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Chapter 25: Visions Trouble
Since Mark arrived to Coruscant from Ragoon 6, which was 5 days, the public have been secretly getting some of the information about Palpatine. They just know the basic, how is he trying to end the Republic. The major stuff like he is a Sith Lord remain secret to a very few people that Mark had trusted. At first Mark was against the idea letting the public knows what they know, but Amelia and Padme was right, it would help their cause. Thanks to these so called rumors, spreading through the media and the galaxy, some people are turning against Palpatine or not having such strong faith.
The protesters that were protesting at the Jedi Temple have almost all gone away and begin to protest at the Senate building and 500 Republica. There have been protests airing on the Holonews. Some of the protest is not just about Palpatine but the whole Senate, mainly to those that the public consider greedy with power. There actually have been more people coming from planets that the greedy Senators should be representing.
Mark along with a few of the members of the High Council begins to senses that Palpatine is begin to worry about losing support that he needs to achieve his plans of taking down the Jedi Order and the Republic to make a Empire that is run by the Sith. This brings a smile to his face, because Palpatine needs to feel the pressure being applied to him for what he did. It is about time for that.
Mark has to admit how much it helped. He was waiting for it to surprise people with the news at a Senate Meeting. This is even better because now, people will know and when it gets stated in the Senate, people will take it as truth. With the proof of what people knows, the easier it will be to get them against Palpatine. So when the Jedi, mainly him come in to take Palpatine down on the basis of him being a Sith, there would not be any negative impact on the Jedi Order. When it get close to that time, he will have the Senators dish out some of the hardcore evidence to show people exactly who the Chancellor is and the person who have been behind this whole war.
Mark just got back from meeting with the Senators who help him out at Padme's apartment at 500 Republica. He walks through the doors to the main hall of the Jedi Temple. He walks by classrooms where younglings were being taught. He did not see Master Yoda in any of them. He reaches out to the Force and sense Yoda was in his quarters. Mark walks toward the quarters that Yoda uses.
As he was walking there he hopes that the ancient, powerful, wise little Grand Jedi Master of the Jedi Order has something that can help him. How long can he keep this up? How long could he go before it starts to infect his abilities to use the Force and Lightsaber? When will the nights of lack a sleep start to take a toll on him? All these questions keep on roaming inside his head as if they were a battle going in within side of him.
Before he can knock on the door, he hears Yoda's voice. "In, you may come, Mark." say Yoda. The door rises from the floor to the roof. Mark walks in and sits on one of the round flattop red cushions. He sits facing Yoda, one of the wisest people Mark ever knows in his whole life.
"Master Yoda, I need your help. I have been having these visions lately. It seems like they are trying to haunt me." say Mark lightly as he look at the little green Grand Master of the Jedi Order. Yoda looks up at Mark. "These visions about, what are, hmm?" ask Yoda.
"It the same visions I saw when I was on Raxus Prime in my universe when the Jedi Order have fall because of Order 66. Sometimes it depends on the location of where I am located, what vision I saw. Often when I walk through the halls of the temple I can see Vader killing younglings along with Clone troopers. Now it seems to be no matter where I am I am being haunted by these visions." say Mark looking down at his palm.
Yoda sat there thinking for awhile about it. "The force works in mysterious ways. Warn you about something or it can act as a reminder to keep one on the right path, could it." say Yoda. "That was what I was thinking. My Padawan, she thought maybe it has something to deal with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder." say Mark. Yoda laughs slightly when he hears this.
"No, my friend, you are suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder not. The cause of your visions that is not. Behind it, the force is, sense it, I can." say Yoda softly as he looks up to one of his best pupil besides Count Dooku. This confirms Mark's thoughts greatly when he hears this.
"It is exactly what I have come to think. I just need conformation, because I do not need these visions interfering with my plan to save the Republic and the Jedi Order." say Mark as he got up. "Worry about those visions, do not. No longer haunt you anymore, I sense once Palpatine is gone those visions will." say Yoda lightly as he watches Mark heading to the door.
"I hope you are right, Master Yoda. I just do not know how much longer I will be able to handle those awful visions. I fear that, these visions might drive me insane. I am losing sleep because of them. I become a wreck on a wreck lately. It seems like only dire times I am very focus." say Mark feeling defeat for the first time in his entire life.
He is not use to feeling defeat, even when he was actually defeated he never felt this way. The reason he feels so defeated is it seem like he cannot overcome this like he did all the others. Why he cannot overcome this? How come ever attempt to block those visions from his mind, they keep on coming through? As his mother used to tell him when younger, only time will tell. In time he will find if he find relief from those horrors that have been plague him since he came to this dimension.
Without any other words, Mark left Yoda's quarter and walks into his. He finds his Padawan Rachelle on a Datapad trying to get the conversation between him and Lama Su. She has been working so hard on to get that piece of evidence to work. He admires for not giving up, but he is starting to think it is a lost cause. Even his mother tried to solve the problem and failed, and his mother have a vast knowledge of anything that is consider technology.
He smiles at that thought, there is not many Senators who knows takes up knowledge about other stuff like his mother did. While his mother was always different from other Senators, it was the same with him being different from most Jedi around him. Guess that is where he gets that trait from. No one says that there is anything wrong with being different then most people. Sometimes it is consider a good thing.
Rachelle notices that her mentor has not being feeling so well for awhile. Even when they were on Ragoon 6, she notice this, but when he was dueling Darth Maul he seems to be on the top of his game. She does not need the Force to know that something is wrong with him. Noticing that, it made her feel so hurt that he is this way. It hurts her more than she thought it would hurt her.
She knows it is not the stress of his plan, but something to deal with those visions that plague him like an illness that he cannot get rid of so easy. With that she really wishes that there is something she could do to ease his suffering. Knowing that there is most likely nothing she cannot do for her mentor, hurts her even more.
"Master, you need anything." ask Rachelle. "What I need is something you cannot do." mumble Mark as he throws off his robe and tosses it onto the couch. He had on a gray tank-top with some with light brown pants. On his feet was black boots.
"If there is nothing you need I am going to take a shower." say Mark as he takes off his tank-top. Rachelle saw the muscles of her mentor. Due all the training and battles he has been through should on the body. The body is thin, but muscular; she can see the outlines of his body easy. She bite her lips again when that strange emotion that she always seem to happen around her mentor or where she is thinking of her mentor.
The sight of his upper body seems to have more of impact on her than she thought it should. It was as if she was attracted to him. What is with her, she never felt this way with any of her other mentors. This feeling is confusing her greatly. She have never experience it before.
"Why are you staring at me?" ask Mark looking at his Padawan. He notices she have been staring at him a bit while he was taking off his boots. When Rachelle hears this, she turns her head and blushes greatly. "Nothing…really Master….just concern." says Rachelle slightly embarrassed, but honestly. Why is she embarrassed about? It must be that stupid emotion again that she cannot place.
"Concern about what?" ask Mark walking to the door that leads to the bathroom. "You, I am worry about you." say Rachelle lowly as the blush begins to leave her cheeks and she turn to face him. "Rachelle, I have been through a lot more than you can image, I can make it." say Mark half-heartily. He once believed that he can overcome anything until he begins to have those horrid visions all the times. Even the most hardest thing to overcome, he would eventually overcome them. Then again, he never once was going against the Force, since it is the Force who is making him having those visions.
Mark walks into the bathroom leaving Rachelle with her confusing thoughts. She cannot seem to get the picture of her topless mentor out of her head. She groans as she runs her hands through her hair. She never once thought of any of her mentors this way. What is happening to her? Why does she keep thinking like that? She wishes she can figure the answer to these questions and what type emotion she is already having with her mentor.
After what seem like hours, but in reality were just a few minutes, Rachelle was able to focus enough to get back to work on the recording of the conversation between her mentor and the now dead Lama Su. After a bit tinker she manages to get a little bit of clarity. She can he her mentor and Lama Su speaking, but in a deep voices that have bunch of static. When she hears those voices her pride within her exploded like a volcano on Mustafar that has been waiting to explode since the beginning of time before Mustafar was a volcanic planet.
"YES!" shout Rachelle jumping from her seat as she listens to the deep static voices. She knows her mentor have a deep voice, but it is not even as deep as it is in the recording. After long hours mixing with it and tuning the Datapad, she finally made some progress where not even Senator Amelia Zane could do anything about it.
Her mentor walks out of the bathroom with a long sleeve button up shirt and matching blue pants that is his nightwear. "What in the world Rachelle was that shouting all about." ask Mark. "Just shut up and listen, Master. You will find out." say Rachelle as she hit a button on the Datapad. Mark hears the words he spoke to Lama Su in a much deeper version of his deep voice. How deep it is, make is sound like he was evil or something. Than in the same depth of deepness Lama Su was speaking. During both of them there are bunch of static.
It is surely an improvement than before. Before you could only hear sounds of the words and a lot of overlapping in static. Now they have a lot of static but could at least hear what the sounds of the words are forming. To say Mark is proud of his young Padawan is an understatement unlike none that he have ever heard, and trust it that he have heard a lot of understatements in his lifetime. "Great job, Rachelle." say Mark as he pats Rachelle on the shoulder. He was unaware the effects of that compliment had on her. Neither was Rachelle aware of the effects, when that emotion once again came to her, she was left more confuse than anything. All that confusion is going to drive Rachelle insanity if she does not find out what it is and why she only feels it when she is thinking about her mentor or when she is around her mentor.
Mark walks over to the kitchen part of the quarters and get some drink of water out of the sink. He opens a bottle of medicine that he has been taking in his attempts to at least get some peaceful sleep at night. He shakes two pills out of the bottle and twists the cap back on. He put the pills in his mouth and drinks the water to shallow the nasty pills.
Here to hoping Yoda is right about his troubles with the vision. He needs to be in top form to take down Palpatine. He cannot even be a quarter of tire during the fight. Never in his life was there a battle he needs to put all his energy into it, and he have more than a strong feeling he needs to be on the tip top of his best game in this duel or all he have work for would be for naught. He came too far to fail at his mission. He suffers too much reliving the last moments of the once great Jedi Order in his universe. The Force made him watch their final moments of their life over and over again as if he was watching it as a Force Ghost, not able to warn them.
People say his mother had the worst type of torture on Tatooine. He not trying to be mean and sound like he does not care about his mother, but what a laugh that is. They do not even have a clue what he is having. His mother does not even know the gist of what is happening to him. Compare to her torture he wish he was torture like her. What he is feeling is worst then being beaten to the near inch of your life. What could be worst than this, he does not know, and if there is something worst than this torture do he really want to know what that is.
Well the only thing that will solve this problem is he needs to wait for Palpatine to make his big move, which if everything is going to happen like it did in his universe, then it will be happening soon. He knows that the Battle of Coruscant happens at the beginning of 19 BBY and by the quarter way through the year, the Republic and Jedi Order fall to the Sith. When Palpatine makes his move, Mark will be hot on his tail to counter it for the last time.
This time there will be no Empire; there will be no genocide of the Jedi Order. There will be no Anakin Skywalker falling to the Dark Side. There will only be the death of the Sith Lord Sidious. Mark does not care if he dies to bring peace to this universe. Unlike the Sith, he is not afraid of death, he will walk into death open arms as if he was greeting an old friend as long a Palpatine dies. If he does not die, Mark will fight the grip of death and he will take Palpatine down.
By now you obviously know that I talk to my friend Wingzero-01-custom on and he also have an account here. It was his idea that Master Zane, might have PSTD (Posttraumatic stress disorder) because of being haunted by the visions, and he was saying how it could be worst for a Jedi. From the very beginning had this idea of having visions haunting the hero of this story, but I have never once thought of PSTD being the cause.
Well obviously Yoda hit the head of the hammer, like usual, about Mark's problem. The visions are there to keep him guided on the right path. Sorry if my Yoda dialog is not good I use a website that I type something it, and it comes out how Yoda would say it, but there is a little difficult getting to work well. If you look for someone who is good at the Yoda dialog thing, then ask Wingzero-01-custom, I guess.
Please do remember that this Story is going to be in a series. How long it might be I have no clue. If you, my readers, have any idea what the title should be of my next story in this series, please do feel free to submit your ideas into me by reviews or private comments. No text lingo with those things, I might be a teenager in the modern world of advance technology but I do not like to text.
On that note, have a Happy Thanksgiving. I will try to post more story up when I am not eating turkey. So sit back, watch a little bit of whatever you watch or read my stories, it is up to you. Just remember to be thankful of your life and what you have in it, because you a little thanks go a long way.