Chapter 28
I made two new AU stories within the past few weeks, Operation: Preventing Vader, and, finally, Five Person Rebellion.
Dogma was reading another datapad, he wouldn't believe it, but it said that his former General, Anakin Skywalker, was a fugitive, along with his supposed 'wife', the former Chancellor Amidala.
Almost everyone knew that the media was suppressed ever since the Clone War reached a new height, with Balancers and Traditionalists instead of the Republic as a whole and the Separatists.
Ever since the Empire put itself in place, things have been a mess in the Galaxy. Sure, it almost ended the Clone War, but it was kickstarted once again due to the Empire getting destroyed.
Now, Dogma was bored in his small cell, he always felt like this in the cell, all he could do is read tidbits of the holonet, which was suppressed and biased since the Empire.
Dogma heard footsteps clanging with metal, as his cell door opened. He saw a man, a teenage man who was 16 years old, he was wearing robes similar to General Skywalker's, and had a smile on his face that reminded him of General Skywalker. Though his skin and hair colour were different than General Skywalker.
"I'm Adenan Kornen, Jedi Padawan" He introduced himself, obviously deepening his voice for the introduction.
"You're Anakin's newest apprentice" Dogma replied, awed, he read that on the Holonet
"My girlfriend, Bethrona is right behind me, we're rescuing you on the orders of Master Yoda" Adenan told Dogma, who immediately stood up
"Now, that's a name I recognise" Dogma brightened up, as Bethrona passed Adenan a blaster
"You're gonna need this" Adenan tossed the blaster at Dogma, who caught it, then he ordered "Now, let's go!"
Dogma followed Adenan and Bethrona, Bethrona prepared to run, but Adenan simply glared and started walking like nothing was going on. The two flanked Adenan.
"Shouldn't we get outta here?" Bethrona asked, not understanding why her boyfriend was so calm
"I have a feeling. With all the Traditionalists, you can't be too careful" Adenan answered, still calm
"True that" Dogma replied, laughing once. He had training of how to do rescue missions, and he knew what was going on, didn't mean he was defenceless.
Meanwhile, Anakin planted explosives on one part of the wall of the Jedi Temple. He had mixed feelings about this plan. The good side was… well, explosions, but the bad side was the fact that many Jedi on both sides may be killed.
"Not like this, I do not, but the only way, it is" Yoda sensed Anakin's thoughts. Yoda was hanging onto Anakin's back, who was climbing the high temple walls using ropes and harnesses
"Are you sure this will lead to the archives?" Anakin asked, looking down once, and then planting another explosive
"It will, uncover a part of the archives, it will" Yoda answered, reassuring Anakin
"Are you done there?" Faro asked annoyedly, from under Anakin on the rope
"One more" Anakin proceeded to plant another bomb, as he shouted "Done!"
"Good. Get down, we all should" Yoda kept calm, unlike the situation
Anakin and every Balancer under him slid down, as Anakin looked up to see if he tied the rope in the right place. He saw that he tied the rope to the ledge of a window, Caleb Dume looked out, and waved at the Balancers. Anakin waved back, smiling the same way Caleb was.
"Now!" Shaak Ti shouted, as Anakin pressed a button on the remote.
A big explosion occurred in the Jedi Temple, from the inside of Senate Building, a cloaked figure smiled, lips glossed with red lipstick, the figure, who was a female, then walked away, ready to do her part.
The Balancers began to climb, the trio were trying to escape the prison cell and the cloaked figure started to approach the Chancellor's office, little did each group know, that the Traditionalists had resistance for the Balancers, and that it would be very hard for them all to be defeated in one go.
Adenan's trio was the first to be affected by the counterattack. As they all ran, trying to outrun new Clones they encountered, their feet clanging with the metal. They were in one of the prison halls, the sides of the halls filled with cell doors which were all metal.
Adenan stopped and turned at the blasting clones, swinging his lightsaber and three blaster shots were deflected, the three Clones after Adenan, Bethrona and Dogma were killed instantly.
"Thank you, Commander Kornen, I was almost to get killed there" Dogma thanked Adenan, who shrugged
"Just doing my job" Adenan replied calmly, as the three heard the clanging of footsteps.
Adenan jerked his head around to see a squad of five Clones. Bethrona looked back and saw five more Clones. In short, they were surrounded in the narrow prison halls.
Adenan looked front, as his irises glowed red, orangish red more like, and his fists went on fire. Adenan looked at his fists, and widened his now fiery brown eyes, but then calmed and half-smiled.
He looked ahead, went into a battle stance, and charged at one Clone, preparing to punch the Clone, just for fun, Adenan screamed "Falcon Punch!", as he hit the Clone straight on the right eye.
The Clone's eye was damaged, as fire spread across his body. Adenan's eyes turned normal and his fire attack ended. The other Clones beside the one who received the 'Falcon Punch' looked at the hit clone, concerned for him. Adenan then activated his lightsaber once again and beheaded the concerned Clones mercilessly.
Bethrona shot two Clones and Dogma shot three from the other side of Clones. Then, the counterattack plan truly begun, as Adenan heard the activating of four lightsabers at the same time. Adenan went into a stance, as a big, Besalisk Jedi walked in, Adenan recognised him from holos.
"Pong Krell" Adenan hissed, angrily
"Ahsoka Tano's replacement" Pong Krell replied
"Who?" Adenan asked, pretending to not remember Ahsoka.
But it was the opposite, Adenan remembered Ahsoka all too well. The last time they met, it was not on good terms, and both had a dislike for each other. And the one and only reason for that dislike was because Ahsoka supported Solace, even when she made a bad decision. That led to some arguments that led to Ahsoka and Adenan swearing that they would never work together.
"Run!" Adenan ordered the two behind him sternly, Dogma nodded in acceptance, but Bethrona became wide-eyed
"Adenan! No!" Bethrona exclaimed
"I'll come out of this alive, I know it, maybe not completely intact, but at least alive." Adenan ordered once again, using the same tone
"Fine then" Bethrona sighed, as the two took the back stairs
Krell and Adenan stared at each other for a moment, as the two behind Adenan escaped. Then, Adenan put one foot forward.
"I faced Obi-Wan Kenobi and won, but someone with two dual-bladed lightsabers could be a challenge" Adenan wondered aloud
"Very true, I am a challenge, and I heard so are you" Krell replied calmly, as both combatants charged at each other, lightsabers blazing as blue and green clashed with yellow.
The tip of Adenan's lightsaber blade was bought down by the pressure of two blades, as Adenan moved back and spun his lightsaber sideways, making the Jedi Padawan take the offensive, as he activated his rainbow shoto.
The battle was heavy in the prison, and outrage was large in the Senate, as the same cloaked figure who smiled when the Jedi Temple exploded hid behind pillars and ran. She saw the Chancellor's office's side door, and pulled out her blaster pistol and a thermal detonator.
Chancellor Tarkin and Senator Bail Organa were talking about lifting the laws Tarkin issued, and were in heated debate, but the debate was ended when the two heard an explosion from afar, and then the screams of Red Guards.
The side door then flung open to reveal a cloaked figure.
"What is the meaning of this?!" Tarkin snapped, furious
"Oh. My husband is leading the battle on the Jedi Temple, I thought I'd lead the battle on the Senate" The cloaked figure answered in a honey-sweet voice, she opened her cloak and threw it away to reveal the former Chancellor Padmé Amidala!
"Padmé" Bail breathed, stunned at her appearance
"I can't believe I have you as my successor, one who has bought mockery to the Republic!" Padmé exclaimed, voice rising as she pointed the blaster pistol at Tarkin
"The Republic is defunct, and the Jedi had led the galaxy to a state of chaos, I have not brought mockery, I did my part to bring peace" Tarkin replied, truly believing what he was saying
"Peace? PEACE?! Suppressing the people is not bringing peace, and the Jedi are not perfect, they make mistakes" Padmé tried to keep her calm, as she lowered her head for a bit
"Well, whatever, this is now a standoff!" Tarkin pulled out his own blaster, and pointed it at Padmé, Bail worriedly stood away from the two as both glared at each other.
Some Jedi ran towards the explosion spot in the archives with some building materials, they had taken that much time just to find it. As a human Jedi started to apply some duraplaster, he was beheaded, as jumped up Anakin Skywalker.
"Masters" Anakin bowed respectfully to them, as he looked around calmly to see if anything changed during his disappearance, but it hadn't, everything was still blue and there were data-storing shelves full of holo-books, the computers were in the right places and so on
"Good to see you all, it is" Yoda sarcastically greeted from Anakin's back
"Are the archives good for you both?" One Traditionalist asked, in a mocking tone
"Of course, despite we are of different allegiances, the Temple was my home for years" Anakin answered calmly, as he saw that all the Balancers stood beside Anakin.
"Fight, now we should" Yoda put his head forward to Anakin and instructed him calmly.
Anakin activated his blue lightsaber, as Yoda jumped off Anakin's back and activated his green lightsaber, the others also activated their lightsabers and went into a stance.
"Balancers!" The lead Traditionalist exclaimed, alarmed, as more Jedi came along and the Balancers were hunched up by the outnumbering Traditionalists.
The Traditionalists tried to push the Balancers back into the hole they created, lightsabers swung randomly everywhere, as the Balancers were pushed back. Aayla Secura yelped, as she almost tripped and fell off. But Kit Fisto held her.
"You're okay!" Kit smoothly told Aayla, who just kissed Kit's cheek in response, as Anakin and Yoda pushed forward at the Traditionalists, who just smiled in victory.
"Smile, you should not, a victory, this is not yet" Yoda chided them, a bit frustrated
"You guys seem to be a bit… trapped" Caleb Dume announced from behind the Traditionalists, finding no other way to say it, as he activated his lightsaber, and much to his Master's shock, beheaded two Traditionalists with his blade before deactivating it.
"Good Job Padawan Dume!" Anakin praised loudly, as he ruffled Caleb's hair, and the rest of the Balancers beheaded the rest of the Traditionalists, Caleb then styled back his hair, as he looked back at his now former-Master, Depa Billaba who was frowning at Caleb, shocked and appalled
"The Balancers are only wanting to change the Code, and nothing else, and when the Traditionalists formed and murdered three Balancers way back when, the Balancers had to avenge their own… first they attempted to negotiate and speak, but the Traditionalists led all this to their downfall" Caleb told Depa, who frowned even more
"The Traditionalists killed those Balancers to bring on justice, but the Balancers acted on attachment!" Depa exclaimed, saying the last word with disgust
"The Balancers are far greater than anything you could comprehend, and would have done justice far greater than themselves, the attachments motivate them to work." Caleb told Depa calmly, and then frowned and disgustedly told Depa "I wouldn't expect you to understand Master Skywalker's wisdom"
Anakin smirked, but then it faded, as Caleb activated his lightsaber, and pointed it at Depa, who activated her own green lightsaber. The two charged at each other and duelled
"Go! Now!" Caleb ordered all of them, who nodded slightly in agreement, as the Balancers split into two groups, one that went left led by Panto Chi, and one that went right with Anakin Skywalker.
Anakin and his group now contained Master Yoda, Shaak Ti, Kit Fisto, since a few other Balancers took another pathway.
Something similar happened in Master Chi's group, and so now, his group contained his Padawan, Faro Sheekano, Talimer Skywalker and his old friend, Bobgaron Hossain and his Padawan, Hitu Harean.
"So, what next, Panto?" Bobgaron asked, while running his hand through his blonde hair
"We try to find a path to the entrance, just like Anakin's doing" Master Chi answered calmly
"Yes Master" Bobgaron mockingly told Master Chi, who just rolled his eyes, he just hoped Adenan didn't end up like Bobgaron, since they were so similar.
Now, the Balancers were fighting on different fronts, as the entirety of Coruscant was plunged into a war that would determine the entire future of the Galaxy and the freedom of it's people, even determine if the Force would ever be Balanced or not. The question burning in the minds of everyone in the Galaxy now, from the lowliest slave on Tatooine, to the great Master Yoda, was 'who will win?'
That was one chapter! There isn't much left to this story, I plan to end it in a few chapters, but don't worry, this isn't the final battle, the final battle of Balancers and Traditionalists will take place in another planet. I only focused on the prime Balancers since it's really hard to research who are mavericks and who take the Jedi Code as their main thing in the Canon Universe. NEXT CHAPTER: DEALING OUT TRADITIONALISTS
