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Without a moment's more of hesitation, the Sith lord sprinted forward engaging the two Jedi. All three were deadlocked in a clash to see who could claim dominance over the other.

Count Dooku: "It was a grave mistake to bring the child here Skywalker, she is no match for what is about to transpire"

Anakin: "She's stronger than you realize count!"

Count Dooku: "Good, twice the pride double the fall!"

The three force wielders were ferocious in their strikes, their blades illuminating the dark and damp corners of the room they were standing in. Soon the duel progressed to a staircase which led to the second floor. Dooku proceeded to grip pieces of the roof off and hurl them at the two Jedi.

Anakin: "Ahsoka watch out!"

Before the young Jedi Padawan could react, an enormous block of the roof struck her in the head, as she slid to the adjacent end of the room. Blood was streaming profusely from her forehead and most assuredly was knocked unconscious from the impact.

Anakin: "AHSOKA!"

The count provided a mischievous grin of pleasure, before fleeing into one of the nearby hallways. Anakin rushed to treat his Padawan's wounds. He could still see her respiring, so that provided some relief to the young Jedi. He quickly removed a bacta canister from his Jedi utility belt and administered the wounds that afflicted the now unconscious Jedi. He knew the bandages and bacta were insufficient, but would at least buy her time to get her to a medical bay at the forward command center.

Anakin's soon clenched his mechanical hand, and his eyes soon turned a shade of yellow, and the outer layers of his iris a flaming red. He was going to ensure that the Count paid for this in full...

Quickly Anakin rose to his feet and sprinted down the corridor where Dooku had fled. He soon reached the end of the hallway, to soon come upon a hanger bay, with the Count preparing his solar sailor for takeoff.

Anakin: "You're going to pay for what you've done Dooku"

Dooku: "I highly doubt you're capable of anything, young Jedi"

But Dooku understood differently, he was fully aware of what Skywalker was capable of, despite him being the perpetrator of his severed hand all those years ago on Geonosis.

Anakin was not playing the long game on this one, and Dooku was slightly taken aback by this new and ferocious appearance that Anakin now dawned. Anakin then placed the blade between his two eyes, signifying to the opponent the challenge for a duel, the hatred still bleeding stronger than ever.

Dooku obliged and the two quickly began exchanging blows. Anakin was much more aggressive this time around, landing ferocious blows to the Sith lord. He wanted to kill him with every fiber of his being, with Dooku soon adapting his combat style to a more grounded and firm defensive stance.

The count soon unleashed a torrent of force lightning that Anakin quickly countered. Dooku quickly leaped in a backward motion towards an elevated platform at the other end of the room.

Dooku: "Truly you wish to see the sequences returned to your precious Republic, after all they are the key to the separatists winning the war"

Anakin: "You have slaughtered a lot of good men today Dooku, and you brutally attacked my Padawan, I'm going to make sure their sacrifices were not in vain...I WILL KILL YOU!"

Suddenly Anakin leaped to the platform where Dooku was standing, and without hesitation began dealing vicious blows to the now startled Count.

In the Shadows admiral Tonkin was watching the duel take place. Moral confliction soon engulfed the Toydarian's thoughts. Should he help the Jedi and succeed he could help the clones on the bridge win the battle and potentially keep the Republic fighting another day, but should he fail... he would be branded a traitor to the separatists and executed by Dooku, or worse Sidious himself. The Toydarian then decided that this was the hill to die on. Quickly he ran to his master quarters to retrieve his personal blaster, along with the DNA sequences and forged copies that the separatists had managed to implement for creation of the pathogen.

Back in the hanger, the two force wielders were continuing their tiring and grueling duel.

Anakin: "IT ENDS HERE TODAY OLD MAN!"

Count Dooku: "You're nothing but a boy who has no concept of the true power of the force, let alone the dark side!"

This enraged Anakin further, who violently force gripped the Sith lord and violently threw him to the wall at the opposite side of the hanger. The count slowly got up from the immense pain of hitting the wall. He was completely bewildered by how much power the young Jedi possessed, even to surpass him a former Jedi master, who clearly had more experience than his adversary. Not at this moment though, he was no match for Skywalker in his enraged state and he was fully aware of that fact now.

Quickly the Sith Lord made an attempt toward his shuttle, when suddenly a blaster shot had severed one of the cables of the fuel cells on the roof of the hanger, blocking the Sith lord from making his narrow escape. The Sith lord then caught a glance of the Toydarian in the corner of his eye.

Count Dooku: "Admiral! I should have killed you when I sensed hesitation from the moment I arrived here on this desolate planet!"

Admiral Tonkin: "This is no way to fight a war Count! I became a part of the military community to fight with honor, not to extinguish lives with the push of a button!"

The Toydarian then flew behind Anakin for protection.

Tonkin: "I'll take the plans back to your troops, cover my retreat understood?"

Anakin: "Just go!"

The Toydarian sensed the urgency in the Jedi's words and quickly made haste to surrender to the main frontline of the republic forces across the bridge.

Just as Anakin let down his guard momentarily, the Sith Lord seized the opportunity to stun the Jedi with a powerful barraged of force lightning, completely immobilizing the Young Jedi Knight. The Sith lord then came to the conclusion that chasing after Tonkin, would only risk him being captured by the now overwhelming Republic forces. He quickly accepted in his mind that defeat was inevitable and retreated back to his vessel.

The solar sailor soon departed from the hanger, initiating it's cloaking device to avoid detection by the Republic fleet hovering over the planet's atmosphere. Just before making the jump to lightspeed, the Count quickly contacted Lord Sidious.

Sidious: "Was your mission a success Count?"

Dooku: "No my master, Admiral Tonkin betrayed us, the Republic has recovered the stolen sequences and our forces are overwhelmed"

Sidious: "A most unfortunate set of circumstances Count, return to Coruscant, we will discuss the matter in further detail..."

Dooku: "Yes, my master"

Back in the Mygeeto hanger, Obi-wan, Captain Rex and Mace Windu arrived to see Anakin lying unconscious on the ground. Soon the Jedi knight began to hear muffled voices and blurry faces staring back at him as he slowly was brought back to reality. This quickly faded as he was transported back to the forward command center. The pecks of snow and massive spires surrounding the city streets and platforms were all that the young Jedi could get a glimpse of as he drifted in and out of consciousness...

*END OF CHAPTER*