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"I can't take Dooku alone! I need you! If we catch him, we can end this war right now! We have a job to do!"

- Obi-Wan Kenobi to Anakin Skywalker

In the chaos of the battle, the Separatist leader Dooku, also known as Darth Tyranus, attempted to retreat to a hangar where his starship was docked. A Republic attack gunship carrying Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala, and clone troopers pursued him. Dooku's wing guard of fighters piloted by Geonosians atacked the gunship; which led to Amidala and a clone trooper falling to the desert below. The gunship continued to pursue Dooku, dropping Kenobi and Skywalker into the Count's hangar shortly before being blasted out of the sky by laser fire.

Upon arriving at Dooku's hangar, Kenobi and Skywalker confronted the Count. As Kenobi began to strategize, Skywalker, his fury getting the best of him, ran at Dooku. Dooku discharged a bombardment of Force lightning and blasted Skywalker aside before turning to Kenobi. Kenobi began to circle Dooku as the Count tried to blast Kenobi with another bolt of Force lightning, demanding the Jedi Knight's submission. Kenobi leveled the blast on his lightsaber and calmly declared that he would not surrender. Igniting his lightsaber and angling the blade into a guard position, Dooku awaited Kenobi. Kenobi promptly stormed Dooku, but Dooku instantly deflected Kenobi's opening attack and his subsequent jab. After an abrupt outbreak of bladework, Kenobi sliced at Dooku's legs. Dooku overleapt the strike and flourished his blade to drive Kenobi back as he landed. As Kenobi fell back, Dooku calmly mocked him, telling him that he had expected a better performance from someone who was held in such high esteem by Yoda.

Eventually Kenobi, struggling to keep up, was pulled into a bladelock. Dooku, a full grin on his face, shoved Kenobi's blade aside, and swiftly jabbed at Kenobi's arm, cutting it across the side. As Kenobi fell back in agony, the Count stayed on him, slashing the Jedi across the leg and bringing him down. Despite his wisely shown caution against Dooku, Kenobi, exhusted by the duel, brandishing an unfamiliar lightsaber, and surpassed by Dooku's abilities, was overcome.

As Dooku lifted his lightsaber to finish Kenobi, Skywalker recovered from the blast of Force lightning and saw Kenobi's plight. Bounding across the hangar from the corner in which he lay, Skywalker reached the two just in time to halt the Count's blow. As Dooku turned to regard Skywalker, Kenobi used the Force to reclaim his fallen lightsaber and threw it to Skywalker.

Skywalker vs. Tyranus
"Brave of you, boy, but I would have thought you had learned your lesson."

- Dooku and Anakin Skywalker Skywalker, taking up up the second blade, began to release an outbreak of broad Form IV strikes, briefly taking the Count off his guard. Dooku was able to reclaim his guard and force Anakin back. Skywalker was unwillingly forced to change to his typical Form V practices when Dooku masterfully disarmed him, flicking his second blade out of Skywalker's hand and destroying the hilt in mid air. Holding off Dooku with two rapid strikes, Skywalker hastily retreated, regaining his self-control.

Slicing a power cable linked to Dooku's ship as he raised his blade into a high guard, Skywalker caused a short circuit that momentarily caused the hangar lights to flicker. As the chamber darkened, the two advanced on each other. As they watched one another, blades at the ready, Skywalker attacked. The two engaged in a burst of swordplay, seemingly equally coordinated. Despite holding his own against Dooku for much of the fight, Skywalker was finally brought down when Dooku spun and sliced off his arm with a rapid undercut. As Anakin shouted out in agony, Dooku blasted the Jedi aside with a Force push.

Yoda vs. Tyranus
"Master Yoda.''" "Count Dooku." "You have interfered with our affairs for the last time." "Powerful, you have become, Dooku. The dark side, I sense in you." "I've become more powerful than any Jedi&hellip; even you." "Much to learn, you still have." "''It is obvious that this contest cannot be decided by our knowledge of the Force, but by our skills with the lightsaber."

- Count Dooku and Grand Master Yoda As Dooku quickly caught his breath, he noticed the echo of footsteps and the clack of a cane, as well as the characteristic panting. Twisting to the hangar entrance, Dooku and the newly-arrived Yoda regarded one another. Dooku attempted to murder Yoda by telekinetically tearing wall fixtures out of the hangar sides and heaving them at Yoda. When the ancient Jedi blocked, Dooku countered by breaking chunks of stone out of the hangar ceiling, a dangerous proposition as the hangar was carved out of a cavern and doing so could cause a cave-in. Yoda caught the chunks and tossed them aside, turning to Dooku and recognizing his power, but noting that he sensed the dark side of the Force in Dooku. Dooku, asserting his apparent greater power, unleashed a storm of Force lightning at Yoda. The Jedi calmly caught the lightning and deflected it back at Dooku, who again deflected it into a nearby wall. Dooku proceeded to unleash a second volley against Yoda, but as a show of his mastery, Yoda consumed the bolt completely, with no need for deflection, showing Dooku the clear ineffectiveness of this offensive.

Dooku igniting his lightsaber, stated that this rivalry would not be decided by their knowledge of the Force, but rather by their expertise with a lightsaber. As Yoda ignited his own weapon, Dooku leapt into action, unleashing his entire Form II finesse against Yoda. However, Yoda's own comprehension of Form IV allowed him to hold off Dooku's endless attacks, and gain the upper hand. Understanding both that he would not be able to kill Yoda and that Republic reinforcements would arrive soon, Dooku diverted Yoda's focus by using the Force to collapse one of the hangar's power columns onto Kenobi and Skywalker. As Yoda ended the duel to telekinetically catch the power column, Dooku was able to swiftly board his ship and depart.