THE INVASION OF ZOKWANA
The sheathipede class shuttle landed in the small docking bay and Ahsoka Tano walked out of the shuttle and toward the door at the end of the hangar. A female Rodian stood guard by the door with a sniper rifle. Ahsoka began to enter the code on the entry coder by the door.
'How did the mission go?' asked the Rodian in Rodese.
'There were some complications but I got what Dooku wanted' answered Ahsoka.
'I hope we move to a permanent base soon, I'm getting worried' said the Rodian.
'Don't worry Hergeel we won't be on Aargau much longer'. The Rodian seemed partly reassured and went back to watching the entrance. The doors slid back to reveal a plain room with a holocomm and an elevator. Ahsoka entered the elevator, and in a few parsecs the elevator doors opened to count Dooku's meditation chamber.
'I trust your mission was a success my apprentice?' inquired Dooku.
'Yes, my master' said Ahsoka, kneeling before her master and holding out the datapad containing the coordinates to the remote planet Zokwana.
Dooku took the datapad and examined it. 'You have done well Tano, we will now be safe until the time is right.'
The planet Zokwana in the unknown regions, outside the known galaxy, is the homeworld of the Trykotans, a species who most of its members possess a sensitivity to the force; they had lived alongside the Yuuzhan Vong and helped them fight back against the two droid civilizations that were warring in their galaxy, but fled for Zokwana during the ancient cremlevian war when the Yuuzhan Vong became increasingly violent and warlike. The few Trykotans who have left Zokwana have become great jedi knights and masters such as Yoda, Yaddle, Oteg and Minch. The Trykotans have lived in peace and harmony for millennia since leaving Yuuzhan Vong space and believe that the force should be kept in balance and never entirely slip toward light or dark; the capital of Zokwana is located in the shadow of a great mountain and is surrounded by a large wall and at the foot of that mountain is a vast temple where the Trykotans worship the balance of the force; at the very top of the mountain is an ancient hypergate through which the Trykotans communicated with the Gree and the Whills.
One day on Zokwana the sky filled with strange vessels; fire burst from the vessel's behinds and seemed to move them along, some of the ships were larger than others and at their centre was the largest of them all.
The two guards at the gate of the city were startled and confused; one of them said something to the other in their strange language and the other guard rushed through the city gates and toward the temple.
The cruiser landed on the surface while the other vessels waited in the sky; Count Dooku, Ahsoka Tano, two magnaguard droids and a group of mercenaries who consisted of the Herglic named Moorka and the three Trandoshans, walked down the boarding ramp as the Trykotan guard returned with the high priest along with two other priests; the priests wore simple robes and the high priest carried a wooden staff topped with a strange red crystal, the high priest had long white hair and a short beard; the guards carried spears with wooden shafts and metal points, they donned metal armour on their chests which was a dark golden colour and wore robes similar to those of the priests underneath their armour.
'Welcome you to Zokwana the Trykotan people do; we hope that in peace you come.' Said the Trykotan high priest.
'I am Count Dooku of Serenno, we have come to establish an alliance, and we wish to use your world as a base while we plan our mission in the galaxy beyond your planet.'
The high priest stroked his beard thoughtfully 'hmmm, believe we do in balance of the force, but great darkness I sense in you, ally ourselves with a party so dark we cannot.'
'A shame, I saw potential in your people, I shall give you one chance to reconsider before we take your planet by force.' Said Dooku.
'Reconsider we shall not, our ally the force is and defend us it shall.' With that the high priest closed his eyes and began to levitate into the air.
'Take control of the city; destroy any special weapons they may have.' Dooku commanded to Ahsoka and the mercenaries who smashed down the gates and ran into the city. The magnaguards fought the diminutive Trykotan guards. Dooku commanded the fleet to attack and an army of mercenaries and droids came to the ground from transport ships. One of the Trykotan guards stabbed a magnaguard through the photoceptor on its chest with his spear but was struck down by the magnaguard's electrostaff; the second magnaguard was destroyed by his opponent who used his small size to his advantage, confusing the droid by jumping around and stabbing with his spear, but Dooku shot a volley of force lightning from his hand, killing the Trykotan. Dooku's army charged forward into the city.
Meanwhile Ahsoka and the group of mercenaries were almost at the temple when Trykotan warriors ambushed them, wielding swords and spears imbued with the force. They fought of the Trykotans but more kept coming, they would soon be overwhelmed. Ahsoka heard a noise above her and looked up to see the starfighters from the fleet providing air support, the Trykotans were startled by the fighters and Ahsoka used the force to help her push through the Trykotan warriors, Moorka and the Trandoshans blasted their way through and the Trykotan warriors retreated to the temple doors.
Dooku tried to blast the high priest with force lightning but the Trykotan seemed to absorb the lightning and floated through the air toward the temple where all the Trykotan warriors stood, their weapons glowing with the power of the force.
Dooku and the rest of the army reached where Ahsoka, Moorka and the three Trandoshans were. Blaster fire whizzed towards the direction of the temple. The Trykotan warriors hurled spears and charged towards Dooku's army. A Trykotan warrior jumped toward Ahsoka, his sword crackling with force energy, but Ahsoka parried his blow and slashed him across the chest. Dooku cut his way through the Trykotan warriors and reached the temple door, stopping any more Trykotans from reaching the temple. The Trykotans soon became outnumbered by Dooku's forces but continued to fight to defend their world; then the high priest rose higher into the air and chanted words in the Trykotan language, an enormous monster flew from some other part of the planet and began attacking the fleet; the monster was long and snake-like, it had blue scales, no legs and gigantic wings. The fleet were blasting at it but they had no effect on it and it spat blue flames back at them. The Trykotan high priest landed back on the ground and released a burst of force lightning at Dooku, sending the Count to the ground. The Trykotan priests rushed into the temple while the Trykotan warriors took advantage of the invaders surprise at the monster and fought harder. 'We cannot lose now!' shouted Ahsoka to rally the troops 'keep fighting!'
Dooku got up from the steps in front of the temple door, the blast of force lightning from the high priest had knocked him unconscious for a while but had not been fatal; he saw his lightsaber on the ground and used the force to pull it into his hand, he ignited the red blade. A Trykotan warrior hurled a spear at Dooku and the count cut it in half in before it could reach him and sliced the now unarmed warrior in half with one swing of his saber. The mercenary army was spurred on by Ahsoka's words and Dooku coming back into consciousness and the Trykotan warriors were now only around six in number; but the dragon-like beast had destroyed tens of ships from the fleet and was flying towards the ground.
Dooku saw Ahsoka leading the army of mercenaries against the last of the Trykotan warriors. 'Destroy the serpent; I'll deal with the priests' said Dooku to Ahsoka before entering the temple.
The temple was huge and had a high roof; there were tall columns reaching to the roof and at the far end of the temple was a shrine with a statue of a Trykotan sitting cross legged with its eyes closed, holding a smooth stone; the statue was made out of grey stone. The rest of the temple was mostly plain with writing in the Trykotan language engraved in the walls and pictures carved in the stone of the floor of moments in Trykotan history, one showed a strange organic-looking ship arriving on a planet which Dooku assumed was Zokwana, another showed Trykotans taming the blue scaled creature that was outside. The high priest and the two other priests were worshiping the statue at the shrine and did not notice the sith sneaking toward them, he used the force to make him seem invisible until he was right behind them and unleashed force lighting on the two priests, which killed them. The high priest glowed with blue light and the writing on the walls and the pictures on the floor started to glow with the same light until Dooku was blinded with blue light and put his arm over his face to shield his eyes; when the light faded the high priest and the statue had gone and in its place was a tunnel leading up the mountain, the count stepped in to the tunnel and was lifted into the air and along the tunnel until it came to the top of the mountain, where the ancient hypergate stood. The high priest was at the top of the mountain and blew a horn which made a loud, low sound that carried down to the city.
The blue scaled monster flew toward the mercenaries who had just defeated the remaining Trykotan warriors and spat blue fire among their ranks. 'Moorka, use a wrist rocket on the creature!' ordered Ahsoka and the armoured Herglic pointed his arm toward the creature and pressed a button on the armour on his wrist, a small rocket launched and exploded on the creature, only causing it to roar in anger and breathe a jet of blue fire at Moorka, who narrowly dodged. The mercenaries blasted at the creature but its blue fire was more powerful. Ahsoka used her comlink to contact the fleet; 'This is Tano to fleet, I need one of your fighters to launch a missile at the blue dragon, over.'
One of the remaining starfighters flew toward the creature; it was a narrow, pointy fighter with two wings next to the cockpit with blaster cannons on their ends. The dragon turned its head just as the missile hit and burst into flames.
Darth Tyranus and the Trykotan high priest saw the creature explode.
'I strongly suggest that you surrender.' Said Dooku. 'You have no more ways to fight us.'
'Fight? No, but escape, the horn, a signal it was for our evacuation through the hypergate.'
Count Dooku looked down at the Trykotan city; out of the small, stone houses came the short, green Trykotan citizens, they rushed toward the temple to travel through the tunnel that lifted them up with the power of the force and escape through the hypergate. Dooku used his comlink to contact Ahsoka; 'Block the entrance to the temple, don't let them in.'
Ahsoka ordered the mercenaries to stand in front of the temple door and stop the Trykotans from entering, but not to kill them. Even though Ahsoka had fallen to the dark side, she still felt that the Trykotan citizens were innocent and did not have to die needlessly.
Count Dooku used his comlink to contact the fleet; 'This is lord Tyranus to fleet, destroy the hypergate at the top of the mountain, over.'
Within seconds the fleet had bombarded the ancient hypergate with missiles and laser blasts until it was just a smouldering half circle; burning with blue and green flames. The Trykotan high priest watched as his people's last hope was foiled. Suddenly, the high priest launched a volley of force lightning at Dooku, who quickly activated his lightsaber and deflected the dangerous blue energy back at the Trykotan, who absorbed it, it made the high priest's force lightning more powerful but Dooku gripped his weapon firmly in both hands and continued to reflect the lightning back until the high priest collapsed from all the energy going into his body; small wisps of smoke rising off him. Dooku walked toward the fallen Trykotan, his lightsaber at the ready. 'It appears you have been defeated.' said the sith.
'Defeated I may be, but rise again Zokwana will and then fall you shall.' Those were the Trykotan's last words before he was stabbed by Dooku's lightsaber.
The count looked down at the Trykotans in the city below 'People of Zokwana, I Darth Tyranus, am your new ruler, you are to become the work force of my empire!' by using the force, His voice carried down to the city.
Later that day Ahsoka and Dooku were sparring in the Trykotan temple. 'Use your full power, don't hold back, let the dark side guide you.' Instructed Darth Tyranus; Ahsoka lunged with her lightsaber, using her inner rage. Dooku parried the blow and used the force to send Ahsoka flying into the stone wall. Count Dooku deactivated his lightsaber as Ahsoka got up from the floor, rubbing her head. 'Very good Ahsoka Tano, but remember to think about your opponent's next move.' Said Dooku 'You have proven yourself skilled and you have great potential in using the dark side of the force; there must only be two sith, no more, no less, a master and an apprentice and you shall be the apprentice.'
'I would be honoured bear the sith title, master.' Said Ahsoka.
'And you shall.'
Ahsoka kneeled before Dooku. And her master activated his lightsaber and held it over her right shoulder and then her left, while saying: 'when Sidious and Vader are gone, we shall be the reigning sith lords and will rule the galaxy as master and apprentice; rise, Darth Velectrus.'
Ahsoka stood when Dooku deactivated his blade 'I will not fail you master' she said, and bowed. Darth Tyranus produced two red crystals from somewhere in his cloak and handed them to Ahsoka.
'These cystals have powered the lightsabers of many a great sith lord, use them to power yours.'
Afterword: The name for yoda's species and the description and name for his home planet and yoda's species' culture given in this story are not official canon and currently remain a mystery. Part two of the story will come soon after some planning. Thank you for reading so far.