Chapter 5 New Spy
This meeting would have been pointless had they not been discussing how to change the plan for taking Hoth. Council members were suggesting that if indeed Maul stuck to the plan Rosh told them about they would still send a few Jedi in. Luke was much more skeptical, because really, why would an enemy keep a plan that his foes know about?
Luke was about ready to knock another council members head off when he asked if the chancellor should be involved with this. They had finally agreed though, as all councils should. When Maul went to hire more Sith they would let him, there weren't enough Sith on Korriban with enough skill to take out a Jedi on Yavin, or Coruscant for that matter. Then Luke and Mara would go in to kill Maul, simple enough providing that the Republic army would be able to take out Maul's troops. And also that they could destroy the rest of the army Maul would keep with him. But Luke had one last thing to add.
" Do you think we need a new spy?" Luke asked.
" Well clearly," A bearded council member began." What has happened to the last will answer that."
" What do you mean what happened?" Mara blurted." We don't know if anything has happened."
" Well I do think we need another spy." Kyle said.
" Perhaps we do." Said the council member next to Kyle.
Leia even though she wasn't officially on the council but attended meeting as she had a political mind said. " There is no perhaps. We do need a new spy, if Maul changes his plan or makes any others we must be informed."
" Then we vote." Luke said simply, and so they did. The results were indeed pleasing to Leia, they would send a new spy and they even knew who. It was Jaden Core, one of Kyle's students as well as a friend of Rosh.
The next day on Hoth
Jaden had landed, his means of transportation an escape pod fired from the Millennium Falcon and a taun-taun he had happened to see. He knew his job, he just wasn't sure how to get into the bases line of guards undetected. Once he was in sight if Echo base's main hanger he dismounted his unsaddled beast and walked slowly toward a human figure sticking out of a snow bank. It was Rosh, Jaden cursed, he appeared to be naked ( but he of course wasn't) and frozen. He was indisputably dead.
Jaden cursed the Sith for doing this, even as a Jedi he still possessed anger, and a hell of a lot of it too. Luke had said before that had he really known his father Jaden would probably be a lot like him. At least he got this from the stories Ben told him.
Anyway he saw the perfect chance to get revenge and slip into the base at the same time. Several yards away by the hanger mouth stood a white armored storm trooper probably guarding. Slyly Jaden crept toward him getting behind his back.
" Hello." Jaden said casually as he activated his purple lightsaber. The trooper turned immediately only to have his blaster sliced in two by Jaden's saber. Scared the trooper surrendered.
" Well, common rules and decency say I cant kill you…" Jaden trailed off and grabbed the trooper's neck with his free hand and using the force hurtling him several yards away where Rosh lay dead.
Using Jedi speed he reached the trooper. His leg and arm were broken.
" Now…" Jaden said using the force to unclip the trooper's armor and take off his rubber underlay rendering him only in a pair of underwear on the snowy ground. Jaden put on the underlay and armor hiding his lightsaber in a slightly big compartment on the belt.
" And so you cannot move…" The trooper's arms and legs snapped like twigs courtesy of the force. " But to add to your pain…"
With a quick slice the guard's arm was gone and the hellish smell of charred cooking flesh filled the cold air. Using the force once more a pile of snow landed in the guard covering everything but his mouth and nose. Jaden turned on his heel to go to the guards post and wait for another to take it so he could get in.
" Wait." The dieing trooper spoke hoarsely, pain making his voice quiver. " You can't just leave me here… I didn't mean to kill your friend."
" You had a choice and you chose it. Now I choose mine." Jaden turned on his heel toward the hanger, the distant roar of a wampa filling his ears as he went. He hoped on of them would reach the trooper before he died. That way he might be eaten alive, but that was extremely unlikely as Jaden could feel the troopers life draining.
When he reached the door to guard his commlink buzzed, more accurately the dieing troopers commlink buzzed. But he answered it. A holo image of a battle droid appeared.
" Trooper, your shift is over, I will be there soon." The droid hissed in his high pitched mechanical voice.
" Alright." Replied Jaden just as a wampa began to tear apart the trooper's body. Apparently Jaden's wish had come true, now the trooper had paid, for Rosh.
Well that wasn't very Jedish, but the new order is a little more loose with the code. Oh and please reveiw or I wont continue, let me know how I'm doing.