Disclaimer!!!- WE DO NOT OWN STARWARS, or any of timothy Zahn's characters(like Mara)…..but if we did this would be the next episode
WhindWhistler and Dancefreak: hey, sup? This is our version of episode 7. this is our very first fanfic, so be nice. But no really, no uber harsh flames. We accept constructive criticism. cough.. cough so without further ado….
Prologue
Starwars theme music starts to play
STAR WARS
EPISODE VII:
A NEW THREAT
It has been 18 years since the destruction of the Emperor. Now, the Empire is scattered across the galaxy in small, unthreatening factions. The New Republic is the controlling government of the galaxy with Leia Organa-Solo as the Commander in Chief.(for those of you who don't know what that means, she is basically the head of the council.) Luke Skywalker has started a jedi academy on the planet of Yavin, whose locotion is only known to Luke's most trusted friends. Mara finally completed her training and is now a master assisting Luke while working part time for Karrde. (those who do not know some of these characters will catch on fast, don't sweat it.(AN from dancefreak: unless of course you are incredibly slow.))
Han and Leia now have two 13-year-old boys, Ace and Anakin, who are to start their apprenticeship soon. Though peace has reigned for a while, a new threat (wink wink.) looms on the horizon. This threat cares nothing for the empire, but will throw the tentative jedi order into disarray, subsequently bringing the New Republic with it…
Chapter 1
The New Republic had just gained another planet, Octel. Every thing about the prosperous terrain of Octel would prove valuable to the New Republic. The council had called a meeting at the planet to establish the foundation of their new military out post.
In Leia's opinion it was going well, at least up until the remaining empire patriots started to attack on both sky and ground. Before that point she was content to approve of the vast fighter jets and militia that had been stationed at Octel. Han however, found that the fact that the entire council had to leave Coruscant to check on Octel was a little much. Even when Leia coxed that it necessary to appear at Octel because the Octelians were still nervous about joining the Republic, he found it just plain stupid. "They still remember when the Empire used to rule," she would continue to say. "We have to show them that they are no longer a threat."
And I was right, Han thought, as he rushed down to the end of the hallway where Leia was. She had just finished a conversation with someone. Her head never turned to acknowledge his presence and automatically answered Hans gaze, "They're breaching the first wall. I'm supposed to head for the conference room. It will be safer." Her brown eyes stared back at him. "Don't worry; they still have four walls to go."
"Ya, well, did you contact Luke?"
"Yes. He and the Jedi are coming. They're bringing some of the young ones to."
"And are Anakin and Ace with them?" Han didn't need an answer. He knew that his two sons would come.
"Yes, but when they arrive Luck will have to do some sort of meditation and decide the best time for attack. So even when they get here it might take some time for them to start making an impact."
"Why would he have to wait?"
Leia looked at her husband calmly, "Jedi thing"
"I hate stupid Jedi rules."
"I know and so does Anakin. It worries me…"
"I'm sure Luke, Mara and Rosto will keep close eyes on him. I'll do my part if I can."
"Thanks," said Leia, arriving at the entrance to the conference room.
"Sure thing. Be safe."
"You too. I love you." She walked over the threshold of the conference room door.
Han leaned over and whispered in her ear, "I know." Next thing Leia knew a blaster was in her hands, her lips were tingling from a very sudden and brief kiss, and she could not even see Han's back because the big orange door had shut in her face.
Luke looked over at Mara, "Could you tell them we've landed?"
Mara rolled her eyes, "It would just make my day." She could here Luke telling their two apprentices, "Rosto and Kasha I need you to unload the droids…" as she opened the cockpit door.
In the passenger room sat five children, two aliens and three humans. The oldest among them was fifteen. His scrappy sand like skin and his lime eyes always shocked Mara when she looked at him. Beside him was the other alien: she was a Twileck. All the other kids appeared to be about the same age.
One of the humans had blonde shoulder length hair and an animal tooth for an earring, as was the custom on his planet. The other two boys sat on the far end of a bench, and turned to look at Mara when she came in. If she didn't know the two boys she would still be able to tell that these where Han and Leia's twins. Each had chocolate brown hair and while one had Leia's deep brown eyes, the other had striking blue eyes that matched his uncle's.
"Has the Fair Flight landed?" asked one of the twins.
"It has, Anakin. However, I do not want you to jump to any ideas about what your job is here." She gave the twin named Anakin a long stare. "We will meditate before any action is taken to ensure we will not harm those that need not be harmed. Please get on your gear and wait till Luke returns to lead the meditation."
Mara left reflecting on how much she disliked teaching to annoying thirteen year-olds. She concluded as the door shut behind her, that she was glad she had Luke to do the job.
As soon as Mara left, Ace Solo grabbed his gear, which consisted of a Meridian Blaster, pocketknife, rope, shield, and com link. Throwing on the belt from which it all hung he turned around to his fellow padawans. Everyone was still adjusting the straps on their belt. He turned toward his brother and asked, "What do you think we're going to do Anakin?"
Anakin shrugged, "Nothing to exciting."
The boy with the earring turned to join in the conversation, "I wonder if your uncle will have us join in on the front lines…"
Anakin rolled his eyes, "Nick that has to be the most star blasted thing I have ever heard."
Ace nodded, "We'll probably have the task of looking after the ship, here in the secure landing spot."
Yulla Wink and Dent had come to join in the conversation by now. Yulla said sparingly, "But why would we need to guard a secure area. If it's secure doesn't that mean that the empire radicals will not be able to get to into it unless the whole city is taken over?"
Nick took a deep breath then said slowly to the Twileck, "I think that's the point." She glared at him.
The door to the cockpit opened once more and Luke came in. He looked around at them with an expression of 'I won't even ask'. "Let us begin…"
Every one sat, following Luke's lead. Anakin inwardly thought that this was such a waste of time. He could be taking care of something important right now, instead of focusing on breathing- feeling the force around you. The whole time that they meditated he focused on how to fix C3PO's arm and the Falcon's faulty hyper drive. He didn't even notice when Luke had told them to stand up.
Ace tugged on his brother's shirt trying to wake him from whatever thoughts he was having. By the tenth big tug Anakin jumped up looking around, "Wh…what?"
Ace sighed, "We are receiving our missions. Get up. We have to report to Luke."
Together the boys walked over to Luke and the rest of the group. By now Luke's apprentice, Rosto had joined them. "Do you feel up to joining us?" Rosto joked with them.
"I have to think on that," Ace laughed.
"Good, now that everyone is here… Dent, Yulla, and Nick I want you to find the council and bring them here. Once you return fly back to Corascant." Luke directed them transmitting the area systematic into their armbands. "There's the map. They are located in the center of the building. Once you get there you have to get through the door. Send a transmittion to Leia before you try to get in- otherwise you will have blasters pointed at you. There should not be any obstacles, because the empire patriots have not gotten that far. Good Luck.
"Anakin and Ace, I want you two to stay here with the ship," Luke finished looking at the twins. His eyes had lingered on Anakin for a moment, only a moment.
Anakin started, "What why?"
Ace cut him off, "Master Skywalker, I understand the need for the ship to be kept safe. However, does it really need our protection when it is in a secure area? We have K4-O to watch it. By no means do I mean to question your orders. I find them reasonable. Yet we need training, just like the others. We want to help our mom to safety."
Luke smiled at him, "Ace Solo you are quite persuasive. How ever I do not want Ana…y of you to cause trouble."
Raising his eyes at the stumble of words Ace pushed some more, "If this is some "Uncle Thing" you really must trust in our training. Both you and Mara trained us. We are ready… in my opinion, Master."
"You both really want to go. I see your reason." The twins looked up at him wide eyed. "I think you can go, just be careful."
On a planet once full of waterfalls and rivers, with ankle deep grass a new building stood along the ancient ones of the planet. Inside this dark and jagged building a group of people bowed before a heavy iron door. In side the door was a semi-nervous (change) General of the remaining empire fleets. He sat in a circular chair staring unblinkingly at the one in front of him. All that the General could see right now was the back of his cloak that reached the floor, and the General preferred it this way. His heart had just started to slow down when he turned and petrifying face stared at the general.
He spoke to the general making him sweat. He said in a voice so clear dispite lips that seemed almost sowen together, "General I much apreaciate you coming here. Is it you're fist time on Tendra?"
"Yes…" breathed the General. He was not one for the force, nevertheless, he could even feel the power coming from this Sith.
"You may call me Master now. I believe that you need me as much as I need you. I can use the remaining missle power to create a new empire after I destroy the Jedi."
"Yes, Master. We have begun the attack on Octel. We will not be able to ruin them just wound them deeply."
"I know that. Please do not tell me things that I already know. I have given your men some of my sith who are performing battle meditation and uniting your men. Now, since it is your first time on Tendra my apprentice will show you around. I wish you to see what we have created." The huge endless dark eyes that could be perfectly seen from behind the Sith Lord's hood, burrowed into the general's own eyes. The general pronounced the word "yes" while sweeping his own eyes over the Sith Master's face to gaze at the thorns that ran from the corner of his eyes down half way between his neck.
Standing up the general watched the sweeping cape of the Master turn around to gaze at several holocrons as he was shown out by one of the many sith apperentices. This one wore a mask that seemed to glow silver when light met the plastic surface. The attire seemed fit for an acient assassin along with a silver lightsaber handle. It spoke in hissing Common. "Foslslows messss."Trailing after the hissing creature, the general left the room and came to the entrence. Here many people and aliens bowed before the door that lead to the sith master. The building itself had tall, gray walls that were almost leaning in. Staring around at another architecutal marvel the general asked, "What is your name?"
"My naaamee?" For a second the general thought that the alien was going to strike out at him. "I havess no namesss thatss yousss can ussssse." He thought for a moment, "Call messs Ssssuce. Ressspectss it or you will have punisssshmentsss great. Your name, huuuman?"
"John Goulden. I prefer to go by General Goul."
"Rightss Ghheneral Goul. We exsssit thisssss building." General Goul looked at him and mumbled "right" under his breath.
They left the building and toured the world. It was relatively small compared with most of the worlds. The sith had built great buildings where they trained. Their buildings were nothing like the grand white ones that stood built in the dieing trees and waterfalls. It was a wonderful sight to any nature lover. However, General Goul was no nature lover and preferred the setting created by the sith, it projected ultimate power. He wondered how their presence had not been detected on the planet so close to the republic outer worlds. How by space did they build this place? When the general asked his questions Suce looked at him for a moment.
"Sssssssit down ghheneral," the alien commanded him taking a rasping breath. So he sat down on dead grass under a dying tree and looked at Suce. "I sssshould begin by telling you the hissssstory of thissss planet. Itsss people have long remained out of the woessss and fights of other worldsss becaussse they are naturally forssse sssensssitive. It wasss a world the old emperor, I believe, wanted to eventually take. He could have had ssssso many forsse sssensssitive followersss. He needed time to conquer sssuch a world ssso he never got around… Anywayss you mussst want to know whyee thessse people never thought to rissse againssst the emperor, why they weren't ever heard of by people like you. The truth isss they are neither Jedi or Ssssssith. They thought both were flawed. The Jedi they would proclaim were arrogant and causssed many more problemsss than they ssssolved. They would protest the Sssssith; wayss describing them as vengeful and blind. The Tendraians thought that it was wrong to allow actions to be sstrictly controlled by feelingssss, that power wasss not ruling but was compliance, equality. I suppose they must have mistaken their ideasss for truth, they were wrong. They, themselvesss had a royal family whooom I believe governed.
"Many of thessse people were neever sstrong enough to join the Jedi or Ssssith or even riffle with the two over right and wrong. They kept to themselvess. Sssuronding themselvess in their own beliefsss. That iss why you have neever heard of them. When the Empire did take over they did not take extreeme action but gave the rebelsss ssshipsss. That was all they did asss far asss we know, and we heard this information directly from them when we took them asss our prisssonerss. They now walk the hallss of our Sssith academy and sssserve our masssster. A few have joined us, variousss ones have died deeefying usss, and mossst ssserve usss assss ssservantsss."
The general looked at Suce, oddly enjoying the history lesson. "When did you come here and take over?"
"We came about thhhirteeeen yearsss ago. You were ssstill fighting crippled againssst the New Republic. My Massster sssaw thiss place asss a world great for being undetected by forssse usssers becaussse there hass alwaysss been a ssstrong forsse sssensse emanating from the planet. We were alsso promissed more followersss from the planet. Thus we attacked. It took five dayss to completely conquer the world. Within the firssst year our buildingsss were complete. Ever sssincess, we have been growing here." Suce completed his narrative and looked out on the dead fields to the Sith buildings.
"Why don't you use the buildings that were here before?" the general asked.
"Becausse the palace and the library are lockkked to uss. They are the white buildingss you ssees over there. We have sssearched the whole plaaanet for the keysss," the alien said, hate filling his hissing voice. "Ssso long have we sssearched, even one of the cryssstal cavesss are locked. That isss where we get the crystalsss for our ssssabers, for I doubt on asss such you are will have knowledge in the Ssssithh. Never the less, there are two more caves we can ussse." The general felt Suce's eyes drill into his head. "You want to know why we haven't blassssted our way in? It has a force field, and if we disssable the one you can sssee- there it's kind of blueish- we have another one, my massster sayssss. And the other one is literally a "forssse" field. Durrrring our attack some off our Sssith brotherhood got in to kill the royal family and their followerss. However, the forssse field went up and they never came back. We have made ussse of their variousss other buildingsss." Suce looked at the general than the sky. "It isss getting laaate you sshhhould return to your ssship and sssee how the fight on Octel is progresssssssing. We are expessspessing the other general's to arrive ssshorttly."
"Right… hold on what should your master be known as to me and my men…. I mean other than master… what is his title?" General Goul said standing up.
The alien's voice lost its hissing quality altogether. "Darth Ile."