Hey everyone welcome back for another chapter of The Assassin: The Shadow of Desric It feels nice to get back into the swing of things, and I'm excited to get this story arc going, so let's do the recap.
In the last chapter, after Aaron and Ahsoka led a small investigation to discover the truth of how the Jedi Temple was attacked. After interviewing many workers and going through all the clues they soon discovered that one man was responsible for the death of Jedi, and workers. Although Aaron had his suspicions of an old enemy returning to destroy his world, the group looked to the facts and found out that it was one person that attacked the temple.
Now that they are on their way to the lower levels of Coruscant, where they will learn the truth of why this one person decided to cripple the Jedi Order. Star Wars is owned by Disney while I own my OCs.
Searching for Answers
Coruscant Unerworld
After Aaron and Ahsoka discovered the origin of the blast that crippled the Jedi Temple, where they learned that a man named Jakar Bomani was responsible for the attack of the Jedi Temple, everyone knew that they needed more information to prove their claim.
It was then decided that Aaron, Anakin and Ahsoka would be the ones to investigate Letta's home while Derric and Grace would stay behind to attend other tasks they had at The Cursed Angel. Even though he wished they could be there with him, he wanted to do this mission with only Anakin and Ahsoka.
For many reasons, he felt that he had to be there so that he could learn the truth. If Desric was alive, he wanted to see if this explosion had any connection to him in any way. However he had told Ahsoka that he came with them because he wanted to see this investigation finally closed. Anakin, however, was unease with Aaron being a part of this investigation.
Ever since Aaron was assigned to this mission by Master Kenobi, Anakin has always felt discomfort with Aaron's way on getting results on a mission. It's as if he looking at a mirror where he watches Aaron disobey orders before earning victories on the battlefield. He remembers all too well when eh was instructed by the Council to pull his team from Onderon.
When Aaron and his friends were in dire need of help, as the droids were attacking the rebel base, Aaron and Ahsoka were given a direct order to have their team leave Onderon before the Seperatists discovered that the Republic was aiding a neutral system. However Aaron refused to abandon Onderon and chose to disobey his orders before staying and fighting alongside the Onderon Rebellion.
After returning home, Aaron and his team were given a lecture by the Jedi Council before they grounded Aaron and prevented him from leaving Coruscant for the next few days, giving him the chance to piece together the mystery of Desric's fate.
After Master Kenobi vouched to have Aaron and his team aid Anakin and Ahsoka in this investigation, Anakin was not too happy to have someone like Aaron helping him with the investigation. Given his checkered past, Anakin knew that he was going to have to keep on eye on him if they were going to be working together.
Aaron, on the other hand, knew that Anakin was keeping an eye on him and was also using Ahsoka to watch over him. In Aaron's mind, he did not like the idea that he was going to be taking orders from Anakin. He felt that his way of doing things was the best way for him to get results fast, but the only thing that stood in his way was Anakin. If Anakin had not been a part of this investigation, Aaron would have already learned about the truth of the explosion in a shorter amount of time.
However, since he was working for Anakin, he knew that he was just going to have to suck it up for the remainder of this investigation before they both found the reason why Jakar bombed the Jedi Temple.
After the three left the temple, they took a speeder and dove down to the lowel levels of Coruscant where they hoped that they would finds some answers in Letta's home.
Apartment
As they approached the door, Anakin used the force to open the door to the apartment before the three of them walked inside. Once they entered the building, they saw how unsanitary the building was where they saw that there was trash lying on the floor and small critters feeding on the trash as well. They looked on the walls and saw that there was small graffiti spray painted on the well as they approached Letta's apartment.
"This is not the nicest place." Anakin said.
"It makes my ship look like a five star hotel." Aaron added.
"You would think that working for the Jedi would pay better?" Ahsoka asked before Anakin knocked on Letta's door.
"No response." Aaron said before he placed his glove above the doors security pad.
"What are you doing?" Anakin asked.
"Just watch." Aaron said before his gloves gave off small amounts of electricity to the pad before the doors slid opened. Little did Anakin know that Aaron had made a pair of gloves that allows him to shock people or open locked doors.
"Impressive." Ahsoka said with a small grin.
"If you two are done talking, we have a job to do." Anakin said before the three of them walked inside Letta's apartment. As they entered the room, they saw that no one has been home for a while. "Letta? Are you here?" Anakin said out loud but heard no response.
"Again. No response." Aaron said to Anakin once more.
"Search for the droids, and keep your eyes open." Anakin said. "Remember, Jakar was a munitions expert. I'd rather not set off another explosion today. I'll see if he left a note."
While Anakin went off to search another room, Ahsoka and Aaron continued to search the apartment for any sign of the nano droids. While Ahsoka used her data pad to track the droids, Aaron snapped on a par of goggles that allowed him to see the droids as if they were physically standing right in front of him.
"Do you got anything?" Aaron asked.
"Nope. It's hard to tell. What about you?" Ahsoka asked.
"I don't see anything yet." Aaron said as the two continued to search each room for the nano droids.
As the three searched throughout the apartment, Ahsoka and Aaron both stopped and turned to see that there was one room they hadn't checked. They both slowly opened the door to search for the droids. "Letta?" Ahsoka called.
After hearing no response, the two friends walk into the room and felt a strange feeling that their answers would soon be discovered. It isn't long until Aaron picks up something on his goggles, and Ahsoka's scanner begins to detect something.
"Master!" Ahsoka yelled before Anakin came running into the room. Once he was with the two, Ahsoka explains her discovery. "Were picking up some traces from the disposal. The nano droids were in the food."
"Well the question now is did he eat them willingly or was he forced to."
"What are you doing here?!" A voice came from behind before the three turned around and saw that it was Letta.
"We've learned that Jakar was involved in the bombing." Aaron said to the woman.
"No…no that can't be true." Letta said in an almost freighted tone.
"See if she has any nano droids on her Ahsoka!" Anakin ordered.
"You don't have to." Aaron said as he used his goggles to scan Letta. "She's clean."
"What do you mean nano droids?" Letta asked.
"We're under the assumption that Jakar was set up for the explosion of the temple." Aaron explained. "And may have been the bomb."
Hearing the news that her husband was the bomb that exploded the hangar bay and cost the lives of workers, and Jedi, Letta refused to allow the news seep into her brain. "I…I don't understand?"
"Letta, I want to bring you in for more questioning." Anakin said as he approached the woman. "Maybe you can help us make sense out of all this."
"I'll answer any question I can." She replied before she and the three soon walked out of the building.
Streets
As they all walked out of the apartment building, Aaron notices how Letta is looking around and begins to think that things are about o get interesting.
When one pedestrian walks by her, Letta grabs the small creature and throws him onto Ahsoka, at the same time, she reaches into her pocket and pulls out a small tazer and arms the weapon. As Aaron and Anakin help Ahsoka up, Letta comes at them both and tazes each of them.
"Letta! Stop!" Anakin yelled as he watched Letta run off into the streets before jumping onto a speeder.
After the three of them recovered from the attack, Aaron, Ahsoka, and Anakin begin their pursuit after Letta. As they ran through the streets, they looked up and saw how high Letta was and Anakin comes up with something. "Aaron, Ahsoka, you two take the high road!"
"Right Master!" Ahsoka said asn she used the force to help her jump on several signs and speeders to catch up to Letta.
"Wait up!" Aaron yelled as he pulled out a grappling hook and shot a caple at a few signs to help him catch up to Ahsoka.
With Letta getting away, Ahsoka and Aaron climb onto a narrow bridge that was directly above the speeder Letta was on. "Race you to the target!" Aaron said before he began sprinting across the bridge while Ahsoka used the force to push herself forward and ran faster than Aaron. It isn't too long until she soon ran past him. "Hey!"
"Don't make it too easy for me Aaron!" Ahsoka yelled as she ran across the bridge, dodging and jumping over people while Anakin was on the ground chasing after the speeder from below. It isn't long until Letta looks directly at him and sees that two of Anakin's friends are missing. She knew that Aaron and Ahsoka were chasing her as well.
As the speeder made a slow decent, Letta jumps off it and runs through a dark alley in hopes of evading the Jedi and Aaron. However her hopes her were soon crushed when she saw Ahsoka jump onto a sign in front of her and Aaron landed on small crate a few feet away from her. "Letta stop!" Ahsoka said.
As the woman backs away from the two she turns around and sees Aankin slowly walk behind her. "Let me go!" She pleaded.
"You had your chance to make things right." Aaron said.
"Jakar is dead and now you're trying to blame his murder on me." Letta stated as she held her tazer tight and pointed it at the three of them.
"Nobody ever said he was dead." Anakin said who soon found out that Letta had just given herself up.
As Letta was shocked that she had finally given herself away, Aarno walks behind her and takes away the tazer. "However running proves that you had something to do with the bomb." He said.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Letta said.
"People blamed Jedi because of you. People were killed because of you!" Ahsoka said in anger as she was furious at how people were beginning to believe that a Jedi was responsible for the bombing of the temple.
"You can't prove anything!" Letta lashed out.
"Did you feed the nano droids to Jakar?!" Anakin asked for he too was furious at how this woman may have been the one that killed many workers and Jedi in the explosion. "You will answer NOW!"
While Anakin and Ahsoka interrogated Letta, Aaron stayed out of this conflict and began to put the pieces of the puzzle in his head. Although he had his suspicions that Letta created the bomb, she was the person that had connections to get the bomb into the temple and cripple the Jedi in their time of war. The one thing Aaron kept asking was who was she working for. Was she working for the Separatists or someone far worse?
However as the Jedi continued to bombard Letta with numerous questions the woman speaks out. "I did feed the nano droids to Jakar."
"You set up your own husband to die?!" Ahsoka asked.
"You're dealing with things you don't understand!" Letta said, which caught Aaron's attention.
"Where you going, you'll have plenty of time to explain everything!" Ahsoka said before Aaron walked behind her and place a pair of handcuffs behind Letta's back and the they all began to walk out of the dark ally with the true culprit in their grasp.
It isn't long until they received news from Grace, that after going through several footage and looking under every rock in this investigation, the Jedi were informed that no Jedi was involved in this attack. This made Anakin and AHsoka feel at ease, knowing that Letta and Jakar were the ones responsible for attacking the temple.
Even though he knew that Letta was responsible for the explosion, He still wondered as to why Letta attacked the temple. Was it for her own personal gain, or was it because she was aligned with someone else. He knew that this investigation was far from over for him.
Alright everyone that is it for this chapter! I hope you enjoyed this one and I would like to hear your thoughts of what you think so far. With Letta captured what do you think Aaron will think about this investigation? Is he onto something about his uncertainty with Letta? We'll soon find out in the next chapter! Bye!