Ch 1

Secrets and Spies

Just after standard year Star Wars II The Clone Wars

Third person

Deep in Separatist space lays a fleet of Separatist warships, and on the flagship The Tyrant is the Sith Lord, Darth Tyranus. On the flagship, in his private chambers, Count Dooku power ups his holoprojector and punched in a series of numbers and waits. About ten seconds later a man in his early 20s wearing Mandalorian super commando armor, with out the helmet, kneeled and spoke in a rich deep voice, "What is my bidding, my Master?" his voice clearly respectful and slightly tinged with fear and reverence. "There are two Jedi that is being problematic to our plans. You are to eliminate them." "Yes Master, it shall be done." The armored man said with a voice devoid of all emotion. "Who are the Jedi scum?" He asked with a little excitement in his voice as if he loved to do this, which he did as this was all he knew. "The Jedi's' names are not important, only that you dispose of them. Is this clear?" Dooku barked, clearly fed up with all the questions. "Yes my Master, you orders are clear. To where am I to find these Jedi?" the younger man asked the older. "They are on Coruscant. Will this be a problem?" the older man asked mockingly "No, it will be more fun this way." the armored man replied, with a glare on his face. He clearly did not like being doubt, nor mocked. "Good, if you complete your assignment we will finally be able to defeat my Master." Doom said with a slight grin, knowing that this is what all of the years of training were for. This was what the young man wanted, to defeat his Master's master and to be able to truly stand at his side. "Good, our dream can be achieved." the younger man said clearly happy with this statement. With that Dooku signed off and was about to leave when he heard his holoprojector go off again. When Dooku looked at it, it is HIS master. When he answered it a man in a hooded cloak that covered his entire face, with a voice that sounded sickly but was full of malice and hatred. "Well, well, my apprentice, something you wish to share with me?" the cloaked man asked with a snarl in his voice, "Here I'll fill you in, you took an apprentice while you still are one, then you plot to kill me and take up my title of Sith Lord." "My Lord, I would never. He is merely a tool, someone to carry out the missions that I cannot. He is barely trained in the ways of the dark side." Dooku lied, knowing that his master was about to fly off the handle and kill him. "Fine then," the cloaked man, said with an evil smile in his voice "when he gets back, you are to kill him to prove your loyalty to me."

Fury rose up in Dooku as he was commanded to do this, as years of lies and hard work just went down the drain. He knew they were not at a moment in time where his apprentice and himself could take on his master and win. He was going to have to think of something quick to pull this out of the fire. "Yes Master, it shall be done." Dooku replied with something akin to cold politeness. As he shut off his holoprojector he thought to himself 'What am I going to do to try to salvage this? I don't think there is a way, I think I will just have to bide my time and kill him later. Guess I'll have to find a new apprentice at a later time.' As he walks back to the bridge a B1 battle droid hands him a datapad. On the datapad it reads "Master, I have arrived at the planet, who are my targets?" As Dooku types in the names of his apprentice's targets he thinks to himself 'Maybe this will be the one mission that he completes but at the cost of his life. That way my master is happy because he is dead and, I don't have to kill him out right.' As he presses send he knows that he must now lie low for a little while, before trying to find another replacement for him.

On Coruscant one standard week later.

As two Jedi, one a Master the other a Padwan, walk down the street looking for a lead on a terrorist cell in the city, a man three stories above them smiles to spite of himself. He loved this time the calm before the storm, as it was the final moments before he would have to prepare before he killed his targets. This wasn't him being cocky; he just hadn't failed a mission ever. As the Jedi walk in to an old, rusted, and falling apart warehouse he knew his prey had fallen for his trap, now it was time to spring it. He put on his dark brown cloak over his black armor, puts on his helmet, which had the standard t-shape visor outlined in a very dark gray, and flicked up the hood of his robes, he was now ready.

(AN: If you wish to see his armor go to this link: wiki/Ghost_(Death_Watch) Keep in mind that his armor does include a jetpack, but he did not need it for this mission so he did not put it on. He will put it on always for now on unless it is said he does not.)

As the Jedi walk in they realize that they need to split up to cover the most ground. The Padwan, an adolescent Rodian female, takes the left side while her master, a fully-grown human male, takes the right. As the Padawan looks around she fails to notice a shadow descend from behind her. Not five seconds later she found two red lightsaber blades one sticking out of her chest, the other planted in her throat. Before the Padawan could even figure out what had happened, the man deactivated his crimson lightsabers and took her's as a trophy. As he attached it to the belt of his armor, you could see he had at least three other lightsabers at his belt. He then ran and, with a force added jump, he jumped into the rafters of the old warehouse hidden from sight.

As the Jedi Master looked around he seemed to not be able to find his apprentice. As he looked around you could feel the fear building up in him, and when he found her dead body you could feel the anger build up inside of him, now it was show time as the Jedi started crying over his fallen Padawan. As the Jedi was still crying over his loss, the armored man jumped down from the rafters and mockingly called "Mr. Jedi is something wrong? Have you lost your little pet, if so allow me to ease your suffering." As he drew two lightsabers, one of his own red blades in his right hand, the other was the fallen Padawan's, which had an orange blade, was in the left hand. "You dare face me, and with my student blade no less. You will die here sith scum." the Master replied with a look of pure hatred and drawing out his lightsaber, it emitting a blue blade. You could see that he had longer blond hair, blue eyes, and a fair complexion, with a scar running from just under his right eye to the middle of his upper lip. "Now that is just not the Jedi way hating you opponents, that is my job." The armored Sith replied shrugging off the rest of his cloak and getting into a fighting stance, his arms at his sides and the lightsaber in his left hand was in a reverse grip. The Jedi thinking of vengeance and, the fact that he was better than the man in armor, charged first. As he charged he brought his saber in to a rising slash, trying to slash him from right hip to his left shoulder, only for the armored man to meet his blow with his right saber and trying to land a fatal blow to the chest with the left, only for the man to dodge his blade by rolling behind his attacker and sending a Force push to his back. As the man went flying across the room, he realized one thing: the Jedi is trying to suppress his rage, let that be his downfall. As soon as he rose, he had to put both of his sabers up vertically to prevent a swing from the Knight, as he tried to cleave him in two. As the Sith blocked this he just let forth a huge torrent of fast and powerful blows. As the Jedi was put on the defensive being forced backwards and not being able to muster a counterattack, only just being able to stop all the strikes from hitting their mark. Then the Jedi did something insane, he willing let the Sith strike him in the upper right leg, cutting a deep chunk out of his it with the crimson lightsaber, and the Jedi proceeded to try to decapitate the Sith. The Sith just saw this coming proceeded to block with both sabers and laughed. As this initiated a blade lock the armored man thought it a good time to start taunting the Jedi. "You know you are a lot better at this then your apprentice, all I had to do to her was simply jump down from the roof and stab her." This made the Jedi truly realize that this monster had killed his Padawan someone he viewed as a daughter, or at least as close as he could have on while in the Order. It only added to his growing rage at the one who killed his Padawan. As the Jedi got madder and, madder you could little bits of yellow come into his eyes, the armored man's plan were working perfectly. "She didn't even see it coming. It's a pity really, I could have had some much more fun with her than with you." the Sith assassin said suggestively, provoking the Jedi to a state of almost feral rage. As the Jedi made plans to break off the saber lock, the armored man beat him to it and sent him flying across the room with a huge Force push, and a huge bolt of yellow Sith Lightning at his hand with his blue lightsaber, causing it to fly out of the Jedi's grip and deactivate, before hitting the ground. As the Jedi tried to rise the Sith apprentice grabs him in a Force choke hold, telekinetically grabs the Jedi's lightsaber, activates it, and rams it through the man's abdominal cavity. As this happens, he uses the Force to unclip all of the other lightsabers from his belt, and including the two in his hand, active, and, sent them all into the floating body of the Jedi, sending two crimson, one orange (the Padwan's), a green, and another blue blade into him finally killing him. As the Sith Lord in training recalls and deactivates all of his lightsabers, he examines the two new ones he just acquired. The Padawan's lightsaber was just a simple metal tube with a red button for activation, very plain and nothing worth mentioning but, the Master's lightsaber was a different story altogether. It was a blade in a curved handle design, like the Sith Master's, but, it had a leather wrap where you would hold it and it was slightly longer than a normal lightsaber. It also had a switch that would change the blade's length from a standard lightsaber length to that of a shoto's, potentially useful in his next duel with his Master. After clipping both of his newly acquired trophies to his belt, he stops the camera in his helmet. He recorded the entire thing for his master, as he'll want prove of the outcome and secretly Dooku takes pleasure in watching this kind of stuff, a trait that he did not have in common with his apprentice.

As he looks at the fallen Jedi, or what was left of him, he did not understand how the Jedi Master reached his rank, as he was stupid, made foolish choices, let his emotions control him, and was way to cocky. All of these traits were ones that the Jedi code spoke against, if not outright forbid. As the man walks away he heard two voices one a slightly higher than the other, most likely a female. As he hears them the Sith assassin leapt up to the rafters, to see if it is worth it to kill them. As the owners of the voices walked into view the Sith assassin knew that the Force either favored him or hated him, as before him was Padawan Ahsoka Tano and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker.