room on the 'Anchorage' for everyone.”

Plo laughed and said “It's okay Jenna. We have our own ship. I heard that the Vong hate droids so I thought 'What better way to beat them'. So I decided to purchase an old Trade Federation Lucrehulkbattleship. You now have an army of several thousand battle droids.”

“I have done well for myself since you brought me back. In fact, I managed to pull off what most of the galaxy would have thoughtimpossible.”

“And what would that be?”

“Before I reveal it, I want to say one last thing. Hutts have mucusfor brains. The one I bought this off of must never have realized howvaluable of a thing it was. I mentioned earlier how the Vong hate droids. I wanted there main opponentto be something they despised.” Plo looked behind him and said “You can come out now.”

Balto turned to Jenna and whispered “And you thoughtI talked.”

He looked up quickly when he heard a loud Clang! Clang! Clang!

When he saw what it was, he didn't believe it. “Wha.. how... how did you do this?”

Plo said, “Like I said. Hutts have mucus for brains. This one hutt was going to sell this for scrap. But, I bought it for around 100,000 credits. May I introduce to you General Grievous.”

No matter how hard Balto tried not to believe it, he could not deny what stood in front of him.

“But, Grievous is dead. I saw a video of him bursting into flames on Utapau.”

“He did burst into flames and yes, his body died. But, there was a single computer chip that survived the blast. I don't know how, but it did. This is a different body in the armor. It's a Kel Dor I found who would have died.”

“So, you're saying that it's a different body, but with Grievous's mind?”

“Yes that's right. The chip was a memory chip. As such, Grievous is alive. He is standing right in front of you.”

“But if it's Grievous why isn't he killing all of us right now? Especially the Jedi?”

“I um, took the liberty of altering his memory a little.”

“Oh. Ok. Well, let's go kick some Vong butt.”

“Man. I never realized how big those things were” Jenna said gesturing to the Lucrehulk ship that Plo Koon had christened 'The Pride of Kel Dor'.

“I know, I looked up some statistics about them. They are more than 3,000 meters in diameter and have 42 quad laser emplacements. Plo purchased it with it's original complement of 6,250 ATT tanks, 550 MTT transports and 50 landing ships. Finally it has a defense of 1,500 droid starfighters.”

“How many battle droids does it have?”

Balto scowled. “I hate math. Do we have a caculator around here anywhere?”

Jenna reached into a box and pulled one out. “Here you go dear.”

The comm link beeped and she tried as hard as she could to quit laughing. “Hello this is the 'Anchorage'.”

Boris spoke on the other end. “Have you seen our new passenger!?”

Balto was grumbling in the background. “Stupid, lousy,worthless piece of crap...”

Jenna ignored him and said “You mean General Grievous?”

Boris replied. “If that is the name of that walking monstrositythan yes.”

Balto kept grumbling. “No! That's not right, I wantmultiplicationnot addition!”

“Get used to him Boris. He's going to be with us for a while.”

“I don't care! I don't like him.”

“Arrgh!”

“I don't like him either Boris. Here's a tip though. Be nice, don't call him a droid, and he might let you live.”

She could hear Boris gulp over the line. “Um, thanks for the tip.”

“I HATE calculators! Hate, Hate, Hate!!”

“No problem. Now, I have to go. My dear husband is Han Soloing the caculator. He needs some help.”

Balto yelled “I got it!”

Jenna turned to him. “You did?”

“Yep. The number of battle droids on board are... 500,000!”

“No, that's not right. Here let me see it.” She grabbed it out of his hands and started adding. “I believe the correct answer is 61,600.”

“You mean I just wasted 5 minutes of my time on that thing!?! Oh, I HATE MATH! May it all get eaten by a Sarlacc and digest for a thousand years!”

Jenna just chuckled and took the 'Anchorage' into the hangar bay of the 'Pride of Kel Dor'.

It looked to be an interesting adventure.

Balto and Jenna walked onto the bridge of the massive ship. Waiting for them were Plo Koon, a few pilot droids, and dominating the room, General Grievous. Balto still couldn't get over how the General was still alive, a bit nicer, and even how big he was.

Jenna was the first to talk. “So, what are we doing?”

Plo said “We are going to be doing hit and run missions.”

“In this thing? Isn't it a little big for hit and run?”

“Kind of. The Vong aren't the speediest species.”

Balto spoke up and said “Where are we going first?”

“We are going to be hitting them in the Kasyyyk system.”

Balto jumped at the loud distorted speech of Grievous.The General continued “The Wookies would make fine allies. Also, if we are successful, we will have liberated a very important Hyperspace route.”

Jenna nodded. “Kasyyyk it is then.”

On the way there, Balto looked up as much information as he could on the current status of the system. It didn't look good. From videos taken by the New Republic, the Vong had dug in pretty good. The Wookies were resisting but there were too many Vong warriors.

After he had gotten all the info he needed, he made his way to the bridge. As he walked down the corridor, a voice made him jump almost three feet in the air.

“Going somewhere?”

Balto spun around, and found himself face to face with the Generals yellow eyes.

Balto tried to get himself under control but it wasn't easy. “I'm going to the bridge. Duh. Would you care to come with me?”

Grievous didn't say anything. He just started walking alongside Balto. Clang! Clang! Clang!

Grievous looked at what Balto had in his paws. “What are those?”

“Oh it's some info I looked up regarding the current statistics about Kasyyyk.”

“May I look at them?”

“Uh, sure.”

Grievous brought them up to his eyes and stared at them for a minute. “This is very helpful. I don't usually compliment people but I'll make an exception for this.”

Balto was confused. “Exactly how is this helpful?”

Grievous turned his eyes toward Balto. “You have never been in the army. I have been a soldier as long as I can remember. In this report, it shows the location of all the Vong vessels. Now I have an idea as to where to hit them.”

Without another word, Grievous turned and walked down the torrider.Still holding Balto's data cards.

Balto sighed and walked in the bridge. He saw Plo sitting in one of the chairs and walked up to him.

“What can I do for you Balto?”

Balto sat down beside Plo and said “I'm just wondering it this is a good idea. I mean, sure we have 60,000 or so battle droids but, can we beat the Vong?”

Plo was silent for a moment. “To be perfectly honest, I don't know. The Vong are unlike any species I have seen before.”

Balto chuckled. “I know what you mean. They hate technology and everything they have and use is biological.”

“There's something else. You are not a Jedi and will have no real idea what it is I'm going to tell you. When I use the force, I can sense everything around me. I can sense you, that chair, the droids and so on. But the Vong, they aren't there. It's just a large black spot in the force. I can't explain it.”

“Sooo, do you think we can beat them?”

“You know, I really hate it when someone changes the subject like that. I remember this one time...”

“Plo!”

“There see? You just did it again.”

Balto was really starting to get annoyed. “Will...you...please...answer...the...question?”

“Humph. Fine. I think that, eventually, we will be able to beat them. When you combine the might of the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant, you get a large powerful force. And then, when you throw in the military genius of Grievous, our chances rocket.”

“How good of a commander is he?”

“One of the best. When the Republic was fighting him in the Clone Wars he almost won. He outwitted us in almost every battle. Even when he lost it wasn't serious.”

Balto thought back to his history lessons on the Clone Wars.

This is what he remembered.

Wow! That girl is HOT!

He hadn't been the best student.

Balto stood up. “Thanks for talking Plo. Sometimes you need a little bit of encouragement.”

“No problem my friend. I enjoy talking.”

Balto turned and started heading back towards his room. When he walked in, he realized Jenna wasn't there. He looked around for a second and then noticed someone had left a note that had the word 'Balto' written on it. He picked it up and read it. He was running out the door before he had finished the second sentence.

Balto, the note said the pups are on the way.

Balto was waiting for Jenna to come out of the medical bay. He was more excited now than he had been in is entire life. He was going to be a dad! He heard the door open and looked up to see one of the medical droids come out. He quickly walked over to it. “How is she?”

The droid swiveled it's head toward him and said “She is fine as are the pups. There are two. A boy and a girl. You may go in if you wish.”

Balto didn't need to be asked twice.

He sat down beside Jenna and asked “You doing okay?”

Jenna smiled and said “Yeah I'm okay. What are we going to name them?”

Balto looked at the little

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