Ten years ago...
Anakin still clearly remembered how he and his teacher—Master Qui-Gon Jinn, who had rescued him from Tatooine—the other Jedi, and nearly a hundred Jedi Knights had been captured by Count Dooku and those insect-like Geonosians after rashly launching an assault on this planet!
Fortunately, at that critical moment, just as the Destroyer droids and battle droids were about to execute them all on the spot, it had been that little girl—the powerful head of state, Annie Hastur—who had arrived in time and rescued them all.
And now, ten years later, he, Anakin, had returned here. Following what the Force told him, and the mysterious connection he shared with Padmé, he carefully landed his ship beside the entrance to one of the Geonosians' massive steam chimneys, then hid it behind a pile of rocks.
He could vaguely sense that Padmé was probably still safe and somewhere nearby, because he could feel her presence! So he swore he would do everything in his power to rescue her, just as the powerful head of state Annie had rescued them ten years ago.
In Anakin's view, if the little head of state, who had been only eight years old back then, could sneak into enemy territory and safely rescue all of them, then he could surely rescue his Padmé, too! As for Obi-Wan and the others, if he could, he might rescue them along the way. If not, he wouldn't force it.
After all, his Swarm would be arriving soon. So perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad idea to leave those people for his Swarm to rescue?
However...
Although he was frantic with worry about Padmé's safety, Anakin still retained a sliver of reason. One last time, he contacted the red elite psionic Hydralisk in the second Swarm, far away