The Mandalorian Jedi

Chapter Seventeen

There are many places I could start, hunting down General Grievous, R2 going missing, being captured by pirates, becoming stranded on a planet with weird little monkey people when Anakin was hurt, perhaps even the virus that nearly wiped out entire planets. The list goes on but as I said before we have limited time and only so many of those stories can be told before we must move on so I will head straight back to where this all began, Geonosis.

The second battle of Geonosis was brutal and long but it is a good story. Our forces were spread thin, desperately searching for Grievous, we were loosing support, planets were turning on the republic and the Geonosians had a new factory, ray shielded and creating thousands upon thousands of droids. We were outnumbered, clones weren't like droids, sure they were better but they also took years to get out onto the battlefield and we didn't intend for this war to go on that long but droids, they could be pumped out quickly and easily, they weren't as good at fighting as clones but if there were enough of them we could become overwhelmed very easily. The Jedi Council had decided that we needed Geonosis and we needed to destroy that droid factory and so they launched an invasion, and a massive one at that.

I went with Obi-Wan and Ki-Adi-Mundi and we waited for Anakin and Ahsoka to arrive before we started anything, they were of course late but that was no surprise. I gave a small smile to Ahsoka as she and Ani walked up to us and I got a sly grin back, maybe it hadn't been such a good idea to have Anakin train her, she was taking after him. A lot.
"Sorry we're late Master, we were routing the separatists near Dorin."
"My squadron had 55 kills."
"Yeah well mine had 76." I grinned and patted them both on the back,
"Not as good as last time. 'Shoka I bet you one hundred credits you can beat Anakin's count by the end of this." I got a huge smile for that,
"Deal." We shook on it and Obi-Wan sighed,
"We are not betting on who gets the most kills, this is not a game."
"Too late Obi, we already shook on it." I just received an extremely annoyed look and a very loud sigh, one he only reserved for Anakin, Ahsoka and I,
"Oh and to add onto the deal, if you succeed I'll give you a lesson on dual wielding." Her eyes lit up at that and she nodded,
"Are you trying to make me loose this Rhea?"
"Obviously, I live to see you fail." I winked at him and Obi-Wan interrupted,
"That is enough of that, we need to take Geonosis if this war is to grow any shorter." Anakin nodded and turned to his padawan,
"Contact Outer Rim command, we are ready for our briefing."
"They are ready and waiting."

The holograms of Master Windu, Chancellor Palpatine and Master Yoda were already waiting for us, Obi-Wan did the majority of the talking, probably a good idea seeing as Anakin and I weren't exactly good at listening,
"We are ready to begin, all of our ships are in position."
"Good, any news of Poggle? Do you have a location on him?" Obi-Wan nodded and brought up another hologram for my Master, or former Master I suppose, to see, "We believe he is hiding away in the main droid foundry. It is protected by a shield generator, Anakin, Ki-Adi, Rhea and I are going to attempt an attack from three directions and join together at a staging area just outside the shield where we will land and take out the generator."
"Isn't it risky? Sending in four of your generals to just one area of the attack? If something went wrong... we cannot afford to loose you." Master Yoda turned to look up at the Chancellor and for some reason the look they gave each other gave me chills. It wasn't a nice look and it certainly wasn't friendly. I suppose the galaxy was trying to give us signs that something was wrong, signs we would ignore until it was said straight to our face.

"Capture Poggle we must if to take Geonosis we are." The Chancellor inclined his head towards the small green Master and I could see a slight sneer form as he ended the debriefing but I didn't have much time to think on it as Rex, Cody and Jet came forwards to finalize the plan. Obi-Wan zoomed in on the rendezvous, 
"Cody, these are the coordinates."
"Yes Sir, we will create a perimeter around the area when we hit the ground, getting past their defenses," he indicated to a small section of the map, "Will be the hard part. General Mundi will lead an attack on their defensive lines from the north, we will make the assault in the middle and General Skywalker and General Keldau will lead the attack on their defensive lines from the south and we will all get to the rendezvous point by 0700. Exactly." We all nodded in agreement and Ki-Adi said,
"Should we be met with strong force and are forced away you must hold out until we join our forces before you attack." The three Clone's nodded and Ahsoka spoke from where she was standing next to Anakin,
"They are very well protected. Look there, that giant wall won't be easy to get by." Anakin nodded but put a reassuring hand on her shoulder,
"No need to worry about it as we will not be going anywhere near it." We could only hope that would hold true.
"I thought you desperately wanted a fight?" Obi-Wan smirked at Anakin who just grinned and put an elbow on his shoulder,
"We will be fine Master, I do worry about you though. Do try and get to that landing zone in one piece though."
"No need to worry Anakin, I shall be waiting for you once you arrive." I leaned forwards to look at him,
"Or maybe we will be waiting for you." Ki-Adi sighed and shook his head and Master Luminara interrupted and told us to go get ready.