28 Commence Plan

Silas, Obi-Wan and Ashoka all look at him expectantly as he continues, "What if I were to hide under a large container and let the barrier pass through me, so that when I get behind enemy lines I can deactivate the generator for the barrier myself."

Silas agreed with the idea as he remembered how Anakin had used the same tactic in canon, with it working pretty well, so he had no qualms with it.

Ahsoka interrupted as she asked, "Then can I come and help?"

Anakin gave a nod, showing his confirmation, making Ahsoka's eyes determined as she promised she wasn't going to fail her task, or hold back her master.

Obi-Wan on the other hand seem surprised at how quick plans were going, before adding something himself, "I suggest we add some more men to the surrounding towers, so that when the barrier is deactivated they can quickly take down the droids from their blind spots at the higher ground."

'Leave it to Obi-Wan to send men to the higher ground...' Silas mused.

No one had any objections with his suggestion, and just like that it seemed their planning had come to an end, but before they dispersed, Obi-Wan seemed curious, "General, how do you plan on creating this gas?"

Silas responded with silence as he nonchalantly pointed toward the sky, causing Obi-Wan to gaze upward, and a few seconds later, a unique looking Gunship seemed to be flying toward them.

It stopped right above them as it lowered it's altitude, and now that he got a closer look, it was a black colored Gunship, and their were bright colors emanating from within it, it's size was also much bigger than normal.

Even Ahsoka looked at it oddly, while Anakin had a small smile, already knowing what it was.

"I present to you, my mobile Laboratory!" Silas flamboyantly exclaimed with spread out hands as he walked forward and slid open the door, showing it's contents.

Obi-Wan and Ahsoka couldn't help but be stupefied.

Inside the Gunship, was seemingly a mini laboratory filled with dozens to hundreds of books and vials, with weird machinery all around.

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After seconds of just silence, Ahsoka spoke, seemingly still stunned by the situation, "Since when were you ever a scientist?"

Obi-Wan added, "Yes, no offense but I never took you for a man of science."

Anakin lightly laughed as he commented, "That's what I said, but it seems we all have our hidden talents."

Silas didn't say anything, because if he were to be honest, he was not a man of science, far from it, he could barely understand the majority of what science even entailed of.

He was just someone who likes to dabble in it, especially with the more simple side of it.

Silas then said, "Alright, before we get started with the plan, I forgot to mention that I'll need your help in containing the gas by using the force, because it can even kill the troops, including ourselves ."

Obi-Wan furrowed his brows from behind, "Do you have any type of suits that can protect us just in case?"

Silas turned around, "I do have some Hazmat Suits, but the issue is that their limited, about 50 in total, so we'll need to order all the troops to retreat except a small portion who will help us take down the remaining droids."

Obi-Wan was unsure if retreating the entirety of their force was a good idea, but nevertheless he nodded, "I'll inform the others of the situation." Promptly jogging away.

Anakin also started walking away with Ahsoka as he shouted, "Good luck, we needa go to!"

Silas himself nods, before finally entering his laboratory, "Time to get to work..."

Ahsoka's eyes lingered upon Silas's back, seemingly hesitating as turbulent emotions shook within her gaze, but eventually turned around and continued to follow Anakin.

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[Thrawn POV]

He was still in the hull of his ship as he stood their fearlessly.

The few Venator ships beside him seemed battered up, with small explosions occurring, but for the most part they were still floating.

Thrawn had his hands behind his back, in thought, 'Taking down this flimsy armada of Separatists would be rather easy just by using this ships fire power alone, but if I attempt to go on the offensive once, the ships beside me will be promptly destroyed because I wouldn't be protecting them, not to mention incurring such losses is far from ideal...'

Nonetheless, he didn't complain.

A clone captain then approached him from behind, "Sir, even though we've diverted approximately 35% of our energy into fire power meant to defend the others ships, it's not enough. Admiral Yularen reports that he has only 10% of energy left for his shields, he pleas that you should attack now, rather than focusing your energies on your deflector shield and being defensive."

Thrawn seemed unperturbed as he responded in a cold yet calm voice without looking back, "I could care less for what he thinks, no one said he should engage the enemy, that was his own foolish mistake."

Before the clone captain could continue speaking, another one shouted from his station, "Sir! We have confirmation that the plan is ready to commence!"

Thrawn nodded, "I see, then commence the plan, we have wasted much time."

The captain replied back with his own nod as everyone went into overdrive, preparing for their incoming plan of attack.

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[Admiral Trench POV]

Admiral Trench was the opposing admiral for the Separatists.

He was in the hull of his large Dreadnought Class Ship, something akin to a Venator of the Separatists version, their were dozens of droids surrounding him at their battle stations.

Trench himself looked like a large humanoid spider, he towered over the others as he watched the enemy ships remain defensive.

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Even though they were supposedly winning, he couldn't help but feel uneasy, 'Why are their reinforcements on the defensive?'

Not to mention the newcomers had a distinct looking ship that was leading them, it was even larger than his own ship, with firepower he could only imagine was beyond their capabilities.

But for some reason, the ship remained defensive, not even putting much effort into taking them down.

'This must be General Raven's and Skywalker's fleet, that would mean I'm up against Admiral Thrawn, someone very dangerous...'

Once recognizing the ships and realizing who were the reinforcements, he was pondering on if he should retreat, but noticed they were on the defensive and that his side was dominating, so he decided to go against his instincts and stay.

'Perhaps their having energy consumption issues with their generator, I was informed that their ship was only a prototype... But that wouldn't make sense, I doubt they would just remain their without moving.'

His brain continued to think of all the different possibilities.

'Could he be waiting for something? But for what?-'

He was abruptly disturbed as a beeping noise went off from one of the battle stations.

"Uhhh, sir, for some reason it says three ships are coming out of hyperspace from behind us."

Trench's eyes widened, "This is what he was waiting for! Divert half our fire power to behind us!"

But it was too late as three Acclamator Ships instantly zoomed into sight from behind the Separatist Armada, immediately opening fire.

The entire ship shook as Trench grabbed onto something.

"Sir our shield generators have been destroyed!"

Before Trench could reply to that, he saw as the large black Imperial Star Destroyer started moving forward, with hundreds of thousands of beams zooming out from it.

"No! No! No! This can't be the end-"

Boom!

Without even finishing his words, a large hole was created into space, abruptly sucking out Trench into the cosmos without him even noticing he had died.

A multitude of explosions went off all over the ship, as the advanced firepower of Thrawn's ship, continued to send out a rain of blue beams.

And without any deflector shields, the leading Separatist ship had nothing to protect it, being defeated in a matter of a few seconds.

Back with Thrawn...

Clones all over were smiling and grinning, with some even cheering.

"Haha!"

"Those damn clankers!"

"I bet they didn't see that coming!"

Thrawn himself stood in the center, and watched the leading Separatist ship explode all over, but he showed no signs of satisfaction.

His chilling voice then resounded as he said, "I don't see what's there to cheer about."

Everyone at once went quiet, with all eyes on Thrawn.

"We only did Step 1, which was to destroy their command center, and send them into a disarray. But unless my eyes are deceiving me, I see multiple remaining Separatist ships ahead of us...

So I suggest you stop your chit chatting, and properly finish your jobs."

His scolding tone was rather mild, and serene, yet all the troops in the room went back to work in a blink of an eye once hearing his command.

The plan they did was but a simple pincer strategy devised by Thrawn.

It entailed of dividing his fleet into two teams, one team would jump into hyperspace directly in front of the enemy and distract them, while the 2nd team would make a micro-jump through hyperspace behind the enemy.

This entailed of months of research, where they figured out exactly where all the shield generators were stationed inside the ship. So when the 2nd team would appear from behind, they would focus all their fire power on that, and then the Imperial Star Destroyer which was on the 1st team, would finish the job easily.

Thrawn's practically glaring red eyes would then trail down on to the blue planet of Christophosis, 'Now the rest is up to you, General Raven...'

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