There is no pain? Another Jedi lie. The Jedi sits among the dead, and claims that there is no pain. Last week, I saw my cousin crawling through the mud, a blaster burn through her gut, her legs crushed by one of the Jedi war machines. Was that pain, Jedi? And when she died in my arms, what did I feel, if not pain? The Jedi have brought only suffering to our world. But I swear that every Jedi on Jabiim will soon know our pain!
-Alto Stratus during the execution of Jedi Master Norcuna.
Ventress looked at the ARC trooper. His body was full of cuts she had made with her knife. The only thing he was wearing was shorts. He was locked by a machine, a Droid monitoring him."I'm impressed." She said to the clone, and she truly was."I thought you would be easier to break. I have cut you once for each of my questions you have failed to answer. Where shall I cut you next? An eye? An ear?" She then put the silver knife under his throat."You're throat?"
"Might as well take my tongue too. I'm not trained to answer questions." The clone answered calmly.
Ventress just looked at him for a moment."You're trained to be fodder. Trained to die for the false Jedi and the Republic. In fact, you're only alive now because of me." She noted."Just tell me what I want to know and you'll go free. Perhaps to start a life of your own. Where are the Republic's primary medical facilities?"
"I am Advanced Recon Command A-17, Republic army, under the command of General Obi-Wan Kenobi. That is all I an authorized to reveal." He said, almost as if he were a droid.
Ventress grew angry. She pointed the knife a him"Where are the Republic foundries?!"
The clone smiled a little."I am Advanced Recon Commando A-17..."
Ventress savored her anger for later. She put on her cape and looked at the clone before she left."You've consigned yourself to a painful death, clone. I'll be back tomorrow...to gut you."
She then walked into the hallways with one of her lieutenants, Aidus. Aidus had served her mother and father faithlessly before their death. He now served her."Aidus, throw the clone in with Obi-Wan. Perhaps he'll be less resilient once he's seen how we've brutalized his 'General'."
Aidus nodded."Yes, commander. And how do the Jedi and that fat starfish suffer now?"
The two walked past some of the Rattaki soldiers."He has resisted conventional interrogation, poisons, even the Force. But the Sith torture mask has kept him from regaining focus, and his body is weak. The muscle maggots we fed him are eating the last of his physical strength as we speak. As for the pink idiot...he's surprisingly resistant as well, even if he's fat and weak."
"Those muscle maggots could kill him. Won't the Count be displeased?" Aidus asked.
"The Galaxy already believes that Kenobi is dead. Even Count Dooku is not aware of the truth." Ventress explained.
"Then why keep him alive? Let's shoot him and rejoin Durge on the battlefront."
Ventress smiled. Aidus was good and loyal, but he didn't understand stuff between the Jedi and Sith."Dooku sees great promise in Obi-Wan. In fact, Kenobi could easily replace me as Dooku's confidant, should he ever find the courage to join the Confederacy. But I know that Obi-Wan is weak, worthless. When Dooku next sees Kenobi, the false Jedi will be a destroyed man..." Ventress stopped walking to look at a statue of her Jedi Master, a true Jedi, Ky Narec."Dooku will finally take me as his apprentice. He will have no other choice. I will have a new Master. And then Obi-Wan dies."
Patrick star opened his eyes slowly."Uh...is it dinner yet?" He asked. He was locked in chains like Mr. Kenobi. Suddenly, the door opened, and Patrick saw someone get thrown to the ground. He was a tall, strong man (Maybe even stronger than Larry the Lobster) and he had cuts all over his body.
"Alpha." Obi-Wan said weakly."You're not dead..."
Alpha slowly got up."Who are you?" Patrick asked, confused.
Alpha looked surprised. His hands were tied behind his back."It's me, Patrick. Alpha." Patrick just stared."The clone in white and blue."
"Oh!" Patrick nodded.
"Don't worry," Said Obi-Wan."I've been using the Force to break one of the pipes." The pipe then broke and water fell down into the cell room.
"Great. So now we either drown, or get electrocuted?" Said Alpha.
"Or the water shorts out your manacles..." Said Obi-Wan. Suddenly, his cuffs shorted and his hands were free.
"Okay, so I drown with my hand's free." Patrick saw that the water was rising to their waist. Patrick didn't any problem with this...until he wondered how he was breathing the dry, disgusting air. But he then started to think of cupcakes.
"Just get this mask off." Mr. Kenobi said. Alpha did and blood fell a little from his nose and there was a cut on his face.
"You looked better with the mask on," Alpha commented before helping release Patrick."Next time, we're finding a prime clone with a better sense of humor. Now, let me concentrate on the door." Obi-Wan used his hand to make the door fall over.
"Woah! That's really cool magic! Can you teach me that?!" Patrick asked.
"Not now. Now, we need to get out of here."
"Oh, I know who could help us!" Patrick suggested. He then, out of nowhere, brought out a huge pencil.
Obi-Wan and Alpha looked at it with shock."Where did you-" Before Obi-Wan could continue, Patrick then drew a picture of Doodlebob.
"Me hoy minoy!" Yelled Doodlebob. Doodlebob then started running around and left the room. Obi-Wan and Alpha stared in shock as Patrick smiled.
"That's right..." She said to herself as the training Droids holding training lightsabers surrounded her."...Surround me just like well-trained Jedi..." She then quickly cut off a Droid's head."...Making it that much easier..." She then finished off the last two Droids."...To take your heads."
She then looked at the now broken Droids."Hmmm...They still move too slowly. Count Dooku's engineers will need to update their programming."
"Commander," Said Aidus, coming into the room."The dungeons are flooding!"
She gritted her teeth."Obi-Wan..."
After releasing some prisoners, the three then made their way into a hallway during a battle between the prisoners and Ventress's soldiers."I have a bad feeling about this...there's a stench in the air..." Obi-Wan said.
"Sorry, I forgot to shower," Patrick admitted.
They then went into another room."I should have sensed this...it's a morgue." Patrick saw a room full of people who were sleeping on beds, with white bedsheets over their bodies.
"Shh!" Said Patrick."We don't want to wake them up."
"They won't be waking up anytime soon, kid." Said Alpha. They then walked over to see a shark-like creature looking at one of the sleeping people.
"I doubt Ventress left anything worth stealing, my friend." Obi-Wan said, causing the creature to look at them.
"I'm a political prisoner, not a grave robber. I'm only checking to see how many of my men ended up here in this charnel house."
"Political prisoner?" Asked Alpha."You look more like a convicted killer to me."
"I'm that too." The creature admitted."My name is Osika Kirske. I was once the ruler of more than half this planet. Until Asajj Ventress took it away from me...Rattatak is a world of warriors and soldiers. For eons, we have battled one another for the right to rule. We knew nothing of the outside Galaxy or your Republic, but still found new and inventive ways to kill one another. All my life, I had only known victory in war. I conquered many cities and killed many of my rivals. But there were many other Warlords who struggled for power, including Ventress's parents. They assembled a massive army in the southern hemisphere. I killed her parents before they could become a real threat. Only the girl...Asajj, escaped. Soon after, a warlock fell out of the sky. He claimed to be an emissary from another world...your Republic. So, of course, we tried to kill him. On her own, Asajj would have died. Left to his own devices, the stranger would have undoubtedly been captured and killed. But together, they became something our world had never known...they became heroes. They ended wars and united armies. And as their legend grew, we heard stories of the girl using strange powers. She could move things with her mind, and control the thoughts of her enemies, it was said.
"So, I convinced the other Warlords and Generals to join forces, at least long enough to kill Ventress and her mentor. We completed only half of our plan. After her mentor's death, Ventress assembled an army. She learned new tricks from other offworlders. She waged war on us all. She killed or captured all who would oppose her."
"Uh, what did any of that mean?" Asked Patrick.
Obi-Wan looked horrified."You left her an oprhan...twice! No wonder she is so lost..."
"I transformed her into a conquer. I taught her hatred which fuels her power." Osika said proudly.
"And yet, she let her most hated enemy live?" Asked Alpha.
"I believe she needs a living enemy. If all of her foes are dead, who will she hate? I kill one of her guards every time I get the chance, but she refuses to kill me." He then laughed.
"You should be locked away," Kenobi said.
"Maybe on another world. But here, I was a slave who helped build this citadel. And now, I am your only hope of escape."
Ventress quickly sliced open a man's head with her red lightsaber as her guards covered her."Where is the false Jedi?!" She said angrily."Where is OBI-WAN?!"
"Me hoy minoy!" She heard. She looked to see...a failed clone? A reject? What was she even looking at?.
After walking through the hallways and killing a few guards, Patrick tried not to puke when Alpha snapped the neck of a guard, and they made it into an odd room.
"This is Ventress's trophy room." Osika informed."Your energy sword should be here somewhere..."
Patrick looked at a statue of a human."Who's that?"
"Ventress's mentor...the stranger who fell from the sky. I never learned his name." Patrick saw Obi-Wan look at a box and opened it.
"Well, this confirms my suspicions. Your 'stranger' was a Jedi. His name might be lost, but his lightsaber is not."
Alpha handed Obi-Wan another one of those glowy things."I found your lightsaber too, but my clone armor isn't here..."
"I'll get you a new set...if we can get home." Obi-Wan promised.
"The landing pads are somewhere near the citadel's peak. I'll leap you there...then I have a score to settle with Asajj Ventress."
They made their way to the landing pad, by killing a few guards, Patrick knocked out a few by throwing some stuff, and they heard voices on the other side.
"The Jedi is coming here, isn't he?" Asked one guard.
"Yes. But there are twenty armed soldiers between him and us." The other guard assured.
The door then opened with Obi-Wan, who had both lightsabers activated, and Patrick, and Alpha, and Osika. The two quickly knocked the guards out. Patrick was surprised at what he saw. He saw a city, much more bigger than Downtown Bikini Bottom.
"Amazing, isn't it?" Said Osika."After taking over the planet, Ventress built all of this atop the rubble of war. And now my people worship her for it...for which she will pay!" He said angrily.
"Alpha-" Before Obi-Wan could continue, they heard a noise.
"Me hoy minoy!" Yelled a voice. They looked to see Doodlebob fighting Ventress...with a pencil?
"Let's get out of here before this gets weirder..." Obi-Wan suggested. They quickly ran into the spaceship. Patrick took one last look to see Doodlebob jumping around, dodging the lightsaber slashes until Ventress managed to cut him down with ease since he was paper.
Patrick shuddered a little as Ventress stared at the ship until they left.