Chapter 4: Hadrol's Deception

Darth Plagueis:

Palpatine, as I must know him, explained how he had some long-term plan regarding the corruption occurring in the Republic's senate. I have to admit, with his latest deception you just don't know where you stand with him, so it would be while before I knew if he could be trusted. His latest plan seemed fairly crazy, in which he would wait until the next wave of Republic forces arrive, then he would order the Black Sun forces to engage. This way, we would be seen to be engaging a superior force and would receive recognition in the Naboo military.

"The Republic fleet are descending into the atmosphere." Palpatine advised. "I will give the order now, and let Black Sun walk into our trap"

As their army ran into us most of them were cut down with my lightsabre blade. The rest were rather shocked to see their own commander shooting at them. The next wave of Republic fighters vaporised the operatives on the ground and about twenty of the fighters surrounded the landed carrier ship and gradually cut it into pieces. But for however formidable this wave of Republic forces was, I knew that the day belonged to us.

Coruscant Intelligence HQ:

Four bloodstained corpses occupied a deserted office in the suburbs of one of Coruscant's capital cites, one of whom had been accessing a now-deleted file of a plan to assassinate a certain agent who had served them well but outlived his usefulness. Their cause of death would never lead anyone towards the real culprit in this murder case, as an old-fashioned infrared laser cutter was not a weapon normally associated with a Sith.

Palpatine:

We were treated like heroes by the world's news service – the Jedi and the Naboo soldier who held off a whole legion of Black Sun operatives. In interviews I told them how I had great plans to rise in the Naboo military, and also how I would play an active role in ensuring that no out side invader would ever cause this level of carnage again. As many military records were destroyed on the invasion, no one would ever know that there no such soldier as a Cosan Palpatine, and no one would bat an eyelid at the explanations that my whole family and anyone I knew were all killed in the invasion. This way I could become a major respected public figure and at the same time a complete island of a man, a totally invisible person with no past and no background. From here I would eventually go into a political career, but to advance beyond this I would need assistance. I always knew I had a latent force ability, which caused me to become very accurate with the use of weapons, but I knew if I was ever to develop my abilities I could never consult the Jedi, as they would either try to make me become like them or do their best to never let me develop potential and to always watch my every move for the rest of my life. The next few days would decide who I would call on to assist me.

Darth Plagueis:

I knew at today's nightly meeting in the forest there would not be much conversation. I had only to let him incriminate himself and that would be the cue I needed.

"I know you were on that Black Sun carrier ship. You were helping their invasion and I need to know why "

"It was necessary." He explained, "I had to make the attempt to wipe out the Krelli order. Their desire to suppress knowledge will eventually lead them to discover and destroy the Sith. They would have killed you as soon as they found out you were learning the skills of the force. Believe me, I never expected you to be here as I thought you were still on Korriban at the time of the invasion."

"So that's it then? Despite being your apprentice you don't even trust me enough to tell me what you think is a good idea for the Sith order?"

I was sure I was the one who intended to draw my lightsabre first, but we pretty much both drew at the same time. Hadrol knew he had dug himself a hole too deep to come out of.

The battle seemed to go on for hours but we knew we were making moves ten times faster than any ordinary human could, were both able to slow time down so that we could more easily anticipate the situation. Finally I sliced the sabre downwards over his head to make it seem like I intended to slice him down the middle. As he moved upwards to parry the blow I moved my sabre out of the way and instead sliced from right to left to slice him in half. As the grisly severed torso landed on the ground I wasn't exactly eager to go anywhere near it but there was one more trophy I wanted to take, in addition to his lightsabre. I would now be the one to wear the mask of Darth Nihilis, and claim my title as the new master of the Sith.