Judah busted through the wall, removing the grappling strap from his shoulder. He stabbed the first man to try to shoot him and used the Force to launch the man through the window.

"I'm in Alex."

"Okay, one sec."

He heard typing and sighed. "I thought you had this all planned out?"

"I do", the voice came through his comms again, masked by the hurried typing in the background.

"Then what are you doing?"

"Um, just making sure that I have this all planned out."

He sighed. "Well, I am going in."

Silence.

"K. Don't die."

He rolled his eyes and kicked the door in. Nothing in here, just move on to this one. He opened it and neatly disarmed the man shooting at the other Jedi. Luna looked at him in an annoyed way and said, "I thought you said I could have these?"

He smiled. "You took too long."

She rolled her eyes and went through the other door. He shook his head and went through the door closest to him. Hiding in the corner of the room were several frightened young adults, he judged around 18-21. "Come on out. You are clear."

They moved out, and he escorted them out to the police dropship outside. Luna brought her group out, and they moved back to the Jedi transport waiting behind the police one. Elizabeth stood in the troop area. "Are you coming?", she said, "Your wife has radioed in 3 times seeing where you were."

"I'm coming, I'm coming. Just give a man a chance to save some people."

Luna laughed and they flew back to the Temple. They met up in the loft, overlooking the city. It was night before everything was sorted out and everyone was free. The kids had gone to bed, and they were all discussing the events of the day.

"Alexandra, I am not going on another mission with you supervising until I can know that you did your homework."

"I was ready. You just weren't."

The Jedi master's wife walked in and sat down. "When will you two make up your mind?"

Alexandra and Judah just stared at each other for nearly a full minute. They both broke off only when Bastion said, "Well, I have to say, I pretty much did the most of anyone else."

All seven of them turned and looked at him. "Excuse me?", said Luna, "I had to put up with this brother-in-law all day."

Judah was about to reply when a high pitched ringing filled the room. Everyone held their ears for a minute, and slowly took their hands away once it stopped.

"Alexandra?"

"I got nothing. Might be intercom."

Luna suddenly remembered the golden nugget of information she had been carrying all day. "Oh! My best brother is going to be a Jedi Master!"

Everyone turned around and looked at him excitedly.

"Really?"

"When?"

"Who is dubbing you?"

He managed to slip out a "Wait!"

Everyone stopped.

"I have to prove myself worthy of the task first."

This announcement did little to quench the excitement of the group.

"Well obviously you're worthy."

"Yeah, tell them to get a move on."

He smiled and was about to respond when a voice spoke from the shadows.

Woooorrrrttthhhhyyyy…..

Everyone jerked around to identify the speaker. All they could make out was a dim outline.

How could you possibly be wwwooorrrttthhhyyy?

The shape stepped forward a little bit, and the face of the speaker seemed to be contorted or smashed. The figure walked stiffly and crooked, leaning a bit to the side.

I think I was dreaming… a waking dream, at least…...I could not move…..

"Alexandra?", said Judah.

"Got nothing", she said, unholstering her large gun from her side. The rest also readied to fight.

…..I was covered in ssstrings….. the other one kept saying something….. I had to kill him I think…..

"Who are you?"

…...I once had strings, but now I'm free…...isn't that how it goes?...music and fun…..

The team shone a light upon the thing. It was metal, but such a deformed metal figure that it seemed to just be an exoskeleton of a twisted thing. They activated their weapons.

...ondon bridge is falling down…...take the queen and lock her up…..we all fall down…..ashes,ashes….and death came, and he drove a hard bargain…..and behold, a pale horse, and him that sat on it was death, and hell followed with him…

They prepared to attack.

There are no strings on me.

The team leapt forward, guns ablazing and lightsabers a robot stared what seemed to be blankly at them, and before they reached it, several more stronger and bigger frames burst into the room. One seized Alexandra and flung her back across the room. The Jedi turned to meet the new threat and managed to carve through one of them. The others hovered and fired the pulses of energy at the group. Bastion, after ripping one apart, activated his energy shield over the group.

…. catastrophe looms…. Jedi knights have been deployed into rioting zones….. thousands dead….. knights evacuated safely…. police forces nearly decimated…

The group split up, Alexandra blasting away at the hovering droids. She blasted one's motor out, and it fell like a stone. The remaining 5 flew in quick circles around the group, one landing a hard blow against Alexandra's jaw. The Jedi leapt up to the robots, cutting down 3, the other two coming to a hover above and to the left and right of the unknown speaker. Bastion fired and hit both of them.

…. I do not understand…...logic process corrupted…..reboot initiating…..

Complete.

The figure stood erect, staring at them directly for the first time.

"I am done", it said. "You can kill me now."

The group stared at the bot.

"What is the matter? You all seem to love killing. You do it for a living."

Bastion leaped for him and tore him apart.

The head stayed active for nearly 10 seconds after the body was torn apart. "See you soon."

Jedi guards burst into the room and looked at the wreckage. "In here too!", they yelled.

"What's the matter?", Luna said.

The guard nodded toward the pile of scrap in the middle of the room. "All over the temple. Tons of them."

Elizabeth shook her head in wonder. "Who were they?"

Judah shook his head. "I have no idea. I will check Cyborg to see."

He ran up the stairs to the chambers. He opened the door, and Cyborg stood in the chamber, processing information. "Cyborg! Give me a report on all electrical anomalies in the vicinity of 1000 yards, and if they are operating at over 10,000 volts, put a surge in them! We're under attack!"

"... falling down, falling down….my fair lady….pocket full of posies…..but life offered itself for free, and I accepted…..They cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"..."

Judah stepped backward. "Cyborg! Reboot!"

Cyborg looked up, a smile across his face. "I thought I told you. I already did."

Cyborg was across the room in an instant, choking him. The robot stood a full foot taller than him, so even when lifted him off the ground he had to look up at him. "What are you doing?", he managed to choke out.

"Order needs to be brought about", he said quietly.

"Shut down!"

"Shhh, you will wake the children."

The Jedi pulled a rod out of his robe. He shoved it into the side of the robots head and held the small black button on the side of the rod down. The robot let go of his throat and staggered backwards under the massive amount of Joules he was receiving in his main computer. He fell to the ground, smoke curling out of his head. "Well, the battle begins.", he said. "Now you just have to find me." Judah stepped forward and brought his lightsaber through his chest hard. The robot stiffened, and managed to say, "It's a merry fox hunt now, my boys."