Anger, hate, and sadness. I'd felt them all before, ashamed to say? You could say. A Jedi isn't supposed to feel them, but from my early days as a padawan I even felt those emotions. Who can blame me? I'm human. The only person who is really left in my life, Anakin Skywalker, he's felt the same. We've both lost loved ones. That's another thing Jedi shouldn't do, love. Yet, he and I both believe through all their words, really we're encouraged to love. Anakin lost his mother, I lost my master, Devo Lon, who was really the only father I ever really had. When his mom died, Anakin killed a clan of Tusken Raiders. What did I do when Devo died? I got my arm cut off. Then all of a sudden I was a Jedi Knight. Did I think I deserve it? Sometimes. But it's bittersweet, lose a master, go up a rank. I didn't deserve it in the case of I did exactly what a Sith does. Use my anger and hate.
Anakin's story is the same, while in a lightsaber duel with a Sith padawan, Asajj Ventress, he killed her. The full details were truly never laid out, but the point is, Anakin and I didn't exactly pass our so called 'trials', we got by. Now, Anakin and his master, Obi-Wan Kenobi are off to rescue Chancellor Palpatine, I had to come and watch their starship while they are away. It all started with a call.
I was about to take off from the Jedi Temple in my starfighter, when my hologram started to go off. I put it on my starship and hopped inside, leaving the hatch open. I turned on the hologram, it was Anakin.
"Anakin, how was your assignment with Senator Amidala on the Outer Rim sieges?" I asked.
"A long story, it got cut short, Obi-Wan and I ended up saving the Nelvaan tribe. Not important. There's been a terrible happening." He replied.
"What is it?"
"General Grievous has captured Chancellor Palpatine. Obi-Wan and I are off on a rescue party, of two, mission soon. We need you to come and take over our ship." This got me excited.
"Anakin! Let me go! I owe Grievous something for what he did..." I looked at my left arm, from the elbow down, it was all covered by a black glove. Underneath, countless wires and contraptions making my mechanical arm. "Please Anakin."
"Daniel, I'm sorry." He started, "The Council gave strict orders for only Obi-Wan and I. I wish you could come along, but with Obi-Wan gone, we need an interim general. Are you up for it?" I was just about to fly to my quarters from the library, why not?
"I'll be there. I'm taking off right now. I'll see you in a little bit. May the Force be with you."
"May the Force be with you." He replied, and disappeared. I closed the hatch, my ship started to hover, and my automaton droid, R7-C1 started to make his droid beeping sounds.
"R7 I'm gonna need automatic pilot off, it's gonna be a mess up there." I said, the droid started beeping again.
"Done, leaving Coruscant's orbit now." The words appeared on screen between my control panel. I put on my headset.
"Commander Cody, this is General Stellan, do you copy?" I said. I waited a moment.
"Loud and clear sir. General Kenobi informed us of your arrival." Cody responded.
"I should enter the battle in about ten minutes, can you send a team of fighters to take me in?" I asked.
"It will be done, sir." Cody said.
"Thank you, out." I said. I started to see it. Thousands of blasts from ships in the distance. Explosions came up every so often. I was nearing the battle, I saw my clone team.
"Awaiting your orders, sir." One of them called.
"Take me in to General Kenobi's starship. Try to avoid those vulture droids." I responded.
"Roger that, general." We started to go in. Piloting was always fun for me. I did a barrel roll to avoid a flying piece of debris, then, I saw a ray hit one of my clone's fighters.
"Sir, we've lost gold leader." One of them called.
"Hurry, load your weapons. I believe we're not going to get in easy, are we close?" I asked.
"Yes sir, but with the amount of vulture droids up ahead we can't get in. We're gonna need to take them out."
"Understood. Make a clearing for me to enter. Blast! Torpedo on my tail! I'm gonna try to shake it." I said. I did a dive downward, then a barrel roll, and before I knew it, the torpedo was even closer than it was before. "R7! Release what spare parts we have!" The command never got to him. The torpedo exploded, but I was still very much alive. I looked around my ship.
"Sir! Your ship is covered in buzz droids!" One of the clones called.
"Blast!" I yelled. "We're going to need to hurry before they shut everything down. Take me straight in to General Kenobi's ship. Shoot down any droid ships coming along."
"Yes sir." We started to go towards the ship, my ship started to go slower however. Then, it just completely stopped, mid-orbit.
"Blue leader! I've lost all control! I'm going to put on an airlock helmet and jetpack, bring your ship over, I'm going to cling on to it. It's crazy, but it's our last option! My ship is down!" I looked outside, R7 was gone, his head completely torn off.
"Sir, we're calling in a gunship for you now." A clone called.
"Why is it I never have the good ideas?" I moaned. I put the helmet and jetpack on. I grabbed my lightsaber, ignited it and cut my way out of my fighter. As soon as I showed my head, the buzz droids went towards me. They were an easy kill, soon my whole ship was buzz droid free. Then I saw the gunship.
"Red leader, I'm going to get in the gun hatch, take me to General Kenobi's ship." I said.
"Yes sir." The gun hatch opened, I hopped in and closed it. I looked behind me, as we took off, my fighter exploded from a red blast. "Sir, there's vulture droids on our left, I need you to take them out to make a clearance to General Kenobi's ship."
I took control of the laser, it turned me to the left, I fired a green lazer in the droid's direction, the beam hit one, then I moved to the next, soon, they were all gone.
"Well done sir, General Kenobi has his ray shields up for us to enter."
"Thank you captain." I said. I looked back, in the distance I saw Grievous's ship. How I wanted to be there.
Focus. I told myself. This is Obi-Wan and Anakin's job. But nothing took back the burning passion I had to go and give Grievous my revenge. It wasn't right to feel vengeful, I tried to focus. We began to hover into Obi-Wan's ship from the ships belly, soon, the inside of the ship was visible. I saw Anakin and Obi-Wan in the distance, ready to go save the chancellor.
