Commander Cody and his troops try to cut off Grievous as he makes his way to the airlock, but the slippery cyborg overpowers them. Grievous orders his ship to open fire on the light cruiser's engines, despite the point blank range. He commands his troops to prepare their landing ships for transit to Saleucami.

Kenobi arrives inside the docking tube, chasing Grievous as the whole conduit shudders and buckles from the death throes of the light cruiser. The two generals cross lightsabers again, but Grievous kicks his way free and makes it to his destroyer. There, he faces Adi Gallia, but their duel is cut short as the docking tube finally splits open.

A gust of air rushing into the vacuum blows the combatants apart. Cody grabs onto Kenobi before he goes tumbling into the void. Grievous' metal claws allow him purchase across the tilted deckplates, and he scrambles away. Gallia braces herself against a bulkhead, and fires a cable to Cody and Kenobi, who climb their way onto Grievous ship.

As Anakin's shuttle departs from the destroyer, he receives a distress message from Obi-Wan. Skywalker tells Obi-Wan to meet him at the destroyer's hangar, where he can extract them. Anakin soars into the hangar, hastily picking up Kenobi, Gallia, Cody and a surviving clone onto his shuttle.

Meanwhile, the infantry battle droids aboard the destroyer are boarding long-winged landing ships to make planetfall on Saleucami. Grievous, too, boards one of the vessels. The light cruiser finally erupts in a huge explosion that washes over the destroyer. Shrapnel from the cruiser slams into Grievous' landing ship, sending it tumbling to Saleucami's surface.

The Jedi return to their flagships as Grievous' destroyer lists away harmlessly. Obi-Wan Kenobi plans to take Commander Cody and Captain Rex with him to Saleucami to search for Grievous. Anakin will stay in orbit to mop up the space battle. Eeth Koth, grateful to be rescued, will be taken to a medical frigate.