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Year: 10 BBY

Chapter 9: Realization of Sith Plan

In a secret base 4 miles underground in a large Bakuran forest, it has been couple days since Mark, Amelia, Rachelle, Lillian and Celestia showed up and Kimberly Lane Zane, or Kim as she likes to be called, is looking over the information she has on a Holodisk trying to find the right antidote for Rachelle. Turns out it was a strange mixture of 4 different rare kinds of Bakuran Poison. What they need to do is find antidote for each one of them and mix them differently until they find the antidote for it.

Amelia was eating breakfast with her daughter whom she haven't got to see a lot since the military have put her in charge of the top secret military base back in 15 BBY. Mark has been in the room with Rachelle for the past couple days.

"Mom is there something going on between Mark and Rachelle?" ask Kim looking at her mother who was cutting some sausage links up with her knife and fork. "It is not really my place to tell it, but since Mark would have told you anyways. Since 14 BBY he has been in love with Rachelle Hunter." say Amelia.

This shocked Kim a lot. She knew of the Jedi Order's code have change to allow love and marriage, but she never have expected that her twin brother will be the one who be getting. Kim was about to pick up a sausage with her fingers as she was reading the Holodisk, when she felt her mother slapped her hard. "Kimberly! Use your fork, we are not at home. Sometimes I swear you are as bad as some of the boys. Why cannot you be like your other sister and have an ounce of being ladylike." say Amelia half joking and honestly.

"Mom, I been on missions that I literally had to take the shirt off my back to use as a plate for my food and dirty fingers to eat. Compare to that, this could be about as ladylike being in the military could be." say Kim. "I just hope this does not turn you into some crazy terrorist like your father." say Amelia lightly.

"Mom, look at Mark. He has been in 1 whole war and now in this one. Hell he repeats the second half of the last war. He is not insane or a terrorist." say Kim. "He has strong morals and lived by the Jedi Code strongly. What do you have?" ask Amelia nicely. "I have the respect for myself and others; I also have my family and friends. I also have the knowledge just because someone disagrees with me or kill someone that I support, means I have to make everyone suffer in the way of death." say Kim.

When Kim was younger she was very close to Maxus Zane while Mark was close to her. She have taken the divorce hard as her father left and hardly seen her again. Then the latest news that her father went from a highly respected General within the Bakuran Military to being the most wanted and feared terrorist that is working for the Empire, have devastated her.

Amelia remembers that night in 19 BBY after she got back from Naboo. Her daughter was saddened that her father was doing things a terrorist was and was very upset that Mark's friends killed him. Then in 15 BBY when he made himself known and his actions since then have impacted Kim very hard. Kim went from loving and trusting her father to hating him and has the least amount a trust for him. While Kim was growing up, Maxus was trying to put her in the bad in the eyes of Kim. It worked too; Kim disliked her and blamed her for the divorce. When Mark died in 22 BBY at the beginning of the Clone Wars, Maxus Zane manipulated her daughter into thinking it was her fault, since she give him to the Jedi Order.

Kim never did truly hate Amelia, it was just her love for her decreased, but the knowledge that her mother provide her a loving and caring home, how could anyone hates that. Her mother pay for her to go into the Bakuran Military Academy, she also paid for her to go to school as she was growing up. Her father was too busy in the military. When her father blames her mother for the death of Mark, yes that take a big hit on their relationship with each other. Then when the most miracle thing happened, her twin brother, the brother she was so close to up to the age of 6 was back alive or sort of coming back alive. She knows that he is from a different universe, still it like having her twin back from the dead! When hearing this she felt bad for the way she treated her mother. Than in 19 BBY and later in 15 BBY learning of what her father did and become made her feel even worst about her dislike for her mother.

She could never understand how her mother could be so loving and caring after all she had put her through. It just shows that Amelia Zane is a very good mother, even when her own kids do not like her as much as they should, she will bend the galaxy, the heaven and hell to make sure they are okay and well cared for.

Now that she knows that Maxus Zane is after her twin, just not only made Kimberly Lane Zane hate him, but put on the top 5 people in the whole galaxy she wish to kill in the name of justice. Maxus Zane better never set foot on a battlefield which she is standing on, because she will not hesitate to end his life. As much as she respects the Jedi Order and the Code they live by, she has none of that to hold her back. She will not shed a single tear for the monster that her father became. In her eyes, her father died the day he found out that her mother had send Mark with couple of Jedi to the Jedi Order.

Seeing what her brother became, she respects him a lot. He not only suffers through the Clone Wars once but twice and came out of it without taking on negative personality traits that might occur during a war. He was not war harden like most solider get after serving in war. She knows is kind of childish to think of it, but if there were one true hero in the galaxy, it would be her brother and it not only the skills and his actions. He remain true to himself, he did not let war change him. It takes her back when she was a little kid with Mark.

Memory:

In the yard of a house with a large lake in the background were 2 kids running through the trees. One of them was a male name Mark Alan Zane and the other is his twin sister Kimberly Lane Zane. They always seem to pretend to be heroes of the galaxies but no seeking for glory only to make it better.

"Stop you crazy sliming wheezing snot nose scumbag or I will shot." say Kim holding a toy water blaster. Mark stops and looks at her. "Oh really, why will I stop?" ask Mark in a mock evil voice. He was the unlucky one who lost the bet who plays the good guy or the bad guy.

Before Kim could say a word, Mark stuck out his tongue and put his thrum in his ears. He waves his fingers. "Nah nah! You cannot catch me, cause I am the cannot be stop bandit!" laugh Mark as he takes off running. Kim rushes after him and manage to catch up with her twin. She tackles him down to the ground. She then squirts Mark with the water blaster.

They laugh as Kim fall onto the ground looking out to the sky. "Mark, I swear one of these days will both make a difference in the galaxy. I am not saying that because Mommy says that. You might someday be the greatest hero of the galaxy that we might ever know." say Kim. Mark laughs as he hugs his twin sister. "Nah, I would be just like the rest." say Mark lightly.

End of Memory.

Kim laughs as she remembers that day. It was a couple days before Mark was send off to the Jedi Order. Turns out she was right; her brother did turn out to be one of the greatest heroes of the galaxy. Every world in the Galactic Republic knows his name for his actions at the end of the Clone Wars. As she hears the HoloNews reporting, he is a walking, living and breathing legend among the galaxy.

Not only did he bring down the Sith Lord who was secretly try to take over the Galactic Republic, but he manage to change the Jedi Order and change people views of it. Still her twin is like he always has been, modest. He is a hero because what he does was right and it benefit's the galaxy. You just cannot wake up one day is say you are going to be a hero. It just happens and happens more to those who do not want to seek glory. Those who want to be hero for seeking glory find that they pale in comparison to those who does not want glory. Mark would give his life for what he believes in, those who seek glory might be thinking about others but they will always come first.

Her happy mood ended when a through crosses her mind. "DAMN IT!" scream Kim loudly that made Amelia jump a bit and fall out of her chair. "Watch that mouth! It is going to be either your loud mouth or Mark dangerous life that is not only going to give me a heart attack but put me not 6ft under but 12 feet under!" say Amelia as she rubs her chest a bit.

"I just realized something." say Kim as she begins to stand up. "What is it?" ask Amelia. "There hardly anyone outside this base knows how to make Bakuran Poison. Only way the Empire knows how to make must come from someone who worked for the Bakuran Military that had a very high position. There is only one person within the Imperial ranks that fits that to a "T"." say Kim.

Amelia eyes widen. "That mother fucker! I swear if I get closed to him, hell a fucking blaster shoot to the head would be least of his damn worries. I will break every fucking bones in his body and than strangle him to death! Oh, how dare he use such a poison!" roar Amelia.

Kim eyes widen, Amelia was always viewed as a high class lady in the way she behaves, but she does cuss sometimes, but her cussing like this was shocking to Kim. That what Maxus Zane does to you.

They rush down to the room where Mark and Rachelle are in. They enter the room and Rachelle let out an earsplitting scream that made Mark closes his ears between two pillows and uses the Force. He rushes out of the room and slammed the door hard. If it was not the pounding of Amelia and Kim he would not open the door to let them out since he did not know they were in there.

"That wake up a galaxy full of dead with that scream! It still echoes in my ears!" say Kim as she holds her ears tightly. Mark uses the Force to relieve the pain in her. "Mark we got something to tell you." say Amelia. "That it was most likely it was Maxus Zane that gives the Empire the knowledge of Bakuran Poison. Yes, I already figure that much out by using what I know and with the Force." say Mark.

"Spoil sport! Ever since you came back being the big bad Jedi you take the fun of spreading news, rather they are good or bad." say Kim. If it was not for that smile you would have thought she was being serious.

"Yes, but there is something else if Maxus give that information, than he could give Darth Vader the information of this base." say Amelia. This stunned Kim greatly, she has not thought of that. They have not change locations of this base in over 50 years, so Maxus would know where it would be located. Why did she not see that and how come the Prime Ministers, the Bakuran Senate and military did not realize what Maxus Zane can pose as threat to this base? She cannot only blame them, she had the choice when she was put in command of this base to move it but she decides not too.

"Kim, Celestia and I will need our Lightsabers back. You may want to contact the Prime Minster and tell him that he should send Obi-wan and Anakin down here. Vader is not some the scum that you will find out here in the Outer Rim. He is a killing machine and that goes with Jedi too. I think I might be the only one he will fight honorable. You and everyone in this base will need help to face him." say Mark.

"Yeah, I think that might be a good idea." say Kim weakly as she feels like she going to puke up all the breakfast she just ate. She cannot believe she failed to see that problem, if any man dies here in the base from Vader or the Empire; their blood is on her hands.

Kim stumbles against the nearest wall and side down. She always pride herself on her knowledge and intelligent, but something like this, she should have seen it coming. She should have known that there might a be a chance that this base get attack by the Empire due to Maxus Zane knows it location and would tell the Empire everything.

"Oh heavens! Oh heavens! What have I done! I might have just condemn my men to death because of my stupidity." mumble Kim as she bangs her head against the wall. Mark walks over to her, pulls her up and slaps her lightly on the face. Normally he would not slap a woman, but his sister need help to focus. "Listen here Kim, it not the time for you have a massive breakdown. You are not stupid, you made a mistake. It happens and in war usually those mistakes could result in some nasty effects. I know and I learn that. You men could fight and they could live. A lost life is sad, but in war it is going to happen. Now, get that Prime Minster on the line and tell him to send Obi-wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker down here. We might want some Clone Troopers down here to help enforce it." say Mark.

Kim only nods to this as she tries to stop crying a bit. Mark whispers in her ear. "I recall a day back before I join the Jedi Order that you think I would become one of the greatest heroes that the galaxy have ever known. Sometimes the greatest heroes are those that are known. You actions here might make you a hero even through people does not know it. A hero does not have to be someone who fights with their life on the line; it could be someone who made the right choice at the right time. You need to get them down here." whispers Mark slightly as he hugs his twin.

Kim eyes widen, she did not expect him to either remember that day or even have lived it back in his universe. Since the Clone Wars she always seems to try to be a hero just like Mark, not for the glory but to do something right. She stops crying and smiles a bit.

She rushes off to the communication area to get in contract with the Prime Minster. "Is Vader coming here?" ask Amelia looking at Mark. "Yes he is, and he has some Dark Jedi and troopers with him." say Mark sensing Darth Vader nearing the planet. Mark have this strong feeling that the Galactic Republic might not know exactly if he coming. He most likely are using the crystals that he have gotten from Aeten 2 to cloak his ship." say Mark seriously.

Mark look through the window to see Rachelle screaming in pain as a Medical Droid try to inject her with medicine. His eyes widen at a thought. This has to be a trap of some sort for him. Darth Vader makes sure to know where Mark would go. You could use a poison to kill someone faster or slower, but by using Bakuran Poison will mean he would have to travel to Bakura to find the answer.

Mark punches the wall. Darth Vader once again used someone to get to him. Instead of the usual kidnapping he became slicker about it. Mark would have been expecting a kidnapping to get to him. Mark will die before he let Darth Vader finish off Rachelle.

Right away, Mark's mind start coming up with ideas, how to uses his friends and troops strength could play against Rachelle. He cannot come up with great ideas since he does not know the location well. He knows Celestia could do against Darth Vader but the chance of her dying is greater. If Darth Solaris is there, Celestia could handle that. Since Anakin lacks patient and have great power in a battle, Mark could uses his help with Darth Vader. Obi-wan will be good at getting those out of the base and serve good as backup due to the fact he has a lot of patient, because he figures that any building like this will have some emergency exits. His mother will need to get out before Darth Vader is comes, knowing Kim she will wants to fight. The last thing he needs is 3 people to worry about. Lillian might be good in a fight with the Imperial Troopers.

Mark got that much figure out in a few seconds. He always stated that knowing is half the battle and he just proves that. He knows his teams' weakness and strengths and pitted them against his enemies' weakness.

He cannot really make any plans until he knows what Kim is playing at. She is right, on this secret base that does not exist; he has no power over the military. If she calls in the Grand Army of the Republic, he would have a little say since she is involving a galactic army, which he is the General of. Once they are involved he could give out orders. Hopefully Kim is not too stubborn and listens to some of his ideas and plans. His plans using come out so that they will not lose so many troops.

Still even through she is right, Mark knows that just because you lead does not mean you cannot take in what those under your charge thinks. You might be surprise with a plan that you would not come up with. That why it good to have soldiers under you that are willing to question if they think that a plan will do more harm than good. That is how he got the 3rd Legion thinking. Captain Kia seems to want to throw information at Mark even when they are not planning. Captain Kia and he could make up some good plans in a limited time.

All they have to do now is wait. Mark wants to get Rachelle to a safe location as well as Amelia. As much as he does not want Kim to be here, he knows that will be a losing battle in the first place. She is stubborn and that could be a bad and a good thing, depending on the situation. Still it all comes down to the Prime Minster and Kim to decide and they better decide quickly because he can sense the general location of Darth Vader is getting near. He wish he can pinpoint the exact location of the Dark Lord of the Sith, but he cannot.


Oh now it comes out, the plan that Darth Vader is going to use to get to Mark. Trap him in a base that does not exist on the planet of Bakura that is 4 miles down bellow the surface of Bakura. Also we got a little background information on Kim Lane Zane. Sorry about the middle and last name, I just could not help it when I created her. I was feeling a bit in the rhyming mood when I created her. So if it the name annoys you, well you just have to put up with it.

There is a reason why I mark my stories rated T. It because there might be minor nudity and cussing. Nothing over the line. For those who think that I am going to write smut... is that the right terminology for it? Then you are wrong, all my stories on here will not include depicting in graphic sex scenes, but what might be lead up to it. You can go and use your twisted imagination. I have typed something similar to those stories on another website when I was younger, but looking back on it I cannot do it. There is some things that shouldn't be typed. It alright to have some impled sexual a minor sexual things within a story but to depicting the act itself, I can live without that in a story. Sorry I have gotten a PM from a friend on the website that I used to type those kind of stories and I figure I should be letting all of you know that I do not plan on doing that.

I also have notice, I have taken a look at my notes and realize I seem to have a lot of female OC characters in the story. First of all I did not plan on it like that, it sort of happens. The second is, looking at our world today, there are many consider women not able to do everything that a man does, I think that is one of the reason why I have one of them leading the Republic, have a few who fight physical... I am a big equals right person. It is something just to expect from me.

By the way, please do tell me what your personal opinion on Kim Lane Zane. If there are any other characters that I have created or any characters that I have borrowed from Lucasfilms just tell me. I always seem to want to know what people think about plot or characters, give me the fuel to write more knowing that I am doing something that is liked.

Okay, enough of my ranting here, I think I do a lot of that already and it seems to increased with the amount of stories I type.

Like always, until next time, enjoy!