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Star Wars: Infinite Darkness: I: The Gathering

The twin suns didn't rise this morning, it was raining and that was rare on this planet. Six jedi padawans were running from the dark lord as he was walking across the wet sand laughing,
"You can't outrun me jedi scum, I can do this all day, night and all day again if needs be."
The sith lord said walking after the tired, worthless jedi cowards. He raised his hand up to the heavens and sent a storm of lightning up to the clouds which in turn sent lightning back down to the sith lord making him glow red.
"Come on and fight me! Don't run, you're only making this harder on yourselves!"
The jedi ran to the base of a mountain and started climbing, the dark lord reached them and looked up at the struggling cowards try to escape his capture. A lightning bolt came down and struck the mountain peak sending boulders down on the jedi below. All but two braced for the impact, the others were knocked off. As they fell the sith lord stood under them and yelled,
"Yes! send them down!"
The dark lord moved at the last moment and the bodies slammed into the ground. He didn't need to inspect them, he knew that they were already dead.
"Either you come down and face me or mother nature will deal with you and she's doing a better job than me!"
Lightning hit another jedi and burned him to a crisp, the strike scared the other two and they both fell to their deaths below.
The last jedi force jumped off of the side of the mountain face, activated his lightsaber, and fell down to the sith lord below, as he landed on his feet, the dark lord put his arms out to his sides as the jedi ran towards him.
Just before reaching him the evil one grabbed the jedi's hands, turned them around the dark lord's body and shoved the blade through his throat. The jedi opened his mouth and made a loud gurgling sound.
Darth Bruticus pulled the lightsaber straight out and slashed at his enemy's neck. The decapitated body hit the sand and was jolting as the evil victor spit on his lifeless body.
The dark lord searched the dead padawans for their weapons and any other information that he could find on them. He got eight sabers some Republic credits and a holo disk that had some training which the dark lord was already familliar with.
The evil one smiled and slowly shook his head.
"That was a wasted day. Chased those misguided jedi children to their deaths. You should have joined the dark side you jedi scum!"
He turned and looked around, nothing but wet sand dunes as far as the eye could see.
The clouds were getting darker, the wind picked up as he watched the storm brew and head toward Mos Espa.
He pushed a button on his belt and a ship flew to his destination, boarding his ship, a droid began to speak.
"Darth Bruticus, the child you were looking for has been captured and is on his way to the temple."
Leaving the planet, the rain began falling while lightning bolted to the ground. Bruticus sat back in his seat and wiped the sweat from his face.
"Why do I give those force-sensitive do-gooders the chances that I do? Maybe I'm being too forgiving...or maybe I'm enjoying myself."
The droid sat next to him and said,
"I know that you are not forgiving, my lord...and that you are having fun with them sir. You are like a krayt dragon playing with it's food before the kill."
Darth Bruticus smiled and nodded,
"well said my friend...well said."
A small hologram of a tall hooded figure appeared and bowed. "He is here...it is done my lord." The figure said.
"Yes I know, await my arrival, apprentice." the dark lord replied and the hologram disappeared.

Sith Temple, Edge of the Killing Fields, Korriban
Two Days Later

Darth Kaiz looked down at the boy who looked up and smiled, the boy got an evil look in return.
"Is there anything to do in here? It's dark, gloomy, and creepy in this place." the boy said, trying to hide by the sith lord who grabbed his hand and said,
"How about I show you around this place?"
The boy nodded at the man and walked next to him. Many hours had passed and the two had finally reached an interesting room to the boy.
"What is this place?" The boy asked "This is the Lightsaber Training Area where many Sith over the years have learned to fight with a lightsaber."
The dark lord said as he pushed a button, nearby two young sith apprentices appeared and began to spar. He looked over at the boy who was staring in amazement, he turned to the sith lord and said, "I'm going to be doing that?!"

Lord Kaiz pushed another button and two advanced holosith appeared and began fighting and using darkside force attacks on each other. The boy walked over by the ancient warriors and sat down in front of them and watched.
The sith lord set the timers on the holoprojectors and left a droid to watch after the young boy as the dark lord left the room. He arrived at the landing pad as his master's ship touched down, the sith grand master walked down the ramp and was greeted by his apprentice.

"Welcome back my master, the boy has already started his training." Darth Kaiz said as he bowed to his master. Darth Bruticus stopped walking, turned and gave his apprentice an evil gaze. The apprentice bowed again and spoke quickly.
"He is watching the holoprojector in the saber training area my lord." The sith master started walking again as his apprentice walked by his side.
"Master...if I may ask...why do we need the boy? We live by the Rule of Two, Lord Bane would not be happy with us if we..." Darth Bruticus cut him off, "You want to know why I'm training the boy? Because of you...It was you that I sent to retrieve him from his home."
Darth Kaiz backed up from his master and said,
"Master I did everything you said to do."
Darth Bruticus nodded, "Yes my apprentice you did do everything, you got the boy, killed his parents, and attracted the attention of the jedi. I told you to shoot them dead, not use your lightsaber and cut them to pieces. Now the jedi are alerted to our presence, they sent a jedi strike force out to attack me on Tatooine, I destroyed them and discovered a message sent to the jedi by....you."
The sith grand master stopped walking and put his hands behind his back and stood still as Darth Kaiz walked on.
"Kaiz, I'm back here, not up there." The dark lord said as Kaiz still walked on , he finally stopped and turned around and force-threw a Terminator bomb at the old grand master. The dark lord held up his hand and deflected the bomb back at his apprentice. Darth Kaiz started to force-run away as the bomb detonated, releasing small bomblets into the air and continuing to follow the sith apprentice.
"Stand and fight you tusken raider jawa!" The sith master yelled. The boy got up from his seat and ran to the area's entrance. He saw a group of balls following the evil man around the great hall and he went outside the training area. The apprentice ran around the great hall and returning to his master.
Grabbing his weapon, the student ignited the weapon in his right hand and started a sweeping swing at the dark master. Darth Bruticus back flipped, grabbed the boy who ran toward him and shoved him to the side. The droid grabbed the boy by the shoulder and pulled him back. Looking at the droid, it let go of his grasp and started to crush itself, when the boy couldn't do anymore he threw the droid away.
Darth Kaiz screamed as the droid smacked into him and threw the sith apprentice into the terminator bomblets that exploded in his back, knocking him over the balcony and sending him to his death below. Using the force, Darth Bruticus grabbed the boy and brought him away from the explosion. "I didn't like him, it was like I could feel the evil pulsating all over him." the boy said.
"How do you fell about me?" The dark lord asked.
The boy closed his eyes and could feel the sith master's force aura, it was warm like a blanket and felt safe.
"I feel..."the boy said. "I know how you feel, young one...I know everything about you, and that's why I sent for you."
Bruticus said setting the boy on his feet. "You sent for me?" the boy asked. "Yes I sent for you, I have been watching you since your birth, I have spent my time watching and waiting for you to be old enough."
The dark lord said. The boy looked around at the dark and half destroyed temple and back to the sith master.
"Old enough for what? To kill me like you did him?" the boy asked. the dark lord began to laugh and sat down on the blackened marble floor in front of him. The boy sat down next to the man as he spoke,
"I didn't kill that worthless man...you did, I just chased him with bombs, you did the rest." The boy nodded his head and looked down at his feet and started playing with his shoelaces.
"You're not going to kill me for what I did?, you've been waiting for my since I was a baby...so what do you want with me?"
The dark lord grabbed his chin and turned his little head to face him and said, "You are my new apprentice, you will be more powerful than any before you." "So you expect me to forget my family that you had killed and become you're app...apprent...apprentice, however you say that word, I don't even know you, or your name, and you don't know me even though you say that you do."
The dark lord got up and said, "Walk with me." They walked through the great hall and started walking up the stairs, when they reached the top, the dark lord spoke again.
"My name is Darth Bruticus, you will address me as master. Those people that raised you are not you're family, I had them watch over you until I was ready to train you and now that you are here, I intend to do that and more. What you saw today is nothing compared to what I will teach you, when I am done you will be the most feared sith master in the galaxy and beyond. These are my servants, they will see that you get a change of clothes, something to eat and a room to get some rest in, I need to attend to some business and I'll return in a few days."
The young boy followed the servants as Darth Bruticus spoke to them giving them further instructions to prepare him for training. The sith master went to his quarters and gathered his things. "I need to leave for a few days and take care of a few things that Darth Kaiz screwed up."
He told the servant who bowed to him and replied, "Yes my lord...as you wish, it will be done as you instruct." The servant left his quarters to tend to the boy as Darth Bruticus left the room he spoke into his transmitter.
"Get my ship ready to take off." When he got to the landing pad, his personal sith hunter droid MZ-12 was waiting for him, they boarded the ship together and took off. Leaving Korriban nad entering hyperspace the droid asked the dark lord for their destination. "We're going to Tatooine to hunt down the jedi that Darth Kaiz spoke to before he/she/ it gets back to the jedi temple to tell the council about us." Darth Bruticus said.

The boy entered a room and sat down as a droid brought him a tray of food and a drink. "What is it ?" he asked. The droid turned and said,
"Corellian Chili, now be careful it is hot, if you want more we have plenty." The droid left him to eat, when he finished he was given a bath and new clothes which he had never worn before or even laid eyes on the custom made clothing.
They were black and brown with black boots with what looked like an ancient language printed and engraved on them. He was shown to his room and for the first time in thirty years, the sith slaves watched someone sleep other than Darth Bruticus. They stood at the door all night until he woke up in the morning.
Later that day the young boy was studing, learning about the history of the Sith...and the Jedi, at midday he went to psysical training where he lifted weights and exercised his body in ways that he never knew existed before. He would then eat, go to lightsaber training, which was his favorite.
The rest of this time was his own, he spent some days in his room, or in the library, or in the lightsaber training area with the sith servants. On one particular day after breakfast he was led to the library, seated at a table that had nothing but a black silk cloth laying on it.
As he looked at the cloth a small cube appeared and started moving like it was unlocking itself. A servant pushed a side on the cube and a hologram appeared above it. The figure bowed and began to speak,
"Hello young one, what's you're name?" The boy stood up and bowed back at the figure, took his seat and said, "My name is Mykalta." The figure said, "My name is Darth Bane and I will teach you many things while your master is away, the first thing you will learn is The Rule of Two." The boy nodded and spoke, "Yes my lord, my master and I are the only two here."
Lord Bane laughed, "I know young one...I know your master and I know who you are and everything about you." The boy's jaw dropped.
Dune Sea, Tatooine

Darth Bruticus took the ship out of hyperspace and landed the ship on the sandy planet, he and MZ-12 exited the craft and looked around.
"I hate the heat...and I hate this planet!" he said out load pulling out his sconscope from his pocket and looking around. MZ-12 exited the ship and walked to Darth Bruticus and said,
"Sir my sensors indicate a small ripple in the force...a sith lord has been here before." The sith master nodded and replied,
"Yes Darth Maul was here looking for Queen Amidala and for the first time in over a thousand years, he encountered a jedi....Master Jedi Qui-gon Jinn."
The droid was silent for a moment then spoke,
"How did you..." the dark lord cut him off, "Let me guess, you want to know how I knew that?"
MZ-12 nodded and said, "Yes sir, a little enlightnment on the subject would be appreciated." Darth Bruticus smiled and spoke, "I know that because I was here!"
The droid looked at his master with an odd look, he tried to speak but nothing came out. The sith master put his arm around the droid and laughed,
"I have a device that allows me to travel in time, so I used the device and I saw everything here. His landing, his search, his attack, and his withdraw."
MZ turned to the dark lord and said, "Really?! Have you gone to the future?" The dark lord replied,
"Yes but only to return to my time but nothing further, but I've gone to the past and met some of the most greatest sith that has ever existed. Exar Kun, Marka Ragnos, Naga Sadow, Freedon Nadd, and my favorite.....Darth Bane."
"What about Darth Krayt? the droid asked as the dark lord jumped over a ledge and down a sand dune. He started laughing so hard that he grabbed his stomach and almost lost his balance and fell over. "Darth Krayt, bah! Don't make me laugh, that guy is small time, nothing but a worthless wimp! A tusken raider crybaby."
The droid followed his master down the dune and across the desert. "Well I enjoyed reading his bio." MZ-12 said.
"MZ don't waste your time on people like that, stick with me and I'll fill your memory with knowledge, now let's go."
Darth Bruticus said. The two walked across the dune sea for what seemed to be an eternity, the dark lord turned to the droid and said,
"Why don't you return to the ship and await my orders....I'll handle this myself." MZ-12, the custom-built Sith droid, stopped, bowed and said, "Yes sir! Right away!"
He turned around and ran back to the ship. The sith lord walked over the next sand dune and lay on his belly, crawling in the sand he used his scope and saw what looked like a cave dug out out in the middle of nowhere and guarded by jedi guards, and there was no electronic security system. There were two jedi guarding the entrance, he decided to wait until dark to attack and fell back. Contacting MZ-12, he informed him of the plan.
Nightfall came and Darth Bruticus was ready, he contacted MZ telling him to bring the ship in cloaked, slowly to his position. The dark lord ran down the sand hill swiftly and silently he reached the jedi in seconds, already having his lightsaber in hand he ran foreward, turning his saber on and cut the two jedi in half at the midsection.
Moving behind he removed their heads clean off before the bodies hit the ground. He de-activated the saber and entered the cave quietly as if nothing happened. The dark lord came to a small chamber where he saw four more jedi.
Sensing another presence in the force, the sith lord turned quickly to see a jedi running towards him. Putting his saber away and using the force he cast an insanity spell on the jedi who ran past the dark lord, into the chamber and cut his fellow jedi down after which he turned and faced the sith master, then cut off his own head.
Darth Bruticus quickly searched the cave and found nothing but water, so as he busted the containers he searched the computer's memory finding out that a jedi had made it to the temple and with the help of the Republic, there was a Republic strike force headed for Korriban to bomb it.
His apprentice was there! He threw a couple of terminator bombs inside of the cave and imploded it, boarding the ship and leaving the planet faster than he ever flown before.
He yelled to MZ-12, "We need to get home and fast!!! The jedi have sent a strike team to bomb the temple!" The ship cleared the planet's gravational pull and went into hyperspace.
After many hours of training under Darth Bane, the wise ancient dark lord dismissed him. Walking back to his room he heard a loud explosion, followed by another and another, and they became more numberous, he put the holocron into his pocket and ran!
Running as fast as he could he went back to the library, smashed the holocron case and grabbed every single holocron and placed them into a cloth sack. The bombs started at the front of the temple and was blasting through the middleas the boy ran out of the back of the temple.
A final bomb hit nearby blasting what was left standing of the temple to a pile of rubble and throwing the young apprentice several meters away in a blast that broke his back and sent a giant piece of marble down on him crushing his body instantly.
A few hours later the dark lord's ship came out of hyperspace and found half of the republic fleet.
"We're doomed, we have no way in ...every way is blocked and..." MZ couldn't think of anything else to say.
"We're not doomed just calm down and let me think." The dark lord said as he rubbed his chin and cloaked the ship. Slowly he advanced the ship foreward to the sith planet and sensed no movement below and that the fleet was preparing to leave the system.
MZ-12 took control of the ship and flew it to the at top speed to the destroyed planet below. Mykalta opened his eyes and tried to pull himself out of the rubble, but the blast had broken his body, he was too weak to move and he was coughing up blood.
Darth Bruticus sensed his presence and landed the ship near the boy, the dark lord ran to him and pulled his body from the rubble, holding him in his arms, Mykalta spoke.
"You're...he..here...mmm...my...lord...I...got the...holocrons..." The boy grabbed Bruticus by his collar and slowly gave the grand sith master the cloth bag and spoke his last words. "G...get..them...for..me." He let go of his master's robe and let go of his life in the dark lord's arms.
Darth Bruticus lay the boy on the ground and covered him with a black cloak, as he stood up the boy's body disappeared, the dark lord reached down and grabbed the cloak in one hand and the bag of holocrons in the other.

MZ waited in the ship as a republic starfighter wing flew over what was left of the sith temple. The dark lord watched the ships fly by and land behind his own. A strike force of Jedi and Republic troops were bearing down on his location, he looked around and saw more ships land and deploya small army of troops, there was no place for him to run.
Captain Arnaga got his troops as close to the dark lord as possible. "It's him!" One of the troops said as the Captain moved closer to the criminal, which was not a safe place to be.
"Darth Bruticus!" The Captain yelled and threw electrobinders at his feet. "Bind your hands and feet together and lie down on your back now, or we will open fire!"
Bruticus looked around at his enemies one last time and gave a slight nod to MZ-12. "Where are your jedi, Captain?...Hiding as usual?"
The dark lord yelled and gave an evil smile. "They're here, all ten of them" The Captain replied. "I won't go quietly until they're here."
The dark lord said as he bent down and picked up the binders and tossed a lightsaber to the Captain, he tossed another a few feet away.
Captain Arnaga and two padawans got from behing their secured positions and walked over to grab the lightsaber, as the three people bent down to grab the saber, Darth Bruticus dropped the binders on the ground, the men knew that they had been fooled...they were dead.
Darth Bruticus force pushed everyone within a two hundred foot radius. The Captain and the jedi had no chance of surviving, they were thrown into the temple's rubble that was showering into the republic's ships causing major damage, rendering them all unflyable. The dark lord force-ran to his ship and blasted off, burning twenty soldiers and four jedi to death that were dumb enough to stand behind a ship waiting to take off.
Admiral Paamt was on the bridge of the Galactic Enforcer, a republic destroyer tracking the dark lord's ship as it was leaving Korriban. He took the report to his most trusted friend, Grand Master Jedi Delpa Gival.
"My friend, he is leaving the planet and fast! Everyone is either severly injured or dead." The Admiral said. The grand master nodded and said, "I would expect no less from him, send out every ship to disable and intercept. I would rather capture Darth Bruticus than kill him...but be extremely careful, he will not go down without one hell of a fight!"
The pilots ran to their ships and left the hangars but were too late. The dark lord shot them down and landed in the hangar. Bruticus hopped out and set a large group of Sith Lightning-force bombs.
Climbing into his ship and taking off, MZ-12 detonated the bombs instantly after they were clear. The destroyer was destroyed leaving nothing behind. "Good plan sir!, now let's get out of here!" MZ said as the dark lord held up his hand and spoke, "Wait!" he looked around again and saw that they were surrounded.
"We'll need to travel in time to get away." The dark lord said. MZ-12 went into hyperspace as Darth Bruticus activated the time travel device and WHOOSH! They were gone!
1,200,000 years A.B.Y.
Space outside Korriban

The ship had been drifting in space for awhile when Darth Bruticus woke up. His droid MZ_12 had been shut offline during the flight, he checked the ship and everything was fine, he just wasn't sure where he was...or when. He set the ship's course for Korriban and went into hyperspace.
Master Crepa entered the council chambers and bowed to the masters. "Masters...I'm sorry to bother you but...."
Crepa said in fear and started shaking. "Master calm down, take a deep breath and relax, now what were you saying?"
One master said to the frightned jedi. Crepa calmed herself and spoke again,
"Grand Master Depa Gival has become one with the force, he died on the bridge of the Galactic Enforcer, sent to capture Darth Bruticus."
She said and started to cry. "I felt a massive ripple in the force and that's what caused my sudden shaking." the masters rose to their feet as Master Seaco Buroc spoke.
"We will investigate this immediately! I want a Jedi Strike Force team assembled now and we will join them." Master Gilda stopped in front of Master Buroc and said, "You are the Grand Master of the Jedi now."
She said lowering her head "He would want it that way." she said and lifted her head up meeting her eyes with his. Seaco Buroc nodded his head in agreement, "We need to go now, no time to grieve." He said and walked out of the room, as the masters followed and prepared themselves to leave.
In the hangar Mac Summers and his team of mechanics were hard at work readying the Jedi's transporter. "Come on you bucket of bolts! I could have had this done yesterday with one hand tied behind my back!"
He yelled at the droids, who stopped what they were doing to look at the old man and listen to his banter.
"What's he talking about?" One droid asked another. "Beats me, he's always running his mouth." The droid said as another approached the two and gave it's two cents as well.
"Complaining constantly, it's never ending with this one." "If this keeps up I'll jump out of the hangar." Another droid said. "You'll kill yourself!" A droid replied, as the third nodded it's head and said,
"Yes that's the whole idea." The Master droid mechanic said, "You won't get that lucky with this one, he'll just rebuild you." Mac came around the corner of the ship and yelled,
"I heard that! Get back to work before I request newer mechanics and have all of you recycled!" The master mechanic got in Mac's face and said, "You wouldn't dare!" Mac pressed his nose against the droid's metal face and said, "Try me!" They went back to work cleaning up as the Jedi entered and approached the human mechanic, he bowed and spoke to them.
"Your ship is ready, Masters." The jedi boarded the ship and left the temple's hangar. It left the planet and was joined by Republic Star fighters and went into hyperspace.

Darth Bruticus took the ship out of hyperspace and approached Korriban, but something looked different from space. It looked like someone had occupied the Sith planet...massively. As he made his decent, he flipped a switch on MZ's neck and the droid came to life.
"Who...where are we?" The droid asked looking around at the dark lord. "We are entering Korriban's atmosphere...in the future." The sith master answered. As they cleared the atmosphere a voice came through the intercom,
"Welcome to Korriban! You are cleared to land on platform T-1138." MZ-12 landed the ship on the platform that floated above the ground and boarded a transporter that took them to the planet below. As they walked through the city looking at all of the changes, Darth Bruticus noticed a black marble damaged castle in the distance and grabbed a woman by her arm and spoke.
"What the hell is that?" He asked as the woman broke free of his grasp and starting yelling at the dark lord and shaking her finger at his face. "I don't know what the hell it is and why are you grabbing me like that?
I didn't do anything to you, you had just better watch out! I'll get my Big Jim after you and he'll choke you to death and feed you're dead body to the dogs, and..." Darth Bruticus looked at MZ-12 and rolled his eyes at the droid who laughed in return and said.
"Looks like you have an admirer, and she's the perfect age for you too! Old, haggy, and a threatening witch!"
The droid said as he walked away. The woman was still rambling on and Darth Bruticus hated ramblers, he hated everything, he turned to continue to listen to the old woman and the rest of the prople in the city who halted what they were doing to hear the old woman's banter.
"You listen to me when I'm talking to you!" She yelled, leaning forward and trying to slap the dark lord in the face but he moved out of the way, she lost her balance and fell. Everyone laughed at the old woman including the dark lord who got down on his knees just to laugh in her face.
She got even madder and after a few minutes she got up on her feet and tried to kick the dark lord. "What's going on here?!"
A man said as he moved the crowd aside to get through. "He...he...he." She was gasping and trying to catch her breath. "He who?" The tall man said, looking at her oddly like she was crazy.
"He made fun of me and threw me on the ground!" Darth Bruticus gave the woman an evil look, leaned over whispering something in her ear and handed her a knife. MZ-12 being curious as always, walked over to his master.
The woman started screaming and yelling at Big Jim and pushing him around. The dark lord and his droid faded away into the crowd and headed to the darkened castle. The old woman let out a loud shriek and stabbed the tall man in his throat and dragged the knife down to his waist watching in horror as his insides fell out. Two guards grabbed her and carried the crazy woman away. "Mess with me and that's what you'll get!" Darth Bruticus said to his companion as they hurried along.

Upon arriving at this black castle there were sixty force-sensitive people fighting among each other, some had lightsabers, some had swords, some had weapons that the dark lord had never seen before, and some used their fists.
"Didn't we just leave this party?" MZ said as they walked up the stairs. There were statues staggered everywhere around the entrance, Darth Bruticus leaned against one that was four feet tall, he looked down at the inscription on the base of the statue, it read: In memory of K.K. Lucky. The dark lord looked at MZ-12 and pointed at the statue and said, "Looks like K.K. Lucky...wasn't so lucky."
The two laughed and Darth Bruticus force punched the statue, it crumbled into dust as they walked on. When they got to the top of the stairs the droid grabbed a a man and asked,
"Where is the leader?" The young man stared at the sith lord and answered, "Master Alez is over there." Pointing at an old gray haired man. The dark lord approached him and tried to get his attention, he even tried to civil and speak to the man, but that didn't work either.
The sith lord force pushed the man into a group of former jedi knocking them over and still nothing happened, they continued fighting. MZ-12 looked at the dark lord who used the force and yelled, "Stop it!"
Everyone stopped fighting and looked at the dark lord, the old man put his fingers in his ears to soften the extreme loud noise. "Now that's better!" the dark lord said as he stepped over to the old man who began cursing at him. "Who the hell are you and what do you want?"
The dark lord looked at him and the others and spoke, "I am Darth Bruticus, Supreme Master of the Sith." The old man looked at him funny. "Supreme Master of the...what? Who are the Sith?" he asked de-activating his lightsaber. The dark lord looked at his droid in wonder and back at the old man. "The Sith are the enemy of the Jedi, for millennia we have waged war against each them, and we...the Sith...are more powerful than the narrow minded, worthless, corrupt Jedi!"
The old man looked and listened to the dark lord and shook his head. "No, I'm not interested in joining your narrow minded, worthless, corrupt Sith, so go away and leave me alone!"
Darth Bruticus turned his back to the old man as he uncliped his lightsaber, turned it on and swung it down over his head. The dark lord sensed his move and used the force turned around and the man's arm froze in mid-air.
"I guess you thought that you were going to kill me that easy? I'm not that easy to kill and certainly not by a worthless crybaby jedi-wannabe." He let his force grip go of the man and watched him fall down on his face.
"What's wrong, you gonna cry?" Darth Bruticus said as the man got up to his feet. The man stood there looking at the dark lord who closed his eyes and spoke, "Yes! Yes! I can feel your anger and your hatred!"
The old man force grabbed his saber turned it on and charged the dark lord. Darth Bruticus opened his eyes and grabbed the jedi's hand, planted his head in the man's chest and thrust his own lightsaber in his throat. The man started choking and the dark lord put up his hand sending a fireball to the man, hitting his chest and exploding him in bloody bits that showered the fallen jedi standing around their so called leader.
The remaining jedi stood still in awe, they had never seen anything like this before and were fascinated by the power of the sith. MZ-12 walked over to the dark lord and said, "I think you've found your new army, my lord."
Darth Bruticus walked around the fallen jedi and said aloud, "Looks like I've found a bunch of inexperienced jedi rejects........yes I have." He approached a small group and asked them, "Who wants to learn my teachings? Who wants to destroy the jedi for what they did to you buy throwing you out of the Order?"
He looked around and saw hands raising into the air, he grinned. "Good, now let's go." He said as a young boy ran over and tugged at his cloak while they were walking up the steps to enter the castle, the dark lord stopped and looked down at the boy. "Is it possible to learn this power? the boy asked.
"Not from a jedi....but you will learn it from me." Darth Bruticus said as they entered the castle.
Space outside Korriban

The republic ships came out of hyperspace and they saw the damage that was done. Grand Master Jedi Seaco Buroc stood on the bridge pounding his fists against the glass and screaming.
"BRUTICUS! I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS! I WON'T REST UNTIL YOU'RE DEAD!"
He hit the glass so hard that it cracked it and broke his hand. A few masters tried to comfort him but he pushed them out of the way and headed to the infirmary. The jedi landed on Korriban and begun assess the damage.
Seventy five soldiers and six jedi perished on the sith planet and every ship was damaged in the vicinity of the dark lord's attack.
As the recovery crews scavenged through the rubble they found and arrested twelve sith slaves. "Let's take them to the destroyer and await the jedi's orders."
Commander Killdeer said as he and the troops hauled them off, they entered a troop transport, secured the prisoners and went into space. The grand master was walking around the temple looking at the rubble and said,
"Well nothing lived...that's good." A few masters looked at each other and couldn't believe what the grand master said. A trooper stopped in front of the jedi and said, "Grand Master Buroc, we captured a dozen sith slaves and they are leaving the planet now for interrogation."
The jedi master looked at the trooper and said, "Where are they? They are in extreme danger!" The grand master force ran to a starfighter, got in and left the planet in pursuit of the prisoners. Followed by the entire strike team, the ship was nowhere to be found. "Run a scan, I can't find the ship anywhere!"
The grand master ordered. "Spread out, everyone!" The ships deployed from the destroyer in addition to the strike team's search. After a few hours a trooper contacted the jedi. "Master Jedi, I've found the ship, I'm intercepting now sir!" The grand master yelled,
"NO! Do not intercept, we don't want another missing soldier!" The orders were given and the Galactic Destroyer intercepted the missing ship using a tractor beam and bringing it inside the ship's hangar. The ships were recalled to their destinations and the jedi landed on the destroyer to deal with the situation. Master Alana called for the Republic Elite Investigators or R.E.I. to search the ship.
As they arrived, the ship's doors were removed and two armed brigades surrounded the ship, three R.E.I. entered and immediatly left as the mere sight made them sick.
Master Alana saw Seaco Buroc and ran to him, "The Elite all got sick after seeing the inside, but the ship is clear." She said to him as he started laughing and said, " They all got sick but the ship is clear? How would they know that if they are getting sick? They weren't in the ship long enough to examine anything! I'll go take a look and you can come with me."
Alana nodded her head and walked over to the ship's entrance as Seaco passed the Elite and said, "Wow that's really chunky! What the hell did you eat today? I'll bet it tasted better going down!" He said as the Elite started throwing up once again.
When Master Buroc got to the entrance Alana spoke, "Do you delight in saying things like that?" Master Seaco said, "Let's go." as he entered the ship.
Alana followed behind him and they turned to the right and saw a naked trooper staked to the wall, his clothes ripped off of him, blood all over the walls and floor.
Master Alana covered her mouth and left the ship. The grand master closed his eyes and held up his hand over the trooper and started to meditate, he could hear Commander Killdeer speaking to him.
"We are all dead.......they killed Master Jedi........bring them to justice so that we may rest in peace." The voice said as it faded away, the jedi opened his eyes and spoke,
"We will bring them to justice son, I will see to it personally as Grand Master of the Jedi Order, you have my word on that." He closed his eyes again and heard the soldiers speaking together, "Thank you Grand Master.........thank you."
The voices faded away once again and the jedi continued his search and investigation, he tried not to slip and fall in the blood puddles as he made his way to the cockpit.
Both pilots were dismembered in a bloody mess on the floor, there was no way to identify them at all. Seaco spoke into his comlink,
"Send in the investigation droids in here at once, maybe we can get something done other than getting everyone sick, and tell them to be careful, there's blood everywhere." The jedi walked around the entire ship and saw that the entire crew was killed violently...why? he wondered.
As he was leaving the ship he saw a message written in blood on the wall. The droids flew in and started taking pictures and video of everything. The grand master stopped and was staring at the message when a droid ran into the jedi.
"Are you ok sir?" The droid said. Buroc came out of a trance and smiled at the droid. "Yes I'm finished here." He said leaving the ship. the droid looked at the wall and read the message aloud, "Just a little present to the jedi from Darth Bruticus!!"
1,200,002 Years A.B.Y.
Valley of the Sith, New Korriban Temple

Two years had passed since Darth Bruticus had offered his teachings to the fallen jedi, they had all accepted the dark lord's offer after seeing his wrath on one of their own. Now there were forty five hundred apprentices. The dark lord refused to promote anyone to the rank of master so early in their training.
Instead he had travelled across time and summoned a few masters that were very loyal to him and the Sith and brought them to train the apprentices. They were the most deadliest sith masters to ever live. The dark lord had such notable sith as: Lord Scin, Darth Lucratis, Darth Tabah, and Darth Xycus.
With these masters the sith would cover the galaxy in darkness. If they all survived he would take them back to his own time and wage war against the jedi in his own time. Darth Bruticus was walking around the temple gazing at the classrooms and watching the various men and women training.
He sat down to rest as Darth Lucratis saw him and was walking toward the sith supreme master. "You are a very hard man to find." Darth Lucratis said as he sat down next to the dark lord.
Darth Bruticus patted him on the back and said, "How does the training go? Well I presume?" Darth Lucratis nodded and said, "Yes, they learn faster than anyone I've ever taught before, I've even called for more sith slaves to assist me in their training, they should be here in a few hours. Bruticus nodded his head and replied, "Good! Good!" He shut his eyes and started to meditate as Darth Lucratis got up and walked away.
He received a message from his slaves who got away and went into hiding. Using the force across space and time Darth Bruticus smiled and laughed aloud, he opened his eyes and looked around, no one was around and the dark lord closed his eyes once again and concentrated on sending a new message for the slaves to carry out. Something to keep the new Grand Master Seaco Buroc in suspense!
Jedi Temple, Naboo
Grand Master Jedi Kalana sat in the council chamber all day by herself thinking, wondering, meditating on where the fallen jedi had gone to. It was like the darkside had gotten stronger or maybe she had gotten weaker.
It wasn't in the jedi's nature to kill a jedi who had fallen from the light unless he, she or they had become a threat to them. Out of all the six temples throughtout the galaxy, not one jedi had ever heard of the sith in over a million years except herself and she was getting very tired of being a Grand Master Jedi over three hundred fifty thousand jedi, she wanted to get away for quite awhile...maybe even leave the Order entirely.
"Master Kalana come quick! Look at this!" A youngling said as he entered the council chamber and interrupting her meditation. "John, I thought I told you to get on with you're studies, I am trying to calm down and have some time to myself and you are not helping me.
Now what is so important that you have to barge in here and bother me?" She said. john looked down at his feet and mumbled, "Nothing I guess," He turned around and walked out of the room. Kalana nuzzled herself back into her chair and using the force she locked the doors and was getting comfy in her chair when the intercom started buzzing, she let out a deep breath and said.
"Yes, now what?" A woman's voice spoke, "I'm very sorry to bother you, Grand Master but John has had an accident." Master Kalana sat still in her chair and didn't move.
"What now? Did he trip over his feet again?" The jedi asked. "No master, he jumped off of the balcony and fell to his death." The woman said. "It's about time, I got tired of his constant complaining." Kalana said as she sat in the chair and played with her hair.
"What did you say Master?" The voice asked. "I said I'll be right down." The jedi master said and fell asleep. Seconds turned into minutes and minutes turned into hours as the grand master jedi slept, after a few hours a jedi used the force-explosion on the doors and showered the grand master with the remains. He entered the council chamber and found Kalana asleep on the floor. The jedi guardian ran over and woke her up. "Who...wha...what happened?" She said as the jedi helped her up, "Where was I supposed to go?" She asked fixing her hair and straightening her robes. The jedi guardian said,
"You were supposed to see to John, who committed suicide!" Master Kalana stood up and said,
"Oh yeah!, now I remember, that little worthless crybaby bastard couldn't take it so he hopped off of the rail and became one with the force. Is there anything else?" The group of jedi looked around at each other and the senior jedi was about to speak when the grand master spoke again. "Look... that's all I deal with anymore.....suicides, murderers......it's getting old and I'm tired of it. I've made up my mind, I'm stepping down as the Grand Master Jedi." The jedi looked at her in horror as she walked by and headed for the lifts.
The jedi masters followed her and spoke, "But you can't!" They all said at once. Kalana held up her hand and stopped the jedi in their tracks and said, "Dont try and stop me! If you follow....I'll kill each and every one of you!" She turned around, got on the lift and headed to the hangar. The former grand master exited the lift and entered the hangar, looking around for a ship she couldn't decide which one to pick. The PX-300 starfighter was a ship that most jedi chose to fly, or she could pick the RT-1200.
It was a ship that most jedi chose not to fly due to it's electrical breakdown. Instead she chose her personal starfighter, The AM-421 it could defend itself from any ship in the galaxy. Kalana entered the ship as fifty jedi ran into the hangar, she fired two Raptor 4X missiles at the group and flew out of the hangar and toward space.
Master Zune used the force and turned the projectiles around and they locked on to the starfighter and flew away toward the former grand master. Flying over the woods of Naboo, the master's ship caught the missiles on radar and automatically increased it's speed and out ran them as they fell to the ground and exploded in the woods, she continued on her way.
1,000,000 yrs. ABY
Jedi Temple, Coruscant

Seaco Buroc lay awake in bed wondering how Darth Bruticus or his slaves attacked armed troops. the sith slaves weren't known to obtain the powers of the dark at least not the power to murder Republic Troops. He got out of bed, bathed, got dressed and left his room, walking around the temple he still could not believe that he was the new grand master and his lifelong best friend was gone.
As he walked he saw some masters patrolling the halls in search of curious padawans that try to sneak out of their rooms. He looked up and saw the stars in the sky, "I can't believe that I'm the new grand master ." Seaco said to himself, "I just can't believe it." He looked around again and saw Master Alana looking for him, he tried to duck behind the rail but it didn't work. She saw him and began running. She slowed herself down and finally stopped in front of the grand master.
"You again? If I wanted a secretary or a messenger I would have contacted the Senate." Seaco said sarcastically to her. "Oh ha, ha, ha, that's really funny." Alana replied catching her breath. "Our spies have indicated that the sith slaves are on Ansion and Ilum. I've summoned two strike teams of six troops each, they are assembled and ready to..." She was cut off.
"So tell me something, you've assembled twelve troops to hunt down twelve sith slaves that brutally killed twelve troops and Commander Killdeer who has over forty years experience in the Republic Navy? What part of that don't you understand? How long have you been a jedi master? Because you don't act like you know anything." Master Alana turned around and walked away. "Stop!" He said, she turned around and had tears in her eyes and running down her face and it didn't fool Seaco. "If you are going to cry because of what I said then think of this, you're sending those troops into the slaughter.
First you ask me or the council and get input on the subject. Second you summon the troops, then you get the proper intel that they need to complete the mission, then you deploy them. Finally you send them to attack. There are many steps you need to properly complete a mission, we don't just bomb the hell out of them and come home and celebrate. Do you understand now?"
The grand master said softly. "Yes Grand Master, I understand and I'm sorry." Master Alana replied. Seaco put his hand on Alana's shoulder and said. "Now come on and I'll buy you something to eat." Alana looked at him funny and said, "Master, the food here is free." She said seriously. The grand master laughed and replied, "Yes I know...it's a figure of speech." A surprised look appeared on her face, "Oh, ok...of course master...let's go then." She said and they walked the hall to the cafeteria.
1,200,002 yrs ABY
Sith Temple, Korriban
Darth bruticus ran to the Lightsaber Training Area, he entered and saw Lord Scin holding four students six feet in the air. "Ah force choke, that's one of my favorites!"
The grand Master said as he leaned against a wall eating a piece of fruit. "You think that you can kill me?"
Lord Scin said dropping the students and walking over to the other side of the room. He took off his shirt and set it on the floor, as some of the students stared at the sith tattoos and lightsaber scars on his chest and back and gasped aloud.
He unclipped two dual lightsabers and turned them on. Every student in the room gasped for no one had ever seen a red dual lightsaber, let alone two of them! The Area training droids ran to Darth bruticus and asked, "Aren't you going to intervene?" One asked him. The grand master shook his head and spoke, "No it's Lord Scin's choice and his class, if someone gets out of line then it is up to him to deal with it and, if you don't listen to his specific instructions..." Darth Bruticus said as the droids ran out of the room. Lord Scin started spinning the lightsabers and he threw the two of them at the students. One saber took their heads off and sent them rolling across the floor, and the other saber cut them through their torsos before they could even turn on a lightsaber. The sabers flew around the room as the rest of the students dropped to the floor, or watched in horror as the sabers did their master's bidding.
They returned to Lord Scin's sides and turned themselves off as he clipped them back to their positions and grabbed his shirt and put it back on. "Now, do you want to learn or screw around?" Lord Scin asked as Darth Bruticus walked over to his friend and finished his sentence. "You're dead!" The sith grand master left and went to see how Darth Lucratis was doing with his slaves that just arrived.
~ ~ Two Days Later On Coruscant ~ ~
The Jedi Council was in the chancellor's office discussing the disturbing subject.
"We cannot alert the Senate or the public about the current events that have happened, if word does get out, then many enemies will take advantage and attack."
The chancellor said as he slowly sat down in his chair and took a drink of water. "Water anyone?" he asked.
The jedi all shook their heads.
"I think we should notify the other councils, and the other grand masters need to know of this terrible incident."
Chancellor Ashcraft said, leaning back in his chair. "I've known that woman since she awas a small girl and never knew her to hold a grudge or get upset at anyone....something evil is at work here, I don't know what to do.
The Chancellor added.
1,200,002 yrs. ABY
Sith Temple, Korriban
Darth Bruticus rose from his hoverchair and spoke to the other masters. "My friends...I have summoned you here because you are the best, the deadliest, and worth of the name Sith. You all make up the new council with me as it's head." He stood as if he went into a trance and tilted his head back, he started levitating as some of the other sith masters looked around at each other like they had never seen anything like that before.
Darth Lucratis smiled and said, "He's thinking." The grand master opened his eyes and spoke in a demonic voice.
"We will be known as The New Brotherhood of Darkness." Darth Bruticus floated to the floor and spoke again,
"The jedi are well too organized and too numberous for us to take on and survive. Master Tavion and Master Lilith are training all of the apprentices, Master Tabah has a plan that will hit the Republic on Naboo and hard! Lord Scin is heading to our citidel on Kolasta in wild space with a few of our best warriors to establish ourselves there. Master Noraa is off on a mission to recruit a few old allies of the Sith.
Space outside Naboo

Kalana left Naboo and went into hyperspace, she contacted no one on the way, instead set a course for the Hoth system, a remote snowy planet that the jedi had no presence at. In a few hours she arrived at her destination and took the ship out of hyperspace.
Immediatly Kalana searched for any other vehicles in the area She noticed that two Republic Spies were following her at a great distance, but not so great that she couldn't pick them up, she knew that they were there and she had a trap for them.

The ship entered the planet's atmosphere as the spies reported their progress in. "Hold your position and wait for the fleet to arrive." A voice said to the man. "Yes sir!" They replied back and held their positions. Kalana landed.
1,000,000 yrs. ABY
Jedi Temple, Coruscant
Grand Master Seaco Buroc sat in his best friend's room looking around, he had tried for hours to sleep but could not. The jedi lay down and stared out of the windows, it was gloomy and raining. As he was drifting off to sleep, Grand Master Gival's spirit appeared and sat down on the bed and watched his friend sleep. "You should really try to get some sleep, my friend." Gival said as Seaco Buroc woke up and fell out of bed onto the floor.
"You?! What are you doing here?" he said. Gival laughed and helped his friend to his feet using the force and said. "I'm here to help you capture Darth Bruticus but..." Seaco looked at the jedi, rubbed his eyes and looked again. "Yes it's me and I'm not a mirage...or I don't think that I am, anyway I've come to tell you that," Gival didn't get to finish his sentences as the grand master joker continued on. "Yes I remember you saying that you're here to help us capture Darth Bruticus and then you said but...but what?"
Master Buroc stated as he walked to the window as it slid open accessing him the balcony. He walked outside in the rain and looked around Coruscant. "So much has happened since you're.....death and I don't think I can accept the rank of Grand Master of The Order."
Seaco said looking up at the sky and letting the rain soak his head and face. Gival walked over to comfort his friend, he sat down in a chair and said. "You can do it my friend, it is you're duty as a jedi to do so, look at all of the ones that who look up to you now.
The younglings, padawans, jedi knights, and masters who will look to you for guidance as they live and die by their sworn oath to protect this galaxy. If you deny this position that has been passed to you.....the jedi will be no more, and I know in my heart that you don't want that.
" Seaco shook his head, rubbed his chin and spoke, "So what were you going to say about Darth Bruticus?" Gival knelt in front of him and said, "He is no longer in this time, he has dissappeared as if he was erased from existence. I felt his force aura one moment and then the next moment....it was gone."
Master Buroc stood up and wiped the water from his face and said, "How can that be? How do you know this?" The spirit stood up and placed his hand on Seaco's shoulder "The power of the force." he replied and smiled as he slowly faded away. The grand master was once again standing in the rain alone.
Industrial District, Coruscant
It was dark, quiet and nearly deserted in the cantina. Jarsa had just sat down and ordered a drink when a hooded figure got up from his seat and walked over to the man at the bar.
"I hear that you are the best bounty hunter in the galaxy." Jarsa nodded and replied, "Yes that's the word, and I'm not cheap." the figure sat down next to him and said, "This job, if you take it will pay you more than you have ever earned before." The bounty hunter looked at the man and asked,
"How much?" The man placed a card on the bar in front of Jarsa. "I'll give you this as a down payment, and there's much more when the jobs are done." The man said drinking his Jawa Juice. Jarsa scanned the card, two hundred fifty million creds.
"Hmm, ok you've got my attention, what do you want me to do?" he said getting up from the bar and went to sit with the man at a table. "When communicating you will address me as Lord Tabah. I have a holoprojection of this person that I want exterminated." He pulled a small device from his pocket, set it on the table and turned it on. A holo of a person appeared and Tabah spoke again, "Can you kill this person?"
Jarsa sat back in his chair and stared at the holo figure for a moment. He sipped his drink as Lord Tabah snapped his fingers, the bartender came over with an unknown black wine bottle and two glasses. He poured the two of them a drink. He handed a glass to Jarsa and watched him sip the wine. It was very, very smooth and didn't burn as he swallowed it down, it tasted fruity and was the most excellent tasting wine he had ever had. He set the glass down and leaned forward and said.
"Yes I can kill this person, but two fifty will not be enough to do the job." The hooded figure pulled another card from his pocket and threw it at Jarsa who once again scanned it.
"You're giving me one billion two hundred fifty million creds as a down payment?" he whispered. Lord Tabah nodded his head and drank the wine. "You finish the job and a few side jobs and I'll pay you a big bonus." the man said as the bounty hunter grabbed his glass and downed the drink. Jarsa nodded and said, "You need me, you just call and I'll be there."
Lord Tabah stood up and bowed to the bounty hunter. "Thank you Jarsa Fett for your help, and you may keep the wine." Lord Tabah said as he turned and walked to the cantina's exit. "Wait!" Jarsa yelled as he caught up to the man, holding the bottle in his hand. "What kind is it?" he asked.
Lord Tabah turned to face him and said, "The Skull and The Saber.....and it's half a million years old. I'll contact you very soon." He said walking away. Fett stood at the entrance way and watched Tabah until he faded into the night. He left the cantina for his ship. "Master it is done!" the man said in his intercom. "Good! Good! Now it's time for the next phase of the plan, return home Darth Tabah, you have done well!"
Sith Temple, Korriban
Darth Lucratis entered the hangar and saw that his slaves had arrived. He got closer and noticed that his slaves had brought some new faces. "Who are they?" He asked. "They are refugees and slaves from Corellia." A sith slave said and bowed to his master. "Line them all up, now!"
Lucratis said as the slave bowed once again and ran over to give his master's orders to the others. While the refugees and slaves were lining up, in walked Captain Halm.
He was a former officer in the Republic Navy who abandoned them and now serves the Sith. Darth Scin had returned for some supplies and approached Darth Lucratis.
"Can I borrow your slaves for a moment to stock the supply ships?" Lord Scin asked. The dark lord nodded and replied, "Go ahead Darth and put that idiot to work as well.
He pointed to Captain Halm and ordered everyone to load the ships but he made the Captain do most of the work. A few hours later the supplies were loaded and Lord Scin was on his way to another citidel somewhere in the galaxy.
Darth Lucratis once again had the slaves and refugees line up, everyone did what they were told except Halm. He started complaining about his body aching and he needed a massage and..."Silence!" Darth Lucratis yelled.
Walking to the front of the line he saw everyone obeyed except Halm. "Captain, get in line! You'll get food and rest soon enough." The dark lord said as he paced back and forth.
"NO!" someone yelled. The dark lord walked over to the Captain. "Did you say something to me?" The dark lord asked. The captain looked up at him and said, "No General, it wasn't me."
Darth Lucratis shook his head at Halm and said, "It's Darth, not General." The captain once again spoke sarcastically at the dark lord. "I'm sorry Admiral for the misunderstanding Colonel, it will never happen again Sargeant, is that okay with you Major?"
Darth Lucratis turned and started pacing across the floor as the Corellian refugees and slaves stood in line before him. H walked the line back and forth again and again, he was doing it on purpose to trap the first one that slipped up and they were his
Captain Halm couldn't stand still, he was a very arrogant and impatient man, he had no idea why the dark lord was holding them up like this . As Darth Lucratis walked by again, the Captain spoke,
"Sir, I don't know what this is about but, I'm tired, hungary, and my feet hurt." The dark lord stopped and gave Halm an evil look. "Your all dismissed, follow the sith slaves, they will show you to your quarters, except you Halm."
The slaves cleared the room quickly as Darth Lucratis stood in front not taking his eyes off of Captain Idiot as he spoke again, "Sir I don't know what this is about or what everyone told you about me, stop staring at me like a starving krayt dragon, if you're going to do so then do it, and stop standing so damn close to me." The dark lord got in the man's face and said,
"What did you say to me?" The Captain force pushed the dark lord across the room and yelled, "You stink too you smelly bastard!" That was it, Lord Lucratis had enough with the Captain and squeezed his index finger and thumb together, raised his hand into the air as Halm levitated five feet off of the floor and started choking.
Darth Lucratis slowly walked over to the man and brought him down and using the force, keeping him standing at attention, the sith lord leaned into the Captain and said, "Now you die!" The captain started shaking and foaming at the mouth as the dark lord tightened his grasp of the man's throat. Captain Halm was so frightened that he urinated in his pants.
Darth Lucratis looked down and saw that he was standing in a puddle and his feet were wet. He force threw Halm across the room and into a marble wall, he slid down to the floor and slowly got up on his feet and spoke softly,
"Is that all you got? you move slower than a pregnant bantha you worthless excuse for a sith lord." Darth Bruticus was in the hangar overseeing the freighters being loaded with supplies. He felt a flutter in the force and yelled to Lord Scin as he ran away, "I must go! Lord Lucratis is in danger!" Lord Scin and Darth Tavion both felt it as well and followed the grand master. Darth Lucratis walked toward the Captain at a quickened paceas the man pulled a small cylinder from his pocket and threw it at the dark lord. As the device got within a few feet from Darth Lucratis it turned on and was a green lightsaber!
The dark lord had no time to move, he tried to put his hands in front of his face and deflect the saber from hitting his face but, POW!! The lightsaber hit the sith in the face and burned his hands and cut his fingers off.
He fell to the floor and didn't move, the Captain used the force and brought the saber to his hand. He stood over the sith lord and raised the green blade ready to strike and said, "No! It's you that's going to die!"
The blade came down and got within a few inches of Darth Lucratis's head and burned his hair and suddenly the Captain flew back into a marble pillar and didn't move. His lightsaber flew up into the air, as it came down Lord Scin stood underneath with his saber activated, he swung and the jedi lightsaber exploded in a bright green ball of fire. Darth Tavion used the force and contained the blast as Lord Scin force threw the ball at the fallen jedi.
Darth Bruticus knelt down and checked on his friend as he spoke into a comlink, "Get a medical unit here, now!" He looked up and saw that the two dark lords were having fun with the fallen jedi. The fireball hit the jedi and exploded his body on contact sending bits and pieces raining down on Darth Tavion who tried to cover his face but was too late. Lord Scin laughed while Darth Tavion was picking pieces of jedi out of his hair. Darth Tavion had just about enough with Scin's brutal tactics and he had begun thinking of ways to rid everyone of the sith lord.
The medical droids arrived and began to move Darth Lucratis out of the room. The dark lords followed as Darth Bruticus looked around at the jedi remains. A droid spoke to the grand master as he was walking to the infirmary.
"Something I can do sir?" Darth Bruticus stopped and said, "Clean up that mess." The droid bowed and said, "I will at once Lord Bruticus!" The droid walked over and started cleaning as the dark lords escorted Darth Lucratis to the infirmary.
Industrial District, Coruscant
A hooded figure entered the cantina and looked around, another figure was sitting in the corner having a drink and watching the holonews. The standing figure walked over and sat down as the other figure let down their hood, it was a young man who said,
"Well, well, Grand Master Kalana, what brings you to a place like this? You'd better be careful, you'll get your fingernails dirty in here and it's no place for...someone like you." Kalana sipped the man's drink and said, "I'm no longer a jedi, I left The Order."
The man laughed long and hard and almost fell out of his chair. "You are still a jedi. You'll have to prove to me that you are no longer one of their worthless scum and that will be no easy task to show me."
He said still laughing. Kalana stood up, she had heard enough of his mouth. She walked outside as the man rose from his seat and followed her, outside she spotted the two ships that were following her.
The former grand master of the jedi held out her arms and clapped her hands together, the two spy ships bumped together, exploded and crashed into a building. Kalana turned her head, looked at the man and said, "How's that for proof?" The man laughed and said,
"That's your proof? You are a grand master for more than twenty years and that's all you can come up with? I thought that you would bring every building down along with those two ships, wrecking havoc and driving fear and terror into the hearts and minds of those people out there...I am very disappointed in you.
You have shown me that a true jedi is nothing more than a slave to her own order and will be anything more than exactly that. Hell for all I know you could have staged that little stunt."
Kalana walked to her ship and boarded, the man walked over to the cockpit as she spoke, "So how do you propose that I prove myself to you?" The man gave her a holocard and said,
"Go to this planet and get a different ship, then go to this address on Coruscant, tell no one and stop being so damn obvious...now go!" He said, secretly placing a tracking device on her ship and walked back into the cantina, Kalana set the coordinates and headed for space. The man watched the ship take off and pulled a comlink from his pocket.
"Lord Bruticus, I have made contact with the grand master and I'm currently tracking her. There were no complications, all is going as planned." The man said pulling his hood over his head.
"Excellent work Lord Scin! Keep me updated!" Bruticus said as he turned the comm off and looked over at his friend in the infirmary. "Good news! Darth Lucratis, you are going to live, but there will be some complications." He said, laughing so hard that he fell out of the chair and onto the floor, he got up and went to get his chair.
The dark lord sat up in bed giving Darth Bruticus an evil look and said, "O do shut up you bantha, flattery will get you nowhere." Lucratis said as his friend started laughing again. The wounded sith used the force and pulled the chair away as Lord Bruticus went to sit down, he fell on the floor and Darth Lucratis died laughing as his friend lie spralled out on the floor.
Jarsa Fett came out of hyperspace, flying to his destination his hologram beeped, he put the controls on auto and answered, "Yes?" A hooded figure appeared and said,

"Well Fett I have a small job for you if you're up to it." Jarsa nodded and said, "I'm armed and ready, just say the word." The dark lord gave him detailed instructions on what to do and ended the transmission. Fett changed his course, left the planet and went into hyperspace.
If Tabah wanted a show then he would give him one, and he would never forget it. The bounty hunter sat back in his seat and carefully planned out his method of attack, and then went to sleep. The autopilot took the ship out of hyperspace and landed it on top of an abandoned building in the industrial district on Coruscant. The sun was setting and it was the day before the event was to take place.
Fett woke and exited the ship, activating his jetpack he flew to the Senate and met with a senator that gave him further instructions. Leaving he contacted the man and gave him the instructions to do the job that Fett paid him for.
Kalana landed on Ilum, a planet that she knew very well. She had gathered crystals here and made thousands of jedi lightsabers over the years. Arriving at her destination, she changed her clothes, cut her hair, switched ships and left the planet.

Heading to her second destination to carry out her orders, a hologram appeared and greeted her. "I see that you've decided to move on to the next step...you must hate the jedi or you would not be here, or you have something else up that jedi sleeve of yours."
The man said. "Like I said before, the jedi will pay for their incompetance and stupidity. What I do now is of my own free will...and your help." She said to him. "Excellent, everything is ready to go as soon as you arrive, I can't wait to see what's in store for the jedi!"
The man said as the hologram faded. Kalana contacted an old friend of hers and gave him instructions to carry out, she would arrive soon and the jedi would pay.
Jedi Temple, Naboo
Master Rias was taking a group of younglings to the temple from a trip to the Grand Jedi Temple on Naboo. As the ship entered the hangar and the students got out, Rias felt a ripple in the force and turned around to see a Republic Refueler fly into the hangar and explode, killing everyone in that part of the temple including himself and the younglings.
Pieces of the temple fell on the innocent jedi standing below and crushing them to death as well. Holonews bots were interviewing the Senator from Ansion on the entrance steps of the jedi temple, along with one hundred jedi who joined him for the grand occasion.
A ship dived as the senator gave his speech, he looked up, pointed and yelled, "LOOK!" It was too late, the ship crashed into the podium and exploded at the entrance doors of the temple killing senators, jedi, civilians, and severly damaging the temple on Coruscant. Lord Scin walked to Darth Bruticus's quarters, he knocked and entered, upon entry.
He saw ten sith masters sitting around a table, some were communicating to people with comlinks, some had holograms, it looked like a war room. Darth Bruticus walked over to Lord Scin and Darth Tabah, and motioned for the two of them to leave the room to talk.
Outside the room the sith grand master updated the two masters on the current situations, what was to come, and what had transpired at the jedi temple on Coruscant.
"Everything is going perfectly and no one suspects that the Sith are behind it all! Hell they have never heard of us to begin with! There will be no one to stop us this time my friends, but I must return!" Lord Bruticus said.
Kalana flew to Coruscant, as she approached the planet the Republic Fleet was guarding the large city. She tried to cloak the ship but they already knew of her location and were on their way to intercept, she was busted. A hologram appeared and spoke to her,
"Kalana you are under arrest for the bombings of the Jedi Temple." Her ship was heavily escorted to the surface below where she was arrested and heavily sedated to keep her from attacking the soldiers.
Her ship was taken en route to be searched but, that didn't happen, shortly after their departure it exploded killing four soldiers, two jedi and severly damaging the ship's hangar. Grand Master Naan was walking from the Rememberance Room when he grabbed his chest and nearly fell over. Trying to keep from fallling over, he heaned against a stone pillar and slid down on to the floor.
His heart slowed it's racing beats down as he closed his eyes and began to meditate. Through the force he saw the bombing of the temple on Coruscant, and that it wasn't Grand Master Kalana that was behind the attacks but something else...something very, very evil.
Lord Scin sat in the council chambers with Darth Bruticus discussing what was to happen next. "The apprentices are with Master Lazur at the Citidel, and soon will begin the next part of the plan." Lord Scin said looking out of the windows and watching the acid rain fall.
"Lovely day isn't it?" Darth Bruticus said tossing a piece of fruit in his mouth. Lord Scin sat down at the table and turned on a holomap of the galaxy. "Studying?" Darth Bruticus asked sitting down next to the dark lord. "No, I'm just looking." Lord Scin replied looking over at him.
Darth Bruticus closed his eyes and the room went black, the young sith sat up in his chair wondering what was going on, the grand master began floating. He opened his eyes and the room lit up once again, he whispered, "I know where she is...." The dark lord waited awhile as Darth Bruticus stared at the wall and finally spoke. "She will be sent to Neimoidia." Lord Scin gave Bruticus an odd look and said, "Neimoidia? There's nothing on that disgusting planet."
The grand master leaned forward in his chair and said, "Exactly, nothing...nothing to distract the landing of a highly trained Sith lord, and nothing to keep him from hunting her down!" Lord Scin stood and said, "Yes I will go and it will be quick." Darth Bruticus turned off the holomap and followed Lord Scin as he walked out of the room and spoke again to the sith master." Send some slaves to do the job instead." the dark lord turned around and asked, "What? Why?" Darth Bruticus said nothing but nodded at him.
"Ah! I see! Yes that's a great idea! To take the heat off of the Sith if there is any, we will congregate them on the planet and when the jedi go there.....excellent idea my friend!" The dark lord said.
Jedi Temple, Courscant
MZ-12 was hard at work on the citidel temple, he had three hundred Sith slaves working on four others throughout the galaxy. "Repairs, repairs, repairs!" the sith droid said as he and a few apprentices were supervising the workers that were unloading supplies from Korriban.
"Come on, let's get going! This place will be occupied soon and we need to work as fast as possible!" MZ said as he deployed the worker droids. Ten freighters were in the hangar as hundred of thousands of droids were ordered to their tasks. "This will be done in no time and then we're off to the next one."
An apprentice said taking a group of droids to his destination. "A great advantage that we have is that the entire citidel is underground, and there are no vents to release steam into the air. The recyclers keep re-using the waste and air, so no one will know that we are here, the dark side clouds everything!"
Another apprentice pointed out. MZ-12 patted the students on the back and said, "I admire you're knowledge of the temple and I have something else to add as well."
The students leaned in close waiting for the droid to speak. "GET BACK TO WORK!" he yelled as the two of them covered their ears and ran back to work. A holographic intercom started beeping as the sith droid picked it up and pushed a button.
Darth Bruticus appeared, "How is it going?" he asked. MZ-12 looked at his datapad and replied to his master. "Two days my lord, then we move on to the next one." The grand master nodded and said,
"Good! Keep me informed on the progress and tell me what you need at the next site." Darth Bruticus said as the hologram disappeared. MZ returned to his work on the temple, preparing for war.
Day became night as Darth Kamenwati sat on the top of the Sith temple looking up at the stars and planets. "Lovely night isn't it?" The dark lord turned and saw Darth Bruticus standing behind him holding two glasses, he sat down and handed him a drink.
"Jawa Juice?" he asked as the master took the drink. "When I was a young boy I could sit all night and watch the night sky until the sun came up." Darth Kamenwati said sipping his drink. Darth Bruticus looked up at the sky and back down to the sith master.
"I never had the chance to do anything like that, my master never allowed me any free time, hell I'll bet I have more lightsaber training than the masters in the temple put together." Darth Bruticus downed his drink and threw the glass over the side of the temple, got up and walked away.
Darth Kamenwati followed the grand master into the temple and came upon a group of students arguing. Darth Bruticus turned to the sith master and said, "I'll leave you to deal with this." The students were fighting over who was better at using the dark side of the force.
Darth Kamenwati didn't say a word, he walked over to the one who was doing all of the talking and force threw him through the balcony rail. The mouthy boy fell a couple of hundred feet down and landed on his head. SPLAT!! Was the only sound that was heard. All of the students gasped and backed away from the sith master, he looked down and saw that his head smashed open.
Darth Noraa appeared and stood looking over his fellow master's shoulder, looking down he said, "His head looks like that smelly fruit that Lord Bruticus stuffs his face with now and then." Darth Kamenwati chuckled and turned to see the sith master standing behind him. "Yes it does, and all of this work is making me hungary, let's go eat!" he said and the two masters walked away.
Lord Scin walked to his quarters, as he entered he saw a group of slaves hard at work. They had unpacked his things and hung his personal items on the walls. "It's perfect! Now I have a job for each of you." He said as they stopped what they were doing and stood surrounding the sith lord.
"You each will be assigned a planet and when you arrive I will give you further instructions on what you should do. You will answer to me and no one else, do you understand?" he asked. The slaves all nodded and bowed but did not speak. "Get what you need and see me in the hangar, now!" Lord Scin said as they hurried along.
The dark lord quickly changed his robes, ate and put on his lightsaber harness. Leaving his room he ran into Darth Bruticus. "Did you see Darth Kamenwati's Sith Resolve?" he asked. "No, what went on?" Lord Scin asked.
"He pushed a student through the balcony rail and.....splat! Right on his head. Darth Noraa said the mess looked like some of the fruit that I eat." The grand master said laughing. "I LOVE THIS PLACE!" he yelled and stretched out his arms. Lord Scin started to laugh and said, He's probably right, how the hell do you eat that stuff?
It looks like something that someone threw up and is squishy like bantha poodoo. Did your mother feed that to you as punishment?" Darth Bruticus let out a loud laugh and was laughing harder that his friend. Lord Scin suddenly stopped laughing and gave the grand master an evil look and said.
"I have two questions, where did you get it and what did you put it in?" Darth Bruticus patted him on the shoulder and replied," I'll never tell... at least not while I'm alive!" Lord Scin stepped away from the dark lord when Darth Tavion opened his door, popping his head outside. "So where are we going Lord Scin?" he asked. "I'm going to kill someone that can't keep their mouth shut, before she tells of our existence, want to come along?"
Darth Tavion stuck his head back inside his room as Darth Bruticus spoke to Lord Scin. "Not a lot was known about Lord Tavion, some say he was a hermit, leaving only when he had to. My master spoke of him on occasion and after his death, I sought him out."
The dark lord looked out of his room again and saw the grand master leaning against the wall, "That looks like a comfy position, are you holding the wall up?" he asked. Darth Barticus shook his head and replied, "What is this, Pick on the Grand Master Day?" A student came running down the hall and stopped in front of Darth Bruticus. Out of breath, he tried to speak.
"Sorry to bother you Grand Master..." The boy didn't get to finish. Lord Scin knew what was wrong and started running, "Let's go!" he said and the two masters ran with the boy following close behind. As they came to a dead end the boy turned to the left and continued running to the lifts as the two masters force leapt over the rail to the floor fifty feet below.
Lord Scin activated his lightsabers in mid air and landed on the floor without losing a step, Darth Bruticus shortly behind the sith master activated his saber as well and both ran for the front entrances. Darth Tavion came out of his room and the two masters were gone, he felt the danger and ran after the two masters. The Sith apprentices were fighting what seemed to be Jedi because of their blue and green colored lightsabers, they had no force powers but were cutting down the apprentices left and right.
A woman came around the corner and almost cut Lord Scin across his chest, but he sensed her coming and jumped over her as she ran under him. Darth Bruticus ran into the woman and plunged his saber into her chest and force threw her into the wall breaking every bone in her body and dropping her to the floor.
Lord Scin landed on the floor and saw that there was one hundred foes attacking twenty apprentices. Darth Bruticus put his fingers to his lips and whistled, it was loud and got the attention of every enemy in the temple. Some of the foes started running at the sith masters when a pack of Sith Hell Hounds ran into the great hall and started attacking them. "That should even the odds a little!"
Lord Scin yelled as he and Darth Bruticus started running toward the group of men that were charging toward them. The grand master thrust his saber into a man and rammed his shoulder into the mouth of another as he ran down the men like grass.
Lord Scin head butted the biggest man and force pushed him into his allies as they held their sabers high and cut him to pieces, showering the others with carterized pieces of their friend.
Darth Tavion force jumped over the rail at a group of apprentices that were tired from the fighting and were quickly retreating as he landed in front of them and ran his saber down through the top of a woman's head. The hounds were feasting on the attackers alive, dead.
The battle was so gory that the foes began to get sick and were giving up, but they didn't know that these Sith....don't take prisoners! They were ran through whether they were armed or not or they became food for the hounds.
The attack winded down and Darth Kamenwati found himself against two attackers that were very formidable with a lightsaber. The dark lord stood with his saber off giving the men an evil look, one took a step forward and jumped in the air to do a spinning attack as the other ran toward the sith master. Darth Kamenwati stood still and at the last second he moved to his left and force pushed the spinning man into his friend, he got stabbed in the back as the other was sliced in pieces and the hounds finished the rest.
The remaining masters assembled in the great hall as a man standing by the entrances threw an object at the group, a glass cube. "An old way of communication," Darth Tavion said as he broke the cube open and read the note: We know of your existence! ~ ~ Master Jedi Acropa.
Darth Bruticus turned to Darth Noraa and Darth Tavion and said two words, "Kill him!" Lord Noraa bowed his head and the two sith masters force ran after the Jedi. Darth Scin walked over to Darth Bruticus and said, " So Lord Tavion is a man of mystery?" he asked. The grand master nodded and replied, "Yes...great mystery Lord Tavion is covered in.
He is the only Sith to never train an apprentice as far as I know." The grand master said. "Then how did the knowledge get passed on?"
Lord Scin asked. "I'm not sure, I know when my master learned of him it took many, many years to track him down and understand what he was about. I do know a couple things about Darth Tavion. He is an excellent master of the sword and saber, and he is very knowledgeable about Sith history." Darth Bruticus said.


A few hours had passed as the two sith lords were on their way to Coruscant. "So how did it feel to kill that jedi scum?"
Lord Scin asked. Darth Tavion shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know, I let Darth Noraa kill him, the boy just toyed with him until he was so tired he couldn't fight any longer. He dropped his lightsaber and fell to his knees, put his hands together and bowed, the dark lord stood over him and dealt the fatal blow."
Lord Scin gave an interesting look to Lord Tavion and asked, "Well...give me the bloody details, you know I live for that kind of stuff." Darth Tavion laughed and sat down next to him and said, "He used force storm and started roasting him like a piece of meat and everytime he begged, the dark lord shocked him more until the grand master was exhausted and near death.
He stood over him and slammed his lightsaber down through the top of his head, brought the saber out of the front of the jedi and as the body starting peeling itself in half, he thrust his saber into the jedi's chest and turned the jedi into a pile of melted burning flesh, it was really messy." Lord Scin sat in his seat and was mortified, "Wow! That was awesome! I wish I was there!" The older sith lord sat there and laughed, "Well into the krayt dragons den we go." Lord Tavion said as Scin was polishing the hilt of his saber. "How many of those do you use?" The dark lord asked. Lord Scin stood and opened his cloak and said, "I use these." he said showing eight doubles and a dozen singles. Darth Tavion looked surprised at Lord Scin and asked him, "Do you want to use one?" The elder held up his hand and shook his head. "No I have two and that's enough for me."
Jedi Temple, Coruscant

The two sith arrived on the jedi infested planet and started looking for their target. Darth Tavion ran to the young dark lord and asked, "What the heck are you doing? We can't go there, that's the Jedi Temple! They will kill us and Darth Bruticus's plans will be foiled." Lord Scin laughed and said," Lord Tavion you truely need more training than I. Follow me and witness an ancient unnatural power of the dark side."
He turned and starting jogging up the stairs of the Jedi Temple. Darth Tavion could not believe what he saw. Lord Scin had walked through the front entrance doors of the temple and no one saw him at all! Darth Tavion put his hood up and slowly walked up the stairs. He passed a few apprentices that paid no attention to him and a group of masters walked by him as if he wasn't there. "Look! A Sith Lord! Get him!" someone yelled.
Darth Tavion pulled his hood off of his head, grabbed his lightsaber and looked around. As he turned to look behind him he saw Lord Scin standing there laughing hard. Darth Tavion was not amused at all, "Maybe I should force push you down those stairs." He said as he and the joker walked together up the remaining stairs and entered the temple. Hundreds of thousands of jedi were in the great halls.
Darth Tavion stopped, closed his eyes and meditated for a moment, then opened his eyes and spoke, "No one is alerted to our presence, they have no idea that we're here. How did you do that? he asked. Lord Scin put his arm around the dark lord and said, "Maybe I'll show you one day, let's move on." he said as they continued on. The two sith walked through the great halls of the Jedi Temple, Lord Scin and Tavion were studying where everything was. "It will be a great pleasure to see this place fall...again!" Darth Tavion said to his friend. "It will and when it does it will be worse than before."
Lord Scin looked over at the sith lord, "Before?" he asked. The two sith stopped walking as the teacher in Darth Tavion appeared and said.
"Exactly one million two hundred thousand one hundred years ago there was a Jedi Knight named Anakin Skywalker who fell to the dark side, He entered this very temple with over one million clone troops and destroyed the Jedi and the temple. Only a handful of Jedi survived but it was many, many thousands of years before they rose in numbers to what they are today.
Then there was one Jedi Grand Master over all of the Jedi, now there is one grand master for every temple and the one that we are hunting is the great grand master jedi...Kalana." the two walked on, "When we get back to the temple, if you want, I'll tell you more of this Anakin Skywalker."
The wind howled as the rain came down, the rainy season was getting worse and the entrance doors to the jedi temple opened and slammed shut as a hooded figure walked through the entrance and bowed to the jedi watchmen.
"Still raining outside?" A guard asked. The figure nodded and said, "Yes and it does not look like it's going to quit anytime soon." The figure walked on, going under the stairways, walking around the hangars, and other key places in the temple. He even went into the council chambers as well.
Grand Master Seaco Buroc was sleeping when the figure walked into his room. He looked around and saw a man lying in bed. The man left the room and went to the library and inspected there before leaving the great room of knowledge and then the temple. He got into his ship and left the planet, contacting his friend he let him know of his completed tasks.
"Master, Janitor number 001138 here. The temple is cleaned and I'm on my way home." he said. "Good! I'll have your money ready when you arrive." The intercom cut off as the man went into hyperspace. Morning came and the temple on Coruscant was lively, students were filing into lines in the Breakfast Room, masters were getting ready for the day's training.
Hundreds of Jedi were filling the great halls after breakfast scurring like mice trying to get to their classes. The last master had entered the chambers and the council was in session. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! A series of explosions went off rocking the chamber, killing all twelve members and demolishing the tower to rubble on the ground below.
Bodies were blasted all over the great hall as bombs blasted holes fifty feet in diameter and sending boulders crushing down on the helpless jedi. Master Derla walked into the the Constellation Room as her unusually large class awaited her. BOOM!!! Went the explosion as a group of Jedi Investigators opened the door to warn them of the attacks. It was too late, the door was blasted against the group killing all of them instantly and sending a bloody mess of body parts throughout the great hall.
Mac Summers was in the hangar demonstrating to a group of younglings how a Intec Mark IV Jedi starfighter operates when the bombs went off. BOOM! BOOM! The ceiling above exploded and the hangar collapsed as the upper hangar came crashing down on the one below, smashing everyone standing below. Over the course of one hour, fifty bombs exploded all over the Jedi Temple. Grand Master Seaco Buroc felt a ripple in the force and awoke.
Getting up out of bed he jumped toward the door as the bomb under his bed exploded and threw him through the door and over the balcony just outside his room. Knocking him out he fell three stories below and landed on a statue of a broken Obi-wan Kenobi breaking his back and legs as he bounced off and hit the floor. Master Alana saw the lifeless jedi lying and force ran to his aid, as she came upon him a marble pillar next to her exploded and threw the woman through a pillar, breaking it and crashed through the windows, smashing her dead body below. After the attacks the temple was so damaged it was unnoticeable from inside, dead bodies litter the temple inside and out.
The remaining jedi banded together and hurried to help the wounded. "I hope this is finally over, I wonder how many are dead." A youngling said as he helped a master heal a wounded jedi. "I'm not sure, young one, let's just concentrate on the living."
The master said, trying not to make the boy scared. "Yes Master, I understand...and I'm not afraid." The boy said. The two continued on as a mass of worker droids arrived and started cleaning up. Grand Master Seaco Buroc woke up and opened his eyes and saw his friend Gival sitting next to him. "Ah...am...I...dead?" The jedi spirit shook his head and said,
"No, my friend, you are far from death, you will heal and live on." Gival said as his spirit disappeared and left the grand master lying on the cold floor. "Dar....Darth.....Bru.....Bruti....Bruticus....I'll...get.....yo...you." He said and passed out.
Infirmary, Sith Temple, Korriban
Darth Lucratis was awake and eating when Darth Bruticus entered and sat down next to his friend. "War has begun my friend and the jedi still have no idea that we are behind everything!
Darth Mazarill has taken care of Grand Master Seaco Buroc once again and will continue to terrorize that worthless jedi until the time comes!" Darth Lucratis threw his bowl of food at a medical droid and got out of bed, "I'm not staying in here while you have all of the fun, I'm going to fight too...and I"m going now!" The dark lord said as he started getting dressed,
"I sense that Darth Mazarill completed his mission." Darth Lucratis said. "Yes he did, my friend. I sent him back to my time and told him to be creative in his mission to get inside the temple. He dressed as a janitor, set the bombs, and walked out. I saw it through the force and it was great! I can't wait to see what he will do next!"
Darth Bruticus said as he popped a piece of fruit in his mouth. "Let me ask you something, why do you have to be in my presence everytime you eat that stuff?" the dark lord asked. "It stinks!" he added. Darth Bruticus stood in front of his friend and turned around.
A few moments later Darth Lucratis flew backwards and hit the wall a few feet away. "What the hell was that!?" the fallen sith asked in surprise. Darth Bruticus started laughing hard and fell over on the floor. Darth Lucratis got up and staggered over to Darth Bruticus.
"That my friend was force fart!" He said, getting up and force ran away laughing. Darth Lucratis stood still watching the grand master goof and shook his head, "One day he's going to regret using that smelly force power on me." The dark lord grabbed his comlink and spoke into it.
"Do you have anymore of that smelly fruit that Lord Bruticus eats?" He started on his way to the cafeteria and ran into Darth Bruticus. The grand master looked over at Darth Lucratis and said,
"So you're off to war I see. On your way to the cafeteria? You going to kill some bantha steak? he said in a hearty laugh. Darth Lucratis shook his head and said, Lord Bruticus, your sense of humor isn't improving."
"Lord Scin we've searched all over the temple and found no trace of Grand Master Kalana, I wonder if she's even here." Darth Tavion said while sneaking into a lightsaber supply room.
Lord Scin was sitting on a ledge looking out of a window. "She isn't here, we must go to Tatooine. That's where she is being held, but it will not be easy to get to her. That's why I've arranged to steal some transportation to get us there, meet me in the hangar."
Darth Tavion started to get a feeling that Lord Scin was going to unmask their presence and leave him there to fight against one hundred thousand jedi. He frantically force ran to the lifts, then he kept looking around at every jedi knight that he passed to make sure they were not going to see him, an unusual fear overcame him and he was starting to go insane. He grabbed his lightsabers and instead of being careful, he was bumping into everyone.
The jedi was alerted to his presence, Lord Scin left the hangar and looked over the eleventh floor balcony to the floor below, using the force he spoke to the sithlord below. "Lord Tavion, it is I, Lord Scin. Calm down and go to the lifts to the eleventh floor."
The frightened sith lord screamed and turned his lightsabers on and started swinging them around his body. Lord Scin used the force and jumped down from his high position to the ground floor below.
He grabbed Lord Tavion's arm and pulled him around only to quickly dodge out of the way as the dark lord attacked him with the other saber and almost took his head. Lord Scin took the saber from his hand and force froze Darth Tavion. He walked over to him and said, "What is wrong with you? I'm your friend, not the enemy, now I'm going to let you go, so we can get out of here, okay?" The motionless sith shook his head.
Lord Scin let the force power go and set Darth Tavion on his feet. The dark lord turned his saber off and force grabbed his other and put them away. "I don't know what came over me, I've never ever got that feeling before, It could be this building, let's get out of here."
He said as he walked in front of Lord Scin and kept rambling on. "I'm not sure why that happened, why me? What did I do to deserve this? Someone is hiding, watching, waiting for me to let down my guard and then...Strike!"
Lord Scin walked over to the dark lord with his other hand on the hilt of his lightsaber. "Are you flipping out again? No one is going to strike at you...you are a sith lord. Now compose yourself and let's get going."
Lord Scin said as he slowly pulled a saber from it's sheath and stopped walking. Something was wrong with Darth Tavion, he walked through a group of jedi, knocking a few of them over and force pushing the rest out of his way. Lord Scin put his saber away and force grabbed a jedi lightsaber.
Darth Tavion turned his sabers on and turned around swinging, he took the heads of five jedi knights off as he moved forward and slashed two others to death. To keep from being seen as a sith, Lord Scin turned the jedi saber on and blocked himself as Lord Tavion attacked him, Scin kept trying to talk to the sith lord but he wasn't listening.
"I can see why you never had an apprentice, you went mad and killed them, didn't you?" He said taunting the elder sith lord. Lord Tavion eyes turned red with hate and put his hand up to Lord Scin, he shot force lightning at his friend but the young sith blocked it with the saber and moved in to speak again. "This is your last warning Darth Tavion, back down or I will kill you!"
The dark lord didn't take the warning, instead he continued to attack and force pushed Lord Scin into a group of jedi, put his saber away and used force storm on the group, killing all of them except Darth Scin who moved out of the way in the nick of time as the jedi became one with the force. Laying on the floor behind the fallen jedi
Lord Scin looked around as he saw the jedi coming out of the woodwork so to speak to aid those fallen by Darth Tavion's hands. Scin stood up, turned off the saber, dropped it on the floor and force jumped up to the eleventh floor to the hangar. Looking down Darth Tavion had engaged the jedi and was fighting them one against two hundred. "I would stay and finish you off, but I have more important errands to tend to, good luck Tavion...you are going to need it." He whispered as he left to the hangar, got in a jedi starfighter and left the planet.
Darth Tavion swung the sabers left and right killing jedi with every swing. A jedi padawan struck the sith lord in the top of his head with a lightsaber, dropping his saber, Tavion fell to his knees and dropped his other saber. Crouching down he had one last attack, the dark lord pushed his hands out to his sides and force pushed everyone within a one hundred foot radius, sending jedi into marble pillars, doors, walls, anything in their paths.
The dark lord slowly rose, grabbed his lightsabers and walked out of the side entrances. He stopped and turned around. "Fools!" he said as he turned back around to leave. A young padawan ran a vibrosword through his stomach and drug it up to his chin. Falling down to his knees and then to the ground, he looked at the jedi and saw the buildings behind him. Looking at the clear blue sky above he saw a dark figure walk upon him and kneel to speak with the boy. "Good! Good job young one! One day you will become a great sith lord!"
The figure said as he looked down at the fallen sith lord. He took his lightsabers, and his belt, got up and left. Darth Tavion stared at the sky and dreamed of when he was a boy sitting on a boulder outside the family house and looking up at the blue sky, then he wondered how the dark side failed him. His eyes rolled in the back of his head and he became one with the force. The boy walked over to the hooded figure and handed him the sword,
"Thank you Darth Lucratis for the use of the sword!" the boy said as the dark lord took it from him and looked at the blood running down the blade. "An awesome sight that is!" He said as the boy turned around, the dark lord brought the sword abouve his head with both hands and hit the boy in the head cutting him in half and leaving him in a bloody mess, he took the sword and slammed the blade into the concrete. Walking away he spoke to himself.
"A worthless jedi and a worthless sith gone into madness...he was a good man." Walking by Darth Bruticus he spoke again, "You really put the fear into him, he killed quite a few jedi."
The supreme master nodded and said, "Yes I did, he killed many that would have killed us, given the chance. Great job with the boy, are those his endtrails running down the steps toward your feet?" The two boarded the ship and flew away as a ship landed in front of the jedi temple. A man walked down the ramp and examined the boy as two guards followed him.
"The Sith, just as I expected, they've done great work! Great!" the man said while a guard received a call then spoke to the man, "Senator we must go! The jedi investigators are on their way!" The senator turned and walked back to the ship and flew away.
"I'm sorry I failed you master, but I had to leave him, it would have endangered the mission if I would have stayed." Lord Scin said.
"I'm on my way to Tatooine to track down the target." He added. Darth Lucratis shook his head at the hologram and said, "No young one, his insanity was not your fault, now go, finish your mission and report to us when you are done."
The dark lord said as the hologram disappeared and Lord Scin landed on Tatooine at the edge of the dune sea. He got out of the starfighter near the jedi temple and walked toward the worthless do-gooder learning center. Darth Lucratis turned to a sith holocron and said, "There it is done, Tavion is dead and Lord Scin has landed on Tatooine and is finishing his mission."
The hologram nodded and spoke, "Awesome work young one! Now we must oversee the rest of the plan and carry it through ten-fold! Now let's go!" The hologram said. Darth Lucratis bowed and said, "Yes Lord Bane, it will be done master!" The ship went into hyperspace and disappeared.
Jedi Temple, Tatooine
It was night when Lord Scin arrived at the temple. Five platoons of Jedi Elite Troopers were patrolling outside. He scanned their parameter and found a gap but would need a distraction. He closed his eyes for a moment and meditated.
Gathering his thoughts and clearing his mind, he opened his eyes and took off towards the gap. Force running faster than he ever ran before, he came upon the gap and leapt into the air. He landed on top of a jedi statue cube one hundred feet from the ground. Using the force, the dark lord made his stolen jedi starfighter fly to him.
As the ship got closer, he guided it around the farside of the temple and crashed it into the side of the temple! He looked down at the troops as they scrambled to the crash site. Lord Scin force-jumped to the next statue, then jumped again, and again until he was within a force jump to the temple.
He lay down to hide as a Jedi Strike Force ran by, using the force again, he stole two jedi lightsabers and force flashed through the outer temple wall!
Landing inside a room and rolling under a sleep couch, he saw a padawanleaving the room, he got up and peeked through the door. No one was around, he felt a presence using the force and darted out of the room.
Running across a cat-walk, two jedi masters came around the corner and Lord Scin jumped on a large pillar and scaled it to the top.
The jedi continued to walk by as the sith lord sat at the top of the pillar. Looking around he saw Elite Troops patrolling the inside of thetemple as well as the outside. He closed his eyes once again and concentrated....A few moments later the electricity failed, every light and every security camera failed.
Lord Scin jumped from his seat and leapt to the lower levels below.
Calling on the force, he pushed five guards from the prison doors and entered. As he walked down the hallway,the automated gun turrets were shutting down, the hallway was long and felt as if it descended down a thousand feet.
When Lord Scin finally reached the end, he felt the presenceof many jedi, he came to the guard station. Cracking the door open he slowly entered the room and searched everywhere. All that was found was some food and a jedi lightsaber, a Grand Master's lightsaber. "Very Impressive." he whispered to himself as he opened the saber to examine the inside. He walked out of the room and started on his way again. "FREEZE NOW!" A voice yelled. Lord Scin stood still. "Drop your weapons!" the voice said.
The dark lord tossed the jedi weapon toward the voice. "Hmmm, a lightsaber." The person said as they turned the ancient weapon on and BOOM! The lightsaber blew up killing the person and every jedi in the room.
"You jedi are sooo stupid." The dark lord said as he moved on. He came to a door that was locked, using a lightsaber he cut into the door and entered.
TWO MONTHS LATER
Coruscant Jedi Temple Infirmary
"Master Buroc, months have passed and we are still finding dead bodies, we are up to two thousand, four hundred, twenty seven jedi. Would you like to know the exact list?" The healer asked. Seaco nodded his head and said, "Sure, hit me with it." The jedi read the news from her infoscreen.
"Ok there are: twenty seven masters, four hundred infants and younglings, and two thousand apprentices. Master , this is the worst death toll since..." The healer couldn't finish. "Since The Great Jedi Purge after The Clone Wars nearly a million years ago."
He said and hobbled over to an apprentice lying on a cot. "Dead?" he asked. "Yes Grand Master he is dead." she answered. "Then we need to get them out of here and give them the Jedi Burial." he said looking down at the dead boy. The healer looked at the grand master and said, "Grand Master, we don't bury our dead, we burn them." Seaco didn't look or speak as he turned around and walked out of the infirmary.
Looking around the temple he saw that the jedi were helping the droids with the re-construction of the temple. He spoke into his comlink and said, "Master Zolo, we need to hold ceremonies in honor of the dead, we also need tighter security and more guards, if you need me I'll be in the new council chambers." Master Zolo spoke into the comlink,
"Yes Master, it will be done!" The jedi master turned off the comlink and turned, kneeling down and bowed to a hologram and spoke. "Everything is going as you have planned my Master. The second phase has been completed and has taken more that two thousand worthless jedi lives!" The hologram laughed and spoke, "Good!...That's wonderful news! Master Mazarill." The sith lord looked up at his master and opened his mouth to speak but said nothing.
"Yes, that's right, because of you deeds you are no longer an apprentice, you are a master of the Sith, young one." The sith lord finally spoke, "Thank you Master!" he said as he bowed.
"Rise to your feet and accept your position as A Dark Lord of the Sith. Do what must be done Lord Mazarill, kill them all and show no mercy!" The newly christened dark master rose to his feet, bowed to the hologram and said," Thank you Master Lucratis."
He said as the hologram faded, he grabbed the transmitter, turned to the sith slaves and said,"The next phase is to be planned as soon as possible! I want to carry it out in the next two weeks." The slaves bowed and said, " Yes master, it will be done as you command, and congratulations on your promotion, my Lord." they said and went to continue their duties.
The dark master closed his eyes, using the darkside of the force he sensed that someone was near, watching and listening to his plot. He opened his eyes and knew exactly where they were. Chasing after the jedi apprentice under the temple, the sith master force ran around the pillars that held up the great building. Running for his life, the apprentice pulled a comlink from his pouch and tried to speak into it. "Master!.....Master!...I've....discovered....a terrible.....truth!"
Catching up to the apprentice, Darth Mazarill force pushed the jedi face first into a pillar, grabbing his head and twisting his head until his neck broke, he grabbed the comlink.
"I've found the Sith responsible for the bombings, Grand Master." The dark lord said. "Are you certain of this Master Zolo?" Seaco Buroc asked. "Absolutely, my Lord....I found an old paper map, a satchel, and a red colored lightsaber, Master."
Lord Scin looked around the room and saw nothing, it was cold and dark but he sensed a presence so strong it was starting to give him a headache.
He tossed handfuls of Terminator bombs all over the room and force-rolled them all over the room. Padawan Alza sensed a cold, dark presence but was unsure what it was, he turned his lightsaber on and gave away his position with a glowing green light.

Lord Scin peered around a corner and saw the careless jedi along with a squad of Elite Troopers.
"Turn that damn saber off you idiot! You're giving away our position" One trooper said to the young fool as he finally turned off the lightsaber, the dark lord slowly left the room, armed a Terminator bomb and rolled it in the vicinity of foes. The bomb detonated setting off the rest in the room and killing everyone.
The dark lord entered the room and walked around, there were no other rooms or doors, he looked up and saw a being locked in a steel rusted cage hanging from a chain attached to the ceiling.
Using the force he broke the chain and the cage slammed into the floor. Inside was a mangled pile of flesh, whatever it is, was dead. It was a trap, the dark lord quickly contacted Darth Bruticus. "They will pay for this injustice, I have sent you the best master to help." The grand master said. Lord Scin nodded and raised his eyebrows. "Who?" he asked. Darth Bruticus laughed and said, "I've sent Darth Tabah, he is on his way to you now." The hologram disappeared and Lord Scin felt mulitple presences approaching.
The ship was in hyperspace and Darth Tabah was very impatient. "Damn! Can't this ancient jedi piece of junk go any faster?!" he said force punching the cockpit wall and severely denting it. "Hey! If you hit the ship like that again we won't be going anywhere fast except death!" The pilot yelled while increasing the ship's speed. The impatient sith master started pacing the floor. "Master Tabah, we are less than a parsec away!"
The dark lord ran to the ship's hangar readying his starfighter, he jumped into the cockpit, fired up the engines and screamed into the communicator, "Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!" The pilot pulled the ship out of hyperspace, opened the hangar door and the sith master flew out of the ship cloaked and came down to the planet like a lightning bolt out of the sky.
The sith fighter ejected one sith master above the jedi temple. Falling towards the roof of the building, Darth Tabah used force-flash a moment before splatting into the roof and fell from the top, down through the temple ceiling and floors to the room where Lord Scin awaited his friend's arrival. CRASH! BOOM!
The dark lord turned his sabers on and turned around to attack seeing Darth Tabah sitting in a crater in the floor. "Oh it's you!" The surprised sith lord said turning off his weapons and lending a hand to help his fallen comrade. "They don't know that the Sith exist, but they are coming!"
Lord Scin said covering the door as Darth Tabah grabbed his saber, "I don't care if they know who we are or not, I'm here to kill as many as I can!" he said and ran out of the room.
"Shoot them!" A trooper yelled as the squad opened fire on the two sith. They deflected every blaster bolt that the troopers shot at them, killing them easily. Entering the the prison holding area Darth Tabah looked up the hallway and backed off, "More troops and jedi are coming and we cannot take them all on by ourselves." The sith lord said to his friend.
"If we plant bombs around the room, we'll kill them all, cave the room in and take us with them."Lord Scin said. The Jedi Elite Troops marched down the the large ramp as the two sith prepared themselves for battle.
The first troops entered the room and Darth Tabah used an insanity spell on the troops who turned and fired on the other soldiers. Mowing them down, Lord Scin looked for a way out. He saw a yellow light shining on a wall behind them and yelled,
"Someone is coming through the wall!" Lord Scin watched as the sith army entered from a portal and filled the room. "MZ-12 sent us, Master!" One apprentice yelled taking cover behind a shield. Darth tabah fell back and starting deflecting the lazer fire back at the troops. "How many soldiers did he send?" he yelled. "We have two hundred in here, five thousand outside under the commands of Masters Lucratis and Kamenwati, and more are on the way sir!"
The student yelled. "Let's go!" A soldier yelled as the sith attacked the jedi driving them back up the ramp and out into the temple. Stepping on the dead as they accended upwards, Lord Scin and Darth Tabah walked out of the prison holding facilities and saw a sight that neither of them had ever seen before. Thousands of sith apprentices and soldiers were chasing down and killing the jedi.
A master ran toward Darth Tabah swinging his lightsaber at the dark lord's head. He ducked and force pushed the jedi at Lord Scin who ran him through the chest and spun around cutting his head off. Darth Tabah ran on as Lord Scin went another way looking for the enemy.
Grand Jedi Master Seaco Buroc inspected the sith weapon along with the artifacts that Master Zolo presented.
"Excellent work!" Seaco said to the young master who bowed and left the area returning to the temple. "Fools!" he whispered to himself while walking to the lifts. "Soon it will be another Jedi Purge like the one that Darth Sidious ordered so long ago!" The dark lord said to himself as the lift slowed down to a stop. The door opened and two senators entered, one from Naboo and the other from Tatooine stood in front of him and were followed by two sith slaves. "Did you hear of the discovery?" One asked the other, "No...what was found?"
The dark lord stepped forward, parting the two senators aside and turned to speak. "A sith was discovered gentlemen, along with his ancient weapon and dome charts, that if the Jedi Investigators look into any further, which they will, it will lead to the two of....you!" The lift arrived at it's destination and the door opened, the dark lord turned and nodded at the slaves who pulled vibroswords from their sides as the evil oneexited the lift.
The door shut and muffled screams could faintly be heard as blood started coloring the frosted glass, the lift traveled down and Darth Mazarill walked through the jedi temple. Finishing off the senators, one slave left a message in blood, while the other deleted the camera's recorder.
The lift stopped and the two slaves exited, using the force, the door was shut, sealed, then sent on it's way down to the sub levels as a Jedi Investigator approached the lift. Using his I.D. to open the door, the scanner would not accept anything. "Master, this lift won't open."
The investigator said. Master Beltz walked over and opened the door using the force. The others walked over and saw what was inside. The jedi master ran to the grand master. Seaco Buroc turned to the young master and said, "Another message?" Master Beltz looked in horror at the grand master and slowly nodded his head, The grand master ran over to the door and looked inside, hanging upside down, headless and gutted was the two men. Seaco knelt down and placed his fingers in a pool of blood,
"It's still warm...which means this took place moments ago. I want every jedi searching for these people, now! I want the squad leader of Jedi Storm to report to me on the double as well!"
The grand master ordered. Master Beltz bowed and spoke into his comlink. Seaco Buroc looked up on the wall and read the message. "I'm under your nose, you can't find me Seaco....Darth Mazarill."

A WOUNDED JEDI WAS LYING ON HIS BACK HOLDING HIS STOMACH AS LORD SCIN WALKED BY. STOPPING IN HIS TRACKS HE FELT A PRESENCE OF THE NEAR DEAD MAN AND CROUCHED DOWN NEXT TO HIS BODY AS THE JEDI TRIED TO SPEAK. "I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS I'M SORRY CRAP, DIE YOU WORTHLESS JEDI SCUM!"
HIS RED LIGHTSABER ENTERED THE HOLE IN HIS STOMACH AND THE TIP OF HIS BLADE SHOT OUT OF THE TOP OF THE JEDI'S HEAD. BEFORE THE SITH MASTER COULD RETRACT THE BLADE FROM THE WOUND, THE BODY DISAPPEARED AND LORD SCIN WAS BURNING THE FLOOR WITH THE SABER. HE STOOD UP AND WALKED BY DARTH LUCRATIS AND DARTH BRUTICUS NOT SAYING A WORD AND LEFT THE JEDI TEMPLE.
"WELL I WAS JUST STANDING HERE WATCHING LORD TABAH'S FIGHTING SKILLS WITH THE LAST OF THE REMAINING JEDI....HE IS MUCH BETTER THAN I THOUGHT, DARTH LUCRATIS, I'LL KEEP MY EYE ON HIM." THE SUPREME MASTER SAID. DARTH TABAH WAS SURROUNDED BY EIGHT JEDI, WHO WERE SURROUNDED BY THE SITH ARMY. HE WASN'T SURE IF THEY WERE MASTERS OR APPRENTICES...AND HE DIDN'T CARE, THEY HAD TO DIE AND IT WAS HIS JOB TO DO SO. LUNGING FORWARD HE THRUST HIS RED SABER INTO A JEDI FEMALE'S WAIST, RAN IT UP AND OUT OF THE TOP OF HER HEAD, ANOTHER JEDI BEHIND HIM STEPPED FORWARD AS HIS BLADE CAME DOWN AND THE UNEXPERIENCED JEDI RAN RIGHT INTO THE SABER, CUTTING HIMSELF IN HALF.
THE REMAINING JEDI STOOD AND WATCHED IN HORROR AS THIS EVIL MAN CUT DOWN TOW OF THEIR FELLOW JEDI AND WAS ATTACKING THE REST. DARTH TABAH TURNED THE POWER UP ON HIS SABER AND PULLED ANOTHER FROM HIS BELT, IGNITING IT, A FEW OF THE JEDI WERE USING TWO SABERS BUT, THE DARK LORD HAD A TRICK UP HIS SLEEVE THAT HAD NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE.
HE SAT ON THE FLOOR, CLOSED HIS EYES AND PLACED HIS SABERS ON THE FLOOR NEXT TO HIM. THE JEDI SLOWLY MOVED IN TO STRIKE DOWN THE SITH MASTER, ALL OF A SUDDEN THE JEDI'S SABERS LEFT THEIR HANDS AND LEFT THEM COMPLETELY DEFENSELESS. STILL SITTING DOWN, THE SITH BEGAN TO JUGGLE TEN LIGHTSABERS. USING THE FORCE, HE TURNED EACH ONE ON AND BEGAN DISECTING JEDI IN PIECES BEFORE EACH OTHER'S EYES.
"NOW THAT IS A CREATIVE MIND OF THE SITH!" DARTH LUCRATIS SAID AS HE AND DARTH BRUTICUS WATCHED THE AMAZING ATTACK THAT THE SITH LORD WAS EXECUTING. ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE JEDI WERE EASILY CUT APART, LEAVING ONE ALIVE, DARTH TABAH DROPPED ALL SABERS BUT HIS OWN, AND TOSSED HIS FOE A WEAPON. HE LOOKED AROUND FOR A QUICK MOMENT, HE SHUT OFF HIS SABER AND THREW HIS HANDS TO HIS SIDES, DROPPING TWO SMOKE BOMBS TO TRY AND DISTRACT THE SITH MASTER WHILE HE TRIED TO ESCAPE. FORCE JUMPING UP,
THE JEDI FLEW UP FIVE STORIES ONTO A BALCONY AND TURNED AROUND TO RUN AWAY AND RAN INTO A RED LIGHTSABER BLADE. LOOKING UP HE SAW DARTH TABAH STANDING IN FRONT OF HIM HOLDING THE SABER AND THE BLADE IN HIS CHEST. "THAT'S THE OLDEST TRICK IN THE BOOK, JEDI."
HE SAID AS THE MAN FELL ON HIS BACK AND DIED. DARTH TABAH STOOD OVER HIM, SHOOK HIS HEAD AND STEPPED ON HIM AS HE WALKED AWAY. "SO WHO GAVE YOU THE SACRED INFORMATION THAT KALANA WAS HERE?" DARTH BRUTICUS ASKED TABAH. "JARSA FETT SWORE THAT HIS INFO WAS GENUINE, LORD SCIN AND I TORE THIS PLACE APART LOOKING FOR HER. THEY KILLED A FORCE-USER, BURNED IT'S BODY, AND PLACED IT INTO A CAGE FOR US TO FIND, IT WAS MY FAULT GRAND MASTER...I, UH." TABAH SAID AS DARTH BRUTICUS HELD HIS HAND UP, SHOOK HIS HEAD AND SAID, "NO, DON'T BEAT YOURSELF UP OVER THIS, IT WAS GOOD THAT WE CAME HERE. WE FOUND THE OUTER RIM TEMPLE AND DESTROYED IT. WE LOST NOT ONE SITH IN THE BATTLE AND THE JEDI WERE KILLED. NOW LET'S GO HOME AND REST, MY FRIEND. THERE WILL BE OTHER BATTLES SOON TO FIGHT AND KALANA WILL APPEAR TO US IN TIME."
DARTH MAZARILL WAS IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AS DARTH BRUTICUS ARRIVED, HE WAS EXHAUSTED FROM THE TRIP AND NEEDED TO REST, BUT THE SUPREME MASTER HAD OTHER PLANS FOR THE SITH MASTER. "I WANT YOU TO TO RETURN AND KILL SEACO BUROC, I'M TIRED OF PLAYING WITH HIM AND I WANT HIM DESTROYED." DARTH MAZARILL GOT UP FROM HIS SEAT AND SAID,
"IF I RETURN THEY WILL KNOW THAT'S IT'S ME BEHIND THE ATTACKS, AND THEY WILL KILL ME." DARTH BRUTICUS LOOKED OVER AT THE YOUNG MASTER AND BEGAN TO LAUGH. "YOUNG ONE, YOU THINK TOO SMALL, YOU HONESTLY THINK THAT I WOULD SEND YOU IN HARM'S WAY?" THE SITH MASTER LOOKED OVER AT THE SUPREME MASTER WHO BLINKED HIS EYES REPEATEDLY AND GAVE A SMILE. DARTH MAZARILL FROWNED AT DARTH BRUTICUS AND SAID,
"YOU'VE GOT PROBLEMS MASTER AND I DON'T THINK THAT BATTING YOUR EYES IS GOING TO HELP...LET ALONE GIVE ME ANY CONFIDENCE." HE TURNED AND WALKED OUT OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS. DARTH BRUTICUS STOOD AND STARED OUT OF THE WINDOW AT THE APPRENTICES TRAINING WITH DARTH LAZUR AND DARTH NORAA. HE SAT DOWN AT HIS SEAT IN FRONT OF THE CONTROLS AND VIEWSCREENS, HE PUSHED A BUTTON AND MZ-12 APPEARED WITH DARTH LILITH
. "SUPREME MASTER." THEY BOWED AND SAID, "WE HAVE TEN CITIDELS AND FOUR TEMPLES UP AND RUNNING IN THE OUTER RIM AND WILD SPACE. WE HAVE TWENTY THOUSAND NEW TROOPS AND MORE ARE ON THE WAY." DARTH BRUTICUS SHOOK HIS HEAD, "THAT'S NOT ENOUGH MZ, WE'LL NEED AT LEAST TWO MILLION JUST TO FIGHT THE REPUBLIC NAVY...GET THE SITH HOUNDS TOGETHER...I HAVE AN IDEA.
LORD SCIN RETURNED TO THE TEMPLE ON KORRIBAN AND WAS WATCHING HIS DEATH SQUAD TRAIN. SIX OF THE MOST DEADLY SITH WERE AT HIS PERSONAL COMMAND AND WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR HIM, EVEN FIGHT TO THE DEATH. THE DARK MASTER AND HIS APPRENTICES ENTERED THE LIGHTSABER TRAINING AREA AND WAS STANDING AMONG FIVE HUNDRED SPECTATORS WHO WERE WAITING TO FIGHT THE BEST OF THE BEST. THE SITH MASTER TURNED TO THE SIX AND SAID,
"TAKE THEM!" SUDDENLY HE FELT A DISTURBANCE AND PUT HIS ARM OUT, "WAIT!" THEY STOPPED AND LOOKED AT THEIR MASTER. "FOLLOW ME, SOMETHING IS GOING ON, LET'S GO!" HE SAID AND THEY LEFT THE ROOM. DARTH LUCRATIS STOOD IN THE CORNER OF THE WAR ROOM WATCHING THEM, THEY DIDN'T THINK THAT ANYONE WAS THERE BUT HE WAS, AND HE SAW EVERY MOVE THAT THEY MADE.
AS SECOND IN COMMAND AND THE MOST STEALTHLY SITH IN THE ORDER, HE KNEW THAT THERE WERE SPIES, "ALL OF THESE IDIOTS WERE ONCE JEDI AND NOW THEY ARE TURNING AGAINST US." HE WHISPERED TO HIMSELF. HE FROZE AGAINST THE WALL AS THEY APPROACHED, FOUR APPRENTICES WALKED BY AND DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE THE SITH MASTER STANDING THERE. DARTH LUCRATIS CAME OUT OF HIS HIDING PLACE AND CREPT BEHIND THEM, HE TURNED ON HIS SABER AND SPOKE, "HEY JEDI!" THEY TURNED AROUND AS THE SITH MASTER SWUNG HIS SABER ACROSS THEIR HEADS.
CUTTING OFF THE TOPS OF THEIR THINKING CAPS, THE BODIES FELL TO THE FLOOR. OUT IN THE HALL TWO APPRENTICES SAW WHAT HAD HAPPENED AND TRIED CATCHING THE SITH LORD OFF GUARD AS THEY CHARGED FORWARD ATTEMPTING TO ATTACK HIM. DARTH LUCRATIS HELD UP HIS HAND AND LIGHTNING SHOT OUT OF HIS FINGERTIPS AND MADE CONTACT WITH ONE OF THE STUDENTS WHO HAD NO TIME TO DEFLECT THE ATTACK. IT THREW THE STUDENT TWENTY FEET ACROSS THE GREAT HALL AND EMBEDDED IT'S LIFELESS BODY INTO A MARBLE PILLAR.
USING THE FORCE, DARTH LUCRATIS STRIPPED THE SKIN OFF THE OTHER STUDENT. MAKING A FIST WITH HIS HAND, THE STUDENT CRIED OUT IN PAIN AS HIS BONES WERE BREAKING, HIS BODY CRUMPLED INTO A BALL OF BLOODY FLESH. THAT CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF EVERY PASSER-BY. THE DARK LORD FORCE-KICKED THE FLESH HEAP ACROSS THE TEMPLE AND LEFT THE WAR ROOM.
SEEING THAT EVERY APPRENTICE WAS STARING AT HIM IN HORROR. HE YELLED OUT, "THAT'S WHAT WE DO TO TRAITORS, SPIES, AND SITH WHO RETURN TO THE LIGHT!"
TEN SUPER FREIGHTERS DOCKED AT THE TEMPLE. A VOICE CAME OVER THE INTERCOM AND SAID, "DARTH BRUTICUS, LUCRATIS, TABAH, NORAA, MAZARILL, LAZUR, KAMENWATI, AND LORD SCIN REPORT TO THE NORTHWEST LANDING PADS IMMEDIATELY!"
THE VOICE REPEATED THE MESSAGE AGAIN. DARTH BRUTICUS ARRIVED FIRST AT THE PAD AND WAS MET BY MZ-12 AND DARTH LILITH. THE TWO OF THEM BOWED AND MZ SPOKE. "SUPREME MASTER, THE SITH HOUNDS THAT YOU REQUESTED HAVE ARRIVED AND ARE READY FOR THE MISSION, MY LORD." DARTH BRUTICUS SMILED AND SAW THE OTHER SITH MASTERS AND TRUSTED MEMBERS OF THE ORDER GATHERING AROUND HIM OUTSIDE
. "DARTH LUCRATIS HAS BROUGHT SOMETHING OF GRAVE IMPORTANCE TO MY ATTENTION, MANY APPRENTICES HAVE BETRAYED US AND RETURNED TO THE JEDI, DUE TO THIS ACT, I WILL PURGE OUR TEMPLE OF THE JEDI!" THE SUPREME MASTER SAID AS HE NODDED TO MZ-12 WHO OPENED THE FREIGHTERS AND THOUSANDS OF SITH HELL HOUNDS RAN OUT AND INTO THE TEMPLE. DARTH KAMENWATI USED THE FORCE, SHUT AND LOCKED THE ENTRANCE AND EXIT DOORS. "FEAST MY FRIENDS! THERE IS PLENTY FOR EVERYONE!" DARTH BRUTICUS YELLED AS HE SHUT THE FINAL DOOR.
"WE HAVE FIVE MILLION TROOPERS READY TO DEPLOY FOR NABOO AND WE ARE MAKING MORE AS WE SPEAK." MZ-12 SAID AS THE MASTERS STOOD IN A CIRCLE DISCUSSING THE UPCOMING BATTLE. "THE JEDI WILL FALL FROM THEIR GRACE AND THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST SITH WAR EVER!" DARTH BRUTICUS ADDED.

THE SITH HOUNDS WERE CHASING DOWN THEIR FOOD IN THE TEMPLE ON KORRIBAN, THERE WAS NO WHERE TO HIDE, THEY WERE BORN HERE MANY THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO AND KNEW EVERY PLACE TO HIDE THAT COULD BE THOUGHT OF AND THE SO CALLED JEDI WERE GREATLY OUTNUMBERED, THE HOUNDS DIDN'T LOSE A SINGLE ONE TO TO THE ENEMY, THEY KILLED AND ATE THEIR FILL, BONES AND ALL...NOTHING WENT TO WASTE. LATER DARTH BRUTICUS SUMMONED THEM BACK TO THE SUPER FREIGHTERS AND THEY DEPARTED TO NABOO. LORD KAMENWATI CLIMBED INTO HIS SHIP, "WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" DARTH LAZUR ASKED, WALKING OVER TO THE DARKLORD. "THE SITH HELL HOUNDS ARE GOING TO NABOO, WHICH IS THE BIGGEST JEDI TEMPLE IN THE GALAXY AND I'M GOING TO SEE THE FUN!" DARTH KAMENWATI SAID AS THE COCKPIT HATCH SHUT, THE ENGINES STARTED AND THE SITHFIGHTER LEFT THE LANDING PAD BOUND FOR NABOO. DARTH BRUTICUS LOOKED AT LORD SCIN AND SAID, "SEND SIX LEGIONS OF TROOPS TO NABOO, I HAVE A FEELING THAT MASTER KAMENWATI WILL GET INTO TROUBLE AND NEED THE HELP." DARTH LAZUR BOWED AND SAID, "I'LL GO WITH THEM MASTER."
"WERE UNDER FIRE!" DARTH KAMENWATI SCREAMED INTO HIS COMLINK AS HE BARELY DODGED OUT OF THE WAY FROM A MISSILE HITTING HIS SHIP. "THE HELL HOUNDS WERE DESTROYED THE MOMENT THEY LANDED AND THE JEDI HAVE A GRAND ARMY WITH THE REPUBLIC!" HE TURNED TO SEE GUNGANS ATTACKING HIM FROM THE FOREST, USING A SITH MIND TRICK, DARTH KAMENWATI WAVED HIS HAND AT THE GUNGAN LEADERS AND SAID, "YOU WILL ATTACK THE REPUBLIC AND THE JEDI, THEY ARE YOUR ENEMIES!" HE COMMANDED. THE ARMY OF GUNGANS WALKED BY HIM AND STARTED THEIR ATTACK ON THE REPUBLIC. LORD KAMENWATI SET A HOMING BEACON AND BEGAN CLEARING TREES WITH HIS LIGHTSABER FOR AN AMBUSH.
WHEN HE FINISHED, THE DARKLORD BEGAN BUILDING TRAPS AND SETTING BOMBS WHEN HE FELT A DARK PRESENCE. HE TURNED AROUND AND WAS FACE TO FACE WITH DARTH LAZUR. "WELL HELLO LORD KAMENWATI, YOU KNOW, OF ALL MY YEARS AS A SITH LORD I'VE NEVER SEEN A SITH FARMER BEFORE, MAYBE YOU SHOULD GET A HAT, BOOTS, AND A RAKE!" HE SAID LAUGHING. DARTH KAMENWATI FOUND NO HUMOR IN ANYTHING HE SAID AND FORCE PUSHED DARTH LAZUR FACE FIRST THROUGH THE MUD AND INTO A BUSH OF IVY LEAVES. THE DIRTY DARK LORD IGNORED IT AND ONLY LAUGHED HARDER. "YOU KNOW, PEOPLE HAVE SAID LESS AND DIED MORE HORRIBLE DEATHS THAN YOU WILL IF YOU KEEP TALKING."
DARTH KAMENWATI SAID AS HE STEPPED ON DARTH LAZUR'S HEAD AND SMASHED HIS FACE DEEPER INTO THE MUD. DARTH LAZUR GOT UP AND WIPED THE MUD FROM HIS FACE AND STARTED SCRATCHING HIS FACE, NECK, AND ARMS. "WHAT DID I SLIDE THROUGH?" THE JOKER ASKED. DARTH KAMENWATI SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AND SAID, "I DON'T KNOW, ALL I SAW WAS MUD." DARTH LAZUR WALKED AWAY TALKING TO HIMSELF AND SAID, "YEP! FARMER KAMENWATI HERE TO PLOW THE FOREST!" HE SAID AND STARTED LAUGHING AGAIN WHEN DARTH KAMENWATI USED THE FORCE AND TRIPPED THE SITH LORD INTO A BIG MUD PUDDLE FACE FIRST. SGT. ASHCRAFT HELPED DARTH LAZUR TO HIS FEET AND SAID,
"LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU TWO LOVEBIRDS ARE DONE WITH YOUR MATING CALLS SO WE CAN PREPARE FOR THIS ATTACK..." HE WAS CUT OFF BY THE VETERAN SITH LORD WHO MOTIONED THE TROOPS TO SPREAD OUT AND SAID, AWAIT MY ORDERS, HOLD YOUR POSITIONS...THEY ARE COMING!" DARTH KAMENWATI SAID. USING THE FORCE HE SENSED THE REPUBLIC FORCES ADVANCING ON THEIR POSITION. AS THEY GOT CLOSER, THE TROOPS TRIPPED THE SIGNAL FLARES AND FROZE IN THEIR TRACKS. DARTH KAMENWATI TURNED HIS SABER ON AND FORCE RAN THROUGH THE FOREST TOWARD THE ENEMY. "GENERAL! IT'S A JEDI!?" THE SOLDIER SAID AS THE SITH LORD RAN HIS SABER THROUGH HIS CHEST, HE TOOK A STEP BACK AND PULLED THE BURNING BLADE FROM HIS BODY, THEN SPUN THE WEAPON AROUND AND CUT OFF THE HEADS OF THE FOUR TROOPS STANDING ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FIRST VICTIM. "ATTACK!"
DARTH LAZUR YELLED, LEADING THE SITH TROOPS TOWARD THE ENEMY. DARTH KAMENWATI TURNED AROUND AND HELD OUT HIS HAND AND YELLED, "STOP!" THE SITHLORD STOPPED ALONG WITH THE LEGIONS OF TROOPS BEHIND HIM. "THERE'S NO NEED TO ATTACK JUST YET, MY FRIEND...WATCH AND LEARN FROM A VETERAN WARRIOR." DARTH KAMENWATI SAID PUTTING AWAY HIS LIGHTSABER AND WHISPERED A SPELL, A RED AND BLACK FLAME APPEARED IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND. USING THE FORCE HE BLEW AT THE FLAME WHICH ENGULFED THE FOREST BEFORE THE SITH ARMY AND SPREAD TO THE REPUBLIC TROOPS AND JEDI BURNING THEM INSTANTLY. DARTH LAZUR STOOD NEXT TO DARTH KAMENWATI AND SAID IN A LOW VOICE, "YOU'LL HAVE TO TEACH ME THAT ONE DAY." DARTH KAMENWATI LOOKED DOWN AND SMILED AT HIS FRIEND AND SAID, "I'D BE HONORED TO MY FRIEND, I'D BE HONORED TO." DARTH LAZUR'S COMLINK STARTED BEEPING, "YES?" HE ASKED. "WE HAVE FOUR MORE LEGIONS APPROACHING THE PLANET SIR!" A TROOPER SAID.
"MASTER SMITH!" A JEDI SAID RUNNING TO CATCH UP TO HIS MASTER. "MASTER, WE'VE SPOTTED SEVERAL SHIPS COMING OUT OF HYPERSPACE AND ARE HEADED THIS WAY!" THE JEDI SAID AS MASTER SMITH ENTERED THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AND SAT DOWN AT HIS SEAT AS THE YOUNG JEDI TRIED TO WARN THE MASTERS. "THERE ARE ALMOST ONE MILLION TROOPS ATTACKING US AND YOU ARE ALL SITTING ON YOUR BUTTS LOOKING AT ME LIKE I'M CRAZY!" HE YELLED. GRAND MASTER TRAZ HELD UP HIS HAND AND SAID, "BE SILENT YOUNG ONE, WE ARE WELL AWARE OF THE EMEMIES NUMBERS...AND THEY ARE NOWHERE NEAR OURS. THIS GRAND TEMPLE IS BIGGER THAN THE OTHER TEMPLES COMBINED AND HOUSES OVER FIVE MILLION JEDI AND MILLIONS OF TROOPS, PLUS THERE IS THE TEMPLE ON TATOOINE IF WE NEED ANY ASSISTANCE. SO THERE IS NO WAY WE CAN BE DEFEATED, NOW IF YOU WOULD, SEE YOUR WAY OUT OF THE CHAMBER SO THAT WE MAY START THE DAY'S BUSINESS."
THE YOUNG JEDI BOWED AND SAID, "I'M SORRY MASTERS FOR MY WORRY." MASTER SMITH SAT AND RUBBED HIS CHIN, HE SUDDENLY FELT A FLUTTER IN THE FORCE...AND THE GRAND MASTER WAS LYING! AS THE BOY WAS LEAVING HE GOT UP FROM HIS SEAT AND BOWED TO THE COUNCIL AND SAID, "EXCUSE ME MASTERS BUT I'VE GOT SOME BUSINESS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO ATTEND TO." HE AND FOLLOWED THE BOY OUT OF THE CHAMBERS. THE MASTER JEDI LOOKED OUT OF THE WINDOWS AND SAW THE ENEMY. COMMANDER SNOW WALKED UP BEHIND MASTER SMITH AND SPOKE, "MASTER, WE'VE RETURNED FROM THE FRONT AND THE ENEMY GENERALS ARE USING LIGHTSABERS...RED LIGHTSABERS, HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A COLOR LIKE THAT BEFORE?" THE MASTER JEDI CLOSED HIS EYES AND BEGAN TO MEDITATE, A FEW MOMENTS LATER HE OPENED HIS EYES AND SAID,
"NO, I HAVE NOT COMMANDER, LET ME LOOK INTO THAT AND I'LL GET BACK TO YOU. IN THE MEAN TIME, CONTINUE YOUR ATTACK, AND SEND OUT THE BOMBERS." COMMANDER SNOW SALUTED THE JEDI AND SAID, "YES SIR, RIGHT AWAY!" AND RAN AWAY. CONFUSED, MASTER SMITH AND THE BOY WALKED TO THE LIFTS. "MASTER, WHERE ARE WE GOING?" THE BOY ASKED. THEY ENTERED THE LIFT, MASTER SMITH PUSHED A BUTTON AND LOOKED DOWN AT THE BOY AND SAID, "TO THE LIBRARY, TO SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH." HIGH ABOVE THE FOREST CANOPY A MAN SAT AND WATCHED THE BATTLE UNFOLD, WONDERING HOW THEY GOT AWAY WITH THEIR TREACHERY. THE HATE IN HIM HAD SUBSIDED AND FADED AWAY...FOR NOW. IN THE DISTANCE HE SAW THE JEDI AND THEIR ARMIES ASSEMBLING OUTSIDE OF THE TEMPLE, THE SITH ARMY WAS HUNDREDS OF FEET BELOW HIM AND HAD NO IDEA THAT HE WAS THERE. "I'LL JUST SIT BACK AND STAY OUT OF HISTORY'S WAY FOR THE TIME BEING AND LET THE JEDI AND SITH SCUM DESTROY EACH OTHER, THEN I WILL TAKE OVER!" HE WHISPERED TO HIMSELF.
THE BOUNTY HUNTER'S SHIP LANDED ON A FLOATING LANDING PAD ON CORUSCANT, "WELL, WELL, JARSA FETT, I TOLD YOU TO NEVER, EVER MEET ME HERE. MY JOB..." THE MAN WAS CUT OFF BY JARSA WHO GRABBED HIM BY THE THROAT AND SAID, "YOU LISTEN TO ME..." JARSA WAS CUT OFF AS WELL BY ONE OF THE MAN'S GUARDS WHO HIT HIM IN THE BACK WITH HIS PIKE SO HARD THAT HE LET GO OF HIS GRIP AND FELL TO THE GROUND, THE GUARD RETURNED TO HIS POSITION NEXT TO THE MAN. JARSA STOOD UP AND SAID, "THE SITH AND JEDI ARE FIGHTING AS PLANNED, I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING, THE SITH HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MY PLANS." FETT RETURNED TO HIS SHIP AND FLEW AWAY. MOMENTS LATER ANOTHER SHIP LANDED AND THE COCKPIT OPENED, FOUR JEDI EXITED THE SHIP WHILE THE GRAND MASTER WALKED OVER TO THE MAN, BOWED AND SAID, "HELLO CHANCELLOR, IT IS AN HONOR TO FINALLY MEET YOU IN PERSON." THE SUPREME CHANCELLOR BOWED AND SAID,
"THANK YOU, IT IS AN HONOR FOR ME AS WELL." THE NEW CHANCELLOR SHOWED A WORRIED LOOK ON HIS FACE AND THE GRAND MASTER WAS QUICK TO NOTICE THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH HIM. "SOMETHING TROUBLES YOU SIR?" THE JEDI ASKED. THE CHANCELLOR NODDED AND SAID SOFTLY, "I HAVE SOME TERRIBLE NEWS GRAND MASTER, THE OUTER RIM TEMPLE HAS BEEN DEFEATED AND IT'S THE WORK OF A HORRIBLE MAN." THE GRAND JEDI NODDED AND SAID, "I SEE, AND DO YOU HAVE HIS NAME SIR?" THE CHANCELLOR STOOD STILL AND SAID NOTHING.
THE JEDI PLACED HIS HAND ON THE SHOULDER OF THE SUPREME LEADER AND SAID, "WE WILL PROTECT YOU FROM HIM...I SENSE THAT HE IS A GREAT THREAT TO YOU, JUST GIVE ME HIS NAME AND I PERSONALLY WILL DEAL WITH HIM, I PROMISE, MY FRIEND." THE CHANCELLOR WIPED HIS FACE AND SAID, "HIS NAME IS.....IS JARSA FETT." THE JEDI BOWED AND SAID, "THANK YOU MY FRIEND, I WILL TAKE CARE OF THIS RIGHT AWAY SIR." HE TURNED AND WALKED BACK TO THE SHIP, TAKING TWO OF THE FOUR JEDI ALONG WITH HIM, LEAVING TWO BEHIND TO GUARD THE SUPREME CHANCELLOR. THE SHIP FLEW AWAY AND THE JEDI WERE FOLLOWING THE CHANCELLOR BACK TO HIS SHIP. "I DON'T NEED YOUR PROTECTION JEDI, I HAVE BIGGER THINGS TO DO THAN TO HAUL YOU TWO BUMBLING IDIOTS AROUND ALL DAY."
THE CHANCELLOR SAID. THE TWO JEDI LOOKED OVER AT EACH OTHER AND THE CHANCELLOR'S GUARDS TOOK OFF THEIR MASKS, DROPPED THEIR PIKES AND EACH IGNITED A BLUE LIGHTSABER AND ENGAGED THE TWO JEDI. THE GUARDS MOVED VERY FAST AND QUICKLY STRUCK DOWN THE JEDI. USING THE FORCE THE CHANCELLOR PUSHED THE JEDI OFF OF THE LANDING PAD TO THE GROUND, SEVERAL THOUSAND FEET BELOW. THE GUARDS RETURNED TO THE CHANCELLOR'S SIDE AND BOWED. "THANK YOU MY LOYAL FRIENDS, I WILL HELP YOU WITH THE DESTRUCTION WITH THE JEDI." THE CHANCELLOR SAID, PUTTING UP HIS HOOD. THE TWO GUARDS TOOK THEIR HOODS OFF AND SAID, "THANK YOU FOR YOUR ALLEGIANCE.....LORD SIDIOUS." THE GUARD SAID. "NO, THANK YOU SUPREME MASTER BRUTICUS AND DARTH LUCRATIS FOR BRINGING ME HERE." DARTH SIDIOUS SAID.
THE OLD SITH MASTER BOWED TO THE TWO YOUNG SITH , THE THREE BOARDED AN ANCIENT SITHFIGHTER AND FLEW TO THE SENATE. AS THEY FLEW AROUND CORUSCANT, LORD SIDIOUS LOOKED OUT OF THE WINDOW AT EVERYTHING. "SO MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE MY TIME, I DON'T RECOGNIZE ANYTHING HERE." DARTH SIDIOUS SAID. DARTH BRUTICUS LOOKED BACK AND SAID, "YOU ARE THE SUPREME CHANCELLOR OF THE FUTURE, MY LORD, NOTHING FROM YOUR TIME IS HERE, EVERYTHING HAS BEEN REBUILT." LORD SIDIOUS LOOKED AROUND AS DARTH LUCRATIS FLEW THE SHIP, "HOW FAR IN THE FUTURE AM I?" THE OLD MASTER ASKED. "YOU ARE ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE OF YAVIN."
DARTH LUCRATIS SAID. THE CHANCELLOR LOOKED AT HIM CONFUSED. DARTH BRUTICUS SAID, "AFTER THE FIRST DESTRUCTION OF THE FIRST DEATH STAR." LORD SIDIOUS NODDED AND SAID, "AH YES, NOW I REMEMBER.....THAT BATTLE." HE SAID FURIOUSLY. "THE JEDI ARE MANY, MY LORD, MANY MORE THAT WHAT YOU AND DARTH VADER DESTROYED." DARTH LUCRATIS SAID. "HOW MANY?" SIDIOUS ASKED. DARTH BRUTICUS SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AND SAID, " WE'RE NOT EXACTLY SURE MY LORD, WE ESTIMATE FIVE MILLION JEDI AND MILLIONS OF REPUBLIC TROOPS, WE HAVE FIVE MILLION SITH TROOPS AND EIGHT SITH LORDS SIR."
DARTH SIDIOUS NODDED AS HE STARED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND SAID, "ALL OF THIS IN ONE TEMPLE?" DARTH BRUTICUS LOOKED BACK AND SAID, "NO LORD SIDIOUS, THEY HAVE SEVEN TEMPLES THAT WE KNOW OF, ONE OF THEM WE DESTROYED ON TATOOINE A FEW WEEKS AGO AND NOW WE HAVE SIX LEGIONS OF TROOPS ON NABOO TO DESTROY THE JEDI'S GRAND TEMPLE THERE. THE SHIP LANDED AT THE SENATE AND THE THREE EXITED THE SHIP AND WAS WELCOMED BY A COMMITTEE AND NEWS. "I'M HONORED TO BE CHOSEN FOR THIS POSITION OF SUPREME CHANCELLOR IN THIS TIME OF WAR. I WILL DO EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO RID THE GALAXY OF THESE EVIL FORCES." HE BOWED AS THE CROWD CAME FORWARD TO MEET AND INTERVIEW THE NEW CHANCELLOR. AFTER WHAT SEEMED TO BE AN ENDLESS ETERNITY OF QUESTIONS, HE WAS LED AWAY ALONG WITH THE TWO SITH LORDS TO HIS APARTMENT. ONCE INSIDE THE SITH SAT DOWN AND THE CHANCELLOR WAS SERVED A CUP OF TEA.
"WE NEED TO GET TO WORK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ON THIS MATTER, AFTER I TAKE A NAP I WILL NEED TO BE BRIEFED ON ALL CURRENT SITUATIONS." DARTH LUCRATIS NODDED AND SAID, "I'LL DO THAT MY LORD, ALSO THE JEDI OF THIS TIME HAVE NO IDEA OF THE SITH PRESENCE OR THAT WE EXIST." DARTH LUCRATIS SAID. "IF YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO TIME TRAVEL, WHY ME? WHY NOT GET EXAR KUN, MARKA RAGNOS, OR DARTH BANE...WHY ME?" DARTH SIDIOUS ASKED. DARTH BRUTICUS DRANK HIS TEA AND SAID, " WELL, I WON'T GET DARTH BANE CAUSE I BROKE HIS HOLOCRON." SIDIOUS AND LUCRATIS LOOKED AT DARTH BRUTICUS IN WONDER.