Thank you to the 13 people who reviewed the last chapter. You guys are the greatest. This chapter is, hopefully, going to be the last chapter of this arc and then I shall go into the Hostage Crisis episode, which is going to be extremely different from the episode. Also, the name for the dreadnought is just a name I found on a random ship name generator so I don't own it. Another thing, for my poll, all votes that have zero to one votes are going to be deleted to narrow down the results for the second round of voting. Reviews, as always, are much appreciated.

Chapter 24

Obi-Wan sensed both his former apprentice and his former apprentice's apprentice were in danger almost as soon as the Resolute glided out of hyperspace in the Chandrila system. As they had taken the quickest hyperspace route in the area, one that was different from the one the Separatists took, they managed to make it to Chandrila before the Separatists. However, feeling his former apprentice's danger made Obi-Wan wonder what was going on onboard the dreadnought.

"Worried, Obi-Wan?" Siri asked stepping to Obi-Wan's side from where he stood on the bridge of the Star Destroyer.

Obi-Wan sighed. "I can sense both Anakin and Ahsoka are in danger," he said.

Siri nodded. "In the time I've known him, Anakin is very good at getting out of most situations," she said.

Obi-Wan smiled faintly. "Considering he gets himself into those situations, he is rather good at getting out of them," he said.

Siri chuckled.

"Master?"

Obi-Wan turned around as Jenica walked onto the bridge with Ferus and Dr. Fhernan just behind him. "Yes Jenica?" he asked.

"Any word from Master Skywalker and Ahsoka?" Jenica asked.

Obi-Wan shook his head. "The scans show they haven't arrived in the system yet," he said.

"Do you think they're all right, master?"

"I'm sure they're fine, Jenica."

Jenica still looked worried.

Obi-Wan knelt down in front of his apprentice. "Ahsoka will be fine," he said.

"How can you be so sure, master? What if they're in danger? Or injured?" Jenica cried.

"Jenica, calm down," Obi-Wan said gently but sternly not wanting his apprentice to lose control just because she was worried for her friend.

Jenica swallowed before taking a deep breath and releasing most of her worry into the Force, as Obi-Wan had taught her when she first became his apprentice. "I'm sorry master," she whispered. "It's just…Ahsoka has always been my friend."

"I understand, Padawan. But worrying will get you nowhere. You need to trust that Anakin and Ahsoka will get out of the predicament they're in, whatever it may be."

Jenica swallowed again. "I…understand, master," she said softly.

Obi-Wan patted his apprentice's shoulder before standing up and returning his gaze to the stars that glittered brightly against the black backdrop. "Let's contact Governor Mothma and warn her about the bioweapon," he said.

Anakin sliced through another droid before dashing down another corridor. He had no idea where he was; he had taken so many turns trying to remain ahead of the droids that were chasing after him. There were too many for him to take on and with Grievous just behind them, it would make it more difficult for him to win.

He may have been able to take on most of the droids but all of them and Grievous? Anakin wasn't stupid. He knew when to fight and when to run; his master had taught him that.

Naturally, the droids and Grievous weren't going to let him escape.

Anakin dashed down another corridor before skidding to a halt when he realized it was a dead end. Kriff, now what do I do? He thought running back the way he had come before slicing through the droids at the head of the group that were chasing after him before running the opposite way of where he had gone last time.

As there wasn't a dead end, Anakin turned to the right and kept running hoping his apprentice was all right since he had felt the flash of surprise that Ahsoka had felt only moments before. He was too busy concentrating on keeping ahead of the droids that he didn't have time to contact his apprentice.

More droids came into the corridor in front of Anakin. "Jedi!" one droid shouted. "Fire!"

Anakin's lightsaber moved rapidly back and forth to block the blaster bolts dashing forward and slicing through the droids. The droids that were chasing him appeared behind him before firing and Anakin had to concentrate entirely on keeping the blaster bolts from hitting him.

With how many droids were firing on him, he wasn't at all surprised that one of the blaster bolts managed to get through his defenses. A cry of pain escaped Anakin's lips as the blaster bolt slammed into his left arm. He blocked another blaster bolt eyes glittering with pain as he staggered back but managed to block the blaster bolts aimed at him.

"Stop!" Grievous snarled and the droids stopped firing as the cyborg stopped forward. "I will kill him myself."

"Roger, roger," the droids said before they walked away as Grievous, igniting his lightsabers, stepped forward. Anakin, doing his best to ignore the pain from his arm, held his lightsaber in front of him in a defensive position. Grievous attacked first and Anakin quickly blocked the first of the many attacks the cyborg launched at him.

Ahsoka stared at the second man who had his blaster pointed to the little girl's head. The little girl's face was twisted with fear while Kias looked enraged. "Let her go, Lynas," he demanded.

"Not until the Jedi puts her lightsaber down," the man snarled.

"Why are you doing this? She helped rescue us," Kias demanded pointing his blaster at Lynas.

"Put your blaster down or I'll kill her, Kias," Lynas snapped.

"She helped rescue us," Kias repeated though he did lower his blaster.

"So?" Lynas sneered. "I was given quite a bit of money to make sure none of you make it off this dreadnought alive."

"You've always been greedy, Lynas," Kias sneered. 'But how could you murder your own mother and threaten Myra's life?"

Lynas ignored Kias before glaring at Ahsoka. "Now put the lightsaber down or Myra's dead," he snapped.

Ahsoka, knowing she couldn't risk the little girl's life, closed down her lightsaber. "Let her go," she said.

"Put your lightsaber on the ground," Lynas ordered.

Ahsoka did as she was told.

"Kick it over to me."

Reluctantly, Ahsoka did so and Lynas, his blaster moving to be pressed against Myra's side, knelt down to pick up the lightsaber. "Now then," he said, "as I said before, none of you are making it off this dreadnought alive."

"We're your family, Lynas or does that not matter to anymore?" Kias demanded.

Lynas snorted. "Mother never liked me anyway, Kias, and father abandoned us after Myra was born."

"So why…?"

"Shut up," Lynas snarled pointing his blaster at Kias and pulling the trigger. Ahsoka lashed out with the Force and Kias was sent flying a few feet away to where the blaster bolt slammed into the wall of the transport. She then glanced at Myra and gestured toward her; the girl, seeming to understand, pulled free of Lynas's grip and ran over to join Ahsoka. Ahsoka pushed the little girl behind her before reaching toward her lightsaber with the Force. It sailed out of Lynas's grip before flying into Ahsoka's hand.

Lynas snarled before firing at Kias who scrambled out of the way and got to his feet before dashing toward where Myra and Ahsoka were standing. Lynas tried to fire at Kias again but Ahsoka blocked the blaster bolt with her lightsaber.

Kias pointed his blaster at Lynas before pulling the trigger. A stun bolt shot across the transport's cargo hold before slamming into Lynas sending him flying to the ground unconscious. He then lowered his blaster sadness in his eyes. "I can't believe he would do this to us," he whispered.

Ahsoka glared at Lynas's unconscious body. How could that sleemo kill his own mother and threaten his little sister? She thought. And why didn't I think he would do this? I could have stopped this because I felt something was wrong but why didn't I? I was so stupid to not do anything. She swallowed, released her guilt and anger into the Force as her master had taught her before she turned around and looked at Myra. "Are you all right?" she asked.

Myra glanced at her mother's body and her eyes filled with tears. "I'm fine," she whispered. "What about mother? Is she going to make it?"

"I'm sorry, Myra," Kias whispered from where he was kneeling down beside his mother's body.

"Can't you help her? You're a Jedi," Myra said turning pleading eyes to Ahsoka.

"I'm only an apprentice, Myra," Ahsoka said softly, "I can't help. I'm sorry."

Tears fell from Myra's eyes. Kias knelt down beside his sister before wrapping his arms around his sister's body holding her as the girl cried. Ahsoka glanced at the woman's body before searching through the compartments of the ship until she found a blanket. She gently put it over the woman's body before glancing at the two remaining former hostages.

"Come on," she said quietly. "Let's put Lynas somewhere where he won't do any harm when he wakes up and then we're going to have to wait for Anakin."

Kias nodded slowly before guiding Myra into the cockpit of the transport.

Anakin was finding it difficult to defend himself from Grievous's onslaught of attacks. Grievous was determined to kill him and Anakin's injury made it more difficult for him to defend himself. Grievous continued to attack and Anakin found himself looking for a way to escape. He knew that he couldn't defeat Grievous at the moment.

Anakin launched a Force push at Grievous before dashing down the corridor they had come to. He rounded another corner before coming to a stop and resting his hand on the wound on his left arm. He could hear the clank of metal feet against durasteel ground and knew Grievous was coming after him.

Anakin gritted his teeth against the pain before dashing down the corridor and taking a left, right, left, left, and right. He had no idea as to where he was going; all he knew was that if he could lose Grievous then he may be able to reach the hangar bay without Grievous noticing.

The dreadnought shuddered before leaping out of hyperspace and Anakin saw, through one of the viewports in the corridor, the bluish white flashes turn into starlines before collapsing into regular stars. So we've reached the Chandrila system, he thought before taking a deep breath and starting to run again.

He continued to hold his arm as he ran, lightsaber clipped to his belt. When he reached one of the turbolifts, he slipped into it and pressed the down button. Sagging against the wall as the turbolift began its descent down Anakin glanced at the painful and horrible blaster wound in his arm. He decided that he would look at it when he got back to the hangar bay and the transport.

He stretched out with the Force to contact his apprentice. Ahsoka? He called silently.

Master, are you all right? I can feel your pain, Ahsoka replied and Anakin could feel her worry combined with guilt and slight anger. He wondered at that thought decided that he had other things to worry about at the moment.

I'll live. Have you reached the hangar bay?

Yes Master.

All right. I am on my way but it will take me time to reach it.

Do you know where it is?

I'll just follow your Force signature. Anakin pushed himself off the wall before unclipping his lightsaber from his belt and dashing out of the turbolift slicing through the droids that were moving toward him. As more droids came toward him, he dashed into one of the rooms closest to him and took out the droids inside the room.

He took a deep breath before glancing through the viewports to discover he was on the floor right above one of the hangar bays. Stretching out with the Force, Anakin touched his apprentice's mind and felt his apprentice respond in kind. She was close and Anakin realized that he had reached the hangar bay where his apprentice was. He figured the Force had guided him to the tunnel where his apprentice was waiting.

He walked over to the viewports before peering down and spotted several droids walking below with their blasters held at a ready. None of them seemed to be heading toward the transport where Anakin felt his apprentice's Force presence.

Anakin walked to the door at the other end of the room before peering out of it. He spotted two droidekas and four super battle droids guarding the turbolift at the end of the hallway, the turbolift he needed to take to get into the hangar bay. Anakin grimaced; Grievous must have gotten word to all of his droids. That made Anakin wonder why Grievous hadn't sounded the alarm yet.

His question was answered a moment later when the alarms started blaring. "Intruder alert. Intruder alert. All units to the second floor," a droid's voice sounded over the intercom.

Anakin swore. You had to jinx yourself, Skywalker, he thought irritably before he glanced at the droids who were guarding the turbolift. He knew if he could get to the second floor then he would be able to get to the transport.

At least, that was the idea.

Anakin glanced at the wound in his arm before pushing the pain he was feeling to the back of his mind. He couldn't focus on that right now; he had to get to the transport and get out of there preferably before he got shot again. He ignited his lightsaber and dashed out of the room before running toward the droids and droidekas. He sliced through the battle droids before they had a chance to fire more than a few rounds. He flipped over the droidekas blocking the blaster bolts from the droidekas as they swiveled their blaster guns upward to fire at him.

He landed just behind them and lashed out with the Force sending the droidekas flying in front of him a few meters. When the turbolift doors opened, he backed into them and the doors of the turbolift closed before the droidekas could fire any more shots. He swiveled 180 degrees keeping the blade ignited and reached out toward Ahsoka.

Ahsoka, is the ship ready to go? He asked silently.

Yes Master, where are you? I can hear the alarms, Ahsoka's voice asked.

I'm almost there.

The turbolift doors slid open and Anakin dashed into the hangar bay slicing through and Force pushing droids out of the way. His left arm throbbed but he forced himself to ignore it as he continued to move. He was halfway to the transport when Ahsoka dashed out of it igniting her lightsaber and slicing through the droids.

"Hurry master," she shouted.

"What does it look like I'm doing?" Anakin called back slicing through another droid before he and Ahsoka found themselves fighting back to back.

"Into the ship, master. I'll cover you," Ahsoka called.

Anakin hesitated examining his young apprentice who was holding her own before he nodded and dashed into the cargo hold of the ship. Without pausing, he closed down his lightsaber and dashed into the cockpit barely acknowledging the former hostages sitting in the hold. He slipped into the pilot's seat before nudging Ahsoka through the Force.

A moment later, Ahsoka dashed into the cockpit and Anakin lifted the boarding ramp. "What do you say about getting out of here?" Anakin asked glancing at his apprentice.

Ahsoka smiled. "Let's go," she said.

Anakin started the engines of the transport before activating the shields and gripping the control yoke. He activated the repulsorlifts and shot out of the hangar bay like a shooting star amidst the blasterfire that was slamming into the shields of the transport. At the same time, droid starfighters shot out of another hangar bay and began firing at the transport.

Anakin swore before his eyes scanned the console until he located the weapons' system. It wasn't much but then the ship was only a transport ship; however Anakin knew that it would be enough. "Activate the turbolasers, Ahsoka," he called tilting the transport ninety degrees to starboard and Ahsoka activated the turbolasers before firing at the droid fighters.

At that moment, Anakin breathed a sigh of relief when he spotted the Resolute gliding toward them turbolasers blazing against the dreadnought and a squadron of starfighters shot out of the Star Destroyer's hangar bays flying rapidly at the dreadnought.

Help had arrived.

Obi-Wan watched as the transport weaved its way around the droid starfighters and clones that were locked in dogfights around them before he angled his Delta Aethersprite toward the transport and took out the droid starfighter firing at the transport's rear. He then hailed the transport and was grateful when Anakin's voice drifted over the comlink.

"So glad you decided to show up, master," Anakin said through the com.

Obi-Wan snorted. "We got here first, Anakin," he replied. "Did you get Dr. Fhernan's family?"

"We have them master but…" Anakin broke off before he sighed, it sounded like a hiss over the link, and said, "we lost one of them."

Obi-Wan frowned. "What happened?" he asked concerned.

"There were four hostages, a woman, her two sons and her young daughter. But one of her sons betrayed and killed her before, from what Ahsoka said, trying to kill his sister. He's stunned and Ahsoka says that he's in one of the storage compartments in the ship," Anakin replied.

"Pass on my condolences, Anakin. Also, head toward the Resolute and I'll cover you. You need to get Dr. Fhernan's family to safety," Obi-Wan said.

"I understand master," Anakin replied before swerving away from a droid fighter that Obi-Wan took out before he swerved around to follow Anakin taking out any droids that got in the way. Naturally, that caused the droid fighters to turn their attention away from Anakin and begin focusing on him. What seemed odd was that the droids seemed more focus on him than the clones.

"Why does this always happen?" Obi-Wan protested before he contacted Cody. "Cody, I could use a little help here."

"On my way, General," Cody's voice sounded and Obi-Wan, turning sharply to starboard to avoid the laserfire aimed at him, watched as Cody and the rest of the squadron of starfighters that had left the Resolute continued to fire at the droids.

Obi-Wan glanced over his shoulder at the transport to find it gliding into the hangar bay of the Resolute before he keyed on the comlink. "Cody, the transport's made it into the Resolute. Concentrate fire on the dreadnought."

"Yes sir," Cody replied before the squadron of starfighters began focusing their attention on the dreadnought as well as the droid starfighters.

General Grievous was angry beyond belief when the droid commander that led the attack on the transport carrying Skywalker, Tano and Dr. Fhernan's family told him that the transport had escaped. He glared through the viewports at the many dogfights that were occurring around the dreadnought before transferring his glare to the commander droid next to him.

"How far are we from Chandrila?" he demanded.

"Less than half a parsec, General," the droid replied.

"Is the last piece to the bioweapon installed yet?"

"The installation is being finished now, sir."

"Good. Once it is finished, prepare it to fire on Hanna City," Grievous ordered.

"Roger, roger."

Grievous turned his gaze back to the dogfights that were still occurring around the dreadnought as it continued its journey toward the second planet of the system. The Republic Star Destroyer as well as the squadrons of clones that were fighting the droid starfighters were also firing at the dreadnought. The shields took the brunt of the damage though so Grievous didn't let it worry him.

"Sir, Count Dooku wishes to speak to you," the commander droid said.

"Put him through," Grievous ordered turning around and walking toward the communications console where the hologram of Count Dooku appeared.

"Count Dooku," he greeted the count with a slight bow.

"General, what is the status of the bioweapon?" Dooku asked coolly.

"It shall be completed by the time we reach Chandrila, my lord," Grievous replied.

"And the Jedi?"

"Unfortunately, Count Dooku, the Jedi escaped with Dr. Fhernan's family but they did not succeed in destroying the weapon," Grievous said.

"I see. Commander Ventress has already informed me about what occurred on Lanteeb. I would like to know what occurred when you discovered the Jedi onboard the Iron Duke," Dooku said firmly.

"Yes Count." Grievous then went on to describe how he had decided to put Dr. Fhernan's family with the bioweapon since that was where the Jedi would likely head when they arrived. After that, he described his duel with Skywalker and Tano's escape.

"Skywalker escaped as well, Count and he and Tano took Dr. Fhernan's family off the Iron Duke before my droids could catch them," Grievous finished.

Dooku was silent for a long moment. "Did Skywalker manage to damage the bioweapon in any way?" he asked.

Grievous nodded before explaining what happened.

"Is it serious?"

"I do not think so. Skywalker did not have enough time to adequately sabotage it," Grievous said.

"Very well. Continue as planned. Where is General Durd?"

"He shall be here for the demonstration, my lord."

"Good." Dooku's hologram disappeared and Grievous turned his gaze to the commander droid.

"Is the bioweapon finished?" he demanded.

"We have just received an update from the unit who was working on the bioweapon. They say that the bioweapon is finished," the commander droid said.

"Good, prepare it to fire."

"Roger, roger."

Grievous turned his gaze to Chandrila as the planet steadily grew larger in size.

Obi-Wan wasn't surprised to find Anakin joining him in the space battle between the dreadnought and the Resolute. Siri was coordinating the battle on the bridge of the Resolute with Jenica while Ferus was somewhere in the middle of the battle. Jenica had wanted to join the battle once she and Siri escorted Dr. Fhernan's family to the medbay but Obi-Wan, through hologram since he was still in the battle, had told her that she was still too new a pilot to be fighting in that battle and ordered her to stay onboard. Jenica didn't like it but she did as she was told, which is much better than Anakin would have done when he was her age.

"I heard that thought, master," Anakin's voice drifted over the comlink.

"You would," Obi-Wan replied. "Where's Ahsoka?"

"Helping Jenica take care of Dr. Fhernan's family. She tried to insist I go to the medbay but I wasn't going to miss this fight," Anakin said and Obi-Wan could hear the exhilaration in his brother's voice. Anakin did love flying and Obi-Wan was pretty sure that was the only reason why he declined to go to the medbay.

That also brought another question to Obi-Wan's mind.

"Medbay? Anakin, what happened?" he asked.

"One of the droids onboard the dreadnought got a lucky shot when I was trying to get back to the hangar bay. It's not bad though," Anakin replied.

"Apparently, it's bad enough for Ahsoka to try to get you to go to the medbay."

"It's not that bad."

Obi-Wan snorted. "And everyone says I'm stubborn when it comes to getting medical attention," he muttered not realizing he said those words out loud until Anakin replied.

"You are stubborn when it comes to getting medical attention, master. After the fight, I will willingly go see the medic. You, I have to practically drag you to see a medic whenever you get injured," Anakin said.

Obi-Wan was about to protest but, as he thought about Anakin's words, he realized his former apprentice was right. "I suppose so," was all he said in reply before he winced when a droid starfighter's lasterfire slammed into the starboard wing of his starfighter.

"We should probably focus more on the battle," he added.

"Probably." Without another word, Anakin's starfighter peeled off to begin firing at the droid starfighter doing such intricate moves that Obi-Wan felt sick just watching him. He shook his head, familiar with his brother's antics when it came to flying, before returning his attention to the battle at hand.

The Resolute shuddered as laserfire slammed into the shields and Admiral Yuralen ordered the shields to be increased on the portside, which was currently facing the dreadnought. Ahsoka stood beside Jenica on the bridge watching the battle before she glanced at Siri who was talking with the admiral and watching the battle.

"Ahsoka told us that Anakin wasn't able to do much to the bioweapon so we need to focus on destroying that dreadnought," Siri was saying to the Admiral when Ahsoka tuned into the conversation.

"Their shields are strong," said Yuralen. "Unless we can get the shields down, we will not be able to take out that dreadnought."

"If we don't take out that dreadnought then they'll use that bioweapon on Hanna City," Jenica said.

"We know, Jenica," Siri said glancing at the dark-haired apprentice. "We've already talked with Governor Tanis Mothma. She's evacuating the city just in case we can't destroy the weapon."

"At least we got Dr. Fhernan's family safely off the dreadnought," Siri added.

"Most of them," Ahsoka murmured softly thinking about the mother who had been killed by her own son. Fhernan had been upset to learn that her sister, who was the woman Lynas killed, had been killed by her own son and she asked that Lynas be arrested for her sister's murder and the attempted murder of her niece Myra. She also wanted Lynas to die but the clone troopers said that Lynas would have to have a trial.

Lynas was taken to the detention center and the medics took Fhernan's sister off the transport to prepare her for burial or whatever Fhernan decided to do. Also, Ahsoka felt so guilty because she had sensed the treason and could have stopped Fhernan's sister's death if she had thought ahead. She had apologized to Dr. Fhernan but the scientist wouldn't hear any of it. She blamed Ahsoka for her sister's death and wanted nothing to do with her.

"It really is sad when family turns on family," Yuralen said with a shake of his head having heard of what happened to Fhernan's sister.

"It is," Siri agreed before returning to the matter at hand by saying, "With evacuating the city, at least there will be little to no causalities should the bioweapon strike before we are able to destroy it."

Ahsoka wandered over to the portside viewports before examining the dreadnought; she frowned when she noticed something. "Master Tachi, look," she called pointing toward the laser gun that had suddenly appeared in the middle of the dreadnought with its tip pointed at Hanna City.

"That must be the bioweapon," Siri said before she reached over and flipped the comlink switch. "Obi-Wan?"

"Yes Siri?" Obi-Wan's voice sounded over the comlink.

"Do you see that?"

"I do. Anakin and I are going to see if there is any way we can take it out. It looks like its charging itself," Obi-Wan replied.

"The shields around it are too strong, Master," Anakin's voice cut into the transmission. "Master, do you know if they have to drop their shields to fire the weapon?"

"It's likely that they do," Obi-Wan responded.

"Then I have an idea. Follow me."

"I really hope you know what you're doing, Anakin. Anakin's thought of something, Siri. Let's see if this plan of his works," Obi-Wan's last words were directed at Siri before he cut the transmission and Ahsoka watched as two Jedi starfighters, followed by a squadron of starfighters, flew at the weapon. The bioweapon was still charging and Ahsoka watched as the squadron and Jedi starfighters swerved around the laserfire coming from the dreadnought as well as the droid fighters as the bioweapon continued to charge up.

The disturbance struck and Ahsoka, eyes wide, reached for the comlink to warn her master and Master Kenobi but, before she could, the squadron heading toward the bioweapon peeled off before flying back the way they had come just as the bioweapon exploded.

"What the blazes was that?" Obi-Wan's voice exclaimed over the comlink as he and Anakin righted their starfighters to stare at the damage the explosion had caused the bioweapon as well as the dreadnought.

"I have no idea," Anakin replied staring.

"I thought you said you didn't have time to sabotage the weapon."

"I didn't, master. I was battling Grievous. The only thing I did was slice through the bottom and the side of the weapon. I didn't think it would do anything, let alone this," Anakin said gesturing toward the damage. Obi-Wan, who was flying at his side, shook his head.

"Only you, Anakin, can destroy a bioweapon without even knowing how you did it," he said with a sigh. "Looks like the Separatists have no choice but to retreat."

Sure enough, Anakin could see the droid fighters flying away from the Republic force and back toward the dreadnought that was steadily moving away from Chandrila. Apparently, the damage done by the bioweapon's destruction was forcing the Separatists to retreat. Not even five minutes later, the dreadnought was jumping into hyperspace and that told Anakin that the bioweapon's destruction hadn't damaged the hyperdrive.

"Well, that was surprising," Obi-Wan said. "Let's get back to the Resolute."

Anakin nodded before the Republic force began flying back toward the Republic Star Destroyer.

Once he landed his Delta Aethersprite, he leapt out of the starfighter with Artoo just behind him. Artoo seemed to always be with him since Padmé gave him to him as a wedding gift. He hadn't been present at the Lanteeb mission but had eagerly joined Anakin in the space battle that had just finished.

"What exactly happened, master?" Ahsoka asked walking over to join Anakin who was checking on the wound on his left arm. It had gone numb at some point during the battle but Anakin knew he should probably get it seen to.

"I have no idea, Snips," Anakin replied with a shrug before he narrowed his eyes. His apprentice looked downcast and guilt could be read on her signature. He asked Ahsoka what the matter was through the Force but Ahsoka responded that it was nothing. Anakin knew, however, that it wasn't nothing.

"I thought you said you didn't sabotage the weapon," Ahsoka said attempting to wipe all traces of guilt out of her voice.

"I didn't…well not much," Anakin said.

Obi-Wan, walking over to join them, was shaking his head with a faint smile on his face. "Like I said before," he said, "only you can destroy a bioweapon without knowing how you did it."

Anakin smiled at his brother.

"Now it's time you go see a medic, master, before that wound gets worse than it already is," Ahsoka said firmly.

"I agree with Ahsoka, Anakin," Obi-Wan said.

Anakin sighed. He resolved to listen to his apprentice and brother but he wanted to talk to Ahsoka and decided to talk to her when he had the chance.

Hopefully, he would get the chance to talk to his apprentice.

A/n what do you think?

Blaze: and thus ends that, wow, six chapter arc with a, wow, ten page chapter

Darth: I liked it

Severus: you always like it

Darth: good point

Harry: so the next chapter is going to be the Hostage Crisis episode?

Blaze: yup. After that, I have decided that I will be doing most of the Holocron arc (Holocron Heist, Children of the Force) and, after that, I will do the Mandalore arc (The Mandalore Plot, Voyage of Temptation, Duchess of Mandalore) and then I will go on to Season 3

Darth: cool and the Mandalore arc? As in Satine?

Blaze: yup

Siri: who's Satine?

Obi-Wan: er, well, uh

Anakin: Obi-Wan's girlfriend

Obi-Wan: SHE IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!

Siri: (ignites lightsaber and glares at Obi-Wan)

Obi-Wan: I swear, she's not my girlfriend

Siri: who is she?!

Obi-Wan: (sighs) We met during my apprentice years; Qui-Gon and I were supposed to guard her and yeah

Blaze: and this is AU so Satine and Obi-Wan are not as close as they are in canon. It's one-sided Obitine

Siri: (deactivates lightsaber) all right fine

Blaze: once again, the Mandalore arc is going to turn out completely different because of the fact that Obi-Wan and Satine are not as close as they are in canon. Please review and I will post the next chapter as soon as I possibly can.