Star Wars: The Clone Wars--The Chosen One

Chapter Twenty: Rescuing Palpatine

Anakin tilted his flyer to the right, narrowly missing blaster fire from a droid fighter. He gripped the controls of the ship and fired at the fighter, destroying it in seconds. Anakin loved flying and he loved destroying droids with flyer ships from the Republic. He was one of the best pilots in the force and he was a jedi.

Ace was flying with him as part of his squad and Anakin felt safer when he was close. It was weird...no starnge to feel so helpless and scared but Anakin saw no problem with it. Anymore at least. He admitted that he was terrified most of the time when he was in battle but it was hidden underneath all of his anger so he had never noticed it before until now.

Anakin had also added Jett, Mekhi, Aviana and Alia to his squad of clones. Mainly because they were good at their jobs and they were his friends. Rex, Fives and Kix were the ones who had always been apart of his attack squad. Of course Ace was a crackshot and an amazing pilot not to mention Anakin's beloved boyfriend.

Anakin yanked his controls up, narrowly avoiding debris from destroyed ships. Anakin had been daydreaming about Ace; he couldn't do that. Too much was at stake here. Palpatine's life was at stake. Even though personally Anakin couldn't care less if he died or not.

"Okay guys we need to take out the shield generators for the docking department." Ace said through his communicator.

Anakin smiled at his voice, shaking his head. "And then Obi Wan and I'll take care of the rest."

Anakin pulled up beside Obi Wan, who was arguing with R3 and he shook his head, chuckling quietly. It's been a few weeks since Obi Wan's last little episode and lately he's been more like himself that Anakin has started to open up to him again.

"Anakin have you forgotten we have to take out their weopons first?" Obi Wan questioned.

If Anakin were to be honest he did. But he'd never tell him that.

"I'll have to get back to you on that one." Anakin said jokingly.

Anakin veered to the left to avoid a swarm of buzz droids whilst Obi Wan flew into the swarm, and got a few on his flyer. Anakin heard him curse and try to get a few of them off.

"A little help here Anakin?" He demanded.

Anakin laughed and shook his head, firing directly at the buzz droids. Two of them he missed so he used the wing of his ship to try to slide them off but they hopped onto his ship and went after R2, who had pulled out his electric pointer and started zapping them.

"Get 'em R2." Anakin said.

"The eye, R2. Aim for the eye." Obi Wan tipped.

R2 did what Obi Wan told him and both buzz droids were out of commission, floating out into space. Anakin nodded smiling and glanced over at Obi Wan.

"I don't know how you do it, Anakin. Flying these things is going to kill me one day."

Anakin grinned when he saw four more droid fighters flying towards them. "This is where the fun begins."

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Fifteen minutes later Anakin and Obi Wan crashlanded onto the landing platform of the ship that Palpatine was being held hostage in. They hopped out of their ships and landed on the platform immediately being fired upon by droids who had been inside at the time.

Anakin blocked every shot with his lightsaber and glanced around for the main hangar doors. When he spotted them he said, "R2 get those doors open!"

R2 made a comment about Anakin yelling but he ignored it seeing as more droids were appearing out of one of the docking doors. Anakin cut down two and Obi Wan blocked fire coming from a deflector droid. They carried their own shield generators so they were hard to kill.