The air around you and Obi-Wan began to tingle with a less than welcome uncertainty, Obi-Wan raised a doubtful hand and pushed you from the path as a he deflected a barrage of blaster bolts and sent them back into the chest of the clone troopers that had sent them. He reached out a deft hand to help you from the moist ground but quickly pulled it back as a bolt zipped in between you and him.

"What is going on?" You asked as Obi-Wan force pushed the offending clone over a deep ridge and into a seemingly endless sinkhole. "Obi-Wan, what is happening?"

"I... well I don't know. But I know that we must get out of here and we must do so quickly. First though we have no choice but to finish what we came here for." Your eyes tracked a thermal detonator as it flew from the hands of a clone trooper, you held it in suspension, only a meter or so away from your head before launching it back to the trooper that threw it and the squadron he stood with. "Unexpected but nothing we can't work past." You and Obi-Wan darted across the soggy terrain, slicing through clone troopers until you found yourselves in a small enclave. It was dank and mossy, the thick air left a bitter taste in your mouth but for the time being it was better than being stuck out there with your own army trying to kill you. You caught your breath, something that proved more difficult than expected on Utapau.

Obi-Wan stood to leave, he pushed his arm over your chest and held you tightly against the wet cave walls as he peeked around the corner, his head quickly reeled back as a bolt scorched where his head would have been.

"The Jedi have been declared an enemy of the Galactic Republic. You are traitors to the Republic and are surrounded! Come out or we will have no choice but to blow the cave up on top of you." The sound of what could possibly have been hundreds of clones marching forward echoed into the cave.

"We don't stand a chance, two Jedi's against a whole company of clone troopers? That's about one hundred to one!"

"I'll distract them, you find out what you can about the Republic." You peeled his arm from your chest, handed him your lightsaber and made him promise he would make sure it returned to your family.

"There must be something else we can do?" There was no convincing you, for what would be the last time the sun blessed your face and you felt the mass of soldiers lock you into their sights. You curled yourself up, drew as much of the power of the force as possible and unleashed a wave of powerful energy. Not one soldier stood standing, you heard Obi-Wan sprint from the cave, momentarily stop to thank you, then your world turned to darkness.

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