CHAPTER 13

TRUTHS

Ruden decided to check on the Jedi Master.

Yoda saw him getting out of his seat. The old Master got an idea. He closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep. If the bounty hunter leaned over him he was in for an unpleasant surprise.

Through the Force Yoda could sense and feel the man's movements. The instant he felt the bounty hunter's presense over him he lashed out with his feet.

Yoda opened his eyes just in time to see his right foot smack the bounty hunter's face. His long toe nails scratched a long bloody line down the man's face.

Ruden fell backwards with a curse. He held his face as his eyes burned with pain and anger.

The Jedi used the Force to get up and jump into the air. He came down hard on the man's back knocking the human to the floor.

Yoda saw him reach for his gun and jumped off. The instant he landed on the metal floor of the ship the man drew his gun.

The Master Jedi put up his bound hands and with a slight flick of the Force pulled the blaster away from the bounty hunter. He thrust it into the man's face.

Ruden howled in agony and fell over.

Yoda ran over to him hoping to find the key or whatever it was that would open the things that held his wristes together.

What he hadn't realized was; even though he'd thrown the gun hard enough to know the man over, it hadn't been enough to knock him out.

The instant Ruden felt Yoda's hands on his belt he sprang into action. His hand left hand shot out and grabbed the Jedi's wrists. The Jedi gasped in surprise as he was picked up off the floor and slammed hard against the wall.

Then there was a silence as the two stared each other in the face. Both were breathing heavily and neither blinked.

Finally Ruden broke the silence. "Trying to get away are you?" he demanded.

"Maybe," Yoda said evenly. He was now totally calm and didn't show any signs of fear.

"Don't even think of trying that again!"

"What are you going to do? Kill me you cannot."

The bounty hunter growled angrily and slammed the Jedi hard against the wall. He was satisfied when Yoda let out a small yelp. "Don't tempt me, you ugly frog," the human growled. "I could kill you. I don't care about the money. I'm doing this job for a few of my own reasons."

"Which are?"

Ruedn wrapped his other hand around Yoda's neck. The old Jedi Master gasped as he tried to breath.

The bountry hunter's pale purple eyes were cold as he said. "That is none of your concern, Jedi!"

Yoda stared at his face a moment. Now that he was close to it he could see something strange in it. It looked familer. Vaguly familer. Do I know him somehow?

Ruden let go of Yoda's neck and wrists and let him fall to the floor. Yoda sat there a moment trying to catch his breath.

"The only thing you have to worry about is how long Master Skywalker's Master will take to kill you," the bountry hunter said, turning back to the pilot's chair.
"And he is...?"

The mad looked over his shoulder to stare at Yoda one last time. "You will find that out when we get to Geinonsis." Then he added. "And no. You do not know me."

Obi-Wan Kenobi was a total wreck. He was nervous and couldn't keep still. He constantly paced the halls of the Jedi Temple wringing his hands with worry.

What am I going to do? he thought. What am I going to do? I know I have to send somebody out to find him but who? I don't even know where that bounty hunter went with him.

"This is driving me crazy!" he screamed, grabbing his head and staring at the ceiling. "I just can't stand around here pacing like an old man! I have to do something! Anything!"

"Master Kenobi?" a small voice broke into his mad rant.

The Jedi looked down at his feet. He saw one of the Younglings, who looked about five, looking up at him worridly.

"Yes, Meral?" he asked the little girl. I hope she didn't hear me!

"Are you all right?" she asked.

"U... Why?"

"You're acting stressed for some reason," she replied, giving him a big blue eyed stare.

"It's nothing you need to worry about," he told her.

The littel girl put a small white hand on his leg. He sensed her using the Force to help him calm down. It was working.

"I don't know what's wrong with you," she said her sky blue eyes bigger than before. "But I hope you feel better. I hope I helped you."

He knelt down and hugged her. "Thank you."

Geinosis hadn't changed in the fourty odd years since Yoda had fought Count Dooku in one of the caves there. The thing was; since that time Yoda had never returned to the planet. Not even once. It held that memory and it didn't make him feel very good that he was being forced the come back.

Ruden Farlian the bounty hunter landed his ship near the old crumbling collisium where Obi-Wan Kneobi, Padme Amidala, and Analkin Skywalker were almost killed at the start of the Clone Wars.

Yoda was still in the same position he been in since his fight with the human, which he'd lost. He hadn't moved since. He had caught his breath, though, and was his calm self again.

Ruden got out of his seat and walked over to the Jedi Master. The man stared down at the pathetic little frog and didn't even feel sorry for him.

He tapped the Jedi Master with his boot.

Yoda looked up. His hazel eyes held the peace and calmness he resonated. "We're here aren't we?" he said in a flat tone.

Ruden reached down and picked the Jedi up by the hood of his robe. "You'll get that answer in a few seconds," was his reply.

"Rude you are," Yoda stated calmly.

"Shut up," Ruden said, reaching up to punch the Jedi.

Yoda's left foot was faster. He kicked it upward and it met the fist. The bounty hunter howled in pain and shook his injured and now bleeding hand. He cursed as he saw the blood slide down his arm.

He seethed for a moment then stepped out of the ship. Luke Skywalker was already there. He walked out of the shadows and handed Ruden some money. "Thank you for your business, Mr. Farlian."

Ruden took the money and handed the Grand Master over. "I should get more than this," he grumbled. "For pain and suffering due to that blasted shrimp of a Jedi!"

"Just be glad he's out of your hands now," Luke snapped.

"Thank God," Ruden growled as he climbled back into his ship. "I prefer him ruining someone else's day than my own."

The door shut behind him. The ship rose off the ground and shot into the darkening sky.

"Thank you," Luke said dryly.

Yoda glared at the other Jedi. "Just like your father you are," he said.

Luke Skywalker glowered at the small Jedi Master. "You should have died then," he snapped.

"My time it wasn't," Yoda said. "Failer you are. Trained your sister instead I should have."

"But you didn't," Luke said, as he drug the Jedi into the crumbling ruin. "Since you didn't she's not even a Jedi. She can't use the Force and was never taught how. It was stupid of you and Ben to tell me anout Leia in the first place. She's not part of the Order thanks to the both of you."

"And neither are you!"

"I prefer it this way," Luke shot back, as they went down a dark hall. "But since I was you'll have to live with your mistake."

Yoda's face filled with discust. "Pathetic," he snapped.

"And so are you, Master." Luke drawled the word 'master' as if it were a word he didn't like.

"Then kill me."

"My Master wants to do the honors."

"That is?"

"Oh, nobody special. Just someone you clashed with and lost to thirty seven years ago."

Yoda instantly knew who he was talking about. When he said the name it came out as a low distasteful phrase. "Darth Sidiuos, the honorable Chancellor Palpatine from Naboo of the old Republic."

Luke smiled. "I see you're still learning," he said sarcasticly. "And you still have a good memory."

The two were now in a dark room lit by what seemed like pale mushroom lights on the ceiling.

Yoda could feel the dark side filling the room like black choking smoke. He could sense something else too.

A resense... and it wasn't the least bit friendly

Hmm..., he thought calmly. In trouble I am...

A/N

I AM SOO SORRY! Don't get mad at me. I'm only a teenager! I'm trying my best. Erm.. Sorry if Yoda's out of character. It's kinda hard for me to keep him normal all the time. Once in while I get this stupid anime picture in my head of him looking a whole lot younger. Heh. When I write this fic it's in anime style in my head so yeah, Master Yoda does look younger. Anyway I know Sidious was throw to his doom at the end of Return of the Jedi but I had to bring him back even if he would be like one hunred years old. Bwahaha! Don't get offended. It's just a fic. This story would never become a book.

Actually, I think it's real dumb for them to tell Luke that Leia was his sister. It was way too late for her to become a Jedi anyway. Was is the whole point? Near the end of Revenge of the Sith Obi-Wan and Yoda are like 'these two will be the new generatetion of the Jedi' yet Leai isn't the new generation of anything. She never even learned to fight! And Darth Vader! He never even knew she was his daughter! GAAAAAH!

Oops sorry. I didn't mean to rant. Well that's it for now. Till next time. Good bye and Good reading. :D

Just one more thing I still haven't read the New Jedi Order books and I never will. I don't feel like reading anything that makes Yoda a ghost. (I only found that out because someone on Deviatart told me).