Hey folks, Grubkiller here.

Here's part 40 of my 'FotR' story.

Hope that you all enjoy.

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Dromund Kaas.

Back in the burning, embattled ruins of the Sith capital, Obi-Wan Kenobi continued to defend himself from his own men. They continued to charge at him, blasting away at him from all angles that were possible.

When the last trooper entered the roof, he placed a portable shield generator in the doorway behind him and activated, creating a transparent energy barrier that replaced the demolished door.

"I'm not your enemy! Stand down!" Obi-Wan ordered.

But the clones kept firing, shouting orders to each other to surround and blast him.

Obi-Wan swung his blade to the left and right, deflecting dozens of blaster bolts away from him, but he hesitated to deflect them back into his own men at first, but soon found that he had no choice.

One by one, clones started to fall from their own gun fire.

Then he summoned a force push that knocked all of the remaining troopers to the rooftop. Then he dashed past them, to the shield gate. That's when the gunship started to get back into the fight. Just as Obi-Wan deactivated the shield gate with a keypad, he dashed through the doorway, just as the Gunship demolished the rooftop, and the troopers on it, with a volley of missiles.

Obi-Wan ran down the stairs and immediately felt dust and small amounts of plaster falling on his head. He looked up and saw that the ceiling was starting to collapse. Realizing that the roof was about to collapse on top of him, he plunged his saber into the wall and cut a hole into it. When the hole was cut, he kicked the wall, and the circle fell out of the side of the building and plunged to the streets below.

He then jumped out and fell to the streets below, jut as the spot he was in was buried with debris, and started to collapse.

On the way down, the smell of smoke entered his nostrils, and the sounds of screams, explosions, engine roars, and blaster fire filled the air. The Sith Imperial Army was on its last legs, isolated and leaderless, but they were still determined to fight to the death.

Some were even making an attempt to retake the Citadel and reestablish contact with what was left of the Sith fleet, so pockets of Sith troopers were still in the area, as was made clear as soon as Obi-Wan landed on top of a highway bridge that cut through this part of the city.

"It's the Jedi!" A Sith trooper called out. "Kill him!"

The troopers, and a pair of black painted droidekas, opened fire on Obi-Wan with everything they had.

Obi-Wan raised his blade and started to defend himself, deflecting their bolts back into them. But the destroyer's shields absorbed all of the bolts that Obi-Wan deflected. The situation was precarious, and became worse - or better - when a pair of Republic AT-RTs and a squad of clones blasted through a pile of wrecked speeders and barricades and started firing on the Sith.

The skirmish was intense, but short-lived, as the AT-RT's superior firepower cut through the droideka shields with ease, before making short work of the remaining Sith troopers.

Obi-Wan would normally be relieved and thankful of his men. But then he remembered that they were no longer his men, and he fled along the side of the highway, just as they started to fire on him. He thought that he was in the clear, when suddenly, a pair of heavily armored Clone blaze troopers hovered up to the bridge from below, and blocked his path. They raised their arm cannons and unleashed jets of flame at him. Thinking quickly, he dropped to his knees and slid underneath, fairly certain that he singed his beard.

When he got passed them, he jumped up to the balcony of a three story building, and came across a locked door. He plunged his blade through the door and started to cut it open.

When he was halfway through, the two blaze troopers from earlier followed him. They landed on the balcony and raised their flamethrower arms.

"Stand down!" He ordered in vain, before summoning a force push that sent them back.

They hit the balcony, one of them tumbling back over the side, while the other regained his balance and advanced again.

"No where to run, Jedi." The trooper said before he fired. But Obi-Wan had finished cutting, and was through the door a split second later. Then he pressed a button, and the shield activated, just as a jet of flame hit it.

"I wouldn't be so sure," he said before he took off down a corridor.

But as soon as he rounded the corner, he ran into a squad of Sith troopers and battle droids, who were taking position in the blasted open holes in the wall and the demolished window sills, exchanging fire with a squad of clones on top of a building on the other side of the street.

Obi-Wan decided that the only way forward was through the Sith troopers, and he started slashing his way through them.

On the other side of the street, the clone officer noticed the commotion on the other side, and saw that his men were no longer taking fire from the building. Then he saw that the Sith troopers were firing on a figure wielding a blue lightsaber.

Then it hit him.

He reached for his helmet comm, pressed a button, and spoke.

"I've spotted the Jedi," he said to his superior. Then he nodded when he received his next set of orders.

He then turned to the rest of his platoon, which included a trio of Heavy Clone Gunners, who were armed with rocket launchers.

"Concentrate fire on the target!" he ordered his men, including the heavy gunners, who aimed their weapons at the building on the other side. Then the clone officer pointed to the Jedi in the building. "Take him down!"

When the last Sith trooper fell to Obi-Wan's blade, a storm of blue blaster fire struck the wall behind him, and the floor around him. He raised his blade and started deflecting laser blasts.

That's when he saw a trio of missiles flying straight towards him. Thinking quickly, he used the force to dash down the hallway, and just as the missiles struck, he used the force to blast his way through a door, just as the explosions brought the entire face of the building down.

He then noticed that he was on a bridge that led to an adjacent building. Aside from the sounds of battle around him, it all felt peaceful. But he had no time to enjoy the scenery. He decided to start running, wanting to escape before he was discovered by either side.

But it was too late.

When he was halfway across the bridge, he heard the familiar - and now terrifying - hum of a gunship's engine. It appeared around the corner of a nearby building, and fired a volley of missiles that demolished a good portion of the bridge.

"This day just keeps getting better and better," Obi-Wan said to himself, as the Gunship, which he recognized as the one that first shot at him earlier, turned to face him.

It fired, unleashing a storm of laser bolts and beams, that vaporized the ground around Obi-Wan. He jumped and flipped out of the way as much as possible, trying to avoid getting hit. That's when the Jedi Master decided that it was time to go on the offensive. He took a running start and jumped off the edge of the bridge, and into the air. He then threw his lightsaber like a javelin, aiming for missile launchers above the engine section. He then landed on the hull, grabbing onto the cockpit to see the surprised pilot, who reached for his sidebar and started blasting Obi-Wan.

He dodged twice, nearly slipping off of the ship, before grabbing a safety handle. That's when he reached out with the force to summon his saber, which was jammed into the missile launcher. When it was back in his hand, the ship's side hatch opened, and a pair of clones, the ones who first betrayed him, started blasting him. He defected their shots with his saber. That's when the ship shook violently from an explosion. The clones stopped firing, and Ob-Wan looked up, to see that his lightsaber had ignited the missiles, which set off a chain reaction, which took out the engines. The ship began to spin violently, and belch smoke, before it began to lose altitude.

Not wanting to go down with the ship, Obi-Wan pulled himself up with his saber, and then launched himself onto the top of the ship. Then he ran and jumped off, landing on the other side of the damaged bridge.

When he landed on his feet, he turned around just in time to see the ship crash into the streets below. The ship exploded on impact, demolishing everyone on board.

He stopped, pitying the men who fell. His men turned on him for reasons he wasn't sure of yet, but he still felt for them. They had fought by his side for years. They were still men.

But he was still target number one for these men, which means that he had to flee the planet, and regroup with anyone that wasn't going to try and kill him on sight.

Later, Obi-Wan continued to trek through the city, avoiding Clones and Imperials alike, and eventually making his way to an apartment building. He walked through it, and entered one of the rooms, before stepping onto one of the balconies.

It was here that he saw one of the hottest spots on the entire battlefield.

Imperials on the other side were unleashing a hailstorm of fire onto the clones on this side of the street, where Obi-Wan was. A squad of Imperial troopers spotted him and started firing.

"How do I keep getting myself into these situations?" Obi-Wan asked himself as he deflected the shots back into the Imperial troopers.

Then, Obi-Wan looked down at the highway that divided the two sides of the battle. A Republic convoy was rolling down the street, blasting away at the Sith side of the street with everything they had, demolishing the buildings.

"Destroy the Jedi!" Someone said.

Obi-Wan turned around and saw a squad of Clone Troopers had entered the room from behind him. They started firing on him, and he deflected the shots with his saber.

"Well, anywhere is better than here," he said to himself before he turned around and jumped into the street below. He landed on top of the turbo-tank that was apart of the convoy. Then, he jumped off and headed into for a maintenance hatch nearby, all while avoiding Clone Troopers.

Hours later, Obi-Wan found himself moving through the city's sewer system.

It wasn't the most pleasant escape route, but it was an escape route nonetheless.

he eventually found an exit and went through it, only to find more clones on the other side.

He quickly summoned his lightsaber, activating it with snap-hiss, and getting ready to defend himself. But something was strange, about these clones: they hadn't raised their arms against him.

In fact, one of them put his hand up. "Wait a minute, General. We're on you're side."

Obi-Wan didn't know what to say, but then he recognized the leader of the clone squad. It was Commander Gregor. He relaxed his stance, but he didn't deactivate his blade. That's when another pair of clones walked up.

He recognized them immediately.

"Waxer, Boil. Am I glad to see some familiar faces," Obi-Wan said as he deactivated his saber.

"It's good to see you too, sir. We have a message for you, sir," Waxer said before he raised his comm device. It activated, and an image of Commander Cody appeared.

"General," he said with a salute.

"Cody... what in blazes is going on? Why are your men attacking me?" Obi-Wan asked, as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"Sir, Admiral Tarkin has just issued Contingency Order 66. All Jedi have been branded as traitors, and the Clone Army has been ordered to execute them. We don't know how many Jedi have been killed, or how many survived. We just know that the order has been issued." Cody explained.

Obi-Wan shook his head. "Why didn't you and these men betray me?"

Cody gestured to Gregor. "Show him," he ordered.

Gregor, Waxer, Boil, and the others removed their helmets. Then they each turned their heads to show a scar on the right side of their heads.

"You removed your chips," Obi-Wan concluded.

"Yes Sir. Rex and Wolffe, and a lot of their men removed their's. So did me and a few others." Cody explained.

"Does anyone know that you did?" Obi-Wan asked.

"No sir. All chip removals were shared with the men that did. Those who didn't have no idea. But when I received Order 66, I acknowledged the order, but only my officers are carrying it out. Except Waxer and Gregor. They're the only officers that I know of to remove their chips. Which is why I had them search for you." Cody said.

Obi-Wan looked at the men around him and nodded understandingly.

"Alright. We need to rally all of the clones that are loyal to us. And then we're going back to the known galaxy to regroup with any other survivors." Obi-Wan said.

"Sir, with all due respect, I'm afraid that I'm going to have to disagree." Cody said. Obi-Wan looked at the hologram, clearly taken aback by his officer's defiance. Then Cody began to explain himself. "Sir, we don't know who else is still loyal to us. Even if we did, we don't have time to try and sort through them all without having the corrupt clones on our case. And we don't even know if the Navy is on our side. The only coarse of action that I see that's valid, is getting you off this planet, so that you, can rally any survivors, and take down the people responsible for this."

Obi-Wan crossed his arms over his chest, and frowned. Then he lowered his head and sighed.

"I suppose you're right. Question is, how am I supposed to get out of the system?"

The other clones smiled.

"Way ahead of you, General," Boil said.

Waxer and Boil walked through the ruined streets of Kaas City, acting like they were on patrol, while Obi-Wan slowly crept along, underneath the street. He could see Waxer and Boil through a storm drain that ran along the street they were walking on, staying out of sight.

They walked passed clones who were escorting prisoners, and eventually came up on the center of the Republic's operations in the city. A field hospital was set up for the wounded, and a fenced off area was set up for prisoners. Some were civilians who were seeking asylum. Republic gunships took off and landed around the clock.

Republic Star Destroyers hovered above the city.

Clone Trooper artillery continued to hammer away at the last pocket of Imperial resistance in the city.

Commander Cody was talking to some of his officers, who were giving their progress reports. No one knew who was loyal, or who was corrupt, so every clone in the city was forced to go along with this whole Order 66 nonsense in order to avoid suspicion.

But Cody knew who could be trusted, and endeavored to get Obi-Wan off-world as discreetly as possible.

He turned around and saw Waxer and Boil coming down the street. He walked over to them, while Obi-Wan continued to remain out of sight, hiding underneath the grate. he hugged the wall when he saw a group of clones walking past the end of the pipe that he was in. He hid behind a crevice in the wall when one of them scanned the tunnel with his helmet lamp.

"Did you find Kenobi?" Obi-Wan heard Cody ask, sounding serious, in order to keep his men from turning suspicious.

"Negative, Commander," Waxer said.

"Sir, no one could've survived for that long." Boil said.

Obi-Wan breathed a sigh of relief when the suspicious clone turned his light off and walked away.

"Order our men to continue sweeping the area Kenobi was last seen, and start loading your men on the ship." Cody ordered one of the other officers.

"Yes, sir," the clone said.

As Cody walked off, Waxer and Boil, very discreetly, each gave a thumbs up, which Obi-Wan could see when he looked up through the grate. Obi-Wan breathed yet another sigh of relief, and began to walk off, following the storm drain to theca-ordinates that Gregor gave him.

Obi-Wan makes his way out of the pipeline and onto a secret landing platform. He ran up to Darth Malgus' personal Star-fighter, which was unprotected as Cody said, and climbed into the one-man ship's open cockpit. The Starfighter takes off and disappears into the sky.

Obi-Wan flies away from the planet, using the cloaking device to sneak past the Republic ships that were blockading the planet.

When he was past the planet's moon, and the signal was secured, he activated the ship's console. He punches in several coordinates and codes. he pressed a button, creating a beeping noise, before he began to speak into the ship's comm.

"Emergency Code Nine Thirteen ... I have no contact on any frequency. Are there any Jedi out there? . . . anywhere . . ."

A burst of static is heard- and a fuzzy hologram image appears.

"FZZZzzzzz. . . Kenobi . . .ffzzzzz!" The garbled transmission said.

Obi-Wan pressed a few buttons, locking onto the signal, and trying to focus the transmission. "I've locked on. Repeat."

The fuzzy hologram image comes into focus, and it turns out to be Bail Organa.

"Master Kenobi?" Bail asked.

"Senator Organa!" Obi-Wan exclaimed, relieved. "My Clone Troops turned on me ... I need help."

"We have just rescued Master Yoda. It appears this ambush has happened everywhere. We're sending you our coordinates." Bail said before his hologram fizzled out.

When Obi-Wan received the coordinates, he punched in several codes and locked onto the co-ordinates. Then he jumped straight i to hyperspace, straight into the dark unknown.

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Well folks, that's part 40.

Part 41'll be right around the corner.

By the way, I have a new story that I just released. It's called 'Rise of the New Order'. It's a Clone Wars/Star Wars crossover. Its a canon version of this story that I've been wanting to write. Go check it out if you have the time.

Anyway, until next time, this is Grubkiller, over and out.