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Chapter 12
It was dark when Skye returned to the Emperors building. She slipped in slowly, wandering what excuse she was going to come up with for the Emperor regarding her sudden and unexplained abscence. "Perhaps a death in the family" she considered to herself as she walked"yes, that option would likely be useful as it presented her with an excuse about why she had not bothered to get back in touch with anyone from here since the point where she had simply left in the middle of the night and had not returned." Somehpw she did not think that Sidious would be overly appreciative about this entire situation
She turned a corner into her old place of work and gazed around. It seemed incredible but nothing much had changed. There was still two rooms where people who could be treated on the premises and a small office in between. Inside the office sat the three desks. One for her and once each for her two co-workers. Tans Isod had all her pictures of bands and her autographs scattered everywhere all over her desk and on the other side of the empty room Ryn Quo's desk was as neat as ever.
Skye found herself thankful at the moment that none of them were in at the moment. It gave her time to gather her thoughts. Soon enough she would have to go and see the Emperor. She needed to begin this assignment at once otherwise the whole thing was pointless. She was also supposed to be recruiting while she was here. She would have to keep a close eye out and she would have to regard everyone around her with great care in case they too were watching her for other reasons.
All these were things that she had been told before she had left the starship where her friends were currently on the move. She was only to contact them if she actually discovered anything and otherwise she was to behave as if she knew nothing of what was going on and as if she was not in any way involved in the rebel alliance. She sighed to herself. She might have been able to figure out that much on her own.
A loud chattering at the door announced the return of those she worked with. Tiredly she stood and pasted a tired smile on her face. At least she meant it to look forced, it would have looked so no matter what she had tried to do with it, she was in that kind of mood. Neither Tans or Ryn would ever be wanting to join the rebellion and therefore having to act normal with them irritated her. She was not enjoying all the stress that she was under since joining the Rebellion.
Tans came in first and let out a shriek of surprise to see her there. Ryn followed in a more dignified manner, but both were happy to see her, and so with her fixed smile in place she walked out and greeted them warmly. This was to be life for the next while.
Palpatine sat in his chair. He looked entirely satisfied although Vader could not fathom out why and it was putting him on edge. In fact, Vader was already on edge about several things, but Palpatine was doing a fairly good job of making him crack. First of all, Vader was stressed about Obi Wan; the acursed Jedi was far more trouble than he was worth and very little was could happen to change that. In his opinion the safest thing to do would be to kill him before he could cause any more trouble. Second, the rebel alliance was more actively recruiting members and managing to keep itself in public sympathies without showing itself to the Emperor, and finally, he was irritated by the re-appearances of Anakin Skywalker. His old self was supposed to be gone, dead with Padme. And then there was Palpatine. Palpatine who simply would not stop sitting there grinning his annoying smile and looking smug because he knew something that Anakin didn't. It all came back to Obi Wan, decided Vader sourly as he worked up the courage to open his mouth to the Emperor
"You seem thoughtful master, is there anything I should know?"
Sidious laughed joyfully "There is much you should know, but for the moment only this; we are going to destroy the rebels."
Vader simply stared at him, filled with confusion. Of course they were going to destroy the rebellion. Wasn't that the general idea when you took over? To crush resistance? Did this mean his master had a plan?
Seeing his confusion Sidious sighed and explained himself "I have figured out how to draw them out and Kenobi will help us." Vader moved to interrupt, but Sidious continued over him "Not of his own violation of course! Skye Sadow returned here today. She is working for the rebels. I can tell from the way she tries to avoid us and yet be near us at the same time. I am going to send Kenobi out in a ship. Its all arranged, it will look as if I am merely trying to remove him to a different location and he will look vulnerable. Our pretty young friend Miss Sadow will contact her rebel friends immediately to tell them and they wll come rushing out after him. However, when they get to the ship things will not be as they seem! You, my young apprentice and several clone troops will be waiting to surprise them. We will wipe them out! We won't need the Jedi's information, it is simple."
Vader tried not to say anything, he was afraid that if he did all the conflicting emotions inside him would pour out. Vader was glad that he would finally be rid of all the problems that had been causing him troubled over the last while but he feared to face what was left of all his old friends on the ship. What if Yoda was there? While Anakin was horrified at the entire situation and seemed to be making a last ditch attempt to gain control over his mind so that he could do something useful. However, as had been done so many times before, Vader pushed Anakin to the back of his mind and he merely nodded at his master
"What must I do?"
"For now, we ready the ship. I have a written plan to leave on the table for Skye to find when I call her up here to pick up some information. Then, tonight when it becomes dark we move Kenobi on board the ship and you take control from there." Anakin nodded and turned to leave but Sidious blocked his exit "And Vader? There are to be no mistakes this time!"
"Yes Master"
Bail stood next to his communications console and nodded towards the others who were gathered around him.
"Obi Wan is being moved tonight. Skye sent us this information, but she thinks it is a trap. She says that the Emperor understands how people think."
Leeadra stood up angrily "Who cares if she thinks it is a trap? It is one of our men we are talking about and it is our duty to get him out of there by any means possible. Despite what you told Skye we would most certainly do it for her. If she thinks i is a trap then we go more prepared and we still win. It wouldn't do any harm to give some of our new recruits some training by all accounts."
"Send our younglings into danger like this I will not!" said Yoda sharply
"Come Yoda, they are hardly younglings!" replied Leeadra in a cold voice "Most of them are nearing thirty!"
"They are still new to this no matter what Leeadra!" said Judro tersely "We will not plunge them into such a potentially dangerous situation. Any wrong move could cause unimaginable problems for us. We will most of our well trained fighters and leave a few here to guard the recruits and we will try to save Obi Wan, however if it is not possible we are leaving!"
Bail nodded to this and started handing out jobs immediately. They needed to move quickly if they wished to make any difference.
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