7 Detonation! (3)

Silas and Anakin were the only ones in the flying Gunship as they held the handles above them.

Silas promptly pulled out a small circular device from his utility belt, tapping it a few times, the hologram figure of Yoda appeared above it, in what seemed to be a Venator command center.

"General, arrived, I have. Hmm... Padawan Skywalker?" Yoda spoke as he noticed Anakin beside Silas.

"Greetings Master Yoda." Anakin respectfully greeted as the Gunship would occasionally shudder from turbulence.

"Apologies Master Yoda I don't have much time to talk, but since you have arrived, we currently have a plan in place. So can you equally reinforce each of the battlefronts?" Silas questioned as he could feel the Gunship lowering in altitude.

"Hmm... Confident you seem." Yoda remarked.

"Because failure is not an option." Silas calmly replied.

"Indeed, room for failure, there is not... Reinforcements I shall send." Yoda nodded in agreement.

Silas nodded back as he was about to close the transmission.

"May the force be with you, young Raven." Yoda finished as the transmission turned off.

Silas slightly raised his brow at being called, 'young Raven' but just shrugged inwardly.

Suddenly the Gunship's doors slid open as red beams would occasionally fly past it.

Silas stepped out with Anakin beside him and they glanced at the long line of clone troopers and vehicles, with thousands of droids getting closer and closer to their position.

Clones could be seen as some were in a prone position with rifles, while others were in AT-TEs firing cannons at the approaching enemy.

The two then started to walk behind the blockade of clone troopers toward a certain person.

Silas and Anakin would occasionally weave their heads in order to dodge certain red beams, but eventually, they reached a certain AT-TE with a green Jedi at the bottom of it swinging his lightsaber at inhumane speeds, promptly defending all the clones near him.

And there was even a female with a blaster peaking out the top of the AT-TE.

"Padme!? What do you think you're doing!?" Anakin exclaimed, forgetting about even holding up appearances as he was about to approach Padme's figure.

Silas once again grabbed Anakin's shoulder firmly.

"Control yourself." Silas calmly advised.

Anakin glanced behind him with narrowed eyes, his eyes seemed to intensify as he attempted to shake Silas off his shoulder.

"Skywalker... Control yourself." Silas said once again eerily calm, this time he pressed his grip even harder.

Anakin's eyes slightly widened as he noticed his predicament.

He seemed to want to say something but Silas shook his head.

"We can talk about it later, but I understand your feelings." Silas muttered as he let go of Anakin's shoulder and indicated for him to follow.

Silas took out both his lightsabers as he instantly ignited them and quickly started deflecting beams as he reached Kit Fisto's and Padme's location.

Anakin did the same as he followed Silas.

Kit Fisto curiously looked toward Silas's black lightsabers but nonetheless continued fighting.

"Master Fisto it seems you have everything under control!" Silas exclaimed over the loud explosions in the background, as he stood beside Kit Fisto, assisting him in blocking beams.

Anakin was on top of the AT-TE beside them, promptly defending Padme with skillful lightsaber swings as he shared a short glance with her.

"Indeed! But it seems I couldn't save everyone." Kit Fisto glanced around him while continuously swinging his lightsaber, there were a few clone corpses as their armor seemed to have been pierced with beams.

"As always, where there is life, there is death." Silas suddenly disengaged his lightsabers, as he crouched down toward one of the clone troopers with pierced armor who seemed barely alive.

Kit Fisto noticed this and immediately stood in front of Silas, swiftly deflecting all the incoming beams from reaching him.

"G-General?" The clone stammered out in a whisper as Silas took the helmet off the clone's head, as he then grabbed the man's hand with a clenched fist.

"I'm here." Silas smiled under his helmet as he replied.

"S-Sir *cough* *cough* I t-tried my best." The clone coughed out.

"I know you did." Silas simply replied.

"E-Even t-though I'm a c-clone, I-m s-still scared of dying s-sir." A tear dropped out of the corner of the clone's eyes as they slowly closed.

"What's your number soldier?" Silas asked with a curious tone.

"C-CT-2035." The clone's eyes slowly dimmed as his grip was loosening.

"Remember this. One only truly dies if forgotten, and you have my word that I will not forget you. I will take you to the end of this war myself, I will take you all to the end myself, so do not fear!" Silas announced loudly with a smirk.

Other clones near Silas temporarily stopped shooting as they glanced toward the General with slightly widened eyes.

Kit Fisto himself couldn't help but glance back, with Anakin and Padme also looking down from above the AT-TE.

"T-Thank y-you-" The clone's eyes turned lifeless as his grip completely disappeared with Silas slowly putting both of the lifeless hands onto their armored chest.

Silas swiftly got up before looking up toward Anakin and Padme.

"Senator Amidala, your assistance is needed back in the Acclamator, I would appreciate it if you can inform Master Yoda of our plan." He calmly reported.

"I understand." Padme promptly hopped out of the AT-TE with the help of Anakin as he deflected all of the beams for her, he quickly lifted her using telekinesis before jumping down to the ground with her beside him.

"Good luck." She nodded before jogging back toward the Acclamator as a few clones under Silas's command followed her, making sure she stayed safe.

"General, I wanted to apologize-" Anakin stopped talking as he noticed Silas wasn't beside him anymore.

He looked around, before noticing Silas at the front of the blockade of troopers behind an AT-TE talking with an orange-striped clone trooper beside him.

Meanwhile with Silas, he was currently being told by the clone Captain of the bomb team that they were successful in planting the bombs and that they were ready to be detonated. He was also informed that Master Mundi immediately went back into battle once returning.

"Good job soldier." Silas complimented with a curt nod.

"I was just doing my job sir." The captain replied dutifully.

"Well you can rest now, Captain Sparks." Silas assuringly put his hand on the Captain's shoulder as he spoke.

"Sparks?" The clone confusedly muttered.

"Is that name too shabby? I thought since you deal with bombs, that you know... Sparks would fit you." Silas nonchalantly replied with a chuckle.

"No sir! I was just a bit confused, I appreciate the name!" The clone Captain happily expressed his thoughts.

Silas silently smirked as he let go of the clone's shoulder and turned around.

"Sir!... I kinda actually wanted to stay to witness it." The Captain remarked from behind Silas, unsure of how he would react.

"If that's what you wish." Silas casually approved as he continued walking away without looking back.

Once Silas reached the center of the blockade of troopers, he hid behind an AT-TE's leg as red beams would narrowly pass him.

Clone troopers who were on the ground beside him would glance toward him temporarily, before returning fire back toward the nearing droids.

Tapping his comlink on his wrist he spoke into it.

"This is General Raven, are all battlefronts ready to detonate bombs?" Silas questioned.

Soon after voices would reply.

"Southern battlefront is ready." Plo-Koon's voice answered.

"Eastern battlefront is also ready." Obi-Wan responded as the swinging of lightsabers could be heard.

"As is the Western battlefront." Mace Windu's voice also calmly reported.

"Are all flanking battalions ready?" Silas questioned once more.

One by one, each battalion replied by saying there ready, so Silas stopped waiting as he spoke the last words.

"Then let's begin." Silas remarked before pressing the red button on a small pen-like device in his right hand.

Soon after...

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Large resounding explosions went off at all battlefronts, and the ground below the droids suddenly cracked opened as crimson fire exploded out of it.

This was happening at all battle locations as clones would take cover behind AT-TE's.

A large brown dust cloud was created in the aftermath of the explosion as it obscured everyone's vision of the opposing sandy field.

But after a few dozen seconds, the cloud of smoke eventually disappeared as a trench of immense size could be seen separating the clones from the droids in the distance.

The droids seemed to be confused until suddenly they started getting fired upon from their left and right. On one side enemies seemed to be firing from the top of a canyon, while on the other side, they simply flanked around from the ground, using the rocky environment as cover. The droids quickly responded by firing back, forgetting about their opponents across the trench.

White clouds of smoke quickly started appearing in front of the trench, which seemed to be produced by the flanking battalions who were in battle currently.

Silas calmly walked toward the trench, taking out his lightsabers, as he held one on each side.

"General?" Anakin jogged up from behind Silas as he was looking at him confusedly.

"You joining Commander Skywalker?" Silas smiled confidently under his helmet as he suddenly started to increase his walking pace.

"You don't mean?-" Anakin didn't finish his words as he watched Silas ignite his black duel lightsabers and swiftly started jogging until suddenly it turned into a full-blown sprint.

Anakin's eyes couldn't help but widen as he realized what Silas was going to do.

They were supposed to wait for the metal-like ladders to appear in order to cross the trench that was at least 100 feet far since the distance was far too great for a normal Jedi to jump.

But as if time stopped, every single clone and Jedi on the Northern battlefront froze as they had their eyes on Silas's speeding figure.

His lone figure with two black sabers on each side could be seen as he reached the start of the trench.

He slightly creased his knees without stopping, increasing his force jump to the limit, he pushed off the balls of his feet, launching himself into the air.

Everyone gaped at Silas, as they watched their golden-armored General's slowly cross the trench mid-air.

Some of the more skilled people could tell that the Jump was not enough as Anakin was one of them, he was about to run after the General but promptly stopped as he noticed something.

It seemed as if the gravity on Silas was less because his figure wasn't falling as fast as it should be.

Anakin's eyes widened in realization, 'Force levitation!'

But to others who weren't much skilled, it seemed like the jump was perfect.

Silas's figure slowly reached the other side of the smoked-out trench.

Thud!

Skillfully rolling on the ground with a soft thud, Silas stood back up quickly as he could hear the shooting of beams in the distance with the two battalions and droids.

He glanced upward back toward the blockade of troopers as he saw multiple Acclamtors land beside his own.

'It seems Yoda finally got through the small blockade of Separatist ships.'

Silas inwardly shook his head as he focused back on his situation.

"Well, what are you waiting for!?" Silas declared loudly over the trench toward the surprised troopers and Jedi.

Quickly after his words, clones would drop multiple long metal ramp-like structures that crossed the entire trench.

"For the Republic!"

"For the Republic!"

"For the Republic!"

Chants could be heard as the blockade of clones hurriedly crossed the metal ramps that were near them with certain Jedi amongst them.

Anakin himself could only helplessly smile as he also hurriedly followed the spirited clones across the ramps.

"He's practically crazier than me."

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