CHAPTER 7
TELLING MACE OFF
Now I will tell you what I've done for you
Fifty thousand tears I've cried
Screaming. Deceiving. And bleeding for you
And still you won't hear me
I'm going under
Don't want your hand this time I'll save myself
Maybe I'll wake up for once
Not tormented daily defeated by you
Just when I thought I'd reached the bottom
I'm dying again.
I belted the chorus
"I'm going under!
Drowning in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through
I'm going under"
Someone pulled off my headphones. "Hey!" I shouted, grabbing them back. "Give me those!"
"Stop being disrespectful!" someone yelled at me.
I turned my head. Oops. Mace Widu. I'd forgotten I was on the same ship as him. His face was cold and angry. "What are you listening to?" he demanded.
"Nothing," I said feebly.
"Nothing?" Mace reached over and turned the volume all the way up on my Walkman.
Blurring and stirring the truth and the lies
So I don't know what's real and what's not
Always confusing the thoughts in my head
So I can't trust myself anymore
I'm dying again
I'M GOING UNDER
He turned it off and looked at me.
My face was bright red.
"What is that?" he demanded again.
"Evanescence," I said stupidly.
"Evan what?"
"Music."
"That's music?" He didn't believe it. "What kind?"
"Rock..."
"Put it away," he said turning back to the controls. "It stinks of the dark side."
I rolled my eyes as I stuffed the Walkman back into my bag. "It stinks of the dark side. It's full of demons," I muttered as I did. "Good grief! You're all just like my Mom!"
The Korun gave me a look. "Your what?" he asked suspiciously.
"Nothing," I said not wanting to talk about it. "So.. umm.. what are we doing?"
"I'm taking you to Sydrun," he told me.
I knew that much. "And?"
"There's something going on there we have to prevent."
"Oh. A mission.." A mission. Just what I needed.
He nodded.
"What kind of mission?" I asked leaning back in the copilot's seat.
He glanced at me. "One that might change that attitude of yours," he said flatly.
I rolled my eyes. "Whatever!"
Mace put a hand on my arm. I glared at him in annoyance. I hate being touched. "What?" I demanded.
"Who was your Jedi Master?" he asked totally off topic.
I paused. He's trapping me. I had to think of something and quick. Use the Force, Stephanie. Use the Force..
I glanced at Mace. He was waiting.
"M...M... Master Yoda!" I blurted out.
He raised an eyebrow, that's about the only hair he has on his cue ball head. "Master Yoda?"
"Yeah," I said making it up as I went along. "He trained me for about a year on my planet then left it. After that I was trained by another Jedi who never gave me her name..."
I stopped. Mace was giving me that 'Who-do-you-think-you're-kidding?' Look. Oops! "That's a bit far-fetched even for a Padawan," he commented.
Use plain English please! "Whatever Mr. Shatter point spotter," I said turning away from him.
After that we didn't talk at all for the rest of the long boring trip!
When we touched down on Hydrant or whatever Mace had called it we were greeted by a bunch of clones. They all stood there in the rocky terrain looking all special in their butt buffed white armor suits, looking all professional like.
I stuck my tongue out at them. I knew what those troopers were going to do at the end of the war. Kill all the Jedi because of their programming. Compliant bastards. Anyway they never noticed what I had done. That was a bit disappointing for me.
Their leader, a clone trooper with orange stripes on the arms of his armor walked up to Mace and I and saluted. "Sir," he said to the Korun.
"At ease," Mace said back.
The trooper loosened up a bit.
"So what's our situation?" Mace asked.
"We hate to be the bearers of bad news but we have received word from our scouting party that General Grievous is stationed on this planet."
"Grievous?" the Korun said confused.
The trooper nodded.
"Grievous?" I stepped forward. I felt the uncontrollable force of the fangirlness taking over again. "General Grievous?" I asked just to be sure. When the trooper nodded again I said. "Oh cool! Let's go find him!"
Mace and the trooper gaped at me.
I didn't notice I just kept on talking. "Great!" I said adjusting the strap on my backpack. "I've always wanted to meet Shaak Ti's boyfriend!"
"Boyfriend?" Mace and the trooper said in one voice.
"Yeah! Can we go look for him?"
"No, we cannot," Mace said sharply. "That would be too dangerous. You're only a Padawan. I wouldn't want to put you in harm's way."
"Aw, you're just saying that because you're scared of him," I said folding my arms.
"I AM NOT!" the Korun yelled.
I raised an eyebrow. "Fine then. I'll look for him myself."
"You will do nothing of the sort!" he yelled in my face.
The trooper scampered off. I bet he'd never seen Jedi Master Mace Windu O' Lord of the Shatter point spotters angry before.
Well I did a few times. I haven't actually seen it really I just read it in the novel called Shatterpoint that's all about him.
"Do you know what he'll do to you if he ever saw you?" he demanded.
You're acting like my Mom again. I sighed. "I have a feeling you're about to tell me," I said.
"He'll kill you."
"Then why are we here if we're not going to go after the cyborg?" I wanted to know.
"Because we're..." he went off on the long boring monologue about the Clone Wars.
As he talked I slowly began to get agitated. He wouldn't stop. He just kept on repeating the same things over and over like he was trying to brainwash me or something. Jedi does this. Jedi does that! I was suddenly sick of Jedi especially this Jedi. He was taking the fun out of everything... for Pete's sake! I'm sure the Force isn't against fun... Who made him the boss of the Force anyway...?
Then it hit me. He was doing it on purpose! He was trying to make me a mindless Jedi puppet by melting my brain with old dead speeches. That got me mad. The more he talked the more my temper flared.
As soon as he said something like. "What would Master Yoda think?" I lost it.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" I exploded getting in his face. "I DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT MASTER YODA THINKS!"
Mace stared at me. "What did you say?" he demanded.
"You heard me!" I shouted clenching and unclenching my fists. "I don't care what Yoda thinks! I don't even care why we're here! Get with it, Opey! The trooper said Grievous is here! He's part of the Evils, remember?If he's here we can capture him! I don't care what you do! You can be a coward and stay here but I'm going to find him!"
"You will do noth-" he began but I interrupted him.
"Just shut your pie hole and leave me alone!" I snapped. "I don't have to listen to you so save it for someone who cares!"
Then, before he could say anything else, I stormed off not even bothering to look back.
When he thought it was safe, the trooper came back over to where Mace was now standing alone. "She sure told you off didn't she?" he said.
Mace frowned. "Yes, she did," he hated to admit as he stared at my retreating figure, suspiciously. "That is not something Jedi Padawans are supposed to do! They are not supposed to be disrespectful!"
"So you're saying she's not a Jedi then?" the clone asked. "Is she a Sith?"
"No," Mace replied. "She doesn't have the dark side in her.."
"Well she might not be a Sith but it looks like she is something else."
"What?" Mace asked.
The trooper pointed at the Korun's belt. Mace looked down. "SHE STOLE MY LIGHTSABER!"
So go on and scream
Scream at me I'm so far way
I won't be broken again
I've got to breathe I can't keep going under
I'm going under
Drowning in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through
I'M GOING UNDER!
A/N
This song just seemed to work with this chapter somehow. Anyway. I hope you liked it even though she blew up at Windu. But pa-lease he was being obnoxious! On top of that; he had it coming. Well that's all I have to say. Till next time! Sorry for any spelling or grammer errors. Evanescence doesn't belong to me and neither does the song 'Going Under'. Copyrights go to the composers and the band.