Prologue: A New Path

Alan POV

I opened my eyes to see nothing but white. Looking around, I saw that I was in some kind of void. Not to mention I was standing on something solid, but there wasn’t anything below my feet. The air around me wasn’t cold, nor was it hot. It was as if my sense of feeling was turned off.

“Alan!” I heard my big brother’s voice behind me. I turned around to see my big brother running up to me. “George! Where are we!?” I asked him in slight panic.

George had the same scared look on his face as I did. “I don’t know, last thing I remember was… oh god!” My brother gently said in shock.

I tried to remember as well when realization struck me. “George, the airplane, it…” I didn’t finish as George continued.

“There was an explosion in one of the turbines. The wing came off and we crashed.” George said with a heavy fear in his voice.

“Does... that mean we’re dead?” I asked him in fear. If that was true, then where are we? Cause I don’t think we’re in heaven or hell for that matter.

I was afraid we were just going to spend the rest of lives stuck here for eternity and my eyes started to water. My brother walked up to me, knelt down, and hugged me. “It’s alright, Alan. It’s going to be alright.” He said, comforting me.

“Indeed.” Said and ominous voice. I brother and I turned to a figure sitting on a wooden chair near us. He was a tall bearded old man around his 80s wearing a grey robe.

My brother instantly took a defensive fighting stance, ready to protect me. “Who are you?” George demanded. We didn’t know who this man was. Whether or not he meant us harm.

The old man laughed softly and stood up from his chair, which vanished instantly. “I suppose you could call me a watcher of sorts. An agent of the afterlife if you will.” He told us cryptically.

Neither my brother nor I relaxed from what he said. “Alright, ‘Watcher.’ What do you want?” My brother asked, narrowing his eyebrow.

“Well, as you two may have guessed. Both of you have perished in that airplane accident. As for where we are. You could call this a world between worlds. Where the souls that have passed on travel through here toward the afterlife.” Watcher explained to us. “As for what I want.” He cleared his throat. “You two have won the lucky Multiverse Afterlife Lottery! Where you could chose to reincarnate in a universe of your choosing!” He said with enthusiasm.

Both of us blinked a couple of times before I responded. “Wait? Your saying we can live again?” I asked Watcher, wondering if he was serious or not.

The old man nodded. “That’s correct, young man. As for being reincarnated in a universe. We’ve created a system to help simplify it for new comers.” Watcher told us as a text appeared in front of us.

Based on your previous lives, we have narrowed down some universes where you may consider living your new lives.

Halo

My Little Pony

Marvel

Star Wars

Gears of War

Mass Effect

RWBY

Call of Duty

Stargate

Pacific Rim

Other - Please input Universe Name

“Wait, these are shows and video games. They aren’t real.” George pointed out to him.

“In your world, that’s true. But they do exist in the multiverse. Your reality could glance into other realities. Or at least versions of them. If these universes don’t interest you, you could add a universe at the bottom the list.” Watcher explained to us.

George lowered his guard a bit and looked at the list. “Well, I’ve always wondered what it would be like in the Star Wars Universe.” He considered. I nodded in agreement, we both grew up watching Star Wars and fell in love with the series. Even so, there is one Universe I was more interested in living in.

I moved to my brother’s side. “But wouldn’t the My Little Pony Universe be less dangerous than the Star Wars one.” I asked him. Don’t get me wrong, I’m as much of a Star Wars fan as the next guy, but I’ve been a MLP fan for years since I watched the first few episodes. It’s what help me be a better person in general. George wasn’t into it a first, but he later on became a fan of it as well. My brother thought for a moment, considering which of the universe to pick.

“If it helps. You add certain aspects to the universe you pick.” Watcher told us.

“What do you mean?” George asked. I wondered the same thing.

“Well, when you choose a universe. You could choose a specific number of aspects from other Universes. For example, if you chose the Star Wars Universe, then you'll be taken to a page asking if you want features from other Universes. Say, the world of My Little Pony. And as a bonus, we'll add another two aspect options for you two since both of you will be reincarnated in the same universe.” Watcher explained to us.

George turned his head towards me. “What do you say, Alan? Sounds good to you?”
I nodded my head yes. It’ll be interesting what the world of MLP will be like in Star Wars. Still, I wondered how this will affect the future events.

“Though I must warn you. For an aspect like the MLP world, it’ll be altered to fit into the Star Wars Universe. As such, the pony and other creature of said world will be turned into anthro versions of themselves. As well as some other changes. Not only that, magic will be replaced with the force.” Watcher told us. If I recall correctly, anthro means humanoid animals. Which the characters will become somewhere between half human and half animal.

“I’m fine with that.” I replied.

“But before you choose a aspect. You need to know the catch.” Watcher told us. Bothe my brother and I looked at each other with our eye brows raised.

“What kind of catch?” My brother said in all seriousness.
Watcher paused for a moment. “Neither of you will be able to remember the future events of the Star Wars Universe.” He said, dropping the bomb on us.

Both my brother and I looked at him in shock. “WHAT!” We said out loud.

“Now before you two say anything. It’s to make sure the individuals don’t have too much power in the Universe. And knowing the future is quite a bit of power. Besides, adding an aspect from another Universe, no matter how small, can alter future events.” Watcher explained to us. He does have a point. Power has a chance to corrupt an individual if he has too much of it.

Before either of us could ask him something else, his attention seemed to have been drawn elsewhere. “I’m sorry, but I’m needed for a meeting. Just continue the system step by step, and you two will be well on your way to being reincarnated.” Watcher told us before disappearing.

My brother an I looked at each other. “Well, Alan. What do you want to do?” George asked me. I thought for a moment which would be more beneficial. The future knowledge, or the aspects. While our future knowledge of the events would let us stay on step ahead. That doesn’t guarantee it’ll help us in the long run. Especially if we drastically change something. That, and I really want to see what Equestria is like.
“I think we should choose some aspects. Even if we do remember everything, that doesn’t mean we’ll have the power to change anything.” I told him.

“Fair point. In that case.” George said as he tapped on the Star Wars text.

Thank you for choosing the Star Wars Universe. Please pick an era.

The High Republic

The Clone Wars

Imperial Era

Rise of the First Order

If you not interest in any of these eras, please choose other.

“How about the Clone Wars?” I asked my brother. My brother and I would spend nights together, watching the show as new episodes were released.

“Sure Alan. There are some people I’m interested in meeting during that time.” George replied before touching the Clone Wars text.

You have chosen the Clone Wars Era. You may add up to 3 Aspects from different Universe.

Please enter which aspects you’d like.

Warning: Adding any aspect will result in loss of memories for future events.
“Alright then.” George said smiling, before he tapped My Little Pony World.

My Little Pony World has been added.

Because of the many species in the show,

each species will be born on different worlds.

The species ability to use magic will be replaced with the Force

and the MLP characters will be turned into anthro versions of themselves.

Huh, I wonder what the anthro version of them will look like. Would the Unicorns and Pegasi still have wings and horns if magic is replaced with the Force. “Are there any other aspects you want, Alan?” My brother asked me, dragging me out of my thought.

“Honestly, I’m just satisfied meeting my favorite characters from My Little Pony. Or at least a version of them.” I told him smiling. I didn’t show it, but my inner brony if freaking out right now.

George looked back at the aspects list. “Okay, since we can choose one other aspect? How about technologies and characters of the UNSC from the Halo Universe.” He asked.

Halo UNSC characters and technologies have been added. Characters backgrounds will be altered to fit the Star Wars Universe.

“Fine with me.” George said, as I gave him a smirk.

I smirked at my brother’s request. “How did I know you were going to ask for something like that.” I said.

My older brother smirked back. “Because I first introduced you to Halo.” George told me before looking at the text. “For last but not least. The Atlas Corporation from the Call of Duty: Advance Warfare Universe, so I could use it to make any inventions I want.”

The Atlas Corporation has been added. This will include technologies developed by the Atlas Corporation.

Here are the aspects you’ve requested.

1. My Little Pony Characters and Worlds Pack

2. Halo Characters and Technologies

3. Call of Duty: Atlas Corporation

Tap Confirm if your satisfied with your aspect.

“Huh, kinda reminds me of downloading content for a role playing game.” George commented before tapped the floating confirm text and it changed.

Generating Universe. Please complete the steps to continue.

Step 1: Please enter your character names.

George and I thought if whether or not we should keep our old names or not. Well, since we’re starting new lives, we might as well choose new names. “How about Aegis?” I said.

My brother looked at me with a raised eyebrow. “You mean your pony persona?” He asked. I simply nodded, smiling. “Okay then. My name will be Leonidas. Or Leo for short.” He said.

It was my turn to raise an eyebrow. “You mean the great Spartan King?” I asked.

“Yep, he was one of the most inspiring warriors to me.” George responded.

The names you have chosen are

Aegis

Leonidas

Are these Correct?

“Yes.” My brother and I said.

Names set.

Step 2: Select Race.

The text showed us a list of the alien species from the Star Wars galaxy, including the ones from the mass effect universe. While I had the option of becoming a anthro pony, I was just used to being a human. Not to mention George was a little tempted to pick Chiss. My brother and I chose to stay human. After that, we chose to keep the looks we had from our past lives. I have white skin, dark brown hair and brown eyes. George also has white skin, black hair, and brown eyes.

Step 3: Select Background.

1: Raised to be the warriors, the parents taught their children how to fight like Mandalorians.

2: Born with a strong connection of the Force. With a heavy heart, the parents chose to send their sons to the Jedi Temple in order to learn how to control their force abilities.

“Well, I’m not one to join the Jedi. I believe I’m more of a Mandalorian by heart.” George said smiling.

I thought about the second option and looked at my brother. “But being able to use the Force would be cool and beneficial.” I told him.

My brother looked at me in concern. “While that maybe true. It runs the risk of being targeted by the Sith. Not to mention you would have to train with the Jedi. And considering the time period, that may not be the best idea.” He warned me. George did have a point. Jedi focused more on the Republic than those in need.

“Even so, I always wanted to use the Force. Besides, I’m not planning to stay with the Jedi. Just long enough to know how to use the Force.” I told him.

George thought for moment before sighing. “Very well, but be careful. Jedi are not what they used to be in this time period.” George told me. I nodded in understanding.

George has chosen background 1.

Alan has chosen background 2.

Please confirm.

“Yes.” My brother and I said.

Backgrounds confirmed.

Please read over your chosen steps.

It showed us a list of the chosen steps. We read over it and George pressed the confirm text.

Based on you chosen aspects. We have found a multiverse where the aspects exists in the Star Wars Universe. As well as how you two will be connected to the worlds.

Here is a brief summary.

30 years before the Clone Wars, Clan Skiritai, a Mandalorian Clan who follows their own code of honor, set out on an expedition into the Unknown Region in search of new land to settle 250 hundred years ago. With luck, the clan discovered a world called Terra. There, Clan Skiritai called the new discovered portion of the galaxy the Frontier Region.

While they explore and mapped out many new systems over the years, including forming many friends with new species, such as the Ponies of Equestria. Clan Skiritai chose to return to Mandalore to help their allies during the Mandalorian Civil War. What followed was a great tragedy. By the end of the Mandalorian Civil War, all but two members of Clan Skiritai survived. A male Mandalorian warrior and a female armorer. Instead of joining the New Mandalorians, Clan Skiritai chose to return to Terra.

When they returned to their new home. The Mandalorian armorer formed a arms manufacturing company called the Atlas Corperation. The Mandalorian warrior formed the Frontier Militia to combat bandits and criminal organizations trying to invade the Frontier. Eventually, two of the Mandalorians fell in love and conceived two children. Those children will be you two.

Background set

Please confirm reincarnation.

My brother and I nodded together smiling and we tapped on the confirm text.
Beginning reincarnation.

Beginning reincarnationnnnnn.

WARNING. UNKNOW ERROR. INTRUDER IN THE SYSTEMSSSS.

My brother and I looked at each other in shock before a bright white light enveloped us. That was the last time I saw my big brother.

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Years before the Clone Wars, A Jedi Youngling and his friends snuck out of the Jedi Temple and rescued enslaved people in the lower levels of Coruscant. While the young group did save the enslaved people, the Jedi Council were not happy about their actions.

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Aegis POV

When I was reborn in this world, I inherited the memories of the me in this Star Wars Universe. Though I knew the Jedi would take me to be a Jedi, I was shocked when I met the anthro ponies of the Mane 6 and Sunset Shimmer from The My Little Pony Universe in the Jedi Temple. Though they were a little different. Unlike the show, Twilight and Rarity didn’t have any horns, and Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were lacking their wings. I did some research, and discovered that characters from the MLP Universe who would have been Unicorns or Pegasi didn’t have any wings or horns. Though they are one of the species that have a strong connection to the Force. They originate from the world called Equestria, one of the worlds that’s a part of the United Frontier of Nations, which Princess Celestia and Princess Luna co lead Equestria. The planet was located in the Frontier Space, on the edges of Unknown Space.

Since remembering most of my past life, I tried my best to train so I can help those I can. I even became great friends with Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Sunset over the years. They all wanted to help others just as much as I do. The same was said for some of the other younglings, like Anakin. He was a little older than me, but he was like a big brother to me. We would always talk about star ships and he would sometimes help me improve my lightsaber skills. Unfortunately, our commitment to help those in need were seen by the Jedi Council as a act of disobedience.

For the past week I’ve been having nightmares of people suffering outside the Jedi Temple. When I went to Master Mundi about it, all he told me was we couldn’t save every person that’s suffering. Even so, I snuck out of the Jedi Temple and went to Senator Organa. I’ve met him a couple of times when I was escorting him with Master Kota, who was to be my Jedi master when I became a Padawan. My friends found out what I was doing and instead of telling the Council on me, they wanted to help. We went down into the lower levels of Coruscant and rescued people who were going to be turned into slaves. While we did free those people and Senator Organa helped them. The Jedi Council was not happy with our little adventure.

Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Applejack, Sunset Shimmer, and I were standing in the Council Room because of what we did. Even when we saved those people who would have been slaves for the rest of their lives, the Council believe what we did was wrong.

“Youngling Skiritai, Step forth.” Windu told me in the Council room. I stepped forward in front of my friends in the center of the Council Chambers. “Skiritai, do you have any idea with what you’ve done?” The dark skin master who never smiles sternly asked me.

“Yes.” I simply responded, not liking their attitude towards me and my friends.

“Is that all you have to say, Young Skiritai?” Master Plo Koon asked.

“If you expect an apology, then you all are surely mistaken.” I replied, a bit angry at their reaction to the incident.

“Young Skiritai, you and the rest of your clan snuck out, raged a unauthorized raid in the lower levels, and involved Senator Organa as well. You actions have put the Jedi Order in a dangerous situation with the Senate.” Windu glared at us.

Twilight walked up next to me. “With all due respect, Masters, we saved those who needed help the most. I don’t see how that in anyway was wrong.” She said, irritated at them.

“Yeah!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “Aegis has be having nightmares for an entire week of those people suffering, and when he asked you all about it, you said there was nothing we could do. Well guess what… We did something about it! And all your doing is criticizing us over it!” She yelled at them, stomper her hoof on the ground.

“Noble, your actions were, but not so simple, it is.” Yoda told us.

“Your actions has caused many in the Senate to view us as unchecked vigilantes. Some are demanding to install regulations on our Order.” Master Sasee Tiin told us.

“So our status is more important than helping people?” Sunset accused them with her arm crossed.

“I concur, for a government who despise slavery, they turn a blind eye when it’s happening on their doorstep.” Rarity scoffed.

“Younglings, our status in the Republic is what allows us to help more people.” Windu lectured us.

“But that didn’t include the people that were near the temple.” Pinkie Pie countered angrily.

“And many of the slaves were children around the same age as us. Some younger.” Fluttershy added. Some of the council members looked at each other at what we said. I can feel some of them believe what we said was true.

“Despite your noble intentions, we can’t just go out and try to save everybody. It is the Will of the Force that we…” Mundi didn’t finish as I lost it at what he said.

“THAT IS NOTHING MORE THAN A EXCUSE!” I snapped in anger.“The Force may guide us, but it doesn’t dictate our actions. The only one who believe that the Force controls everything are self righteous arrogant people who don’t take responsibility for their own actions!” I yelled at them, feeling my anger boil.

“Skiritai, you will show respect so long as you are in this chamber.” Windu demanded, glaring at me.

I paused for a moment. I couldn’t believe the way the supposed wise Council was acting. “You know… I thought the Jedi were meant to protect people in need. Not to serve corrupt politics.” I said as I took out my lightsaber and looked at it. “If this is what it means being a Jedi. Then I want no part in it.” I tossed my lightsaber in the middle of the room. All the Jedi masters were stunned by my declaration. I was about to leave before I saw my friends take out their lightsabers as well.

“Aegis is right. The Jedi are protecters and peacekeepers, not blind servants to a corrupt and greedy senate.” Twilight said, throwing down her lightsaber.

“We can’t in good conscious agree with how the Jedi work any longer.” Sunset told them, tossing her lightsaber away. The rest of my friends nodded their heads in agreement, throwing down their lightsabers as well.

We didn’t wait for a response as we left the quiet Council Chamber, but not before Pinkie Pie stuck her tongue out at them. We went to our bedrooms and packed everything up. I got my bag out from under my bed, grabbed my spare clothes and utensils, throwing them in it. I know I planned to leave the Jedi eventually, I just never thought so soon or be like this. Not to mention that my friends would go with me.

As I finished packing what little belongings I had, I felt a familiar Force signature as I heard my door open. “If your trying to convince us to stay Master Yoda, don’t. We made up our mind.” I told the small Master behind me as I zipped up my bag.

“Aware of that, I am.” Yoda responded patiently.

I sighed and turned around, lifting my bag over my shoulder. “I’m… sorry if I disappointed you Master, but I don’t see how we can be Jedi if we don’t help those in need.” I told him, walking past him. Master Yoda was one of the few Jedi that encouraged me to be open minded. Something some of the other masters wish I wasn’t.

“Disappointed, I am. But not in you or your friends.” Yoda hummed, I stopped and let him continue. “At myself and the Council, I am. Right you were. Change, the Jedi Order has.” Yoda said, placing both his hand on his walking cane in shame.

I turned around and looked at him. “For what it’s worth, I’m grateful for all you taught me. And I’m sure the same can be said for the rest of my friends.”

Yoda smiled a little. “Thank you, Aegis. Now a new path, you all will take.” He said. I returned the smile and nodded as I left my room.

I wasn’t sure how to feel. Disappointed? Since I first watched the Star Wars Movies, I thought all the Jedi were heroes. It wasn’t until later that I realized that not all of them were the heroes I saw them as. This universe was no different from that.
I continued walking down the halls for the last time, receiving some stares from the other Jedi I pass by. I saw the rest of my friends at the Temple entrance waiting for me. All of them were carrying similar bag as I was, though Rarity looked like she had more things in her bag than the rest of us. It was that moment when I realized that we practically had nothing left.

“Girls, I’m sorry for getting us into this mess.” I apologized to them, feeling shameful that I got them to leave as well.

Applejack walked up to me and rested her hand on my shoulder. “Sugarcube, you have nothing to be sorry for. We all couldn’t stand the Council’s decision.” My orange fur friend comforted me.

“But what do we do now. We have no money for housing or food.” I said, not sure of what comes next.

“Well, not exactly.” Rarity said smirking.

We looked at her with a raised eyebrow. “Huh?” We said in confusion. Rarity set her bag down and open it up, revealing a bag full of credits.

“Wow. Rarity, where did you get all of this?” Sunset asked. All of us wondering as well.

“Well dears, when we attacked the slavers’ hideout. Fluttershy, Pinkie, and I gathered any information on the slavers operations. We also found their personal stash of credits and decided to…” Rarity didn’t finish as Rainbow Dash interrupted.

“Steal them.” Rainbow said smirking.

“I prefer to use the term confiscate.” Rarity said slyly.

“Oh! We can get the best apartment on Coruscant with these many credits. Or maybe a party cannon that fires confetti! Throw a party! Oh! Maybe a personal starship!” Pinkie said, coming up with different ideas for the money. We all stared at her for a moment at her suggestions. Some of them were references to the MLP show, which shocked me. Then again, she does breaks the forth wall from time to time.

“Actually, getting a starship would allow us to get off planet. Considering what happened.” Rainbow Dash said. Knowing her, she just want a starship to fly all the time. Yeah, after today. I think getting away from the Jedi as possible is for the best.

“But where would we go? We don’t exactly have a home to go back to.” Fluttershy said.

We thought for what our next steps is until a idea came to my head. “What about Equestria?”

All the girls looked at me. “Equestria? Our homeworld?” Twilight asked.

“Yeah, Maybe we can find your families on Equestria.” I suggested to them. The girls looked a bit unsure before Pinkie Pie spoke up.

“Well, I think it’s a good idea. I always wanted to visit Equestria. I hear it’s one of the most amazing worlds in the Frontier.” Pinkie Pie said smiling.

“But what about your family, Aegis?” Sunset Shimmer asked, concerned. She was right. Though I know my parents and brother are Mandalorians and are most likely on Terra in the Frontier Region, I can't think of a way of contacting them.

“I don’t know where my family is.” I answered a little sadly. “But I believe your families are likely on Equestria. If anything it’ll give us a potential place to get away from the Jedi.” I told them.

The girls were still a bit unsure if that was okay for me but they nodded in agreement and we decided to go looking for a starship.

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Days later

“We’re arriving in a couple minutes.” Rainbow Dash told us.

We were in a purchased starship from Coruscant on our way to Equestria. We’re all eager to see the kind of world Equestria was. When the ship finally exited hyperspace, we were greeted by a lush planet with large bodies of water. Over the planet was a orbiting space station with shuttles traveling in and out.

“Unknown starship, this is the Equestria Militia Control. Please dock with the station for clearance.” A officer said from our transmitter.

“Um, roger that Militia Control. Coming in for docking.” Rainbow Dash responded on the comms as she flew the ship close to the station.

“What do ya’ll reckon we need clearance for?” Applejack asked wondering.

“My guess is to limit any smugglers trying to sneak onto and off the planet.” Twilight suggested.

Rainbow Dash docked the ship in the station and we left the starship. Around us were different species going about their business. Some of them were other anthro species from the My Little Pony Universe, such as dragons, griffons, and buffalos. What surprised us is that the guards are wielding blasters we’ve never seen before. Well, most of us. To me, their weapons looked like blaster versions of M6G magnum from the Halo Universe. We needed to find my friends families, so we went straight to a green Twi’lek checkpoint officer.

“Hello, I’m Officer Nelcy. Please state the nature of your visit.” She asked us, still looking at her computer screen.

“Hello, Officer Nelcy. We’re just trying to find our families here.” Twilight explained.

Officer Nelcy took her hands off the keyboard. “Find your families? Were you kids separated from them?” The officer asked worried.

We looked at each other, unsure wether or not we should tell her we were Jedi. “You could say that.” Sunset simply responded.

The officer gave us a suspicious look before looking at her console. “Well, I should be able to find your families here on my console. Just give me your names, age, and date of birth. You all can wait in the lobby until I call for you all.” Nelcy told us.

We all thanked her and gave her our names and ages. When I gave her my name, the Twi’lek officer looked at me in a little shock before asking us to wait in the lobby.

“So, what do you all think will happen if we don’t find our families?” Rainbow Dash asked worriedly.

“I honestly don’t know, Dash. Maybe we could at least make a living here.” Sunset asked.

“Oh, maybe run a bakery.” Pinkie Pie said. I stare in suppressed shock at her. Wonder how much it would take to completely shatter the forth wall. I shook away those thoughts and gave them my opinion.

“Maybe it won’t have to be one thing. We could each try other jobs.” I suggested.

“That’s not a bad idea, Aegis. We could perform different jobs and help support each other.” Twilight said.

Before we could discuss what we would do, Nelcy came walking toward us.
“You kids will be happy to know that I managed to get in contact with all of your families. And I've made arrangements for you all to meet them.” She told us.

The girls were excited to meet their families, but I caught something that put me off guard. I sensed what she was saying was true, but she said the rest of our families. As far as I knew, there weren’t any Mandalorians on Equestria.

“Um… What do you mean all of our families? I’m not a pony like my friends.” I asked her. My friends looked curiously at the officer as well.

Nelcy only smiled. “You’ll find out later, Mister Skiritai. I have a ship prepped to travel to Canterlot, the capital city of Equestria, where you all will meet your families.” She told us. We thanked her and got on the ship heading to Canterlot.

As we entered the atmosphere, my friends and I were in awe at the city of Canterlot. It was a large city built into the side of a tall mountain. I had to admit it was one of the most amazing cities I’ve ever seen. We landed at the port and made our way through customs. We would have had to show them our passports, but the customs officer received orders to let us through. I can’t help but wonder who could have allowed us free passage.

We were greeted by a group of Ponies waiting outside the spaceport. They were the families of Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Pinkie Pie. They hugged their daughters on overwhelming joy. Two of the ponies, whom I recognized were anthro versions of Stellar Flare and her son Sunburst, walking up to Sunset.
“Sunset?” Stellar asked with disbelief in her voice.

“Um… Yes.” Sunset answered, unsure who this person is.

Stellar got closed and hugged Sunset with tears in her eyes. “I never thought I would see you again.” She whispered, reveling that Stellar was Sunset Shimmer’s mother. Sunset realized this and hugged her mom back. Sunsburst was so excited to meet his sister and got in on the group hug. Huh. I guess those fan theories of Sunset being related to Sunburst were true. Well, at least in this universe.

I smiled that my friends found their families. Just then, I noticed Fluttershy’s looking to my right. I turned to what got her attention and saw a human wearing a Militia soldier uniform marching towards us. He was a tall man, about 6’5 feet tall, which is taller than most humans, in his early twenties with short black hair and brown eyes, wearing a grey officer uniform. He looked just like my big brother in my past life. I couldn’t believe I found him this early.

“Are you Aegis Skiritai?” The man asked.

“Um… yes, sir.” I answered, a little worried if he doesn’t recognize me.

The man softly smiled. “I’m Leonidas Skiritai, a Commander of the Militia.” He said before kneeling down and gaving me a big hug. “It’s good to see you again little brother.” He said, still hugging me. I was so glad to be reunited with my big brother and hugged him back.

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After greeting each other, my brother offered everyone to dinner to get reacquainted with their daughters. They humbly accepted, though we weren’t expecting dinner to be held at the Palace. There, we met Princess Celestia and Luna, who happened to have been best friends with my parents. When I asked her about where they were, Leonidas told me that mom was away on a business trip, and Dad was on Terra for a military meeting. He was only on Equestria to get some R&R from some recent missions. At the dinner table, my friends and I told them why we left the Jedi. To say they were shocked would be an understatement.

“I can’t believe that the Jedi were so willing to abandon those innocent people.” Twilight’s mother, Twilight Velvet, said. All the other parents agreed as well at the Jedi’s decision.

“If we knew the Jedi were blind servants to the Republic, we never would have let them taken you.” Rainbow Dash’s father Bow Hothoof said with regretfully written all over his face.

“But why did ya’ll in the first place?” Applejack asked. She wasn’t blaming them in anyway, just curious as my friends and I were in why they allowed the Jedi to take us at such a young age.

“I believe my sister and I could answer that.” Princess Celestia said. We looked at them quizzically. “When a child with a strong connection to the Force is born, sometimes he or she doesn’t know how to properly control their, um… tantrums.” Princess Celestia said, earning us a confused look.

“When these tantrums happened, the infant would often times use the Force to levitate objects around them uncontrollably, which could injure anyone near them or the children themselves.” Luna finished explaining.

We all nodded in understanding. For the safety of Force Sensitive children, the Jedi had to take the children at a young age. But I don’t understand why that means the parents aren’t able to see their children again.

“But that isn’t the only reason Jedi take Force Sensitive children, is it?” Leonidas asked in all seriousness.

Celestia looked down in shame. “No, Leonidas. It isn’t. The other reason why they recruit children is to grow their order, and to make sure the children don’t fall to the dark side of the Force. Children are also much easier for the Jedi Order to impose their views on them. As well as to make sure the children don’t form attachments, since the Jedi believe that can lead to the dark side of the Force. It’s these reasons why children are never to return to their families.” Celestia explained. While I understand their reasoning, I can't help but think there could have been a better way.

“Excuse me, Princess Celestia, but I can’t help but wonder how you two know so much about the Jedi Order. It’s almost as if…” Twilight didn’t finish as Celestia answered.

“We were Jedi.” Celestia softly laughed. “Well, that’s because Luna and I were trained by a Force User who was a good friend of Master Yoda.” She answered.

All of us looked at her with our jaws almost dropped to the ground. “WHAT!” We exclaimed. How could Princess Celestia and Princess Luna use the Force and the Jedi don’t know about it. Not to mention who their teacher was.

Luna laughed a little. “Perhaps we should start in the beginning. Back during the Equestria Civil War, after our parents died, we were discovered by Starswirl, one of the very few Force Sensitive ponies. He helped and taught us the ways of the Force.” She explained.

“We went on many adventures together with him. In the last year of the Equestria Civil War. Starswirl helped us stop King Sombra, a Tyrannical Force User who nearly conquered the world. After Sombra’s defeat, he casting a powerful spell on what was once the Crystal Empire, causing it to disappear. My sister and I took our place as co leaders of Equestria.” Celestia said.

“It was a couple years after that time when we met Aegis’s and Leonidas’s parents. After the Mandalorian wars, they saw that the Hutts and other slavers were invading the Frontier. Richard, their father, formed the Frontier Militia, a unified military force to protect the Frontier. While heir mother Eliza started the Atlas Corporation to create weapons and ships for the Frontier. We've then helped form the United Frontier of Nations with some of the other worlds in the Frontier.” Luna finished. We were all completely shocked that Celestia and Luna story.

“Wow, Princesses. I’m no sure what to say.” Rainbow Dash said, amazed by their story. We nodded in agreement.

“I can’t imagine what that was like.” Fluttershy said nervously.

“But did the Jedi knew about Sombra? Why didn’t they help you all with battling Him.” Sunset asked. To be honest, we were all wondering that as well.

“Yeah, if the Jedi knew a dark side user was trying to conquer Equestria. Wouldn’t they interfere?” I asked. Now to mention the Jedi should have at least sense Sombra through the force.

“Sombra had the entire planetary communication cut off from the Republic. We had to rely on ourselves and our friends to stop Sombra. As for why the Jedi didn’t sense Sombra’s darkness, we don’t know. It may have been something was clouding their connection to the Force. It was fortunate that Starswirl decided to visit the planet when he did. He didn’t even sense the dark side growing on this planet until re arrived.” Luna explained.

“And only our friends know of our force ability. Starswirl didn’t want the Jedi Order knowing about us. He once explained that the Jedi Council was no longer the peacekeepers it once was. That they would do everything they can to get us to join the Order, since we were still quiet young at the time.” Celestia explained.

So the Jedi Order were narrow minded even then. I wonder when exactly the Jedi became so extreme. Were they always like that, or was it when they first joined the Republic. Either way, the Jedi are no longer the peacekeepers of the galaxy, just servants to a government that had become corrupt.

“Well, now that the history story is over, there’s something that I want to ask you all.” Leonidas asked my friends and I. “What do you all attend to do now?”

We didn’t know how to answer that. We found our families, and now we don’t know what to do next. I thought back of helping those slaves we freed. The emotion I got then, was the greatest feeling I ever had. It was at that moment that I knew what I wanted to do in my life.

“I guess I just want to help people. Maybe not as a Jedi, but just a guy wanting to help others.” I told them in honest. My friends smiled at my response and stood next to me.

“I concur. We may not be Jedi, but we don’t have to be in order to help people.” Rarity said determined.

“Yeah, there are plenty of people in the galaxy who could use some help.” Rainbow Dash said confidently.

“Oh! We could form our own team to help people.” Pinkie Pie enthusiastically.

“Oh, but we just got you all back.” Fluttershy’s Father, Mr. Shy said with concern.

“We’re sorry everyone.” Twilight apologized. “But we believe that helping others is what we are meant to do. What we choose to do.” She tried to convince them.

I could feel our families a little sadden by our decision, but also feel a sense of pride as well. They were proud of our choice to help others. The Princesses and my brother shared a smile. “Then you’ll need help completing your training.” Leonidas smirked.

“Um… What do ya mean, Mr. Skiritai.” Applejack asked my brother.

“You may have trained in the ways of the Force at the Jedi Temple, but it is not complete. My sister and I are more than happy to teach you all what we know.” Celestia offered. We were surprised they were willing to help us.

“But before we begin training. I suggest you all spend sometime with you families and get to know them.” Luna suggested. All of us agreed and enjoyed our dinner with our families.

Finishing dinner, I said goodbye to my friends as they went to their family’s homes. My brother took me to a two story house near the castle. It was being protected by a handful of droids that I recognized were based off the C6 from the Call of Duty Universe. Leonidas took me to the living room for a much needed discussion. We sat down on the couch as Leonidas sighed and scratched his head. In the living room, there was a glass table in the middle, with two large couches on the side. We each took a seat on the couches facing each other.

“Aegis, there’s something we need to talk about.” Leonidas said in all seriousness as he took out his pistol and set it on the table. “Do you know what model of pistol this is?” He asked me.

“It’s a Magnum pistol from the Halo Universe. Or at least a blaster version of it.” I said, smiling as I figured out why he asked me that.

Leonidas relaxed and smiled. “It’s good to see you again in this life, little brother.” Leonidas said.

“Likewise, brother. I’m surprised to see you hear of all places.” I replied smiling.

My brother chuckled. “Well how did you think I reacted when I was raised on Equestria.” Leonidas laughed before he slowly stopped. “It’s still hard to believe that we found each other again like this.”

“No kidding. What have you been doing all this time?” I asked him.

“Well, after we were reincarnated and you were sent to the Jedi Order, our dad save a huge group of kids from a slave ring. The slavers were using the kids to fight in underground fighting arenas. After they were rescued, Mom and Dad helped build a orphanage for them to have normal lives. I actually grew up with them when Mom and Dad were away. And I quickly realized the kids are the same people who would’ve been spartans from the Halo Universe.” He explained.

I looked at him for shock. “Wait, does that mean…” I didn’t finish as Leonidas smiled at me.

“That I met and befriended some of the people who would one day become Spartans. Which includes befriending John 117.” He said laughing a little. “Though things started to change when Doctor Halsey proposed something to our dad. After the Naboo Crisis years ago, the Outer Rim started breaking away from the Republic and tension started to rise. Halsey believed a war was about to break out and we needed stronger soldiers. And to do it, she needed kids to be trained as super soldiers. As you could guess, it was the Spartan Project. At first, our mom and dad didn’t want anything to do with her project, seeing it as it goes against the principles of the Frontier Militia. But after talking about it with the other security council Generals, he decided to go through the program after insisting on some changes.” Leonidas explained to me.

I raised an eyebrow at what he meant. “Changes? What kind?”

“Well for one, all the candidates have to volunteer for the program and are briefly warned about the risks. Not a single one of them could be forced to join.” Leonidas said as he lifted up a finger. “Also, if any of the candidates choose leave the program, they may choose to if they wish and receive military benefits.” Leonidas explained. At least the candidates have a choice in the matter unlike the ones in the Halo Universe. “Also, the procedures used were roughly the same as the one in the Halo Universe, but with the help of medical technology that exist in this universe. Only difference are that Spartans are not as tall as 7 feet, but instead reaches the height of 6 to 6’5 inches. Some taller.” Leonidas explained.

“So have any of the candidates chose to reject or leave?” I asked.

Leonidas shook his head. “Actually, the kids chosen for the program wanted to join the militia when they grow up. So every one of us chose the to join the program.” He explained.

“Wait, you were chosen as well?” I said in shock.

“Yup, even though I have a talent at making machines, such as creating the basis for the C6’s droids guarding the house. I have a knack for combat. Dad wasn’t happy I volunteered, but he eventually respected my decision.” Leonidas said before looking a little somber. “Though sometimes, whenever I talked about you, they always appear regretful of sending you away.” Leonidas explained. I guess sending me to the Jedi Temple was a lot harder on them than I thought.

“Well, I can't wait to meet them.” I said, looking forward to finally see my parents.

“I’m sure they’ll be more than thrill to see you again as well. In the meantime, we need figure out what you and your friends want to do in the future.” Leonidas said, changing the subject.

I was a bit confused at what he said. “Um, I figured we be like a private division in the Militia?” I asked, but Leonidas shook his head.

“I’m sorry, Aegis. But the age requirement to join the Militia for humans and humanoid species is eighteen years old. Since you’re twelve and your friends are roughly the same age, you all won’t be able to join the Militia even after completing you and your friends Force training.” Leonidas explained.

“Then what will we do? If we can’t join the Militia, then how will we be able to help others?” I questioned.

Leonidas just smiled a bit. “While you and the others may not be part of the Militia, you could still help others by acting as freelancers. You can take up jobs that require hunting down criminals, transporting supplies to poor worlds, or provide security to people. In fact, you all will be able to operate in places the Militia have no authority in.” Leonidas suggested.

I thought about it and agreed with what my brother suggested. We could help others in need in any part of the galaxy, not just the Frontier. I’ll need to speak to my friends about what they think of this.

“There’s one more thing. Yesterday, I found this next to my dresser.” Leonidas said as he placed a note on the table.

Dear Leonidas and Aegis, I regret to inform that something unfortunate has happened during your reincarnation. Right as you two finalized the steps to be reborn in the multiverse, someone or something infiltrated the void and interfered with the process. Instead of sending the two of you to a multiverse with just the aspects you chose, you were reincarnated into a multiverse with aspects from other universes as well, albeit a little different. As such, you two will only know which universe the aspects originate from, but note the history of them. To make matters worse, the individual that infiltrated the void has been reincarnated as well. I wish I could tell you who this individual was, but he or she has hidden his identity.

From the Watcher.

I remember now, back in the void, it looked like there was an glitch when we were reincarnated. Looking back up at my brother, I could see he was greatly concerned by this note. “Leonidas, what do we do?” I asked him.

Leonidas took a moment before opening his mouth. “At the moment, there’s nothing to do, but we shouldn’t worry about it too much, otherwise we would never get any rest.” He said before look outside the window and saw how dark it’s gotten. “Well, it’s late and I have some work to get done tomorrow. We’ll continue talking about this another time.” I agreed and we went to our bedrooms, but not before giving each other a huge hug.

As I walked to my bedroom, I can’t help but wonder what the future will hold for me and my friends. I opened the door to my bedroom and in it was a queen size bed, a night stand, a dresser, two windows overlooking the back of the house, a closet, and large TV on the wall. Walking to the bed, I laid down on the furniture and just fell to sleep, thinking about what the future holds next.

Chapter 1: Protecting Christophsis Part 1

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It’s been years since my friends and I left the Jedi Order. My Mom and Dad came to Equestria when Leonidas contacted them, telling me I was here. They were completely overjoyed to see me again. I explained to them why my friends and I left the Jedi Order and to say they were furious at the Jedi Council would be an understatement. Leonidas explained to the two of them what we planned for the future and they both wanted to help out. In the first year, the Princesses taught us everything they knew of the Force. During that time, Twilight made a BD-1 droid to help her in her studies. The BD-1 was pale grayish amber color, which she nicknamed it Owl. When I questioned her about the name, all she said that it just felt right.

It was around this time when Twilight’s found a old dragon egg that Princess Celestia found years ago. Some how, when she touched the egg, it hatched revealing a anthro young dragon boy with blue skin, green spines, she named Spike. Imagine my surprise when Twilight told us, especially when we found out that Spike was Force Sensitive as well. Since the dragon had no family, Twilight decided to adopted Spike as her little brother. While Spike would be receiving lessons on how to use the Force, he won’t be joining us when we completed our training until he eventually grows up.

A few weeks at the start of the Clone Wars, it was time for The Festival of the Two Sisters. A celebration about Princess Celestia and Princess Luna stopping King Sombra and ending the Equestria Civil War. Dooku came to Equestria, trying to convince the Princesses and the other planets of the United Frontier Alliance, UFA, to join the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Despite his efforts, the Princess refused and sent him off world, as did the rest of the Alliance Planets. However, during the celebration, Marder, a Frontier general known for being ruthless and focused on getting the job done no matter what, betrayed the Militia and used a Sith artifact to corrupt the two Princesses, turning them into Nightmare Moon and Daybreaker. The Militia attempted to stop them, but the corrupted Princesses and Marder managed to escape.

My friends and I wanted to help, but my Leonidas and Dad wouldn’t listen. He ordered us to return home as they try to figure out where they went. With no idea where they could have gone, my friends and I meditated together and saw a planet that only Twilight recognized. It was a world used as a base of operations for the Alliance against the Eternal Empire during the time of the old Republic. Since the end of the Sith War, the planet has long been abandoned. Even so, Odessen has an extremely strong connection to the Force.

My friends and I took the shuttle we got from Coruscant years ago and made our way to Odessen. There, we faced different tests that were similar to the lessons in the second episode of the MLP series, where each of the Mane 6 displayed different acts of the elements of Harmony. Even Sunset and I had to pass obstacles that represent acts of harmony that weren't originally in the show. Applejack showed honesty when the cliff collapsed and assured Twilight will be okay if she let herself fall. Fluttershy displayed kindness when she helped a shade stalker remove a huge thorn from it’s paw. Pinkie Pie showed laughter when she helped us laugh at the horrific trees. Rarity showed generosity through giving up a large piece of her hair tail to a intelligent sea serpent to replace his missing mustache. Rainbow Dash showed loyalty when she choose to stay and her friends when Nightmare Moon attempted to trick her with fame. Sunset showed empathy when we were attacked by a huge burned up Jurgoran, and showed us she was trying to protect her young. For me personally, I faced a shadowy version of myself, trying to convince me that my friends flaws hold me back. Some of what it said was true, but I still accepted my friends as they are, that I wouldn’t change who they are. Thus me showing acceptance.

We eventually found a cave containing a large crystal like tree. It was the Tree of Harmony, though it looked as if it was sick. I also noticed carved symbols of a sun and moon on its trunk Twilight recognized the tree from one of Starswirl’s books, and explained that it held the Eight Elements of Harmony, but the last one was a complete mystery. Which was odd because I remember six elements from the show. We also found the corrupted Princess there as well, trying to destroy what was left of the crystal tree. The Princesses sent out a massive force push at us in an attempt to get us out of the cave. I casted my own force push and slightly negated it, protecting Twilight and I, but our friends were pushed outside. To make matters worse, Daybreaker collapsed the entrance, separating Twilight and I from our friends.

Daybreaker created fire out of thin air using the force, and blasted us with it. I barely held it back with my force push as some of the flames burned my hands. Twilight told me to stop, but I only replied that friends help each other, no matter what.

It was at that moment when Twilight realized what the last element was just as our friends cleared the rocks separating us and them. She pointed out that the spirits of the elements are us. The moment we came together, the tree started to glow to life. Twilight began telling Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon what each of us represent. Applejack represented Honesty, Fluttershy represented Kindness, Pinkie Pie represented Laughter, Rarity represented Generosity, Rainbow Dash represented Loyalty, Sunset represented Empathy, and I represented Acceptance. As she was saying this, the gems at the end of the Tree of Harmony’s branches started to glow different colors. The Princess scoffed at us, claiming that we were missing one element. Twilight pointed out that the last element would only show itself once all other elements are ignited by the spark, that resides in everyone. She reveals it to be the element of Magic. The element of Magic glowed purple in the center of the tree. Once that happened, my friends and I started to glow as well. We sent out a large rainbow blast, surrounding the two Princesses.

When it was over, Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon were reverted back into Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. Rarity’s lost hair tail and my burned up hands were completely healed by the Tree of Harmony. Speaking of which, different color crystal shards from the tree’s branches and it’s center broke off, floating towards my friends and I. They were a form of kyber crystals. Twilight’s kyber crystal was purple, Applejack’s was orange, Fluttershy’s was yellow, Pinkie Pie’s was pink, Rarity’s was Indigo, Rainbow Dash’s was light blue, Sunset’s was red, and mine was bronze. These crystals acted the same way as kyber crystals, which are used to power a Jedi’s lightsaber. The Princess awoke and where extremely grateful we saved them.

Sunset was slightly worried that her red kyber crystal meant she was connect to the dark side of the Force, but Princess Luna revealed that while rare, red kyber crystals can be connected to the light side of the force, and Sunset’s was most certainly was. Sunset was extremely relieved to hear that.

Shortly after, my brother and Dad with a group of soldiers showed up and we told them what happened. While they were disappointed and frustrated we disobeyed them and put ourselves at risk, Leonidas and Richard were proud we were able to save the Princesses.

We traveled back to Equestria and the citizens celebrated that Princesses returned to normal. It was at that time that Leonidas, Richard, and the Princesses agreed that we have completed our training. While we have been training over the years, Leonidas had some of the Militia Engineers construct a ship for us. He based the ship off the Normandy SR-2 from the Mass Effect Universe. Leonidas himself constructed an A.I. to help with the ship’s functions and logistics he named Oracle. With the starship constructed, my friends and I named it the Friendship, symbolizing the bond we have to each other.

We would each take different roles in the ship. Rainbow Dash would be the pilot. Applejack would manage the ship’s gun batteries on deck 3 and habitation room on deck 4 where we grow our fruits. Fluttershy would work in the med bay on Deck 3. Pinkie Pie would be the cook in the mess hall and help Rainbow Dash manage our dropship and starfighter. Sunset Shimmer would work in engineering and would pilot the starship from time to time. Rarity would work in cataloging our storage and supplies, as well as practice her sowing. Twilight would work in the ship’s studies. For some reason, the crew nominated me as captain, even though I think Twilight or Sunset would have be the perfect fit.

An arrest warrant was sent out for Marder, but he was nowhere to be seen. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna explained to us the rogue general told the two of them his benefactor wished them to destroy the Tree of Harmony. He simply left after dropping them off on Odessen. Militia Intelligence suspected he was hiding in CIS Space after discovering transmissions between him and Count Dooku in his old old office. To make matters worse, we still didn’t know where that man got the Sith Artifact, or who gave it to him. Another question is why Marder or his benefactor couldn’t try to destroy the Tree of Harmony themselves.

We eventually began constructing our lightsabers using the crystal shards from the Tree of Harmony. Each of us made a specific type of hilt depending on our lightsaber forms. We also started manifesting either new force abilities we didn’t originally have or enhanced ones from our kyber crystals.

Twilight chose to stick with a standard lightsaber as she specialized in Niman. Niman focuses on a balance between both offense and defense but no notable strengths. Twilight’s force telekinesis was enhanced to let her manipulate much large and multiple objects.

Rarity constructed a curved lightsaber and she practiced Makashi. Makashi is known for it’s elegance in avoiding to be disarmed while at the same time disarming their opponents. She eventually developed a form of cryokinesis. She can now create diamond hard ice from thin air and freeze objects.

Pinkie Pie constructed a pink lightsaber that can be turned into a lightwhip and she practices Shien. Shien focuses on quick transitions from dedicated defensive stances to all out attacks. Her force sense that allows her to feel impending danger was heightened. This allows her to fluently detect multiple threats at once, though certain parts of her body twitches depending on what's about to happen.

Applejack got creative with her lightsaber and made a lightsaber with a small blaster on the bottom hilt and practiced Shii-Cho. Shii-Cho relies on fighting multiple opponents while also disarming them. She even developed force enhanced strength, which gives her super strength.

Fluttershy constructed a Qinata thanks to my brothers help. Fluttershy’s Qinata is a lightsaber attached to a staff that is made out of cortosis. Fluttershy practiced Soresu and Jar’kai. The Soresu form that’s all about defense and analyzing their opponents, looking for a opening. Jar’Kai is the use of two lightsabers at once, though Fluttershy uses it when she separates her Qinata, wielding her lightsaber in one hand, and a cortosis staff that slightly shortens in the other. Her animal bond force ability also grew, allowing her to communicate with other animals, even calming down the more violent ones.

Rainbow Dash constructed a cyan blue double bladed lightsaber and practiced Ataru. Ataru focuses on aggressive, acrobatic, and speed that uses the Force to enhance it’s movements. Her force speed was also enhanced, allowing her to use it multiple times before tiring out.

Sunset constructed a crossguard lightsaber and practiced a form similar to Juyo. While regular Juyo uses the owners own negative emotions to fuel aggressive assault, Sunset drew upon her anger and passion, but does not give into them. Her force empathy was enhance to not only to sense others feelings, but also to hear people’s thoughts and see their memories upon physical contact.

For me, I just made a simple standard lightsaber, though I also forged a short kite shield from beskar my Mom and Dad gave me. As for my lightsaber style, I researched other forms of lightsaber combat and found a form called Tràkata. Unlike other lightsaber forms, Tràkata focuses on turning off the lightsaber mid swing, confusing opponents. I practiced a version of this lightsaber form along with my shield to make my own unique lightsaber form. Though I’ve been having trouble coming up with a name for it. My lightsaber form focuses on being able to strike while quickly guarding with my shield, or faking with my lightsaber. As for my force ability, I discovered I had a talent to create force barriers. Force barrier is an ability that acts like a shield, creating a barrier of force energy around myself or those around me.

A couple months before the Clone War start, Leonidas and Dad saw the signs of conflict rising and begun preparing the Frontier for war. Dad has also begun working on creating more starships, as well as begin construction of a new type of starship in case the Frontier was invaded by either side. Originally, he, Dad and the United Frontier Alliance wanted to stay neutral in the conflict. Unfortunately, war doesn’t always let sides stay neutral.

In the early weeks of the war, the CIS begun invading Frontier Space in order to make a beachhead into Republic worlds. With the limited number of Frontier ships, the Militia are forced to fight a defensive war. Any offensive movement would have to be surgical strikes on key CIS military installation. The Republic attempted to have the Militia join them early on in the war, but the leaders of the UFA refused. They did however agree in a nonaggression treaty, allowing both sides to cooperate if they need to in war.

As for me and my friends, we’ve mostly been transporting food and medical supplies to neutral planets, even Militia, CIS, and Republic controlled planet that desperately needed it. We thought this was all we would be doing for the rest of the war. Thing is, fate had other plans for us.

Aegis POV

I was in the hanger of the Friendship with Applejack and Sunset Shimmer. I was wearing a dark brown shirt, light blue jeans, and a light gray hoodie. Applejack was wearing a brown stetson, a pair of jeans with a brown belt and a western white shirt. Sunset was wearing a orange short sleeve shirt with a sleeveless black jacket and dark purple pants. Sunset and I were sparing as she was wielding her red crossguard lightsaber, while I was using my standard bronze lightsaber and grey shield. We both tuned down our lightsabers so we wouldn’t accidentally cut one another.

“Begin!” Applejack announced, acting as a referee for our dual.

Sunset lunged at me with her lightsaber. I side stepped to the right and tried to counter, but Sunset blocked my lightsaber with her plasma blade crossguard. We exchanged blows, trying to break the other’s guard. I decided to block her strike with my shield and swipe at her midsection.

Sunset jumped back and smirked a bit before clashing her lightsaber with mine. “You’ve definitely gotten better since we first sparred.” She said as we were in a lightsaber lock. Sunset practically whipped my butt first time we sparred. She broke out lock and lunged at me again, swinging her lightsaber over my head.

“I can say the same thing.” I said before I turned off my lightsaber and block with my shield, grabbed Sunset by the arm, let myself fall on my back, getting her to fall towards me, and flipped her over. I got back up and readied my stance as Sunset recovered after her tumble.

We were about to charge at each other before we heard Twilight speak through the ship speakers.

“Hey, Aegis. We got a called from your brother. He said he wanted to discuss a job opportunity.” Twilight said, getting both of us to stop in our track.

“Thanks, Twilight. I’ll be in the comm room in a moment.” I replied before turning to Sunset. “Want to call it a draw until later?” I asked her.

Sunset deactivated her lightsaber and smiled. “No problem. As long as you don’t mind loosing later.” She said confidently.

I chuckled a little. “Shouldn’t you be telling yourself that.” I replied smirking before turning off my lightsaber. We both shared a laugh before I headed to the elevator.

As the elevator reached deck 2, I headed past the combat information center, CIC, and reached the comm and meeting room. I activated the holo panel and got in contact with my brother. Leonidas’s holographic image came up in the middle of the table.

“Good to see you again, little brother.” Leonidas greeted smiling.

“Likewise, Leo. How has your work been?” I asked. Leonidas started letting his friends and family call him Leo for short.

Leonidas smile dropped a little. “It’s been a bit difficult lately. We’ve had Separatist sightings on some of our outer colony worlds. Dad sent reinforcements there, but I’m worried if it’ll be enough. I’ll be heading out shortly on one of those worlds.” Leonidas said grimly.

“I’m sorry, Leo. Do you want me and my friends to help one of the colony worlds?” I asked.

“Thank you for the offer, Aegis. But I have a different job for you all. Our mining factory on Christophsis has come under attack when the CIS fleet invaded. That mining factory process materials we use to build our armored tanks and vehicles. The Militia on the planet joined forces with the security force to stand against the droid army. The Republic are currently readying a fleet to take the planet back, but I don’t believe the security forces will hold out much longer. Your ship can sneak past the CIS blockade fleet, and deliver much needed supplies and ammunitions on the ground. You’ll be payed once the supplies have been delivered. If you all want to stay and help the security forces fight, I’ll go ahead and pay you extra.” Leonidas explained, know me and my friends would try to help anyway.

The Friendship is installed with stealth capabilities, such as hide from ship sensors, but a question came to mind. “Christophsis? I thought that was a Republic planet?” I questioned with a confused look.

“Before the war started, The Atlas Corporation had a contract with the Christophsis government. In exchange for mining rights on a few areas, we would allow jobs to the population, as well as provide extra security and training.” Leonidas explained.

“Alright, I’ll talk with my friends about it.” I told him. I may be the Captain, but I always talk with my friends before accepting a job.

“Very well, Aegis. Before you leave, I want to ask a question real quick.” Leonidas said. I raised a eyebrow at what it could be. “Have you decided to ask Twilight on a date yet?” He asked with a sly smirk.

My face went as read as a tomato. “Um… I need to talk to my friends. Bye.” I quickly replied and hung up. I really don’t like when he teases me like that. It’s been a while since I developed a small crush on Twilight, but I wasn’t sure wether or not to ask her. I shook those thoughts away, deciding to think about it later and signal everyone to come into the briefing room. A few minutes later, the door opened up as me friends walked in. Twilight was wearing a purple skirt and a medium blue button up shirt. Fluttershy was wearing black pants and a green turtle neck shirt. Pinkie Pie was wearing a dark red skirt and a light pink short short sleeve shirt. Rarity was wearing a dark purple medium skirt and light blue V-neck shirt. Rainbow Dash had on a black long tights and white T-shirt. Once everyone entered the room, I explained what the job was about.

“So when do we leave?” Pinkie Pie asked, ready to go.

“Hang on, Pinkie Pie. We need to figure out a way to get past that blockade. Even though we can hide from other ships sensors, all the droids have to do is look out a window.” Twilight explained. We got to thinking on a way to Christophsis. I guess we could break through the blockade, but it was too risky with that many ships. Even with Rainbow Dash’s piloting skills. Not to mention they may spot us the moment we come out of hyperspace. That’s when I got an idea.

“What if we exit hyperspace behind the blockade?” I suggested. They all looked at me as if I was crazy.

“Aegis, dear. I don’t believe that’s possible. We’ll exit hyperspace the moment we reach the egress point.” Rarity said, more than a bit concerned. The egress post is when starships get pulled out of hyperspace from a planet's gravity well.

“Not to mention we could collide with one of those ships.” Fluttershy pointed out worriedly.

Twilight rubbed her chin in thought. “Actually…” Twilight began to say as we looked at her. “If I reconfigure the ships navigation systems, and get information of the CIS blockade exact position. We should be able to jump out of hyperspace right behind the CIS blockade and before we enter Christophsis’s gravity well.” She explained.

“We could hide behind the Christophsis’s moon and leave behind one our long range probe to pinpoint the ship’s positions.” Sunset said, onboard with the idea.

“Oracle think it’ll work.” I asked our ship AI. A blue holographic sphere appeared in the middle of meeting table.

“Theoretically, yes. With the stealth systems, the CIS ships should not be able to detect us after we exit hyperspace. The problem will be adjusting the angle for entering the planet’s gravity well.” Oracle explained.

“Leave that to me.” Rainbow Dash said confidently. If any pilot could pull off this stunt, it was Rainbow Dash.

It was pretty risky, but it could work. We all agreed with the plan and contacted Leonidas, accepting the job. Sometime later we acquired the supplies from a Militia space station outpost and travelled to Christophsis. After leaving behind the probe to receive the data on the CIS Fleet position, We flew toward the edge of the Christophsis system as we analyze the blockade positioning data.

“Sure you can pull this off, Dash?” I asked her in the ship’s cockpit.

“You kidding, your asking the best pilot in the galaxy if she can pull off a near impossible move.” Rainbow Dash asked with a smug on her face. I chuckled at her response.

“Rainbow Dash, Twilight has analyzed the data from the probe, and I mapped the route to exit hyperspace behind the enemy ships. We are ready whenever you are.” Oracle told us.

“Thank’s Oracle, prepping the engines now.” Rainbow Dash said. I took a seat next to her and opened the ship’s speakers.

“Everyone, we’re about to go into hyperspace.” I informed everyone as Rainbow Dash got the engines ready.

“We’re going into Hyperspace in 3…2…1!” Rainbow Dash said as the ship entered hyperspace. Around us was a blue swirling tunnel with white at the end of it.

After a few moments in hyperspace, Oracle spoke up again. “Dash, we’ll be exiting hyperspace in five seconds.” She informed her. Rainbow Dash tightened the control, focused on flying the ship. As we exited Hyperspace, Rainbow Dash flew straight for the planet with her eye’s focused on the window. I checked our position and we were right behind the Separatist blockade. Dash quickly adjusted the Friendship’s trajectory as we headed for the atmosphere.

“Oracle, any sign of the enemy detecting us?” I asked her, not sure if the enemy saw us or not.

“Negative, Aegis. The enemy ships have not moved. Nor have they sent out droid fighters.” Oracle said. I sighed in relief as we entered the atmosphere. Rainbow Dash flew the Friendship to the surface where the Security forces were.

Once we were close to the city where the Security Forces base of operations was, I transmitted our identification friend or foe, IFF, so they wouldn’t shoot us down. A moment later, we got in contact the Militia.

“This is Acting Commander Lieutenant Xebo of the Militia Forces on Christophsis, explain why you here, Friendship.” Said a demanding feminine voice on the comms.

“Lieutenant, I’m Captain Aegis Skiritai of the Friendship. We were hired to transport supplies and ammunition to you and the Christophsis Security forces. As well as provide assistance against the droid army.” I explained.

I could hear the Lieutenant sigh in relief. “Thank goodness, we were getting low on ammo. I’m sending you landing coordinates for our base.” Xebo said before hanging up.

“Got the coordinates for the landing sight. Taking us there now.” Rainbow Dash said as she flew the ship to the city below.

Once there, we see a city who has personally seen its share of warfare. Many of the buildings have collapsed as the roads were damaged and covered in rubble. Along the side of the buildings we see large towering crystals. As we reached the landing zone, we see a handful of Militia and Clone soldiers, a couple of tortoise tanks guarding the main road. These tortoise tanks are based off the titan tanks from the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. It’s equipped with two rocket launchers on it’s back, a blaster cannon, two heavy repeating blasters. As well as an energy shield. We landed in a open field near the edge of the camp. “Hey girls, can I get some help unloading the cargo?” I asked on the ship’s speakers.

“Already in the hanger, Aegis. Made super sure the supplies had cupcakes in them.” I heard Pinkie Pie said joyfully. I shook my head smiling. She always did try to put a smile on people.

Rainbow Dash and I went down to the hanger. My friends have already begun to carry the cargo out as some Militia riflemen and clone troopers begun helping us as well. As I was pushing a crate of food out, I was approached by a female zabrak Militia soldier with tan skin.

“You Aegis?” She asked.

“I am. And you are?” I said as I pushed the crate with the others. The zabrak walked with me.

“I’m Lieutenant Xebo, the current acting commander of the Militia forces stationed here. I wanted to thank you for getting these supplies to us, but I can’t help but wonder how your ship got past the blockade.” Xebo said curiously.

I set the crate down. “Well, Lieutenant, lets just say we had to use a crazy plan and we were lucky to have the galaxy’s best pilot.” I explained looking at Rainbow Dash pushing a crate with a smile on my face.

Xebo can only laughed a little. “Well, thank you all. You all may be kids, but we’re grateful. I wasn’t sure how long we would have lasted here before our blasters went dry.” She said, though a little sadly. Guess she doesn’t like to see kids on a battlefield., which was understandable. Whenever we take supplies to refugee worlds affected by the war, we would always encounter orphans who lost their families and parents who lost their children. That’s the ugliness on war.

“Of course, Lieutenant. What exactly is the situation here.” I asked.

Xebo frowned a little. “We’ve been holding out so far, but we’re outnumber five to one. When the CIS fleet arrived, they bombarded the main factory. My previous commander was killed in the first bombardment and I’ve been organizing the military forces since then. We were forced to evacuate the facility and relocate to this refugee camp Senator Organa established.” She explained.

I blinked in surprise at what she just said. I didn’t think Senator Organa was here, though I can’t say I’m entirely surprised that he was. Unlike most politicians in the Republic, Senator Organa is one of the good ones and tries to help others in need. Before I could reply, her comm went off.

“Lieutenant! A column of droids and tanks were sighted and are heading here as we speak.” We heard from her comm.

“Sorry, Aegis. I need to be in the command post. You and your friends stay here until I say otherwise.” Xebo said before running off. All the clone troopers and militia soldiers dropped what they were doing and ran towards the frontline with their blasters in hand.

I looked at my friends who finished unloading the cargo. They all heard what happened. “What do you all want to do?” I asked them, even though I can guess what they’re thinking.

“Well, we’re here anyway. Might as well help out.” Rainbow Dash said confidently. We all agreed to help them and headed toward the Command base. On the way there, we saw more militia soldiers and clone troopers heading toward the frontline. Even a couple of tortoise tanks started rolling past us. As we reach the Command base, we saw Lieutenant Xebo overlooking the command console with who I recognized was Senator Organa.

The Senator looked up at us for a moment before recognizing us. “Aegis?” Organa said in surprise. Xebo looked up at us when she heard Organa.

“What are you kids doing here!? I told you to wait in your ship!” Xebo asked in both shock and anger.

“Hello, Senator Organa.” I greeted before turning to Xebo. “Lieutenant, I realize that you don’t want kids in a battlefield, but my friends and I can fight and want to help anyway we can.” I told her

Xebo stared at us for a second before sighing. “Not like I can be picky at a time like this.” She relented. “Alright, here’s what’s happening. Over four hundred battle droids and a handful of armored assault tanks are approaching through the main road. I’m having Militia and Republic forces fortify our defenses and lay down land mines.”

Twilight analyzed the battlefield and came with a plan. “If we position soldiers with rocket and grenade launchers in the side buildings, we could ambush and destroy their tanks. Our own tanks and soldiers should be able to handle the droid forces once they’re armor escorts are gone.” She told us.

Xebo thought over the plan and nodded. She was actually surprised a kid thought of that. “Good plan, kid. I’ll have a couple squads take position in these buildings. You all can help out anyway you want.” She told us before she started calling on squads.

“Twilight, I suggest some of us should go to with the squads in case there are droids in those buildings.” I told them.

“I agree, Aegis. Sunset and Pinkie, go with the squad heading toward the left side of the main road. Applejack and Rarity will do the same on the right as everyone else help defend the main road.” Twilight explained to us.

"Leave it to us, Twilight." Applejack said as she, Rarity, Pinkie, and Sunset ran off.

After agreeing with the plan, we took our positions as the droid army closes in on us. With me were Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and Fluttershy. A platoon mixed with both Militia riflemen and clone troopers. Three of the remaining tortoise tanks rolled up behind us, ready to let loose their cannons.

“Ten credits I take out more droids than you all.” Rainbow Dash said confidently next to me and everyone else on the comm.

“Make it twenty and you got yourself a deal.” I heard Applejack said on the comm competitively.

“Whoever win’s gets taken off chore duty for a week.” Pinkie Pie added.

“Deal.” We all said.

“Here they come. Ready rockets.” The militia officer inside the tortoise tank told the men. As the droid army got close enough, the officer ordered the tortoise tanks to let loose a volley of rockets, wiping out whole groups of droids and a few droid armored assault tanks, AATs.

The soldiers begun firing a barrage of lasers at the approaching droids. While the plasma fired fromRepublic clone blasters were blue, the militia blasters were green. The droids returned fire, but my friends and I begun reflecting the laser bolts back at them with our lightsabers. Though I prioritized the lasers in front of me, I didn’t want any stray shots hitting the soldiers behind us. We kept reflecting lasers against the infantry of droids until the enemy tanks were right where they need to be.

“The droid tanks are in position, spring the ambush.” Twilight said on her wrist comm. A moment later, rockets and grenades flew out from one of the buildings, decimating the rear droid tanks and any bots near them. The tortoise tanks behind us focused fire on the surviving droid tanks, catching them in a pincer attack. The few remaining AATs tried to fire on the building our forces where hiding in, but they weren’t giving the chance as rockets blew them to smithereens from the opposite building.

“Lieutenant, the first wave of droids have been defeated. I suggest repositioning the soldiers in the buildings so the droids don’t get wise.” I said on my wrist comm.

“My thoughts exactly. I’m already having them switch positions. You’ll be glad to know that Senator Organa got in contact with the Grand Army of the Republic. Their fleet have already engaged with the blockade. All we have to do is hold out until then.” Xebo told me.

The next few waves were dealt with some difficulty as we held the line and ambushed where we could. The droids attempted to fire on the buildings the squads and my friends were hiding in, but our tanks prioritized on them, firing their cannons. Even so, the droids AATs managed to get a few good shots at our tanks, causing some serious damage. To make matters worse, the droid army have begun sending in octuptarra tri-droids. These large three legged walkers can rotate their cannons in a 360 angle, easily allowing them to hit surrounding targets.

“Lieutenant, what’s the status with the Republic fleet, have they broken CIS blockade yet?” I asked her as I kept reflecting blast bolts.

“Not yet, Senator Organa’s trying to get in contact. Wait… oh karabast! We detected droid bombers flying to our position. I want anti-air missiles and turrets up now!” She ordered.

My friends and I looked up at the sky and saw a couple squads of droid bombers approaching the command post. Missiles and lasers were fired in the air, taking out a majority of them, but not all. The bombers that survived the onslaught manage to bomb the command post.

“Lieutenant Xebo, are you alright! Lieutenant Xebo!” I yelled in near panic.

I heard groaning from the comm. “Uh. I’m fine, kid. Those bombers barely missed our position. Senator Organa’s talking with Jedi leading the clone army here. He’s gonna try break the blockade. Whether he breaks it or not is yet to be seen. For now, everyone will do everything they can to hold off the droid forces.” Xebo ordered. I looked at the approaching droids and knew we needed a game changer.

“Twilight, we need air support for the next waves. I believe Rainbow Dash should get in her starfighter?” I asked her. Twilight looked at the droid army approaching us and knew I was right. I didn’t suggest it earlier since I didn’t know whether or not the droids had anti-air weapons. That and I didn’t want to reveal our full capabilities to the droid’s commander.

“Your right, Aegis. Rainbow Dash, head back to the Friendship and get in your fighter. We’ll handle the droids here.” Twilight told her.

“What! I can’t just leave you all here!” Rainbow Dash told us as we took cover from a barrage of lasers.

“Dash, your not leaving us. Your getting help. The tanks have already taken a beating and the mines aren’t gonna stop those tri-droids. Your fighter is one of the few things thing that can turn this around before it gets worse.” I told her. Rainbow Dash didn’t like leaving us, but knew I was right. Just then one of the tri-droids opened fire on a tortoise tank, severely damaging it.

“Rainbow, please. We need your starfighter.” Fluttershy pleaded before tending to a injured clone trooper.

Rainbow Dash looked around us to see the soldier on the breaking point. “Fine, I’ll be right back!” Rainbow Dash said as she ran back to our ship. She used force speed in order to get back quicker.

The tortoise tanks continued firing their weapons at the marching droids. The tri-droids drew closer, firing their plasma cannons at us. One of the tortoise tanks was destroyed by a tri-droid. The Militia and my friends in the buildings fired more rockets from the upper floors and attacked the tri-droid in the rear.

“Aegis, we’re running low on explosives. We’re gonna fall back.” I heard Rarity on my comm.

“Copy that Rarity, go ahead and…” I didn’t finish as I saw one of the tri-droids getting a angle at where the ambush squads were positioned. “Everyone in the buildings, get out! The tri-droids got a angle you!” I yelled in my comm. A few seconds later, the tri-droid opened fire on the buildings the Militia and my friends were in. Smoke and dust exploded from the floors they were in. The tortoise tanks fired their blaster cannons, destroying one of the tri-droids.

“Rarity, are you alright? Applejack? Pinkie? Sunset?” I radioed in fear. If anything happened to them, I just don’t know what I would do.

Suddenly, I hear coughing through my comm. “Ugh… We’re okay, Aegis. Pinkie Pie said her sense’s were telling us to run. Despite the soldiers confusion, we ran out of the room right before we took fire.” Sunset explained.

“Same here.” I hear Applejack. “Soon as I heard that tri-droid got a angle on us, we high tailed it out of there.”

I was relieved that they were alright, but was drawn out of my thought as a handful of the tri-droids fired their cannons at us. We took cover behind large rubble as another tortoise tank was destroyed. The last two tortoise tanks started taking major damage from the barrage of lasers. The Militia Officer decided to trigger the mines laying underneath the droid as a last ditch effort. Though it took out the majority of the infantry droids, the tri-droids still stood strong. Right before my friends and I got out of cover to reflect blaster bolts, a couple of missiles flew over us, destroying two of the tri-droids. Thing is, those missiles didn’t come from the tanks.

“Sorry I’m late.” I heard Rainbow Dash on my comm. We turned around to Rainbow Dash in her starfighter flying to us. My brother built her starfighter when he and Dad gave us our starship. He based it off the F-41 Broadsword from the Halo Universe. When Rainbow Dash first called dibs on the starfighter, she repainted it cyan blue, the same color as her fur. She nicknamed her starlight the Wonder Strike, inspired by the Wonderbolts, the best pilots not only in Equestria, but in the Frontier as well. Underneath her starfighters wings were two M1075 ASW/Ac 35mm blaster cannons and two M6088 ST/MMP missile pods.

Rainbow Dash flew her starfighter at the tri-droids, launching her missiles and blaster cannons at the towering machines. Many of the tri-droids were destroyed by Rainbow Dash’s starfighter. The two tortoise tanks fired their cannons at the rest of the remaining tri-droids, blowing them apart as they fell on their fellow remaining droids. With their heavy support gone, the droid infantry retreated.

“We did it! That’ll teach those droids not to mess with the Militia and Clones!” We heard one of the soldiers yelled in joy. The rest of the soldiers cheered that we held off the droid forces.

“Lieutenant, happy to report that the droid forces have retreated.” I said on my comm.

“I could hear the cheering all the way from here, kid. And to add icing to the top, the CIS flagship has been destroyed. The Republic fleet are cleaning up the remaining CIS ships, and a transport ship is coming down with more supplies.” She told me. I wondered why she said icing on the top. Does she have cake? I sighed realizing she didn’t mean it literally as Rainbow Dash flew her starfighter back to our ship.

After the battle, my friends and I headed back to the command post to help out where we could. Fluttershy headed to the medical tents to help heal the soldiers that were injured in the battle, while Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Twilight went to the Friendship in order to rearm the starfighter in case the droids come back. Sunset, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and I decided to help carry the supplies of the Republic shuttle.

My friends and I continued to the Republic ship. When we got there, we saw a long rectangular ship that looks kinda like a large arrow we’ve never seen before. Clone soldiers have already begun moving supplies off the ship. We were about to help out before I spotted a familiar brown hair Jedi with black Jedi apparel talking with a Republic admiral.

“Anakin?” I said surprised. My friends were equally surprised as well. The Jedi turned around with a astound look on his face.

“Aegis? Sunset? Applejack? And Pinkie Pie? What are you all doing here?” Anakin asked us.

“We were hired to transport supplies to the defending forces on Christosphsis and help them defend the planet.” I explained to him. The Republic admiral walked next to Anakin before Pinkie Pie ran up to him.
“It’sgreatseeing,Ani.Howhaveyoubeen?Areyoudoingwell?Didyoumissus?” Pinkie Pie quickly asked excitedly.

Anakin backed up a bit by Pinkie Pie’s forwardness. “Wow, slow down, Pinkie. I can barely understand what you said.” Anakin asked her. Pinkie had a hard time containing her excitement of seeing our old friend.

“General, you know who these young ones are?” He asked Anakin. Oh right, the Jedi are acting as generals for the clone army, despite having no military experience.

“Admiral, this is Aegis Skiritai, Sunset Shimmer, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie. They used to be part of the Jedi Order before they left. Everyone, this is Admiral Yularen.” Anakin introduced us to the veteran admiral.

“It’s nice to meet, Admiral. I hope Anakin haven’t been causing you too much headaches.” I said playfully. Anakin was always the rebellious youngling at the temple.

“Oh, don’t worry. The general has a talent at the unorthodox.” Yularen replied, earning a hey from Anakin.

“Ya can say that again, I remember one time he programed a training droid to fight like a Sith assassin when we were young. The teachers were not too pleased by that.” Applejack chuckled. Anakin only laughed sheepishly.

“Ya, Anakin may do things... differently. But they do work." Sunset pointed out.

"Indeed. The Chancellor mentioned as much, though he insisted it was the highest complement." Admiral Yularen said before walking past us. I guess it's hard for a veteran admiral to follow someone's else's lead. Wait, why does he know the Chancellor? Or Anakin for that matter.

I wanted to ask him, but the supplies needed to be carried out of the ship. “We’ll talk later, Anakin. We need to help move those supplies you all brought us.” I told him.

“Sure, Aegis. I need to organize the troops.” Anakin said, though I can tell he wanted to talk more as well. Back at the Jedi Temple, I used to look up to Anakin, since he knew what the outside world was like before he joined the order. He walked away with the Admiral as my friends and I help move the supplies.

After the remaining CIS Fleet was destroyed in space, the Republic sent clone troopers down to help retake Christophsis. I overheard some of the clones talking about how Anakin destroyed the CIS flagship. Apparently, he used the CIS own torpedoes to follow the Jedi's ship, skimmed right past the flagship, and had the missiles impact the bridge. I can see why Admiral Yularen called Anakin's plans unorthodox. While Lieutenant Xebo doesn’t like Jedi, with her seeing them as the Republic’s lapdogs, she agreed that the Militia would work with the clones and help them to push the droid occupation off Christophsis. While they were making plans on a ambush strategy, my friends and I were sparring with each other outside our ship. After we were done practicing, Sunset and I resumed our match from earlier outside our ship. The rest of my friends were watching us, as well as some clones troopers and Militia riflemen, each making bet who would win. Twilight chose to referee for us this time.

“You ready, Sunset.” I asked as I took my stance.

“Always.” Sunset smirked, igniting her red lightsaber.

“And begin.” Twilight signaled us.

Sunset tightened her red lightsaber and ran towards me. I ignited my bronze lightsaber and blocked her powerful strike. Parrying her saber to the side, I forced push her away, The moment she regained her footing, I rushed her, swinging my lightsaber above her head. Sunset responded by quickly clashing her lightsaber against mine. We traded strikes, each of us blocking the other. Sunset lightsaber style Juyo, specialized at controlling her aggression, making it difficult for me to defend against. In the middle of our spar, I came up with a way to beat her and swing my lightsaber downward. Just as Sunset raised her saber in defense, tilting my wrist and twisting my waist to alter my swing, changing the direction of my saber to her side. Sunset moved her saber to block my attack, but I deactivated my saber before our weapons collided. Before Sunset could counter, she stopped when she saw my hilt was pointing directly at her stomach.

“Guess I win this one, Sunset.” I smirked.

Sunset laughed a little, knowing what would have happened if I activated my lightsaber just then. “Guess so. At least until next time.” Sunset said smiling before deactivating her lightsaber.

I sheathed my lightsaber and we bowed to each other. The soldiers talked about our spar was while some of them were handing over credits. My friends walked over to us.

“That was great spar guys.” Twilight complemented on us.

“I’m glad neither of you got hurt.” Fluttershy said softly.

“Yeah! Sunset was like slash, slash, slash. And Aegis was like block, block, fake, fake, surprise!” Pinkie Pie said enthusiastically, imitating our spar. We laughed at her antics.

“Indeed, it was a good spar.” We heard a unfamiliar voice. We turned to the source of the voice to see a brown bearded man in Jedi clothing who I recognized was Obi-Wan Kenobi walk up to us. With him were Anakin, Organa, Xebo, a Clone Commander and Clone Captain.

“Master Kenobi.” I said recognizing him. I only met him a few time back when I was training with Anakin at the Jedi Temple.

“It’s good to see you all again. I can hardly believe you all were here, though I was wondering if I could ask Sunset some questions.” Obi-Wan asked us. We were worried he thought that Sunset follows the dark side of the force just because her lightsaber was red. All of us agreed that if Jedi ever tried to come after Sunset, we would protect her.

“Kenobi, if you think Sunset uses the dark side of the Force, think again.” I told him sternly, gripping my lightsaber.

“Yeah, mess with Sunset, you mess with all of us.” Rainbow Dash threatened, also grabbing her dual bladed lightsaber. The rest of my friends stood next to Sunset, each reaching for their lightsabers.

Obi-Wan raised his hands up, gesturing he wasn’t going to do such thing. “Easy, young ones. I know Sunset isn’t a Sith. Nor can I feel her using the dark side of the Force.” He told us.

We relaxed our guard a little, feeling he was telling the truth. “Really?” Fluttershy asked with a questionable look before Kenobi continued.

“I assure you all, I mean Sunset no harm. I just wanted to ask her if I could take a look at her lightsaber.” Obi-Wan said. We could feel he was being honest, especially Applejack. She was always a lie detecter.

“It’s okay, guys.” Sunset assured us. She walked up to Kenobi and gave her lightsaber to him.

Obi-Wan focused on her lightsaber, or more specifically, the kyber crystal with in it. A moment later, his eye shot up in shock. “How is this possible!” He muttered. All of us looked at him a bit concerned.

“Um… Master Kenobi? Is everything alright?” Twilight asked him, bringing the Jedi out of his thoughts.

“Um... yes, Twilight.” Obi-Wan answered before returning Sunset’s lightsaber to her. “It’s just that I can’t sense any of the dark side of the Force in Sunset’s kyber crystal, despite it being red.” He explained. Anakin look surprised as well.

“But how is that possible, I thought all red lightsabers are connected to the dark side of the force. Sunset, where did you get this?” Anakin asked in confusion.

My friends and I looked at each other, unsure on wether we should tell them or not. “It’s kinda of a long story.” I told them. Obi-Wan wanted to press for more questions, but Xebo stepped in.

“Well, it’ll have to wait. We have a operation planned for tomorrow, and we need all the sleep we can get.” Xebo told us.

"And I must return to Coruscant. It was good to see you all again. And thank you all for helping us." Senator Organa said, smiling.

"Of course, Senator Organa. Until next time." Sunset replied.

As the Jedi, clones, and Xebo returned to their quarters. My friends and I went back to the ship. Applejack and Pinkie made dinner for us. As we were eating, I tried to think of a lesson I learned today. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna asked us to write a journal about the lesson's we discover in our adventures.

"Dear Princesses, today on Christophsis, Xebo and Yularen had to listen to plans not their own. Though the two may have more combat experience than others, they know when to listen to them, even if some of them have crazy ideas. I've learned that a wise leader knows when to follow." I said as I wrote in the journal.

"That's a great lesson, Aegis." Twilight commented as she finished her dinner.

"Thanks, Twilight. Now let's head to bed. I got the feeling it's gonna be a long day tomorrow." I said. All of them agreed and went to our rooms to sleep.

Chapter 2: Protecting Christophsis Part 2

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My friends and I went with the Jedi and soldiers to twin talk buildings. There, we would ambush a Droid army comings through. We split up using the two buildings to ambush the droids below us. Despite helping the Republic, Xebo wasn’t sure of this plan. It was a good plan, but it could go severely wrong for us, She voiced her concern with the Jedi about it, and they had a couple of dropships on standby should it go wrong.

Xebo and her men went with Obi-Wan to the south tower, while Anakin and his men went to the north tower. Fluttershy and Applejack stayed behind to help the wounded soldiers, while the rest of my friends and I went to help with the ambush. Sunset, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity went to the south tower, while Pinkie Pie, Twilight, and I went to the north tower. We waited patiently in the building overlooking the streets.

“So Aegis, I’ve been meaning to ask. What have you and your friends been doing these past few years?” Anakin curiously asked me.

I took my eyes off from the streets and turned toward him. “Well, after we left the Jedi Order, my friends and I travelled to Equestria where we found our families. Turns out, I have a brother in the Frontier Militia.” I told him thinking about Sunset’s parents.

Anakin was surprised to hear this. “You have a brother?” He asked, to which I nodded my head.

“Yup, he's a commander in the militia. He also works on weapon development for the Frontier Militia sometimes.” I said, remembering he was working on a certain special project. Before Anakin could ask anything else, his wrist comm went off.

“Anakin, how are you doing over there?” We hear Obi-Wan ask.

“We’re set. I’ve got some guys here that are anxious to get going.” Anakin responded.

“Glad to hear it.” Obi-Wan said before Anakin hung up.

Pinkie Pie took out her binocular, and watched the main road. I took out mine and did the same thing. Below us were a full company of droids advancing on our positions.

“Looks like a full battalion.” I said watching the droids. “Wait, they brought a handful tanks. We’ll have to get rid of them first before they open fire on us.” I said. Anakin and the clones agreed with me. Good thing Lieutenant Xebo had us bring M57 Pilum Assault Weapon, or rocket launchers, with us just in case. These double barrel rockets were capable of destroying a AAT with a single shot. As the clones were picking up the rocket launchers, Pinkie Pie's poofy tail twitches.

“Um… what was that?” The clone Captain whom I learned earlier was named Rex asked. Yeah, that's about the same reaction when someone sees Pinkie Pie's body parts shake for the first time.

“Pinkie Pie’s body parts twitches whenever something’s about to happen. Just don’t question it, it’ll save you the headache.” Twilight answered, especially how she spent a full week trying to understand why Pinkie’s hair shakes like that. Anakin and the clones found that more than a little strange, which I can’t blame them.

“What’s wrong, Pinkie?” I asked her.

“Everyone, I have a really bad feeling right now. I think we should leave. Like, right now.” Pinkie told us worriedly.

“What? Why?” Anakin asked her. While Anakin questioned her, Twilight and I knew when Pinkie feels like something’s gonna happen, it’s gonna happen. We looked down below at the droids to see the column of droid splitting up into three rows.

“The droids are splitting up.” Twilight said out loud, getting Anakin and the clones attention. Just then, we noticed blaster fire coming from the opposite building Obi-Wan and my friends were in. Anakin quickly got on his comm.

“Obi-Wan, what’s going on?” Anakin asked.

“We’re cut off. The droids are onto us.” Obi-Wan radio over the sound of blasters and gunfire. I couldn’t believe it, the droids knew we were here. Not only that, how did they come up here without us knowing. If the droids were in the south building, chances are they're in the north too.

“Gunship, Come in. Hawk we need an evac in the south tower.” Anakin ordered the Gunship.

“Already on it, sir. Lieutenant Xebo ordered evac and we’re on our way.” The pilot replied.

“South tower? We’re in the north.” Captain Rex said, not sure why Anakin said the South Tower.

“Oh! Maybe we can zip line across.” Pinkie enthusiastically suggested.

“My thoughts exactly.” Anakin smirked before he slashed the window and sent out a force push, shattering the glass. “Rex, fire your cables.” He ordered. The clone troopers fired their cables from their blasters, creating a biplane between the two towers. I quickly looked at the droids below us. If we zip line across, the clones will have no cover. I could use force barrier to block the blaster bolts, but I don't think I can cover everyone with it.

“Anakin, I suggest my friends and I takes the left side. We can block the blaster bolts for the troops with our lightsabers.” I suggested. It'll be difficult hanging onto the biplane with one arm, but we should be able reflect the blaster bolts away from the soldier.

“Nice thinking, Aegis.” Anakin said before some of the clones handed me and my friends some of their DC-15S blaster carbine to use as hooks.

We hooked on the lines and zipped across between the buildings. It was a good thing I overcame my fear of heights years ago. The droids spotted us and opened fire. Anakin, my friends and I blocked as many bolts as possible for Rex and his men. Despite the numerous blaster bolts, we managed to deflect most of them. Anakin broke through the window as we made it inside the opposite tower without losing anyone. Anakin and I ran forward at the droids with their backs turned towards us. We quickly cut them down as my friends and the troops followed behind. Cutting down the last droid near us, we ran into the room where Obi-Wan, Xebo, the soldiers and my friends fighting off the droids.

“This way is clear.” Anakin told his master as he ran up next to him, blocking laser bolts.

“How did you get over here?” Obi-Wan asked, surprised to see us.

“I improvised.” Anakin responded, focused on the droids in front of us.

“Where’s everyone else?” Twilight asked, noticing the slight lack of soldiers.

“I called in a gunship to our position and ordered some of my men to secure the roof.” Xebo answered, blasting a droid in the head.

We were holding back the droids at the corridor, but the droids just kept coming. Obi-Wan levitated a stationed blaster cannon in the air and threw it at the droids. Despite this, the droids kept coming.

"Rarity, the floor." I said. Rarity nodded her head in understanding and touched the ground with both of her hands. With her force cryo, she froze the floor the droids were on.

"What!" The droids said, unable to process how she did that. Thank's to the frozen floor, the droids had no friction to stand on and slipped. The Jedi were completely shocked Rarity could do something like this. The other droids stopped, seeing what happed to their fellow droids on the slippery ice.

“Twilight. Together.” I told her. She nodded and we swung our palms outward at the same time, sending out a powerful force push at the droids. The B1s flew backwards yelling all the way through the hall they came in, some falling out the windows. With a brief respite, we all ran for the elevator, squeezed in, and headed to the roof. The elevator doors opened up, revealing a pair of militia riflemen quickly pointing their weapons away when saw we were friendlies. We ran out of the elevator to the edge of the roof with the gunships have yet to arrive.

“Soldiers, take cover. Any moment now those droids will be pouring through the elevators.” Xebo ordered the troops. The militia soldiers at the elevator fell back to get better cover. Even the clone troopers followed their lead and too cover. A moment later, droids started pouring out of the elevator one by one.

The troops opened fire as Anakin, Obi-Wan, Sunset, Rainbow Dash and I charged the enemy. The rest of my friends stayed with the troopers to reflect lasers. We started taking down the droids one by one before the second elevator door opened up, revealing a tactical droid leading a group of droids. We were forced on the defensive as the droids just kept firing at us.

Finally, a Republic and Militia gunship arrived. The militia gunship is called a Stork, which was based off the razorback VTOL transport ship from the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Universe. Both ships flew to the side of the building, opening their hatches. The clones and riflemen got onto the ships as my friends and I continued to block blaster bolts.

“We need to go!” I yelled as I blocked a blaster bolt with my beskar shield.

We ran straight for the gunships when I spotted a clone trooper bravely ran forward and teared the head off the tactical droid, bringing it with him. The soldiers gave us cover fire as we got on board. Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash got on the militia Gunship as Sunset, Twilight, and I went with the Jedi onto the Republic gunship. The moment we got in, the blast doors closed and we took off.

The clone trooper who had the tactical droid’s head gave it to Captain Rex. “Maybe this tactical droid will tell us how they knew our plan.” Rex told us. I couldn’t help but wonder as well. As far as I know, the droids had no way of knowing our ambush.

After we returned to base, Twilight and I headed to the command center to help Rex with the droid’s head we brought back. The rest of my friends went around the base to help where they could. Rainbow told us she was gonna take her starfighter to the weapon depot. She wanted to try to replace the rapid fire blasters on her starfighter with a Republic heavy blaster so she could easily destroy the droid tanks.

With us in the command center were Xebo, Rex and Commander Cody, Obi-Wan’s second in command. Rex set the head on the command console as Twilight plugged some cords into it. The command table showed a hologram of the twin buildings we were at.

“The Republic Army and Militia are in the north and south towers, level 46.” We hear the recording of the tactical droid.

“It just doesn’t make sense.” Rex said. I agreed, I can’t think of anyway the CIS knew we were there. Suddenly, the droid’s head started to short circuit and smoking before dying out.

“Blast!” Rex said in frustration. Looked like the CIS put in a failsafe incase it was ever captured.

The astromech who Anakin introduced me to was R2-D2 chirped a little before said Jedi and Obi-Wan entered the room.

“Well, at least we’re not the only ones having a bad day.” Anakin said.

“Generals. They had all our intel.” Commander Cody told them.

“That would explain the ambush. How could we have left ourselves so vulnerable to a security breach?” Anakin asked.

“I don’t think we did.” Obi-Wan replied, getting us to look at him.

“You think someone infiltrated our defenses.” Anakin asked his master.

Xebo hummed in thought. “It’s possible, but whoever infiltrated us would have to be skilled and have resourceful enough to acquire intel to our plans.” She said.

“But that’s still wouldn’t explain how they got our intel.” Anakin told her. I thought about it for a moment before realizing something.

“What if someone from our side gave it to them.” I said, though I didn’t want it to be true.

“I suspect your right, Aegis. The infiltrator would have someone working with them.” Obi-Wan concluded.

“A spy, sir? But who would want to betray our troops to the Seppies?” Commander Cody said in disbelief.

“Excellent question, Commander. Perhaps it’s time we made a visit behind enemy lines. I think we’ll find our answers there.” Obi-Wan told us.

“We’ll get right on it.” Cody acknowledged, but the Jedi had other plans.

“No, Commander. I need you here to find the security breach.” Obi-Wan said otherwise.

“You can count on us, sir.” Cody told them.

“One more thing. This mission is extremely confidential. The spy could be anyone. Let no one know of our mission.” Obi-Wan ordered.

“Your mission? Do you two think that’s a good idea, if something happened, it could deal a major blow to the troops.” Xebo expressed her concern.

“Don’t worry, Lieutenant. This wouldn’t be the first mission where it was just two of us.” Anakin assured her before leaving with Obi-Wan, even though Xebo was still skeptical.

The lieutenant only sighed. “I’m gonna inspect the militia comlinks, they’re programmed to record any transmissions made through them.” Xebo told us before she left.

Rex and Twilight begun walking toward the door. I was about to join them before I noticed Cody spotted something. I moved my eye at what he was looking at and spotted a clone comlink that was still active.

“Someone left this comlink on. Someone has been listening to everything we said.” Cody told us. We all looked at him in shock.

Rex looked down the hallways and spotted something. “Hey! Stop!” He yelled at someone, before giving chase. Twilight, Cody, and I ran with him. Down the hall was a clone running away from us.

“Who’s that?” Cody asked as we ran for him.

“I can’t tell, but he’s wearing clone armor.” Twilight said as we continued pursuit. We spotted the clone running in the hallway to a fork where he went left.

“Twilight and I will follow him. You take the west corridor.” Cody ordered.

“I’m on it.” Rex replied, going right.

“Right behind you.” I said as I went with Rex.

Rex got out his blaster pistol as I gripped my lightsaber. When we got to door leading to the mess hall, we spotted a person’s shadow running up. Rex pointed his blaster as I readied my saber. The person who was running turned out to be Cody with Twilight behind him.

Rex and I holstered our weapons as we looked at the door leading to the mess hall. “He must have gone in the mess hall.” Rex said, before he opened it. As we walked in, the mess hall was full of clones and a handful of militia riflemen eating dinner, going about their business. Twilight and I saw happened to see Applejack giving one of the clones a slice of her apple pies.

“We’ve got a big problem.” Cody said looking at the soldiers around the room.

“Yeah. Most of the people here are brothers.” Rex grimly responded.

I looked at a clone eating some grub near us. “Excuse me, do you know who came in right before us?” I asked.

The clone looked up to see his Captain and Commander right behind me staring intently at him. “Um, sorry. no. He was a clone, but I didn’t pay attention who he was.” He replied nervously.

We sighed in disappointment. "Thank you trooper, carry on." Captain Rex said before we left. If the clone near the door didn’t know who came in the door before us, I doubt anyone else would.

With no other way finding the spy in the mess hall, we went back to the command center to discuss our next move. As we walked back to the command center, I couldn’t help but wonder why a clone would betray us, or at the very least his brothers. From what I could tell, all the clones treat one another like family.

“One of us. Great. But which one?” Rex said in frustration as we enters the command center.

“We’ll have to wait for his next move. Keep this to ourselves.” Cody told us. If the other clones knew about this, it could sow discourse in the ranks. Even the militia soldiers wouldn't know which clone to trust.

“Shouldn’t we at least tell Lieutenant Xebo?” Twilight suggested to them.

“We should, but after we narrow down who the spy is. Whoever it is could be monitoring Xebo right now.” I told her. If the spy was smart enough to leave behind a open comlink, he could have found a way to keep tabs on the Lieutenant.

“Agreed, but we better contact the Jedi.” Rex told us.

“I’m on it.” Cody replied before walking toward the communication terminal. He tried to get in contact, but he can’t get a signal. “We can’t reach General Kenobi. Whoever it is has blocked our communications. We’re gonna have to find this guy ourselves.” He said. Maybe it was the droid army who was jamming communications. If that’s true, then it means the spy have already told the CIS of Anakin’s and Obi-Wan’s mission.

Rex looked at R2. “R2, come over here and plug in.” Rex told him. R2 came over to the console and plugged into it.

“Owl. Go ahead and help out.” Twilight told her BD-1 droid. Owl beeped before he jumped off her back and plugged into a separate console.

“What are you two doing?” Cody asked.

“If the Separatist are jamming comms. It means that the spy sent out a transmission to them, telling them of the Jedi’s mission. And it would have to be recent.” Twilight explained, coming to the same conclusion I did.

“So all we have to do out find out how.” I added.

“What do you think? He just sat down and wrote a note?” Cody asked.

“You have to start somewhere.” Rex relied, waiting for the droids to find something.

After a while, R2 and Owl beeped, indicating they found something. The two droids transferred the information to a data pad for us.

“R2 and Owl found something.” Rex said, picking up the data pad.

“What is it? Is it the traitor?” Cody asked, looking over Rex’s shoulder.

“I’m not sure.” Rex said, trying to make sense of the information on the data pad.

“Mind if I take a look at it?” Twilight asked, Rex nodded and gave her the data pad.

Twilight began reading the information. “Hmm. There’s wavelength interference, weak frequencies. Probably what he’s been using to send out transmissions. It only shows up a few days, then disappears.” Twilight explained.

“So day to day, you wouldn’t notice it.” Rex finished, getting what Twilight was saying. R2 beeped again and Rex before gently took the data pad from Twilight.

“What?” Cody asked, wondering what R2 found.

“It’s the pattern. The band’s only coming off one terminal in the whole base. Check it out.” Rex said before giving the data pad to Cody.

“Hmm. Slick’s barracks. Only Slick’s men would have access to that terminal.” Cody said. I assume Slick was one of the clones.

“Yeah. Slick’s not gonna like that.” Rex said, still not liking the idea that the traitor is a clone.

“No, he’s not. But if one of his men is giving away our intel, we have to find him and sort this out.” Cody told us. That was when I thought of something.

“But what about Slick himself. Wouldn’t he also have access to the terminal.” I asked them. Cody and Rex looked at each other and realized I was right.

“You have a point, Slick himself would be the only one beside his men who would have access to that terminal.” Rex said, though that didn’t make it easy for him.

“Then we’ll pretend that Slick isn’t a suspect, see how he reacts.” Cody said. We nodded in agreement and travelled to the clone barracks.

On the way there, we let Xebo know we had a lead on the spy, and discreetly ordered her soldiers around the barracks, just in case any of the clones tried to escape. I convinced Rex and Cody to allow us to bring Applejack with us since she can tell when someone’s lying. I thought about bringing Sunset, since she can see people’s memories by touching them, but she only gets brief random images. It may not be enough to prove which one is the spy. Rex and Cody ordered Slick to the barracks. Once there, Slick came into the barrack with us waiting for him. We explained the situation without telling him he’s a suspect as well.

“No. No way. My guys are the best. No way they’re capable of something like this.” Slick told us as he crossed his arms, a little irritated. Just then, a group a Slick’s men came in through the door.

“Something like what?” We heard one of Slick’s men asked.

“You called them here?” Slick asked us, a little surprise.

“Of course, we did. We’re getting to the bottom of this. Now.” Rex told him.

“Look, let me have a few minutes with them first. It’s gonna hit ‘em hard. They trust each other, and if one of our own betrayed us…” Slick didn’t finish as Cody interrupted him.

“I don’t think that’s necessary.” Cody told him, walking to the troops. I can’t help but notice Applejack narrowing her eye’s at Slick with a little suspicion. “Your men are tough, right? Take a seat, gentlemen.” Cody ordered them. The clones did as told, and sat down. “We have a turncoat in our midst, and we think it’s one of you.” My friends and I could feel how unease the troops were feeling being told this. Understandable considering they’re brothers and they have faith in each other.

We went to the first clone sitting on a crate. “I… uh, I don’t know, I was doing the things I always do after a mission.” The clone said anxiously.

“Things like what?” Rex asked.

“I’m sorry, sir. I’m just a little nervous. You’re my CO.” The clone replied, still scared.

“The way I figure it, you tell the truth you got nothing to be nervous about.” Rex said.

“Jester is telling the truth.” We turned around to the other clone behind us. “Cleans his weapon after every mission. First thing, every time. He’s kinda obsessed that way.” He said. Huh, kinda like Rarity, considering she cleans he lightsaber hilt whenever she has some free time.

“Is that right? You were cleaning your weapon?” Cody asked the now identified clone Jester, a little skeptical.

“Yes, sir.” Jester answered.

“Go on the computer while you were in here?” Cody continued.

“No, sir. I didn’t even power it up. You can check.” Jester said. Rex and Cody looked at each other.

“Show me your weapon.” Cody ordered him. Jester reached for his blaster and handed it over to Cody. From what I could tell, it had no speck of dirt on it.

“Yep, freshly scrubbed.” Cody said, inspecting the weapon.

“The rag’s over there in the corner.” Jester told us.

“Good man.” Cody said before turning to the next clone. “You. You were cleaning your weapon too?” He asked them.

“No. I was hungry. I went back to the mess.” He answered.

“Right away?” Rex asked.

“Oh, yeah.” He answered confidently.

“Anyone with ya?” Rex continued.

“Sketch, sir.” The clone gestured to his brother next to him.

“We got to the mess at the same time, got our grub, grabbed some food from Applejack, and sat down.” Sketch answered.

“They’re telling the truth, sirs. I remember giving them some of ma apple pie.” Applejack told us. Rex and Cody seemed to accept this and went on with the next clone with an injured arm.

“Captain, give me just a moment with them.” Slick told the Captain and Commander to stop.

“No, it’s okay, Sarge. I got nothing to hide. I was in the infirmary.” The clone said, gesturing to his bandaged arm. “Got banged up pretty good by one of those clankers. Fluttershy was fixing me up and Doc’s got all the records there, if you want to check.” The clone answered. We moved on to the last clone sitting on a bed who had some scars on the side of his head.

“So, Chopper, old boy, what’s your alibi?” Rex asked.

“I was in the mess hall.” The clone answered without looking at them, but Applejack stepped forward.

“Now hang on a sec, you aren’t telling the full truth.” Applejack said, narrowing her eyes at him. All of us looked at her.

“She’s right, sir. Chopper came in a lot later, after everyone else.” Sketch said. Chopper looked at us in worry.

“Where were you before you went to the mess, Chopper?” Cody asked him.

“Nowhere. Walking around.” Chopper replied looking away. Clearly he was trying to hide something.

“Son, you know we’ll need a better answer than that.” Cody told him, crossing his arms.

Chopper sighed. “I was hiding at the south exit. I didn’t want anyone to see me string these together.” Chopper said before reaching in his pocket and showing us battle droid fingers attached to a string.

“Battle droids fingers.” Rex said in all seriousness.

“Well, that’s creepy.” I couldn’t help but comment. Applejack and Twilight nodded their heads in agreement.

Chopper sighed again and leaned his back against the wall. “I just… I just wanted something back. I guess I felt like, like they owed me.” He said, looking at the stringed up battle droid fingers in his hand.

“I always knew there was something deficient about you.” The clone with the injured arm said as he and rest of the clones stood up. Chopper just turned away from us in shame.

Slick walked towards Chopper completely disappointed at the soldier. “This isn’t good, Chopper. Lying about where you were, taking forbidden items from a battlefield.” Slick told him.

“I know.” Chopper replied frustrated.

“I put up with the attitude ‘cause you have skill. But if you could break these rules, your whole character’s in question here.” Slick told him, accusing him of treachery.

“Wait, no. Hang on. I’m no spy.” Chopper defended himself. The rest of the clones where beginning to have a hard time believing him.

Applejack leaned toward my ear. “Chopper may have been lying, but he’s telling the truth about not being a spy.” She whispered. If he’s not the spy, the only suspect left is Slick himself.

“Chopper, we’re all brothers. But how can we trust anything you say now.” Slick told him.

“No, sir, I’m telling you, I did not…” Chopper didn’t finish as Slick interrupted him.

“It’s okay. We’ll get you a proper investigation. You don’t don’t have to say anything else till the Jedi come back and talk to you.” Slick told Chopper as he put his hand on his brother’s shoulder. Wait, did he just say till the Jedi come back. Twilight and I looked at each other in realization.

Chopper shoved Slick’s hand away from him. “Maybe you should talk, sir. Tell them where you went.” Chopper retaliated. “I was at the south exit, remember? I saw you go in, sir. I saw you.” Chopper said as he pointed his finger at the Sargent’s face. Was he talking about the command center?

“Chopper, I have been patient.” Slick tried to calm him down, but failed.

“Everyone else turned right, toward the barracks and the mess. You turned left, toward the command center. Where were you going, sir?” Chopper said, getting up to Slick’s face.

“Obviously, the kid feels cornered.” Slick said, but we knew better.

“Sergeant, what did you mean, ‘till the Jedi come back’? How did you know the Jedi were gone?” Cody said, walking up to him. Guess we weren’t the only ones who noticed. Everyone in the room stared at him as my Twilight and I slowly reached for our lightsabers. Applejack caught on and reached for her’s as well.

“I really wish you hadn’t noticed that, sir.” Slick said looking down, before sucker punching Cody and pushed him toward us. Twilight, Applejack, and I caught Cody as he was forced back onto us. Slick quickly elbowed Chopper in the face before jumping over the bed.

“It’s Slick?” Cody said getting up as Slick ran out the door. “Slick’s the traitor?” He said as we gave chase.

As we ran after him, Slick took a right at the intersection down the hall and we heard him bumped into someone. It was probably one of Xebo’s men guarding the barracks. We turned the corner and saw Slick on the ground with a familiar pink poofy mane pony girl holding a tray of cupcakes scattered around.

“Pinkie Pie?” We said in surprise. Slick tried to get back up, but Cody and I tackled him back to the floor.

“Pinkie, what are you doing here?” Twilight asked surprised to see her friend here.

“Well, I was going around the base to give the soldiers cupcakes after what happened on the mission to cheer everyone up a little.” Pinkie explained as Applejack helped her friend up. She saw that Cody was putting Slick's hand in cuffs behind his back. “So… what’s going on here?” Pinkie asked, a little confused why the sergeant was being put in cuffs.

“Slick snitched on us. Told the droids our ambush.” Applejack told Pinkie and she helped her up.

Pinkie Pie looked her in shock before quickly turning towards Slick. “NO CUPCAKE FOR YOU!” Pinkie Pie shouted at the clone traitor. My friends and I looked at her a bit awkwardly.

As Cody and I lifted Slick up, I can’t help but notice Slick’s gauntlet was blinking red. “Slick, what’s that red blinking?” I asked with concern in my face. Everyone turned to look at Slick’s gauntlet.

Slick just smirked at my question. “Let’s just say I don’t leave the job half finished.” He said confidently.

A second later, we felt the shaking of an explosion. We stumbled a little from the shock. Slick back slammed us as we lost our balance from the explosion, and tried to run. Before Slick can get far, I quickly lifted him up in the air with the force before he got too far away and threw him against the wall. Slick stumbled from the impact and fell to the floor.

“Commander Cody! Do you read me? The weapons depot just went up in flames. Many of the our tanks and gunships were destroyed along with it.” We hear Xebo’s voice from Cody’s communicator. Despite being captured, Slick just chuckled, figuring he won. My eye widen in shock as I remembered Rainbow Dash took her fighter to the weapons depot.

“Rainbow Dash, are you alright?! Rainbow Dash?!” I asked on my comlink. I didn’t want to believe she got caught in the explosion. My friends looked at me near shock until we heard coughing from my radio.

“Aegis?” We hear Rainbow Dash’s voice.

“Rainbow! Are you alright?!” Twilight asked in absolute worry.

“Uhhh, I’m fine. OH NO!” Rainbow Dash yell.

“Rainbow, what’s wrong!?” Applejack asked. If she’s physically fine, what could be the problem?

“Wonder Strike is completely destroyed!” We hear Rainbow Dash cry. We all felt horrible for her. Rainbow Dash spent months customizing her starfighter.

Cody picked Slick up and pinned him to the wall. “Why Slick!? Why betray you brothers? Was it for some shiny coin?” He demanded as he slammed the clone traitor into the wall.

“Yeah, she offered me money, but she offered me something more important. Something you wouldn’t understand. Freedom.” Slick said, looking at him dead in the eye. My friends and I looked at him with pity. Since they’re clones, they don’t have the same freedoms as everyone else. The clones were bred to fight this war, they never had a the option to be anything else except fighting. Even so, he never should have put his brothers lives in jeopardy.

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Sometime later, Slick was placed in the detention center until the Jedi Masters returned. When we checked what was left of the weapon depot, many of our blasters, and rocket launchers were destroyed as well. To make matters worse, almost all of the gunships and tanks were now just a flaming pile of wreckage with only one republic AT-TE remaining. Even though it was severely damaged. Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie carried what was left of the Wonder Strike back inside the friendship. Sunset, Fluttershy, and Rarity went to the medical center to help the injured soldiers caught in the blast. By the time Anakin and Kenobi returned, Rex and I went back to the detention center and took Slick to the Jedi.

“I think freedoms gonna have to wait.” Rex told Slick as we escorted him to the Jedi. With them was Cody, Xebo, and Twilight.

“Slick? It was you?” Obi-Wan said in surprise.

“He gave us a bit of a chase, sir.” Rex informed them.

“You couldn’t be a greater disappointment. How can you do this to you brothers and our allies?” Anakin asked him as he glares at the traitor.

Slick just scoffed at them. “Only a Jedi would ask that. It’s the Jedi who keep my brothers enslaved. We serve at your whim. I just wanted something more.” He told us looking down. Twilight and I can tell the Jedi weren't moved by his motives.

“And all you had to do to get it was put the rest of us all at risk.” Rex told Slick in anger.

“I… I love my brothers. You’re too blind to see it, but I was striking a blow for all clones.” Slick talked back at him, believing he was in the right.

“If you loved your brothers, you wouldn’t have put them at risk.” Cody pointed out to him.

“You betrayed every one of us.” Rex told him. Slick didn’t show it, but he still felt guilty at putting his brothers in harms way.

“Take him to lockup.” Cody ordered a pair of clones. The two clone troopers took Slick away. Slick may have betrayed us, but I do understand his reason, even if I don’t agree with his method.

“Were you able to salvage anything from the weapons depot?” Obi-Wan asked us.

“Unfortunately no. Slick managed to destroy almost everything. Seem that’s what he was going for all along.” Xebo responded. Looks like he was trying to weaken us as much as possible before the droids advanced on us.

“We managed to save the heavy cannons, along with a Walker.” Cody informed them.

“Well that’s good. ‘Cause there are about a thousand battle droids on their way here.” Obi-Wan told us. They must know that Slick managed to destroy most of our defenses.

“The fight goes on, gentlemen.” Anakin said to them. The soldier nodded and walked away to prepare for tomorrow.

“Master Jedi. Could Twilight and I talk to you for a moment?” I asked them, feeling we should discuss this with them.

Obi-Wan thought for a moment, wondering what I wanted to talk to him about. “Very well, Aegis. What do you want to ask?” Obi-Wan replied as Rex, Cody and Xebo left.

“Kenobi, what are the clones you fight alongside with are to you?” I asked them in all seriousness. Anakin and Obi-Wan looked at each other, wondering where I was going with this.

“They’re soldiers who made an oath to serve and protect the Republic.” Obi-Wan answered.

“Did they make that choice, or was it chosen for them?” Twilight asked, crossing her arms. The Jedi only blinked at what she said.

“What are you two trying to say?” Anakin asked with a raised eye brow.

“Anakin, the clones weren’t given the choice to fight this war. To them, there’s no life outside of war. And if you all make reckless decisions that cost the clones needless deaths, it’s little wonder Slick betrayed everyone if he thought he lived like a expendable slave.” I told them. I could feel Anakin getting irritated by what I just said.

“Aegis, these clones are vital to our war effort. Without them, the Republic would be completely defenseless. The clones understand this and are willing to risk their lives to fight the Separatists.” Obi-Wan defended himself.

“And for the record. We don’t treat our clones as slaves.” Anakin emphasized, a little angered.

I just sighed at his response. “For you, maybe. But that doesn’t excuse the fact that some of ya’ll plan put the clones in unnecessary danger. Especially after the Jedi chose to become their generals.” I told them before I turned to Anakin. “And for the record, Anakin. The clone troopers didn’t deny what Slick said about the Jedi. You want proof, look at the battle of Geonosis. You all may have won that battle, but it was a pyrrhic victory at best. Half of the clones there were killed because the Jedi never led a army since the Old Republic.” I told them, before leaving with Twilight. We could feel how stunned the Jedi were when I told them that.

“Are you alright, Aegis?” Twilight asked in concern.

“I don’t know, Twilight. I’m just a little frustrated with the Jedi.” I replied before sighing. “Guess what the Princesses said about the Jedi are true. They’ve lost their way.” I sadly said, worry about what the Jedi has become.

Twilight rested her hand on my shoulder. “Aegis, I know it’s sad with what the Jedi have turned into, but I believe we can still make a difference. Remember what the Princesses told us. We don’t have to focus on saving the galaxy, all we have to focus on is helping those we can.” Twilight assured me.

I can only smile, feeling a little better. “Thanks, Twilight. Let head back to the ship and get some rest. I get the feeling it’s gonna be a long day tomorrow." Twilight nodded and we headed back to our ship.

As we enter the Friendship’s hanger, we can see our friends staring at what was left of the Wonder Strike. The wings and thrusters were completely destroyed, the cockpit’s glass was shattered, and the rest of it extremely burned up. Rainbow Dash just look at her starfighter in absolute gloom.

“Oh Rainbow, I’m so sorry.” I said looking at my depressed friend. Rainbow Dash can only sigh. She was a fly pony at heart, and seeing her personal starfighter was like taking a blow to the heart. It pained us to see our blue pony friend at depressed like this. Thinking of a way to cheer her up, I stood next to her. “Don’t worry, Dash. After this mission, we’ll help you remake it. Maybe even better.” I said, trying to cheer her up.

“Yeah, maybe we can even add some upgrades to it.” Sunset added. All of our friends agreed.

Rainbow Dash smiled a little and looked at us. “Thank’s everyone. I feel a little better now.” She said.

We all at some dinner and went to our bedrooms. I got out my journal and started writing on my journal.

“Dear Princess Celestia. Today we were betrayed by one of our own. While we did find the traitor, we were shocked to find out it was a clone. He believed that the Jedi were treating him and his brothers like slaves. While I don’t agree with what he did, I do understand his reasons. Even though the truth enlightens the mind, but won’t always bring happiness to your heart. Your’s Aegis Spirit.” I said as I wrote in the journal. I set the Journal down on the table and went to bed, worried what tomorrow will bring.

Chapter 3: Protecting Christophsis Part 3

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The next morning was tough. The droid army launched a full forward attack on us. My friends and I rushed to the frontline to help out the soldiers. The clones and militia men took cover behind a make shift barricade of rubble and opened fire on approaching droid army. Though damaged, the tortoise tank was still in the fight. It took cover on the side of the buildings and returned fire. We managed to handle the first wave relatively easy, with just B1 droids and super battle droid sent at us. The Jedi sent one of our last remaining transport ships to get more supplies and reinforcements. Unfortunately, the droids regrouped and mounted a second offensive.

“They’re back.” Anakin said out loud as the soldiers got back into defensive positions. Another battalion of droids were sent our way, flanked by three tri-droids providing long range fire.

“Thank’s for stating the obvious.” Xebo said sarcastically, wielding her MA5B Assault blaster.

Obi-Wan ran toward us as some clones and riflemen went past by us. “I told you this victory was too easy. We never should have sent the ship back for supplies.” Obi-Wan told Anakin.

“It wasn’t my idea to send the ship back.” Anakin countered.

“All right men, second wave incoming.” Obi-Wan ordered the troops around him.

“Rex, you and your men follow me.” Anakin ordered Rex with clone soldiers behind him.

“Mind if I come come along?” Rainbow Dash asked smirking.

“Only if you can keep up.” Anakin responded, smiling a little. Rainbow chuckled a little before following them.

“Cody, battle positions!” Obi-Wan ordered him, as the soldiers continued to pass by us.

“Up to the front.” Cody yelled to the soldiers. Xebo went with them to the barricade.

“Let’s go, everyone.” I told my friends. We followed behind the Kenobi and the soldiers to the frontline.

The battle droids kept walking towards us despite the blaster and cannon fire being unleashed on them. They still manage to continue raining plasma bolts at us. My friends got in font of the barricade and lit our lightsabers, reflects any blaster bolts back at the droids.

“Ya would think these droids would take a hint.” I hear Applejack complain next to me, reflecting a blaster bolt at the droids. Obi-Wan signaled the men behind the barricade and they fired a barrage of blaster bolts at the droids. As we continue reflecting bolts, cannon fire continued to fly over our heads, blasting the droid battalion to pieces.

“Skywalker should have attacked by now.” I heard Cody said.

“Don’t worry! He knows the plan!” Obi-Wan responded. Knowing him and Rainbow Dash, they’re gonna do something flashy.

A couple moments later, we see Anakin and Rainbow Dash jump from a tall building and onto one of the tri-droids in the middle as the troopers jumped pack down, opening fire on the tri-droid in the far back. Rainbow Dash and Anakin covered each other’s backs as the other tri-droids tried to shoot them down.

“There they are. Commence the kill box.” Xebo ordered on her comm. With the tri-droids distracted, the militia and clone troopers hiding in the building on both sides of the main road came out and opened fire on the droids below them. Good thing Xebo made this plan, Kenobi wanted to charge with the soldiers when given the opportunity. We basically shot that plan down and went with Xebo’s. Anakin and Dash managed to get the tri-droids to fire on one another, destroying the one they were on before jumping to another of the towering droids.

Once the droid battalion was thinned out enough, Master Kenobi, my friends, and I charged in to finish the rest. I reflected a blaster bolt back at a b1 droid before slashing a super battle droid in two. Many of the clones and militia riflemen moved up behind us, opening fire on the remaining droids around us. I forced pushed the last of the droids in front of me, allowing the soldiers to gun them down.

As I sliced the nearest super battle droid in front of me. I saw Anakin slice the leg of the last tri-droid, jump down and managed to slice a b1-droid with Rainbow Dash behind him. Without the third leg, the tall tri-droid came crashing into the ground.

With the second wave defeated, the soldiers moved forward, using the destroyed tri-droids as cover. We rejoined with Anakin and Rainbow Dash as the next wave of droids closes in on us.

“We’re gonna need reinforcements.” Anakin told us, looking at his master.

“We haven’t been able to get through to the admiral.” Obi-Wan responded, not taking his eyes off the approaching droids.

This is bad, I’m not sure how long we can keep fighting like this. Luckily, the heavy cannons were firing nonstop at the droid tanks. I continued reflecting blaster bolts until the droids decided to retreat.

“They’re pulling back.” Anakin said, relaxing his guard a bit as the soldiers continued to fire upon the retreating droids. I sighed in relief that we finally caught a breather.

Just then, a Republic transport shuttle flew over us toward the landing zone at our base.

“Looks like help has arrived.” Obi-Wan said as R2-D2 beeped next to us.

“But is that it? I was expecting at least more ships.” Xebo said concerned. I nodded with her, wondering why only one ship showed up.

Applejack, Twilight, and I walked with Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Xebo to base as the rest of my friends went around to help where they can.

“Our cruiser must be back.” Obi-Wan said as we walk to the landing area.

“Which means we’ll be able to get our reinforcements.” Anakin added.

“Then it looks like our problems are solved. Fresh troops, new supplies, and perhaps they brought my new Padawan with them.” Obi-Wan said. He’s bringing a Padawan? I know that Padawans are the future of the Jedi order, but I doubt any of them are ready for war. I know I fully wasn’t, despite our training with the Militia.

“You really think it’s a good idea to bring a Padawan learner into all this?” Anakin asked his master, doubting the whole idea. At least he agrees with me.

“I spoke to Master Yoda about it. You should put in a request for one. You’d make a good teacher.” Obi-Wan told Anakin. Honestly, it would be interesting to see Anakin teaching. He’ll probably do things a lot different than most Jedi Masters.

Anakin only chuckled. “No, thanks.” He denied.

“Anakin, teaching is a privilege. And it’s part of a Jedi’s responsibility to help train the next generation.” Obi-Wan told him as the shuttle landed.

“A Padawan would just slow me down.” Anakin retorted.

“Well, it would do something about that hot head of yours.” Xebo commented while smirking. We laughed a little as Anakin glared at the lieutenant.

As we approached the shuttle, it’s ramp lowered down, revealing a young togruta girl walking out. She had orange skin with white markings on her face and blue stripes on her lekus. The togruta looks to be a couple years younger than me and my friends.

“A youngling.” Obi-Wan said surprised. We all were, considering a Padawan would be a little older.

“Great, another kid.” Xebo sarcastically muttered. I could feel she didn’t like the idea of another child taking part of this war.

“And who are you supposed to be?” Anakin asked as R2-D2 beeped excitedly at a new face.

“I’m Ahsoka. Master Yoda sent me. I was told to tell both of you that you must get back to the Jedi Temple immediately. There’s an emergency.” Ahsoka told Anakin and Obi-Wan. I wonder what happened that Master Yoda sent her here himself.

“Well, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we’re in a bit of an emergency right here.” Anakin told her, a bit annoyed.

“Yes, our communications have been a bit unreliable, but we’ve been calling for help.” Obi-Wan informed her.

“Master Yoda hadn’t heard from you so he sent me to deliver the message.” Ahsoka told us. Wait, the Republic Military weren’t hearing us and didn’t bother to investigate.

Anakin sighed. “Oh, great. They don’t even know we’re in trouble.” He exclaimed in annoyance. Xebo just rubbed her nose in frustration.

“Maybe you can relay a signal through the cruiser that just dropped me off.” Ahsoka suggested.

“Good thinking, Ahsoka. It’s worth a shot.” I said. Xebo, Obi-Wan and Anakin agreed. “Oh, and I’m Aegis Skiritai. These are my friends Twilight and Applejack.” I introduced us.

“Nice to meet you… Wait, your Aegis!” She said surprised.

“Um, Yes?” I responded, a little confuse at why she was startled.

Obi-Wan walked up next to me. “When you and your friends left the order. You gained quite the reputation when you all left.” He told us.

“Really? What kind of reputation?” Twilight asked, but Xebo cut in.

“As much as I’m curious, we need to contact your cruiser.” Xebo told us. We nodded in agreement and headed to to the holoprojector table. We managed to get in contact with the cruiser. Unfortunately, it turned out the cruiser was under attack by CIS ships.

“We’re under attack by Separatist warships, but I’ll try to make with the Jedi Temple for you. Stand by.” A clone officer said on the holoprojector table.

A few moments later, the hologram of Master Yoda appeared. “Master Kenobi, glad Ahsoka found you, I am.” Master Yoda said.

“Master Yoda, we are trapped here, and vastly outnumbered. We are in no position to go anywhere or do anything. Our support ships have all been destroyed.” Obi-Wan informed the Grand Jedi Master.

“Send reinforcements to you, we will.” Master Yoda said before the transmission started to crackle. Meaning we were losing the connection.

“Master Yoda? Master Yoda?” Obi-Wan said, the image of master Yoda faded out.

“We’ve lost the transmission, sir.” The clone officer said, before another one ran up behind him.

“We have to leave orbit immediately. More enemy ships have just arrived. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can.” The other clone officer said before the transmission was lost. I really hoped they were alright.

“Guess all we can do is hold out.” Xebo said, crossing her arms. Anakin nodded in agreement.

“At least the heavy cannons still have ammo. They'll blow away any assault from those droids throw at us.” Applejack assured.

“That maybe true, Applejack. But I’m worried if the droids will find a way around them.” Twilight grimly said. Obi-Wan and Xebo nodded their heads in agreement.

Obi-Wan looked at Ahsoka, figuring it was a good time for formal introductions. “My apologies, young one. It’s time for a proper introduction.” He said before walking to the youngling.

“I’m the new Padawan learner. I’m Ahsoka Tano.” The Padawan formerly introduced herself.

“I’m Obi-Wan Kenobi, your new master.” Obi-Wan said.

“I’m at your service, Master Kenobi, but I’m afraid I’ve actually been assigned to Master Skywalker.” Ahsoka said pointing at said Jedi. We looked at her in surprise, Anakin most of all.

“What? No, no, no. There must be some mistake. He’s the who wanted the Padawan.” Anakin said, pointing at Obi-Wan.

“No, Master Yoda was very specific. I’m assigned to Anakin Skywalker, and he is to supervise my Jedi training.” Ahsoka corrected. Obi-Wan looked amuse as he looked at his former student. My friends and I couldn’t help but share his amusement.

Anakin took a moment to think. “But that doesn’t make any sense.”

“We’ll have to sort this out later.” Obi-Wan interrupted him. “It won’t be long before those droids figure out a way around our cannons.”

“I’ll check on Rex in the lookout post.” Anakin said before he started walking.

“You’d better take her with you.” Obi-Wan pointed out. Anakin looked a bit reluctant before Ahsoka walked with him.

My friends and I looked at Obi-Wan. “You didn’t have anything to do with that. Did you?” Twilight asked.

“No, though I wish I thought of it sooner.” Obi-Wan told us smirking. We laughed a little before we left.

Applejack and Twilight headed to the Friendship to find explosives for a plan Twilight came up with. I decided to head toward the lookout post to meet up with Anakin and Ahsoka. If I recalled, Pinkie and Sunset should be there as well. I managed to reach the two Jedi just as the arrived at the lookout post elevator.

“Mind if I come along.” I asked Anakin.

“More the merrier.” Anakin shrugged as we entered the elevator, though I can tell he was still annoyed at having a Padawan. Anakin pressed the button, taking us to the top.

“So, I gotta ask. What kind of reputation do my friends and I have? I asked Ahsoka as the elevator rose up.

“Well, a lotta Jedi see you and you friends as rogue Jedi. While some other respect you all for helping neutral planets effected by the war.” Ahsoka answered. I can guess which Jedi thinks we’re rogue. Say a certain Jedi who never smiles. The elevator reached the top floor and opened up. We headed toward Captain Rex, Sunset, and Pinkie Pie overlooking the streets below.

“What’s the status, Rex?” Anakin asked the Captain.

“Quiet for now, sir. They’re gearing up for another assault.” Rex answered before Pinkie ran up to Ahsoka.

“Hiya! I’m Pinkie Pie! Who are you!” Pinkie Pie asked, smiling enthusiastically close to ahsoka’s face. Pinkie was always excited in meeting new people.

“Um… I’m Master Skywalker’s Padawan. The name’s Ahsoka Tano.” Ahsoka introduced herself, a bit surprised as Pinkie’s cheerful attitude.

“Nice to meet you Ahsoka. I’m Sunset Shimmer.” Sunset introduced herself.

Rex looked at Anakin for a moment. “Sir, I thought you said you’d never have a Padawan.” He said to Anakin.

“There’s been a mix-up. The youngling isn’t with me.” Anakin told him.

“Stop calling me that! You’re stuck with me, Skyguy.” Ahsoka said, smirking. All of us laughed at the nickname she gave Anakin, Pinkie most of all.

“What did you just call me? Don’t get snippy with me, little one. You know, I don’t even think you’re old enough to be a Padawan.” Anakin told her a bit angrily.

“Well, maybe I’m not, but Master Yoda thinks I am.” Ahsoka argued back confidently. Ahsoka maybe young, but if Master Yoda said she was, there must be a reason behind it.

“Well, you’re not with Master Yoda now. So, if you’re ready, you better start proving it. Captain Rex will show you how a little respect can go a long way.” Anakin told her, though Rex looked reluctant.

“Right.” Rex stuttered a bit. “Come on, youngling.” Rex told Ahsoka as he headed to the elevator.

“Padawan.” Ahsoka muttered in annoyance before walking with him.

“I better go with them, make sure Ahsoka wouldn’t be too much for Rex.” I told Anakin.

“I would appreciate that, Aegis.” Anakin thanked me before I headed toward Rex and Ahsoka.

A little while later, we were walking next to the heavy cannons. The clones are making sure the cannons still functioning despite being rapidly fired earlier.

“Have you thought about moving that line back, Captain? They’d have better cover that way.” Ahsoka asked Rex.

“Thanks for the suggestion, but General Skywalker thinks they’re fine where they are.” Rex told her.

“Not to mention that we need to keep the droid army away from the heavy cannons as much as possible.” I added. Anything happens to them, we won’t be able to hold out until reinforcements arrive.

“So, if you’re a captain and I’m a Jedi, then, technically, I outrank you, right?” Ahsoka asked him.

“Ahsoka, being a Jedi doesn’t automatically mean your better at commanding soldiers.” I told her. I swear, this is a problem with a bunch Jedi.

“He’s right, kid. Experience outrank everything.” Rex told her.

“Well, if experience outranks everything, I guess I better start getting some.” Ahsoka replied before we heard a strange sound in the distance. “What’s that?” She asked, looking down the road. We turned our sight down the main road and saw a red energy dome in the distance and growing.

“Rex, please tell me that isn’t what I think it is?” I asked him in absolute worry.

“I’m afraid it is. They’ve got an energy shield. That’s gonna make things near impossible. If you wanted experience, little one, it looks like you’re about to get plenty.” Rex told Ahsoka as the shield slowly grew in size.

After contacting the Jedi and Xebo about the shield, we reconvened back at the holoprojector table. I called my friends and told them to meet us there. Once everyone was here, we went over the situation. The holoprojecter table showed a map of the city with the red energy shield slowly growing.

“The energy generator is somewhere in this area. They’re slowly increasing the diameter of the shield, and keeping it just ahead of their troops.” Obi-Wan told us, pointing at the holographic shield generator on the map of the city.

“Heavy cannons are gonna be useless against that.” Rex pointed out.

“As they get closer, I suppose we could try to draw them into the buildings. That might level the playing field a bit.” Obi-Wan suggested.

“But that’ll only slow them down at best, even with the AT-TE tank. We’re gonna need to get a little creative.” Xebo pointed out.

“If that shield’s gonna be such a problem, why don’t we just take it out.” Ahsoka suggested.

“Easier said than done.” Rex told her. Getting past the droid army is gonna be difficult enough, not to mention whatever is most likely guarding the generator.

“Well, I, for one, agree with her.” Anakin voiced his opinion. “Someone has to get to that shield generator and destroy it. That’s the key.”

“He’s right, I don’t see any other way we can hold off the droids without the heavy cannons.” Xebo agreed with Anakin.

“Right, then. Maybe you two can tiptoe through the enemy lines and solve this particular problem together.” Obi-Wan told them.

“Can do, Master Kenobi.” Ahsoka replied.

“I’ll decide what we do.” Anakin sternly told her. Hopefully they can accomplish the task without getting on each other’s nerves too much.

“If the rest of us can engage them here, you two might have a chance to get through their lines undetected, here.” Obi-Wan told them, pointing at a section of the map.

“They won’t have much time. The droids far outnumber us, so our ability to street fight is limited without the use of heavy cannons. They will march forward under the protection of their shield until they are right on top of our cannons, then they’ll blow them away.” Rex told us.

“With most of the droid army coming here. The shield generator should only have a handful of droids guarding it.” Sunset told us.

“We’ll handle it. Come on, Master, let’s go.” Ahsoka told her master as she started walking away.

“If we survive this, snips, you and I are gonna have a talk.” We heard Anakin muttered to Ahsoka as they walked away.

I looked at my friends, wondering which could help them the most. “Rarity, mind going with them? If anyone can find a weakness in the droids parameter, it’s you.” I asked her. Rarity always had a talent on the smallest details. if there’s a gap in the droid army line, she’ll find it.

“Of course, dear. We’ll get that shield down as soon as possible.” Rarity replied before she joined with Anakin and Ahsoka.

“They make quite a pair, don’t they sir? You think they have a chance?” Rex asked Obi-Wan, looking at Anakin and Ahsoka.

“They better. If they can’t turn off that shield generator before it reaches the heavy cannons, there’ll be no escape for any of us.” Obi-Wan grimly said.

Twilight put her hand on her chin. “I may have a idea with that.” Twilight spoke up.

“What do you have in mind?” Xebo asked.

“If we rig the transport ship with our torpedoes from the Friendship. We could crash it into the droid army, taking out many of them, and creating a huge pot hole, which will slow down their advance a bit.” Twilight explained the plan. This was probably our best plan. The energy only blocks against energy projectiles. Which means that the transport would fly right through it.

“Not bad plan, Twilight. It could buy us the time we need.” Rex said.

“Thanks, Rex.” Twilight told him smiling.

“Wait. What about your starship? Can’t we use it as air support.” Xebo asked us.

I thought about it before answering. “I’m afraid that may not work. With that energy shield up, we would have to fly in it to fire the ship’s weapons. And if we do, the tall buildings will make maneuverability impossible. Their tanks can easily shot our ship down.

“Alright then, we’ll go with Twilight’s plan. Now the question is who will fly it.” Obi-Wan said.

“Leave that to me.” Rainbow Dash smirked confidently.

We looked at her a bit worriedly. “You sure, Dash?” Fluttershy asked in concern.

“You kidding. I’m best pilot in the galaxy. I’ll just jump out of the cockpit and land on one of the building before the ship crashes.” Rainbow Dash assured.

“Anakin might argue with you being the best pilot in the galaxy.” Obi-Wan told us smirking. Huh, I guess Anakin is an expert pilot, though I wonder who’s better. Rainbow Dash or Anakin?

“Ohh! Can I add something to the explosives?” Pinkie Pie eagerly asked. All of gave her a raised eyebrow, wondering what she was planning.

“Um, sure.” I replied. Pinkie just squealed in excitement.

“Then we have a plan. Let’s get those torpedoes loaded as soon as possible.” Xebo told us. We nodded in agreement and went to work.

A while later, as Pinkie Pie and the soldiers were loading the transport shuttle with the torpedoes, my friends, Obi-wan and I watch the heavy cannons were bombarding the energy shield with everything they had. Despite that however, the energy shield showed no sign of weakening.

“That shield is certainly putting a cramp in my day.” Obi-Wan complained, watching the shield grow in size through his binocs.

“It’s no use, sir! Even at full power, the cannon doesn’t affect it.” Rex told him.

“All right, Rex. It was worth a try. Tell the men to fall back!” Obi-Wan ordered.

Just then, my comm went off. “Aegis, it’s Rainbow Dash. The transport is fully loaded with explosives.” Rainbow Dash informed me.

“All right, Rainbow Dash. Once the tanks are close to the tall buildings, we’ll let you know to take off.” I responded. I wanted Rainbow Dash to be close enough to the buildings to jump on.

A few minutes later, the droid army finally reached the tall buildings “Dash, the droids are close to the tall buildings. Take off now.” I told her.

“Copy that. Delivering Pinkie Pie’s special package.” Rainbow Dash replied. I wondered what Pinkie’s special package was?

We see the transport ship take off and flew over us toward the droid army. I took out my own binocs and watched the ship fly closer to the energy shield. Since the energy shield can only reflect plasma, the transport ship flew through the shield with ease. I saw Rainbow Dash get ejected out of the cockpit as the ship fell down the droid army. Rainbow Dash used her force speed to jump off of her ejected chair and landed on the roof of a nearby building. The droid tanks tried to shoot down the transport, but the ship shields held up as it crashed into a column of droids. At that moment, the ship exploded in a massive ball of flame, taking many of the droids with it. The detonation of the ship was followed by explosions of colorful fireworks.

Obi-Wan, Xebo, and the soldiers were confused at why there were fireworks in that explosion.

“Who put fire works in the transport?” Xebo asked a little baffled, until we heard Pinkie Pie giggling in excitement. We turned our heads toward my pink friend.

“Pinkie, did you put fireworks in it?” Fluttershy asked her.

Pinkie Pie nodded vigorously. “Uh huh. I put my party fireworks in that ship so we would have fun watching it.” She answered.

We could only laugh. “Well, you definitely succeeded at that. I’m betting the CIS commander is trying to figure why there’s fireworks.” I said laughing with the others.

The exploding created a huge deep crater. The droids and tanks had to slowly work their way around the crater to advance. With the droid army slowed down, the energy shield stopped growing so to cover the army. Now that we bought some extra time, we moved up to the roof of some damaged buildings as Xebo and Cody stayed behind with the cannons. It took the droid army a while, but they eventually managed to resume their advance. We waited for the moment to strike until the energy shield passed over us as the droid army were below us.

“We’re inside the shield. Just stay away from this tanks.” Obi-Wan told us before igniting his lightsaber. The droid army continued their march as the forward tri-droid opened fire on possible defense points for the soldiers. Obi-Wan jumped off the building and stabbed his lightsaber in a super battle droid before slicing it half. My friends and I jumped down, slicing the droids around Obi-Wan. The clone and militia soldiers came down the building through the use of cables, while shooting down any nearby droids. Rex drew out his duel DC-17 hand blasters and opened fire on the droids. Obi-Wan, my friends, and I cut down the droids near us as the soldier opened fire on the other ones.

The droids turned their attention at us and opened fire. Pinkie Pie decided to activate her lightwhip, turning her blade into a rope of pure plasma. She whirled it around, slicing the droids to pieces. It was effective, but it left Pinkie in a difficult position to defend from blaster fire. Luckily, Fluttershy was protecting Pinkie with her yellow qinata. Applejack detached her blaster pistol from her lightsaber and fired on the droids why defending herself. Twilight force pushed groups of droids that were getting to close, knocking them to the ground. Sunset continued to force pull droids to here as she sliced them to one by one. Despite our best efforts, the droids kept coming and we were forced to fall back to the building behind us.

“Where’s the General?” I heard Rex ask. I took a quick look around and couldn’t see the Jedi Master. Where could he have gone?

“I don’t know, sir!” A clone soldier yelled as the troops started to fall back into the building while the others provided cover fire.

My friends and I were the last to fall back inside the building. Droids poured in through the door we went through. Pinkie Pie and Applejack did a force push together, sending the droids back outside. However, the droids behind them continued to come toward us. My friend and I were still blocking shots until the droids threw a grenade at us. We jumped out of the way as the grenade exploded. We were forced out of the building we were in and had to retreat to another one. In the last fallback building, we saw Super battle droids in there attacking the clone and militia troopers. I cut down the nearest battle droids near me as possible. One of the super battle droids grabbed a clone soldier by his neck and lifted him up.

Before I could throw my lightsaber at the super battle droid holding him, Obi-Wan jumped from the broken rooftop and sliced the super battle droid’s arms off, freeing the clone. Obi-Wan force push the disarmed super battle droid at another one behind it. The last super battle droid pointed it’s wrist blaster at the Jedi Master, but Rainbow Dash jumped down from the roof, slicing the droid in two with her double blade blue lightsaber. Rex ran up to the Jedi Master as the soldier continued firing their blasters at the droids. My friends continued defending the clones, but there where just too much droids coming.

“They’re right behind us, sir! We couldn’t hold them off.” Rex told him as an explosion occurred outside. Rex, Obi-Wan, and I took cover behind a console and everyone fell back.

“Shouldn’t the shields be down by now?” I told them. What could be taking Rarity, Anakin, and Ahsoka so long?

“I don’t know, Aegis. But the shield has almost reached the heavy cannons.” Obi-Wan told us as the droids continued moving toward us.

“We’re not gonna be able to stop them, sir.” Rex told him.

“Move your troops back to the heavy cannons. Do everything you can to protect them. I’ll delay the droids.” Obi-Wan told Rex. The captain and I looked at him as if he was crazy.

“But…” Rex tried to refuse, but Obi-Wan didn’t let him.

“That is an order, Captain!” Obi-Wan ordered him, placing his hand on the troopers shoulder. Rex nodded and fell back with the rest of his troops.

A super battle droid jumped on the console we took cover behind and I stabbed it with my lightsaber.

“You must leave as well, Aegis.” Obi-Wan told me as he got out of cover and started deflecting lasers. I wanted to argue, but I knew he wouldn’t listen.

“Be careful, Master Kenobi.” I told him before falling back while deflecting lasers.

We fell all the way back to the make shift barricade and made our last stand. The republic walker opened fire on the droids, but was destroyed by the AAT tanks. The soldiers took cover and returned fire on the approaching droids.

“This is bad, I’m not sure how long we can hold out.” Sunset said, deflecting lasers.

I noticed a clone trooper running up to Rex. “Sir! General Kenobi’s been captured! There’s no one else left.” The clone trooper told the Captain. I looked at him in worry. If he was captured, the CIS Commander may try to force him to surrender.

“We’ve got to hold out! We can’t let that shield reach the cannons. Keep fighting!” Rex ordered. Just as he said that, Lieutenant Xebo, Cody, and a handful of soldier came to help. Some of the Militia soldiers were carrying some rocket launchers. The soldiers fired their rocket at the tanks, completely obliterating them, but no matter what, the droids kept coming.

“Ah!” I hear Twilight scream. I looked toward my right in fear and saw her get blasted in the shoulder, dropping her lightsaber.

“TWILIGHT!” We yelled as Rainbow Dash and Applejack got in front of her, blocking the lasers. Fluttershy pulled Twilight to cover and owl jumped off off Twilight’s back, popping a stim vial from his head. Fluttershy grabbed it and healed Twilight with it.

If the droids continued, everyone and my friends will die. While a part of me was in absolute rage, that I just wanted to make the droid army pay. I remembered what Princess Celestia once told me a way to overcome my anger. She told me to focus on my friends and family, people I care about. For they are what I fight for. Thanks to that, I managed to calm myself.

I sheathed my lightsaber and took cover behind the barracked. My eyes closed as I took a deep breath, and reached out through the force. I focused on the one force ability that I was the strongest at using. An ability that protects not just me, but those around me. Just as the droids were getting close at over running us, my eyes shot up with a fierce determination.

“UHHH!” I yelled at the top of my lungs, and created a huge force barrier. However, this was no ordinary force barrier. It’s big enough to cover the entire main road, blocking the blaster fire from the droid army. All the soldiers stopped firing and turned towards me in amazement. Around us was a barrier made from the Force.

“Aegis?” Xebo asked, surprise that I was doing this. My friends looked at me in worry. They knew that creating a force barrier this huge was taxing on a person’s body.

“Aegis, you need to stop! If you don’t, you’ll overtax your body. You could pass out for who knows how long.” Sunset urged me to stop. Xebo, Rex, and Cody looked at me, realizing that I was extremely putting myself in harms way.

“Even so! I made an promise that I will protect as many people to the best I can. And that’s exactly what I’ll do!” I yelled, despite feeling fatigue. I continued to use my all to protect everyone around me. The droids tried to physically move through the force barrier, but they couldn’t. To them, it was like hitting a wall. Seeing that they couldn’t move through it, they decided resume their fire, blasting my force barrier with everything they had. Despite this, I would not let my barrier drop. A few of the droid tanks decided to ram the barrier, resorting to brute force. My vision started to blur. Not to mention my concentration was taking a tool, making it hard for me to think. There were just too many droid attacking my barrier at once. If this keeps up, my barrier will break. Luckily, just before my barrier was about to break, the CIS energy shield finally went down. I dropped the force barrier and fell to my knees in complete exhaustion, feeling like my limbs just became jelly. With out their energy shield, the droid army was vulnerable to our cannons.

“Rex!” Xebo yelled at him.

“Right. All cannons, fire on those tanks!” Rex yelled. The cannons aimed their barrels at the tanks and opened fire. A barrage of plasma flew towards the droid tanks, destroying them one by one. They kept firing until the entire forward droid army was destroyed. A little bit later, republic gunships flew over us, wiping out the last of the droid army on the main road. All the soldier cheered as my friends came up next to me.

“Aegis, are you alright?” Fluttershy asked concern, resting her hand on my shoulder.

“Yeah, just tired and a headache. What about you, Twilight? Are you alright?” I asked, still on my knees. Twilight held her injured shoulder.

“I’m alright. That stim vial healed my shoulder.” Twilight said, showing that her wound was healed and moved it around, though we can still tell she’s still in pain. Still, I sighed in relief that she was alive. “Still. I wish you’d be more careful. Creating that force barrier could have knocked you out for a good while.”

“I know, Twilight. But I couldn’t just do nothing.” I told them.

The girls just sighed while smiling. “We know you want to protect us, but promise us you won’t try something that crazy again.” Sunset asked.

“We both know that’s not possible. But I’ll try not to make a habit of it.” I replied, joking a little.

After the last of the droids were dealt with, an acclamator class republic ship landed near the city. When the ramp lowered, clone troopers troopers and Republic walkers got out of the ship, securing the city. After feeling my strength return to me, my friends and I helped around with the injured soldiers on the battlefield. Rex took a gunship to pick up Rarity, Anakin, and Ahsoka.

When my friends got to the medical tents I couldn’t help but notice a lot of filled up body bags. In them were soldiers, both clone and militia, killed in battle. So many had died for this world. Maybe if I did more, they wouldn’t have died.

“Are you okay, Aegis?” I hear Pinkie Pie asked me, sensing my sorrowful mood. I turned around with to see Pinkie Pie looking at me in concern. The rest of my friends heard Pinkie’s question and turned their attention toward me.

“I’m fine.” I simply responded, not taking my eyes of the body bags before me.

“Now sugercube, you should know I can tell you ain’t the truth.” Applejack told me, noticing I was feeling down. The rest of my friends walked toward me as the last of the injured militia soldiers were carried away on a stretcher.

I sighed. “I just wish I did more to help these people.” I said sadly.

“Don’t say that.” We heard Xebo said as she walked toward us.

“Lieutenant?” I said.

“Aegis, you and your friends did everything you could to help us get through this. In war, there will always be casualties. But it could have been a lot worse if you and your friends weren’t here. There’s no point thinking of looking what you could have done, but to look at who you did do.” Xebo told us, gesturing me to look at the people that were still alive.

I just smiled at the advice she gave me. “Thank you, Lieutenant. I needed that.” I said smiling. Xebo simply returned the smile with her own.

Just then, A clone walked toward us. “Excuse me, sir. General Yoda requests your presence at the acclimator.” The clone trooper told me. Master Yoda was here. I wondered why.

“Um… okay. We’ll be there soon.” I replied. The clone trooper nodded and walked away.

“What do you all think Yoda want to see us for?” Fluttershy asked with a questionable look.

“Oh, maybe he just want to see how we’re doing.” Pinkie suggested.

“Well, we won’t know until we see him. Lets go.” Rainbow Dash said. We nodded and walked to the acclimator ship.

Once we reached the large ship, we spotted Master Obi-Wan already talking to Master Yoda. The Grand Master noticed us walking toward them and smiled.

“Good to see you all again, it is.” Master Yoda told us.

“Likewise, Master Yoda.” I returned the smile. A Republic gunship caught my attention as I saw Rarity with Anakin and Ahsoka. The gunship landed and the three force users got off, walking towards us.

“Master Yoda. Master Obi-Wan.” Anakin greeted. Rarity instantly noticed the bandage on Twilight’s shoulder were she took the laser bolt.

“Oh my stars, Twilight! Are you all alright!?” She asked with a shocked look.

“I’m okay, Rarity. Aegis managed to hold the entire droid army with a huge force barrier. Buying us a little more time.” Twilight informed her..

The Jedi stared at me in shock. “Wait. That was you! I sensed a powerful force presence at the shield.” Obi-Wan said in shock. A sentiment that was shared by the other Jedi.

I nodded my head. “We were on our last leg and I just tried to help the best I can until the energy shield went down. Speaking of which. Was there any trouble taking it down?” I asked them.

“Um… There were a couple complications.” Rarity said sheepishly as she briefly looked at Ahsoka. I raised a eyebrow at what she meant.

“Trouble, you have, with your new Padawan, I hear.” Yoda told Anakin. Ahsoka and Anakin glanced at each other.

“I was explaining the situation to Master Yoda.” Obi-Wan told him.

“Really?” Anakin said to his Master.

“If not ready for a Padawan, you are, then perhaps, Obi-Wan, we can…” Yoda began to say before Anakin stopped him.

“No, wait a minute. I admit Ahsoka is a little rough around the edges. But with a great deal of training, and patience, she might amount to something.” Anakin told Yoda.

“Then go with you, she will, to the Teth system.” Yoda told Anakin. My friends and I raised an eyebrow wondering why. If I recalled correctly, the Teth system was in Wild Space.

“Teth? That’s Wild Space. The droid army isn’t even in that sector.” Anakin said, just as confuse as I was.

“Kidnapped, Jabba the Hutt’s son has been.” Yoda told us as he turned around. My friends and I were shocked. We couldn’t believe someone even had the guts to cross Jabba like that.

“You want me to rescue Jabba’s son?” Anakin said, clearly not liking the idea.

“Anakin, we’ll need the Hutt’s allegiance to give us an advantage over Dooku.” Obi-Wan tried to reason with him. I don’t like the Hutts, but if the CIS gain and alliance with them, they could spread their droid army across multiple Republic systems. Including the systems that want to stay out of the war.

Yoda hummed in thought. “Negotiate the treaty with Jabba, Obi-Wan will. Find the renegades that hold Jabba’s son, your mission will be, Skywalker.” The Jedi Grand Master told them.

“Come on, Master, it doesn’t sound that hard. I’ll find Rex and get the troops organized.” Ahsoka confidently said before running off.

Obi-Wan looked at his former student. “Don’t worry, Anakin. Just teach her everything I taught you and she’ll turn out fine.” Obi-Wan gave advice to Anakin.

“You know, something makes me think this was your idea from the start.” Anakin told Obi-Wan before he walked away, but stopped as he toward my friends and I. “Wait. Aegis, you all are freelancers. Right?” He asked.

“Um… Yes. Why do you ask?” I asked, wondering what he was getting at.

“Well, I was wondering if you all would like to help us rescue Jabba’s son.” Anakin offered, but some of my friends weren’t really happy about it. Not that I can blame them.

“Now hold on now, you expect us to help you all with the Hutt’s. Need I remind you that the Hutts are crime lords.” Applejack told them a little irritated.

“Not to mention that they’re slavers!” Pinkie Pie yelled. Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Rarity nodded in agreement.

While I agree with my friends, I can’t help but worry about Jabba’s son. I looked down in thought. My brother taught me that if I had a chance to help innocent people in need, I would help them, No matter who or what they are. I looked up at the the Jedi to give them my decision. “We’ll help. But we won’t do it for free.” I answered. My friends looked at me in surprise.

“Aegis? You sure? I mean, these are the Hutts we are talking about.” Twilight told me.

I looked at them with a determined look. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a Hutt. If someone’s in trouble, I want to help them.” I told my friends. My friends looked at one another, still a bit unsure until Fluttershy spoke up.

“I agree with Aegis. Just because Jabba’s son is a Hutt, doesn’t mean he’s a bad person.” Fluttershy said. The rest of my friends smiled and agreed.

“Grateful for your help, we are. Rewarded, you will be, when rescued Jabba’s son is.” Yoda told me.

“Thank you, Master Yoda. Anakin, we’ll head to our ship and wait for you on Teth.” I told him.

Anakin nodded gratefully. “Got it, We’ll board our ship and leave momentarily.” He replied us before leaving to board a gunship with his new Padawan.

I turned to my friends. “Shall we?” I asked them.

“Yep, though there’s one thing we need to get straight.” Rainbow Dash said cockily. We looked at her a little confused.

“Um… what’s that.” Applejack asked.

Rainbow Dash smirks. “Which one of us took down the most droids.” She said, confident that she took the most droids down. We started think of which of us took down the most droids. Unfortunately, it slipped my mind to keep count.

Chapter 4: Rescue on Teth Edited

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Aegis POV

With Jabba's son kidnapped, my friends and I offered to help the Republic. Jabba may be a criminal, but no father deserves to have his son kidnapped. On our way to Teth, I got in contact with my dad to let him know that Christophsis is safe and to tell him of our next Job.

“I hope you know what your doing, Aegis. There’s a lot that could go wrong here.” Dad warned me on the hologram. He has brown eyes and brown hair, wearing a Militia military uniform.

“I know, Dad. But I can’t just ignore someone in danger.” I told him.

My dad just sighed. “Be that as it may, this whole thing feels wrong. Sure the Hutts have a lot of enemies. But kidnapping Jabba’s son is daring, even for them. And there’s something else, according to Frontier Intelligence, the kidnappers have made no ransom attempts with Jabba or any of the Hutt council.” Dad told me.

That doesn’t make sense. Kidnappers would normally negotiate to get what they want. “Could there be another reason for this kidnapping?” I asked.

“Possibly, but I can’t tell what. The only other suspect that could be involved are the CIS, though we don’t have any evidence to support that at the moment. Just be careful out there, Aegis.” Dad told me.

“Thanks, Dad. Talk to you later.” I said before turning the comms off. I exited the briefing room.

If the CIS were behind this, what are they after? They could be trying to broker a treaty with the Hutts so they can move their droid army into Republic Space. Though kidnapping Jabba’s son wouldn’t help them with that. So this whole thing could serve another purpose. I shook my head and decided to think on it later, heading to the cockpit. We’ve just arrived on Teth and are waiting for Republic forces to join us. With me in the cockpit were Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Applejack.

“So, Rarity. Why did it take ya, Anakin, and Ahsoka so long to destroy that shield generator?” Applejack asked. Truth be told, I've wondering that as well.

“Well, after we snuck through the droid army by using a couple of large boxes. We bumped into a droideka, where it forced us to abandon our cover. We managed to deal with it and made it to the generator. Unfortunately, Ahsoka ran ahead and tripped a couple of antennas, which turned out to have been buried retail droids. Anakin and I attacked the droids as Ahsoka planted the explosives. Though it only got worse when Ahsoka sliced a retail’s droid head off and force pushed it. That only activated more retail droids. And before we were overwhelmed Ahsoka brought down a wall with a hole in the middle, destroying the droids around that. Though she did nearly crush us.” Rarity explained to us.

“Sounds like she need’s lessons on looking before leaping.” Rainbow Dash commented. Funny how Rainbow Dash says that even though she was quite reckless when she discovered her affinity with Force Speed. Let's just say pulled a lot of stunts with her new Force ability.

Applejack chuckled a bit. “Now ain’t that calling the kettle black.” Rarity and I chuckle as well, knowing how Rainbow Dash is at time. I raised an eyebrow wonder what kettle she was talking about. It took me a second to understand she meant that Rainbow Dash can be rash.

Rainbow Dash pouted in annoyance and rotated her pilot seat towards us. “Hey! I admit I can be reckless a few times.” We gave her a blank stare.” Alright fine, most of the time. But at least I’m aware of the risks I take.” Rainbow Dash told us.

Rarity was about to respond to that before Oracle spoke. “Aegis, I’m detecting a Republic ship about to exit hyperspace.” She told us.

“Thank’s Oracle. Go ahead and contact them.” I said as I walked over to the communication console to the side of the cockpit. A few minutes later. Anakin’s hologram came showed up.

“Hey, Anakin. Ready to rescue the Hutt?” I said smiling.

Anakin returned the smile. “Just about, we have a couple of clone scouts on the planet. Once they come back and report what they’ve found, I’ll call you again.” He said.

“Understood. We’ll need to know exactly where and what the kidnappers defenses before we move in.” I said. Anakin nodded before hanging up.

As we was waiting for Anakin to respond again, the doors opened up to reveal Twilight coming through. We all noticed her shoulder was bandaged up where she took that blaster hit. “Howdy, Twilight. How are ya feeling?” Applejack asked in concern.

“Alright I guess. Fluttershy said it’ll be a day before my shoulder is completely healed.” Twilight replied.

“Well, we’re glad that your alright, dear.” Rarity said smiling. Just then, the comm started beeping. Meaning that Anakin was calling back. I pressed the button before Anakin’s hologram appeared again.

“Hey Anakin. Did your scouts return?” I asked him.

Anakin nodded. “Yes, they said the kidnappers are at a monastery.” He said before a holographic image of the monastery appeared next to him. “There are two droid battalions, and it’s too fortified for us to land. We’re gonna have to scale up the cliff in order to reach the monastery.” He explained the plan. I kinda looked at him as if he was crazy.

“Um… Anakin, you maybe able to climb that cliff while under blaster fire with no cover. But it’ll be absolute hell for the troopers.” I told him. Seriously, tactics like that are just too careless.

“Well, I don’t see any other way of getting into the monastery. According to the scouts, there are spider droids on the landing pad that can take out our transport. As well as some on the cliff.” Anakin replied. Spider droids? Those types of droids are mainly used by the CIS. Either kidnappers bought droids from the CIS, or was it the CIS who kidnapped Jabba’s son?

I pushed these thoughts aside for now and focused on how we're getting on the monastery. Looking at the holographic monastery and thought of what we have to work with. An acclamator ship filled with Republic troopers, gunships and tanks. Along with the Friendship. Even if we can perform an airstrike, our ship can’t scan for life, so we may hit the Hutt. After considering all that all that, I looked at Anakin’s hologram.

“Your right, a vertical assault is the best approach, but it could be improved a bit.” I told Anakin, which caused him to raise a eyebrow. “If you land the troopers at the base of the cliff, that’ll draw the droids attentions towards you all. That way, a couple of my friends and I will drop in from right above them, and slow our decent with the Force. When we reach the landing pad, we could Force Push all the droids off in a surprise attack. That way you'll have a whole lot less droids shooting at you and your men.” I explained to him.

Anakin only looked at me impressed. “That… is actually a more feasible than what I had in mind. But you sure you and your friends can handle all those droids on the landing pad?” He asked.

I only smirked. “Don’t worry, Anakin. If my friends and I work together, we can face any obstacle.” I said confidently.

Anakin thought about it. “Very well, Aegis. We’ll go with your plan. I’ll send you the coordinates.” He said before hanging up.

I turned around toward Rainbow Dash. “You got the coordinates, Dash?” I asked as Rainbow Dash rotated her chair back.

“Yep, flying us there now.” Rainbow Dash said before taking us to the planet's atmosphere.

“So, who do you want to take with you Aegis?” Rarity asked me.

We still don’t know what else is down there, so it’s risky to bring everyone with me. If it’s mainly just droids protecting the monetary then I should bring someone who knows how to hack into a droids memory bank to find out who exactly is responsible for Jabba’s son. Normally, Twilight would be the go to pony for such things, but with her shoulder still healing, I don’t want to put her in harms way. That leaves only one other pony. “I believe Sunset should come along. She can hack into a droid’s memory banks and find out who the kidnappers are. Also, since we don’t know the Hutt’s condition, we should bring Fluttershy as well.” I told them.

I can tell, Twilight wanted to go since she’s the best with machines out of all of us, but understood why I picked Sunset and Fluttershy. “Alright, Aegis. The rest of us will wait in case you need us.” Twilight told me.

I nodded in response and tapped on the ship’s intercom. “Sunset and Fluttershy, please come to the hanger as soon as possible. We're about to go save the Hutt. Sunset, bring any equipment you need to hack a droid's memory bank. Fluttershy, bring your medical kit since we don't know the Hutt's condition.” I asked.

“Sure, Aegis. Give me a second.” I heard Sunset reply.

“I’ll be right down, Aegis.” Fluttershy responded.

“I’ll keep the Friendship relatively close until you need a pick up.” Rainbow Dash said.

“Be careful out there, Aegis.” Twilight said.

“Of course. We’ll see you all later.” I told them as I left the cockpit. Proceeding to the elevator, I still wondered who the kidnappers were, and what their motives are. I tapped the elevator’s buttons and the descended toward the hanger. As the elevator reached deck 3, the doors opened up to reveal Fluttershy.

“Oh, hello Aegis.” Fluttershy pleasantly greeted me.

“Hey, Fluttershy. Thanks for coming with us. I know you don’t like fighting.” I said as the elevator doors closed. Out of all of us, Fluttershy preferred to sort things out peacefully than resort to violence.

“It’s alright, Aegis. Someone needs help and I’m just glad we can offer it.” Fluttershy replied with a gentle smile. I swear, Fluttershy has the purist heart out of anyone I've met.

When arrived in the hanger, Sunset was already waiting for us. “Hey Fluttershy and Aegis. We heading down to save the Hutt?” Sunset asked.

“Yup, I’ll explain the plan.” I said as I brought up a hologram of the monastery with my wrist device. “Jabba’s son is being help captive in a monastery on top of a tall cliff. According to the clone scouts, there are mainly CIS droid protecting it. Because of the fortifications, Anakin’s transport can’t land on the monastery, and will have to climb the cliffs. With the droids attention focused on them, we’ll jump down from right above the droids defenses, slow our descent with the Force before landing and Force Push them over the edge. Then we’ll hold the platform until Anakin arrives with his men. If need be, I can create a Force Barrier to protect us from blaster bolts.” I told them. Sunset and Fluttershy thought of the plan and agreed with it. We waited next to the hanger doors for Rainbow Dash to give us the all clear.
“Aegis, we’re right above the monastery.” We heard Rainbow Dash’s voice on the ship’s intercom.

“Thank’s Rainbow Dash. I’ll go ahead and call Anakin.” I replied before calling Anakin.

“Anakin, we’re above the monastery. Let us know when to spring the ambush.” I said.

“Copy that, Aegis. We’re on our way in transports. Once we land, I’ll signal you.” We heard Anakin replied.

“Copy that.” I said before I pushed a button on the side of the hanger door. The doors slowly opened up. In front of my friends and I was a open blue sky with large clouds. Sunset and I noticed Fluttershy was feeling a bit anxious.

“You alright, Fluttershy?” Sunset asked.

Fluttershy looked at us. “I’m fine Sunset. It’s just scary what we’ll face down there. All those droids with just the three of us.” She said nervously. I walked over to my scared friend.

“I know what you mean, Fluttershy. To be honest, I’m scared too.” I genuinely told her.
Fluttershy and Sunset looked at me in surprise. “Really?” She asked surprised.

“Of course. I’m scared of you all getting hurt. Of not protecting those who need it. Or going to Frontier Militia bootcamp again.” I said, all of us feeling the sense of dread from what we went through. Specifically from a certain drill sergeant. “But being brave is facing your fears. So I think your the braves one out of all of us.”

Fluttershy couldn't help but blush a little. Her anxiety calmed down a bit and smiled. “Thank you, Aegis.” She said, feeling a bit a ease.

Sunset looked at us and gave me a smirk. “What?” I asked.

Sunset shrugged her shoulders. “Just thinking you can be a real lady killer.” She said.
I looked at her in complete shocked. “How can you you say that! I don’t kill ladies!” I told her.

Fluttershy and Sunset looked at one another before laughing together. It took me a minute to realize she didn’t mean that literally. I sighed as they laugh, disliking how my mental disability acts up sometimes.

Right when I was about to say something, mywrist comm started beeping green.

“Aegis, we’re on the ground. Spring your ambush.” We heard Anakin’s voice.

“Copy that, Anakin.” I replied before looking at my friends. “You both ready?”
Sunset and Fluttershy looked at me with a determined look. “Always.” Sunset said confidently as Fluttershy nodded with her.

All three of us jumped out of the Friendship descending down from the sky. With the wind rushing in our faces, we proceeded down toward the monastery. On the landing pad below us, we could see a group of B1s, super battle droids and spider droids opening fire Anakin’s men at the base of the cliff. We continued falling as we could hear the sound of blaster fire screaming through the air. Once we were close enough, we slowed our decent with the Force and landed without the droids noticing us, with only a smirk growing on my face.

“Hey there.” I said playfully. All the droids stopped firing, wondering who said that. They slowly turned around to see three strangers right behind them.

“What the!” A battle droid with yellow marks said surprised. I recognized the droid to be a commander. Meaning he might know who the kidnappers are.

Using Force Pull, I quickly brought the commander droid towards me and sliced it in two. “Now!” I yelled before deactivating my lightsaber. Together, Sunset, Fluttershy and I sent a massive Force Push, shoving all the battle and spider droids off the edge of the landing pad. “Anakin, heads up. You got droids falling above you.” I said with my wrist comm.

“Copy, Aegis. We’re hugging the wall now.” Anakin responded as we were hearing the droids screaming before crashing on the ground from the comm. “Aegis, we’re climbing now. We'll be up there in a bit.”

“Copy, Anakin. We’ll hold the landing pad until you get here.” I replied. Just then, a handful of super battle droids started marching toward us from the courtyard. They have already pointed their rapid fire wrist blasters at me and my friends. Thinking fast, I casted a Force Barrier. “Get behind me.”

Fluttershy and Sunset took cover behind my Force Barrier. “Fluttershy, I’ll force pull them toward us. You slice them with your qinata.” Sunset told her. Fluttershy nodded and ignited her yellow qinata. Sunset Force Pulled a super battle droid and Fluttershy reached out her qinata, slicing it in two. With her lightsaber long staff, she was able to destroy it without leaving the cover of my Force Barrier. We repeated the process until the last of the super battle droids were dealt with.

“Anakin, what’s your status?” I asked on the comm after I dropped my Force Barrier.

“We’re still on our way up, but there are still some spider droid on the cliff. Hang on.” Anakin said before hanging up. With the landing pad all cleared, we walked to the edge and looked over the it to see how Anakin, Ahsoka and the clones were doing. Below us, we saw the clones engaging a few spider droids on the cliff. To our horror, one of the AT-TE’s was about to fall off the cliff, with Ahsoka on it. To make matters worse, single trooper aerial platforms, STAPs, were flying at the walkers. The STAPS acted as speeder turrets operated by B1 droids. We were about to fly down there until we saw Anakin run down the cliff, jump off the AT-TE, sliced the droids before taking control one of the STAPs. The Jedi used the speeder turret to shoot down the spider droids on the cliff wall before reaching the landing pad and landed in the middle of it.

“Do you usually like to show off.” Sunset said to Anakin.

My Jedi friend just smirked. “Well, I do like to make an entrance.” Anakin replied.

Just as we thought we took care of all the droids, four droidekas rolled up toward us. They unfolded and activated their energy shields. Before they could open fire, I casted a Force Barrier again, surrounding my three friends. The droidekas continued to rapidly blast my barrier with out letting up.

“Blast it, Ahsoka. I told you to stay close to me.” Anakin said, only for a laser from a blaster cannon to destroy them. I dropped my Force Barrier and we turned around to see Ahsoka standing next to the cannon on top of the AT-TE.
“I can’t get much closer, Skyguy.” Ahsoka said.

“I knew you’d get her, Snips, eventually.” Anakin replied with some humor.

After a short while, the rest of the clone soldiers reached the landing platform, along with the other AT-TE. They have begun securing the area as Captain Rex walked up to his Jedi General. “We’re all clear here, General.” Captain Rex reported.

“Good work, Rex. Have some men look after the wounded.” Anakin told the Captain before looking at the droids. “There are too many droids for them to be renegades. I sense Count Dooku’s hand in this. Let’s find Jabba’s son and get outta here.” He ordered.

“No problem. The hard part’s over.” Ahsoka commented, as if trying to jinx us. Just then, I felt something in the Force, as if someone was looking at us. I looked at the balcony above the main gate entrance. There was a opening in the wall, but I couldn't tell if anyone was there.

“I wish you wouldn’t have said said that.” Anakin told her as he noticed.

Sunset noticed I was feeling a bit uneasy. “You alright, Aegis.” She asked, getting the attention of everyone else.

Suddenly, the feeling disappeared and I looked at my friend. “I’m not sure. I thought I sensed someone watching us, but I don’t see anyone.” I told them. Anakin looked at the monastery, but he didn’t sense anything.

“Even if there is someone inside, we still have to get Jabba’s son. Everyone, be on your guard.” Anakin said before he, Ahsoka, Rex and a handful of clones walked toward the entrance of the Monastery.

I looked at Sunset and Fluttershy. “Sunset, go ahead and hack into the droids memory banks. They can confirm wether or not Dooku is behind this. Fluttershy help any of the wounded clones. I’ll go help find Jabba’s son.” I said.

“Got it, Aegis. Be safe in there.” Fluttershy replied before getting out her medical kit and headed for the nearest wounded soldier. Sunset took out her gear and walked over to what's left of the commander I cut down earlier.

Joining Anakin’s group, I couldn't help but wonder what my feeling earlier was about. As we proceeded toward the entrance, there were tall pillars spread out in the courtyard around us. Once we reached the metal door, one of the clones activated the console next to it. The door raised slowly, showing us a large hallway with medium lighting on the walls. Rex and his men turned on their helmet flashlights.

“I don’t like this place. It gives me the creeps.” Rex commented. He wasn't kidding. I wasn't sure, but something was off.
“This looked like one of those B’omarr monk monasteries that I read about in my studies at the temple.” Ahsoka said as we walked through the hallway.

“Smugglers take these monasteries over, turn them into their own personal retreats.” Anakin said in disdain.

“And the monks just let them?” Ahsoka asked.

“Smugglers usually get what they want one way or another.” Anakin answered just as we heard some sort of rubbling in the dark.

Anakin, Ahsoka, Fluttershy, and I ignited our lightsabers as the clones pointed their weapons. I noticed Ahsoka’s lightsaber was green, and she was holding it in a reversed grip. The troopers shined their flashlights at some sort of caretaker droid, steadily walking towards us.

“Good guy or bad guy, Master?” Ahsoka asked Anakin.

“Who are you?” Anakin questioned the droid.

“Merely the humble caretaker, O mighty sir.” The droid responded. “You have liberated me from those dreadful battle bots. I am most thankful.”

“Where is the Hutt?” Anakin asked as we turned off our lightsabers.

“The battle bots kept their prisoners on the detention level. I must warn you. It is very dangerous down there, my friend. Not a place for a servant girl.” The droid answered, looking at ahsoka. Oh oh.

Ahsoka was ticked off at the droid for calling her a servant girl. “Do servant girls carry these?” She said as she reignited her green lightsaber and pointed it at the droid. “I’m a Jedi Knight.” She arrogantly told the droid. Ahsoka looked over her shoulder and noticed her master crossing his arms. “Or soon will be.”

“A thousand apologies, young one.” The droid said as Ahsoka walked past him.

“Captain, we’ll get the Hutt. Stay here and keep your eyes open.” Anakin told Rex.

“Copy that, sir.” Rex replied.

“I’ll go with you. We don’t know what’s guarding the Hutt.” I said.

Anakin smiled. “Alright. Let’s go before Ahsoka finds trouble.” Anakin said as we follow behind him.

We walk downstairs until we found what looked to have been the detention level. It was a dark hallway with multiple corridors and cells. Each one could be holding Jabba's son. Not to mention there multiple spots where we could be ambushed. Anakin took the lead as Ahsoka and I followed behind him.

“Master, you know your walking us into a trap?” Ahsoka said to her master. Both of us spotted some battle droids hiding in a dark room on our right.

“I know.” Anakin replied, clearly not concerned.

“We just passed two more droids.” Ahsoka said as I saw the droids on our left.
“I know.” Anakin replied again.

“Well, I don’t like this. Can I just take care of them?” Ahsoka said. I listened behind me, and could hear the battle droids walking toward us.

“Oh, well, if you feel so strongly about it, go ahead.” Anakin said as I heard the droids come out of hiding. This would be a good chance to see how skilled Ahsoka is with her lightsaber.

Anakin and I turned around to see three droids behind Ahsoka. Three? I counted four earlier. Ahsoka ignited her lightsaber and reflected the droid’s blaster bolt before slicing it’s weapon in two. She proceeded to cut it down before reflect another droid’s blaster bolt back at it. The young Jedi sliced off the head of the last remaining droid.

“Not bad. You remember to destroy their weapons first.” Anakin complemented.

Ahsoka turned off her lightsaber. “I’m improving your technique.” She said confidently.

Just then, I sensed something on my left and saw the missing battle droid in a dark hall pointed it's weapon next to Anakin. With quick action, I ignited my bronze lightsaber and sliced it's blaster apart before stabbing it through the chest. The droid yelped before falling down.

“Of course, you did miss that one.” Anakin pointed out before patting me on the shoulder. "Nice job Aegis." He complimented. I smiled in response as we continued down the dark hall.

“I did that on purpose.” Ahsoka excused before following us.

We eventually stopped at one of the prison cells. “I sense our captured kidnapped Hutt is in here.” Anakin said before we smell something revolting from the cell.

Ahsoka exclaimed in disgust. “I smell him, too.” She said. Anakin tapped on the pad and the cell door opened, revealing a Hutt that was actually a infant. I knew he was young, but I didn’t think he was that young.

“He’s a lot younger than I thought he’d be.” Anakin said surprised, thinking the same thing.

“Oh. he’s just a baby. This will make our job a lot easier.” Ahsoka said as she knelt down towards him. “Oh, he’s so cute.”

“Just wait until you see what he’ll grow into.” Anakin commented. I looked at Anakin a little worried as I sense his anger at Hutts in general.

“General Skywalker, the castle is secure, and it’s nearly midday.” We heard Captain Rex’s voice from Anakin’s comm wrist.

“Thanks, Rex. We’ve got Jabba’s son. Any sign of General Kenobi yet?” Anakin asked.
“No, sir.” Rex replied.

“Master, my Jedi training didn’t prepare me for this. What are we gonna do?” Ahsoka asked Anakin.

“Ahsoka, I’m pretty sure no amount of training can prepare anyone to handle a baby.” I commented.

“Well, since you think that smelly larva is cute, you’re gonna carry it.” Anakin told her, much to Ahsoka’s annoyance.

Ahsoka and I looked at the Huttlet as he started whining. “Want me to carry him?” I offered to Ahsoka.

Ahsoka thought about for a bit. “Thanks Aegis. But I can handle it.” She said before picking the Huttlet up and holding him in her arms. Huh, I guess she’s still trying to prove herself to Anakin somehow.

We followed Anakin up to the monastery entrance and back outside to the courtyard. “How do you like your little buddy now? Still cute?” Anakin teased as we entered the courtyard.

“You know, he’s reminding me of you more and more.” Ahsoka told him as she held him in front of her Master. “See? You’re two of a kind.” She joked.

“Maybe you should carry both of us then.” Anakin replied.

I gave him a raised eyebrow “How can she carry both of you, she’s half your size?” I asked. Ashoka and Anakin look at one another confused.

“Huh, Aegis. He was joking.” Ashoka said.

I quickly realized what she said and sighed in annoying. “Sorry about that. I have a problem taking somethings too literally.” I told them.

Before Ashoka could ask anything, the Huttlet whine and cough. “Master, I think this little guy is sick. He’s burning up with a fever.” She told her master.

I rested my hand on the little Hutt’s head and felt it burning. “She’s right, Anakin. The Huttlet’s head is incredibly warm. I’ll go get Fluttershy. Maybe she has something for him.” I said before running past Anakin toward landing pad. I found Fluttershy finished treating a clone’s arm as the landing pad's entrance. “Hey, Fluttershy. We found Jabba’s son in a dark prison cell. It turns out he's still an infant, but he has a fever.” I told her.

Fluttershy grew worried from what I told her. “Oh dear, I’ll check on him right away.” She said before hurrying toward the Huttlet.

As Fluttershy ran towards the monastery entrance, Sunset walked up to me. "Hey Aegis. I finished analyzing that droids memory. And I found something Anakin needs to know." She said. I wonder if it was the true identity of the culprit, but before she could say anything else we heard Fluttershy yell to the top of her voice.

“ANAKIN SKYWALKER! LET GO OF THAT HUTTLET RIGHT NOW!” We heard Fluttershy. Sunset's and my eyes widen as we rushed back toward the monastery entrance to see what made Fluttershy furious. We saw Anakin trying to shove the Huttlet into a clone trooper’s backpack on the ground. The Huttlet was whining from Anakin’s man handling. “How dare your make that little Hutt cry!” She scolded the Jedi Knight. Sunset and I were shocked. We have never seen Fluttershy like this.

“Fluttershy, this Huttlet is sick and needs to be put in this backpack. If he could stop whining it would be easier.” Anakin said, not too concerned with the Hutt’s condition.

Fluttershy just grew more irritated and marched up to Anakin. We all felt how angry Fluttershy was and felt a bit nervous around her. Even Anakin got up and slowly backed away from her as she continued to march up to the worried Jedi Knight. “That baby Huttlet was taken from his home, hasn't been cared for, thrown in a dungeon, and has a running fever. So I’ll repeat myself. Don’t you DARE MAKE THAT BABY CRY.” She yelled in Anakin’s face as his back hit one of the pillars. None of us needed to be force sensitive to see how scared Anakin was of Fluttershy right now.

Anakin only stared into Fluttershy's eyes, and couldn't help but comply. “Alright.” He said defeated.

The baby Hutt started crying again, still feeling awful from his fever. Fluttershy’s caring nature took over as she turned around and knelt down to the whining Huttlet. “Shh. It’s okay. No one’s going to hurt you.” She said in a gentle voice. The baby Huttlet looked into her eyes and started calming down a little. Fluttershy placed her hand to the Huttlet’s forehead and felt how much he burning up. “Ohh you poor baby, you must be feeling terrible right now. Don’t worry, I have something that’ll help.” Fluttershy reached into her bag and pulled out a cylinder, popping out a blue pill from it. “Here you go.” She tried to feed the pill to the Huttlet, but the baby was refusing it. “Ohh, won’t you please take it.” She said with a motherly voice. The Huttlet looked at her eye’s for a bit before he let Fluttershy feed him the pill. “Thank you so much, you cute baby.” Fluttershy said before the baby burped some green gas to which she had to cover her nose.

“Great job, Fluttershy.” Sunset congratulated. I nodded my head in agreement. Back home, Fluttershy has a cottage near the woods, where the animals would often time visit her. She would always treat them like a mother would treat her child. Seeing the Huttlet listen to Fluttershy, Anakin, Ahsoka, and the clones couldn't help but be surprise how easy she got the baby to listen.

Just then, a Jedi starfighter flew down to the courtyard, with R2-D2 piloting it. R2-D2 beeped a couple times saying something.

"He said Obi-Wan is trying to contact us. Go ahead and patch him through, R2." Anakin said as he walked up to his starfighter. Ahsoka picked up the backpack with the Huttlet in it. After a moment, R2-D2 projected Obi-Wan's hologram.

“Anakin, did you locate Jabba’s son?” Obi-Wan asked.

“We have him, but it looks like the Separatists are behind his abduction. This smells like Count Dooku to me.” Anakin surmised.

“I think it’s little Stinky you smell.” Ahsoka commented.

“I’ll bet Dooku is using us to get Jabba to join the Separatists.” Obi-Wan concluded.

“Master Kenobi, you should also know this Huttlet is sick. Luckily, Fluttershy, gave him some medicine, and his fever is starting to go down a little.” Ahsoka said, still holding the backpack with the Huttlet inside.

Obi-Wan smiled and looked at Fluttershy next to Ahsoka. “Thank you, Fluttershy. It’s fortunate that Anakin asked for your all help.” He said to us.

“Of course, Master Kenobi. I’m just glad the baby Hutt is alright." Fluttershy said smiling.

"I'm happy we can help. But what I don’t understand is how Count Dooku plans to get Jabba to join the CIS if they were the ones who kidnapped him in the first place.” I said.

“About that." Sunset pipped up. "Earlier, I hacked into one of the droids memory banks, and it was under orders by a female wearing a cloak. She mention that someone from Coruscant helped with the kidnapping. Maybe this person has a grudge against Jabba.” Sunset told us. It didn’t surprise me that Jabba had enemies, but for them to kidnap his son is just crazy.

Obi-wan stroked his beard in thought. “Good find, Sunset. I’ll contact the Jedi Temple and see if anyone can look into it.” He said.

Just then, my wrist comm went off. “Aegis, you read?! Please come in!” I heard Twilight’s voice in distress.

I tapped on my wrist comm. “Twilight, what’s wrong?” I asked.

“A CIS Munificent frigate just came out of hyperspace. It opened fire on the Republic Acclimator and forced it to retreat. Their sending landing craft down towards you.” Twilight told me. It was that moment that I realized. This whole thing was a set up. Dooku probably told Jabba that the Republic kidnapped his son. Now the CIS are here to take him back.

“Thanks for the heads up, Twilight. Tell Rainbow Dash to get the ship to safety.” I told her before hearing something from the sky.

“Master, we’ve got trouble!” Ahsoka said as we looked up to see two droid transports coming our way. Along side them was a handful of Vulture droid starfighters zooming towards us.

“Defensive position!” Rex ordered his troopers.

“Anakin?” Obi-wan asked, wondering what was happening.

“I’ll have to call you back, Master. We’re under attack. We could use a little help if you have the time.” Anakin told his master.

“I’ll get there as soon as I can. Protect the Hutt, Anakin.” Obi-wan ordered before hanging up.

Four of the vulture droids swooped down towards us and opened fire. Anakin ignited his lightsaber, reflecting some of the lasers that would have hit Ahsoka and the Huttlet. Rex and the clone troopers returned fire, trying to shoot down the vulture droids. One of the AT-TE managed to destroy one of the Vultures, only for said vulture to crash into the tank. A CIS transports arrived on the landing pads, sending out spider and super battle droids.

“We’ve got spiders inbound!” One the clones yelled as he and his brother opened fire on the droids.

My friends and I went forward, reflecting the droids lasers back at them. R2 ejected out of Anakin’s Jedi starfighter right before it was destroyed be the vulture droids. No matter how many droids we take down, more kept marching towards us. Just then, a couple of droidekas rolled in and activated their ray shield. Gunning down some clones. The last AT-TE opened fire on the approaching droid column.

“Get inside.” Anakin told his Padawan. Ahsoka understood she had to keep the Huttlet safe and ran for the monastery with R2 following behind her.

The Spider droids opened fire on the AT-TE’s cockpit, destroying it. “Fall back.” Anakin ordered the men, seeing that we couldn’t defeat all the droids without the tanks. We ran back inside the monastery, with some of the clone troopers getting shot by the droids. The large metal door started sliding down as we made it back into the monastery, with Anakin sliding underneath it right before it closed.

We relax a little for the time being. Though this wasn't an ideal situation. “Captain, we’ll stay here until General Kenobi arrives with reinforcements.” Anakin told Rex. The Jedi knight noticed his padawan giving him a look. “What?” He asked, not seeing the problem.
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“Master, do you honestly think we can hold them off? We’ve got to find a way out of here.” Ahsoka asked her master.

“Our mandate is to protect this Hutt. That’s what we’re going to do, Ahsoka.” Anakin told her.

“Anakin, with all due respect. The mission is to get the Huttlet back to Tatooine. His fever may have broken, but all it takes is one stray plasma bolt to end his life. He can't stay here.” I told him.

Anakin thought of this and relented. “Then I suppose you all have a plan.” Anakin asked. With R2 beeping gives Ahsoka an idea.

“Yes, or I think so. R2 willing.” She said, looking at the astromech.

“All right, Snips. I’ll trust you on this one. Captain, hold them here for as long as you can.” Anakin ordered Rex.

“Yes, sir. You heard the General! Get ready to turn those clankers into the scrap metal!” Rex ordered his men.

“Sunset and I will stay here and help. Fluttershy, maybe you should go with them in case the Huttlet’s fever changes.” I Said.

“Alright, Aegis. You two be careful.” Fluttershy told us.

“You too, Shy.” Sunset responded as our friend left with the two Jedi and baby Hutt.
Rex and the clones began taking cover along side the entrance walls.

It’s only a matter of time before the droids open the door. With the amount of droids, open space, and lack of cover, we won’t be able to hold them off. I looked around and saw a couple hallways beside the one Anakin, Ahsoka, and Fluttershy took. “I may have an idea to buy Anakin more time.” I said out loud.

"What do you mean?" Captain Rex asked, wondering what I had in mind.

“If we can lure the droids through the narrow hallways, it’ll take away their numbers advantage. We can say out loud that we have to defend the Huttlet as we fall back, making them think that the Huttlet is through that hallway and not towards where he’s actually at.”

Captain Rex thought about my plan. It’s definitely better than fighting them in an open space like this. “Good plan, Aegis. You six, hold here if the droid open the door. The rest of us will scout for a better defendable position.” He ordered them. The clones nodded and we moved toward the hallway leading away from the Huttlet. Sunset and I move through the hall and came across a intersection.

“If we position troopers down these two hallways, we can catch the droids in a cross fire.” I said.

“We could also set some charges along the hallways if they become too much.” Sunset added.

“Alright then.” Rex replied before turning toward his troopers. "You two, start planting detonators along the wall." He ordered his men. The two clones nodded and begun setting the explosive charges on the wall.

“They’ve cut the lock.” We heard one of the clone troopers yell causing us to rush back to the entrance. As we returned to the entrance, the large metal door started to rise slowly with sunlight shining through the opening.

“Here they come!” Rex yelled as Sunset and I ignited my lightsaber. First it was the stander B1 battle droids marching towards us. Sunset and I easily deflected the blaster bolts back at them as the clones fired their blaster.

“Hold the line!” Rex ordered as more droids came pouring through.

“Second wave! Second wave!” One of the clones yelled as spider droids follow behind the super battle droids.

“Watch your left!” Rex yelled as his brothers started to get overwhelmed. Some of the troopers started falling one after another as the droids kept marching towards us.

“Captain Rex, we have to fall back!” I yelled as I created a force barrier, blocking the blaster bolts flying at me.

Captain Rex nodded, seeing that we can’t hold off the droids for much longer here.

“Fall back! We have to protect the Hutt!” He yelled out loud. The remaining clones started to run for the hallway where we would lure them in. Once all the clones withdrew, I dropped my force barrier ran for the hallway, all while deflecting plasma bolts with my shield.

Sprinting down the dark hallway, I spotted the grenades attached next to the walls. At least we managed to set them up in time. I continued running until I crossed the hallway where the clones will spring the ambush, with Sunset and Captain Rex down the hall. I stopped next to a pair a clone troopers, pointing their DC-15 blasters. Super battle droids followed behind me and opened fire. I deflected their blaster bolts as the clones returned fire. Even though we were destroying the super battle droids one at a time, they continued to walked towards us. While I could easily cut down a super battle droid with relative ease, they can take on a multitude of blaster fire before going down. Once the droids reached the intersection, Captain Rex and the clone troopers opened fire from down the hall, taking out two super battle droids in the process. The following droids tried turning down the hallway, only for the clones alongside me to shoot them down.

We continued this for a while until a droideka rolled towards us and activated it’s energy shields. It rapidly fired at us through it’s shields, making it difficult for me to reflect. I resorted to using my beskar shield as well to block some of the shots. As I was deflecting the droideka’s blaster bolts, I spotted a hooded woman running towards another hallway, followed by more droidekas and a handful of super battle droids. It was the same hallway Fluttershy and the two Jedi took, which means they figured out our diversion. That’s when it hit me. It was faint, but I defiantly felt the Force with her. Unlike other force users I’ve met, the Force around her was cold, almost like when the Princesses were corrupted.

“Captain Rex, I just spotted the hooded woman running for the hallway Fluttershy, Anakin, and Ahsoka took. She’s also have some droideka” I told him on my wrist comm as I blocked a blaster bolt with my shield.

“Blast! I’ll warn the General.” Rex replied as the droideka came closer.

The droideka walked toward us with it’s three legs, followed be a group of B1 battle droids. With it’s shields up, we couldn’t destroy the other droids.

“Aegis, I tried warning the General, but something is jamming our long range comms.” Rex said on the comm. Now we can't warn them that the hooded woman was Force sensitive. Judging by that coldness I felt, I'm guessing she was a Sith.

“Captain, I know they can handle themselves.” I started to say before blocking more blaster bolts. “But I believe the hooded woman is a Sith. I sensed the dark side of the Force around her. Add that with the droids with her, I’m not sure the Jedi and Fluttershy can fight them and protect the Hutt at the same time.” I said as the droideka was moving near the intersection.

While Captain Rex had every faith in his general, he can see we can’t risk the Hutt’s capture, or worse. “Alright, Aegis. If I trigger the grenades, do you think you can catch up to them?” He asked.

I continued blocking the blaster bolts from the droideka. “Yes. Sunset, stay here and help them.”

“Got it, Aegis. We'll hold out until reinforcements arrive.” Sunset replied.

Just as the shielded droideka was about to reach the intersection, the grenades along the hallway exploded, tearing all the droids to pieces. Even the droideka’s energy shield couldn’t handle the explosion right next to it. With the pathway clear, I rushed through the black cover smoke, running over pieces of droids laying around the floor. As I came out of the smoke, a B1 was right in front of me. Thinking quick, I sliced it with my lightsaber, and made a break for the hallway. Looking over my shoulder, I noticed that there were only a handful of battle droids left. Not only that, it was dark outside, meaning the sun went down. The other droids tried to shoot me, but I already made it into the hallway as the opened fire.

I ran down the hallways in search of the hooded woman and droids. Quieting my mind, I reached out for the force. I could sense Fluttershy’s presence towards the stairs. Unfortunately, I could also feel the coldness in the Force, which belonged to the Sith. I ran down the stair case and eventually entered a large hall way as the sound of a heavy door close resounded through the wall. Toward my left were a group of super battle droid marching behind the hooded woman standing in front of a large metal door. The woman removed her hooded cloak, revealing a bald humanoid woman with bone white skin. She grabbed grabbed two curved lightsaber hilts from her waist and ignited them, revealing two red blades. The woman trusted her lightsabers into the metal door and started cutting a hole in it. That conform what I felt earlier. This woman was indeed a Sith.

With the rest of the super battle droids’ back turned to me, I ignited my bronze lightsaber and started slicing the droids one after another. This caught the attention the the Sith as she looked over her shoulder, seeing me destroy her droids one after another. I rolled in the middle of the droid group and spun around, destroying the remaining battle droids in a circular motion. “Don’t stand there, blast him.” She ordered the droidekas as she hasten cutting the door.

The two droidekas turned around, activated their energy shield, and opened fire. I attempted to deflect the blaster bolts, but they were firing too rapidly and I had to cast a Force barrier around me. The Sith finished cutting open the metal door and used the force to push it down, revealing Fluttershy, Ahsoka and R2-D2. As the Sith jumped through the hole, I dropped my force shield, running forward while deflecting and blocking with my lightsaber and beskar shield. I ran for the left so I could position one of the droideka's between me and the other. Once I had one droideka in front of the other one’s field of fire, I used the Force to jump up high over the two droideka’s. Immediately after I landed behind the droideka, I deactivated my lightsaber and reached out my arm though the droideka’s shields. Luckily, physical objects can move through a droideka’s energy shield, since they are designed to only deflect fast moving projectiles. I ignited my lightsaber inside the droideka’s shield, slicing it in two. The other Droideka rotated around, but before it could point it’s bolsters at me, I turned off my lightsaber, leaped over the sliced droideka, and reached through the energy shield, destroying the droid in the same manner.

“Tell me where Skywalker is.” I heard the Sith’s voice. I looked through the hole she carved to see Ahsoka and Fluttershy with the Sith pointing her red lightsabers at them. “If you do, I may your life, skittish one.” She insulted Fluttershy, sensing how afraid she is.

My yellow friend closed her eyes before speaking. “I maybe scared.” Fluttershy started before looking at the Sith with a fierce determined look. With a swift swing of her qinata, the metal absorbed the energy of Sith’s lightsabers much the her shock. Unlike other metals in the galaxy, the cortosis conductive properties in Fluttershy's qinata allows it to absorb any form of energy. Whenever a lightsaber would make contact with cortosis, it would short circuit it for a few moments. Fluttershy quickly force pushed the Sith away, got on her feet and reignited her yellow lightsaber. “But I won’t let you but a scratch on that defenseless baby!” She shouted at her.

I looked at a large piece of the droideka’s and lifted it up with the force. The Sith’s lightsaber reignited as the Sith was about to attack them again, but not before sensing something behind her. I threw the large piece of the droideka at the Sith and jumped though the hole. The Sith sensed this and quickly turned around, slicing the droideka piece in two. What she didn’t expect was me jumping behind the droideka I threw. Igniting my bronze lightsaber, I swung at the Sith, whom only blocked with one of her lightsabers at the last second.

“Aegis!” Fluttershy said, happy to see me. Ahsoka got up ready to attack the Sith.
The Sith grew frustrated and swung her other lightsaber at my face, only for me to block it with my beskar shield. “Saw this Sith and some droids heading towards you all. Thought you could use some help.” I said before kicking the Sith in the gut, pushing her away. “By the way, where’s Anakin?” I asked, seeing as he wasn't with them.
“Right here.” Anakin said as he showed up, riding what looked like a huge dragonfly. The dragonfly spun around, swatting the Sith away with it’s tail. Just then, the entire landing platform started shaking and started to give out. Something was blasting the landing platform from underneath it. “Hop on, you three.” Anakin said as he flew the dragonfly next the Ahsoka and Fluttershy. The two grabbed onto the the dragonfly’s legs. I ran for them and was about to jump as well, but lost my footing as the platform finally collapsed.

“Aegis!” Fluttershy yelled as I began falling. Just when I thought that was it, R2-D2 activated it’s thrusters from it's side as I grabbed onto it.

“You can fly?!” I said surprised, which R2-D2 beeped in response as we followed after the dragonfly through the night sky. In front of us was another landing platform on top of a mountain with a ship on it. From the looks of it, it’s an old spice freighter. Fluttershy, Anakin, and Ahsoka jumped off the dragonfly with R2 and I landing behind them. Fluttershy immediately ran over and gave me a huge hug.

“I’m so glad your alright!” Fluttershy said in joy. I smiled and hugged her back, feeling a little bad that I scared her.

“Sorry for scaring you, Fluttershy.” I apologized before my shy friend let go of me.

“Aegis, what are you doing here? Weren’t you and Sunset helping Rex?” Anakin asked.

“We managed to destroy most of the droids by luring them into a narrow hallway.

Unfortunately, that Sith caught on what we were doing and ran deeper inside the temple. Rex tried to warn you, but the droids were jamming us. So I came to help. Sunset is still with them so they should be able to handle the remaining droids.” I explained.

Anakin felt better knowing that his men were alright. “Alright then. Let’s get this Hutt out of here.”

“But we’re taking this junker? We’d be better off on that big bug.” Ahsoka said. Honestly, the ship has seen better days.

“It's our only way out of here. Get aboard and prime the engines. Assuming it has engines.” Anakin said as we head for the ship. Anakin knelt down and had R2-D2 carry the baby Hutt in the backpack. As we got closer, we spotted the caretaker droid from the monastery about to enter the ship’s ramp.

“Hey! You’re that caretaker droid. I wondered what happened to you.” Ahsoka said as the droid spun it’s head in surprise. I started wondering how it got over here in the first place. It's not like it can fly.

“Oh, young one. I mean, soon to be Jedi Knight. I had to get away from that terrible…” The caretaker droid started to say before a B1 battle droid walked down the ramp.

“Okay, everything’s loaded. Let’s get out of here.” The battle droid said before noticing us as two more B1 droids walked down the ramp.

“Why, you tin-plated traitor!” Ahsoka said before igniting her lightsaber.

“Blast her!” The caretaker droid ordered as it points its’ finger at us. The B1 droids aimed their blasters at us and opened fire.

Fluttershy and I ignited our lightsabers, deflecting the incoming blaster bolts as Ahsoka blocked them to a reverse grip. As the droids were firing on us, the caretaker droid attempted to enter the ship. Having enough, Ahsoka deflected a blaster bolts back at one of the droids before moving in.

“She’s at it again. Let’s go.” I heard Anakin said behind me.

Ahsoka moved forward and cutting down a B1 droid and reflected a blaster bolt back at the other. “Don’t you dare!” The caretaker droid told Ahsoka before she sliced off it’s head. “Don’t… you… dare.” Was the last thing the droid said as it’s head rolled down the ramp and landed at Anakin’s fee. With all the droids destroyed, we deactivated our lightsabers and entered the old freighter.

“Aegis, do you hear me?” We hear Sunset’s voice from my wrist comm.

“I hear you, Sunset. What’s wrong?” I asked.

“Master Kenobi’s Reinforcements arrived and we have the droids in a pincer attack. Wait… someone just appeared with a lightsaber on his wrist.” Sunset said. I grew extremely worried, was there another Sith.

“Alright, hold on. We’re on our way.” I told Sunset, before looking at everyone else.
“Let’s hurry.” I told them as we rushed inside. One Sith was one thing, but another could prove far too much for Sunset and the clones. Right now all I can do is help get this ship flying and rush back to Sunset and the clones.

We found the cockpit and Anakin sat on the pilot’s seat as Ahsoka sat down next to him with the Huttlet in her arms. “Now let’s get Stinky out of here.” Anakin said as he pressed the red button, only for the engine to stall out. “If we can.” Anakin continued to press the button, though the engine kept stalling.

This greatly annoyed Ahsoka and made the Huttlet cry. “Relax Snips. R2, see if you can spark the ignition couples. R2-D2 beeped in response and it rolled towards a computer socket and linked to it via scomp link. “No, that’s not it. Try opening the fuel lifters all the way.” Anakin said, R2-D2 did as told and everything was powered up. “Good work, buddy.” Anakin complemented as he pressed the button again. This time, the engines roared to life before the freighter took off.

As we were flying toward the monastery, we could see a battle over it. “There’s Master Kenobi’s force. Now we’ll see some real fireworks.” Ahsoka said.

“Excuse me? What do you call what I’ve been doing all day?” Anakin asked.

“I don’t know. The work ‘reckless’ comes to mind.” Ahsoka responded.

“Very funny, Snips. Back to work. The troops still need our help. Charge the main guns.” Anakin told her.

“How are we gonna help? We have to get Stinky to safety.” Ahsoka pointed out, guess we're calling the Huttlet Stinky.

“But we promised Rex and Sunset we’d help them.” Anakin told her as we got closure to the battle.

“And we will, open the back hanger. Fluttershy and I can jump down and help them. While you two get the Huttlet out of here.” I said as Fluttershy nodded in agreement.

“Thank’s, Aegis. I'll tell you when to jump.” Anakin said before Fluttershy and I headed toward the back of the ship. Fluttershy presses a button on the wall, getting the large hanger door to open up. We could here the multiple sounds of blaster fire flying through the air.

“Aegis, your clear to jump in three… two…one… now.” We heard Anakin’s voice on the intercom. Fluttershy and I jumped down from the sky.

Below us we can see Rex along side a handful of other clones fighting off more droids. We landed just behind them and ignited our lightsabers. Rex turned around, surprised to see me.

"Where'd you two come from?" Rex said as he took cover behind the leg of a fallen AT-TE.

"We found a ship and Anakin flew us over the monastery. He and Ahsoka are taking the Huttlet to safety." Fluttershy answered as she reflected a blaster bolt away from her. “Where’s Sunset?”

“She’s laying next to the AT-TE. We got attacked by some creature I’ve never seen before.” He answered as he continued blasting some droids. Fluttershy and I ran over to the side of the fallen AT-TE to find Sunset leaning against the walker underbelly. Fluttershy tended to our friends wound as I instinctively ducked from a large plasma bolt.

A spider droid walked over to the clone troops, blasting it's large cannon at us. “Cover me!” Rex ordered as he held a thermal detonator. The clone captain rushed toward the spider droid and rolled underneath it. He placed the thermal detonator on it before running away. Rex got away just in time before the thermal detonator completely destroy the spider droid in a fiery explosion.

“Where’s the Sith who attacked you all?” I asked Rex, not seeing him with us.

“After he threw Sunset against the walker, he went inside.” Rex replied before shooting down a B1 droid. I was a bit worried about him since the other Sith was still there, but Master Kenobi is a skill duelist. Even so, Sith are known for their trickery.

Fluttershy finished tending to Sunset’s wound and ignited her qinata. “Sunset will be alright. She just needs rest.” Fluttershy told me.

“AlrightFluttershy, stay here and help with the rest of the droids. I’ll help Master Kenobi. Even he can’t fight two Sith at once.” I told them.

Fluttershy blocked a blaster bolt with her Qinata. “You sure? I could help as well.”

“I need you here to help the clones deal with the droids. I’m sure Master Kenobi and I can handle the Sith. At the very least, we can hold them off until our friend arrive.” I told them.

Fluttershy Force pulled a Super battle droid before slicing it in two. “Alright, Aegis. But call us the moment you need help.”

I nodded in response and ran back inside the monastery. As I was running through the dark hallways, I could hear lightsabers clashing against each other. I continued running as the sounds gotten louder. Eventually, I found a large circular room with support pillars on the side holding up a hollowed stone circle. and moonlight shining through holes on the top of the walls. I looked around to see the Sith disarmed Master Kenobi and pointed her red lightsaber at his chest. I whistled out loud to draw the Sith’s attention away from Obi-Wan. As the Sith turned her attention toward me, Obi-Wan quickly Force Pushed her away from him. The Jedi Master reached out his hand, levitating his lightsaber back to his hand and ignited it’s blue blade.

“Aegis? What are you doing here?” Obi-Wan asked me.

I quickly ran next to Obi-Wan. “Fluttershy is helping Captain Rex clean up the remaining droids. Where’s the other Sith?” I told him as I ignited my lightsaber, pointing it at the female Sith. Just as I said that, my instincts screamed at me and I rolled forward, dodging a blazing purple lightsaber.

Quickly getting on my feet, I turned around to face my assailant, only to see something that haunted me. The one who ambushed me was a large yeti like creature that reminded me of a Jiralhanae from the Halo Universe, though not as tall. Almost as big as a wookie. He has dark grey short hair is and has dark amber eyes with a scar on the right side of his lower jaw. He was wearing black gunmetal armor. The most notable feature was is that his entire right arm was robotic with a large blazing purple lightsaber igniting from his wrist.

The large warrior started chuckling as he removed his lightsaber from the ground. “Well done boy. You’re more agile than I thought.” He said in a low growling voice.

I instantly ran over to Obi-Wan and instantly got in a combat stance. The Jedi Master next to me was surprised to see the “Who are you?” I asked him.

The warrior slowly walked towards us. “I am Deimos. Leader of the Risen mercenaries. I see you have already met Ventress.” Deimos said, looking over at the assassin.

The Sith looked at Tarn with narrow eyes. “Why are you here, Deimos? Dooku didn’t tell me you’ll be involved.”

“I heard from my associates that someone had the guts to kidnap Jabba's son. I merely thought I could secure some more funds for my mercenaries. Had Dooku told me of his little scheme, my mercenaries and I would have guaranteed it’s success.” He told Ventress.

The Sith narrowed her eyes at him. "I don't need your help." Ventress told the warrior.

“And yet, you lost the child.” Deimos countered, before looking at the Jedi and me. “That said, we can at least salvage this mission, such as removing a few annoyances.” He said, as both of them faced us. We can tell Ventress didn’t like him, but she wasn’t going to deny the help.

Obi-Wan looked at me. “Aegis, you need to leave.” He told me. We could both sense how strong Deimos is, and that he was Force Sensitive.

I only shook my head. “I doubt either of them are gonna let me go. Besides, we don’t need to win. We just need to stay alive long enough from my friends to finish with the droids outside for them to come help us.” I told him as I readied myself.

Both Ventress and Deimos charged at as. Obi-Wan and I blocked each of their lightsaber strikes. As Ventress attacked Obi-Wan with a flurry of her lightsabers, Deimos swung swung his lightsaber at me. Even though I blocked his strike with my lightsaber, his immense strength pushed me back. Deimos lunged at me again, and instead of trying to defend his lightsaber, I dodged out away and swung at his robotic arm. Despite his size, he was surprisingly quick. He blocked my lightsaber with his and Forced pushed my away.

As I landed on my feet, I noticed Obi-Wan’s and Ventress’s lightsabers clashed a couple of times, the Sith kicked Obi-Wan in the gut, pushing him against the wall. Before the Sith could cut Obi-Wan’s legs, he jumped on one of the pillars. The Jedi Master continued to wall jump between two pillars to the top. Following his lead, I jumped on a pillar, stabbed my lightsaber in it, using it was leverage to jump up higher. I landed next to Obi-Wan on the stone circle before Ventress and Deimos followed us up. The ground shook a little as Deimos landed.

“We know of Dooku’s plot to turn the Hutts against us. It will not succeed.” Obi-Wan told them.

“It will, when the truth dies with you.” The Sith responded as she held up her duel red lightsabers. She charged at us and spun around in the air, swirling her blades at us. Obi-Wan and I kept blocking and striking back at her. Deimos came to the side and attack Obi-Wan as Ventress focused her attacks on me. The Sith brought down both her lightsabers. I raised my lightsaber to block her attack. Despite her being taller than me, I’ve been training my body for years, and was able to push her back. The Sith decided to link her two lightsabers together into a double bladed lightsaber.

“Aegis, this way.” Obi-Wan told me before jumping through a hole on the top wall. I followed behind him with Ventress and Deimos in pursuit. We led them to a narrow stone bridge connecting the main monastery to another building. This way, neither of them could flank us from the sides. Before Ventress got in front, wanting to kill us herself, but before she could strike at us, Obi-Wan and I sensed a shift in the Force. They looked away from us, noticing it as well. Deimos narrowed his eyes, knowing what it meant.

“I sense it, too. Anakin is gone. You two have failed.” Obi-Wan told her.

This only angered Ventress before lashing out at us. She clashed her lightsabers against Obi-Wan’s. She pushed us back to the middle of the bridge. Obi-Wan sliced downward at her and cut her double bladed lightsaber.

“I see. You lured us here so neither of us can work in pairs.” Deimos said, analyzing the situation. “However.” He smirked before reaching out his left hand. Deimos lifted me up with the Force, levitating me over Obi-Wan and Ventress before bringing me directly in front of the large warrior. Now I’m between Ventress and Deimos. Thank’s the the narrow bridge, I can get help from Obi-Wan, as he was busy with Ventress. “Now then boy, since you can’t escape. How long do you think you’ll last?” He asked me. I can already tell in terms of combat, I can tell he was superiorly better than me. Even so, I was going to let him kill me.

“Let’s find out.” I responded. I remember what I learned when I trained with my big brother. When defending against an opponents that’s superiorly stronger than you, instead of blocking his attacks, parry them.

Deimos horizontally swung his lightsaber, and diverted his strike. He continued his onslaught until my instincts screamed at my from behind. Reacting quickly, I spun around, block a lightsaber strike from Ventress with my shield. The Sith Force Pushed Obi-Wan and focused her attacks on me. At the same time, Deimos went in for the kill. I was force to use a Force Barrier to protect myself. Both Ventress and Deimos were surprised by this, never seeing a Force ability like this.

Obi-Wan resumed his attack on Ventress, taking her attention off me. Deimos only grew annoyed as he struck my barrier repeatedly while chuckling. “Your just full of surprises aren’t you, boy. Though maybe I should strike to that Jedi.” Deimos said, as he continued to slice my barrier. I can tell he was just trying to get me to drop my barrier so he could strike me down.

I then remember another thing that my brother taught me. That if you can’t beat your opponent through strength, beat them through tactics. As Deimos brought down mid swing, I deactivated my Force Barrier. With my unexpected move, I quickly deflected Deimos lightsaber to the side, with his blade melting into the stone railing, following up by kicking his right knee. With his balance disrupted, Deimos dropped to a knee, lowing himself to my height. I took this opportunity to swing my lightsaber to cut his robotic arm off.

Right as I was about to bring my lightsaber on his robotic shoulder, Deimos did something unexpected. The large warrior deactivated his purple lightsaber and grabbed the blade of my lightsaber with his robotic hand. Normally, the lightsaber would have melted right through the metal, but instead, Deimos’s metal are didn’t melt when it seized the blade. There was only one material I could think of that could withstand the heat of a lightsaber blade.

“Beskar!” I said in shock, not knowing how he got his hands on it. The only source of beskar was from Mandalore or it's moon.

While I surprised, Deimos chuckled a bit. “Nice try, boy. However...” He told me before delivering a powerful uppercut to my stomach with his full might as I deactivated my lightsaber. Thanks to his immense size and strength, Deimos’s punch sent me flying over Obi-Wan and Ventress. Despite feeling like my insides were bruised, I used my shield protect my head from hitting the edge of the railing on the bridge. Though that didn't stop me from landing hard on the ground.

As I slowly got up, using the railing as support. I saw Obi-Wan sliced Ventress’s linked lightsabers in two. Even so, she ran at him with her two lightsabers. Obi-Wan blocked her attack, following up with knocking one of Ventress’s lightsaber over the edge and into the abyss below.

Deimos walked up behind Ventress. “Move aside, Ventress. I’ll finish this.” He told the Sith as he reignited his lightsaber. Obi-Wan grew more cautious of him. The Jedi Master could sense how stronger Deimos was compared to Ventress.

I got my second wind as I held up my lightsaber. “Where did you… get… that Beskar?” I demanded between breaths, hold onto my injured stomach.

Deimos raised his robotic arm. “This? I claimed this metal after crushing a Mandalorian’s neck with my bare hand." He answered, clinching his left hand. "Which nothing compared to what I’ll do to you two.”

“Not if we have anything to say about it!” We heard Twilight’s voice. Behind Deimos and Ventress, Twilight, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash jumped through the opening opening in the roof we went through earlier. All of the ignited their lightsabers.

“Oh great, more children.” Ventress said annoyed, raising her lightsaber. Deimos however, started to grow concerned. “Still, it doesn’t matter.” She added, smiling menacingly.

Deimos however, wasn’t so thrill about them being here. “We’re leaving.” Deimos told Ventress. The Sith assassin’s eye widened as she spun around.

“What! Why?” She exclaimed.

“If those three are here, then it means the battle is lost. And if we do fight them, more clone reinforcements will be here soon.” Deimos told her as he pressed a button on his wrist. Ventress didn’t like that the failed their mission, and that they have nothing to show for it, but knew their main priority it to escape.

Suddenly, we heard the screaming sound of a starship’s engine. I looked toward my left to see what looked like a huge flying duck boat flying toward us with dark smoke flying out it’s engines. The ship flew toward Deimos and Ventress and opened it’s doors.

“You think we’re just gonna let you get away.” Rainbow Dash yelled.

Right before Rainbow Dash was going to use her Force Speed to cut them off, Deimos pointed his robotic arm at them, and did some unexpected. His robotic hand split in two, and a large barrel slid forward. Realizing what Deimos was going to do, Rarity casted a large wall of ice in front of them. Deimos fired a blaster cannon, which exploded when it made contact with the ice. The shockwave alone push my friends back against the wall. Obi-Wan was about to go after them, but Deimos pointed his blaster cannon at him. Obi-Wan knew that he couldn’t stop them from leaving. Deimos and Ventress go on their ship and the mercenary turned to me. “Before I leave, I wish to know your name, boy.” He asked me.

“Aegis Sciritae.” I answered. Holding onto my stomach.

Deimos smiled. “I’ll remember that. It’s not often I meet an opponent that could last as long as you did.” He said as the ship’s hatch closed shut and they flew away.

Obi-Wan stroked his beard as Ventress and Deimos flew away. Never before has he come across someone like Deimos. I ran over to my friends who were getting back on their feet. “Are you girls alright?” I asked.

“We’ll be alright, dear. But who was that bald woman and brute?” Rarity asked.

“The Sith assassin was Ventress. And other one was Deimos, leader of a mercenary group called the Risen.” I answered.

“Risen? I can’t say I’ve heard about those mercenaries.” Twilight said.

“Well next time I see em. They’ll be the one’s knocked down on their backs.” Rainbow Dash added, looking for some payback.

Obi-Wan walked up to us. “Well, at least we’re all alive. I believe that’s the important part.” He told her

“Sorry they got away, Master Kenobi.” I apologized, figured I could have done more to stop them.

“Nonsense, Aegis. Ventress was alway’s good at escaping. And that Deimos was exceptionally strong. Had both of them attacked me, I doubt I could have survived.” Obi-Wan told us. “Now come on, let’s rejoin the other.” Obi-Wan said before walking back to the monastery. My friends and I nodded in agreement and followed him.

We eventually made it back to the monastery courtyard. There, Applejack and Pinkie Pie helped the clones defeat what was left of the droid army here. Fluttershy was tending to the wounded clones as Sunset was talking to Captain Rex. Sunset looked over the Captain's shoulder to see me us walking out of the monastery.

“Everyone! Your alright. We were about to come in to help.” Sunset said, as she and Rex walked up to us. Applejack and Pinkie Pie came running over to us.

“I glad to see your doing better, Sunset. Looks like you all cleaned up the droids.” I said, looked at the destroyed droids scattered around the courtyard.

“They put up a fight, but it wasn’t anything we couldn’t handle.” Sunset smirked, having a confidence that rivaled Rainbow Dash.

“Captain, I understand General Skywalker escaped.” Obi-Wan said to the clone captain.

“Yes, sir. On some beat up old space freighter. I’ll be surprised if he even makes it to Tatooine in that junker.” Rex said. At least Anakin took them away from the battlefield.

“If anybody can fly a bucket of bolts through hyperspace, he can.” Obi-Wan replied.

“Well, at least it’s over now.” I said relaxing a bit before I realized something grave. “Oh no…”

“Something wrong?” Rex asked.

“If the CIS were behind the Huttlet’s kidnapping, they could also be on Tatooine in case we rescued him.” I pointed out.

Obi-Wan’s eyes widen in realization. “Anakin’s and Ahsoka are walking into a trap.” Obi-Wan said, seeing what I was saying before tapping on his wrist comm. “All ground troops return to the Venator immediately. Admiral Yularen as soon as we’re on board, plan a course to Tatooine.” Obi-Wan radioed. Just then, I saw the Friendship on the courtyard’s landing pad.

“Rainbow Dash, get the Friendship ready for take off.” I told her.

“On it.” Rainbow Dash replied as she used her Force Speed to get to our ship.

I looked at the Jedi Master. “Master Kenobi, maybe you should come with us. We can enter hyperspace much sooner before the troopers return to your ship.” I offered.

“Good thinking, Aegis. Captain Rex, we’ll need you and some of your men to come with us.” Obi-Wan ordered the clone Captain.

“Understood, General.” Rex replied before ordering at least eight of his men to board our ship.

“We’re inside, Rainbow Dash.” Twilight said on her wrist comm as the last of Captain Rex's men entered the ship.

“Copy that, Twilight. Next stop, Tatooine.” We heard Rainbow Dash replied back as the ramp raised up the ship flew off.

We entered hyperspace and headed towards the planet of Tatooine. Rex and the rest of his men waited in the hanger as Pinkie Pie, and Applejack brought some food to them. Rarity was talking to some of the clones about adding some color to their armor, kinda like the blue markings on Rex’s armor. I took Obi-Wan to the comms room so he could get in contact with Coruscant, letting them know of the situation. Fluttershy took me to the infirmary to put some bacta pads on my bruised stomach. Now, I was in the Cockpit with Sunset, Twilight and Rainbow Dash.

"Do you think they're okay?" Twilight asked, referring to Anakin, Ahsoka, and the baby Huttlet.

"Don't worry, Twilight. Anakin is an extremely strong duelist. I'm sure he and Ahsoka can protect the Huttlet until we arrive." Sunset said when she noticedI was unusually quiet. “Everything alright Aegis?”

Before I could respond, the door opened up, revealing Obi-Wan Kenobi. “I contacted Master Yoda and the Chancellor of the situation. Master Yoda had one of the Jedi look into that lead you found Sunset and believes he found a suspect.” Obi-Wan told us. At least the one who help kidnapped the baby Hutt would be brought to justice. As I thought about what’s bothering me, I looked at the Jedi Master.

"Master Kenobi, can I talk to you about something?” I asked him.

"Of course." Obi-Wan replied, wondering what I have to ask.

I paused for a bit, not sure how to ask him. “It’s about Deimos, I believe he was holding back on me.” I told him Obi-Wan look at me with a questionable look as well as my friends.

Obi-Wan stoked his beard in thought. “You’re certain? From what I could tell, you put up a good fight against him.”

I only looked down in shame. “I’m certain, Master Kenobi. Deimos had multiple chances to kill me, either with the Force or choking me to death with his hand. If I face him on a one on one battle again. I don’t think I’ll walk away alive.” I said as I looked little depressed.

Obi-Wan didn't say anything at first until he walked over to me and rested his hand on my shoulder. "Aegis, it’s good that you notices these things, but instead of sulking about it, use it as a motivation to get better.” The Jedi Master told me.

"Master Kenobi's right. Besides, if Deimos could have killed you easily, you would have more wounds than a bruised stomach.” Sunset told me as Twilight nodded in agreement.

"So, what your saying is to accept what happened, and learn from it.” I said, trying to understand.

Rainbow Dash rotated her chair to look at me. "Yeah, your already awesome Aegis, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be even more awsome.” She encouraged me.

Seeing my friends cheer me up, a smile grew on my face. "Thanks everyone, I feel a lot better now." I told them.

Just then, Oracle spoke up through the cockpit's intercom. "Rainbow Dash, we will be exiting hyperspace soon." Oracle said, surprising Obi-Wan.

"Who was that?" He asked. Oh right, he wasn’t introduced to Oracle yet.

"That's Oracle. She's the ship's AI that helps manage the ship's systems." Twilight answered, with Obi-Wan visibly surprised we have such an AI.

We looked out of the window as we exited the swirling blue vortex around us. In front of the ship was the planet Tatooine. Anakin told me and my friends about grow up on Tatooine back when my friends and I were still at the Jedi Temple. It was a desert planet that serves as a safe haven for bounty hunters, smugglers, and scum of the galaxy. When we heard that from him years ago, I was surprise Anakin was the positive boy he was at the time, being raised on a planet like this. We entered Tatooine’s atmosphere and flew towards Jabba’s palace where we believe Anakin and Ahsoka are, hoping they were alright. It was nighttime as we flew in sky over the desert.

“Anakin, can you hear me?” Obi-Wan radioed on his wrist comm a bit concerned.

“We read you, Master. You just missed all the fun.” We heard Anakin’s voice reply. Judging by his voice, everything must be alright.

The Jedi Master relaxed a little hearing if former Padawan's voice. “Oh I’m sure. I assume you returned Jabba’s son to him.” Obi-Wan said.

“Yes, Master. Though not without running into Dooku.” Anakin said.

Obi-Wan’s eyes widen in shock. “Dooku was here!?” He asked.

“He was. But he got away.” Anakin told us. I sighed in relief. Anakin may be skilled with a lightsaber, but I heard how strong Dooku was with Makashi. A lightsaber style that focuses entirely on fighting other lightsaber duelists.

Obi-Wan sighed. “Well, we're glad you both are safe. Aegis and his friends gave us a ride on their ship and we’re touching down on Jabba’s Palace.”

“Alright. See you soon, Master.” Anakin said as we approached Jabba’s Palace. Obi-Wan, Twilight and I headed back to the hanger once we were about to land. When we reached the hanger, Rex's men held they're blasters just in case, with Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie. As the ship touched the ground, Applejack went ahead and pressed on the console, lowing the ramp. The hanger ramp lowered, showing the entrance of Jabba's palace. Jabba was holding his son in his arm at the entrance, along side some of his bodyguards. Anakin and Ahsoka began walking up to us, both of them unscathed.

“I guess you two didn’t need help after all.” I said to them as we walked down the ramp, glad to see they both were alright.

“Well, it wasn’t easy. R2, Stinky and I had to take on some MagnaGuards.” Ahsoka said. My friends and I were impressed Ahsoka was able to handle some MagnaGuards, even with R2 and Stinky's help. We have some training droids in our ship that have a similar design to a MagnaGuard. At least Stinky is finally back with his father.

"Would you all want a lift?" Twilight offered. We might as well since there aren't any Republic ships here.

Obi-Wan smiled. "We'd appreciate that, Twilight. If you could take us to Coruscant, the Republic will pay you all for your services." He said as we headed back inside the Friendship. As Rainbow Dash flew the Friendship off planet, Pinkie Pie and Applejack wanted to make dinner for everyone. I went to my cabin and got out my journal.

As I was about to write down what I've learned, the door slid open to reveal Fluttershy. "Hey, Fluttershy. Need something?" I asked her, to which Fluttershy nodded.

"I was wondering if I could write what I've learned today in the journal." Fluttershy said.

"Of course, Fluttershy. How about we write it together." I offered as I sat on the couch. Fluttershy smiled and sat next to me.

"Dear Princess Celestia, today, my friends and I helped rescue Jabba's son from the CIS. I didn't want us to be too involved too much in the war, but we couldn't ignore someone in need of help, especially a child. This mission taught me that you can’t when every fight, and when you don’t, you can still learn from it. And I was not the only one who learned something today." I wrote down before handing the journal and stylus to Fluttershy.

Fluttershy grasped them and sat the journal on the desk. "Dear Princess Celestia, I've learned that your friends can be an amazing source of strength, who are always by your side in the most scared and help you overcome it. Your's... Fluttershy and Aegis Spirit." She wrote down before putting the stylus down.

With that done, Fluttershy and I went to the elevator to help with making dinner for everyone. At the time, I thought this would be the only time my friends and I would be involved in the war. Little did I know, it was just the beginning.

Chapter 5: Talk with Friends

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We were on our way to Coruscant to drop off the Jedi and the clones after we rescued Jabba’s son. On route, we decided to have dinner with them. After talking with Applejack and Pinkie Pie what we should eat, we decided on making apple pizza. As I was putting the cheese on the pizza, Oracle informed me I was getting a call from my brother, and I headed to the comm room. As I entered the comm room, I remembered Obi-Wan asking where my friends and I got our lightsaber crystals. Maybe I should talk with my brother about it. There, I got in contact with my brother as his hologram appeared over the table. He was wearing his self made Spartan Mandalorian Armor, with the traditional T visor. I noticed he had a couple of blaster marks on his spartan armor. Unlike the Halo Universe, the spartan armor don’t have energy shields, but could still withstand multiple blaster bolts.

“Hey, Leo. Are you alright?” I asked him.

“Yeah, it was a difficult battle, but we managed to push the CIS out of the frontier. What about you, how’d your mission go?” My brother asked, visibly tired.

“Well, we were able to rescue Jabba’s son and safely returned him to Tatooine. Turns out, the CIS were responsible for his kidnapping. Dooku planned to frame the Republic for Jabba’s son kidnapping and have the Hutt’s join them. Luckily, we were able to rescue the Hutt. We’re on our way to Coruscant to drop off the Jedi and clones.” Leonidas smiled.

“That’s good to hear. Without the Hutts, the CIS will have a hard time against the Republic. That’ll give the Frontier some breathing room. Especially with their failed invasion in the Frontier.” Leonidas said before noticing something. “Hey, you alright?” He asked, noticing the worry look on my face.

I sighed a little. “Earlier, one of the Jedi, Master Kenobi asked where my friends and I got our kyber crystals. I’m worried how much we should tell them.” I said.

“You mean whether or not you should tell them about the Princesses. Or about the incident.” Leonidas hypothesized, to which I nodded my head. “Well, I believe that you should call the princesses themselves.” He advised. He’s right, it’s not my secret it’s theirs.

“Alright, Leo. I call them right away. Love you, brother.” I said smiling.

“Love you too, Aegis. Oh, and about your crus…” I didn’t let him finish as I hung up. I tapped on the glass and a it lit up a list of callers. I tapped on Princess Celestia’s name and waited for her to answer the subspace transceiver. A moment later, Princess Celestia’s hologram appeared on the table. She was wearing her white royal dress.

“Aegis, it’s good to see you again. I got your and Fluttershy’s report. I’m proud you all helped Jabba’s son.” Princess Celestia said smiling.

“Thank you, Princess. But there’s something I need to ask you. We taking the Jedi back to Coruscant. And Jedi Master Kenobi asked where we got our kyber crystals. I’m worried how much we should tell him.” I explained to her.

Princess Celestia closed her eyes in thought before looking at me. “It’s alright to tell them Aegis. It’s not like it much of a secret since all of Equestria knows it. Beside, the Jedi and the Republic are gonna find out sooner or later.” She told me. I sighed in relief, especially since I can’t tell a convincing lie like Applejack.

“Aegis, dinner’s ready.” I heard Applejack’s voice on the intercom.

“I gotta go, Princess Celestia. Tell Princess Luna I said hello.” I said.

“Of course, Aegis. Until next time.” Princess Celestia said before hanging up. I felt a lot better after hearing our teacher saying it was alright. I went back down to the kitchen to see Twilight and Rainbow Dash set up some more tables so everyone could sit here. Everyone were talking among themselves until Rarity noticed me.

“Welcome back, Aegis. Is everything alright with your brother?” Rarity asked.

“Yup, he and the Militia managed to push back the CIS Assault on our colony worlds.” I told them as I sat down next to Twilight. I began eating my pizza as Obi-Wan finished his drink.

“Aegis, I’ve been meaning to ask you. Before, I asked where you and your friends got your kyber crystals. I was hoping you could enlighten us on it.” Obi-Wan asked. My friends and I stopped eating and looked at one another. I can tell they were wondering if they should tell him the truth.

“Don’t worry everyone, I called Princess Celestia, and she said it was alright to tell them.” I said, earning a some confused look’s from our guests.

“Princess Celestia?” Ahsoka asked, not knowing who she is.

“I believe we should start from the beginning.” Twilight started. She explained how we traveled to Equestria after we left the Jedi Order. We eventually found our parents with the help of a Militia officer and it turns out that Aegis’s brother, Leonidas.

“Wait!” Obi-Wan said surprised. “Your brother is Leonidas. As in one of the rumored super soldiers and known the Lion of the Frontier.” He said. My brother gained a reputation thanks to his combat skills and leadership in the military. As well as his habit of fighting on the frontlines. Even the other clone troopers started listening in.

“Yup, he was on Equestria for some R&R. He introduced us to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. Actually, he’s kinda like you Anakin.” Told him.

“Really?” Anakin asked.

I nodded my head. “Yup, both of you are extremely loyal to your soldiers and are skilled combatants.”

“Well that’s not good, I’m not sure our galaxy and handle two Skywalkers.” Rainbow Dash joked. We all laughed as Anakin glared at Rainbow Dash.

“Anyway, it turns out during the Equestrian Civil War, the Princesses were both taught by Starswirl the Bearded.” I told them. Obi-Wan grew even more surprised.

Ahsoka raised an eyebrow. “Who’s Starswirl?” She asked.

“Starswirl is one of the few ponies that were Force Sensitive.” Obi-Wan answered. “I recall Master Yoda talking about him, how the both of them were good friends. So I assume you all were trained by the Princesses and received your kyber crystals?” Kenobi asked.

“Partially, we were trained by the Princesses, though we didn’t get our kyber crystal from them.” Rarity told them.

“Shortly after the Clone Wars started, during the Summer Sun Celebration. One of the Frontier Generals, General Marder, somehow used a Sith artifact to corrupt the Princesses, turning them into darker versions of themselves. Despite the guards with them, they completely overpowered them and escaped.” Sunset explained until Pinkie Pie cut in.

“Then we tried to go after them, but Leonidas was like, ‘stay here.’ But we meditated together and were able to find out they went to Odesson.” Pinkie Pie said.

“Odesson?” Anakin asked. “If I remember my military history, wasn’t that the home planet of the Alliance during the old republic?”

“Yup, though it’s seen better days. The base was complete overgrown from the nature.” Applejack answered.

“Moving on. We travelled to Odesson to find the Princesses, and found out they travelled into a certain spot in the forest.” Twilight said as Rainbow Dash cut in this time.

“So we braved the dark forest, overcame whatever obstacle the Princesses threw at us and found them in a cave.” Rainbow Dash proudly said.

“It turns out that the Princesses were trying to destroy something called the Tree of Harmony, which Starswirl discovered. According to his notes, the Tree of Harmony is made out of kyber crystals, and hold the Elements of Harmony, a power that can only be manifested when those who represent the elements are present.” Twilight explained

Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka looked to one another in thought of what we were telling them. “So what are these Elements of Harmony?” Anakin asked.

“The Elements are Harmony are honesty, kindness, laughter, generosity, loyalty, empathy, acceptance and magic. And each one of us represent an element. Applejack represents Honesty, Fluttershy represents kindness, Pinkie Pie represents Laughter. Rarity represents Generosity. Rainbow Dash represents Loyalty. Sunset represents Empathy. I represents Acceptance. And Twilight represent magic, the element that binds all of the other elements. It are these elements that give the tree life.” I explained.

“But when we got there, it looked like the tree was dying. And the Princesses were attempting to end it.” Fluttershy added.

“Luckily, the tree’s elements resonated with us and with it’s power, we were able to return the Princesses back to normal. Afterwards, pieces of the Elements of Harmony broke off and gifted themselves to us. Which we used for our lightsabers.” Twilight finished. The Jedi and the clones were amazed by this, and somewhat concerned.

“So what happened to Marder?” Rex asked.

“We don’t know. After we rescued the Princesses, they said Marder just left them shortly before we arrived. Leonidas told us that the Militia Intelligence tracked his ship to the CIS territory. After that, he went missing.” Rarity explained.

The Jedi looked at one another, wondering why Marder would travel to the CIS. “Do you perhaps think Dooku was behind the Princesses corruption?” Obi-Wan hypothesized.

“Well, that’s the Militia Intelligence best guess. Since they know Dooku is a Sith. But as far as they know, Dooku and Marder never met while he was still in the Militia.” Sunset answered.

“So either Dooku had a means to contact Marder without the Militia Intelligence knowing about it, or someone was responsible.” Fluttershy said. This question still plagues the Militia Intelligence, since they found nothing in Marder’s office or home.

“Alrighty now, that’s enough talking about the past. How about we change the subject.” Applejack asked everyone. Obi-Wan seemed satisfied with what we told them and accepted to talk about something else.

“Yeah, like what do you all do during your free time. I plan out parties for all my friends.” Pinkie Pie suggested as she pulled out a paper sheet that folded down, showing a list of birthday plans.

“Oh, I normally just meditate and practice my lightsaber.” Ahsoka said.

“Really? You don’t do anything else?” Twilight ask after eating a piece of her pizza.

“Not really. I know that other Jedi normally work with machines and working on their lightsabers. What about you all?” Ahsoka asked.

“Well dear, I like sow clothes. In fact, Ahsoka dear, you would look great in some of the clothes I’ve made.” Rarity said smiling.

“Uhh, maybe next time.” Ahsoka politely declined, not really interested in trying on new clothes when she’s fine with the one she has on.

“I usually practice my painting. Some of these paintings are my handy work.” Sunset said, gesturing to the magnificent paintings on the wall.

“I normally like to study the books the Princesses give me and practice with my Force abilities.” Twilight said.

“Well I like having tea parties with my little animal friends.” Fluttershy said, as a certain cute/mean white rabbit hopped onto her lap. “Oh, hello Angle.” She said as my friend hugged her pet rabbit. Despite it’s looks, that rabbit can be a real jerk.

“I grow ma small orchard. And sometime practice with ma rope skills.” Applejack told everyone and she pulled out a rope from her hat.

“And I like working on my starfighter and watching the wonderbolts fly on the vids.” Rainbow Dash said excitedly, thinking about her idols.

“The Wonderbolts? Who are they?” Anakin asked, not familiar with the name. Rainbow Dash just gasped in shock as if a world was shattered.

“You guys don’t know who the Wonderbolts are!?” The rainbow mane girl asked them. All the clones and Jedi shook their head no. Rainbow Dash used her Force Speed to run to her room and returned with a poster of the Wonderbolts. “The Wonderbolts are the best pilots in the Frontier. First starting out on our homeward of Equestria, the Wonderbolts became a huge part in the Frontier Military and possess the best starfighters the Militia can offer. Not only that, they perform stunts to show the pride and professionalism to not only Equestria, but all of the Frontier Militia Navy.” Rainbow Dash explained with pride. Out of everyone here, Anakin was the most interested in this group.

“That reminds me, what happened to the spice freighter you two took to Tatooine?” Fluttershy asked him.

“He crashed it.” Ahsoka teased her master.

“It wasn’t my fault, I didn’t have time to modify it.” Anakin pointed out, to which some of us thought his reaction was a little funny. “Anyway, after we reach Coruscant, I was thinking of going back to to salvage it.”

“Really, why?” His Padawan asked confused.

Anakin shrugged his shoulders. “I figured a ship like that would come in handy. Besides I could teach you some mechanics.” Anakin replied.

I was about to tell them my hobby until I realized something. “How about you Rex? Do you and your men have any hobbies.” I asked.

For some reason, Rex was a bit surprised to be asked this. “Well, the boys and I normally go to a cantina of Coruscant whenever we’re on shore leave. Beside that, nothing much.” Rex answered.

Anakin looked a little regretful before looking at his clone captain. “Rex, mind if I ask you something. And I want you to be completely honest.”

“Of course, General.” Rex replied, wondering what his Jedi General wanted to know.

Anakin took a moment before opening his mouth. “Do you and your men feel like your being forced to fight this war?” The Jedi asked him. We can all tell Anakin didn’t feel comfortable asking him this. I guess after Slick’s betrayal on Christophsis, Anakin needs to ask him this.

All the clones stopped eating as the glanced over to their captain. Rex paused, thinking of an answer. “Well, after what happened with Slick. I believe we clones have mixed feelings about the war. We were created to fight the war, but then again, without it, we wouldn’t exist.” He answered. My friends and I looked at one another at Rex’s answer. Without the war, the clone army would never have been created in the first place.

“So, you all are alright with fighting for the Republic?” Anakin asked, to which Rex nodded.

“Of course, sir. We’re the only thing that can protect the Republic from the Separatists.” The clone next to Rex answered. I felt a bit guilty at myself. I always thought the clones were reluctant soldiers who were taught to be soldiers that only follow orders. Turns out, clones like Rex know they were bred for this war, and still chose to fight.

“What about you, Aegis? What’s your hobby?” Ahsoka asked me.

“Oh, right. I normally collect some starship models and study martial arts. As well as practice my violin.” answered them.

“You collect starship models too?” Anakin asked.

“Yup, they ship models I have so far are miniature representations the Militia uses.” I answered.

“You said you play the Violin? Isn’t that a musical instrument.” Obi-Wan asked.

“Oh yes. Aegis has been practicing with it for a while now. Actually, didn’t you say you finished writing a song?” Fluttershy asked.

“Um, yeah. But I’m a little nervous actually singing it in front of other people.” I said. Truth is, the song I wrote is one of my favorites from my previous life.

“Oh come now, sugercube. Your gonna have to sing it to us sooner or later.” Applejack insisted. Everyone else wanted to hear me sing so I went back to my room and came back down with my violin.

“Just so you all know, this will be my first time performing in front of someone else, so it might not be that good.” I said as I place the bow on the strings of my violin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUmgRIymwU4

After I finished the song, everyone started clapping their hands. They were all moved by the song I singed.

“Wow, Aegis. That was was beautiful.” Twilight complimented me, to which I blushed a little.

“Thanks everyone. After spending time with you girls, it made me want to sing this song.” I said, which made my friends smile.

Just then, the blue holographic sphere of Oracle appeared in the middle in the table. “Aegis, we’ll be arriving to Coruscant in about five minutes.” Oracle told us.

“Thanks, Oracle.” Rainbow Dash said before she headed up for the cockpit. Obi-Wan went up with her to tell the Coruscant fleet to let us pass. With all of us full, Fluttershy, Sunset, and I took everyone’s plates to clean them as everyone else were talking with the other clones and Ahsoka. Rarity wanted to take Ahsoka to her room to try on some clothes, though the Jedi Padawan politely declined.

“Hey Aegis. mind if I ask you somethings before we land?” Anakin asked.

“Sure, Anakin. What is is?” I replied as I placed a dish in the washing machine.

“Well, for one. You mentioned that you have a problem taking things too seriously. But I don’t remember you had that problem back at the Temple.” Anakin asked.

I sighed, not feeling comfortable about my disability. “That’s because I have mild autism. It’s a mental disability that causes me to have problems with social communications and certain behaviors.” I answered. Luckily, my parents got me help when I was growing up to at least manage it.

“Oh, I’m sorry Aegis. I didn’t know.” Anakin said, feeling a bit guilty for asking.

I just waved it off. “It’s alright Anakin, what’s the other thing you wanted to ask?” I asked

“Listen, I know how you all don’t have a strong opinion of the Jedi, especially after what happened when you all left. But I was wondering if you all are willing to accept missions from the Republic?” My friend asked.

Sunset placed one of the wet dishes in the sink and looked towards Anakin. “I don’t know, Anakin. We don’t plan on joining any sides in this war.” She told him.

“I know, but maybe you all would at least consider some jobs. You don’t have to join us, but I know the Republic would really appreciate it.” Anakin insisted. My friends and I looked at one another, each considering the ups and downs of working for the Republic.

“We’ll consider it, Anakin. But I make no promises. We still have other duties such as transporting supplies to neutral planets who are affected by the war. Not to mention the jobs we accept from the Frontier Militia.” I told him. In a lot of people’s opinion, at least those in the neutral system, believe the Republic were just as responsible for the war as the CIS.

“Anakin, I got in contact with the Chancellor. He wants to meet all of us on the landing pad as soon as we land.” We heard Obi-Wan’s voice on Anakin’s wrist comm.

“Understood, Obi-Wan. We’ll be down in a minute.” Anakin replied. Huh, I wondered why the Chancellor wanted to meet all of us. After setting the remaining plates in the sink, we felt the ship bump, indicating we’ve landed. All of us headed down toward the hanger and walked toward the doors.

Sunset hit the panel to open the ramp as Rainbow Dash and Obi-Wan arrived behind us. The ramp lowered down, revealing a handful of Senate Guards escorting some senators and a few Jedi. Two of the Jedi my friends and I recognized were Master Windu and Master Yoda, with the former still not smiling like we remember. Twilight and I recognize the man with the Senators was the Chancellor Palpatine. The Chancellor was an elderly man with light skin, blue eyes, and white hair. We all walked down the ramp to meet them. Around us was towering buildings and shuttles flying around.

“Good it is, to see you all again.” Yoda greeted us.

“Hello, Master Yoda. It’s great seeing you again.” Sunset said smiling.

“Welcome back, Master Jedi. We’re all pleased that you your mission was a success.” The Chancellor said smiling.

“Of course, your Excellence. But we may not have succeeded with out their help.” Anakin gestured to my friends and I.

The Chancellor smiled softly as he looked at us.“Then behalf of the Republic, thank you for helping us.” He thanked us as two Senate Guards walked up to us with some cases. “And here is your reward for your services."

“Of course, Chancellor, we were happy to help.” Twilight replied. Applejack and Pinkie Pie accepted the cases from the guards.

“Well, in that case, then perhaps consider joining the Republic? With your help, we could perhaps end this war sooner.” Palpatine suggested.

“I’m sorry, your Excellency, but I already talked to them about joining us and they decided to stay as Freelancers, which I respect their choice.” Anakin told the Chancellor. My friends and I smiled that Anakin respected our choice to remain as Freelancers.

Chancellor Palpatine seemed a little disappointed that we weren’t joining the Republic, but for a split second, I though I felt great irritation from the elder. “I see, but perhaps you would reconsider another time.” The Chancellor before leaving with the other Senators.

“Master Kenobi, the Council would like to debrief you on your previous mission.” Master Windu told him.

“Of course.” Obi-Wan said before leaving with some of the Jedi Council members. One of the Jedi however, stayed behind. He was a human male with gray hair and brown eyes. It took me a second before I realized who he was.

“Master Kota! what are you doing here.” I said, surprised. Had I stayed at the Jedi Temple, the Jedi before me would have become my master.

“I was at the Jedi Temple when Sunset told us of the evidence she found. It led me and my men to Ziro, Jabba’s uncle. He was the one who helped the Separatists to kidnap Jabba’s son so they could frame it on the Republic. He wanted Jabba to kill the Jedi so the Republic will before force to seek justice. That way, Ziro would’ve gain control of the Hutt clan.

“How could that slug betray his own family like that.” Applejack said disbelieved. To her, family is the most important thing in the world

“I guess there are just some people in this galaxy who doesn’t nearly value family as much as personal power. I just hope he payed for his crimes.” Sunset said.

“Oh, believe me he did.” Kota confirmed. “I lead my men to arrest Ziro, where we also found the Senator of Naboo.

“Really?” Anakin asked surprised.

“She was attempting to convince Ziro that we didn’t kidnap Jabba’s son, only to find out that Ziro was talking with Dooku. Luckily, we arrived just before the Hutt could try anything.”

“I see. That’s good to hear.” Anakin said relieved. Oh right, the Senator of Naboo was the former queen Anakin met before coming to the Jedi Temple. I wonder if he stills has a crush on her.

“Well, it was great seeing you again, Master Kota. I hope we meet again.” I said smiling.

“Likewise, Aegis. Who knows, maybe I’ll ask you and your friends for help one of these days.” Kota responded smiling before leaving.

My friends and I looked towards Anakin. “It was good working with you, Anakin and Ahsoka. Hopefully next time no fighting will be involved.” I said to them.

“Likewise, everyone.” Anakin replied.

They we about to leave until Pinkie Pie spoke up. “Oh, I almost forgot.” She said before bringing out a well cooked pie seemingly out of her mane. “Here you two go.” My pink fur friend offered them.

“Where did you get that pie?” Ahsoka asked, to which Anakin was wondering as well.

“It’s a trade secret. That and the author doesn't want to tell.” Pinkie Pie answered smiling.

Ahsoka looked at her Master who shrugged his shoulders. Ahsoka looked back at Pinkie Pie and accepted her pie. “Thank you, Pinkie. I’m sure we’ll enjoy this.” She said before leaving with her Master. My friends and I went back inside the Friendship, ready for our next adventure.

Chapter 6: Supply Lines

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It’s been a couple weeks since we helped the Republic rescue Jabba. Since then, we’ve been transporting supplies to neutral worlds. Now that we’ve saved up enough credits, we traveled to a Atlas Corporation shipyard orbiting a mining planet to give the Friendship a much needed upgrade. After what happened on Christophsis, I talked to Twilight and Rainbow Dash what kind of armaments we can attach to our ship. We brainstormed some ideas, and settled on a powerful ion cannon. That way, if we ever have to fight a CIS ship, we could easily disable it.

As we were waiting for our ship’s retrofit, we discussed plans on rebuilding Rainbow Dash’s starfighter in the lounge area. We drew up a design on what her new starfighter would look like. After working on it designs for a couple hours, we finally completed the schematic.

“So, what do you think Rainbow Dash? Do you like it?” I asked her.

“Like it? I love it!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “This will be the most awesome starfighter in the whole galaxy!” She said giddily. I have to admit, she’s really cute when she’s like this.

“Hey, honey.” I heard a familiar female voice. I turned around to see a woman wearing a grey Atlas uniform. She has black hair and blue eyes.

“Mom!” I exclaimed as I got up from my seat and gave her a big hug. “What are you doing here?” I asked her.

“I was discussing with some of my construction workers on a starship we’re building here. And I heard that you all were retrofitting the Friendship.” Mom said as we let go of the hug.

“Not only that, but we design a new starfighter to replace my old one.” Rainbow Dash said, excited to get her new starfighter built.

My mom seemed really interested in this. “Really? Mind if I take a look?” She asked. Twilight nodded and showed her the tablet which we drew our ship design on. Mom studied the tablet and smiled. Impressed, she smiled at our designs. “Not bad, everyone. It’ll definitely be an formidable starfighter.”

“Congratulate, Aegis. He’s the one who designed most of it.” Applejack said, slapping my back.

Mom laughed a little. “Then it looks like your brother has some competition.” She replied, knowing some of the impressive designs Leo made. Mom sat down with us as we talked a bit. During our conversation, my comm wrist started beeping.

“Everyone, the ship’s retrofitting is close to completion, but we have an urgent call from General Richard.” Oracle told us. Dad? I wonder what’s urgent.

“Alright, Oracle. Can you patch it through Owl?” I asked. Hearing his name, Owl jump on the table and beeped happily.

“Give me a moment.” Oracle replied. Right after she said that, Owl projected a small hologram of my dad on the table.

“Thank you for picking up, oh… hello dear.” Richard said once he noticed his wife next to me.

“Hello Richard.” Eliza responded smiling at her husband. “Is there a problem?”

Richard sighed in response. “I’m afraid so. During the early days of the war, multiple planets asked for our help training their security forces, to which we obliged. But a couple days ago, the CIS laughed an attack on Ryloth, trapping some of our soldiers. Some of which are from Leo’s Platoon.”

“My brother’s platoon??” I asked. As far as I know, Spartan’s don’t have platoons.

“He didn’t tell you?” My mom asked me, to which I shook my head. “A couple weeks ago, when the CIS attacked one of our colony worlds, Leo rallied scattered Militia soldiers and led a counter attack. After they pushed the CIS off the planet, the soldiers Leo rallied decided to stick together, forming the 141 Platoon.” She explained.

I blinked in surprise. 141 is my brothers Spartan identification number. Not only that, 141 is the same number of the task force from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. I still wonder how Leo reacted when he received that number.

“So do you want us evacuate them?” Twilight asked them.

Richard shook his head. “Only if they wish to. But knowing them, they’ll want to stay and help the Twi'leks. And a militia soldier’s duty is to protect civilians, so it would be insulting of them to leave. However, I want you and your friends to break through the CIS blockade and transport food and medical supplies to the Twi'leks. If there are any civilians that want to evacuate, you all can take them to the refugee planet of Haven.” He told us.

My mom next to me hummed in thought. “We can give you those supplies here on the station. But you might also want to take some of our mechanized infantry.”

“Thank you, Mom. That’ll save us some time.” I said before looking at my dad’s hologram. “We’ll take the job, Dad. As soon as our ship’s retrofitting is done, we’ll leave immediately.” I told him, with my friends agreeing to me.

My dad smiled. “Thank you, Aegis. I know they’ll be grateful for the help.” He told us before hanging up.

“Oracle, how much time until the retrofitting is done?” Twilight asked her.

Oracle took a second to calculate. “Estimated time is about one hour. The cannon is attached to the ship, but it needs calibrating and connecting it to our firing systems.” She answered.

Sunset took a moment to think. “Twilight and I should be able to finish up the calibrations on our way there.” She told us.

“Alright then, I’ll have some of the workers and droids help load the supplies so you can leave as soon as possible.” Mom told us

“Then what are we waiting on? Let’s get going.” Rainbow Dash urged us. We all agreed and headed out for our ship.

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After the Friendship and was loaded up with supplies, we headed straight for Ryloth. Along with the supplies, Mom gave us a fifty C6 droids, three C12s, four claw droids, and a dozen of aerial assault droids. All of which are based from the Call of Duty Universe. While I was all for bringing food and supplies to the Twi'lek’s, a part of me was worried about the weapons. Sure they’ll help the people of Ryloth, but I’m worried about us becoming arms dealers.

I was in the cockpit with Rainbow Dash as we traveled through hyperspace. “Rainbow Dash, we’ll be exiting hyperspace in 10 seconds.” Oracle told us.

“Thank’s oracle, let's hope we made it on time.” Rainbow Dash said as we exited hyperspace.

To our horror, it was as bad as we imagined. All but two of the Republic Venators were completely destroyed, with one of them just exploded. The CIS Munificent class frigates move in on the kill on the last Venator.

Quickly, I tapped on the ship’s intercom. “Sunset, Twilight. Is the cannon ready yet?” I asked.

“Yeah, just finished adjusting the firing mechanism. We can fire at anytime.” Sunset radioed back.

“Then let’s show ‘em our new teeth.” Rainbow Dash said confidently as she readied to fire our new cannons.

I looked at the ships heading for the Venator and saw two roughly right next to each other. “Rainbow Dash, target that Munificent frigate. If we can disable that ship, it’ll ram right into the one next to it.” I told her.

“Got it. Targeting.” Rainbow Dash said as she lined the ship towards the frigate. Once she has line of sight, Rainbow pulled the trigger, firing a beam of electrical energy at the CIS ship. The energy caused the ship’s lights to go dark as it drifted towards it’s neighboring frigate. Looking at the beam of electrical light, it was much stronger that I thought. I was expecting the ion cannons to fire bolts instead of a beam.

Just as I was amazed by our new cannon, all of our lights started flickering on and off. “WARNING! MASSIVE POWER LOSS. SWITCHING TO EMERGENCY BACK UP GENERATORS.” Oracle said throughout the cockpit. The light’s flickered on and off a couple more times before it stopped.

“Oracle what happened?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Our ship's power was almost drained when the ion cannon. I’m afraid there was a malfunction somewhere in the gun room.” Oracle explained.

Rainbow Dash and I were horrified this happened. Did something go wrong when Sunset and Twilight were finishing up the calibrations. “How much power do we have yet?” I asked.

“With the emergency generators, about 13% remaining. The hyperdrive is offline. I advice we land planet side immediately and begin repairs.” Oracle told us.

“Okay. Rainbow Dash, get us to Ryloth. Oracle, shut down all non essential systems. I’m gonna try contacting that Republic ship.” I said as the CIS ship we fired on crashed right into the one next to it. The lights around us went off as the emergency red lights turned on.

I attempted to contact the Republic ship on my console and a voice of a clone trooper came through. “Incoming ship, identify yourself.”

“This is Aegis Skiritai of the Friendship. We're here to help but our ship is running on emergency power. We have food and medical supplies for the people of Ryloth.” I told the clone.

After a few seconds a different, a new voice came through. “This is Admiral Dao. Thank you for your help, but I’m afraid that my ship has taken considerable damage. I have to order a complete evacuation.”

So we only barely saved them in time. “Understood Admiral, be safe.” I said as I hung up.

Rainbow Dash flew us past the Venator destroyer as I saw escape pods launching out. Fortunately, the CIS fleet hasn’t sent out vulture droids after us. Perhaps that ship we destroyed had the tactical droid aboard, crippling their command . Rainbow Dash flew us through Ryloth’s atmosphere.

Just then, Twilight and Sunset ran into the cockpit panting. “Aegis, we’re so sorry!” Twilight apologized franticly.

“What happened with the cannon?” I asked them.

“I’m not sure. Maybe we calibrated the cannon wrong.” Sunset said regretful.

“Aegis. I’m detecting multiple battle droids approaching the landing coordinates. I calculate the ally lines will collapse soon.” Oracle informed us.

“Is there anything we can do? Maybe launch an aerial strike at the droids.” I suggested.

“Affirmative, but with little power remaining. We only have enough for one pass.” Oracle said.

“That’ll have to do then. I’m arming the cannons and missiles.” Rainbow Dash said.

The Friendship flew down toward the surface, where we could see a battalion of droids and tanks marching toward the Republic defenses. The defensive line were stationed near the entrance of a rock valley. From the look of it, the Republic and militia were outnumbered four to one. Despite their best effort, it's defenses were close to getting overrun.

I got on the comms and switched to an open frequency. “To all Republic and Militia Forces, air strike inbound. Get your heads down!” I warned them.

“Targets locked, firing.” Rainbow Dash said, letting loose the Friendship’s weapons. Plasma bolts and missiles landed across the droid’s battle line as we flew over them. Our flyover attack stalled the entire droid forces.

“43% of the droid battalion eliminated, but I advice immediate landing.” Oracle told us.

“Got it, Oracle. Looks like there’s an open area where we could land.” Rainbow Dash Said as she flew the ship through the valley.

I got up and turned to Sunset and Twilight. “Can you two head to the engine room and see what you can do. The rest of us will help the Militia and Republic however we can.” I told them.

Both of them nodded. “Of course, Aegis. I promise we’ll fix this.” Twilight said as she and Sunset walked out of the cockpit. Rainbow Dash landed the ship in the narrow valley just wide enough for us.

“Great flying, Dash.” I congratulated. There's not many pilots in the galaxy who could have gotten us through that.

“Well what you expect. I am the best flyer in the Frontier.” Rainbow Dash said cockily.

“Aegis, there is about 12% remaining. Unless Twilight and Sunset finds a way to restore the ship, we will not be able to leave.” Oracle told us.

“Don’t worry, Oracle. I’m sure Twilight and Sunset will figure something out. In the meantime, let’s get the supplies out. Force knows we'll need it.” I said as we headed toward the hanger.

With most of the power out, the elevator was offline, So we had to take the emergency ladder in. It was different than last time I tried going down the ladder. It was roughly difficult to find our footing because of how dark it was. Once we got down, the rest of our friends were already waiting for us.

“Aegis, dear. Oracle told us what happened. Is there anything we can do?” Rarity asked.

“Twilight and Sunset are working on it as we speak, in the meantime. We have to get these supplies off.” I told them. They nodded in agreement.

"Okie dokie." Pinkie Pie opened up the hanger doors.

As the doors lowered the to the ground, we began bringing the supplies. Once outside, some of the clones, militia soldiers and Twi'leks came forward to help carry the supplies. One of the Twi'leks with green skin and orange eyes walked up to me along with a male Kajain’sa’Nikto, whom I recognized was a Jedi General. The Jedi General had scaly orange skin with spikes around the side of his face and has blue eyes.

“I assume your Skiritai?” The Jedi asked.

“I am.” I replied as I carried a crate of medicine. The Twi’lek and Jedi l walked with me.

“I’m General Syndulla. And this is General Di. Thank you for bringing these supplies. With the CIS orbiting Ryloth, I was worried you wouldn't.” Syndulla said.

I sat the crate down and turned toward the Twi’lek general. “I’m just glad we made it here in time. But I’m afraid we can’t use our ship for a while.” I told him.

Syndulla and Di blinked in confusion. “What do you mean?” The Jedi general asked, both of them wondering what the problem could be.

“Recently, we installed an ion cannon onto our ship, but when we fired it on a CIS ship, the discharge partially effected our ship as well. Honestly, it’s a miracle our emergency generators still function after that.” I told him. Syndulla grew even more worried by this. He knew without our ship for air support, we wouldn’t last long. Just then, I noticed Applejack activating the mechanized infantry we brought along. “At least the Militia robots we brought with us still function.” I said as the C12s walked down the ramp with aerial droids hovering over them.

“You’ve brought machines with you as well?” Syndulla asked surprised. It was the first time he’s seen Militia droids before.

“Well, we heard you all were under attack, so we thought those could help.” I told them when I noticed a clone trooper with brown markings on his armor and a blue skin Twi’lek running up to us. This clone trooper had brown markings on his armor.

“General Di, droid reinforcements showed up and the right flank has collapsed. The droids will be closing in on our position.” The clone told him. With the Republic fleet shattered, there's nothing stopping the CIS from sending the rest of it's droids down.

“What about reinforcements?” Syndulla asked.

“Communication has been spotty. I promise you Cham, the Republic will not abandon Ryloth.” Di assured him. Synbulla on the other hand wasn’t having it.

"I'm afraid that won't be possible, Master Di. When we entered Ryloth, the last Venator was destroyed. Luckily, the ship was evacuated before the it exploded." I told them.

With no reinforcements coming, the Twi'lek general looked angrily at Di. “I’ve heard enough of your promises, Jedi. The fact remains, if we stay here without more reinforcements. We’re all going to die.” Syndulla said angrily. “Gobi, tell the people we’re leaving.” He ordered.

“Yes, sir.” Gobi complied.

“I don’t think you understand. The right flank has collapsed. There’s no leaving. We’re stuck here together.” The clone told them. Syndulla shook his head frustrated and walked away with gobi. I can sense he feels abandoned by the Republic.

General Di looked at the droid infantry we brought along. “Aegis, can you have the militia droids march to the battle lines. They can stall the Separatists long enough for us to regroup our forces.” He told me.

“Understood. But with that many droids, they can only hold them off for so long.” I told them before running over the militia droids. Hopefully, Twilight and Sunset can fix the Friendship soon.
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I ordered them to militia droids to cover the remaining friendly force to cover their retreats. All the Twi’leks were getting ready to leave. By now the militia droids should be holding off the droids so the frontline soldiers can fall back. My friends and I got out the hover platforms so the Twi’leks can leave with the supplies we brought with ease. Some of the Twi’leks took what they could carry and tied them onto the beast they ride on.

“Any chance we can get out of here, Aegis?” Applejack asked me as we were placing the supplies on the hover platform.

I thought about it before answering. “I’m not sure. All we can do now is have faith that Twilight and Sunset can repair the ship.” I replied. As we finished loading the last of the supplies on the hover platform, one of the clone troopers walked up to me.

“Everyone, General Di requests your presence.” The clone trooper told us.

“Alrighty, just give us a few seconds.” Applejack said as she picks up a stack of three heavy crates with ease using her Force Strength and placed them on the hover platform, leaving the clone an other passing Twi’leks astonished. “Now we can go.” She said. My friends and I noticed everyone’s shocked look at Applejack’s strength despite her muscle appearance, causing us to laugh a little.

We walked over to an area of the valley with a rock overpass. There, we met up with Jedi General Di and Captain Keeli. The two we talking with General Syndulla and Gobi. As we walked over to them, we could sense the fear the Twi'lek civilians were feeling.

“Thank you all for coming. As soon as the Militia Sergeant and Corporal arrives, I want to discuss our next move. Ah, they comes now.” Di said as we turned to the approaching soldiers. Two militia soldiers came walking up to us. One was a red skin Twi’lek with part of her right leku missing, wielding a SRS 99 Sniper Rifle blaster. She was actually very beautiful. The second soldier however was someone I instantly recognized. He was a dark skin man with black hair, black mustache, and wielding a BR55 battle rifle blaster.

“You must be the kids who brought those ass kicking droids and blew those Separatists tin cans to kingdom come earlier. I’m Sergeant Avery Johnson, and this is Corporal Gorgo Pico.” Sgt. Johnson introduced. It took every ounce of my will power not to get excited to meet my favorite person from the Halo Universe and look weird..

“Thank you for your help. Without those C12s and C6s, we would have never made it out of those trenches.” Gorgo said smiling.

“But of course, we’re just happy to help.” Rarity told them.

“General, after the boys…” Johnson began saying before Gorgo fake coughed. “And girls fell back, I ordered one of the C12s to fall back with us. Figure we could us it’s fire power in the long run.”

Di nodded in approval. “Good thinking, Sergeant.” He said before we all heard a Twi’lek yelling.

“Come on! Hurry, hurry!” One of the Twi’leks told the others. Some of the Twi’leks were already beginning to leave.

"Gosh. I hope they can get away in time." Pinkie Pie said concerned.

The Jedi General looked at the Clone captain.“Captain Keeli, is the gunship ready?” Di asked.

“Yes, sir. But it’s too small to evacuate the refugees.” Keeli told him, gesturing to the gunship. It could only carry about ten people at a time.

“No escape? But our families are with us.” Syndulla told us. He knows that the droids will show no mercy to them.

“And they’ll never outrun the Separatists.” Rainbow Dash added.

“Ah.” Di said out loud holding a wooden stick and begun drawing the valley we were in on the dirt. “If we reconfigure the fuel system, we can turn the ship into a bomb big enough to collapse the pass here. The enemy will then only be able to engage us on one front from this ravine. While we provide cover, the Twi’leks will have time to escape with their families over the mountain.” He explained to us.

“Brilliant strategy, General.” Keeli said before sighing. “I’ll go tell the men.” He said before leaving us. Keeli knew that even if the plan works, it may be their last battle.

As the Clone Captain left, I activated my wrist comm to check on Twilight’s and Sunset’s progress on the ship. “Hey, Twilight. How goes the engines?”

“Aegis, its Sunset. Twilight’s replacing the power conduits around the core. Most of them got overheated from the power drain. It’ll be a while before we cannot our ship on the ground.” Sunset said.

“Alright, keep us posted.” I said before hanging up.

Cham looked discouraged at our situation before sighing. “I must make sure my people leave as soon as possible. I fear what the Separatists will do to them.” He said as he walked off.

We all understood what Cham was feeling. His home planet is about to be taken by a ruthless army of machines, and there’s very little he can do for his people. So far, the Republic and Militia have provided little support for them.

“Pinkie and I are gonna help with the explosives. Maybe even put a torpedo in it.” Applejack told us.

“Thanks, Applejack. In the meantime, we’ll continue helping the Twi’leks evacuate.” I told everyone, which everyone agreed.

As Applejack and Pinkie Pie were helping the clones and militia soldiers with the explosives, my friends and I were assisting the Twi’leks to leave. I was tying some crate to the side of a blurrg, which are large animals with two short stubby arms and two large back legs. However, the animal kept moving around which was making it difficult.

"Come on. hold still." I said as I was having some trouble with the blurrg. Probably should have had Fluttershy help me.

“Need some help?” I heard someone ask behind me. I looked over my shoulder to see Corporal Gorgo.

“Um… Sure.” I replied as Gorgo placed her hand on the animal’s side and calmed it down. As I finished securing the crate, I realized something. “Wait, haven’t we met before?”

Gorgo chuckled a little. “I’m surprised you remember. We only met a few time on Equestria during my shore leave.” She said smiling.

“That’s right, I remember my brother saying you two were old friends.” I said, vaguely remembering her.

Gorgo rubbed her hand on the blurrg’s head, much to the animal’s delight. “Yeah, after I was rescued from slavery. I grew up in a orphanage where your brother hung out with us. Honestly, he was the one who helped me come out of my shell so to speak.” She said smiling. It may have just been me, but I could feel that Gorgo has romantic feeling for Leonidas.

“So, if we make it out of here, do you think you and the other militia soldiers stay or return to the Frontier?” I asked.

The sniper paused for moment. “As much as we would like to return, I don’t think any of us would forgive ourselves if leave these people to fend for themselves.” Gorgo answered. I nodded in understanding. The Frontier Militia are lucky to have soldiers like Gorgo. “Well, I better get going. I have to find a good sniping position for the assault.” The Twi’lek said as she walked off.

Noticing all the other Twi’leks starting leave, I walked over to Master Di and Gobi. “Master Di, the remaining Twi’leks are packed up and are evacuating.” I told him.

“Thank you, Aegis.” Di responded as Captain Keeli walked up to us.

“General, we’re loading the rest of the explosives onto the gunship.” Captain Keeli informed the Jedi. I wonder if Pinkie put more fireworks in the explosives like on Christophsis.

“Very good, captain. Ready the men.” Di told him.

“All units, prepare for attack!” Keeli ordered his men as he headed towards them.

Di turned towards Gobi. “We won’t be able to hold off the droids for long. You’ll have to move quickly to get your families out of danger.” He told him as we noticed the Twi’lek looked over to Syndulla. The Twi’lek general was making sure his people were leaving as soon as possible.

“Cham is still angry. He feels betrayed.” Gobi told us.

“We counted on Republic assistance, and it didn’t come. War turns promises into hope. I wish it wasn’t so. Tell him.” Di asked gobi as he shook his hand.

“I will.” Gobi responded before he left with the other remaining Twi’leks.

The Jedi and I walked over to Captain Keeli. “Captain Keeli, tell the pilots to move the gunship into position.” Di ordered him.

“This is command. Are all the charges in place?”

“Copy that. We’re all ready.” The clone pilot radioed.

We looked at the distance where the rigged gunship was placed. After a few moments, a large explosion went off in the valley. Along with the explosions were colorful fireworks. Guess Pinkie couldn't resist putting fireworks in the explosion again. Two of the huge natural rock pillar formations crumbled from the explosion, blocking the entire valley. With the valley closed off, the droids only have on path they could take to reach us.

“That’s our cue. We better get to the pass.” I said to my friends. They all agreed as we all headed toward the pass.

As everyone headed for the pass, my wrist come started beeping. “Aegis, we almost have the ship’s power conduits repaired. As soon as Sunset finishes the last power couplings, we’ll attempt to restart the core.” Twilight radioed.

I sighed in relief at the good news. “Thank’s, Twilight. I’ll let everyone else know. Do you need Rainbow Dash to head back to the ship?” I asked.

“Actually, I has been learning how to fly the ship from Rainbow Dash.” I heard Sunset’s voice. “With Oracle’s help, I can provide aerial support.” She said.

A smile grew on my face. “Alright, great job you two. We'll hold the droids off for as long as possible.” I replied before running toward the others.

Meeting up with them, the soldiers took cover behind large stalagmites where the pass narrows down. With us was the C12 my friends and I brought with us.

“Everyone, Twilight informed me that they’re almost done repairing the Friendship. We just have to hold off the droids long enough for the ship to lift off.” I told them.

One of the dragon militia soldiers with blue scales spoke up. “Are you kidding? Even with the C12 and you all, we can’t hope to withstand that many droids. We’re better off trying to out run them.” He told us, thinking he'll die soon.

Hearing enough, the Sergeant walked up the the soldier. “You hit, private.” Sgt. Johnson asked as he placed his hand on his shoulder, which the militia soldier answered no. “Then listen up! When I joined the Corp, we didn’t have any Fancy Smanchy giant robot or space magic wielders. We had Sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock!” He told us before looking at the private. “Buck up boy! You’re one very lucky trooper.”

One of the clone troopers stepped closer to him. “What about those tanks?”

“We’ve all faced droid tanks before. They’re tough but not invincible.” The Sergeant answered. “As we speak, those robotic sons-o-bitchs are marching here right now. They want to walkover these good folks and take anything they can get their greasy metal fingers on. Well we’re not gonna let them! What we will let them have, is a belly full of laser, as we tear them apart, laughin!” He shouted. He turned toward us. “Am I right soldiers?”

“SIR YES SIR!” The clones and militia soldiers shouted in sync. Thanks to the Sergeant’s speech, all the soldiers are now eager for the attack.

“Mmhhmm. Damn right I am. Now move it out! Double time!” Sgt. Johnson ordered before he put a cigar in his mouth. His speech encouraged all the soldiers to fight with everything they had.

"Wow, that was an amazing speech. Sergeant." Fluttershy said as we agreed with her.

"Yeah. I feel like I can take on the entire droid army." Pinkie Pie said eagerly.

"Hmph, mamma always said I had a way with words." Sgt. Johnson replied with a smug.

We got into position as the droid army approaches. We could all hear their marching mechanical feet as the sound bounced of the valley walls. The soldiers and C12 took cover behind large stalagmites. The Jedi Master, my friends and I walked forward.

“Remember, we have to buy as much time for the Twi’leks and the ship as possible.” Di ordered everyone.

“Yes, sir.” Captain Keeli responded.

As the droid army arrived us, The Jedi, my friends and I ignited our lightsabers. “For the Republic! For the Frontier! For the Twi’leks!” Di yelled to the top of his lungs as the soldiers started firing on the approaching droids. The militia soldiers were firing off their MA5B assault rifles, as Keeli was using his dual DC-17 pistols.

“Say hello to my little friend!” Johnson said as he shot the head off a B1. All the soldiers were firing a barrage of blue and green lasers on the enemy droids.

My friends, Di, and I reflected the droids blaster bolts back at them, taking them down one after another. The C12 marched up and firing off it’s rotating blaster cannon, mowing down any B1 battle droids. The super droids focused fire on the C12, only to be blown to pieces by it’s rocket launcher. One of the B1s was about to throw a thermal detonator at us, but before it left it’s hand, a green laser hit the grenade, incinerating any droids near it. I looked over my shoulder to see Gorgo in a tall tree with a SRS S99 sniper rifle. The Twi’lek sniper as shooting down the super battle droids left and right.

Despite our best effort, the droids continued marching towards us, close enough for us to cut them down with our lightsabers. Rainbow Dash used her speed to swiftly cut down the droids that got to close. Pinkie switched her lightsaber into a lightwhip and twirled it around, slicing apart the droids. Behind the droid battalion, their AAT moved up behind them.

“C12! Turn those tanks into barbecues.” Johnson ordered. The C12 complied and unleashed a couple of missiles at one of the tanks, blowing it sky high. Unfortunately, the other two fired their blaster cannons at the C12, destroying it’s rocket launcher. The giant droid responded in kind by firing of it’s top mounted blaster cannon, destroying another AAT. It’s defiance was short lived however, as it was severely hit shot at from the last droid tank. Raging flames spewed out of the hulking machine.

“Take cover! It’s gonna blow!” One of the militia soldiers yelled. All soldiers got into cover. I created a Force Barrier to protect Rarity and Fluttershy as the C12 charged at the droid battalion. Within moments, the hulking machine exploded, taking out multiple droids with it. That did little however, as the droids continued to fire on us.

Without the C12, the droids started killing one soldier after another through sheer overwhelming force. No matter how many we trashed, they just kept coming. Di, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack rushed forward, sending out a massive force push, knocking down many of the droids. To our horror, we spotted five more CIS landing craft descending. Each one of them were probably holding hundreds of droids.

However, right when our backs were against the wall, we heard the sound of engines above us. Looking up, we saw the Friendship fly over us as it destroyed the landing crafts using it’s twin turbolasers in one fell swoop. “Sorry for the wait, everyone.” We heard Sunset’s voice on our comms.

“Sunset! Twilight! Ya’ll fix the ship!” Applejack said excitedly as she shot down a B1 with her pistol.

“We had to use the last of our power cells to jumpstart the core, but the ship is completely operational.” Twilight said. “Everyone, we can provide air support, but the droids are too close to you all. We can’t do a bombing run unless you all fall back.”

“Copy that.” Johnson replied. “Soldiers, pop smoke and fall back, this entire pass about to light up like fireworks.” The Sergeant ordered. The militia soldiers got out their smoke grenades and tossed them at the droids. The grenades exploded in a cloud of smoke, making it hard for them to see their targets.

Those who were wielding lightsabers and myself were blocking any stray shots as we fell back. Right when I thought we won, the droid’s AAT’s blaster cannon fired near Captain Keeli. The blast knocked Keeli to the ground unconscious with his helmet flying off. Di ran over to his fallen captain and and deflected the droids blaster fire as they walked through the smoke.

Seeing that the Jedi Master won’t be able to block at the lasers, I ran back towards the two and created a Force Barrier around us. Captain Keeli opened his eye’s to see the droids trying to break through my barrier. Noticing I wasn't with them, my friends turned around the see the three of us being surrounded by droids.

“Aegis! Hold on!” Rainbow Dash yell as they tried come back, but were halted by the amount of lasers fire at them.

“Girls fall back.” I told them. “Sunset, I’m pin down with Jedi Master Di and Captain Keeli, but my Force Barrier should protect us from the bombing run.” I told them. If I can hold off an entire droid army like I did on Christophsis, I should be able to protect us.

“What! Aegis that’s crazy!” Sunset yelled on the comms. I looked over my shoulder to see my friends being pushed back by most of the droids. The other B1s and super battle droids were firing everything they had at my Force Barrier.

“Girls, I trusted you two to get the ship flying, now I’m asking you all to trust me.” I told them.

After a few moments, Twilight spoke up. “Alright. We’ll trust you Aegis. Everyone else, retreat as fast as you can.” Twilight said on the comms. My friends didn’t want to leave, but knew there was little they can do with this many droids. They decided to fall back with the rest of the soldiers.

In the sky, the Friendship flew down toward the column of droids. “Commencing bombing run.” Sunset said as the Friendship fired it’s turbo cannons and missiles. I focused all my strength on the Force Barrier as the missiles landed all around us. Thankfully, this was far easier than the time I had to create a huge Force Barrier on Christophsis since none of the missiles landed on us. The Friendship’s weapons completely decimated the droids and AAT, leaving nothing standing. Once the Friendship flew over us, there was nothing but smoke all around us. I kept my Force Barrier up in case some of the droids actually survived. After a few moments, the smoke began to settle, showing almost all the droids blown to smithereens. My friends and some of the soldiers, including Johnson and Gorgo came.

“Aegis, is everyone alright?” We heard Twilight's concerned voice.

“We’re alright, Sunset.” I replied as I dropped my Force Barrier.

We heard Sunset sigh in relief on our comms. “Oh thank the Force. Wait, I see three Republic ships coming in.”

We looked toward the sky to see the blockade runners Sunset mentioned. “This is Republic blockade runner oh-niner-niner. We have broken through.” We heard the voice of a clone pilot. “The supplies have arrived at the drop point.” He said as we saw a couple of drop pods ejected from the ships. The pods landed in the same direction the Twi'leks were evacuating.

“The Republic came through.” Fluttershy said, glad the Twi’leks have more supplies.

Just then, we heard the sound of grinding gears moving behind us. Turning toward the source of the sound, we saw a single smog covered B1 miraculously survived. It slowly stood up in front of a rock pillar and pointed it’s blaster at us.

“One more.” Johnson yelled as he, the clones and militia soldiers opened fire, riddling it’s chest with lasers. “Cease fire.” The sergeant ordered as the droid slid down against the rock pillar. “Rest in pieces.” Johnson said to the now swiss cheesed B1. All of us chuckled a little before we headed back toward the Twi’leks.

After a long walk, we reached where the Republic drop pods landed. The Twi’leks were carrying supplies out of the pods. Combine those with the supplies we brought, they have enough food to last them months. Right now, the Twi'leks feel like they have hope again. Nearby was the Friendship on the ground with Twilight and Sunset running up to us.

“Everyone! I’m so glad your alright!” Twilight said smiling.

“Only thanks to you two. Nice flying by the way, Sunset.” Rainbow Dash complemented.

“Thank’s, Dash. It was only because I had a good teacher.” Sunset replied smiling.

General Syndulla walked up to us. “You’ve survived!” He said excited.

“Of course. Was there any doubt.” Pinkie Pie said.

"Plenty." The dragon soldier commented.

General Syndulla was extremely glad we have survived. He looks at our ship before turning toward us. “ On behalf of the Twi’leks, thank you for all you have done. But I have one more request.” He said, making us wonder what is. “With the Separatists invading, some of my people who can’t fight wish to evacuate. I hoping you can take them off planet." He asked.

“Sure, General. We can take them to Haven. It’s a Militia refugee planet for those who lost their homes in the war.” I told him. “But what about you all?” I asked the Republic and Militia.

“I cannot leave. I promise the Twi’leks the Republic will help them, and I intend to keep it.” Di said as his clone soldiers agreed with him.

“He’s right. The Twi’leks asked us to help, and that’s exactly what we’ll do.” Johnson said.

My friends and I felt couldn’t help but respect them. “Alright. I hope we meet again someday. I know both the UFN and Republic will do everything they can to free Ryloth.” I told them, as I shook their hands.

“Well they better hurry. By the time they get here, there’ll be a lot of less droids for them to trash.” Johnson said, which all of us laughed.

Gorgo walked up to us. “You all take care.” She said before looking at me. “And Aegis, tell your brother I’ll be waiting for him.”

“I will Gorgo.” I replied. Everyone else raised an eyebrow, wondering what she meant.

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After saying our goodbye to them, we boarded our ship along with the civilian Twi’leks that wish to leave. With Rainbow Dash’s flying skills, we were able to make it through the CIS blockade with ease. As we entered hyperspace toward Haven, I contacted my brother to let him know about Ryloth.

“Thanks for being there, Aegis. I would have lost a lot of good friends.” Leo said gratefully on the holotable. Though had the feeling he was thinking of a certain someone on Ryloth.

“I get the feeling you and Gorgo are more than just friends.” I teased a little.

My big brother scratched his head a bit. “Yeah. Gorgo is one of the most amazing women. Actually, after her mission, I was gonna ask her out.” He said.

“Well, you can ask her out when Ryloth is liberated. Speaking of which, Do you know when the Militia can mobilize for Ryloth?” I asked.

My brother looked away in thought. “I called our Dad earlier about that and unfortunately we can’t spare any ships to assist Ryloth. It’ll be months before we can gather a force large enough to retake the planet.”

“What about the Republic? If they can work together, Ryloth can be freed.” I suggested, but my brother just shook his head.

"I'm afraid that won't be possible. For one, the Republic Forces are stretched then on other parts of the war. And two, many in the Security Council still blames the Republic for starting the war, especially since they invaded a Separatist planet first." Leo explained.

Just then, Twilight and Sunset entered the meeting room. “Aegis, we need to… Oh, hello Leo.” Twilight said.

“Hello, Twilight and Sunset. I hope you all have been keeping my brother out of trouble.” Leo joked, earning a ‘hey’ from me.

“We try.” Sunset teased before she got serious. “But we need to tell you something about the ion cannon. And I think you should hear it as well.” My brother and I looked at each other, wondering what it could be.

“When we were looking over the ion cannon, the malfunction didn’t come from our calibrations. It was mounted on improperly.” Twilight told us.

I looked at her in shock. “But it was mounted on at the Atlas Space station. Wouldn’t the engineers noticed it wasn’t mounted correctly?” I asked.

Both Twilight and Sunset looked at each other with concerned looks. “Actually, we think whoever mounted the cannons did so on purpose.” Sunset told us.

“What do you mean?” Leo asked, now as concerned as I was.

“Leo, there’s no way an Atlas engineer wouldn’t see the fault. Whoever oversaw the attachment made sure that it would drain too much power when it fired.” Twilight told us.

“And they disguised it so no one would notice at first.” Sunset added.

I gasped in shock at what she suggested. “But, why would they do that? Did someone pay them to do it?”

“I’m afraid we don’t know the answer to that. It could be someone forced them to do it.” Sunset suggested.

Leo looked down in thought before looking at us. “I’ll call our Mom, see if she can investigate this. In the meantime, after you drop off the refugees, I suggest going to the nearest Atlas Shipyard and fix the cannon.” He told us.

“Got it, Leo. Take care.” Twilight said.

“You all as well.” Leo said before he hung up.

My friends looked at my with concern. “You alright, Aegis.” Sunset asked.

“I don’t know, girls. Someone went out of their way to make sure to sabotage our ship. And it’s a miracle our ship still functioned after the incident.” I told them. I couldn’t help but feel this wasn’t just a coincidence. This shows someone was specifically targeting us.

My two friends looked at one another with the same worried look. “I know it’s becoming more dangerous, Aegis. But even with the odds against us, we managed to pull through.” Twilight said.

“And were were still able to help Ryloth. If only a little.” Sunset added.

I smiled knowing they were right. Despite what happen, we were still able to help the Twi’leks. “Thank’s everyone. And I think I’ve learned a lesson for Princess Celestia.”

My friends smiled and we left the comm room. I headed to my room and grabbed my tablet. “Dear Princess Celestia, I’ve learned that even in the most dire circumstances, if you perceiver, you’ll find a way through. Your’s, Aegis Skiritai.” I wrote before sending the Princess the message.

After the long day, I felt the exhaustion caught up to me and I laid down on my bed. As I started to fall asleep, one question plagued my mind. ‘Who wanted me and my friend dead. And why?’

Star Wars Friendship: The Clone Wars

by Aegis Spirit

Prologue: A New Path

Chapter 1: Protecting Christophsis Part 1

Chapter 2: Protecting Christophsis Part 2

Chapter 3: Protecting Christophsis Part 3

Chapter 4: Rescue on Teth Edited

Chapter 5: Talk with Friends

Chapter 6: Supply Lines

ANNOUNCEMENT: STORY BEING MOVED