8 Fighting(4)

Silas currently stood on rocky grounds, waiting for reinforcements to catch up to him from behind.

"Master Fisto, can you stay behind and make sure the reinforcements are properly assimilated into our formation?" Silas questioned into his comlink as he stared ahead at the large body of white smoke in front of him.

Beyond the white smoke were the droids being pincered by the 2 battalions of clones on each side and directly behind him, clones in tight formation could be seen crossing the large trench on metal ramps.

"I'm already on it General." Master Fisto swiftly replied.

Silas nodded contently as he tapped his comlink, promptly ending the transmission.

Sensing an incoming presence quickly approaching his figure from behind, he glanced to his right as time slowed down and watched a smug Anakin sprint past him.

"Catch up if you can." Anakin waved without looking back as he disappeared into the white smoke.

"How amusing." Silas muttered with a gracious smile before quickly sprinting after him.

As he entered the white smoke his vision was clouded but by using the force he could tell he already caught up to Anakin as they ran side by side inconspicuously.

After a few seconds, they made it through the white smoke as their vision cleared, they both immediately came to a stop once witnessing the battle ahead of them.

'He caught up to me that fast?...' Anakin questioned in surprise as he glanced to his left toward Silas.

Silas ignored his gaze as he observed the battle ahead.

One of the two battalions was on top of a canyon shooting from above while the other battalion was on the ground shooting behind rocky terrains for cover.

'Everything is going as planned.'

"Well, shall we?" Silas questioned as he looked toward Anakin.

"After you." Anakin gestured toward the battle with a smile.

"If that's the case, jump into the center of the droids." Silas suddenly remarked as he creased his knees and jumped upward.

Anakin furrowed his brows at the decision to jump into the center of the enemy before nodding in understanding.

'It seems he wants to make sure their attention is focused away from this side in order to allow the troops to cross without being realized.'

Anakin shook his head inwardly as he simply jumped after Silas.

As he was in the air, he noticed Silas with his black sabers in the center of the droids, easily destroying dozens as they didn't even notice his presence.

Anakin promptly landed beside him with a soft thud as he ignited his blue lightsaber.

Once seeing Anakin appear, Silas disengaged his sabers and took out his dual pistols.

Anakin then started slashing the unsuspecting droids as Silas shot them.

The droids started becoming aware of the presence of enemies inside their formation, so they started ignoring the battalions they were firing at and started focusing on Silas and Anakin in the center.

But Anakin and Silas did not falter, as rather than playing it safe, they were both aggressively running through the droids without hesitation.

Anakin would swiftly decapitate them while Silas would fire multiple blue beams, each one accurately drilling through all the droids heads.

Occasionally Silas would have to weave his head and body in order to dodge, as he rolled and crouched when firing at droids.

"Uh-oh-" Before one of the droids could finish speaking, Anakin pierced its chest.

Since Silas and Anakin had all the attention on them, the two battalions would shoot the droids who had their backs turned.

As Silas was firing at droids, his gaze landed upon Anakin's hand that was holding the lightsaber.

It slipped his mind earlier, but he purposely sent Windu with Anakin and Obi-Wan in order to prevent Anakin from losing his right hand just like in canon, which seemed to have worked since he had no apparent injuries.

"General!" Anakin called out from behind him as he deflected red beams.

"What is it?" Silas questioned back while continuously shooting his pistols.

"What should we do about the geonosians?" Anakin questioned as he force-pushed away a charging geonosian.

Silas looked around as he did notice the occasional geonosian participating in battle beside the droids.

'It seems some of them feel emboldened by the droids.' Silas thought inwardly.

A geonosian attempted to charge at Silas but he simply extended his hand forward and slightly clenched it as the geonosian started to grasp its neck in a choking manner.

"All you geonosians! Look!" Silas shouted out in a flamboyant manner as the geonosian continued to gasp for air.

All the geonosians who were participating in the battle had their eyes locked onto Silas as he continued to force choke the geonosian, even the droids stopped shooting as they watched.

Suddenly the geonosian was pulled into Silas's hand as he clenched his hand onto its neck firmly while it squirmed.

"This is what happens to those who kill my brothers."

Snap!

Silas squeezed his hand tightly as the cracking of a neck could be heard.

Thud!

Silas dropped the body of the dead geonosian onto the ground as he calmly waited for their reaction.

"You damn murderer!"

"I'll kill you!"

"Yeah!"

Silas didn't react as he watched multiple geonosians charge toward his body from all directions.

"Hmm... so that wasn't enough to scare you, huh." Silas quietly whispered as he crossed his arms.

The geonosians charging at Silas abruptly stopped their movement as the atmosphere around them darkened.

Their eyes widened as they felt dark malice being pressured onto their shoulders and their breathing became heavier.

They all gaped at Silas's figure who looked like a demon who emerged from hell.

"W-What i-is this?"

"W-What are y-you?"

They fearfully backed up from Silas as they felt a multitude of evil emotions continuously press down on their body.

"Run or die... You have 5 seconds to decide." Silas's tone was devoid of emotion as a smile adjourned his face under his helmet.

They hesitated for a second before quickly taking action.

The geonosians quickly ran away as they slipped past the droids and retreated back toward their home base.

"Fire. at. the. two. enemies." A droid with yellow coloring ordered.

The gunfire soon ensued once again as Anakin and Silas had their backs against each other while fighting back.

"That ability oddly felt like a Sith technique." Anakin suspiciously glanced toward Silas as he slashed a droid in half.

"I suppose it can seem that way." Silas cryptically replied.

Anakin frowned at Silas's answer but nonetheless they continued to fight flawlessly.

Silas all of a sudden came to a stop as he snapped his head upward toward the sky.

He narrowed his eyes as he focused his vision to the maximum yet nothing came to sight.

'Was I mistaken?... No, I definitely felt a gaze upon me.'

Silas was cut from his thought process as Anakin pushed him out of the way of a red beam.

"Pay attention!" Anakin exasperatedly stated.

"I obviously felt that coming, I didn't need assistance." Silas retorted as he continued to shoot his dual blasters.

"Yeah, sure, sure-"

Before Anakin could finish his words, he noticed Silas pointing his pistol toward him.

"Woah, woah, I was just kiddin-"

Anakin's eyes widened as he watched the blue beams zoom past his face, accurately hitting two droids trying to flank him.

"Saved your life." Silas remarked.

"Uh...I knew that was there." Anakin confidently replied with an awkward smile.

"Definitely..." Silas's sarcasm didn't escape Anakin's ears but before he could say anything, a rain of blue beams started to fly past both of them.

The droids started falling as clone reinforcements finally crossed the trench with the smoke disappearing

They maintained their blockade line as they gunned down all the droids in the company of Gunships dropping off AT-TE's and Falchion Tanks in front of them.

Anakin was smiling as he watched the blockade line advance past them, destroying all the droids in their pathway.

The battalions who were flanking finally advanced forward from each side, blasting all the droids in their field of vision, completely encroaching the thousands of droids.

"This should be an easy victory. General-" Anakin stopped talking as he noticed Silas crouched down beside the geonosian he killed.

"Why does it seem like you are not happy? Their defeat is inevitable..." Anakin confusedly questioned with a raised brow.

Silas didn't reply for a few seconds as he closed the eyes of the geonosian, "War does not determine who is right... only who is left."

Anakin continued to look at Silas, indicating that he didn't fully understand.

"Skywalker I've done my background checks on all the Jedi and I've seen your past with slavery."

Anakin's eyes darkened at the mention of his past but he silently listened.

"Don't you ever question the Jedi?... Why do they allow slavery in the galaxy?.. Now one could argue that their only jurisdiction is in the Republic, but then at that point, they're truly not peacekeepers, rather they're more of a police force. The Jedi say their values are to be selfless in order to protect others freedom but that only applies to the Republic..."

Anakin frowned as he replied, "With all due respect, what are you trying to get at?"

Silas calmly replied, "My point is that do not think of the world simply separated by good and evil, the Jedi are not as good as they seem, just like how the Separatists aren't as evil as they seem. And just like how this geonosian was simply defending his planet, the galaxy will always be grayer than it seems."

As Silas was speaking, clones and large AT-TEs would push on past them, eradicating all the droids in the path efficiently.

"At the end of the day, only the strong reign, so strive to become the strongest, Skywalker, and shape the galaxy into what you want it to be." Silas finished as he stood up and faced Anakin.

Anakin's eyes had a glint of surprise as he spoke, "You don't mean overthrowing the Jedi-"

Before Anakin could finish his words, a navy blue clone commander jogged up to them, abruptly making Anakin close his mouth.

"Sorry to interrupt General Raven and Commander Skywalker but it seems General Yoda wishes to speak with you two." Commander Zephyr explained.

"Patch him in." Silas replied.

Zephyr pulled out a small circular tab from his utility belt and held it in the center of the three as Yoda's figure appeared beside Ashoka.

"Young Raven, Senator Amidala informed me of the plan, she has. Smoothly it is going?" Yoda questioned.

"Yes Master Yoda, we are now pushing back the droids and should be able to destroy the factory on our side, this should be happening on all battlefronts." Silas responded.

"Good... Arrived I have, joining your battlefront I will." Yoda suddenly mentioned.

"Might I ask if their is a specific reason?" Silas questioned slightly perturbed.

"Talk we must about Padawan Tano..." Yoda gestured to Ashoka with his cane as he promptly ended the call.

"Did you do something?"

Silas ignored Anakin's question as he put his arms around both Anakin's and Zephyr's necks.

"Onward to battle my fellow compatriots!" Silas let go of their necks before exclaiming his words and started to run with the rest of the advancing clones as he ignited his two black lightsabers.

'Why is it as if he's running away from something?' Zephyr puzzledly watched Silas's running figure before quickly shaking his head and following after him.

Anakin also helplessly shook his head before following the two.

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