Hey guys! The very first chapter of Savin' Me is finally here! And I know, it took only about forever and a half but it's here now. I've just been really busy with school and all so I have no idea how frequent my updates will be, but I know they'll never take more than a month so I hope that's a bit reassuring XD Anywho, I'm thrilled to introduce to you the beginning of the sequel to Someday, Savin' Me. Enjoy!

The sun shone brightly on the tireless planet of Coroscant.

As well as the dozens of star ships and star fighters engaged in battle above the planet. Amongst them floated along the ships of enemy General Grievous, whom they where all looking for to destroy. Easier said than done. Amongst the fleets of star fighters, there where two that stood out the most.

Two Jedi fighters, that strayed from the rest and shot over the Malevolence. Both fighters flew in perfect unison and unmistakable grace, straight to the battle below. They flew through explosions, dodged torpedoes and headed for the ship they knew for sure, General Grievous was on.

"Lock on to them R2" spoke the voice of Anakin Skywalker, from the first Jedi fighter. R2 beeped a response. "Master, General Grievous's ship is directly ahead. The one crawling with vulture droids" he spoke this time into the intercom.

"Yeah, I see it" replied Garen Muln from the second fighter "Oddball, do you copy?"

"Copy, gold leader" Oddball answered.

"Mark my position, form your squad up behind me" Garen ordered.

"We're on your tail General Muln" Oddball confirmed.

A fleet of Grievous's fighters headed straight for them, before a grin broke out on Anakin's face "This is where the fun begins."

"Let them pass between us" Garen ordered. As they passed, he heard them lose a clone. He sucked his teeth at the loss and carried on.

"They're all over me!" Came the cry of another clone "I can't-" but he was cut off by the explosion of his own ship.

Anakin frowned "I'm going to go help them out" he spoke over the comm.

"No, no, they're doing their job. We should do ours" Garen shook his head. Anakin hesitated for a moment before he let it go and followed Garen further. And as he did, a ship from behind shot some 4 ion torpedoes their way.

"Missiles! Pull up" Anakin barked hurriedly. The missiles over shot them as they pulled up. But both of them realized, they would be coming around.

2 of the missiles went after Garen and two after Anakin. The Jedi split up and lead the missiles in different directions.

"Yes R2, go on, the fancier the better" Anakin grinned as R2D2 made a suggestion.

Meanwhile Garen tuned in to his droid and gave it strict orders "Surge all power units R3, stand by reverse thrusters." As soon as the droid beeped in affirmative, Garen smirked and shoved his steering all the way to one side. This caused the fighter to spin as it moved, and eventually, the two missiles behind him blew up on one another.

"Good job R3, now let's go find that over achiever padawan of mine, shall we?" Garen grinned as he returned to normal drive and flew off. But as he did, a herd of buzz droids passed him, a few even latching themselves onto the outside of his ship. "Sithspit. Anakin, I'm hit" he growled into the comm.

"I know, I see you. I'll be right there" Anakin replied.

Garen cursed under his breath as the droids began drilling into the sides of his fighter. One of them headed for the other side of his fighter, straighter for his poor little astromech droid.

"R3 be careful, you have-" but at that moment, the droid tore R3's cover off and sent it hurling into space "Oh dear..." Garen muttered before he felt a jerk. Looking to the side, he saw one of the droids drilling deeper into his fighter. "They're shutting down all the controls!" he cursed, flipping a few switches, trying to get them to work.

"Move to the side so I can get a clear shot" Anakin ordered.

"NO! No! Anakin Skywalker I will force push you into the next century if you fire!" Garen shouted, half in panic "The ship's just ahead. Go on and get the Chancellor, we don't have much time." At that moment, something flew off of the ship and Garen's cockpit began to fog "Shavit, the cockpit's fogging, I can't see a thing. Anakin, go!"

"Just move to the right will you?" Anakin muttered impatiently.

"Hang on Anakin, you're going to get us both killed" Garen warned. He leaned backwards and tried the controls behind him "Get out of here, there's nothing more you can do."

"I'm not leaving without you, Garen" Anakin replied before he moved his fighter to the side and used his right wing to wipe the droids off of Garen's fighter.

"Thank you Anakin" Garen sighed "There General's ship is dead ahead."

"Well have you noticed the shields are still up?!" Anakin shouted.

"Right, my bad" Garen muttered as he turned over Anakin's fighter, got a clear aim at the side of the starship ahead and fired. The controls immediately burned out, but the steel gates began to close the entrance to the ship.

"Ah...I have a bad feeling about this.." Anakin muttered before he, along with Garen accelerated his fighter. They shot forwards and just barely made it into the ship before the gate slammed shut behind them. Both Jedi hit the brakes on their vehicles, causing them to crash and swerve to an untimely stop on the main hangar of the ship.

Garen jumped out of his fighter as soon as it hit the ground, with grace only a Jedi could attain. He activated his saber in mid air and took out several droids the second his boots connected with the durasteel floor.

Anakin on the other hand waited for the ship to screech to a halt before stepping out and joining his master's fight against the battle droids.

"R2! Locate the Chancellor!" Garen yelled over the firing of the droids. He and Anakin finished them off before walking over to R2, who was emitting a hologram of the ship.

"The Chancellor's presence is coming from there" Garen pointed at a part of the hologram.

"I sense Grievous..." Anakin muttered.

"It doesn't matter. We're here for the Chancellor. The others are here for Grievous. Anyways...I sense a trap" Garen added.

"Next move?" Anakin raised a brow expectantly.

"Spring the trap" Garen grinned "But first, we should catch up to the others. See if they've got a hold of Grievous yet." He fished his comm. Link out of his belt and made a call.

"Garen of all the force forsaken times to call me this has to be the worst!" screamed the voice of Xanatos Omega from the comm.

"Well, I'm sorry. I need to know how it's going with you three" Garen replied.

"It's-" the sound something exploding filled the other end "In the name of-Obi-Wan you nitwit!" Xanatos shouted. "Well I'm sorry! I didn't really mean to hit the reactor you know!" came the rather childish sounding plea of Obi-Wan Kenobi, from the background. "Leave him alone, Xan, the droids where all over him" Another voice, this one belonging to Alliya Taro spoke. "Thank you Alliya!" Obi-Wan shouted one more time before Xanatos turned his attention back to Garen.

"I am so sorry Garen, what exactly was it that you were saying before we were rudely almost blown up?" the emphasis in the last three words where clear.

"I said I was sorry!" came Obi-Wan's voice.

"Obi-Wan! Just stop, please!" Xanatos growled "Garen please, before Obi-Wan's stupidity kills us all."

"How is it going with you guys? Tracked Grievous yet?" Garen asked smiling.

"Where are you and Anakin, are you on the Invisible Hand yet?"

"Yeah, we're here at the main hangar. Grievous's signal is coming from the rear of the ship. Where exactly are you?"

"We're at the base of the spire on the Invisible Hand."

"Alright, you guys go on then and find Grievous, we'll track down the Chancellor."

"Right. See you soon Garen."

"You too Xanatos. Muln out."

And with that Garen hung up. He turned to R2 "R2, stay with the ships, use this if you need us" he said tossing the droid his comm. Link. R2 beeped a reply.

"Well, they sound like they're having fun" Anakin chuckled as he and Garen began to walk off.

"That they are, padawan" Garen laughed.

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"Still, you didn't have to blow the whole thing up you know. Now they probably know we're here" Xanatos grumbled as he, Obi-Wan and Alliya walked along.

"Oh come on Xan, drop it. It was an accident" Obi-Wan half whined.

"Fine, fine-Obi-Wan, destroyers" Xanatos growled as almost 15 shield generators rolled to a stop in front of them. The three Jedi immediately activated their weapons and began deflecting shots. Each Jedi took a separate side to tackle the droids from. That is until something caught Xanatos's eye. He noticed a tin barrel on the other side of the room. And something told him, if that thing was shot, it would be enough to take out the droids. It wasn't enough to blow the room, or even reach the others, it would just have a minimum range explosion on the droids nearby. So with that Xanatos deflected a shot and aimed it towards the barrel.

Little did he realize, Obi-Wan, who had just somersaulted backwards, landed about a foot away from the barrel. But despite, Xanatos's blindness to the occurring, Alliya spotted it. She saw Xanatos aim for the barrel and she saw Obi-Wan land near it. So in a spur of the moment action, Alliya shot towards Obi-Wan and tackled him to the ground. And just as they landed, the barrel erupted in flames, lighting the droids all on fire. The heat soared above their heads, barely missing them. And once the flames died down, Alliya scanned the premises once before she lifted herself off of Obi-Wan and lowered a hand for him.

"Sithspit..." Obi-Wan, who had just realized what would have happened to him, had Alliya not interfered, cursed "Thanks Alliya, that's two I owe you" he smiled a bit, taking her hand to stand up.

Xanatos, who had also just realized, jogged over "Force, sorry about that kid, you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm good. Cause Alliya just tore me out of the hands of death" Obi-Wan answered, still a bit shocked at what had just happened.

Xanatos turned to Alliya and opened his mouth to speak, but a single smile from her was all the words they needed to exchange to get the message across. "Now, let's get going, shall we?" Alliya gestured ahead. The two men nodded and the took off again.

Once they had reached the end of the hallway that lead from the "flame room" they came to a set of doors. All three of them sensing, something was not right.

Xanatos took a step forward and the doors automatically slid open. He dwelled on the thought for a single second before stepping into the enormous room that the doors revealed. He looked across the room before he spotted something all the way on the other side. A large swivel arm chair. He raised a brow before gesturing for the other two to follow him as he dashed over to it.

And as soon as he was close enough, Xanatos saw the person seated on the chair was...the chancellor? His hands were strapped down to the arms of the metal chair. Wait that wasn't right...

"Chancellor Palpatine..." Xanatos muttered in a very confused tone.

"If you were looking for Grievous, you should know that he figured out you were tracking us and switched my tracker for his" Palpatine said casually.

"Ah...well...that's not good" Xanatos shook his head "Obi-Wan, call up Garen and let him know he's really tracking Grievous. I don't think he'll be too happy if he runs into a metal death machine instead of the chancellor. "

And while Obi-Wan did reached for his comm. link, Xanatos drew his lightsaber and cut open the chancellor's restrains.

"Xanatos, I can't seem to reach Garen...his signal is shot" Obi-Wan frowned after a while.

Xanatos helped the chancellor up and returned the frown "That's not right...."

"We should probably get moving though" Alliya said "Once we get back to our fighters, one of us can escort the chancellor back to Coroscant while the other two go to find Garen and Anakin."

Obi-Wan inwardly groaned at this plan, knowing he would end up as the chancellor's escort. Despite this he did not complain, he owed Alliya.

"Good thinking..." Xanatos muttered "Let's go then." said, leading that way.

"Alright, so we're heading to the hangar first?" Alliya said as he, Alliya, Obi-Wan and the chancellor stepped out the doors of the room.

"If we want to save some time, Obi-Wan, why don't you head to the hangar with the chancellor and Alliya and I will go and find Garen and Anakin" Xanatos spoke. Obi-Wan sighed and nodded, it wasn't a command, it was a request, and Obi-Wan didn't really have the heart to deny it.

"Alright, the hangar bay's this way, and Garen said he was heading towards the rear of the ship, so we should go our separate ways here" Obi-Wan suggested, trying not to sound a bit disappointed.

Xanatos nodded as he stopped walking. He put a hand on Obi-Wan's shoulder and offered a small smile "Stay safe, alright?"

"I will" Obi-Wan returned the smile.

And with that Xanatos turned around, looked to Alliya and nodded in the direction down the hall. She nodded they and took off down the hall in a run.

"Chancellor, if you will, this way" Obi-Wan gestured towards another corridor.

"Of course, Master Kenobi" Palpatine said as he followed Obi-Wan down the hall.

Obi-Wan smiled at being a addressed in such a way. He remembered how Xanatos used to smile as well when he was just a knight being addressed as a master. His thoughts were interrupted however as the ground gave a sudden shake and a thunderous explosion came from above them.

Obi-Wan froze immediately and drew his lightsaber. He activated it and listened for anything that might give him a clue as to what that was. When all he heard was silence, he looked over his shoulder to make sure the Chancellor was alright. Palpatine merely stood behind him, frozen in his tracks as well.

Obi-Wan thought for a minute. It was way to early for Xanatos and Alliya to have picked a fight and he doubted that was Anakin or Garen because he would have sensed them, had they been so close.

"We have to move quickly. I have a bad feeling that Grievous knows we're here" Obi-Wan growled as he gestured for the chancellor to follow him. His pace was much quicker than it was a moment ago, in a rush to get to the hangar as soon as possible.

But all too soon the ground gave another terrible quake. And a deafening roar came to Obi-Wan's ears as the ceiling above came crashing down...right between himself and the chancellor. Obi-Wan pivoted as a chunk of debri collided with his right wrist, not only knocking the lightsaber straight out of it, but also as he was sure, fracturing or even breaking the bone in the process.

"Master Kenobi!" Palpatine gave a weak cry.

Obi-Wan spun around to face the elder, and found it to be a terrible mistake when he heard something...or rather someone land behind him with a loud metallic clank. But it was too late.

He barely managed to turn and catch a glimpse of the gruesome form of General Grievous before a steel claw connected with the back of his neck and his entire world plunged into darkness.

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"Are you sure Obi-Wan will be alright?" Alliya said as she and Xanatos jogged down the hallway.

"He'll be fine" Xanatos replied "Obi-Wan is very capable and he can handle a simple escort job."

Alliya shrugged, not exactly content or completely empty with the reply. They moved along a bit further before turning a corner and promptly running straight into the rather startled form of Garen Muln.

From behind him, Anakin activated his lightsaber, ready for battle, but lowered it once more as he saw Xanatos and Alliya.

Garen, who had collided with Xanatos, stepped back "Oh...it's just you two, what are you doing here?"

"Trying to find you" Xanatos replied "Which I must admit was much easier that we expected."

"Yeah well with the Chancellor's signal running all over the ship, it's been a bit hard to actually locate him" Anakin grumbled "And where's Obi-Wan?"

"That's another thing, we found the Chancellor" Alliya pointed out. Garen and Anakin raised their brows as she continued "Turns out Grievous knew we where tracking them. He switched the Chancellor's beacon for his, so you where really tracking Grievous and we where really tracking the Chancellor. Obi-Wan tried to call you to tell you that but your signal was jammed so he decided to go that way" Alliya pointed behind herself "And escort the Chancellor to safety while we came to find you and help you out with Grievous, should you run into him."

Garen simply nodded, but Anakin spoke up "Wait so that means if we've been tracking Grievous...and we saw his signal go that way" he pointed fown the hall that Xanatos and Alliya had just come from "Doesn't that mean he's heading straight for..." he trailed off as the sudden realization hit all four of the Jedi at the same time.

"He's heading for Obi-Wan" Xanatos muttered almost breathlessly before he and the other three doubled back and shot down the path they had just come from.

"If Grievous attacks him and the Chancellor I doubt he'll be able to hold off on his own" Alliya said between breaths.

"I know, precisely why I'm forcing the air out of my lungs to try and reach him before that happens" Xanatos growled.

Suddenly the ground shook, freezing all four Jedi on the spot. And then the sound of a lightsaber humming to life came to their ears.

"Shavit!" Xanatos cursed as he forced himself to keep move forward. He tried desperately to push back the millions of negative thoughts that were crowding his mind and focus on reaching Obi-Wan.

He ran down the corridor(his companions trailing closely behind him) and turned the corner from which he had heard the saber. But was horrified as he screeched to a stop and took in the sight before him. Xanatos felt himself choke up, it had been only what...20 minutes since they'd boarded the ship and they where already in trouble? He looked ahead;

Some 20 feet ahead of him, stood General Grievous, in front of the Chancellor's much smaller fram. The General had three lightsabers drawn in three of his four hands. And the other cold metal hand had a terrifying grip on the neck of an unconcious Obi-Wan Kenobi.

"Ah, Sithspit."

Well, that was the first chapter of Savin' Me. Hope it came out alright =]

Oh boy, the first chapter and the guys are already in trouble. I realize Alliya has a huge personality change here, and that's because I went back and edited her character in If Everyone Cared. So if any of you go back to Chapter 12 in that you'll see I fixed that up to make her seem like a nicer person. Because I had originally intended her to be like a mother figure to balance out Xanatos's father figure, but god knows how that sort of got messed up and she ended up looking like a shallow little fangirl. Soooo sorry about that, cause I know how much I hate those kinds of characters myself =( So I fixed her up now, she's a lot nicer to Obi-Wan and everyone else in general...so yeah...just wanted to clear that up =]

God, I've just matured so much as a writer since I've done If Everyone Cared, it's not even funny. I read a bit of I.E.C and then I read this and I saw a significant difference in the writting. A bit of a shocker eh? Has that happened to any of you? Where you go "Oh my god it's been only like a year and look where I was then and where I am now 0.o"

Oh, plus in the next 3 or 4 chapters, someone from the gang is going to be killed off *insert gasp* Any guesses who?!

Lol I feel so good to once again be able to say, Review!!!