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 2: Contact

Jax was busying himself using a access terminal to hack into the temple computers so he could modify the memory and surveillance logs so that the clone troopers would not realized that they were not dead. As he got to the logs he accessed the jedi council chambers log by mistake and watched horrified as Anakin Skywalker slaughtered several young children. "I think I'm going to be sick" he said turning slightly pale.

"Do you want me to finish with the records," Callista asked sympathetically.

"No I'll be all right I just can't understand how anyone especially a jedi can be so cruel" Jax replied.

Callista sighed in sadness and turned back to the children, Geith was doing a fair job of keeping them distracted by telling them stories about some funny missions he had been on while trying his best to use the force to shield there minds from sensing what was happening. although you could tell from the looks on there faces and the tears barely contained that he was not being entirely successful. All of a sudden Callista's, Geiths and Jax's comm. units chirped simultaneously. After activating them the screens displayed a simple decoded message that was repeating continuously. Callista realized with horror what it was it was the official recall for all jedi to return to the temple. "They'll be slaughtered we have to find a way to warn them" she said her horror now reaching the breaking point.

"Unfortunately all we can do is trust the force" Geith said, " If we try to alter that signal or do anything but wait we'll be letting the clones know that there is someone still alive and they would simply reactivate the signal after we're dead."

"We can't just sit here" Callista grumbled.

"We need to have patience as a Knight you should know that" Geith rebuked.

"I skipped that class," Callista said with a wry smile.

"I hate to interrupt your little spat but I'm done with records," said Jax with an amused look in his eyes.

"Ungrateful brat," Callista said pretending to be annoyed. "What are our chances of us being found."

"The hard copy records have been destroyed by the fire and my hack job should go unnoticed so as long as they don't use heat sensors we should be fine, and they would probably be next to useless anyways since the fire on the upper levels would confuse them to much," said Jax.

"Well that's nice," said Geith. While we're waiting for them to stop the search perhaps we should discuss how we are going to get off world since Coruscant is obviously no longer safe for jedi and I doubt it would be a good idea to hitch a ride on a military transport.

"I'll have to second that" Callista replied. "But who can we trust, Jedi sympathizers are probably being arrested as we speak, and I doubt most people will be willing to help fugitives."

"I've got an idea," Jax said uncertainly. " About a year ago Master Windu introduced me to a rather odd droid that apparently used to work with my father, apparently slightly before his death he instructed I-Five to look out for me. When he came to see me he told me if I ever needed help to contact him, and his business associate did not seem the type to care to much about rules so they may be able to help us."

"I thought it was forbidden for Jedi to know about their parents, to prevent them from forming attachments," said Solha one of the children.

"We are however these were special circumstances" Jax replied. " First of all my father was dead so there was nothing to get attached too and second Master Windu felt that honouring that simple request to talk to me was the least the jedi could do considering all I-Five and my father did and tried to do for the jedi."

"Okay so how do we get in touch with them," Callista asked. "I don't know them but we can't afford to be too choosy of our allies."

"Well assuming they're still on planet which they probably are I have I-Fives comm. Frequency," Jax replied.

"Okay use my commlink but don't tell the droid our location until you both have your comms encrypted and he's agreed to help us," warned Callista. Callista handed her activated comm. to Jax.

Jax entered a frequency code and waited for an answer. "Hello who is speaking,"I-Five asked

"Its Jax, listen me and some friends are in some major bantha pudu you mind encrypting your comm. so we can talk privately.

I-Five quickly encrypted his comm. and then said"This is about the jedi temple attack isn't it."

"What do you know about that" Jax asked.

"Its all over the news the chancellor says the jedi tried to co-op the government" I-Five replied. "Although I doubt that's actually what happened since I've always been of the opinion that jedi are too caught up in there illusion of being completely selfless to actually try to grab any real power, after all it might damage there image."

Jax grinned slightly at that comment, "I'm not going to argue with that last point right now, but as for what the government said that's a lie, they launched an unprovoked attack led by one of our own on the temple slaughtering almost all the jedi from the Masters right down to the youngest children."

"I knew things were bad here on Coruscant but I never imagined that it would get this bad, what do you need me to do, both Den and I are willing to help in any way we can" I-Five replied.

"Great for starters we'll need credits a place to get good fake ID's, changes of clothes since the robes are a dead give away 3 adult sized and six child sized for five or six year olds use your best judgment for exact sizes don't worry about style its just so were not overly obvious at security checkpoints. We'll also need transport off world since staying on Coruscant would be suicide."

"Quite a tall order you've got there we'll also have to arrange new ID's for me and Den since staying on Coruscant after aiding and abetting jedi these days is not healthy, we should be able to arrange everything in two hours, you'll need to get out of the temple unseen first though and meet us at the building next door preferably in the lower levels so we should probably make it four hours," asked I-Five.

"Probably a good idea shall we say four hours on level ten of the condemned building next door" Jax replied.

"Fine by me, see you then. May the force be with you," I-Five said.

"And you," replied Jax.