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Year: 10 BBY
Chapter 7: Bad Doctor
Once more in his life since the unfortunate events of the Order 66 back in 19 BBY of the other universe, Mark is standing behind some glass looking into a room where there are doctors going about looking at Rachelle. The first time was when Padme was giving births to Luke and Leia in the other universe. Amelia and the sick Lillian sits in a chair against the other wall.
Mark has his arms crossed in front of him as he was looking into the room. Mark was watching a hologram above Rachelle that shows her heart beating in her chest, next to it was a chart and number to shows the heartbeats, there is also a number to show her current body temperature, there was a another number that shows the toxic count in her blood.
A doctor appears though a glass door that split in half diagonally and slides open. "Master Zane, Master Hunter has high levels of foreign toxins in her body. We did bunch of scans and we can only determine the toxic count. A scan did find that something is eating the insides of her body very slow." say the doctor as he looks at Mark.
"She was inflected with a poison called Bakuran Poison." say Mark lightly. The doctor looks at him with a confused look. "Master Zane, I thought you of all people know that Bakura has a very strict law against bio-weapons which includes poisons. There is nothing in our system about any type of poisons that is named that or originates from that system. We might as well be facing a new type of poison that we do might now have a cure for." say the doctor.
"I am telling you that there is such thing as that poison. Get in contract with the Bakuran government and state that both Jedi Master Mark Alan Zane and Bakuran Galactic Senator Amelia Margret Zane nee Frostvong tell you." say Mark. This made the doctor very angry. One did not need the Force to know that he was angry.
"You listen here, you might be a Jedi Master and a well respected war hero of the Clone Wars and the Republic but I will not have some warrior Jedi who knows nothing about medical practice tell me what exist or does not exist in my field of study. I have done a lot of research and learned a lot of things. As far as I am aware of, there is no such poison of that name and does not originate. So how about you keep at what you do best and let those in their careers of studies do their job! You do not see me walking around throwing people through the air by some mystic power and twirling those fancy laserswords." say the doctor who face was red. Mark just stands there looking at him with a slight smile. "Really, laserswords, I know those who have not trained in the ways of the Force do not know the Force well, but the term of our weapon is common knowledge to those who know of the Jedi Order, which is about everyone within the Galactic Republic. They are called Lightsabers. As a doctor you should be open minded to stuff that might not know. You think that everyone in the Galactic Republic know every little thing out there. There are things that are need to keep a secret or it might harm the general public." say Mark wisely.
"How about you shoved your two credits up your ass. If you believe so much that this so called poison exist. How about you travel to Bakura, don't be upset that I am proven right." sneer the doctor glaring at him. "Fine, I will be taking Master Hunter with me." say Mark lightly.
"That I cannot allow you to do. Once someone is admitted into the hospital on an emergence such as this, they are not leaving until there are healed or on a path of healing which states that they can leave." say the doctor. "Try this on for sizes, what happen that I am right and that they need a special antidote for her. How will they know which one to bring without knowing what type of Bakuran Poison is in her system. If you haven't check the star charts lately, but Bakuran is all the way on the other side of the Galaxy! Even with the fastest Hyperdrive there is, it will take a while to go back and forth to find the right antidote. By the time we get the right one it might be too late." say Mark calmly.
He senses that the anger within doctor is getting even more angry due to how calm Mark is being. There not a lot of people out in the Galaxy who could stay this calm to the doctor.
"Still it is against the rules of this hospital. If I allow you walk out of here with her in the current condition I would not only get fired I will lose my license." say the doctor. "She is not staying here with you. When facing someone who is well connected to the Force it is best not to let your thoughts stray. I bet you as soon as I walk out those doors, you will do what you can to make her condition worst since you have orders from Darth Vader." say Mark lightly.
At first Mark thought the doctor was just anti-Jedi but that was not until he starts getting angry and loosing control over his thoughts. Mark did not even have to enter his mind to find the truth. The doctor eyes widen at this as he see a dangerous look in Mark's eyes.
Amelia and Lillian eyes widen. This has been the doctor they have been seeing for the past couple years since the hospital was made. Mark raises his hand up and lifted the doctor up into the air. "You cannot kill me, you are a Jedi and I am unarmed." say the doctor smiling. "Who say anything about killing; I am not just a Jedi, but a General of the 3rd Legion. As a General of the Grand Army of the Republic I have the authority to arrest those on charges against the Galactic Republic that take a stance like the Empire. So as a General of the Grand Army of the Republic and with the witness of Senator Zane and Inspector Hunter, I am placing you under arrest on charges or spying on the Galactic Republic and selling out information that cost the lives of a lot of good people. You are being charge with a conspiracy of mass murder and for espionage on the Galactic Republic." say Mark.
"You have no proof! Plus you can only do arrests on the enemies by taking them in." say the doctor, who loves it when he can prove people wrong. "Actually according to a law that was passed back in 13 BBY, I do and espionage and giving information to the Empire of the Galactic Republic is considered a war crime. As a General of the Grand Army of the Republic I have the power to protect the Galactic Republic in anyways domestic and foreign." say Mark as he pins the doctor to the wall.
Minutes later Republic Security Force arrives. "You will be in trouble for this, Zane." shout the doctor. "Who is the Senate and judges going to believe? You or a well respected as you put it "war hero". Plus I forgot to tell you, I am not only a Jedi and a General, I am also on the head of an investigation. Since you were the one give information to the Empire on the attack on the 500 Republica tonight, I could arrest you for that too since you in that attack might have lead Inspector Hunter who is on the investigation to get hurt. All your things will be search to prove rather or not you are guilty. Until that time you will remain in prison." say Mark harshly.
Another doctor walks in and she was confused. "Um, what is going on here?" ask the female doctor confused as she watch her friend get pulled away. "Sorry found out that your friend was a spy for the Empire. He was trying to stop me from taking Master Hunter to Bakura with me to find an antidote against a poison called as Bakuran Poison which it is not in your records." say Mark.
"Normally, we are not allowed to do so. The head of the hospital knows that there might be some stuff we might not know. In a case like this, if we do not have the records but somewhere else does. We can transport them to that place. If we do have record but not the ways to heal we also could transport them. I could talk to her and see what she thinks. If she gives you the go ahead, you may take her with you. Oh by the way, someone by the name of Master Mace Windu is in the lobby to see you. He asked me to come and get you." say the female doctor.
Mark follows the female doctor out and into the lobby where Mace Windu is standing in the middle with his arms crossed. Mace walks over to Mark and quickly look over his body with his eyes to see if there is any noticeable signs that Mark have been injured badly. "We got word that there were a massive attack on the 500 Republica. Some of the Republic Security Force analyzed some of the dead attackers and found out that some of them were working with the Imperials but most of them were a small criminal gang. This was found at the scene." say Mace pulling out a burnt black cloth with the Empire symbol on it.
It was a patch for an Imperial Starfighter pilot. Right away images flashes in Mark's mind as Rachelle rushes to a Starfighter that was firing. It did not look like a TIE Fighter which the Empire is known for to use. "Where exactly you found this?" ask Mark. "They said they found it in a damage Starfighter with a dead body in it. I know it was strange since it wasn't a TIE Fighter or any Starfighters within the TIE Series which is commonly used by the Empire." say Mace.
The Empire is known for using TIE Fighters or similar ships that have the similar styles. They are advanced looking Starfighters. The Republic was going to make some, but they realized that those Starfighters and it series seem to have a negative view due to it commonly used by the Empire so all factories throw out those ideas. It wasn't the Senate decision at all. It was the companies that make ships and Starfighters. They trashed all the ideas. They stated that they will improved on previous Starfighters and make new ones, but they will not used the idea or style of the TIE Series. They have it in the mind that if they used Starfighters that the Empire manages to create before they even got the idea, will show that they symbolized with the Empire. Also the public think negatively on the TIE Fighter Series.
Mark knows that some of those people are working both sides of the war. Come on what company would not try to do that to benefit themselves. It is all about the credits. There are some companies that refused to sell to the Empire and there are a few who refused to sell to the Galactic Republic.
The public already knows that the Empire have stolen ideas from the companies either through the information Palpatine gather or by the ships they stolen. Like the Imperator-class Star Destroyer, which is commonly known as the Imperial-class Star Destroyer. The reason why the Galactic Republic do not used them a lot is because of how expensive they are. They are more expensive than the Attack Cruiser which the Galactic Republic is known for.
The thing Mark never finds out is why would the public think negatively about a series of Starfighters but not those large warships. Yes, the Empire had more Imperator-class Star Destroyer before the Galactic Republic uses them, but the public does not think negatively on them. It does not make any sense to him. Oh well that is not something he needs to worry about.
"That pieces things together as well as I thought. That doctor was an Imperial Spy, who I know lives in the 500 Republica because I see him a lot." say Mark. Mace put his hand up to his chin while looking at Mark.
"It was obvious what the attack was about. Vader must be trying to weaken the government by taking out the Senators. If you weaken the government the more chance he can put spies into those ranks, which gives him a little bit of a control and knowledge, but also with a weaken government, the military will be weaken." say Mace. Mark nods to this he agrees with all that, but had something extra to throw into the mix. "Personally, I think there was another motive in there. Base upon the knowledge, I think Vader is trying to get to me through Rachelle. According what I got from that spy, he was order by Vader, in person, to either not allow Rachelle leave once they are in the hospital or weaken her some more." say Mark.
"So I guess I will give this mission to someone else. Okay this will be your mission. You will take Rachelle to Bakura to find this antidote for the Bakuran Poison. I have heard of that poison and it could be nasty. I know you will be off your game if something happens to her and the last thing we need is the only person who could easily challenge Darth Vader off his game. Be warned Zane, I have a feeling that you might be walking into a trap here." say Mace.
No ought how Mace saying make him seems that he does not care what happens to Rachelle and wants him to be okay, but Mark understands that Mace wants to make sure he was okay. "I was planning on doing that on my own too. First I must get permission from the head of the hospital." say Mark. "I got orders from the Supreme Chancellor Skywalker, stating that Rachelle Hunter has to go. We found the Bakuran Poison within some of the dead. I was helping with that investigation. Also I think it is best for you to get Senator Zane off the planet. With a rogue Jedi and this attack, she might just be safer on her homeworld." say Mace.
Mark begins to walk away but Mace stops him. "Remember Mark, you always have the Force on your side. I know how much Rachelle means to you. As your friend, I want what is best for you. May the Force be with you and her on your journey. I do not want to see or hear from you until you find that antidote. Your mission is solely this." whispers Mace.
"May the Force be with you too. While I am gone, I want you to take over the investigation of the Jedi Traitor." say Mark. "I am already on that. Master Yoda appointed me as your replacement on the investigation. Plus in this case, I think you and Rachelle needs the Force more than I do. I will be sending Celestia Aluna over with a ship for you to take to Bakura. It will have medical droid aboard and Celestia will be coming along." say Mace with a slight smile before Mace walks out of the lobby and back into the Coruscant public.
Mark walks back to the room where Rachelle was laying on the bed. The female doctor and the head of the hospital was there talking. They both were female humans. They just wave to him to go into the room. As Mark near he sees Rachelle's eyes on them.
"Mark!" say Rachelle as she sits up and hugs him lightly, she whispers in his ears, "What is wrong with me. It feels like something is eating me up slowly." say Rachelle as she wince in pain lightly. "You got hit by a poison called Bakuran Poison and what it does is slowly kills you from the inside. We are going to head to Bakura to find a cure. We got permission from Padme to head there. Celestia is bring a ship to us so we can leave right away for Bakura." say Mark lightly as he senses pain within the person he loves while he slides his fingers through her soft brown hair.
Mark hears Rachelle whimper in pain slightly. He knows that Rachelle is using the Force to fight and slow the poison down a bit. Mark had tried to take away when he was driving but found out the Force was having a hard time removing but only to slow it slow rate down even more. Yes, there are some things out there that are Force resistance to a degree. This means either the Force cannot do anything about it or it has a hard time to do so. It is usually that the Force has a hard time doing it.
Mark knows one thing, if it wasn't for the ways of the Jedi was drilled so hard into him, he would forgo those ways and kill both Maxus Zane and Darth Vader, but he does not want to lose himself to the Dark Side. He came so far since he became a Jedi Knight. When he was youngling before the Jedi Order got him, he almost killed a person who tried to rape his mother. The person was a grown man about twice the size. That was just with his bare fists, knocking the snot out of him. Okay maybe a wrench too, since he had that on hand.
"I promise you Rachelle; I will put a stop to this and make sure those who deserved to pay for their crimes would. I will only stop at the limit where it gets to the point of no turning back if I crossed it. I will not forgo the Light Side, but I promise Vader, Maxus and whoever the Jedi traitor is will pay." whispers Mark meaning ever word of it. Mark knows Darth Vader will have to be killed, Maxus could either be killed or imprison and the traitors Jedi will be expel not only from the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic but also from this galaxy. The Head of the hospital told them that a ship landed on the landing pad on the roof for them. Even before she got the called from Chancellor Skywalker she was going to allow both Jedi to live to head to Bakura.
The head, herself grabs a Hovergurney for Rachelle and with the help of Mark, put Rachelle on it. She was pushed out by Mark who was followed by both Lillian and Amelia into the lift that will take them to the landing pad on top of the hospital.
On the roof is a red and gold Personal Luxury Yacht 3000 lands on the pad. Mark recognized the ship right away. It is his mother's ship that the have parked in the Jedi Temple for safe keeping. The Jedi Order does let some Senators park their ships in there in times of need. Since Amelia have been target of a lot of assassination attempts even when her ship was park in a secure spaceport, the High Council grant permission for her to park it in the temple. Padme also have permission since she still has a lot of assassination attempts on her. Sometimes both Amelia and Padme park there.
Amelia parked her ship in there was because Rachelle was working on it as she was working on the Speeder. Celestia was helping in recent days; even through she is not that great with mechanical skills.
"Look like we all traveling first class this time." laughs Celestia a bit. Her smile and laugh dies out when she notices that Rachelle was in pain while laying on a Hovergurney. All she was told she needed to transport someone and Senator Amelia Zane to Bakura.
Celestia rushes down the ramp as Mark got neared with the Hovergurney. "What happen?" demand Celestia extremely worry. "There was an…." say Mark before he was interrupted. "I know full well there was an attack at the 500 Republica, I want to know what is wrong with Rachelle!" demand Celestia. "Bakuran Poison." whispers Mark. Celestia eyes widen when she hears this. She had a problem with that a couple years ago when a Jedi Knight she was traveling with it was injected with it. Celestia knows since she was born on Bakura, she is completely immune to that poison. Even through a few people actually know she was born on Bakura. They assume since she lived on Naboo she was born on Naboo. Which was a bad thing for most, because they try to poison her or used knock out gas on her to find out it useless.
Mark rushes up the ramp to find a 2-1B Surgical Droid. These medical droid is one of the most used and well known medical droids within the galaxy. Mark picks Rachelle off the gurney and put her into the room, commanding the Medical Droid to follow him into the room.
"Okay, I do not know if you been program with information of Bakuran poison. You most likely do not have the antidote. Can you gather information from her to find exactly what is in the poison within her system? Plus if you do have some information within you about it, can you give her something that can slow the process.
"I do have the some of the requested information within my databanks. Mistress Amelia has programmed me with the information some years ago." say 2-1B Surgical Droid. "Good and keep up with the Toxic readings and how much damage it is doing to her body. Alert us to any huge changes." say Mark lightly. The droid went to work as Mark walks out of the room.
When he was out of the room he notices that they have entered space already. He walks up the co-pilot seat. Mark knows this ship could go an atmospheric speed of 528 miles per hour and the ship can go 5280 miles per hour in space. "Oh I hope that Hyperdrive Rachelle put in works." say Celestia just remember that they were having a hard time putting in a faster Hyperdrive. The old one had a rating of 2 the one they put in have a rating of 0.5, which is much faster than the old one.
Mark eyes widen when he hears this. "You mean you bring us a ship that might not have a Hyperdrive!" shout Mark. Without a Hyperdrive they would be dead before they even get a quarter of a Light-year away.
Mark looks at his mother who was in the pilot seat. She knows more about this ship and how it runs than anyone. "I am not worry, if something is wrong with the Hyperdrive, the fail safe switch will prevent it from activating." say Amelia as she got out of the reach of Coruscant gravity hold on the ship. Mark already knows this, he have worked on and study a lot of things about many different types of ships. She types the coordinates of Bakura into the navigation computer. Then she kicks the ship into Hyperdrive. The ship seem to stop as a portal open up in front them and a powerful blast of speed launched into the portal which is cover in white with some black. They are now on traveling in Hyperspace to Bakura.
You know how sometimes there are medical doctors that are great and than there are those crappy ones. Well I was thinking back to one day when I was supposed to get surgery because I had some type of flesh eating disease that looked like a spider bite and my doctor told me I have to go get surgery in a hospital that was close to couple hours away from where I live. So I got to this hospital and all they did was give me stronger antibiotics and a special soap. To say I was angry was an understatement. I missed an whole day of school for some soap and stronger antibotics, that was the worst part. Couldn't just give to me there.
Well, that is how this idea came up and I had to pieced it with how Darth Vader knows, so while I was living in memories, I came up with this idea about a doctor who lived in the 500 Republica which is an Imperial Spy. Now this doctor who most likely was going to weaken Rachelle even more sound worst than that doctor I had. Isn't there a code you have to follow while being a doctor as to not get those under your care in a worst condition.
I was suppose to start typing this much ealier than I had did but between helping my step dad garage and watching 1st 2 movies of the Back to the Future, which is a time traveling movie trilogy that was made from 1985 to 1990. Pretty good if I do say so. Then we went out to eat so I didn't start typing until around 6 PM. I amaze I did this within that time limit and that including reading and researching a bit! I wish all my could be like this!
Once again in my story a Light-year is 6 trillion, I found out that it is 5,878,499,810,000 miles so basically I rounded it up to 6 Trillion miles.
For the speed of which the ships travel, on Wookpedia they use metric system, since I am from the united States I used customary system. On Wookieepedia they use metric so I use Google to find out how many Km/H is for MPH. There is nothing in there for traveling through space so I came up with that the ship travels 10 times as fast in space (no scientific reason for that, I did 10 to make it easier on myself).I for sure I stated something like this in the notes back in the first story but figure I should remind you of this.
Oh, the time will always on a 12 hour frame for 24 hours. So instead of having hours going from 0:00 to 23:59 it will be 12:00 to 12:00. I have gotten a rather rude PM from someone who read bunch of Star Wars fan-fiction and they used meters what I called military time (0:00 to 23:59 time frame). Sometimes there is no pleasing everyone.
Anyways, if you got questions either PM (if have account) or put in the review box. If you are just reviewing, than you could not bother sending me a PM (That is entirely up to you my friends). Please there is no need to be offensive with your questions, comments or reviews. There is a fine line between flaming me and pointing out hey you misspell this. I am willing to answer any questions that comes my attention to the best of my abilities or comments on some of your comments.
Also I do take ideas of future characters or maybe a plot you might want to see or might be good for this series. If I used a part of your idea or parts of your character than I will give credit, same thing with if I use your full idea.
Sorry for my rambling once more, I hate it when I had to ramble on about stuff that people do like be offensive. It kind of put me down have to come up with saying that, but also it hurts to have to read those things. Now if it was entirely about my story or commenting on a guess question, than it might be something I will enjoy rambling on about.
Oh before I forget! I need your help a bit. Okay, as you may have realized in this series that I have a basic idea who is training Leia and Mara when they become Padawan. I already got an idea for Luke, but one seem to get me is Galen Marek. Who should I put him with. No it will not be Mallie or Kento Marek. I really do not want put him with his parents. Also if you have any ideas about Leia, Luke or Mara I would like to hear it, but for them I already have a very good idea, but who knows someone might have a better idea. If you kind help me with this, a lot of thanks to you.
Until next time, Enjoy! I promise to get the next chapter up as soon as possible.
