Chapter 4 You shall pay for this, with your life!

LUKE POV

Luke walked in the direction of the Jedi temple. He had Collo drop him off a little while away. He had some things to think about.

Delicious cents wafted in from cafés and restaurants he passed. His stomach rumbled hungrily. When was the last time he had a decent meal.

Like in forever he thought. Maybe I should have accepted the money offered to me for saving the airbus. At least I wouldn't be so hungry.

Walking along he looked around at the buildings and speeders passing over head

This place never sleeps. It's so big. I wonder how Leia, Han, and Chewie are doing. They probably are wondering where I am. I'm still finding it hard to believe where I am he mused.

I wonder what time is. How am I even going to get back to my original time? I'm not really sure the Jedi would know anything about time travel. But what if I change history and mess everything up. I probably have already. His mood seemed to dip deeper at the thought.

I have to be here for a reason he conceded maybe the whole reason I am here is so I can help father and the rest of the Jedi order. I can also expose Sidious as well. I still need to get back at him for ruining my father's life as well as my mother's and making me and Leia orphans forcing the both of us to grow up apart… hmm, yeah that's what I'll do. I'm here for a purpose. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to save many lives as well as save Alderaan. I'll stop and expose Palpatine for the greater good as well as for myself. The universe would be sooo much better off without that old creep and a galactic empire to boot.

Content at the moment and satisfied with his goal he looked around for a place to stay the rest of the night but to no avail so he decided to force jump and climb up the buildings to the top. He might as well spend what's left of the night on a roof instead of on the street.

After a while he managed to scale a mini skyscraper like building. Looking at the logo on the top of the building he decided it must belong to some mini corporation or business. Finding a ledge near the top of the building he lay down. It wasn't the most comfortable of places to sleep but he'd slept in worse places. Like the swamps of Dagobah.

I wonder if master Yoda looks as insane and crazy as he does in the future. The green troll had been living in isolation for many many years and after experiencing the jedi purge first hand that would make anyone kinda crazy he thought.

Putting his arm under his head to act as some kind of pillow he gazed off into the night sky. Through heavy lidded eyes he watched speeders blur past and buildings glowing bright with fluorescent colors in the night. Towering skyscrapers at greater heights seemed to be reaching into the Coruscant skies above him. Their immenseness almost made him feel insignificant. A single being amidst a big bustling city. A single person trying to change the course of history. He relaxed slowly and his eyes drifted shut turning out the sounds of the city. The night's activities finally taking their toll as he slipped into a blissful unconsciousness despite the circumstances. His last thoughts were of his friends wondering how they were doing or even if they still existed in a future that was about to change or wasn't even there anymore.

SIDIOUS POV

Chancellor Palpatine was intrigued. No more like fascinated.

Early morning sunlight filtered in through the large window behind his desk casting the room in a golden glow. Flurry particles in the air floated gently around, only visible because of the light. Sitting at his desk he mused over the events of last night. They certainly were interesting and least to say unexpected. He was rarely ever caught off guard and took pride in knowing things before they happened as he could often see the possibly futures, but he had got no warning. No sign to show him that some unknown Jedi fledgling would appear out of thin air and drop right in his office. He was perplexed.

This unknown enigma has lots of force potential. Almost as much as Skywalker.

After the Jedi, or he at least thought it was a Jedi, that somehow knew of his true identity escaped last night he watched over the security footage downloading and copying it onto his data pad then erasing it from the securities database. He needn't others to know about this strange and unusual occurrence.

Picking up his data pad he watched over the security footage once again. Starting with the boy appearing out of nowhere, to the boy gaping out the window, rummaging through his desk, then the little brat picking up his- cough- cough- personal device, rushing to the restroom, going back to ransacking his desk, then heading to the door but quickly retreating into the side hallway once he realized that chancellor Palpatine, himself, was on the other side opening the door, down the hallway the boy ran until he was trapped, then after locking the door the unknown enigma cut open his window and leapt out force jumping, or using the force to push him onto a speeder which was an impressive feat for one so young and soon getting mixed in with the rest of the Coruscant night traffic.

He had to find out who this Jedi enigma was. He would send someone to find this boy and capture him.

So I may interrogate this boy myself.

But first I need to get that window fixed. He thought scowling.

LUKE POV

Luke woke up, the sun shining brightly in the morning, slightly blocked by passing clouds once in a while.

"Wait a minute, where am I," he said disoriented.

Why am I in this city? Where are Leia, Han, Chewie, and the rebellion? Aren't I supposed to be on Endor? And what am I…

"Oh," he breathed out in realization as he remembered events of last night.

Stupid palatine. What a vile grotesque creature he thought wrinkling his nose in disgust. This is all his fault.

Still lying on the ledge he stretched his arms above his head yawning rather loudly.

"It doesn't even feel like I slept at all," he grumbled to himself while managing to finally sit up, dangling his legs of the edge.

Oww… back hurt… he thought wincing at the feeling of his sore back. Last time I'm ever sleeping on something this hard.

Peering around he saw an enormous city, bustling with morning activity seemingly as it had last night.

The city that never sleeps.

He also saw the Jedi temple in all of its glory, the five spires rising up into the sky.

Guess I should find a way down he thought to himself. If I'm lucky enough maybe I can find something to eat.

It took him quite a while to scale down trying to look as inconspicuous as possible. It's not every day you see people climbing up and down buildings.

I hope I don't look like a burglar, dressed in total black and all and scaling up and down buildings to add to it.

He hit the ground in a side alley way. Coming back onto the main street he made his way to the Jedi temple, clouding his force presence to the best of his ability. One could never be too cautious.

Especially with hideous Sidious snooping around out there.

Standing at the foot of many stairs he saw that they led to the main entrance of the gigantic structure known as the Jedi temple. Trying not to look suspicious but probably failing miserably at it he went forward.

Luke wondered for a moment that if he ever got back to his time how he alone could possibly restore it to its former glory.

Anyways, I need to find master yoda. He'll surely understand and may even be able to help me. But how will I get to him.

If he concentrated really hard he could vaguely feel master Yoda's strong, comforting, soothing force presence. It made him smile.

Looking more closely he saw a couple Jedi knights around the entrance.

Maybe I should find a side or back entrance he thought.I don't think that it would be wise to draw too much attention to myself.

He started his walk around the huge temple blending in to passing crowds, or trying to blend in as much as one can who wears all black and has a poorly concealed light saber strapped to their belt can.

Totally not suspicious here. I'm just a normal person like all of you. He thought passing a group of aliens he didn't know the name of.

Sending a mild force suggestion to those around him he silently willed them not to look at him or draw attention to him.

How long has it been he asked himself how long have I been walking?

Sigh

Stang, this building is huge

Seeing a side entrance door that would lead into some part of the temple, probably used for maintenance or something, he casually approached it trying to look as if he belonged here. There was really nothing he could do about the cameras on the outside of the Jedi temple but hope he could find master Yoda before he was marked off as some type of dangerous intruder.

He approached the door. Of course the door was locked.

Like that's going to stop me.

Unlocking it using the force he strolled inside into a narrow hallway. That hallway led to another room. There were piles of cleaning supplies, other tools, and sanitary products. The room overall was clean covered in beige floors with red markings. The walls were a tan color.

He jumped, startled, at the sound of a robotic voice, "unauthorized personnel, may I see some identification. Show your clearance for this area immediately or the sentinels will be alerted."

It was a cleaning droid.

He breathed a silent sigh of relief.

Nothing he off course couldn't handle.

The top half of the droid was a head which had one big eye and a mouth, four arms, and a body while the bottom part of the droid was that similar to a t3 series utility droid.

Overall it looked kinda cute.

Pancaking slightly he answered, "uh, you see, I'm Luke and I left my id in my room… yeah ... in my room. I-I don't have it with me but I assure you that I'll be leaving… capiche."

He gave a nervous laugh.

"I shall go ahead and call a master Jedi here. If you are indeed who you say you are I will have someone verify this information," it said in its annoying robotic voice while pulling out a comlink.

"Wha-at, you don't need to do that", luke stammered quickly snatching the comlink away from one of the droid's many hands.

"unauthorized personnel give that back or I shall resort to alerting the sentinels of an unknown Jedi, if that's even what you are stranger, who is unauthorized to be here." The cleaning droid started rolling away.

"Wait," he called jumping in front of the droid effectively blocking its path "you don't have to call anyone here. It's not like I'm here to harm anyone, honest."

"Regardless of why you are here I need to alert the sentinels of your presence."

He groaned in frustration. These so called sentinels might already know he was here and on their way right this minute. He was wasting valuable time arguing with a stupid cleaning droid. A damn cleaning droid.

"Maybe you don't need to alert them," he said stepping in front of the droid once again.

"I do," the robotic voice said monotonously.

"No you don't," he countered back.

"I do."

"No youuuu don't," he repeated stressing the syllables.

"I do."

"Actually you don't."

"Step out of the way, half pint brat," it said rolling around the gaping Luke.

Did he just-. No he did not. He couldn't have just said-

Luke had been teased by his size before because as you know he was a little short for a human male, taking after his rather petite mother in size. It always annoyed him to no end. Knowing this Han would purposely bring the subject up just to tick him off.

He would not-could not stand to be humiliated by some cleaning droid.

How dare he he thought murderously

Then…

Luke saw red.

Trembling with barely contained anger he whipped around to face the retreating form of the droid that was heading toward another exit, with a war cry he lunged at it, ignited lightsaber blazing, and tackled the damn thing.

"You worthless piece of bantha fodder!" he shouted effectively cutting two of the droid's arms off.

But then he felt himself slammed on the cold hard floor, the wind knocked out of him and his lightsaber rolling from his hand, as the droid pinned him with its two mechanical arms that it had left.

Struggling he howled, "I shall not be subjugated to such humiliation, by a droid none the less who first insults my size and then beats me up. You shall pay for this, with your life!"

Using all his strength he force shoved the droid off of himself slamming and pinning it to the wall with the force.

Chest heaving and managing to stand up he staggered over drunkenly to the abomination.

Calling his fallen lightsaber to his hand he ignited the emerald blade which cast scary shadows across his face. To any stranger he would appear to be the image of pure evil. With a green fire reflecting in his eyes. Raising the blade he swiftly cut with his lighsaber, the droid's head hitting the ground with a resounding clunk. He then let the headless corpse of the droid fall in a heap on the floor.

Throwing his head back he cackled evilly, the sound resonating throughout the small maintenance room.

It was bone chilling,

It was deadly,

It was evil,

It felt amazing.

Sighing in contentment he retracted the green blade and clipped the lighsaber back onto his belt.

"I've always wanted to try that," he told himself. He had been practicing evil laughs should the occasion he would ever need to use it arise.

Like when I get rid of big bad Palpatine, most ugly sith lord ever, putrid rotten and moldy as well. Though only disgusting on the inside because in this time he hasn't had his royal aging disaster yet.

He chuckled evilly to himself at the thought.

Calming down he released his turbulent emotions into the force.

Looking around at the beheaded droid he noted to himself, "I shouldn't have lost my temper like that. As everyone always says anger leads to the dark side, so get a hold of yourself."

I need to clean that up he thought glancing distastefully toward the droid. But where could I put it.

"aha," he exclaimed. Going over to a sizable cabinet he emptied the cabinet of its continents. Dragging the body of the droid he stuffed it into the now empty cabinet. Picking up the head of the droid he shoved it in the cabinet as well. Using the force he picked up the previous continents of the cabinet which were just a bunch of cleaning supplies and stuffed those in as well with the beheaded droid. He attempted to push the cabinet door closed but it wouldn't shut all the way. Starting to get frustrated he kicked the door. Hard. It shut. He turned away irritated clutching his now throbbing foot when he heard a "pop". Turning back around he noticed the door had popped open. Aggravated now he went up to the door and pushed it closed using all of his strength. It shut. Sighing in relief he turned away when he heard a distinct "pop" sounding off. Turning around he noted the door once again had frustratingly opened. This time resorting to using the force he slammed it closed rather harshly. It shut. He stared intently at the cabinet door for a couple of minutes. Even going as far as to dare the cabinet door to open and face his wrath. Nothing happened.

"Stupid droid, still trying to waste my time," he grumbled to himself pinching the bridge of his nose in annoyance.

Now back to the main issue at hand. How to get to master Yoda he thought scratching his sore head. Sore from when the droid had forced him to kiss the floor during their fight.

Scrutinizing the maintenance room a vent on the ceiling caught his eye.

Of course he thought I can use the vents to travel throughout the temple, clouding my force presence, hopefully going unnoticed until I find master Yoda. He can surely help me.

Using the force he unscrewed the bolts holding the vent to the ceiling. The metal vent clattered to the ground noisily making him flinch. He then force jumped up into the airway shaft which was a considerable size.

Just large enough for someone of my stature. I guess being small can have some advantages.

Using the force he lifted the fallen vent grating that lay on the floor up back onto the ceiling and using the force he screwed the bolts back in as well. It was tricky and took some time but he managed.

Now, which way. Which way shall I go? Right or left he considered coughing slightly as he stirred up dust. The airway shaft only went in two directions and he had to pick the right one to get to master Yoda. Yoda's force presence was coming from a long way up above deep in the temple to the right. So he would go that way. To the right it is then.

Making his decision Luke crawled down the right shaft heading further into darkness.

Down below back in the maintenance room the previously shut cabinet door containing a beheaded droid and crammed in cleaning supplies popped open.