Anakin's triumph is soon clouded by his concern for the Padawans. According to his chronometer, the reactor bombs should go off at any moment, and yet there is no sign of the apprentices. The heavy gates to the foundry open and a fresh wave of battle droids emerge.

In the reactor room, Barriss leaps atop the super tank and cuts her way into the armored vehicle, slicing through the droid pilots. Ahsoka awakens and joins Barriss in the tank, but without the explosives to blow up the core, she'll have to improvise. Ahsoka will destroy the core with the tank, sacrificing herself and Barriss in the process.

She sends a quick communication to Anakin to inform him of their plan, then trains the tank cannons on the reactor. Anakin and Luminara watch in shock as the entire foundry collapses in a chain of explosions with their apprentices caught inside.

An immense dust cloud envelops the blast site. Anakin tries to contact Ahsoka via his comlink. He is determined to find his apprentice, but Luminara is much more accepting of their fates. Skywalker orders the tank lifters to clear the debris.

Under tons of rubble, in the darkened control cabin of their trapped tank, Ahsoka and Barriss illuminate the darkness with the twin glows of their lightsabers. Ahsoka uses one of the tank's smaller power cells to boost the signal on her wrist comlink.

As the lifters peel off layers of wreckage from the crater, Anakin suddenly gets a pulse on his comlink from Ahsoka. Redirecting the clean-up efforts, Anakin and Luminara use the Force to lift the debris. Sunlight streams into the shattered tank hull and Ahsoka and Barriss realize they're saved. They emerge, shaken and coughing, and are reunited with their mentors.