-=Anakin's P.O.V=-

Rex laid there in the bed with an I.V in his arm. The doctor asked him questions about his health.

"Do you have any history with seizures?" His surgeon asked.

"No I don't." Rex replied.

"Strokes, heart attacks? Anything of that nature?"

"No sir."

"Good. I'm asking because I have to ask."

"I understand, doctor questions."

"Right. Nurse, if you'd be so kind as to escort Captain Rex to the surgery room and prepare him."

The nurse disabled the locks on the wheels and started to roll it that way.

"Anakin, I understand he's your second in command of the, what's it called... the 501st Clone Legion?"

"Yes, he is." Anakin replied to Ironwood.

"This is a highly dangerous procedure, I wouldn't want to responsible for his death and become enemies to your Republic."

"Ironwood, you shouldn't worry about the Republic. We're not even in our galaxy anymore."

"So it would seem. I'll be watching over the surgery, so I'll update you if anything comes up."

"Thank you general."

-=Ironwood's P.O.V=-

We had just sedated Rex and about to begin. The first step to doing this is getting and x-ray and a cat scan. We need to make sure we aren't missing anything.

"Run him through the cat scan first, we need to make sure there aren't any anomalies in his anatomy." I said to the surgeon.

"Yes sir." He replied. We put him the machine and started the scan. We found an anomaly in the center of his brain, something that was unusual. I went out to the waiting room to where the three Jedi would be waiting. I could tell that they were nervous the moment they stood up.

"Did something go wrong General?" Ahsoka asked with worry in her voice.

"Nothing went wrong, just a concern. We found something... odd. There's something in the center of his brain, something that's not supposed to be there. Given that this is something that we need to be concerned about, would you like us to remove it General Skywalker?" I asked him. He looked right at me for a second without saying anything. But then he made up his mind.

"If it's that important, than by all means, remove it." Anakin said.

"Very well." I went back inside and the doctors have already got his x-ray's done. I knew that they could do it on their own. The head surgeon came up to me.

"Sir, are we still proceeding with the original plan of stopping the age acceleration?" He asked.

"Yes we are. But we now have permission from General Skywalker to operate on his brain, to get that anomaly removed. Please proceed."

The procedure was quite simple, the muscle infusion was first due to how the serum could course through his veins and all over his body, the next part would have been much more painful if he was awake. We had to administer the serum through a spinal infusion. The serum would cover his neurons and spread throughout the neuron cells through his body.

That wasn't the only thing that had to be done. We had a special drill that could dig deep into his brain and dig out what ever lies at the center. When we finished we found and orange piece of flesh imbedded in his brain. The Jedi need to see this.

-=Ahsoka's P.O.V=-

I'm really worried that something could go wrong. We don't know how advanced their medical technology is, what if this goes wrong and Rex dies? Hours felt like days had gone by, even though it hadn't. I'm sure Master Skywalker could sense how tense I was, and he was right.

"Snips, he's going to be okay. Try to relax, clear your mind." Anakin told me. He put his hand on my shoulder and I felt calm again.

"You're tense too, I can feel it." I told him.

"We all are Ahsoka. But letting your fear control you is not the way to go." Obi-Wan cut in to the conversation. My anxiety shot up to one hundred when General Ironwood came back out.

"The operation is complete, the serum we administered has stopped the age acceleration completely. The thing we found in his brain is hard to explain." He held out the thing that was in Rex's head, I've never seen anything like it.

"What do you think it is?" Anakin asked.

"I'm not sure. I will have my scientists check it out. On that note, Rex should be conscious any minute now. Would you like to go see him?" The general asked us.

"Yes please." We followed him into the room where Rex was at. He was in hospital robes, an I.V sticking out of his arm, he was hooked up to a heart monitor, and a bandage wrapped around his head.

"Hey General. How do I look?" Rex asked.

"You look llike you want out of here. How do you feel?" Anakin replied to him.

"Apart from the bandage wrapped around my head, I feel fine. General Ironwood informed me of the thing that was in my head, and that his scientists have yet to determine what it is." Rex said. I could sense that he was nervous at first. He didn't like the fact that there was something foreign in his head. The scientist that examined the thing came in to give his observation.

"We have determined that the foreign material that we found in Captain Rex is a piece of flesh that has been programed like a computer to force him to comply with a series of contingency orders. The only order the chip will respond to and put him into a trance is order 66. We have yet to determine what this order is." The scientist explained. That was until Anakin knew what he was talking.

"Allow me to interrupt for a second, order 66 was made to exterminate any rouge Jedi that went to the Dark side and betray the Republic. The thing that intrigues me is that you said the chip will put him into a trance if the order was executed." Anakin replied. It was at that moment that Obi-Wan came up with a theory of to why that is.

"Anakin, think about it, after Syfo Dias died, the cloning program fell under the control of Count Dooku, we know that Dooku is Darth Tyranus and the only person that could give the command is the Chancellor." He said.

"What are you saying?" Anakin asked.

"I'm saying that Palpatine is the Sith Lord we've been looking for this whole time." He said.

-=Author's note=-

I just want to take this opportunity to say that I am so, so sorry for not updating in so long. School has really screwed over my scedule but I will get back to updating when I can.

~Chelchis