Accismus⋆౨ৎ˚⟡.• Anakin Skywalker⋆౨ৎ˚⟡.•

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The journey to the temple's academy was difficult. Although the main hall was where most of the battle was taking place, clones were scoping every hallway and annihilating every Jedi they saw. This left the corridors that were once doused in the sunlight of the Galactic Republic's city to be littered with dead Jedi Knights, Masters and Padawans.

Sol and Revan kept their guards up as they fought their way through clones. They recognised legions that they each had worked with mercilessly kill Jedi, and the two had no choice but to ensure that each clone wouldn't get back up from their wounds. With grimaces and heavy hearts, Sol and Revan looked away from the bodies of their fellow Jedi and pushed on towards the academy.

'May the Force guide everyone towards the light,' Revan mumbled as he crouched down beside a Padawan. With blast wounds to their chest, the Padawan laid with their eyes open and staring aimlessly through the window. He placed his fore and middle fingers against the Padawan's cold neck and lowered his head at the silence of his pulse.

As Sol looked down at a clone's corpse that she recognised from the 501st legion, she felt a buzz from her commlink. With her lightsaber in her left hand, Sol brought her wristlet to her face, and she let out a relieved whimper at the sight of the contact name on the small screen. She hadn't heard from him since he left for the Senate building after Master Windu. At the sudden attack, Sol feared the worst. She didn't know if the clone attack had stretched outside of the Jedi Temple, but with him being in the presence of Chancellor Palpatine, the supposed Sith Lord, Sol was deathly worried.

'Anakin!' she cried as soon as she accepted his transmission.

'Solaris! Where are you?! Padme says you're not at the apartment, and I told you that it wasn't safe at the temple!' Anakin's voice came through Sol's commlink, and Revan straightened up at the sound of it.

'We're under attack! The clones, they're... they're killing everyone!' Sol said and the realisation of the situation sunk in and was apparent in her voice. 'The temple's on fire, a-and Des is dead... Revan had to kill him. Oh, Ani... it has to be Palpatine. What happened at the Senate? Please tell me Master Windu-'

'Where are you, Sol?'

Sol was confused. There was no panic in Anakin's voice, but it could be lost in the transmission. And maybe Anakin was already in the temple and was fighting the traitor clones as they spoke. All Sol could hope was that he was safe, and that Master Windu was still trying to detain Chancellor Palpatine. Maybe when Master Windu won his battle, the clones would be disengaged from their attacks and whatever control the Sith had over them, would be released.

'I-I'm at the temple. I'm here with Revan-' Sol tried and Revan stopped behind her with his gaze on her commlink.

'Don't move, Solaris. I'm coming to find you. Do not engage with the clones.'

'But, Ani, they're trying to kill us-'

The transmission was cut, and Sol could no longer hear the background noise of Anakin's call. The hallway that was full of bodies but absent of life was plunged back into an eerie silence. Without Anakin's voice playing through her commlink, Sol felt cold as reality returned. She was relieved to hear that he was alive, but at his dismissal of her panic and the lack of questions about the attack, Sol couldn't help but feel uneasy.

'Something's not right,' Revan voiced Sol's thoughts. 'And he sounds worried about you. I thought you guys hated each other?'

Sol ignored Revan's suspicions and thought about Anakin's transmission. How could they not engage with the clones? They fired at the very sight of Jedi robes and glowing lightsabers, it was the clones that shouldn't be engaging with the Jedi. But Anakin had pushed the subject aside and didn't leave room for Sol to ask questions.