Author note: I'm sorry this chapter's short, but...actually I have no excuse. Oh well!
Josun Moonbeam, Mace's young padawan learner was sitting on the steps of the Jedi temple, looking up to the stars above and wondering when his Master would return. The young padawan sighed again and stood up to go back inside the temple.
However, as he turned to go back, he heard a rumble behind him. Heavy footsteps coming from the bottom of the stairs.
He turned to see two cloaked figures marching up the steps, side by side, followed by at least a thousand clones. Their faces were coverd so the young padawan couldn't see who was under them, but he did see two pairs of evil yellow eyes glowing menacingly from under the hoods.
Turning on his heel, Josun ran back up the few remaining steps to raise the alarm, but was struck down mid stride by a blue blade that one of the figures had launched at him like a spear. The saber burned through his chest and he screamed out in agony before dropping to the floor dead. The figure stooped to retrieve their saber before the march continued, on into the very temple itself. They marched as one through the long passageways of the temple until at last they reached a point where the passage split three ways.
"You go that way. Take Logan with you. Show no mercy." Anakin said to Padme and she nodded before turning to the army of clones.
"Commander Logan. You and your troops with me. Danton, take your troops that way." she ordered and the clones obediantly split into two groups, one group following Padme to the left, the other peeling off to the right.
Anakin waited until the two groups had set of before walking up the stairs straight ahead of him. He was going to the council chamber.
Padme drew her gun as they marched down the long coridoor, Commander Logan at her side. Her cloak swished behind her and she felt... different...more powerful.
Anakin had given her a spare set of his Jedi robes which one of his droids had tailored to fit her exactly. Now she was wearing the same dark tunic and robes as her husband, with the utility belt sitting round her ever expanding stomach. She had no lightsaber, however. It was pointless her having one, seeing as she couldn't use it yet, so where a saber usually hung, she had hung her pistol instead.
As they neared the end of the passage, Logan detected footsteps and his troops dissapeared into the shadows as three Jedi came round the corner. They looked slightly stunned when they saw the Senator standing before them in dark Jedi robes. However, they bowed, as always and one stepped forwards.
"Milady. What brings you here?" he asked and an evil grin spread over Padme's face.
"You do" she replied, leveling the gun at his forehead, just as the clones revealed themselves from their hiding places.
"Your weapons please?" she said, so the three Jedi took off their weapons and chucked them at her feet realising they were impossibly outnumbered. As the clones closed in, she took the sabers and slipped them inside a pocket in her robe. They would be proof to her master that she had done as ordered.
"Kill them." she told Logan and he raised one hand. The clones opened fire on the three unarmed Jedi and they fell to the floor in seconds, but the clones didn't stop firing until they were certain that the Jedi were dead.
"Very good Commander. Now let's move on." she said and the clone nodded.
"Move out!" he ordered and they continued their march, using the same technique to ambush every Jedi they came too. All around them, they could hear gunshots as Jedi were gunned down left, right and centre.
Padme wondered where Anakin was as she wandered down one particularly dark passageway.