Blue
Waters: episode #32 The Capture of the
Gwythaints and Gwythaints Missing
Previously: You have been warned that starting last
time, certain things would be revealed. Anakin was invited to Palpatine's
office where Anakin figured Palpatine out…that he is the Sith master. Through the power of fear, Sidious convinces
Anakin to do a little job for him.
The
sight of it created the exact effect on Anakin that Palpatine was hoping for.
Anakin finally says,
"all right. I'll do it, as long as it
doesn't entail killing anyone.
Palpatine AKA Darth Sidious smiles.
Then he says,
"good. I need you to help me with the
gwythaints. Capture them all and bring them to me. Report back to me once you've done this."
"What do you want with the gwythaints?"
"You never mind that. Just do the task."
" Anakin says, "Okay, whatever."
After Anakin leaves, Palpatine turns to
Arawn.
"I told you it would work out. I had to wait until l I knew it was safe to
let everyone know that I am Darth Sidious. Anakin's going to inform the Jedi
council…plus, probably someone high up in the Senate…but that's too bad,
because everyone high up in the Senate is already part of the Team. NO one can stop us now. Soon, not even the Jedi, soon."
Arawn nods.
"Well Tarkin did as you
asked by bringing Anakin here."
About dinnertime,
Dalben contacts Samantha.
"Something's wrong. When I went to go observe
the gwythaints tonight, none came. I
fear something terrible's happened to them."
Samantha says, "I'm'
sure that it's nothing serious. They're probably distracted by something."
"And miss their dinner? Not even ONE showed up like they
have, to feed, for as long as far back as I've observed them. Not even once."
Samantha looks around the room.
Then says, "We'll check
into this."
"Thank you."
Captain Panaka was a guest at their dinner
table tonight (meaning Samantha and her parent's table).
Panaka says, "This
could be serious. Our spies missing.
Something's going on around her that I don't like. Jedi keep disappearing."
Samantha says, "Yeah…I'm worried about
Anakin."
Sally says, "don't waste your time on that
fool. If he dies, he dies."
Samantha looks at her
mother, "How can you say that, mother? I love him!"
She abruptly gets up
from the table, throws down her napkin, and makes a run for it. Now Anakin hadn't had too much trouble
luring the gwythaints to follow him back to Coruscant. He did have to use the Force…and in a
way he didn't like. He had told the
Leader (later to be named Gwythaint Hate) that they were all needed on Coruscant. He really hated to do this, but he
thought he'd better because he didn't want to be killed by the Sith. Anyway,
Anakin brought them to Palpatine and his men. It is in that way that they became spies for Palpatine. Anakin, thought ashamed to admit it, got a
kind of pleasure out of using his Force to capture them even though he know it
was wrong. He reported to Palpatine
when he delivered the gwythaints.
As soon as the gwythaints were led away
to the iron cages, which Palpatine had
long ago prepared for them, he'd turns to Anakin and says, "Thank you, my fine
friend."
Anakin had landed his
ship on Naboo and waited for the leader to come along.
"We need you on Coruscant. It's something special that the Supreme
Chancellor himself needs for you to do," he had said.
He had had to use the
Force when the gwythaints had paused to prod them to come along. It was in this moment, standing before
Palpate that Anakin first realizes that he was now no better off than Tarkin,
acting under Palpatine's orders to lure him to Coruscant. When would
this end? And what was Palpatine's
goal? Anakin knew he had to find
out, and to do that, Anakin would have to play Palpatine's game.
"It'll only be for a while…until I find out
what's going on," Anakin told himself.
Anakin says, "Listen
her, you're not a friend."
"We will be…we will be," Palpatine says
sounding like an evil version of Yoda.
Anakin gave him a LOOK when Darth
Sidious want' looking t him.
Then Darth Sidious
says, "You've done well. I will call
for you if I am ever in need of your for any future services."
Anakin Skywalker left Palpatine to
himself. He was planning to inform the
Jedi of the situation.
Until next time!