And just ahead of him is a battleship.
"If I could maybe sneak on somehow…I could lean something."
The ship doesn't seem
to be doing too much…and there are no others around, so Obi-Wan decides to
approach it form the back and somehow land his ship on the huge battleship, so
that's what he does. He sues his
lightsaber to open the hatch. He drops
down and finds himself fact to face with a Maurder…holding a delay weapon. At a second glance, Obi-0Wan notices there's
something strange about him…he's not exactly sure what, but no time to
think. He quickly takes his lightsaber
out and ignites it in seconds. The
Maurder (it doesn't talk) gets it's weapon out and prepares to shoot. As it does, Obi-Wan's lightsaber comes up
and deflects the shot back into the Maurder. And this kills him.
"What the…"
Obi-Wan goes up to hit.
There's something definitely weird about his guy. This first one wasn't
wearing any armor. A second one is
attracted by the noise…and gets ready to fire at Obi-Wan. He decides to try something else. He uses mind control.
"Put down your weapon."
It instantly
obeys.
"Hey, mind-control shouldn't have been that easy…. yeah,
Maurders have weak minds, but there's something not right there."
"Take off your helmet…"
Obi-Wan wants to see
what this Maurder looks like. It
does. (Everything Obi-Wan says to this
maurder is using mind control). Obi-Wan
is shocked to see a man standing there that looks exactly like the
first. Twins? Obi-Wan didn't think so for some reason.
"Tell me who you are."
"I am a Clone of (he gives
the name), the Original."
Clones?
"Tell me what's going on
here."
"The Maurders are making a Clone Army. We are going to attack the Republic and take it over. We have battle ships."
"How many ships, and what kinds of weapons?"
"500 warships, 1 Cloning
Machine, and (he named how powerful the weapons on both the ships and in hand
were.)
"Yikes!" thought
Obi-Wan.
"Very powerful. Thank you.
Are there any, what did you call them, Originals on board?"
"No," says the clone.
Obi-Wan takes a moment to
look around the ship, then leaves.
"Not wise to attack this ship," thinks Obi-Wan. "There's no one around here.
He goes back to
hyperspace. He then reports back to the
Jedi on Coruscant.
"The clones are obviously less than intelligent…mind-control worked
well but they're bad…evil…they'll kill anything. We must stop them before
something happens…. there are 500 warships.
The clone I spoke to made some comment abut a cloning machine. Maybe if we found it and destroyed it…at
least they couldn't make more."
Yoda nodded.
"This means an advancement in training for the Padawans near
trials. We need as many Jedi as
possible. Dangerous this is, so allow
only full Jedi on this mission we will.
All Padawans will face the trials tomorrow. If they do not pass, remain here they will. Report this to Palpatine, you must."
Obi-Wan approaches
Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's office.
Palpatine says, "Come
in."
Obi-Wan reported
everything to Palpatine. Palpatine
looks thoughtfully at Obi-Wan, then remembers something.
"You're Anakin Skywalker's Jedi, aren't you?"
"Yes, he is my
Padawan."
"I heard about what he
did on Tatooine. Too bad he won't be fighting this thing."
"He might be. He'll face the trials tomorrow."
Palpatine gave him a
funny look, and then says, "He's very impressive."
"Yes," says
Obi-Wan. "Qui-Gon believed in him…and
he does have an extremely strong force."
Palpatine nodded and
asked, "Just how strong is it?"
"He has a Force level
of –14."
Palpatine says, "I see.
Well thanks for the information. I'll
be declaring war on the Maurders…and I have important things to do…so if you'll
excuse me."
Obi-Wan nods, then
leaves. Not until the door shuts behind
him does Obi-Wan realize something.
"Why would Palpatine be
interested in people's force levels…he's n o Jedi…it shouldn't mean anything to
him…unless…but that's sill," Obi-Wan thought.
"But it's a possibility."
The idea was just too
far out there to take seriously.
Obi-Wan dropped the thought.
"I'd better go get Anakin and inform him about this whole mess."
Until next time!
