the heck are we going to get out of here? Don't you only have your fighter?" I asked.
"I already called a gunship for you, It's a shame that your upgraded one got destroyed" He said with a smug voice.
We had walked to the hanger encountering little resistance, but I have a feeling we won't get out this easy, there were few droids, which was very, very unusual.
We were simply watching the battle from inside the forcefield, when we saw the gunship.
"About time" Anakin said.
The gunship was so close to getting inside, and then a fighter that I didn't recognize slammed into the ship, making it explode.
"You have to be joking" I said, unhappy that one: our ride just blew up and two: some clones just died.
"Well this one isn't going to be doing anything, think we should just take this?" Anakin said referring to the pawn.
I quickly caught on "Are you talking about the entire cruiser?" I asked.
"Why not…" He said innocently
"fine… lead the way"
I saw Anakin lift up his arm to talk into his comm.
"Obi-Wan?" he asked.
"Anakin, how goes your… adventure?" Obi-Wan asked
"well considering the fact our gunship exploded, I'd say rather well" Anakin replied.
It took the older man a minute to respond "Would you like me to send another?"
"No, we are heading to the bridge" Anakin replied.
"You can't be serious, what are you planning?" Obi-wan asked.
"Were just going to take the whole cruiser" Anakin replied coolly.
I could hear Obi-wan face palm.
"I'm not even going to argue, I'll let the fleet know so they don't fire apon you." Obi-wan said.
"Thanks Master!" Anakin happily said.
A "uh huh" came through and then the connection cut.
"Anakin?" I asked.
"Yes?'
"What about her?" I asked pointing towards the girl.
Anakin simply looked at her, and waved his hand infront of her face.
"You WILL go to sleep" Anakin said.
She didn't even repeat the word she just slumped onto the floor, that takes care of that problem.
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We got to the sliding doors outside of the enemy bridge, Anakin got on one side and I got on the other.
"Ready?" he asked me.
"Yup" I told him
He punched the button to open the doors and I rushed in with my lightsabers ignited, this seemed to be the only room that was filled by droids, I had to block bolts as soon as the door was opened.
"Be careful! Don't break any glass!" Anakin yelled.
"Alright!" I yelled back.
We slowly made our way forward, being careful not to direct any bolts towards the windows.
A lot of the droids didn't even fight back, they just let themselves get sliced in half. Once we destroyed them all, we contacted Obi-wan.
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"I take it that your endeavor was a success?
"Yes it was Master." Anakin told him.
" I see that most of enemy ships are destroyed" Anakin added.
"Indeed, regroup with the fleet, and then we will commence ground assault" Obi-Wan told him.
The connection cut.
"Is our part over mas- Anakin?" I asked.
I don't think we caught that.
"I don't know yet, we might have to assist on the ground" he told me.
"I hope Obi-wan gets out alright" I said hopefully.
"Yeah… me too"
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A/N- well, geez, this took longer to write then I thought, space battles are kinda hard to write, most of the time its just 'Fighter destroys fighter" but I tried something a little different, so that's it for a few days… maybe.
Do any of yall watch rebels? The only reason I like it is because of the connection to the clone wars and of course Ahsoka, its vastly inferior… but atleast its some closure for the way they left the clone wars.
"Ahsoka, why did you leave? Do you know… what I've become?"- Vader