"I GOT TIRED OF HIS RULE OF TWO DECLARATION AND HIS CONSTANT COMPLAINING SO I BROKE THE HOLOCRON." HE SAID. DARTH SIDIOUS STARTED TO LAUGH AND ASKED, "DO THE CLONING FACILITIES ON KAMINO STILL EXIST?" DARTH LUCRATIS NODDED AND SAID, "YES BUT THEY ARE NOT ON KAMINO ANYMORE, WE HAD THEM MOVED AND SPREAD OUT ACROSS THE GALAXY. THE FACILITIES ARE MUCH, MUCH LARGER, AND THE REPUBLIC IS PAYING FOR IT!" SOME TIME LATER THE ANCIENT DARK LORD RETIRED TO HIS ROOM AND WENT TO SLEEP. DARTH BRUTICUS GOT UP FROM THE COUCH AND HEADED FOR THE DOOR. "I'M GOING TO KORRIBAN TO ASSIST LORD TABAH AND I'LL BE BACK IN A FEW DAYS, YOU STAY HERE AND GET DARTH SIDIOUS UP TO DATE....AND BE CAREFUL, HE IS KNOWN TO KILL SITH, ESPECIALLY IN THEIR SLEEP!"
DARTH BRUTICUS RETURNED TO KORRIBAN AND WAS GREETED BY DARTH TABAH. "MASTER, "I WAS JUST INFORMED ABOUT YOU AND DARTH LUCRATIS BRINGING DARTH SIDIOUS TO THE FUTURE." LORD BRUTICUS NODDED AND TOSSED SOME SMELLY FRUIT IN HIS MOUTH." DO YOU HAVE TO EAT THAT CRAP IN FRONT OF ME?" TABAH SAID WHILE TAKING A FEW STEPS AWAY FROM THE DARK LORD. "YOU KNOW THAT IT'S A VERY, VERY BAD IDEA TO HAVE HIM HERE, HE'LL HELP US DESTROY THE JEDI AND SLAP US WITH A SITH'S VERSION OF ORDER SIXTY SIX. I SENSE THAT HE WILL TRY TO PULL SOMETHING AGAINST US...." DARTH BRUTICUS PLACED HIS HAND ON THE YOUNG SITH'S SHOULDER AND SAID, "HE WON'T PULL ANYTHING YOUNG ONE, WE ARE ALL AWARE OF HIS POWERS AND I WILL NOT ALLOW IT TO TRANSPIRE, IF I EVEN SENSE THAT HE IS EVEN GOING TO ATTEMPT ANY SUCH THING, I'LL VAPORIZE HIM."
DARTH TABAH SMACKED THE GRAND MASTER'S HAND OFF OF HIS SHOULDER AND SAID, "YOU ARE BLIND MASTER, HE WILL TRY SOMETHING AND YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL THAT I WARNED YOU BECAUSE IF HE DOES TRY ANYTHING....ANYTHING, I WILL PERSONALLY KILL HIM AND THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT HIM HERE." HE SAID AND WALKED AWAY. DARTH BRUTICUS HAD A SURPRISED LOOK ON HIS FACE, DARTH TABAH NEVER, EVER SPOKE TO HIM LIKE THAT BEFORE. HE THOUGHT OF WHAT THE SITH MASTER SAID AND THEN POPPED ANOTHER PIECE OF SMELLY FRUIT IN HIS MOUTH. HE STOOD ON THE LANDING PAD AND WATCHED DARTH TABAH WALK AWAY AND HE DIDN'T LOOK BACK. ENTERING THE SITH TEMPLE AND CLIMBING THE STAIRS, HE WATCHED THE DROIDS CLEAN UP THE REMAINS OF THE SO CALLED JEDI.
"WHAT A WASTE, YOU BUILD UP THE SITH ARMY WITH TEN THOUSAND OR MORE APPRENTICES AND THEN ON A WHIM YOU DESTROY THEM ALL, WHAT A WASTE." DARTH TABAH SAID TO HIMSELF WHILE SITTING ON THE RAIL LOOKING DOWN AT THE WORKERS. "IT WASN'T A WASTE MY FRIEND." DARTH TABAH TURNED HIS HEAD TO SEE LORD SCIN STANDING NEXT TO HIM POLISHING THE HILT OF ONE OF HIS LIGHTSABERS. "DARTH LUCRATIS HAS PROOF OF THEIR TREACHERY, HE SAW THEM IN THE WAR ROOM COMMUNICATING WITH THE JEDI." LORD SCIN SAID. DARTH TABAH SHOOK HIS HEAD, "SO THEY KILL THE ENTIRE TEMPLE INSTEAD OF THE ONES THAT WERE RESPONSIBLE, YOU CAN'T PUNISH AN ENTIRE TEMPLE OF SITH FOR A FEW SCREWUPS....THE JEDI STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHO WE ARE." HE SAID CLOSING HIS EYES AND MEDITATING, "BUT SOMEONE IS SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH OF US AS I SPEAK."
HE OPENED HIS EYES AND SAID, "MASTER SMITH IS VERY RESOURCEFUL.....AND VERY NOSY, HE WILL DISCOVER THE TRUTH OF THE SITH, BUT SINCE THE SITH HAVE REGAINED THE POSITION OF SUPREME CHANCELLOR, I GUESS I MIGHT REQUEST SOMETHING OF HIM TO KEEP THE JEDI BUSY." DARTH TABAH SAID.
"MY FIRST ACT AS SUPREME CHANCELLOR IS TO SADLY ANNOUNCE THAT THE REPUBLIC CAN NO LONGER FUND SO MANY JEDI TEMPLES, SO THE ONES ON TATOOINE, TOYDARIA, AND YAVIN WILL BE CLOSED. I'M SORRY MY FRIENDS BUT THE REPUBLIC IS GOING TO EXPERIENCE SOME JEDI AND SOLDIER CUTS." TOM JERICS COULD HEAR NO MORE HE GOT UP AND TURNED OFF THE TV.
"HEY, I WAS WATCHING THAT." A VOICE FROM BEHIND HIM SAID. TOM TURNED AROUND AND SAW A JEDI SPIRIT SITTING IN THE CORNER STARING UP AT THE BIG SCREEN. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE? AREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO BE IN JEDI HEAVEN OR SOMETHING?" TOM ASKED. "HA HA HA HA, THAT WAS REALLY FUNNY KID, I'M HERE TO GIVE MY ASSISTANCE TO THE GRAND MASTER, WHAT ABOUT YOU?" THE JEDI ASKED. TOM SAT DOWN ACROSS FROM THE JEDI,
"I'M THE COOK'S ASSISTANT, SO THE NEW CHANCELLOR IS CLOSING DOWN THE TEMPLES, THAT'S JUST GREAT OF HIM, IT WILL BRING MORE JEDI HERE OR TO THE GRAND TEMPLE ON NABOO." THE SPIRIT LOOKED IN WONDER,"GRAND TEMPLE?" HE ASKED. TOM NODDED, "YES THE GRAND TEMPLE ON NABOO HAS THE CAPACITY TO HOLD UP TO TEN MILLION JEDI." TOM SAID AS HE WIPED THE CRUMBS OFF OF THE TABLE AND THREW THEM IN THE TRASH USING THE FORCE. "NICE TRICK KID, IS THAT ALL YOU DO IS ASSIST THE COOK?" THE SPIRIT ASKED.
DARTH BRUTICUS AND MZ-12 WERE DISCUSSING THE NEXT PLANS OF ATTACK ON THE HOLOGRAM TABLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS. "WHERE IS MASTER LUCRATIS?" MZ ASKED. THE SITH GRAND MASTER STARED AT THE HOLOGRAM FOR A MINUTE AND SAID, "HE IS BABYSITTING DARTH SIDIOUS." THE DROID NODDED, "SO YOU TWO REALLY WENT INTO THE PAST AND GRABBED THE DARK LORD?" HE ASKED. "YES, WE DID...AND NOW I'M STARTING TO REGRET IT." DARTH BRUTICUS WALKED AROUND THE TABLE, FOUND A CHAIR AND SAT DOWN. HE PULLED A BLACK SATIN BAG FROM HIS CLOAK AND STARTED EATING.
"MY LORD, IS THAT THE SMELLY FRUIT THAT EVERYONE KEEPS COMPLAINING ABOUT? MZ ASKED. THE SITH GRAND MASTER SMILED AND NODDED, "YEP THIS IS IT." HE SAID PICKING A PIECE OUT OF THE BAG AND TOSSING IT INTO HIS MOUTH. "MMMMMM!" HE SAID EXTENDING THE BAG OUT TO THE DROID, "YOU WANNA TRY SOME?" HE ASKED. MZ-12 GRABBED THE BAG, OPENED THE CHAMBER DOORS, AND THREW THE BAG OF FRUIT OUT AND IT LANDED ON THE FLOOR OUTSIDE THE DOORS AS DARTH TABAH WALKED BY AND STEPPED ON THE BAG, SQUISH! "EWW!" TABAH SAID BENDING OVER AND PICKING UP THE BAG OF FRUIT. "DID SOMEONE LOSE THEIR BAG OF BANTHA POODOO?" HE ASKED. DARTH BRUTICUS SAID NOTHING AND SHUT THE DOORS, LOOKING OVER AT MZ HE GAVE THE DROID AN EVIL LOOK.
"THAT WAS MY LAST BAG OF FRUIT YOU BUCKET OF BOLTS!" THE DARK LORD SAID AS HE PULLED A PIECE OF FRUIT FROM HIS POCKET AND RAISED HIS HAND TO HIS MOUTH. "OF COURSE MY LORD, SINCE YOU EAT THAT FRUIT, YOU DO KNOW HOW IT IS PREPARED AND WHAT IT IS ORIGINALLY USED FOR?" MZ-12 SAID AS DARTH BRUTICUS'S HAND FROZE JUST BEFORE HE THREW THE PIECE INTO HIS MOUTH, HE SLOWLY TURNED HIS HEAD AND LOOKED AT THE DROID.
"I'M SURE YOU ALSO KNOW THAT THE FRUIT ISN'T FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION." THE DARK LORD WAS STILL STARING AT THE DROID AND THE PIECE OF FRUIT FELL FROM HIS HAND AND ON THE FLOOR. "WELL NOW I HAVE YOUR COMPLETE ATTENTION, AS YOU KNOW THE FRUIT IS GROWN ON ZIOST, IT IS SOAKED IN TARENTATEK URINE TO PRESERVE IT'S TRANSPORTATION TO KORRIBAN, ILUM, AND OTHER PLANETS WHERE IT IS WASHED AND RE-SOAKED IN THE URINE FOR A STRONGER EFFECT. THE SINLEY CORPORATION MIXES IT WITH OTHER ANIMAL URINES AND BLENDS IT INTO A LIQUID THAT THEY SPRAY ON THE CELINGS AND WALLS OF CAVES ON ILUM, FOR EXAMPLE, TO KEEP SPIDERS AND OTHER NASTY MONSTERS OCCUPIED WHILE THEY COLLECT THE CRYSTALS FOR THE JEDI LIGHTSABERS.
THE REJECTED OR ROTTEN FRUIT IS RE-BOXED AND SHIPPED BACK HERE FOR YOUR CONSUMPTION! IF YOU WOULD LIKE I CAN CONTACT THE SINLEY CORPORATION AND SEE IF THEY NEED A URINE EXTRACTOR ON TATOOINE AT THEIR PROCESSING PLANT." DARTH BRUTICUS LOOKED AS IF HE WAS GOING TO VOMIT, MZ-12 STOOD BEHIND THE DARK LORD AND ADDED, "THEY EXTRACT URINE FROM BANTHAS AND FROM WHAT I HEAR IT'S A VERY SMELLY AND NASTY PROCESS!" THE SITH GRAND MASTER ADJUSTED HIMSELF IN HIS CHAIR AS MZ GOT UP AND POURED HIM A GLASS OF BLUE MILK AND PLACED A TRASH CAN INTO HIS LAP. "I'LL LEAVE YOU TWO ALONE SIR." HE GIGGLED, PATTED THE SITH LORD ON THE BACK AND LEFT THE ROOM.
SEACO BUROC SAT ON A FALLEN PILLAR AND LOOKED AROUND AT THE NEARLY DESTROYED TEMPLE. BODIES LITTERED THE FLOOR. DEPA GIVAL'S SPIRIT APPEARED SITTING NEXT TO THE GRAND MASTER. "I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE HERE, MY FRIEND. I HAVEN'T ANY JEDI, THEY ARE ALL DEAD." SEACO SAID PLACING HIS HEAD INTO HIS HANDS. DEPA ROSE FROM HIS SEAT AND LOOKED AROUND.
"SEACO GET UP, THERE IS ONE PERSON ALIVE...AND IF YOU DON'T GET TO HER IN TIME, SHE WILL DIE." THE SPIRIT SAID. THE GRAND MASTER GOT UP AND FORCE JUMPED UP TO THE THIRD FLOOR. SIFTING THROUGH STONE, WOOD, AND STEEL, THE JEDI FOUND THE YOUNG WOMAN, PICKED HER UP AND RAN HER TO WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE INFIRMARY AND STARTED HEALING HER ALMOST LIFELESS BODY.
USING THE FORCE, SEACO BUROC QUICKLY MENDED HER CRUSHED RIBS, AND REPAIRED TWO MEDICAL DROIDS AND LEFT THEM TO FURTHER REPAIR HER. DEPA ENTERED THE ROOM. "MY FRIEND THERE IS NO TIME TO SPARE, A DARK LORD IS ON HIS WAY AND YOU MUST STOP HIM OR THE JEDI WILL BE EXTINCT." THE GRAND MASTER NODDED AND LEFT THE ROOM MAKING HIS WAY TO THE GREAT HALL ON THE GROUND FLOOR AS DARTH MAZARILL ENTERED THE TEMPLE HOLDING A RED LIGHTSABER IN HIS HAND. HE SPOTTED THE GRAND MASTER JEDI WHO WAS STANDING THERE WAITING FOR HIM. HE TOOK OFF HIS CLOAK AND TURNED HIS LIGHTSABER ON. "YOU WORTHLESS JEDI, AFTER I KILL YOU LORD BRUTICUS WILL RETURN AND TAKE OVER THIS TEMPLE FOR THE SITH!" MAZARILL SAID. SEACO BUROC YAWNED AND TOOK A SEAT ON A MARBLE PILLAR WAITING FOR HIS ENEMY. "CAN YOU HURRY THIS UP? I HAVE THINGS TO DO YOUNGLING AND YOU'RE SLOWING ME DOWN." THE GRAND MASTER SAID.
THE HATE SWELLED IN DARTH MAZARILL AND HE GROWLED AS HE LEPT OVER THE PILLAR AND SLAMMED HIS SABER DOWN ON THE FLOOR AS HE LANDED ON THE GROUND, BUT THE JEDI WASN'T THERE. HE LOOKED UP AND SAW THE JEDI STANDING TEN FEET AWAY. "IS THAT THE FASTEST YOU CAN MOVE? I'M VERY UNIMPRESSED IN DARTH BRUTICUS'S CHOICE IN YOUNGLINGS, IT'S VERY POOR." SEACO SAID TAUNTING THE SITH. SEACO LUNGED FORWARD AND ENGAGED THE SITH. BEHIND HIM THE SITH SLAVES ENTERED THE TEMPLE AND WERE SLOWLY ADVANCING ON HIM AS DARTH MAZARILL LOWERED HIS SABER AND SHOT FORCE LIGHTNING AT THE JEDI WHO CAUGHT THE ATTACK AND TURNED AROUND SENDING THE LIGHTNING TOWARD THE SLAVES, SHOCKING THEM TO DEATH AND THROWING THEM THROUGH THE WEST SIDE ENTRANCE DOORS AND INTO A STATUE, KNOCKING IT OVER AND ROLLING IT DOWN THE CONCRETE STEPS, DRAGGING THE LIFELESS BODIES DOWN WITH IT.
THE JEDI TOOK A DEFENSIVE STANCE AS THE SITH JUMPED ONCE AGAIN. SEACO USED THE FORCE AND BLOCKED THE SITH AND HIS ATTACK WITH A FIFTY FOOT LONG PILLAR THAT SENT THE SITH MASTER SKIDDING ACROSS THE FLOOR. THE JEDI RAN TOWARD HIS ENEMY, RAISED HIS ARM TO STRIKE AS DARTH MAZARILL SAT UP AND FORCE GRABBED HIM BY THE THROAT, LIFTING THE JEDI FOUR FEET OFF THE FLOOR. THE DARK LORD STOOD UP AND TURNED HIS SABER ON, "THIS IS THE END FOR YOU JEDI." HE SAID THRUSTING THE SABER INTO THE JEDI'S CHEST. "NICE, NICE JOB YOUNGLING." THE GRAND MASTER SAID WALKING AROUND A PILLAR AND SWUNG HIS SABER ACROSS THE SITH MASTER'S CHEST. DARTH MAZARILL JUMPED BACKWARD AND TOOK OFF HIS SHIRT TO INSPECT HIS WOUND. "YOUR DEAD!" HE YELLED.
"NO, I'M ALIVE AND IN PERFECT CONDITION...THAT WAS A HOLOGRAM." SEACO LAUGHED, FORCE PULLING THE SITH TOWARD HIM AND ENGAGING HIM IN BATTLE ONCE AGAIN. THE JEDI SWUNG DOWN HARD AS THE SITH RAISED HIS SABER OVER HIS HEAD TO BLOCK AND BROUGHT HIS SABER DOWN IN FRONT OF HIS CHEST TO BLOCK A QUICK THRUST ATTACK. THE JEDI MASTER WAS EXTREMELY FAST AND AGILE, HE BLOCKED ALMOST ALL OF DARTH MAZARILL'S ATTACKS, HE RECEIVED A BURN ACROSS HIS NECK BUT KEPT FIGHTING LIKE NOTHING HAD HAPPENED, THE SITH LORD WAS STARTING TO GET TIRED. THE DUEL HAD GONE ON BETWEEN SEACO BUROC AND DARTH MAZARILL FOR A FEW HOURS. THE TWO HAD COMPLETELY WORN THE OTHER OUT. DARTH MAZARILL SAT ON THE FLOOR OF THE GREAT HALL RESTING, IN HIS MIND IF HE WON, HE WOULD RID THE GALAXY OF JEDI ONCE AND FOR ALL TIME AND THE SITH WOULD RULE THE GALAXY. SEACO BUROC SAT ON THE STAIRS THAT LED TO THE THIRD FLOOR, HE HAD NEVER FOUGHT FOR SO LONG, OF COURSE HE HAD NEVER FOUGHT A SITH EITHER. IF HE WON, IT WOULD BE ONE LESS SITH AND DARTH BRUTICUS WOULD SENT MORE.
"THAT SITH CARRIES WITH HIM A TIME TRAVEL DEVICE, I'LL NEED THAT TO HUNT DOWN DARTH BRUTICUS AND HIS MINIONS." HE WHISPERED TO HIMSELF. HE STOOD UP AND LOOKED OVER AT THE SITH MASTER WHO WAS ON HIS FEET LOOKING UP AT HIM. SEACO BUROC CLOSED HIS EYES AND RELAXED FOR A MOMENT, HE REMEMBERED EVERYTHING HE LEARNED IN LIGHTSABER COMBAT, HE WOULD USE IT AGAINST THE DARK LORD. THE JEDI OPENED HIS EYES AND SAW DARTH MAZARILL AT THE BASE OF THE STAIRS. HE BACKFLIPPED, TURNED ON HIS SABER AND LANDED ON HIS FEET AS THE DARK LORD FRONT FLIPPED OVER THE JEDI AND FORCE PUSHED HIM AND HE DROPPED HIS LIGHTSABER.
SEACO TURNED TO FORCE GRAB HIS WEAPON AS THE DARK LORD SWUNG LOW AND CAUGHT THE GRAND MASTER ACROSS THE BACK OF HIS LEGS, KNOCKING HIM TO THE FLOOR ON HIS STOMACH. THE DARK LORD ROSE TO HIS FEET AS THE JEDI ROLLED OVER ON HIS BACK. DARTH MAZARILL STOOD OVER HIS SWORN ENEMY, RAISED HIS SABER. SEACO LOOKED IN THE SITH LORD'S EYES, THEY WERE RED AND BLACK. THE RED SABER CAME DOWN OVER SEACO'S HEAD AND FOR A SPLIT SECOND HE COULD SEE THE HATE IN HIS EYES, THE POWER IN HIS ARMS ...AND HIS MISTAKE. SEACO BUROC COULD FEEL THE BURNING OF THE SABER AS HE SAW IT SLOWLY COME DOWN INCHES AWAY FROM PENETRATING HIS HEAD. HE USED THE FORCE AND TOOK THE SABER FROM DARTH MAZARILL, THE SITH WAS SO FULL OF ANGER AND HATE THAT HE WAS UNABLE TO STOP HIMSELF FROM FALLING ON HIS OWN BLADE.
HE FELL OVER AND BEFORE HE DIED, THE DARK LORD WONDERED HOW THE GRAND MASTER USED THE LIGHT SIDE TO DEFEAT THE DARK AND DEFEAT HIM. A MEDICAL DROID STOOD NEARBY, "SIR, MASTER GIVAL SENT A CAPSULE AND MYSELF TO HELP YOU." HE SAID. SEACO SAT UP AND SEARCHED THE SITH'S POCKETS. HE FOUND A COMLINK, SOME REPUBLIC CREDITS, AND THE TIME TRAVEL DEVICE. HE TOOK THE ITEMS AND PULLED HIMSELF INTO THE CAPSULE. "I SEE THAT YOU SURVIVED MY FRIEND, YOU ARE MORE WISE THAT I AM." DEPA GIVAL SAID AS HE HELPED THE DROIDS WRAP BACTA STRIPS AROUND HIS LEGS. "JUST BARELY GIVAL...JUST BARELY." SEACO SAID AS THEY TOOK HIM TO THE INFIRMARY.

MZ-12 ENTERED THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AND WALKED OVER TO THE TABLE WHERE DARTH BRUTICUS WAS SITTING WITH HIS FEET PROPPED UP. THE DROID SAT DOWN NEXT TO HIM. "DARTH MAZARILL....AND THE SLAVES...ARE DEAD."
HE SAID SIPPING A GLASS OF BLUE MILK. "GRAND JEDI MASTER SEACO BUROC IS MORE POWERFUL THAN I THOUGHT." MZ-12 LOOKED OVER AT HIS MASTER, "WHAT ABOUT THE DEVICE?" HE ASKED. DARTH BRUTICUS DRANK HIS MILK AND SAID, "SEACO HAS IT.... AND WHEN HE COMES, NO ONE MESSES WITH HIM BUT ME, UNDERSTOOD?" HE ASKED. "YES SIR." MZ ANSWERED. LATER THAT WEEK, DARTH BRUTICUS AND DARTH TABAH ENTERED THE CHANCELLOR'S LUXURY APARTMENT. DARTH LUCRATIS GREETED THE TWO SITH LORDS WHO THEN SAT DOWN TO DISCUSS THE ONGOING WAR. DARTH TABAH DIDN'T LIKE THEIR IDEAS AT ALL BUT HE SAT AND LISTENED TO THEM TALK.
DARTH SIDIOUS TALKED SO SMOOTH AND EVERYTHING SOUNDED SO CONVINCING....BUT HE WAS HIDING SOMETHING. TABAH SAW THAT THE ANCIENT SITH LORD WAS SPEAKING UNDER HIS BREATH. THE TWO SITH LORDS WENT INTO ANOTHER ROOM AND LEFT DARTH BRUTICUS AND TABAH ALONE. "MASTER, HE IS HIDING SOMETHING, IF..." DARTH BRUTICUS CUT THE YOUNGER MASTER OFF. "HE ISN'T HIDING ANYTHING." THE GRAND MASTER SAID TURNING TO FACE THE MAN. "I WISH YOU'D KNOCK THIS CRAP OFF!" DARTH BRUTICUS SAID AS THE TWO SITH LORDS RETURNED TO THE ROOM. DARTH TABAH STOOD UP AS THE TWO MEN SAT DOWN, THEY HEARD EVERYTHING.
"THIS STILL DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT, WE ALL KNOW WHO HE IS AND WHAT HE DOES, AND WHAT HE'S DONE. NOW THAT HE'S HERE, I'M GOING TO ADDRESS THIS TO HIM. IF YOU PULL ANYTHING....ANYTHING! I'LL FINISH WHAT MACE WINDU FAILED TO DO." THE DARK LORD SMASHED HIS CUP OF TEA ON THE FLOOR AND LEFT THE APARTMENT, GOT IN HIS SHIP AND FLEW AWAY. "WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT?" DARTH SIDIOUS ASKED SITTING DOWN AND SIPPING HIS TEA. DARTH LUCRATIS STOOD UP, WALKED OVER TO THE WINDOW AND SAID, "HE DOESN'T LIKE OR TRUST YOU AT ALL, THAT MUCH IS CLEAR."
REPUBLIC TROOPS POURED OUT OF THE NABOO TEMPLE, THOUSANDS OF SITH AND REPUBLIC SOLDIERS KILLING EACH OTHER. DARTH LAZUR AND DARTH KAMENWATI WERE ON THE FRONT LINE WITH LORD SCIN CUTTING DOWN JEDI. "YEAH! DIE!" SCIN YELLED CUTTING THREE APPRENTICES IN HALF, BLOOD COVERED THE SITH MASTER AND HE WAS ABOUT TO ATTACK WHEN DARTH KAMENWATI GRABBED SCIN'S SHOULDER, "HOW COME YOU AREN'T USING YOUR LIGHTSABERS?" HE ASKED. SCIN YELLED BACK, "BECAUSE I LOVE THE BLOOD, THE GORE, AND THE ADVENTURE OF USING VIBROSWORDS!" HE SAID DECAPITATING ANOTHER JEDI.
THE CHANCELLOR WAS ALONE IN HIS OFFICE WITH HIS PERSONAL ADVISORS. HE SAT AT HIS DESK AND LOOKED OUT OF THE LARGE WINDOW. CORUSCANT WAS MUCH LARGER THAN IN HIS TIME. "TELL ME MORE OF THE GALAXY." HE SAID AS ONE OF HIS ADVISORS ENTERED THE ROOM AND SAT DOWN IN FRONT OF HIM. PALPATINE LEANED FORWARD SLOWLY, "I DIDN'T TELL OR ASK YOU TO SIT, YOU WILL STAND AND GIVE ME THE INFORMATION THAT I ASKED FOR."
THE MAN STOOD BEFORE THE CHANCELLOR AND PLACED A SMALL HOLOPROJECTOR ON HIS DESK, TURNED AND LEFT THE ROOM. PALPATINE WATCHED THE PROGRAM THAT GAVE HIM ANYTHING HE REQUESTED TO KNOW. A FEW HOURS LATER THE ANCIENT SITH LORD FOUND OUT WHERE EACH JEDI TEMPLE WAS LOCATED ALONG WITH EVERY SITH TEMPLE, CITIDEL IN THE GALAXY. HE HAD INFORMATION THAT DARTH BRUTICUS DID NOT HAVE, OR SO HE THOUGHT. "I'LL HELP THE SITH DESTROY THE JEDI AND THEN I'LL HELP MYSELF."
HE WHISPERED TO HIMSELF AS HE SUMMONED GENERAL TANASH TO HIS OFFICE, THE GENERAL ARRIVED IMMEDIATLY AND REPORTED TO THE CHANCELLOR. "YES CHANCELLOR?" HE SAID BOWING TO HIM AND TOOK A SEAT. PALPATINE STOOD UP SLOWLY AND WALKED AROUND TO THE GENERAL AND SAT DOWN NEXT TO HIM. "I'M SURE YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THE CLOSINGS OF THE JEDI TEMPLES."
HE SAID AS TANASH SLOWLY NODDED AND SAID, "YES SIR, I'VE HEARD." PALPATINE HAD A VERY WORRIED LOOK ON HIS FACE AND WAS VERY HESITANTWHEN IT CAME TO SPEAKING TO THE GENERAL. "I'VE SUMMONED YOU HERE BECAUSE I'VE LEARNED A TERRIBLE TRUTH....THE JEDI ARE PLANNING TO TAKE OVER."
GENERAL TANASH'S EYES WIDENED AND HIS CHIN HIT THE FLOOR AS THE CHANCELLOR SLOWLY NODDED. "YES GENERAL...I'M AFRAID IT'S TRUE, THEY HAVE ALREADY KILLED EVERY JEDI ON TATOOINE AND DESTROYED THE TEMPLE." THE GENERAL JUMPED UP AND YELLED, "NO! THAT'S NOT TRUE! IT CAN'T BE!" PALPATINE STOOD UP AND SPOKE SOFTLY, "I'M AFRAID THAT IT IS TRUE MY FRIEND,
I HAVE PROOF OF IT IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE. HE SAID TURNING ON A HOLO VID SCREEN AND STARTED SHOWING HIM THE VIDEO OF THE ATTACKS, DEAD JEDI LITTERED THE FLOORS, LIGHTSABER BURNS ALL OVER THE WALLS AND FLOORS. "AS YOU CAN SEE GENERAL, THAT IS CLEARLY THE WORK OF THE JEDI, NO ONE ELSE CARRIES LIGHTSABERS BUT THEM." PALPATINE SAID TO HIM. "ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH!" HE SAID, "I'LL INVESTIGATE THIS MATTER PERSONALLY AND DISCOVER THE TRUTH TO THIS." HE SAID LEAVING THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE. PALPATINE SAT DOWN AND SIPPED HIS TEA, HE TURNED A HOLOGRAM ON AND SPOKE TO THE SITH LORD THAT APPEARED, "I HAVE A SURPRISE FOR YOU LORD BRUTICUS, WAR BETWEEN THE JEDI AND THE REPUBLIC WILL BEGIN VERY SOON. THEY WILL BE OVERWHELMED AND EASY TO DEFEAT AS SOON AS THEIR ALLIES TURN AGAINST THEM."
THE CHANCELLOR TURNED THE HOLOGRAM OFF AND A GROUP OF SENATORS BARGED INTO HIS OFFICE SCREAMING QUESTIONS AT HIM. "PLEASE, PLEASE MY FRIENDS, ONE QUESTION AT A TIME." HE SAID WHILE TRYING TO CALM THE SENATORS DOWN. "NOW WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?" HE ASKED. A SENATOR'S AIDE FROM NABOO STEPPED FORWARD, "THE JEDI ACTUALLY ATTACKED THEIR OWN? IT ISN'T POSSIBLE, THEY ARE INCAPABLE OF DOING SUCH A THING!" HE SAID AS THE OTHERS TRIED TO INTERJECT AT THE SAME TIME. "SENATORS!" HE YELLED, THE ROOM GOT QUIET AS THE CHANCELLOR ONCE AGAIN SHOWED THE VIDEO FOOTAGE TO THE SENATORS THAT HE SHOWED TO THE GENERAL. EVERYONE COULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT THEY SAW, AFTER DISCUSSING WHAT TO DO WITH THE JEDI, THEY ALL CAME UP WITH A PLAN TO DEAL WITH THOSE BETRAYING JEDI. THEY PRESENTED THEIR PLANS TO THE CHANCELLOR WHO DISAGREED WITH EVERYTHING, "MY FRIENDS, THE JEDI WHO DID THIS DISGUSTING ACT COULD BE ANYWHERE. NABOO, CORUSCANT, ILUM, AND IF THEY ARE ON THE RUN, THE OTHER JEDI WOULD STICK UP FOR THEM. NO, THE BEST THING IS TO DEFEAT THEM ALL AND BRING THEM TO JUSTICE." HE SAID. THE SENATORS SPOKE AMONG THEMSELVES AND A FEW MOMENTS LATER THEY AGREED WITH THE CHANCELLOR WHO SMILED A LITTLE AND SAID. "I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE MADE THE RIGHT DECISION IN THIS MATTER,
ANOTHER THING THAT WE MUST DO IS TO NOT TELL THE JEDI OR ANYONE IN ALLEGIANCE WITH THEM OR THEY WILL DO TO US AS THEY HAVE DONE TO THE TEMPLE ON TATOOINE." THE DELAGATION LEFT HIS OFFICE, THE CHANCELLOR WENT HOME AND WENT TO SLEEP.
FIVE AND A HALF LEGIONS OF SITH TROOPS LIE DEAD ALL OVER NABOO, DARTH KAMENWATI ALONG WITH LORD SCIN AND DARTH LAZUR WERE SURROUNDED BY THE REPUBLIC ARMY. DARTH TABAH HAD JUST ARRIVED TO HELP HIS SITH BROTHERS. HE JUMPED OUT OF HIS SHIP WHILE IT WAS STILL IN THE AIR AND LANDED ON HIS FEET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CIRCLE WITH TWO SABERS IN HAND,
WHEN THE REPUBLIC SOLDIERS TURNED AND RAN TOWARD THE TEMPLE. "SEE THAT?! I RAN THEM OFF!" DARTH TABAH SAID TURNING HIS WEAPONS OFF. "NAH, THAT WASN'T IT, THEY RAN FROM YOUR STENCH!" DARTH KAMENWATI SAID LAUGHING. "LET'S SEE WHAT'S UP!" LORD SCIN SAID AS THE FOUR MASTERS AND SITH TROOPS FOLLOWED THE REPUBLIC ARMIES BACK TO THE TEMPLE. DARTH LAZUR CAUGHT UP TO A TROOPER, "WHAT'S GOING ON SOLDIER?" HE ASKED. THE TROOPER PUT HIS COMLINK AWAY AND LOWERED HIS GUN, "WE WERE ORDERED BY THE CHANCELLOR TO STOP OUR ATTACK AGAINST YOU AND KILL THE JEDI." HE SAID AS LAZUR LET GO OF THE SOLDIER AND WATCHED THE REPUBLIC ATTACK THE JEDI. "LET'S GO AND HELP!"
DARTH LAZUR SCREAMED AND FOLLOWED THE TROOPER TO THE TEMPLE. THE THREE SITH MASTERS LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND ALL SAID AT THE SAME TIME, "ORDER SIXTY SIX?" DARTH TABAH ORDERED WHAT REMAINING SITH SOLDIERS THAT WERE LEFT TO LEAVE BEFORE THE REPUBLIC RETURNED. THE SITH MASTERS TRIED TO CONTACT DARTH LAZUR SEVERAL TIMES WHO IGNORED THEM SO THEY LEFT HIM BEHIND AND HEADED FOR WENATHM. "WHY ARE WE GOING TO THAT FROZEN WASTELAND?" DARTH KAMENWATI ASKED.
A HOLOGRAM APPEARED AND SPOKE, "BECAUSE DARTH SIDIOUS IS CHANCELLOR, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA IF WE ABANDON THE TEMPLE ON KORRIBAN JUST IN CASE HE DECIDES TO ATTACK IT." DARTH BRUTICUS SAID. "SO NOW WE'RE ON THE RUN?" DARTH TABAH ASKED SHAKING HIS HEAD. "I KNEW SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULD HAPPEN. SO FAR, TWO THINGS THAT I HAVE PREDICTED HAS BECOME A REALITY. HOW MUCH MORE HAS TO HAPPEN BEFORE YOU WAKE UP? WHY THE HELL DID YOU HAVE TO BRING HIM HERE? DID YOU EVER THINK TO ASK ANY OF US IF WE COULD DO THE JOB?" TABAH SAID WALKING AWAY FROM THE HOLOGRAM.
"HE'S RIGHT." LORD SCIN SAID, "YOU NEED TO OPEN YOUR EYES AND STOP EATING THAT DAMN FRUIT, THAT STINK IS GOING TO YOUR HEAD." HE ADDED AS DARTH BRUTICUS TURNED OFF THE HOLOGRAM AND WALKED BY DARTH NORAA, DARTH LILITH AND MZ-12 WHO WERE ALREADY ON THE ICY PLANET OF WENATHM PREPARING THE ARRIVAL OF THE OTHER MASTERS.
DARTH LAZUR RAN INSIDE THE JEDI TEMPLE AND WATCHED THOUSANDS OF TROOPS ATTACKING THE JEDI, THEY TRIED TO FIGHT THEM OFF BUT THERE WAS TOO MANY, THE ODDS WERE AGAINST THEM THREE THOUSAND TO ONE. HE COULDN'T BELIEVE HIS EYES, HE WAS OVERWHELMED TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON SO HE DECIDED TO JOIN IN ON THE FUN AND KILL SOME JEDI. HE ENTERED THE LIBRARY AND SPOTTED AN OLDER MAN EVACUATING YOUNGLINGS AND APPRENTICES THROUGH A VENTILATION SHAFT. EVERY SOLDIER THAT GOT NEAR HIM WAS CUT DOWN, THE JEDI SPOTTED HIM, TURNED HIS SABER ON AND WALKED TOWARD HIS ENEMY, THE SITH DID THE SAME. THE TWO SAID NOTHING TO EACH OTHER AS THEY FOUGHT, BLOCKS, PARRIES, THRUSTS, AND ALL KINDS OF THEATRICS. THE REPUBLIC TROOPS HAD NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT BEFORE, THEY STOOD LIKE STATUES AT THE ENTRANCES AND DID NOTHING BUT WATCH THE RED AND GREEN LIGHTSABERS DANCE IN THE DARKNESS, AS SOON AS THE PURGE STARTED, IT WAS NEARLY OVER. THE REPUBLIC HAD EVERY ENTRANCE COVERED ON THE GROUND FLOOR AND WAS QUICKLY ADVANCING ON THE REST OF THE TEMPLE. A TRANSPORTER WAS HIDDEN IN THE FOREST LOADING WOUNDED JEDI, MOSTLY CHILDREN TO ESCAPE THE PURGE. "WHERE'S MASTER SMITH?"
A YOUNGLING ASKED. "HE'S STILL INSIDE!" ANOTHER YELLED AS THEY GRABBED THE LAST OF THE CHILDREN AND PREPARED TO LIFTOFF. "WE CANNOT WAIT FOR HIM, WE MUST GO NOW!" A MASTER YELLED. MASTER ROST THOUGHT FOR A MOMENT, THEN NODDED AND STEPPED AWAY FROM THE DOOR AS IT CLOSED. MASTER SMITH WAS STILL INSIDE FIGHTING WITH DARTH LAZUR WHICH WAS GOING NOWHERE,
THE JEDI LUNGED FORWARD AND SLASHED THE SITH ON THE SIDE OF HIS FACE, FORCE PUSHED THE REPUBLIC TROOPS THROUGH THE ENTRANCES AND OVER THE RAIL TO THE GREAT HALL, THREE FLOORS BELOW AND FORCE RAN TO THE VENTILATION SHAFT AS THE REPUBLIC TROOPS FIRED ON THE JEDI. MASTER SMITH BARELY GOT OUT OF THAT PORTION OF THE BUILDING BEFORE IT CRUMBLED AND CRUSHED THE JEDI TO DEATH. HE FORCE RAN TO THE TRANSPORTER WHICH LANDED TO PICK UP THE JEDI.
DARTH LUCRATIS FLEW TOWARD THE JEDI TEMPLE AND PICKED UP THE WOUNDED DARTH LAZUR WHO HAD A HUGE LIGHTSABER BURN ON THE SIDE OF HIS FACE. ONCE THE SITH WAS INSIDE, THE MASTER LIFTED THE SHIP FROM THE TOP OF THE TEMPLE.
HE SENSED A LARGE JEDI PRESENCE NEARBY. DARTH LUCRATIS GAVE DARTH LAZUR A BACTA PATCH FOR HIS FACE, FLYING AWAY HE SPOTTED THE LARGE TRANSPORTER AND FIRED FOUR PROTON TORPEDOES HITTING THE SHIP AND BLASTING THE JEDI FIVE HUNDRED FEET BACKWARDS AND KILLING ALL OF THE REPUBLIC TROOPS THAT WERE FOLLOWING HIM.

"WOO HOO!" THE SITH MASTER YELLED LEAVING THE PLANET AND GOING INTO HYPERSPACE. MASTER SMITH SLOWLY ROLLED OVER ON HIS STOMACH. BODIES LIE AROUND HIM AS HE GOT UP TO HIS FEET, HIS VISION WAS BLURRED AND SLOWLY WENT AWAY AS HE LOOKED AROUND. "WHAT WOULD LEAD TO ALL OF THIS?" HE ASKED HIMSELF AS HE WALKED TOWARD THE TEMPLE TO HELP ANY OTHERS LEFT ALIVE. HE ENTERED THE BATTERED AND HALF DESTROYED BUILDING LOOKING FOR ANYONE ALIVE, HE SAW NO ONE BUT TROOPS WHO TURNED AND SAW HIM, OPENING FIRE ON THE JEDI MASTER HE USED HIS LIGHTSABER AND DEFLECTED EVERY SHOT BACK AT THE ENEMY, THEN HE BROKE THE COMPLETE LINE OF TROOPS THAT RAN TO STOP HIM, "COME ON GET THIS WORTHLESS JEDI!" ONE TROOPER YELLED AS HE WATCHED HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS GET CUT DOWN LEFT AND RIGHT.
"SARGENT, THIS IS NO WORTHLESS JEDI WE ARE DEALING WITH HERE, THIS GUY IS UNTOUCHABLE!" THE COMMANDER YELLED. MASTER SMITH STOOD IN FRONT AS THOUSANDS OF TROOPS BECAME HUNDREDS THAT BECAME LESS AND LESS. HE DEFLECTED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF BLASTER BOLTS, THERMAL DETONATORS, AND COUNTLESS OF MISSILES HAD BEEN DEFLECTED. " LET'S GO! GO! GO!" THE COMMANDER SCREAMED, NO ONE MOVED, HE WAS ALL ALONE, EXCEPT FOR THE JEDI. THE TROOP LEADER STOOD UP AND LOOKED AROUND, ALL WERE KILLED, HE TURNED AROUND AND THERE STANDING IN FRONT OF HIM WAS MASTER SMITH. HE GRABBED THE COMMANDER BY HIS HAIR AND PICKED HIM UP OFF OF THE FLOOR. "AHHHHH!" THE SOLDIER SCREAMED. "WHAT'S GOING ON COMMANDER?" THE JEDI ASKED.
HE DIDN'T ANSWER, HE WAS TRAINED NOT TO. THE JEDI DROPPED HIM ON THE FLOOR AND PUT HIS FOOT ON HIS NECK. "COMMANDER, IF YOU DON'T ANSWER ME, I WILL DO THINGS TO YOU THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE." THE COMMANDER TURNED HIS HEAD AND STILL SAID NOTHING. "SO BE IT." MASTER SMITH SAID LIFTING HIS FOOT FROM THE MAN'S THROAT AND FORCE THREW THE COMMANDER AGAINST THE WALL. "YOU'RE TROOPS HAVE KILLED EVERY JEDI IN THIS TEMPLE, EVERYONE OF MY FAMILY IS DEAD! NOW I WONDER WHY YOU WOULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT?" HE SCREAMED AS HE SHOT FORCE LIGHTNING AT THE SOLDIER AND STARTED FRYING THE MAN. "AHHHHHHH!" THE COMMANDER YELLED AS HIS BODY FELL TO THE FLOOR. AS MASTER SMITH WAS TORTURING THE MAN, A HOODED FIGURE ENTERED THE TEMPLE AND SAW THE JEDI ATTACKING THE COMMANDER, HE RAN OVER TO THE JEDI WHO TOOK HIS SABER ON, RAISED HIS ARM TO STRIKE THE SOLDIER AND HIS LIGHTSABER FLEW OUT OF HIS HAND AND THE FIGURE CAUGHT THE ANCIENT WEAPON. "IF YOU KILL HIM...YOU WILL BECOME AN AGENT OF EVIL." THE FIGURE SAID TAKING HIS HOOD DOWN AND GIVING BACK MASTER SMITH HIS SABER.
"WHO ARE YOU?" HE ASKED. THE FIGURE STEPPED CLOSER AND SAID, "I'M GRAND MASTER SEACO BUROC....FROM THE PAST." THE JEDI CLIPPED HIS LIGHTSABER ON HIS BELT AND SHOOK THE GRAND MASTER'S HAND AND INTRODUCED HIMSELF. "GOOD TO MEET YOU, I'M JOHN SMITH, MASTER JEDI OF THE PRESENT AND JEDI COUNCIL, I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONFESSION WITH SOMEONE WHO WOULD NOT CONFESS." SMITH SAID AS HE WALKED OVER TO THE COMMANDER BODY AND INSPECTED IT. "DEAD." HE SAID. "LET'S GO BEFORE MORE TROOPS SHOW UP." SEACO SAID.
"TOO LATE! LET'S GO!" MASTER SMITH YELLED AS THE TWO JEDI FORCE RAN UP THE STAIRS, JUMPING AND LEAPING OVER FALLEN PILLARS AND DEBRIS. THEY MADE IT TO THE LIFTS AND TOOK ONE UP TO THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS. THE REPUBLIC WAS ON THEIR TRAIL AND CLOSING IN FAST, THE JEDI CAME TO THE COUNCIL DOORS, OPENED THEM AND ALMOST FELL TO THEIR DEATHS. THEY LOOKED AROUND AND SAW NOTHING BUT OPEN AIR!
IT HAD BEEN COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY THE JEDI STEPPED BACK, SHUT THE DOORS, AND RAN TOWARD THE LIFTS AS A BARAGE OF MISSILES BLASTED THE CHAMBER DOORS BEHIND THEM AND KNOCKED SEACO TO THE GROUND, MASTER SMITH TURNED TO HELP THE GRAND MASTER UP AND REPUBLIC TROOPS CAME OUT OF THE LIFTS AND STARTED SHOOTING. WHILE TRYING TO HELP THE JEDI AND DEFLECTING THE SHOTS FIRED FROM THE TROOPERS, HE GOT HIT AND FELL THROUGH THE CHAMBER DOORS TO THE GROUND BELOW AS LARGE PIECES OF STONE FELL ON TOP OF HIM BURYING MASTER SMITH. THE GRAND MASTER ROASE AND USING THE FORCE HE PUSHED THE TROOPERS BACK INTO THE LIFT AND SENT THE LIFT CRASHING THROUGH THE BUILDING AND CRUSHING THE TROOPS STANDING BELOW. THE GRAND MASTER LEAPT OUT OF THE COUNCIL DOORS DOWN TO UNCOVER MASTER SMITH BELOW
LANDING INSIDE A CAVE AND SLOWLY DECENDING SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY FEET, THE THREE SITH MASTERS EXITED THE SHIP. "WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS TO COME HERE ANYWAY?" DARTH TABAH ASKED. SHADOWY FIGURES APPEARED IN THE DISTANCE AND AS THEY GOT CLOSER, DARTH BRUTICUS REMOVED HIS HOOD AND GREETED THE NEWLY ARRIVED SITH LORDS. "SO WHO DUG THIS?"
DARTH KAMENWATI ASKED LOOKING AROUND. DARTH BRUTICUS MOTIONED THE OTHERS AND WALKED BACK TO THE INTERIOR OF THE CAVE. "THIS PLACE WAS CREATED BY THE RED ROCK SPIDERS WHO DUG FOR PRECIOUS METALS AND JEWELS, NOT MUCH ELSE IS KNOWN ABOUT THEM, OTHER THAN WHAT I LEARNED FROM MY MASTER. EVENTUALLY THEY WERE KILLED OFF BY THE EARLY MANDALORIANS WHO WERE SEEKING THEIR SKINS FOR ARMOR, WHICH WASN'T AN EASY TASK AT ALL." THE DARK MASTER SAID. "HOW BIG WERE THEY?" DARTH NORAA ASKED. DARTH BRUTICUS THOUGHT FOR A MOMENT AND THEN ANSWERED. "THE LAST ONES THAT I SAW WERE THIRTY TO FIFTY FEET TALL, AND FIFTY TO NINTY FEET IN DIAMETER." EVERYONE LOOKED AT THE DARK LORD WITH EYES WIDENED AS THE SUPREME MASTER TOLD THE STORY. "THE LAST ONES THAT YOU SAW?" DARTH LILITH ASKED. "YES THE LAST ONES THAT I SAW WERE CAUGHT BY MY MASTER AND I HAD TO KILL THEM....WITHOUT WEAPONS, OR THE FORCE." THE DARK MASTER SAID AS HE WALKED ON, THE OTHER SITH FROZE IN THEIR TRACKS AND DIDN'T MOVE. "GEEZ, NOW THAT IS BAD, BUT I COULD HAVE DONE IT." LORD SCIN SAID AS HE ATE A PIECE OF CANDY. "NO ONE BUT YOU DARTH." DARTH TABAH SAID AS HE TOOK THE CANDY FROM THE SITH MASTER AND STARTED LAUGHING. LORD SCIN GRABBED TABAH BY HIS COLLAR AND SAID," NO ONE CALLS ME DARTH, DON'T EVER ADDRESS ME BY THAT IDIOTIC, STUPID, JEDI CREATED WORD!" LORD SCIN YELLED INTO DARTH TABAH'S FACE. DARTH TABAH FORCE THREW LORD SCIN ACROSS THE ENTRANCE OF THE SITH TEMPLE. "OK DARTH, I'LL MAKE SURE THAT I DON'T CALL YOU THAT OK?"HE SAID AND WALKED AWAY. LORD SCIN GOT UP AS THE OTHERS WENT INSIDE. "SO THIS IS OUR NEW BASE?" DARTH TABAH ASKED AS DARTH BRUTICUS PUT HIS ARM AROUND THE YOUNG MASTER'S SHOULDER, "THIS PLACE IS HEATED, BIGGER, FULLY ARMED, DEFENDED AND OCCUPIED BY MORE MASTERS AND APPRENTICES THEN WE'VE EVER HAD, AND LORD SIDIOUS HAS NO INFO ON THIS PLANET, HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW THAT IT EXISTS, ALONG WITH ABOUT TWO MILLION PLANETS AS WELL." DARTH BRUTICUS SAID WALKING AWAY. LORD SCIN CAUGHT UP TO DARTH TABAH AND THE OTHERS AS THEY SAW FIRSTHAND THE NEW STUDENTS OF THE SITH STANDING IN THE GREAT HALL. SITH STATUES WERE STANDING TEN FEET TALL AND SPREAD TEN FEET APART, EACH HOLDING A SABERLIGHT THAT DIMLY LIT THE GREAT SITH HALL. IN THE CENTER THERE WAS A STATUE ONE HUNDRED FEET TALL THAT MADE UP TEN ANCIENT SITH LORDS OF THE PAST: DARTH BANE, EXAR KUN, MARKA RAGNOS, DARTH VADER, DARTH LUCRATIS, DARTH TABAH, DARTH MAUL, LORD SCIN, DARTH BRUTICUS, AND DARTH KAMENWATI. LORD SCIN WAS ON THE TOP HOLDING HIS SABER UP TOWARD THE SKY, AND THE OTHERS STOOD STILL ON THE PEDISTAL. "WOW! WHO DID THIS?" LORD SCIN ASKED AS HE WALKED AROUND THE GREAT STATUE INSPECTING EVERY DETAIL FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM, EVEN THE BASE WHICH WAS CARVED BY HAND AND HAD A GOLDEN PLATE THAT LISTED EVERY SITH LORD BY NAME. DARTH TABAH LOOKED AT THE ENORMOUS STATUE AND SHOOK HIS HEAD.
"THAT'S A WASTE OF TIME AND IT LOOKS TERRIBLE TOO." HE SAID, AS LORD SCIN AND DARTH NORAA STOOD BEHIND THE SITH LORD WATCHING DARTH BRUTICUS WALK AWAY. "BETWEEN US...I THINK WE NEED TO SEND LORD SIDIOUS BACK TO HIS OWN TIME." DARTH TABAH SAID AS LORD SCIN RUBBED HIS CHIN AND SAID, "NOW THAT IS SOMETHING TO PLAN FOR AND I CAN DO IT, HE'S NEVER SEEN ME BEFORE."
THE TWO SITH GAVE EACH OTHER EVIL SMILES AS DARTH NORAA STEPPED IN FRONT OF THE TWO SITH AND SAID, "IF YOU TWO ARE PLANNING SOMETHING AGAINST PALPATINE, I WANT IN ON IT! I HAVE ALOT OF INFORMATION...AND I'M TIRED OF DOING THIS AND THAT AND..." HE WAS CUT OFF BY LORD SCIN WHO COVERED HIS MOUTH WHILE HE WAS SPEAKING. "OK, YOU'RE IN, NOW WHAT KIND OF EXPERIENCE DO YOU HAVE?" LORD SCIN ASKED TAKING HIS HAND AWAY FROM NORAA'S MOUTH. "I PERSONALLY RECRUITED AND TRAINED EVERY FALLEN JEDI IN THE FORMER KORRIBAN TEMPLE." THE DARK LORD SAID. "IS THAT WHY THEY ALL DIED FROM THE SITH HOUNDS?" LORD SCIN SAID AS HE AND DARTH TABAH STARTED LAUGHING.
"SENATOR STER, THIS IS SENATOR WAKE OF KAAS ACRYL III, I WANTED TO SHOW YOU THE ORIGINAL, UNEDITED CLIP OF THE VIDEO THAT WAS SHOWN TO THE cHANCELLOR WHO IS ALSO KNOWN AS DARTH SIDIOUS, AN ANCIENT LORD OF THE SITH." THE VIDEO WAS SHOWN TO THE ENTIRE SENATE. GENERAL TANASH COVERED HIS EYES AS TEARS RAN DOWN HIS FACE, "WHAT HAVE I DONE?" HE SAID, "WHAT HAVE I DONE?" HE SAID OVER AND OVER. THE GENERAL GOT UP FROM HIS SEAT AND LEFT THE SENATE BUILDING. "I DON'T CARE WHAT THE CHANCELLOR'S ORDERS ARE! I WANT EVERY AVAILABLE SOLDIER ON NABOO...NOW!" THE GENERAL YELLED AS HE BOARDED HIS SHIP.
"WHAT ARE WE DOING SIR?" MAJOR AXA ASKED FOLLOWING HIM GENERAL TANASH TURNED AND SAID. "WE'RE RETURNING TO NABOO TO SEARCH FOR OUR FAMILY, OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS...THE JEDI!" SIX REPUBLIC DESTROYERS HAD COME OUT OF HYPERSPACE AND WERE QUICKLY DEPLOYING TROOPS ON THE PLANET TO SEARCH FOR THE JEDI. SEACO BUROC SLOWLY CREPT OUT OF THE RUBBLE AND SENSED THAT THE REPUBLIC WERE LOOKING FOR THEM. "I FOUND ONE SIR!" A SOLDIER YELLED AS THE GENERAL RAN OVER AND HELPED THE GRAND MASTER OUT AND ONTO HIS FEET. "ARE YOU ALRIGHT MASTER JEDI?" TANASH ASKED SEACO. "MASTER SMITH IS BURIED." HE SAID AS THE TROOPS STARTED TO DIG THE WOUNDED JEDI OUT. MASTER JEDI SMITH WAS FINALLY RESCUED, PLACED INTO A CAPSULE AND FLOWN TO A MEDICAL FRIGATE NEARBY.
"THANK YOU GENERAL BUT AS A PRECAUTION FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE JEDI, I MUST TAKE THIS YOUNG ONE AND HIDE HIM UNTIL THIS ALL BLOWS OVER." MASTER BUROC SAID AS THEY WATCHED THE JEDI FLOAT IN A TANK OF BACTA. THE GENERAL BOWED AND SAID, "YES MASTER JEDI, I UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY." SEACO TURNED TO FACE THE GENERAL. "NO! YOU HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING AT ALL! IF YOU DID, YOU AND YOUR TROOPS WOULD NOT HAVE ATTACKED US!" THE GRAND MASTER YELLED AS SOLDIERS STARTED TO GATHER AROUND THE ENTRANCE AND LISTEN. "HOW MANY TEMPLES HAVE BEEN ATTACKED? ONE, TWO, TEN?" HE ASKED YELLING AGAIN AS THE GENERAL STARTED MUMBLING. "WE...WE DON'T HAVE TEN TEMPLES." SEACO BUROC PUNCHED THROUGH THE TOP OF A MARBLE DURA-STEEL TABLE, USING THE FORCE AND BLASTED THE GENERAL AND HIS PLATOON OF TROOPS MORE THAN FIFTY FEET AWAY. THE JEDI FORCE GRABBED THE LEADER OFF OF HIS FEET AND WALKED OVER TO HIM.
"HOW MANY?!" THE JEDI YELLED. THE FORCE FROM HIS VOICE WAS SO GREAT THAT IT SHOOK THE WALLS AND ALL OF THE SOLDIERS RAN IN FEAR. THE GENERAL WAS SO FRIGHTENED THAT THE MASTER SAW A YELLOW PUDDLE FORMING BENEATH HIS FEET. HE THREW HIM DOWN AND WALKED TO HIS QUARTERS. THE COMMANDER RAN OVER AND HELPED THE GENERAL TO HIS FEET. "YOU UPSET HIM GREATLY SIR." HE SAID. THE GENERAL NODDED AND SAID, "YES, HE IS COMMANDER...AND HE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO BE." THE COMMANDER WALKED TO THE JEDI'S ROOM AND RANG THE BELL.
"GO AWAY COMMANDER, I'M IN NO MOOD TO TALK TO ANYONE RIGHT NOW." THE JEDI SAID. THE MAN DIDN'T LEAVE, INSTEAD HE STARTED TO KNOCK. "MASTER JEDI, THERE ARE FOUR TEMPLES THAT WERE NOT ATTACKED SIR." USING THE FORCE, SEACO BUROC OPENED THE DOOR AND MOTIONED THE COMMANDER INSIDE. THE TWO SAT DOWN AT A TABLE THAT OVERLOOKED THE NOTHINGNESS OF SPACE. THE MEN LOOKED OUT AND SAW THE STARS STREAKING BY AS THE SHIP WAS IN HYPERSPACE. "WE'LL BE BACK AT THE HOME BASE SOON." THE COMMANDER SAID. "WHERE'S THAT AT?" THE JEDI ASKED AS HE FIXED THE A DRINK FOR THE TWO OF THEM. "CORUSCANT SIR, THEN YOU CAN SPEAK TO THE NEW CHANCELLOR." THE MAN SAID SIPPING HIS BLUE MILK. "NEW CHANCELLOR?" HE ASKED. THE COMMANDER NODDED.
"YES, CHANCELLOR PALPATINE." HE SAID AS THE JEDI SPIT HIS DRINK INTO THE COMMANDER'S FACE. "WHAT DID YOU SAY? WHO?" HE ASKED AS THE MAN WIPED HIS FACE AND SAID, "CHANCELLOR PALPATINE...YOU KNOW HIM OR SOMETHING?" THE COMMANDER ASKED. "KNOW HIM? OF COURSE I KNOW HIM, HE'S MURDERED THOUSANDS OF JEDI, DESTROYED A PLANET, AND BILLIONS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED AND DIED AT HIS EVIL HANDS!, I THINK I KNOW THE PERSON WHO BROUGHT HIM HERE." THE COMMANDER'S EYES WIDENED AS HE TRIED TO SPEAK BUT NOTHING CAME OUT. THE JEDI SAT BACK IN HIS CHAIR AND FINISHED HIS DRINK AND SAID. "LET ME GET SOME REST AND WHEN WE GET TO CORUSCANT, I'LL DEAL WITH PALPATINE PERSONALLY." THE COMMANDER GOT UP AND BOWED TO THE JEDI GRAND MASTER BEFORE LEAVING THE ROOM. SEACO LAID ON THE COUCH AND WENT TO SLEEP. A FEW HOURS LATER A CHIME SOUNDED AND WOKE THE JEDI. "YES?" HE ASKED.
"MASTER JEDI WE HAVE ARRIVED SIR, AND MASTER SMITH HAS BEEN MOVED INTO THE INFIRMARY." A SOLDIER SAID. "I'LL SEND SOMEONE TO BRING YOU TO THE BRIDGE." HE ADDED. "NO, PREPARE A SHUTTLE, THEN TAKE THIS FRIGATE TO THE OUTER RIM NEAR SULLEST AND WAIT FOR ME." SEACO SAID AS HE GOT UP AND LEFT THE ROOM AND HEADED INTO THE INFIRMARY, HE SAW A DROID TRYING TO FEED HIS JEDI FRIEND WHO WAS SPITTING THE FOOD OUT OF HIS MOUTH AND ONTO THE FLOOR. "PLEASE...EWW! STOP! HE YELLED. "SO MY FRIEND, HOW'S THE FOOD TASTE?" HE ASKED. MASTER SMITH DIDN'T SAT ANYTHING, INSTEAD HE GAVE A NASTY LOOK AND STUCK OUT HIS TONGUE. "YUCK! IT'S TERRIBLE, I DON'T SEE HOW ANYONE LIVES ON THIS STUFF." THE GRAND MASTER SMILED AT THE RECOVERING MASTER AND LEFT THE ROOM.
A FEW HOURS LATER SEACO BUROC WAS WALKING TO THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE WITH A PERSONAL ESCORT FROM THE GENERAL. "IN MY TIME THIS SENATE BUILDING WAS NOTHING OF THIS SIZE, HOW MANY PLANETS HAVE SENATORS?" THE JEDI ASKED. QUICKENING THE PACE, GENERAL TANASH DIDN'T LOOK AT THE JEDI AS HE ANSWERED. "ALMOST A MILLION SIR." HE SAID AS THEY RAN THROUGH THE DARKENED BUILDING. A SENATOR WAS COMING TOWARD THE SQUAD AS THE GRAND MASTER TURNED HIS SABER ON AND CUT HER IN HALF, SPLITTING HER ACROSS THE TORSO, A SOLDIER WATCHED AS THE WOMAN YELLED AT HER AIDS, "KILL THE JEDI!" SHE YELLED AS A SOLDIER POINTED HIS RIFLE AT HER HEAD AND PULLED THE TRIGGER. THEY ACTIVATED THEIR LIGHTSABERS AND MOVED FORWARD. "WELL THIS IS INCREDIBLE ODDS, SIX AGAINST ONE...I HAVEN'T FACED THESE ODDS IN A LONG TIME."
SEACO SAID AS HE DREW HIS LIGHTSABER AND TURNED IT ON. HE WAS READY TO ATTACK WHEN HIS ENEMIES TURNED AND RAN AWAY. THE GRAND MASTER CHASED AFTER THEM NOT LOOKING BEHIND TO SEE WHAT WAS ADVANCING. THE ENEMIES GOT TO THE LIFTS AND ENTERED, THE LIFT WENT UP AND STOPPED, KNOCKING THE ENEMY TO THE FLOOR. THE LIFT CAME BACK DOWN AND THE GLASS EXPLODED, RAINING THE SITH WITH THE PIECES, SENDING THEM COWERING ON THE FLOOR. "NOW THAT'S WHERE YOU BELONG, CRAWLING ON THE FLOOR LIKE THE SNAKES YOU ARE." THE JEDI SAID AS HE USED THE FORCE AND CRUMPLED THE LIFT TUBE LIKE A TIN CAN. HE TURNED AND SAW HUNDREDS OF JEDI, MORE THAN WHAT HE HAD EVER SEEN AT ONE TIME. THE SITH FLOPPED OUT OF THE CRUSHED TUBE AS THE JEDI APPROACHED.
"MASTER BUROC, GO AFTER THE CHANCELLOR, WE'LL TAKE CARE OF THEM." A JEDI SAID AS SEACO TURNED AROUND AND NODDED TO THE JEDI, ENTERED A LIFT AND WENT TO THE UPPER FLOORS. THE LIFT ARRIVED AT THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE AND SEACO STEPPED OUT, HE ACTIVATED HIS LIGHTSABER, CUT DOWN THE GUARDS AT THE DOOR AND SAW THE DARK LORD SITTING AT HIS DESK. STANDING UP HE ACTIVATED A RED LIGHTSABER AND SLOWLY WALKED TOWARD THE JEDI WHO TURNED HIS SABER OFF AND GRABBED A DEVICE AND PUSHED A BUTTON. NOTHING WAS SAID AS SEACO BUROC THREW THE DEVICE AT THE CHANCELLOR, HE DUCKED AS THE INSTRUMENT FLEW OVER HIS HEAD AND ACTIVATED ITSELF. A SMALL WORM HOLE APPEARED BEHIND THE ANCIENT SITH LORD AS THE JEDI KEPT HIS DISTANCE. ENGULFING THE SITH, SEACO FORCE GRABBED THE DEVICE AND WALKED AWAY. "NO!" HE SCREAMED AS THE WORM HOLE TRANSPORTED HIM BACK TO HIS OWN TIME. ALONE IN HIS OFFICE THE JEDI ACTIVATED HIS SABER, BURIED IT INTO THE WALL, AND WROTE A FEW WORDS. WHEN HE FINISHED, HE PULLED THE SABER FROM THE WALL, ENTERED THE LIFT AND JOINED HIS JEDI BROTHERS AND SISTERS BELOW. A FEW DAYS LATER DARTH BRUTICUS HEARD THE NEWS AND WAS COMING OUT OF HYPERSPACE. "IT CAN'T BE TRUE! IT JUST CAN'T BE!"
THE SUPREME MASTER KEPT UTTERING AS HE LANDED THE SHIP AT THE SENATE. DARTH LUCRATIS, TABAH AND LORD SCIN FOLLOWED ALL FORCE RAN TO THE LIFTS AND SAW SENATE SECURITY GUARDING THE SCENE. ENTERING THE TUBE, THE SITH LORDS WENT UP TO THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE AND EXITED THE TUBE. THE OTHERS FOLLOWED BUT STAYED BACK AT A DISTANCE AS DARTH BRUTICUS EXAMINED THE OFFICE. AS HE WALKED THROUGH THE HALLWAY, HE SAW A MESSAGE BURNED INTO THE WALL BY A LIGHTSABER. IT READ: THE FAT SITH SLOB HAS RETURNED TO HIS TIME. IT WAS SIGNED WITH THE LETTERS: S.B.
"SEACO BUROC I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS!" DARTH BRUTICUS SCREAMED AS THE OTHER SITH WERE WALKING AROUND THE ROOM."WELL THE WRITINGS ON THE WALL." DARTH TABAH SNICKERED AS THE SUPREME MASTER TURNED AND GAVE THE DARK LORD AN EVIL LOOK. "MAYBE ALL OF THIS WAS DONE BY YOU." DARTH BRUTICUS SAID AS DARTH TABAH TURNED TO LOOK AT HIM.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" THE YOUNG SITH ASKED. "YOU HEARD ME, I SAID THAT YOU DID THIS!" THE SUPREME MASTER YELLED AS HE WALKED OVER TO HIM AND GOT IN HIS FACE, "IT WAS YOU, LORD TABAH... YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE THAT HATES LORD SIDIOUS...YOU, YOU TRAITOR." THE DARK MASTER SAID AS HE STARED INTO DARTH TABAH'S EYES AND SAW THE HELL FIRES BURNING. DARTH TABAH SHOWED A EVIL LOOK ON HIS FACE AND FORCE PUSHED DARTH BRUTICUS ACROSS THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE AND THROUGH THE WINDOW!
THE BLAST WAS SO GREAT THAT IT EMBEDDED THE OTHER SITH LORDS INTO THE WALLS AND TURNED THE FURNITURE INTO DUST. LORD TABAH FINALLY SAW THE GREAT POWER THAT HE TRUELY HAD. HE CALMLY TURNED AROUND AND LEFT THE ROOM, LEAVING THE BUILDING HE BOARDED THE SITH SHIP AND LEFT, LEAVING THE OTHERS BEHIND. DARTH LUCRATIS BROKE FREE OF THE GRIP AND RAN TO THE EDGE OF THE GIANT WINDOW LEDGE AND PULLED DARTH BRUTICUS INSIDE WHO WAS HANGING BY HIS FINGERS. "I THINK IT WAS SEACO BUROC WHO DID THIS, WHY WOULD ONE OF OUR OWN DO THIS?" DARTH LUCRATIS SAID AS HE HELPED THE OTHERS ESCAPE THE WALL'S GRASP. LORD SCIN BROKE FREE AND WALKED OVER TO WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE WINDOW AND LOOKED AROUND, HE SENSED LORD TABAH'S PRESENCE, LOOKED OVER AT THE SITH SALUTING THEM, "FAREWELL YOU BLIND IDIOTS."
HE SAID AND FELL OUT OF THE WINDOW. FALLING DOWN AS LORD TABAH FLEW BY, LORD SCIN GRABBED THE TAIL END OF THE SHIP AS THE DARK SAT IN THE COCKPIT AND WATCHED HIS FRIEND PULL HIMSELF FORWARD. TABAH STOPPED THE SHIP AND OPENED THE HATCH, "YOU'RE STARTING TO FOLLOW ME LIKE A LITTLE LOST BANTHA MY FRIEND." LORD SCIN SAID NOTHING AS HE CLIMBED INTO THE SHIP AND THE TWO SITH LORDS LEFT THE PLANET WHILE DARTH BRUTICUS AND WHAT REMAINED OF THE SITH COUNCIL WATCHED THEM LEAVE. SOME TIME LATER DARTH BRUTICUS AND THE SITH COUNCIL LEFT CORUSCANT AND HEADED TO KORRIBAN.
A SHIP IN THE DISTANCE FOLLOWED THE SITH INTO HYPERSPACE, DARTH TABAH TURNED TO SPEAK TO LORD SCIN, "YOU WANT TO SEE HOW TO REALLY START A WAR?" HE ASKED HIS FRIEND WHO NODDED HIS HEAD. THE YOUNG MASTER PUSHED A BUTTON AND A MANDALORIAN HOLOGRAM APPEARED, "YES MASTER TABAH?" THE VOICE SAID BOWING TO THE SITH LORD.
" JARSA FETT, I WANT YOU TO FOLLOW A REPUBLIC BOMBER TO KORRIBAN AND THEN FOLLOW THE SHIP TO IT'S FINAL DESTINATION....A SITH TEMPLE IS INSIDE THE MOUNTAINS, SPARE NO ONE'S LIFE, KILL THEM ALL! MY SITH ASSASSINS WILL JOIN YOU ONCE YOU COME OUT OF HYPERSPACE." DARTH TABAH SAID AS JARSA FETT BOWED AND SAID, "YES MY LORD...AS YOU WISH." THE BOUNTY HUNTER SAW ANOTHER SITH LORD SITTING BEHIND HIS EMPLOYER AND HE SAW THE OTHER DARK LORD RAISE HIS FINGER AND SPEAK. "ONE LAST THING MANDALORIAN, MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A JEDI ATTACK." HE SAID AS THE HOLOGRAM DISAPPEARED.
THE SHIP CAME OUT OF HYPERSPACE AND FLEW TOWARDS KORRIBAN, DARTH BRUTICUS DEPARTED THE SHIP AND WALKED TO THE ANCIENT TOMBS OF THE GREAT SITH ELDERS BEFORE HIM. MANY THINGS HAD CHANGED ABOUT THE PLACE IN A MILLION OR SO YEARS, THE MOUNTAINS HAD ALMOST ERODED AWAY TO NOTHING, THE TOMBS WERE TOTALLY RANSACKED BY THE JEDI AND GREEDY THIEVES, THE KNOWLEDGE HAD BEEN COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN AS IF ERASED FROM EXISTENCE. IN THE DESERT, MOISTURE FARMS POPPED UP ALL OVER AND TURNED WASTELANDS INTO BOOMING CITIES BUSTLING WITH PEOPLE AND BUSINESS. NO LONGER IS THERE A NEED FOR THE JEDI, THESE PEOPLE RELY AND DEPEND ON THE SITH.
"WE ARE THE RACE THAT WAS INTENDED TO BE, INSTEAD OF HIDING IN THE SHADOWS, WE ARE NO LONGER LIVING IN THE DARK." THE GRAND MASTER SAID TO HIMSELF AS HE WALKED ON. HE FORCE-FLASHED THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS AND ARRIVED AT THE SMALL CITY OF ABASKA, IT LIED OUTSIDE OF THE SITH ACADEMY'S KILLING FIELDS IN THE DESERT. IT WAS THE ONLY PLACE FOR APPRENTICES TO RESUPPLY BEFORE RETURNING TO THE ACADEMY. ENTERING THE CITY, A WOMAN WALKED OVER TO HIM AND HANDED HIM A BASKET OF FRUIT, HE DENIED TAKING THE SMELLY FRUIT THAT HE ONCE LOVED TO EAT AND WALKED ON AS THE WOMAN SMILED AND WALKED BACK TO HER KIOSK. WALKING BEHIND THE GRAND MASTER A FIGURE IN BLACK TOOK HIS HOOD DOWN AND GRABBED HIS SHOULDER, DARTH BRUTICUS DIDN'T TURN IN SURPRISE INSTEAD HE LAUGHED,
"I KNEW IT WAS YOU SENATOR....I CAN SMELL YOUR COLOGNE...I NEED YOUR HELP, GATHER THE OTHER SCATTERED SITH CLANS SPREAD ACROSS THE GALAXY." HE SAID TURNING AROUND AND FACING THE SENATOR WHO SHOOK HIS HEAD IN DISAGREEMENT. "I'M SORRY MY LORD, I CAN'T. THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN UNITED, YOU MAY SPEAK TO EACH GRAND MASTER AND SEE IF THEY WILL JOIN WITH YOU BUT I HIGHLY DOUBT IT. THEY KNOW OF YOUR.....METHODS AND WILL PROBABLY STAY AWAY." HE SAID BOWING AND BACKING AWAY. THE DARK MASTER SQUEEZED HIS FINGERS TOGETHER AND THE SENATOR FELL TO THE GROUND GASPING. "MM...MY LOR....LORD....I...CAN'T."
HE SAID GASPING FOR A BREATH. DARTH BRUTICUS STOOD OVER HIM AND GRABBED HIM BY HIS THROAT. "YOU REMEMBER YOUNG ONE, YOU ARE A SENATOR AND A DARK LORD OF THE SITH, YOU WILL DO MY BIDDING OR YOU WILL DIE!" HE SAID FORCE THROWING THE MAN ACROSS THE FRUIT MARKET AND INTO THE SMELLY FRUIT THAT HE ONCE ATE.
DARTH LILITH RAN OVER TO HELP THE FALLEN SENATOR WHO STOOD UP AND FORCE PUSHED THE DARK LORD INTO THE GRAND MASTER AND TURNED HIS LIGHTSABER ON, "NO, YOU WILL DIE!" THE SENATOR SAID AS HE TOOK HIS RED ROBE OFF. DARTH LILITH AND DARTH BRUTICUS BOTH TURNED THEIR SABERS ON AS THE DARK LORD SPOKE, "YOU ARE NOT NEEDED ANYMORE YOUNG ONE." HE SAID TO LADY LILITH AND FORCE PUSHED HER INTO THE SUPREME MASTER'S LIGHTSABER PIERCING INTO HER BACK AND THROUGH HER CHEST, KILLING HER INSTANTLY. DARTH BRUTICUS FORCE PUSHED HER ASIDE AND ENGAGED THE SENATOR.
HE THREW HIS LIGHTSABER INTO THE SENATOR'S FACE AND FORCE GRABBED THE FALLEN SITH'S WEAPON AND LUNGED FORWARD AS THE SENATOR BLOCKED THE DARK LORD'S SECOND ATTACK BUT GOT HIT BY THE FIRST IN THE FACE. THE SENATOR BACKED AWAY AND TURNED THE SABER OFF. THE SYNTH-FLESH MELTED OFF OF THE SENATOR'S FACE AND SHOCKED DARTH BRUTICUS AT FIRST BUT HE DIDN'T SHOW IT. "WELL, WELL, LOOK WHO THE MYSTERY SENATOR REALLY IS...DARTH TAVION, SOMEHOW I FIGURED THAT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BY ALL OF THOSE JEDI AND LIVED TO FACE ME NOW."
DARTH TAVION LAUGHED AND SAID, "I KILLED ALL OF THOSE JEDI SCUM WITH A THOUGHT BOMB....SOMEHOW THE BLAST THROUGH ME OUT OF HARM'S WAY. THE DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE KNEW THAT I WOULD SEEK REVENGE FOR THAT LITTLE SITH MIND TRICK THAT YOU PULLED ON ME."
TAVION SAID AS HE FORCE THREW HIS LIGHTSABER AT DARTH BRUTICUS WHO WASN'T EXPECTING THE ATTACK AND RAISED HIS SABER TO BLOCK AT THE LAST SECOND AND WAS STRUCK IN THE FACE BY HIS OWN BLADE. TAVION DIDN'T SLOW DOWN, INSTEAD HE CROUCHED DOWN AND ATTACKED AGAIN, SWINGING AT THE SUPREME MASTER'S LEGS WHICH KNOCKED HIM TO THE GROUND.
THE GRAND MASTER HAD LOST BOTH LEGS AND THE YOUNG SITH LORD SWUNG DOWN AS THE SUPREME MASTER TRIED DESPERATELY TO BLOCK HIS ATTACK, DARTH TAVION HIT HIS ARM, CUTTING IT OFF AS WELL AND JUST AS THE SABER WAS ABOUT TO HIT HIS HEAD, THE DARK LORD WAS FORCE PUSHED FROM AN UNKNOWN FIGURE BEHIND HIM. HE WAS TOSSED FORWARD, LANDING ON HIS FEET AND TURNING AROUND STOOD DARTH LUCRATIS AND DARTH KAMENWATI WHO GRABBED THE SEVERLY WOUNDED GRAND MASTER AS THE SENIOR MEMBER OF THE SITH COUNCIL MOVED FORWARD TO ENGAGE DARTH TAVION. "I'LL SEE YOU VERY SOON." HE SAID TO DARTH LUCRATIS AS A DUST STORM BLEW IN AND THE DARK LORD DISAPPEARED.
A MEDICAL UNIT BOARDED A SHIP NEARBY AND FLEW THE SUPREME MASTER TO THE INFIRMARY. A FIGURE IN MANDALORIAN ARMOR STEPPED INTO A SHOP AND PULLED A SMALL HOLOGRAM PROJECTOR FROM HIS POCKET AND PUSHED A BUTTON. DARTH TABAH APPEARED AND THE BOUNTY HUNTER GAVE AN UPDATE. "WELL DONE JARSA, KEEP ME INFORMED." HE SAID AS THE HOLOGRAM FADED AWAY.
MASTER SMITH AWOKE AND SAW A FEW OF HIS JEDI BROTHERS AND SISTERS STANDING AROUND HIM, HE SAT UP AND ADJUSTED HIMSELF AS GENERAL TANASH CAME IN TO GIVE HIS REPORT, "GRAND MASTER SEACO BUROC SENT THE SITH CHANCELLOR BACK TO HIS OWN TIME AND IS CURRENTLY ON HIS WAY HERE. UNTIL HE ARRIVES, GRAND MASTER DELPA GIVAL IS THE NEW CHANCELLOR OF THE REPUBLIC. THE GENERAL TURNED AND BOWED AS THE GRAND MASTER ENTERED THE ROOM. AN APPRENTICE WALKED UP TO THE MASTER AND TUGGED AT HIS CLOAK. GIVAL LOOKED DOWN AT THE BOY WHO SAID, "WHAT DO WE DO NOW MASTER?"
HE LOOKED AROUND THE ROOM AT THE MANY JEDI WHO WERE SITTING, STANDING AND LAYING DOWN ON THE FLOOR. THEY WERE EXHAUSTED, SOME HAD RIPPED CLOTHING, SCARS, BURNS, AS A JEDI HEALER AND A MEDICAL BOT WENT AROUND THE ROOM HE SPOKE. "I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ALL GOING THROUGH, I'VE BEEN THERE MANY TIMES, ONE THING THAT YOU ALL NEED TO REMEMBER IS THAT YOU ARE JEDI, THIS IS OUR JOB AND WE NEED TO FIND THE REST OF THE MISSING JEDI...AND GO TO WAR!"
DARTH TABAH AND LORD SCIN LANDED ON ACRYL II, EXITED THE SHIP AND ENTERED THE TEMPLE. A DARK LORD RAN TO DARTH TABAH, BOWED AND SAID,"WE'RE READY FOR BATTLE MY LORD, WHAT ARE YOUR ORDERS?" HE ASKED AS THE TWO SITH MASTERS STROLLED THROUGH THE GREAT HALL TO THE LIFTS. NOTHING NOW, WE'RE GOING TO MEET IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS."
DARTH TABAH SAID TO THE APPRENTICE AS THEY ENTERED THE LIFT AND ASSENDED TO THE CHAMBERS. ENTERING THE COUNCIL IT WAS HUGE, MUCH LARGER THAN ANYTHING THAT LORD SCIN HAD EVER BEEN INTO. "THIS LOOKS LIKE A STADIUM!" HE EXCLAIMED, "HOW MANY PEOPLE DOES THIS SEAT?" HE ASKED LOOKING AROUND AT THE BLACK MARBLE SEATS AND RED MARBLE TABLES. "THREE HUNDRED EXACTLY." DARTH TABAH SAID AS THEY WALKED AROUND TO THE ONLY TWO PADDED CHAIRS AND SAT DOWN. TWO HOLO SCREENS RAISED FROM THE TABLE IN FRONT OF THE TWO SITH AND TURNED ON. "IF THERE IS ANYTHING THAT YOU WANT, SOMETHING TO EAT OR WHATEVER, SAY IT AND IT WILL BE DONE, NO QUESTIONS ASKED."
THE GRAND MASTER SAID TO LORD SCIN. HE THEM CLAPPED HIS HANDS TOGETHER AND THE DOORS OPENED AND PEOPLE BEGAN ENTERING THE ROOM AND SAT DOWN IN THEIR SEATS. AN APPRENTICE WALKED OVER IN FRONT OF DARTH TABAH, BOWED, HOLDING A HOLOSCREEN HE BOWED TO ALL OF THE MASTERS SITTING BEHIND THE TABLE AND BEGAN WITH THE UPDATES. "GRAND MASTER, THE DARK FORCE NAVY IS READY FOR WAR! CURRENTLY WE HAVE TEN MILLION, THE ARMY HAS TWENTY MILLION, THERE ARE TWO MILLION ASSASSINS, MY LORD." DARTH TABAH NODDED AND SAID, "THE NUMBERS ARE LOWER THAN USUAL, AND WHAT OF THE NUMBERS OF THE SITH?" HE ASKED. "WE...HAVE, UM..WE'VE" HE STARTED TO STUTTER AND MUMBLE AND BECAME VERY SHAKY. "WELL, WHAT ARE THEY?!" THE GRAND MASTER YELLED AS THE APPRENTICE STOOD AT ATTENTION. "MASTER, THERE ARE SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND YOUNGLINGS....TWO MILLION MASTERS AND ONE HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND APPRENTICES, SIR!"
HE SAID BOWING AND WALKING BACK TO HIS SEAT. DARTH TABAH RUBBED HIS CHIN AND SAID, "THEN WHY WOULD TEN DESTROYERS LEAVE WENATHM FULL OF SOLDIERS THAT DARTH BRUTICUS DOES NOT HAVE, AND HE ISN'T EVEN ON THAT PLANET, HE'S ON KORRIBAN. HMM, SEND OUT OUR SCOUTS, WITH THE ASSASSINS NEARBY TO ASSIST JARSA FETT, NOW GO!" HE SAID AS HE AND LORD SCIN GOT UP FROM THEIR SEATS AND LEFT THE ROOM.
DARTH TABAH ENTERED LORD SCIN'S NEW QUARTERS AND LOOKED AROUND THE ROOM, HE DIDN'T CARE WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE AS LONG AS THE BED WAS COMFORTABLE, HE SAT DOWN, IT WAS. LORD SCIN ENTERED THE ROOM AND SAT DOWN IN A CHAIR NEXT TO THE BED AND SAID,
"I LIKE DARTH BRUTICUS, I JUST HATE HIS CHOICE FOR A CHANCELLOR...HE COULD HAVE PICKED SOMEONE ELSE LIKE DARTH NORAA, HE WAS A SENATOR OR STILL IS, I WOULD HAVE CHOSE HIM OVER SIDIOUS ANY DAY. IT'S HIS STUPIDITY THAT LED US TO THIS." DARTH TABAH PLOPPED DOWN ON THE BED AND USED FORCE LIGHTNING AND FIRE TO BURN THE CEILING ABOVE HIS HEAD. LORD SCIN SAT IN A CHAIR, PROPPED HIS FEET ON THE FOOT OF THE BED AND WAS WATCHING HIS FRIEND DESTROY THE ROOM WITH HIS THEATRICS. "ARE YOU HAVING FUN?"
HE ASKED WHILE COVERING HIS HEAD FROM FALLING DEBRIS, DARTH TABAH DID NOTHING AS THE BURNT PIECES OF CEILING FELL IN HIS FACE. THEY BOTH FELL ASLEEP AS AN APPRENTICE ENTERED THE ROOM AND ANNOUNCED, "MASTERS, I HAVE GREAT NEWS!" HE EXCLAIMED. THE TWO SITH LORDS DID NOTHING, THEY WERE ASLEEP. A MASTER STOOD AT THE DOOR AND SAID, "YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER YOUNG ONE, THEY HAVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR WEEKS ON END WITHOUT ANY REST." THE APPRENTICE WALKED OUT OF THE ROOM, "YES THEY DO NEED THEIR REST." HE SAID AND SHUT THE DOOR.
DARTH BRUTICUS LAY IN THE ABANDONED SITH ACADEMY ON KORRIBAN WHILE A HANDFUL OF FXR-4 DROIDS WERE HARD AT WORK REPAIRING HIM. DARTH LUCRATIS AND DARTH NORAA STOOD OUTSIDE OF THE ROOM LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOW. "WILL THEY DO TO HIM LIKE THEY DID TO..." HE WAS CUT OFF BY DARTH NORAA WHO HELD UP HIS HAND AND SAID,
"NO, THE DAYS OF WORKING ON HUMANS LIKE DARTH VADER ARE LONG GONE. WE, OR SHOULD I SAY THEY HAVE A REGENERATION MACHINE THAT WILL MAKE IT AS IF HIS MISSING LIMBS WERE NEVER CUT OFF, IN A FEW MINUTES...HE WILL BE LIKE HIS NEW OLD SELF." THE MACHINE FINISHED IT'S WORK AND A FEW MOMENTS THE SITH GRAND MASTER SAT UP AND LOOKED AT HIS ARM AND LEGS. "JUST LIKE NEW?" HE ASKED. "YES MY LORD, BETTER THAN NEW." THE FXR-4 DROID SAID AS IT HELPED HIM UP ON TO HIS FEET. DARTH BRUTICUS LOOKED UP AND SAW DARTH LUCRATIS AND DARTH NORAA LOOKING IN THROUGH THE WINDOW. HE SLOWLY WALKED OVER TO THE SITH LORDS WHO ENTERED AND WERE ADMIRING THE GRAND MASTER'S NEW LIMBS AS HE SLOWLY WALKED AROUND THE ROOM. "WOW, THIS IS AWESOME! NOW LET'S GO BACK TO WENATHM, I HAVE MANY THINGS TO DO." HE SAID LEAVING THE INFIRMARY.

"WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!" ONE APPRENTICE SCREAMED TO THE ENTRANCE GUARDS WHO'S NEWS QUICKLY SPREAD AND WOKE THE REST OF THE TEMPLE. DARTH KAMENWATI ENTERED THE WAR ROOM ALONG WITH DARTH LAZUR, AND DARTH NORAA. EXPLOSIONS WERE HEARD ALL OVER THE MOUNTAIN AND ROCKS WERE STARTING TO FALL FROM THE CEILING. THE GRAND MASTER AND DARTH LUCRATIS ENTERED THE ROOM AS APPRENTICES RAN FOR COVER. THEY WERE TRYING TO IDENTIFY WHO THE ATTACKERS WERE. "MASTERS, IN ALL OF MY YEARS I'VE NEVER SEEN SHIPS LIKE THESE...ARE THEY REPUBLIC OR JEDI?" AN APPRENTICE ASKED. DARTH LUCRATIS GRABBED THE BOY BY HIS SHIRT AND SAID,
"THE REPUBLIC AND THE JEDI ARE ONE YOU IDIOT!" THE HOLOPROJECTORS CONSTANTLY SCANNED THE INCOMING SHIPS BUT COULD IDENTIFY NONE OF THEM. A WING OF BOMBERS SHOT D.F.M.'S OR DARK FORCE MATTER MISSILES INTO THE CAVE, EXPLODING THEM INTO THE INNER WALLS AND DROPPED THE D.F.M. BOMBS INTO THE LARGE HOLES BELOW AND ROLLING THEM IN THE SITH TEMPLE. , DISINTEGRATING ANYONE AND EVERYTHING IN IT'S PATH. THOUSANDS OF SITH WERE DESTROYED AS THEY SCRAMBLED TO THE LAUNCH PADS, THE OUTER DEFENSES WAS OF NO USE AS THEY WERE THE FIRST TO BE DESTROYED AS THE REMAINING COUNCIL MEMBERS BOARDED A SHIP AND BARELY ESCAPED AS THEY FLED FROM THE PLANET. SEVERAL SHIPS ENTERED THE CAVE, LANDED AND SEARCHED FOR ANY REMAINING SITH. DARTH TABAH AND LORD SCIN TRIED TO ENTER THE TEMPLE BUT IT WAS COLLAPSED SHUT.
THE GRAND MASTER COULDN'T SENSE ANYONE INSIDE, THEY BOARDED THEIR STOLEN REPUBLIC SHIPS AND LEFT THE PLANET. THE COMMANDER OF THE SITH NAVY RAN TO LORD TABAH TO INFORM HIM OF THE COMING SHIPS. "GRAND MASTER, A FLEET OF REPUBLIC DESTROYERS HAVE JUST COME OUT OF HYPERSPACE AND WE'RE HIDING OUTSIDE THE WENATHM SYSTEM." DARTH TABAH NODDED AND SAID, "SEND OUT THE ASSASSINS TO ATTACK, MAKE IT LIGHT." THE COMMANDERBOWED AND SAID, "YES SIR!" THE SITH WATCHED FROM THE HANGAR AS THE ASSASSINS SCRAMBLED TO THEIR SHIPS AND PREPARED TO LEAVE. "AH SITH DOMINATORS, BEST SHIPS WE'VE HAD SINCE LORD MAUL'S INFILTRATOR WAS CREATED."
THE COMMANDER SAID AS HE, THE GRAND MASTER AND LORD SCIN STROLLED THROUGH THE HANGAR. "NO, THERE HAVE BEEN VESSELS BUILT BETTER. INSTEAD OF HAVING SHIP BUILDERS LOYAL TO THE SITH AND THEN HAVE THEM TURN AGAINST US, WE HAVE OUR OWN." LORD SCIN SAID AS THEY WALKED ON. THE COMMANDER LEANED OVER TO THE GRAND MASTER AND WHISPERED,
"YOUR FRIEND IS VERY RESOURCEFUL." LORD SCIN LEANED IN AND SAID, "I'M VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE, FORMIDABLE, AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS...YOU WANT TO SEE?" THE COMMANDER'S EYES WIDENED AND HE BACKED AWAY AND FELL OVER A STORAGE DURASTEEL BOX AND QUICKLY GOT UP "NO, NO, NO, NO, I'M NOT THAT KIND OF WARRIOR AND I KNOW NOTHING OF THE SITH WAY OF FIGHTING...EXCUSE ME MY LORD...I MUST....UH, I GOTTA.....I GOTTA GO!" HE SAID STUTTERING AS HE RAN AWAY. THE TWO SITH LORD STARTED LAUGHING AS DARTH TABAH ALMOST FELL OVER AND SAT DOWN ON THE STORAGE BOX. "I THINK HE URINATED IN HIS PANTS." THE GRAND MASTER SAID.
"THIS CANNOT BE THE WORK OF SEACO BUROC OR DARTH TABAH, NEITHER OF THOSE TWO WOULD HAVE THE RESOURCES TO DO SO, LET ALONE ANYONE ELSE. IT'S GOT TO BE SOMEONE IN THE SENATE OR THE REPUBLIC FORCES!" DARTH BRUTICUS SAID AS HE AND THE COUNCIL MASTERS RETREATED.
"WE CAN'T GO BACK TO WENATHM OR KORRIBAN...WHAT ABOUT ZIOST OR BYSS?" HE ASKED. DARTH LUCRATIS CONTACTED MZ-12 WHO WAS ON BYSS. "MASTERS, THE TEMPLES ARE OPERATIONAL ON BOTH TEMPLES AND AWAIT YOU, LORD LUCRATIS." THE DROID SAID AS THE HOLOGRAM FADED.
"CAPTAIN, SET A COURSE FOR BYSS." DARTH NORAA SAID WHILE THE PILOTS SET THE COURSE AND WHOOSH! THE SHIP WAS GONE.
DARTH NORAA WAS SUMMONED TO THE INFIRMARY BY THE GRAND MASTER. HE ENTERED AND SAW DARTH LUCRATIS SPEAKING TO A LARGE HOLOGRAM. "IT WILL BE DONE MY LORD." THE YOUNG MAN HEARD THE SENIOR MASTER SAY AS THE HOLOGRAM DISAPPEARED. HE TURNED TO FACE DARTH NORAA AND SAID, "WE NEED YOUR EXPERIENCE." HE SAID SITTING ON THE EDGE OF THE TABLE AS DARTH NORAA STEPPED CLOSER. "NAME IT."
THE YOUNG MASTER SAID. DARTH LUCRATIS STOOD UP AND WALKED OVER TO A HOLOSCREEN AND PUSHED A BUTTON. "WE HAVE A TRAITOR, HE OR SHE HAS DESTROYED OUR TEMPLE ON WENATHM AND HAS THE REPUBLIC WAITING FOR US WITH A MASSIVE ARMY ON KORRIBAN. WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO IS INFILTRATE THE RANKS OF THE SITH, FIND THIS TRAITOR AND KILL THEM...I DON'T CARE WHAT IT TAKES OR WHO IT IS, USE ALL OF YOUR RESOURCES AND DESTROY THEM!" THE YOUNG MASTER BOWED, TURNED AND WALKED TOWARD THE DOOR. "ONE LAST THING." DARTH LUCRATIS SAID AS HE WALKED OVER TO THE DOORS.
"THIS TRAITOR....IS A SUSPECTED COUNCIL MEMBER." THE YOUNG MASTER'S EYES WIDENED AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH TO SPEAK, BUT NOTHING CAME OUT AT FIRST. "MASTER LUCRATIS, SITH LAW PROHIBITS.." HE WAS CUT OFF, "I KNOW THE LAW OF THE SITH, YOUNG ONE AND AS THE SENIOR MEMBER OF THE SITH COUNCIL, I AM GIVING YOU THE HIGHEST SECURITY CLEARANCE TO HUNT DOWN THIS BASTARD AND DESTROY HIM, NOW GO!" DARTH NORAA BOWED AND LEFT THE ROOM. A HOLOGRAM APPEARED AND SPOKE, "IT MUST BE DONE, OUR NEW OBJECTIVES ARE TO WEED OUT THE UNDESIREABLES, GET RID OF THEM NO MATTER WHAT THE COST.
HE IS EXPENDABLE AND SO ARE ALL OF HIS RESOURCES." THE HOLOIMAGE FADED AND DARTH KAMENWATI ENTERED THE ROOM AND BOWED TO DARTH LUCRATIS. "MASTER LUCRATIS, YOU SUMMONED ME?" HE ASKED. "WE NEED YOUR EXPERIENCE YOUNG ONE." THE DARK LORD SAID WALKING OVER TO THE HOLOSCREEN ON THE WALL AND PUSHING A BUTTON.

DARTH TAVION RETREATED BACK TO HIS SHIP BUT DIDN'T LEAVE THE PLANET, IT WAS SURROUNDED BY THE REPUBLIC AND HE SAW THAT THEY SENT THE ARMY TO THE TEMPLE. "HMMM....I THINK I'LL HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT." HE SAID TO HIMSELF AS HE SUMMONED TEN XT-73 BOMB DROIDS TO THE TEMPLE. AS THEY ARRIVED, THE DROIDS RELAYED VIDEO BACK TO THE DARK MASTER, IT WAS COMPLETELY SURROUNDED. HE CAREFULLY PLACED THE BOMB DROIDS INSIDE THE TEMPLE AND BOARDED HIS SHIP. LEAVING THE PLANET, HE DETONATED THE BOMBS KILLING EVERYONE INSIDE AND BRINGING THE SITH TEMPLE DOWN TO ASHES.
AS HE LEFT THE PLANET HE SENT A MESSAGE TO THE REPUBLIC DESTROYERS. "SEND HELP RIGHT AWAY! THE SITH TEMPLE HAS BEEN DESTROYED AND IT WAS THE WORK OF DARTH BRUTICUS! HURRY FAST! WE'RE......." THE MESSAGE WAS CUT OFF AS DARTH TAVION CLEARED THE PLANET'S GRAVATIONAL PULL AND WENT INTO HYPERSPACE.

GRAND JEDI MASTER DELPA GIVAL ENTERED HIS NEW OFFICE AFTER ANNOUNCING TO THE SENATE OF THE NEW CHANCELLOR. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME IN MANY YEARS THAT A JEDI HAD BEEN VOTED IN AS THE REPUBLIC'S HEAD. SEACO BUROC AND JOHN SMITH ENTERED THE OFFICE, GREETED THE JEDI MASTER AND SAT DOWN.
"SO MY FRIEND, NOW THAT YOU ARE THE NEW CHANCELLOR, WE NEED TO SUMMON THE REST OF THE JEDI TO THE TEMPLE ON NABOO." SEACO SAID AS MASTER SMITH MADE THE MEN A DRINK. "I WILL BUT FIRST I HAVE A PROMOTION TO GIVE." GIVAL SAID AS HE WALKED OVER TO THE BEVERAGE CART.
"MASTER SMITH, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP, YOU PUT YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE TO HELP THE JEDI ESCAPE THE TEMPLE FROM ATTACK AND AS THE NEW CHANCELLOR OF THE REPUBLIC AND A GRAND MASTER JEDI, I PROMOTE YOU TO GRAND JEDI MASTER...FROM NOW ON, UNTIL TIME AND TIMES ARE DONE, YOU WILL BE KNOWN AS GRAND MASTER JEDI JOHN SMITH." THE NEW GRAND MASTER BOWED TO THE CHANCELLOR, "THANK YOU GRAND MASTERS." HE SAID AND BOWED TO THE TWO OF THEM.
CHANCELLOR GIVAL WALKED OVER AND SAT DOWN AT HIS DESK. "OK NOW LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS. THIS BUILDING IS BIG ENOUGH TO HOLD BETWEEN TWENTY AND FIFTY MILLION PEOPLE, SO I SUGGEST THAT WE SUMMON THE JEDI HERE...AND WITHOUT ALERTING THE PUBLIC, SENATORS, OR THE SITH. LET'S GO!"
DARTH LUCRATIS LEFT THE ROOM AND MET WITH DARTH BRUTICUS IN THE HALLWAY. "IT IS DONE, MY LORD, THE BETRAYALS HAVE BEGUN." DARTH LUCRATIS SAID AS THE TWO WALKED AROUND THE SHIP. WE NEED MORE EXPENDABLE BODIES FOR A SPECIAL MISSION I HAVE BURNING IN MY BRAIN." DARTH BRUTICUS SAID. "YES I CAN SEE THE SMOKE POURING OUT OF YOUR EARS."
LUCRATIS ADDED AS HE ENTERED HIS QUARTERS. THE GRAND MASTER SAT DOWN AT A TABLE AND STARTED TYPING ON A HOLOSCREEN. A PILOT GOT UP FROM HIS SEAT, GRABBED A GUN AND WALKED THROUGHOUT THE SHIP. HE MET DARTH LIATER IN THE ENGINE ROOM AND SHOT HIM IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD AND PLACED A CHARGE AT THE REAR OF THE SHIP. HOLDING THE DETONATOR IN ONE HAND AND PUSHING THE INTERCOM BUTTON WITH THE OTHER, HE SAID THREE WORDS. "FOR THE REPUBLIC!" HE PUSHED THE BUTTON, EXPLODING THE BOMB, BLASTING THE PILOT'S BODY INTO A MANGLED MESS AND SUCKING IT INTO OUTER SPACE. THE SHIP TOSSED AND TURNED AS DARTH BRUTICUS RAN TO AN ESCAPE POD. DARTH LUCRATIS LEFT HIS ROOM AFTER BEING TOSSED AROUND, HE USED THE FORCE AND STABILIZED THE SHIP,
DARTH BRUTICUS PUT A FORCE FIELD AROUND THE SHIP AND YELLED INTO THE INTERCOM. "HURRY UP LUCRATIS! I CAN'T HOLD THIS FOREVER!" THE DARK LORD GOT UP AND RAN TO THE SHIP'S POD, GOT INSIDE, SHUT THE DOOR, AND LAUNCHED THE POD JUST AS DARTH BRUTICUS LET GO OF THE FORCE FIELD, THE TWO OF THEM SAT DOWN AND LOOKED OUT OF THE WINDOW, THE SHIP WAS DECOMPRESSING AND CRUSHED ITSELF, LEAVING THE TWO SITH LORDS ALONE IN SPACE. "SO WHERE ARE WE?" DARTH LUCRATIS ASKED LOOKING AT A HOLOSCREEN.
DARTH BRUTICUS RUBBED HIS EYES AND POINTED OUT OF THE WINDOW. "SEE THAT BRIGHT SPECKLE OUT THERE?" HE ASKED. DARTH LUCRATIS LOOKED, AND LOOKED, AND LOOKED. HE LOOKED BACK AT HIS FRIEND THEN OUTSIDE AGAIN. "WELL THERE ARE ALOT OF BRIGHT SPECKLES OUT THERE, BUT I DON'T SEE THE ONE THAT YOU ARE POINTING TO.' HE SAID LOOKING OUT OF THE WINDOW AGAIN. DARTH BRUTICUS LEANED OVER AND GRABBED THE CONTROLS, TURNING THE POD AROUND, DARTH LUCRATIS COULD SEE THE BLUE GLOW OF A DISTANT PLANET. "IT LOOKS LIKE KAMINO." DARTH BRUTICUS SAT BACK IN HIS SEAT RUBBING HIS EYES AGAIN.
"IT IS KAMINO MY FRIEND." HE SAID AS THE POD FLEW TO THE PLANET. "MAYBE THE CLONERS STILL EXIST, WE CAN GET A SHIP AND GO TO BYSS." DARTH LUCRATIS SAID GRABBING HIS LIGHTSABER HILT AND LOOKING IT OVER. "THAT WAS A MILLION YEARS AGO, I DON'T THINK THAT THEY ARE STILL THERE, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE WE WILL FIND OUT." HE SAID AS THE POD GOT CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THE PLANET.
IT WAS RAINING ON CORUSCANT, FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS IT DID NOTHING BUT RAIN. THE JEDI TEMPLE HAD BEEN COMPLETELY ABANDONED FOR ALMOST A YEAR AND GRAND JEDI MASTER SEACO BUROC HAD DISAPPEARED. THE REPUBLIC HAD PASSED A LAW THAT ANYONE CAUGHT NEAR OR EVEN AS MUCH AS FLYING AROUND THE BUILDING WOULD BE JAILED,VALUING THEIR FREEDOM, THE CITIZENS AVOIDED THAT PLACE. A FIVE THOUSAND FOOT TALL FORCE FIELD WALL SURROUNDED THE DESTROYED TEMPLE. LAZER CANNONS WERE POSITIONED AT KEY POINTS ALONG WITH THE REPUBLIC'S FINEST ARMY PATROLLING THE PERIMETER, BUT THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH. THE CONSTANT RAIN WAS WEAKENING THE WALL AND FROM TIME TO TIME IT WOULD SHUT OFF. A SOLDIER WALKED BY AS A HOODED FIGURE APPROACHED THE WALL, HIDING IN THE SHADOWS, HE WAITED FOR THE WALL TO FAIL, A FEW MOMENTS LATER, IT DID. THE FIGURE CASUALLY WALKED THROUGH AND UP THE STEPS TO THE TEMPLE. INSIDE IT WAS AS HE THOUGHT, NOTHING REMAINED, THE COLORFUL BANNERS THAT HUNG FROM THE TOWERING CEILINGS WERE RIPPED AND TORN DOWN,
THE BROWN ETCHED PILLARS WERE EITHER BROKEN OR BLOWN AWAY. THE LIBRARY HAD BEEN COMPLETELY GUTTED, EVERYTHING INSIDE WAS TAKEN BY THE REPUBLIC AND STORED ELSEWHERE. NO ONE LIVED HERE ANYMORE, THE SLEEP QUARTERS WERE EMPTY, EXCEPT A FEW RODENTS LOOKING FOR THE OCCASIONAL GARBAGE TO EAT FROM. THE FIGURE WALKED ALL OVER THE TEMPLE AND FOUND NOTHING, NOTHING BUT THE BODY OF A DEAD SITH LORD AND THE SMELL OF CARTORIZED FLESH, THE FIGURE LOOKED AROUND THE AREA AND SAW THAT THERE WAS A GREAT BATTLE, JEDI VERSES SITH, GOOD AGAINST EVIL AND THE EVIL HAD BEEN KILLED. HE SLOWLY STROLLED AROUND THE ROOM SCANNING THE FLOOR, STAIRS AND WALLS.
THERE WERE TWO OF THEM, LIGHTSABER AGAINST LIGHTSABER, THE JEDI STOOD ON THE SECOND FLOOR WAITING AS THE SITH WAITED IN THE GREAT HALL, BUT WAITING FOR WHAT? AS THE FIGURE RESEARCHED FURTHER AND WALKED THE FLOOR OF THE GRAND HALLWAY THERE WERE SOLDIERS IN THE TEMPLE AND HE WAS SEEN! STANDING STILL HE GRABBED A HOLOSCREEN AND STARTED TAKING NOTES AS A SOLDIER'S LIGHT SHONE ON HIM. "STOP!" THE SOLDIER SAID AS THE FIGURE FROZE.
A SQUAD OF TROOPS SURROUNDED HIM AS THE SARGENT APPROACHED AND SPOKE, " YOU ARE NOT TO BE IN HERE SIR, YOU ARE UNDER ARREST." THE MAN HELD UP HIS HAND AND SPOKE, "WAIT, MY NAME IS ARLEN TOESNAP, I WAS SENT HERE BY THE CHANCELLOR TO LOOK OVER THE DAMAGE AND REPORT BACK TO HIM." HE SAID AS THE TROOPS BACKED AWAY A LITTLE. THE SARGENT WENT TO GRAB HIS COMLINK AND THE MAN GRABBED A SHINY CYLINDER FROM HIS CLOAK, TURNED IT ON AND A RED BLADE APPEARED FROM THE END, HE QUICKLY SPUN AROUND SWINGING THE SABER AND CUT HIS FELLOW TROOPERS IN HALF! HE STOOD IN FRONT OF THE MAN AS HE HELD THE SABER IN FRONT OF HIS FACE, THE SARGENT WAS DEAD AND HE KNEW IT.
"YOU MIGHT AS WELL KILL ME, I CANNOT MOVE FASTER THAN YOU AND YOU ARE ARMED AND I AM NOT." HE SAID AS THE MAN USED THE FORCE AND GRABBED A WEAPON. PUTTING THE BLASTER IN THE TROOPER'S HAND. "THERE, NOW YOU ARE ARMED....SHOOT ME!" HE SAID AND BACKED AWAY. THE TROOPER WASN'T STUPID, HE DROPPED THE GUN ON THE FLOOR AND SAID, "I AM NOT DUMB, AS SOON AS I SHOOT, YOU WILL DEFLECT THE SHOTS BACK TO MY BODY AND KILL ME, BUT IF I DON'T REPORT BACK IN A LITTLE WHILE THE ENTIRE REPUBLIC ARMY WILL STORM IN HERE AND YOU WILL BE DEAD." THE MAN TURNED HIS SABER OFF AND PUT IT AWAY.
"WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST?" HE ASKED STANDING IN FRONT OF THE SOLDIER WITH HIS ARMS FOLDED. "LET ME REPORT BACK TO THE GENERAL, I WILL SAY NOTHING ABOUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED, YOU CAN GO ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS AND THE SOLDIERS WON'T BE DISCOVERED UNTIL TOMORROW MORNING WHEN THE NEXT SQUADS REPORT FOR DUTY. I'LL SAY THAT THEY WERE ATTACKED AND KILLED BY AN UNKNOWN FORCE AND THAT WILL BE THAT. THE REPUBLIC WON'T INVESTIGATE ANY FURTHER WITHOUT THE JEDI AROUND THIS HAUNTED TEMPLE AND WE'LL BOTH BE IN THE CLEAR." THE MAN NODDED AND WAVED HIS HAND IN FRONT OF THE TROOPER'S FACE AND WHISPERED A FEW WORDS. "YES I WILL SIR." HE SAID AND WALKED AWAY, DROPPING HIS COMLINK AND WALKING OUT OF THE DOOR AS THE MAN USED THE FORCE AND SEALED THE ENTRANCES.
"NOW BACK TO WORK." HE SAID SCANNING THE ROOM ONCE AGAIN. AFTER HE DISCOVERED THE BODY AND STARTED WORK ON THE FALLEN SITH LORD. THE MAN PICKED THE SITH UP AND CARRIED HIM TO THE INFIRMARY, LAYING HIM DOWN ON THE FLOOR, HE BEGAN TO REPAIR THE LIGHTING SYSTEM AND THE BACTA TANK.
HOURS AND HOURS HAD PASSED BUT THE MAN KEPT WORKING STOPPING ONLY TO REST FOR A FEW MINUTES AND THEN BACK TO WORK AGAIN. THE SOLDIER THAT HE LET GO HAD RETURNED WITH SOME SUPPLIES AND RETURNED AGAIN WITH MORE. A DAY HAD PASSED AND THE MAN WAS READY. HE TURNED THE BACTA TANK ON AND PLACED THE FALLEN SITH LORD INTO IT. EVEN IN DEATH THE BACTA WOULD STILL HEAL AND THAT WOULD BE EASIER TO DO SO NOW THAN TO WAIT AND PUT HIM IN AFTER HE IS RESUSCITATED. THE SARGENT STOOD NEARBY AND WATCHED THE MAN WORK, HE PUT TOGETHER A HOMEMADE STOVE AND BEGAN TO COOK A STEW. "IT WILL TAKE A FEW HOURS FOR HIM TO HEAL COMPLETELY, AND THEN I CAN BEGIN, WHEN I DO YOU WILL HAVE TO LEAVE. THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE MAGIC THAT I PRACTICE WILL KILL YOU, AND I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET." THE SOLDIER STOOD UP AND SALUTED, "YES SIR!" HE REPLIED AND TENDED TO THE FOOD.

DARTH TABAH AND LORD SCIN WERE TRAVELLING TO THE UNKNOWN REGIONS TO UNITE THE SCATTERED SITH ARMIES AND DESTROY THE JEDI. DARTH TABAH WAS AT THE CONTROLS OF THE SHIP AS HIS FRIEND WAS ADMIRING THE VIEW. "YOU SEE MY FRIEND, DARTH BRUTICUS HAS NO IDEA THAT THE SITH EXIST IN OTHER PARTS OF THE GALAXY, HE IS THINKING LIKE THE NARROWMINDED JEDI AND THAT WILL BE HIS DOWNFALL.
HE IS A GOOD MAN, HAS A GREAT MIND AND IS AN EXCELLENT WARRIOR, BUT HIS GREEDY HEART IS GOING TO KILL HIM. LORD SCIN HEARD A BEEPING SOUND COMING FROM THE SPACE MAP HOLOSCREEN. "HMMMM...I WONDER WHAT THIS IS." HE SAID LOOKING AT THE SCREEN. "IT'S A SIGNAL FROM DARTH BRUTICUS ON KAMINO, HE PROBABLY GOT STRANDED AND IS WANTING A SLAVE TO GET HIM OUT. I'LL CONTACT THE REPUBLIC AND HAVE THEM SEND OUT A FEW SHIPS FOR HIS CAPTURE." LORD SCIN SAID AS HE CONTACTED THE REPUBLIC NAVY AND GAVE THEM THE INFORMATION.
"THANK YOU SIR!" THE MAJOR SAID, " WE HAVE FIVE CRUISERS AND DESTROYERS THAT JUST LEFT TATOOINE AND WAS ENROUTE TO RISHI, WHICH IS NOT FAR FROM KAMINO, AGAIN THANK YOU SIR FOR THE INFORMATION!" HE SAID AS THE COMLINK CHANNEL SHUT OFF AND LORD SCIN STROLLED OVER TO HIS SEAT AND SAT DOWN PROPPING HIS FEET UP ON THE CONTROL PANELS AS DARTH TABAH LOOKED OVER AT HIM, "I TAKE IT THAT YOU GOT YOUR REVENGE MY FRIEND?" HE ASKED WATCHING HIS FRIEND SHOW AN EVIL SMILE AND GROWLING, "HA HA HA YOU SITH BANTHA HUTT LOVER, I'M GOING TO EAT, YOU WANT ANYTHING?" HE ASKED AS HE STARTED TO GLOAT AND BOUNCE AROUND AS HE WAITED FOR DARTH TABAH'S ANSWER.
"UH...NO, I'M FINE...BUT YOU GO AHEAD AND I'LL KEEP FLYING." HE ANSWERED. "YOU'LL KEEP FLYING? WE'RE IN HYPERSPACE, YOU FOOL, YOU NEED TO STOP SMOKING THAT BANTHA POODOO STUFF AND WAKE UP." LORD SCIN SAID AS HE WALKED TO THE CAFETERIA. "WHAT A COMPLETE WORTHLESS IDIOT, HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN." HE SPOKE INTO A COMLINK. "I KNOW MY FRIEND, BE CAREFUL HE WILL BE LISTENING SOON AND DID YOU CONTACT MZ-12?" THE VOICE ASKED. LORD SCIN ENTERED THE FOOD PREPARATION AREA AND BEGAN TO FIX SOMETHING TO EAT. "NO, I CONTACTED THE REPUBLIC NAVY AND THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY TO ARREST YOU." HE SAID AS DARTH TABAH USED THE FORCE AND COULD HEAR EVERY WORD THAT LORD SCIN WAS SAYING. "GEE THANKS FOR CONTACTING THE REPUBLIC TO GIVE US A FREE RIDE, WHEN YOU GET STRANDED, I'LL MAKE SURE TO CALL THE REPUBLIC NAVY FOR AN INTERCEPT."
DARTH BRUTICUS SAID AND ENDED THE TRANSMISSION. LORD SCIN SAT DOWN AND STARTED TO EAT WHEN DARTH TABAH RAN INTO THE ROOM WITH HIS LIGHTSABER DRAWN AND SLICED THROUGH THE TABLE IN FRONT OF THE DARK LORD, SPILLING THE FOOD INTO HIS LAP AND BURNING HIS LEGS, HE STOOD UP AND YELLED, "GREAT! NOW THAT'S THE WAY I LOVE TO FIGHT!" LORD SCIN YELLED OUT AS THE ANGERED SITH LORD HOPPED OVER THE SLICED TABLE AND FELL OVER A GROUP OF CHAIRS. "WELL YOU MOVE AROUND VERY WELL FOR A YOUNG SITH LORD THAT CAN'T FIGHT HIS WAY OUT OF A WET PAPER BAG!"
HE SAID EGGING HIM ON AND TRYING TO CLEAR THE CHAIRS OUT OF THE WAY. DARTH TABAH WAS AT LORD SCIN'S FEET WITH HIS LIGHTSABER IN HAND AND TRIED TO SWING AT SCIN'S LEGS BUT MISSED AS LORD SCIN FORCE JUMPED AND FORCE PUSHED HIM INTO THE WALL, TRAPING THE SITH LORD AND DROPPING HIS LIGHTSABER, LORD SCIN USED THE FORCE AND COLLAPSED THE WALL, WRAPPING IT AROUND THE YOUNG SITH LORD LIKE A BLANKET AND DROPPING HIM ON THE FLOOR. "NOW I HAVE YOU!" LORD SCIN SAID AS THE SHIP SUDDENLY JOLTED! "WELL, WELL, WELL, LOOK WHAT WE HAVE HERE!
A SHIP CRUISING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, AND LOOK WHO THE CAPTAIN IS...OUR LONG LOST SITH LORD DARTH TABAH." DARTH BRUTICUS SAID AS HE WENT TO SEE WHERE THEY WERE GOING. "HOW DID YOU GET THE SHIP OUT OF HYPERSPACE? HOW DID YOU ESCAPE THE GRASP OF THE REPUBLIC?" TABAH ASKED. "DARTH LUCRATIS SAT DOWN IN FRONT OF THE CAPTURED SITH AND SPOKE, "SO MANY QUESTIONS, YOUNG ONE, CALM DOWN AND LET YOUR MIND REST. THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF TIME LATER TO ANSWER ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS, LORD TABAH, BY THEN EVERYTHING WILL BE MADE CLEAR TO YOU!" DARTH LUCRATIS GOT UP AS A SQUAD OF REPUBLIC TROOPS ENTERED THE SHIP AND GRABBED THE WRAPPED UP SITH LORD AND TOOK HIM AWAY. "REMEMBER, KEEP HIM UNDER CLOSE GUARD COMMANDER." DARTH LUCRATIS SAID AS THE TROOPS TOOK THE SITH LORD AWAY TO THE REPUBLIC CRUISER AND PLACED HIM IN A FORCE PROOF CELL.
DARTH TABAH WAS TAKEN TO CORUSCANT WHERE HE WAS IMPRISONED IN A UNDISCLOSED LOCATION AND QUESTIONED BY THE JEDI. HE COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT THOSE SITH TRAITORS ACTUALLY TURNED HIM IN TO THE REPUBLIC, HE WOULD GET OUT AND THEN THEY ALL WOULD BE DEAD. A JEDI GRAND MASTER ENTERED THE ROOM BRINGING HIM SOME FOOD AND SAT DOWN AT THE TABLE IN FRONT OF HIM. AT LEAST THE WORTHLESS FORCE USERS FED THEIR PRISONERS, AND FED THEM WELL! "SO, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO TELL ME?

ANYTHING AT ALL?" THE JEDI ASKED. DARTH TABAH DID NOTHING BUT STARE AT THE WALL AND IGNORE THE JEDI, HE SAT UP, LOOKED AT THE JEDI IN THE EYES AND FORCE SPOKE. "YOU WILL UNLOCK THESE BONDS, GIVE ME YOUR LIGHTSABER AND LET ME GO!" THE JEDI STOOD UP AND WALKED TO THE DOOR OPENING IT AND WALKED BEHIND THE DARK LORD, AND FUMBLED WITH THE LOCK ON HIS BONDS. "YOU'LL HAVE TO DO BETTER THAN THAT, SITH." HE SAID AND LEFT THE ROOM. "ENJOY YOUR MEAL." HE SAID SHUTTING THE DOOR AND WALKING AWAY. THE DARK MASTER INSPECTED THE FOOD CAREFULLY BEFORE EATING IT BUT DIDN'T TOUCH THE DRINK, IT WAS POISONED AS USUAL. "YOU JEDI THINK THAT I WAS BORN YESTERDAY OR THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY...BUT SOON I'LL BE OUT OF HERE, AND YOU ALL WILL BE DEAD! I PROMISE THAT!" HE SAID EATING THE FOOD.

GRAND JEDI GIVAL, BUROC AND SMITH ARRIVED AT THE REPUBLIC NAVY PRISON ON CORUSCANT AND PREPARED TO QUESTION THE CAPTURED SITH LORD. "I'VE NEVER SPOKE TO A SITH, HELL BEFORE YOU ALL SHOWED UP, I NEVER HEARD OR THE SITH OR EVEN FOUGHT IN A WAR." MASTER SMITH SAID AS THE OTHER TWO JEDI SMILED AND NODDED IN AGREEMENT TO THE YOUNGER GRAND MASTER. "STAY HERE JOHN AND WE WILL QUESTION HIM." GIVAL SAID ENTERING THE ROOM AS SEACO BUROC PATTED THE MASTER ON THE BACK.
"GO AND SEE THE SIGHTS, WE'LL FIND YOU WHEN WE'RE DONE." HE SAID AND HE ENTERED THE ROOM BEHIND THE NEW CHANCELLOR. THE YOUNG GRAND JEDI SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AS TWO SOLDIERS ARRIVED AND GUARDED THE DOOR. THE YOUNG MASTER LEFT THE TROOPS TO THEIR JOB AND STARTED WALKING AROUND LOOKING AT THE NEWLY REDECORATED PRISON, IT HAD BEEN REPAINTED IN RED INSTEAD OF BLUE AND LOOKED TERRIBLE. WHO OR WHATEVER COVERED IT HAD NO IDEA ON HOW TO DO IT'S JOB. WALKING BY A JANITOR, HE SAID, "GEEZ, THIS LOOKS LIKE CRAP, WHOEVER DID THIS SHOULD BE SHOT." THE JANITOR STOPPED WALKING AND TURNED TO THE JEDI GRAND MASTER,
"MASTER JEDI, DO I COMPLAIN TO YOU ABOUT YOUR WORK?" HE ASKED AS MASTER SMITH LOOKED OVER AT THE MAN AND SAID, "YOU COULDN'T DO MY WORK AND IF YOU DID I HOPE IT WOULD LOOK BETTER THAN YOUR PAINT JOB. HELL IT LOOKS LIKE YOU WERE SMOKING SOMETHING. WERE YOU TRAINED AT YOUR JOB AT GUNPOINT?"
HE ASKED AS HE TURNED HIS BACK AND STARTED TO WALK AWAY. THE JANITOR GOT MAD AND PULLED A BLASTER FROM HIS HOLSTER AS MASTER SMITH STROLLED SLOWLY AWAY GAZING AT THE NEWLY HUNG TAPESTRIES AND BANNERS. HE STOPPED IN HIS TRACKS AS THE JANITOR GOT CLOSER AND CLOSER TO HIS TARGET. MASTER SMITH SAW A SMALL GROUP OF CHILDREN NEARBY AND WAVED TO THEM AS THE MAN RAISED THE BLASTER TO THE BACK OF HIS TARGET'S HEAD. THE JEDI GRABBED HIS SABER, TURNED IT ON AND SPUN AROUND BEHIND HIM CUTTING OFF THE JANITOR'S ARM, DROPPING IT AND THE MAN TO THE FLOOR. THE JEDI STOOD OVER THE JANITOR WITH HIS LIGHTSABER STILL TURNED ON AS THE MAN SLOWLY CRAWLED AWAY.
"SO, WHY WOULD A JANITOR BE CARRYING A BLASTER? WHY WOULD A MAN LIKE YOU BE TRYING TO KILL A JEDI?" HE ASKED TURNING OFF THE WEAPON AND CLIPPING IT TO HIS BELT. HE LEANED OVER AND PICKED THE MAN UP OFF OF THE FLOOR AS THREE TROOPS RAN OVER TO HIS LOCATION AND ESCORTED THE MAN TO THE INFIRMARY, ALONG WITH HIS SEVERED ARM.

"OK, WE FED YOU, CLOTHED YOU, AND LET YOU CLEAN YOURSELF UP." THE NEW CHANCELLOR GIVAL SAID AS A TROOPER ENTERED THE ROOM AND SAID, " I'M VERY SORRY TO BOTHER YOU MASTERS, BUT MASTER SMITH HAS BEEN ATTACKED AND IS SEVERLY WOUNDED, THEY NEED YOU IN THE INFIRMARY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!" SEACO BUROC ROSE FROM HIS SEAT AND WALKED THROUGH THE DOOR SLOWLY LOOKING TO HIS LEFT AND RIGHT AT THE GUARDS, USING THE FORCE HE GOT INTO THEIR MINDS AND READ EVERYTHING, NOTHING WAS OUT OF PLACE EXCEPT THE GUARDS. THE TWO OF THEM WERE TO ONLY HAVE PIKES, NOT LIGHTSABERS.
THE GRAND JEDI TURNED TO THE GUARDS. "I DIDN'T KNOW THAT THE CHANCELLOR'S GUARDS CARRIED LIGHTSABERS, WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?" HE ASKED AS THE GARDS TURNED THEM ON AND ENGAGED THE JEDI. THE GUARD INSIDE TURNED TWO GREEN LIGHTSABERS ON AND ATTACKED THE CHANCELLOR, SWINGING DOWN AS GIVAL HOPPED OUT OF THE CHAIR JUST AS THE GUARD CUT THROUGH IT AND THE TABLE. HE PARTED THE TABLE AND CUT THROUGH THE CORD THAT CONNECTED TO A FORCE CROWN THAT WAS AROUND THE HEAD OF DARTH TABAH, KEEPING HIM FROM USING THE FORCE. HE JUMPED FROM HIS SEAT AND FORCE PUSHED THE DOOR INTO SEACO BUROC KNOCKING HIM OUT AND USING FORCE LIGHTNING, HE FRIED THE TWO GUARDS IN THEIR TRACKS AS MASTER SMITH RAN TO HIS FRIEND'S AID.
TURNING HIS LIGHTSABER ON, THE JEDI FORCE RAN ACROSS THE BUILDING. THE SITH LORD'S ATTACK GOT STRONGER AND STRONGER AS THE LIGHTNING WAS STARTING TO STREAK AWAY FROM HIS TARGETS AND INTO OTHER INNOCENT PEOPLE THAT WERE STANDING AROUND WATCHING THE SITH ESCAPE. THE LIGHTNING WAS GETTING BRIGHTER AND BRIGHTER AS THE SITH MAINTAINED HIS ATTACK AT THE TWO TARGETS, PEOPLE STARTED TURNING THEIR HEADS AWAY DUE TO THE EXTREME BRIGHT LIGHT, HIS ESCAPE WAS COMPLETE. THE JEDI GOT CLOSER AND CLOSER AS DARTH TABAH STARTED TALKING TO HIMSELF. "COME ON JEDI, COME CLOSER...COME ON...COME ON!"
HE SAID AS THE JEDI GOT WITHIN RANGE OF HIS ATTACK, THE SITH FORCE PUSHED THE BODIES TOWARD MASTER SMITH AND LET THEM GO OF THE LIGHTNING AND RUNNING AWAY AS THE GUARDS ELECTRICAL BODIES EXPLODED IN THE JEDI'S FACE AND SHOWERED HIM AND SEACO BUROC WITH BITS AND PIECES OF BURNT BODY PARTS. WHEN MASTER SMITH WOKE UP AND OPENED HIS EYES THE SITH LORD DARTH TABAH WAS STANDING OVER HIM HOLDING HIS LIGHTSABER IN HIS HAND LOOKING OVER THE HILT. "HMMM...A JEDI LIGHTSABER, THESE ARE MUCH WEAKER THAN OUR HANDMADE BLADES. I'LL KEEP IT.....FOR NOW, WHEN I SEE YOU AGAIN, YOU'LL BE READY AND WE WILL MEET...OH YES WE WILL MEET AGAIN."
HE SAID LEANING OVER AND PUNCHING THE GRAND MASTER IN THE FACE AND KNOCKING HIM OUT, HE LOOKED INTO THE ROOM AND SAW THE GUARD FIGHTING WITH THE CHANCELLOR. AS THE DARK LORD WAS LEAVING HE SAW A CHANGLING WALKING BY, THE DARK LORD WAVED HIS HAND IN FRONT OF HIS FACE, SAID A FEW WORDS TO HIM GIVING HIM A BLACK SILK BAG AND SENT HIM ON HIS WAY.
MEANWHILE DELPA GIVAL WAS ENGAGED IN BATTLE WITH THE GUARD, ALREADY THE CHANCELLOR HAD CUT OFF ALL OF HIS CLOTHES AND THE MAN HAD SLASH MARKS ALL OVER HIS BODY. HIS LONG HAIR WAS GONE AND HE WAS HOPPING AROUND IN HIS UNDERWEAR, STEPPING ON BROKEN GLASS, HE FOUGHT HIS WAY TO THE EXIT. CATCHING A GLIMPSE OF THE OUTSIDE HE STOPPED AND SMILED AS GIVAL SENSED A STRONG DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE AND STEPPED BACK A LITTLE AS HIS FOE. "MY LORD HAS BEEN CAPTURED ONCE AGAIN AND MY SERVICES ARE NO LONGER NEEDED."
HE SAID AS DELPA GIVAL SLOWLY MOVED FORWARD. THE MAN WALKED OUTSIDE WITH HIS LIGHTSABER AS THE REPUBLIC TROOPS AND JEDI SURROUNDED HIM. HE KNELT DOWN AND RAISED THE LIGHTSABER WITH BOTH HANDS ABOVE HIS HEAD. "MAY THE FORCE SERVE YOU WELL, MY SITH BROTHERS AND SISTERS!" HE SAID BRINGING THE SABER DOWN AND STABBING HIMSELF THROUGH THE CHEST, BURNING HIS ENTIRE UPPER TORSO. THE MAN FELL OVER ON THE FLOOR, THE LIGHTSABER SHUT OFF AND THE SMELL OF BURNT FLESH FILLED THE AIR AS THE TROOPS AND JEDI DID NOTHING BUT STARE.

DARTH BRUTICUS BROUGHT THE SHIP OUT OF HYPERSPACE AND WAS APPROACHING AN UNKNOWN PLANET, HIS HOLOGRAM PROJECTOR STARTED BEEPING. HE PUSHED A BUTTON AND A HOLOGRAM APPEARED. "MASTER I HAVE FOUND THE SITH LORD WHO IS BEHIND THE BETRAYAL AND HE IS A COUNCIL MASTER." HE SAID AS THE SUPREME MASTER TOSSED THE PROJECTOR DOWN ON THE TABLE IN FRONT OF DARTH LUCRATIS AND SAID, "YOUR STAR PUPIL IS A COMPLETE IDIOT WHO IS REPEATING THE EXACT THING THAT YOU TOLD HIM WHEN YOU BRIEFED HIM ON THIS MISSION. "HE ISN'T MY STAR PUPIL, MINE IS AWAY ON A MISSION, THIS IS SOMEONE WHO IS....WASTING OUR TIME."

DARTH LUCRATIS SAID AS HE SAT BACK AND LOOKED AT THE HOLOGRAM OF THE UNKNOWN SITH AND SQUEEZED HIS FINGERS TOGETHER, CHOKING THE SITH TO DEATH AND SEEING THE HOLOSITH FALL OUT OF THE PICTURE. LUCRATIS SHUT THE PROJECTOR OFF AND SAT BACK IN HIS CHAIR AS THE DEVICE STARTED BEEPING ONCE AGAIN. DARTH LUCRATIS LOOKED UP AT THE SUPREME MASTER AND SAID, "YOU WANNA TAKE THIS ONE, OR SHOULD I?" HE ASKED AS LORD SCIN PICKED THE DEVICE UP IN HIS HAND AND ACTIVATED THE PROJECTOR. A HOLOGRAM APPEARED AND SPOKE, "DARTH TABAH IS DEAD, MY LORD AND SEACO BUROC IS AS WELL. I'M CLOSER TO MY OBJECTIVE AND WILL UPDATE YOU SOON WHEN IT IS DONE."
HE SAID AS THE HOLOGRAM FADED. LORD SCIN SET THE DEVICE DOWN ON THE TABLE AND WALKED AWAY WHILE DARTH BRUTICUS SAT DOWN NEXT TO DARTH LUCRATIS. "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH HIM AND I'M GOING TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS." HE SAID GRABBING HIS FRIEND'S PLATE AND STARTED EATING THE FRIED BANTHA MEAT ON A STICK. "HEY, THAT'S MINE!" DARTH LUCRATIS SAID AS DARTH BRUTICUS GOT UP AND WALKED AWAY WITH THE PLATE OF FOOD. "THANKS FOR THE SNACK MY FRIEND, NOW MAKE YOURSELF SOME!"
HE SAID LAUGHING AS HE WALKED AWAY. DARTH LUCRATIS WALKED TO THE COCKPIT AND SAT WITH THE PILOTS AND LORD SCIN. "HE WAS YOUR FRIEND, WASN'T HE?" LUCRATIS ASKED AS HE LOOKED OVER AT HIS FRIEND. THE SITH LORD STARTED LAUGHING AND SHOOK HIS HEAD AT DARTH LUCRATIS. "HE'S NOT DEAD, I DON'T CARE WHAT THAT SITH SAID, IF HE WAS DEAD.....I'D KNOW IT, I'D HAVE THAT FUNNY FEELING IN MY STOMACH AND I WOULD GET DIZZY. I HAD NONE OF THOSE SYMPTOMS, DARTH TABAH WAS RIGHT ABOUT DARTH BRUTICUS, HIS GREED IS GETTING THE BEST OF HIM AND IT IS BLINDING HIS MIND WITH THINGS THAT HE WILL NEVER HAVE. HERE WE ARE ARRIVING AT THIS PLANET LOOKING FOR THE GREAT ARMIES OF THE SITH....HE WILL NOT SUCCEED." LORD SCIN SAID.
SLEEPING ON HIS BACK, DARTH MAZARILL ROLLED OFF OF THE STEEL SLAB AND ONTO THE FLOOR. IT WAS STILL RAINING ON CORUSCANT AS THE SITH LORD OPENED HIS EYES SLOWLY AND ROLLED TO HIS SIDE, EXAMINING THE WOUND IN HIS CHEST. HE COULDN'T EXPLAIN WHY HE WAS STILL ALIVE. SEACO BUROC HIS SABER FROM HIM AND RAN IT THROUGH HIS HEART, BUT HE WAS STILL ALIVE! "STILL BREATHING!? HOW WAS THIS POSSIBLE?" DARTH MAZARILL SAID. HE HAD NO IDEA WHO BUT HE WOULD FIND OUT...IF HE LIVES. "WELL, WELL... THE GREAT DARTH MAZARILL, I HAVE NEED OF YOU, BUT FIRST YOU NEED TO HEAL." THE HOODED FIGURE PICKED UP THE FALLEN SITH FROM THE FLOOR AND TOOK HIM BACK TO THE INFIRMARY AS HE CLOSED HIS EYES AND FELL BACK TO SLEEP. "I HAVE NO IDEA HOW YOU GOT HERE OUTSIDE OF THE ROOM BUT I HAVE AN IDEA WHO THE CULPRIT IS...AND I WILL TAKE CARE OF IT AS YOU REST." HE SAID AS HE CARRIED THE SITH MASTER THROUGH THE ABANDONED JEDI TEMPLE AND RETURNED TO THE INFIRMARY.
DARTH MAZARILL HAD NO IDEA WHO WAS HELPING HIM AND RIGHT NOW HE DIDN'T CARE. HE SLOWLY OPENED HIS EYES AND SAW A MIDDLE AGED MAN WITH LONG GRAY HAIR USING MAGIC AND CHANTING FROM A BOOK. AS TIME TICKED AWAY, DARTH MAZARILL FELL IN AND OUT OF CONSCIENCE, ONCE HE LOOKED AT HIS CHEST AND SAW GREEN SMOKE RISING FROM THE CARTERIZED CAVITY AND PASSED OUT AGAIN. ANOTHER TIME HE THOUGHT HE SAW GHOSTS OF ANCIENT SITH STANDING AROUND THE SLAB THAT HE LAY ON WITH THEIR ARMS OUT AND CHANTING ALONG WITH THE DARK MASTER, WHO RAN A RED STICK UNDER HIS NOSE AND THE YOUNG SITH PASSED OUT AGAIN. THE BATTLE BETWEEN HE AND SEACO BUROC RAN THROUGH HIS MIND OVER AND OVER, HE HAD THE ADVANTAGE! HE HAD EVERYTHING ON HIS SIDE....HATE, FORCE, THE DARKSIDE, AND YET HE STILL FAILED. DAYS CAME AND GONE AS THE YOUNG SITH MASTER LAY ON THAT SLAB.
HE WAS DREAMING AND AWOKE, OPENING HIS EYES HE LOOKED AROUND THE ROOM AND SAW A TABLE WITH ANCIENT SURGERY EQUIPMENT COVERED IN DRIED BLOOD, HE LOOKED DOWN AND SAW ROTTEN PIECES OF CARTERIZED FLESH IN A TRASH CONTAINER, IT WAS THE SMELL THAT WOKE HIM UP. THE YOUNG MASTER SAT UP SLOWLY, USING THE FORCE HE SET THE TRASH ON FIRE AND FORCE PUSHED THE CAN OUTSIDE OF THE ROOM AS HE SLOWLY GOT UP FROM THE SLAB, GRABBED A CANE THAT WAS LEANING AGAINST A WALL NEARBY AND LEFT THE ROOM. IT WAS DARK AND COLD, HE COULD HEAR THE RAINDROPS HITTING THE BROKEN GLASS ROOFTOPS AND THE GREAT HALL FLOORS FROM HIS BOMB ATTACKS. MAZARILL WALKED DOWN THE STAIRS AND OVER TO THE ENTRANCE DOORS WATCHING THE RAIN FALL, HE LIKED THE RAINY SEASON ON CORUSCANT, THE DARK CLOUDS RACING ACROSS THE SKY, THE THUNDER RUMBLING.
IT SOOTHED HIM AND CALMED HIS NERVES. HE STARED OUT OF THE WINDOWS WATCHING THE RAIN RUN DOWN THEM FOR WHAT SEEMED TO BE AN ETERNITY AND WATCHING THE REPUBLIC SOLDIERS FLEE TO THEIR SHELTERS FROM THE RAIN. "ARE YOU READY TO BEGIN YOUR NEW LIFE?" A VOICE SAID FROM BEHIND HIM AS THE YOUNG MASTER TURNED AROUND AND SAW THE HOODED FIGURE WHO PULLED HIS HOOD DOWN AND REVEALED HIS OLDER FACE. DARTH MAZARILL OPENED HIS MOUTH TO SPEAK BUT COULD ONLY SAY ONE WORD, "WHY?" HE ASKED. THE MAN SAID,"
BECAUSE DARTH BRUTICUS SENT YOU HERE TO YOUR DEATH AND YOU FOUGHT AGAINST A JEDI GRAND MASTER WHO ALSO THINKS THAT YOU ARE DEAD, I'M GOING TO KILL THE BOTH OF THEM, BUT I NEED YOUR HELP." THE YOUNG MASTER SAT DOWN ON THE FLOOR, LEANING AGAINST THE GLASS DOOR AND FEELING THE COLD AGAINST HIS HEAD. "WHO ARE YOU?" HE ASKED AS HIS HEAD SLID DOWN THE WINDOW. THE SITH CROUCHED DOWN AND SAID, "MY NAME IS ION VAT, GRAND MASTER AND ALCHEMIST OF THE SITH, I'VE BEEN WATCHING AND WAITING. WHAT DARTH BRUTICUS IS DOING HAS GREAT INTENTIONS, BUT I SEE THAT HE WILL GET SHOT DOWN IN FLAMES." DARTH MAZARILL LOOKED UP AT THE DARK LORD AND SAID. "YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE A SITH ...YOU LOOK LIKE A JEDI."
THE MAN STARTING LAUGHING, "LOOKS ARE DECEIVING, YOUNG ONE, THEY ARE VERY DECEIVING." THE YOUNG MASTER GOT UP SLOWLY AND LOOKED AROUND AT ALL OF THE DAMAGE THAT HE CREATED. "WILL THE JEDI REBUILD THIS?" MAZARILL ASKED AS THE SITH LORD HELPED HIM WALK ALONG. "MOST LIKELY, THIS IS CORUSCANT. THE SITH LIKE THE JEDI, WILL RISE AND FADE. IT HAS BEEN SO FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS AND WILL CONTINUE FOR MILLIONS MORE. THE SENATE WILL TAKE PITY ON THE JEDI, REBUILD THIS TEMPLE AND HELP THEM SEARCH THE GALAXY FOR YOUNGLINGS AND THUS STARTING THE CIRCLE ONCE AGAIN." THE TWO WENT AND GATHERED WHAT ITEMS THEY HAD AND LEFT THE TEMPLE. THEY CROSSED THE FAILED FORCE FIELD AND BOARDED A SHIP A SMALL DISTANCE AWAY. DARTH MAZARILL SAT DOWN WHILE THE SHIP TOOK OFF, ION VAT COVERED THE YOUNG MASTER WITH A BLANKET AND SAT DOWN ACROSS FROM HIM. DARTH MAZARILL LAY DOWN ON THE COUCH AND STARTED TO GO TO SLEEP.
"YOU LOOK LIKE SOMEONE THAT I READ ABOUT ONCE." HE SAID AS HE MADE HIMSELF COMFY. "SO WHO DO I LOOK LIKE?" THE SITH MAGICIAN ASKED WHILE THE YOUNG SITH TOSSED AND TURNED. FINALLY HE GOT COMFORTABLE AND CLOSED HIS EYES. "YOU LOOK LIKE QUI-GON JINN HE SAID. ION VAT LOOKED AT HIM AND ASKED, "WHO'S HE?" DARTH MAZARILL SHIFTED HIMSELF AROUND AND SAID," HE WAS A JEDI MASTER WHO WAS KILLED BY A SITH APPRENTICE." HE SAID AND DRIFTED OFF TO SLEEP.

DARTH NORAA WAS SITTING AT HIS DESK WATCHING THE TRAITOR ON A HOLOSCREEN. "THERE YOU ARE AND NOW YOU ARE MINE!" HE SAID GETTING UP FROM HIS CHAIR, GRABBING HIS LIGHTSABER AND LEAVING THE ROOM. THE TWO OF THEM WERE THE ONLY ONES IN THE TEMPLE, EVERYONE ELSE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE TEMPLES ON CORUSCANT AND BYSS. AS HE WALKED THROUGH THE GREAT HALL, HE SPOTTED DARTH KAMENWATI WHO IN TURN SAW HIM AND WALKED OVER TO MEET HIM. "GREETINGS LORD KAMENWATI, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" DARTH NORAA ASKED AS THE DARK LORD STOOD ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HALL.
"YOU KNOW WHY I AM HERE...SO IT'S YOU, THE TRAITOR." KAMENWATI SAID AS DARTH NORAA LOOKED AT THE DARK LORD IN WONDER. "I AM NOT THE TRAITOR, I'VE BEEN DOING RESEARCH AND THE TRAITOR ISN'T ME....IT'S YOU!" HE SAID AS HE RAN OVER TO THE SITH LORD'S POSITION, FRONT FLIPPED OVER THE STAIRS, TURNED HIS SABER ON AND ATTACKED THE SITH WITH AN OVERHEAD SLASH. AS HE LANDED ON THE FLOOR, DARTH KAMENWATI BLOCKED HIS ATTACK WITH HIS SABER AND FORCE PUSHED THE YOUNGER SITH ACROSS THE HALL AGAINST THE RAILING AND SLOWLY WALKED OVER TO DARTH NORAA. "I'M GOING TO ENJOY BREAKING YOU DOWN TO NOTHING."
KAMENWATI SAID WHILE HIS FOE WAS GETTING UP, DARTH NORAA LUNGED FORWARD USING THE FORCE AND FLASHED THROUGH THE SITH LORD CUTTING HIM IN HALF. "YOU'RE GOING TO BREAK WHO?!" HE ASKED AS HE WATCHED THE CARTERIZED HALVES SEPERATE AND FALL TO THE FLOOR, HE STOOD OVER WAHT WAS LEFT OF DARTH KAMENWATI AND STARTED GLOATING. "SO YOU THOUGHT THAT YOU WOULD COME HERE AND KILL ME YOU WORTHLESS EXCUSE OF A SITH LORD." HE SAID AS A HOODED FIGURE APPROACHED BEHIND HIM, TURNED ON HIS SABER AND SAID, "I'M TIRED OF HEARING YOUR MOUTH LORD NORAA." THE SITH LORD FROZE STILL AND DIDN'T MOVE AS THE VOICE SPOKE AGAIN. "THIS IS IT MY FRIEND, YOU ARE HISTORY AND ALL BECAUSE I SERVE AND OBEY DARTH BANE AND HIS RULE OF TWO." THE VOICE SAID. DARTH NORAA DIDN'T TURN AROUND AS THE FIGURE EXPLAINED HIS EVIL PLOT.
"I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA FOR YOU TO FOLLOW HIM, JUST LIKE BRUTICUS BRINGING DARTH SIDIOUS HERE TO OUR TIME." HE SAID SHUTTING OFF HIS LIGHTSABER AND KNEELING ON THE FLOOR WITH HIS HEAD DOWN. "I HAVE DONE ALL THAT I CAN, THERE IS NOTHING THAT THE SITH CAN OFFER FOR ME.....TAKE MY HEAD." THE FIGURE STOOD BEHIND HIM AND DARTH NORAA FELT HIS PRESENCE. HE QUICKLY GOT UP, TURNED AROUND AND HIT THE FIGURE WITH FORCE LIGHTNING, KNOCKING HIM ACROSS THE GREAT HALL. "I LIED, THAT'S MY JOB AS A SITH LORD, TO LIE, CHEAT, STEAL, KILL AND DESTROY!" HE YELLED AT THE FIGURE AS HE RAN OVER TO HIM, TURNED HIS LIGHTSABER ON AND ATTACKED THE MAN WHO QUICKLY GOT UP AND ACTIVATED HIS SABER WHICH TURNED THE BLADE GREEN. "I LIED TOO MY FRIEND, I'M NOT UNITING WITH DARTH BANE OR DARTH BRUTICUS BUT I WILL TELL YOU SOMETHING OF TRUTH, BEFORE I DESTROY YOU.
DARTH BRUTICUS AND DARTH LUCRATIS TURNED YOU AND DARTH KAMENWATI AGAINST EACH OTHER SO THAT THEY COULD KNOCK THE SITH PACK DOWN TO TWO." HE SAID AS HE ENGAGED THE SITH LORD WITH A GREEN AND RED SABER. "COME ON SENATOR, LET'S SEE THE THE TRAINING THAT YOU'VE BEEN GIVING THE SITH FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS." THE HOODED FIGURE SAID AS HE BURNED THROUGH ALL OF HIS MOVES IN A FEW MINUTES AND QUICKLY TIRED OUT THE SITH TRAINER AND AS DARTH NORAA SLASHED AT THE UNKNOWN MAN'S FACE,
HE STILL DIDN'T BACK DOWN OR SHOW ANY SIGN THAT HE WAS TIRED, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS EXHAUSTED AND READY TO QUIT, BUT HE COULDN'T QUIT, THIS WAS A FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE AND HE WASN'T GIVING IT AWAY VERY EASILY. THE FIGURE SWUNG BOTH SABERS OVER HIS FOE'S HEAD RAPIDILY AS DARTH NORAA TRIED DESPERATELY TO BLOCK AND THEN THE FIGURE STARTED SLOWING DOWN HIS FIGHT AND NORAA FOUND THE ADVANTAGE AND TOOK IT. HE WAITED FOR THE DUAL ATTACK TO STOP AND WHEN IT DID, LORD NORAA CUT OFF THE ARM THAT HELD THE RED BLADED SABER.
"AAAAHHHHH!" HE HEARD THE FIGURE YELL AS HE BACKED OFF TO COVER THE WOUND. "NOW WE ARE EVEN WHOEVER YOU ARE." HE SAID AS THE FIGURE STOOD UP AND PULLED OFF HIS HOOD. "WOW, NOW THIS IS A SURPRISE, NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS WOULD I HAVE THOUGHT THAT YOU OF ALL PEOPLE WOULD BE FIGHTING AGAINST ME, SO DARTH BRUTICUS HAS TURNED US AGAINST EACH OTHER. SO WHAT DO I DO NOW I WONDER?" HE ASKED THE MAN WHO STOOD BEFORE HIM WITH A GREEN SABER IN HIS HAND. "NOW THE PLOT THICKENS, THE SKIES ARE GETTING DARKER." DARTH NORAA SAID AS HIS FOE ATTACKED HIM WHICH WAS EASIER THAN BEFORE, AND ONE LESS LIGHTSABER ADDED TO THE BATTLE. THE MAN FOUGHT FOR HIS LIFE AS LORD NORAA NOW HAD THE ADVANTAGE AND AS HE SWUNG THE SABER SLOWLY OUTWARDLY ACROSS HIS FOE'S CHEST, DARTH NORAA DUCKED AND THE SITH'S ATTACK MISSED,
THE SITH LORD STOOD UP AND CUT OFF HIS OTHER ARM, THEN TOOK OFF HIS HEAD TO RID HIM OF HIS OWN MISERY. THE LIMP BODY FELL TO THE FLOOR, DARTH NORAA SENSED NO ONE ELSE IN THE TEMPLE AND HE LEFT THE BUILDING. AS HE WALKED OUTSIDE THE BUILDING HE WHISPERED TO HIMSELF, "GOODBYE DARTH LAZUR....GOODBYE." HE SAID AS A REPUBLIC SHIP FLEW OVER THE TEMPLE AND DROPPED A BOMB ON TOP OF THE SITH LORD WHO COULD DO NOTHING BUT STAND STILL. THE BOMB HIT NEXT TO DARTH NORAA AND VAPORIZING THE SITH TO NOTHING BUT DUST.

CHANCELLOR GIVAL EXITED THE INTERROGATION ROOM AND RAN TO HIS FRIENDS AID. PULLING THE BURNT PIECES OFF OF THE FALLEN JEDI, HE CALLED FOR MEDICS TO ASSIST THE FALLEN JEDI GRAND MASTERS TO THE INFIRMARY. AFTER THEY WERE TAKEN AWAY, DELPA GIVAL ORDERED AN IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION OF THE ESCAPED SITH LORD AND ANYONE WHO WAS PRESENT DURING THE ORDEAL.

"DAMN, IF IT ISN'T ONE THING IT'S SOMETHING ELSE." THE CHANCELLOR SAID AS HE RETURNED TO HIS APARTMENT TO REST. HE ENTERED THE ESTABLISHMENT AND WALKED TO HIS OFFICE AND SAT DOWN AT HIS DESK, IT WAS EARLY IN THE MORNING AS HE OPENED THE SHADES AND TURNED THE LIGHTS ON. A MESSAGE WAS BURNED IN THE OFFICE WALL, HE STOOD UP AT ONCE AND CALLED THE CHANCELLOR'S GUARDS IN IMMEDIATELY. THE GUARDS ENTERED THE APARTMENT AND BEGAN INVESTIGATING THE BREAK IN. ALL OVER THE OFFICE, GENERAL TANASH TOOK NOTES AND SCANNED THE BURNT MESSAGE ON THE WALL. HE READ IT ALOUD.

"THE HEADS OF THE SITH COUNCIL HAVE BEEN BROKEN, SIX ARE DEAD, FOUR REMAIN. YOUR NEW GRAND MASTER IS NEXT."

HE SAID AS HE WALKED TO THE ENTRANCE AND SPOKE TO THE CHANCELLOR. "WE WILL FIND THE PERSON WHO DID THIS, IN THE MEANTIME WE WILL DOUBLE THE TROOPS IN THIS BUILDING SIR." HE SAID LEAVING THE APARTMENT. "THANK YOU GENERAL." DELPA GIVAL SAID ENTERING HIS APARTMENT AND WENT TO SLEEP IN HIS ROOM.