Anuvuin: episode #21 The
Invasion and the Treaty
Previously: 2 Jedi ambassadors were sent to Naboo, and
the Trade Federation has started to land battle droids in preparation for the
invasion.
Sidious
was surprised. He hadn't expected the ambassadors to be Jedi.
'"The
Chancellor should never have brought them into this. Kill them immediately. And begin landing your troops…get the queen and hold her there."
Nute Gunray says, "You mean you want us to
start the invasion. Is that legal?"
"I will make it legal. You will crate a treaty and have the Queen
sign it. The Senate will ratify it."
With that, Sidious broke the
connection.
"Rune,
start on a draft of the treaty immediately. I'll send out the destroyer droids to kill the Jedi."
Qui-Gon says, "I sense danger. Let's go."
They took off running just as the destroyer
droids showed up.
Obi-Wan
says, "I think we'd better contact the Naboo somehow."
"Better not try it from here. We need to get down to the planet."
So, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon made it back to
their ship after killing some of the battle droids that tried attacking
them. Qui-Gon asked the ship's pilot to
drop them off at Naboo, and have the ship report back to Chancellor Valorum and
Palpatine about this attack.
Nute
turns to Rune and says, "The Jedi have disappeared!"
Rune
says, "Their ship is gone! I guess we should inform our battle droids
down on the planet."
"Yes,"
says Rune. "I just sent the droid army
to t he planet. They won't survive down
there. Do you think we should inform
Lord Sidious about his turn of events?"
Nute says, "No need to tell him until we have
something to report."
But suddenly the message light (most of the
messages in the stories have been or will be hologram messages.) appeared, and
Darth Sidious could be seen.
"How are
things coming along? Have you killed
the Jedi yet?"
"Um…the Jedi seem to have disappeared."
"What? Nute Gunray, you can't even kill two Jedi. I'm sending my Apprentice, Darth Maul, he will deal with them."
After the connection was broken,
Nute
Gunray says, " This is outrageous. Things are getting out of hand! Now there are two of them! We
should never have made this bargain, it's getting worse all the time."
Rune Haako nodded in agreement. Now onto Queen Amidala. There is a hologram of Senator Palpatine and
they're talking to him right now.
"I have assurances from the Supreme
Chancellor that the Ambassadors did arrive. Of course…something could have happened to them…or maybe he really
didn't sent them…" and Palpatine was cut off.
Amidala looks at everyone.
"Senator
Palpatine? What's happened?"
Captain Panaka checks the transmission…
"it seems
as if they've cut all the communication down."
An older
guy with a long pointed beard says, "A communication shutdown could only mean
one thing: invasion."
Panaka says, "This is a dangerous situation,
your highness."
Suddenly a group of battle droids led by
Nute Gunray burst in.
"Drop your weapons," says Nute to the people
in the conference room. Come with me."
And he
leads the group out of the palace, then turns to the head battle droid and
says, "Take these people to camp Four."
"Roger Roger…"
and the
Battle droids and their prisoners break away from Rune Haako and Nute
Gunray. Now back to Darth Sidious.
"Nute
Gunray?"
He answers, "Yes, Sidious."
"You
interrupted the communication, didn't you? You should have at least waited until I was done…" he stopped. "Actually, this will work out nicely. Good work. You have landed the invasion now?"
"Yes, sir. We have taken the Queen and everyone with us here prisoner."
"Good work now…what about the treaty."
"I forgot to mention it to her."
"You idiot!"
"I'm going to tell her right now."
They broke connection and Sidious was
thinking to himself, "Good, now they'll be a reason for her to go to the
Senate."
Nute
Gunray luckily had not gone far from where the battle droids wand he had split.
"Wait, one more thing."
Nute motions for Rune to produce the treaty,
which he has just written, and Rune does.
"We need you go sign this treaty to make our
invasion legal. If you will not comply,
we'll take all your people to camps, and your people will suffer and
die."
"I will sign no treat," she says.
"Dang it, she won't sign. What will we tell Sidious?"
"I don't know," says Rune.
The battle droids again start leading the
people to this camp 4 thingy. At the
same time as this, the Jedi are running from the huge Droids…and Droid
transports.
Until
next time!
