The Hidden Truth

Revan pulled out his commlink and called for HK-47. It took a couple moments, but the assassination droid finally answered.

"Query: what is it, master? Is there a meatbag you want disposed of? Am I finished babysitting your prisoner?" HK asked, his voice appearing hungry.

"HK, meet me on the command level in the main computer room. I need you to take me somewhere" Revan told him.

"Extrapolation: and you need backup for where I am taking you? I will be there immediately, master!" the droid exclaimed. Revan shook his head and hurried to meet with HK. The droid was there waiting, and Revan smirked when he knew the droid would be able to see it.

"HK, I didn't call you here to kill anyone. I need you to take me to my quarters, back from before I was captured" Revan told him.

"Irritated statement: master, this is a waste of my programming, master. I am a highly skilled droid with the ability to kill anyone you ask. But you have called me here to take you around the Star Forge like a tour guide? Have I not been fulfilling my programming, Master?" HK asked.

"Actually, HK. You exist to serve me. Now, take me to my quarters or ill demote you to Mission's protocol droid" Revan teased.

"Resignation: you are a very cruel master, master. Follow me" HK said, hanging his head as much as his frame would allow.

HK led Revan into the elevator and told Revan to place his hand on the panel. Revan did so, and HK typed in a six-digit code. 033148. The elevator went up nearly all the way to the top of the Star Forge before it stopped. The elevator door opened to reveal another door with a computer to the side. Revan tapped the screen and a series of questions came up.

"HK, do you know the answers to these questions?" Revan asked. The droid looked at the screen and said that he did.

"Tell me the answers and I will type them in, then" Revan ordered.

What planet was I born on? Deralia

What is my last name? Surik

What is my sister's name? Meetra

Who is Darth Traya? Kreia

What is the greatest evil in the universe? Slavers

Where is my favorite planet to vacation? Naboo

The screen went blank and Revan tried to open the door, but it wouldn't open. He looked to the screen to see that one more question came up.

Why did I choose to attack and take over the Republic?

Revan looked to HK, but the droid shook his head.

"Resignation: I don't know the answer to this one, Master" HK told him.

"Very well, HK. You can go back to whatever you were doing before I interrupted you" Revan said, turning back to the computer before HK could respond. He took a deep breath and typed his answer.

Because the Emperor told me to.

He looked back to the computer and it said "Error. Incorrect. Warning, two more incorrect answers will result in lockdown and expulsion.

Revenge for the Mandalorian Wars.

The computer gave him the same error message except that he only had one more chance to open the door.

To take over the Republic.

Revan looked back to the computer and an error message came up again. "Further explanation required." He took a deep breath and gave the only answer he could think of.

To be strong enough for a fight with the Emperor.

Revan heard the door unseal and he let out the breath he didn't realize he was holding. He walked into the room and the lights came on immediately. He looked to his left. There was a small kitchen with a table and a stove. He slowly turned to the right to see a television, a couch, and a leather recliner that he wanted to go over and sit in immediately.

He turned again and saw a large desk with papers all over it, shockingly well organized. Past the desk was a huge and comfortable bed that he looked forward to sleeping in. But he went right for the desk. Right on top of the desk was a datapad. Revan took the datapad and brought it over to the big leather recliner before turning it on. When he saw the first line, he almost dropped the datapad in shock.

If you are reading this, then my plan was successful.

Revan took a deep breath and looked back down at the datapad before continuing to read.

If you are reading this, then my plan was successful. Malak will have betrayed me when he saw that Bastila and her Jedi strike team had reached the bridge. He will have taken control of the Sith and the Star Forge. I have included in this datapad all the plans I had for the galaxy after returning to the Star Forge.

I couldn't include all memories in this datapad, only the most important. But the finer details on how to stop the Emperor will be up to you. I can lay the groundwork, but the details are yours. Good luck, Dark Lord of the Sith.

Revan took a deep breath and went to the next screen. It was a contents list.

My distant past

Meetra

The Gray Jedi

The Revanchists

The Emperor/The True Sith

The Republic

The Star Forge

The Sith Empire

Bastila

The first place he went was to the screen about Bastila.

The Jedi Council sending Bastila was a great risk, but one that was worth it since you are here reading this. As close as we were when we were younger, Bastila's loyalty will be worth so much more than nearly any other. The Jedi Council presumably wiped her mind of our past at the same time as reprogramming mine.

If they did that as I have anticipated, then you will need to give her proof and likely go into her mind and free those memories. This will be easiest done when she is asleep. The Jedi Council wouldn't risk removing those memories as it could change her personality and her loyalty as well as perhaps even destroying her mind completely. So, the memories are presumably boxed up in the back of her mind. She won't know that she is even missing anything, so it will be up to you to release those memories and bring my best friend back.

Revan stopped reading at that point and reached into Bastila's mind through their bond, seeing that she was still asleep. He found his way into her memories quickly and searched through them, keeping one eye open for her discovering him.

Over ten minutes into his search, he found a locked away section in Bastila's memory. He moved around the locked section finding that there was one lock on one side, the only thing holding back the memories from breaking free

"Revan, what are you doing in my mind?" Bastila exclaimed. Revan cursed under his breath, his entrancement in the box breaking his concentration on blocking himself from Bastila's senses.

"Bastila, you will thank me for this later" Revan told her. Before she could respond, Revan put his hand on the lock and sent Force Lightning through the lock, breaking it open in an instant. The rush of memories sent Revan out of Bastila's mind. Through their bond, he could feel the shock to Bastila's mind and could almost feel her pain.

He put the datapad into his pocket and hurried over to the desk, taking the picture frame standing in the background and hurrying back to his old room, using the Force to lock the door behind him.

Using the Force to augment his speed, Revan got back to the room and entered quickly. Closing and locking the door behind him, he turned to see Bastila's body convulsing on the bed. He was next to her in a moment. He took her hand and held it. Her eyes were open, but not seeing. Her body was shaking, and her muscles were tense.

"Bastila, please. It's Revan. I'm here" Revan told her through one of her screams. She tore her arm away from Revan and curled into a little ball, shaking harder and harder until she went limp.

"Bastila?" Revan asked. He waited a moment before calling to her again. After another tense moment, she turned back to him.

"Revan? What happened?" she asked, holding her head. Revan sent a healing burst at her head. He used the Force and grabbed the picture frame off the ground. He gave it to her and she gasped.

"So, it's true, then?" she asked. He nodded.

"The council kept your memories hidden away, just like they did with mine" he explained. She blinked a few times and he saw that her gray eyes had turned blue.

"How did they do that? Wouldn't I have noticed?" she asked.

"My theory is that the Council did it while they were wiping my mind. You will have been so focused on me that you wouldn't have noticed them boxing away certain memories" Revan explained. Bastila put her hand back on her head and closed her eyes. Revan sent another healing burst at her, but she used the Force to send it back to him.

"Does that mean that your memories are boxed up inside you like mine were?" she asked. Revan paused a moment before he shrugged.

"I am not sure, Bas. The Council likely wouldn't have cared as much about my personality. But I don't know for sure" Revan admitted. Bastila sat up and got into a meditative stance.

"I would lay down, Revan. This is likely going to be very uncomfortable" Bastila told him. He chuckled and stretched out on the bed, closing his eyes.

Bastila used their bond to enter Revan's mind, searching through his mind for his memories. She looked around and found a box like the one Revan found in her mind. It was just much, much bigger. She moved up to the lock and inspected it. She took a deep breath and felt the power in her stomach before shooting it out through her arms and fingers like Malak taught her. Force Lightning engulfed the lock, breaking it open.

The memories exploded out of the box, sending Bastila away faster than she could control her body. She went through Revan's mind until her consciousness ran into another locked box. This one was different. She went around it, seeing that the box was blue at the top, gray in the middle, red at the bottom. Most of the box was gray. She thought about it for a moment, but then used force lightning to break the lock off this box as well.

Further authorization required. What color are the angel's eyes?

Confused, Bastila thought back to her memories and then decided to take a shot.

"Blue" she said. Then the box burst open. She was sent out of Revan's mind in an instant to see him thrashing around on the bed. His body was convulsing and shaking, Bastila tried to approach him, but was thrown back by an energy barrier around him. Shock and terror took over as Bastila looked at Revan's body levitating into the air above their bed.

Just when Bastila was going to approach him again, a large burst of energy was sent from his body, while Bastila was momentarily blinded by the blast.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Depression is back again, but it didn't stop me from writing this time. I am so excited for this story and for the first time in well over a year, writing has helped me cope instead of added stress to me. I hope you all enjoy this chapter. I would love some more reviews of some suggestions, new ideas, questions about the story. Or even just people to talk to, friends are always nice to have.

I am already working on chapter 5, so I hope there won't be too long a wait for it this time. As always, thank you to everyone who reviews and thank you for sticking with me. I look forward to updating soon and hopefully talking with at least some of you as well. Until then, enjoy.