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Zade watched with crossed arms as Annoli sat on the ground of the abandoned room inside the Jedi Temple. The same room that the renegade Jedi had taken as a base. At the moment only Annoli and he were present in the room. They were still waiting on Master Sarval and Master Xevioso's results on their search for a senator. In the meantime Annoli sat on the ground her with legs tucked underneath her as she sat on her knees. Her eyes were closed as she was meditating. Zade wanted to see how she meditated and if she needed any improvement. From what he could tell, Master Borru had taught her well. No big surprise. Other than saber techniques and life lessons Annoli didn't need too much more mentoring.

Annoli opened up her left eye, keeping her right closed, "So? Am I meditating right?"

Zade nodded slightly, "All right. I can tell you are forcing it a bit under the circumstances but you are doing fine. Just try to keep your mind clear. I know that is asking allot due our current situation. I've gotten you into some pretty unfortunate trouble, Annoli. I'm proud of how you are handling it. Not quite the brash, spitfire that I first took you for."

Annoli closed her eyes again and smiled, "Thank you, Master."

"Don't get me wrong though... you are still rather brash and... well lets just call it, 'talkative'." Zade chuckled.

Annoli scoffed, "Yeah, well... All right. I guess I really can't argue with you. At least not this time."

Zade kept laughing, "See, you are already learning to bite your tongue."

Annoli shifted, uncomfortably in her place. Zade raised an eyebrow, "Something wrong?"

She shook her head, "Uhh, nothing. Never mind."

"Do you sense something?" Zade asked with interest.

Annoli opened her eyes and ended her meditation, "I'm not sure. Something feels wrong to me."

Zade nodded his head, "Yes. I've had those feelings looming over me for quite some time. Unfortunately there are so many dangers around us. It is hard to pin-point any single threat."

Annoli yawned and stretched out her arms, "Yeah... Well, that is why we need all the help we can get, right?"

Zade gave her a simple nod of the head, "Yes."

Annoli sighed, "I hope Master Sarval and Xevioso are doing well with their mission."

Shortly after she said that the room's door slid open. Zade turned around to face the Jedi knight, Koppler. He had his usual, cocky smirk on his face, "Hello, everyone... or the two of you."

"Good afternoon, Master Koppler." Zade greeted.

Koppler bowed to him and then to Annoli. He then addressed Zade, "So, any word yet?"

"Not yet." Zade told him, "By the Force, we'll be fortunate if we can get a senator to side with us and still keep our involvement sub-rosa."

"Have you thought of a back up plan in case they find out about us." Koppler asked.

"If they find out about us I'd assume we'd be branded traitor and cast out of the order. Even if that happened I would still attempt to gain the support of the senate. Though, we would no longer hold as much weight with our words being branded a traitor. If that dose not work... I do not know." Zade confessed.

"Oh, great." Koppler scoffed.

"Hey!" Annoli retorted, "If you can't come up with an idea of your own you shouldn't criticize others."

"Well, if you are asking. I do have an idea." He sais with another smirk.

Zade raised his hand to silence the two of them, "Enough! Annoli, speak with some respect when you talk to a Jedi Knight or Master. Master Koppler, I understand your frustration but I'm sort of afraid to hear what your idea would be. I'd imagine it would be an all out war and battle with the council and let the last group standing be the victor."

Koppler jerked backward and stammered, "I, uhh... Th-that would be a more bold version of my plan but, sort of."

Annoli chuckled to herself only to get a scowl from both of the elder Jedi. She quieted herself and wiped the smile from her face. Zade turned his attention back to Koppler, "Let us just put our trust in Master Sarval-Styr and Master Xevioso. I trust them, don't you?"

Koppler reluctantly nodded is head, "Don't get me wrong. I believe those two can do almost anything they set their minds to but I believe the same for the council. I'm know they are keeping a close eye on all of us. Especially Master Sarval-Styr and yourself, Master. They know something is up. If we aren't carful we'll end up dying in battle just like Master Quint."

Zade's face went blank, "Master Quint has passed?"

Koppler somberly took a step back, "You didn't know? I'm sorry. During battle she was slain by a group Sith Marauders. It happend just last night."

Zade took a deep breath and sighed, "I see."

Koppler forced a smile, "I guess we just can't afford to get caught."

"I suppose not." Zade agreed.

A moment later, a small chirping, click sounded from inside Zade's robe. Zade reached into the left, dark blue, fold of his vestment and pulled out a small holo-device. Annoli got to her feat and hopped over next to them, "Is that who I think it is?"

Zade held the small, triangular, device in the palm of his hand and hit a button on the bottom. With a crackling sound, a fuzzy, black and white image of Master Sarval-Styr appeared above the holo-device. Zade raised an eyebrow, "I assume you have something to report?"

The image of Sarval nodded his head, "Yes. I won't report in full at this moment. Sec.5043700."

With that said the image fizzled away. Annoli and Koppler both exchanged confused glances. Koppler was first to ask, "What was that last part?"

"Sec.5043700." Zade repeated, "This is an un-secure device and the signal could easily be picked up by a foreign device. So to prevent our being found out, we made our own code. Sec, is short for 'section' which is code for, 'division'. The fallowing number is a jumbled address. Just remove the first and last two numbers and reverse the order of the reaming numbers. It's a simple but hopefully effective code."

"So... wait, what?" Koppler asked.

"Sec.5043700 equals, Division 734. Master Sarval and Master Xevioso must have succeeded in gaining the support of a senator. Division 734 is the address in which we can meet them." Zade explained.

"When?" Koppler asked.

"Master Sarval never mentioned. So, that either means we leave right away... or he forget that part of the code.' Zade said.

"Great." Koppler muttered.

Zade turned to face Annoil, "Annoli, Master Koppler and I will go to this address. I want you to stay here and wait for the others to arrive. When they get here I want you to inform them of Master Sarval's findings."

Annoli was visibly disappointed that she wasn't coming along but understood her role, "Yes, Master."

Zade gestured to Koppler, "Well then, let's go Master Koppler."

"I assume you at least know where we are going." Koppler stated.

"Yes. The divisional apartments. This is where the senators stay while on Coruscant." Zade told him.

--

An hour or so had passed since Zade and Koppler left and Annoli was still alone in the secret room. She was bored. She was laying back on the room's carpeted floor with her legs crossed and arms folded behind her head, giving it support from the ground. She wished there was at least a holo-vision in this room. Anything to pass the time. Annoli tapped her feet together in complete boredom. She could meditate but she didn't care to feel that looming danger all over again. Whether she wanted it to or not though, another sense of danger crept up on her. Even out of meditation she felt a cold warning.

She snapped into and upward, sitting position as the room's doors slid open with a hiss. Annoli felt her stomach drop as she saw Master Cled Amousous walk into the room. Annoli's face fell with each step the broad, red maned, brute-like, Jedi council member took toward her. Cled armored himself with an obviously forced smile across his grizzly and rock-like face. That smile was no more warming than it was genuine. Annoli wasn't buying it. She was playing along though, "Master Amousous... wh-what are you doing here?"

"Me?" He said. Still with that creepy smile, "I just wanted to know what was so fascinating about this room."

"Pardon?" She asked.

"Well the council, who has eyes and ears through out the temple, have noticed lately that many Jedi seem to be meeting in this room quite often. I'm just curious. Though looking around, I just don't see it."

Annoli knew what he was getting at. He was obviously suspecting foul play by the renegade Jedi and came to inspect the room. He also decided to talk down to her, like a child. She had to come up with a good cover, fast. She stood up from the ground and pointed around the room, "This room, Master? I asked Master Rad'hyth for my own room and he said this one was abandoned."

"That is because of it's awful location. Terrible for a living environment. Though it's secluded location could be perfect for other reasons." Cled stated, finally dropping that phony smile.

"What other reasons?" She asked with a naive tone of voice.

"Doesn't matter." He said, "It must be uncomfortable living without any furniture of any sort."

"I'm getting some. I just moved in." Annoli said. She knew he was going to be asking a bunch of questions in an attempt to catch her in a lie.

"I see." He folded his hands behind his back and leaned forward toward her, like she was a small child and spoke to her in a very condescending tone, "You must be very, very popular with the Jedi to recieve so many visitors. Sometimes in large groups."

She was struggling not to spit in this jerk's face but that would be bad a bad idea for many reasons. The main reason being the fact that he could take her out, with ease. If she had a lightsaber and he, only his bare fist. He would win hands, no pun intended, down. She just shrugged her shoulders, "Maybe. I think most of them just wanted to wish good things for me because they knew Master Borru."

Cled took a step back. Annoli thought that he seemed disappointed that she had a decent and somewhat believable answer to each of his questions. She was a little proud of herself for keeping her composure... so far. Cled seemed to be thinking to himself for awhile before he stomped his foot down and started down at her, "Listen, girl. The council knows."

Annoli was afraid at first, and remained so, but she was able to keep her cool. She continued with her naive character and shrugged her shoulders again, "Know what?"

"Do you take the council as fools?" Cled demanded, "We know something is up and I want to know what and I want to know now!"

Behind him the doors hissed open. Before either of them could see who it was, a familiar, female voice scoffed, "Cled, is this what you are reduced to?"

Cled turned his head over his shoulder and Annoli looked over Cled's other shoulder toward the doorway. There stood a rather welcome sight to Annoli. The one eyed Master Wennsis walked over to them, "Picking on little girls. More brawn than brains and the manners of a rancor, eh?"

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Cled rolled his shoulders back and scowled at her, "Master Wennsis. What a timely appearance. I was just asking the padawan here about this room. The council never approved of anyone occupying this room."

Wennsis grinned, "That's because room assignments aren't the council's concern."

"I was just telling Master Amousous that I was living in this room now and how supportive you and the other Masters were of me. Being Master Borru's former padawan and all." Annoli explained to Wennsis.

"An interesting tale." Cled said through clenched teeth.

Wennsis rolled her eyes... or eye, "A tale? Are you really that ignorant Cled?"

"Master Amousous!" Cled corrected.

"Whatever." She replied before reaching into her dark cherry colored robes and pulled out a small, black box with gold trimming around each corner. She walked over to Annoli and handed her the box, "Look, I brought her a welcoming gift and everything. Why would I do that unless she was living here?"

"Well then. What's inside?" Cled asked curiously.

"That is none of your business, Master Amousous." Wennsis countered.

Cled stared at the box, now in Annoli's hands. Annoli yanked the box behind her back and out of his sight. She cocked her head to the side and smiled, "Yeah!"

Cled chuckled to himself and shook his head, "Well, I guess you are sticking to your story. I guess it doesn't matter anymore. Everything has been put into play anyways."

Wennsis's body language turned agitated and unraveled, "What is that supposed to mean?"

Cled said nothing. He just walked away, slamming his broad shoulder against Wennsis's much smaller body as he passed her by. As soon as he left and the doors slid closed behind him, Wennsis turned quickly to face Annoli, "His words make me nervous. Where is Zade?"

"He and Master Koppler went to meet with a senator willing to hear us out." Annoli told her.

Wennsis frowned, "I wonder..."

Annoli held the box out in front of her, "Is this really a gift for me?"

"No." Wennsis said as she snatched the box from Annoli's grip and tucked it back into her robe.

Annoli was disappointed, "Ah, dang."

"Do you know exactly where they left for?" Wennsis asked.

"Uhh..." Annoli scratched her head, "Division... 4... 70? 407? I defiantly remember it started with a four and I think there was a seven somewhere."

"Good enough." Wennsis told her.

"Why?" Annoli asked.

Wennsis turned her back to Annoli and started for the door, "C'mon padawan, we're leaving."

--

Zade and Koppler walked side by side down a large and luxurious hallway. The hallway had a royal blue rug that reached from wall to wall and corner to corner. The ceiling and walls were silver in color with a golden door set into the walls every seven meters. There was also a heavy scent of a citrus like cleaning product that filled the air. The two Jedi could smell it with each step they took. The lights were bright enough to force the light sensitive Koppler to wear his green, light reduction, visor-like, glasses. Koppler took a sniff of the air and coughed, "Whoa. There must have been a dead body in hear at one point to warrant this much cleaning solution."

Zade paid no attention to Koppler. Instead he focused on the number on every door on the right side of the hallway. He was counting down each number, 740, 738, 736, and then finally 734. Zade stopped while Koppler kept walking, not noticing they had arrived. As soon he realized he jogged back to the door and stood beside Zade. Zade smirked, "So glad you could join me."

"Hilarious." Koppler responded sarcasticly.

"Here it is. The 700 senator division, room 734." Zade said.

"So which senator lives here?" Koppler asked.

"No idea." Zade told him. He reached over to a panel on the wall beside room 734's golden door and hit a small yellow button. A gentle ringing tone buzzed from the panel. Zade smiled, "Hopefully we'll find out."

They waited for only a moment before the door slid open. Before them stood a female Twi'lek clad in dark green and icy blue formal gowns. She appeared to be around the same age as Zade. Like most Twi'lek she had a unique skin pigmentation, her skin was a pale violet color, also a pair of prehensile tentacles that grew from the base of her skull called, lekku. Many Twi'lek would use there lekku to communicate in a language all their own. Zade smiled and bowed his head, "Ah, Senator Sienn Parra. I shouldn't be surprised."

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"You know her?" Koppler asked.

Senator Parra chuckled to herself, "If I remember correctly he-"

Zade coughed loudly and interrupted her, "NOW-now! No use in bringing up the past. May we come in?"

Koppler raised an eyebrow in maniacal curiosity, "Oh?"

She took a step aside from the door and signaled them inside, "Please, enter as you wish."

Zade quickly walked into the room, followed by Koppler. The inside was much like the hallway. The room had silver walls and a dark blue rug that covered the floor. The entrance led into a small room with stone statues of three twi'lek and a human, placed in all four of the room's corners. Senator Parra pointed to a room adjacent to the entrance. Through the archway, Zade noticed a long, blue sofa in front of a wall that was basically just a large window that overlooked Coruscant. Sitting at that couch was Master Sarval-Styr and Master Xevioso. Zade walked into that room, again followed by Koppler. Master Xevioso gave them a bow of the head, "Welcome Zade... Master Koppler."

"You sound thrilled to see me, Master Xevioso." Koppler complained.

"That's not true at all." Xevioso insisted.

Zade noticed a bothan standing behind him near the archway he just walked through. The furry, long eared, long nosed, equine faced, humanoid wore a similar dark green and icy blue uniform. The bothan extended a hairy hand to Zade and spoke a very gurgly galactic basic, "Welcome, Master Jedi."

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He then repeated the process with Koppler. Senator Parra fallowed into the room and patted the bothan on the shoulder, "This is my assistant and second, Yaulba Goorare."

Master Sarval stood up from the sofa, "Senator Parra, if we could discuss what we were talking about earlier, with Master Rad'hyth."

"Ah, yes." She said before signaling to the furniture around the room, "Everyone please take a seat."

Zade and Koppler both took a seat on a sofa across from Sarval and Xevioso. Senator Parra sat down on a chair close to Sarval. Yaulba continued to stand. The senator took a deep breath and sighed, "Master Xevioso, Master Sarval-Styr, and I have been discussing a few things before your arrival. I knew that the Republic and the senate have both been manipulating the Jedi Council but I had no idea it had reached this point. The Jedi are the galaxy's shield and sword against the Sith."

"A shield and sword that's become rusted and corroded thanks to the council." Xevioso mentioned.

"It's to the point where the Jedi Order fears it's own head. My life has been been put in danger many times just because I speak against the council." Zade added.

"Normally," Sarval began, "we try to keep our affairs out of the senate. With these wars the last thing the senate needs to do is fight over our problems. The Jedi should be viewed as a symbol to the rest of the galaxy that there is always hope and good left no matter what storm hits. Even after the Jedi Civil Wars, we were viewed across the galaxy as... at least somewhat stable and reliable. Now we need to cadge the senate for assistance."

"Perhaps that's your problem." The senator said with a faint smile, "The Jedi Order takes too much burden onto their shoulders. Do you believe you are too high and mighty to ask for help?"

"You speak very veracious words, Sienn... err, Senator Parra." Zade corrected himself.

Sarval nodded his head, "The truth is the Jedi Order has become a little-"

"Full of themselves?" Sienn said with a stifled laugh.

"Yes..." Koppler said with a sigh, "I know, that's a bad habit of mine."

"As I was saying," Sarval continued, "I believe that if the way of things continue, many innocent Jedi will meet an untimely fate."

"Like Master Quint." Koppler pointed out.

Sarval and Xevioso both had a look of surprise on their faces. Just like Zade, they hadn't of heard of her death either. Xevioso lowered his head for a moment, "Ah, this is more unfortunate news."

Sienn lowered her head too, in respect for the lost Jedi. She didn't even know Master Quint but respected the Jedi enough to mourn a lost one. Only a few moments later she raised her head, "I've been protesting the Republic's actions for a while now. I'd like to help you but I'd need more to present to the senate."

"Things are only made more difficult by the fact that you wish to keep hidden in this affair." Yaulba said abruptly, "Do you believe Senator Parra to be able to do much if none of you step forward and present yourselves to the council?"

"Yaulba!" Sienn protested her assistant's harsh words.

"He's right." Zade said, "If we can have only one of us step forward as a witness we can at least hope to keep the rest of us a secret."

Koppler shrugged his shoulders, "Count me out. A Jedi Master is the only one fit for this job."

Zade was about to volunteer when Master Sarval interrupted him, "Zade is out too. He has a padawan to think about."

Zade sighed. Sarval was right. If he made his actions public Annoli would be in the same amount of danger as he. Xevioso stood up, "I'll do it. The Republic is a warmongering group and worship their war medals and ranks more than anything. They'll most likely listen to someone who's a beast on the battlefield. I fit that description more than anyone here."

"You make a very good point, you animal." Koppler joked.

Sienn smiled, "Very well. The next assembly is in three days. Master Xevioso will accompany me and together, we'll make our argument to the-"

As Sienn was talking, Zade had a flash in his mind. An image followed the flash. The image was of a group of beings walking though the hallways just outside the room. Zade stood up from his chair and scowled, "Unwelcome guests."

"Wha?" Koppler asked before everyone heard a gentle ringing tone from the panel near the entrance.

Zade singled for everyone to remain sitting, "I'll get it. Everyone stay here."

The others all exchanged curious looks. The three Jedi placed a gentle hand on their lightsaber just in case. Seeing this, Yaulba placed his hand on a blaster strapped to the left side of his belt. Zade gently crossed his arms across his chest and slid his hands into each hand's opposite sleeve. Zade walked over to the door and hit a button with his right elbow that caused the door to slide open. On the other side was the bald headed, human, male, Jedi Master Goullovan of the Jedi council. Behind him was a platoon of Republic soldiers, blasters drawn. Goullovan had a large grin on his face and spoke with false sincerity, "Oh... Master Rad'hyth. I was so hoping the rumors were not true. Here you are though, conspiring against the Jedi Council."

"That's a might claim there, Master Goullovan. I'm here visiting an old friend and talking about issues with the senate. A perfectly legal issue. Why are you here?" Zade asked.

"You know why. Did you really think you could hide your actions? You take the council for fools." He replied.

"Interesting. Still haven't answered my question though." Zade told him.

"I'm here to place you, every other Jedi here, and the senator under arrest. Resist and I'm authorized to use deadly force." He said as he finally got to the point.

Zade was sick to his very core. As he looked on with his own eyes as Goullovan stood side by side with Republic soldiers, he realized they couldn't win this way. The Jeid Council and the Republic had become one, assimilated, faction. Protesting was no longer an option. Things were past that. Zade looked defeated but he wouldn't remain defeated for long. He gazed deep into Goullovan's eyes, "This is it? I don't think you really plan on having us live to make our cases of defense to anyone, do you?"

Goullovan said nothing. Zade looked past Goullovan toward the Republic soldiers. They were clad in full, dark blue blaster armor. Each piece of armor had yellow and orange marks paint on them. They wore blue helmets with a large black visor covering there faces. Zade tried to peer through there visors and tried to look them in the eyes. He could feel regret and pain in their hearts. They were all tools in this. Zade smiled and spoke to them, "I understand you all have a duty and respect what you must all do."

Goullovan signaled to his troops, "Go inside. Bring me the others. If even the senators resists, use deadly force!"

Zade stood in the doorway and he didn't budge even as the soldiers walked up to him. One solider raised his blaster to Zade, "Please sir, let us pass."

Zade stood his ground. He closed his eyes and reached out with the force. He needed help. He knew their capture would result in death and needed an escape. He got his help when the force called out to him with an answer on what to do. He sighed, "May I ask one more thing Goullovan?"

The soldiers stopped their advance and waited for their commander's response. Goullovan nodded his head, "Sure."

"Have you heard about Master Quint's passing?" Zade asked with a calm tone of voice.

Goullovan chuckled, "Too bad about that one. She really was a nosey one. She got received the death she deserved, as will you, Master Rad'hyth."

Zade grinned, "Good answer!"

Before anyone could make sense of Zade's reply, Zade removed both of his hands from his sleeves, only they weren't empty. He had two, smaller, lightsaber handles in each hand. They were smaller to fit only one hand each. They were perfect for duel wielding weapons. Before the soldiers or Goullovan could respond, Zade ignited the two, yellow blades from his sabers. In an immediate response, the three other Jedi ran into the room with sabers ignited. Goullovan, anticipating a battle, reached for his own saber. Before he could reach it, he felt a tug at his belt. He looked down to see his lightsaber missing from his belt. Another hiss of a lightsaber echoed through Goullovan's ears as a white saber blade was placed just inches from his neck. Goulovan looked to see Master Wennsis holding the saber placed at his neck. Next to her was padawan Fennal, holding his lightsaber handle. She pillaged it from him! He had a look of disgust on his face as his soldiers dropped their blasters to the ground in surrender. They had lost control of the situation and Zade was glad they weren't foolish enough to fight the Jedi.

Annoli giggled as she waved Goulovan's saber in front of him, "Some Jedi Master! Losing his lightsaber? Careless, careless, careless!"

"You can thank Cled's big mouth for tipping us off." Wennsis added.

Zade pushed his way through the soldiers to reach Goulovan. He reached back into his sleeves and pulled out the same triangular device that he used to receive the message from Sarval a few hours ago. He pushed a button on the device causing Goulovan's voice to stream from it's speakers, "Oh... Master Rad'hyth. I was so hoping the rumors were not true. Here you are though, conspiring against the Jedi Council."

Zade then turned the device off and slid it back into his robe but kept a hand hidden in his robe, "Every word we spoke is recorded. Where you implied Master Quint's death was warranted just because she was nosey. Where you threatened a senator with deadly force and so much more. I'm sure the senate will love to hear this."

"It won't matter. The Republic has the senate tied around it's finger." Goulovan said with a smirk.

Zade laughed as he removed his hand from his robe, still grasping the device, "And I just recorded that too!"

"Not too bright are you?" Wennsis taunted.

Goulovan slumped over and said nothing. Zade looked over to Annoli and Wennsis, "Thank you, Master Wennsis and great work Annoli."

Annoli smiled back, "Yes, Master!"

Keeping his green blade pointed at the soldiers, Sarval made his way over to Zade, "What shall we do with them?"

"I have an idea." Sarval said with a grin.

--

Goullovan opened his eyes hours later. He could barley breath as he was face down in blue carpet. His mouth was open and his face was covered in his own drool. He attempted to move his body, but nothing bellow his neck would respond. He rotated his neck every so slightly, just so he wouldn't be face down in the carpet any more. As he did he could see his Republic troop bound in restraints. He suddenly remembered what happened. Zade and his group took the soldiers own restraints from there belts and bound them with it. They also took tranquilizers from the soldier's utility belts and injected him with enough tranquilizers to put a wookie into a deep slumber.

The soldiers could do nothing but watch as Goullovan struggled to turn himself over onto his back. He called out to his troops, "H-help me!"

"We can't sir." A female trooper responded.

"Wh-where are they? Where d-did they go?" He stammered.

"Along with the Senator and her assistant, they left. Hours ago." The same trooper answered.

Goullovan cursed to himself as he managed to push himself up by his elbows, "I need to contact the council."

"Master Kol'Tyuk was here earlier to check on our success. Once he found out we failed, he left in a hurry. I don't think he even called for back up to come get us." A nikto solider responded.

"He wasn't to happy with you, Master Goullovan." The same female soldier added.

"Yes. I got that!" He shouted back in frustration over his failure. The council was going to be upset with his failure as it was. If they ever found about what he was caught saying on Zade's device, he would be thrown off the council. He had to find Zade before he distributed that voice clip, if he already hadn't.

Zade sat back into a plush, padded chair and took a huge sigh of relief as the ship he was on jumped to hyperspace. Sitting around him in identical chairs were Master Sarval, Xevioso, Koppler, Wennsis, Annoli, and senator Parra. Her assistant was on the ship too but in the cockpit. After they bound Goullovan and his troops, everyone had to quickly escape Coruscant. They were wanted and it was only a matter of time before the council learned of Goullovan's failure. When they did they would double their efforts to find them. So they escaped to the nearest space port where Sienn had her own ship docked. It wasn't large but it was very luxurious.

The thing that worried Zade was that it had no weapons. Though it was well shielded. Zade wished he had enough time to at least be able to grab a smaller fighter to accompany and guard the cruiser. If it came down to an encounter with the Republic in space, Zade hoped to at least act as a decoy while the others escaped. But he had no time to take a fighter.

Yaulba's voice echoed through speakers placed inside the section of the ship where they sat, "Master Jedi, I contacted and warned every Jedi that you requested. It would appear that none of them have been captured. At least not yet."

As they were leaving Coruscant, Zade asked Yaubla to contact the other renegade Jedi to warn them that the council knew about them. It was a relief to everyone aboard the ship to hear that everyone had been warned. They on the other hand were headed to Esseles, the planet which senator Parra represented. It was a risky move because it would be the first place anyone would look for them. On the other hand, the Republic wouldn't be able to act right away. Esseles was a rich planet and very valuable to the Republic. The planet had a ship depot and weapons facility used by the Republic forces. Zade couldn't see the Republic risking making Esseles an enemy by invading. The council was another matter. They were more unpredictable than the Republic. Zade had to just trust his feelings and they were telling him to go to Esssles.

Zade looked to his immediate right and saw his padawan. She still had Goullovan's lightsaber with her. Zade chuckled at the look on Annoli's face, "Nervous, padawan?"

She nodded her head, "A little. This is beyond anything that Master Borru and I went through."

Wennsis leaned over from her chair and placed a gentle hand on her shoulder, "You did very well, Annoli. You remained calm and even managed to hide yourself enough to disarm Goullovan of his own lightsaber."

She smiled, "Thank you, Masters."

Annoli wasn't the only nervous one. Sienn was noticeably shaken. She was a senator, not a soldier. She had never been in a situation like this before. Even worse, she had her planet's safety to look after. She was taking an even larger risk than the Jedi by returning to her home planet. Zade reached forward to the chair in front of him where she was sitting. He placed a hand on her shoulder and sent a calming wave through her body, "Senator. Everything will be all right. If worse comes to worse we will turn ourselves in. Your planet won't be harmed."

She nodded her head is response but didn't say anything. Zade removed his hand and crossed his arms over his chest and tucked his hands into his sleeves. Annoli pointed to his sleeves, "So what are you going to do with that recording?"

"Nothing for now." Zade told her, "I could send it to every member of the senate but without us there to back it up, the council could easily spin this to make themselves look innocent. Then it would be worthless."

"I don't like having it though." Xevioso stated, "The longer we have it, the more the council is going to want it destroyed."

"That is if Goullovan even mentions it to the other council members." Sarval pointed out.

"That's true." Zade said, "The only ones who know about this is us, Goullovan, and his soldiers."

"Do you think those soldiers are going to keep silent? They were witness to a pretty massive event." Koppler protested.

"Maybe." Zade responded, "It doesn't really change our goals though. We need to reach Esseles and if the council wants to come and get us, they'll have to do it alone. The Republic can't risk losing Esseles as an ally so they won't advance of the planet. There is enough of us here to stand against the council."

"And lets not forget about the other Jedi." Sarval mentioned, "Even if the ten of us were found out by the council I doubt they learned of the other 75 Jedi. Even if they did, they couldn't arrest all of them without declaring an all out war within the Order."

"It may come to that. Think of how crazy the council has become. They are twisted. Who knows what they'll do in an attempt to hold on to their power." Koppler argued.

"If that happened imagine what the Sith could do." Wennsis said, "They could exploit the Jedi disruption and advance in the war."

Zade raised his hands to silence them, "Enough! We can only afford to worry about the present."

It was very tiring for Zade to constantly be under the thumb of the council. Ever since Zade was named to the council he was persecuted by them. Now that he was no longer a member of the council, it only grew worse. Now he was running from them! However this may still work out for them. Esseles would hopefully become a sanctuary for them and protect them for a little while. Zade was forced make a drastic decision though. If the council stepped foot on Esseles it was an attack on them and it reached the point where even a Jedi must counter deadly force with deadly force. If he needed to, Zade was willing to kill a council member no matter how much the thought pained him...