Chapter 1: Order 66

Hoth, 19BBY

The coldness was dreadful even with the best winter gear on, as the Togrutan Jedi knight Dunar Koa, entering his late thirties, with yellow skin and red marks on his face. His tendrils long on both top and bottom wearing a wampa furred coat with armor underneath and a hood on the coat, was using his binarculars to scout out a potential hiding place for an ambush on a Separatist supply train transporting mined goods for their war machine. The vast land of snow and mountains was blanketed with a near whiteout all over the land. He found it still, hills that can camouflage the battalion when the troops come. He called over CT-609, nicknamed 'Blizzard' because of his stationed duty on Hoth. Blizzard ran over to Gen. Dunar, wearing his standard issued winter gear.

"Sir, the troops are ready to move sir." Blizzard said to Dunar.

"Good, have them set up an attack position on that position, 10 clicks east of our current placement. Make sure the walkers are camouflaged well. We don't want the enemy to take notice of us, yet." Dunar commanded. Blizzard acknowledged the order and went to tell the other troops. He puts away his binoculars and went to the lead walker to begin the march, when inside, he was greeted by his padawan.

"Master Koa, how was the scouting?" Rayrsoll asked his master Dunar, a 17 year old human male with tanned skin and jet black hair fancying a braid standard for padawans. He too wore a wampa coat with his Jedi robes underneath and other coverings for extra warmth over it.

"Just fine young one, the troops are going to move to those hills over there. The supply train should be coming soon." Dunar said while taking a behind the two pilots of the walker.

"Good, the sooner we scrap those droids the sooner we get off this ice ball of misery and death." Rayrsoll said.

"As much as I say control your emotions, especially your resentment towards this planet, I can't help but agree with you young one." Dunar replied as a smile towards his padawan came. They began the march, it took nearly an hour to get to the destination, and half an hour to set up the attack. Walkers were set on the other side of the hills where the troopers that were the first line of attack. The plan was to have infantry go for the attack, to get the enemies attention from the other side where the walkers would launch the attack to take out the supplies and provide heavy fire. Then the infantry would charge with Gen. Dunar and Commander Rayrsoll. As Rayrsoll saw it, just another day in the war.

As time passed and with the freezing cold getting even worse, Rayrsoll began to question whether this was the right position or not for the supply train. Dunar still laid on the ground to his waist, as the snow slowly began to bury him, his apprentice, the battalion and the walkers, but only at the feet.

"Master Koa, I don't mean to question you, but are you sure this is where they are going to be?" Rayrsoll asked Dunar wiping the snow from his covered body.

"Never underestimate Bothans. They may be spies for pay, but they never lie, especially when there is a paycheck for them, and the information we want." Dunar answered.

"Should've also asked what time they would leave, instead of freezing out here."

"Since when have the Separatists acted accordingly to plans?" Dunar asked expressing a face that made the question rhetorical.

"Point taken master." Rayrsoll said going back to keeping an eye out for the enemy. One minute later, a small figure appeared. Rayrsoll pulled out his binoculars to see what it was. Then the image became clear, it was the supply train. Rayrsoll was excited and relieved to see them.

"Master! I see them!" Rayrsoll mentioned to Dunar. He looked from his own binoculars and saw three troop transports and four supply vehicles. The droids numbered over a thousand. Now was the time to get ready. Dunar ordered his troops to ready themselves, and have the snipers in position and ready to fire.

"Well Rayrsoll, looks like we got work to do." Dunar said with stoic enthusiasm. Rayrsoll agreed and went to the position with Dunar. As the troop transport came closer, Dunar readied his command to open fire. As the middle train got to center of attack, Dunar gave the command. A rocket launcher fired and hit on of the troop transports, igniting an explosion that destroyed all the droids in it. The troopers then fired as did the droids. The plan was working, the droids gave their attention to the troopers on the hill.

"Okay, we got their attention! Rayrsoll, signal the walkers now!" Dunar commanded.

"Yes master!" He got on his wrist comlink and gave the order. "Strikers in position now!"

"Yes commander!" The trooper said. The walkers then appeared on the opposite side of the train. They aimed at the transports and fired. Huge holes were created and the trains went out of commission. Now the time to charge had come. Dunar got out his lightsaber and ignite it with a dark orange light and Rayrsoll took his out with igniting a green light.

"Now troopers! Attack!" The charge began. The two Jedi took the lead and cut down the first droids. The troopers walked fast paced and shot every droid holding a blaster. Rayrsoll used his Djem So to put a good offense on and switched to Shien to deflect the blaster bolts. Dunar used Ataru to be a hard target to hit. With blasters firing and lightsabers cutting down droids, the battle lasted only moments. When it was over, not a droid was standing. Rayrsoll cut down the last standing droid and the troopers regrouped. They had a quick cheer for victory then looked at the supplies. Metal, stock piles of it.

"Master, how much is in their?" Rayrsoll asked Dunar.

"Enough for the Separatists to build whatever they want, now we have it. Find any information you can, we need to know where it's going." Dunar commanded. Rayrsoll went to the control seat of the vehicle. A droid was still active and tried to fire on him. Rayrsoll got the drop on him and took his head off. He looked at the computer and found coordinates to Kuat, the ship yards of the Republic. Rayrsoll was confused, why was this going to Kuat? He took it outside to show Dunar. He pulled up the logs from the computer to show on the holocom.

"To Kuat? But that's Republic territory. Why would the separatists take supplies to the Republic?" Dunar asked.

"That's not all, I traced some of the messages back to the origins, and they came from Corascant." Rayrsoll mentioned. Dunar was more confused than ever. Corascant? How was this possible? "Master? What's going on?" Rayrsoll asked Dunar.

"I don't know young one. I'll contact the temple." Dunar replied. He went over to Blizzard to have an order given. "Blizzard, I want you to contact command, tell them that we've taken the supply train and we found information that may need to be investigated."

"Yes sir, I'll contact them right away." Blizzard acknowledged. Dunar then went to tend to Rayrsoll's information. As Blizzard was about to contact, a contact from Corascant came. It was Palpatine in his dark robe and hooded. "Yes Palapatine?" Blizzard asked.

"The time has come, execute order 66." Palpatine replied. Blizzards's reaction went dark and went to do the work.

"It will be done my lord." Blizzard replied. The troopers grabbed their rifles and went to the Jedi. Rayrsoll was talking to Dunar when he realized that the troopers were coming in their direction. Dunar then turned around and saw blizzard with six other troops.

"Blizzard did you contact command and tell-" Dunar then felt a blaster bolt from a pistol to his chest. Blizzard fired the shot. Dunar fell to his knees in pain while covering his wound. Rayrsoll stood shocked that his men would do this.

"TROOPER WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Rayrsoll said while igniting his lightsaber.

"Doing our jobs." Blizzard said while the other troops took aim at him and his master. Rayrsoll then used force push to send the troopers to the ground. He then grabbed his master and ran to a scout walker and left to the distance. "Get the scouts and kill them!" Blizzard commanded. The troops got on the scout walkers and began pursuit. The end of the order has come.

Earth: 2000 (est.)

Okami began having nightmares. He heard screams of pain and death. He felt life being lost, darkness shrouding the light. He saw children being slaughtered by a hooded figure; he then saw a building in smoke. He began to sweat and murmurs of 'no,' 'run,' and 'keep fighting.' Hana felt his shakes and woke up to his murmurs. She saw his sweat and thought he was having a nightmare. "Honey, wake up." Okami woke up in horror, then sadness took him. Hana wondered what was the problem. "Okami, what was the dream about?" Hana asked. He looked at her with sadness and answered falsely.

"It was just a bad dream. It was nothing, come lets go back to sleep." Okami wanted to drop the subject, but Hana was worried.

"Okami, what was the dream about? Just tell me." Hana insisted. Okami would never be combative, so he answered again politely.

"Hana, don't worry it was just a bad dream. Don't worry please." Okami answered. Hana then understood and dropped the subject. She lay next to Okami and slowly went to sleep. Okami looked at Hana carrying their next child and wondered if this planet was still safe for him and them. He then looked at infant Yuki and wondered with his gift and life, will she have the same potential as he did and fulfilled it in his past.

The next day in Tokyo came and Hana took Yuki to the store. It was Okami's day off and he decided to go to the dresser. He had stashed away a case with the Jedi symbol in it. He used the force to open it and the case revealed a holopic of him and Rayrsoll when he was younger. Rayrsoll was twelve in the picture while Okami just turned fourteen. He remembered the missions with his former master Dunar Koa, the same who took Rayrsoll later. He then found his two lightsabers. The first he constructed during the gathering and the second when he was sixteen. He remembers fighting pirates, gangsters, even separatists before the war started. Now he felt that something has happened to Jedi. He tried to sense if any were still alive, he couldn't feel their energy, he felt nothing. Were they all dead? Has the order been destroyed? He went outside to the balcony and looked up to the sky. He began to meditate.

Hoth:

Night came to the planet and it was below freezing. The base of the new pronounced empire had a little bit of troops. The Jedi starfighter was still at its port. It was meant for one passanger/pilot. The astromech R4-I1, green markings and blue based cover was looking around the ship and scraping off the ice. He then heard the ignition of a lightsaber and then saw a hooded figure take down the two troopers. The figure then came to the ship with a wounded man. R4 gave a scream but then recognized the face. R4 than gave a joyous beep.

"R4, hush! Get the ship ready for launch." Rayrsoll commanded. R4 complied. While doing so, Rayrsoll laid Dunar wounded and life slipping. Rayrsoll opened the cockpit and got R4 in the port of the ship. He was about to get Dunar in the ship, Dunar couldn't do it.

"Master don't give up! We're almost out of here!" Rayrsoll said to Dunar. Dunar took his lighsaber and gave it to his apprentice.

"Take it to the masters, and the logs, tell them we have been betrayed." Dunar said in his dying voice.

"Master we can make it. You can tell them."

"Rayrsoll, my dear apprentice, you've learned so much. Now there is nothing more to teach you now. Let the force guide you now, and may it serve you well. Be a great knight." Dunar then passed. Rayrsoll didn't want to leave his body behind, but he had no choice. He got into the cockpit and launched into space. The cruiser was on the other side of the planet so he left undetected. He found the hyperspace ring that brought him and his master to Hoth and used it make the jump. Once attached, he got on the com channel to send out a distress call.

"Jedi padawan Rayrsoll to Corascant, there has been a mutiny and the troops have turned against us. Request further instructions and support for-" He then had contact from Master Obi-Wan Kenobi.

"Rayrsoll, are you ok?" Obi-Wan asked. Rayrsoll was relieved to hear his voice.

"Master Kenobi! What's happening, why did the troops attack us?" Rayrsoll asked Obi-Wan.

"I'm not sure padawan, the same thing happened to me. No doubt others are suffering from this too." Obi-Wan said.

"What do you mean?"

"I haven't been able to get into contact with other Jedi, those I did got cut off before their troopers attacked and some escaped."

"OK I'm heading back to Corascant to-"

"No! Don't head there! Head to Aldaaran. Bail Orgena is giving sanctuary to surviving Jedi."

"What about Master Skywalker, where is he?"

"I haven't been able to contact him yet. He was on Corascant last I heard, I'm heading there now. Just have you and Master Koa head to Aldaaran now." Rayrsoll then felt the sadness hit him when he heard his master's name. "Rayrsoll, where is Master Koa."

"Master, Dunar Koa died. He was shot by Blizzard before I could do anything."

"Padawan, it wasn't your fault, calm yourself. Head to Aldaaran and see Orgena, he will help you."

"Yes master, hope to see you there too. May force be with you."

"And with you too Rayrsoll." Obi-Wan then cut the communication. Rayrsoll put in the coordinated for Aldaaran, then made the jump. He still couldn't believe what was happening.

Earth

Almost a year has passed and Okami's son Ame was just born. He was happy to be a father yet still felt sad about the nightmare he had those nights ago. It was raining that day and he decided to go get some meat for his love. He headed out to the store with an umbrella. On his way, he sensed a presence that he haven't felt for a long time, he looked around over and over, nothing. He then got a mark, on his left, a figure of pale white, a pony tail with a shaven head, wearing bounty hunter clothes and blasters on her side leaning next to a tree cross armed. "Well, look who I finally ran into. Have to admit, you made md work for it Jedi, now it's time to collect." Aura Sing said to Okami. He couldn't believe it. How did she find him, let alone this planet?

"What are you doing here Sing?" Okami asked Aura.

"What any bounty hunter does when they're somewhere, business." Aura said.

"And what do you want with me?"

"The bounty on Jedi, it's increased."

"I'm not a Jedi, not anymore for the past three years."

"Once one always one."

"The same goes for you too."

"Yea but I'm making a business out of it."

"Aura, I'm no mood to fight."

"Fine, makes it easier to kill you." Aura then reached for her blasters. Okami went wolf form and charged at her. She jumped over him in a summersault and began firing her two blasters. He dodged each shot with speed and timing and went for another charge. He clawed at her waist and missed. She maneuvered to the right and began firing again. Okami still dodged and went for a tactical retreat. He headed to next to river for rest. He was out of practice; he hasn't used the force like that for a while. He felt her presence again behind her. "Huh, I thought Jedi carried their lightsabers with them always." Aura said with confidence.

"I don't need my sabers to kill scum like you." Okami replied with a charge. Aura then used force grip on him, choking the life out of him. She then pulled out a needle, stuck it in his neck and drained some of his blood in a vial.

"Just a little proof of your demise." Aura said. After she got the vial, she then looked at Okami while still choking. "Funny, and here I thought you would still be a challenge. What a waste of my time." Aura said, she then shot twice into his chest. His life slipped fast, and he was gone. His last thoughts were of Hana and the children, what will happen to them? I can't protect them now. Aura then threw is body into the river. She looked at him float down the river in satisfaction, then left to tell her imperial client that the job was done.