Promises Kept And Favours Repaid
Book 1: Escape the Slaughter
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Summary: When Lorn died he made I-Five promise to look after his son this story explores the lives of I-Five, Jax and Den after the purge and how they and several others evade the Jedi Hunters and safeguard several Jedi Children.
Chapter 1: The Grand Escape
1 year later
Jax stood at the window overlooking the entrance to the temple, he had been asked by Master Windu to keep a look out for trouble until he returned and every Jedi knew that it was a bad idea to disobey Mace Windu. As the watch entered its third hour he suddenly realized that the main landing pad was no longer empty, several clone transports were landing and offloading there cargo of clones and one jedi, Anakin Skywalker, the hero with no fear. He watched in silence not understanding what was going on as Anakin approached the gate to type in his access code, suddenly the door slid open and the gate-master, Jurokk, walked out. After a brief conversation Jax was shocked to see the Chosen One kill Jurokk in one swift movement.
What do I do? He must have turned. Where are Master Windu and the others? he thought, now fully panicked. Wait a minute. Master Bant just returned from Mon Calamari. She'll know what to do. He ran as fast as he could down the corridors, heading for the lake. There he found Master Bant and two knights giving some young children an early morning swimming lesson. Sensing his distress they all swam to shore to see what was wrong.
"I sense something terrible padawan, tell me what has happened to make you so distressed," Bant asked.
"It's Knight Skywalker. He's gone mad. He's leading a group of Clone-troopers against the temple. Master Windu and the others still have not returned," he replied his fear barely contained.
Being privy to what the Masters had gone to do, she had a pretty good idea what had happened. However, this meant they had very few options. Coming to a decision she said, "Knight Ming why don't you, Geith and Padawan Pavan take the children and hide. I'll delay them as long as possible. If you swim into the water tunnels below the lake you will probably be missed, not many people except someone who was at the temple when I was young, would know that they're accessible since no one has traveled in them since those days. Remain there until you feel its safe to come out, use the Force to cloak your presence in the Force, finally when you believe that they have ended the search attempt to escape but above all do not trust the government they can no longer be trusted, may the Force be with you."
"And you master" Callista replied. "Okay everyone, there should be some rebreathers in the emergency supply area, put them on and run for the lake." As they did this they began to hear screams and blaster fire, quickening there pace they all dove into the water swimming deep towards the large pipes that linked every water source in the temple. As they entered the pipes they began to sense the pain of their fellow Jedi as the clones savagely killed them. Finally they arrived at a platform getting onto it they just beat a surge of water that could have easily sent any of them to there deaths.
"So what do we do now," a young girl named Calla asked.
"We wait," replied Callista.
Jedi Master Bant quickly used the Force to eliminate all traces of the children's footprints. As she waited for her fate she tried to figure out how the Galaxy could have changed so much that the supposed saviour could be their destroyer, as Anakin entered the room she suddenly understood. Balance did not mean all good, Balance required an equal amount of good and evil, something the Jedi had tried there best to avoid. As Anakin raised his lightsaber to strike her down her last words were "I understand".