Hey everyone. Sorry about the wait for this chapter. It's gotten crazy with my classes. Please read and review, and sorry again about the wait. I'm working on essay after essay, and chapters when I can.


Chapter Seven

Matt stood next to Aayla, as they looked over the entire senate chamber, with the pods flying all over the room, as a debate as to how many more clone troopers were needed. Matt frowned as he looked down at all the different senators crying for a few billion more clones, as if they were a commodity… something to sell and buy. An object and not human beings. It made him sick. Aayla glanced over at him. "You okay?"

He nodded softly. "I'm fine." He murmured. They continued to stare out at the meeting, as one senator cried out. "We need 5 billion more troops! My world is dying!" Matt rolled his eyes. He particularly hated politics.

Something suddenly caught his eye. It was across the other side of the chamber. A hooded figure, was moving through the crowd. He seemed to be in a hurry. "Secura." Matt murmured, nodding toward the figure. She looked at Matt and nodded. "Alright. Now we're getting somewhere."

The two Jedi moved through the crowd, down the hall, and toward the figure. Suddenly he stopped, and narrowed his eyes at the two Jedi. He slowly reached into his cloak. "Son of a bitch, Aayla, he's got a detonator!" Matt screamed, running forward.

Suddenly there was blaster fire. There was two flashes of blue, as Aayla and Matt both drew their light sabers. Matt deflected the first blast, and Aayla caught the second one. It was in that moment Matt was thankful for the light saber. It wasn't his, but merely a spare one until he had a chance to build his own.

Matt looked around, searching for a clear path to the culprit, and almost immediately saw the way. He leaped up onto a table and began to race across it. He put his saber on his belt as he ran and then leaped into the crowd, knocking the person to the ground.

But before he could keep them pinned down, the person kicked Matt backwards, and through a gate that led onto a floating podium for the senate chamber. Flat on his back, he stared at the person as they got to their feet. They lowered their cloak – and Kate stared at Matt. Her eyes had changed to a dark yellow.

She removed a detonator and screamed. Suddenly the detonator was pulled from her hand by an invisible hand. Aayla stood, her blade ready in case Kate pulled anything. But instead of going after Aayla, she put out her hand, and force pushed the controls of the podium, dislodging it from the port.

Then she leaped forward, and landed in front of Matt, as he got to his feet. She pulled a light saber, which was glowing a blood red. "Kate… stop this madness!" He screamed, as he ignited his blue glowing blade. She glared at him, and raised her blade, bringing it down hard against Matt's blade.

The entire chamber audience was watching, and everyone had stopped talking. Podiums began to fly around as everyone scrambled to get out of the way. "Kate… stop!" Matt hissed, as he gritted his teeth, trying to hold his blade steady against hers. "You foolish Jedi!" She screamed shoving him backwards, causing him to hit the controls of the podium. She took a step back, her blade held in an aggressive stance.

"It figures that you'd join the Jedi order!" She hissed. "I never really understood Star Wars and the light side or the dark side. But now…" She held her arms out and let out a dangerous laugh. "This power is so great! Matt… do you love me?!"

Matt narrowed his eyes and shook his head. "No, Kate. I don't love you. Not anymore."

"Then you will die by my blade."

She raised her blade again and Matt brought his up, and they clashed high in mid-air.


"Advisor, it's Blazer alright. They've got Trandoshans all over the base. I believe we've fallen into a conspiracy bigger then anything before." Kristy said. The advisor's hologram waived a bit, as he nodded. "Alright. Hold back. I don't think any of you can handle him by yourselves. I'll alert the Jedi order to this finding."

He started to turn away, but stopped. "Also, we've receive a report from General Secura. She and Commander Smith were assigned to watch over the senate discussions. There was an attempt to set off explosives."

Kristy looked up at Boss and the commandos, alarmed suddenly. "Don't worry. It didn't et a chance. But According to General Secura, the Commander has engaged the suspect in battle."

"The Chancellor alright?" Fixer asked. The advisor nodded. "He's fine. Genera Secura evacuated him."

"Lady and Gentlemen!" Atin hissed. They all turned to him. "What is it, Atin?" Fi asked. "We've got a few dozen clankers coming this way…"

"Coming? They are already here!" Darman muttered. Kristy looked back at the Advisor. "Sorry. Gotta go!" She closed the comm link and turned as blaster fire opened up. The 8 commandos fanned out, taking up random positions behind rocks and trees. Kristy ducked down behind a large rock and fired her DeeCee blasting a droid's head off. She couldn't help but snicker at it as it let out an "Ah!" and then fell down dead.

Suddenly there was a humming sound. Niner looked up and saw a drop ship flying over head. Trandoshans were being dropped from it. Scorch whistled. "Bugs, incoming!"

Kristy gritted her teeth behind her helmet and fired at the Geonosian that flew down toward her. Bug guts splattered across her visor. It automatically cleaned it's self off. She shook her head. "I hate bugs…"

There was a slobbering curse behind her. She turned and jammed her gauntlet vibro blade into a trando's throat and kicked it backwards. "Damn reptiles…" she cursed. Suddenly there was explosion, and dirt went flying up all over.

Kristy found herself staring up through her visor at the sky, and the drop ships, and the Geonosians. Sev leaned over her. "Uh… Ma'am. You do realize there's a no sleeping on the job policy for us commandos, right?"

"We're surrounded!" Fixer suddenly screamed, his voice pounding her ears.


The blades clashed, giving off the sizzling sound of heat and electricity. Kate dropped down and tried to trip Matt, but he back flipped onto the controls.. Kate lunged forward, swiping her blade at his legs, only to miss as he leaped off the podium completely and landed on another free floating podium. He stood, and stared down at her as the podium flew straight down to the bottom of the chamber.

He turned and walked away. Out of sight, Kate leaped from the podium, and landed on another, and then began to hop from one podium to the next, climbing back up toward Matt's position. As he started for the exit, she pulled all her energy together, and force leaped in front of him. In a flash he brought his blade out and stopped her blade from taking his head off.

"Kate… you had better stop!" He hissed. "You have anger within you… let it out!" She hissed back. "Whatever you say…" He muttered, and shoved his blade forward, and kicked her backwards into the wall.

"Surrender." He said, pointing his blade at her. She gritted her teeth. "Go to hell." She brought her blade up and suddenly it was a long, fast flash of blue and red as the blades whipped around, one trying to get to it's target, and the other attempting to prevent it.

"You can't win…" Kate murmured.

"Tell me who's in charge."

"Someone more powerful then all of you Jedi combined!"

"A name!"

"Try Skywalker!"

She shoved Matt backwards, and then force pushed him even further. He flew backwards, and hit the railing and flipped over it.


The rock exploded in front of Kristy as she followed the commandos through the open field, as the droids fired at them with everything they had. They all fired back as they ran for the closest cover – a small village nearby – about 10 kilometers away.

It wasn't too far in general perspective, but when you were being shot at, and the chance of getting blown up by robots were extremely high, it seemed extremely far away. And it didn't matter how fast they ran. It still looked hopeless.

But they all ran forward, turning and ducking as blasters were fired at them. "Damn! Destroyer droids! Scorch!"

"Anti-armor. Coming up! You want bantha sticks with that?"

The ball shaped droids rolled up, and popped out like a cracker jack toy, and shields enveloped them. But Scorch fired off an AA round, destroying them, before they could fire. Suddenly static filled their helmet comms. "Delta, Omega, Captain. This is Gunship Twilight. Coming in to save the day."

"It's about…" Suddenly as the gunship came in overhead, a rocket slammed into it, causing it to explode. "Are you kidding me?" Fi muttered. There was a hiss from within the dust that had been shot up from the crash of the gunship. Blazer walked through the smoke and glared at the 9 commandos. "Surrender." He said flatly.

As the dust began to disperse, the commandos looked around, and saw a dozen destroyer droids, SBDs, and Battle droids surrounding them. Kristy grimaced behind her helmet.