Author's Note: This chapter will get odd at points, for example, I introduce a new character named Captain Sqee-Sqee, get the point? Sqee-Sqee will be the last character I introduce, so don't worry about too many; besides which, a name like Captain Sqee-Sqee will be hard to forget... Also, I will introduce the Huffa's, pronounced who-fuzz; you will soon find out who Captain Sqee-Sqee and Huffa's are...
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To Give Up the Order
(SKIP TO: Bail Organa goes to the Senate while Obi-Wan and Yoda go to the Jedi-Temple; this is what they find there.)
Obi-Wan Kenobi's heart was racing with great hope as he followed Yoda into the Jedi-Temple which now held the bodies of dead Jedi's.
"If find no living, find surviving young-ones we must..." Yoda said, looking around sadly at the temple. Obi-Wan was also filled with much grief and also puzzlement in wondering if young Anakin was still alive or not...
"The boy is fine, I'm sure;" Yoda said, reading Obi-Wan's thoughts with a smile, "Worry much, you do. The boy, take care of himself, he can..."
"I know, but I still cannot help but worry..." Obi-Wan sighed, walking forward to study the temple.
"This way..." Yoda signaled, walking in a different direction than Obi-Wan; Obi-Wan briefly caught a glimpse into the room Yoda was trying to stray him away from; Obi-Wan saw the bodies of the younglings who hadn't been lucky enough to escape, roughly piled up so as not to be in the way of the clone troopers.
"How many survived again?" Obi-Wan asked sadly of the green-creature, Yoda.
Yoda grunted before answering, "Only six are known..."
Six? Obi-Wan wondered, Is six the number we will be relying on, when yesterday, there was more than six-hundred?
"There's more, I can feel it..." Obi-Wan shook with misery, "I know there must be more out there that Sidious doesn't know about..."
"Perhaps..." Yoda said, climbing up a bookshelf; he pulled away a grate in the ceiling and lifted himself up. Obi-Wan climbed after Yoda and they both headed into the tunnel to find the younglings...
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Action by inaction; that was a lesson that Anakin remembered being taught when he was about fourteen at the Jedi-Academy. That lesson had been somewhat along the lines that Mathius had been talking about, but Anakin wasn't one to pay much attention to lessons, even Anakin realized that sometimes. Action by inaction simply meant that by doing nothing, the results sometimes turn out better than they would have if you had taken a course of action, and Anakin hoped and prayed that by doing absolutely nothing, Padme would not die.
Well, I'm not doing nothing per say, Anakin thought with a mental shrug, I mean, I'm trying to save as many lives as possible, now aren't I?
I just hope Padme is okay... Anakin sighed aloud, continuing to walk on to find Padme, C-3P0 and R2-D2.
But even if Mathius is right about all of this stuff, why do I keep sensing that something is going to happen? Is it just me? I mean, Master Kenobi is always scolding me for doing things the dramatic way... Anakin laughed at that thought, remembering how Obi-Wan had referred to him as a 'drama queen' when he was eleven.
I wonder if Master is okay. Anakin pondered, starting to worry about that on top of everything else. Oh, here I go again, worrying like a mother worries when her kids go to school for the first time...
Another thought crossed his mind, one that made him even more worried: What if Mathius is a traitor?
Images of Mathius cutting Padme's head off with a lightsaber filled Anakin's mind, but he quickly brushed them away. No, Anakin thought firmly, he's not a traitor; he's my last chance; I hope...
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"Captain Sqee-Sqee." A Huffa, a squirrel-creature as tall as a human, said to a stranger with his/her back turned to the creature, "We found a survivor, huffa-huffa, of the attack on the Jedi-Temple in Coruscant, huffa-huffa; we believe he is a Master Mace Windu of their Jedi-Council."
"Very good, Lieutenant Whiskers; bring him here." the stranger said to the Huffa, turning to face the creature.
To a stranger, this Captain Sqee-Sqee appeared to be a normal, fourteen-year-old girl with a sweet disposition, but the Huffa's knew better; first off, Captain Sqee-Sqee wasn't really a captain at all, but instead the Queen of the planet the Huffa's resided on, Norr.
None of the Huffa's were quite sure how events had transpired, but they all just figured that one day Captain Sqee-Sqee had just showed up and made Queen, but no one could quite remember, they just remembered Sqee-Sqee waving her hand in front of their faces, a very odd thing indeed. Also, the Huffa's knew well enough that Captain Sqee-Sqee was an eccentric little git who owned an entire library dedicated to the color green, though the child always wore a black uniform and had bright blue hair and gray eyes, but they still admired Sqee-Sqee, though they weren't quite sure why...
Lieutenant Whiskers saluted Captain Sqee-Sqee, who saluted back, before Whiskers turned away and marched off, making yet another huffa-huffa noise...
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"Anakin!" Padme ran from the balcony into her husband's arms as he swung her around.
She screeched with glee and he kissed her, laughing, and very glad that she was okay as well because so far, his vision of the future hadn't come true and the prophecy was...
"I feared the worst when I saw smoke coming up from the temple." Padme sobbed into Ani's arms.
"And I had been afraid that you had been murdered as well." Anakin smiled, kissing her again and hugging her tightly.
"Well, we're both fine, alone and everyone else is distracted..." Padme said in a hinting voice.
"Can't now, Padme." Anakin said taking his arms off of her and running around her room, grabbing one of the sheets off of her bed and random pieces of her clothing, throwing it on top of the sheet.
"What's going on?" Padme asked in a fearful voice, "Did something bad actually happen
at the Jedi-Temple? Is everyone okay?"
"They're dead..." Anakin said sadly, "Well, a few escaped, but not many... We have to run. Chancellor Palpatine is Darth Sidious and he declared himself Emperor an hour ago..." Anakin said, shaking his head.
"The younglings?" Padme asked.
"Most of them are dead, but I heard from Bail Organa that six are alive and escape through one of the temples secret passageways." Anakin told her, tying the ends of the sheets together so that it was like a rucksack of clothes. The fact that only six had escaped and that Mathius might have been dead hadn't worried Anakin; he had a feeling that the stubborn little boy had turned out of the whole thing in an okay status...
"But where are we to go?" Padme asked in a nervous voice.
"To find Master Yoda, he'll be able to tell us of a place we won't be found, and then we'll have to get the kids." Anakin told her, handing her the sack of clothing.
"And what are we supposed to do with six children?" Padme asked, her mouth hanging open a bit; Anakin couldn't help but smile at her reaction.
"We're going to train them." Anakin smiled, "The Jedi have to live on..."